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🗓️ 16 May 2025
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Headlines for May 16, 2025; “They Want to Silence Me”: Columbia Student Mohsen Mahdawi on ICE Jail, Palestine, Activism, Buddhism; The GOP War on Medicaid: 14 Million Could Lose Healthcare to Fund Tax Breaks for Rich; Supreme Court Hears Birthright Citizenship Case That Could Also Sharply Reduce Judicial Power
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0:00.0 | From New York, this is democracy now. |
0:18.2 | And I am saying it clear and loud. |
0:23.1 | Yes. |
0:24.1 | To President Trump and his cabinet. |
0:28.2 | Yes. |
0:28.9 | I am not afraid of you. |
0:31.0 | Today, a Democracy Now global exclusive. |
0:35.3 | We're joined in studio by Columbia University student Palestinian activist |
0:41.4 | Mosan Madawi in his first live interview since being released after more than two weeks |
0:48.8 | in a Vermont prison. |
0:50.9 | It feels good to be outside of prison, but the sense of freedom for me to be free is to actually, for all of us to be free, not only myself. |
1:04.0 | So my freedom is interlinked with the freedom of other students who are still detained and interlinked with the freedom of the Palestinian people. |
1:13.5 | But it feels good to be able to come to New York City and to be able to hike, basically, in the forest of Vermont. |
1:21.3 | Mosin Madawi is here in New York for his graduation at Columbia. |
1:27.1 | Then we look at the Republican push for sweeping cuts to |
1:31.0 | Medicaid. By one count, over 14 million people could lose health coverage. Plus, the Supreme Court |
1:38.2 | has just heard oral arguments about President Trump's restrictions on birthright citizenship. |
1:44.1 | It's a case that could result in the justices scaling back the power of federal judges |
1:49.2 | to issue nationwide injunctions. |
1:52.2 | The court appears divided. |
1:55.2 | As far as I see, this order violates four Supreme Court prisoners. |
2:01.5 | All that and more coming up. |
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