Democracy Now! Friday, July 4, 2025

Headlines for July 03, 2025; EXCLUSIVE: Mahmoud Khalil, Palestinian Activist Jailed by ICE for 104 Days, in First Live Interview; GOP Budget Bill Slashes Medicaid for Millions, Cuts Taxes for the Rich, Funds ICE at Historic Levels

Headlines for July 02, 2025; “Not a Done Deal”: After Senate Passes “Big, Ugly Bill,” Progressives Fight to Stop It in the House; GOP Budget Bill Would Make ICE “Largest Federal Law Enforcement Agency in the History of the Nation”; “Alligator Alcatraz”: Florida Activists Resist Everglades Migrant Jail as ICE Deaths Rise in U.S.; “Arrest Now, Ask Questions Later”: Why Did L.A. ICE Agents Arrest and Jail U.S. Citizen Andrea Velez?

Headlines for July 01, 2025; “Worst Thing I’ve Ever Seen”: U.S. Surgeon Describes Mass Starvation, Injury and Death in Gaza; “Trying to Find Food Is a Death Sentence”: Palestinian Writer Muhammad Shehada on Gaza Aid Massacres; “Ethnic Cleansing”: U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, on Israel’s War in Gaza; “Damaging and Deadly” Heat Domes Nearly Tripled, from Europe to the U.S.: Climatologist Michael Mann

Headlines for June 30, 2025; To Fund Tax Cuts for the Rich, GOP Budget Bill Would “Take a Sledgehammer” to Healthcare for Millions; SCOTUS Clears Way for Trump Agenda, from Limits to Birthright Citizenship to LGBTQ Books in Schools; Freedom for Western Sahara: Sahrawis Demand End of Moroccan Occupation at U.N. Human Rights Council

Headlines for June 27, 2025; Open the Floodgates: SCOTUS Says South Carolina Can Defund Planned Parenthood. Will Other States Follow?; Kidnapped to Salvadoran Mega-Prison: Andry Hernández Romero’s Family on 100+ Days of Disappearance; Rep. Pramila Jayapal: Trump Is Attacking “Every Part of the Legal Immigration System”; Bill Moyers Dies at 91: PBS Icon on Corruption of Corporate Media and Power of Public Broadcasting

Headlines for June 26, 2025; “The Economy Is Rigged”: Robert Reich on Zohran Mamdani, The Democratic Party, Inequality, and Trump; “A Clown Show”: RFK Jr. Fires CDC Panel & Stacks It with Anti-Vaxxers, Cuts Funding for Int’l Vaccines; “Buy More U.S. Weapons”: “Daddy” Trump Pushes Military-Industrial Complex on NATO Countries

Headlines for June 25, 2025; “We Fight for Working People with No Apology”: Zohran Mamdani Beats Cuomo in NYC Mayoral Primary; “One Mass Casualty After Another”: U.S. Doctor in Gaza on Ongoing Israeli Massacres at Aid Sites; “Imperial Decline”: NATO Nations Boost War Spending at Trump’s Urging as He Defends Iran Bombing; “Inhumane”: Marine Veteran Calls for ICE to Release His Father After Video of Brutal Arrest Goes Viral

Headlines for June 24, 2025; F-Bombs and Real Bombs: Trita Parsi on Shaky Iran Ceasefire & Trump’s Anger at Netanyahu; NYC Mayoral Primary Day: Zohran Mamdani on Building a Movement & Campaigning for an Affordable City; How Ranked-Choice Voting Could Decide NYC’s Mayoral Election: John Tarleton on Cuomo vs. Progressives; “Blatantly Unconstitutional”: Rep. Ro Khanna Decries U.S. Strikes on Iran Without Congressional Approval

Headlines for June 23, 2025; Report from Tehran: Iranians View U.S. Strikes on Key Nuclear Sites as “Act of War”; Stop the War on Iran: 1,000+ Sign Petition Saying Iran War Deflects Attention from Gaza Genocide; Ex-Israeli Peace Negotiator Slams U.S. Bombing of Iran, Says Israel Seeks Chaos in Middle East; Mahmoud Khalil Is Free: Follow His Journey from ICE Jail to Newark Airport to Gates of Columbia University

Headlines for June 20, 2025; Another Iraq? Military Expert Warns U.S. Has No Real Plan If It joins Israel’s War on Iran; “Harming Young People”: Chase Strangio on SCOTUS Trans Heathcare Ban & End of LGBTQ Suicide Hotline; I Was Detained, Deported from L.A. Airport for My Reporting on Gaza Campus Protests: Australian Writer; “More Choices and More Power”: How the Ranked-Choice Ballot Is Changing NYC Elections