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New York City comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander was arrested outside an immigration courtroom Tuesday. Lander has been volunteering as an observer and escort for people with immigration hearings in recent weeks. In this case, while accompanying a man named Edgardo, a group of ICE agents approached the two men, who were walking arm in arm. Lander asked repeatedly to see a judicial warrant before being handcuffed and detained. Lander was later released after New York Governor Kathy Hochul condemned the arrest and visited New York City to lobby for his release. Five other mayoral candidates also condemned Lander's arrest, although current Mayor Eric Adams has stayed silent. Adams has sold this city out to Donald Trump to try to get his own pardon," says Lander. Let's be clear: It's only himself he cares about, and he is putting New York's immigrants in harm's way."

As Israel's attack on Iran overshadows Israel's ongoing assault on the region, we speak with Pulitzer Prize-winning Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha on the deepening crisis in his home of the Gaza Strip. Hundreds of starving, desperate civilians have been killed and wounded while attempting to access critical aid. Witnesses have described massacres committed by Israeli soldiers and U.S. security contractors at U.S.- and Israeli-backed aid sites that are the only officially sanctioned sources of food, water and medicine entering the Gaza Strip. People have to go to these so-called distribution sites, and they know they will be killed," says Abu Toha. Israel is not letting anyone survive, not in Gaza, not in Iran, not in Syria, not in Lebanon."

We're at a moment of immense danger," warns HuffPost correspondent Akbar Shahid Ahmed, as the Trump administration appears increasingly amenable to escalating conflict with Iran. Ahmed shares what we know about the U.S. military buildup and the magical thinking" of regime change rhetoric among Washington, D.C., policymakers that could turn into a hugely devastating" war with Iran. Above all, says Ahmed, Trump's boasts about being an antiwar leader have not come true: We haven't seen him solve any of the wars that he said he would address."

Donald Trump has threatened to directly target Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and may be moving closer to ordering U.S. airstrikes on Iran. Meanwhile, Khamenei has rejected Trump's calls for unconditional surrender," warning that Iran will meet any U.S. military action in Iran with irreparable harm." In Tehran, many civilians have already evacuated after multiple Israeli strikes killed hundreds. There's nothing sophisticated about slaughtering everyone in an apartment building to murder one or two people," says Mohammad Marandi about the strikes. Marandi, who has remained in Tehran, was part of the U.S.-Iran nuclear negotiations in 2015. He calls Trump's threat an act of terror" but emphasizes that U.S. and Israeli vilification of Iran has united the country more than ever before."

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We speak with Carlos Fernandez de Cossio, Cuba's deputy foreign minister, about the Trump administration's tightening restrictions on the country. Since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump has reinstated Cuba's designation as a so-called state sponsor of terrorism, recommitted to upholding the decadeslong economic embargo and targeted Cuban immigrants for deportation. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is now going after Cuba's medical program that sends Cuban doctors and healthcare workers to assist other countries. The island nation was also among the countries on Trump's travel ban that went into effect last week, severely limiting Cuban nationals from entering the U.S. This all comes as the Trump administration is reportedly planning to transfer thousands of immigrants to be detained at Guantanamo Bay. Fernandez de Cossio says the influence of anti-Cuban politicians in the U.S. is greater than any previous moment," which allows them to push this narrow approach, which is not relevant to the interests of most Americans."

Federal and state officials in Minnesota have announced murder and stalking charges against Vance Boelter, the man accused of assassinating Democratic state lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband in their home, as well as for shooting state Senator John Hoffman and his wife. Authorities say Boelter visited the homes of two other lawmakers on the night of the killings and had a hit list that included Planned Parenthood centers and the names of more Democratic politicians. One of the names on that list was Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, who joins Democracy Now! to discuss how the shootings have shaken his state, the risk of spreading political violence, and his own friendship with Hortman. Right up until we lost her, she was fiercely fighting for people," says Ellison, who faults President Trump for exacerbating political tensions. We must stop political violence."

Israel is intensifying its war on Iran, bombing the headquarters of the country's national TV network on Monday and assassinating another top military leader. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has also suggested killing Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iran has responded with barrages of long-range missiles targeting Israel. Meanwhile, U.S. President Donald Trump has shown little interest in containing Israel's assault, posting on social media that everyone should immediately evacuate" the capital Tehran.How can a city, a metropolis of 10 million people, suddenly evacuate? And to where?" says Iranian American journalist Negar Mortazavi. She notes that while Iran has long insisted its nuclear program is civilian in nature, these attacks could push the leadership into militarizing it and pursuing nuclear weapons.We also speak with Israeli political analyst Ori Goldberg, who says the war on Iran has allowed Israel's establishment to draw the world's attention away from Gaza," countering rising domestic and international criticism. Netanyahu felt the global sentiment shifting ... and because of that, he attacked Iran."

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After the biggest manhunt in Minnesota history, authorities have detained 57-year-old Vance Boelter, who is accused of fatally shooting Democratic lawmaker and former House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark in their Minnesota home early on Saturday in what authorities say were politically motivated assassinations. He is also accused of wounding state Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette at their home in a separate shooting.Melissa Hortman was an outstanding leader that was very loved and respected by many people, and what this means for us is that we lost a leader that was very important to us," says Patricia Torres Ray, a former Minnesota state senator and a former colleague of both Hortman and Hoffman.Police say they found three AK-47 assault rifles, a 9mm handgun and a hit list written by the gunman that contained the names of about 70 people, including prominent Democratic lawmakers and abortion providers and advocates. Flyers for Saturday's No Kings rallies were also found, prompting many organizers in Minnesota to cancel their protests.

More than 5 million people joined No Kings Day protests Saturday in the largest day of action against President Trump since his return to office. Protests were held in over 2,100 cities and towns across the country. The protests coincided with a poorly attended, multimillion-dollar military parade on President Trump's birthday, June 14. Democracy Now! spoke with anti-Trump protesters at the Washington, D.C., military parade and at New York City's No Kings protest.

Fighting between Israel and Iran has entered a fourth day, after Israel launched a sweeping, unprovoked attack. Iran's Health Ministry reports a total of 224 people have been killed, with 1,277 people hospitalized, by Israeli attacks. Iran has responded by launching a wave of missile attacks on Tel Aviv, Haifa and other Israeli cities, killing at least 24 people and injuring more than 500.We speak with Ali Vaez, Iran project director at the International Crisis Group, who says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu basically bombed away President Trump's only possibility for a diplomatic win early on in his second term." Vaez also argues President Trump is the only world leader with the ability to stop this cycle of escalation from expanding into a much more disastrous regional conflagration."Iranian-born Israeli political activist Orly Noy says Netanyau launched strikes on Iran to salvage his dwindling political popularity. The Israeli people are very susceptible to believing the imaginary threats that Netanyahu uses," says Noy.

Tehran Accuses U.S. and Israel of Coordinated Attack as Conflict Between Israel and Iran Continues, Suspect Detained in Assassination of Minnesota Dem. Lawmaker Melissa Hortman and Husband, No Kings Day Protests Draw Over 5 Million Across the U.S., Salt Lake City Fashion Designer Shot Dead at No Kings Protest, Trump's $45 Million Birthday & Military Parade Draws Small Crowd Amid Massive Nationwide Protests, Israel Has Killed Over 300 Palestinians Seeking Aid in Gaza, Egypt Arrests, Deports and Attacks Global March for Gaza Convoy, U.S. Judge Keeps Mahmoud Khalil Behind Bars over Trump Immigration Fraud" Accusation, Trump Threatens to Expand Mass Deportation and Immigration Raids in U.S. Cities, Immigrant Justice Leaders Violently Arrested and Detained in Vermont, Trump Admin Could Expand Travel Ban to Another 3 Dozen Countries Incl. Egypt and the DRC, Early Voting Underway in NYC Mayoral Primary with Progressive Mamdani Pitted Against Disgraced Cuomo

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered the termination of all remaining overseas employees of USAID to complete the dismantling of the six-decade-old agency. USAID was an early target of Elon Musk and DOGE. We look at the dismantling of USAID and what it means for people around the world to lose this lifeline, as detailed in a new Amnesty International report. We talked to somebody who actually saw IVs being ripped out of arms when the stop-work order came down," says Amnesty's Amanda Klasing, who describes the consequences of the U.S.'s retraction of critical aid to countries in the Global South and refutes the Trump administration's claims that no deaths can be traced to the cuts. Now, lacking funding from the wealthiest country in the world, aid workers like Jan Egeland of the Norwegian Refugee Council are turning to other countries' governments to bridge the gap. The U.S. is leaving international solidarity and compassion completely," Egeland says, even though it's been the leader of humanitarian aid, and it should remain so."

Democratic Congressmember Ilhan Omar of Minnesota joins Democracy Now! to discuss the increasing authoritarianism of the Trump administration, including its crackdown on anti-ICE protesters in Los Angeles, targeting of pro-Palestine students on college campuses and plans for a massive military parade coinciding with Trump's birthday on June 14. We are in the midst of the creation of a police state," says Omar. It will be a dark day if we do not stand up for ourselves, for our Constitution and for our republic."

Israel has launched a large-scale military attack on Iran, killing top military officials, nuclear scientists and civilians in the deadliest attack on the country in decades. Iran has launched drones at Israel in response. The unprovoked attack, which Israel described as a preemptive strike," comes just days before scheduled nuclear talks between Iran and the United States. Iranian-born analyst Trita Parsi says the Trump administration appears to have been coordinating with Israel for negotiating leverage" in an attempt to force Iran to capitulate" on nuclear disarmament. Whether this gambit will succeed remains to be seen, though Parsi and Israeli journalist Gideon Levy say Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is betting it does not. Netanyahu has long indicated a willingness to wage war with Iran and likely hopes to draw the United States into a major regional conflict. This was the project of his life," says Levy.

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We go to Los Angeles, where immigrant workers and families are feeling the impact of ICE raids on worksites like Home Depot. While hundreds have been detained, countless others are left to wonder whether they can safely go to work or school, fearing for their families. The life of an immigrant in Los Angeles and across this country ... is full of uncertainties," says Pablo Alvarado, co-executive director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network. Families don't know whether they're going to see their parents when they leave in the morning to go to work."

As immigrant rights protests spread to Chicago, we speak with Democratic Congressmember Delia Ramirez, who is the daughter of Guatemalan immigrants and married to a DACA recipient and recently called on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign. She responds to President Trump's threat to deploy troops in more major cities to quell protests. What you are seeing is the beginning of fascism," says Ramirez, who represents parts of Chicago. For fascists, they select a public enemy. And today, it's an immigrant. ... Tomorrow, it's anyone they find undesirable."

Nearly two dozen congressmembers are backing legislation, the Block the Bombs Act, that would withhold offensive weapons from Israel that violate international law and humanitarian norms. What Bibi Netanyahu wants is to continue to escalate this ground invasion and starvation of Palestinians, to absolutely take over Gaza and destroy Palestinian life," says Congressmember Delia Ramirez, one of the co-sponsors.

Activists from around the world are arriving in Egypt ahead of the Global March to Gaza, set to launch June 15, when thousands plan to march to the Rafah border to call for an end to Israel's genocide against Palestinians and its blockade of the territory. Dozens who flew to Cairo for the march have reportedly been detained, interrogated and deported by Egyptian security forces, but organizers say the event will proceed as planned. Former U.S. diplomat Hala Rharrit, who is taking part in the march, spoke with Democracy Now! earlier this week and said she could not turn a blind eye" to the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza. What type of world are we going to be allowing our children to grow up in, if we stand by while an entire civilian population is forcibly starved?" Rharrit asks.Rharrit was the Arabic-language spokesperson for the State Department before she resigned in 2024 to protest the Biden administration's Gaza policy. She accuses her former colleague Matthew Miller of careerism" after he recently admitted on a podcast that Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza, even though he regularly denied that while serving as a spokesperson for the State Department under Biden.

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Israel continues to detain eight individuals who were captured Monday when Israeli Navy commandos intercepted a Gaza-bound boat carrying humanitarian aid. Four other passengers on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla have been deported, including Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg. We get an update from Sergio Toribio, one of the 12 on board the Madleen, who has just been deported back to his home country of Spain. He describes how Israeli commandos boarded the ship in international waters and held them on the boat for over 24 hours while towing them to Israel. They kidnapped us," he says.

Condemnation is growing of President Trump's travel ban that went into effect Monday, banning citizens of 12 countries from entering the United States: Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and the Republic of Congo. It also imposes heightened restrictions on people from Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela. President Trump is destroying what this nation stands for," says Murad Awawdeh, president and CEO of the New York Immigration Coalition. Immigration in the U.S. is an American value." Guerline Jozef, co-founder and executive director of Haitian Bridge Alliance, called on communities to fight to make sure that people have the right to migrate." The administration is literally separating families," says Jozef.

A nationwide No Kings" movement plans to hold over 1,800 anti-Trump rallies across the United States on June 14, the same day as President Trump's military parade in Washington, D.C., as he celebrates his 79th birthday. Organizers are protesting President Trump's mass deportations, militarized crackdown against protesters, defiance of court orders, and attacks on civil rights. We're going to show him on June 14 that real power lies in the people," says Leah Greenberg, co-founder and co-executive director of Indivisible. Tanks and other armored vehicles are being transported to Washington, D.C., for the parade, which Marine Corps veteran JoJo Sweatt calls an egregious overspend." President Trump threatened heavy force would be used on anyone who protests at the parade in D.C.

Newsom Slams Trump for Sending Troops to L.A.: Democracy Is Under Assault Before Our Eyes", Trump Claims Anti-ICE Protests in L.A. Are Part of Foreign Invasion", Curfew Enacted in Downtown L.A. as Protests Continue, Pentagon: Troop Deployment to L.A. Will Cost $134 Million, Texas Gov. Abbott Deploys National Guard as Anti-ICE Protests Grow, As Tanks Arrive in D.C., Trump Says Very Heavy Force" Will Be Used on Protesters at Military Parade, 31 More Palestinians Killed Near Aid Distribution Site in Gaza, U.K. & Allies Impose Sanctions on Israeli Officials Smotrich & Ben-Gvir for Inciting Violence, Greta Thunberg Returns Home to Sweden After Gaza-Bound Aid Ship Is Seized, Argentina Supreme Court Upholds Prison Sentence for Ex-President Kirchner, Record 1.3 Million People Displaced in Haiti as Violence Escalates, Terry Moran Out at ABC News After Calling Stephen Miller a World-Class Hater", Rep. Sherrill and Ciattarelli to Face Off in NJ Gubernatorial Race, Rubio Orders Termination of Remaining USAID Overseas Staff

Activists from around the world are planning a Global March to Gaza on June 15 in support of Palestinians enduring the Israeli blockade. The first Biden State Department diplomat to publicly resign over Gaza policy, Hala Rharrit, plans to attend the march along with thousands of others who will walk from Cairo to the Rafah border. Silence does not ensure that we will be OK," says Rharrit. It's quite the opposite. Silence ensures the injustice spreads." Rharrit had served as the Arabic-language spokesperson for the State Department. She joins us from Dubai as she prepares for the march.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland father who was wrongfully sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador in March, is now in federal custody in Tennessee after being returned to the United States over the weekend. He now faces federal criminal charges that he was illegally transporting undocumented immigrants within the U.S. He's still far away from what we want, which is for him to be freed and returned to his family," says Chris Newman, a lawyer for Abrego Garcia's family and legal director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network. Newman draws connections between the L.A. anti-ICE protests and Abrego Garcia's first encounter with law enforcement in 2019 at a Home Depot, where a now-fired Maryland police officer accused him of being a potential MS-13 gang member and handed him over to ICE.

The Trump administration is sending 700 Marines and an additional 2,000 members of the National Guard into Los Angeles following four days of protests against militarized immigration raids. Rob Bonta, attorney general of California, sued to block the use of National Guard troops on Monday. Unfortunately, I think [Trump] wants conflict," said Bonta. He wants something to erupt so that that provides the basis for him to try to grasp and seize additional power." Bonta's office is pursuing more than two dozen lawsuits against the Trump administration.

President Trump has inflamed tensions over immigration raids in Los Angeles, which his top adviser Stephen Miller described as an insurrection. They want protesters to react violently to distract from what is really happening, which is that families are being separated, our communities are being devastated, and the people of Los Angeles are standing up to say, 'We will not stand for this,'" says Jean Guerrero, New York Times contributing opinion writer and author of Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda. Meanwhile, she notes Trump's budget bill would fund a massive expansion of federal immigration enforcement and turn it into a threat to the civil rights of everyone.

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Eleven peace activists and one journalist on board the Gaza Freedom Flotilla ship, the Madleen, were detained by Israeli soldiers as their ship carrying vital humanitarian aid for starving Palestinians approached Gaza. The ship was intercepted by Israeli forces in the middle of the night in international waters. Its supplies were seized and communications jammed. The unarmed activists will likely be transported to Israeli detention or immediately deported," says Ann Wright, a U.S. military veteran who has participated in four Freedom Flotilla journeys and now serves on the steering committee of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition. She calls on citizens of countries around the world to push for the activists' release and an end to Israel's war on Gaza.

As protests against ICE raids spread across the city, President Trump has deployed the California National Guard to Los Angeles, the first time in decades that a president has deployed the National Guard without a governor's request. Trump's border czar" Tom Homan threatened to arrest California Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, while Newsom says he plans to sue. This is absolutely unprecedented. It's extremely dangerous," says legal expert Elizabeth Goitein. It's going to escalate tensions rather than deescalating them."

In Los Angeles, mass street protests have broken out in response to immigration raids. Local police and Border Patrol are cracking down on protesters, while the Trump administration has called in the California National Guard. They shot thousands of rounds of tear gas, flashbang grenades, all kinds of repressive instruments," says Ron Gochez, community organizer with Union del Barrio who helped organize some of the protests. He notes many of the protests have also been successful at turning back immigration agents, preventing ICE arrests and detention. If we organize ourselves, if we resist, we can defend our communities from ICE terror, from the Border Patrol or from any federal agency that wishes to separate our families."

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We speak with Dr. Rupa Marya, a physician, activist, author and composer, who this week filed two free speech complaints against her former employer, the University of California, San Francisco. The school fired her last month after a lengthy suspension over her criticism of Israel's war on Gaza and its impact on healthcare in the Palestinian territory. I didn't expect that my career-ending move would be to say 'stop bombing hospitals,' for expressing support for Palestinian liberation and for criticizing the U.S.-backed genocide," says Marya. She was named one of the top 20 most influential women in biomedicine by Nature and served on multiple national advisory boards. Since her firing, over 1,000 healthcare workers and students have signed open letters demanding her reinstatement and denouncing UCSF's suppression of political expression.

We get an update from the Madleen, the Freedom Flotilla ship sailing to Gaza with vital humanitarian aid for Palestinians. Brazilian activist Thiago Avila, one of 12 people on the ship, says spirits are high" despite the constant presence of drones overhead and threats from the Israeli government. Palestine is now the strategic place for all peoples to unite and fight against oppression, exploitation and the destruction of nature," says Avila. People's power is the ultimate power, and love and solidarity can beat any hateful, racist and supremacist ideology, like Zionism." Earlier this week, the ship made a detour to respond to a mayday call to help dozens of migrants aboard a deflating vessel. The Madleen is expected to reach Gaza on Monday, though Israeli officials have said they will not allow it to land.

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka has filed a federal lawsuit, after he was arrested by masked federal agents outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement jail in Newark. They arrested me without any evidence," says Baraka of his decision to sue. They humiliated me. They cuffed me. They dragged me in the car, took me to the cell. ... It was completely unwarranted." President Trump's Justice Department is also suing Newark over its sanctuary policies, along with three other New Jersey cities, including Jersey City, where the mayor, Steve Fulop, is running for governor. Baraka is also running for governor in the primary election this Tuesday, June 10.

President Donald Trump's big, beautiful bill" now before the Senate could result in over 51,000 preventable deaths each year in the United States. That's according to public health experts at Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, who sent a letter warning about the bill's impact to the Senate Finance Committee. An estimated 16 million people stand to lose their health coverage as a result of the changes in the bill, which imposes onerous paperwork and fails to safeguard healthcare tax credits," says Alison Galvani, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Modeling at Yale and one of the signatories to the letter. She also notes universal healthcare would have the opposite effect and save tens of thousands of lives each year. There are a lot of ways we can improve how expensive our healthcare is, but taking healthcare away from people is not how to do it," says Galvani.

Is the Donald Trump-Elon Musk bromance finally over? President Trump is threatening to cut off billions of dollars in federal contracts with Musk after the two billionaires engaged in a dramatic online feud just days after Musk called Trump's budget bill a disgusting abomination." Musk appeared to back the impeachment of Trump and claimed the president is named in the Jeffrey Epstein files. They are people who always have their eye on the bottom line, but they also are, obviously, titanically sized egos," says author Quinn Slobodian, professor of international history at Boston University, who is working on a new book about Elon Musk. This is just a sign of how dangerous it is to put ... the whole future of the American economy and the political scene in the hands of two sole human beings."

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We're joined by award-winning investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr, who in 2018 exposed the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal and is now taking on what she terms the broligarchy," the billionaire Silicon Valley businessmen who now wield major influence in U.S. government and society. This is a new type of power, and the world hasn't seen this before, in which you have state power now with this enormous surveillance engine machine," says Cadwalladr. She warns that the increasing authoritarianism of the Trump administration is being facilitated by unregulated surveillance technology. People should be freaked out. ... They want as much information about the population as possible, so that they can surveil them, they can control them, they can search out their enemies, they can target them, and they can punish them, and they can silence them."

We speak to political scientist Neve Gordon and medical anthropologist Guy Shalev about their new article, The Shame of Israeli Medicine," which looks at the complicity of the Israeli medical establishment with Israel's egregious violations of international law." The article's third author, Osama Tanous, is a Palestinian citizen of Israel and has not been able to make media appearances for fear of reprisal by the Israeli government. The Israeli medical establishment in general identifies with Israel's colonial project and puts the colonial project over the most basic ethical principles of their profession," says Gordon, who previously served as the inaugural director of the organization Physicians for Human Rights-Israel. Shalev, the current executive director of the group, connects the Israeli military's targeting of healthcare workers and infrastructure in Gaza with its silencing of the great number of Palestinians who make up the medical workforce in Israel. The authors call for an international boycott of Israeli medical institutions, until Israel stops its colonial project, [and] after the Palestinians receive liberation and self-determination."

A group of veterans and their allies have entered their third week of a Fast for Gaza" outside the United Nations headquarters in New York City. The group is calling for an end to arms sales to Israel and of Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip. We hear from multiple hunger strikers on their decisions to join the planned 40-day action and why they are pressuring the U.N. in particular. We wake up each morning, and we don't worry about whether or not our children have been buried under rubble overnight. We're not drinking poisoned water. We're not surrounded by rubble. We're not dealing with the horrible traumas that people in Palestine and Gaza are dealing with," says peace activist Kathy Kelly, who started her hunger strike two weeks ago. What would make us stop? Well, certainly, if there were a permanent, unconditional, immediate ceasefire."

We get an update on the case of former Columbia University student protest negotiator Mahmoud Khalil from Baher Azmy, a member of Khalil's legal team at the Center for Constitutional Rights. Khalil has been detained in Louisiana for nearly three months, in what Azmy calls one of our immigration gulags." Khalil's legal team is now challenging the State Department's determination that his presence in the United States harms the country's foreign policy interests.

President Trump has signed a new travel ban barring citizens of 12 countries from entering the United States. The ban applies to Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and the Republic of Congo. The Trump administration is calling some of the countries terrorist safe havens" and citing high visa overstay rates for others. Compared to the first Trump administration's sweeping travel bans, which targeted travelers from Muslim-majority countries, this latest iteration is more likely to withstand legal challenges, says Baher Azmy, legal director for the Center for Constitutional Rights, which challenged the previous bans. However, the new order will be just as devastating," says Azmy.

Trump Signs Travel Ban Targeting Citizens of 12 Countries, United States Vetoes Another U.N. Security Council Resolution Calling for Gaza Ceasefire, Israel Attacks Al-Ahli Hospital, Killing at Least 3 Journalists, Protesters Demand U.S. and U.K. Lawmakers Act to Stop Genocide in Gaza, Deadly Russian Attacks on Ukraine Follow Putin's Threat of Retaliation over Drone Strikes, Iran's Supreme Leader Rejects Trump Administration Demand to End Uranium Enrichment, Human Rights Watch Says U.S. Committed Apparent War Crime in Yemen Port Attack, Trump Targets Columbia's Accreditation and Harvard's International Students, Trump Proposes 90% Cuts to All 37 U.S. Tribal Colleges, Mexico Says It Will Reciprocate After Trump Doubles Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum, CBO Says Big Beautiful Bill" Would End Health Coverage for 11 Million, Add $2.4 Trillion to Debt, Rep. Jerry Nadler Demands Investigation After DHS Agents Handcuff Staffer, El Salvador Court Orders Prominent Anti-Corruption Lawyer Jailed for 6 Months Ahead of Trial

The new book Empire of AI by longtime technology reporter Karen Hao unveils the accruing political and economic power of AI companies - especially Sam Altman's OpenAI. Her reporting uncovered the exploitation of workers in Kenya, attempts to take massive amounts of freshwater from communities in Chile, along with numerous accounts of the technology's detrimental impact on the environment. This is an extraordinary type of AI development that is causing a lot of social, labor and environmental harms," says Hao.

As Gaza faces over three months of Israeli blockade, a group of 12 activists is sailing to Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid. The Madleen ship was launched by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and initially planned to sail from Malta last month, but the group's ship was damaged in a drone attack. The new mission includes the renowned Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, who speaks with Democracy Now! live from the Madleen. We deem the risk of silence and the risk of inaction to be so much more deadly than this mission," says Thunberg.

Officials in Gaza say over 100 Palestinians have been killed during recent Israeli attacks on people waiting at aid sites. An additional 500 are wounded. Following the series of deadly attacks, the shadowy U.S.-Israeli humanitarian aid operation is shutting down for a day, and Israel's military warned Palestinians that roads leading to the aid distribution centers will be considered combat zones." The United Nations has called for a prompt and impartial investigation into each of the attacks. The U.S.-Israeli aid system is more about the humiliation and the control of the people" than feeding Palestinians, says Mahmoud Alsaqqa, Oxfam's food security and livelihoods coordinator in Gaza, who joins us from Gaza City.