SATURDAY 07.19.25 PROGRAM Notes
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TECHTONIC with MARK HURST: Duncan Moench on soylent screens and producerism (00:59:30)
Writer Duncan Moench argues that society today is dominated by soylent screens, the addictive digital devices that treat humans as a resource to be exploited. There is an alternative, though, an old but newly relevant economic system called producerism.
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: The Power of Photographs and the Truth That Threatens Dictators (00:54:48)
It’s called airbrushing history and all dictators do it to erase the truth. Sometimes it can be petty. One example is that Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon deleted photos that were on their website of the first black military pilots during WWII, the Navajo Code Talkers, the first woman to graduate from the Army ranger school and the first female Air Force fighter pilot. And even briefly cut out the B-29 that dropped the big one. As if they never happened. Why? On this show, Arnold “Skip” Isaacs reveals the sinister echoes he sees today of Stalinist and Maoist erasure of the truth. Though thanks to what is left of a free press, libraries, and education, we Americans still have access to the facts and history. But to worry about what’s next is unfortunately quite reasonable.
AGING MATTERS: Military and Veteran Caregiving (00:58:00)
Caregiving is a fact of life, which means many families will need to provide care for a loved one. Often, military and veteran family members become caregivers for the service member in their family who may be facing mental and physical health issues. Elizabeth Field, Chief Operating Officer, Elizabeth Dole Foundation, https://www.elizabethdolefoundation.org/, and Pattie Cullum, 2025 Dole Caregiver Fellow, talk about family member caregiver duties and responsibilities for military and veteran family members, and the mission of the Elizabeth Dole Foundation to provide support.
https://www.agingmattersonline.com
GROWING GREENER: A Game-Changing Shortcut to Creating a Native Meadow (00:29:00)
Claire Chambers, founder of Meadow Lab, describes the roll-out sod her company is producing that can transform a landscape into a blooming, mature meadow of native flowers and grasses in a single growing season
https://www.thomaschristophergardens.com
TUC RADIO: Economic Update: How Deep Fascist Parallels Run (00:28:59)
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff, responding to requests, explores the parallels between what led to the rise of Hitler and fascism in Germany after World War I and what has brought the US to Trump and his current policies. Democracy at Work is a non-profit 501(c)3 that produces media and live events.
THE BOPST SHOW: Can’t Go Halfway (00:55:40)
The Bopst Show, the critically acclaimed music radio show hosted by artist, musician, writer, DJ and founding member of GWAR, Chris Bopst, features a wide assortment of audio stimulations from a myriad of genres, eras and inspirations. On this week’s show, you’ll hear a spaghetti western solo turn from Dead Kennedys guitarist East Bay Ray, primitive 50s rock from the Floyd Dakil Four, and reggae from Enid Cumberland as well as music by Emma Woods, Outkast many others locked out of the nation’s largest terrestrial bandwidths.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
RALPH NADER RADIO HOUR #593 (00:58:00)
Our resident constitutional expert Bruce Fein joins to make the case for impeaching the Supreme Court AND the President, and what we”as citizens”can do to make it happen. Then we welcome Lori Wallach of Rethink Trade to evaluate Trumps tariff policy. Are these trade deals bringing manufacturing back to the US? Or is Trump just using tariffs as a cudgel to punish countries that annoy him?
https://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com
FRIDAY 07.18.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Friday July 18, 2025
https://www.democracynow.org/shows
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: DCs smart bins offer 24-hour food waste drop-off (00:01:30)
The rat-proof bins are making composting easier for city residents.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
THE LABOR HERITAGE POWER HOUR: The Hard Work of Hope (00:55:06)
On this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour: Ron Carver sits down with lifelong activist and author Michael Ansara, whose powerful new memoir The Hard Work of Hope traces his journey from a 13-year-old stepping into a Woolworths picket line to leading anti-war and grassroots campaigns across the country. Ansara reflects on building hope through action, the lessons of SDS, and the importance of solidarity today. We celebrate John Lewis’ birthday with Linda Allens Good Trouble, and hear fiery remarks from APWU President Mark Dimondstein, winner of the 2025 Joe Hill Award, on the power of labor history, resistance, and the role of the arts in the fight for justice.
Plus: Labor arts news, contract wins from the SNL VFX crew, video game performers, and Annapolis Symphony musicians. And we remember civil rights legend Ida B. Wells and the 1934 San Francisco General Strike in this weeks Labor History.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Public broadcasting cuts passed (00:57:59)
News… Epstein: How can you call it a hoax? Isn’t it always the coverup that nails you? Public broadcasting cuts passed at 2am, what could go wrong? Is execution really being floated for Trump foes? Ukraine Update: Veteran War Correspondent in Kyiv, Ukraine & host of the ‘On the Edge’ podcast.
SEA CHANGE RADIO: William J. McGee on The Failure of Airline Deregulation (00:29:00)
Proponents of the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 often point to the relatively low prices in the industry today as proof that deregulation was a success. But this week’s guest on Sea Change Radio, Bill McGee believes that the connection is specious at best, and that advocates are making the mistake of confusing cause and effect. McGee, a consumer advocate in the aviation sector and a senior fellow at the American Economic Liberties Project, shares his perspective about the long-term problems created by airline deregulation, explains why it often gets credited for saving the industry when it shouldn’t, and looks at how sustainability is not a big enough factor in the way that airline prices are determined.
LAURA FLANDERS AND FRIENDS: Special Report – The Lucas Plan at 50: A Radical Investment in Society, Not the War Machine (00:28:00)
With the passage of the Republicans Big Beautiful Bill and NATO allies pledging to more than double their spending on defense as a portion of all economic output, military spending around the world is soaring, while spending on meeting social needs and the climate crisis is on the chopping block. Governments often justify spending public money this way by saying it will create good jobs, but what if the workers themselves had a say? Fifty years ago, employees at Lucas Aerospace, a huge military contractor in the United Kingdom came up with an alternative plan. Their approach, known as the Lucas Plan, used the workers same expertise, but directed production away from bombs, towards goods that actually help society. In this special episode, Laura heads to the UK to interview some of the original workers involved in the Lucas Plan and investigates what one senior government minister at the time called “one of the most remarkable exercises in all of British industrial history. As she says, its as relevant now as the day it was conceived.
THE BOPST SHOW: Can’t Go Halfway (00:55:40)
The Bopst Show, the critically acclaimed music radio show hosted by artist, musician, writer, DJ and founding member of GWAR, Chris Bopst, features a wide assortment of audio stimulations from a myriad of genres, eras and inspirations. On this week’s show, you’ll hear a spaghetti western solo turn from Dead Kennedys guitarist East Bay Ray, primitive 50s rock from the Floyd Dakil Four, and reggae from Enid Cumberland as well as music by Emma Woods, Outkast many others locked out of the nation’s largest terrestrial bandwidths.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
THE BRADCAST: (00:58:00)
Independent, investigative news, reporting, interviews and commentary.
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THURSDAY 07.17.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Thursday July 17, 2025
https://www.democracynow.org/shows
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: A smarter way to tear buildings down (00:01:30)
Researchers are using high-tech tools to identify reusable materials that can be salvaged during building demolitions.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
RADIO ECOSHOCK: Welcome to Disaster World (00:58:00)
Breaking new science on deadly heat wave in Europe and flash floods in America. Confirmed: it is climate change. Alex reports, clip of Grantham UK scientists. UCLA expert on extreme rains and flash floods – Jesse Norris from 2022. Journalist late Ross Gelbspan warned us all about fossil fuel takeover and media complicity – in 2006!
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-2:00
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Could Trump be Trying to Encourage World War to Distract from Epstein? (00:57:59)
Crazy Alert! Matt Getz has been suggested to lead a Jeffery Epstein Special Council – Wow. Also is the forecast calling for extinction? What if this is the last generation that gets to ask “what if”? Looks like Trump is taking a “Knife to a gunfight” with Russia. So sad. Plus – What happened to that “traditional family” who emigrated to Russia? You will be shocked….maybe. Could Trump be trying to encourage World War to distract from Epstein?
RISING UP WITH SONALI – 2025-07-15 (00:58:30)
This week, the Los Angeles-area city of Huntington Park, which has been a major target of ICE raids and is 97% Latinx, just passed one of the strictest sanctuary ordinances in California. Victor Narro of the Sanctuary LA Coalition will be my guest and will explain what’s in the ordinance and why it’s important. Then, well spend the rest of the hour with Shanelle Matthews and Marzena Zukowska, co-editors of the new anthology, Liberation Stories: Building Narrative Power for 21st-Century Social Movements.
https://risingupwithsonali.com
LITERATURE ALOUD: “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1899) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (00:32:08)
Originally considered a gothic horror story, Gilman’s proto-feminist story is rich with suggestive detail and disturbing details. Inspired by her own treatment with “the rest cure” by Dr. Weir, Gilman gives us a chilling sense of what it feels like to be so dismissed and micromanaged by authority to the extent that we begin see strange things.
The link provides both the text and the audio
https://sites.google.com/site/therestcure/home/resources
WINGS #14-25 Peggy Antrobus (00:28:53)
Something To Dream About.
90-year-old Caribbean feminist Peggy Antrobus tells of devoting her career to global feminism, independence of former colonies, and egalitarian economic development, while seeing economic re-colonization grow since the Reagan/Thatcher era. She comments on climate change’s threat to overwhelm island nations, yet chuckles at the expectation Mother Nature will assert herself against this economic order.
THE BRADCAST: 7/16/2025 ‘Superman is the Story of America’. Guest: Prof. Nicholas Grossman of Univ. of IL (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: MAGA and Fox ‘News’ are attacking the new Superman movie as ‘woke’, apparently angered by the film’s traditional portrayal of the iconic character as pro-kindness, pro-immigrant, pro-justice, anti-Nazi, and more. NICHOLAS GROSSMAN of the University of Illinois discusses his new article, ‘Why MAGA Hates Superman,’ the character’s cultural significance as a symbol of American values, rightwing efforts to rewrite American history, and much more. Donald Trump and his supporters are falling out over the ‘Epstein Files.’ The rightwing supermajority on the US Supreme Court allowed the Trump Administration to fire tens of thousands of federal workers, gutting vital agencies. In Arizona, Adelita Grijalva, daughter of the late Rep. Raul Grivalva, won the Democratic primary in a special US House election to fill her father’s seat.
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
WEDNESDAY 07.16.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Wednesday July 16, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: A sensor patch could help protect the lives of outdoor workers (00:01:30)
The idea is to stop people dying from heat, which is a preventable death.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
FOOD SLEUTH RADIO: Will Potter, investigative journalist and author of Little Red Barns: Hiding the Truth from Farm to Fable, discusses the connections between factory farms and authoritarianism. (Part 2 of 2) (00:28:00)
Did you know that powerful language and imagery are distractions from the reality of industrialized agriculture? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn for her conversation with Will Potter, investigative journalist and author of Little Red Barns: Hiding the Truth from Farm to Fable. Potter discusses the connections between factory farms and authoritarianism, and explains how bearing witness is an act of both love and defiance. (Part 2 of 2). Related Websites: https://www.willpotter.com/littleredbarns
https://foodsleuth.transistor.fm
THIS WAY OUT #1946: Harvard’s Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Program & more global LGBTQ news! (00:28:59)
Harvard’s global LGBTQI+ rights initiative faces Trump shut down threats; Hong Kong’s government teases limited queer spousal rights, Pope Leo echoes the same-gender couple blessing policy of Francis, Iranian trans inmates die in an Israeli airstrike on its infamous prison, North Carolinas governor vetoes anti-trans and anti-DEI bills, Wisconsin’s Supreme Court upholds the states conversion therapy ban, and team Trump scrubs B following their T erasure from the National Stonewall Monuments now gay and lesbian only website.
Those stories and more this week when you find This Way Out.
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: The Supreme Court Has Gone Too Far Once Again (00:58:00)
Supreme Court’s latest double standard ‘couldn’t be more disturbing’: expert The right-wing bubble and Epstein – Will Trump be able to crush his Epstein crisis? This is what always happens when a Republican is president – but with Trump – it’s going to be worse. We all need to be preparing for a recession plus or a depression.
CIVIC CIPHER: What is Socialism? A Conversation with Bobby Nichols / The Democratic Socialists of America (00:59:00)
Today’s guest is Bobby Nichols – the former Phoenix Democratic Socialist of America’s chapter chair and current member. He is the founder of Arizona Works Together, a pro-union political action committee operating at the state level. Additionally, Bobby Nichols works for the Office of the Arizona Attorney General as a state attorney representing Arizona’s Departments of Child Safety and Economic Security in Superior and Administrative Court cases involving the abuse, neglect, and exploitation of minor children and vulnerable adults.
LITERATURE ALOUD: Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman ch. 12 “Expelled” (00:27:35)
Herland is a utopian novel written in1915 by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman author of the famous and influential short story “The Yellow Wallpaper.” It describes the adventures and education of three men who land in an isolated and get schooled by a society comprised entirely of women who reproduce via asexual reproduction. Their matrifocal emphasis leads to an ideal social order, free of war, conflict and domination. It first appeared as a serial in Perkin’s monthly magazine Forerunner.
https://librivox.org/herland-by-charlotte-perkins-gilman
Text: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Herland
CHOOSE TO BE CURIOUS: Curiosity, Book Bans & Bad-Ass Librarians, with Diane Kresh (00:28:00)
What happens to intellectual freedom when libraries come under attack? What happens to curiosity?
Librarian and director of the Department of Libraries in Arlington, VA, Diane Kresh joins me to explore the long and storied history of bad-ass librarians, book bans and book sanctuaries, the “curiosity paradox” of such bans, what makes libraries a center for community, and how curiosity is like an insatiable puppy. “The library can be a great refuge, if you will, for people who are questioning.” ~ Diane Kresh
THE BRADCAST: 7/15/2025 Guest: Tax law Prof. Ellen Aprill on Trump IRS agreement to allow churches to endorse political candidates (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: The new chief of tax policy at the Trump Internal Revenue Service is a longtime corporate lobbyist who has helped the ultra-rich and major corporations dodge taxes for decades. In a stunning court filing, the Trump IRS advocated for two churches to be allowed to explicitly endorse political candidates without losing their tax-exempt, nonprofit status. Professor ELLEN APRILL, tax law expert at UCLA, explains the serious implications of the court filing, including dark money flooding politics via churches, even though the IRS hasn’t yet allowed all houses of worship to endorse political candidates from the pulpit. Also today: Democratic primary day in Arizona appears to be about generational change rather than ideology. Donald Trump’s tariffs are increasing inflation, as predicted. Plus Desi Doyen has our new ‘Green News Report.’
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
TUESDAY 07.15.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Tuesday July 15, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Climate change is increasing the risk of intense rain (00:01:30)
So its important for everyone to make a plan to stay safe during flooding.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
ENCOURAGEMENTOLOGY: Balancing Act: Love, Money & the Real Pursuit of Happiness (00:30:00)
On this show were exploring the balancing act between love, money, and the real pursuit of happiness. What happens when one area becomes the focus at the expense of the others? You might be building wealth but losing touch with your relationships, or maybe youre all-in for love but silently stressed about your financial future. Its easy to get off-kilter, especially when life demands you juggle multiple priorities at once.
MAKING CONTACT: Caring Relationships Negotiating Meaning Maintaining Dignity (Encore) (00:29:00)
The vast majority of care recipients are exclusively receiving unpaid care from a family member, friend, or neighbor. The rest receive a combination of family care and paid assistance, or exclusively paid formal care. In honor of Disability Pride Month, well revisit the dynamic and complex relationship of care receiving and giving.
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Is Rosie O’Donnell Another Dictator Test? (00:57:59)
Thom returns! Louise and I saw Superman; you should too. But don’t tell your Maga friends. Also apparently, Epstein had hidden cameras in all his properties, and his private island was completely wired for recording and viewing. He had the material for entertainment, insurance and blackmail….and where are they? Does Bondi have them? Plus is Rosie O’Donnell another dictator test? Is Delusion the Right’s New “Weapon of Mass Destruction”?
THE CHILDREN’S HOUR: Tigers & Snow Leopards (00:53:00)
Tigers and snow leopards are two of the most mysterious cats on Earth. This time on The Children’s Hour, our Kids Crew talks with zookeepers and conservationists who work closely with these big cats. We learn where they live, how they survive in the wild, and what’s being done to keep them safe.
https://www.childrenshour.org/
LITERATURE ALOUD: Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman ch. 11 “Our Difficuties” (00:29:29)
Herland is a utopian novel written in1915 by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman author of the famous and influential short story “The Yellow Wallpaper.” It describes the adventures and education of three men who land in an isolated and get schooled by a society comprised entirely of women who reproduce via asexual reproduction. Their matrifocal emphasis leads to an ideal social order, free of war, conflict and domination. It first appeared as a serial in Perkin’s monthly magazine Forerunner.
https://librivox.org/herland-by-charlotte-perkins-gilman
Text: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Herland
WITH GOOD REASON Weekly Half Hour: Mow Lawn, Mo Problems (00:29:00)
What if a well-manicured lawn isn’t the end all be all? What if it’s actually harming the local habitat? Doug Tallamy is the co-founder of Home Grown National Park. It’s a non-profit that urges property owners to reduce their lawns and plant native plants. He shares all the little things we can do to help restore functioning ecosystems and mitigate the biodiversity crisis. And: Quarry Gardens is the first and only native plant botanical garden in Virginia. It started off as a soapstone quarry. Now it’s an environmental gem with a beautiful quarter mile loop boasting over 500 species of native plants. Devin Floyd takes us on a tour of the gardens – showing off the quarry pits and the ancient ecosystems he calls lost worlds.
THE BRADCAST: 7/14/2025 Republican, Independent Support for Immigrants Skyrockets Amid Trump’s Crackdown (00:57:30)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: Americans who voted for Donald Trump because they supported his promise of mass deportation and detention don’t like what it looks like in practice, with federal agents violently and indiscriminately rounding up hard-working, non-criminal members of their communities and detaining their U.S. citizen children for weeks. New polls show a striking surge of support for immigration, particularly among Republicans and Independents, and disapproval of Trump’s policies. Catholic Church leaders have condemned the Trump Administration’s tactics. A federal judge ordered ICE to halt raids and detentions in Southern California that are based on little more than appearance, language, accent or job location as a basis for arrest. Callers weigh in.
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
MONDAY 07.14.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Monday July 14, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Solar arrays power a farm in Madison, Wisconsin (00:01:30)
It had been operating for years without on-site electricity.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
WHEN THE BIOMASS HITS THE WIND TURBINE #58: Preserving Food (00:29:33)
We all know it is healthier to eat seasonally. But food has a nasty habit of growing when it wants to ” which makes food preservation a necessity. Your grandmother knew this and knew how to deal with it. But we of the mega-chain grocery stores and global delivery systems have seemed to forget these time-honored skills. So how do you go about preserving food so that you can enjoy healthy meals year round?
More than just canning… but let’s talk about canning
Pickling
Salting ” dry curing, wet curing
Drying foods
Freezing
Storing fresh food (tomatoes, cabbage, potatoes)
Dealing with leftovers
Cheeses
https://bluerockstation.podbean.com
ECONOMIC UPDATE: The Workers’ Struggle within The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra (00:29:00)
On this week’s episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the political theater, of the U.S./Iran hostilities, the political shock of Zohran Mamdani’s Democratic primary win in New York City, the withdrawal of union leaders from the Democratic National Committee, and the rising trade among BRICS crosses the $1 trillion milestone. In the second part of today’s show, Prof. Wolff interviews two leaders of the musicians’ union representing the orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center, New York City: Javier Gandara and Stephanie Mortimore.
https://economicupdate.libsyn.com
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Barrage of Russian Drone Attacks on Kiev (00:58:00)
Sitting in for Thom Hartmann, guest-host Jefferson Smith of the ‘Democracy Nerd’ Podcast is joined by his esteemed father Joe Smith for the popular News with my Dad segment on current events. Also Veteran War Correspondent in Kyiv, Ukraine & host of the ‘On the Edge’ podcast, Phil Ittner reports on the amped up barrage of Russian drone attacks after irresponsible comments by Pete Hegseth.
SPIRIT IN ACTION: Growing Heart in the Heartland – Maaria Mozaffar (00:55:00)
Some 15 years ago Maaria Mozaffar began as a civil rights lawyer & mediator, and since then her work has grown to center around both education and legislative advocacy, crafting & organizing legislation centered on religious freedom and rights. As a Muslim, Maaria sees more clearly the tilt, and sometimes the walls, that US society builds against minority faiths and ethnic groups. Based in Illinois, her successful advocacy has included the Halal/Kosher Law in Public Institutions, the Faith Behind Bars act, and the establishment of January 17th as Muhammad Ali Day, and these and more laws are being replicated in other states as well. She’s the author of the book, More than Pretty, and founder of The Skinless Project. Maaria’s keen mind & inclusive spirit has been key to building wide coalitions & in welcoming allies. Past/present religious/spiritual influences: Muslim
https://www.spiritinaction.net
LITERATURE ALOUD: Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman ch. 10 “Their Religions and Our Marriages” (00:25:25)
Herland is a utopian novel written in1915 by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman author of the famous and influential short story “The Yellow Wallpaper.” It describes the adventures and education of three men who land in an isolated and get schooled by a society comprised entirely of women who reproduce via asexual reproduction. Their matrifocal emphasis leads to an ideal social order, free of war, conflict and domination. It first appeared as a serial in Perkin’s monthly magazine Forerunner.
https://librivox.org/herland-by-charlotte-perkins-gilman
Text: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Herland
GREEN STREET with PATTI and DOUG WOOD: The Fight Over Toxic Chemicals – with Dr. Philip Landrigan (00:29:01)
This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug dedicate the entire program to their interview with the nation’s leading expert on environmental toxins, Dr. Philip Landrigan. Over a career spanning decades, Dr. Landrigan has been out front on efforts to inform the public about the links between common environmental exposure and human health, including groundbreaking work on lead, asbestos, and pesticides. A pediatrician by training, Dr. Landrigan is currently the Director of the Program for Global Public Health and the Common Good, and Director of the Global Observatory on Planetary Health at the Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society at Boston College.
THE BRADCAST: 7/11/2025 Encore: Texas Flooding Tragedy Was Both Predictable and Predicted (00:58:00)
Encore: original airdate 7-11-2025. On today’s ‘BradCast’: The July Fourth holiday weekend brought grim news for the nation. The Republican-controlled Congress narrowly passed Donald Trump’s big ugly budget bill that guts health care and food assistance for millions; super-sizes ICE into an army; kills landmark climate and clean energy investments that generated a U.S. manufacturing boom; and increases the national debt by $3 trillion, all to pay for a $4 trillion in tax cuts for the wealthy. In Central Texas, a record storm generated historic flash flooding that has killed more than 104 people. We detail the confirmed facts of this historic tragedy as the blame game is already underway, the accuracy of National Weather Service alerts amid steep staffing cuts, and much more as man-made climate change intensifies extreme weather disasters.
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
SUNDAY 07.13.25 PROGRAM Notes
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RADIO 2050 Episode #91: Community Revival (00:58:00)
Sulma discusses the power that communities can wield for good, and how we can better organize to face the many crises of our time. She shares her life story, highlighting the times she has witnessed the power of community firsthand; from her childhood in El Salvador, to her church work in Kansas and discovery of liberation theology, to her current position as executive director of People’s Action. Sulma believes that collective action can lead to meaningful transformation, and her call to action is always to get out of your comfort zone and do something you haven’t done before.
https://radioparadise.com/radio2050
EARTH RIOT RADIO: Devolving Billionaires into Holy Punks (00:29:00)
The radio show is a freewheeling escapade this week. We’re evolving lately toward a simpler message, like when AOC screams, “In the street! In the street!” Our editor Jason Candler is building these wild symphonies out of voices that cut through from the Earth. The wild animals make good radio and teach me how to preach. They give us their far-seeing perspective, the ultimate anti-colonial view of the world. Listen to the seals, elks, tigers, kookaburras, pumas, all manner of rainforest birds, moaning wind from big, wounded storms…. And we humans are there in that wilderness too, in the form of AOC, Jimi Hendrix, and Zohran Mamdani…and…and…the Stop Shopping Choir!
BARNABY DRUTHERS: Barnaby Druthers: Ghost of the Heart Shaped Locket (00:28:00)
On a speaking tour of America in 1901, Barnaby Druthers stops at a tavern in Eastern Connecticut where he learns the story of the Ghost of the Heart Shaped Locket. Could the ghost return?
https://www.barnabydruthers.com
Best of ATTITUDE with ARNIE ARNESEN July 12, 2025 (00:59:30)
Segment One
We begin the show with Ryan Cooper, Managing Editor, The American Prospect. We discuss the provisions of the BBB or Big Beautiful Bill and how these will negatively affect millions of Americans, including children.
Segment Two
We then sit with DeMareo Cooper, of Popular Democracy, about the 14th Amendment. We discuss its history and the current threats of the Trump administration’s threat to abrogate it.
https://www.arniearnesen.org/WP
BACKGROUND BRIEFING with IAN MASTERS July 10, 2025 (00:59:00)
Trump’s Deliberate Effort to Destroy the FBI is Going Great Guns with Patel and Bongino in Charge | Trump’s Vengeance and Obsessive War Against Reality Over Russia’s Help in Electing Him Has the Former Heads of the CIA and FBI Now Under Investigation | The Growing Danger of Nuclear From a Trillion Dollar US Nuclear Buildup Over the Next Ten Years.
https://www.backgroundbriefing.org
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR: Epigenetics and the Biology of Belief with Bruce Lipton (00:59:00)
Bruce Lipton is a biologist and one of the early pioneers in the field of genetic biology, and he is the bestselling author of The Biology of Belief, The Honeymoon Effect, and co-author with Steve Bhaerman of Spontaneous Evolution. In 2009 he received the prestigious Goi Peace Award. Here he talks about the fascinating science of epigenetics, which reveals that our genes or DNA are not simply read only codes, but actually read and write codes influenced as much by our environment, the company we keep and beliefs we have about ourselves and the world. And that we can intentionally influence and activate how our genetics manifest in our lives.
DEEP DIVE CYBERSECURITY SHOW: Americans Prepare for Terror Attacks, Big Tech & The Military Cozy Up, & the US Now Has A Citizenship Database (00:58:45)
So much insane news, we are doing THREE Deep Dives this week:
-Thanks to Trump bombing Iran, we need to prepare for terror attacks at home.
-Big Tech & the US military are closer than ever, which is of serious concern
-Trump now has a Citizenship database and they’ve sorted it by naturalized versus born to citizens.
This is all deeply concerning for the future of the USA.
Do not miss this one.
SATURDAY 07.12.25 PROGRAM Notes
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TECHTONIC with MARK HURST: Burn Hollywood Burn – Will AI save the movies? (00:59:30)
Burn Hollywood Burn – Will AI save the movies? Dan Morfitt fills in for Mark Hurst, with guest John Ashbrook, on the future of cinema in the age of AI.
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: His Insatiable Appetite for Prisons (00:59:20)
The appalling criminalization of ordinary people. No charges, no conviction, just sweep up people who, as he said: look like illegals. Blatantly circumventing constitutional law. And in the big, ugly bill, passed 7/3, spending for jail space and ICE skyrocketed. Guest on this show is Lyle May who is currently behind bars. He calls this obsession carceral imperialism, actively carrying out an obscene belief in the oligarchs right to dominate and control all others. Their secret police grab and hold people just because they can. It’s all part of Project 2025, which may be unthinkable but is in fact happening now. When you listen you’ll also hear a recorded voice from the prison which tells us time is almost up. And if prisons are there to make better citizens, as May says: toughness is not effective.
AGING MATTERS: Guardianship and Conservatorship (00:58:00)
Guardianship, also referred to as conservatorship, is the appointment by a court of an individual who will make decisions for and manage the affairs of another person who the court finds unable to take care of themself or their property. Erica Wood, JD, Consultant on Law and Aging, talks about adult guardianship, what it means for a court to declare a person incapacitated, and duties and powers of a guardian as well as qualifications needed to serve, https://www.guardianship.org/
https://www.agingmattersonline.com
GROWING GREENER: The Overlooked Beauty and Garden Services of Wasps (00:29:00)
A replay of a conversation from April of 2021 with Pollinator Conservationist Heather Holm about her multi-award-winning book, Wasps, Their Biology, Diversity, and Role as Beneficial Insects and Pollinators of Native Plants.
https://www.thomaschristophergardens.com
TUC RADIO: The JFK Assassination and the Gangster Nature of the State, Michael Parenti (TWO of TWO) (00:29:00)
This talk caused a controversy in the media when it was first aired on the 30th anniversary of the JFK assassination. Parenti saw not just the violent death of an individual but said: If the truth were known it would call into question the entire state system and the social order it represents. And that troubling implication is probably the reason why
the mainstream press has suppressed the work of those who researched the circumstances of Kennedy’s death. In his investigation Parenti focused on the troubling contradictions In Lee Harvey Oswald’s life to add to the proof that Oswald was at best a patsy.
Michael Parenti, since retired, was one of the nation’s leading progressive political analysts. He has taught at colleges and universities in the US and abroad. With roots in a working class Italian district in New York City and a PhD in political science from Yale, Parenti was an internationally known lecturer and author. An extended
text of this talk can be found in Parentis book: Dirty Truths, published by City Lights in 1996.
THE BOPST SHOW: In My Secret Life (00:55:00)
The Bopst Show, the critically acclaimed music radio show hosted by artist, musician, writer, DJ and founding member of GWAR, Chris Bopst, features a wide assortment of audio stimulations from a myriad of genres, eras and inspirations. On this week’s show, you’ll hear the keyboard driven aggression of the Stranglers, the skeletal folk of Johanna Samuels and the bluesy soul of O.V. Wright as well as tunes by Emilíana Torrini, Talisman and many others locked out of the nation’s largest terrestrial bandwidths.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
RALPH NADER RADIO HOUR #592 (00:58:00)
We begin on a positive note by welcoming a doer, citizen extraordinaire, Jon Merryman, who couldn’t stand the trash, especially old tires, being dumped in his neighborhood. So, he took it upon himself to clean it up and has now expanded his efforts across the country. Then co-president of Public Citizen, Robert Weissman, joins us to explain how spending in the recent bill passed by the Republican controlled Congress prioritizes the Pentagon and deportation enforcement at the expense of the social safety net, essentially trading death for life.
https://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com
FRIDAY 07.11.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Friday July 11, 2025
https://www.democracynow.org/shows
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Climate solutions are more popular than you might think (00:01:30)
Fossil fuel PR campaigns have misled people into believing that climate solutions are more controversial than they actually are.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
THE LABOR HERITAGE POWER HOUR: We Are Union, Hallelujah!: Laborpalooza and More (00:55:00)
This week on the Labor Heritage Power Hour, we bring you live music, radical art, and labor history from across time and place. First, we take you to McGinty’s Public House in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, for Laborpalooza – the high-energy Saturday night concert June 21 at the 2025 Great Labor Arts Exchange. From contest-winning songs and poems to fiery hip hop, choral harmonies, and satirical anthems, this episode captures the spirit of a movement that sings, rhymes, and dances for justice. Then, we return to part two of artist and printmaker Eric Ruins deep and honest conversation with Tabitha Arnold. Eric reflects on the challenges and contradictions of living as a mid-career artist – balancing ambition, solidarity work, and creative survival in a system that rarely values art for its own sake. Finally, in Labor History in Two, we remember Ella Reeve Mother Bloor, the undercover labor activist and early socialist leader born on this day in 1862.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: The Power of Words and Manipulating Words for Power (00:58:00)
Guest-host Jefferson Smith of the Democracy Nerd Podcast sits in for Thom Hartmann to ponder the power of words. Epstein Files failure proves Trump lied but why? – Was Trump in the files? The failure to release signature campaign promise is turning Trump’s greatest defenders into his newest critics.
SEA CHANGE RADIO: Deirdre Mask: Addressing Addresses (00:29:00)
What does naming and re-naming streets, buildings, airports, and even bodies of water say about us as a people? Whether a name inspires, entertains, or haunts us, there’s power in assigning words to people, places, and things. We can see it unfolding right before our eyes with the current US administration renaming key landmarks. This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak to Deirdre Mask, the author of The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power. We learn about the history of attributing names and numbers to roads and houses, look at how important seemingly obvious innovations like zip codes are, and discuss the socio-political impact of things named after confederate leaders.
LAURA FLANDERS AND FRIENDS: Countering an Authoritarian Takeover with the Labor Movement: Alex Han & Tarso Ramos (00:28:00)
The United States is moving towards authoritarianism, but there is still a window of opportunity to reverse course. What could improve the chances of re-balancing power in the nation, and advancing towards that multiracial democracy that many still dream of? The answer is worker organizing, say Alex Han and Tarso Lus Ramos. “When we look at the history of U-turns from democratic backsliding to democratic revival, the success rate is about 50 percent,” says Ramos. “Where there’s active, vibrant union participation, the odds go up to about 80 percent.” So what’s holding Labor back? In early May of 2025, Laura sat down with Ramos and Han at a conference on Labor in the Age of Authoritarian Politics, held at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies (SLU) in New York. Ramos is a leading expert on the U.S. Right Wing and former Executive Director of Political Research Associates. He now serves as Senior Advisor to Future Currents, a strategic planning group of social and economic justice leaders. Han has spent most of his adult life in the labor movement, as an organizer and elected president of a large Chicago local. In 2023, he became Executive Director of In These Times, the long-running Chicago-based progressive magazine. In the wake of mass layoffs and the abduction of Kilmar Abrego Garca, a union member wrongly exported to El Salvador and now held in Tennessee, can enough workers and their allies band together to make a difference?
THE BOPST SHOW: In My Secret Life (00:55:00)
The Bopst Show, the critically acclaimed music radio show hosted by artist, musician, writer, DJ and founding member of GWAR, Chris Bopst, features a wide assortment of audio stimulations from a myriad of genres, eras and inspirations. On this week’s show, you’ll hear the keyboard driven aggression of the Stranglers, the skeletal folk of Johanna Samuels and the bluesy soul of O.V. Wright as well as tunes by Emilíana Torrini, Talisman and many others locked out of the nation’s largest terrestrial bandwidths.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
THE BRADCAST: 7/10/2025 Democracy is STILL Our Best Way Out of This Mess — And Republicans Know It (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: We are under a fascistic, authoritarian takeover of the United States, but our wannabe authoritarians also happen to be clowns and incompetent buffoons, and should be called out. Donald Trump marveled at the Liberian President’s excellent English, uninformed that English is the official language of Liberia. DHS Sec. Kristi Noem made absurd, false claims about victims of the Maui Fires as a pretext for dismantling FEMA. Native American tribes challenge an appeals court ruling maintaining racially discriminatory, gerrymandered voting maps. Texas Gov. Greg Abbot (R) called a special state legislative session to order a rare, mid-decade redrawing of the state’s voting maps in order to reduce minority voter participation. Plus Desi Doyen has our new ‘Green News Report.’
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
THURSDAY 07.10.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Thursday July 10, 2025
https://www.democracynow.org/shows
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: New campaign asks young people to help their parents recognize misinformation (00:01:30)
False claims about climate change are rampant on social media.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
RADIO ECOSHOCK: (00:58:00)
Three experts on extreme heat: Elizabeth Hanna, Robert Kopp and Jonathan Patz. Deadly heat in France, Spain and EU. The U.S. East Coast roasting over 100 degree F. in June. Around the world, people die and many more will be killed by heat in the future. But how does heat kill? and who? A compilation from the best of Radio Ecoshock.
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: What the Media is Getting Wrong about the Texas Disaster (00:58:00)
Guest-host Jefferson Smith of the Democracy Nerd Podcast sits in for Thom Hartmann explaining that Trump’s policies put Texas underwater. The flooding in Texas is not random, it is the result of Climate Change caused by deregulation – and by Trump’s policies that think billionaires getting one more percent is worth more than the people of Texas. Also callers share communication insights on how left and right can speak to each other without hostility.
RISING UP WITH SONALI – 2025-07-08 (00:58:30)
This week, well go to central Texas where catastrophic, climate-change driven flooding has claimed the lives of more than 100 people, including 30 children. My guests Sophia Mirto and Alexandra Haddix are local activists on the ground who are rapidly mobilizing mutual aid efforts. Then well turn to longtime labor activist Kent Wong of the UCLA Labor Center who will discuss the importance of reviving an age-old and effective tactic in the face of Trumps fascism: nonviolent direct action. Finally, well explore a powerful abolitionist program centering dance. My guests will be Suchi Branfman, Artistic Director of the group Dancing Through Prison Walls, and Forrest Reyes, a formerly incarcerated dancer who has been working in the program since 2020.
https://risingupwithsonali.com
LITERATURE ALOUD: Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman ch. 9 “Our Relations and Theirs” (00:31:15)
Herland is a utopian novel written in1915 by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman author of the famous and influential short story “The Yellow Wallpaper.” It describes the adventures and education of three men who land in an isolated and get schooled by a society comprised entirely of women who reproduce via asexual reproduction. Their matrifocal emphasis leads to an ideal social order, free of war, conflict and domination. It first appeared as a serial in Perkin’s monthly magazine Forerunner.
https://librivox.org/herland-by-charlotte-perkins-gilman
Text: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Herland
WINGS #13-25 Heroic Ukrainian Journalist (00:28:50)
Sevgil Musayeva is Editor-in-Chief of Ukrainska Pravda, Ukraine’s major online news source. In June 2025, she talked to Ursula Ruedenberg of the radio program Ukraine 242, about the life and death of a daring and committed freelance reporter, Victoria Roshchyna, who repeatedly crossed into Russian-occupied territory documenting rights violations. In 2022, she received an International Women’s Media Foundation Courage in Journalism Award. During her final trip, Victoria was captured, imprisoned and tortured. Her body was recently identified using DNA; her family still hopes to prove it is not hers. Her legacy inspires more journalists to follow her example. WARNING: Some of the facts are disturbingly grim.
THE BRADCAST: 7/9/2025 ‘Mass Shooter Subsidy’? Guest: Ryan Cooper of TAP on dumb, deadly stuff in Trump’s new spending law (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: Climate chaos continues unabated this week. First it was record deadly floods in Central Texas, then record deadly floods in North Carolina, then deadly flash-flooding in New Mexico. Chicago was also hit with flash floods. But few outlets mentioned climate change. RYAN COOPER of the American Prospect explains a new analysis finding climate-fueled disasters cost the U.S. nearly a trillion dollars last year. Cooper also delves into the many negative impacts of the Trump/GOP ‘senseless’ tax cut bill that contains many under-reported absurdities, and also guts much of Joe Biden’s historic climate and clean energy investments, harms the US economy, will trigger massive cuts to Medicare, and much more. Plus a fact-check of Trump’s ‘Cabinet Meeting Theater’, filled with ridiculous falsehoods on his massive spending bill, inflation, tariffs, energy, etc.
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
WEDNESDAY 07.09.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Wednesday July 9, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: How you can use a truth sandwich to fight climate misinformation (00:01:30)
Serve up facts first and last, with misinformation handled carefully in the middle.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
FOOD SLEUTH RADIO: Will Potter, investigative journalist and author of Little Red Bars: Hiding the Truth from Farm to Fable, will discuss ag-gag and other legislation designed to hide abuses in industrial livestock operations. (Part 1 of 2) (00:28:00)
Did you know that livestock abuse is widespread on factory farms? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn for her conversation with Will Potter, investigative journalist and author of Little Red Bars: Hiding the Truth from Farm to Fable. Potter will discuss ag-gag and other legislation designed to hide widespread abuses in industrial livestock operations and protect corporate profits. Potter explores the connections between food, agriculture, climate, social justice and civil rights. (Part 1 of 2)
Related Websites: https://www.willpotter.com/littleredbarns
https://foodsleuth.transistor.fm
THIS WAY OUT #1945: U.N.’s Crucial Queer Rights Vote & more global LGBTQ news! (00:28:59)
The U.N. Human Rights Council votes on an independent queer expert; fifty are arrested in Istanbul for attempted Pride, Chinas war on gay male erotica continues, Trump’s beautiful budget bill strangles benefits for women and trans youth, the U.S. Supreme Court takes more swipes at trans rights, trans sports bans race to the high court’s next session, and Australia’s Men’s Hockey Team dons rainbow sox to support their gay mate with Pride.
Those stories and more this week when you discover This Way Out.
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Prevention Rather Than Protection (00:58:00)
Guest-host Jefferson Smith of the Democracy Nerd Podcast sits in for Thom Hartmann What we can learn from the tragic historic flood disaster and loss of life. Jefferson is joined by his esteemed father Joe Smith for the popular news with my dad segment with a day full of news. A reflection on the tragedy of loss and the environmental impacts that are threatening us all.
CIVIC CIPHER: The Supreme Court Hands Additional Power to Trump (With Pineapple Lawyer Amy Owen) / Trump Discusses Deporting U.S. Born Citizens (00:59:00)
Today’s guest is Amy Owen – a Civil Rights Attorney that has worked major civil rights cases alongside Ben Crump. She is known for working alongside professional athletes, celebrities, and other high-profile individuals. Find her online as Pineapple lawyer. In the first half of the show, Amy discusses the new powers bestowed upon the Trump administration by the Supreme Court, as well as the limiting of the powers of the lower courts. We discuss the implications of this decision and what people can expect. In the second half of the show, we discuss the capacity of Trump to deport citizens of the United States, and the president’s new immigration facility in Florida known as Alligator Alcatraz.
LITERATURE ALOUD: Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman ch. 8 “The Girls of Herland” (00:31:42)
Herland is a utopian novel written in1915 by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman author of the famous and influential short story “The Yellow Wallpaper.” It describes the adventures and education of three men who land in an isolated and get schooled by a society comprised entirely of women who reproduce via asexual reproduction. Their matrifocal emphasis leads to an ideal social order, free of war, conflict and domination. It first appeared as a serial in Perkin’s monthly magazine Forerunner.
https://librivox.org/herland-by-charlotte-perkins-gilman
Text: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Herland
CHOOSE TO BE CURIOUS: Curiosity, Book Bans & Bad-Ass Librarians, with Diane Kresh (00:28:00)
What happens to intellectual freedom when libraries come under attack? What happens to curiosity?
Librarian and director of the Department of Libraries in Arlington, VA, Diane Kresh joins me to explore the long and storied history of bad-ass librarians, book bans and book sanctuaries, the “curiosity paradox” of such bans, what makes libraries a center for community, and how curiosity is like an insatiable puppy.
“The library can be a great refuge, if you will, for people who are questioning.” ~ Diane Kresh
THE BRADCAST: 7/8/2025 Guest: TPM’s Josh Kovensky on Trump supersizing ICE, mass detentions, militarization (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: Trump EPA chief Lee Zeldin placed 140 staffers on leave for signing a letter detailing concerns that the agency is undermining scientific facts and the agency’s mission. The corrupted rightwing U.S. Supreme Court supermajority allowed Donald Trump to move ahead with mass firings at critical federal agencies, subverting Congress’ authority. Federal ICE agents swarmed a nearly empty Los Angeles park in a performative intimidation stunt. Investigative journalist JOSH KOVENSKY of Talking Points Memo explains how the Trump/GOP budget-busting bill supersizes ICE’s budget to expand its power across the U.S., the ongoing threat of increased militarization, and what it means going forward for Americans’ civil liberties. Plus Desi Doyen has our new ‘Green News Report.’
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
TUESDAY 07.08.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Tuesday July 9, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Public art is providing relief from the heat in Cambridge, Massachusetts (00:01:30)
A shady installation in a park includes tree saplings that will one day provide additional cooling.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
ENCOURAGEMENTOLOGY:What If It’s Not a Setback but a Setup? Turning Roadblocks into Redirection (00:30:00)
On this show we’re asking: What if your setback isn’t the end of the road, but a setup for something greater? Too often, we treat failure like a stop sign – something to fear, avoid, or be ashamed of. But what if it’s actually a signpost pointing us toward a better path, one we couldn’t have seen without the detour? This week, were flipping the script on disappointment and getting curious about the hidden wisdom in rejection, reroutes, and redirections.
MAKING CONTACT: Decoding Algorithmic Racism with Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble (Encore) (00:29:00)
On this week’s episode, we dive into the hidden biases of the digital age with Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble, author of the groundbreaking book, Algorithms of Oppression. This show first aired in December 2024.
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Declaration of Independence Revisited (00:58:00)
For all the festivities around July 4, the nation’s founding document, the Declaration of Independence, actually depicts a wounded, fearful society, teetering on the brink of disaster. Sound familiar? Along with the ideals it expresses, the Declaration of Independence mourns for something people lost in 1776 ‘ and now, too. Texas flood disaster…FEMA, only for red states?
THE CHILDREN’S HOUR: Just Look Up (00:53:00)
Astronomy begins at home, just looking up and seeing what we see. The Kids Crew meet with Professor Raman Prinja, Head of Astronomy and Physics at University College in London. Professor Prinjas bookWonders of the Night Skydetails the many celestial sights we can see just by looking up at the sky after dark.
Exploring the universe and its wonders does not require a spaceship or even a telescope, but just by paying attention and looking up. Professor Raman Prinja, in conversation with the Kids Crew leads us on a journey through what sparked his own curiosity as a child. It was the moon.
We also learn about the incredibly rare circumstances that cause eclipses.
LITERATURE ALOUD: Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman ch. 7 “Our Growing Modesty” (00:24:28)
Herland is a utopian novel written in1915 by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman author of the famous and influential short story “The Yellow Wallpaper.” It describes the adventures and education of three men who land in an isolated and get schooled by a society comprised entirely of women who reproduce via asexual reproduction. Their matrifocal emphasis leads to an ideal social order, free of war, conflict and domination. It first appeared as a serial in Perkin’s monthly magazine Forerunner.
https://librivox.org/herland-by-charlotte-perkins-gilman
Text: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Herland
BOOM GODDESS RADIO #621: Nnenna Freelon (Rebroadcast) (00:28:11)
June is Black Music Month. This week we will rebroadcast a recent episode featuring Jennifer in conversation with Grammy nominated jazz musician Nnenna Freelon. Along for the ride as special co-host is Tom Coulson, host of the nationally syndicated jazz/blues music program “Full Moon Hacksaw”.
https://www.boomgoddessradio.com
THE BRADCAST: 7/7/2025 Texas Flooding Tragedy Was Both Predictable and Predicted (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: The July Fourth holiday weekend brought grim news for the nation. The Republican-controlled Congress narrowly passed Donald Trump’s big ugly budget bill that guts health care and food assistance for millions; super-sizes ICE into an army; kills landmark climate and clean energy investments that generated a U.S. manufacturing boom; and increases the national debt by $3 trillion, all to pay for a $4 trillion in tax cuts for the wealthy. In Central Texas, a record storm generated historic flash flooding that has killed more than 104 people. We detail the confirmed facts of this historic tragedy as the blame game is already underway, the accuracy of National Weather Service alerts amid steep staffing cuts, and much more as man-made climate change intensifies extreme weather disasters
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
MONDAY 07.07.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Monday July 7, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: How the midnight sun is helping displace fossil fuels in a remote Arctic community (00:01:30)
Colville Lake now gets 15% of its electricity annually from solar power.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
WHEN THE BIOMASS HITS THE WIND TURBINE #57: Raising Naturally Healthy Pets (00:29:38)
Pets often become part of the family. And people pay an amazing amount of money on special foods, vet care, and gadgets in the hopes of keeping their pet healthy and happy. Yet many of these efforts do more harm than good. How can you keep your pet in top form, while still being kind to the animal as well as the planet?
Basic healing principle
Healing Process
Healing space
Feeding
Diet (Raw Food)
VitaSupp
Foods to avoid
Bathing
Grooming
Entertainment
Bach Remedies
Some Common Problems
Respiratory
Allergies
Ear Mites
Ring Worm
Mange
Older Pets
End of Life
https://bluerockstation.podbean.com
ECONOMIC UPDATE: How Deep ‘Fascist’ Parallels Run (00:29:00)
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff, responding to requests, explores the parallels between what led to the rise of Hitler and fascism in Germany after World War I and what has brought the US to Trump and his current policies. Many key basic parallels are presented alongside some remaining differences that help explain why what Trump is doing is not yet what a fully formed US fascism would entail.
https://economicupdate.libsyn.com
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Will Moderates and Progressives Heal the Rift for Democracy? (00:58:00)
Guest-host Jefferson Smith of the Democracy Nerd Podcast sits in for Thom Hartmann considering whether the surprising primary win in New York bodes well for Democratic gains. Moderates ring in with spirited push-back and an old friend from the bus project gets Jeff emotional in remembrance.
SPIRIT IN ACTION: Finding Happy with Peter Samuelson, the Crescendo – Part 2 (00:55:00)
This week is the conclusion of our visit with the amazing & inspirational Peter Samuelson about his new book, Finding Happy: A User’s Guide to Your Life, With Lessons From Mine. You’ll laugh, cry, gasp, pray, & get wiser though all the stories, insights, & lessons that Peter shares. In addition to the 27 movies he has produced (Revenge of the Nerds, Finding Henri, Wilde and Tom & Viv, etc.), Peter has founded 8 non-profits to improve the lives of so very many people through the work of Starlight Children’s Foundation (https://www.starlight.org), First Star Academies(https://www.firststar.org), EDAR (https://www.edar.org) (Everyone Deserves A Roof), & more. Peter Samuelson joins us from Los Angeles. Past/present religious/spiritual influences: Jewish
LITERATURE ALOUD: Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman ch. 6 “Comparisons Are Odious” (00:24:28)
Herland is a utopian novel written in1915 by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman author of the famous and influential short story “The Yellow Wallpaper.” It describes the adventures and education of three men who land in an isolated and get schooled by a society comprised entirely of women who reproduce via asexual reproduction. Their matrifocal emphasis leads to an ideal social order, free of war, conflict and domination. It first appeared as a serial in Perkin’s monthly magazine Forerunner.
https://librivox.org/herland-by-charlotte-perkins-gilman
Text: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Herland
GREEN STREET with PATTI and DOUG WOOD: The Tiny Building Blocks of Climate Change with Dr. Tyler Volk (00:29:00)
This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about a proposed new law in Louisiana prohibiting people living in Cancer Alley from participating in citizen science” by collecting their own air samples using inexpensive air monitors, and the publication of a new international study confirming the carcinogenicity of the popular pesticide glyphosate (Round-Up). Then author, climate scientist, biologist, and biosphere expert Dr. Tyler Volk talks about the tiny molecules that are actually causing all of our climate trouble.
https://www.greenstreetnews.org
THE BRADCAST: 6/26/2025 Encore: Heather Digby Parton of Salon, ‘Driftglass’ of ‘Pro Left Podcast’ on the politics of NYC’s Mayoral primary, more (00:58:00)
Encore: original airdate 6-26-2025. On today’s ‘BradCast’: We wrap up another absurdly overstuffed news week, on another absurdly busy news day, with OG bloggers HEATHER DIGBY PARTON of Salon and ‘DRIFTGLASS’ of the ‘Professional Left Podcast’ to discuss as much of the insanity as we can stuff into an hour. We tackle Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani’s upset victory over disgraced former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic mayoral primary in NYC, which triggered racist attacks from Republicans, and the potential for ‘generational change’ in the Democratic Party. We delve into Donald Trump’s bombing of Iran, his ICE assaults on undocumented workers, the Trump/GOP massive tax cut bill that steals trillions from the poor to give to the rich, and much more. Plus Desi Doyen has our new ‘Green News Report.’
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
SUNDAY 07.06.25 PROGRAM Notes
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RADIO 2050 Episode #93: Human Stories (00:58:00)
In this conversation, John Green discusses his journey as a writer, his new book about tuberculosis, and the importance of human stories in understanding complex issues. He explores the systemic problems surrounding diseases, the cultural myths and stigmas associated with tuberculosis, and the challenge of writing about such topics while keeping the human experience at the forefront. Green emphasizes the role of collective will in addressing pandemics and shares his perspective on finding hope amidst despair.
https://radioparadise.com/radio2050
EARTH RIOT RADIO: Friends, Fascism and Forests (00:29:00)
We look into a friends eye. What is really there? Look deeply, checking for virtualities, pixels, AI. Then ask the friend to save your life. 90 corporate jets, belonging to friends of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez, are landing in Venice for the wedding. They might lose their way and fly to Gaza, where children wait on the runways, surround the planes, and tear the billionaires from their jets eating them alive. With each bite, the children encourage the trees of Gaza, which are laughing underground. (Trees remain in Gaza in the form of roots.)
BARNABY DRUTHERS: Barnaby Druthers: The Wreck of the SS Pinnacle (00:27:00)
The latest episode! After the SS Pinnacle wrecked while attempting to travel the passage between Deadman’s Lighthouse and the shore, Barnaby Druthers and Harper Thorne investigate the cause of the crash.
https://www.barnabydruthers.com
Best of ATTITUDE with ARNIE ARNESEN July 5, 2025 (00:59:30)
Segment One
We begin the show with Timothy Robert Noah, staff writer for The New Republic. We discuss the erosion of Democracy, and the growth of oligarchy in the US. How did we get here? How can this be reversed?
Segment Two
We then sit with Larry Beinhart, an American novelist, columnist, and blogger. His principal concerns are the US economy and politics, taxes, and rising inequality. We discuss the BBB, which imposes a tax on wind and solar power, and how this affect the development of sustainable power generation and use. We also discuss the effect of marginal tax rates, and how these change the economic development of the US.
https://www.arniearnesen.org/WP
BACKGROUND BRIEFING with IAN MASTERS July 6, 2025 (00:59:00)
Trump Gets Stiffed Again by His Idol Putin as China Admits It Wants the Ukraine War to Drag on to Keep the US and NATO Out of Asia | Trump Says he Expects to Close a Ceasefire Deal Between Israel and Hamas Next Week | Trump as a Man of the Past as Zombie Neoliberalism and Neoconservatism Comeback From the Dead.
https://www.backgroundbriefing.org
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR: Letting Go Of Nothing: Relax Your Mind & Discover the Wonder of Your True Nature with Peter Russell (00:59:00)
Peter Russell has degrees in theoretical physics, psychology and computer science from the University of Cambridge where he studied with Stephen Hawking. He studied meditation and Eastern philosophy in India, and he’s the author of several books, including From Science to God, and Global Brain in which he predicted the internet and the impact it would have on humanity. His latest book is Letting Go of Nothing: Relax Your Mind and Discover the Wonder of Your True Nature.
DEEP DIVE CYBERSECURITY SHOW: Americans Prepare for Terror Attacks, Big Tech & The Military Cozy Up, & the US Now Has A Citizenship Database (00:58:45)
So much insane news, we are doing THREE Deep Dives this week:
-Thanks to Trump bombing Iran, we need to prepare for terror attacks at home.
-Big Tech & the US military are closer than ever, which is of serious concern
-Trump now has a Citizenship database and they’ve sorted it by naturalized versus born to citizens.
This is all deeply concerning for the future of the USA.
Do not miss this one.
SATURDAY 07.05.25 PROGRAM Notes
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TECHTONIC with MARK HURST: Compulsory Surveillance and Other Threats (00:59:30)
Surveillance tech is now deeply woven into daily life. Mattel toys has new embedded AI. ICE agents use handheld facial recognition to ID anyone in their field of vision. Google is spying even more on you. And Musks rocket parts rain down on Mexico.
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: Can One Have Meat and a Conscience? (00:59:41)
The right wing is heavily invested in the meat industry. After all, it has the essential components: dominance, violence, destruction of the planet. In his new provocative book: The Omnivores Deception: What We Get Wrong About Meat, Animals, and Ourselves, my guest author Professor John Sanbonmatsu reveals the surprising link between slavery and the meat culture. For a number of reasons, he argues the urgency is now. This is more important than you might think.
AGING MATTERS: Library Resources (00:58:00)
Because older adults are living longer, they are staying physically active and finding mentally stimulating endeavors to keep their brains healthy. Librarians across the country are identifying new ways for libraries to empower older adults with engaging programs and services. Suzanne Lapierre, Virginia Room Librarian, Fairfax County Virginia Public Library, talks about innovative programs and services being developed by libraries to meet diverse characteristics and circumstances of older adults,
https://www.ala.org/advocacy/diversity/librariesrespond/services-older-adults
GROWING GREENER: A New Guide for Helping Your Native Plant Garden Adapt to a Changing Climate (00:29:00)
Jenica Allen and Matt Fertakos of Northeast RISCC describe the invaluable free online guide they helped to create that provides all a gardener needs to know about selecting native plants that will flourish not only today but also persist as the local climate changes.
https://www.thomaschristophergardens.com
TUC RADIO: The JFK Assassination and the Gangster Nature of the State, Michael Parenti (ONE of TWO) (00:29:00)
Parenti criticizes the lone assassin theory, goes over details of the murder and addresses the bitter question that haunts so many, whether government agencies of a democratic country participated in the assassination of an elected President. This is one of Parentis most highly acclaimed talks, ending with a standing ovation. He spoke on the 30th anniversary of the assassination in Berkeley, CA. When Oliver Stones movie JFK opened in December 1991 a huge PR campaign was mobilized against the film. Even progressives spoke out. Noam Chomsky wrote in support of the Warren Commissions lone assassin findings. In contrast Michael Parenti supported Stone and began by examining what he calls the gangster nature of the state. An extended text of this talk can be found in Parenti’s book:
Dirty Truths, published by City Lights in 1996.
THE BOPST SHOW: Class War (00:55:00)
The Bopst Show, the critically acclaimed music radio show hosted by artist, musician, writer, DJ and founding member of GWAR, Chris Bopst, features a wide assortment of audio stimulations from a myriad of genres, eras and inspirations. On this week’s show, you’ll hear the French pop of Les Rita Mitsouko, hip hop legends Public Enemy, and vocal trio the McGuire Sisters as well as music by Israel Vibration, Herbie Mann & Tamiko Jones and many others locked out of the nation’s largest terrestrial bandwidths.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
RALPH NADER RADIO HOUR #591 (00:58:00)
Parenti criticizes the lone assassin theory, goes over details of the murder and addresses the bitter question that haunts so many, whether government agencies of a democratic country participated in the assassination of an elected President. This is one of Parentis most highly acclaimed talks, ending with a standing ovation. He spoke on the 30th anniversary of the assassination in Berkeley, CA. When Oliver Stone’s movie JFK opened in December 1991 a huge PR campaign was mobilized against the film. Even progressives spoke out. Noam Chomsky wrote in support of the Warren Commissions lone assassin findings. In contrast Michael Parenti supported Stone and began by examining what he calls the gangster nature of the state.
An extended text of this talk can be found in Parenti’s book: Dirty Truths, published by City Lights in 1996.
https://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com
FRIDAY 07.04.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Friday July 4, 2025
https://www.democracynow.org/shows
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: The Arctic is getting louder, and whales are paying the price (00:01:30)
Melting ice brings more ships and industrial activity, interfering with how whales communicate and behave.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
THE LABOR HERITAGE POWER HOUR: Class, Power, and Primetime (00:55:00)
Cultural critic Kathleen M. Newman joins Chris Garlock to unpack how class, power, and work are portrayed in three hit TV series: The Residence, Running Point, and Your Friends and Neighbors. From the White House to pro sports to suburban secrets, these shows pull back the curtain on the invisible labor that makes elite worlds run – and the messy lives behind the glamour. Plus, what happens when working-class characters finally get their own stories?
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: From the Belly of the Beast (00:58:00)
Guest Host Jefferson Smith dives deep into the lie of the Trump’s legislation agenda – buried in a 1000 page spending bill – with progressive Congressman Mark Pocan.
SEA CHANGE RADIO: Andrew Kaminsky: Dont Mine If I Do (00:29:00)
One of the powers that we have as consumers is to vote with our dollars, or exercise our right to choose one brand over another. Boycotts and other awareness campaigns can pressure a company to conduct business differently. An area where consumers do not generally have that power is mining. Mining operates with little direct business-to-consumer transactions, and with minimal transparency. This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with Andrew Kaminsky, a journalist for Triple Pundit, to learn more about the mining industry. We look at the environmental impacts of extracting various minerals, discuss how mining companies are changing the way they operate, and examine a promising model in Canada where mining companies are partnering with indigenous communities in the region.
LAURA FLANDERS AND FRIENDS: Marsha P. Johnsons Queer Legacy Lives On: Tourmaline & Qween Jean on Trans Liberation (00:28:00)
Activist and artist Marsha P. Johnson was one of the key founders of the gay liberation movement after the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, but it’s taken years for her to receive recognition. On this special Pride Month edition of Meet the BIPOC Press, were celebrating Marsha’s life and legacy with two activists carrying her story forward. A new biography from Penguin House, Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson by our guest, Tourmaline traces Marsha’s working-class beginnings to her work with sex workers and street activists, to her death in 1992. Qween Jean is a self-described spiritual daughter of Marsha and the founder of Black Trans Liberation. Explore how mainstream media coverage once excluded Marsha, and whats changed since then. We also unpack the media’s coverage of transphobia and the recent ruling from Tennessee that restricts gender-affirming care for minors. In the face of extreme backlash and repression, how are artists and activists reframing media narratives for queer and trans liberation?
THE BOPST SHOW: Class War (00:55:59)
The Bopst Show, the critically acclaimed music radio show hosted by artist, musician, writer, DJ and founding member of GWAR, Chris Bopst, features a wide assortment of audio stimulations from a myriad of genres, eras and inspirations. On this week’s show, you’ll hear the French pop of Les Rita Mitsouko, hip hop legends Public Enemy, and vocal trio the McGuire Sisters as well as music by Israel Vibration, Herbie Mann & Tamiko Jones and many others locked out of the nation’s largest terrestrial bandwidths.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
THE BRADCAST: 7/3/2025 Encore: ‘The Nation’s John Nichols on Zohran Mandani’s NYC Democratic mayoral primary win (00:58:00) Encore: original airdate 6-25-2-025. On today’s ‘BradCast’: Donald Trump’s and Congressional Republicans’ massive, deficit-exploding budget reconciliation bill remains wildly unpopular with the public. It adds $3 trillion to the national debt while gutting healthcare, food assistance, clean energy, and more to fund $4 trillion in tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. The Senate Parliamentarian rejected some items on Republicans’ wish list, including a massive auction of public lands. The Trump Administration moved to repeal the landmark ‘Roadless Rule’ protecting our national forests. In New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, progressive Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani won a huge victory over disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo. The Nation’s JOHN NICHOLS discusses Mamdani’s campaign and stunning win, what it means for the Big Apple, and potential lessons for the Democratic Party and progressive politics going forward.
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
THURSDAY 07.03.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Thursday July 3, 2025
https://www.democracynow.org/shows
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Climate change could take a bite out of the banana industry (00:01:30)
The ideal places to grow them could get too hot for the fruit.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
RADIO ECOSHOCK: Hot And Polluted Episodes (00:58:00)
Breaking climate news: hot humid heat domes over Eastern North America, UK, and Europe. Scientist Michael Mann blames changed planetary waves. Gabriele Messori, Uppsala University: whiplash combined climate hazards increasing. Body’s heat tolerance lower than we were told. Dr. Daniel Vecellio on Greatly enhanced risk to humans as humid heat stress strikes billions of people sooner than expected (repeat interview).
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: By What Other Monikers Could We Label this Brutal Billionaire Bill? (00:57:59)
Guest-host Jefferson Smith of the Democracy Nerd Podcast sits in for Thom Hartmann shares insights on the horrendous legislation just passed by the Senate. Listeners compete with ideas for the worst name to describe the most destructive bill imaginable that looms over passage.
RISING UP WITH SONALI – 2025-07-01 (00:58:31)
This week, well examine Zohran Mamdanis stunning victory for the Democratic nomination for New York city mayor. My guest will be Roots Action senior advisor India Walton, who won a primary for mayor of Buffalo, New York four years ago on a platform of democratic socialism, and Fatima Iqbal-Zubair, who is running for a Californias State Assembly seat, also on a democratic socialist platform. Then, well turn to Ron Gochez of Union del Barrio, about how community self defense groups in Los Angeles are resisting ICE raids. Finally, Trevor Smith and Emi Aguilar from BLIS Collective share the results of a new study on linking narratives around reparations and Land Back.
https://risingupwithsonali.com
LITERATURE ALOUD: Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman ch.5 “A Unique History” (00:30:10)
Herland is a utopian novel written in1915 by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman author of the famous and influential short story “The Yellow Wallpaper.” It describes the adventures and education of three men who land in an isolated and get schooled by a society comprised entirely of women who reproduce via asexual reproduction. Their matrifocal emphasis leads to an ideal social order, free of war, conflict and domination. It first appeared as a serial in Perkin’s monthly magazine Forerunner.
https://librivox.org/herland-by-charlotte-perkins-gilman
Text: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Herland
WINGS # 12-25 Major Hindu Goddesses (00:28:47)
The guests tell the history of the consolidation of Indian village goddesses into major Hindu goddesses, sing their songs, and explain the names, symbols, and character of India’s major goddesses today
THE BRADCAST: 7/2/2025 Encore: Dr. Brooke Nichols on More Than 300,000 Dead Since Musk, Trump Shutdown of USAID (00:58:00)
Encore: original airdate 6-4-2025. On today’s ‘BradCast’: The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that Donald Trump’s and Congressional Republicans’ massive budget bill would increase the deficit by $2.4 trillion and cut off health care and food nutrition for up to 14 million low-income Americans, all to pay for huge tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. So naturally the Trump White House and GOP attacked the CBO. Conservative columnist David Brooks compared Elon Musk to genocidal dictators over the 300,000 people who have died globally since Musk’s DOGE dismantled the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Dr. BROOKE NICHOLS of Boston University explains her meticulous database documenting the stunning tally of preventable deaths around the world caused by Trump’s foreign aid shutdown, how it harms Americans here at home, the ‘broken trust’ the U.S. is now facing with other nations, and much more.
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
WEDNESDAY 07.02.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Wednesday July 2, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Newton, Massachusetts, project turns flood problem into pollinator paradise (00:01:30)
With underground tanks and native vegetation, Cheesecake Brook is getting a climate-ready upgrade.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
FOOD SLEUTH RADIO: Pamela Miller, MS, Founder and Executive Director of Alaska Community Action on Toxics (00:28:00)
Did you know that people living in arctic regions have some of the highest body burdens of toxic chemicals? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn for her conversation with Pamela Miller, MS, Founder and Executive Director of Alaska Community Action on Toxics and Co-Chair of the International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN). Miller discusses the unique food system, climate and environmental toxin challenges faced by those living in Alaska and the broader Arctic region.
Related Websites: www.akaction
https://foodsleuth.transistor.fm
THIS WAY OUT #1944: Marval A Rex’s Big Dad Energy & global LGBTQ news! (00:28:59)
Trans masculine comedian Marval Rex stands up for Big Dad Energy; hundreds of thousands defy Orban to Pride Parade in Budapest, seventy-five people are arrested at an Indonesian gay party, a high court in India rules that trans women are legally women, the U.S. Supreme Court lets parents opt kids out of queer-related lessons but backs insurance coverage for PReP, and a guerrilla theater Pride show at the Kennedy Center trolls Trump.
Those stories and more this week when you choose This Way Out.
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: U.S. Senate Rewards the Bloated Rich by Passing Poverty Inducing Bill (00:58:00)
Guest-host Jefferson Smith of the Democracy Nerd Podcast sits in for Thom Hartmann as the Senate passes the most devastatingly destructive bill that will incapacitate the citizenry while rewarding the already bloated rich. Jeff’s dad Joe Smith joins the show celebrating his 90th birthday with the popular segment News with My Dad.
CIVIC CIPHER: Millions Racially Reclassified by U.S. Census with Asian Soph / Right-Wing Plants in Left-Wing Demonstrations (00:59:00)
Today’s guest is a social media influencer and activist that goes by the name of Asian Soph found online at the handle @asian_soph or @MixedPresent. She speaks on and organizes around the mixed BIPOC/multiracial experience in the United States. In the first half of the show, Soph talks us through the changes made to the racial classification system at the U.S. Census and the implications of the move. We discuss who is affected, and the potential reasons behind the change. In the second half of the show, Soph discusses recent protests in LA, as well as how outliers, infiltrators, and plants can/do shift the optics of otherwise largely peaceful protests.
LITERATURE ALOUD: Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman ch.4 “Our Venture” (00:26:24)
Herland is a utopian novel written in1915 by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman author of the famous and influential short story “The Yellow Wallpaper.” It describes the adventures and education of three men who land in an isolated and get schooled by a society comprised entirely of women who reproduce via asexual reproduction. Their matrifocal emphasis leads to an ideal social order, free of war, conflict and domination. It first appeared as a serial in Perkin’s monthly magazine Forerunner.
https://librivox.org/herland-by-charlotte-perkins-gilman
Text: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Herland
CHOOSE TO BE CURIOUS: Curiosity in Translation & Interpretation, with Silvia Villacampa (00:28:00)
This week’s conversation is about curiosity in translation and interpretation. Not just the literal, “how do you say this thing in that language?” but how do we use our curiosity to communicate our ideas effectively, to investigate what’s really being said when we’re quite literally not speaking one another’s language. Luckily, there are people like Silvia Villacampa who have a few things to teach the rest of us… “In the moment, the curiosity must be around the culture of both parties, both speakers. Culture is language, language is culture. It’s all intertwined.” ~ Silvia Villacampa
THE BRADCAST: 7/1/2025 Encore: ‘Anti-War’ Trump Attacks a Iran on false WMD claims; Guest: Rolling Stone’s Andrew Perez (00:58:00)
Encore: original airdate 6-23-2025. On today’s ‘BradCast’: Donald Trump ordered missile strikes on three nuclear sites in Iran, but his administration has offered no actual evidence to suggest that Iran was even close to building a nuclear weapon, the pretext for Saturday’s attack. The situation is disturbingly similar to the last time a Republican president entangled the U.S. in a ‘Forever War’ in the Middle East based on known lies about ‘weapons of mass destruction.’ Iran retaliated with a targeted attack on a US air base in Qatar. ANDREW PEREZ of Rolling Stone discusses his new reporting on the dearth of evidence to justify the administration’s strikes on Iran, Trump’s sudden decision to bomb Iran while trying to negotiate a new nuclear deal with them, and much more. Callers weigh in.
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
TUESDAY 07.01.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Tuesday July 1, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Extreme heat could threaten human health on a massive scale (00:01:30)
If the world warms 1.8 degrees F more, dangerous heat waves could plague an area the size of the U.S.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
ENCOURAGEMENTOLOGY: Find Your Voice – Without the Guilt Trip (00:30:00)
On this show, were talking about what it really means to find your voice – without dragging along the guilt trip. Maybe you’ve been biting your tongue, nodding when you mean to shake your head, or saying sure when every fiber of your being is screaming no! Sound familiar? You’re not alone. So many of us, especially the people-pleasers and peacekeepers of the world, have been taught to smooth things over rather than speak up. But here’s the thing – your voice matters, and your truth deserves airtime.
MAKING CONTACT: What does a Latino version of “The Bear” taste like? (00:29:00)
On this week’s show, we explore Latino food and culture in Chicago’s historic Pilsen neighborhood and hear about how food can bring communities together. We tag along with the podcast In Confianza with Pulso as they try to answer the question: what does a Latino version of the tv show “The Bear” taste like?
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Solutions (00:58:00)
As Republicans fight it out to make us all live with their solution to making the very rich extraordinarily rich- what solutions can the Democratic party bring to support the lives of the rest of us? Guest host Jefferson Smith proudly helms the discussion.
THE CHILDREN’S HOUR: Patriotism & Leadership (00:53:00)
What does the Pledge of Allegiance really mean? And what makes someone a great leader? On this episode of The Children’s Hour, we explore patriotism and leadership with bilingual eighth graders from Washington Middle School and fourth graders from Adobe Acres Elementary in Albuquerque. These students share powerful insights about what it means to love your country, and why some people protest the pledge while others embrace it.
LITERATURE ALOUD: Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman ch. 3 “A Peculiar Imprisonment” (00:27:23)
Herland is a utopian novel written in1915 by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman author of the famous and influential short story “The Yellow Wallpaper.” It describes the adventures and education of three men who land in an isolated and get schooled by a society comprised entirely of women who reproduce via asexual reproduction. Their matrifocal emphasis leads to an ideal social order, free of war, conflict and domination. It first appeared as a serial in Perkin’s monthly magazine Forerunner.
https://librivox.org/herland-by-charlotte-perkins-gilman
Text: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Herland
BOOM GODDESS RADIO #621: Nnenna Freelon (Rebroadcast) (00:28:11)
June is Black Music Month. This week we will rebroadcast a recent episode featuring Jennifer in conversation with Grammy nominated jazz musician Nnenna Freelon. Along for the ride as special co-host is Tom Coulson, host of the nationally syndicated jazz/blues music program “Full Moon Hacksaw”.
https://www.boomgoddessradio.com
THE BRADCAST: 6/30/2025 Encore: Former WH budget adviser Bobby Kogan on the deadly Trump/GOP big, bad budget bill (00:58:00)
Encore: original airdate 6-19-2025. On today’s ‘BradCast’: The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate released their draft of Donald Trump’s so-called ‘One Big Beautiful Bill,’ which calls for deep cuts to Medicaid and SNAP food assistance for millions of low-income and disabled Americans, and guts clean energy incentives for households and businesses, to pay for a $4 trillion tax cut for the richest Americans — all while increasing the national debt by $3 trillion. BOBBY KOGAN, former Biden-Harris White House budget advisor, explains the many negative impacts of the Republicans’ reverse Robin Hood bill, and actions to help stop it from passing. Trump’s travel ban from 19 countries is preventing sick children from receiving life-saving medical care. Plus Desi Doyen has our new ‘Green News Report.’
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675