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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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Democracy Now! 2025-09-09 Tuesday

• Headlines for September 09, 2025
• Jeffrey Epstein & JPMorgan: How the Largest U.S. Bank Enabled the Sexual Predator's Crimes
• "Chipocalypse": Viet Thanh Nguyen on Trump Invoking "Apocalypse Now" & Speaking Out on Gaza Genocide

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Democracy Now! 2025-09-08 Monday

• Headlines for September 08, 2025
• ICE Conducts Largest-Ever Raid at Georgia Hyundai Plant: 475 Arrested, Mostly Korean
• Report from Gaza: Aid Coordinator Describes Disease, Famine as Israel Blows Up Residential Towers
• Sister of U.S. Citizen Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi Demands Justice 1 Year After Israel Killed Her in West Bank
• Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton Dies at 99; Explored Human Darkness, from Nazi Doctors to Hiroshima

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Democracy Now! 2025-09-05 Friday

• Headlines for September 05, 2025
• "How Can You Be So Ignorant?": GOP & Dem. Senators Slam RFK Jr. for Attacks on Vaccines & Science
• Deadly U.S. Strike on Venezuelan Boat Raises Fears of Wider War: Greg Grandin
• Indonesia Protests: At Least 10 Killed, Thousands Arrested Amid Police Crackdown

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Democracy Now! 2025-09-04 Thursday

• Headlines for September 04, 2025
• "Courage Is Contagious": Survivors Demand Epstein Files Release as More Women Come Forward
• "Morally Right": Ro Khanna on Epstein Files Transparency Act, Arms Embargo on Israel
• "Uniting for Peace": How U.N. Could Override U.S. Veto, Send Peacekeepers to Gaza, Block Arms, & More

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Today, September 3, is the last day for public comment on a newly proposed rule for the Department of Veterans Affairs that would ban VA doctors from performing most abortions. We speak to Guardian investigative reporter Aaron Glantz about his recent piece headlined “New Trump rule to ban VA abortions for veterans even in cases of rape and incest.”

Democracy Now! 2025-09-03 Wednesday

• Headlines for September 03, 2025
• "This Is Not About Public Safety": Rep. Chuy García Decries Trump Threat to Send Troops to Chicago
• Does It Matter? Trump Keeps Losing on Immigration in the Courts
• "The Border Is Invading America": Jean Guerrero on the Bipartisan Failures of Immigration Policy
• Army Vet Charged with "Conspiracy" for ICE Protest as Trump Expands War on Dissent

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