Democracy is Dead News: April 28 2025 – May 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 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 3^rd term and 22^nd 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