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We continue with our Democracy is Dead News segment covering the policy changes and goings-on in the new American Fascist administration. This is a weekly addition to the podcast to attempt to catalogue for listeners as concisely as possible the growing fascist threat in America perpetrated and planned by Trump's second term. Please see references below.
References:
Re: Columbia funding and protests
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gp979w055o
Re: Postal Service Changes
https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/trump-postal-service-executive-order-mail-voting-threat/
Re: Transgender women in men’s prisons
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/07/transgender-women-prison-trump
Re: VA Lay offs
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/03/va-plans-lay-many-83000-employees-year/403477/
Re: NIH Layoffs
Re: Politicizing Federal HR Officials
Re: TSA
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/03/trump-administration-outlaws-unions-tsa/403577/
Re: Revoking protections for Ukrainians
Re: Ukraine hotel missile attack
Re: US relationship with Hungary
https://www.reuters.com/world/hungary-us-agree-economic-cooperation-package-pm-orban-says-2025-03-08/
Re: Tariffs
Re: Cyberattacks Russia
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2er34w0jgdo
Re: Fort Bliss
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/08/texas-army-fort-bliss-deportation-detention
Re: Withdrawal from UN Climate Change Fund
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/07/us-exits-fund-that-compensates-poorer-countries-for-global-h
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