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🗓️ 21 October 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for October 21, 2025; “We Are Under Attack”: Rep. Delia Ramirez on Immigration Crackdown in Chicago, Gov’t Shutdown & More; Shadow President: Project 2025 Architect Russell Vought Is Using Shutdown to Gut Federal Agencies; “Armed Only with a Camera”: HBO Film on Life & Death of Brent Renaud, Journalist Killed in Ukraine
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:18.0 | We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. |
| 0:23.6 | When they woke up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work. |
| 0:27.2 | We want to put them in trauma. |
| 0:29.9 | The shadow president. |
| 0:32.1 | Who is Russ's vote? |
| 0:33.7 | The man who once vowed to traumatize federal workers. |
| 0:43.3 | As the government shutdown enters its 21st day, we'll speak to Andy Krull of ProPublica. He's more than just Donald Trump's budget guru. |
| 0:47.3 | He has two very clear goals. |
| 0:49.3 | To make the presidency as powerful as it's ever been, |
| 0:52.3 | and to dismantle as much of the federal bureaucracy as he can. |
| 0:56.2 | But first we go to Chicago to speak with Democratic Congresswoman Delia Ramirez about the shutdown and the growing protests in Chicago against Trump's sweeping immigration crackdown. |
| 1:09.6 | They want to normalize violence. They want to normalize violence. |
| 1:11.6 | They want to normalize cruelty. |
| 1:13.6 | They want us to be okay with what they're doing |
| 1:15.6 | so that you won't question what they do next. |
| 1:18.6 | But let me be very clear to Donald Trump and all those criminals. |
| 1:23.6 | You will not break the city of Chicago ever. |
| 1:28.3 | Finally, armed only with a camera, the life and death of Brent Renault. |
| 1:34.3 | A new HBO documentary about the first Western journalist killed by Russian soldiers in Ukraine in 2022. |
| 1:43.3 | We've just got some breaking news. |
| 1:46.0 | Brent Renaud, an American photojournalist, has been killed. |
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