Salvadoran Journalists Exposed Pres. Bukele's Ties to Gangs. Then They Had to Flee to Avoid Arrest
We speak with a Salvadoran journalist who fled El Salvador along with others from the acclaimed news outlet *El Faro* after Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele threatened to arrest them for exposing how Bukele had made secret deals with Salvadoran gangs. Bukele has run the country under a so-called state of exception since 2022, detaining nearly 80,000 people accused of being in gangs, largely without access to due process. “We don’t know when we will be able to come back,” says Nelson Rauda Zablah, digital editor for *El Faro*, who notes it is now routine for Bukele’s critics to flee for fear of retaliation. He discusses *El Faro*'s reporting, and we feature excerpts from their interview series with two former leaders of the 18th Street Revolucionarios on Bukele's yearslong relationship to gangs. All of this comes as Bukele is working closely with the Trump administration to jail immigrants sent from the United States at CECOT, El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center.
http://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/14/nayib_bukele_journalism_crackdown_el_faro
Headlines for May 13, 2025
Israel Bombs Gaza’s Nasser Hospital Again, Killing Journalist Hassan Islayeh, United Nations Chief “Alarmed” by Reports of Catastrophic Hunger in Gaza, Hamas Releases Israeli American Soldier Edan Alexander After Talks with Trump Officials, Saudi Crown Prince Welcomes Trump and Billionaire CEOs to Riyadh as Trump Begins Mideast Tour, DHS to End Protected Status for Afghans Who Face Reprisals for Helping U.S. Occupation Forces, Episcopal Church Quits Partnership with U.S. Government Over Resettlement of White South Africans, Colombia to Join China’s Belt and Road Initiative, Trump Executive Order Seeks to Lower Drug Prices, But Offers No Means for Enforcement, Trump Fires Copyright Office Chief After Report on Dangers of AI , Sen. Alsobrooks Calls for RFK Jr. to Resign Amid Gutting of Health Agencies, Measles Outbreak, California Gov. Newsom Calls on Local Officials to Criminalize Unhoused Encampments , Mexican Mayoral Candidate Shot Dead at Campaign Rally Ahead of June 1 Election
Gift or Grift? Trump Under Fire over Qatar's Plan to Give Him $400M "Flying Palace"
We speak with Robert Weissman, co-president of the advocacy group Public Citizen, about President Donald Trump’s “corrupt deal” to accept a $400 million jumbo luxury jet from the royal family of Qatar — possibly the most valuable such gift a foreign government has ever given. Under the plan, the Boeing 747 known as the “flying palace” would be retrofitted for use as Air Force One, then donated to Trump’s presidential library at the end of his term in order to allow him continued use of the jet even after he leaves office. “The first Trump administration was the most corrupt in American history by far. What’s going on now is literally orders of magnitude worse,” says Weissman.
http://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/13/public_citizen_qatar_air_force_one
"Unprecedented" in U.S. History: Trump & Family Rake In Money from Gulf States, Crypto & Real Estate
As President Donald Trump meets with leaders in the Middle East this week, we look at how his administration and family have opened wide to foreign powers and wealthy interests willing to spend big to gain influence. Top buyers of Trump’s novelty cryptocurrency have spent millions as part of a contest to have dinner with the president. Trump’s sons Donald Jr. and Eric have also signed a number of deals around the world, trading on the family’s name and influence, and son-in-law Jared Kushner has taken in billions in investment from Gulf states. “There’s very little restraint at the moment,” says *New York Times* investigative reporter Eric Lipton, who is tracking the deals. “They’re just pursuing as many profitable deals as they can find.”
"People Are Starving to Death": Oxfam Warns Israel's Blockade on Gaza Is Catastrophic
“People are starving to death, and this is a fact that we are witnessing and experiencing nowadays,” says Oxfam’s food security coordinator in Gaza, Mahmoud Alsaqqa. More than 10 weeks after Israel instituted a total siege on Gaza, blocking all food and other aid from entering, hunger has reached catastrophic levels in the Palestinian territory. This comes as a new United Nations report warns one in every five people in Gaza is facing starvation, while Save the Children says every child is now at risk of famine. The World Food Programme and charities working in Gaza say they have completely run out of supplies and can no longer feed people.
http://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/13/gaza_famine_israeli_blockade
If I Stayed, I Would've Died: Journalist Abubaker Abed on "Agonizing" Decision to Leave Gaza
We speak with 22-year-old Palestinian journalist Abubaker Abed in Ireland after he evacuated Gaza last month suffering from malnutrition and under threat for his reporting on Israel’s genocide. Abed describes himself as an “accidental war correspondent” and hoped to become a sports journalist and commentator before the start of the war, but spent much of the last two years reporting on daily death and destruction. He says leaving Gaza was “a very agonizing decision” for him and that he feels tremendous guilt for now having access to food, water and medicine while so many Palestinians continue to suffer. “I can’t really tell you that I’m safe here. I’m probably a physical survivor, but not an emotional survivor. The images that I took with me from Gaza are still haunting me,” says Abed. “My whole family is still in Gaza, my friends, my colleagues. And all of them, I’m just thinking about them every single second all day.”
http://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/13/gaza_famine_abubaker_abed
Headlines for May 12, 2025
Hunger Monitor Issues Dire Famine Warning for Gaza as Israel’s Blockade, Genocide Continues, “We Will Not Emigrate”: Palestinians Refuse to Be Expelled as U.N. Group Warns of “Another Nakba”, Pope Leo Calls for Ceasefire in Ukraine and Gaza in First Sunday Address, U.S.-Mediated Truce Between India and Pakistan Leads to Temporary Halt in Kashmir Hostilities, Zelensky Says He “Expects” Putin for In-Person Meeting in Turkey This Week, “This Is What Oligarchy Is About”: GOP Plans to Slash Medicaid to Offer More Tax Cuts to the Rich, Feds Arrest Newark Mayor Ras Baraka at ICE Jail; Trump Admin Warns Dem. Lawmakers Could Be Next, Judges Warn Due Process at Risk as ICE Raids Roil Communities Across the U.S., Trump Admin Threat to Suspend Habeas Corpus Alarms Lawmakers, Legal Experts, Rümeysa Öztürk Released from ICE Custody, Greeted by Lawmakers and Supporters as She Returns Home, Columbia, U. of Washington Suspend Protesters as Yale, UCLA Students Join Hunger Strike for Gaza, U.S. and China
Agree to Temporarily Lower Reciprocal Tariffs by 115%, Qatar Offers $400 Million Luxury Jet to Trump on Cusp of His Middle East Trip, PKK Announces End to Armed Struggle Against Turkey, Extreme Flooding in DRC Kills Over 100 People, Separate RSF Attacks in Sudan Kill Dozens over Another Bloody Weekend, White South Africans Are Arriving in U.S. After Receiving Refugee Status, Loved Ones of Disappeared People in Mexico Rally on Mother’s Day, Newark Airport Turmoil Deepens with Two More Traffic Control Outages
Headlines for May 9, 2025
Pope Leo XIV, First U.S. Pontiff, Has Criticized Trump Admin for Mistreatment of Immigrants, Kashmiris Hope for Peace as Tensions Escalate Between Pakistan and India, Community Kitchens in Gaza Shutter as Israel’s Genocide Continues with Bombings and Starvation, “An Assault on Children”: UNRWA Blasts Israeli Raids on East Jerusalem Schools, U.S. and U.K. Announce Historic Trade Deal, Though Details Remain Thin, Senators Demand Probe of Elon Musk’s Conflicts of Interest as State Department Pushes Starlink, Jeanine Pirro Named Top D.C. Prosecutor; Ed Martin Gets New Jobs Despite Support for Insurrectionists, Trump Taps Wellness Influencer and RFK Jr. Ally Casey Means as Surgeon General, Librarian of Congress Fired by Trump Was First Woman & African American to Fill Role, FEMA Director Is Fired One Day After Testifying Agency Should Not Be Eliminated, FBI Agents Visit Homes of Boston Climate Activists, Court Orders Trump Administration to Explain If It Can Bring Back Deportees from El
Salvador, Autopsy Finds SC Firing Squad Botched Execution of Mikal Mahdi, Leading to Agonizing Death, Federal Court Rules GOP-Drawn Congressional Map Discriminated Against Black Alabamians, Maker of Pegasus Spyware Ordered to Pay $167 Million in Damages over WhatsApp Hacks
Leo XIV: First U.S.-Born Pope Criticized Trump/Vance on Deportations, Lack of Compassion for Immigrants
The first U.S.-born pope has taken the name Pope Leo XIV. Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost is also a naturalized citizen of Peru, where he served the church for two decades. He greeted 1.4 billion Roman Catholics and the world Thursday with a message of peace and has posted statements online in support of migrant rights and criticized the Trump administration. In the first part of our discussion, we go to Rome for an update from James V. Grimaldi, executive editor of *National Catholic Reporter*, and speak with Father Bryan Massingale, a Catholic priest and professor of theological and social ethics. “We need him to step into that void of moral and ethical leadership that we have in our world right now. And we also need the pope to be a prophet of hope in these uncertain times,” says Massingale.
http://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/9/pope_leo_xiv_catholic_church
Priest Sexual Abuse Survivors Demand Accountability from New Pope: "Open Up Those Archives"
Survivors of sexual abuse by Catholic priests are calling for Pope Leo XIV to institute a zero-tolerance policy and for the church to investige his handling of prior sexual abuse allegations. “He needs to be transparent. He needs to be honest,” says Peter Isely, a survivor of sexual assault by a Catholic priest, and the founder and global affairs chief of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests. “Wait and see,” says James V. Grimaldi, executive editor of *National Catholic Reporter*. “Don’t listen to what they say. Watch what they do.” We are also joined by Father Bryan Massingale, professor of theological and social ethics at Fordham University.
http://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/9/pope_leo_catholic_church_sex_abuse
"We Are Not Living. We Are Enduring." Gaza Mother on Struggle for Food, Safety Under Israeli Blockade
Ahead of the Mother’s Day holiday in the Untied States, we speak to Duha Latif, a mother of two children in Gaza, about life for mothers living under Israeli occupation and assault. *Democracy Now!* last spoke to Latif over a year ago, when she was attempting to evacuate Rafah with her family. She now resides in a tent in Khan Younis and struggles to feed her family as Israel’s blockade has created widespread famine throughout the Gaza Strip. “We are not living. We are enduring,” says Latif. Her children, 8-year-old Amir and 3-year-old Karim, are suffering the effects of hunger and malnutrition. “The loss they are living is more than just the absence of food — it’s the absence of life as they knew it.”
http://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/9/duha_latif_mothers_day_in_gaza
Tyre Nichols Case: Shock & Anger in Memphis as 3 Cops Acquitted on State Murder Charges
We go to Memphis for an update after jurors acquitted three former Memphis police officers of the murder of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black father who died after the officers brutally beat him during a traffic stop in January 2023. The group beating was caught on video, provoking widespread outrage and calls for police reform. The three officers still face sentencing after they were convicted of separate federal charges, along with two other officers who pleaded guilty to the state charges and will not stand trial. “A lot of us were shocked,” says Amber Sherman, of the Memphis community’s response. Sherman, a community organizer and member of Black Lives Matter Memphis, joined the family Thursday at a community vigil and protest. She warns this latest acquittal will “embolden” Memphis police as they continue to “do whatever they want.”
http://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/9/tyre_nichols_memphis_police_acquittals
Headlines for May 8, 2025
“Pools of Blood”: Israel Kills 100 Palestinians in Gaza, Incl. Attack on Restaurant and Marketplace, World Central Kitchen Ends Food Distro Due to Israel’s Genocidal Blockade, Reuters: Trump and Israel in Talks over U.S.-Led Administration of Gaza, Israel Expelling Hundreds from Homes in West Bank Camps of Nur Shams, Tulkarm, India and Pakistan Exchange More Fire After Indian Attack Kills 31 in Pakistan-Administered Kashmir, Germany Cracks Down on Asylum Seekers One Day After Friedrich Merz Becomes Chancellor, U.S. Judge Warns Plan to Expel Undocumented People to Libya Would Violate Court Order, ICE Poised to Start Massive Raid on Washington, D.C., Businesses, GOP Challenger for North Carolina Supreme Court Backs Down After Attempt to Overturn His Loss Fails, Judge Strikes Down Trump’s Executive Order Punishing Law Firm He Doesn’t Like, Voice of America Ordered to Carry Programming from Far-Right One America News Network, Russia Declares Unilateral 3-Day Ceasefire in Ukraine, Then
Violates It, Memphis Jury Acquits Three Ex-Cops of Murder over 2023 Killing of Tyre Nichols, At Least 79 Gaza Protesters Arrested After Occupying Columbia University Library, Jewish Students Lobby Congress Against Weaponizing Antisemitism to Silence Critics of Israel, Court Orders ICE to Transfer Abducted Tufts Scholar Rümeysa Öztürk to Vermont, Cal State Students Begin Hunger Strike to Protest Israel’s Starvation Campaign on Gaza, Black Smoke from Vatican Chimney Signals Cardinals Have Not Yet Selected New Pope
Who Killed Shireen Abu Akleh? Reporter's Family Responds After Film Names Israeli Soldier Who Shot Her
As the Israeli military kills two more Palestinian journalists in Gaza, a new documentary by *Zeteo* has uncovered critical details about Israel’s killing three years ago of the acclaimed Palestinian American Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. The film, *Who Killed Shireen?*, identifies for the first time the Israeli soldier who allegedly shot Abu Akleh. We get response from two members of Abu Akleh’s family — her brother Anton and her niece Lina — as well as the documentary’s executive producer, Dion Nissenbaum, and *Zeteo* founder Mehdi Hasan.
“We’ve always known that it was an Israeli soldier who killed Shireen,” says Lina Abu Akleh, who says the “entire chain of command” must be held accountable, including elected officials.
“The Biden administration and the Israeli government essentially were doing everything they could to cover up what happened that day to Shireen Abu Akleh,” says Nissenbaum, who is also the correspondent in the documentary.
http://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/8/who_killed_shireen_abu_akleh
"Fascism Isn't Coming, It's Here": Mehdi Hasan on Trump, Gaza & Leaving MSNBC to Start Zeteo
We speak with journalist Mehdi Hasan of *Zeteo News* about the first 100 days of the second Trump administration, the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza, the suppression of pro-Palestine activism and more. Hasan is a former host for Al Jazeera and MSNBC who started his own news outlet last year. On _Zeteo_’s first anniversary, he describes his frustrations while working for mainstream outlets and says the U.S. media continues to ignore Palestinian voices in coverage about the Middle East.
“You are getting a very one-sided view of the conflict,” Hasan says. “The real tragedy is that the media has been complicit in the Gaza genocide.”
Trump's Newest Grift: Molly White on First Family's Cryptocurrency Empire & Gutting of Regulations
Donald Trump has raised nearly a billion dollars from his various cryptocurrency schemes, says researcher Molly White. “He is really allowing for bribery and the types of corruption that we’ve never seen in the American presidency,” White says. She lays out how the Trump family profits from cryptocurrency while directly influencing policy and regulations, encouraging the transfer of wealth to the industry despite its “enormous risk of fraud and collapse.”
http://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/6/molly_white_crypto_trump_memecoin_ethics
Headlines for May 5, 2025
57 Palestinians Starve to Death as Israeli Siege on Gaza Continues; Israel Seeks to Expand War, Houthis Vow More Attacks on Israel to Protest “Crime of Genocide” in Gaza, Trump Says “I Don’t Know” When Asked If He Needs to Uphold Constitution, Gov. Tony Evers Blasts “Chilling Threats” from White House over Wisconsin Immigration Policies, Trump Admin Slaps Terror Designation on 2 Haitian Gangs, Trump Planning to Reopen Alcatraz; WH Posts Image of Trump as Pope, Trump Asks SCOTUS to Allow DOGE Access to Sensitive Social Security Data, “Sovereignty Is Not for Sale”: Pres. Sheinbaum Dismisses Trump Plan to Send U.S. Troops to Mexico, Death Toll in RSF Attacks on Al-Nahud Mount to 300, Bombings in South Sudan Kill 7 People, Incl. a Baby, and Destroy MSF Health Facilities, Australia’s Albanese Wins Reelection as Voters Reject Trump-Like Conservative Challenger, Hard-Right, Pro-Trump Candidate George Simion Wins First Round of Romanian Elections, Judge Sentences Landlord to 53 Years for
Murdering 6-Year-Old Palestinian American Wadea al-Fayoume, John Fetterman’s Staff Has Been Raising Concerns over His Mental Fitness, Starbase: New Texas Town Created at Launch Site of Elon Musk’s Starlink, Texas Becomes 16th GOP-Led State to Implement School Vouchers, Trump Admin Ends Louisiana Desegregation Order, Opens Probe into Chicago Program for Black Students
"Chilling": Wisconsin Gov. Evers Pushes Back After Trump's Border Czar Threatens to Arrest Him
We go to Wisconsin as the state’s Democratic Governor Tony Evers pushes back after Trump border czar Tom Homan says Wisconsin officials could be arrested over local policies that defy Trump’s mass deportation agenda. This comes after FBI agents arrested Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan. “I think what we’re seeing, in a broader sense, is just an absolute degradation of the rule of law,” says Lisa Graves, a former deputy assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice, now the director of the policy research group True North Research and co-host of the podcast *Legal AF*. Her forthcoming book is *Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights*.
http://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/5/tom_homan_wisconsin_constitution
"End Times Fascism": Naomi Klein on How Trump, Musk, Far Right "Don't Believe in the Future"
An alliance between the far right and Silicon Valley oligarchs has given rise to a form of “end times fascism,” says journalist Naomi Klein, who details in a recent essay co-authored with Astra Taylor how many wealthy elites are preparing for the end of the world even as they contribute to growing inequality, political instability and the climate crisis. Klein says that while billionaires dream of escaping to bunkered enclaves or even to space, President Donald Trump and other right-wing leaders are turning their countries into militarized fortress states to keep out immigrants from abroad and ramp up authoritarian control domestically.
“There’s always an apocalyptic quality to fascism, but fascism of the 1930s and ’40s had a horizon” for a utopian future, says Klein. Today, by contrast, “we’re up against people who are actively betting against the future — not just actively betting against it, but fueling the fires that are burning this world.”
http://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/5/naomi_klein_trump_silicon_valley
Yemeni People in State of "Terror" After 1,000+ U.S. Airstrikes Kill Hundreds: Helen Lackner
A U.S. military strike on a migrant detention center in the north of Yemen has killed at least 68 people, largely migrants from African nations, bringing the death toll from U.S. attacks on the country to over 250 since mid-March. Middle East researcher Helen Lackner says the number of deaths is likely twice the officially recorded number, as the United States has now conducted more than 1,000 strikes on Yemen “on an absolutely nightly basis.” Lackner says the humanitarian crisis in Yemen has also been exacerbated by the end of U.S. aid and the U.S.'s designation of the country's Houthi movement as a “foreign terrorist organization.” “People who are living in the country are suffering on a daily basis from basically terror and fright or from being attacked and possibly being bombed and killed [at] any time.”
"To Save and to Destroy": Viet Thanh Nguyen on New Book Exploring Otherness, Refugees, Gaza & More
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen reflects on the first 100 days of the second Trump administration, the president’s chaotic trade war, detentions and deportations of pro-Palestinian advocates and more. Nguyen has just released a new book of essays, originally delivered as lectures, that explore otherness and belonging in U.S. history. “I think otherness is a universal condition,” says Nguyen. “I’m sure we all have, at one time or another, thought ourselves to be odd or alienated or not fitting in in some way. But the difference for certain people is that otherness is constantly imposed on us.”
http://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/30/viet_thanh_nguyen_otherness
May Day Protests: Immigrant Rights Groups Organize Against Trump's Mass Deportation Agenda
Organizers across the United States are planning a massive day of May Day protests against the Trump administration. Organizers say that they have broad support from groups targeted by the administration, including immigrants, federal workers and more. “Instead of attacking only one community … they are attacking everybody at the same time, and that enabled us to gather a really broad coalition,” says Jorge Mújica, strategic organizer for Arise Chicago.
In New York, organizers are calling on people to march alongside them in Foley Square. “We need to fight this corporate takeover,” says Nisha Tabassum, lead organizer for worker issues at Make the Road New York. “We are the many; they are the few.”
Los Angeles organizers are expecting hundreds of thousands of protesters to join them in opposition to Trump’s policies. “We are taking our power back,” says Georgia Flowers Lee, National Education Association vice president for United Teachers Los Angeles.
Former Social Security Chief Martin O'Malley Warns of "Collapse of the Entire System" Under Trump
Social Security recipients could soon see their benefits interrupted or delayed as a flood of cuts hits the agency, thanks to the efforts of Elon Musk and DOGE. Martin O’Malley, the former Maryland governor who served as Social Security commissioner under President Biden, says the system is on the brink of collapse as the Trump administration pushes out thousands of staffers and peddles lies about who actually benefits from its services. The former commissioner adds that he believes “they’re trying to wreck Social Security’s reputation, wreck its ability to serve its customers, wreck its unbeaten string of regular monthly payments, so that, having wrecked it, then they have an emergency under which they can rob it.”
http://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/28/martin_omalley_social_security
Headlines for April 25, 2025
Gaza Death Toll Since Israel Shattered Ceasefire in March Reaches 2,000, Entire Families Wiped Out, Trump Tells Putin to ”STOP!” After Deadly Kyiv Attack and Amid Shaky Peace Talks, Reuters: Trump Will Offer $100+ Billion Arms Deal to Saudi Arabia, Indian and Pakistani Forces Exchange Fire Amid Mounting Kashmir Tensions, U.S. Judge Blocks Trump Order Requiring Proof of Citizenship to Register to Vote, “The Next Version of 'The Big Lie'”: Trump Orders Probe into Dem Fundraising Platform ActBlue, Federal Court Blocks Trump from Withholding Funds to Sanctuary Cities, Trump-Appointed Judge Orders Return of 20-Year-Old Venezuelan from Salvadoran Prison, Federal Judges Block Trump’s Cuts to Public Schools That Promote Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Trump Executive Order Targets College Accreditors’ DEI Policies, Police Pepper-Spray Student Protesters Demanding CCNY Divest from Israel, DRC Agrees to Ceasefire with Rwanda-Backed M23 Rebels, Tunisian Authorities Raze Refugee Camps That Housed
7,000, Guatemalan Police Arrest Indigenous Leader Who Led Nationwide Protests, Trump Executive Order Seeks to Expedite Deep Sea Mining, Highland Park Parade Gunman Gets 7 Consecutive Life Sentences
"Sinners": Director Ryan Coogler on His Latest Hit, Delta Blues, His Mississippi Roots & Vampires
We speak with acclaimed director Ryan Coogler about his latest film *Sinners*, which is set to be one of the biggest box office hits of the year. Starring Michael B. Jordan, the genre-bending horror film is set in the Mississippi Delta during Jim Crow and is a “cinematic gumbo” of various influences and themes, Coogler tells *Democracy Now!*
“I wanted to make a film that was kind of raging against the concept of genre and making the audience constantly question it, even while they were watching it,” he says. In particular, the film celebrates Delta blues, music made by Black artists “living under a back-breaking form of American apartheid,” and what Coogler describes as “our country’s most important contribution to global popular culture.”
Coogler also discusses his family connection to Mississippi, producing the film with his wife Zinzi Coogler, his highly publicized contract with Warner Bros. and more. Coogler’s previous films include *Black Panther*, *Creed* and *Fruitvale Station*.
"Musk Is Scamming the City of Memphis": Meet Two Brothers Fighting Colossus, Musk’s xAI Data Center
We speak with two brothers who are fighting Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI over its massive data center in Memphis, Tennessee, used to run its chatbot Grok. The facility is next to historically Black neighborhoods and is powered by 35 pollution-spewing methane gas turbines the company is using without legal permits. Musk says he wants to continue expanding the project.
“What’s happening in Memphis is a human rights violation,” says KeShaun Pearson, executive director of the environmental justice organization Memphis Community Against Pollution. “Elon Musk and xAI are violating our human right to clean air and a clean, healthy environment.” His brother Justin J. Pearson, a Tennessee state representative for Memphis, says Musk is “perpetuating environmental racism” by ignoring the wishes of local residents: “They are abusing our community, and they’re exploiting us.”
http://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/25/elon_musk_xai_memphis_tennessee
Headlines for April 24, 2025
Israeli Attacks Kill 50 Palestinians in Gaza, Including People Waiting for Food Assistance, Itamar Ben-Gvir Protested by Yale Students, Feted by Trump and GOP, Suspects in Kashmir Massacre Identified; India Closes Border, Cancels Visas for Pakistanis, Russian Air Attack on Kyiv Kills 8 as Trump Ratchets Up Pressure on Ukraine, U.S. Judge Pauses Order Against Trump in Abrego Garcia Case, Florida Police Collaborate with ICE in Crackdown on Immigrant Communities, ICE Arrests 8 Dairy Workers in Largest Immigration Raid in Vermont’s Recent History, Southeast Asian Immigrants in California Face Arrest, Deportation After Routine ICE Check-ins, DoorDash Workers Protest Food App’s Wage Theft and Other Labor Violations, 12 States Sue Trump over “Arbitrarily Imposed Tariffs”, $TRUMP Cryptocurrency Soars After Offering Top Investors ”VIP Reception with the President”, EU Fines Apple and Meta $800 Million for Violating Antitrust Law, Harvey Weinstein Retrial on Rape Charges Begins in New York, “60
Minutes” Chief Quits as Trump Calls for CBS to Lose Broadcast License, FBI and Police Raid Homes of Palestinian UMich Students Who Joined Campus Protests, Occidental Students Hold Hunger Strike to Demand Divestment from Israeli War Machine, Universities Form “Mutual Defense Compact” Against Trump’s Political Interference, Interior Department Plans to Shrink National Monuments Amid Push for Mining, Fossil Fuel Projects, Study Finds Nearly Half of U.S. Residents Are Exposed to Unsafe Levels of Air Pollution, 84% of World’s Coral Reefs Suffer Largest-Ever Bleaching Event