ENCORE PRESENTATION:

Oxfam America CEO Abby Maxwell: Trump Closure of USAID Humanitarian Relief Programs Has Killed Hundreds of Thousands

ACLU Senior Policy Counsel Chad Marlow: Trump’s National Security Memo Labels His Enemies Terrorists, Orders Investigations

Artist and activist Robert Shetterly: ‘Americans Who Tell the Truth’ Portraiture Project Aims to Inspire Courageous Citizenship

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Trump intensifies AI critical minerals scramble
• Canada signs energy pact with China
• Zero homeowners approved for FEMA buyout after Helene

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Produced by Squeaky Wheel Productions: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus, Bob Nixon, Anna Manzo, Susan Bramhall, Jeff Yates and Mary Hunt. Theme music by Richard Hill and Mikata.

Amnesty International's Ben Linden: After Four Years of Ukraine War and Nearly 2 Million Casualties, Prospects for Peace are Uncertain

Journalist Andrea Pitzer: Trump Regime's Massive Buildout of Immigrant Concentration Camps Meets Local Resistance

Color of Change's Amanda Hollowell: In Second Term, Trump Acts to Eliminate America's Multiracial Democracy

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary

• Last nuclear arms control treaty between the US and Russia has expired
• Deadly “Operation Metro Surge” in Minnesota’s Twin Cities is ending
• Some states' vaccination rates losing ground as vaccine exemptions take hold

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Produced by Squeaky Wheel Productions: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus, Bob Nixon, Anna Manzo, Susan Bramhall, Jeff Yates and Mary Hunt. Theme music by Richard Hill and Mikata.

Amnesty International's Ben Linden: After Four Years of Ukraine War and Nearly 2 Million Casualties, Prospects for Peace are Uncertain

Journalist Andrea Pitzer: Trump Regime's Massive Buildout of Immigrant Concentration Camps Meets Local Resistance

Color of Change's Amanda Hollowell: In Second Term, Trump Acts to Eliminate America's Multiracial Democracy

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary

• Last nuclear arms control treaty between the US and Russia has expired
• Deadly “Operation Metro Surge” in Minnesota’s Twin Cities is ending
• Some states' vaccination rates losing ground as vaccine exemptions take hold

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Produced by Squeaky Wheel Productions: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus, Bob Nixon, Anna Manzo, Susan Bramhall, Jeff Yates and Mary Hunt. Theme music by Richard Hill and Mikata.

Georgetown University's Josh Ruebner: Gaza Humanitarian Disaster Continues as Ceasefire Plan’s Deeply Flawed Second Phase Begins

The Dissenter Newsletter publisher Kevin Gosztola: FBI Spies on, Then Raids Washington Post Reporter’s Home in Escalating Attack on Press Freedom

FairVote senior fellow David Daley: Trump Asks GOP Congress to ‘Nationalize’ the 2026 Midterm Election, Attempting to Rig the Outcome

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary

• Will there be a permanent U.S. military presence in Latin America?
• Record global surge in gas-fired power driven by AI demands
• Activists across the U.S. are organizing “No Sleep for ICE” action

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Vote Common Good CEO Pastor Doug Pagitt: Minnesota Shows the Country How to Effectively Resist ICE Violence

Fairfax County, Virginia attorney Steve Descano: National Coalition of Local Prosecutors Target Federal Lawbreakers to Enforce Accountability

Starbucks Workers United Union delegate Silvia Baldwin: Starbucks Workers Union Enters Third Month of Unfair Labor Practice Strike

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Syrian military overriding Kurds' hopes for autonomy
• ICE using states' Medicaid data to find immigrants
• Campaign season for Michigan Democratic party Senate seat primary heating up

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Minnesota Reformer reporter Madison McVan: ICE Agents’ Killing of 2nd Minneapolis Resident Provokes Nationwide Outrage and More Protests

Former CIA analyst Mel Goodman: The World Revolts Against Trump’s Irrational, Deadly Foreign and Domestic Policy

Gulf Coast fisherman Eddie Lejuine: Gulf Coast Residents Live in ‘Ground Zero’ of U.S. Fossil Fuel Industry’s Sacrifice Zone

Bob Nixon’s Under-reported News Summary
• Japan reopening massive Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant
• Department of Justice making unprecedented demand for state voter lists
• States, cities concerned over huge taxpayer subsidies for multi-bilionaires' stadiums

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Truah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights' CEO Rabbi Jill Jacobs: Religious Leaders Step Up to Resist ICE Violence

Program for Global Public Health and Common Good's Dr. Philip Landrigan: Study Finding Weedkiller Roundup Safe Retracted Amid Renewed Concern Over Cancer Link

FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez: FCC Commissioner Decries Government Assault on Free Press

Bob Nixon's: This Week’s Under-reported News Summary

• Chevron uniquely positioned to profit from U.S. takeover of Venezuelan oil
• Federal tax prosecutions fell over 27 percent due to staffing cuts
• Outside investors buying up 2/3 of rebuilt Altadena, California

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Vote Common Good Executive Director Rev. Doug Pagitt: Minneapolis and U.S. Explode in Protest after ICE Killing of Renee Good

Anti-ICE rally speakers: Avelo Airlines Ends ICE Deportation Flights After Months-Long

National Lawyers Guild's past President Marjorie Cohn: Trump’s Lawless Venezuela Attack Rouses U.S. Senate to Pass War Powers Resolution

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Trump weighs mulls to Greenlanders; won't rule out military option to take over
• Senate probe claims United Healthcare paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers
• Fracking waste leaving toxic brew in Pennsylvania waterways

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Produced by Squeaky Wheel Productions: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus, Bob Nixon, Anna Manzo, Susan Bramhall, Jeff Yates and Mary Hunt. Theme music by Richard Hill and Mikata.

Vote Common Good Executive Director Rev. Doug Pagitt: Minneapolis and U.S. Explode in Protest after ICE Killing of Renee Good

Anti-ICE rally speakers: Avelo Airlines Ends ICE Deportation Flights After Months-Long

National Lawyers Guild's past President Marjorie Cohn: Trump’s Lawless Venezuela Attack Rouses U.S. Senate to Pass War Powers Resolution

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Trump weighs mulls to Greenlanders; won't rule out military option to take over
• Senate probe claims United Healthcare paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers
• Fracking waste leaving toxic brew in Pennsylvania waterways

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Produced by Squeaky Wheel Productions: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus, Bob Nixon, Anna Manzo, Susan Bramhall, Jeff Yates and Mary Hunt. Theme music by Richard Hill and Mikata.

Journalist Andreína Chávez and Latin American Perspective's Steve Ellner: Trump’s Lawless Venezuela Offensive Was Never About Drugs, But All About Oil

Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft's Trita Parsi: After Venezuela Attack, Trump Threatens to Strike Iran Again

Third Act volunteer Lynn Stoddard: ‘Simplify Solar’ National Campaign Aims to Make Residential Rooftop Solar More Affordable

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Yemen's civil war enters dangerous new phase with Saudi attack on UAE military
• Thailand and Cambodia agree to short-term ceasefire in border conflict
• Private equity spending spree threatening New Mexico's clean renewable energy mecca

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Produced by Squeaky Wheel Productions: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus, Bob Nixon, Anna Manzo, Susan Bramhall, Jeff Yates and Mary Hunt. Theme music by Richard Hill and Mikata.