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Democracy Now! 2025-09-30 Tuesday

• Headlines for September 30, 2025
• Trump's Gaza Plan Is Mere "Repackaging of Genocide" for Israel's Benefit: Diana Buttu
• "Break the Blockade and End the Siege": Nelson Mandela's Grandson Speaks from Gaza Aid Flotilla
• "The Government Has Been Shut Down" Since Trump Took Office: David Dayen
• "We Do Not Want Federal Troops": Oregon Rejects Trump's Plan to Send Forces to Portland
• Chicago Activist on Organizing Community ICE Patrols as Trump Escalates Immigration Crackdown

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Democracy Now! 2025-09-29 Monday

• Headlines for September 29, 2025
• Zohran Mamdani on Historic NYC Mayoral Run & Trump's Meddling in Election as Eric Adams Drops Out
• "War Criminal": Thousands Call to Arrest Netanyahu, March at U.N. Against Gaza Genocide
• Black Liberation Activist Assata Shakur Dies at 78 in Cuba; Hear Her Read 1998 Letter to Pope

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New York Mayor Eric Adams has announced he is dropping out of the race, just over a month before Election Day. In recent weeks, President Trump and New York business leaders pressured Adams to drop out of the race in an effort to help boost the campaign of disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo, who is running as an independent. We get response from Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani. Tune in Monday for the full interview.

Thousands of protesters took to the streets of New York on Friday in solidarity with Palestinians and to denounce Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he addressed the United Nations General Assembly. Crowds marched from Times Square toward the U.N., chanting slogans demanding Netanyahu’s arrest for war crimes and an end to U.S. support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Meanwhile, inside the U.N., the Israeli leader addressed a largely empty room as many countries’ delegations walked out in protest.

Microsoft says it has barred the Israeli military from using the company’s services to spy on millions of Palestinian civilian phone calls made each day in Gaza and the occupied West Bank and stored in Microsoft’s vast Azure cloud computing platform. It’s an unprecedented victory for No Azure for Apartheid, a group of current and former Microsoft workers demanding an end to Microsoft’s work with the Israeli military. We speak to Hossam Nasr, an organizer with No Azure for Apartheid and a former Microsoft employee who was fired last October after organizing a vigil outside the Microsoft headquarters for Palestinians killed by Israel’s military in Gaza.

Democracy Now! Friday, September 26, 2025

Democracy Now! Thursday, September 25, 2025

We continue our conversation with Will Potter, the author of Little Red Barns, an investigation into the state repression of journalists, environmentalists and animal rights activists who attempt to expose the harms of the U.S. factory farming industry. “This is a corporate versus the people issue,” says Potter, who explains how the exploitative agriculture industry pollutes the environment, abuses animals and partners with law enforcement to criminalize activist movements, all while promoting a “fascist” myth of the “happy farmer and the American countryside.”

Democracy Now! 2025-09-24 Wednesday

• Headlines for September 24, 2025
• Trump Slams United Nations, Global Migration & Climate Science in U.N. Speech
• "Science Under Siege": Dr. Peter Hotez on Trump, Tylenol & Autism
• "This Is What Fascists Do": Trump Labels Antifa a Terrorist Org in His War on Dissent

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Democracy Now! 2025-09-23 Tuesday

• Headlines for September 23, 2025
• Alaa Abd El-Fattah Is Free: Family Celebrates Political Prisoner's Release in Egypt
• No Secret Police Act: CA Gov. Signs Law Against Masked ICE Agents; Feds Say They Won’t Comply
• ICE Assaults Congressional Candidate Kat Abughazaleh at Chicago Protest

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Democracy Now! 2025-09-22 Monday

• Headlines for September 22, 2025
• Trump Expands "Authoritarian" Free Speech Crackdown, Calls Negative Media "Illegal": Jameel Jaffer
• "Huge Step Forward": MP Jeremy Corbyn Cheers U.K. Recognition of Palestine, Calls for More Pressure on Israel
• Egypt Pardons Activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah; British MP Jeremy Corbyn Responds to "Amazing News"
• Israeli Peace Activist: My Mother Was Killed on October 7. Here's Why I Support Palestinian Statehood.
• "Nothing Will Stop Israel": Mustafa Barghouti on the Limits of Western Recognition of Palestine

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Democracy Now! 2025-09-19 Friday

• Headlines for September 19, 2025
• "I'm Not Going to Give Up": Leonard Peltier on Indigenous Rights, His Half-Century in Prison & Coming Home

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Democracy Now! 2025-09-18 Thursday

• Headlines for September 18, 2025
• Amnesty Int'l: Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Palantir Enable & Profit from Israel's Genocide in Gaza
• "The Disappearance of Dr. Abu Safiya": Al Jazeera Film on Israel's Abduction & Torture of Gaza Doctor

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Democracy Now! 2025-09-17 Wednesday

• Headlines for September 17, 2025
• "Single Shots to the Head": U.S. Veteran, Volunteer Surgeon Sees "Extermination of a People” in Gaza
• "Perish or Leave": Hundreds of Thousands Flee as Israeli Military Invades Gaza City
• How Video Games, Discord & Deep Web Influenced Alleged Kirk Killer
• Trump Uses "Black Criminality" Myth to Take Over Black-Led Cities: Memphis Rep. Justin J. Pearson
• Robert Redford the Activist: Hollywood Icon Was Lifelong Champion of Environment & Independent Film

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Democracy Now! 2025-09-16 Tuesday

• Headlines for September 16, 2025
• ICE Kills Immigrant Father After Traffic Stop, Detains Day Laborer Who Sued Chicago Police
• Block the Bombs to Israel: Rep. Delia Ramirez Denounces Genocide in Gaza
• Bishop William Barber Condemns Charlie Kirk Murder and the Right's Religious Nationalism
• U.S. Acts as "Judge, Jury & Executioner" in Venezuelan Boat Strikes, Killing at Least 14

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Democracy Now! 2025-09-15 Monday

• Headlines for September 15, 2025
• "Shame on Humanity": Gaza Doctor Pleads with World to Stop Israel's Genocide
• "The Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk": Journalist Chris Hedges on the Weaponization of Kirk's Killing
• Judith Butler: Jewish Prof. Among 160 Named in UC Berkeley "Antisemitism" Files Handed to Trump Admin

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Part 2 of our conversation with professor and philosopher Judith Butler, whose name was recently shared by the University of California, Berkeley with the Trump administration in response to the administration’s sweeping crackdown on Palestinian solidarity activism.

Democracy Now! 2025-09-12 Friday

• Headlines for September 12, 2025
• Mehdi Hasan: Trump Is Weaponizing the Murder of Charlie Kirk to Go After the Left
• Mehdi Hasan on Death of Two-State Solution, Possible U.S. War with Venezuela & More
• "A Historic Moment in Brazil": Jair Bolsonaro Gets 27 Years for 2022 Coup Plot
• Nepal's "Gen Z Protests" Topple Government Amid Anger over Corruption & Inequality

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Democracy Now! 2025-09-11 Thursday

• Headlines for September 11, 2025
• "Moment of Great Peril": Jeff Sharlet on Killing of Charlie Kirk & Rising Political Violence in U.S.
• Trump's Personal Army? Exec. Order to Create "Quick Reaction Force" Raises Alarm
• Global Sumud Flotilla Vows to Keep Sailing to Gaza; Israeli Drones Accused of Striking Two Boats

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Democracy Now! 2025-09-10 Wednesday

• Headlines for September 10, 2025
• "America Is Bankrolling This": Jeremy Scahill on Israel's Bombing of Hamas in Qatar
• Will Egyptian Pres. Sisi Soon Free Jailed Activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah?
• "Here Comes the Sun": Bill McKibben on Renewable Energy, "Sun Day" & the "Last Chance" for Climate

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