Democracy Now! 2025-05-30 Friday
Democracy Now! Friday, May 30, 2025
May 30, 2025•59 min
Democracy Now! Audio
Democracy Now! is an independent daily TV & radio news program, hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. We provide daily global news headlines, in-depth interviews and investigative reports without any advertisements or government funding. Our programming shines a spotlight on corporate and government abuses of power and lifts up the stories of ordinary people working to make change in extraordinary times. Democracy Now! is live weekdays at 8am ET and available 24/7 through our website and podcasts.
Episodes
Democracy Now! 2025-05-29 Thursday
Headlines for May 29, 2025; Fear, Repression & 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
May 29, 2025•59 min
Democracy Now! 2025-05-28 Wednesday
Headlines for May 28, 2025; “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
May 28, 2025•59 min
Democracy Now! 2025-05-27 Tuesday
Headlines for May 27, 2025; Israel Bombs Home of Gaza Pediatrician, Killing 9 of Her 10 Kids, in Latest Attack on Health Workers; Trump vs. Academic Freedom: President Escalates Attacks on Harvard & International Students; Georgia Abortion Ban Forces Family to Keep Pregnant, Brain-Dead Woman on Life Support; “Unconscionable & Deliberate”: GOP Budget Defunds Planned Parenthood Amid Maternal Health Crisis
May 27, 2025•59 min
Democracy Now! 2025-05-26 Monday
“Sinners”: Director Ryan Coogler on His Latest Hit, Delta Blues, His Mississippi Roots & Vampires; The Injustice of Justice: Keith LaMar Speaks from Ohio Death Row as Movement Grows to Save His Life; “I’m Innocent”: Keith LaMar Speaks Live from Death Row About His Case, Conditions & Pending Execution
May 26, 2025•59 min
Democracy Now! 2025-05-23 Friday
Headlines for May 23, 2025; “Theft from On High”: Trump’s Budget Bill Guts Medicaid, Medicare & More to Pay for Tax Cuts; Mahmoud Khalil: Jailed Activist Testifies Before Immigration Judge and Holds His Child for First Time; “I Can’t Breathe”: Five Years After George Floyd’s Murder, Trump Admin Rolls Back Police Oversight; “King of the North”: New Book Examines MLK’s Fight Against Police Brutality & Racism Outside Dixie
May 23, 2025•59 min
"We Southernized Dr. King": Historian Jeanne Theoharis on MLK's Struggle Against Racism in the North
Historian Jeanne Theoharis joins us for an in-depth discussion about her new book, King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South, a major reexamination of his experiences and activism confronting police brutality, alongside his wife Coretta Scott King.
May 23, 2025
Democracy Now! 2025-05-22 Thursday
Headlines for May 22, 2025; “Nothing Can Justify It”: Journalist Gideon Levy Reacts to Killing of Israeli Embassy Staffers in D.C.; “The Worst It’s Ever Been”: U.K. Surgeon in Gaza Warns Kids Are Bearing Brunt as Israel Widens Assault; U.K. MP Jeremy Corbyn & EU MP Lynn Boylan on Europe Pressuring Israel to Halt Atrocities in Gaza; Trump Repeats “White Genocide” Falsehoods in Meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa
May 22, 2025•59 min
Democracy Now! 2025-05-21 Wednesday
Headlines for May 21, 2025; “A Big, Ugly, Destructive, Deadly Bill”: Bishop William Barber Slams Bill Cutting Medicaid, Medicare; “It Is Going to Kill People”: Disability Rights Activist Speaks Out on Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill”; Tax Revolt: Arjun Singh on the Roots of Trump’s Push for Massive $4.5 Trillion Tax Cut for the Rich; Trump’s Brain Drain: Scientists Look to Move Abroad as DOGE Slashes Research Funding in U.S.
May 21, 2025•59 min
Democracy Now! 2025-05-20 Tuesday
Headlines for May 20, 2025; “The Suffering Is Beyond Description”: Report from Gaza as U.N. Warns 14,000 Babies Could Soon Die; Making Gaza Unlivable: Israel Intensifies Attacks as Netanyahu Vows to Seize All of Gaza; From a Palestinian Refugee Camp to Columbia: Mohsen Mahdawi Graduates After Being Jailed by Trump
May 20, 2025•59 min
Democracy Now! 2025-05-19 Monday
Headlines for May 19, 2025; “Absolutely Genocidal”: Mouin Rabbani on “Gideon’s Chariots,” Israel’s Latest Escalation of War on Gaza; Project Esther: NYT Details Right-Wing Plan to “Rebrand All Critics of Israel” as Hamas Supporters; Columbia Chose Silence, Not Solidarity: Mahmoud Khalil’s Statement at Alternative Graduation Ceremony; On 100th Birthday of Malcolm X, Family Presses Trump to Release Gov’t Files on Assassination
May 19, 2025•59 min
Democracy Now! 2025-05-16 Friday
Headlines for May 16, 2025; “They Want to Silence Me”: Columbia Student Mohsen Mahdawi on ICE Jail, Palestine, Activism, Buddhism; The GOP War on Medicaid: 14 Million Could Lose Healthcare to Fund Tax Breaks for Rich; Supreme Court Hears Birthright Citizenship Case That Could Also Sharply Reduce Judicial Power
May 16, 2025•59 min
Democracy Now! 2025-05-15 Thursday
Headlines for May 15, 2025; “Trump’s Fake Refugees”: As U.S. Welcomes White South Africans, Trump Falsely Charges “Genocide”; Israel’s “Crime of Apartheid”: New Report by U.S. Professors as Palestinians Mark Nakba Day; “Surveillance Humanitarianism”: As Gaza Starves, U.S.-Israeli Plan Would Further Weaponize Food
May 15, 2025•59 min
Democracy Now! 2025-05-14 Wednesday
Headlines for May 14, 2025; U.S. & Saudis Sign $142B Arms Deal as Trump Meets with Syria’s New Leader & Drops Syrian Sanctions; While Israel Wanted to Bomb Iran, Trump Pushes Talks; But in Gaza, Israel’s Mass Killings Continue; Salvadoran Journalists Exposed Pres. Bukele’s Ties to Gangs. Then They Had to Flee to Avoid Arrest
May 14, 2025•59 min
Democracy Now! 2025-05-13 Tuesday
Headlines for May 13, 2025; Gift or Grift? Trump Under Fire over Qatar’s Plan to Give Him $400M “Flying Palace”; “Unprecedented” in U.S. History: Trump & Family Rake In Money from Gulf States, Crypto & Real Estate; “People Are Starving to Death”: Oxfam Warns Israel’s Blockade on Gaza Is Catastrophic; If I Stayed, I Would’ve Died: Journalist Abubaker Abed on “Agonizing” Decision to Leave Gaza
May 13, 2025•59 min
Palestinian Journalist Abubaker Abed on the Struggle of "Reporting a Genocide of Your Own People"
In Part 2 of our interview with Palestinian journalist Abubaker Abed, the 22-year-old recounts leaving Gaza last month for Ireland while facing threats to his safety and suffering from malnutrition. He says he has found solidarity and comfort in Ireland, but says he is still dealing with the trauma of a year and a half of war. The sounds of planes and helicopters still trigger fear in him. “I’m trying to navigate this pain,” he says.
May 13, 2025
Democracy Now! 2025-05-12 Monday
Headlines for May 12, 2025; Newark Mayor Ras Baraka Arrested for Visiting ICE Jail, Slams Trump Admin’s “Insane” Abuse of Power; “Un-American”: Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman on DHS Threats to Arrest Her for Visiting ICE Jail in Newark; Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Gaza: Why Does U.S. Have Money for “War and Genocide” But Not for Healthcare?
May 12, 2025•59 min
Democracy Now! 2025-05-09 Friday
Headlines for May 09, 2025; Leo XIV : First U.S.-Born Pope Criticized Trump/Vance on Deportations, Lack of Compassion for Immigrants; Priest Sexual Abuse Survivors Demand Accountability from New Pope: “Open Up Those Archives”; “We Are Not Living. We Are Enduring.” Gaza Mother on Struggle for Food, Safety Under Israeli Blockade; Tyre Nichols Case: Shock & Anger in Memphis as 3 Cops Acquitted on State Murder Charges
May 09, 2025•59 min
The Guardian's Oliver Laughland on Starbase, TX; Cops with "Red Flags" Helping ICE; "Detention Alley"
Oliver Laughland, The Guardian's U.S. southern bureau chief, discusses his reporting on the election in Elon Musk's new company town in Texas, his coverage of new police collaboration with Trump’s mass deportation plan, and conditions in “Detention Alley.”
May 09, 2025
Democracy Now! 2025-05-08 Thursday
Headlines for May 08, 2025; Who Killed Shireen Abu Akleh? Reporter’s Family Responds After Film Names Israeli Soldier Who Shot Her; “Fascism Isn’t Coming, It’s Here”: Mehdi Hasan on Trump, Gaza & Leaving MSNBC to Start Zeteo
May 08, 2025•59 min
Democracy Now! 2025-05-07 Wednesday
Headlines for May 07, 2025; “A Dangerous Escalation”: India Bombs Pakistan in Intensification of “Forever War” over Kashmir; “Columbia Knew”: Survivors Win Historic $750M from Univ. & Hospital in OB- GYN Sex Abuse Settlement; Rodney Scott, Trump’s CBP Nominee, Accused of Covering Up Death of Mexican Father in CBP Custody
May 07, 2025•59 min
Democracy Now! 2025-05-06 Tuesday
Headlines for May 06, 2025; Trump’s Newest Grift: Molly White on First Family’s Cryptocurrency Empire & Gutting of Regulations; Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha on Winning a Pulitzer: I Can’t Celebrate While Gaza Is Starving; Israel’s “Horrific Trifecta” of Starvation, Siege & Bombings Creates Maternal Health Disaster: Nurse
May 06, 2025•59 min
Democracy Now! 2025-05-05 Monday
Headlines for May 05, 2025; “Chilling”: Wisconsin Gov. Evers Pushes Back After Trump’s Border Czar Threatens to Arrest Him; “End Times Fascism”: Naomi Klein on How Trump, Musk, Far Right “Don’t Believe in the Future”
May 05, 2025•59 min
Democracy Now! 2025-05-02 Friday
Headlines for May 02, 2025; Gaza Aid Flotilla Attacked by Drones in International Waters; Organizers Blame Israel; “Losing Our Democracy”: Workers & Immigrants Lead Nationwide May Day Protests Against Trump; “Palestine Is Really the Center of the World”: Angela Davis on Gaza, Black-Jewish Solidarity & Trump; Badar Khan Suri Is a Peace Scholar at Georgetown. Now He’s Being Held as a High-Risk Threat in ICE Jail
May 02, 2025•59 min
Democracy Now! 2025-05-01 Thursday
Headlines for May 01, 2025; “I Am Not Afraid of You”: Mohsen Mahdawi’s Defiant Message to Trump After Release from ICE Jail in VT; “They Shattered Our Dreams”: NY Father Recounts How ICE Snatched His Son & Sent Him to El Salvador; Is Trump’s “Minerals Deal” a Fossil Fuel Shakedown? Antonia Juhasz on New U.S.-Ukraine Agreement; Yemeni People in State of “Terror” After 1,000+ U.S. Airstrikes Kill Hundreds: Helen Lackner...
May 01, 2025•59 min
Democracy Now! 2025-04-30 Wednesday
Headlines for April 30, 2025; “Trump Is Trying to Break Us”: Trump Threats to Annex Canada Help Liberal Party Win Critical Election; DOGE Is Going Global: Elon Musk Is Inspiring Right-Wing Efforts Abroad to Gut Government Programs; Viet Thanh Nguyen on 50 Years After Vietnam War, Trump’s “Ugly American” Politics, El Salvador & More; “To Save and to Destroy”: Viet Thanh Nguyen on New Book Exploring Otherness, Refugees, Gaza & More...
Apr 30, 2025•59 min
Democracy Now! 2025-04-29 Tuesday
Headlines for April 29, 2025; “Taking Our Power Back”: Immigrants & Workers Plan for May Day Protests as Trump Marks 100 Days; “The Hollow Half”: Palestinian American Sarah Aziza on Gaza, Generational Trauma, Anorexia & Exile
Apr 29, 2025•59 min
Democracy Now! 2025-04-28 Monday
Headlines for April 28, 2025; Three U.S. Citizen Children, Including 4-Year-Old Battling 4th Stage Cancer, Deported to Honduras; “Abuse of Power”: Trump Admin’s “Bizarre” Arrest of Milwaukee Judge Shocks Legal Community; Former Social Security Chief Martin O’Malley Warns of “Collapse of the Entire System” Under Trump
Apr 28, 2025•59 min
Democracy Now! 2025-04-25 Friday
Headlines for April 25, 2025; “Sinners”: Director Ryan Coogler on His Latest Hit, Delta Blues, His Mississippi Roots & Vampires; “Musk Is Scamming the City of Memphis”: Meet Two Brothers Fighting Colossus, Musk’s xAI Data Center
Apr 25, 2025•59 min
Democracy Now! 2025-04-24 Thursday
Headlines for April 24, 2025; “Ultimate Grifter”: Bob Kuttner on How Trump Could Drop His Tariffs & Take Credit for Saving Economy; As Trump Attacks CBS , Maria Ressa Warns He Is Following Philippine Model to Crack Down on Free Press; Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa Remembers Pope Francis for Progressive Views & Embracing the Global South; Trump’s War on Children: DOGE Guts Head Start, Child Abuse Programs, Healthcare & More...
Apr 24, 2025•59 min
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