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We're not going to change what we do because someone goes on a hunger strike.

As a matter of fact, if it gets bad enough and the physicians feel like to put themselves

in extreme danger, medical danger, then we'll force feed them.

We'll get a court order of force feed them.

Hunger strikes do not work.

Even as the Department of Homeland Security denies a hunger strike is going on, so-called border

czar Tom Homan is threatening to force feed the hunger-striking detained immigrants

at the for-profit jail in Newark, Galaney Hall.

We'll speak to Gabriella Soto, protest organizer and wife of detainee Martín Soto.

Then two officers who were attacked on January 6 by Capitol rioters are suing to block

President Trump's so-called anti-weaponization fund.

Donald Trump has created a $1.8 billion sludge fund that is going to go to pay the rioters and paramilitary organizations that attacked our clients on January 6th, 2021, and whose support has continued to threaten our client's safety.

We'll speak to the attorney for injured police, Brendan Ballou.

He's also a former federal prosecutor who spent two years prosecuting January 6th insurrections.

And finally, tax me if you can.

Oligarchs are robbing America blind and the IRS is powerless to stop them.

Oligarchy in America is not new, but we're living in an era that I call in your face oligarchy,

where oligarchs are far more visible than anything we've seen since the robber barons of the

gilded age. We'll speak with northwestern political scientist Jeffrey Winters, author of The Blindspot,

how oligarchs dominate our democracies. All that and more coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now. Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman.

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