Democracy is Dead
What the result of the American Presidential election in 2024 means to democracy in America. Serve with alcohol.
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7 days ago
7 days ago
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/
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/the-trump-administration-canceled-a-program-that-reduced-sids-enter-the-anti-vaxxers/
Re: Trump picks for Surgeon General and DC prosecutor
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/kennedy-defends-new-surgeon-general-pick-maga-backlash-2025-05-08/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2jnl79mejo
Re: Executive order regarding DHS and immigration
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/establishing-project-homecoming/
Re: US-UK trade deal
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/us-uk-trade-deal-beef-explained-trump-starmer-b2747429.html
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/may/09/us-uk-trade-deal-imposes-conditions-on-ownership-of-british-steel-plants
Re: Shiloh Hendrix raises money after calling child N-word
https://newrepublic.com/article/194925/shiloh-hendrix-right-ring-fundraising
Tuesday May 06, 2025
Tuesday May 06, 2025
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.
References:
Re: Trump budget proposal
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-unveils-federal-budget-blueprint-2025-05-02/
Re: Gaza Malnutrition and Starvation:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/3/57-palestinians-starved-to-death-under-israels-blockade-of-gaza
Re: Pierre Polliviere losing Canadian election
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crkx3gdvv75o
Re: Australia election results
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxgwnj8v5eo
Re: Zelensky minerals deal and Trump meeting
https://kyivindependent.com/vatican-meeting-with-trump-was-best-conversation-yet-zelensky-says/
https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-says-conclusion-of-minerals-deal-is-first-result-of-talks-with-trump-in-vatican/
Re: Marco Rubio, Germany’s AFD party
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/03/marco-rubio-germany-afd
Re: Fentanyl and Narcan
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/05/trump-news-doj-fentanyl-pam-bondi-lives-saved.html
https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2025/05/01/opiod-overdose-miracle-drug-faces-56m-cuts
Re: Trump and upholding the Constitution.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-asked-uphold-constitution-says-dont-know-rcna204580
Re: Executive order Hegseth and Pam Bondi
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-bondi-hegseth-military-law-enforcement-b2741549.html
Re: Trump 3rd term and 22nd amendment
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd9l3399wvno
https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-22/#:~:text=No%20person%20shall%20be%20elected,the%20President%20more%20than%20once.
Re: Trump taking credit for economy good parts and blaming bad parts on Biden.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-rejects-concerns-prices-economic-uncertainty-defends-agenda-rcna203512
Re: LA ports and Tariffs
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/04/los-angeles-ports-trump-tariffs
Re: Trump’s polling numbers
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/04/trump-popularity-voters-economy-immigration
Re: Economy Contraction
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/30/economy-gdp-q1-trump-tariffs
Re: Trump DOJ and warrantless search
https://newrepublic.com/post/194442/trump-doj-memo-ice-arrest-search-warrant
Re: Warrantless Mahmoud Khalil
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/columbia-student-mahmoud-khalil-was-detained-arrest-warrant-trump-admi-rcna202946
Re: Memos regarding Trump admin telling ICE to break into homes https://www.thedailybeast.com/leaked-memo-donald-trumps-ice-breaking-into-homes-without-warrant/
https://newrepublic.com/post/194442/trump-doj-memo-ice-arrest-search-warrant
Re: ICE stealing life savings
https://newrepublic.com/post/194557/ice-invades-wrong-home-oklahoma-girls-underwear-life-savings
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/oklahoma-city-ice-raid-family-defend-themselves-rcna204308
Re: Mike Waltz Ousting
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/mike-waltz-trump-problem-signal-scandal-rcna204222
Re: Trump military parade cost
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-defends-high-cost-military-parade-peanuts-rcna204581
Re: Trump Pope picture
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdrg8zkz8d0o
Re: Cutting funding to PBS and NPR
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/04/npr-pbs-funding-trump-order
Re: Mexico says no to US troops crossing boarder
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/04/nx-s1-5386456/mexico-president-rejected-trumps-plan-us-troops-across-border
Re: Trump and Due Process
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-hes-unsure-whether-people-us-are-entitled-due-process-2025-05-04/
Re: Republicans shoot down amendments prohibiting deportation of US citizens
https://newrepublic.com/post/194664/republicans-kill-amendment-stop-ice-deporting-us-citizens
Re: ICE RAIDS and city events
https://www.cnn.com/us/cultural-events-canceled-trump-deportations
Re: Martin Diaz detention
https://www.newsweek.com/man-who-came-us-toddler-married-us-citizen-detained-ice-2067654
Re: Death in ICE custody
https://truthout.org/articles/3-people-die-in-ice-custody-in-april-as-conditions-worsen-in-immigration-jails/
Re: Health Tracking Programs:
https://apnews.com/article/cdc-disease-tracking-health-surveillance-554eb9aa20b758714eba8b835dcde856
Re: RFK autism
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/autism-community-needs-rfkjr-stigma-funding-rcna203578
Re: RFK Autism Registry
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/rfk-jr-autism-registry-trump-google-ice-hegseth-rcna202393
Re: RFK vaccines
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crkx3egk3ygo
Re: Homan vs. AOC
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/aoc-claps-back-at-tom-homans-deportation-threat-come-take-me/articleshow/120853602.cms
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/aoc-challenges-border-czar-tom-homan-to-come-for-me-after-doj-referral-threat/ar-AA1E6DmA?apiversion=v2&noservercache=1&domshim=1&renderwebcomponents=1&wcseo=1&batchservertelemetry=1&noservertelemetry=1
Re: Climate Change Dismissing by White house
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/29/nx-s1-5380816/climate-assessment-authors-released
Re: Oklahoma social studies curriculum
https://www.koco.com/article/oklahoma-social-studies-standards-moving-forward-ryan-walters/64623287
Sunday May 04, 2025
Sunday May 04, 2025
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.
References:
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS:
https://pennstatelaw.psu.edu/sites/default/files/documents/pdfs/Immigrants/Home_Customize.pdf
Re: Executive orders
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/strengthening-and-unleashing-americas-law-enforcement-to-pursue-criminals-and-protect-innocent-citizens/
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-bondi-hegseth-military-law-enforcement-b2741549.html
Re: Threats on the judiciary
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/26/wisconsin-judge-hannah-dugan-democrats-republicans
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/new-mexico-judge-arrested-venezuelan-gang-b2739551.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/28/trump-immigration-executive-orders
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/new-mexico-judge-arrested-venezuelan-gang-b2739551.html
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/04/trump-administration-initimidates-judges/682620/
https://dailyprogress.com/news/local/crime-courts/article_e6ce6e4a-4161-476f-8d28-94150a891092.html
Hitler statement on judges
https://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/transcripts/3-transcript-for-nmt-3-justice-case?seq=209
Re: Media record subpoenas
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/reversal-us-justice-department-says-media-records-can-be-seized-leak-probes-2025-04-26/
Re: ActBlue
https://apnews.com/article/trump-actblue-democratic-fundraising-9f990e668572709ce0e3260bbdb6f61b
Re: George Santos
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/25/george-santos-sentenced-87-months-prison-fraud
Re: Immigration and deportations
https://www.latintimes.com/wife-kids-abrego-garcia-safe-house-after-us-officials-publish-home-address-i-dont-feel-safe-581507
https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article304988381.html
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-mothers-deported-d8c5c0353c18e9ee0c228ea15e02d759
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/migrant-children-deportation-hearings-b2739754.html
Re: Women’s Health initiative
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/28/womens-health-initiative-trump-cuts-reversed
Re: Bird flu
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-cdc-cancels-science-group-workshop-preventing-human-bird-flu-infections-2025-04-29/
Re: Salmonella in raw poultry
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/usda-salmonella-poultry-withdraw-biden-plan-1235325722/
Re: Measles
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/29/texas-measles-cases
Re: Defunding Narcan program
https://www.latintimes.com/rfk-jr-end-godsend-narcan-program-that-helped-reduce-overdose-deaths-despite-his-past-heroin-581846
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-narcan-overdose-grant-b2739727.html
Re: Wikipedia
https://www.thefp.com/p/trump-prosecutor-threatens-wikipedia
Re: DOGE and NPS
https://www.fodors.com/news/news/national-parks-will-now-be-run-by-elon-musks-doge
Re: Tariff effects
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/28/trump-tariffs-shipments-us-ports
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-truckers-speak-english-order-b2741432.html
Tuesday Apr 29, 2025
Tuesday Apr 29, 2025
In this episode of DemocracyisDead, we discuss the suspension of due process that the Trump Regime has been implementing against those they are "deporting" but really kidnapping and exiling from the country.
Wednesday Apr 23, 2025
Wednesday Apr 23, 2025
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.
References:
Re: Homegrown deportations to El Salvador
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-home-growns-bukele-citizens-b2733207.html
Re: April 19th protests
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/19/anti-trump-rallies-protests
Re: Replacing Hegseth
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/21/nx-s1-5371312/trump-white-house-pete-hegseth-defense-department
Re: Supreme court blocking deportation of Venezuelan prisoners.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/alito-supreme-court-trump-venezuelans-b2736398.html
Re: Abrego Garcia
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/18/chris-van-hollen-kilmar-abrego-garcia
https://abcnews.go.com/US/el-salvador-government-rejects-lawmakers-request-visit-abrego/story?id=120910107
Re: Erlin Richards deportation
https://www.financialexpress.com/world-news/green-card-holder-living-in-us-since-the-90s-detained-after-international-travel-return-heres-why/3806639/
Re: Immigration OS and Palantir
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-palantir-expanding-immigrant-surveillance-tools-ice-tune-30-million
Re: Mohsen Mahdawi arrest
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/21/mohsen_mawdawi
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/protesters-chain-themselves-to-columbia-university-campus-gates-to-call-for-activists-release/3544835
Re: American Citizen doctor asked to self-deport
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna201698
Re: Jose Hermosillo detention
https://news.azpm.org/p/news-articles/2025/4/18/224512-us-citizen-in-arizona-detained-by-immigration-officials-for-10-days/
Re: Indonesian father with valid visa detained
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/19/aditya-wahyu-harsono-immigration-indonesia
Re: Japanese student
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/visa-reinstated-byu-student-japan-fishing-citation-speeding-tickets-rcna202216
Re: Two german tourists deported
https://beatofhawaii.com/why-these-hawaii-travelers-were-jailed-and-deported/
Re: IRS and Harvard
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-irs-planning-rescind-harvards-tax-exempt-status-cnn-reports-2025-04-16/
Re: Trans kids tip line
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/04/administration-opens-a-snitch-line-to-report-trans-kids-getting-health-care/
Re: Increasing birth rate
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-musk-vance-birth-rate-b2736924.html
Re: RFK building autism registry
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/22/rfk-jr-autism-nih
Re: Ben Edwards measles
https://apnews.com/article/texas-measles-outbreak-rfk-jr-ben-edwards-2dd7c79d47c64ad2e6d4a4ac3c87ec1f
Re: Lab Leak Theory
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/white-house-covid-web-page-page-supporting-lab/story?id=120956514
Re: Dr. Oz telling US citizens to not get sick and use less drugs
https://www.latintimes.com/dr-oz-ridiculed-advising-americans-use-less-drugs-reduce-drug-spending-tell-that-diabetic-581196
Re: HHS budget cuts
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/17/trump-health-budget-cuts-hhs
Re: Measles Cases
https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html
Re: DOGE and social security
https://www.thedailybeast.com/doge-goons-physically-drag-social-security-worker-from-desk/
Re: CFPB firings blocked by judge
https://www.wired.com/story/cfpb-terminations-paused-trump/
Re: FSU shooter
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/fsu-shooting-florida-state-university-suspect-live-updates-b2735641.html
Re: Human rights changes at State Department
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/18/nx-s1-5357511/state-department-human-rights-report-cuts
Re: Luigi Trial
https://abcnews.go.com/US/luigi-mangione-indicted-federal-charges-ceo-killing/story?id=120928265
Re: 1 billion missing and DOGE
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/elon-musks-doge-shaves-off-nearly-1-billion-in-savings-overnight-internet-left-chasing-receipts/articleshow/120409881.cms?from=mdr
Re: Mexico counters deportations
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1k2zdrq/mexicos_sheinbaum_counters_trump_deportations/
Re: Crimea
https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-peace-talks-include-recognizing-russian-control-of-crimea/
RE : Easter Ceasefire
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c787v5gxny7o
Re: Fox news calls Kyiv a Russian city
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraines-foreign-ministry-calls-out-fox-news-for-labeling-kyiv-a-russian-city/
Re: Murder of Gaza Aid workers
https://www.politico.eu/article/israeli-military-says-review-into-its-killing-of-gaza-aid-workers-found-professional-failures/
Re: Pope Francis and Vance
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/20/jd-vance-granted-lightning-audience-with-pope-francis-in-vatican
Re: USAID cutting causing starvation in Sudan
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7x87ev5jyo
Tuesday Apr 15, 2025
Tuesday Apr 15, 2025
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.
References:
References:
Re: SAVE Act
https://apnews.com/article/congress-save-act-citizenship-voting-elections-a37c139461d11eb5f82086680b67ffe7
Re: Immigration
https://apnews.com/article/rubio-south-sudan-visas-f2716e1871d8d1422546fdc447bac215
https://apnews.com/article/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-university-trump-c60738368171289ae43177660def8d34
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62gnzzeg34o
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/12/kilmar-abrego-garcia-wrongly-deported
https://apnews.com/article/living-immigrants-dead-social-security-numbers-trump-c10737cbe36e3108fb244a555777d880
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/08/irs-ice-tax-data
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-plans-fine-migrants-998-day-failing-leave-after-deportation-order-2025-04-08/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/07/trump-student-visas-deportation
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/australian-with-us-working-visa-detained-insulted-deported
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/12/amir-makled-phone-search-border-immigration
https://truthout.org/articles/white-house-press-sec-says-trumps-seriously-considering-deporting-u-s-citizens/
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/homeland-security-revokes-legal-status-for-migrants-who-entered-u-s-using-cbp-one-app
https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2025/04/13/boston-immigration-attorney-a-citizen-told-by-dhs-to-leave-the-country/
https://documentedny.com/2025/04/12/dhs-cbp-one-trump-biden-legal-email-termination-notice-parole/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgeng08qe7zo
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/ice-todd-lyons-deporation-amazon
Re: Underground Railround revisionist history
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-national-park-service-underground-railroad-website-1235311535/
https://www.phillytrib.com/national-park-service-restores-underground-railroad-webpage-after-outcry/article_5b8aa5a9-2a22-569a-9f43-d2c74049a03a.html
Re: Environment and Climate Change
https://apnews.com/article/trump-national-forests-emergency-logging-rollins-e2d7173bedcc697dee56f94ab613276f
https://apnews.com/article/trump-coal-industry-mining-fact-check-69bc9919c2899a87c65c4c89a84a973e
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-water-pressure-shower-executive-order-b2730973.html
Re: Tariffs and stock market
https://apnews.com/article/trump-truth-social-djt-tesla-musk-tariffs-pause-fccfa6b06c8f1ec0cd7844641ca52669
https://apnews.com/article/greene-stocks-conflicts-interest-restoration-hardware-tariffs-trump-f9922a970c837cb76dd8ddc01f20f51d
Re: RFK Jr and measles
https://apnews.com/article/measles-outbreak-texas-rfk-new-mexico-kansas-vaccine-e904ec9781f1d164c73afe4ab71774fe
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/rfk-jr-measles-flip-flop-is-never-coming/
Re: DOGE
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-musk-doge-privacy-personal-info-data-social-security-1235312853/
https://www.theverge.com/news/644327/musk-doge-irs-hackathon-taxpayer-data-transfer-cloud
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-oversight/2025/04/ssa-shifts-to-x-posts-for-official-messaging-after-cuts-to-communications-staff/
Re: Other authoritarian actions
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-justice-dept-mobilized-armed-marshals-warn-ex-lawyer-over-congressional-2025-04-07/
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/trump-directs-doj-to-investigate-former-administration-officials-who-criticized-him
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/column-fed-chairs-job-security-depends-embattled-supreme-court-precedent-2024-11-11/
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/04/09/congress/house-passes-national-injunction-bill-00282914
Monday Apr 14, 2025
Monday Apr 14, 2025
In this episode of DemocracyisDead, we discuss the Insurrection Act that is slated to potentially be used on April 20th 2025 by the Trump Regime to consolidate power.
Saturday Apr 05, 2025
Saturday Apr 05, 2025
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.
References:
Re: Trump Third Term
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-third-term-republicans-b2723487.html
https://medium.com/@jamesrawillis/trump-in-four-years-you-wont-have-to-vote-again-d337b8fcfb9f
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2020/09/13/trump-says-he-will-negotiate-third-term-because-hes-entitled-to-it/
https://ogles.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-ogles-proposes-amending-22nd-amendment-allow-trump-serve-third-term
Re: Signal and National Security
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/31/white-house-moving-on-waltz-signal-drama-00260891
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/02/trump-mike-waltz-signal-groups
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/02/michael-waltz-gmail-signal-national-security
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/02/schumer-proposes-security-trainingtrump-officials-signalgate
Re: Laura Loomer and NSA firings
https://apnews.com/article/trump-waltz-laura-loomer-national-security-council-959b718b04b240c5c8ba3736b4d8aa62
Re: Tariffs and Stock market crash
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/04/stock-markets-trump-tariffs
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/trump-tariffs-come-into-effect-in-seismic-shift-to-global-trade
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdjl3k1we8vo
Re: El Salvador detention
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/el-salvador-deportations-removal-gang-tattooos-what-happens-now-cecot-trump-ice-dhs/
https://apnews.com/article/trump-el-salvador-prison-kilmar-abrego-garcia-5a92d6bd7f893eed64c2607cc129a6f9
Re: US-Canada border detentions
https://www.investigativepost.org/2025/04/01/feds-locking-up-families-children-at-canadian-border/
Re: College student visas
https://apnews.com/article/college-international-student-f1-visa-ice-trump-7a1d186c06a5fdb2f64506dcf208105a
https://www.cpr.org/2025/04/02/csu-cu-uccs-international-students-visas-revoked/
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-education/2025/04/04/arizona-state-university-student-detained-after-visa-revocation/82793138007/
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/stanford-students-visas-revoked-20260431.php
https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/education/2025/04/04/ohio-state-university-5-international-students-visas-revoked-trump/82893316007/
Re: RFK and HHS cuts
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/01/hhs-layoff-rfk-staff-cuts
https://apnews.com/article/heating-assistance-hhs-layoffs-kennedy-trump-91e466c458ac804b098be00867a92106
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/maternal-child-health-cuts
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/04/02/hhs-layoffs-world-trade-center-program-staff/82775014007/
https://www.medicarerights.org/medicare-watch/2025/04/03/trump-administration-and-doge-eliminate-staff-who-help-older-adults-and-people-with-disabilities/
https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/01/hhs-rfk-job-cuts-communications-foia-operations/
Re: Measles
https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/04/05/us-has-twice-as-many-measles-cases-so-far-this-year-than-in-all-of-2024
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/03/the-cdc-buried-a-measles-forecast-that-stressed-the-need-for-vaccinations/
Re: Pertussis
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04-louisiana-infants-die-whooping-vaccinations.html
Re: Dr. Oz Senate confirmation
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/mehmet-oz-confirmation-medicare-medicaid
Re: Domestic/State Programs and Issues
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-peace-corps-says-musks-cost-cutting-team-has-arrived-its-hq-2025-04-04/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/29/florida-republicans-immigrant-jobs-child-labor
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/miami-dade-county-ends-water-fluoridation-after-vote-22787216
https://www.sej.org/headlines/trump-s-doe-targets-calif-and-other-blue-states-cuts-leaked-docs
https://prh.org/press-releases/trump-cuts-35-million-in-title-x-funding/
https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/new-trump-administration-funding-freeze-imperils-reproductive-care
Monday Mar 31, 2025
Monday Mar 31, 2025
In this episode we discuss the Trump Regime's and the GOPs plans to end free elections in this country and why we call the podcast DemocracyisDead.
References and Show Notes:
SAVE Act:
Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act. Jan 3 congressional republicans.
If enacted, the SAVE bill would require all voters to prove their American citizenship in-person when registering or updating their voter registration, providing specific documentation such as a passport or birth certificate.
According to an analysis of the bill by the Brennan Center for Justice, the SAVE Act would undermine voting rights and disenfranchise tens of millions of American voters, as more than 21 million citizens lack these documents.
The bill’s in-person requirement could also disenfranchise approximately 60 million rural voters, who would have to travel great distances to register to vote.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-save-act-an-attempt-to-restrict-voting-rights/
While this may sound easy for many Americans, the reality is that more than 140 million American citizens do not possess a passport and as many as 69 million women who have taken their spouse’s name do not have a birth certificate matching their legal name.
I’m sure that all the layoffs that are occurring will spare the people who issue passports so that they can get these 140 million people passports in the next four years so they can exercise their right to vote.
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-save-act-would-disenfranchise-millions-of-citizens/
ALL Mail in voting will be cancelled because proof of citizenship by this act will be required IN PERSON.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/save-act-would-undermine-voter-registration-all-americans
Americans abroad vote blue in overwhelming numbers. From 2020 to April of 2024, 77.65% voters using the voting tool votefromabroad.org registered as left leaning. 17.2% registered as having no party preference. Only 2.5% registered as Republican.
https://www.democratsabroad.org/our_impact
Voter fraud allegations:
https://www.brennancenter.org/issues/ensure-every-american-can-vote/vote-suppression/myth-voter-fraud
Chip Roy a Texas republican.
Executive order passed by Trump on voting rights. March 26 2025
The order requires individuals to show documents proving their citizenship in order to register to vote – permitting only a narrow set of documents, such as a passport, that many Americans do not have easy access to. It also attempts to bar states from counting mail ballots that arrive after Election Day, even if they were mailed and postmarked on or before Election Day. Currently, 18 states allow mail ballots to be counted as long as they are postmarked by Election Day.
https://www.naacpldf.org/press-release/ldf-condemns-illegal-unconstitutional-executive-order-seeking-to-undermine-voting-rights-in-federal-elections/
The order also directs the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to decertify any voting systems that use barcodes or QR codes on ballots — a technology commonly used across the country. The EAC is now tasked with reviewing all certifications within 180 days.
This move could force states and counties to replace their voting machines on short notice — without any new funding.
“Imagine buying new equipment, and now it’s suddenly banned,” said Connecticut Secretary of State Stephanie Thomas, who recently approved a $20 million purchase of new ballot scanners. “There is no remedy for that in the order.”
Sunday Mar 30, 2025
Sunday Mar 30, 2025
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.
References:
Re: Signalgate
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/
https://archive.is/20250329023654/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/signal-group-chat-attack-plans-hegseth-goldberg/682176/
https://apnews.com/article/fbi-pentagon-attack-plans-petraeus-clinton-comey-3ab3773b2642abaf024d3a5f3eb66f4b
Re: Voter Registration Executive Order
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/25/trump-executive-order-voter-registration-immigration
https://apnews.com/article/voting-elections-trump-executive-order-4e9edb53f47e61e241a43ceef8164022
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/trumps-executive-order-on-elections-aims-to-dictate-how-states-run-elections-and-handpicks-which-citizens-can-vote/
Re: Georgia Miscarriage
https://thegeorgiasun.com/news/woman-arrested-after-miscarriage-in-georgia-under-abortion-law/
Re: Transgender people in military
https://www.yahoo.com/news/federal-judge-denies-trump-admins-001645782.html
Re: Arrests by ICE
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/28/rumeysa-ozturk-tufts-ice
https://www.wvtm13.com/article/university-alabama-student-detained-ice/64302744
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/03/28/university-of-minnesota-student-detained-by-ice
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/25/columbia-gaza-protester-yunseo-chung-lawsuit
https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/southeast-asia/trump-ice-milwaukee-laos-ma-yang-deported-b2721619.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/family-calls-release-woman-legally-195654715.html
Re: Social media screening
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/28/student-visa-applications-denials
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-green-card-applicants-social-media-b2720180.html
Re: Auto Tariffs
https://apnews.com/article/autos-tariffs-trump-tax-imports-ford-gm-e53823ef7bbb7b3c46d11eca90aaa638
Re: Shell companies
https://www.icij.org/inside-icij/2025/03/treasury-department-wont-enforce-beneficial-ownership-rule-under-the-corporate-transparency-act/
Re: USAID
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/28/appeals-court-usaid-ruling-doge-00259154
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/state-department-notified-congress-intent-reorganize-usaid-rubio-says-2025-03-28/
Re: Ending child vaccine aid
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-27/funding-for-child-vaccines-in-poor-nations-trump-administration/105101058
Re: RFK Jr and HHS
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/rfk-jr-plans-10000-job-cuts-major-health-department-restructuring-wsj-reports-2025-03-27/
https://apnews.com/article/fda-vaccine-chief-peter-marks-resign-rfk-kennedy-7743be11cec4e4e22c50c2ddbcb6bcd8
https://www.yahoo.com/news/after-rfk-jr-recommends-vitamin-a-as-a-measles-treatment-some-texas-patients-show-signs-of-toxicity-214353603.html
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-government-pulls-back-over-11-billion-funding-state-health-departments-2025-03-26/
Re: Domestic Issues
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-takes-bid-slash-teacher-training-funds-us-supreme-court-2025-03-26/
https://apnews.com/article/trump-black-history-smithsonian-dei-687fd306dc9c6d7611300d74fe49b8aa
https://apnews.com/article/trump-unions-collective-bargaining-end-national-security-deabc796751dc038a8500774fe174a99
Re: Mike Johnson threat to shut down federal courts
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/house-mike-johnson-shut-down-court-trump-b2722358.html
Re: Reorganizing Government Act of 2025
https://www.govexec.com/management/2025/03/congress-debates-bill-fast-track-approval-trump-and-musk-agency-cuts/404045/
Re: Child labor
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/29/florida-republicans-immigrant-jobs-child-labor
Re: Measles forecasts buried at CDC
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/03/the-cdc-buried-a-measles-forecast-that-stressed-the-need-for-vaccinations/