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.
Intro/outro music: Back at It - Silencyde
References:
Re: Stephen Miller
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/may/09/end-habeas-corpus-detention-trump-stephen-miller
Re: Pete Hegseth
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pentagon-reduce-4-star-positions-by-20-official-says-2025-05-05/
Re: Haitian gangs
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/02/haiti-gangs-terrorist-groups-us
Re: Newark Mayor arrested by ICE
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy904elvxj3o
Re: Deporting Asians to Libya
Re: CBP Recission of protections
https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-rescinds-policies-on-care-of-pregnant-women-infants/
Re: ICE in Worcester, MA
Re: Release of students from Columbia and Tufts
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/09/trump-tufts-student-deportation-rumeysa-ozturk
Re: White Afikaner refugees to be welcomed
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/09/us-grants-asylum-to-54-white-afrikaner-south-africans
Re: Ban of transgender troops
https://apnews.com/article/transgender-troop-ban-hegseth-pentagon-45c8eeec86c3148eadf63ff8d709f00b
Re: FEMA
Re: NIH pulls out of Safe to Sleep/SIDS misinformation
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