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KPFA - Democracy Now! episodes

June 10, 2025Democracy Now 6am – June 10, 2025
On today’s show:
Chaos & Cruelty: Trump Deploys Thousands of Soldiers to Put Down Anti-ICE Protests in Los Angeles
California Attorney General Bonta Sues Trump for Deploying Troops, Warns President Is Trying to Provoke Violence
Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s Lawyer: Trump Administration’s Trafficking Charges Must Be Viewed with “Suspicion”
“A Show of Human Solidarity”: Ex–U.S. Diplomat to Join Global March to Gaza to Break Israel’s Siege

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13 min
June 09, 2025Democracy Now 6am – June 9, 2025
On today’s show:
Los Angeles Under Siege: Trump Sends in National Guard as Protests Continue over Militarized ICE Raids
“Absolutely Unprecedented”: Trump Deploys National Guard to Los Angeles and Hegseth Threatens to Send in Marines
“Kidnapped in International Waters”: Israel Intercepts Gaza-Bound Aid Ship, Detains Greta Thunberg and Others

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56 min
June 06, 2025Democracy Now 6am – June 6, 2025
On today’s show:
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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1 hr
June 05, 2025Democracy Now 6am – June 5, 2025
On today’s show:
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 and Veterans Enter 3rd Week of Hunger Strike
“The Shame of Israeli Medicine”: How Israeli Doctors Turned on Palestinian Colleagues and Patients
“How to Survive the Broligarchy”: Carole Cadwalladr on Tech Titans and Rising U.S. Authoritarianism

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1 hr
June 04, 2025Democracy Now 6am – June 4, 2025
On today’s show:
“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 and Creating a New Colonial World

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1 hr
June 03, 2025Democracy Now 6am – June 3, 2025
On today’s show:
“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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23 min
June 02, 2025Democracy Now 6am – June 2, 2025
On today’s show:
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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1 hr
May 30, 2025Democracy Now 6am – May 30, 2025
On today’s show:
“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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23 min
May 29, 2025Democracy Now 6am – May 29, 2025
On today’s show:
Fear, Repression, and 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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1 hr
May 28, 2025Democracy Now 6am – May 28, 2025
On today’s show
“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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1 hr