Democracy Now! 2025-02-25 Tuesday
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🗓️ 25 February 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for February 25, 2025; As Musk Slashes Federal Gov’t & Fires Thousands, Workers, Trump Appointees, Judges & Media Push Back; “No Public Oversight”: Private Company Running Guantánamo Immigrant Jail Accused of Rights Abuses; Biden, Blinken & Austin Accused of Complicity in Israeli War Crimes in Gaza; ICC Urged to Investigate
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:17.2 | So by asking the question, tell us what you did this week. |
| 0:21.6 | What are you doing is saying, are you actually working? |
| 0:24.7 | And then if you don't answer, like you're sort of semi-fired or you're fired, because a lot |
| 0:30.8 | of people are not answering because they don't even exist. |
| 0:34.8 | Despite President Trump calling Elon Musk's demands of the federal workforce, a pretty |
| 0:41.3 | ingenious idea, resistance is mounting to Musk's threats, and reporters are disputing the |
| 0:49.4 | cost-cutting claims of his so-called Department of Government efficiency. |
| 0:53.3 | We'll speak with a federal worker, |
| 0:55.0 | with the Department of Veterans Affairs, where more than a thousand nurses, doctors, and other workers |
| 1:00.6 | have already been cut. And with Stephen Engelberg, editor-in-chief of ProPublica, who writes, |
| 1:06.4 | the Trump administration keeps citing an untrue stat as it targets federal workers. |
| 1:12.6 | Then as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth heads to Guantanamo amidst growing concern over sending |
| 1:18.6 | migrants there, we'll look at the private company running its detention center there, |
| 1:23.6 | which has a history of abuse. |
| 1:26.4 | Last year, the Biden administration gave a $163.4 million contract to Acama Infrastructure Protection, |
| 1:33.5 | a private contractor to run the Guantanamo Migrant Detention Center. |
| 1:37.0 | And what I discovered is that this company has also been criticized for its treatment of |
| 1:43.7 | migrants at the other immigration jails that it |
| 1:45.7 | runs throughout the country. |
| 1:47.2 | Finally, the nonprofit Dawn is filing a complaint with the International Criminal Court. |
| 1:54.9 | Joe Biden, Anthony Blinken, and Lloyd Austin are complicit in Israel's crimes. |
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