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🗓️ 5 May 2025
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Headlines for May 05, 2025; “Chilling”: Wisconsin Gov. Evers Pushes Back After Trump’s Border Czar Threatens to Arrest Him; “End Times Fascism”: Naomi Klein on How Trump, Musk, Far Right “Don’t Believe in the Future”
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0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
0:18.0 | We now have a federal government that will threaten or arrest an elected |
0:22.4 | official or even everyday American citizens who have broken no laws, committed no crimes, |
0:29.6 | and done nothing wrong. It's outrageous for the federal government to be threatening the |
0:34.1 | governor of Wisconsin or any governor with arrest. Due process is a fundamental |
0:39.1 | principle of U.S. law, and it is the command of the Constitution that the president's |
0:44.6 | sworn oath to uphold. Wisconsin's Democratic governor, Tommy Evers, pushes back after Trump's so-called |
0:52.4 | border czar, Tom Holman, says Wisconsin officials could be arrested |
0:57.5 | over local policies that defy Trump's mass deportation agenda. This comes after FBI agents |
1:04.8 | arrested a Milwaukee judge. We'll go to Wisconsin to speak with Lisa Graves, former deputy, assistant attorney general, |
1:13.5 | now working in a book on the Supreme Court. Then to award-winning journalist and author Naomi |
1:19.8 | Klein about her new piece, The Rise of End Times Fascism. Israel, what it represents is a posture towards the suffering of the world. |
1:32.2 | And this is what we're up against. |
1:35.1 | And this is, in fact, what everyone is up against. |
1:37.7 | You know, in the world, this is why Gustavo Petro said so early after October 7 |
1:43.1 | that what he sees in the genocide in Gaza, |
1:46.5 | and he called it Global 1933, is the future of the world's poor if we stay on this course, right? |
1:52.7 | All that and more coming up. |
2:07.2 | Welcome to DemocracyNow, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. |
2:19.9 | The Israeli military is calling up tens of thousands of reservists as Israel's security cabinet has unanimously approved plans to expand its assault on Gaza, where Israel's already killed at least 52,000 Palestinians over the past 18 months. That figure is believed to be |
2:26.9 | a vast undercount. Israel's killed more than 2,400 Palestinians since it broke the ceasefire in mid-March. |
2:36.2 | One Israeli official told CNN, the new plan for Gaza involves, quote, the conquest of territory and remaining there, unquote. |
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