Democracy is Dead News: April 13 2025 – April 21 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 19^th 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