Democracy is Dead News: April 05 2025 – April 12 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.

 

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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