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🗓️ 30 June 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for June 30, 2025; To Fund Tax Cuts for the Rich, GOP Budget Bill Would “Take a Sledgehammer” to Healthcare for Millions; SCOTUS Clears Way for Trump Agenda, from Limits to Birthright Citizenship to LGBTQ Books in Schools; Freedom for Western Sahara: Sahrawis Demand End of Moroccan Occupation at U.N. Human Rights Council
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0:00.0 | From New York and Geneva, Switzerland, this is Democracy Now. |
0:20.0 | It is really quite disgusting that you give tax breaks to people who don't need it. |
0:25.2 | You throw 16 million people off the health care that they have. |
0:29.8 | You cut nutrition programs for hungry kids. |
0:32.8 | You make it harder for working class young people to afford to go to college. |
0:41.2 | This is really an obscene piece of legislation. Senate Republicans are racing to push through President Trump's massive 940-page-long, |
0:48.4 | so-called big, beautiful bill. If passed, the richest Americans and corporations will receive |
0:53.8 | huge tax breaks and a projected 12 million Americans will lose their health care. |
0:59.7 | We'll speak to David Dane, editor of the American Prospect, and Dr. Adam Gaffney, former president of positions for a national health program. |
1:08.6 | And then to the Supreme Court. |
1:13.0 | I want to thank Justice Barrett, |
1:19.1 | who wrote the opinion brilliantly as well as Chief Justice Roberts, and Justice's Alito, |
1:27.4 | Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Thomas. Great people. Thanks for this decision and thanks to this decision. |
1:28.5 | We can now promptly file to proceed with numerous policies that have been wrongly and joined on a nationwide basis. |
1:36.5 | The blockbuster term ended Friday with another six-three decision by the conservative majority |
1:42.7 | that significantly limits the ability of lower |
1:45.7 | courts to be a check on presidential power. We'll talk to Dalia Lithwick of Slate and ACLU attorney |
1:52.6 | Chase Strangio. And in the Human Rights Council in Geneva, a Sahrawi tent of cultural resistance |
1:59.3 | has been erected, made from the dresses of 19 Sahrawi human rights defenders from the occupied Western Sahara. |
2:06.6 | And Chaymitna is actually a mini version of the tent where I grew up in the Sahraway refugee camps. |
2:15.6 | So this is a mini version of it. |
2:20.1 | And this is a story telling, human rights storytelling projects, which both convey the story |
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