Democracy Now! 2026-05-22 Friday
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🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for May 22, 2026; “Politically Driven Epidemic”: Ebola Response Hampered by Impoverishment & U.S. Global Health Cuts; Stephen Colbert Out at CBS as Trump Weaponizes Regulatory Power to Control the Media: David Sirota; “AI Resist List”: Karen Hao on Data Center Resistance, Tech Billionaires, “Empire of AI” & More
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| 0:00.0 | From Denver and Chicago, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:22.1 | Although we keep receiving cases, we don't have enough space to admit and hospitalize them. |
| 0:27.3 | We have set up a tent right here already, and perhaps we will need another one to try to isolate patients in the immediate future. |
| 0:33.8 | There aren't enough medications, protective equipment, or even staff. |
| 0:37.6 | There are now almost 750 suspected cases of Ebola and 177 suspected deaths in the latest outbreak. |
| 0:49.3 | As health officials race to contain the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda |
| 0:56.0 | will go to the DRC. |
| 0:58.0 | The epicenter of the outbreak is a gold mining region where health and infrastructure systems |
| 1:05.0 | are poor despite the mineral wealth. |
| 1:08.0 | And we'll ask, how have U.S. cuts to science and health funding impacted |
| 1:13.7 | the global public health response? Then late night comedian and Trump critic Stephen Colbert |
| 1:21.2 | signed off last night for the final time as host of the Late Show on CBS. |
| 1:28.3 | On night one of the Colbert Report back in the day, |
| 1:31.3 | I said, anyone can read the news to you. |
| 1:33.3 | I promised to feel the news at you. |
| 1:36.3 | And I realized pretty soon in this job, |
| 1:39.3 | that our job over here was different. |
| 1:41.3 | We were here to feel the news with you. |
| 1:43.3 | And I don't know about you, |
| 1:45.2 | but I sure have felt it. Stephen Colbert, who had the highest ratings in late night, was |
| 1:52.6 | canceled. After making a joke about CBS's parent company Paramount, giving a big fat bribe to President |
| 2:00.5 | Trump, ahead of a mega merger. |
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