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Democracy Now! 2025-07-11 Friday

Democracy Now! Audio

Democracy Now!

News, Daily News

4.85.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for July 11, 2025; Ex-NOAA Official on TX Flood: Trump Breaking “Disaster Response Chain” as Climate Crisis Escalates; Judge Blocks Trump Birthright Citizenship Order; DOJ Caught Lying About Men Sent to El Salvador; U.N. Human Rights Chief Slams Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Policies, “Militarized Response” to Protests

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0:00.0

From New York, this is Democracy Now.

0:19.0

There have been 96 confirmed deaths, 60 adults and 36 children.

0:27.8

The number of missing remains at 161. In central Texas, the search for the dead continues

0:36.0

a week after the devastating flood of July 4th killed 96 people in Kerr County, 121 overall, and the death toll keeps rising.

0:49.2

What can we learn from this tragedy to prevent the next as President Trump goes to the area today.

0:56.0

We'll speak with Monica Medina, former top official at NOAA.

1:00.0

That's the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

1:04.0

We look at the role of climate change and the Trump administration's dismantling

1:10.0

of critical agencies of rescue and research.

1:15.1

Then a federal judge issues a nationwide injunction against President Trump's executive order

1:20.8

ending birthright citizenship. The ruling came in response to a nationwide class action lawsuit filed by the ACLU and other groups.

1:30.9

We'll speak with the ACLU's legal earned.

1:33.8

Then, to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk.

1:39.2

I lived in New York during COVID.

1:42.5

I was every day grateful for the migrant workers that kept the city going.

1:49.0

I was actually at some stage wondering if they didn't work for, if they didn't work, what would happen to all of us?

1:54.6

We might actually starve.

1:56.4

We'll speak with the High Commissioner about President Trump's targeting of migrants and the changing role of the U.S. and the world under Trump.

2:07.4

All that and more coming up.

2:15.5

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. In Gaza, the UN Human Rights Office said it's documented the killing of nearly 800 Palestinians seeking aid by Israeli forces. Most of those have been at aid points run by the U.S. and Israeli-backed

2:37.6

so-called Gaza humanitarian foundation, GHF. The GHF announced it will now only operate one

2:43.8

aid distribution site in Rafah after shuddering hundreds of others across the strip, many of them

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