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Democracy Now! Thursday, July 23, 2026

Democracy Now! Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Democracy Now! Wednesday, July 22, 2026

On today's show: Headlines U.S. Escalates War on Iran, Targeting Civilian Infrastructure as 3 U.S. Soldiers Are Killed “Justice for Lorenzo”: Houston Community Demands Accountability After ICE Killing of Mexican Father Texas Rep. Al Green Accuses Trump Admin of Attempting to Cover Up ICE Killings Nearly 1,000 Wildfires in Canada Continue to Burn as Trump & Carney Double Down on Fossil Fuels   Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – July 20, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

Democracy Now! titulares en español de 17 de julio de 2026

On today's show: Headlines Denise Oliver-Vélez, Pioneering Young Lord & Black Panther, Dies at 78 Trump's Election Integrity Speech Lays Groundwork for Midterm Interference: Ari Berman Report from Houston: Family of ICE Shooting Victim Lorenzo Salgado Araujo Holds Public Viewing “Disrupt, Identify, Defund, Debank, Arrest & Prosecute”: Trump Admin Threatens Leftist Groups Christopher Nolan's “The Odyssey” Faces Boycott Calls over Filming in Occupied Western Sahara   Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – July 17, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

Democracy Now! titulares en español de 16 de julio de 2026

On today's show: Headlines Todd Blanche Is “Not Fit” to Be AG, from Epstein Files to Trump's $1.8B Slush Fund: Rep. Jayapal We Are Sending a Message to Netanyahu: Rep. Jayapal on 100+ Dems Voting to Cut Israeli Military Aid Victor Salgado Araujo Saw ICE Agent Kill His Brother in Texas. He Is Now Detained, Faces Deportation A “Forever War” in Iran? Ali Vaez on Escalating War, U.S. “Diplomatic Malpractice” Earthjustice Sues to Block Trump's Move to Gut Endangered Species Act Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – July 16, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

Democracy Now! titulares en español de 15 de julio de 2026

On today's show: Headlines “Fighting Back”: Mahmoud Khalil Sues Trump Admin, Pro-Israel Groups for Conspiracy to Suppress Speech Israeli Settlers Attack Convoy of Journalists & Father of Palestinian American Killed 1 Year Ago “Block the Merger”: California AG Rob Bonta on 12 States Suing to Stop Paramount-Warner Mega Deal Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – July 15, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

Democracy Now! titulares en español de 14 de julio de 2026

On today's show: Headlines “They Were Hunting for Latinos”: LULAC CEO on ICE Killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston “Our Community Is Hurting”: ICE Kills 26-Year-Old Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine “Vote Her Out”: After Maine ICE Shooting, Sen. Collins Under Fire for Deciding Vote on ICE Funding “Completely Unprecedented”: Ari Berman on Trump's Attack on Elections Ahead of Midterms Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – July 14, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

Democracy Now! titulares en español de 13 de julio de 2026

On today's show: Headlines “Iran Is Not Going to Capitulate”: Jeremy Scahill on Renewed War, Strait of Hormuz & More Lindsey Graham “Never Met a War of Aggression He Didn't Passionately Back”: Jeremy Scahill “Disgraceful”: Rashid Khalidi Slams Israeli Attacks on Journalists, Detention of Rep. Ro Khanna U.S. Plans “Illegal Embassy” in Jerusalem on Land Stolen from Palestinian Families: Rashid Khalidi Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – July 13, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

Hard News on Friday with Tara Green and Rama Arjuna and guests Navigating a Time of Global Change and Spiritual Transition The Hard News on Friday team combines current political reporting, Mayan calendar teachings, recorded energy commentary, channeled perspectives on ascension, and a guided meditation focused on changing frequencies, higher-self alignment, and conscious transformation. This episode does not feature a traditional guest. Instead, it brings together Rainbird's opening meditation and Mayan calendar report, current-events commentary from Rama and Tara, a recorded spiritual energy update, a channeled message identified as “Mother,” and an extended guided meditation. Together, these segments combine political reporting, metaphysical interpretation, and spiritual practice. Claims involving astrology, energetic shifts, channeling, political events, or public figures are presented as the views of the speakers and recorded material rather than as independently verified facts. Mayan Calendar Teachings and the Approaching New Cycle Rainbird opens by inviting listeners into their heart space, gathering symbolically around a council fire, and calling in guides, ancestors, healing teams, and the seven galactic directions according to the Mayan tradition. She then reviews the Mayan calendar energies assigned to the coming week, describing symbolic themes connected with exploration, wakefulness, transformation, service, healing, manifestation, and Christ consciousness. Each day is presented as an opportunity to embrace certain qualities while releasing fear, limitation, despair, control, or a sense of separation. Rainbird also discusses the approaching Day Out of Time and the transition from one Mayan calendar year into another. She interprets the incoming cycle as emphasizing purification, planetary awareness, and renewed spiritual focus. Supporting the Programs and Reporting Political Developments Rainbird provides donation information for Hard News on Friday, the companion Saturday program, and the personal needs of Tara and Rama before passing the discussion to the co-hosts. Tara then reads from a Democracy Now! segment examining recent victories by candidates supported by the Democratic Socialists of America and Justice Democrats. The report describes the organizations' attempts to strengthen progressive and socialist political campaigns, reduce reliance on establishment and corporate funding, and frame politics around economic class. Representatives quoted in the segment discuss transferring political power from the wealthiest Americans toward working people and expanding democratic participation. The hosts present the material as part of their broader effort to inform listeners about current political movements and changing electoral dynamics. Identity, Astrology, and the Recorded Energy Update A substantial portion of the program features a recorded “Energy Update” connecting astrology, emotional intensity, identity, the throat chakra, and anticipated “timeline jumps.” The speaker describes recent weeks as a period of heightened existential stress in which people may be confronting how they see themselves and how they are perceived by others. Her “Bird Woman” artwork becomes a symbol for the relationship between outward physical identity and a less visible energetic or mythic identity. The segment also includes speculative commentary about Taylor Swift's public image and a reported wedding, using those subjects as examples of the difference between public presentation and hidden meaning. These interpretations are offered through the recorded speaker's personal metaphysical and astrological framework. Solar Activity, Divine Feminine Energy, and Ascension Rama interprets solar flares, planetary activity, and current world conditions as evidence of a larger transition in human consciousness. He describes the period as a “shift of the ages” and encourages listeners to respond by surrendering to love rather than reinforcing conflict or fear. His commentary gives particular attention to the rise of divine feminine or “grandmother” energy, referencing Mother Mary, Mary Magdalene, Lady Nada, and other spiritual figures. Rama presents the decline of patriarchal structures and the emergence of feminine spiritual authority as part of what he believes is a planetary transformation. These ideas are woven together with brief comments about international conflict, political power, DNA, galactic history, and the arrival of new spiritual energies. A Channeled Message About Changing Frequencies After Rama's invocation, a channeled message identified as “Mother” describes humanity as moving rapidly toward ascension while physical bodies, consciousness, and planetary frequencies undergo change. The message presents solar and cosmic energies as influencing the Earth and encourages listeners to be gentle with themselves during the transition. It contrasts the “iron fist” of patriarchal power with the softer but powerful influence of the divine feminine, symbolized through feathers, snowflakes, grandmothers, and the Great Mother Goddess. The speaker also discusses diversity, equality, equity, inclusion, nonviolence, and the belief that humanity is one race expressed through many colors and identities. Current political and criminal controversies are briefly interpreted through this channeled spiritual perspective, with the broader message emphasizing accountability, balance, healing, and what the speaker calls a “new heaven, new earth.” Returning to the Higher Self The final major segment is a guided meditation inviting listeners to move beyond mental noise, old stories, and social roles in order to reconnect with their higher self. The meditation begins with breathing and heart-centered awareness before introducing the sacred threefold flame: blue for divine power and protection, gold for wisdom and illumination, and pink for love and compassion. Listeners are then guided to ground themselves through imagined roots extending into Mother Earth while receiving a column of divine light through the crown and energy centers. The meditation encourages the release of fear, outdated identities, limiting beliefs, energetic obligations, and the need to prove personal worth. It concludes with affirmations concerning love, abundance, peace, spiritual guidance, and the embodiment of divine love. Integrating Outer Events with Inner Awareness Following the meditation, the hosts briefly express appreciation for the segment, introduce part of the song “My Name Is Love: I Lost Myself and Found You,” and thank the audience before returning the program to BBS Radio. Taken as a whole, the episode moves repeatedly between external events and internal spiritual interpretation. Political organizing, solar activity, astrology, changing identities, ascension teachings, and meditation are all presented as different ways of understanding what the speakers view as a period of rapid transition. The program does not separate current events from consciousness but instead interprets public developments through a spiritual and metaphysical framework. Its overall message encourages listeners to remain informed while also cultivating grounding, compassion, personal reflection, and alignment with their higher values.

Democracy Now! titulares en español de 10 de julio de 2026

On today's show: Headlines “Now or Never”: DSA & Justice Democrats on Changing the Democratic Party, Mamdani, Gaza & More “Exposing Instagram's Darkest Secret”: BBC's Divya Arya on Ads for Child Sex Abuse Material in India FOIA Under Attack: Landmark Transparency Law Turns 60; Fed Gov't Blocking More Documents Than Ever   Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – July 10, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

Democracy Now! titulares en español de 09 de julio de 2026

On today's show: Headlines “A Disastrous Development”: Trita Parsi on Breakdown of U.S.-Iran Ceasefire “Demanding the Truth”: Family Wants Answers After ICE Kills Houston Dad Lorenzo Salgado Araujo Homicide by Asphyxiation: What Happened to Geraldo Lunas Campos, Who Died in a Texas ICE Jail? Albania's Flamingo Revolution: Protests Against Kushner-Trump Luxury Resort Could Bring Down Gov't. Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – July 9, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

Democracy Now! titulares en español de 08 de julio de 2026

On today's show: Headlines As Calls Mount for Graham Platner to Drop Out of Senate Race, What Happens Next in Maine? NATO Meets in Turkey Amid Crackdown on Civil Society; Trump Praises Erdoğan & Considers F-35 Sales “Inside the Secret Network Fueling Sudan's War”: Filmmaker Julia Steers on UAE Backing RSF Atrocities   Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – July 8, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

Democracy Now! titulares en español de 07 de julio de 2026

On today's show: Headlines Report from Tehran: Millions Attend Ali Khamenei's Funeral Amid Widespread Sense of Victory in War Calls Grow for Israel to Release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya; U.S. Doctor Says “Nobody Is Safe” in Gaza Hamas Renouncing Rule Over Gaza Signals Commitment to Ceasefire Despite Israeli Attacks: Amjad Iraqi Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – July 7, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

Democracy Now! titulares en español de 06 de julio de 2026

On today's show: Headlines Trump's Corruption, Birthright Citizenship & Olympian Charged w/ Touching Reflecting Pool: Norm Eisen Record Heat Waves Are Preview of Our Future on a Warming Planet: Climate Writer David Wallace-Wells Meet Rafael Rubio, NY City Council Employee Released from Delaney Hall After 5 Months in ICE Jail   Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – July 6, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On this week's Labor History Today: As the nation reflects on Independence Day, we turn from the "Great Men" of history to the voices of the people. We begin with Frederick Douglass's searing 1852 speech, What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?, performed by James Earl Jones, then hear from the Labor and Working-Class History Association's People's 250 project, where workers, historians, and activists share stories that place working people at the center of the American story. Plus, on Labor History in 2:00: July 4 Freedom to Join a Union Questions, comments, or suggestions are welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com Labor History Today is produced by the Labor Heritage Foundation and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Thanks to Democracy Now for the James Earl Jones clip.  #LaborRadioPod #History #WorkingClass #ClassStruggle @GeorgetownKILWP #LaborHistory @UMDMLA @ILLaborHistory @AFLCIO @StrikeHistory #LaborHistory @wrkclasshistory  

The Katherine Massey Book Club @ The C.O.W.S. hosts the GRAND FINALE (Session 12) on lyin' Michelle Alexander's *The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness*. Alexander has a living White mother and a deceased Black father. Despite 15 years of institutional celebration for her work, Gus T. anticipated this title being one of the "5 Worst Books Ever." History shows that racists generally do not promote literature that provides an accurate understanding of the System of White Supremacy. This week, we drop the final Mario Elie "Kiss of Death" three-pointer on this text, permanently closing the casket on a 15-year academic hustle. We open the final chapter, *Obama: The Promise and the Peril*, and interrogate the absolute peak of her biographical dishonesty where she explicitly labels Affirmative Action a "racial bribe" that Black people must surrender to play academic "games of chicken" with their own survival. We back up our 12-week forensic media audit by deploying a devastating 14-minute custom audio track from our own 2010 CREE archive and 2016 public media slips. We let the Pusha T, Kendrick Lamar, Ray Charles, and Neely Fuller Jr. audio do the talking because Michelle Alexander has officially fouled out of the game! THE 15-POINT FORENSIC AUDIT SUMMARY: 1. The Manufactured "Underdog" Narrative: Claims she launched to half-empty rooms to conceal the massive institutional "push" that put her on C-SPAN, NPR, and Democracy Now within 5 months of publication. 2. Systemic Deception by Omission: Completely erases COINTELPRO, Jon Burge's torture ring, Attica, and the Black Panthers to bury earlier, more accurate structural work on the Prison-Industrial Complex. 3. Hidden Biographical Motivation: Willfully conceals her multi-ethnic background to hide her personal family defenses under the guise of objective scholarship. 4. Centering White Trauma: Explicitly argues that White women who chose to have interracial relationships under Jim Crow were primary, injured victims of a racial caste system. 5. The Fraudulent "Bribe" Thesis: Claims White people must be "bribed" to practice Racism, belied by a System of White Supremacy where whiteness automatically requires total domination. 6. Reckless Statistical Manipulation: Arbitrarily changes her state prison violent offender statistic from 33% to 52% between editions with zero data reconciliation or explanation. 7. Specious Claims as Fact: Drops massive, sweeping assertions straight onto the print page with absolutely zero footnotes or supporting empirical documentation. 8. The 1980s Progress Myth: Asserts that by the 1980s, the vast majority of White people opposed the practice of Racism—a completely ahistorical claim unsupported by any evidence. 9. Pathologizing Defense Mechanisms: Labels Affirmative Action a "racial bribe" for Black people, telling the victims of state terror to disarm while the system keeps its weapons. 10. Erasing the Real Beneficiaries: Refuses to inform readers of macro-data showing that White women have historically benefited most from Affirmative Action pipelines. 11. The "Accidental" Absolution: Labors mightily to frame the White power structure as ignorant, well-meaning, and "accidentally" racist to shield calculated state intent from exposure. 12. Coddling Whites, Targeting Black Institutions: Sweeps away structural White guilt while using print space to aggressively scold the CBC, the NAACP, and Bill Cosby. 13. Minstrel Linguistic Framing: Selectively quotes Black interviewees in broken, stereotypical English to frame them as inarticulate and implicitly deserving of incarceration. 14. Double-Dipping the Carceral Ledger: Hides that her husband Carter Stewart profited as a federal prosecutor caging Black bodies, while she profited off the fake literary outrage industry. 15. White-Identified Pronoun Usage: Deploys a slippery use of "we," "us," and "our" to identify with White spaces and lump the victims of Racism in as equally culpable for the system. Call: 720.716.7300 Code: 564943#

Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – July 3, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – July 2, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: Headlines “America Is a Multiracial Democracy”: Supreme Court Denies Trump's Bid to End Birthright Citizenship “We Continue to Fight”: Chase Strangio on the Supreme Court's Ban on Trans Girls & Women in Sports Supreme Court Approves Mail-In Voting, But Trump Keeps Pushing Extremist SAVE Act Ahead of Midterms Reparations Efforts “Sweeping the Country” Despite DOJ Attack on Evanston, IL Groundbreaking Program   Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – July 1, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

Democracy Now! Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Democracy Now! Tuesday, June 30, 2026

On today's show: “Merciless Indian Savages”: Cherokee Podcaster on Racist Slur in the Declaration of Independence Meet Aber Kawas, DSA-Backed Palestinian American Who Won New York State Senate Primary “Keep Supporting the Venezuelan People”: Thousands Missing as Earthquake Rescue Efforts Continue Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – June 30, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

Democracy Now! Monday, June 29, 2026

Democracy Now! Monday, June 29, 2026

On today's show: “America, U.S.A.”: Eddie Glaude on the 250th Anniv., Race & “The Madness at the Heart of the Country” “Meet a Stranger”: StoryCorps Facilitates Conversations Across the U.S. for 250th Anniversary   Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – June 29, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: In “Devastating” Immigration Ruling, Supreme Court Allows Trump Admin to “Turn Back” Asylum Seekers Venezuela Earthquakes: U.S. Sanctions Impede Rescue Efforts as Death Toll Soars Supreme Court Strips Protections for Haitian & Syrian Immigrants in “Racially Inflected” Decision Bayer/Monsanto Wins Roundup Case as Supreme Court Blocks Suit over Link Between Herbicide & Cancer Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – June 26, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

Democracy Now! Thursday, June 25, 2026

Air Date: 6/24/2026 The Monthly-ish Mix™ is here to get you caught up on recent news without being overwhelming! If you've been pulling back from the news for your own sanity, this one's built for you — a quick recap and reference guide to the past month or two, organized around a single idea: when power can't earn legitimacy, it manufactures it. The performance. Spectacle, religion, and health branding standing in for real consent: Trump collecting a FIFA "peace prize," Christian nationalism worn as a costume the actual church refuses to bless, and RFK Jr. dressing up a gutted vaccine agenda as "moderate," scapegoating immigrants as he goes, while the USAID cuts run up a body count. The machinery. The infrastructure that keeps the performance going while real consent drains away underneath: a legal system bent toward self-dealing and a $1.8 billion slush fund, billionaire money rewriting the rules since Citizens United, an AI gold rush sold as inevitable before anyone voted on it, and an economy booming on paper while the ground shifts under everyone's feet. The vacuum and the reclaiming. What rushes in when legitimacy collapses, from normalized political violence to a manifesto born of that collapse — and then the democratic answer: why the rupture hasn't come, why revolutions tend to devour themselves, and why the slower work wins. Nonviolent movements draw eleven times the participation, and the ballot box the Supreme Court is fighting hardest to narrow is the same one that just turned out 78% of Hungary to remove Orbán. Full Show Notes Be part of the show! Leave a voice message, message us on Signal at the handle bestoftheleft.01, or email Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com BestOfTheLeft.com/Support (Members Get Bonus Shows + No Ads!) Use our links to shop Bookshop.org and Libro.fm for a non-evil book and audiobook purchasing experience! Join our Discord community! SECTION 1: THE PERFORMANCE OF LEGITIMACY (00:01:31) #1798 - FIFA Sportswashing Fascism: The World Cup from Mussolini to Trump 1: Trump Is a 'master Marketer' Symone Reacts to President Getting FIFA Peace Prize - Chris Jansing Reports - Air Date 12-5-25 2: Jules Boykoff on World Cup and Sportswashing Part 1 - CounterSpin - Air Date 5-15-26 3: Trump LOSES IT as FIFA SUFFERS MAJOR CRISIS!! Part 1 - MeidasTouch - Air Date 5-6-26 (00:23:20) #1787 - The American President vs The American Pope: Leo XIV, Trump, and the MAGA-Catholic Rift 4: Someone Tell Pete Hegseth That "Pulp Fiction" Isn't in the Bible - Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie - Air Date 4-18-26 5: "Two Versions of Christianity": Pope Leo Calls for Peace as U.S. Uses Religion to Justify Iran War - Democracy Now! - Air Date 4-1-26 6: Why America and the Vatican Have Fallen Out - TLDR News Global - Air Date 4-11-26 (00:46:03) #1794 - From MAHA to Measles: RFK's Public Health Purge Will Make America Sick Again 7: Why RFK Jr. Is Projecting a More 'Moderate' MAHA Stance - The Brian Lehrer Show - Air Date 4-27-26 8: RFK Jr Goes Full Eugenics to Congress; IMMIGRANTS BRING DISEASE - Brittany Page - Air Date 4-22-26 9: As WHO Declares Ebola Outbreak a Global Health Emergency, Did USAID Cuts Worsen the Crisis - Democracy Now! - Air Date 5-18-26 SECTION 2: THE MACHINERY & THE LEAK (01:13:10) #1796 - 1.8 Billion for the Mob and a Kill List for Dissent: Trump's payout fund and counterterrorism strategy, decoded 10: We Will Find You and We Will Kill You Part 1 - The Intercept Briefing - Air Date 5-15-26 11: Congress Strikes Back as Trump Rushes $1.8 Billion Scam - Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Air Date 5-18-26 12: Dictatorship in Action David Cay Johnston on $1.8B Slush Fund Part 2 - Democracy Now! - Air Date 5-20-26 (01:34:00) #1792 - Capitalist Class Warfare: AI, Billionaire Capture, and the How to Fight Back 13: The Case Against Billionaires | Chuck Collins - Washington Monthly - Air Date 1-5-26 14: How Oligarchs Hijacked America in Just 16 Year - Benaminute - Air Date 4-30-26 15: It Will Be 17 Times Worse Than the .com Crash - Upper Echelon - Air Date 5-7-26 (02:04:29) #1797 - AI Spent $540 Billion to Make You Lonelier: Betting Against Jobs, Art, and Community 16: Will SpaceX and OpenAI Starve the Market? - UNFTR Media - Air Date 5-26-26 17: Astra Taylor on AI Data Center Resistance & Fighting "Billionaire Big Tech Agenda"- Democracy Now! - Air Date 5-13-26 18: The AI Backlash Just Got VERY Public - House of El - AI - Air Date 5-24-26 (02:33:22) #1789 - Boomcession: Why the Economy Looks Great on Paper and Hurts in Real Life 19: Monday Morning Economy Politics Inflation Soars Part 1 - The Brian Lehrer Show - Air Date 4-13-26 20: Economic Implications of the U.S. War on Iran Part 1 - Economic Update with Richard Wolff - Air Date 4-14-26 21: These Georgia Swing Voters Do Not Like the Iran War - The NPR Politics Podcast - Air Date 4-16-26 (02:58:12) #1793 - Anti-Immigrant Brutality Costs Countries More Than Their Morals: ICE, Mass Deportation, and the Global Far-Right 22: Trumps Brutal Immigration Crackdown Continues Part 1 - Velshi - Air Date 3-21-26 23: 'Buyer's Remorse' This Trump Stronghold TURNS on Massive ICE Facility Part 1 - MS Now - Air Date 4-20-26 SECTION 3: THE VACUUM & THE RECLAIMING (03:15:42) #1790 - Assassin Nation: How Political Violence Got Normalized And How To Reverse It 24: "Slow Civil War" Author Jeff Sharlet on the Growing NormalAation of Violence at Home & Abroad - Democracy Now! - Air Date 4-27-26 25: The Cole Hard Truth - The Muckrake Political Podcast - Air Date 4-28-26 26: The White House Correspondents Dinner Shooting: What the "Political Violence" Framing Is Hiding - Resistance History with Tad Stoermer - Air Date 4-26-26 (03:42:14) #1795 - You Say You Want A Revolution: Successful Revolutions are the Boring Ones 27: Why the Epstein Files Didn't Start a Revolution - Uncivilized - Air Date 4-21-26 28: Is The US In Its French Revolution Era? - Leeja Miller - Air Date 5-13-26 29: Why Nonviolence Wins - Degenerate Art by Andrea Pitzer - Air Date 5-14-26 (04:14:56) #1791 - Jim Crow 2.0 — SCOTUS Kills the Voting Rights Act and Unleashes the Gerrymandering War 30: Louisiana Is Ground Zero for Voting Rights, Abortion Pill Access Part 1 - Boom! Lawyered - Air Date 5-7-26 31: Elie Mystal Supreme Court Gutting Voting Rights Act Is About Again Making US an Apartheid State Part 1 - The Dean Obeidallah Show - Air Date 5-1-26 32: What Stacey Abrams Thinks About a Recent SCOTUS Decision and the Voting Rights Amendment Part 2 - Soundside - Air Date 5-526   Produced by Jay! Tomlinson Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com Listen Anywhere! BestOfTheLeft.com/Listen Listen Anywhere! Follow BotL: Bluesky | Mastodon | Threads | X Like at Facebook.com/BestOfTheLeft Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com

Democracy Now! Thursday, June 25, 2026

On today's show: Headlines “Utter Devastation”: Thousands Feared Dead in Venezuela After Double Earthquakes Prairieland Nine: Texas ICE Protesters Get Up to 100 Years in Prison as Trump Targets Anti-Fascists “How to Think About AI”: Cory Doctorow on Big Tech, Understanding AI, Labor Automation & More Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – June 25, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

Democracy Now! Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Democracy Now! Tuesday, June 23, 2026

Democracy Now! Monday, June 22, 2026

Air Date: 6–20-2026 Today we explore how political revenge became official government policy. The Department of Justice has dropped fraud cases while opening vindictive investigations into Trump's critics. Judges who rule against him face death threats at home with no federal protection and thousands of DOJ lawyers have walked out the door, leaving the agency hollowed out by loyalty tests and bent toward retribution. Full Show Notes Transcript Be part of the show! Leave a voice message, message us on Signal at the handle bestoftheleft.01, or email Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com BestOfTheLeft.com/Support (Members Get Bonus Shows + No Ads!) Use our links to shop Bookshop.org and Libro.fm for a non-evil book and audiobook purchasing experience! Join our Discord community! TOP TAKES KP 1: Trump Eyes Personal Lawyer to Run DOJ Part 1 - The Beat W Ari Melber - Air Date 6-4-26 KP 2: This Federal Judge Ruled Against Trump. Then the Death Threats Rolled in Part 1 - 60 Minutes - Air Date 3-1-26 KP 3: Judges Call Out Rising Acts of Violence Against the Judiciary, Slam Trump's 'irresponsible Rhetoric' - NBC News - Air Date 6-3-26 KP 4: How Low Can the DOJ Go - Strict Scrutiny - Air Date 4-27-26 KP 5: Fraud on the Court Even as DOJ Drops $1.8B Settlement Fund, Judge Reopens Case Over Collusion Part 1 - Democracy Now! - Air Date 6-3-26 KP 6: 'The Audacity' DOJ Turns to X to Recruit as Prosecutors Flee Trump's Politicization of Department - MS Now - Air Date 2-1-26 KP 7: DOJ in Crisis - Stay Tuned with Preet - Air Date 2-10-26 (00:53:44) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR Trump Built a One-Way Ratchet to Tyranny. Here's How We Break It. My commentaries on YouTube - Share them! DEEPER DIVES (01:08:06) SECTION A: A DEPARTMENT OF REVENGE A1: 'The Department of Revenge' Explores Trump's Use of DOJ to Settle Political Scores - PBS Newshour - Air Date 6-11-26 A2: This Federal Judge Ruled Against Trump. Then the Death Threats Rolled in Part 2 - 60 Minutes - Air Date 3-1-26 A3: Trump Eyes Personal Lawyer to Run DOJ Part 2 - The Beat W Ari Melber - Air Date 6-4-26 (01:27:12) SECTION B: MALICIOUS PROSECUTIONS B1: Small DoJ Energy - Opening Arguments - Air Date 2-20-26 B2: The Vindictive DOJ Part 1 - Law and Chaos - Air Date 6-4-26 B3: The Malicious Incompetence of Trump's DOJ - Strict Scrutiny - Air Date 6-15-25 B4: The Vindictive DOJ Part 2 - Law and Chaos - Air Date 6-4-26 (02:02:38) SECTION C: WEAPONIZED DEPARTMENT C1: Zero Intelligence Part 1 - UnJustified - Air Date 6-7-26 C2: Fraud on the Court Even as DOJ Drops $1.8B Settlement Fund, Judge Reopens Case Over Collusion Part 2 - Democracy Now! - Air Date 6-3-26 C3: 35 Judges Say Trump's DOJ Committed Fraud on the Court - Opening Arguments - Air Date 6-5-26 C4: Trump Rewards Criminals with Latest Pardons - The Mary Trump Podcast - Air Date 11-11-25 C5: ICYMI Trump Pardons Top Jan. 6 Conspirators - 1A - Air Date 11-11-25 C6: Zero Intelligence Part 2 - UnJustified - Air Date 6-7-26 (02:45:46) SECTION D: HOLLOWED OUT D1: More Frustrated Prosecutors at the U.S Attorney's Office in Minnesota Call It Quits - All Things Considered - Air Date 2-5-26 D2: 2900 DOJ Lawyers SUDDENLY QUIT on Trump IN MASS EXODUS - MeidasTouch - Air Date 12-25-25   Produced by Jay! Tomlinson Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com Listen Anywhere! BestOfTheLeft.com/Listen Listen Anywhere! Follow BotL: Bluesky | Mastodon | Threads | X Like at Facebook.com/BestOfTheLeft Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com  

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