DemocracyisDead News: March 23 2025 – March 29 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/