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Democracy Now! 2023-05-31 Wednesday

Democracy Now! Audio

Democracy Now!

News, Daily News

4.75.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for May 31, 2023; A Dirty Debt Deal: Biden Blasted for Backing Fast-Track Approval of Mountain Valley Pipeline; Supreme Court Guts Clean Water Act as Conservative Justices Side with Polluters and Developers; Ugandan Rights Activist: U.S. Conservatives Exported Anti-LGBTQ Hate That Led to “Kill the Gays” Law; Erdoğan Reelected to 5 More Years in Turkey as His Government Grows More Authoritarian & Nationalist

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0:45.1

From New York this is Democracy Now. My West Virginia Senator,

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imagine and capitals, dirty deal that's been attached to the death

0:55.1

selling limit. It's not only in a front of a salt to the folks of West Virginia

1:00.6

and North Carolina who've been fighting the mountain valley pipeline for eight

1:04.3

long years. As the House prepares to vote on a deal to suspend the death ceiling,

1:10.8

we'll look at growing outrage over the Biden administration's decision to fast

1:14.8

track the mountain valley pipeline as part of the death deal. We'll speak to a

1:18.8

West Virginia farmer who spent years fighting the $6.6 billion pipeline. Then we

1:26.4

look at a major Supreme Court ruling weakening the Clean Water Act.

1:30.6

Court decision today aims to take our country backwards. It will jeopardize the

1:35.7

sources of clean and drinking water for farmers, businesses and millions of

1:39.8

Americans. Then to Turkey, we're president Richie Patey-Baird

1:43.8

once as one another five years in office extending his role to a third decade.

1:48.2

Plus, Uganda's president has signed one of the most draconian anti-LGBTQ laws

1:53.4

in the world. It makes same-sex relationships punishable by life and

1:57.9

imprisonment and in some cases the death penalty. All that and more coming up.

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