We continue with our Democracy is Dead News segment covering the policy changes and goings-on in the new American Fascist administration. This is a weekly addition to the podcast to attempt to catalogue for listeners as concisely as possible the growing fascist threat in America perpetrated and planned by the Trump regime. Please see references below.

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Intro/outro music: Back at It - Silencyde

Re: Government Shutdown

https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-10-1-2025

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdr6pnky7vyo

Re: Evidence of 800 Republican lawmakers and the evidence for rape and sexual assault including minors.

https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/e/2PACX-1vTFikAP6MXDCJjWzgMIOvpsT1ji-HwO-rLEvNE8e-cfCGh0YHoZluIG5TEsmwFub7MzIDfh0XgvcWL8/pub?pli=1

Re: Pam Bondi briefing Trump that his name is in the Epstein files

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/23/politics/bondi-trump-epstein-list-files

Re: Mass Layoffs

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/10/1/live-us-government-shuts-down-starts-as-trump-threatens-mass-layoffs

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/national-international/trump-administration-government-shutdown-gaza-israel-hamas-october-01-2025-live-updates/3995848/

Re: Generals and Admirals meeting

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgq044n72po.amp

Re: Portland National Guard Deployment

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/29/portland-national-guard-trump-deployment-lawsuit

Re: Gaza Flotilla

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/greta-thunberg-gaza-flotilla-live-israel-palestine-b2835931.html

Re: Humanitarian crisis in Gaza

https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/07/1165517

Re: Copenhagen summit

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-macron-edi-rama-mocking-b2838303.html