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Democracy Now! Friday, May 30, 2025

Democracy Now! 2025-05-29 Thursday

• Headlines for May 29, 2025
• Fear, Repression & Brain Drain: U.S. Campuses Reeling as Trump Freezes, Revokes Student Visas
• Mosquito Protocol: Ex-Israeli Soldier on Army's Systematic Use of Palestinians as Human Shields
• Jeremy Scahill: Shadowy Israeli-U.S. Aid Plan Is Weapon in "Netanyahu's War of Annihilation" in Gaza

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Democracy Now! 2025-05-28 Wednesday

• Headlines for May 28, 2025
• "I Am a Political Prisoner": Immigrant Rights Activist Jeanette Vizguerra Speaks from ICE Jail
• "Corporate Criminal": Nadia Milleron, Whose Daughter Died in 737 Crash, Slams New DOJ-Boeing Deal
• "Mt. Everest of Corruption": Crypto Investors Buy Access to President; Trump Expands Bitcoin Holdings

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Democracy Now! 2025-05-27 Tuesday

• Headlines for May 27, 2025
• Israel Bombs Home of Gaza Pediatrician, Killing 9 of Her 10 Kids, in Latest Attack on Health Workers
• Trump vs. Academic Freedom: President Escalates Attacks on Harvard & International Students
• Georgia Abortion Ban Forces Family to Keep Pregnant, Brain-Dead Woman on Life Support
• "Unconscionable & Deliberate": GOP Budget Defunds Planned Parenthood Amid Maternal Health Crisis

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Democracy Now! 2025-05-26 Monday

• "Sinners": Director Ryan Coogler on His Latest Hit, Delta Blues, His Mississippi Roots & Vampires
• The Injustice of Justice: Keith LaMar Speaks from Ohio Death Row as Movement Grows to Save His Life
• "I'm Innocent": Keith LaMar Speaks Live from Death Row About His Case, Conditions & Pending Execution

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Historian Jeanne Theoharis joins us for an in-depth discussion about her new book, King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life of Struggle Outside the South. After more than a decade of research, she offers a major reexamination of his experiences and activism confronting police brutality, alongside his wife Coretta Scott King. In Part 2 of our interview, she describes his work in cities like Los Angeles, Chicago and New York City, including long meetings with gang leaders to reduce violence, like the Turfmasters Summit in Chicago to address what he called “domestic colonialism.” King often addressed how police and courts were used as “enforcers,” and stopped using the phrase “law and order,” instead calling for “law and justice.” Theoharis also critiques the role of the media in portraying King's organizing against police abuse and racism in the North as “reckless,” when they previously praised his work in the South.

Democracy Now! 2025-05-23 Friday

• Headlines for May 23, 2025
• "Theft from On High": Trump's Budget Bill Guts Medicaid, Medicare & More to Pay for Tax Cuts
• Mahmoud Khalil: Jailed Activist Testifies Before Immigration Judge and Holds His Child for First Time
• "I Can't Breathe": Five Years After George Floyd's Murder, Trump Admin Rolls Back Police Oversight
• "King of the North": New Book Examines MLK's Fight Against Police Brutality & Racism Outside Dixie

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Democracy Now! 2025-05-20 Tuesday

• Headlines for May 20, 2025
• "The Suffering Is Beyond Description": Report from Gaza as U.N. Warns 14,000 Babies Could Soon Die
• Making Gaza Unlivable: Israel Intensifies Attacks as Netanyahu Vows to Seize All of Gaza
• From a Palestinian Refugee Camp to Columbia: Mohsen Mahdawi Graduates After Being Jailed by Trump

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Democracy Now! 2025-05-19 Monday

• Headlines for May 19, 2025
• "Absolutely Genocidal": Mouin Rabbani on "Gideon's Chariots," Israel's Latest Escalation of War on Gaza
• Project Esther: NYT Details Right-Wing Plan to "Rebrand All Critics of Israel" as Hamas Supporters
• On 100th Birthday of Malcolm X, Family Presses Trump to Release Gov't Files on Assassination

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Democracy Now! Friday, May 16, 2025

Democracy Now! 2025-05-15 Thursday

• Headlines for May 15, 2025
• "Trump's Fake Refugees": As U.S. Welcomes White South Africans, Trump Falsely Charges "Genocide"
• Israel's "Crime of Apartheid": New Report by U.S. Professors as Palestinians Mark Nakba Day
• "Surveillance Humanitarianism": As Gaza Starves, U.S.-Israeli Plan Would Further Weaponize Food

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Democracy Now! 2025-05-14 Wednesday

• Headlines for May 14, 2025
• U.S. & Saudis Sign $142B Arms Deal as Trump Meets with Syria's New Leader & Drops Syrian Sanctions
• While Israel Wanted to Bomb Iran, Trump Pushes Talks; But in Gaza, Israel's Mass Killings Continue
• Salvadoran Journalists Exposed Pres. Bukele's Ties to Gangs. Then They Had to Flee to Avoid Arrest

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In Part 2 of our interview with Palestinian journalist Abubaker Abed, the 22-year-old recounts leaving Gaza last month for Ireland while facing threats to his safety and suffering from malnutrition. He says he has found solidarity and comfort in Ireland, but says he is still dealing with the trauma of a year and a half of war. The sounds of planes and helicopters still trigger fear in him. “I’m trying to navigate this pain,” he says.

Democracy Now! Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Democracy Now! Monday, May 12, 2025

We speak with Oliver Laughland, The Guardian's U.S. southern bureau chief and investigations correspondent, about his reporting on the election in Elon Musk's new company town in Texas called Starbase; his report headlined “Trump officials increasingly recruit local police for immigration enforcement despite red flags,” and also his reporting on conditions in immigrant detention centers in Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi, which human rights advocates call “Detention Alley” and a “legal black hole.”

Democracy Now! 2025-05-09 Friday

• Headlines for May 09, 2025
• Leo XIV: First U.S.-Born Pope Criticized Trump/Vance on Deportations, Lack of Compassion for Immigrants
• Priest Sexual Abuse Survivors Demand Accountability from New Pope: "Open Up Those Archives"
• "We Are Not Living. We Are Enduring." Gaza Mother on Struggle for Food, Safety Under Israeli Blockade
• Tyre Nichols Case: Shock & Anger in Memphis as 3 Cops Acquitted on State Murder Charges

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Democracy Now! Thursday, May 8, 2025