Democracy is Dead News: March 15 2025 - March 22 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: Attempted POC Erasure from military websites

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/16/defense-department-black-medal-of-honor-veteran

 

https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2025/03/17/navajo-code-talkers-trump-dei-military-websites-wwii

 

 

Re: Illegal detainment

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/20/tourists-us-residents-detained-arrested-deported-ice-immigration-trump

 

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-arrests-chicago-complaint-bcc80d6aeeed824428431a318e427cd3

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/20/cecot-el-salvador-venezuela-prison-trump-deportations

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/21/trump-foreign-prison-threats-civil-rights-groups-027162

 

Re: Revoking temporary legal status

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c33706jy774o

 

Re: Dept of Ed

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c79zxzj90nno

 

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/20/trump-order-education-department-dismantle

 

Re: Dismantling IMLS

https://www.ala.org/faq-executive-order-targeting-imls

 

Re: Trump disregarding Biden pardons

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxqk1x0n5lo

 

Re: Student travel ban

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/17/yale-warn-international-students-travel-ban

 

Re: US Human rights report

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/19/trump-human-rights-report-00238581

 

Re: Canada and European urging travel precautions to US

https://www.wesa.fm/2025-03-22/some-european-countries-and-canada-issue-advisories-for-travelers-to-the-u-s

 

Re: Social Security Cuts

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/22/nx-s1-5320263/social-security-administration-changes-identity-office

 

Re: Columbia University Caving to Trump

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9q499x3v4yo

 

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/columbia-university-ban-masks-trump-republican-demand-pro-palestinian-israel-protests/

 

Re: Media silencing

https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250319-trump-mutes-voice-of-america-rfe-rl-makes-space-for-russian-and-chinese-influence

 

Re: Israel/Gaza

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/18/why-has-israel-resumed-large-scale-airstrikes-on-gaza

 

Re: Russia/Ukraine

https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-war-ceasefire-talks-drones-65c00a0afd130731e0e0c054ac528b44

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-trump-putin-zelensky-ceasefire-latest-news-b2719778.html

 

Re: Bird flu H5N1

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rfk-jr-wants-to-let-bird-flu-spread-on-poultry-farms-why-experts-are/

 

Re: FTC

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-fires-both-democratic-commissioners-ftc-sources-say-2025-03-18/

 

Re: Elon/DOGE

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/19/doge-institute-peace-staff-resistance-00238488

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/18/musk-starlink-internet-white-house

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/elon-musk-calls-prosecutions-pentagon-staff-who-leaked-new-york-times-2025-03-21/

 

https://www.politico.eu/article/elon-musk-threatens-pentagon-leakers-new-york-times-briefing-china-war/

 

Re: ICE detention of 48 New Mexican Residents

https://www.aclu-nm.org/en/press-releases/urgent-human-rights-complaint-submitted-after-ice-disappears-48-new-mexico-residents