WaPo: Trump’s BLS Nominee Discussed Gender Differences in IQ Scores with Interns
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WaPo: Trump’s BLS Nominee Discussed Gender Differences in IQ Scores with Interns
Bloomberg: ICE to Receive Access to Israeli Spyware Program
"The Democratic Party normalized anti-immigrant cruelty alongside Republican administrations. And until we reckon with that bipartisan nature of our racialized immigration system, then we’re not going to be able to restrain it."
"The brute force that the border once unleashed out of sight — in the desert or behind the locked doors of detention centers — is now erupting on our streets," says @jeanguerre.bsky.social.
Maduro Warns U.S. Seeking Regime Change in Venezuela as U.S. Attacks Boat, Killing 11
New Trump Rule to Ban Veteran Affairs Doctors from Performing Abortions
Israel Kills 113 More Palestinians in Gaza, Including 33 People Seeking Aid
Army Vet Charged with “Conspiracy” For ICE Protest as Trump Expands War on Dissent
“The Border Is Invading America”: Jean Guerrero on the Bipartisan Failures of Immigration Policy https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/3/jean_guerrero_immigration_border_politics
Does It Matter? Trump Keeps Losing on Immigration in the Courts
“This Is Not About Public Safety”: Rep. Chuy García Decries Trump Threat to Send Troops to Chicago
Seven Dead in Anti-Government Protests in Indonesia
Over 1,000 Demonstrations Held Across the U.S. for Labor Day
Israel's assassination of the Houthi prime minister last week is another signal "to the Yemenis and everybody else in the region" that Israel will keep launching attacks regardless of "any laws or reprisals," says journalist Rami Khouri. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/2/yemen
Dozens of Ships Set Sail for Gaza Carrying Humanitarian Aid, Seeking to Break Israel’s Siege
Landslide Kills Over 1,000 in Darfur Mountains Where Many Sought Refuge from Civil War
International Scholars’ Association Declares Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza
The killing of the Houthi leaders is meant “to signal to the Yemenis and everybody else in the region that Israel will keep attacking anybody, will kill senior people — they don’t care about any laws or reprisals.”
A federal judge stopped the Trump administration from illegally deporting nearly 700 Guatemalan children over the Labor Day weekend, ordering a last-minute block on their removals even as some children had already been boarded onto planes. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/2/efren_olivares
“If this were a benign repatriation to send children back to their parents, it wouldn’t be happening at midnight on Sunday of Labor Day weekend.”
“It’s a sweeping decision that unequivocally rebukes President Trump’s idea that he can impose tariffs on American consumers on his own without the approval of the Congress.”
The Trump administration attempted to illegally deport almost 700 Guatemalan children during Labor Day weekend, but a judge ordered a last-minute block on their removals — even as some children had already been loaded onto planes.
A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that most of Trump’s sweeping tariffs have no legal basis. Neal Katyal represents the businesses that initiated the tariff lawsuit against Trump.
Alfre Woodard reads the words of labor activist Mother Jones, and more in honor of Labor Day. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/1/labor_day_special_featuring_howard_zinn
"I want my taxes to help children, not kill them." https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/1/ms_rachel_on_her_gaza_advocacy
Join Amy Goodman for the premiere of a new documentary about Democracy Now! this Sunday at the #TellurideFilmFestival
Those in control at the White House have chosen to ignore the devastating lessons of Hurricane Katrina. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/8/28/20_years_later_the_lessons_of
Traci A. Curry, director of the new docuseries "Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time" says the storm has "irreparably changed" New Orleans and the lives of its survivors. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/8/29/katrina_race_against_time
Former State Department official Josh Paul says the Trump administration, alongside the Israeli government, is attempting to “transition from Israeli colonialism to corporate” colonialism. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/8/29/gaza_josh_paul
It’s been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina made landfall on August 29th, 2005. Traci A. Curry, director of the new docuseries "Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time" says the storm has "irreparably changed" New Orleans and the lives of its survivors.
California Lawmakers Pass Resolution Phasing Out Crude Oil Imports from Amazon
FDA Approves New COVID Vaccines with Access Restrictions
Jewish Peace Activists Demand California Senators End Support for Israel’s Assault on Gaza
U.N. Security Council Members, Except for U.S., Condemn “Man-Made Crisis” in Gaza
Independent journalist Jordan Flaherty was in New Orleans in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina first hit, and both supported and reported on relief efforts in the aftermath of the storm.
“If a hurricane would happen right now, we are ill-prepared for it, the same way we was ill-prepared 20 years ago.” https://www.democracynow.org/2025/8/28/malik_rahim
We revisit Democracy Now!’s initial coverage of Hurricane Katrina, which killed over 1,800 people, forced over a million to evacuate and stranded tens of thousands of others with limited resources and aid.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, “the voices of Black New Orleans were not heard. The people who created the culture that we feel in this whole world, the music of New Orleans ... they're still living here. Their voices are not heard,” says journalist Jordan Flaherty.
“Firearms are the number one killer of our kids in America. That’s a uniquely American problem.”
“We know the lack of open carry meant that the individuals who participated in that January 6 insurrection did not have firearms. If they had, we would have had a potential bloodbath on our hands,” says Kris Brown, president of @bradyunited.org.
Economic policy expert Aya Ibrahim says President Trump wants control over the Federal Reserve so he can slash interest rates and "run the economy as hot as possible," without much care for the impact on average people. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/8/27/federal_reserve
GOP Governors in 19 States Mobilize National Guard to Assist ICE
Israeli Forces Raid West Bank as Senators Van Hollen and Merkley Visit Church Attacked by Settlers
More Than 350,000 Israelis in Tel Aviv Call for Gov’t to Accept Ceasefire Deal
President Trump has attempted to exert control over the Federal Reserve, an entity that is supposed to be independent. “The president would like control of the money spigot,” says Aya Ibrahim, former senior policy advisor at the White House National Economic Council.
DNC Rejects Resolution Calling for an Arms Embargo on Israel
The Trump administration placed many FEMA staffers on leave Tuesday amid fallout over a letter to Congress signed by current and former employees, who warn that Trump policies are putting the agency's work at risk. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/8/27/fema
“The Federal Reserve is meant to be protected from these types of political pressures. It is an independent institution.”
A 26-year-old DNC member, Allison Minnerly, is leading efforts for the Democrats to support an arms embargo on Israel.
We speak with the head of pediatrics at Gaza’s Nasser Hospital, where Israel killed more than 20 people, including five journalists, Monday in a “double-tap” strike, drawing global condemnation.
A 26-year-old DNC member, Allison Minnerly, is leading efforts for the Democrats to support an arms embargo on Israel. Minnerly encourages other young Americans to become politically involved.
The head of pediatrics at Gaza's Nasser Hospital, Dr. Ahmed Al-Farra, describes the moment Israel killed 20 people including five journalists in a "double-tap" strike on Monday.
The head of pediatrics at Gaza's Nasser Hospital, Dr. Ahmed Al-Farra, responds to Israel’s claim that it was targeting a Hamas camera in the Monday "double-tap" strike that killed 20 people including five journalists. “Why you are killing the people?” asks Dr. Al-Farra.
Israeli Minister Says Annexation of West Bank Will Begin This Month
Scottish Police Arrest Screenwriter Paul Laverty over T-Shirt Opposing Gaza Genocide
Australia Expels Iranian Ambassador, Accuses Iran of Organizing Antisemitic Attacks
U.S. Immigrant Population Down by More Than 1 Million Since Trump’s Return to Office
Alex Acosta, Who Gave “Sweetheart Deal” to Jeffrey Epstein, Agrees to Testify to House Panel
Trump Targets Bail Reform, Wants to Let Rich “Buy Their Way Out of Jail”
“We Must Defeat Fascism”: Chicago Alderman on Trump’s Threat to Deploy Troops to City
“Time to Cut Ties with Israel”: U.N. Expert Francesca Albanese on Gaza Hospital Bombing
"The old system was broken." Chicago public defender Sharone Mitchell Jr. defends bail reform against attacks from President Trump, noting that since new rules came into effect in 2023 rich people can no longer just "buy their way out of jail."
As Trump threatens to deploy troops to more cities to combat what he claims is a crime wave, Chicago Alderperson Byron Sigcho Lopez tells the president to stay out. "Nobody likes a dictator, and nobody wants to see the normalization of military troops in American cities."
Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur on Palestine, has been sanctioned by the Trump administration for documenting and demanding accountability for Israeli crimes. "I'm not going to step back and I'm not going to stop my work," she says of the U.S. pressure campaign.
Florida Paints Over Rainbow Crosswalk Honoring the Victims of Pulse Nightclub Shooting in Orlando
George Retes is a U.S. citizen and Army veteran who was detained by ICE for three days without charge. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/8/25/george_retes
Egyptian Gov’t Employees Filmed Grabbing and Beating Two Egyptian Americans in New York
Trump Threatens to Send National Guard to Chicago, NYC & Baltimore
As famine spreads in Gaza, UNICEF and other aid groups say Israel is still blocking most aid from entering the devastated Palestinian territory. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/8/25/gaza_famine_1
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is at risk of being deported again — this time to Uganda, a country he has no ties to. www.democracynow.org/2025/8/25/ki...
George Retes, a 25-year-old U.S. citizen and Army veteran, is planning to sue the federal government after he was violently arrested and detained by ICE for three days without explanation. www.democracynow.org/2025/8/25/ge...
"They never told me what I was charged for. They just kind of threw me in there and didn’t care."
Is President Trump using “the highest office in this land to railroad and prosecute and punish an innocent man"?
The United Nations-backed authority on starvation has declared a famine in Gaza City.
Eyewitnesses say Israel carried out a “double-tap” strike on the Nasser Hospital in Gaza Monday, killing at least 20 people including five Palestinian journalists. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/8/25/gaza_journalists
Israel "is incapable of investigating itself because the military is overfilled with religious Zionist extremists."
Carlos Roberto Montoya, a 52-year-old father and grandfather from Guatemala, died while attempting to escape an immigration raid in California last week. “We want people to remember my dad in the same way we will remember him: as a loving, respectful, brave man.”
Texas Democrats fled the state to garner national attention to Republicans' Trump-led redistricting efforts. “If Trump is going to throw out the rule book, then we will fight fire with fire,” says Texas state Representative Trey Martinez Fischer.
Trump's hostile takeover of the capital is only possible because D.C. lacks statehood, says activist Keya Chatterjee with @freedcproject.bsky.social. "We don’t have equal representation under the law. Our elected officials don’t control our own National Guard."
A museum's job is to tell the "unvarnished truth," Lonnie Bunch, told Democracy Now! in 2020. The secretary of the Smithsonian is under pressure from the Trump administration, which has launched a review of the institution's programming.
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While Israel is "obliterating Gaza," the government is simultaneously escalating violence and construction of illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. "Israelis don’t want Palestinians on this land," says writer Mariam Barghouti.
Dr. Mimi Syed, an American emergency physician, speaks out after Israel barred her entry into Gaza for a medical mission: "The little bit of relief that us foreign doctors can provide, that has also been revoked and taken away from them. And it’s nothing but cruelty."
"I was a believer in the process and the guardrails, and a believer in human decency," says Shahed Ghoreishi, a former press officer for Israeli-Palestinian affairs at the U.S. State Department. "And that eventually did get me fired."
"We are in the midst of a gerrymandering Armageddon. And it’s going to start in Texas, spread to California, but it’s not going to stop there." https://www.democracynow.org/2025/8/22/texas_democrats
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Court Rules Alina Habba Has Been Unlawfully Serving as U.S. Prosecutor for New Jersey
SCOTUS Clears Path for Trump to Cancel Nearly $800 Million in NIH Research Grants
State Department Is Vetting 55 Million U.S. Visa Holders for “Deportable” Offenses
Federal Judge Halts Expansion of “Alligator Alcatraz” over Environmental Violations
ICE Agents in D.C. Coordinate with Police to Target Immigrants in Moped Traffic Stops
U.N. Declares a Famine in Gaza, Where Over 500,000 Face “Starvation, Destitution and Death”
“We want people to remember my dad in the same way we will remember him: as a loving, respectful, brave man.”
Shahed Ghoreishi was fired from his position as a press officer for Israeli-Palestinian affairs at the U.S. State Department after he pushed for language expressing condolences for journalists killed by Israel.
Shahed Ghoreishi was fired from his position as a press officer for Israeli-Palestinian affairs at the U.S. State Department earlier this week.
Democrats and Republicans are locked in a historic battle over congressional representation as Texas Republicans gerrymander the state’s district maps to flip five Democratic seats, at the request of President Trump.
Fundraiser for Carlos Montoya's family: www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...
Carlos Roberto Montoya, a 52-year-old father and grandfather from Guatemala, died while attempting to escape an immigration raid in California last week. “We want people to remember my dad in the same way we will remember him: as a loving, respectful, brave man.”
Full Interview: Smithsonian Head Lonnie Bunch in 2020 on Telling "Unvarnished" History, Trump & More
Texas Democrats fled the state to garner national attention to Republicans' Trump-led redistricting efforts. “If Trump is going to throw out the rule book, then we will fight fire with fire,” says Texas state Representative Trey Martinez Fischer.