SATURDAY 05.31.25 PROGRAM Notes
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TECHTONIC with MARK HURST: Surveillance scholar Chris Gilliard on Facebooks spy glasses (00:59:30)
Meta has announced a new feature for its Ray-Ban-replica surveillance glasses: they will soon use facial recognition to ID anyone standing nearby. Chris Gilliard returns to discuss the latest horror from Mark Zuckerberg – and how to resist.
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: It’s Not the Kids, Its the Foster Care System That’s Damaged (00:59:22)
Society would rather not see them. Like people in prison, the foster care system makes hundreds of thousands of kids invisible. And the system is doing them great damage for life. On this show, author and foster care, juvenile justice, and public education reporter and editorial board member of the Seattle Times, Claudia Rowe sheds light into this intentionally hidden subject in her new book Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care. The system makes kids disconnected, all bonds severed. She calls what she has personally witnessed a foster care-to-prison pipeline.
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
AGING MATTERS: Aging Well (00:58:00)
Older people are invigorating our society as they live longer, healthier lives. Yet most Americans hold deeply negative views about aging – so much so that they avoid serious conversations about what it means to grow old in a youth-centric society. Sara Margolin, PhD, Associate Professor, SUNY Brockport, and Author, Psychology of Aging: A Concise Exploration, talks about falsehoods and myths perpetuated about aging, and the positive aspects of the aging process.
https://www.agingmattersonline.com
GROWING GREENER: Who’s Promoting the Spread of Invasive Plants? (00:29:00)
Dr. Eve Beaury’s research reveals the outsize role American gardeners still play in supporting the propagation and spread of plants that are known to be invasive.
https://www.thomaschristophergardens.com
TUC RADIO: Today is day 585 of genocide. Prof. Noura Erakat’s Urgent Plea at the United Nations
(00:29:00)
The United Nations are commemorating the violent expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and land in 1948 to make room for the state of Israel. Noura Erakat is a Palestinian human rights lawyer and Rutgers University professor. In her address she focused on the ongoing campaign of genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. As trained lawyer Erakat confronts the narrative that frames this as, quote, War. This is not a legal controversy, she says, there is no question that this is genocide; it is a political controversy. And she urged the nations who filled the auditorium to break their silence. Before presenting her remarks at the United Nations, here is a clip from a recent interview on Democracy Now, where Noura Erakat is a frequent guest. Amy Goodman asked her about her diagnosis that the U.S. backed war on Palestine is expanding authoritarianism at home, right here – inside the U.S. with a boomerang effect.
THE BOPST SHOW: Fight The Power (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 legendary Canadian power trio NOMEANSNO, hip hop innovators Public Enemy, and modern Sudanese vibe merchants Noori & The Dorpa Band as well as tunes by Ornette Coleman, Zoe Muth, and many others locked out of the nation’s largest terrestrial bandwidths.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
RALPH NADER RADIO HOUR #586 (00:58:00)
We hear from citizen activist, Diana Kastenbaum, who organized a town meeting in her congressional district in Western New York State filled with both Democrats and Republicans airing their concerns. How did the districts representative respond? Well hear the whole story. Then, Ralph welcomes back Washington Post tech reporter, Geoffrey Fowler, to discuss his latest report about how Meta promised parents it would automatically shield teens from harmful content. Find out what happened when Mr. Fowler and a group of Gen Z users put that promise to the test. Plus, we hear from RootsAction.org director Norman Solomon about the petition his group and Progressive Democrats of America sent to the DNC for an emergency meeting challenging how the party elites are responding to the authoritarian creep of the Trump Administration. Finally, Ralph calls for listeners to flood the White House switchboard to exhort the Administration to end the indiscriminate slaughter in Gaza.
https://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/
FRIDAY 05.30.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Friday May 30, 2025
https://www.democracynow.org/shows
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Dynamic glass can help buildings stay cool (00:01:30)
After the Dallas airport installed dynamic glass windows, surface temperatures near the windows dropped 15 degrees F.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
THE LABOR HERITAGE POWER HOUR: Set Their Hearts on Fire (00:53:36)
Art doesn’t just reflect the movement – it shapes it. Chattanooga-based artist Tabitha Arnold talks with comics artist and organizer Michael DeForge about how art fuels organizing, the tension between creativity and capitalism, and the quiet revolution of caring for one another. They explore how illustration becomes agitation, and why even a bird on the moon might carry a message of resistance. Then in part two of our conversation with artist and movement strategist Ricardo Levins Morales, he reflects on lessons from the road, the forest, and the picket line. From hitchhiking as a radical teen to defusing activist conflict, Morales offers a deeply rooted vision for organizing that centers healing, clarity, and a commitment to winning. He unpacks the difference between messaging and truth-telling, the power of a second graders sense of justice, and the trickster wisdom we need to navigate today’s challenges. Plus: Labor History in 2:00 remembers a powerful day of solidarity in 1946 New York, and a brand-new song from the Dropkick Murphys.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Are Ukrainian Civilians Being Targeted by Robo-Monsters? (00:58:00)
Am I getting this right? You are allowed to break the law only if you are loyal to Trump. Russia is now mocking Trump – How is this going to play? Veteran War Correspondent in Kyiv, Ukraine & host of the ‘On the Edge’ podcast, Phil Ittner reports that Russia’s drone assaults are getting more vicious against civilians.
SEA CHANGE RADIO: Gustav Peebles: Not Just Banking, Carbon Banking (00:29:00)
Have you ever thought about how random it seems that gold is worth, well, its weight in gold? This week’s guest on Sea Change Radio, Gustav Peebles, is an anthropologist and monetary policy expert at Stockholm University. He has not only wondered about the way human beings assign value to a particular element on the periodic table, he has pondered what it would look like if we applied precious valuation to an element that really matters for our own survival, like atmospheric carbon. In his new book, co-written with Benjamin Luzzatto, The First and Last Bank: Climate Change, Currency, and a New Carbon Commons, Peebles lays out a novel, scalable way not to just dole out carbon credits, but to actually monetize the conservation of carbon waste. We discuss the fundamentals of a possible carbon banking system, and talk through just how such a concept might roll out.
LAURA FLANDERS AND FRIENDS: Behind the Barricades at Columbia University: The Encampments for Gaza (00:28:00)
With sold-out debut screenings in New York, the timely new documentary The Encampments brings viewers into the Columbia University encampments and captures the spirit of the student protests ” without the media spin we see so often in commercial reporting. Presented by Watermelon Pictures and BreakThrough News, the film has ignited conversations about Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, the nationwide crackdown on student dissent, and the medias failures in this moment. Among the voices featured in the film are Mahmoud Khalil, a student negotiator who was illegally arrested and is currently detained by ICE and now faces deportation. In this special episode of the series we call Meet the BIPOC Press, Laura sits down with Sueda Polat and Grant Miner, two of Khalil’s colleagues in the encampments, both of whom were suspended and expelled, respectively, as well as the films co-director, journalist Kei Pritsker, to discuss how the film came to be, and where the situation stands today. All that, plus a commentary from Laura on Columbia University’s move to suspend four college journalists being too close to the action.
THE BOPST SHOW: Fight The Power (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 legendary Canadian power trio NOMEANSNO, hip hop innovators Public Enemy, and modern Sudanese vibe merchants Noori & The Dorpa Band as well as tunes by Ornette Coleman, Zoe Muth, and many others locked out of the nation’s largest terrestrial bandwidths.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
THE BRADCAST: 5/29/2025 Encore: Constitutional law expert Justin Levitt on court ruling blocking use of Voting Rights Act by voter (00:58:00)
Encore: original airdate 5-19-2025. On today’s ‘BradCast’: At a UK concert, rock legend Bruce Springsteen sounded the alarm about attacks on democracy in America and around the world, calling on everyone to ‘raise your voices against authoritarianism,’ which triggered a Donald Trump freakout on social media. In Romania’s presidential election, a centrist candidate soundly defeated a far-right Trump clone who, like Trump, is baselessly claiming ‘fraud.’ Congressional Republicans advance massive deficit-exploding bill that drastically cuts health care and nutrition assistance for the poor to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy. The corrupted U.S. Supreme Court temporarily blocked Trump from restarting deportations under the Alien Enemies Act. JUSTIN LEVITT of Loyola University Law School explains a terrible, troubling new appeals court ruling that has effectively eliminated the ability to challenge racially discriminatory election laws under the Voting Rights Act, what happens next, and what can be done to defend and restore voting rights.
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
THURSDAY 05.29.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Thursday May 29, 2025
https://www.democracynow.org/shows
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Extreme weather could cause more disruptions to Chicago public transit (00:01:30)
To address flooded train stations and unshaded hot bus stops, public transit will need infrastructure investments to keep up with climate change.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
RADIO ECOSHOCK: Heat Surge (00:58:00)
What is behind the strange burst of heat around the world + crazy weather? Hear best answers from a half dozen experts including: Michael Mann, James Hansen, Gavin Schmidt, David Victor, Leon Simons, George Tselioudis, and YangYang Xu.
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: Another Pump-and-Dump Scheme for the Morbidly Rich? (00:57:58)
Did Trump just create another pump-and-dump opportunity for the billionaires in his cabinet and people close to him (including his kids)? Its a safe bet that once the Trump family and friends are safely bought back into the cratered stock market hell come up with some minor win with the EU that’ll let him back off this threat, just like he did with China, so the market will rebound and Trumps insiders will buy back in. It bears repeating: This is the most criminally corrupt administration in the history of America.
RISING UP WITH SONALI – 2025-05-27 (00:58:30)
This week, well go to Wisconsin where a leading immigrant rights group, Voces de la Frontera, has been countering Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant attacks. Christine Neumann-Ortiz, the groups founding executive director will be my guest. Then, two college students, Noah Weight and Nyla Moxley will join me from the University of Washington where student-led protests in defense of Gaza are on-going. They’ll explain how protesters recently occupied a campus building built with Boeing money, how the university sided with Boeing over students, and what they’re doing about keeping the focus on Palestinian resistance to Israel’s genocide. Finally, Mara Einstein, a professor of media studies, and a former advertising and marketing executive will join me to discuss her latest book, “Hoodwinked: How marketers use the same tactics as cults. She’ll help us understand when and how were being lied to online
https://risingupwithsonali.com
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell ch. 53 (00:10:35) Clearly frustrated at the refusal of his contemporaries to recognise the iniquity of society, Tressell’s cast of hypocritical Christians, exploitative capitalists and corrupt councillors provide a backdrop for his main target — the workers who think that a better life is “not for the likes of them”. Hence the title of the book; Tressell paints the workers as “philanthropists” who throw themselves into back-breaking work for poverty wages in order to generate profit for their masters. The hero of the book, Frank Owen, is a socialist who believes that the capitalist system is the real source of the poverty he sees all around him. In vain he tries to convince his fellow workers of his world view, but finds that their education has trained them to distrust their own thoughts and to rely on those of their “betters”. Much of the book consists of conversations between Owen and the others, or more often of lectures by Owen in the face of their jeering; this was presumably based on Tressell’s own experiences. (summary by Tadhg)
https://archive.org/details/ragged_trousered_philantropists_th_librivox
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ragged_Trousered_Philanthropists
WINGS #07-25 Caribbean Wisdom to Save Our World (00:26:57)
Small island nations are among the first but not last habitats facing erasure by climate change. Mia Mottley speaks eloquently to the UN General Assembly every year, calling for a shift in focus to collective wellbeing. Peggy Antrobus, a generation older, has long been a world leader in the women’s rights, feminist economy and environment movements. She lives in Barbados and admires Mottley. Both call us to shift our priorities and actions now to save our world.
THE BRADCAST: 5/28/2025 Encore: ‘A World of Tyrants, Bribes and Influence’ with Heather Digby Parton of Salon, ‘Driftglass’ of ‘Pro Left Podcast’ (00:58:00)
Encore: original airdate 5-22-2025. On today’s ‘BradCast’: A federal judge excoriated the Trump Adminstration for indicting and then withdrawing bogus charges against Newark Mayor Ras Baracka (D). House Republicans rammed through a deficit-exploding bill that will slash both Medicare and Medicaid by more than a trillion dollars to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy, belying Donald Trump’s empty promises that he would never cut the vital, popular programs. Salon columnist HEATHER DIGBY PARTON and the notorious ‘DRIFTGLASS’ of the ‘Professional Left Podcast’ join us to discuss the Trump Regime’s ongoing horrors, errors, and blatant authoritarian violations of court orders, the Constitution, common sense, and much more. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest ‘Green News Report,’ before we stand down for the Memorial Day holiday week.
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
WEDNESDAY 05.28.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Wednesday May 28, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Many glaciers are shrinking more in summer than they can grow in winter (00:01:30)
Fossil fuel pollution is accelerating glacier melt, contributing to rising sea levels worldwide.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
THIS IS SCIENCE: Strange New Worlds (00:29:00)
Jess talks with NASA OSIRIS-REx mission lead planetary scientist and cosmochemist Dr. Dante Lauretta about collecting samples from the asteroid Bennu that are now helping us understand the very origins of the universe.
https://www.ucsusa.org/science-jess-phoenix-podcast
THIS WAY OUT #1939: Drag Queen Violinist Thorgy Thor & more global LGBTQ news! (00:28:59)
The proud drag violin of Thorgy Thor; Italy’s top court recognizes lesbian co-moms of their IVF baby, a Russian court fines tech giant Apple for no promo homo violations, a far-right Texas federal judge overrules the U.S. Supreme Court on anti-queer job bias, restrictions are loosened for Iowa’s grade school Don’t Say Gay law, U.S. House Republicans cut federal funding for all gender-affirming healthcare, Paris unveils its queer Holocaust memorial, and a huge Trans Pride flag is unfurled on Yosemite’s El Capitan.
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: Pramila Jayapal on the Big Brutal Bill (00:58:00)
As the Republicans complete the largest transfer of wealth to the very rich in history, progressive congressional leader Pramila Jayapal answers listener calls from across the country.
Plus- Trump doubles down for Putin.
CIVIC CIPHER: Does Hard Work Really Lead to Success? / Reagans Racism Tanked U.S. Education (00:59:00)
Today we pull from a public World Government Summit lecture offered by professor of political science, Dr. Roy Casagranda discussing the economic history of the United States as well as the dismantling of the free/low-cost education system once found in the United States. In the first half of the show, discuss the idea that hard work leads to success. We challenge the idea that a few aligned factors can create a universal pathway to the American dream. We also discuss the systemic barriers and advantages present in society and how certain groups are more likely to encounter these forces. In the second half of the show, we talk about the shift in the United States approach to education after the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. We discuss how an increase in costs was strategically implemented by conservatives to create barriers for would-be protesters and social dissenters.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell ch. 51-52 (00:26:25) Clearly frustrated at the refusal of his contemporaries to recognise the iniquity of society, Tressell’s cast of hypocritical Christians, exploitative capitalists and corrupt councillors provide a backdrop for his main target — the workers who think that a better life is “not for the likes of them”. Hence the title of the book; Tressell paints the workers as “philanthropists” who throw themselves into back-breaking work for poverty wages in order to generate profit for their masters. The hero of the book, Frank Owen, is a socialist who believes that the capitalist system is the real source of the poverty he sees all around him. In vain he tries to convince his fellow workers of his world view, but finds that their education has trained them to distrust their own thoughts and to rely on those of their “betters”. Much of the book consists of conversations between Owen and the others, or more often of lectures by Owen in the face of their jeering; this was presumably based on Tressell’s own experiences. (summary by Tadhg)
https://archive.org/details/ragged_trousered_philantropists_th_librivox
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ragged_Trousered_Philanthropists
CHOOSE TO BE CURIOUS: Curiosity & Choosing to Be Optimistic, with Kevin Kelly (00:28:00)
I think of choosing to be curious as acting on the idea that there is opportunity in the unknown — a very optimistic enterprise. Kevin Kelly, a man of many passions and pursuits, is a self-described radical optimist. So, what’s to be found at the intersection of curiosity and choosing to be optimistic? “I’m not trying to denigrate the scale of our problems. I’m not trying to say they are smaller than we think. I’m saying our capacity to solve problems is much larger than we think.” ~ Kevin Kelly
THE BRADCAST: 5/27/2025 Encore: Randall D. Eliason, former DOJ official, on Qatar’s $400m plane gift to Trump (00:57:30)
Encore: original airdate 5-14-2025. On today’s ‘BradCast’: In Omaha, Nebraska, Democrat John Ewing, Jr. defeated an incumbent Republican to become the city’s first Black mayor. In Texas’ school board elections, voters kicked out book-banning, trans-hating right-wingers in four of the state’s largest districts. A federal judge ordered the Trump Administration to reinstate federal workers who assist coal miners with black lung disease. USDA will restore online climate databases after pressure from farmers. RANDALL D. ELIASON, former chief of the Public Corruption section at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in D.C., discusses the unquestionably corrupt ‘gift’ of a $400 million plane to Donald Trump, explaining the legal nuances of criminal bribery laws, the Emoluments Clause, rebuilding the degraded Justice Department, and much more.
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
TUESDAY 05.27.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Tuesday May 27, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: So-called 100-year floods are happening more often (00:01:30)
Climate change is making extreme floods more frequent.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
ENCOURAGEMENTOLOGY: Detaching with Love: Boundaries, Codependency, and Letting Go Without Giving Up (00:30:00)
On this show we are detaching with love as we learn the importance of setting healthily boundaries, explore the many faces of codependency, and understand how to let go without giving up. Have you ever felt like someone else’s happiness – or healing – was somehow your responsibility? Like if they were struggling, it meant you had to jump in and fix it, smooth it over, or carry it for them? If that sounds familiar, you might be brushing up against something I’ve wrestled with myself: codependency. For me, learning to detach with love has been one of the hardest, most freeing lessons in my healing journey. It doesn’t come naturally – Im still working on it every day – but its opened up a whole new way of understanding relationships and responsibility.
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
MAKING CONTACT: East Orosis Struggle for Clean Drinking Water (Encore) (00:29:00)
In 2012, the state of California declared water a human right. Yet nearly 400 water systems don’t meet the state’s drinking water standards. In the Central Valley, the community of East Orosi hasnt had safe tap water in over 20 years. On today’s show, we visit East Orosi and talk to Berta Diaz Ochoa and others about what its like living without access to clean drinking water and how the community has taken action to find a solution. This episode originally aired in July 2023.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: How the Trump Administration is Deceiving Us Again (00:57:59)
Official urged to rewrite Intelligence report so it would not be ‘Used Against’ the crooked prez. Trump admin busted for fabricating MS-13 ‘leader’ label to justify wrongful deportation. Oregon Senator Wyden is exposing which phone carriers don’t notify you about government surveillance – Say what?!
THE CHILDREN’S HOUR: The Children’s Hour is Kids Public Radio (00:53:00)
Coming up on The Children’s Hour, its the end of the school year. Students are graduating and moving on to different grades, and sometimes to different schools. Well celebrate the graduates and give special honors to our teachers, who have guided us all school year. Hear a musical celebration of educators to help us thank them for their excellent work. Plus, sit back and laugh with Bill Harley as we hear a story about what happens with teachers in the summertime. Were smiling our way into summertime, coming up on The Children’s Hour.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell ch. 49-50 (00:22:23) Clearly frustrated at the refusal of his contemporaries to recognise the iniquity of society, Tressell’s cast of hypocritical Christians, exploitative capitalists and corrupt councillors provide a backdrop for his main target — the workers who think that a better life is “not for the likes of them”. Hence the title of the book; Tressell paints the workers as “philanthropists” who throw themselves into back-breaking work for poverty wages in order to generate profit for their masters. The hero of the book, Frank Owen, is a socialist who believes that the capitalist system is the real source of the poverty he sees all around him. In vain he tries to convince his fellow workers of his world view, but finds that their education has trained them to distrust their own thoughts and to rely on those of their “betters”. Much of the book consists of conversations between Owen and the others, or more often of lectures by Owen in the face of their jeering; this was presumably based on Tressell’s own experiences. (summary by Tadhg)
https://archive.org/details/ragged_trousered_philantropists_th_librivox
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ragged_Trousered_Philanthropists
BOOM GODDESS RADIO #615: The Importance of Female Friendships P1 (Rebroadcast) (00:26:00)
Research has confirmed that socializing improves happiness and positivity. It also helps manage stress and calms anxieties. Female friendships provide a safe space for women to share their thoughts, feelings and experiences with others without judgement. This week Jennifer is joined by a panel including some of her best female friends. They are in conversation about the importance of friendships among women and how socializing with friends improves the lives of women.
https://www.boomgoddessradio.com
THE BRADCAST: 5/26/2025 Encore: Former White House budget adviser Bobby Kogan on House GOP’s ‘profoundly evil’ cuts to Medicaid (00:58:00)
Encore: original airdate 5-13-2025. On today’s ‘BradCast’: While we are all distracted by Donald Trump’s endless, lawless idiocy, Congressional Republicans have been quietly preparing some ‘profoundly evil’ cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and more to pay for massive tax cuts to the richest Americans, while vastly increasing the deficit. BOBBY KOGAN, Senior Director for Federal Budget Policy at the Center for American Progress, breaks down the cruel cuts at the heart of Trump’s and Republicans’ budget and tax agenda for his second term, including the largest cuts to Medicaid and food assistance in US history, and – – sadly – – much more. Kogan details actions concerned citizens can take to help prevent the madness. Some federal judges are receiving chilling threats at their homes. Plus Desi Doyen has our new ‘Green News Report.’
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
MONDAY 05.26.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Monday May 26, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Students learn to build electric cars at an Ohio public school (00:01:30)
The EV lab at the Toledo Technology Academy of Engineering trains students to solve electricity and engineering challenges.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
WHEN THE BIOMASS HITS THE WIND TURBINE #50: Eating Seasonally (00:29:15)
We all know that fresh is best. There is nothing like a ripe tomato harvested minutes ago from the garden. Or a fresh caught fish on a campfire by the lake. But in this world of global supply and packaged convenience ” how can you eat seasonally when things do not necessarily grow when you want them?
https://bluerockstation.podbean.com
ECONOMIC UPDATE: The Corporatization of Universities and Trump’s Attacks (00:29:00)
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff begins by presenting updates on the death of libertarianism and the rise of US economic nationalism, and US universities are becoming big businesses, governed by money concerns. In this episode’s second half, Professor Wolff interviews Professor Geert Dhondt, the Chair of the Economics Department and Economics Professor at John Jay College of the City University of New York, on how colleges and universities are reacting to Trump’s attack on higher education.
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 Trump Really Become a Dictator? Professor Issues Shocking Warning! (00:58:00)
“If the president can violate the Constitution and there’s no court that can enforce an order against him. Then you really do have a dictatorship.” Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law Prof. Erwin Chemerinsky joins Thom Hartmann to discuss the latest attempts to turn Donald Trump into a dictator. Plus Trump’s no taxes on tips has become no healthcare for restaurant workers. Trump tries to BS Americans about his phone conversation with Putin, but Russia isn’t going to let him get away with it. And FEMA is AWOL in tornado ravaged city. Surprised?
SPIRIT IN ACTION: Botanicals, Prostate Cancer, & Community Supported Enlightenment: Pamela Boyce Simms (00:55:00)
Today for SIA we welcome back Pamela Boyce Simms of Singularity Botanicals. In 2017 we visited with her about Evolutionary Cultural Design, and in 2019 the topic was the African Diaspora Plant Medicine Project. She did further innovation & healing during COVID and since, when she’s been assembling a project around several different health concerns, including prostate cancer and brain issues. A part big part of her work has been to bring together diverse resources to study and handle these health challenges. She has a wide range of skills, experiences, and aptitudes, including those of an African-American woman who has also lived in Senegal and who is a Certified neurolinguistics master-practitioner, Karma Kagyu Meditation Instructor, and Transition Trainer for Transition US. Find more about Pamela and her work at Singularity Botanicals and Community Supported Enlightenment (CSE) LLC. Past/present religious/spiritual influences: Episcopal, Buddhist, Quaker
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell ch. 48 (00:54:41) Clearly frustrated at the refusal of his contemporaries to recognise the iniquity of society, Tressell’s cast of hypocritical Christians, exploitative capitalists and corrupt councillors provide a backdrop for his main target — the workers who think that a better life is “not for the likes of them”. Hence the title of the book; Tressell paints the workers as “philanthropists” who throw themselves into back-breaking work for poverty wages in order to generate profit for their masters. The hero of the book, Frank Owen, is a socialist who believes that the capitalist system is the real source of the poverty he sees all around him. In vain he tries to convince his fellow workers of his world view, but finds that their education has trained them to distrust their own thoughts and to rely on those of their “betters”. Much of the book consists of conversations between Owen and the others, or more often of lectures by Owen in the face of their jeering; this was presumably based on Tressell’s own experiences. (summary by Tadhg)
https://archive.org/details/ragged_trousered_philantropists_th_librivox
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ragged_Trousered_Philanthropists
THE BRADCAST: 5/23/2025 Encore: ACLU’s Daniel Mach on public funding of religious schools at SCOTUS (00:58:00)
Encore: original airdate 5-7-2025. On today’s ‘BradCast’: In North Carolina, the Republican loser has finally conceded in the state’s contested state supreme court race after six months of trying to undermine democracy and invalidate tens of thousands of lawfully-cast votes. Vice President J.D. Vance’s endorsement failed to help his half-brother win a mayoral race in Ohio. The rightwing supermajority on the US Supreme Court cruelly granted the Trump Administration’s ’emergency’ request to enforce a ban on trans service members in the US military while the case is litigated. DANIEL MACH of the ACLU’s Program for Freedom of Religion and Belief discusses a case before SCOTUS from a religious school in Oklahoma demanding public school funding, striking at the heart of the Constitution’s Establishment Clause and the separation of church and state.
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
SUNDAY 05.25.25 PROGRAM Notes
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RADIO 2050 Episode #88: Media Landscapes (00:58:00)
Henry discusses our evolving media landscape, the challenges that come with it, and the onus it puts on us to engage with and share media responsibly. He discusses the role of social media in shaping public discourse, emphasizing the need for credible sources and a critical eye. He addresses the need for cultivating imagination on a societal level, in order for us to be able to envisage a better future.
https://radioparadise.com/radio2050
EARTH RIOT RADIO: Facing the Door with the Sign that Reads WOKE (00:29:00)
One day, exhausted by sanitized Democrats, we push on that door that Trump points to with his performance of terror. The door swings open, and there before us is a valley full of puzzles, thighs, wa wa pedals, endangered swamp birds, discarded religions, executives in cages This is chaos. Anything can happen. We move there and live in bliss. WOKELAND! Oh, we know how much power is here. We could stop bombs in mid-air and turn aircraft carriers into climate colleges. But would we want to go back? Do we have the power to go OUT the IN door and IN the OUT?
BARNABY DRUTHERS: Case of the Five Buttons Part 2 (00:28:00)
The origin story of Barnaby Druthers continues in part two of Case of the Five Buttons.
https://www.barnabydruthers.com
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
Best of ATTITUDE with ARNIE ARNESEN May 24, 2025 (00:59:30)
Segment One
We begin the show with Mark Stern, Slate senior writer. We discuss the Supreme Court, and the due process issues ignored by the Trump administration. We also talk about the elimination of the filibuster currently being pushed by Republicans in the Senate.
Segment Two
We then catch up with Jeff Hauser, founder and Executive Director, Revolving Door Project. We talk with Jeff about the current bill regarding the use of crypto currency by the US government. Normalizing crypto currency will have many effects on the US and world economy, and will provide Trump with huge personal profits. We talk about these effects.
https://www.arniearnesen.org/WP
BACKGROUND BRIEFING with IAN MASTERS May 22, 2025 (00:59:00)
What Will the Senate Do With Trump’s Robin Hood In Reverse “Big, Beautiful Bill”? | Why the Democratic Party’s “Brahmin Left” Lost America’s Working Men and Women and How to Win Them Back.
https://www.backgroundbriefing.org
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR: The Empty Path Finding Fulfillment Through the Radical Art of Lessening with Billy Wynne (00:59:00)
Billy Wynne has studied Buddhism and mindfulness for thirty years. He received lay Zen Buddhist ordination from the Zen Center of Denver, where he now teaches and serves on the board. He is also a certified meditation teacher in the Insight tradition under Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach. He founded and serves as chairman of Impact Health, a consultancy serving large healthcare organizations and charitable foundations. Billy has served on the boards of Operation Smile, Health365, and Cherish Children Adoption International. In 2023 he was appointed by the Governor to Colorado’s Natural Medicine Advisory Board, implementing the state’s new psychedelic therapy program, and he’s the author of The Empty Path ” Finding Fulfillment Through the Radical Art of Lessening.
DEEP DIVE CYBERSECURITY SHOW: Coping in an Era of Constant Surveillance (00:58:42)
Why do we almost automatically find the person in a crowd who is looking directly at us?
We humans are paranoid. It’s in our DNA. And in this episode we explore what the constant surveillance of the world does to us. From government cameras to CCTV to even our own mobile devices, this never ending surveillance is fundamentally changing who we are as a species. You Don’t want to miss this one!
SATURDAY 05.24.25 PROGRAM Notes
6-hour loop begins at NOON, repeats until following noon
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EXPLORATION with Michio Kaku: Nazi Scientists (00:58:44)
Why did top German scientists work for the Nazis during World War II?
https://mkaku.org/home/category/radio
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: Trade Peace Beats Trade War: Where Are the Democrats? (00:56:49)
Starting a trade war is just stupid. But maybe Trump simply doesn’t really care about tanking the economy. On this show, Washington Monthly politics editor Bill Scher points out that the current president appears to be trying to steer America back to the economics of the late 19the century, when corporate titans ruled. Meanwhile the Democratic Party is not at all united, and is enabling this destructive trade war. Yes there are weeds but Scher helps us walk through them.
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
AGING MATTERS: Bone and Joint Health (00:58:00)
As older adults age, loss of bone mass or density, also known as osteoporosis, occurs when bones become brittle and less able to perform mechanical functions. Osteoarthritis, the most prevalent joint disease of older adults, is evident when joint movement becomes stiffer and results in less flexibility and decreasing mobility. Jocelyn Wittstein, MD, Orthopedic Surgeon, and Co-Author, The Complete Bone and Joint Health Plan: Recipes and Exercises to Help Prevent and Treat Osteoporosis and Arthritis, talks about aging-related changes in older adult joints and bones due to osteoporosis and osteoarthritis, and food/beverages, dietary supplements, and exercises to help improve bone and joint health.
https://www.agingmattersonline.com
GROWING GREENER: An Ecological Gardening Firms 12-Step Program (00:29:00)
Plan it Wilds Less Lawn More Life challenge offers a fun, easy, and free initiation into natural gardening that’s exploding across the country, drawing thousands of ecosystem novices young and old.
https://www.thomaschristophergardens.com
TUC RADIO: Trump’s Gulf Visit: Chas Freeman Explains the US (00:29:00)
Why did Donald Trump visit the Gulf in May 2025? What does it reveal about shifting US-Israel-Gulf relations? Ambassador Chas Freeman is a veteran U.S. diplomat and Middle East expert. He is being interviewed by Jyotishman Mudiar, a PhD research scholar at the University of Chicago and cofounder of the YouTube channel India and Global Left. From Saudi Arabia and the UAE to Israel and Iran, Chas Freeman analyzes the power plays, diplomatic deals, and regional tensions shaping today’s geopolitics. The interview took place on May 15, 2025 and lasted over an hour. You can watch their inspired conversation on YouTube under the title: Trumps Gulf Visit: Chas Freeman Explains the US-Israel-Gulf Shift – Deep Dive into Middle East.
THE BOPST SHOW: Wobble Cha Champ (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 21st century Palestinian sound of Ahmed El Sewesy & Mahmoud ElOmda, the modern metal of Richmond’s own Leather Hearse, and the soothing cocktail orchestrations of Franklyn MacCormack with Russ Garcia and his Orchestra as well as music by Cool Benny, Seema Mishra and many others locked out of the nation’s largest terrestrial bandwidths.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
RALPH NADER RADIO HOUR #584 (00:58:00)
We spend the whole program with Nadav Wieman, a former IDF sniper and now executive director of Breaking the Silence, an organization of Israeli veterans who expose the reality of life in the Occupied Territories and work to end the occupation. He and Ralph discuss Nadav’s experience in the IDF and his work trying to turn the tide of sentiment in Israel against the ongoing genocide.
https://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com
FRIDAY 05.23.25 PROGRAM Notes
6-hour loop begins at NOON, repeats until following noon
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Friday May 23, 2025
https://www.democracynow.org/shows
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: How climate change contributed to the Los Angeles fires (00:01:30)
Drier vegetation and soil make it easier for wildfires to spread and become more destructive.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
THE LABOR HERITAGE POWER HOUR: Voices of Labor, from the Vatican to the Big Top (00:55:49)
This special edition of the Labor Heritage Power Hour features the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly with stories from across the movement: Pope Leo XIIIs legacy, FAA system failures, frontline Social Security workers, Canadian union solidarity, the 4-day workweek, circus elephants, and a tribute to Wobbly poet T-Bone Slim.
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: GOP Passes Their Theft from the Poor to Give to the Rich Bill (00:58:00)
Veteran War Correspondent in Kyiv, Ukraine & host of the ‘On the Edge’ podcast Phil Ittner reports from the war zone. News…, Trump gets all racist with South African prez, and officially takes possession of Qatari jet bribe. Plus Congressman Mark Pocan – National Progressive Townhall with calls.
SEA CHANGE RADIO: Umair Irfan: It’s Getting Hot In Here (00:29:00)
As the summer sizzle approaches, it’s time to talk about the paradox of air conditioning: how keeping ourselves cooler functions to make the planet hotter. This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with Umair Irfan, a Climate Reporter from Vox.com, to discuss air conditioning and the promise of renewable energy. We look at how some of the planet’s hottest cities are trying to survive in the face of consistent, record-breaking high temperatures and talk about how breakthroughs in the battery storage sector provide some hope that the renewable energy market will continue to grow.
LAURA FLANDERS AND FRIENDS: Jacqueline Woodson & Catherine Gund: Breathing Through Chaos & the Meanwhile (00:28:00)
James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Muhammad Ali and Nina Simone are some of the artists featured in the moving new film Meanwhile, from National Book Award-winner Jacqueline Woodson and Emmy-nominated producer & director Catherine Gund. Their meditations on grief, art, breath and more are beautifully woven together as the film poses the question, how do you keep breathing amidst the chaos? Catalyzed by the Covid-19 pandemic and the police killing of George Floyd, Gund and Woodson tap into our shared existence. The artists featured in the docu-poem, with a haunting soundtrack by Meshell Ndegeocello, work through questions of race, political violence, resistance and identity ” so much of what shapes our lives and relationships. This is not a love letter to this country but to us inside this country, says Woodson in the film. We see us. We love us. We make eye contact and nod to us. In this conversation with Laura Flanders, the trio of longtime friends discuss the film from Aubin Pictures, the losses they experienced in the 80s, and how the arts and poetry can compel us to enact change. Can we reclaim the meanwhile? All that, plus a commentary from Laura on hers.
THE BOPST SHOW: Wobble Cha Champ (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 21st century Palestinian sound of Ahmed El Sewesy & Mahmoud ElOmda, the modern metal of Richmond’s own Leather Hearse, and the soothing cocktail orchestrations of Franklyn MacCormack with Russ Garcia and his Orchestra as well as music by Cool Benny, Seema Mishra and many others locked out of the nation’s largest terrestrial bandwidths.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
THE BRADCAST: 5/22/2025 ‘A World of Tyrants, Bribes and Influence’ with Heather Digby Parton of Salon, ‘Driftglass’ of ‘Pro Left Podcast’ (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: A federal judge excoriated the Trump Adminstration for indicting and then withdrawing bogus charges against Newark Mayor Ras Baracka (D). House Republicans rammed through a deficit-exploding bill that will slash both Medicare and Medicaid by more than a trillion dollars to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy, belying Donald Trump’s empty promises that he would never cut the vital, popular programs. Salon columnist HEATHER DIGBY PARTON and the notorious ‘DRIFTGLASS’ of the ‘Professional Left Podcast’ join us to discuss the Trump Regime’s ongoing horrors, errors, and blatant authoritarian violations of court orders, the Constitution, common sense, and much more. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest ‘Green News Report,’ before we stand down for the Memorial Day holiday week.
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
THURSDAY 05.22.25 PROGRAM Notes
6-hour loop begins at NOON, repeats until following noon
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Thursday May 22, 2025
https://www.democracynow.org/shows
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Air quality project in Buffalo, New York, could one day help residents breathe easier (00:01:30)
Low-income neighborhoods of color are disproportionately affected by truck and car emissions.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
RADIO ECOSHOCK: Cope and Cool Down (00:58:00)
A comprehensive new study finds the best ways to cool down cities with Canadian scientist Scott Krayenhoff. First we explore the dragon: can the world feed itself as we heat up the planet? When crops go bad, society can go off the rails. Long-time expert David Lobell on climate and crop damage. Its must-listen radio for anyone who eats.
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 – As Israel starves and destroys GAZA, Orban has a bigger plan to muzzle dissent (00:58:28)
Alex Lawson, Social Security Works – Are you ready for $500 Billion in Medicare & Medicaid cuts to pay for the Billionaire’s Tax Cuts??? Crazy Alert! Rightwingers, believing Russian propaganda designed to cause death in America, are insisting Biden’s cancer came from the Covid shot. World news…As Israel starves and destroys GAZA, Orban has a bigger plan to muzzle dissent.
YES! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali – 2025-05-20 (00:58:30)
This week, on the 77th anniversary of the Nakba, the catastrophe that began Palestinian dispossession upon the creation of the state of Israel, Gaza is still being starved and bombed, even as a mass global movement rises up for Palestinians. Mara Kronenfeld, Executive Director of the UNRWA USA National Committee will be my guest. Then, five years after the murder of George Floyd, where is the movement for Black Lives? Melina Abdullah, co-founder of BLM-Grassroots joins us to reflect on victories and the road ahead. Finally, Rev. Jennifer Gutierrez, Executive Director of CLUE (Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice) will explain what led to recent victories for worker’s rights as Kaiser healthcare workers won a contract after 6 months on the picket line and LA tourism workers won the nation’s highest minimum wage.
https://risingupwithsonali.com
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell ch. 47 (00:33:55) Clearly frustrated at the refusal of his contemporaries to recognise the iniquity of society, Tressell’s cast of hypocritical Christians, exploitative capitalists and corrupt councillors provide a backdrop for his main target — the workers who think that a better life is “not for the likes of them”. Hence the title of the book; Tressell paints the workers as “philanthropists” who throw themselves into back-breaking work for poverty wages in order to generate profit for their masters. The hero of the book, Frank Owen, is a socialist who believes that the capitalist system is the real source of the poverty he sees all around him. In vain he tries to convince his fellow workers of his world view, but finds that their education has trained them to distrust their own thoughts and to rely on those of their “betters”. Much of the book consists of conversations between Owen and the others, or more often of lectures by Owen in the face of their jeering; this was presumably based on Tressell’s own experiences. (summary by Tadhg)
https://archive.org/details/ragged_trousered_philantropists_th_librivox
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ragged_Trousered_Philanthropists
WINGS #06-25: Unite to End FGM! (00:29:00)
FGM stands for female genital mutilation. In Nairobi’s Kibera slum, Nabuki, whose name means fatherless child, tells her childhood experience of forced genital cutting and child marriage. Siyama Ismail is a human rights advocate, Nubian Cultural Ambassador, counsellor and social worker born and working in Kibera, who works to eradicate FGM. African Union Youth Envoy Aya Chebbi from Tunisia moderated a panel titled Change Social Norms: Abandon Female Genital Mutilation, at Women Deliver in Vancouver, 2016. As of 2025, the UN Population Fund estimates 27 million girls are still at risk around the world.
THE BRADCAST: 5/21/2025 Guest: Climate scientist Dr. Peter Gleick on impacts of Trump science ‘censorship’ on national security (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: The Trump Administration blatantly defied court orders prohibiting the deportation of migrants to third countries they are not from. Newly uncovered documents reveal that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s chief of staff worked to manipulate the conclusions of a national intelligence analysis that contradicted Donald Trump’s lies about Venezuelan migrants, which were used to justify his unlawful invocation of the Alien Enemies Act. A new investigative report also debunked the Trump Administration’s false claims that the deported Venezuelans were criminals. Climate scientist DR. PETER GLEICK explains how the climate crisis threatens national and global security, the Trump Administration’s censoring of science and environmental threats, the scientists working to preserve publicly-funded scientific data, and much more.
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
WEDNESDAY 05.21.25 PROGRAM Notes
6-hour loop begins at NOON, repeats until following noon
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Wednesday May 21, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Ice melt opens up enormous cracks in Greenland’s ice sheet (00:01:30)
They can be tens or even a hundred meters wide ” thats big enough to fly a helicopter through.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
THIS IS SCIENCE: Greening Our Growing (00:29:00)
Ever wonder if agriculture and green energy can work together? The answer is yes, and Jess talks with UCS experts Dr. Angel Fernandez-Bou and Vivian Yang about farming and the future of energy in the United States.
https://www.ucsusa.org/science-jess-phoenix-podcast
THIS WAY OUT #1938: Texas v. DEI & Garcia v. Noem & more global LGBTQ news! (00:28:59)
Gay Congressman Garcia confronts Homeland Securitys Noem about an abducted gay immigrant; an oppressive anti-DEI bill threatens queer Texas students; Brazils top court authorizes a gender neutral ID for the first time, U.K. Prides ban political parties from parading, the U.S. military begins mass trans discharges, Tennessee protects the right to deadname trans students and staff, and a U.S. appeals court dresses down Floridas family friendly drag bans.
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: The Big Brutal Bill (00:57:59)
While Trump gathers his forces to give billionaires another massive tax break, how are the rest of us made all the poorer in the process? Progressive Rep Ro Khanna joins Thom with a Congress-eye view.
CIVIC CIPHER: White South African Immigrants During an Anti-Immigration Administration / The Future of Women Leaders in Politics (00:59:00)
In the first half of today’s program, we discuss the reception of White South African immigrants under the Trump administration and contrast their plight with those of the immigrants the administration is actively expelling. We seek to identify and discuss any oddities or inconsistencies with this act, and hopefully give communities around the country insight into ways people can avoiding unlawful arrest, detainment, and deportation. In the second half of today’s show, we discuss the future of women leaders in politics and ways people can continue to support and champion women despite the losses of Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris in their respective presidential election campaigns. Our Way Black History Fact provides insight into what life was like when U.S. segregation extended into the oceans.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell ch. 46 (00:16:17) Clearly frustrated at the refusal of his contemporaries to recognise the iniquity of society, Tressell’s cast of hypocritical Christians, exploitative capitalists and corrupt councillors provide a backdrop for his main target — the workers who think that a better life is “not for the likes of them”. Hence the title of the book; Tressell paints the workers as “philanthropists” who throw themselves into back-breaking work for poverty wages in order to generate profit for their masters. The hero of the book, Frank Owen, is a socialist who believes that the capitalist system is the real source of the poverty he sees all around him. In vain he tries to convince his fellow workers of his world view, but finds that their education has trained them to distrust their own thoughts and to rely on those of their “betters”. Much of the book consists of conversations between Owen and the others, or more often of lectures by Owen in the face of their jeering; this was presumably based on Tressell’s own experiences. (summary by Tadhg)
https://archive.org/details/ragged_trousered_philantropists_th_librivox
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ragged_Trousered_Philanthropists
CHOOSE TO BE CURIOUS: Question Formulation & Cultivating a Collaborative Culture of Curiosity, with Patty Gomez (00:28:00)
Patty Gomez is a teacher and chair of the World Language Department at an Among her many classroom tools is the Question Formulation Technique (QFT), a curiosity-centric thinking protocol from the Right Question Institute.
Seeing the model’s success in her classroom, Patty imagined its potential for her department as well.
This is a lovely conversation about the rewards of being brave, the advantages of agreed-upon processes, and the joys of collaborative discovery.
THE BRADCAST: 5/20/2025 And Then They Came for Members of Congress…Guest: Attorney Keith Barber (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: First they came for the judges. Then the mayors. Now Trump Administration has come for members of Congress, charging Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) with assaulting armed, masked ICE agents while she was attempting to conduct official oversight of an ICE detention center. Attorney KEITH BARBER, who writes at DailyKos, explains his assessment of the evidence, major problems with the government’s case against Rep. McIvers, their use of fascist intimidation tactics, and much more. DHS Sec. Kristi Noem reveals she knows nothing about due process or the Constitution she swore to uphold. Paramount Global CEO once claimed to support press freedom but is now hypocritically pressuring subsidiary CBS News to cave to Donald Trump’s pathetic lawsuit. Plus Desi Doyen has our new ‘Green News Report.’
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
TUESDAY 05.20.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Tuesday May 20, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Reality check: There was plenty of water in SoCal reservoirs during the LA fires (00:01:30)
But the city’s water pipes, storage tanks, and fire hydrants could not keep up with the unprecedented needs of firefighters.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
ENCOURAGEMENTOLOGY: Detaching with Love: Boundaries, Codependency, and Letting Go Without Giving Up (00:29:00)
On this show we are detaching with love as we learn the importance of setting healthily boundaries, explore the many faces of codependency, and understand how to let go without giving up. Have you ever felt like someone else’s happiness – or healing – was somehow your responsibility? Like if they were struggling, it meant you had to jump in and fix it, smooth it over, or carry it for them? If that sounds familiar, you might be brushing up against something I’ve wrestled with myself: codependency. For me, learning to detach with love has been one of the hardest, most freeing lessons in my healing journey. It doesn’t come naturally – I’m still working on it every day – but its opened up a whole new way of understanding relationships and responsibility.
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
MAKING CONTACT: Dr. Rebecca Crumpler, America’s First Black Female Public Health Pioneer (00:29:00)
Dr. Rebecca Crumpler was the first Black woman to become a physician in the United States. We’ll trace the course of her remarkable life and work with in a story brought to us by the podcast Lost Women of Science.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: GOP congressman slips up and tells the truth by accident (00:58:00)
Trump’s military parade – Isn’t this just propaganda by spectacle ” the kind that makes autocracy feel normal? Stupid Alert! GOP congressman slips up and tells the truth by accident…Plus – The Trump administration is caught in a huge massive social security lie. Gutting the Weather Watchers: When Tyrants Rewrite the Forecast.
THE CHILDREN’S HOUR: Camping With Kids (00:53:00)
What’s it like to sleep outside, cook over a fire, and carry everything you need on your back? In this episode of The Children’s Hour, our Kids Crew shares their own outdoor adventures and learns about how to stay safe and have fun while camping. We’re joined by experts from Cottonwood Gulch Expeditions and a meteorologist to answer questions and share tips about preparing for the wilderness. We meet Jordan Stone, the Executive Director of Cottonwood Gulch, and educator Naina Panthaki, who both lead youth camping and backpacking trips across the Southwest. They explain how to pick a campsite, what to pack, and how to protect yourself from bears, bugs, and even poison ivy! Then, meteorologist Kerry Jones teaches us how to read the sky for signs of dangerous storms and what to do if lightning or flooding strike. Plus, the Kids Crew tells stories from their own hiking and backpacking experiences, and gives listeners advice on exploring the outdoors responsibly. Whether you’re heading into the mountains or your own backyard, this show will help you get ready to camp!
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell ch. 45 pt. 4 (00:21:37) Clearly frustrated at the refusal of his contemporaries to recognise the iniquity of society, Tressell’s cast of hypocritical Christians, exploitative capitalists and corrupt councillors provide a backdrop for his main target — the workers who think that a better life is “not for the likes of them”. Hence the title of the book; Tressell paints the workers as “philanthropists” who throw themselves into back-breaking work for poverty wages in order to generate profit for their masters. The hero of the book, Frank Owen, is a socialist who believes that the capitalist system is the real source of the poverty he sees all around him. In vain he tries to convince his fellow workers of his world view, but finds that their education has trained them to distrust their own thoughts and to rely on those of their “betters”. Much of the book consists of conversations between Owen and the others, or more often of lectures by Owen in the face of their jeering; this was presumably based on Tressell’s own experiences. (summary by Tadhg)
https://archive.org/details/ragged_trousered_philantropists_th_librivox
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ragged_Trousered_Philanthropists
BOOM GODDESS RADIO #614: The Children’s Clinics (00:28:27)
This week Jennifer is in conversation with Amy Serafin of The Children’s Clinics, a Tucson-based integrated multidisciplinary pediatric clinic serving the needs of children and families in Southern Arizona.
https://www.boomgoddessradio.com
THE BRADCAST: 5/19/2025 Guest: Constitutional law expert Justin Levitt on court ruling blocking use of Voting Rights Act by voters (00:57:30)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: At a UK concert, rock legend Bruce Springsteen sounded the alarm about attacks on democracy in America and around the world, calling on everyone to ‘raise your voices against authoritarianism,’ which triggered a Donald Trump freakout on social media. In Romania’s presidential election, a centrist candidate soundly defeated a far-right Trump clone who, like Trump, is baselessly claiming ‘fraud.’ Congressional Republicans advance massive deficit-exploding bill that drastically cuts health care and nutrition assistance for the poor to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy. The corrupted U.S. Supreme Court temporarily blocked Trump from restarting deportations under the Alien Enemies Act. JUSTIN LEVITT of Loyola University Law School explains a terrible, troubling new appeals court ruling that has effectively eliminated the ability to challenge racially discriminatory election laws under the Voting Rights Act, what happens next, and what can be done to defend and restore voting rights.
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
MONDAY 05.19.25 PROGRAM Notes
6-hour loop begins at NOON, repeats until following noon
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Monday May 19, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Scientists track climate change on a remote Andes mountain peak (00:01:30)
What they learn could help communities that depend on mountain snowmelt.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
WHEN THE BIOMASS HITS THE WIND TURBINE #49 Seed Saving (00:29:00)
People have been saving seeds since the dawn of agriculture. Yet our corporate world is attempting to make this practice illegal. Join the revolution ” save some seeds. Join Annie and Jay Warmke for a discussion about how to live more sustainably in our unsustainable world.
Need to save seeds
Not all are the same ” hybrid versus heirloom
53% of the world’s commercial seed market is controlled by just three firms ” Monsanto, DuPont and Syngenta. Prices have tripled
Svalbard Global Seed Vault ” 800 miles from north pole, Norway, over 1 million samples stored
Cost changes ” government regs, tests
GMO lawsuits, roundup ready (410 by Monsanto as of 2013)
Monsanto (1676 seeds owned ” 40% of US cropland)
1981 Diamond v. Chakrabarty established that companies may obtain patents for life-forms Patenting of life
2013 Bowman v. Monsanto Co. established that it was patent infringement for farmers to save crop seeds (soybeans in that case) and grow subsequent crops from them, if the seeds or plants were patented
WTO prohibits it in developing nations
What are people doing around the world
What to do, how to store
https://bluerockstation.podbean.com
ECONOMIC UPDATE: Reform Vs. Revolution (00:29:00)
Professor Wolff begins this week on Economic Update by analyzing the choice between reform and revolution through two historical discussions: the anti-slavery fight in the mid-19th century and the anti-Depression fight in the U.S. during the 1930s. He then explains the stakes in choosing reform or revolution as goals for social change and outlines how and why both options are now back on the working class’s agenda in the U.S. He concludes the discussion by suggesting that revolution is the necessary guarantor of the duration of reforms in the U.S., offering an alternative perspective to consider when choosing reform over revolution.
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 (00:58:00)
Trump’s military parade – Isn’t this just propaganda by spectacle ” the kind that makes autocracy feel normal? Stupid Alert! GOP congressman slips up and tells the truth by accident…Plus – The Trump administration is caught in a huge massive social security lie. Gutting the Weather Watchers: When Tyrants Rewrite the Forecast.
SPIRIT IN ACTION: Help Someone Out of Their Grave Clothes: Bubble & Squeak (00:55:00)
Today’s guest-host, Peterson Toscano, brings deep riches from his occasional podcast called Bubble and Squeak. There is deep encounter & meaning in this episode, wrestling with stories, overtones of stories, & personal resurrection of Lazarus in the Bible, and recovering from conversion therapy in reality, a recovery of oneself through true unbinding. Peterson starts with Father James Martin, SJ, whose book Come Forth: The Promise of Jesus’s Greatest Miracle explores the spiritual and emotional depth of the Lazarus story. Next is Peterson’s solo performance from Doin Time in the Homo No Mo Halfway House, including a sermon by The Preacher, who wrestles with the Lazarus story, and then a poem “Grave Robbers”a tribute to those who helped him unbind and become fully himself after surviving conversion therapy. This moves into words from Lucas Wilson, editor of Shame, Sex, Attraction: Stories by Conversion Therapy Survivors where Lucas discusses the collections raw, powerful testimonies and the ongoing impact of conversion practices. The episode ends with a Sound Slice – an audio snapshot recorded by Peterson at Mara la Gorda on the western edge of Cuba.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell ch. 45 pt. 3 (00:23:25) Clearly frustrated at the refusal of his contemporaries to recognise the iniquity of society, Tressell’s cast of hypocritical Christians, exploitative capitalists and corrupt councillors provide a backdrop for his main target — the workers who think that a better life is “not for the likes of them”. Hence the title of the book; Tressell paints the workers as “philanthropists” who throw themselves into back-breaking work for poverty wages in order to generate profit for their masters. The hero of the book, Frank Owen, is a socialist who believes that the capitalist system is the real source of the poverty he sees all around him. In vain he tries to convince his fellow workers of his world view, but finds that their education has trained them to distrust their own thoughts and to rely on those of their “betters”. Much of the book consists of conversations between Owen and the others, or more often of lectures by Owen in the face of their jeering; this was presumably based on Tressell’s own experiences. (summary by Tadhg)
https://archive.org/details/ragged_trousered_philantropists_th_librivox
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ragged_Trousered_Philanthropists
GREEN STREET with PATTI and DOUG WOOD: Hormone Disruption with Dr. Laura Vandenberg (00:29:00)
This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about Americas brain drain of scientists as the administration eliminates grants and guts federal health agencies, and how big agrochemical companies are seeking immunity from all liability for their toxic products. Then UMass professor Dr. Laura Vandenberg provides an overview of endocrine disrupting chemicals, their ubiquity in our culture, and how they can disrupt normal growth during critical periods of human development, including pregnancy.
https://www.greenstreetnews.org
THE BRADCAST: 5/16/2025 Encore: Constitutional Law and impeachment expert, John Bonifaz (00:58:00)
Encore: original airdate 4-29-2025. On today’s ‘BradCast’: In Canada, the Liberal Party of Prime Minister Mark Carney won a decisive election victory, boosted by Donald Trump’s insults and threats to annex Canada. In the U.S., every recent poll shows a majority of the public disapproves of Trump and his policies. A new survey finds a majority of American voters, across ideological lines, support impeaching Trump. U.S. House Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-MI) introduced articles of impeachment against Trump. Constitutional law expert John Bonifaz, president of the non-partisan watchdog group Free Speech for People (FSFP), discusses the organization’s new campaign calling for the impeachment of Trump for violations of the Constitution’s Emoluments Clause, and why it is critical to focus on accountability this ‘lawless president.’ Plus Desi Doyen has our new ‘Green News Report.’
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
SUNDAY 05.18.25 PROGRAM Notes
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RADIO 2050 Episode #87: Economics of Happiness (00:58:00)
Helena envisions a future where communities thrive through collaboration and a return to nature. She tells of how her years spent in Tibet, witnessing firsthand the effects of globalization, shaped her worldview. She argues economic globalization is a threat to the environment, to local communities, and is at the root of young peoples unhappiness in modern society.
https://radioparadise.com/radio2050
EARTH RIOT RADIO: Jamie Dimon of Chase Bank, Public Enemy #1 (00:29:00)
When we go into the environment where the toxic investments are prepared, and we begin to sing, and invite the bankers to find a way out of the carbon money trap, we feel their sadness. You can’t delete the fire and flood; you can’t delete whole cities bursting into flames. You walk around in your suit and haircut in the biggest bank in America. You know that you are, year in and year out, the top investor in poison gases and liquids in the world. Exxon is on your board, and your CEO makes $100,000 each business day. And you stand behind the carbon wall, watching the pain and suffering in the distance, shuffling your computer files with the sadness of your lost life. You know, you don’t have to do this. Leave the bank with us and sing.
BARNABY DRUTHERS: Case of the Five Buttons Part 1 (00:28:10)
Ever wonder about Barnaby Druthers’ first case? Presented here is the first part of Barnaby’s first case: The Case of the Five Buttons: Ep 1 Times Arrow.
https://www.barnabydruthers.com
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
Best of ATTITUDE with ARNIE ARNESEN May 17, 2025 (00:59:30)
Segment One
We begin the show with freelance journalist, Laura Jedeed. We discuss her article in The Nation titled; Why Pete Hegseth Still Has a Job. Hegseth is terrible at every part of his job except the one that matters to Trump, a willingness to break with norms that keep the military in check. Trump has been dismissing experienced and senior armed service officers who are not ‘loyal enough’ to him personally, rather to the Constitution. Hegseth has shown a willingness to use military force against US civilians. This appears to be a strategy to get complete authoritarian control.
Segment Two
We then catch up with regulars Bill Curry and Harold Meyerson. Bill Curry was a Connecticut State Senator and Harold Meyerson is an editor at large of The American Prospect. We discuss how Trump uses policy as a political weapon. This ‘bait & switch’ approach gets voters’ attention for popular issues, on which he never delivers, but for which he takes credit. We also discuss the Qatar Government’s ‘gift’ to Trump of a $4 million dollar jumbo jet.
https://www.arniearnesen.org/WP
BACKGROUND BRIEFING with IAN MASTERS May 17, 2025 (00:59:00)
Putin Plays Trump Again Not Showing Up For Farcical “Peace” Talks in Istanbul | A Report From Kyiv on How Much Ukrainians Want Peace But Not Surrender on Putin’s Terms | The Death Toll In Gaza Reaches 53, 272 As Trump Plans to Send a Million Gazans to War-torn Libya
https://www.backgroundbriefing.org
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR: The Poetry of Kahlil Gibran and others on the Deeper Side of Life, Set to Music (00:59:00)
This show features the poetry of Kahlil Gibran and others on life and mysticism, set to gorgeous music.
DEEP DIVE CYBERSECURITY SHOW: Why the CVE Is Important to You And the World (00:58:38)
You may not know what the CVE Database is but it helps the entire world identify virtually ALL of the threats hackers use against us… and the Trump Administration was about to defund the entire project!!
This beyond important episode dives into just how important the CVE and what it means the entire planet if it’s killed without thought. We also catch up on news and breaches. You Don’t want to miss this one!
SATURDAY 05.17.25 PROGRAM Notes
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EXPLORATION with Michio Kaku May 12, 2025 (00:59:43)
Is time travel possible?
https://mkaku.org/home/category/radio
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: We Know What NIMBY means. But Heres a New Twist: YIMBYism! (00:59:58)
There is in fact great abundance in America. The problem is not just the greed of the top percent but also the 21st century version of real estate redlining. Many are shut out. There is a huge demand for affordable housing but nowhere near enough supply. It does not have to continue this way. On this show housing consultant Ned Resnikoff, a Roosevelt Institute fellow, explains the growing YIMBY movement and that resistance to change is way worse than our actual change opportunities in an era of abundance. Whats new is that its not just a problem for the working class; now the managerial class is also struggling. Resnikoff explains the great opportunities for experimentation, spreading abundance within a capitalist democracy
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
AGING MATTERS: Autoimmune Diseases (00:58:00)
Approximately 20 million adults in the U.S. live with an autoimmune disease, a health condition in which the immune system attacks the body instead of defending it. Scientists know of more than 80 different rheumatic diseases and symptoms can affect almost any part of the body. Julius Birnbaum, MD, MHS, Associate Professor of Rheumatology, and Division Chief of Rheumatology, Mercy Hospital, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and Author, Living Well with Autoimmune Diseases: A Rheumatologists Guide to Taking Charge of Your Health, talks about types of rheumatic diseases including risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, prognosis, and disease management.
https://www.agingmattersonline.com
GROWING GREENER: The Overlooked Virtues of Native Annual Flowers (00:29:00)
Alicia Houk, natural garden designer and educator, describes how native, reseeding annuals can make your plantings self-renewing, weed resistant, and resilient in the face of disturbance.
https://www.thomaschristophergardens.com
TUC RADIO: Prof. Richard Wolff on May Day 2025 (00:29:01)
This is the replay of a special, Live, May-Day talk by Professor Richard Wolff on President Trumps economic policies. Wolff had been invited by Women Building Up in Brooklyn, NY (WBU). In spite of the serious topic, his presentation was also entertaining and full of surprises. Richard Wolff is a professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a visiting professor in the graduate program in international affairs of the New School. Prof. Wolff is the co-founder of Democracy at Work and host of their nationally syndicated show Economic Update. Among his many works are Understanding Capitalism; The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself; and – by Haymarket Books – Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism. I urge you to look up the full-length 70 minute video that is the source for this radio program. Its easy to find on YouTube under the title: Global Capitalism: On This May Day, posted on May 8, 2025. Again, look for the title: Global Capitalism: On This May Day – by Professor Richard Wolff.
THE BOPST SHOW: Nuclear Device (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.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
RALPH NADER RADIO HOUR #584 (00:58:00)
We spend the whole program with Nadav Wieman, a former IDF sniper and now executive director of Breaking the Silence, an organization of Israeli veterans who expose the reality of life in the Occupied Territories and work to end the occupation. He and Ralph discuss Nadav’s experience in the IDF and his work trying to turn the tide of sentiment in Israel against the ongoing genocide.
https://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com
FRIDAY 05.16.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Friday May 16, 2025
https://www.democracynow.org/shows
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Solar panel manufacturing is booming in red states (00:01:30)
Biden-era federal tax credits have incentivized solar factories in Georgia, Alabama, Texas, and many other states.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
THE LABOR HERITAGE POWER HOUR: Solidarity, Song, and the Last Human Job (00:53:58)
This week on The Labor Heritage Power Hour, we bring you powerful voices from the frontlines of labor struggle and song. UAW President Shawn Fain accepts the 2025 Solidarity Forever Award with a stirring call to action: Solidarity isn’t a slogan – it’s a muscle. Plus, sociologist Allison Pugh joins us to discuss The Last Human Job, her new book on the vanishing art of connective labor – from therapists and teachers to VA counselors and hairdressers.
Also on the show: a Labor History Month crossover with the Labor History Today and Power at Work podcasts, as historians Joe McCartin and Veronica Martinez-Matsuda connect past and present struggles – from PATCO to Trumps anti-worker agenda. And we remember radical songwriter T-Bone Slim, whose century-old labor ballads still resonate today. Tune in for history, music, interviews – and the voice of labor culture.
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: Arrested judge turns the table on Trump (00:57:59)
Last week I warned about the dangers of AI being manipulated. It appears we are there, with one particular AI responding to random questions with rants about white genocide in South Africa. Host of the Dean Obeidallah show, columnist and attorney Dean Obeidallah – Trump went from banning Muslims to raking in billions from Muslims.
SEA CHANGE RADIO: Muralist/Cartoonist Sirron Norris (00:29:00)
The list of things for which San Francisco is famous include iconic bridges, world-class Pride celebrations, excellent food, and murals. The streets of San Francisco are a veritable outdoor gallery with classics from Diego Rivera, artistic achievements lining modest alleys like Balmy and Albion, and dozens of works by today’s guest on Sea Change Radio. This week we are speaking with San Francisco artist and muralist extraordinaire, Sirron Norris, about his life’s work. We hear about the road he took to become a painter, the greatest challenges a muralist faces, and the delicate balance of creating art that both enhances and is integrated into its surroundings.
LAURA FLANDERS AND FRIENDS: Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor: Are We Entering End Times Fascism? (00:28:00)
Today’s billionaires know our planet can’t sustain their business models or lifestyles, but they don’t care. Find out why, in this chilling conversation with Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor, co-authors of a revelatory essay on “End Times Fascism” in the Guardian. Today’s rightwing leaders and their rich allies are not just taking advantage of catastrophes, shock-doctrine and disaster-capitalism style, write Klein and Taylor, but simultaneously provoking, planning and seeking to profit off apocalypse. These are deeply dangerous times, Taylor and Klein argue: Trump 2.0’s economic project is a Frankenstein’s monster of the industries driving all of these threats”fossil fuels, weapons, and resource-ravenous cryptocurrency and AI. As the Right prepares for the end of life as we know it, can we build a movement to counter their apocalyptic, fascist ideology? What about a vision of love and compassion for people and the planet? All that, plus a commentary from Laura on Elon Musk’s recently privately-incorporated Tesla town in Brownsville, TX.
THE BOPST SHOW: Nuclear Device (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.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
THE BRADCAST:5/15/2025 Birthright Citizenship, GOP Health Care Cuts, Dismantling FEMA, and more (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: At the U.S. Supreme Court, the Trump Administration challenged the constitutionality of lower court judges issuing nationwide injunctions, as part of Donald Trump’s wildly unconstitutional executive order attempting to end constitutional birthright citizenship. House Republicans can’t agree on how many Americans should go hungry and be stripped of health care to pay for enormous tax cuts for the rich and corporations. Due to Trump’s cuts and layoffs, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is unprepared for hurricane season (even as the Administration seeks to dismantle it), and the National Weather service is dangerously understaffed. DHS Sec. Kristi Noem promotes Trump’s absurd, brain-addled lies. The late Supreme Court Justice David Souter warned about this era in which we now live. Plus Desi Doyen has our new ‘Green News Report.’
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
THURSDAY 05.15.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Thursday May 15, 2025
https://www.democracynow.org/shows
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: How to cook, clean, and heat your home without fossil fuels (00:01:30)
Electric appliances can reduce climate emissions and indoor air pollution.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
RADIO ECOSHOCK: Rebel Against the Crash (replay) (00:58:00)
We all know the car of civilization is heading into climate meltdown. In a rare radio interview, Dr. Jem Bendell explains Deep Adaptation. Do you accept world-wrecking as an economic game? Keep listening for Skeena Rathor, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion. Then a quick look at what a different Elon Musk was saying just four years ago.
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: Could an arrested Judge go to prison? (00:58:00)
News…Chief justice is concerned about the rule of law – but – he gave Trump immunity, Texas wants to shut down news they don’t like, Could an arrested Judge go to prison? Plus more. Texas Republicans want to shut down people like me who write editorials they don’t like. The judge arrested by ICE last week was just indicted by a federal grand jury and is now facing prison.
YES! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali – 2025-05-13 (00:58:31)
This week, well explore the various ins and outs of the behemoth GOP tax bill, a legislative agenda Republicans call their ONE, BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL, with Matt Gardner, Senior Fellow at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Matt and I will discuss the ideological underpinnings of the bill. Then, Sanaa Ansari Khan of Muslim Counterpublic’s Lab joins us to discuss a new report she’s written on how Muslim Americans are singled out and censored on social media and how they are taking back their digital rights. Finally, the foremost historian and academic Dr. Ibram X. Kendi will mark the centennial of the birth of Malcolm X with a discussion of his new book, Malcolm Lives! The Official Biography of Malcolm X for Young Readers
https://risingupwithsonali.com
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell ch. 45 pt. 2 (00:40:04) Clearly frustrated at the refusal of his contemporaries to recognise the iniquity of society, Tressell’s cast of hypocritical Christians, exploitative capitalists and corrupt councillors provide a backdrop for his main target — the workers who think that a better life is “not for the likes of them”. Hence the title of the book; Tressell paints the workers as “philanthropists” who throw themselves into back-breaking work for poverty wages in order to generate profit for their masters. The hero of the book, Frank Owen, is a socialist who believes that the capitalist system is the real source of the poverty he sees all around him. In vain he tries to convince his fellow workers of his world view, but finds that their education has trained them to distrust their own thoughts and to rely on those of their “betters”. Much of the book consists of conversations between Owen and the others, or more often of lectures by Owen in the face of their jeering; this was presumably based on Tressell’s own experiences. (summary by Tadhg)
https://archive.org/details/ragged_trousered_philantropists_th_librivox
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ragged_Trousered_Philanthropists
SONIC TONIC 1.7 & Things to Come Mix – DJ Stryder (00:18:14)
Experimental audio collage for enjoyment & thoughtful listening.
THE BRADCAST: 5/14/2025 Guest: Randall D. Eliason, former DOJ official, on Qatar’s $400m plane gift to Trump (00:57:30)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: In Omaha, Nebraska, Democrat John Ewing, Jr. defeated an incumbent Republican to become the city’s first Black mayor. In Texas’ school board elections, voters kicked out book-banning, trans-hating right-wingers in four of the state’s largest districts. A federal judge ordered the Trump Administration to reinstate federal workers who assist coal miners with black lung disease. USDA will restore online climate databases after pressure from farmers. RANDALL D. ELIASON, former chief of the Public Corruption section at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in D.C., discusses the unquestionably corrupt ‘gift’ of a $400 million plane to Donald Trump, explaining the legal nuances of criminal bribery laws, the Emoluments Clause, rebuilding the degraded Justice Department, and much more.
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
WEDNESDAY 05.14.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Wednesday May 14, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Despite war, Ukrainian students take action on climate change (00:01:30)
Students in Vinnytsia participate each year in a six-week program that teaches young people around the world how to work on climate solutions
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
SCHOLARS’ CIRCLE & the Insighters May 4 2025 Science denial and disinformation (00:58:01)
Science is under attack. Who and what are behind the attacks? While we face catastrophic climate change and other pending disasters, how can we restore the publics understandings about scientific realities? We explore disinformation and ways to communicate with non-scientists to loosen the grip the disinformants have on so many people
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: Trump’s Tariff Terror Negotiations (00:57:59)
Deals are being cut, but will the tariff roller coaster benefit or only damage the American economy? What would a smart tariff policy look like? Plus- when did the GOP become the Ministry of Propaganda?t
CIVIC CIPHER: Joy Ann Reids Dissection of Trump 2.0 (00:59:00)
Our guest is Joy-Ann Reidthe self-described writer, podcaster, documentary filmmaker, professional blerd, fan of democracy and OG hater of fascism and apartheid, who is best known as an American political commentator and television host. In today’s episode, we discuss her recent fireside chat known as Journalism Under Fire. We naturally discuss life under Trumps second term in office so far. We explore the challenges that she faced in losing her MSNBC show as well as the challenges this administration presents to American journalism. We discuss her future plans in the media space, and what people on the ground can do to resist the oppression they feel under this administration.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell ch. 45 pt. 1 (00:15:42) Clearly frustrated at the refusal of his contemporaries to recognise the iniquity of society, Tressell’s cast of hypocritical Christians, exploitative capitalists and corrupt councillors provide a backdrop for his main target — the workers who think that a better life is “not for the likes of them”. Hence the title of the book; Tressell paints the workers as “philanthropists” who throw themselves into back-breaking work for poverty wages in order to generate profit for their masters. The hero of the book, Frank Owen, is a socialist who believes that the capitalist system is the real source of the poverty he sees all around him. In vain he tries to convince his fellow workers of his world view, but finds that their education has trained them to distrust their own thoughts and to rely on those of their “betters”. Much of the book consists of conversations between Owen and the others, or more often of lectures by Owen in the face of their jeering; this was presumably based on Tressell’s own experiences. (summary by Tadhg)
https://archive.org/details/ragged_trousered_philantropists_th_librivox
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ragged_Trousered_Philanthropists
CHOOSE TO BE CURIOUS: Question Formulation & Cultivating a Collaborative Culture of Curiosity, with Patty Gomez (00:28:00)
Patty Gomez is a teacher and chair of the World Language Department at an Among her many classroom tools is the Question Formulation Technique (QFT), a curiosity-centric thinking protocol from the Right Question Institute.
Seeing the model’s success in her classroom, Patty imagined its potential for her department as well. This is a lovely conversation about the rewards of being brave, the advantages of agreed-upon processes, and the joys of collaborative discovery.
THE BRADCAST 5/13/25 Guest: Former White House budget adviser Bobby Kogan on House GOP’s ‘profoundly evil’ cuts to Medicaid (00:57:30)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: While we are all distracted by Donald Trump’s endless, lawless idiocy, Congressional Republicans have been quietly preparing some ‘profoundly evil’ cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and more to pay for massive tax cuts to the richest Americans, while vastly increasing the deficit. BOBBY KOGAN, Senior Director for Federal Budget Policy at the Center for American Progress, breaks down the cruel cuts at the heart of Trump’s and Republicans’ budget and tax agenda for his second term, including the largest cuts to Medicaid and food assistance in US history, and — sadly — much more. Kogan details actions concerned citizens can take to help prevent the madness. Also today: federal judges are receiving chilling threats at their homes. Plus Desi Doyen has our new ‘Green News Report.’
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
TUESDAY 05.13.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Tuesday May 13, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Ocean warming is accelerating, scientist warns (00:01:30)
He says its important for the world to act quickly.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
ENCOURAGEMENTOLOGY: Take Your Own Medicine: Practicing What You Preach for Personal Growth (00:30:00)
On this show we are making a commitment to take our own medicine and practice what we preach to achieve authentic personal growth. Have you ever caught yourself dishing out great advice – maybe even life-changing advice – only to realize you’re not actually taking it yourself? You’re not alone. For me, this became very real when I paused and thought, wait a minute am I applying the very same healing and growth tools I’ve spent years teaching others? It’s easy to guide, encourage, and support someone else’s transformation – it feels great, even! But when it comes time to turn that spotlight inward, it can get a little uncomfortable. Personal accountability doesn’t come with a script. There’s no applause when you do the hard inner work in private. Just you, your truth, and the mirror.
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
MAKING CONTACT: Seeing Signs from Queens Memory Podcast (Encore) (00:29:00)
For AAPI Heritage Month, we bring you an encore of our 2023 episode “Seeing Signs.” With help from the Queens Memory Podcast, we’ll learn about Little Manila, a Filipino neighborhood dating back to the 1970s that still struggles to find its political footing. This episode first aired on Making Contact in May 2023.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Will the Heartless Truly Kill Democracy? (00:57:07)
A government without empathy is only a conspiracy to elevate the powerful over the weak. America’s moral collapse is on a plane to Libya. It is in the living rooms of the disabled abandoned by our federal government- and in the corrupt financial plundering for the sake of the billionaires, all while cloaking itself in Republican dogma and lies.
THE CHILDREN’S HOUR: Migration (00:53:00)
Why do animals travel long distances every year? On this episode of The Children’s Hour, we learn all aboutmigration – how it works, why it happens, and which creatures migrate the farthest. From the skies to the seas, well explore the incredible journeys that animals take in search of food, warmth, and safety.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell ch. 44 pt. 2 (00:38:17) Clearly frustrated at the refusal of his contemporaries to recognise the iniquity of society, Tressell’s cast of hypocritical Christians, exploitative capitalists and corrupt councillors provide a backdrop for his main target — the workers who think that a better life is “not for the likes of them”. Hence the title of the book; Tressell paints the workers as “philanthropists” who throw themselves into back-breaking work for poverty wages in order to generate profit for their masters. The hero of the book, Frank Owen, is a socialist who believes that the capitalist system is the real source of the poverty he sees all around him. In vain he tries to convince his fellow workers of his world view, but finds that their education has trained them to distrust their own thoughts and to rely on those of their “betters”. Much of the book consists of conversations between Owen and the others, or more often of lectures by Owen in the face of their jeering; this was presumably based on Tressell’s own experiences. (summary by Tadhg)
https://archive.org/details/ragged_trousered_philantropists_th_librivox
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ragged_Trousered_Philanthropists
DEPARTMENT OF WAR 1943 PROPAGANDA FILM: “Don’t Be A Sucker” (00:22:49)
The audio from this surprisingly relevant video portrays a conversation between an American citizen immigrant and a man born in the US. This short drama reveals that anti-immigrant speech may sound persuasive but is ultimately only divisive – an un-American.
THE BRADCAST: (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: In a disturbing escalation of the Trump Administration’s authoritarian tactics, masked federal thugs arrested Newark, New Jersey Mayor Ras Baraka as he peacefully waited for three members of Congress outside a federal immigration detention center that is reportedly operating without proper permits; DHS is now threatening to arrest the congressmembers, as well. A federal judge ordered the release of Tufts University grad student, Rumeysa Ozturk, 45 days after she was snatched off the street by masked federal goons for exercising her right to free speech. ABC News reports Donald Trump intends to accept a $400 million gift of a jet from the government of Qatar, which experts say is wildly unconstitutional and violates the Emoluments Clause. Callers weigh in.
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
MONDAY 05.12.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Monday May 12, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: The climate-friendly way to heat your shower (00:01:30)
Heat pump water heaters are efficient and they run on electricity.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
WHEN THE BIOMASS HITS THE WIND TURBINE #48: Plastic Bottle Greenhouse (00:28:58)
Reuse those old two-liter plastic bottles to build an interesting and functional greenhouse. For over 15 years Blue Rock Station has used their plastic bottle greenhouse to start plants and keep plants thriving well into the cold weather. A great project for school groups ” demonstrating reduce, reuse and recycle.
https://bluerockstation.podbean.com
ECONOMIC UPDATE: Twin Failures of Capitalism – The Homeless and Housing Crises (00:29:00)
This week’s Economic Update focuses on Trump’s attacks on Harvard, Trump’s “antisemitism” maneuver against educational institutions, and US universities becoming ever more ” business-like.” as well as looking into the economics of US dollar depreciation since Jan 20, 2025. Also featured is an interview with Mr Rob Robinson, to be awarded an honorary doctorate from the City University of New York at its Commencement, June 10, 2025, recognizing his multiple contributions to fighting homelessness and inadequate housing in the US.
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: Understanding the Tearing Down of America (00:58:00)
Thanks to the Republicans the established faith in American norms is being eroded from the inside-out. Guest-host Jefferson Smith of The Democracy Nerd Podcast takes a deep dive, and brings his dad along for the ride!
SPIRIT IN ACTION: Listening, Sound, and Art: Transforming Climate Anxiety into Hope (00:55:00)
Our guest-hosts today are Peterson Toscano & Elise Silvestra of Citizen’s Climate Radio, bringing together voices exploring how emotional honesty, sound, and art can open pathways from climate despair to collective action. Guests include Kate Schapira, a writer and educator from Rhode Island who has run the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth, inviting people to share their fears and hopes about the climate crisis since 2014. Kate’s new book is Lessons from the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth. Next guest is Barbara Wankollie, a Liberian student at Bucknell University, who created a moving climate-themed soundscape as part of a course connecting music and climate studies. Final guest is Carrie Ziegler, a community-engaged artist in Olympia, WA, sharing the story of the Chrysalis Project: Transforming Together, an online collaborative climate art campaign. The final segment is a good news story from Tucson, AZ, where students passed a school district climate resolution – proof that youth leadership makes a difference. To learn more about Citizens Climate Radio, visit their blog at https://cclusa.org/radio Learn how you can engage in meaningful climate work by visiting Citizens Climate Lobby at https://cclusa.org. Learn more about Peterson at his website, https://www.petersontoscano.com
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell ch. 44 pt. 1 (00:28:47) Clearly frustrated at the refusal of his contemporaries to recognise the iniquity of society, Tressell’s cast of hypocritical Christians, exploitative capitalists and corrupt councillors provide a backdrop for his main target — the workers who think that a better life is “not for the likes of them”. Hence the title of the book; Tressell paints the workers as “philanthropists” who throw themselves into back-breaking work for poverty wages in order to generate profit for their masters. The hero of the book, Frank Owen, is a socialist who believes that the capitalist system is the real source of the poverty he sees all around him. In vain he tries to convince his fellow workers of his world view, but finds that their education has trained them to distrust their own thoughts and to rely on those of their “betters”. Much of the book consists of conversations between Owen and the others, or more often of lectures by Owen in the face of their jeering; this was presumably based on Tressell’s own experiences. (summary by Tadhg)
https://archive.org/details/ragged_trousered_philantropists_th_librivox
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ragged_Trousered_Philanthropists
GREEN STREET with PATTI and DOUG WOOD: (00:28:59)
This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about how microplastics are affecting our health, especially in the urinary tract, and how some states are refusing to ban styrofoam food containers despite the known health risks. Then certified water expert Paul Trafas talks about what’s in our drinking water, and the various filter systems that are used to remove toxins and impurities, with varying degrees of success.
https://www.greenstreetnews.org
THE BRADCAST: 5/9/2025 Encore: Joyce Howell, 30-year EPA vet, on Trump gutting of EPA Environmental Justice office (00:57:30)
Encore: original airdate 4-30-2025. On today’s ‘BradCast’: Donald Trump lost in three different federal courtrooms, in three different civil rights-related law suits, as judges blocked his mandate requiring proof of citizenship when registering to vote and his Education Department’s attempt to rescind federal funding for schools with anti-discrimination or DEI programs. The new head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is reportedly turning civil rights law upside down, including firing senior officials who oversee voting rights. JOYCE HOWELL, 30-year veteran EPA senior attorney and Executive Vice President of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE)’s Council 238, explains the broad, disturbing impacts of the Trump Administration’s firing of most staff at the Office of Environmental Justice, which helps marginalized communities disproportionately burdened by industrial pollution, and much more. Plus Desi Doyen has our new ‘Green News Report.’
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
SUNDAY 05.11.25 PROGRAM Notes
6-hour loop begins at NOON, repeats until following noon
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RADIO 2050 Episode #86: Art Therapy (00:58:00)
Amelia discusses the multifaceted nature of art therapy, its significance in mental health, and her personal journey into the field. She shares insights on adapting art therapy practices to the digital realm, discussing her recent book, The Art of Thriving Online. Amelia emphasizes the role of creativity in personal and collective healing, the value of both online and in-person communities, and how we can navigate our world more mindfully.
https://radioparadise.com/radio2050
EARTH RIOT RADIO: ARE WE STRANGE ENOUGH TO CHANGE ENOUGH??? (00:29:00)
We can only defeat CLIMATE CHANGE ON PURPOSE and RACIST-WARS-EVERYWHERE-ALL-THE-TIME – if we are a lot weirder than our current crop of criminal clowns. There’s a good reason that Philip K. Dick, Octavia Butler, and Ursula Le Guin are so popular. Science fiction can glimpse a kind of moral life so strong it can overthrow the ethno-state. The nonfiction of Mussolini & Hitler & Stalin is sobering. But then you add the Sixth Extinction, and you have an update on government by Laugh-and-Cry-Out-Loud-Cruelty. Trump casts desperate people in their role as stateless migrants so he can demonize them and then kill them as they wander the Earth looking for livable, good weather. You and I are way over here on the horizon, pulling weeds from our little garden. We know we must get some serious personal wildness before the sun goes down.
BARNABY DRUTHERS: Murder Can Be Deadly (00:28:00)
The Viscountess regales her servant Zadie of a tale where Barnaby and Harper investigate a murder mystery at the home of Lord Litchbury (a farce).
https://www.barnabydruthers.com
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
Best of ATTITUDE with ARNIE ARNESEN May 10, 2025 (00:59:30)
Segment One
We begin the show with We talk with Bill Curry and Jamie Rowen. Bill Curry was a Connecticut state senator, comptroller and two time Democratic nominee for governor who served as Counselor to the President in the Clinton White House. Dr. Rowen is an associate professor of Legal Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the founding director of U-Mass’ Center for Justice, Law, and Societies. We discuss the corruption endemic to the US now with the Trump White House leading the way. NH has now adopted a crypto currency reserve into its budget, the first in the nation to do so, likely to be followed by other states. While cuts to research projects under NIH and other agencies has created a pool of “Research refugees” who are leaving for other countries to continue their research. This will have dire consequences for US leadership in many technologies in futures.
Segment Two
We then catch up with Julie Su, a nationally recognized workers’ rights and civil rights expert who served in President Biden’s cabinet as the Acting Secretary of Labor where she successfully led efforts to build worker power and union strength, negotiate historic contracts, and expand good jobs for all. We discuss the information skimming that that the DOGE boys are doing. Different government agencies have data about US residents, most of it private. However DOGE is pushing for access to ALL data, by unauthorized individuals who are part of DOGE, with no controls or oversight. This data can be used in many ways to exploit in many ways detrimental to us.
https://www.arniearnesen.org/WP
BACKGROUND BRIEFING with IAN MASTERS May 8, 2025 (00:59:00)
The 267th Pope is an American and a Peruvian Citizen Who Spent 2 Decades in Peru as a Missionary | A Roman Catholic Woman Priest of The Men-Only Cardinal’s Choice of Pope Leo XIV | Is It Same To Fly After Musk Gutted the FAA and a Reality TV President Chose a Reality TV Secretary of Transportation?
https://www.backgroundbriefing.org
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR: Play, Creativity & Non-Linear Science in Psychotherapy & A Neurosurgeon on the Mysteries of the Brain & Heart (00:59:00)
This show features two fascinating interviews. The first with psychotherapist and author Terry Marks-Tarlow, about play, creativity, metaphor, nonlinear science and mindfulness in healing and psychotherapy. The second interview is with Neurosurgeon James Doty, author of Into The Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon’s Quest to Understand the Mysteries of the Brain and The Secrets of the Heart. We talk about the implications and application of the latest neuroscientific discoveries into our own lives.
DEEP DIVE CYBERSECURITY SHOW: Why the CVE Is Important to You And the World (00:58:38)
You may not know what the CVE Database is but it helps the entire world identify virtually ALL of the threats hackers use against us… and the Trump Administration was about to defund the entire project!!
This beyond important episode dives into just how important the CVE and what it means the entire planet if it’s killed without thought. We also catch up on news and breaches. You Don’t want to miss this one!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-deep-dive-radio-show-and-nicks-nerd-news/id1262505658
SATURDAY 05.10.25 PROGRAM Notes
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EXPLORATION with Michio Kaku: Aging (00:58:44)
What is aging? Why do we have to die? Can we live forever?
We ask gerontologist Dr. Jay Olshandky about aging.
https://mkaku.org/home/category/radio
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: Mental Health Essential for National Security (01:00:03)
May is Mental Health Month, and the Trump/Musk regime is pouring gasoline on our already widespread national crisis. The police-state ICE raids are indicative of a strategy to create fear. On this show Mattea Kramer and Dr. Sean Fogler share some surprisingly positive news they found in current American attitudes, and they believe that from todays darkness there is opportunity for new, positive strides
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
AGING MATTERS: Home-Based Care (00:58:00)
One of the greatest health care challenges today is ensuring older adults with aging related health conditions remain as independent as possible. Doing so requires understanding the value of home-based care and guaranteeing older clients will be assured of receiving needed services. Lance A. Slatton, The Senior Care Influencer, and Host, All Home Care Matters podcast, https://lanceaslatton.com/, talks about home-based care services, hiring and working with a home care agency, and scope of home care assistant skills.
https://www.agingmattersonline.com
GROWING GREENER: A Local Activist With a National Impact (00:29:00)
Co-founder of Pollinator Pathway, Louise Washer saw this project go viral, spreading from one Connecticut community to nationwide in just 8 years. Listen as she shares the approach that has made her other environmental activism so effective.
https://www.thomaschristophergardens.com
TUC RADIO: Trump in Panic: Yemen Sinks a U.S. Fighter Jet (00:29:00)
The shocking status of U.S. military power has been exposed by Yemen forcing an F-18 to sink off the USS Harry Truman to the bottom of the Red Sea. Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson and former Chief of Staff Col. Lawrence Wilkerson call this the crisis facing America’s waning empire – and here are their comments – recorded on April 30.
THE BOPST SHOW: An Idiot King (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 soulful R&B of Swamp Dogg, legendary Richmond shock rockers GWAR, and British musical chameleon Barry Adamson as well as tunes by Meschiya Lake and the Little Big Horns, Primal Scream and many others locked out of the nation’s largest terrestrial bandwidths.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
RALPH NADER RADIO HOUR #582 (00:58:00)
Ralph welcomes back Erica Payne, founder of Patriotic Millionaires, to update us on that groups latest efforts to save American democracy by lobbying to raise wages for workers and tax the rich. Plus, according to our resident constitutional expert, Bruce Fein, the count of Trumps impeachable offenses is now up to twenty-two and rising faster than a Space X rocket.
https://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com
FRIDAY 05.09.25 PROGRAM Notes
6-hour loop begins at NOON, repeats until following noon
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Friday May 9, 2025
https://www.democracynow.org/shows
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Elm trees return to Rockport, Massachusetts (00:01:30)
Resident Nathan Ives remembers the elms of his childhood ” and hes determined to bring them back.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
THE LABOR HERITAGE POWER HOUR: Electrify, Amplify, Organize (00:53:07)
Tim Lawson spotlights the IBEWs electrifying photo contest; Tabitha Arnold talks with Australian cartoonist Sam Wallman about art, labor, and organizing; and Samantha Smith shares the forgotten story of Las Vegas showgirls fighting to unionize. Plus, music from the DC Labor Chorus Spring Concert with Joe Jencks and SongRise DC.
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: Congressman Mark Pocan (00:58:00)
Long time Progressive stalwart in the house, Mark Pocan takes listener calls from across the nation.
SEA CHANGE RADIO: Talking Truths and Fictions with Steve Almond, Pt. 2 (00:29:00)
This week on Sea Change Radio, the second half of our discussion with author Steve Almond. In this episode, we delve further into how to navigate the choppy seas in a new age of political uncertainty and social unrest and chat about a couple of areas of pop culture near and dear to Almond, namely – candy and rock music. Then, we hear a bit from our 2012 conversation with Steve Almond where he talks about the right wing’s predilection for magical thinking.
LAURA FLANDERS AND FRIENDS: Masha Gessen & Jason Stanley: Is it Doomsday for U.S. Democracy? (00:28:00)
What will it take to reject fascism, before its too late? Masha Gessen and Jason Stanley are two leading experts on autocracy, and they’re sounding the alarm. They and their families have escaped totalitarian regimes and oppressive governments; today Gessen and Stanley are pulling back the curtain on the attacks against DEI, trans bodies, civil rights, higher education and more. Is authoritarianism here? Masha Gessen is an acclaimed Russian-American journalist, a Polk Award winning opinion writer for the New York Times and the author of “Surviving Autocracy” and The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia. Forced to leave Russia twice, in 2024, a Moscow court convicted them, in absentia to eight years in prison for their reporting on the war in Ukraine. Jason Stanley is a best-selling author and professor whose books include Erasing History and “How Fascism Works”. He recently left his teaching position at Yale University to relocate to Canada with his family; noting that he is a child of Jewish refugees who fled Nazi Germany. In this historic conversation ” the first interview between Gessen and Stanley ” the two explore how to be bold in our movements and envision a multi-ethnic democracy. Plus, a commentary from Laura.
THE BOPST SHOW: An Idiot King (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 soulful R&B of Swamp Dogg, legendary Richmond shock rockers GWAR, and British musical chameleon Barry Adamson as well as tunes by Meschiya Lake and the Little Big Horns, Primal Scream and many others locked out of the nation’s largest terrestrial bandwidths.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
THE BRADCAST: 5/8/2025 Blowing Smoke: At the Vatican and at the White House (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: Habemas Papam! All signs so far indicate that new Pope Leo XIV may be a good one, even if he’s American. Donald Trump’s much-touted trade ‘deal’ with the U.K. isn’t actually much of a deal. The deal that Trump signed last week with Ukraine, to share in some of the profits from Ukraine’s mineral wealth, is actually a very good deal for Ukraine. California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom called Trump’s bluff, countering his threatened tariffs on films made overseas with the first-ever federal tax credits for U.S.-made films. Kari Lake, election fraud fraudster appointed to lead Voice of America, announced she will replace its non-partisan programming with far-right wingnut propaganda from One America News Network (OAN). Plus Desi Doyen has our new ‘Green News Report.’
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
THURSDAY 05.08.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Thursday May 8, 2025
https://www.democracynow.org/shows
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: New children’s book helps kids explain climate science to adults (00:01:30)
How to Explain Climate Science to a Grown-Up breaks down global warming in a kid-friendly way.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
RADIO ECOSHOCK: Black Start (00:58:00)
John Timmer, Senior Editor of Ars Technica explains why they can’t just switch the power back on. Going from a “black start” it can take days. After reviews and on-the-ground reporting from the blackout in Spain and Portugal, we’ll get you out – to Shangri-La. A world expert on Deep Time Professor Robert Spicer joins us. Is there a warning there too?
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 Kind of President? (00:58:00)
A new Republican-sponsored law in Congress would cement Trump’s crypto scam- but that’s just a tip of the corruption iceberg. So why won’t the media call it what it is?
YES! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali – 2025-05-06 (00:58:30)
This week, well set the record straight on the Trump Administrations claims about MS-13 via a conversation with acclaimed best-selling author, poet, and journalist Luis Rodriguez, best known for his 1993 book Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. Then, ahead of Mother’s Day, well explore a Feminist Peace Playbook, a new initiative aiming to transform American military might and end U.S. militarism globally and at home. My guest will be Marie Berry, director of the Inclusive Global Leadership Initiative at the University of Denver. Finally, cultural producer and podcaster RT Samuel joins me from India to discuss an exciting newly published anthology, called the Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF. Samuel will explore the pleasure and promise of South-Asian anti-caste speculative fiction, gathered in this unprecedented English-language collection of stories.
https://risingupwithsonali.com
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell ch. 43 pt. 3 (00:31:13) Clearly frustrated at the refusal of his contemporaries to recognise the iniquity of society, Tressell’s cast of hypocritical Christians, exploitative capitalists and corrupt councillors provide a backdrop for his main target — the workers who think that a better life is “not for the likes of them”. Hence the title of the book; Tressell paints the workers as “philanthropists” who throw themselves into back-breaking work for poverty wages in order to generate profit for their masters. The hero of the book, Frank Owen, is a socialist who believes that the capitalist system is the real source of the poverty he sees all around him. In vain he tries to convince his fellow workers of his world view, but finds that their education has trained them to distrust their own thoughts and to rely on those of their “betters”. Much of the book consists of conversations between Owen and the others, or more often of lectures by Owen in the face of their jeering; this was presumably based on Tressell’s own experiences. (summary by Tadhg)
https://archive.org/details/ragged_trousered_philantropists_th_librivox
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ragged_Trousered_Philanthropists
MO GAWDAT: Managing Social Media (00:21:11)
Gawdat explains how we can manage our social media for our benefit.
THE BRADCAST 5/7/2025: (00:58:00)
Independent, investigative news, reporting, interviews and commentary.
(episode notes posted when available)
WEDNESDAY 05.07.25 PROGRAM Notes
6-hour loop begins at NOON, repeats until following noon
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Wednesday May 7, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: A 2024 heat wave decimated corals in Australias Great Barrier Reef (00:01:30)
A team of scientists tracked more than 400 corals that experienced intense ocean heat last year. More than half the corals died.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
THIS IS SCIENCE: The Age of Unreason (00:29:00)
UCS Center for Science and Democracy Director Dr. Jennifer Jones joins Jess to discuss what the second Trump presidency means for science, and what you can do to defend science.
https://www.ucsusa.org/science-jess-phoenix-podcast
THIS WAY OUT #1936: Poetic Duet: Adrienne Rich and Audre Lorde & LGBTQ news! (00:28:59)
Poet-warriors Adrienne Rich and Audre Lorde still speak truth to power; a trans former judge takes the U.K. to the EuroCourt, U.K. sports associations comply with the Supreme Court anti-trans ruling, the Equality Act is reintroduced in the U.S. Congress, the top U.S. court ponders the right to PrEP, a U.S. Health Department report derides pediatric gender-affirming care, Polands last LGBT Free Zone surrenders, and I Kissed A Girls Jill Sobule bids farewell with a burn for Vance.
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: The Seven Mountains Mandate (00:58:00)
Why are some right wing pastors claiming Trump was ‘chosen by God’, when the lying grabber-in-chief is clearly the least Christian American president yet? Plus- Alex Lawson on the latest moves to continue to dismantle Social Security.
CIVIC CIPHER: Human Rights Attorney Yannick Gill on How Trumps First 100 Days Affected Marginalized Communities (00:59:00)
Our guest, Yannick Gill is a human rights lawyer based in Washington D.C. Yannick worked in Congress with 2 progressive members of the House of Representatives. He is an accomplished human rights advocate defending marginalized people across the United States and abroad. In the first half of the show, we cover the impacts of Trumps executive orders on Black and Brown communities. We discuss the attacks of DEI programs in the private and public sector. We also cover the destruction of USAID and the Department of Education. In the second half of the show, we talk about the disappearances to El Salvador, the suppression of immigrant and college student voices, and the attacks on law firms and nonprofits.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell ch. 43 pt. 2 (00:32:41) Clearly frustrated at the refusal of his contemporaries to recognise the iniquity of society, Tressell’s cast of hypocritical Christians, exploitative capitalists and corrupt councillors provide a backdrop for his main target — the workers who think that a better life is “not for the likes of them”. Hence the title of the book; Tressell paints the workers as “philanthropists” who throw themselves into back-breaking work for poverty wages in order to generate profit for their masters. The hero of the book, Frank Owen, is a socialist who believes that the capitalist system is the real source of the poverty he sees all around him. In vain he tries to convince his fellow workers of his world view, but finds that their education has trained them to distrust their own thoughts and to rely on those of their “betters”. Much of the book consists of conversations between Owen and the others, or more often of lectures by Owen in the face of their jeering; this was presumably based on Tressell’s own experiences. (summary by Tadhg)
https://archive.org/details/ragged_trousered_philantropists_th_librivox
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ragged_Trousered_Philanthropists
CHOOSE TO BE CURIOUS: Curiosity & the World Peace Game, with John Hunter (00:28:00)
The World Peace Game is the brainchild of educator John Hunter. He describes it as “learning to live and work comfortably in the unknown.” It’s hard to imagine a more curiosity-centric undertaking.
A three-dimensional, hands-on political simulation, the World Peace Game explores the interconnectedness of the global community through economic, social, and environmental crises and the imminent threat of war. The goal is to extricate all the countries from those dangerous circumstances and achieve global prosperity, with the least amount of military intervention.
And its played by 4th graders.
“Every question, every comment, every action has to be more deeply questioned. Critical thinking in every student has to go through the roof [to] examine carefully and critically everything that is said.” – John Hunter
THE BRADCAST: 5/6/2025 Trump Judge Blocks NC GOP’s Attempt to Steal 2024 State Supreme Court Election (00:57:30)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: A federal judge ordered the North Carolina State Board of Elections to certify the Democratic incumbent’s victory in a contested State Supreme Court race, blocking North Carolina Republicans and the GOP-controlled State Supreme Court from disenfranchising thousands of voters to give the election to the losing Republican challenger. Newly-released U.S. Intelligence Community report finds no evidence that Venezuela is controlling or ‘directing’ an invasion of the U.S., debunking Donald Trump’s legal justification for invoking the Alien Enemies Act to deport migrants and deny them due process. Federal judge enjoined the Trump Administration from moving migrants detained under the Alien Enemies Act. Elon Musk’s Twitter and Tesla are cratering around the world in the wake of Musk’s turn to the far right. Plus Desi Doyen has our new ‘Green News Report.’ https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
TUESDAY 05.06.25 PROGRAM Notes
6-hour loop begins at NOON, repeats until following noon
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Tuesday May 6, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Scientists use AI to track rapid glacier loss in Arctic Norway (00:01:30)
They found that the melt rate has accelerated in the past two decades.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
ENCOURAGEMENTOLOGY: Take Your Own Medicine: Practicing What You Preach for Personal Growth (00:29:00)
On this show we are making a commitment to take our own medicine and practice what we preach to achieve authentic personal growth. Have you ever caught yourself dishing out great advice “maybe even life-changing advice” only to realize you’re not actually taking it yourself? You’re not alone. For me, this became very real when I paused and thought, Wait a minute am I applying the very same healing and growth tools I’ve spent years teaching others? It’s easy to guide, encourage, and support someone else’s transformation – it feels great, even! But when it comes time to turn that spotlight inward, it can get a little uncomfortable. Personal accountability doesn’t come with a script. There’s no applause when you do the hard inner work in private. Just you, your truth, and the mirror.
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
MAKING CONTACT: The Healing Project: An Abolitionist Story (Encore) (00:29:00)
Composer, pianist, and vocalist Samora Pinderhughes tells us about The Healing Project. The Healing Project, a fundamentally abolitionist project, explores the structures of systemic racism and the prison industrial complex.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: This Week in American Autocracy (00:58:00)
Kissing Dear Leader’s ass is mandatory as Trump’s firehose strategy continues to ‘flood the zone’ with his autocratic agenda.
THE CHILDREN’S HOUR: For Mom – Mother’s Day Special (00:53:00)
This week on The Children’s Hour, were celebrating one of the most important people in our lives – our moms! This special episode, called For Mom, is filled with love, laughter, and appreciation for everything mothers do.
You’ll hear from kids on our Kids Crew and from listeners who share sweet, funny, and heartfelt messages for their moms. They talk about the ways their moms help, support, and care for them, whether its through hugs, making dinner, or cheering them on when things get tough.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell ch. 43 pt. 1 (00:38:55) Clearly frustrated at the refusal of his contemporaries to recognise the iniquity of society, Tressell’s cast of hypocritical Christians, exploitative capitalists and corrupt councillors provide a backdrop for his main target — the workers who think that a better life is “not for the likes of them”. Hence the title of the book; Tressell paints the workers as “philanthropists” who throw themselves into back-breaking work for poverty wages in order to generate profit for their masters. The hero of the book, Frank Owen, is a socialist who believes that the capitalist system is the real source of the poverty he sees all around him. In vain he tries to convince his fellow workers of his world view, but finds that their education has trained them to distrust their own thoughts and to rely on those of their “betters”. Much of the book consists of conversations between Owen and the others, or more often of lectures by Owen in the face of their jeering; this was presumably based on Tressell’s own experiences. (summary by Tadhg)
https://archive.org/details/ragged_trousered_philantropists_th_librivox
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ragged_Trousered_Philanthropists
THE BRADCAST 5/5/2025: (00:57:00)
Independent, investigative news, reporting, interviews and commentary.
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
MONDAY 05.05.25 PROGRAM Notes
6-hour loop begins at NOON, repeats until following noon
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Monday May 5, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Rising temperatures are contributing to the Great Salt Lakes decline (00:01:30)
The shrinking of the lake threatens ecosystems, industries, and even Utahs lake-effect snow.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
WHEN THE BIOMASS HITS THE WIND TURBINE. #47: Factory Farms (00:29:24)
Meat. What is it and where does it come from? Once again our food system has morphed over the years from small farms that raise limited amounts of food stuff ” to a vast mechanized factory farm. Animals are crowded into unsanitary and inhumane conditions ” kept barely alive through antibiotics ” fed food-like substances that they would never eat in nature ” then served up on your dinner table. Join Annie and Jay Warmke for a discussion about sustainability and how it affects our lives.
What is factory farming ” animals and corn/soy
What are the pros and cons?
How did we get into this mess?
How does government encourage it?
Industry concentration
https://bluerockstation.podbean.com
ECONOMIC UPDATE: Resisting Trump’s Restoration Project (00:29:00)
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the Kaiser Permanente mental health workers’ strike unfolding in California and the function of tariffs as an economic weapon that also undermines the living standards of U.S. workers. In the second half of the show, Professor Wolff sits down with Kali Akuno, co-founder and co-director of Cooperation Jackson, to discuss Trumps controversial “restoration” agenda and the growing resistance against it.
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: Doubling His Net Worth? (00:58:00)
Is Trump the first president to act like a businessman?- as in, making himself very rich at the expense of everybody else…
SPIRIT IN ACTION: Harvard’s DEI Refusal & Their Joyful Ex-Prisoner Chaplain: John Bach (00:55:00)
President Trump has been wreaking havoc in so many corners of our country, including the disruption caused by his executive order to dismantle all DEI (Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion) programs throughout the country. Harvard has been the most prominent school to refuse the order, causing joy & celebration among many. Today we’re talking with John Bach about Harvard’s policies and ethics from his perspective as a Harvard chaplain. As a Quaker, John’s credentials are experiential instead of academic or educational, including his work with the Civil Rights movement, his time in prison as a draft refuser, and his work as a house painter. John is also author of Short Time: A Seasons Prison Journal, around John’s short stint in prison for civil disobedience.
Past/present religious/spiritual influences: UCC, Quake
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell ch. 42 (00:15:54) Clearly frustrated at the refusal of his contemporaries to recognise the iniquity of society, Tressell’s cast of hypocritical Christians, exploitative capitalists and corrupt councillors provide a backdrop for his main target — the workers who think that a better life is “not for the likes of them”. Hence the title of the book; Tressell paints the workers as “philanthropists” who throw themselves into back-breaking work for poverty wages in order to generate profit for their masters. The hero of the book, Frank Owen, is a socialist who believes that the capitalist system is the real source of the poverty he sees all around him. In vain he tries to convince his fellow workers of his world view, but finds that their education has trained them to distrust their own thoughts and to rely on those of their “betters”. Much of the book consists of conversations between Owen and the others, or more often of lectures by Owen in the face of their jeering; this was presumably based on Tressell’s own experiences. (summary by Tadhg)
https://archive.org/details/ragged_trousered_philantropists_th_librivox
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ragged_Trousered_Philanthropists
GREEN STREET with PATTI and DOUG WOOD: The Science on Cell Phones and Cancer with Dr. Ronald Melnick (00:29:01)
This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug discuss the Trump administrations effort to intimidate non-profit organizations working on environmental issues, and the new World Health Organization report confirming the links between cell phone radiation and cancer. Then Dr. Ronald Melnick who designed and oversaw the landmark National Institute of Health study on cell phone radiation talks about how the study was designed and why so many people have never heard about it.
https://www.greenstreetnews.org
THE BRADCAST: 5/2/2025 Encore: Media Action Center’s Sue Wilson on FCC plan to gut media ownership rules (00:57:30)
Encore: original airdate 4-23-2025. On today’s ‘BradCast’: The Trump Administration has launched a full-scale attack on press freedom in America. The veteran producer of the venerable news program ’60 Minutes’ resigned, citing pressure from CBS News’ corporate owner, which is seeking administration approval for a billion-dollar merger and wants to get rid of Donald Trump’s ridiculous $20 billion lawsuit against the program. A federal judge has reversed the administration’s shut down of Voice of America and its international sister organizations, ordering full restoration. Broadcast news veteran SUE WILSON explains how Trump’s far-right FCC Chairman is colluding with the nation’s largest owner of local TV stations to eliminate caps on how many local media outlets a single company can own, and misleading their viewers into helping them. Wilson details how to take action by registering an official comment (comments still accepted after deadline).
SUNDAY 05.04.25 PROGRAM Notes
6-hour loop begins at NOON, repeats until following noon
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RADIO 2050 Episode #85: Reclaim Your Mind (00:58:00)
Jay discusses his journey from a curious child interested in technology and mental health to becoming an expert in the intersection of mindfulness and technology. He shares insights and strategies for fostering a healthy relationship with technology, emphasizing the need for mindfulness in our digital era. The discussion also touches on nonprofit models in technology, personal growth, and the challenges of engaging with neurodivergent children.
https://radioparadise.com/radio2050
EARTH RIOT RADIO: SHOP BOMB SHOP BOMB SHOP (00:29:00)
Just a spoonful of shopping makes the bombs go down the bombs go down the bombs go down. War is an active loss of our memory of the Earth. The pilots and crew of bombers are sighting the ordinance into the side of the Earth and losing their Earth Love. But you and I paying for it? What are we losing? Consumerism’s wars have saturation advertising on one end of families on fire on the other. The bombing of the Earth breaks our own memory of being within the world of the Earth. Our shopping attacks memory, too, while selling the past as false nostalgia. Stop Shopping, Stop Bombing.
BARNABY DRUTHERS: Barnaby Druthers: The Hatton Garden Incident (00:27:05)
When the lights go out at a post office in the heart of London’s jewelry district, a stolen dispatch of diamonds, sapphires, and more requires an investigation from Harper Thorne and Barnaby Druthers. Audio theater, radio play, community radio, community radio theater, old time radio, new old time radio, Barnaby druthers, Humphry Rolleston, J. Timothy Quirk, Harper Thorne
https://www.barnabydruthers.com
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
Best of ATTITUDE with ARNIE ARNESEN May 3, 2025 (00:59:30)
Segment One
We begin the show with Carrie N. Baker, JD, PhD, is the Bauman Professor of American Studies and chair of the Program for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality at Smith College. She is the author of Abortion Pills: U.S. History and Politics, available through open access from Amherst College Press. How Reproductive Freedom Advocates Outsmarted the Anti-Abortion Movement Since the reversal of Roe v. Wade, the number of abortions is up because of tele-health and the free sharing of Mifepristone and Misoprostol.
Segment Two
We then catch up with John Nichols, who is a national affairs correspondent for The Nation. He has written, cowritten, or edited over a dozen books on topics ranging from histories of American socialism and the Democratic Party to analyses of US and global media systems. His latest, cowritten with Senator Bernie Sanders, is the New York Times best seller It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism. We discuss, in detail the recent arrest of Milwaukee judge Dugan in her courtroom on what appear to be specious charges. Trump is at was with the judiciary, and this appears to be an intimidation tactic. This is likely to have an chilling effect on the rule of law in the US. Sympathy is currently with the judge.
https://www.arniearnesen.org/WP
BACKGROUND BRIEFING with IAN MASTERS May 1, 2025 (00:59:00)
Trump’s Reality TV Reshuffle of His National Security Team | SCOTUS Appears Poised to Smash Through the Wall Separating Church and State to Force Taxpayers to Subsidize Religious Indoctrination | On This May Day, How Unions Would Be the Only Way Reindustrialized American Factory Workers Could Make a Living Wage to Support a Family.
https://www.backgroundbriefing.org
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR: The Yogi’s Way: Transform Your Mind, Health & Reality with Reema Datta (00:59:00)
Reema Datta is the founder of the Yogis Way, a holistic method that integrates movement, breathing and consciousness practices with a focus on emotional well-being. Since 2002, she has taught yoga trainings and retreats in over twenty countries all over the world. Born into a family deeply rooted in yoga tradition, she was first taught by her parents and grandparents. Her students have included Sting, Edie Brickell, Paul Simon and thousands of other practitioners globally. And her new book that we talk about is The Yogis Way: Transform Your Mind, Health & Reality. People often lament that life doesn’t come with an operating manual. Well, this book is a comprehensive and practical operating manual from the ancient Vedic tradition of India that makes it all easily accessible and easy to understand.
TUC RADIO: Alex Carey – Corporations and Propaganda, parts 1&2 (00:58:00)
Alex Carey wrote that the people of the US have been subjected to an unparalleled, expensive, 3/4 century long propaganda effort designed to expand corporate rights by undermining democracy and destroying the unions. The 20th century, he wrote, is marked by three historic developments: the growth of democracy via the expansion of the franchise, the growth of corporations, and the growth of propaganda to protect corporations from democracy. Careys unique view of US history goes back to World War I and ends with the Reagan era. Noam Chomsky dedicated his book Manufacturing Consent to the memory of Alex Carey. Chomsky says that the Australian sociologist would have written the definitive history of propaganda in the US, had he lived to complete his work. This is a fairly complex production with many voices, historic sound clips, and source material. The program has been used by writers and students of history and propaganda. Alex Carey: Taking the Risk out of Democracy, Corporate Propaganda VS Freedom and Liberty with a foreword by Noam Chomsky was published by the University of Illinois Press in 1995.
SATURDAY 05.03.25 PROGRAM Notes
6-hour loop begins at NOON, repeats until following noon
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EXPLORATION with Michio Kaku: The genius of technology (00:58:46)
How Thomas Edison revolutionized society. Will Quantum Computers do the same miracle?
https://mkaku.org/home/category/radio
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: Musk’s Chain Saw Does Not Think (00:58:06)
If he really aims to cut waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal bureaucracy, there’s a lot of low hanging fruit. But Elon Musk has prioritized eliminating one of the smallest yet most effective programs: USAID. Poverty stricken people of developing nations enthusiastically welcome the food and survival assistance from US Agency for International Development. Cutting it off will only create anger. Building friendships with the people of the world, soft power, often serves our national security more effectively than expensive and wasteful hard power. On this show Skip Isaacs talks about what Musk might learn from the experience of one USAID professional, whose career demonstrates a reality of which Musk apparently knows nothing.
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
AGING MATTERS: Patient Priorities Care (00:58:03)
When providing healthcare, clinicians usually treat diseases separately, following one-size-fits-all evidence-based practices, rather than focusing on individual patient priorities. This approach stresses efficiency and adherence to guidelines, often ignoring what matters to each patient. Mary Tinetti, MD, Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, talks about a concept called patient priorities care, https://patientprioritiescare.org/ in which patients identify their health goals and preferences to guide their healthcare decisions and treatment plans. She discusses how health care providers use patient priorities care to improve patient’s health outcomes.
https://www.agingmattersonline.com
GROWING GREENER: A Low-Cost Swimming Pool that Saves Energy and Serves Biodiversity (00:29:00)
Jennifer Campbell, a sustainable landscape designer in New Hampshire, built herself a natural swimming pool that saves energy, nurtures native plants, serves wildlife, and cost her only $10,000 to install.
https://www.thomaschristophergardens.com
TUC RADIO: How to bring peace to Ukraine – a war between two versions of history (00:29:00)
In April/May 2025 the possible end to the war in Ukraine has world attention. But the peace agreement requires an accepted reading of history – and the two sides are still far apart. Here is an amazing debate over the end of the Soviet Union, the expansion of NATO, nuclear weapons, prior attempts to end the invasion, and even the reminder that Crimea has been the home of Russia’s naval base since 1783. Professor Klaus Larres teaches at the University of North Carolina. Professor Sachs is the Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. In spite of their differences of opinion, Professor Larres introduces Jeffrey Sachs as a world-renowned economics professor, bestselling author, innovative educator, and global leader in sustainable development.
They spoke on April 22, 2025, and here are excerpts from their 90 minute conversation.
Thanks to the University of North Carolina where this discussion was held on April 22, 2025. You can find the 90 minute video on YouTube under the title: Who Rules the New Global Order?
THE BOPST SHOW: Long Division (00:55:14)
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 modern garage psychedelic pop of Mattiel, the Nigerian trances of Tal National and the 70s funk of Dennis Coffey as well as music by Dr. Alimantado, 5 All-Star Guitars and many others locked out of the nation’s largest terrestrial bandwidths.podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
RALPH NADER RADIO HOUR #582 (00:58:00)
Ralph welcomes back Erica Payne, founder of Patriotic Millionaires, to update us on that groups latest efforts to save American democracy by lobbying to raise wages for workers and tax the rich. Plus, according to our resident constitutional expert, Bruce Fein, the count of Trumps impeachable offenses is now up to twenty-two and rising faster than a Space X rocket.
https://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com
FRIDAY 05.02.25 PROGRAM Notes
6-hour loop begins at NOON, repeats until following noon
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Friday May 2, 2025
https://www.democracynow.org/shows
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Scientists develop climate-friendlier rice (00:01:30)
Rice fields are a major source of planet-warming methane, but a new variety could help change that.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
THE LABOR HERITAGE POWER HOUR: We Remember, We Sing, We Fight: May Day Voices (00:55:00)
This week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour celebrates May Day with stories of struggle, song, and solidarity. We preview Lilly, the DC Labor FilmFest opening night film about equal pay champion Lilly Ledbetter, and go behind the scenes of Labors Martyr, a new musical about Joe Hill. Plus: a visit to the American Mural Project and the story behind the labor song Dig a Hole.
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 the Minerals Deal a Smokescreen? (00:58:00)
Will the US under Trump ever provide any meaningful security guarantees to a free and democratic Ukraine?
Plus- the latest emergency- kids using litter boxes in the classroom??
SEA CHANGE RADIO: Talking Truths And Fictions With Steve Almond, Pt. 1 (00:29:00)
This week on Sea Change Radio, the first half of our two-part conversation with author Steve Almond – an astute observer of politics, pop culture, and all things American. In this wide-ranging discussion, we talk about Almonds latest novel which reveals some of the horrors that immigrants to this country face far too often, look at the painful reality of paying taxes in the age of Trumpism and examine the seeds of this present day authoritarianism sown under Ronald Reagan.
LAURA FLANDERS AND FRIENDS: Democracy & Capitalism: A Failed Experiment? (00:28:00)
Is the Wests experiment with social democracy over? Is survival of the richest our fate? In this episode, sisters Laura and Stephanie Flanders hold their annual check-in, this time from St. James Park in London, to delve into the details of the many politico-economic issues dominating and driving the news. Stephanie Flanders, an economics expert of renown, is the Head of Economics and Government at Bloomberg and the host of Trumponomics, the weekly Stephanomics podcast that looks at the president’s economic policies and plans. Join Laura and Stephanie as they discuss how business impacts every aspect of our lives. Are we going backwards, or are there models like community wealth building that we can look to for economic transformation?
THE BOPST SHOW: Long Division (00:55:14)
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 modern garage psychedelic pop of Mattiel, the Nigerian trances of Tal National and the 70s funk of Dennis Coffey as well as music by Dr. Alimantado, 5 All-Star Guitars and many others locked out of the nation’s largest terrestrial bandwidths.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
THE BRADCAST: 5/1/2025 Trump Losing Streak Continues into Second Hundred Days (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: Donald Trump fired his National Security Advisor Mike Waltz over the Signal group chat national security scandal then reassigned him to be UN Ambassador. Federal judge ordered the Trump Administration to restore full funding to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Trump-appointed judge barred Trump from using the Alien Enemies Act to speed up deportations, in first major ruling on the legality of using the act. Shareholders of Coca-Cola rejected proposals to abolish the company’s anti-discrimination programs. Former Vice President Kamala Harris (D) criticized Trump’s attacks on democracy and American values. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) delivered a stem-winder of speech defending the rule of law and democracy and taking on Trumpers and centrist Democrats. Plus Desi Doyen has our new ‘Green News Report.’
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
THURSDAY 05.01.25 PROGRAM Notes
6-hour loop begins at NOON, repeats until following noon
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Thursday May 1, 2025
https://www.democracynow.org/shows
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Scientists knew about global warming in the 1950s (00:01:30)
The climate change consensus dates back decades.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
RADIO ECOSHOCK: Fear and Loathing in the Atmosphere (00:58:00)
Professor Antonio Lazcano: repression of science in the U.S. through the lens of political strongmen in Latin America. What can science-killing in Nicaragua, Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico tell us about the Trump repression? Plus latest news – like Goddard Institute for Space Studies building shut down soon. Naomi Klein asks “Which side are you on?” & sea level expert Robert Kopp. Sounding the General Alarm is not alarmism
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: So Much News!! The Economy, Election Integrity, and Trump’s Detestable Lies (00:58:00)
Attorney, columnist and radio host, Dean Obeidallah explains why Trump’s collapsing poll numbers matter. Does CNN disappoint you as much as me? Their so-called-news people speak at Trump rallies about “owning the libs”? Crazy Alert! Tucker Carlson says America’s “anti-white system” is “much more comprehensive” than Jim Crow. Say what?!
YES! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali – 2025-04-29 (00:58:30)
This week, Ill be out of town for a writer’s residency and am bringing back some interviews from the Rising Up archives, specifically interviews with abolitionists featured in my latest book, Talking About Abolition: A Police Free World is Possible. First, well hear from Professor Melina Abdullah of California State University in Los Angeles, who is a leader in Black Lives Matter LA in a conversation about how participatory budgeting can lead toward divestment from policing. Then, food justice activist Leah Penniman joins me for an in-depth conversation linking our environment with the abolition of police and prisons. Finally, well hear a conversation with Gina Dent, abolitionist feminist at UC Santa Cruz. All three interviews are featured in my latest book, Talking About Abolition: A Police Free World is Possible, just published by Seven Stories Press.
https://risingupwithsonali.com
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell ch. 41 (00:20:58) Clearly frustrated at the refusal of his contemporaries to recognise the iniquity of society, Tressell’s cast of hypocritical Christians, exploitative capitalists and corrupt councillors provide a backdrop for his main target — the workers who think that a better life is “not for the likes of them”. Hence the title of the book; Tressell paints the workers as “philanthropists” who throw themselves into back-breaking work for poverty wages in order to generate profit for their masters. The hero of the book, Frank Owen, is a socialist who believes that the capitalist system is the real source of the poverty he sees all around him. In vain he tries to convince his fellow workers of his world view, but finds that their education has trained them to distrust their own thoughts and to rely on those of their “betters”. Much of the book consists of conversations between Owen and the others, or more often of lectures by Owen in the face of their jeering; this was presumably based on Tressell’s own experiences. (summary by Tadhg)
https://archive.org/details/ragged_trousered_philantropists_th_librivox
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ragged_Trousered_Philanthropists
WINGS #03-25 International Feminism (00:28:58)
Enloe points out the infinite variety of women and feminisms around the world, and suggests what can be learned from them. Her many books include Bananas, Beaches and Bases; and Seriously! Investigating Crashes and Crises as if Women Mattered.
THE BRADCAST: 4/30/2025 100 Daze of Trump’s ‘Fascist Death Spiral’ with Heather Digby Parton of Salon, ‘Driftglass’ of ‘Pro Left Podcast’ (00:57:30)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: Wednesday marked Donald Trump’s first 100 days as president. Trump’s approval ratings are plummeting with a majority of the public on virtually every single issue. Trump’s violent, reckless immigration policies and his attack on due process are also backfiring. The U.S. economy is taking a serious hit from his global tariff trade war, as new economic data show that our previously booming economy shrank in the first quarter after he implemented his policies. Salon opinion columnist HEATHER DIGBY PARTON and ‘DRIFTGLASS’ of the ‘Professional Left Podcast’ give their assessment of Trump’s 100 Days benchmark, bringing insight, context, history and hilarity as we take stock of what may or may not be Trump’s ‘fascist death spiral.’
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675