THURSDAY 10.30.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Thursday October 30, 2025
https://www.democracynow.org/shows
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Playful photos reveal a darker truth about climate change (00:01:30)
In their new book, Atlas of the New World, photographers Giulia Piermartiri and Edoardo Delille use dreamlike images to depict a planet in the midst of rapid change.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
RADIO ECOSHOCK: Answers from the Edge: Tipping Madness (00:58:00)
Here is how worried scientists are about tipping points: 160 scientists from 23 countries just released The Global Tipping Points Report 2025. No one – not experts at COP30 in Brazil, not insurance companies, not governments – no one imagines big climate shifts already in motion. Dr. Steven R. Smith, research Fellow at the Global Systems Institute on planetary-scale risks. Then provocative Swedish intellectual Professor Andreas Malm on his new book The Long Heat. Surprise, surprise: geoengineering will NOT save us from climate catastrophe.
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: This is a Progressive Moment (00:58:00)
Can Democrats win back American support by returning to the policies of FDR that created the American middle class? Plus- Hegseth is preparing mass-firings of Pentagon employees with any hint of independence.
RISING UP WITH SONALI – 2025-10-28 (00:58:30)
This week, as the federal government shutdown marks one month and low-income Americans brace for skyrocketing health insurance premiums as well as food stamp cuts, economist Dean Baker will help us cut through the propaganda and understand who’s doing what and why. Then, Frank Tamborello, executive director of Hunger Action Los Angeles, will explain why it’s the president who is choosing not to fund food stamps and what states, counties, and municipalities can do about the fact that 42 million Americans will need food assistance. Finally, Hamza Walker, curator of a powerful and provocative new art exhibit will join us. Hell explain why Confederate monuments are on display at a museum in LA.
https://risingupwithsonali.com
LITERATURE ALOUD: LibriVox – “A Tale of The Ragged Mountains” by E. A. Poe (00:26:45)
A wealthy hypochondriac with eccentric habits goes out for his daily walk in the woods only to return with an impossible tale suggesting his death and reincarnation. This fascinating and bizarre tale is the only one Poe set in Virginia, just outside of Charlottesville in what is now known as the Ragged Mountain Natural Area.
https://librivox.org/short-ghost-and-horror-collection-025-by-various/
TEXT: https://www.eapoe.org/works/ingram/jhi74234.htm
WINGS #29-25 Iceland Women’s Strike (00:29:00)
Fifty years ago, on October 24, 1995, 90% of the women in Iceland stopped work for a day to protest inequality. The results going forward from that action have been phenomenal. Iceland now leads the world in women’s equality. Filmmakers Pamela Hogan from the US and Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdottir in Iceland spent years researching, recording, and producing The Day Iceland Stood Still, compensating for the missing archival footage with animation. The pair spoke with Hope Katz Gibbs of InkandescentTV, for the 50th anniversary of that strike. They see Iceland’s example can lead the world.
THE BRADCAST: 10/29/2025 Guest: The Prospect’s Harold Meyerson on ‘the first politically viable wealth tax’ in CA (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: Hurricane Melissa continues its record-shattering path of destruction across the Caribbean. Donald Trump fired everyone on the federal commission that would have reviewed plans for his $350 million ballroom and other proposed projects. In New York City, Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has proposed a popular ‘affordability’ agenda, funded in part by a small surcharge on millionaires. In California, a new proposal aiming for the 2026 ballot focuses on a one-time tax on the wealth of the state’s billionaires, to fund the state’s Medicaid program after Trump and Congressional Republicans gutted the federal program with a massive, trillion-dollar cut to pay for tax cuts for the richest Americans. The American Prospect’s HAROLD MEYERSON discusses the California wealth tax, counters the many criticisms against such efforts, and much more.
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
WEDNESDAY 10.29.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Wednesday October 29, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Solar farms can bloom with life, not just energy (00:01:30)
By planting wildflowers instead of grass, developers are creating habitat for bees, butterflies, and birds.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
FOOD SLEUTH RADIO: Mariana Chilton, PhD, MPH, author of The Painful Truth About Hunger In America: Why We Must Unlearn Everything We Think We Know — and Start Again (00:28:00)
Did you know that the solution to hunger is solidarity, not charity? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn for her conversation with Mariana Chilton, PhD, MPH, Professor, U. of Mass Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences, and author of The Painful Truth About Hunger in America: Why We Must Unlearn Everything We Think We Know and Start Again. (MIT, 2024). Chilton discusses the trauma of hunger, the structural issues that undergird hunger, the devastating impact of hunger on children, and who really benefits from keeping people in a state of precarity. She explains how the solutions to hunger lie far beyond food, and are based in compassion, empathy, solidarity and loving kindness.
Related Websites: www.drmarianachilton.com
https://foodsleuth.transistor.fm
THIS WAY OUT #1961: A Wilde Tribute to “Salome” & global LGBTQ news & more! (00:28:59)
A seven-veiled tribute to Oscar Wilde; Indonesian cops stage public perp walks and photographs for 34 gay sex party arrestees, queer couples will finally count in South Korea, gender marker changes are relaxed in the Virgin Islands, a U.S. Federal judge blocks anti-bias healthcare shields for trans patients, but another blocks Trumps threatened defunding of trans-supportive schools, U.S. military families kids get banned books back, Texas joins Florida’s war on rainbow crosswalks, and more LGBTQ news from around the world.
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: Three Things to Know about Venezuela (00:58:00)
Investigative Report Greg Palast joins Thom for a look at what is really behind all the extra-legal killings by our military off the Venezuelan coast. Plus- did the CIA just fumble another Gulf of Tonkin stunt?
CIVIC CIPHER: An Update on Palestine with Activist Suzanne Yatim (00:59:00)
Suzanne Yatim joins us to discuss the updates coming from Gaza and to give her insights on how the 2024 presidential election has shaped the war, how the ceasefire is playing out, and her thoughts on the protests that have drawn attention to the conflict.
In the first half of the show, we discuss the political developments over the last year that have led to the outcomes we continued to see in Gaza. We discuss the strategies deployed by voters to compel the government to take the war in Gaza seriously, and reflect on things that worked and things that didn’t.
In the second half of the show, we discuss the ceasefire in place in Gaza and the subsequent violations, the protests that took place over the past two years, and shared some optimism about the future of Gaza and the West Bank.
LITERATURE ALOUD: E.A. Poe – “Masque of the Red Death” and “The Cask of Amontillado” (00:31:44)
During the month of October and in honor of Halloween, Literature Aloud will feature short ghost and horror stories. Edgar Allan Poe is one of America’s most well-known writers who explored psychological themes well ahead of when academics came up with names for them. In “Masque of the Red Death” we see a narrative about human social practices and contagious plague, a theme especially relevant in this time of Covid-19 pandemic. His tale “The Cask of Amontillado” explores the chilling lengths to which a man will go to enact vengeance on someone who wronged him.
TEXTS: http://www.xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper/POE/masque.html
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper/POE/cask.html
CHOOSE TO BE CURIOUS: Curiosity Builds Rapport, with Tyler Chisholm (00:28:00)
We all have a curiosity origin story. What’s yours? CEO, author and marketing exec Tyler Chisholm’s happens to involve a pool cue. Enriched by his experience in strategic growth-oriented marketing and as host of not one but two podcasts, Tyler polishes that first little nugget into robust guidance for leaders everywhere in his new book Curious as Hell. We focused on the wonderfulness of rapport, self-curious leadership, mirroring and matching in podcasting as in life, the feeling of active listening and expansive questions, framing challenges as collaborative adventures, the power of story & metaphor — and why we should all be keeping curiosity journals on our bedside tables.
“That was the first moment I could look back and tangibly say I chose curiosity — and got a better outcome.” ~ Tyler Chisholm
THE BRADCAST: 10/28/2025 Monster Storm, Endless Wars, Gamed Elections — It’s all going great! (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: Record-shattering Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as a catastrophic, slow moving Category 5 storm. Israel resumed its attacks on Gaza, claiming Hamas violated the recent peace agreement. So-called ‘Peace President’ Donald Trump continued his unlawful killing spree in international waters, murdering another 14 alleged ‘narco-terrorists’ in the Pacific, while deploying warships to Venezuela. Twenty-three Democratic states sued the Trump USDA to restore food assistance to 42 million low-income Americans via the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). California announced it will dispatch its own election monitors to watch the corrupted Justice Department’s election monitors during next week’s critical election. The Gerrymandering Wars expand with new Republican-controlled states moving to steal U.S. House seats from minority voters as Democratic states move to counter them. Plus our new ‘Green News Report.’
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
TUESDAY 10.28.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Tuesday October 28, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Solar suitcases bring safe lighting to more than 10,000 clinics across sub-Saharan Africa (00:01:30)
The off-grid electric systems provide power for medical lights, fetal monitors, and other devices ” helping more women give birth safely.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
ENCOURAGEMENTOLOGY: Knowing When to Listen, When to Help, and When to Let It Breathe (00:29:00)
On this show we’re learning when to listen, when to help, and when to just let it breathe. Have you ever found yourself halfway through someone’s story and already mentally rolling out the action plan? They’re still explaining how overwhelmed they feel ” and you’ve already drafted three possible solutions, ranked by efficiency. Guilty? Me too.
MAKING CONTACT: How the Legacy of Colonialism Keeps Puerto Rico’s Healthcare System in Shambles (Encore) (00:29:00)
Almost half of Puerto Rico’s doctors have fled the island over the past decade, leading to a lack of specialists and treatment and incredibly long wait times. And this isn’t just an inconvenience. People are dying from lack of care. Why is Puerto Rico’s health care system collapsing, and why are doctors fleeing the island? This episode first aired in October 2024.
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Stop the [Actual] Steal? (00:58:00)
Can Democrats find leaders that are inspiring enough to bring the disillusioned back to the polls? Will it take a tsunami election landslide to overcome Republicans further fixing the system?
THE CHILDREN’S HOUR: Composers (00:53:00)
On this episode of The Children’s Hour, we learn all about composers ” the people who write music. Have you ever wondered how songs are created? A composer is the person who puts the notes together, making melodies that can be played by singers, choirs, or even a whole orchestra. Some composers lived hundreds of years ago, and their music is still played today. Others are writing brand-new songs right now that teach, entertain, and inspire us.
WITH GOOD REASON Weekly: We’re All Gonna Die (00:29:00)
Armed with a newly-talking cinema and trying to survive The Great Depression, Universal Studios developed a new genre ” horror. For twenty-two weeks, crews filmed Dracula. And for six of those weeks on a shoestring budget of $66,000, they shot Dracula at night. Antonio Barrenechea (University of Mary Washington) says that despite this unbalanced relationship with Hollywood, this inter-American production contributed to a national cinema throughout the Western Hemisphere in Mexico, Brazil, Peru and beyond. Also: Each generation has its own toxicant. The children of The Great Depression had asbestos. Their children were rattled with lead exposure. And their children are littered with microplastics. Aaron Reuben (University of Virginia) says over 150 million Gen Xers have mental health issues because of their exposure to lead. And here’s the real fright: there’s no cure!
Later in the show: Were all gonna die. That’s one thing that life promises us all. After helping his parents settle their estate and make funeral arrangements, Willy Donaldson (Christopher Newport University) realized that they needed to talk more about death. Way more. Did they want to be cremated or buried? Did they want a big funeral or something more intimate? He found it easier to start with the negative. What don’t you want at the end of your life? Willys book is Estimated Time of Departure.
THE BRADCAST: 10/27/2025 Let’s Play ‘Who Wants to Be a U.S. Citizen?’! Our first call-in ‘game show’! (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: Hurricane Melissa is a deadly Category 5 storm bearing down on Jamaica in what forecasters call ‘a worst-case scenario,’ fueled in part by climate change. The Trump Administration will halt funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) for some 40 million low-income Americans on Nov. 1, using the ongoing government shutdown as an excuse even though SNAP has a dedicated contingency fund to be used in such circumstances. The Trump Justice Department will send federal monitors to next week’s state elections in California and New Jersey, which California Gov. Gavin Newsom warns may be a trial run for interfering in the 2026 midterm elections. The Trump Administration has revised the U.S. citizenship test to make it much more difficult. We play ‘Who Wants to be a U.S. Citizen?’ with callers to see if they can pass the new, more difficult test. https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
MONDAY 10.27.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Monday October 27, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Scientists get a shocking glimpse of Arctic climate change (00:01:30)
Researchers who visited Svalbard expected deep snow, but instead they found meltwater pools and thawed ground.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
WHEN THE BIOMASS HITS THE WIND TURBINE #73: Alternatives to Money (00:29:00)
Money is simply a paper IOU (and not really even paper) that is only as valuable as the faith you put in the promise. And usually not even paper ” only about 5% of the world’s money is in physical form. The rest are simply electrons floating around in some cyber cloud. So what is money and how does it work?
What are some of the alternatives to traditional money systems. Are we in the process of moving from country-based money to technology-based money?
Can you live comfortably in an economy that is not rooted in the concept of money?
And what happens when the money-based economy stumbles or crumbles?
https://bluerockstation.podbean.com
ECONOMIC UPDATE: Late Stage Capitalism and Technical Change (00:29:00)
On this weeks episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the censoring of U.S. government reports on hunger, changes in U.S. agriculture amid capitalism’s decline, the special place of white, male, Christian union members in the MAGA world, and the relation of A.I. and jobs. In the second half of the show, Professor Wolff interviews UCLA Professor Ramesh Srinivasan, host of the podcast Utopias, on technology, capitalism, and our collective future.
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 October 24, 2025 (00:58:00)
Do Democrats have a shot in the midterms of retaking the House? Will the massive numbers at No Kings rallies make a difference? How does the shutdown look from the empty halls of Congress? Mark Pocan bravely answers listener calls from across America.
SPIRIT IN ACTION: A Home for My Loving Action: Olivia Chalkley (00:55:00)
I ran into Olivia Chalkley through an article of hers featured on the website of the Center for Action and Contemplation called A Home for My Loving Action, and I determined I needed to have a deeper visit with Olivia. It turns out that she has explored deeply and worked widely in the not-so-many years she’s been on the planet. Among the places she’s worked are Quaker Voluntary Service, the School of the Spirit, and the Center for Action and Contemplation. As she has written, For most of my adult life, I’ve struggled to find a political home where my faith is welcome and a faith community where my politics are welcome. This tension has been even more heightened as she has felt more and more called to witness in the face of the travesties happening in Gaza, which has led Olivia into activism with Jewish Voice for Peace and now, with a newer organization as well, Christians for a Free Palestine. You can read an early Friends Journal article she wrote, to a QuakerSpeak video interview with her, and more. Olivia lives & works in Philadelphia area.
Past/present religious/spiritual influences: Episcopal, Catholic, Atheist, Quaker
LITERATURE ALOUD: E.A. Poe – “The Fall of the House of Usher” (00:55:29)
During the month of October and in honor of Halloween, Literature Aloud will feature short ghost and horror stories. Edgar Allan Poe is one of America’s most well-known writers who explored psychological themes well ahead of when academics came up with names for them. In “The Fall of the House of Usher” the narrator is invited to visit a childhood friend who has been shut away in his ancestral mansion for years. When he arrives, the mansion seems to be alive and his stay there is punctuated with bizarre and troubling events that lead to a surprise ending.
https://librivox.org/short-ghost-and-horror-collection-001
TEXT: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper/POE/fall.html
THE BRADCAST: 10/24/2025 Encore: Richard Von Glahn of People Not Politicians, on plan to block MO’s GOP U.S. House Gerrymander (00:58:00)
Encore: original airdate 10-14-2025. On today’s ‘BradCast’: Republican-controlled North Carolina is obeying Donald Trump’s orders to rig the 2026 midterm election by launching an unprecedented mid-decade redistricting effort to further gerrymander their already heavily gerrymandered state, to flip ‘blue’ US House seats to ‘red’. But in Missouri, voters and pro-democracy groups are fighting back against the GOP state legislature’s anti-democratic gerrymandering effort. Director RICHARD VON GLAHN of People Not Politicians explains their campaign underway to enact a ballot referendum to stop the gerrymander from moving forward in 2026, expose the specious scheme by top state GOP officials to stymie their efforts, and much more. The fragile Israel-Hamas ceasefire shows signs of fraying. The Fairbanks, AK mayoral election is another instance of a huge shift in the electorate toward Democrats. Plus Desi Doyen has our new ‘Green News Report.’
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
SATURDAY 10.25.25 PROGRAM Notes
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TECHTONIC with MARK HURST: Filmmaker Amanda Hanna-McLeer on the Luddite Renaissance (00:59:30)
Amanda Hanna-McLeer discusses making a documentary about the growing ranks of young people who are giving up smartphones and other surveillance-addiction devices in favor of real life: social interaction, books, and general tech resistance.
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: Why is There So Much Fear in the Strongest Country in the World? (00:59:50)
Fear of the other. Fear of woke, of LGBTQ+, of Black liberation, and of course the old big fear: Communism. In the age of the Cold War, right after WWII, Americans believed the Soviet Union was bankrolling worldwide liberation movements, when they could barely rebuild themselves. Longstanding institutional racism led to our anticommunism: the Black Lives Matter movement was labeled as dangerous extremism as the FBI ignored genuine dangers from the right. Has Trump become our Stalin? On this show history professor Denise Lynn reveals what anticommunism is really about. Has it turned us into what we feared?
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
AGING MATTERS: Osteoarthritis and Low Dose Radiation Therapy (LDRT) (00:58:00)
While there are estimated to be more than 100 types of arthritis, osteoarthritis is the most common, affecting 32.5 million U.S. adults. This condition may be treated with a variety of options including surgery, in addition to a non-invasive treatment called low-dose radiation therapy (LDRT). Robert Hong, MD, Radiation Oncologist, VHC Health, Arlington, VA, talks about risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of osteoarthritis, and use of LDRT as a re-emerging approach to osteoarthritis treatment.
https://www.agingmattersonline.com
GROWING GREENER: Reading the Wildlife Stories in Your Garden (00:29:00)
Expert tracker Jason Knight shares how to develop the ability to read animal tracks and signs to keep current with wildlife visits and to resolve wildlife problems peacefully and effectively.
https://www.thomaschristophergardens.com
TUC RADIO: Michael Parenti: Capitalisms Apocalypse ” ARCHIVE (00:29:00)
2024 Tribute ” Updated Archive: Parenti predicted the financial crisis and said that giant corporate capitalism ” by its very nature ” is an apocalyptic system. When unregulated the built in elements of ever increased growth may well bring the whole system down. And he described the growing national debt not as a tragic mistake but as a means to shift ever more money from the tax payers to the financial institutions in the form of interest payments.
This speech is an analysis of the many structural flaws of a capitalist system that puts it on a permanent collision course with democracy. Recorded on August 23, 2008 at the closing reception for Maria Gilardins art show: Toasting the End of Capitalism. This rebroadcast, made in March 2024, is eerily contemporary and lends a historic perspective to current events.
THE BOPST SHOW: Schizophrenic Baby (00:55:41)
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 raw, rock & roll of the Dirtbombs, funky soul from the Detroit Executives, and the boisterous camp of Bette Midler as well as music by Tony Allen, the Dismasters, and many others locked out of the nation’s largest terrestrial bandwidths.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
RALPH NADER RADIO HOUR #607 (00:58:00)
We are joined once again by Dr. Bandy Lee, forensic and social psychiatrist and violence expert, who edited the 2017 New York Times bestselling book, “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump.” We get her latest take on whether someone with Trump’s psychological profile should have the nuclear football and whether he would actually leave office peacefully. Plus, Ralph assesses the latest No Kings rally.
https://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com
FRIDAY 10.24.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Friday October 24, 2025
https://www.democracynow.org/shows
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Your homeowners insurance policy almost certainly doesn’t cover floods (00:01:30)
But you can buy a separate flood insurance policy – a step experts are urging people to take as floods get more extreme and common, even outside of high-risk flood zones.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
THE LABOR HERITAGE POWER HOUR: Songs that Organize, Strikes that Endure (00:51:25)
We dig into how culture fuels courage on the shop floor and the strike line. First, legendary organizer – songwriter Si Kahn breaks down the organizers secret weapon: parody. From Joe Hills new words to old tunes to the brand-new Solidarity at Starbucks, we explore why familiar melodies can turn a crowd into a chorus – fast.
Then we head to Camp Solidarity in Matewan, West Virginia for Lessons from the Massey Strike. UMWA veterans Charles Hawkeye Dixon, Howard Phillips, and Eddie Burke take us inside the 1984″85 fight with Massey: the tactics, the unity, the losses, and what it took to stop production and keep a union alive.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: This isn’t about the Truth (00:58:00)
Donald Trump is writing a new chapter in American politics- ‘How to Use the justice department to punish your enemies, benefit your loyalists, and make money too!’ Plus- getting control of dangerous frogs and unicorns…
SEA CHANGE RADIO: Bob Berwyn of Inside Climate News on Nature Restoration Efforts (00:29:00)
While US political news is certainly more than depressing these days, it’s always nice to get a healthy reminder of the many good things that are happening around us. This week on Sea Change Radio we speak to Inside Climate News Science Reporter Bob Berwyn as he prepares to cover next month’s COP 30 conference in Brazil. We look at some of the more positive developments on the biodiversity and rewilding fronts, examine the effectiveness of some recent policies to help animal populations like seabirds and gray wolves bounce back, and talk briefly about what to expect from the upcoming COP 30 conference.
LAURA FLANDERS AND FRIENDS: Dolores Huerta & Ellen Gavin: Creative Courage in the Face of Fascism (00:28:00)
People are taking to the streets and calling out fascism in bold, unique ways, but were not all there yet. If you need some encouragement, watch “The People, United” ” a gripping short film about everyday Americans standing up to ICE and winning through nonviolent resistance. Created by Ellen Gavin and presented in collaboration with the Dolores Huerta Foundation and People for the American Way, the video is a powerful example of storytelling as an organizing tool. In this episode, lifelong activists and old friends Ellen Gavin and Dolores Huerta join Laura Flanders to explore how narratives help break through our silos and fears under this second Trump administration. Gavin’s works as a writer, director and producer have brought millions of views to social justice storytelling; she is also founder of Gavin Creative Collab and founding artistic director of Brava! for Women in the Arts. Huerta is co-founder of the United Farm Workers with Csar Chvez and founder and president of the Dolores Huerta Foundation. Still organizing at 95 years old, she is recognized as one of the most influential labor organizers of the twentieth century and coined the iconic rallying cry Si Se Puede. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012. Find out how narratives shatter fear and build movements, plus a commentary from Laura.
THE BOPST SHOW: Schizophrenic Baby (00:55:41)
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 raw, rock & roll of the Dirtbombs, funky soul from the Detroit Executives, and the boisterous camp of Bette Midler as well as music by Tony Allen, the Dismasters, and many others locked out of the nation’s largest terrestrial bandwidths.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
THE BRADCAST: 10/23/2025 Critical NOAA Climate Database resurrected, with guest Former NOAA climate scientist Tom Di Liberto (00:57:30)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: The first six months of 2025 featured the costliest weather and climate-related disasters on record for the U.S. We know about it because former NOAA scientists have resurrected the world-leading climate and weather agency’s Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters Database after it was shut down by the science deniers of the Trump Administration, bringing their skills to the non-profit climate research organization Climate Central. Former NOAA climate scientist TOM DI LIBERTO explains the vital importance of the database and NOAA’s climate research, why Team Trump wants to dismantle and privatize NOAA, whether it can be rebuilt, and much more. Virginia state Democratic lawmakers launch ingenious plan to counter the unprecedented Trump/Republican mid-decade gerrymandering efforts in multiple states to rig the 2026 midterm elections. Plus Desi Doyen has our new ‘Green News Report.’
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
THURSDAY 10.23.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Thursday October 23, 2025
https://www.democracynow.org/shows
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Free test drives bring more EVs to rural Appalachia (00:01:30)
A two-week test drive program is helping rural drivers see if EVs fit their lives.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
RADIO ECOSHOCK: Events Closer Than They Appear (00:58:00)
From New Zealand and the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research, Dr. Kevin Trenberth talks ocean heating, new science and his provocative new article. But first we run away to the past. Oregon State University Professor Peter Clark just published “Global mean sea level over the past 4.5 million years” Can we find a rear-view mirror that helps predict our future?
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: Courage is Contagious (00:58:00)
As Trump continues to harm his own supporters, cracks are showing in his coalition despite his frightening and life-destroying efforts at intimidation.
RISING UP WITH SONALI – 2025-10-21 (00:58:30)
This week, well bring you a report back from the streets of Hollywood and downtown Los Angeles, where thousands of people marched to mark the nation-wide No Kings mobilization. You’ll hear from a cross section of attendees grappling with the state of the government and their vision for the future of the nation. Then, Leonardo Martinez, an immigrant-rights activist from Ventura County, California, joins us to share what happened when ICE agents rammed into his vehicle and detained him during regular neighborhood patrols. Martinezs organization VC Defensa is one of the most effective immigrant defense groups in the nation. Finally, Aisha Coffey, a federal worker, speaks out against government cuts and the shut down, reminding us how crucial such workers are to the running of the nation. She’ll preview a series of shorts premiering on Free Speech TV October 28 about federal workers called I Do Solemnly Swear.
https://risingupwithsonali.com/
LITERATURE ALOUD: Halloween Shorts – H.P. Lovecraft “The Tomb” (00:21:15)”The Tomb” is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in June 1917 and first published in the March 1922 issue of The Vagrant. It tells the story of Jervas Dudley, who becomes obsessed with a mausoleum near his childhood home. (Wikipedia)
TEXT: https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/t.aspx
WINGS #28-25 Ovalizing Power (00:29:00)
Lani Guinier was one of the most prolific and sought-after legal scholars in the United States. She published 5 books between 1994 and 2015, focused largely on democratization and social justice. Guinier took emerita status at Harvard in 2017 and died at age 71, January 7, 2022. She delivered this acclaimed keynote address at the US National Women’s Studies Association conference in the year 2000.
THE BRADCAST: (00:58:00)
Independent, investigative news, reporting, interviews and commentary.
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WEDNESDAY 10.22.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Wednesday October 22, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Inland communities are increasingly vulnerable to rainfall from tropical systems (00:01:30)
More than half the deaths from U.S. hurricanes between 2013 and 2022 were the result of freshwater flooding, according to the National Hurricane Center.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
FOOD SLEUTH RADIO: Charlotte Vallaeys, MS, discusses the multiple benefits of organic, and confusion over regenerative agriculture. (00:28:00)
Did you know organic agriculture has a legal definition, but regenerative agriculture does not? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn for her conversation with Charlotte Vallaeys, MS, independent consultant, advocate, and champion of organic agriculture. Board member of Organic Voices and the Organic Farming Research Foundation, Vallaeys discusses the definition of organic, its multiple benefits to health, environment and climate, and consumer confusion over the term regenerative agriculture.
Related Websites: Real organic podcast: https://realorganicproject.org/charlotte-vallaeys-outcome-based-agriculture-pitfalls-episode-one-hundred-eight/
https://foodsleuth.transistor.fm
THIS WAY OUT #1960: Jennie Arnau: A Rising Tide & global LGBTQ news & more! (00:28:59)
Musician Jennie Arnau on the comeback trail; more October anniversaries from Shepard to South Africa; Turkeys government proposes new anti-queer persecution, the Church of Norway repents of anti-LGBTQ bias, a Wyoming librarian wins a six-figure settlement over her book ban refusal firing, far-right U.S. influencer Candace Owens fails Australias character test, Obama offers a strategy to win trans youth allies, and the unapologetically woke Professor Sprout loves lesbian fun, and more LGBTQ news from around the world.
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: Pardoning Santos is a Message (00:58:00)
Punishing his enemies and privileging his loyalists- is this normal authoritarian behavior, or actually a sign of Trump’s weakness? Plus – Congressman Ro Khanna takes listener questions.
CIVIC CIPHER: The Racism Present in Young Republican Leadership / A Conversation with Young Progressive Pundit Knowa De Baraso (00:59:00)
Our guest this week is Knowa De Baraso one of the youngest faces of the Democratic Party, one of the sharpest minds covering politics, and one of the rising stars in the podcasting space. In the first half of the show, we discuss the leaked chat messages from young Republican leadership across the country and make connections to historical leaks that have also given insight in to the racist, toxic culture that is often very pronounced in this country’s political right. In the second half of the show, we have a conversation with Knowa De Baraso about the future of liberal politics and the places that young people occupy in the political equation.
LITERATURE ALOUD: Halloween Shorts – H.G. Wells “The Red Room” (00:24:20)
A young idealistic civil servant, Arvid Falk, leaves the drudgery of bureaucracy to become a journalist and author. As he explores various social activities — politics, publishing, theatre, philanthropy, and business — he finds more hypocrisy and corruption than he thought possible. He takes refuge with a group of “bohemians”, who meet in a red dining room in Berns Salonger to discuss these matters. (Introduction adopted from Wikipedia)
https://librivox.org/the-red-room-by-august-strindberg
CHOOSE TO BE CURIOUS: Curiosity Lessons from Solutions Journalism, with Monica Quesada Cordero (00:28:00)
“This is one of the things with the fast world that we’re in: how do we get people to stop — and to question?” ~ Monica Quesada Cordero.Solutions journalism is a rigorous form of reporting the focuses on responses to problems. No more handwringing; no more oversimplifying. This approach embraces the complexity and, in so doing, manages to restore our faith in the news. Monica Quesada Cordero and her colleagues at el Colectivo 506 have learned a lot in their five years of bringing solutions journalism to Costa Rica.
They have curiosity lessons for journalism — and life itself.
We talk about the upside of complicating the narrative, building a library of what works, the beauty in shades of gray, finding common ground in the complexity, the relief that comes with transparency, and the value in asking an extra what else?
THE BRADCAST: 10/21/2025 Law[lessness] and [Dis]Order: Trump’s crime spree continues and expands (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: Felon Donald Trump’s ongoing crime spree, violating civil and criminal law, is unprecedented in US history. The corrupted Republican-controlled Congress and the stolen and packed rightwing U.S. Supreme Court supermajority are ensuring he is not held accountable for his lawlessness. A January 6 rioter pardoned by Trump was arrested this week for threatening to assassinate Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Trump granted clemency to disgraced conman, former GOP Rep. George Santos. Trump’s administration created an interagency group to weaponize the entire federal government against his political enemies. Trump demanded the Justice Department pay him $230 million in taxpayer money as restitution for investigating his wrongdoing. North Carolina Republican state legislature is poised to further gerrymander the already-heavily gerrymandered state. Plus Desi Doyen has our new ‘Green News Report.’
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TUESDAY 10.21.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Tuesday October 21, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: The hidden risks of forest carbon credits (00:01:30)
Wildfire, disease, and logging can wipe out carbon storage that companies count on to offset emissions.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
ENCOURAGEMENTOLOGY: The Human Need for Connection in an AI-Driven World (00:29:00)
On this show we’re exploring something that has always been at the heart of Encouragementology – the simple, powerful, and essential need for connection. Not surface-level chatter or algorithmic affirmations, but real, human-to-human interaction. The kind that looks you in the eye, senses your mood, leans in when you’re struggling, and celebrates when you’re rising.
MAKING CONTACT: The City Displaced (00:29:00)
With the help of the podcast Wading Between Two Titans, well take a look at how urban redevelopment is pushing out low-income and Black residents and what happens when communities are displaced due to climate gentrification.
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 is This Really All About? (00:58:00)
Author and intelligence researcher Malcolm Nance takes apart the game Trump and Putin are playing with Zelensky. Whose side is Trump really on?
THE CHILDREN’S HOUR: Pumpkin Spice Halloween (00:53:00)
Its Halloween time on The Children’s Hour! In this episode, we celebrate pumpkins, jack-o-lanterns, costumes, and trick-or-treating. Our Kids Crew shares their own traditions, from trunk-or-treat clothing drives to festive parades in northern New Mexico. Well find out why some houses put teal pumpkins outside their doors, and learn how this helps kids with food allergies have a safe and fun holiday.
LITERATURE ALOUD: Halloween Shorts – The Baba Yaga (00:31:21)Baba Yaga is a famous witch of the East. She has spooked and scared little children across Eastern Europe for many a year. This is a her most famous story. A wicked Step-Mother sends Vasilisa to visit the witch in her hut in the woods to ask for some lights. She’s pretty sure that that will be the last she ever sees of her stepdaughter – but is she right? (LibriVox)
WITH GOOD REASON Weekly Half Hour: Appalachia’s Edible Landscape (00:29:00)
In a walk through the forest, an Appalachian landowner and biologist points out dozens of species he and his family sustainably harvest for meals. From sycamore trees – whose syrup tastes like butterscotch – to Appalachian wasabi – a spicy root they use in their spice blends – Ryan Huish (University of Virginia College at Wise) is teaching a new generation plant identification and sustainable harvesting practices.
THE BRADCAST: 10/20/2025 Celebrating ‘No Kings’ with callers and about 7 million other Americans (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: An estimated 7-8 million Americans turned out for Saturday’s massive, joyful, peaceful ‘No Kings’ demonstrations in more than 2,700 cities and towns across the country, rallying to defend constitutional rights and the rule of law against Donald Trump’s authoritarianism and his threats to democracy, and seeking to make America GOOD again. Federal courts blocked the administration’s unlawful mass firing of federal workers during the ongoing government shutdown and rejected the Trump Justice Department’s efforts to prosecute protesters. Trump posted to social media a grotesque A.I.-generated video showing himself as the pilot of a fighter jet, wearing a crown and dumping tons of excrement on protesters. Callers share their moving stories of what they experienced at No Kings rallies in their towns.
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MONDAY 10.20.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Monday October 20, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: When drought meets deluge (00:01:30)
Climate change is intensifying both floods and droughts ” sometimes leaving communities to endure both burdens at once.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
WHEN THE BIOMASS HITS THE WIND TURBINE #72: Agritourism (00:29:00)
It is becoming more and more difficult to make a living from traditional farming. So how can you make a living but still live in a rural setting?
Many turning to agritourism, selling the experience of farming and farm life rather than the products.
Issues to be aware of:
marketing
business management
regulations (food service, waste disposal, zoning, etc)
people management
liability issues
neighbors
https://bluerockstation.podbean.com
ECONOMIC UPDATE: Unionizing American Architects (00:29:00)
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the I.C.E. raid at a battery factory in Georgia, the growing inequality in the U.S. during both Trump terms, the 75 U.S. military airstrikes on Somalia in 2025, and France’s mass national street actions against the Macron government’s austerity policies. The second part of the episode features an interview with Christopher G Beck, the architect who is organizing a union of architects in the U.S. and author of the new book, The Labor of Architecture.
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: Principles for Protesters (00:58:00)
On the eve of No King’s Day, brilliant guest host Jefferson Smith orchestrates a discussion on the nuts and bolts of making change through successful demonstrations.
SPIRIT IN ACTION: We Didn’t Start the Fire: Burned By Billionaires (00:55:00)
We’ve got Chuck Collins with us here again today, sharing from his new book, Burned By Billionaires, a deep look into the damage to the entire world, and almost all Americans, of the soaring epidemic of wealth inequality in the US. Chuck was born on third base, but chose a better way, reducing his wealth. Notwithstanding his moderation, he has worked with the Patriotic Millionaires to bring our society back from the edge of the inferno, back to sanity and well-being. Also find Chuck and his co-workers on inequality.org, and listen to our interviews with him in 2016, and in 2023. Chuck Collins joins us from his home in Guilford, Vermont. Past/present religious/spiritual influences: Catholic, Catholic Worker, Sojourners
LITERATURE ALOUD: Bierce – “The Damned Thing” and “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”
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Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) Most famous for his satirical work The Devil’s Dictionary, Bierce was a Civil War veteran (surviving a shot to the head) and an American short story writer famous for his disturbing tales of horror and his realistic portrayals of the Civil War. In “The Damned Thing” Bierce explores the limits of human perception and the terror of a monster that cannot be seen. “Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge” is his most famous tale portraying the last moments of the life of a Civil War spy being hanged for his espionage.
TEXT: http://ambrosebierce.org/works.html
ALAN WATTS: Stop Feeling Lost by Doing This (00:15:17)
If there is one simple question that bothers us all as human beings, it is : Why are we living ? It is a burden on our shoulders, and we cannot think about it without going depressed or becoming sad, because simply we can’t answer it. We got blocked. In this lecture, Alan Watts talks about the game of life, how the answer of that question is : To play. To simply not take it seriously, to stay within the flow of life without having to be very strict and rigid about it. We have to take it as if it was a game. Because if we take it seriously, we will be forced to think scientifically, to predict the future, and be aware that any false move, would lead us to a fatal death, which is not the case.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4oI0Q62RkE&t=116s
THE BRADCAST: 10/17/2025 Encore: Trump Labor Dept. Warns Trump Immigration Policy Sparking Food Shortage, with David Dayen of TAP (00:58:00)
Encore: original airdate 10-9-2025. On today’s ‘BradCast’: Donald Trump’s tariff trade war is backfiring badly, and now he needs a deadlocked Congress to approve a multi-billion dollar bailout to rescue the US agriculture sector from the consequences. Trump’s Labor Department, in an official filing, asserted that Trump’s immigration enforcement is causing a farmworker crisis and may lead to food shortages. But is it actually true? Financial journalist and Executive Editor of The American Prospect, DAVID DAYEN, discusses what these two major stories mean, how the Trump Administration is using the self-induced crises to slash farmworker wages, and much more. Israel and Hamas apparently agreed to a pause in their war. Trump Justice Department indicted NY Attorney General Letitia James as Trump ordered. Author Michael Wolff explains what he saw of Jeffrey Epstein’s salacious photos of Trump. Plus Desi Doyen has our new ‘Green News Report.’
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
SUNDAY 10.19.25 PROGRAM Notes
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SCHOLARS’ CIRCLE & THE INSIGHTERS Oct 12 25: Autocracy and Informants (00:58:00)
Autocratic regimes often use people throughout the population to serve as informants. Why do people choose to become an informant and collaborate with autocracies? And what constitutes justice against these informants once the state democratizes? We discuss a new book on the topic Informers Up Close with its authors Mark Drumbl and Barbora Hola.
EARTH RIOT RADIO # 191 – Evolve with the Earth, Beyond Greatness Creep (00:29:00)
Scientists are hysterical now because AI can kill us soon. They are trying to plant a cyber-conscience into the robots before they run amuck. But the investor class LOVES THIS HORSE. JD Vance claims the AI robots are the leaders of the American future. He may be an AI-bot himself. But the Earth, far smarter than any computer, is evolving too. There is the tragic side that we humans have made. (Were in the 29th month of the global heatwave, also known as the Sixth Extinction.) We can die by computers; We can die by Big Oil. The Earth survives both. Choose the Earth. In fact, LOVE THE EARTH.
BARNABY DRUTHERS: Salem’s Cauldron and Le Diable Roulette (00:28:00)
Two non-Druthers short stories that are inspired by the fall season: Salem’s Cauldron (taking place in Salem, MA) and Le Diable Roulette (taking place in New Orleans, LA)
written created and produced by J. Timothy Quirk (C)2025 created for community radio.
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 October 18, 2025 (00:59:30)
Segment One
We begin the show with Whitney Curry Wimbish, staff writer for The American Prospect. We discuss the growth of crypto investments in real estate. Small amounts allow individuals to participate in this market. There are no regulations for this type of investment, and the SEC, under Paul Atkins, is not examining the ‘hype’ around these schemes. Growth in these financial instruments is expected to accelerate.
Segment Two
We then sit with Taylor Goldenstein is a state bureau reporter at the Houston Chronicle. We discuss how a Texas group is positioning itself as a Republican alternative to teacher’s unions. Texas Legislature launches new investigating committees for July 4th floods.
https://www.arniearnesen.org/WP
BACKGROUND BRIEFING with IAN MASTERS October 16, 2025 (00:59:00)
Trump and Putin to Meet in Budapest Soon For Another Summit After the Alaska Fiasco | Trump Authorizes CIA Covert Action Against Venezuela Announcing “We Are Looking at Land Now” | Friends and Relatives of Our Political Leaders Cash in on Dirty Money From Disreputable Despots
https://www.backgroundbriefing.org
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR: Marshall Rosenberg – The Non-Violent Communication Approach to Authority (00:59:00)
This show features Marshall Rosenberg, the founder of the Center for Non-Violent Communication, talking about the non-violent approach to handling and wielding authority. Marshall Rosenberg was a brilliant student of psychology and the human condition. He created schools, wrote books and shared his work all over the world. He passed away in 2015 at the age of 81. May his work continue to bring people together and create peace in the world and in our lives. Especially in these crazy times.
DEEP DIVE CYBERSECURITY SHOW: Bot Networks Are Dragging US Corporations Into The Culture War (00:58:00)
Remember the Cracker Barrel logo outrage? That was driven by bot networks controlled by foreign and hyper partisan radicals that pushed it to the rightwing of this country. We are seeing the social media networks overrun with that which is killing our society. We explore this important topic and so much more this week.
SATURDAY 10.18.25 PROGRAM Notes
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TECHTONIC with MARK HURST: The protest against smartphones, with Logan Lane (00:59:30)
A recent protest against smartphones took place in Manhattan – complete with signs, puppets, a live band, and (for some reason) gnome caps for the participants. Mark interviewed the participants, including Luddite Club founder Logan Lane, about their aims – and why we should all resist Big Tech surveillance. The protest, held on Sep 27, 2025 in the meatpacking district of Manhattan, was called Scathing Hatred of Information Technology and the Passionate Hemorrhaging of Our Neo-Liberal Experience.
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: People and the Planet: Burned By Billionaires (00:00:00)
Think billionaires have no impact on your life? Think again. We never blame billionaires for our day to day problems even though they deserve it. For example billionaires buy up housing projects then up the rent. And as business owners they often squeeze out workers to increase their profits; they’re job looters. Under Trump billionaires have succeeded in their long term goal of taking over US government, transforming a democratic republic into feudalism. On this show, guest is acclaimed author and economic equity activist Chuck Collins, whose new book is titled Burned By Billionaires; How Concentrated Wealth and Power are Ruining Our Lives and Planet. Billionaires are not evidence of the success of capitalism, quite the converse: billionaires are destroying capitalism. Capitalism is strongest in countries without billionaires, like Canada and nations of Scandanavia. The tide is starting to turn, our tolerance for inequality is shrinking; a full 70% of us favor a wealth tax. Enough!
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
AGING MATTERS: Suicide Awareness and Prevention (00:58:00)
While older adults comprise just 16.8% of the population, they make up approximately 22% of suicides. Suicide attempts by older adults are much more likely to result in death than among younger persons.
Jill Harkavy-Friedman, PhD, Senior Vice President of Research, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), https://afsp.org/about-afsp/, talks about risk factors, intervention, and prevention strategies for older adults at risk of suicide and how AFSP and other resources help support family members affected by suicide.
https://www.agingmattersonline.com
GROWING GREENER: A Garden Masterpiece Designed to Evolve (00:29:00)
Richard Hayden, senior director of horticulture for The High Line, describes how plants and gardeners collaborate in this ever-changing urban paradise
https://www.thomaschristophergardens.com
TUC RADIO: Fred Gray – Civil Rights Attorney for Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Black History Month 2025 (00:29:00)
TUC Archive: Fred Gray, just out of law school, made a commitment to destroy everything segregated in his home state of Alabama Rosa Parks was only Fred Grays second case. Gray represented Claudette Colvin, a teenager, who nine months earlier had been the first to refuse to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus ” and in turn inspired Rosa Parks. When Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955 for violating the segregated seating ordinance, 26-year-old Martin Luther King was chosen to lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and 24-year-old Fred Gray became his and the movements lawyer. Grays legal victory in the federal courts ended the boycott 381 days later.
THE BOPST SHOW: No More Kings (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 goodness of Rueben Bell and the Casanovas, the heavy dub stylings of Jah Shaka, and the risqué blues of Agnes Riley as well as music by Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, Lisa Knapp, Sonora Carruseles, and many others locked out of the nation’s largest terrestrial bandwidths.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
RALPH NADER RADIO HOUR #606 (00:58:00)
Ralph welcomes Professor Roddey Reid to break down his book Confronting Political Intimidation and Public Bullying: A Handbook for the Trump Era and Beyond. Then, we are joined by the original Nader’s Raider, Professor Robert Fellmeth, who enlightens us on how online anonymity and Artificial Intelligence are harming children.
https://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com
FRIDAY 10.17.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Friday October 17, 2025
https://www.democracynow.org/shows
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Young farmers face steep odds in a changing climate (00:01:30)
High land costs, student debt, and climate shocks make it hard for the next generation of farmers to get started and stay on the land.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
THE LABOR HERITAGE POWER HOUR: Laurel’s Legacy, Fannie Lou & Joe Hill’s Ashes (00:48:52)
On this weeks Labor Heritage Power Hour: We dedicate this Labor Heritage Power Hour to Laurel Blades (1952″2022)”singer, organizer, and former director of the Labor Heritage Foundation – on the week she would have turned 73. Co-host Elise Bryant shares reflections on Laurels artistry and why labor culture sustains us in hard times, before we hear Laurels 1981 Labor Solidarity Day performance of Hold the Fort with Joe Uehlein, Tommy Moran, and John Gower.
Then: the work, art, and voice of Fannie Lou Hame – sharecroppers daughter, timekeeper, Freedom Singer, and SNCC organizer. We spin the brand-new Fannie Lou from Baltimore’s R.J. Phillips Band, followed by Hamer herself singing Pick a Bale of Cotton.
In our second segment, the Heartland Labor Forum talks with historian Marcella Bencivenni about Arturo Giovannitti – Italian-born union leader, poet, and a key organizer of the 1912 Bread & Roses strike”whose free-speech trial helped define labors voice.
Our third segment is the Labor Song of the Week: Otis Gibbs Joe Hills Ashes, and we go out with Laurel Blaydes singing What Will I Leave at the 2004 Great Labor Arts Exchange.
RVA SOUNDSCAPE 1 Ralph White (00:09:17)
This is an original DJ Stryder collage of the sounds of Richmond, VA includes sonic selections both natural and man-made and it concludes with a brief explanation of the environmental impact of the Falls of the James by former James River Parks Manager Ralph White.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Republicans Don’t Give a Damn about Families (00:58:00)
Republican policies are making life ever more expensive for most Americans- and meanwhile the graft, hustles, and outright scams keep making the rich richer- but at least nobody can say we’re socialist… right?
SEA CHANGE RADIO: Chuck Collins: Burned By Billionaires (00:29:00)
Is Americas love affair with billionaires actually an abusive relationship? This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak to author Chuck Collins whose new book, Burned By Billionaires, helps us better understand why having so many ultra-wealthy individuals in this country has a deleterious effect on society. We discuss what Collins calls the idolatry of wealth, look at examples of billionaires harming the environment and the public good (such as in the explosive growth in the private aviation sector), and then break down some practical ways to help solve the problem.
LAURA FLANDERS AND FRIENDS: Cuts, Shutdowns & Civil Rights Attacks: Federal Workers Fight Back (00:28:00)
About 750,000 people are on unpaid leave as the U.S. government shutdown continues ” but some of the most caring parts of the government’s work have been shut down for months. Take the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for example. This is one of the only free resources available to Americans facing housing discrimination, but in a shocking complaint letter submitted to Senator Elizabeth Warren on September 22, 2025, civil rights attorneys Palmer Heenan, Paul Osadebe and two other whistleblowers describe an agency in crisis. Staff has been slashed by 70% since Donald Trump took office, civil rights cases have been abandoned, and political appointees are allegedly overriding legal findings to allow discrimination. Every layoff and budget cut by the Trump administration, both within HUD and across federal agencies, is part of a larger plan to create chaos, end civil rights protections, legalize segregation and exert unitary executive power. Heenan and Osadebe, members of the Federal Unionists Network (FUN), are calling on federal employees to uphold their oath to constitution and protect Americans. And theyve paid the price: *both Heenan and Osadebe were fired by HUD in what has been called a “stunning act of illegal retaliation. In this conversation, the two share their story, what it means for civil rights and how unions can fight for government accountability.
THE BOPST SHOW: No More Kings (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 goodness of Rueben Bell and the Casanovas, the heavy dub stylings of Jah Shaka, and the risqué blues of Agnes Riley as well as music by Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, Lisa Knapp, Sonora Carruseles, and many others locked out of the nation’s largest terrestrial bandwidths.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
THE BRADCAST: 10/16/2025 Rightwing SCOTUS Majority May Gut Last of Voting Rights Act, with Joshua A. Douglas, Univ. of KY, and David Daley of FairVote (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: The corrupted rightwing supermajority on the US Supreme Court appears poised to kill off Section 2 of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965, which barred racially discriminatory election practices. Election law expert JOSHUA A. DOUGLAS, of the University of Kentucky, and redistricting expert DAVID DALEY of FairVote explain the twisted history of a case heard by the court this week, Louisiana v. Callais, in which White voters in the state allege that a voting map allowing for a second Black-majority voting district — reflecting the state’s Black population — amounts to unconstitutional racial discrimination against Whites. Douglas and Daley discuss the stakes, why Sec. 2 is still necessary, what happens next, and much more. Plus Desi Doyen has our new ‘Green News Report.’
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
THURSDAY 10.16.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Thursday October 16, 2025
https://www.democracynow.org/shows
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: The biggest storms on Earth are their workplace (00:01:30)
NOAAs Hurricane Hunters risk rough skies so the public can better prepare for disasters.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
RADIO ECOSHOCK: The Casino of Climate Change (00:58:00)
Is Earth a casino of chance where catastrophe decides the survivors? Dive in with this timely replay interview with climate extinction expert Dr. Peter Ward. A new study finds 41,000 Americans die due to wildfire smoke. That almost doubles by 2050, with economic losses greater than any other threat from warming. Details coming up. The new Global Tipping Points Report 2025 is just breaking. We prepare with last year’s chat with Lead Author Dr. Tim Lenton, University of Exeter UK.
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: Furries and True Conservatives Unite! (00:58:00)
The boneheaded cruelty of Trump’s ICE Brigade shows itself more every day. Is Trump working hard to make America into a 3rd world-style dictatorship like Egypt? Where are the Republicans of conscious willing to defend our liberty and our nation?
RISING UP WITH SONALI – 2025-10-14 (00:58:31)
This week, well analyze the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas and, discuss digital settler colonialism and how to beat it, with my guest Omar Zahzah. He’s the author of Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital Settler Colonialism in the Palestine Liberation Struggle. Then, Glo Sahay, the founder of Political Revolution joins us. She’ll discuss the next No Kings mobilization taking place this Saturday October 18 in cities around the US and promises to be even bigger and grander than the first such gatherings in June. Finally, well hear the voice and words of the late Kent Wong, a giant among labor activists and non violence strategists who passed away on October 8″exactly 3 months after I last interviewed him.
https://risingupwithsonali.com
LITERATURE ALOUD: Bierce – “The Boarded Window” (00:12:51)
“The Boarded Window: An Incident in the Life of an Ohio Pioneer” is a short story by American Civil War soldier and writer Ambrose Bierce. It was first published in The San Francisco Examiner on April 12, 1891 and was reprinted the same year in Bierce’s collection Tales of Soldiers and Civilians. The setting for the story is the part of Ohio where Bierce’s family lived until 1846. Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) Most famous for his satirical work The Devil’s Dictionary, Bierce was a Civil War veteran (surviving a shot to the head) and an American short story writer famous for his disturbing tales of horror and his realistic portrayals of the Civil War.
https://librivox.org/short-ghost-and-horror-collection-029
https://librivox.org/short-ghost-and-horror-collection-001
TEXT: http://ambrosebierce.org/works.html
WINGS #26-25 Conflict Is Not Abuse: Mistaking discomfort for violence is an error of our times.
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Prominent Lesbian activist, novelist and nonfiction writer Sarah Schulman speaks in Vancouver BC, Canada, about her book Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair. Despite Schulman’s strong reputation, the book could not find a publisher in the US, but was picked up by Vancouver’s Arsenal Pulp Press. By 2018, it had sold more than 10,000 copies, and it is still in print. Schulman says it is not simple to divide the good and the bad, where the good are the abused and the bad the abusers; many who’ve been abused feel threatened by discomfort and respond with abuse. She argues that we need to untangle as best we can what is really happening between ourselves and others.
THE BRADCAST: (00:58:00)
Independent, investigative news, reporting, interviews and commentary.
More detailed episode notes will be posted when available – please check back!
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WEDNESDAY 10.15.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Wednesday October 15, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: An expensive gas bill inspired him to help others (00:01:30)
AJ Patton’s new all-electric housing project in Chicago is designed to keep utility costs low.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
FOOD SLEUTH RADIO: Heather Norman-Burgdolf, PhD, University of Kentucky, author of Food Allergens: Alpha Gal. (00:28:00)
Did you know that the sugar responsible for alpha-gal allergy is widespread in processed food products, drugs and dietary supplements? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn for her conversation with Heather Norman-Burgdolf, PhD, Associate Extension Professor in the Department of Dietetics and Human Nutrition at the University of Kentucky, and author of Food Allergens: Alpha Gal. Norman-Burgdolf discusses ways to navigate the alpha-gal allergy, which ranks as the tenth most prevalent food allergy in the United States. Related Websites: https://publications.ca.uky.edu/sites/publications.ca.uky.edu/files/FCS3646.pdf
https://foodsleuth.transistor.fm
THIS WAY OUT # 1959: Lincoln, Lover of Men (Pt. 2) & global LGBTQ news & more! (00:28:59)
Lincolns Lover of Men saga continues; the Rainbow Rewind marks more speaking up and coming out anniversaries in October; the top U.S. court considers conversion therapy bans, Colombia’s Constitutional Court spikes a volleyball leagues trans ban, Florida’s rainbow crosswalk war hits Miami Beach, an FBI trainee is fired by petty Director Patel for a desktop Pride flag, Canadian PM Carney fails to defend his enby kid during Trumps Oval Office anti-trans tirade, and more LGBTQ news from around the world.
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: Foreign Entanglements (00:58:00)
Qatar, China, Palestine, Argentina- is there any nation Trump won’t cut a deal with to fatten up his already bulging bank accounts? Plus- Thom reads from “Gangsters of Capitalism” by Jonathan M. Katz.
CIVIC CIPHER: Isaac Hayes III and Tamisha Harris of Fanbase Discuss the Black Media Emergency (00:59:00)
Our guests this week come from Fanbase.com! Isaac Hayes III ” Entrepreneur, music producer, and son of soul legend Isaac Hayes. He has raised over $22M through equity crowdfunding, making Fanbase one of the largest Black-founded crowdfunding campaigns in history. Tamisha Harris ” Veteran TV news producer with an insider view of how stories are shaped and suppressed. She brings a powerful call to action for Black media to protect their narratives and audiences. We discuss the role that social media plays in the division of this country how content creators have key positions in shaping public opinion, and how Black-owned media ensures that Black perspectives are properly platformed.
LITERATURE ALOUD: Halloween Shorts: The Banshee (00:31:42)
a female spirit in Irish folklore who heralds the death of a family member, usually by screaming, wailing, shrieking, or keening. Her name is connected to the mythologically important tumuli or “mounds” that dot the Irish countryside, which are known as síde (singular síd) in Old Irish. (Wikipedia)
CHOOSE TO BE CURIOUS: Curiosity & Successful Aging, with Mary Whatley (00:28:00)
No surprise: curiosity changes over the lifespan. Yes surprise: not in the way you might imagine. There are some advantages to aging Mary Whatley, PhD, studies motivated memory, aging and curiosity. She joins me to explore trait versus state curiosity; her recent research on increasing state curiosity as we age; the role of motivation and value of reflection; our own curiosity cost/benefit analyses; and why a good reviewer is a great thing.
“We think theres a little more of a selective process going on with curiosity.” ~ Mary Whatley
THE BRADCAST: 10/14/2025 Guest: Richard Von Glahn of People Not Politicians, on plan to block MO’s GOP U.S. House Gerrymander (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: Republican-controlled North Carolina is the latest state to obey Donald Trump’s orders to steal the 2026 midterm election from voters by launching an unprecedented mid-decade effort to gerrymander their already heavily-gerrymandered state, and flip ‘blue’ US House seats to ‘red’. But in Missouri, voters and pro-democracy groups are fighting back against the GOP state legislature’s anti-democratic gerrymandering effort. Director RICHARD VON GLAHN of People Not Politicians explains their campaign for a ballot referendum to stop the gerrymander from moving forward in 2026, the specious efforts by top state GOP officials to stymie their efforts, and much more. The fragile Israel-Hamas ceasefire shows signs of fraying. The Fairbanks, AK mayoral election is another instance of a huge shift in the electorate toward Democrats. Plus Desi Doyen has our new ‘Green News Report.’
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
TUESDAY 10.14.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Tuesday October 14, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: A conservative voice calls for climate unity (00:01:30)
Benji Backer, founder of the Nature Is Nonpartisan coalition, says protecting the planet should transcend politics.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
ENCOURAGEMENTOLOGY: The Middle of the Journey: Too Late to Start Over, Too Soon to Give Up (00:29:00)
On this show were facing that uncomfortable yet familiar middle stretch. Have you ever looked around and thought, How did I get here? Am I doing enough? Is it too late to change direction – or too soon to stop trying? That moment where the rearview is full of decisions, detours, and dashed hopes, while the road ahead seems just out of focus?
MAKING CONTACT: Port City, from Generation to Generation (00:29:00)
In this episode, we’ll head to Norfolk, Virginia, where flooding and rising sea levels are disproportionately threatening Black residents, while the city is also also weathering a housing crisis. From episode one of the podcast Wading Between Two Titans, brought to us by the University of Virginia’s Repair Lab and producer Adrian Wood.
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: A Foreign Air Base… in Idaho? (00:58:00)
Hegseth has indicated that the US will welcome Qatar to build a a Qatari base on US soil. Wait, what??
Plus, Thom reads from “Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery” by Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah.
THE CHILDREN’S HOUR: Dating Trees – Dendrochronology (00:53:00)
How old is that tree in your yard, the forest, or the park? On this episode of The Childrens Hour, we learn how scientists can answer that question by studying tree rings. The Kids Crew is joined by Dr. Peter M. Brown, a dendrochronologist from Rocky Mountain Tree Ring Research. A dendrochronologist studies the science of tree rings, which can tell us not only how old a tree is, but also stories about weather, droughts, floods, wildfires, and even human history.
LITERATURE ALOUD: W. W. Jacobs – The Monkey’s Paw (00:26:46)
The Monkey’s Paw was written in 1902 by W.W. Jacobs. It’s a dark brooding tale which promises from the start that the light you see at the end of the tunnel is actually an oncoming train. Mr and Mrs White of Laburnum Villas step out toward that light by taking up the three wishes granted to the owner of the Monkey’s Paw. Terrible things have happened to previous owners of this artifact but surely the Whites will fare better than those who have gone before… (Summary by Jim Mowatt.)
https://librivox.org/the-monkeys-paw-by-ww-jacobs
TEXT: https://koppsclass.weebly.com/uploads/2/8/0/6/28069287/monkeys_paw_text.pdf
WITH GOOD REASON Weekly Half Hour: Saving Endangered Species (00:29:00)
The red colobus monkey is one of the most endangered primates in the world. Found in West, East, and Central Africa, the once thriving species has been decimated by over-hunting. Josh Linder (James Madison University) has devoted his career to studying and conserving these peaceful primates. Plus: Francesco Ferretti (Virginia Tech) led an expedition to be the first to ever tag endangered great white sharks in the Mediterranean. While he and his crew didnt end up tagging any sharks, they uncovered exciting new evidence of great white activity in the water.
THE BRADCAST: 10/13/2025 Encore: Voting rights journalist Ari Berman of Mother Jones on Trump DOJ suing ‘blue’ states for voter databases (00:58:00)
Encore: original airdate 10-1-2025. On today’s ‘BradCast’: The federal government is now shut down because Republicans, who control the White House and both chambers of Congress (and who could keep the government open all by themselves), chose to shut it down rather than negotiate with Democrats trying to prevent Republicans from spiking healthcare costs. The Trump Administration is using the shutdown to hurt as many Americans as possible. Trump’s US Attorney in Nevada was caught asking the Justice Department to help her spread propaganda about ‘vote fraud’, even as a judge ruled her appointment was unlawful. Federal court rules that MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell defamed the election technology company Smartmatic. Mother Jones’ voting rights journalist ARI BERMAN explains the Trump Justice Department’s newest attack on voters, including demanding states turn over sensitive voter data, and the GOP’s broader voter- and election-interference agenda.
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MONDAY 10.13.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Monday October 13, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Marsh restoration project helps protect Louisiana highway from flooding (00:01:30)
The project also provides habitat for wildlife.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
WHEN THE BIOMASS HITS THE WIND TURBINE #71: Replanting the Forests (00:29:00)
Introduce Chad Cully
How to begin…
Learn plants/bark/buds ie; persimmons
What kind of plants are easiest to grow or propagate? Collect seeds, cuttings, bull doze new development
What kind of plants are easiest to grow or propagate? Collect seeds, cuttings, bull doze new development
Native plants vs. non-native
How do we get people to have dialog with trees and plants ” create personal history with certain plants ” how the plant is used annually (jam, jelly, kids involved and planted tree 16 yrs ago when daughter was 4 years old). Relationship between person and the natural world.
https://bluerockstation.podbean.com
ECONOMIC UPDATE: American Style Fascism (00:29:00)
A discussion of fascism in America.
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: Pam Bondi’s Consciousness of Guilt (00:58:00)
Dean Obeidallah joins Thom for a deep dive on Pam Bondi’s evasive protection of Trump’s coverup of his long involvement with Jeffrey Epstein. Plus- The autocratic MAGA GOP pushes hard to make anyone who is ‘anti fascist’ into an automatic criminal.
SPIRIT IN ACTION: Common Ground, Uncommon Grace: Eileen Flanagan (00:55:00)
Having done this program for 20 years, I have had the opportunity to see the work my guests do evolve over time, and such is the case with Eileen Flanagan. When I spoke with her 16 years ago about her book, The Wisdom to Know the Difference, she was in the very early stages of her life as an organizer, trainer, and visionary in the activist world, including with EQAT. In the intervening years she has had a major hand in a number of actions, stepping powerfully into the role of trainer. Today we’ll be talking with Eileen about her newest book, Common Ground: How the Crisis of the Earth is Saving Us from Our Illusion of Separation, where you’ll get deep insights into the power and the struggles of activism, and you’ll walk away with both motivation and wisdom to bring fruitful work to our world. Eileen Flanagan joins us via Zoom from Philadelphia, PA.
Past/present religious/spiritual influences: Catholic, Quaker
LITERATURE ALOUD: Halloween Shorts: Poe’s “Cask of Amontillado” & “The Masque of the Red Death” (00:31:44)
Two classic Poe stories, one about revenge and one about the terror of invisible death.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1063/1063-h/1063-h.htm
https://archive.org/stream/themasqueofthere01064gut/1064-8.txt
GREEN STREET with PATTI and DOUG WOOD: Wireless Radiation the Invisible Threat (00:29:00)
On this special edition of Green Street, Patti and Doug discuss the issue of radiation from wireless devices and the emerging science linking exposure to wireless radiation with a host of human health problems including cancer. The show features an interview with Ellen Marks, Founder of the California Brain Tumor Association, and a presentation by public health expert Dr. David Carpenter of the University at Albany. An extended version of the show, which includes interviews with Dr. Paul Heroux of McGill University and Dr. Joel Moskowitz of UC Berkeley is available on the program website.
https://www.greenstreetnews.org/
THE BRADCAST: 10/10/2025 Encore: Former White House budget advisor Bobby Kogan on the shutdown and why it matters (00:58:00)
Encore: Original airdate 10-2-2025. On today’s ‘BradCast’: The federal government is shut down, as Congressional Democrats go the mat to prevent an explosion of healthcare costs for tens of millions of Americans. Donald Trump vowed to use the shutdown as cover for illegal mass firings of federal workers and to dismantle what he called ‘Democrat’ agencies. In a lively conversation, BOBBY KOGAN of the Center for American Progress, a former senior adviser in the Biden-Harris White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), explains the stakes of the government shutdown, how we got here, the Trump Administration’s blatantly illegal actions, why he believes must hold the line, and much more. Federal agents carried out an extremely violent raid in Chicago, terrorizing residents. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest ‘Green News Report.’
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
SUNDAY 10.12.25 PROGRAM Notes
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SCHOLARS’ CIRCLE & THE INSIGHTERS Oct 5 25 (00:58:00)
Donald Trump has asserted himself with the power of the US into multiple ceasefires and conflict negotiations. How does this comport with US policy historically? What might be his motivation?
EARTH RIOT RADIO #190 – The Tree that Stopped AI (00:29:00)
The necessary politics of our age is to turn down the virtual reality and reintroduce actual reality. A tree will do this. The Earth marches closer with every fire and flood. No politician is as removed from reality as Donald Trump, no bank is farther from holding your savings than JPMorgan Chase, no religion more distant from bringing the comfort of unconditional grace than the fundamentalist empires with their God. And in our performance we call that political, financial and spiritual capitulation – we call it shopping. Consumerism. The necessary politics of our age is to stop living in the unreal echo of products. All together now, sing it! “Stop Shopping! Start Living!”
BARNABY DRUTHERS: Cuckoo, Possum and El Dorado (00:28:00)
Barnaby Druthers: Cuckoo (a Modern Druthers short story)
Barnaby Druthers: Possum (a Classic Druthers short story)
El Dorado (a musical poem written by Edgar Allan Poe)
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 October 11, 2025 (00:59:30)
Segment One
We begin the show with Chuck Collins, author of “Burned by Billionaires”. We discuss how the power of the very rich has grown, and is likely to be even greater in future, due to the tax changes brought about by the politicians who have been bought and paid for by these same people.
Segment Two
We then sit with Arthur ‘Art’ Jipson, an Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at the University of Dayton. We discuss the false dichotomy of “Right-Wing” vs “Left-Wing” extremist violence. And how the claims of ‘both sides’ is not at all true. The data is clear that right-wing violence (in all its varied forms) is far more intentional, frequent, and deadly than left-wing violence has ever been.
https://www.arniearnesen.org/WP
BACKGROUND BRIEFING with IAN MASTERS October 9, 2025 (00:59:00)
The Peace Deal Underway With Trump In Israel on Monday to Greet the Hostages | Not If But When Trump and Miller Will Invoke the Insurrection Act | Liberals With Attitude in the Past Needed Now in the Present.
https://www.backgroundbriefing.org
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR: Communication for Deepening Intimacy with Marshall Rosenberg (00:59:00)
Marshall Rosenberg was the founder of the Center for Non-Violent Communication, and a brilliant students of psychology and the human condition. He created schools, wrote books and shared his work all over the world. He passed away in 2015 at the age of 81. May his work continue to bring peace to the world and into everyone’s lives.
Especially in these crazy times.
DEEP DIVE CYBERSECURITY SHOW: A.I. Political Bias Is The Next Global Battle (00:58:00)
Outside of possibly World War 3, A.I.’s political bias is one of the most important issues of our time.
As humans view answers from A.I. as authoritative, the concern of who actually trains the controls the A.I. that populations use becomes a critical question. We explore this and so much more. Don’t miss this episode!
SATURDAY 10.11.25 PROGRAM Notes
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TECHTONIC with MARK HURST: AI and Surveillance Keep Spreading (00:59:30)
The headlines day to day can distract us from the spread of AI and surveillance infrastructure. More data centers are being built, taxing power grids and water supplies, while surveillance systems creep into every corner of our lives.
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: Justice and Peace: What Teaching Yiddish Literature to Kids Offers (00:57:20)
Under Trump 2.0, we adults are taught to fear The Other, we must become a monolinguistic culture: English over all. But during this week of Jewish high holy days, we ask what is this ancient language of Yiddish? It is not a mono, it is instead a fusion language formed by Jews of the worldwide diaspora, yielding a worldwide nation needing no borders. Our guest, Miriam Udel is a rabbi, scholar, and a mother, and her soon to be published book is called Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Childrens Literature. Now that may sound obtuse but give a listen. She takes on the evil of cultural nationalism which we see in the State of Israel today. And she explains how Yiddish is an example of Jews being citizens of where they are, making real a democratic egalitarian vision. And Yiddish is about empowering women and redressing wealth inequality. As she explains, where Hebrew divides, Yiddish unites.
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
AGING MATTERS: Funeral Planning (00:58:00)
Many families can be caught off-guard by the number of tasks needing attention within a day or two of a loved ones death. Even those who have planned a funeral before may find themselves overwhelmed by decisions to make and details that must be coordinated.
https://www.agingmattersonline.com
GROWING GREENER: Converting Landscape Professionals to Environmental Activists (00:29:00)
Beth Ginter, Executive Director of the Chesapeake Conservation Landscaping Council, describes her organizations successful program to enlist an often-resistant profession as advocates for environmental activism
https://www.thomaschristophergardens.com
TUC RADIO: In Memory of Bertolt Brecht (00:29:00)
For Brecht’s 100th birthday in 1998 the Royal National Theatre from London gave a performance in his honor at Theater Artaud in San Francisco. Bertolt Brecht and many other artists in post WWI Germany were courageously and proudly democrats, socialists or communists. They had experienced the horror of the first World War and were determined to prevent a second one. So when Hitler and the Nazi party actually assumed state power in 1933 they were all marked and most of them left the country immediately. Their exodus destroyed much of the cultural/political rebellion of the 1920s.
THE BOPST SHOW: Fussing and Fighting (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 DC rock reggae legends the Bad Brains, seminal American composer and songwriter Burt Bacharach, and the funky soul of Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings as well as music by Gil Scott-Heron, P.P. Arnold and many others locked out of the nation’s largest terrestrial bandwidths.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
RALPH NADER RADIO HOUR #605 (00:58:00)
Ralph welcomes Andy Shallal of Busboys and Poets to discuss his new memoir, “A Seat at the Table: The Making of Busboys and Poets.” Then, Ralphs peaks to business consultant and activist Bennett Freeman about why Big Business isn’t standing up to the Trump Administration.
https://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com
FRIDAY 10.10.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Friday October 10, 2025
https://www.democracynow.org/shows
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Satellite program aims to track every wildfire on Earth (00:01:30)
A nonprofit coalition is building a fleet of satellites to help firefighters and communities respond when disaster strikes.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
THE LABOR HERITAGE POWER HOUR: Baristas vs. Billionaires; Roberts Fire & Gerards Grit (00:55:00)
On this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour: From a Buffalo coffee shop to a national movement, this week’s show pours a strong cup of worker power. Chris talks with Oscar-nominated director and former steelworker Mark Mori about Baristas vs. Billionaires, his new film on the Starbucks union drive. Then we head to Matewan for UMWA President Cecil Roberts barnburner on courage, history, and who this land belongs to. We close with street-level memories of former Steelworkers president Leo Gerard and his mic-grabbing solidarity. Plus Labor History in 2.00 and a brand-new version of Woody Guthrie’s classic Deportee from Colleen Kattau.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: American Theocracy (00:58:00)
Will Christian Nationalists succeed in making their personal religion the law of the land? Will abortion one day be met with the death penalty- or merely huge fines and prison time? Plus – Thom reads from “If God is Love, Don’t Be a Jerk” by John Pavlovitz.
SEA CHANGE RADIO: Gustav Peebles: Not Just Banking, Carbon Banking (re-broadcast) (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: Mahmoud Khalils Warning: American Anti-Fascists are Failing the Palestine Test (00:28:00)
Mahmoud Khalil was coming home from an Iftar dinner with his pregnant wife on March 8, 2025 when he was detained without a warrant and transported 1,500 miles to a Louisiana detention camp. A negotiator for the 2024 pro-Palestine student protests at Columbia University, Khalil was a legal permanent resident whod committed no violence or crime; his abduction shocked the world. The Trump administration was seeking to expel Khalil, not for his acts, but for his otherwise legal beliefs, statements and associations which Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote in short letter, would compromise a compelling US foreign policy interest. A New Jersey federal judge threw out that case and Khalil was released after 104 days in detention, but the backlash keeps on coming. In this courageous conversation, Mahmoud Khalil joins Laura Flanders to discuss the night of his terrifying detainment, the Palestinian Exception and the case brought against him by the Trump administration. They are alleging errors on his green card application and have ordered Khalil to be deported ” possibly to Algeria or Syria where his life would be under threat. Despite the risks of deportation, Mahmoud Khalil continues to speak out, and he and his legal team have filed a civil rights lawsuit with the U.S. District Court of New Jersey against the Trump administration to challenge his arrest and detention by ICE. Join Khalil and Flanders as they ask why the question of Palestine is a test for U.S. democracy ” and one we are failing.
THE BOPST SHOW: Fussing and Fighting (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 DC rock reggae legends the Bad Brains, seminal American composer and songwriter Burt Bacharach, and the funky soul of Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings as well as music by Gil Scott-Heron, P.P. Arnold and many others locked out of the nation’s largest terrestrial bandwidths.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
THE BRADCAST: 10/9/2025 Trump Labor Dept. Warns Trump Immigration Policy Sparking Food Shortage, with guest David Dayen of TAP (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: Donald Trump’s tariff trade war is backfiring badly, and now he needs a deadlocked Congress to approve a multi-billion dollar bailout to rescue the US agriculture sector from the consequences. Trump’s Labor Department, in an official filing, asserted that Trump’s immigration enforcement is causing a farmworker crisis and may lead to food shortages. But is it actually true? Financial journalist and Executive Editor of The American Prospect, DAVID DAYEN, discusses what these two major stories mean, how the Trump Administration is using the self-induced crises to slash farmworker wages, and much more. Israel and Hamas apparently agreed to a pause in their war. Trump Justice Department indicted NY Attorney General Letitia James as Trump ordered. Author Michael Wolff explains what he saw of Jeffrey Epstein’s salacious photos of Trump. Plus Desi Doyen has our new ‘Green News Report.’
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
THURSDAY 10.09.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Thursday October 9, 2025
https://www.democracynow.org/shows
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Trump administration ends initiative for communities hit hardest by pollution (00:01:30)
The Biden-era Justice40 initiative was an effort to direct more climate and clean energy investments toward overburdened communities.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
RADIO ECOSHOCK: Big Car, Red Tide (00:58:00)
Driving around? Are you dying to get there? Nobody will tell you – except investigative journalist, film-maker and author David Obst. Hear it all as David talks about his new book Saving Ourselves from Big Car. What suddenly kills dolphins and millions of fish at a time? Did you know toxic particles from coastal blooms float into city air? Get the latest from one of THE global experts on algae blooms: Dr. Mark Wells from University of Maine.
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: Town Hall with Representative Adam Smith (00:58:00)
Today, a deep dive as Congressman Adam Smith answers listeners calls from across America. How can we support our elected officials in Congress and stop Trump from corrupting the next election?
RISING UP WITH SONALI – 2025-10-06 (00:58:30)
This week’s show has a special focus on the Israeli genocide in Gaza, marking two years of relentless killing and forced starvation. First, well go to Lebanon to speak with young Palestinian journalist Plestia Alaqad whose new book is The Eyes of Gaza: A Diary of Resilience. Shell share what it’s like to cover a genocide and read from her powerful and moving book. Then, well go to Italy to speak with historian Ilan Pappe, whose new book is Israel on the Brink, And the Eight Revolutions that Could Lead to Decolonization and Coexistence. He’ll carve out a vision for the best-case scenario for a Palestinian-led liberation of the land and its people. Finally, well close with a look at the art and poetry of defiance in the face of genocide. Artist SA Bachman joins me from Los Angeles to discuss the new book she has edited called The Art of Defiance. Shell be joined by Basman Aldirawi in Cairo, a poet from Gaza who will share his poetic reflections on the genocide.
https://risingupwithsonali.com
LITERATURE ALOUD: Halloween Interlude – “The Black Cat” by E. A. Poe (00:32:43)
In this chilling and disturbing Poe classic, an unnamed narrator, who suffers with alcoholism, has a strong affection for pets, until he perversely turns to abusing them until….(Wikipedia)
WINGS #26-25 Conflict Is Not Abuse (00:29:00)
Prominent Lesbian activist, novelist and nonfiction writer Sarah Schulman speaks in Vancouver BC, Canada, about her book Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair. Despite Schulman’s strong reputation, the book could not find a publisher in the US, but was picked up by Vancouver’s Arsenal Pulp Press. By 2018, it had sold more than 10,000 copies, and it is still in print. Schulman says it is not simple to divide the good and the bad, where the good are the abused and the bad the abusers; many who’ve been abused feel threatened by discomfort and respond with abuse. She argues that we need to untangle as best we can what is really happening between ourselves and others.
THE BRADCAST: 10/8/2025 (Donald Trump’s Losing Battles; Republicans in disarray over shutdown) (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: Donald Trump is a loser. In the polls, in the lower courts, in his attempts to start a war against the American people — and he’s lashing out like a toddler at elected officials getting in his way, like calling for the arrests of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker. Elected Republicans supporting Trump’s National Guard deployments in Democratic-run states only pretended to support small government and states’ rights. Trump’s corrupt, weaponized indictment of former FBI Dir. James Comey is very likely to fail before going to trial. Congressional Republicans are in disarray over their government shutdown as polls show Americans broadly support Congressional Democrats’ fight to save healthcare, and Trump screws up their messaging. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest ‘Green News Report.’
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
WEDNESDAY 10.08.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Wednesday October 8, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Lahaina, Hawaii, rebuilds slowly after deadly fire (00:01:30)
Two years on, survivors face high rents, scarce housing, and rising poverty ” but community leaders are helping them recover.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
FOOD SLEUTH RADIO: Sharon Forsyth, patient advocate for the Alpha-gal syndrome community. (00:28:00)
Did you know that a tick bite could lead to a food allergy? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn for her conversation with Sharon Forsyth, conservationist and patient advocate for the alpha-gal syndrome community. Forsyth created Alpha-gal Information.org, a comprehensive informational resource on AGS. She discusses how to avoid tick bites and the challenges of living with alpha-gal food allergy (also known as mammalian meat allergy).
Related Websites: https://alphagalaction.org/
https://foodsleuth.transistor.fm
THIS WAY OUT #1958: Lincoln, Lover of Men (Pt. 1) & global LGBTQ news! (00:28:59)
A documentary uncovers Abraham Lincolns gay love life; the Rainbow Rewind debuts with early October birthdays and a horrific murder; Slovakia limits genders and bans surrogacy, Japan creeps up on de facto marriage equality, Canada tells X passport bearers to reconsider U.S. travel, Amtrak and ICE bust gay men in a New York City Penn Station bathroom sting, Harvard’s drag professor perplexes rightwing pundits, and more LGBTQ news from around the world.
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 GOP Starting to Fracture? (00:58:00)
Are Cruz, Greene, and Mace just the first willing to break ranks with a man intent on dismantling American traditions while delivering on few of his promises to the average voter? Will ICE provide the pretext to declare martial law ahead of the midterm elections?
CIVIC CIPHER: Isaac Hayes III and Tamisha Harris of Fanbase Discuss the Black Media Emergency (00:59:00)
Our guests this week come from Fanbase.com! Isaac Hayes III ” Entrepreneur, music producer, and son of soul legend Isaac Hayes. He has raised over $22M through equity crowdfunding, making Fanbase one of the largest Black-founded crowdfunding campaigns in history. Tamisha Harris ” Veteran TV news producer with an insider view of how stories are shaped and suppressed. She brings a powerful call to action for Black media to protect their narratives and audiences. We discuss the role that social media plays in the division of this country how content creators have key positions in shaping public opinion, and how Black-owned media ensures that Black perspectives are properly platformed.
LITERATURE ALOUD: “Hop Frog” by Edgar Allan Poe (00:24:46)
When the King mocks the tiny woman in his court, the Jester takes a ghastly and bizarre revenge.
TEXT: https://www.eapoe.org/works/TALES/hopfrgb.htm
CHOOSE TO BE CURIOUS: Curiosity & Dating, with Tim Molnar (00:28:00)
“Curiosity really is the foundation of everything I do. In coaching, I’m constantly asking clients to notice their patterns — not to judge them, but to get curious about them…” ~ Tim Molnar. Dating coach Tim Molnar blends social science and statistical scholarship with both personal experience and practical suggestions in hopes of transforming how people approach modern dating. How can curiosity help in our dating lives? Tim has thoughts!
We explore research’s origins in “me-search”; getting curious about what is — or isn’t — actually working; second dates and old-school advantages of the exposure effect; running small experiments with our lives; rejection leading to success; curiosity practices to keep dating your partner; and why caring about green smoothies is so very, very attractive.
THE BRADCAST: (00:58:00)
Independent, investigative news, reporting, interviews and commentary.
More detailed episode notes will be posted when available – please check back!
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
TUESDAY 10.07.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Tuesday October 7, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts has helped 10 Philly schools get AC (00:01:30)
Students will have the chance to learn in cooler, more comfortable classrooms.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
ENCOURAGEMENTOLOGY: Choose Your Hard: Finding Strength in Lifes Tough Choices (00:29:00)
On this show we’re talking about the idea of choosing your hard. Have you ever felt like life just keeps piling on the challenges, like no matter what direction you take, its tough? Marriage is hard, but so is divorce. Being in debt is hard, but so is being financially disciplined. Communication is hard, but so is staying silent. The truth is, there’s no easy route. But what if instead of feeling like life is happening to us, we recognized that we get to choose which hard we live with?
MAKING CONTACT: Saltwater Soundwalk: Indigenous Audio Tour of Seattle (Encore) (00:29:00)
Today on Making Contact we present Saltwater Soundwalk, an Indigenous audio tour of Seattle featuring a watery audio experience, with streams of stories that ebb and flow that intermixes English and Coast Salish languages. This episode first aired in April 2023.
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 Invasion (00:58:00)
Step by step, moving troops into our cities is setting precedents to set the stage to disrupt the midterm election and make Trumpian authoritarian power permanent in America.
THE CHILDREN’S HOUR: Animals In The Backyard (00:53:00)
The Kids Crew discover the animals living right outside our doors. From prairie dogs, coyotes, and roadrunners in New Mexico to monkeys in Thailand, stray dogs in India, koalas in Australia, and wildlife in Brazil, we learn how animals adapt to city life. With expert guest Cooper Freeman and research from junior producer Thaniel Lentz, we explore the challenges and joys of living alongside wild creatures everywhere.
LITERATURE ALOUD: LibriVox – “A Tale of The Ragged Mountains” by E. A. Poe (00:26:45)
A wealthy hypochondriac with eccentric habits goes out for his daily walk in the woods only to return with an impossible tale suggesting his death and reincarnation. This fascinating and bizarre tale is the only one Poe set in Virginia, just outside of Charlottesville in what is now known as the Ragged Mountain Natural Area.
https://librivox.org/short-ghost-and-horror-collection-025-by-various/
TEXT: https://www.eapoe.org/works/ingram/jhi74234.htm
WITH GOOD REASON Weekly Half Hour: I’m Just a Girl (00:29:00)
For little girls, princess culture is everywhere. Carlee Bradbury says its been that way for hundreds and hundreds of years. And: darlene anita scott collages and poems explore Black girlhood and the beautiful resistance Black girls and women engage in everyday.
THE BRADCAST: 10/6/2025 Trump Attempting His ‘Invasion from Within’ (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: As the federal government shutdown heads into a second week, polls show most Americans blame Trump and Republicans for refusing to work with Congressional Democrats to prevent healthcare costs spiking for millions of people. In California, officials announced special procedures for victims of catastrophic wildfires to be able to vote in the Nov. 4 special election, which focuses on temporarily setting aside the state’s independent redistricting commission in order to counter Texas’ move to redraw its U.S. House maps to steal the 2026 midterm election from voters. In Oregon, a Donald Trump-appointed federal judge blocked his attempts to federalize National Guard troops from any state to invade Portland. In Illinois, a federal judge declined to stop Trump’s invasion of National Guard troops into Chicago. Callers ring in.
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MONDAY 10.06.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Monday October 6, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Although the ruling is not enforceable, it may influence other international and domestic courts. (00:01:30)
Although the ruling is not enforceable, it may influence other international and domestic courts.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
WHEN THE BIOMASS HITS THE WIND TURBINE #70: Sustainable Small Towns (00:29:00)
Introduce Charlotte Colley, village manager
Tell us a little about your role with the village of New Concord Ohio.
What called you to want to work with a small town?
Tell us a little about New Concord.
How has climate change impacted your community?
Do businesses, the college and community leaders see climate change as an issue?
The future of small town sustainability practices
What are the major challenges for a small town?
Poverty
broad band access
attracting small businesses that contribute to the well-being of the community vs. large corporations
Population increase/decrease
flooding
waste management -etc.
What solutions are you pursuing to meet those challenges?
What’s the best advice you’ve ever received?
https://bluerockstation.podbean.com
ECONOMIC UPDATE: Higher Education Labor United (HELU) Rises (00:29:00)
On this week’s episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the Vermont Public Employers who got the contractual right to act with pay to “defend democracy,” Tesla’s board offers Musk a $1 trillion CEO pay package, Trump and top corporate executives merge at Intel and other hi-tech corporations, quite like the mergers in Nazi Germany and fascist Italy. The second half of the show features an interview with Joe Berry and Helena Worthen, long-time organizers of ‘contingent’ scholastic faculty in the U.S. (now comprising 75% of higher education teachers), and who are now activists in Higher Education Labor United (HELU).
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: MAGA is Struggling with How Peaceful Portland has Been (00:58:00)
Greg Palast – My mom would’ve kicked Pete Hegseth’s Ass. Apparently Stephen Millers dreams since childhood have been about torture and pain. Should someone like this be in power? Europe may be on the verge of a nuclear disaster. Plus Twelve Steps to National Collapse: A Blueprint for How Democracies Die. Finally there was an arrest in war torn Portland. And it was a MAGA influencer for fighting. Apparently MAGA is struggling with how peaceful Portland has been.
SPIRIT IN ACTION: Money As Medicine – Indigenous Wisdom for Decolonizing Wealth (00:55:00)
(Originally aired 10/23/2021) Edgar Villanueva is back on Spirit In Action with an importantly updated edition of his book, Decolonizing Wealth 2nd Edition: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance. As a member of the Lumbee tribe of North Carolina and with his experience serving several philanthropic foundations, giving away $25 million a year, Edgar has piercing insights as to the pros and cons of those claiming to help the less fortunate, and he sees the deeper ways that philanthropy is part of the problem, and the way forward to some real solutions. In the work of Liberated Capital he has helped form a tool to help money be medicine for good.
Past/current religious/spiritual influences: Christian, Pentecostal, Native American
LITERATURE ALOUD: 1984 by George Orwell (1949) part 13/13 (00:59:03)
1984 is a dystopian novel about constant surveillance, news manipulation, conspiracy and control by fear. Written in 1949, George Orwell’s entire novel 1984 was read on-air by longtime Pacifica Morning show host Charles Morgan and June Foray in 1975. Few novels have had as much impact on our thinking and the English language as 1984 from the concept and phrase “Big Brother” to words like “newspeak” and “doublethink.”
http://audioport.org/index.php?op=program-info&program_id=105715&nav=&
TEXT: http://www.george-orwell.org/1984/
THE BRADCAST: Encore: Former DOJ anti-corruption official Randall D. Eliason on Trump ‘Border Czar’ caught taking a $50,000 cash bribe (00:58:00)
Encore: original airdate 9-22-2025. On today’s ‘BradCast’: Donald Trump’s so-called ‘Border Czar’, Tom Homan, was caught on videotape last year accepting $50,000 in cash, allegedly in exchange for doling out border security contracts in a new Trump administration; the Trump Justice Department closed the investigation. Trump publicly ordered US Attorney General Pam Bondi to bring criminal charges against three of his top perceived political enemies. RANDALL D. ELIASON, former chief of the DOJ’s Fraud and Public Corruption Section, explains the Homan investigation, the ways the Trump DOJ has undermined the rule of law, and weaponized it to punish Trump’s enemies and reward his friends, and much more. Disney reinstates late-night host Jimmy Kimmel to the airwaves after massive public blowback, pushing back against Trump FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s threats to cancel TV broadcast broadcast licenses for airing the show.
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
SUNDAY 10.05.25 PROGRAM Notes
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SCHOLARS’ CIRCLE & THE INSIGHTERS: Sept 28 25 Impact of independent film (00:58:00)
Robert Redford’s passing reminds us that perhaps his greatest legacy is his support for independent film. So on today’s show, what is the impact of independent film on the industry? How has independent film changed in recent years. How has the major shift toward streaming affected our access to independent films?
EARTH RIOT RADIO: Is the Earth at the Border Without Its Papers? (00:29:00)
Peace on this Earth is the mother of all issues. But when we see the devastation in Gaza, the human families are in the foreground, and the rubble farther back. All the beyond-human life on the Earth, from insects to clouds to other people, becomes the background. When I’m shouting into a megaphone on the street, I gravitate to the violence against civilian families as a habit, it’s the most powerful argument for Peace. Yet the lives of all participants, even the ones who seem less innocent, even the ones who are doing the shooting, and even the animals and plants – well, nothing is worse for the Earth than war. Peace and war are repeatedly not framed as an ecological thing. But how then, do we bring the Earth closer? That’s a trick question. We ARE the Earth. We are all made of the same Earth.
BARNABY DRUTHERS: The Parisian Galop (00:28:00)
While at a dance in London hearkening back to an earlier era, Harper is asked to assist a friend’s brother make a connection with someone whom he admires while Harper herself is intrigued by a mysterious stranger.
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 October 4, 2025 (00:59:30)
Segment One
We begin the show with Bill Curry and Laura Jedeed. We discuss how the use of Air Assault Teams in Chicago constitute war on American people. Americans were detained for hours, zip-tied, with no lawyers or explanations. Trump has proposed that American cities be used as training grounds for armed military. No pushback.
Segment Two
We then sit with Art Jipson, Prof. at University of Dayton. We discuss the campaign to build a myth around Charlie Kirk.
https://www.arniearnesen.org/WP
BACKGROUND BRIEFING with IAN MASTERS October 2, 2025 (00:59:00)
Trump and Miller Broaden Their War on Democrats They Label as Communists and Terrorists | How the Genial Phony John Roberts, Backed by a Billionaire-funded Reactionary Political and Moral Authoritarian Movement, Had Rewritten the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights.
https://www.backgroundbriefing.org
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR: Holy Love and Connecting with Our Soul with Elisa Romeo and Adam Foley (00:59:00)
Elisa Romeo is a licensed marriage and family therapist, an intuitive and bestselling author of Meet Your Soul: A Powerful Guide to Connect with Your Most Sacred Self. Her work combines her background in depth psychology with an ability to directly communicate with the Soul. Adam Foley is a certified somatic practitioner, yoga instructor and spiritual coach. Together they host the Holy & Human podcast and are the authors of Holy Love: The Essential Guide to Soul-Fulfilling Relationships. A book that teaches us how to connect with and hear the still quiet voice of our own Soul and then bring that Soul level of connection into the rest of our lives and relationships, and out into the world around us in beneficial ways.
DEEP DIVE CYBERSECURITY SHOW: A.I. Political Bias Is The Next Global Battle (00:58:00)
Outside of possibly World War 3, A.I.’s political bias is one of the most important issues of our time.
As humans view answers from A.I. as authoritative, the concern of who actually trains the controls the A.I. that populations use becomes a critical question. We explore this and so much more. Don’t miss this episode!
SATURDAY 10.04.25 PROGRAM Notes
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TECHTONIC with MARK HURST: Megan Greenwell, author, “Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream” (00:59:30)
The concentrated power of tech and finance relies, in part, on private equity. Megan Greenwell explains how private equity works in her disturbing and important book “Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream.”
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: Are High Tech Weapons The Answer to Low Budget Terrorism? (00:58:51)
We all know what terrorism is. We’ve seen it on the ground in Israel. That’s terrorism on the cheap. Is the answer the most modern ultra high tech bombers to decimate the enemy? For centuries, a key measure of modernity has been which side has the best, fastest, most invisible, and most deadly weapons systems. Now it’s time to ask if the intentional killing of thousands of civilians, which is part of that strategy, is the most effective in which side wins. From Guernica to Gaza, from the blitz of London to the carpet bombing of Vietnam, does air superiority decide who wins? On this show RootsAction co-founder Norm Solomon asks if mass killers at 30,000 feet have been above it all. Does it work? Bonus: name the artist at the end of the discussion.
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
AGING MATTERS: Mental Health Disorders (00:58:00)
Launched in 2017, AGING MATTERS features individuals with expertise about a broad array of aging related topics. The programs focus is to bring more awareness about aging issues to older adults and their families. Produced in an interview format, guests educate and inform listeners about timely topics that impact the lives of older adults, their care partners, and families.
https://www.agingmattersonline.com
GROWING GREENER: Fighting Climate Change from the Bottom Up (00:29:00)
How Village and Wilderness fosters local communities in developing unique responses to climate change that suit their circumstances and goals.
https://www.thomaschristophergardens.com
TUC RADIO: Alex Carey: Corporations and Propaganda, Part TWO of TWO (00:29:00)
This segment covers the little known role of the US Chamber of Commerce in the McCarthy witch hunts of post WWII. Carey also shows how the continued campaign against “Big Government” plays an important role in bringing Reagan to power. Also mentioned the famous secret memoby Lewis Powell, later Supreme Court Justice, that set in motion what Bill Moyers today calls “the revolt of the rich.” Alex Carey said 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. Careys unique view of US history goes back to World War I and ends with the Reagan era. 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.
THE BOPST SHOW: Can’t Go Halfway (00:55:40)
The Bopst Show, the critically acclaimed music radio show hosted by artist, musician, writer, DJ and founding member of GWAR, Chris Bopst, features a wide assortment of audio stimulations from a myriad of genres, eras and inspirations. On this week’s show, you’ll hear a spaghetti western solo turn from Dead Kennedys guitarist East Bay Ray, primitive 50s rock from the Floyd Dakil Four, and reggae from Enid Cumberland as well as music by Emma Woods, Outkast many others locked out of the nation’s largest terrestrial bandwidths.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
RALPH NADER RADIO HOUR #604 (00:58:00)
Ralph welcomes Michael Mann, Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania and author along with Dr. Peter Hotez of Science Under Siege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces that Threaten Our World. Then we are joined by Martin OMalley, former governor of Maryland and one time Commissioner of the Social Security Administration to refute all the lies being told about the state of Social Security.
https://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com
FRIDAY 10.03.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Friday October 3, 2025
https://www.democracynow.org/shows
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Hotter weather may be making more children sick (00:01:30)
At two hospitals in Texas, the number of children coming into the ER with heat-related illnesses more than doubled between 2012 and 2023.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
THE LABOR HERITAGE POWER HOUR: Donora’s Dark Air, Labors Bright Colors (00:55:00)
On this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour: A visit to the Donora Smog Museum, where a six-day inversion in 1948 trapped toxic fumes over a mill town and changed how the U.S. thinks about work, health, and accountability. Then educator and Mine Wars Museum co-founder Wilma Steele unpacks how a simple red bandana – rooted in centuries-old paisley – became a living symbol of union solidarity.
PLUS: Dropkick Murphy’s frontman Ken Casey’s Favorite Labor Song, and a double helping of Labor History in 2:00, with the Jerry Rescue of 1851 and the 1919 Elaine Massacre.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: ICE Violently Attacks Chicago Protestors (00:58:00)
CEO/Reporter, Status Coup News and author of “We the Poisoned: Exposing the Flint Water Crisis Cover Up” Jordan Chariton describes domestic warfare being inflicted on American citizens. GOP House Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson decided to tell the truth for a change. During an interview with Fox News Senior Trump-Fluffer, Maria Bartiromo, Johnson admitted that shutting down the government was a long desired goal of the Republican Party….Surprise! Portland makes a naked attempt to deal with ICE and Trumps troops…Can ICE handle it? Also Veteran War Correspondent, Phil Ittner reports from Kyiv, Ukraine.
SEA CHANGE RADIO: Empowerment + Resiliency: Shannon Fernando of Alabaster International (00:29:00)
Studies have shown that international economic aid can be an important component of a developing countrys economy, but that too much aid can actually be harmful, undermining local enterprise and other indicators of independence. This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with Shannon Fernando, the founder and CEO of Alabaster International, a small nonprofit with some big plans to make a significant impact in the Global South. We look at her organizations model, learn about the promising African staple crop enset, and discuss the challenges of trying to provide short-term assistance to vulnerable populations while also setting the table for long-term economic health.
LAURA FLANDERS AND FRIENDS: Alone & Under Water: Learning from Hurricane Helene (00:28:00)
When Hurricane Helene hit western North Carolina in September 2024, it came as a shock, hitting mountains, not coasts, and flooding rivers and communities with little experience of dealing with hurricanes. Helene quickly became one of the worst storms to ever hit the U.S., and in the absence of a quick response by state or federal government, other groups flooded in. Right-wing actors took advantage of the chaos, spreading rumors about looting and trying to boost their image. But its the mutual aid networks ” some long standing, others new that responded with creative, effective strategies to distribute water, medicine and help communities rebuild. In this episode, Laura Flanders heads to some of the hardest-hit areas in western North Carolina and speaks with community activists to hear the lessons to be learned for the future. Amid Trump cuts to FEMA and the National Weather Service, the future for storm recovery in North Carolina is uncertain. But one thing’s for sure ” mutual aid support like Pansy Collective, Cherokee One Feather, Racial Justice Coalition (RJC), Rural Organizing and Resilience (ROAR) and Collaborativa La Milpa have the strategies and solutions we may all need for survival.
THE BOPST SHOW: Can’t Go Halfway (00:55:40)
The Bopst Show, the critically acclaimed music radio show hosted by artist, musician, writer, DJ and founding member of GWAR, Chris Bopst, features a wide assortment of audio stimulations from a myriad of genres, eras and inspirations. On this week’s show, you’ll hear a spaghetti western solo turn from Dead Kennedys guitarist East Bay Ray, primitive 50s rock from the Floyd Dakil Four, and reggae from Enid Cumberland as well as music by Emma Woods, Outkast many others locked out of the nation’s largest terrestrial bandwidths.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
THE BRADCAST: 10/2/2025 Guest: Former White House budget advisor Bobby Kogan on the shutdown and why it matters (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: It’s Day 2 of the federal government shutdown, as Congressional Democrats go the mat to prevent an explosion of healthcare costs for tens of millions of Americans. Donald Trump vowed to use the shutdown as cover for illegal mass firings of federal workers and dismantle what he called ‘Democrat’ agencies. In a lively conversation, BOBBY KOGAN of the Center for American Progress, a former senior adviser in the Biden-Harris White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), explains the stakes of the government shutdown, how we got here, the Trump Administration’s blatantly illegal actions, why this is the right fight for Democrats to hold the line, and much more. Federal agents carried out an extremely violent raid in Chicago, terrorizing residents. Plus Desi Doyen has our new ‘Green News Report.’
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
THURSDAY 05.18.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Thursday October 2, 2025
https://www.democracynow.org/shows
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Many amphibians may be imperiled by climate change, study finds (00:01:30)
Heat waves and droughts seem to be pushing more amphibians toward extinction.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
RADIO ECOSHOCK: Accelerated Warming – Experts Freak Out (00:58:00)
Climate experts and meteorologists in Germany are freaking out. Global warming accelerated significantly. News from The German Meteorological Society, the German Physical Society, and Potsdam Professor Stefan Rahmstorf. Ill break down the latest including a horrific 3 degrees C of global warming by 2050. Until now, the ocean absorbed about a third of carbon dioxide emissions. Latest science finds “Unexpected decline in the ocean carbon sink under record-high sea surface temperatures in 2023”. We talk with Lead Author Jens Daniel Muller in Zurich. Hot trouble this week on Radio Ecoshock.
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: This Isn’t About Budgets; It’s About Power (00:58:00)
For decades, government shutdowns meant temporary furloughs that were painful but reversible. Now, Trump and his cronies are using the threat of mass, permanent firings to gut the very institutions that protect our food, our air, our water, our workers, and our democracy itself. Trump going after James Comey is the height of authoritarian revenge politics, and the bitter irony is impossible to miss. ‘Never seen it so bad’: DOGE cuts have Social Security workers needing to be ‘medicated’ Wow. Jimmy Kimmel tripled his audience on comeback night – I would say this is called a Trump backfire.
RISING UP WITH SONALI – 2025-09-30 (00:58:30)
This week, well examine a new bill that’s come before California Gov. Gavin Newsoms desk to raise the wages of incarcerated fire fighters. With a global-warming-fueled fire season looming, up to forty percent of fire fighters are expected to be incarcerated. Simone Price of Center for Employment Opportunities joins me to discuss the bill. Then, Alex Ferrer with Debt Collective will share a new campaign centered on rent debt. Millions of Americans struggle with housing-related debt and Alex will explain how renters are joining a new campaign to push back against corporate landlords. Finally, Jonathan Rosenblum, who worked as a staffer with Seattle’s former socialist city councillor, Kshama Sawant, will discuss his new book, We’re Coming for You and Your Rotten System: How Socialists Beat Amazon and Upended Big-City Politics.
https://risingupwithsonali.com
LITERATURE ALOUD: 1984 by George Orwell (1949) part 12/13 (00:58:52)
1984 is a dystopian novel about constant surveillance, news manipulation, conspiracy and control by fear. Written in 1949, George Orwell’s entire novel 1984 was read on-air by longtime Pacifica Morning show host Charles Morgan and June Foray in 1975. Few novels have had as much impact on our thinking and the English language as 1984 from the concept and phrase “Big Brother” to words like “newspeak” and “doublethink.”
http://audioport.org/index.php?op=program-info&program_id=105715&nav=&
TEXT: http://www.george-orwell.org/1984/
THE BRADCAST: 9/30/2025 ‘A War from Within’ (Trump’s Mind) As Government Shutdown Looms (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: The federal government will likely begin a partial shutdown at midnight on Tuesday as Congressional Republicans refuse to negotiate with Democrats. Donald Trump may want a shutdown, which would prevent the Bureau of Labor Statistics from publishing the critical monthly jobs report for the duration. Trump instead is posting racist A.I. videos mocking Congressional Democratic leaders. At an embarrassing, unnecessary in-person meeting, Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth lectured the nation’s top military brass on ‘wokeness’ and ‘stupid rules of engagement’, while Trump delivered a rambling, hour-long speech describing the Left as ‘the enemy within.’ Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker and Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek pushed back hard against Trump’s unwelcome, completely unnecessary military thuggery. Plus Desi Doyen has our new ‘Green News Report.’
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
WEDNESDAY 10.01.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Wednesday October 1, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Disasters caused over $131 billion in losses in the first half of 2025 (00:01:30)
The costs of such disasters have been rising in the U.S. for a few different reasons.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
FOOD SLEUTH RADIO: Stephan van Vliet, PhD, Director of the Center for Nutrition Studies at Utah State University explains how farming practices impact nutrition quality of food. (00:28:00)
Did you know that agricultural practices influence the nutritional quality of our food? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn for her conversation with Stephen van Vliet, PhD, Assistant Professor and Director of the Center for Nutrition Studies at Utah State University. Van Vliet explains his investigation into how farming practices impact our environment, nutrient density, and nutritional quality of foods.
Related Websites: https://stephanvanvliet.com/
https://foodsleuth.transistor.fm
THIS WAY OUT # 1957 Circa: ONE Institute’s Queer Histories Festival & global LGBTQ news! (00:28:59)
ONE hosts histories fest of queer cultural contributions; World Athletics fails a sex test for women’s sports, U.S threat assessments erase the T from LGBT, Trump blames trans people for the current budget battle, Tasmania’s Lower House okays reparations to gay sex law victims, there are trans firsts for Project Runway and Miss Universe, China alters the queer out of an Australian horror film, Buttigieg spars with Carlson about the gay, and more LGBTQ news from around the world.
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 Donald Trump In Fact Clueless About The GOP Healthcare Cuts? (00:58:00)
Trump released a grotesque, AI-manufactured video on Truth Social in which Chuck Schumer is made to utter vile, fabricated slurs. Has Donald Trump lost his mind? And if he hasn’t, what has he become? Trump & Hegseth: They’re re-awakening the warrior spirit and saying good-bye to woke… What is woke? Senator Ron Wyden on Trump’s threat to send troops to PDX, OR & Epstein financial discovery. Immigrants are begging for help and clean water in detention facilities – Is this who we are?
CIVIC CIPHER: Stacy Abrams Discusses DEI, Right-Wing Violence, Gerrymandering, and Action Steps for Your Community (00:59:00)
Broadcasting the Balance. Defending the Discourse.
Civic Cipher is a weekly radio show created to foster allyship for social justice. Hosted by Ramses Ja and Q. Ward, this show is dedicated to empowering Black and Brown voices, allowing them to engage directly with diverse populations across the country. Self-determination is critical to securing a future free of oppressive systems, and Civic Cipher exists to facilitate discussions toward this end. Furthermore, Civic Cipher seeks to inform non-POC allies who may not be privy to these types of discussions and optics. Finally, Civic Cipher seeks to provide long-form conversations in spaces where there is often a lack of significant resources, potent dialogue, or the necessary engagement for facilitating a healthy and productive civil discourse.
LITERATURE ALOUD: 1984 by George Orwell (1949) part 11/13 (00:58:56)
1984 is a dystopian novel about constant surveillance, news manipulation, conspiracy and control by fear. Written in 1949, George Orwell’s entire novel 1984 was read on-air by longtime Pacifica Morning show host Charles Morgan and June Foray in 1975. Few novels have had as much impact on our thinking and the English language as 1984 from the concept and phrase “Big Brother” to words like “newspeak” and “doublethink.”
http://audioport.org/index.php?op=program-info&program_id=105715&nav=&
TEXT: http://www.george-orwell.org/1984/
THE BRADCAST: 9/30/2025 ‘A War from Within’ (Trump’s Mind) As Government Shutdown Looms (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: The federal government will likely begin a partial shutdown at midnight on Tuesday as Congressional Republicans refuse to negotiate with Democrats. Donald Trump may want a shutdown, which would prevent the Bureau of Labor Statistics from publishing the critical monthly jobs report for the duration. Trump instead is posting racist A.I. videos mocking Congressional Democratic leaders. At an embarrassing, unnecessary in-person meeting, Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth lectured the nation’s top military brass on ‘wokeness’ and ‘stupid rules of engagement’, while Trump delivered a rambling, hour-long speech describing the Left as ‘the enemy within.’ Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker and Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek pushed back hard against Trump’s unwelcome, completely unnecessary military thuggery. Plus Desi Doyen has our new ‘Green News Report.’
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675