Democracy Now! Thursday, October 2, 2025

Headlines for October 01, 2025; Chicago Mayor on Trump’s Threat to Use “Dangerous” Cities as “Training Grounds for Our Military”; A “Green Light” for War Crimes? What Trump & Hegseth’s Lecture to Generals Really Means; Mahmoud Khalil Hails Judge’s Scathing Ruling Against Trump Efforts to Deport Pro-Palestinian Students

Headlines for September 30, 2025; Trump’s Gaza Plan Is Mere “Repackaging of Genocide” for Israel’s Benefit: Diana Buttu; “Break the Blockade and End the Siege”: Nelson Mandela’s Grandson Speaks from Gaza Aid Flotilla; “The Government Has Been Shut Down” Since Trump Took Office: David Dayen; “We Do Not Want Federal Troops”: Oregon Rejects Trump’s Plan to Send Forces to Portland; Chicago Activist on Organizing Community ICE Patrols as Trump Escalates Immigration Crackdown

Headlines for September 29, 2025; Zohran Mamdani on Historic NYC Mayoral Run & Trump’s Meddling in Election as Eric Adams Drops Out; “War Criminal”: Thousands Call to Arrest Netanyahu, March at U.N. Against Gaza Genocide; Black Liberation Activist Assata Shakur Dies at 78 in Cuba; Hear Her Read 1998 Letter to Pope

Headlines for September 26, 2025; “On Our Way to Annihilation”: Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud Reports Live from Outside Gaza City; As Trump Vows War on Left, Ken Klippenstein Reveals Kirk & ICE Shooters Were Disengaged with Politics; “They’re Assassinating People for No Reason”: Cuban Minister Condemns U.S. Strikes in Caribbean

Headlines for September 25, 2025; Where Are the Detainees? Hundreds of “Alligator Alcatraz” Prisoners Disappear from ICE Database; West African Asylum Seekers Sent Home Despite Risk of Torture, After Being Deported by U.S. to Ghana; Israel Killed 31 Journalists in Yemen in Deadliest Attack on Press in 16 Years; Italy, Spain Deploy Naval Ships After Drones Repeatedly Attack Gaza-Bound Flotilla

Headlines for September 24, 2025; Trump Slams United Nations, Global Migration & Climate Science in U.N. Speech; “Science Under Siege”: Dr. Peter Hotez on Trump, Tylenol & Autism; “This Is What Fascists Do”: Trump Labels Antifa a Terrorist Org in His War on Dissent

Headlines for September 23, 2025; Alaa Abd El-Fattah Is Free: Family Celebrates Political Prisoner’s Release in Egypt; No Secret Police Act: CA Gov. Signs Law Against Masked ICE Agents; Feds Say They Won’t Comply; ICE Assaults Congressional Candidate Kat Abughazaleh at Chicago Protest

Headlines for September 22, 2025; Trump Expands “Authoritarian” Free Speech Crackdown, Calls Negative Media “Illegal”: Jameel Jaffer; “Huge Step Forward”: MP Jeremy Corbyn Cheers U.K. Recognition of Palestine, Calls for More Pressure on Israel; Egypt Pardons Activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah; British MP Jeremy Corbyn Responds to “Amazing News”; Israeli Peace Activist: My Mother Was Killed on October 7. Here’s Why I Support Palestinian Statehood.; “Nothing Will Stop Israel”: Mustafa Barghouti on the Limits of Western Recognition of Palestine

Headlines for September 19, 2025; “I’m Not Going to Give Up”: Leonard Peltier on Indigenous Rights, His Half-Century in Prison & Coming Home

Headlines for September 18, 2025; Amnesty Int’l: Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Palantir Enable & Profit from Israel’s Genocide in Gaza; “The Disappearance of Dr. Abu Safiya”: Al Jazeera Film on Israel’s Abduction & Torture of Gaza Doctor