Democracy Now! 2023-08-03 Thursday
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🗓️ 3 August 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Headlines for August 03, 2023; “Never Again”: Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooter Sentenced to Die. Jews Against the Death Penalty Respond; Center for Countering Digital Hate Vows to Keep Monitoring Hate Speech on X Despite Elon Musk Lawsuit; FBI & Colorado Springs Police Sued for Targeting & Spying on Racial Justice Protesters
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is democracy now. |
| 0:17.2 | And when people who espouse white supremacist, anti-Semitic, and bigoted views pick up weapons |
| 0:24.3 | and use them to kill or to try to kill people because of their faith, our office and our |
| 0:32.9 | partners in law enforcement will hold them accountable to the fullest extent of the law, |
| 0:39.4 | each and every time. |
| 0:41.2 | A federal jury is sentenced to death, the gunmen who killed 11 worshippers at Pistpurg's |
| 0:46.6 | Tree of Life synagogue in the deadliest act of anti-Semitism in US history. |
| 0:52.6 | We'll speak to Cantor Michael Zussman, co-founder of Lechion, Jews against the death penalty. |
| 0:59.4 | Then we'll talk to the head of the center for countering digital hate, which was sued |
| 1:04.8 | by Elon Musk after the group documented the rise and hate speech on Twitter, now called |
| 1:11.2 | X, after Musk bought the platform. |
| 1:15.2 | And then the ACLU of Colorado sued the FBI and the Colorado Springs Police Department |
| 1:21.1 | for illegally spying on a local activist and a community organizing hub which was infiltrated |
| 1:28.2 | by the FBI. |
| 1:30.4 | If you look at the history of prostitutions in the post 9-11 era, these types of tactics |
| 1:34.8 | are used far more against left-wing activists and left-wing political groups than they are |
| 1:39.3 | against right-wing groups. |
| 1:40.7 | All that and more coming up. |
| 1:49.1 | Welcome to Democracy Now, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. |
| 1:53.6 | I'm Amy Goodman. |
| 1:55.0 | Authorities have erected metal barricades around the federal courthouse in Washington, DC, |
| 1:59.9 | ahead of former President Donald Trump's arraignment today on charges he plotted to overturn |
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