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May 11, 2025 23 mins

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

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/6/america-first-legal-pro-trump-group-sues-chief-justice-roberts-denied/

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

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/libya-deportation-blocked-judge-migrants-trump-b2746782.html

 

Re: CBP Recission of protections

https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-rescinds-policies-on-care-of-pregnant-women-infants/

 

Re: ICE in Worcester, MA

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-arrest-mother-video-massachusetts-daughter-b2747948.html

 

Re: Release of students from Columbia and Tufts

https://apnews.com/article/mohsen-mahdawi-columbia-student-palestinian-release-dd95ffff78464df1b485d5912f1b3fcb

 

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

https://federalnewsnetwork.com/management/2025/05/trump-admin-fires-acting-fema-administrator-after-house-hearing/

 

Re: NIH pulls out of Safe to Sleep/SIDS misinformation

https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/30/nih-ends-participation-in-safe-to-sleep-campaign-to-prevent-infant-deaths/

 

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