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  • Pacifica Performance Showcase, Friday, July 11 at 2:30 pm, with filmmaker Matt Tyrnauer, director of "Nobu"

    Host Donna Walker welcomes filmmaker Matt Tyrnauer ("Studio 54," "Valentino: The Last Emperor," "The Reagans") on his latest documentary "Nobu," about the culinary legend Nobuyuki Matsuhisa (aka Nobu) who changed the way we eat. With unprecedented access, Tyrnauer traces Nobu's poignant life story and perseverance, witnessing his extraordinary food artistry and creativity in the course of building a global hospitality empire with business partner Robert DeNiro.

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  • U.N. Human Rights Chief Slams Trump's Anti-Immigrant Policies, "Militarized Response" to Protests

    Democracy Now! recently interviewed U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk in Geneva, Switzerland. The wide-ranging conversation touched on immigration policy in the United States, climate change around the world, the global fight to preserve human rights and more. See Part 1 of our conversation with Türk, including his response to Israel’s brutal war on Gaza.

  • Judge Blocks Trump Birthright Citizenship Order; DOJ Caught Lying About Men Sent to El Salvador

    A federal judge in New Hampshire has issued a nationwide injunction against President Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for children born in the United States since February 20. In a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of immigrant parents, the ACLU argued that the order would leave children born to undocumented parents “effectively stateless.” We speak to ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt about the case, which he calls “cruel” and without merit, as well as new evidence that the Trump administration is lying about its power over people it has expelled to the Salvadoran mega-prison CECOT.

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  • Democracy is STILL Our Best Way Out of This Mess --- And Republicans Know It: 'BradCast' 7/10/2025

    Yes, we are under a fascistic, authoritarian takeover of the United States. Yes, it can be frightening. But our wannabe authoritarians also happen to be clowns and fools and incompetent buffoons, and should be called out at such. And so we do on today's BradCast, even while our best chance to kick these degenerates to [...]

  • 'Green News Report' - July 10, 2025

    Follow @GreenNewsReport... (Or use "Click here to listen..." link below.) IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Yet another deadly flash flooding event, in the third state in five days, this time in New Mexico; Extreme heat wave killed thousands in Western Europe; PLUS: 'We need to adapt' --- Climate experts warn no country is prepared for climate impacts... All [...]

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