Democracy Now! 2025-06-06 Friday

• Headlines for June 06, 2025
• Musk vs. Trump? Quinn Slobodian on the Risks of Billionaire Rule
• Trump Budget Bill Would Lead to 51,000 More Deaths Each Year, as Health Experts Urge Medicare for All
• "Completely Unwarranted": Newark Mayor Ras Baraka Sues Trump Officials over His Arrest at ICE Jail
• High Seas Update from Aid Ship Sailing to Gaza: Activists Vow to "Win Through Solidarity"
• Fired over Gaza? Dr. Rupa Marya Sues UCSF, Says She Was Targeted for Speaking Up for Palestine

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Democracy Now! 2025-06-05 Thursday

• Headlines for June 05, 2025
• Trump Revives Travel Ban, Bars Citizens of 12 Nations in Move Decried as "Devastating"
• Mahmoud Khalil, Trapped in "Immigration Gulag" for Nearly 3 Months, Challenges Deportation Efforts
• As U.S. Vetoes U.N. Gaza Ceasefire Resolution, Kathy Kelly & Veterans Enter 3rd Week of Hunger Strike
• "The Shame of Israeli Medicine": How Israeli Doctors Turned on Palestinian Colleagues & Patients
• "How to Survive the Broligarchy": Carole Cadwalladr on Tech Titans & Rising U.S. Authoritarianism

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We continue our conversation with investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr about the rise of unregulated tech behemoths like OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT that has been embroiled in scandals surrounding its generation of easily disseminated false information, and Palantir, the secretive data-mining company that now heavily contracts with the U.S. government to provide mass surveillance and data collection services.

Democracy Now! 2025-06-04 Wednesday

• Headlines for June 04, 2025
• "Death Traps": U.S.-Israeli Aid Scheme Paused in Gaza After 100+ Palestinians Killed While Waiting for Food
• Greta Thunberg Speaks from Aid Ship Heading to Gaza Despite Israeli Threats: It's My Moral Obligation
• "Empire of AI": Karen Hao on How AI Is Threatening Democracy & Creating a New Colonial World

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Extended interview with Karen Hao, author of Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI. The book documents the rise of OpenAI and how the AI industry is leading to a new form of colonialism.

Democracy Now! 2025-06-03 Tuesday

• Headlines for June 03, 2025
• "Panic, Terror, Chaos, Trauma": SCOTUS Ruling Lets Trump Strip Protections for 500K+ Immigrants
• ICE Raids on Restaurants, Farmworkers, Students Spark Community Resistance Across Country
• "Detention Facilitates Deportation": Trump's Budget Bill Would Massively Increase ICE Jail Capacity
• Palantir: Peter Thiel's Data-Mining Firm Helps DOGE Build Master Database to Surveil, Track Immigrants

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Democracy Now! 2025-06-03 Tuesday

• Headlines for June 03, 2025
• "Panic, Terror, Chaos, Trauma": SCOTUS Ruling Lets Trump Strip Protections for 500K+ Immigrants
• ICE Raids on Restaurants, Farmworkers, Students Spark Community Resistance Across Country
• "Detention Facilitates Deportation": Trump's Budget Bill Would Massively Increase ICE Jail Capacity
• Palantir: Peter Thiel's Data-Mining Firm Helps DOGE Build Master Database to Surveil, Track Immigrants

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Democracy Now! 2025-06-02 Monday

• Headlines for June 02, 2025
• Ex-Israeli Negotiator Daniel Levy: Netanyahu Wants "Permanent War" in Gaza, Not a New Ceasefire
• British Surgeon in Gaza Reports on Rafah Massacre as Dozens of Palestinians Killed Waiting for Aid
• Gaza Aid Worker: Israel's New Shadowy Humanitarian Aid Scheme Is "Tool to Increase Suffering"
• Harvard Commencement Speakers: Despite Crackdown, "Students Will Keep Speaking Up" for Palestine

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Democracy Now! 2025-05-30 Friday

• Headlines for May 30, 2025
• "Worse Than McCarthyism": Historian Ellen Schrecker on Trump's War Against Universities & Students
• As Courts Battle Trump on Tariffs, Will Right-Wing Supreme Court Rescue the President's Trade Agenda?
• Trump's Abuse of Pardons Undermines Entire Justice System: Reagan Official Bruce Fein

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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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