TUESDAY 09.30.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Tuesday September 30, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Climate solutions can start at your desk (00:01:30)
The nonprofit Work for Climate is helping employees push their companies to go green.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
ENCOURAGEMENTOLOGY: Searching for Fulfillment and Discovering True Satisfaction (00:29:00)
On this show we’re talking about searching for fulfillment and discovering true satisfaction. Have you ever felt like you were on a constant quest for the next thing – a new job, a new relationship, a new milestone – believing that once you achieved it, you’d finally feel complete? Its a familiar cycle: the anticipation, the accomplishment, and then the quiet realization that the longing is still there. What if the reason we keep searching isn’t because were broken, but because our hearts are tuned to look for something deeper than surface-level success?
MAKING CONTACT: El beisbol is where we shine (00:29:00)
On this week’s Making Contact, we talk about baseball with the help of some Venezuelan players living in Peru. The story featured in this show first aired on In Confianza in July 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: If You Care About Jimmy Kimmel, Support Journalist Mario Guevara Too (00:58:00)
Activist Nora Benavides joins Thom with the story of a lesser known TV journalist also facing the consequences of Trump’s fascist power grab.
THE CHILDREN’S HOUR: Balloons (00:53:00)
On this episode of The Children’s Hour, we explore balloons. From party balloons to weather balloons, and from the first hot air balloons in 18th-century France to the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, the Kids Crew dives into the history, science, art, and wonder of ballooning.
LITERATURE ALOUD: 1984 by George Orwell (1949) part 10/13 (00:58:54)
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: 9/29/2025 ‘Fear is the Tool of a Tyrant’ (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: The madness of the Trump era, and the madness of Donald Trump, continues to quicken in pace and grow more intense, sick and twisted each day. Five mass shootings in the US over the weekend underscore how Republicans have blocked commonsense gun safety reforms. Republicans fell silent after reporting indicated the mass shooters don’t fit the GOP narrative of falsely accusing Democrats and the Left of political violence, despite verified data showing that violent extremism from the Right far out-paces violent extremism from the Left. Trump’s latest antics raise new concerns about his mental fitness. We also update a host of new developments, from the indictment of former FBI Dir. James Comey, to Jimmy Kimmel and attacks on free speech, to Defense Sec. Hegseth’s mystery meeting with generals, and much more. Callers weigh in.
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
MONDAY 09.29.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Monday September 29, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: How a utility shut-off can trigger a family crisis (00:01:30)
Food spoils. Health threats rise. Eviction risks loom. And with energy costs rising, more people could face gas or electricity shutoffs.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
WHEN THE BIOMASS HITS THE WIND TURBINE #69: Forest Gardening (00:29:41)
What’s a forest garden?
Learn plants/bark/buds
These plants/forest gardening have a history ” not a new system (native Americans, Japanese)
Native plants vs. non-native
How do you get started creating a forest garden?
What kind of plants are easiest to grow or propagate? Collect seeds, cuttings, bull doze new development
What kind of soil and can you make your own?
Where’s a good place to find plants?
What’s are some good perennial plants for food source?
https://bluerockstation.podbean.com
ECONOMIC UPDATE: Higher Education Labor United (HELU) Rises September 25th, 2025 (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,” Teslas 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: Believe nothing the Trump regime says on any issue (00:58:00)
Trump loves revenge (Remember – Trump says he hates his enemies) and here he is reveling in Comey’s indictment – and now a new revenge on Chicago.. Every living ex-Fed Chair gives the Supreme Court an urgent warning about Trumps latest move – will it help? Dean Obeidallah – Believe nothing the Trump regime says on any issue.
SPIRIT IN ACTION: From Rush Limbaugh Fan to Bernie Sanders & Thom Hartmann Liberal – With The Union (00:55:00)
(Originally aired 8/28/2021) I ran into Pete Bastounes at a campground in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and learned about his transition from a political conservative and a Rush Limbaugh enthusiast to a Thom Hartmann and Bernie Sanders liberal, a change that could be promising for those who wish to speak across the political & cultural spectrum. Pete Bastounes is union steward for local 150 operating engineers in Illinois, a compelling speaker, and a great hope for our future.
Past/current religious/spiritual influences:
Greek Orthodox, Evangelical Christian, Charismatic Christian, Non-affiliated
LITERATURE ALOUD: 1984 by George Orwell (1949) part 9/13 (00:58:51)
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://george-orwell.org/1984/0.html
THE BRADCAST: 9/26/2025 Encore: MAGA Using Kirk’s Death as Their 9/11; Guests Heather Digby Parton of Salon, ‘Driftglass’ of ‘Pro Left Podcast’ (00:58:00)
Encore: original airdate 9-17-2025. On today’s ‘BradCast’: Donald Trump, his administration, elected Republicans and rightwing media are opportunistically exploiting the killing of Republican activist Charlie Kirk for political retribution, falsely accusing ‘radical left’ ‘scum’ and unnamed ‘leftist organizations’ as being responsible for the crime, and vowing to target and prosecute Americans for exercising their free speech rights. The Trump Justice Department disappeared a report confirming white supremacist and far-right violence far outpaces all other types of violent extremism in the U.S. Salon columnist HEATHER DIGBY PARTON and ‘DRIFTGLASS’ of the Professional Left Podcast bring insight and context to escalating rightwing attacks on free speech; chilling similarities to post-9/11 America; Trump’s seeming effort to start wars with Venezuela and Chicago; his ridiculous defamation lawsuit against the New York Times; and much, much more.
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
SUNDAY 09.28.25 PROGRAM Notes
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SCHOLARS’ CIRCLE & THE INSIGHTERS Sept 21 2025: Political Violence (00:58:00)
Scholars Circle discusses Political violence
EARTH RIOT RADIO: Philip K Dick & the UN Climate Week (00:29:00)
The United Nations is crashing, they say. But they should add that all institutions everywhere are crashing, because they aren’t people. Institutions don’t know how to be kind. After returning from our tour with Neil Young, after amphitheaters and arenas and the Hollywood Bowl, Savitri and I find ourselves suddenly back home with thousands of environmentalists in the streets. The Paris Agreement and the EPA are gone. Funding is gone and Big Oil is – drilling baby drill. The new resistance against the poisoners seems to wait for us inside a science fiction future… We are free to dream with the catastrophe of the Earth, which is dream-like in its vastness and other-worldly change. We follow the Earth’s instructions: love wildly and dream, break down walls and flood.
BARNABY DRUTHERS: Barnaby Druthers: Spend a Pretty Penny (00:28:00)
Under the light of the moon in a field of heather on the outskirts of a Cotswold village, Barnaby Druthers and Harper Thorne attempt to solve a murder case with the evidence they acquired during an investigation, as personal questions between the two rise like the mist above the moor.
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 September 27, 2025 (00:59:30)
Segment One
We begin the show with Emma Janssen, Writing Fellow at The American Prospect. We discuss the union-building efforts of nurses and medical professionals at the Unity Point Hospitals in Iowa. The union-building efforts are a response to the dangers that medical professionals and their patients face at work. The hospitals are spending millions of dollars to fight the unionizing, because they do not want to spend relatively much less to provide safety policies and measures to ensure the safety of the employees and patients.
Segment Two
We then sit with Jaden Edison, the public education reporter for The Texas Tribune. We discuss the Texas Board of education’s decision to overhaul social studies in text books. They’ve tapped christian activist and know extremist, David Barton. David’s resume speaks for itself, and the damage he and the board are planning to for the fair an accurate accounting of our history is incalculable.
https://www.arniearnesen.org/WP
BACKGROUND BRIEFING with IAN MASTERS: September 25, 2025 (00:59:00)
The Leninists and Stalinist at the Head of MAGA and the Trump White House | Trump Trashes the UN Leaving China to Fill the Void After the US Withdraws From the World Body | Silicon Valley’s Merging of Techno-Fascism and Christo-Fascism as Musk Merges X with xAI is His Latest Grift
https://www.backgroundbriefing.org
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR: A New Kind of Honesty in Support of Compassionate Connection 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: China has all our data, Switzerland to kill privacy laws and should AI have human rights? (00:58:00)
We are facing seriously uncertain times, not just in the United States but the world seems to be turning upside down.
We explore China, Switzerland, human rights for AI, and so much more. Best of luck to us all…
SATURDAY 09.27.25 PROGRAM Notes
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TECHTONIC with MARK HURST: Glenn Adamson, author, A Century of Tomorrows (00:59:30)
People in past eras have thought about the future in very different ways. Glenn Adamson discusses his book A Century of Tomorrows, on how writers, thinkers, and leaders have imagined the future over the past 100 years.
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: The Trump Era and the Psychology of Moral Courage (00:58:00)
Researchers are beginning to understand why some of us demonstrate what is called “moral courage” and others do not. In fact, most of us actually have a warped sense of our own moral courage. We like to think nothing would get in the way of our morals. But this week’s guest, award winning journalist Alina Tugend has found that, sadly, pretty much everything gets in the way between us and our moral courage. Despite American’s mythic belief in individualism, the fact is we generally go along to get along with the crowd. Especially in these uniquely frightening times of rising violent fascism we can’t be just reactive; there are steps we can take to both avoid violent repercussions and productively act on moral courage.
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
AGING MATTERS: Estate Sales – Company Services and Shopping Tips (00:58:00)
An estate sale is a large, organized sale of someone’s possessions, typically run for individuals who are moving or downsizing or family members whose loved one has passed. Unlike a garage sale, an estate sale is more formal and usually organized by a professional estate sale company. Daniel Sanders, President/CEO, Four Sales, Ltd., https://www.foursales.com/, talks about estate sale planning, hiring and working with an estate sale company, and etiquette rules for estate sale shoppers.
https://www.agingmattersonline.com
GROWING GREENER: Second Chance Composting (00:29:00)
John Pitroff chose composting when his daughter’s birth sparked dreams of leaving her a better world ” and now he’s addressing environmental problems while making a living helping local gardeners and farmers.
https://www.thomaschristophergardens.com
TUC RADIO: Alex Carey: Corporations and Propaganda, Part ONE of TWO (00:29:00)
Alex Carey wrote that the people of the US have been subjected to an unparalleled, expensive, 3/4 century long propaganda effort designed to expand corporate rights by undermining democracy and destroying the unions. The 20th century, he wrote, is marked by three historic developments: the growth of democracy via the expansion of the franchise, the growth of corporations, and the growth of propaganda to protect corporations from democracy. Careys unique view of US history goes back to World War I and ends with the Reagan era.
Noam Chomsky dedicated his book Manufacturing Consent to the memory of Alex Carey. Chomsky says that the Australian sociologist would have written the definitive history of propaganda in the US, had he lived to complete his work.
This is a fairly complex production with many voices, historic sound clips, and source material. The program has been used by writers and students of history and propaganda. Alex Carey: Taking the Risk out of Democracy, Corporate Propaganda VS Freedom and Liberty with a foreword by Noam Chomsky was published by the University of Illinois Press in 1995.
THE BOPST SHOW: Extended Frequency Response (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 lease, great sound of American songwriter John Prine, the spry thematic melodies of the Bob Moore Orchestra and the British post-punk brutalizations of IDLES as well as music by The Stylistics, Pascuala Llabaca, and many others locked out of the nation’s largest terrestrial bandwidths.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
RALPH NADER RADIO HOUR #603 (00:58:00)
The Ralph Nader Radio Hour is a weekly talk show broadcast on the Pacifica Radio Network. Ralph Nader is joined by co-hosts Steve Skrovan and David Feldman for a lively informative hour of interviews with some of the nation’s most influential movers and shakers and thought-provoking discussions of the week’s news. https://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/
FRIDAY 09.26.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Friday September 26, 2025
https://www.democracynow.org/shows
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Some of New Orleans flood defenses are slowly sinking (00:01:30)
Parts of the citys protections are subsiding by an inch or two per year, including key wetlands and floodwalls.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
THE LABOR HERITAGE POWER HOUR: From New Orleans to Detroit: Stories of Solidarity and Survival (00:55:00)
This week on the Labor Heritage Power Hour, Chris Garlock and guest co-host Kimmon MacGyver Williams talk with Matt Olson from the New Orleans Worker Center for Racial Justice about Don’t Stand Alone, a powerful exhibit on Black labor history and solidarity. Plus, Tales from the Ruther Library co-host Dan Golodner explores Detroit’s Black migration, entrepreneurship, and the fight against Negro removal. Also: the latest labor arts news, from new unions to Broadway contract battles and a tribute to USWs Leo Gerard.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Ukraine Needs Action, not Words (00:58:00)
After his shifting commitments made in meetings at the UN and later with Turkey’s dictator, what is Trump’s real stance on Ukraine and defending Europe from Russian threats? Phil Ittner joins Thom live from Ukraine with the latest.
SEA CHANGE RADIO: Erica Mackie of GRID Alternatives on Solar For All Cancellation (00:29:00)
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, 34 million households across America are energy insecure. TheSolar for All programwas set to provide funding to 60 entities that planned to create or expand existing low-income solar programs and would have enabled 900,000 households nationwide in disadvantaged communities to utilize solar energy to reduce their home energy bills. And yet, the current iteration of the EPA recently announced that the Solar for All Program’s funding of $7 billion is being terminated. This week on Sea Change Radio – we speak to a solar executive whose organization has had its Solar for All funding rug pulled out from under it. Erica Mackie, the co-founder and co-CEO of the solar nonprofit, GRID Alternatives, joins the program to give us an overview of the services that her organization provides and to discuss the impact of the EPAs recent decision.
LAURA FLANDERS AND FRIENDS: Kimberle Crenshaw on the Legal System Cracking Up: Critical Race Theory & the Rollback of Civil Rights (00:28:00)
Calling all white people: How many times in the last eight months have you heard the phrase isnt that illegal? The problems with our legal system are more conspicuous than ever in 2025, but thought leaders like Kimberle Crenshaw have been sounding the alarm for decades. Executive Director of the African American Policy Forum, Crenshaw is celebrating the organization’s 30th anniversary and joining Laura Flanders in this episode to discuss the challenges ahead. For starters, the Supreme Court has recently legalized racial profiling for ICE deportations, the Trump administration is looking to remove so-called improper ideology from US institutions like the Smithsonian, and the president recently suggested domestic violence is not a real crime. Crenshaw is a leading scholar on Critical Race Theory, a Professor of Law at Columbia and UCLA Law Schools, and host of the podcast “Intersectionality Matters!” which is currently releasing a new episode of their series United States of Amnesia: The Real Histories of Critical Race Theory. Join Crenshaw and Flanders as they look at the AAPFs role in advancing intersectional policies to address antiracism, and how they plan to continue that work in this critical moment. Plus, a commentary from Laura on rights and the Right.
THE BOPST SHOW: Extended Frequency Response (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 lease, great sound of American songwriter John Prine, the spry thematic melodies of the Bob Moore Orchestra and the British post-punk brutalizations of IDLES as well as music by The Stylistics, Pascuala Llabaca, and many others locked out of the nation’s largest terrestrial bandwidths.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
THE BRADCAST: 9/25/2025 Hegseth’s mysterious generals meeting; Government shutdown looms; Comey’s corrupt indictment (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered hundreds of top U.S. Military generals and admirals, from all over the world, to convene in Virginia for an unusual in-person meeting on September 30th, but has told no one why. September 30th is also the last day to avert a government shutdown, as Congressional Republicans refuse to negotiate with Democrats whose votes will be needed to pass legislation to keep the government open. The White House threatened to enact mass layoffs if the government shuts down. Donald Trump ordered US Attorney General Pam Bondi to indict former FBI Director James Comey before the statute of limitations deadline on September 30. Federal judge ordered the Trump Administration to restore half a billion dollars in federal research grant funding to UCLA. Plus Desi Doyen has our new ‘Green News Report.’
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
THURSDAY 09.25.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Thursday September 25, 2025
https://www.democracynow.org/shows
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Have questions about buying an EV? Your dealer might be learning, too (00:01:30)
A national training program is helping U.S. car sellers and buyers navigate the switch to electric.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
RADIO ECOSHOCK: From Smog To Ozone Warming (00:58:00)
Driving around in a death trap? Fossil smog is killing almost 100,000 Americans a year. From UCL and University of Birmingham, Dr. Karn Vohra on the real cost of gas and oil in the USA. Few of us could name the third biggest greenhouse gas. The ins-and-outs of ozone and global warming with Professor Bill Collins from University of Reading. Plus: the hot state of Pakistan with Adjit Najam and a new climate song “Hot Nights”.
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Another Day, Another Bloodbath (00:58:00)
A sniper opening fire on migrants at an ICE facility in Dallas. Is the far-right going to pin the Kirk shooting on South Park? Is this their new way of dealing with enemies? Former U.S Congressman Joe Walsh asks “why don’t the Democrats understand the threat?” Crazy Alert! Ok – Karoline Leavitt demands the people who took out the elevator at the UN be fired. Guess who it was. The Trump administration is taking on “the divisive feminist agenda” in the military. You know…things like childcare, family leave and reproductive care.
RISING UP WITH SONALI – 2025-09-23 (00:58:30)
This week, well disentangle the Jimmy Kimmel debacle and how billionaire-owned media are happy to do the bidding of autocrats in order to make even more money. Jessica Gonzalez, co-CEO of Free Press will explain who the players are, what the stakes are, and how immediate mass protests made a big impact. Then, Andrea Serrano of the New Mexico-based community organization OL will explain how her state, after years of grassroots organizing, enabled free, universal childcare and how other states can follow. Finally, a young progressive Latina in Southern California, Angela Gonzalez-Torres is challenging a mainstream Democrat from the left for a Congressional seat. Shell join me to explain why and how she’s campaigning.
https://risingupwithsonali.com/
LITERATURE ALOUD: 1984 by George Orwell (1949) part 8/13 (00:58:14)
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://george-orwell.org/1984/0.html
THE BRADCAST: 9/24/2025 Healthcare analyst Charles Gaba on Looming Government Shutdown and Skyrocketing Healthcare Premiums (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel returned to the public airwaves on Tuesday night, delivering a heartfelt monologue defending free speech, days after he was suspended following threats by Trump’s FCC Chair to revoke ABC affiliate stations’ broadcast licenses if they didn’t cancel Kimmel. Kimmel’s ratings soared, despite media conglomerates Sinclair and Nextar blocking the program for millions of Americans in major media markets. As another government shutdown looms, Congressional Democrats are fighting to prevent skyrocketing healthcare premiums for millions of Americans, while Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans refuse to negotiate. Healthcare analyst CHARLES GABA digs into the details, potential horrors, and the very high stakes for the nation. Democrats continued their winning streak in special elections on Tuesday, with House Democrats closer to forcing a vote to release the Epstein Files.
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
WEDNESDAY 09.24.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Wednesday September 24, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: As air pollution gets worse, these parents are getting louder (00:01:30)
As the federal government weakens protections, Moms Clean Air Force is fighting pollution at the state and local level.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
FOOD SLEUTH RADIO: Katherine Pryor, children’s book author, discusses her latest title: Attack of the Hangries (00:28:00)
Did you know that being hungry can affect our mood and behaviors? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn for her conversation with Katherine Pryor, award-winning children’s book author, and good food advocate, whose latest title: The Attack of the Hangries, helps parents, teachers and children understand what happens when our fuel supplies run low, and how to stay well nourished. Beyond education and entertainment, this book can be used to help support food assistance programs (which serve one out of every 5 children in the United States), universal school meals, and school food policies.
Related Websites: www.katherinepryor.com
https://foodsleuth.transistor.fm
THIS WAY OUT #1956: Powell Speaks for LGBTQ Refugees & global LGBTQ news (00:28:59)
Refugee expert chronicles queers seeking safety; U.S. Congress members press Secretary of State Marco Rubio for global anti-queer statistics, the Pope thinks queers are nice, but not enough to marry, Trump seeks Supreme Court relief on his X passport ban; Ben & Jerrys co-founder resigns in a free speech meltdown; 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: Who is Going to Watch Jimmy Kimmel Like Me? (00:58:00)
Experts Shocked and Appalled Over Trump, RFK Jr. Claims on Autism, Tylenol. My new book is out today – “The Last American President.” Well….looks like we’re not a Democracy anymore – what do we do now? Experts Shocked and Appalled Over Trump, RFK Jr. Claims on Autism, Tylenol. Reckless countries are extracting double the fossil fuels consistent with 1.5 C and America is leading the path. Are Democrats looking at a shocking win in a red state? Is the GOP checking out? Hmmm.
CIVIC CIPHER: John Hope Bryant Takes Us Inside the Mind of a Black Capitalist (00:59:00)
Today’s guest is none other than John Hope Bryan – the leading mind of Black wealth in America.
In the first half of the show, we discuss the ascension of Donald Trump to the presidency and the implications of his second term on the wealth of Black Americans.
In the second half of the show, we discuss the new normal for Black Americans and what things can and should be done to create meaningful financial inroads without the support of the political system.
LITERATURE ALOUD: 1984 by George Orwell (1949) part 7/13 (00:58:14)
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://george-orwell.org/1984/0.html
THE BRADCAST: 9/23/2025 Our Insane U.S. President at the U.N.; Homan Bribery Update; Kimmel Censorship Update (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: Donald Trump’s Justice Department quietly dropped an investigation into Trump’s so-called Border Czar, Tom Homan, after he was videotaped in an FBI sting operation last year accepting $50,000 in cash in a fast-food takeout bag. Today the plot thickened, with Homan and the White House unable to keep their stories straight. Days after threats by Trump’s FCC Chair that ignited a firestorm over censorship of free speech, media conglomerates Sinclair and Nextar announced they will indefinitely pre-empt the return of late-night TV show host Jimmy Kimmel, which they say is completely unrelated to their mergers pending approval before the FCC. Trump delivered a rambling, addled speech to U.N. General Assembly in New York filled with obnoxious lies, particularly about energy and climate change. Plus Desi Doyen has our new ‘Green News Report.’
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
TUESDAY 09.23.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Tuesday September 23, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Chicago just went all in on renewable energy (00:01:30)
From City Hall to OHare Airport, every city-owned building now runs on renewables.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
ENCOURAGEMENTOLOGY: Letting Go of Old Ways of Thinking: Why Silence, Perspective & Last Words Hold You Back (00:29:00)
On this show we are letting go of our old ways of thinking to learn why silence, perspective, and always needing the last word may be holding us back. Have you ever caught yourself clinging to a belief simply because it feels like yours to protect, even when it no longer fits the moment or serves the relationship? Or felt compelled to say one more thing, just to make sure you’re understood, validated, or seen as right, only to walk away feeling a little more frustrated than fulfilled?
MAKING CONTACT: Giving Bayard Rustin His Flowers (Encore) (00:29:00)
On today’s show, we take a look at the life and legacy of a central organizer of the March on Washington, Bayard Rustin. Rustin was an openly gay civil rights leader and a trusted advisor to labor leader A. Phillip Randolph and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This show first aired in June 2021.
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 new restrictions on Pentagon reporters (00:57:59)
Trump is going after another adversary and he’s firing a prosecutor to get away with it. Holman tried to sell the border for 50K and so far is getting away with it. California has banned ICE masks – how are they going to implement it? You should be alarmed at Trump’s new restrictions on Pentagon reporters.
THE CHILDREN’S HOUR: Renewable Energy (00:53:00)
Everything we do uses energy, but not all energy is the same. On this episode of The Children’s Hour, we learn about renewable energy – power that comes from sources we can use again and again without running out. Our Kids Crew wondered: what exactly makes energy renewable? Experts joined us to explain.
LITERATURE ALOUD: 1984 by George Orwell (1949) part 6/13 (00:59:01)
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://george-orwell.org/1984/0.html
THE BRADCAST: 9/22/2025 Former DOJ Chief of Public Corruption Randall D. Eliason on Trump ‘Border Czar’ caught taking a $50,000 cash bribe (00:58:00)
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
MONDAY 09.22.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Monday September 22, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: A climate nightmare inspired her novel. But the story is also about hope (00:01:30)
Eiren Caffalls All the Water in the World imagines life after an extreme climate disaster ” and the kindness that survives.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
WHEN THE BIOMASS HITS THE WIND TURBINE #68: Starting a Community Radio Station (00:29:00)
What exactly is a community radio station versus a privately owned one?
What got you interested in helping grow a community radio station?
What’s involved in putting together the programming?
What types of things help make the radio station work well?
What does the station need in order to produce regular programming?
How can individuals who are interested in creating programming get involved in producing their own shows?
What role do you think community radio will play in the upcoming national elections?
What’s the future of community radio?
https://bluerockstation.podbean.com
ECONOMIC UPDATE: The Fight Against Money Corrupting Politics (00:29:00)
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on Bernie-endorsed Independent U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner in Maine, the latest Gallup poll showing that 68% Americans are pro-union, more than 97% of park workers at Yosemite and Sequoia & Kings Canyon parks vote to unionize, ICE has so far deported half a million. At the same time, DOGE has fired a million federal workers (mostly high-wage), resulting in a significant net job loss nationwide. The second half of the show features an interview with Trent Lange, leader of the California movement to get money out of politics.
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: Turning Point or Just Another Milestone? (00:58:00)
As the oppression and aggression is growing ever bolder, are we at a point in society’s de-evolution where free speech is met with violence? Will ordinary people ever wake up to what is going on?
SPIRIT IN ACTION: Preserving Life & The Web of Meaning (00:55:00)
(Originally aired 8/7/2021) Jeremy Lent explores the way forward for humanity & all life on Earth by a deep dive into knowledge, connection, insight, and wisdom in his latest book, The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science & Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe. With a careful eye to the big picture, Jeremy scrutinizes the history, components, & insights, bringing them together to empower growth in life-affirming directions. Jeremy is a vastly widely-read, widely-questing powerhouse of discernment & clarity, finding the unity in perceived individual threads, in a discipline called Liology. Past/current religious/spiritual influences: Buddhism, Confusionism, Earth-Based Spirituality, Jewish, Pantheist, Taoist
LITERATURE ALOUD: 1984 by George Orwell (1949) part 5/13 (00:59:02)
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://george-orwell.org/1984/0.html
THE BRADCAST: 9/19/2025 Encore: David Dayen on Dem plans to avoid a govt shutdown; Kirk killed in Utah (00:58:00)
Encore: original airdate 9-10-2025. On today’s ‘BradCast’: Far-right youth activist and longtime Donald Trump ally Charlie Kirk was killed by a gunman during an event at a Utah college. Receiving much less attention, a school shooting in Denver critically injured three teenagers. Poland reported it intercepted Russian drones that violated its airspace, in the first engagement since Russia invaded Ukraine. After winning a special U.S. House election in Virginia, Democrats are just one signature away from passing a discharge petition to force a vote to release the Epstein Files. Financial journalist DAVID DAYEN of the American Prospect discusses the coming showdown in the GOP-controlled Congress to avoid a government shutdown on October 1, whether and how Democrats could use this rare leverage to stymie Trump’s authoritarianism, and much more.
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
SUNDAY 09.21.25 PROGRAM Notes
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SCHOLARS’ CIRCLE & THE INSIGHTERS: Scholars Circle Sept 14 25 Supreme Court deportation profiling holding, The future of indigenous exhibits (00:58:00)
How does the US Supreme Court decision to allow ICE to target immigrants based on language, accent, race, and employment affect the sweeps of undocumented immigrants in the US. And what are the social and economic impacts of Trump’s deportation policy? Then, museums are changing their approach to exhibiting Native American artifacts. What is the new model and what is the impact? Alaka Wali is the Curator of North American Anthropology at the Field Museum in Chicago. She is co-editor of The Future is Indigenous: Stories from the Native North American Hall at the Field Museum.
EARTH RIOT RADIO: Neil Young & Daryl Hannah’s love earth tour Inspires a Question (00:29:00)
What If We Could Tell The Truth? What if artists, scientists, earth-activists – were talking to us without corporate interference, representing to us in clear language the Earths overwhelming struggle. Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir experienced this possibility from concert stages in 16 cities over 5 weeks, as Neil’s opening act. As we sang and preached Earthalujah! – we could believe that it is possible to share what is happening to our physical reality. We really can publicly call out that We are in mortal danger, the global heatwave is accelerating. Americans really can see past the thousands of advertising events that explode in our brains daily from screens and billionaires. We might not have to learn about the Earth only when our homes are burning and our children are drowning. Each of us can be a Planet Crier.
BARNABY DRUTHERS: Barnaby Druthers The Black Cat and But Not Yet (00:28:00)
Barnaby Druthers The Back Cat (new story) inspired but not adapted from Edgar Allan Poe’s The Back Cat short story and Harper Thorne: But Not Yet
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 September 20, 2025 (00:59:30)
Segment One
We begin the show with Ryan Cooper and Bill Curry. We discuss the probable outcome of Trump’s economic policies: stagflation. Economy is collapsing, the labor market is weak, inflation is rising. Democrats in Congress should NOT collaborate with Republicans to prop up this government.
Segment Two
We then sit with John Nichols about the corruption of the Trump administration. Specifically, we discuss how the whole political system in the US has become corrupt at its core.
https://www.arniearnesen.org/WP
BACKGROUND BRIEFING with IAN MASTERS September 21, 2025 (00:59:00)
The Trump Coup Underway and His Assault on the First Amendment | The Real Epstein Files Story in the 7,000 + SARS Files at Treasury and the Central Role of Robert Maxwell and His Depraved Daughter.
https://www.backgroundbriefing.org
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR: Master Your Mind an Interview with Dr Richard Louis Miller (00:59:00)
Dr Richard Miller is a clinical psychologist with over 65 years of experience in mind-body health and continues to help people master their minds and reclaim their lives. Dr. Miller is the host of the Mind Body Health and Politics Internet radio show which explores the vital intersection of personal wellbeing and social issues, and he is the author of numerous books including Psychedelic Medicine; Psychedelic Wisdom; Integral Psychedelic Therapy; Freeing Sexuality; Psychedelic Medicine at the End of Life; and his new book is Master Your Mind – Practical Tools to Calm Anxiety, Silence Your Inner Critic and Stop Overthinking.
DEEP DIVE CYBERSECURITY SHOW: China has all our data, Switzerland to kill privacy laws and should AI have human rights? (00:58:00)
We are facing seriously uncertain times, not just in the United States but the world seems to be turning upside down.
We explore China, Switzerland, human rights for AI, and so much more. Best of luck to us all…
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-deep-dive-radio-show-and-nicks-nerd-news/id1262505658
SATURDAY 09.20.25 PROGRAM Notes
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TECHTONIC with MARK HURST: Joseph Weizenbaum warned us about AI 50 years ago (00:59:30)
In 1976, MIT computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum published a book warning against the manipulative powers of AI. Tech analyst Faine Greenwood discusses how Weizenbaum was ignored, leading to recent harms ” even deaths ” due to AI therapy chatbots.
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: Public Theater: A Way to Measure Democracy (00:58:39)
When America was indeed great, the federal government brought theater to all people. Free. In a mirror opposite of Trump 2.0, under FDR there was the Federal Theater project in which one quarter of the nation’s population saw free performances in public parks. For little kids and erudite intellectuals. Back in the 1930s, the government did not fear and suppress arts and culture. Until it did. The Federal Theater Project and other programs inspired millions, until it frightened the right wing that demanded control over us all and our culture. On this show, author Harvey Smith and I discuss the greatness, bringing us together, that was and can yet be again.
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
AGING MATTERS: Medicine Use (00:58:00)
Adults age 65+ make up 17.3 percent of the U.S. population, and nearly 90% of them reporttaking a prescription medicine. Because older adults are more likely to have chronic health conditions, more than half of this group take four or more prescription drugs. Kathy Cameron, BS Pharm, MPH, Pharmacist and Healthy Aging Consultant, talks about older adult medication use, risks of multiple prescriptions and over the counter drugs, and how deprescribing and medication reviews can maximize benefits of medicines and reduce risks.
https://www.agingmattersonline.com
GROWING GREENER: How We Created Weeds and Why We Need Them (00:29:00)
Peter Del Tredici, Senior Research Scientist Emeritus of Arnold Arboretum and Visiting Lecturer of Applied Ecology and Planning at MIT explains the history of these garden pests why they can play an essential role in this era of climate change.
https://www.thomaschristophergardens.com
TUC RADIO: The Assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March, Michael Parenti – Archive (00:29:00)
Who was Julius Caesar, a dictator or a populist? And who really was Brutus, who murdered him on the Ides of March? A young hero or a participant in a deep seated conspiracy? This intriguing lecture by the noted author, speaker, activist and scholar Michael Parenti provides surprising new insights and parallels to today that are both shocking and amusing. This rebroadcast is part of the very popular and ever expanding series on what Parenti called Real History, a different and intriguing reading of a surprisingly large number all too familiar stories.
Parenti spoke about his Pulitzer Price nominated book: The Assassination of Julius Caesar, a people’s history of ancient Rome. He was recorded in the summer of 2003 in San Francisco at Modern Times Books.
THE BOPST SHOW: The Hits Just Keep On Coming (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 hop hop legends Run DMC, the 21st century pop sleaze of Too Much, and the impossibly sweet Jamaican harmonies of Ansel & the Meditations as well as music by Big Thief, Odion Iruoje and many others locked out of the nation’s largest terrestrial bandwidths.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
RALPH NADER RADIO HOUR #602 (00:58:00)
Ralph interviews New York Times reporter, David Gelles, about his new book, Dirtbag Billionaire: How Yvon Chouinard Built Patagonia, Made a Fortune, and Gave It All Away. Then, we welcome back former IRS commissioner, John Koskinen, to update us on how the Trump Administration is dismantling the IRS and stealing your personal information.
https://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com
FRIDAY 09.19.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Friday September 19, 2025
https://www.democracynow.org/shows
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Climate change is supercharging fall allergies (00:01:30)
Longer growing seasons and more ragweed pollen mean more sneezing, runny noses, and itchy eyes.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
THE LABOR HERITAGE POWER HOUR: High Iron and Higher Stakes (00:55:00)
On this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour: historian Joe McCartin unpacks Congress’s Unmasking Union Antisemitism, showing how employers have long weaponized antisemitic tropes against unions while Jewish workers helped build a pluralistic, democratic labor movement – and why the latest push is really about weakening unions and chilling speech. Then producer Patrick Dixon talks with artist-anthropologist Aubrey Edwards about High Iron, a traveling boxcar-turned-community museum honoring the immigrant and Indigenous workers who built the Wests railroads, towns, and economy. Two stories, one thread: who tells Americas story” – he power brokers, or the people who built it?
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Democracy Noir the Dictator’s Plan (00:58:00)
Filmmaker Connie Field of Clarity Films explains the new movie about confronting the policies and corruption of Hungary’s autocratic Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Trump is following the Dictator’s Plan to take over democracy. As Viktor Orbn dismantles Hungary’s democratic institutions, three women “a journalist, a politician, and a nurse” work tirelessly to fight for their country’s soul.
SEA CHANGE RADIO: IQAir CEO Glory Dolphin Hammes (00:29:00)
You may have been getting ready to leave the house recently and noticed on your phone that the air quality was going to be less-than-ideal that day. There are a lot of people and technologies behind that seemingly simple process. This week on Sea Change Radio we speak with the CEO of IQAir North America, Glory Dolphin Hammes to learn about her company’s history, its AirVisual product and the evolving field of air quality monitoring. We discuss how crowd sourcing works to give us a clearer picture of air quality, the challenges of getting the word out to the public about unsafe air, particularly in underserved communities, and look at the impact of recent EPA rollbacks.
LAURA FLANDERS AND FRIENDS: Robert Reich Fights Democracy’s Bullies (00:28:00)
The crisis we’re in was a long time coming. Now that were here, what do we do about it? Returning to the show, former Labor Secretary and longtime professor Robert Reich joins Laura Flanders to discuss two bullies tormenting U.S. democracy: concentrated wealth and corporate power. As Reich shares, growing income inequality yields corruption in our politics and economy. No one election will change everything, but that’s not a reason not to act, and act quickly to defeat the Trump administration ” in Congress, and at the polls. Reich’s latest Substack, Should Democrats Shut Down the Government? presents some ideas. Reich’s latest book is Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America. He is also the subject of The Last Class about his final semester teaching at UC Berkeley’s Goldman School. He’s the author of eighteen books, including the bestsellers, Aftershock and The System: Who Rigged It and How We Fix It, and is co-founder of Inequality Media. Online, you can find Reichs viral video explainers and his widely-read newsletter on Substack. Join Reich and Flanders as they unpack how economic and political power intersect in American life ” and catch Laura’s two cents on democratic capitalism.
THE BOPST SHOW: The Hits Just Keep On Coming (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 hop hop legends Run DMC, the 21st century pop sleaze of Too Much, and the impossibly sweet Jamaican harmonies of Ansel & the Meditations as well as music by Big Thief, Odion Iruoje and many others locked out of the nation’s largest terrestrial bandwidths.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
THE BRADCAST: 9/18/2025 Encore: Matt Gertz of Media Matters on new accountability for Fox ‘News’ 2020 election lies (00:58:00)
Encore: original airdate 9-9-2025. On today’s ‘BradCast’: Two years ago, Fox ‘News’ paid a more than $780 million dollars for defaming Dominion Voting Systems and lying to viewers about the 2020 election. Now, new court documents in the defamation lawsuit against Fox News by Smartmatic, a different voting company, confirm that Fox hosts and executives knew Donald Trump’s claims of a ‘stolen’ election were false and chose to promote them anyway. MATT GERTZ of Media Matters explains what’s in the slew of new, ‘damning filings’ against Fox News, why they broadcast election lies, what it means for elections going forward, and much more. Missouri’s Republican state legislature rammed through new gerrymandered maps to steal U.S. House seats from their voters and add new restrictions to stop citizen-led ballot initiatives. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest ‘Green News Report.’
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
THURSDAY 09.18.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Thursday September, 18 2025
https://www.democracynow.org/shows
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Want more people to eat plant-based foods? Make them the default (00:01:30)
A nonprofit is working with hospitals to offer vegetarian meals first ” and its working.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
RADIO ECOSHOCK: High Science – Deep Time (00:58:00)
Why are so many experts and bloggers predicting more cold outbreaks as the planet warms? UK scientist Edward Hanna explains. What happened the last time Earth’s atmosphere carried so much carbon dioxide? Welcome to the Mid-Pliocene Warm Period. With just 400 parts per million CO2 Earth went over 3 degrees C hotter. Sea levels were at least 27 feet higher. We get the inside scoop in new science led by New Zealand scientist Georgia Grant. High science and deep time 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: 400 Days Left to Save American Democracy (00:58:00)
Conservative hypocrisy is showing all over the place as the MAGA Republicans push to destroy free speech in the name of their new martyr… Meanwhile, violence and even murder of elected Democrats, capitol hill police officers, and the family of a judge who ruled against Trump are practically ignored. Can we turn this all around before the G.O.P. finds a way to fix the midterm elections?
RISING UP WITH SONALI – 2025-09-16 (00:58:30)
This week, well cover the Charlie Kirk assassination by speaking with one of his victims, Tariq Khan, a historian and lecturer at Yale University, who, when he was a PhD student, was a target of Kirks organization Turning Point USA. Khan will share his harrowing experience being harassed and stalked by Kirks followers, and will share how the best way to resist fascist bullies is to stand up to them. Then, Nico Udu Gama with 350.org will join us ahead of a massive September 20th mobilization in New York City and around the country called Make Billionaires Pay. Its part of a larger global effort linking climate to broader justice movements called Draw the Line. Finally, Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin will join me. She was recently arrested trying to ask Representative Darrell Issa about Israel. Medea will share her experience of non-violently and militantly holding Congress accountable.
https://risingupwithsonali.com
LITERATURE ALOUD: 1984 by George Orwell (1949) part 4/13 (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 “double-think.”
http://audioport.org/index.php?op=program-info&program_id=105715&nav=&
TEXT: http://www.george-orwell.org/1984/
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
WEDNESDAY 09.17.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Wednesday September 17, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: What Taylor Swift can teach us about talking about climate change (00:01:30)
The players are going to play, and the haters are going to hate, but climate change is not something that you can shake off.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
FOOD SLEUTH RADIO: Todd Larsen, MA, Executive Co-Director for Green America discusses child labor in the industrialized livestock industry (00:28:00)
Did you know that Tyson, Perdue, Cargill, and JBS have all been found to have children working in their meat processing facilities? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn for her conversation with Todd Larsen, MA, Executive Co-Director for Green America, who will explain how and why U.S. children are working in agriculture, restaurants, and meatpacking industries.
Related Websites: www.enduschildlabor.org
https://foodsleuth.transistor.fm
THIS WAY OUT #1955: Jessica Stern’s Queer Diplomacy & global LGBTQ news! (00:28:59)
Expert advice for global queer rights advocates; the lower house of the Dutch parliament passes a bill to criminalize conversion therapy, Hong Kong lawmakers nix court-ordered same-gender couples rights, the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily allows South Carolina trans students to pee where they need to, and Oregon state lawmaker with a gay son Cyrus Javadi jilts the Republican Party.
Those stories and more this week when you find This Way Out.
Jessica Stern Appointed Senior Fellow – https://www.hks.harvard.edu/announcements/jessica-stern-former-us-special-envoy-advance-human-rights-lgbtqi-persons-appointed
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: Violence Fuels Authoritarianism (00:58:00)
While Fox News hosts muse about killing homeless people and defend police brutality, the right wing propaganda machine works overtime to make a martyr out of Charlie Kirk. Will all of this translate into attacks on anyone who challenges the fascist powers of Trump’s G.O.P.? National Progressive Town Hall with Rep. Ro Khanna of California.
CIVIC CIPHER: Civic Cipher 5th Anniversary Episode (00:59:00)
Can you believe it? We are 5 years old this week! In the first half of today’s program, we tell our origin story and discuss why we felt a show like this was important to create and distribute around the country. Our hope is that our story will encourage you in your own social justice endeavors! In the second half of the show, we examine our story since starting Civic Cipher. We have had many ups and downs as a show and as a country and we use this segment to reflect on all of it – and also invoke a bit of optimism for the future!
LITERATURE ALOUD: 1984 by George Orwell (1949) part 3/13 (00:58:53)
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 “double-think.”
http://audioport.org/index.php?op=program-info&program_id=105715&nav=&
TEXT: http://www.george-orwell.org/1984/
THE BRADCAST: 9/16/2025 Guest: Attorney Keith Barber on our crumbling courts and withering rule of law (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: In just eight months, the Trump Administration’s unrelenting assault on the Constitution and the rule of law has succeeded in destabilizing and dismantling key parts of the U.S. government – – from mass firings of government employees, to shutdowns of federal agencies, mass deportations and the deployment of the US military into American cities, to name a few. As lawsuits proceed through the court system, the corrupted rightwing U.S. Supreme Court majority has abused the ’emergency docket’ to temporarily allow these unprecedented upheavals to proceed. The administration is threatening to crack down on anyone who engages in speech they don’t like. Attorney KEITH BARBER, a writer at Daily Kos, offers perspective on a slew of new legal developments over the last few days, the Supreme Court, and much, much more. Plus Desi Doyen has our new ‘Green News Report.’
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
TUESDAY 09.16.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Tuesday September 16, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Curious about EVs? This month, its easier to try one (00:01:30)
For National Drive Electric Month, EV owners across the U.S. are opening their doors “and their driver’s seats” to newcomers.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
ENCOURAGEMENTOLOGY: The Power of Encouragement: How Lifting Others Lifts You Too (00:29:00)
On this show we’re exploring the power of encouragement by diving into the beautiful ripple effect that starts when you decide to show up for someone else – with nothing more than your time, your compassion, and your belief in them. Have you ever offered someone a kind word or a listening ear, only to walk away feeling you were the one who had been lifted? That’s not coincidence – it’s connection. It’s one of life’s quiet miracles that when you encourage someone else, you get a little more wind under your own wings.
MAKING CONTACT: Miami’s Battle Over Bilingual (00:29:00)
This week, we’re sharing a guest episode from our friends at Project Pulso: Miami’s Battle Over Bilingualism. Todays episode is about a decades-long power struggle between those who embraced diversity and those who fought to repress it. Produced in July 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: The Censorship War Has Begun (00:58:00)
Author Miles Taylor takes stock of the deep irony of cancelling the free speech of anyone who speaks badly of the right’s new martyr. Meanwhile, it is the right wing that deeply supports violence to achieve its goals.
THE CHILDREN’S HOUR: Welcome Stranger (00:53:00)
What does it mean to be a stranger in a new land? On this episode of The Children’s Hour, we explore the experiences of refugees – people who must leave their homes to find safety somewhere else. Our special guest is Rahim Al Haj, a two-time Grammy Award-winning musician and composer. He grew up in Baghdad, Iraq, where he began playing the oud, a string instrument that is more than 5,000 years old and considered the ancestor of the guitar, violin, and all other stringed instruments. Rahim had to leave Iraq during the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein because he spoke out for justice. His choices put him in danger, so he fled first to Jordan, then to Syria, and finally to the United States as a political refugee. Today, Rahim calls Albuquerque, New Mexico his home.
LITERATURE ALOUD: 1984 by George Orwell (1949) part 2/13 (00:58:53)
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 “double-think.”
http://audioport.org/index.php?op=program-info&program_id=105715&nav=&
TEXT: http://www.george-orwell.org/1984/
THE BRADCAST: 9/15/2025 First Amendment Under Attack to Protect the Second. Prove Me Wrong: The truth about Charlie Kirk’s words (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: Charlie Kirk was a racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-Semitic Islamophobe. And he did not deserve to be killed for any of it. Kirk has been inappropriately lionized by the Right and corporate media after his killing at a Utah college event. Donald Trump, Republicans, and rightwing media are opportunistically exploiting Kirk’s death as a weapon to declare war on their perceived enemies, civic democracy and the Constitution itself. The right is also targeting for firing anyone — educators, journalists, etc. — who merely quotes Kirk’s actual, often wildly offensive words on social media. Attacking the First Amendment keeps the Right from having to confront their very serious problem of rising political violence against their perceived enemies, and the nation’s worsening gun violence. Callers weigh in.
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
MONDAY 09.15.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Monday September 15, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Flash droughts: How climate change increases the risk of these short-lived but devastating events (00:01:30)
They can dramatically dry out land in just a short time.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
WHEN THE BIOMASS HITS THE WIND TURBINE #67: History of Oil (00:29:00)
Where it all started, Caldwell, PA or WV
Abraham Gesner, – kerosene, George Bissell ” liquid oil, Edwin Drake ” Seneca Oil
Kerosene used for lights, Industry grew largely because of taxes in the Civil War
alcohol taxed at $2.08 per gallon, kerosene at 10 cents per gallon
but no real application until the automobile
First cars electric, steam, and moonshine
1901 Spindletop gusher in Texas, began to produce 100,000 barrels per day, more than all other oil wells in nation combined ” within a year 440 wells there, oil all gone in 4 years
D’Arcy and Persia
Rockefeller and Standard Oil
WWI, for war over oil, Treaty of Versailles
Cheap, cheap oil ” so government intervenes
The Golden Gimmick (Truman)
Overthrow the president of Iran
https://bluerockstation.podbean.com
ECONOMIC UPDATE: An Argument for a New Labor Party (00:29:00)
The left-wing surge of the US working class during the 1930s Great Depression forced the Democratic Party to make the US govt serve the working class more than it ever had before or since. It was called the New Deal. In reaction, the US employer class, angry that gov’t programs for the people were paid for by taxes on corporations and the rich, turned to the Republican Party after World War 2 ended in 1945, and directed it to roll back the New Deal, to literally reduce or eliminate all it had accomplished. Because the New Deal made the great mistake of leaving profits in the hands of employers, the employers used those profits to provide Republicans with the means to defeat the DEMs and roll back the New Deal. In reaction, the DEMs looked for money, found it in the hands of many of the donors who funded the Republicans. So for many years the US was led by one or the other party: the GOP rolled back the New Deal faster, the DEMs slower. One ruling class, two parties to serve it. The 2008 Great Recession ended the cozy system as both parties had to protect the privileges of the corporations and the rich even as the US empire and economy declined. As the mass of people suffered and neither GOP nor DEMs stopped it, people became desperate and elected Trump out of rage and hysteria. He did not and will not solve the basic problems any more than his predecessors did. For that a really, new and different political party is needed….one that puts the American Working People First, the American majority. The program ends with suggestions of how such a new party could really change the country and solve its worst problems.
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: Stop Asking America to Mourn the Makers of Hate (00:58:00)
Trump lets Putin off the hook for the Poland attack but Poland says it wasn’t a mistake. Who will stop Putin? Veteran War Correspondent in Kyiv, Ukraine & host of the ‘On the Edge’ podcast, Phil Ittner reports on Russia’s recent drone attack on Poland. Stop Asking America to Mourn the Makers of Hate.
SPIRIT IN ACTION: Civil Resistance – Power to the People from ICNC (00:55:00)
(Originally aired 4/17/2021) The work of the International Center for Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC) is to develop & share the knowledge needed for effective civil resistance, and they are providing the info in more than 60 languages to freedom, justice, & democracy workers all around the world. Hardy Merriman has been President & CEO of ICNC since 2015, and working in the field since 2003. Drawing on the best research and the most promising experience, Hardy and the ICNC are providing the vital educational support to the rapidly growing nonviolent civil resistance movements working to transform the world.
Past/current religious/spiritual influences:
Non-affiliated, Quaker
LITERATURE ALOUD: 1984 by George Orwell (1949) part 1/13 (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 “double-think.”
http://audioport.org/index.php?op=program-info&program_id=105715&nav=&
TEXT: http://www.george-orwell.org/1984/
GREEN STREET with PATTI and DOUG WOOD: The War on Science with Dr. Sandra Steingraber (00:29:00)
This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about the plastic industrys effort to re-classify pyrolysis (burning of plastic) as manufacturing, the environmental havoc caused by flame retardant chemicals used in forest fires, and the possibility that the old Indian Point nuclear power plant just north of New York City will be re-activated to meet the growing demand for power. Then PhD biologist Dr. Sanda Steingraber talks about the current war on science, and reminds us of all the achievements that have been made possible through government funding of research.
https://www.greenstreetnews.org
THE BRADCAST: 9/12/2025 Encore: Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Hiltzik on Trump’s ‘Cook’ed-up mortgage fraud claims (00:58:00)
Encore: original airdate 9-3-2025. On today’s ‘BradCast’: Authoritarianism has descended upon America, but the pushback against it continues. A federal judge ruled that the Trump Administration unlawfully blocked $2 billion in federal funding from Harvard University. Voters are rejecting Republicans in ever-greater numbers in new special state legislative elections. Denver news anchor Kyle Clark calls out Republicans’ open authoritarianism. House Republicans voted to create a new January 6 Committee to revisit the Trump-incited insurrection. L.A. Times business columnist Michael Hiltzik explains how the very MAGA head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is using bogus ‘investigations’ and allegations of mortgage fraud for political retribution against Trump’s perceived political enemies, including an attempt to oust the first Black female Federal Reserve governor, Lisa Cook, and much more
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
SUNDAY 09.14.25 PROGRAM Notes
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SCHOLARS’ CIRCLE & THE INSIGHTERS: Sept 14 25 Supreme Court deportation profiling holding, The future of indigenous exhibits (00:58:00)
How does the US Supreme Court decision to allow ICE to target immigrants based on language, accent, race, and employment affect the sweeps of undocumented immigrants in the US. And what are the social and economic impacts of Trump’s deportation policy?
Then, museums are changing their approach to exhibiting Native American artifacts. What is the new model and what is the impact? Alaka Wali is the Curator of North American Anthropology at the Field Museum in Chicago. She is co-editor of The Future is Indigenous: Stories from the Native North American Hall at the Field Museum.
EARTH RIOT RADIO: The Superstorm that Takes Out AI (00:29:00)
We are singing a resistance song given to us by the screaming superstorm wind. The survivors among us are walking toward evolution in a new physical world. The 28 months of the global heat wave changes everything everywhere. The censoring of information in the consumerized West (“bad weather,” “natural disasters”) cannot stop the screaming wind, the singing animals, the crackling wildfire…The Earth is singing a song that we are learning. Artificial Intelligence will be indoors only, a whirlwind of information that does not involve anyone who is standing on the ground. AI has nothing on the Earth.
BARNABY DRUTHERS: Barnaby Druthers; The Case of Doctor Hyllus (00:28:00)
In this Victorian era audio theater adventure, an uncontrollable attack by a seemingly feral man causes Barnaby and Harper to investigate the cause, and become introduced to a dangerous foe
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: September 13, 2025 (00:59:30)
We begin the show with Mark Joseph Stern, a senior writer at Slate and regular commentator on MSNBC. We discuss his recent article about how the US Supreme Court just ruled to allow ICE Detain Americans Based on Race. This was yet another one of their now preferred Shadow Docket rulings.
Segment Two
We then sit with Anders Croy, Communications Director for Florida Watch and the DeSantis Watch accountability project. We discuss how Florida is now the 2nd most financially distressed state in the United States. They’ve instituted, “Insurance Reform” Florida style, which has been a disaster for consumers. Also, the Florida Surgeon General denies need for study ahead of end to vaccine mandates in the State while the DeSantis’ administration pushes to eliminate all vaccine mandates in Florida.
https://www.arniearnesen.org/WP
BACKGROUND BRIEFING with IAN MASTERS: September 11, 2025 (00:59:00)
Trump Will Use the Assassination of Charlie Kirk to Further His Dictatorial Takeover of the United States | Can We Trust Anything Coming From Patel and Bongino’s FBI? | South Korea’s President Warns That Companies Will be “Very Hesitant” to Invest in the US After the Massive ICE Raid on a Hyundai Plant in Georgia
https://www.backgroundbriefing.org
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR: The Fearless Path – A Radical Approach to Emotional Healing & Inner Peace – Interview with Leah Guy (00:59:00)
Leah Guy is an intuitive healer, author and owner of Modern Sage Healing Center in Jersey City, NJ, and the author of The Fearless Path – A Radical Approach to Emotional Healing & Inner Peace. In this interview we talk about her experience with emotional trauma and her approach and 22 years experience with emotional healing.
DEEP DIVE CYBERSECURITY SHOW: Complying with Impossible Laws (00:58:32)
If a law is literally impossible to follow, it undermines the legitimacy of the legal system itself.
Decentralized social network platform Mastodon says it can’t comply with Mississippi’s age verification law.
A law that cannot be complied with doesn’t regulate behavior, instead it criminalizes existence. In this case, the law is less about shaping user behavior than about shaping which platforms survive. And this is where the US is heading.
We explore this and so much more. Please don’t miss this one.
SATURDAY 09.13.25 PROGRAM Notes
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TECHTONIC with MARK HURST: Milestones for Big Tech… and Techtonic (00:59:30)
Google emerged victorious in its antitrust suit, signaling a new era of Big Tech dominance. As Techtonic marks its own milestone – 8 years on the air – Mark reflects on what we’ve learned so far, and how we’ll survive the future of exploitative tech.
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: Historian Michael Kazin on America’s Enduring Actual Greatness (00:59:02)
There is in fact a lush garden of American greatness and it is not MAGA. Though less well known, there is a proud history of successful dissent which does make America great. Military power and straight white male domination is not greatness, its weakness. With us today is Georgetown history professor and author of some important books on the power and history of great American dissent, Michael Kazin. He says; Organizing is key: it means going to people who dont agree with you and finding ways to get them to your side. For greatness, see that history.
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
AGING MATTERS: Senior Move Managers (00:58:00)
Moving is a high-stress life event and a major challenge regardless of circumstances. When older adults decide or need to move from the family home, sorting through decades of family history and possessions and managing a move can be overwhelming. A senior move manager can assist in this activity. Jennifer Pickett, Co-Executive Director, National Association of Senior & Specialty Move Managers, https://www.nasmm.org/, talks about issues older adults may face when downsizing and moving and how senior move managers can help navigate the process.
https://www.agingmattersonline.com
GROWING GREENER: Texan Pam Penick Shares Ideas for Integrating Native Plants into Traditional Gardens in Beautiful New Book (00:29:00)
An accomplished and progressive garden designer, Pam Penick, author of Gardens of Texas, shares ideas for ideas for using native plants in traditional and formal gardens garnered from her reporting on private landscapes of the Lone Star State
https://www.thomaschristophergardens.com
TUC RADIO: Conversation between Brian Eno and David Graeber (00:29:00)
Even though Brian Eno and David Graeber both had become internationally famous by 2014, the musician, visual artist and culture critic Brian Eno and the Professor of anthropology, author and co-founder of Occupy Wall street, David Graeber had not yet met in person. And here, thanks to the creative concepts of Artangel, they met on stage for an improvised conversation. Artangel is a London-based arts organization that has ” since 1985 ” commissioned and produced notable site-specific works in unexpected places, plus several projects for TV, film, radio and the web. Michael Morris is introducing Brian Eno and David Graeber. These are excerpts of their 80 minute conversation on Occupy Wall street, democracy compared to anarchism, and the need to protect the first amendment right of assembly from police permits and superior rights of traffic and automobiles.
This event was hosted by Artangel at the Royal Geographical Society, London, on October 7, 2014.
THE BOPST SHOW: Senseless Rebel (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 post-punk dub of Jah Wobble, 70s funk from Jo-Jo & The Fugitives, and the 21st century folk of Heidi Talbot as well as music by the Fiery Furnaces, Kiran Ahluwalia and many others locked out of the nation’s largest.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
RALPH NADER RADIO HOUR # 601 (00:58:00)
Ralph welcomes Timothy Whitehouse, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) to speak about how federal workers across all government agencies are being unfairly denigrated and summarily fired by the Trump Administration to clear the way for corporate corruption. Plus, we are joined by Toby Heaps, Editor-in-Chief of Corporate Knights magazine to talk about the benefits of the cooperative business model over the corporate shareholder model.
https://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com
FRIDAY 09.12.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Friday September 12, 2025
https://www.democracynow.org/shows
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: AJRs Adam Met brings climate action to his concerts (00:01:30)
The bassist has seen the damage up close. Now hes turning performances into action hubs.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
THE LABOR HERITAGE POWER HOUR: Big Tops & Big Struggles: Labor, Art, and the Circus World (00:55:00)
On this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour: former circus hand Chris Bricker talks with historian Andrea Ringer about her new book, Circus World: Roustabouts, Animals, and the Work of Putting on The Big Show – a deep dive into the hidden labor that built 14-acre tent cities, from riggers and animal trainers to strikes that shaped the spectacle. Then organizer and cultural strategist Ken Grossinger returns with updates on Art Works: How organizers and artists are creating a better world together and how artists and organizers are joining forces, why authoritarians target culture first, and what it takes to scale creative power across unions and communities.
PLUS, on Labor History in 2:00: The Lattimer Massacre and Chicago Teachers Say, Enough!
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Separation of Church & Hate (00:58:00)
Reflections on the Charlie Kirk killing and the newly released Saudi connections of 9-11. Interview: Radio host John Fugelsang explains his new book Separation of Church & Hate A Sane Person’s Guide to Taking Back the Bible.
SEA CHANGE RADIO: Nathan Tankus, Pt. 2: Notes on The Fed Crisis (00:29:00)
This week on Sea Change Radio, the second half of our discussion with journalist Nathan Tankus as we continue to try to get a better grip on whats happening at the Federal Reserve Bank. To quote a recent piece by former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, control over the Fed gives Trump more tools for extortion. With control over interest rates, he can get Americas biggest corporations and the worlds biggest nations to bend to his will. In this part of the conversation with Tankus, we talk a bit more about the attempted firing of Federal Reserve Board governor, Lisa Cook, the historical importance of the Feds independence and ponder why Wall Street continues to shrug off all of this unsettling economic news.
LAURA FLANDERS AND FRIENDS: Vessels of Revolution: Akinsanya Kambon on Art, Black Panther Legacy & Liberation (00:28:00)
With each glimmering piece he creates, artist Akinsanya Kambon brings suppressed histories of both colonization and liberation to life. His ceramic works depict struggle and survival across the African diaspora, and stepping into his studio is a spiritual experience, as Laura Flanders recently discovered. Kambon was a member of the Sacramento chapter of the Black Panther Party where he worked on the layout and illustration of the party’s famous paper and became lieutenant for culture, illustrating among other things the party’s ten point plan and works for young people. In 2023, he won the prestigious Mohn Award ” the top prize given by the Hammer Museum for his participation in their biennial Made in LA show, titled Acts of Living. His one-man show opened in Beverly Hills at Marc Selwyn Fine Art in April 2025. An exhibition of his work will open at the New York Sculpture Center in May 2026. In this unique conversation, Flanders asks Kambon about his own survival stories, including his polio diagnosis, getting drafted into the Vietnam War, and his year on death row. Kambon was arrested in connection with the killing of a police officer and was later acquitted from that high-profile Oak Park Four case. Join Flanders and Kambon as they discuss how art keeps spirits alive, and catch Flanders commentary on todays fight to control our nations stories.
THE BOPST SHOW: Senseless Rebel (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 post-punk dub of Jah Wobble, 70s funk from Jo-Jo & The Fugitives, and the 21st century folk of Heidi Talbot as well as music by the Fiery Furnaces, Kiran Ahluwalia and many others locked out of the nation’s largest terrestrial bandwidths.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
THE BRADCAST: 9/11/2025 ‘A Dark Moment for America’: As Trump’s economy falters, he and supporters declare ‘War on the Left’ after unsolved killing of Charlie Kirk (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: It’s clear that Donald Trump would much rather talk about political violence today than his failing economic policies or his old bestie, pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, so we will. A manhunt continues for the person who killed rightwing activist and longtime Trump ally Charlie Kirk on Wednesday. The shooter’s identity and motive remain unknown, but Trump, his wingnut elected officials and his far-right MAGA cult instantly unleashed a torrent of threats, demonizing and essentially declaring ‘War on the Left’, all while conveniently ignoring recent rightwing political violence against Democrats. Elected Democrats call for an end to the growing epidemic of political violence and gun violence in this nation. Trump’s duplicitous Administration is taking credit for U.S. infrastructure upgrades funded under President Joe Biden. Plus Desi Doyen has our new ‘Green News Report.’
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
THURSDAY 09.11.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Thursday September 11, 2025
https://www.democracynow.org/shows
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Sea level report cards track uneven flood risk across U.S. regions (00:01:30)
Sea levels are rising more quickly in some places than others.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
RADIO ECOSHOCK: Global drying, Gaia & Abrupt Change (00:58:00)
Water loss on land adds to rising seas: global drying with gravity satellite expert Jay Famiglietti. Is this planet actually a living cooperative? Explore with science journalist Ferris Jabr. Expect abrupt shifts in big systems, from ocean currents to ice – new science led by Sjoerd Terpstra. Three interviews.
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: Bob Kennedy’s Report is a Joke (00:58:00)
Epidemiologist & Health Economist – New England Complex Systems Institute, Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding appraises RFK Jr’s embarrassing testimony to Congress. Also Epstein’s 50th birthday book: who is in it and what did they say? It has a distressing central meme of seemingly abusing young girls. Good News Alert! New Mexico will become the first state to offer free universal childcare, setting a model for all. Poland shoots down Russian drones in its airspace.
RISING UP WITH SONALI – 2025-09-09 (00:58:30)
This week, well go to SouthEast Georgia where immigration agents recently conducted the largest ever workplace raid, carting off 475 workers at an EV battery plant. My guest Eduardo Delgado with Migrant Equity SouthEast will explain how many of the workers had work authorization, how the government is lying about their status, and whats next for them and their families. Then, well turn to Dr. Robert Steinbrook of Public Citizen who will analyze Robert F. Kennedy Jrs disastrous Senate hearing last week. Dr. Steinbrook will explore ways in which states are filling in the federal governments public health gaps. Finally, well explore the concept of a Universal Basic Income (UBI), with filmmaker Conrad Shaw, and Corine Olarte-VanderVoort, one of the subjects of Shaws UBI documentary, Bootstraps.
https://risingupwithsonali.com
LITERATURE ALOUD: “’Repent Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman” by Harlan Ellison (00:27:15)
In a world where time, scheduling and punctuality are worshipped, those who arrive late for anything have that time deducted from their lives – except for the Harlequin.
https://archive.org/details/MindwebsRepentHarlequinSaidTheTicktockmanByHarlonEllison
TEXT: https://knape.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/9/3/12935004/ellison_repent-harlequin-1.pdf
WINGS #22-25 4th World Conference on Women (00:28:56)
Reports by community radio producers from the UN 4th World Conference on Women in Huairou, China, 1995. Voices: Helvi Sipila, convenor of the first UN World Conference on Women. Kamla Bhasin, Indian feminist activist and poet. Singers from Western Sahara. Minhchao Nguyen, manager of the Gender Analysis and Policy Group of the World Bank; audience member Nilufar Ahmad from Bangladesh. Rachel Rosenbloom, research and advocacy associate, International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission; Beverley Palesa Ditsie, South African lesbian activist, artist, and filmmaker; Michelle Cave (Bahamas). Sual de Marco from Nicaragua; Florence Lusaka of Uganda; Tasneem Sadik of Bangladesh; Robin Foster of Boston, a trained guide for the blind.
THE BRADCAST: 9/10/2025 Guest: David Dayen on Dem plans to avoid a govt shutdown; Kirk killed in Utah (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: Far-right youth activist and longtime Donald Trump ally Charlie Kirk was killed by a gunman during an event at a Utah college. Receiving much less attention, a school shooting in Denver critically injured three teenagers. Poland reported it intercepted Russian drones that violated its airspace, in the first engagement since Russia invaded Ukraine. After winning a special U.S. House election in Virginia, Democrats are just one signature away from passing a discharge petition to force a vote to release the Epstein Files. Financial journalist DAVID DAYEN of the American Prospect discusses the coming showdown in the GOP-controlled Congress to avoid a government shutdown on October 1, whether and how Democrats could use this rare leverage to slow down Trump’s authoritarianism, and much more.
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
WEDNESDAY 09.10.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Wednesday September 10, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Satellites demonstrate that cities can clean up the air and cut climate pollution at the same time (00:01:30)
New data on pollution trends from 13,000 cities shows that slashing fossil fuels helps both our health and climate.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
FOOD SLEUTH RADIO: Joseph Llobrera, PhD, Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, discusses cuts to food assistance programs in the GOPs Budget Reconciliation Bill. (00:28:00)
Did you know that one in five children in the U.S. receives food assistance? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn for her conversation with Joseph Llobrera, PhD, Director of Research for the Food Assistance Team at the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities. Llobrera discusses low-wage workers who depend on SNAP, and the far-reaching economic and health impacts of cuts to both food assistance and health care in the GOPs Budget Reconciliation Bill. Impacts
Related Websites: https://www.cbpp.org/sites/default/files/5-29-25sfp-factsheets_rev8-1-25-national.pdf
https://foodsleuth.transistor.fm
THIS WAY OUT #1954: Allan Berube: Queer Media Pioneers & global LGBTQ news! (00:28:59)
Allan Brub finds queer media pioneers in the U.S. military; Burkina Faso outlaws same-gender sex, Pope Leo offers queer Roman Catholics Francis-like friendship, Moroccan feminist activist Ibtissame Lachgar gets 2 years in prison for her Allah is Lesbian t-shirt, a Florida judge frees rainbow crosswalk chalkers, and Olympics diving champ Greg Louganis plunges into a new life in Panama [with audio excerpts from his Instagram posts].
Those stories and more this week when you discover This Way Out.
https://www.glbthistory.org/berube-stipend
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 French Government Near a Collapse? (00:58:00)
Massie busts Mike Johnson’s on Epstein, “Why was Trump an informant to a hoax?” And Why is the DOJ protecting names of Epstein funders? Could Trump’s Epstein crisis take the GOP midterms? What is Trump protecting that is yet to come? America would not have tolerated what we already know from any other president. Why have people lost faith in capitalism? Journalist based in Marseilles, France, Contributor to the Guardian, Cole Stangler reports on the French political upheaval.
CIVIC CIPHER: Dr. Christopher Towler ” Why Democrats Must Repair Their Relationship with Black Voters (00:59:00)
Christopher Towler, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at California State University, Sacramento. He is the Director of the Black Voter Project, Co-Founder of Black Insights Research and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics. In the first half of todays program, we discuss Dr. Towler’s opinion piece featured in Newsweek entitled From Decline to Reviva – Why Democrats Must Repair Their Relationship with Black Voters. We cover much of the data his team has procured and examine the results to determine some of the lessons Democrats should have learned from the 2024 election. In the second half of the show, we look ahead to the strategies that may be successful for Democrats ahead of the midterm elections as well as the role of Democratic Socialism in modern politics.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair – ch. 31 (00:48:35)
It is the end of the 19th century. Like thousands of others, the Rudkus family has emigrated from Lithuania to America in search of a better life. As they settle into the Packingtown neighborhood of Chicago, they find their dreams are unlikely to be realized. In fact, just the opposite is quite likely to occur. The family, naïve to the ways of Chicago, quickly falls prey to con men and makes a series of bad decisions that lead them into wretched poverty and terrible living conditions. All are forced to find jobs in dismal working conditions for their very survival. The main character Jurgis, broken and discouraged, eventually finds solace in the American Socialist movement. This novel was written during a period in American history when “Trusts” were formed by multiple corporations to establish monopolies that stifled competition and fixed prices. Unthinkable working conditions and unfair business practices were the norm. The Jungle’s author, Upton Sinclair, was an ardent Socialist of the time. Sinclair was commissioned by the “Appeal To Reason”, a Socialist journal of the period, to write a fictional expose on the working conditions of the immigrant laborers in the meat packing industry in Chicago. Going undercover, Sinclair spent seven weeks inside the meatpacking plants gathering details for his novel. (Summary by Tom Weiss)
https://librivox.org/the-jungle-by-upton-sinclair
THE BRADCAST 9/9/2025: Matt Gertz of Media Matters on new accountability for Fox ‘News’ 2020 election lies (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: Two years ago, Fox ‘News’ paid a more than $780 million dollars for defaming Dominion Voting Systems and lying to viewers about the 2020 election. Now, new court documents in the defamation lawsuit against Fox News by Smartmatic, a different voting company, confirm that Fox hosts and executives knew Donald Trump’s claims of a ‘stolen’ election were false and chose to promote them anyway. MATT GERTZ of Media Matters explains what’s in the slew of new, ‘damning filings’ against Fox News, why they broadcast election lies, what it means for elections going forward, and much more. Missouri’s Republican state legislature rammed through new gerrymandered maps to steal U.S. House seats from their voters and add new restrictions to stop citizen-led ballot initiatives. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest ‘Green News Report.’
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
TUESDAY 09.09.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Tuesday September 9, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: When wildfire hit her community, even a climate expert felt unprepared (00:01:30)
Gale Sinatra lost her home in Californias Eaton Fire ” and urges others to get ready for more extreme events.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
ENCOURAGEMENTOLOGY: Redefine Your Story: Who You Are, Not What Youve Done (00:29:00)
On this show I’m inviting you to step out of your resume and into your real self as we redefine your story because its about who you are, not just what you’ve done. In a world obsessed with titles and accomplishments, were exploring the depth of identity that extends far beyond a job title. Let’s peel back the layers, laugh at our own career clichs, and reclaim the core traits that make us resilient, creative, and deeply human.
MAKING CONTACT: Black Panthers in Algeria (Encore) (00:29:00)
This story is brought to us by the podcast Kerning Cultures. Black Panthers in Algeria” tells the story of Elaine Mokhtefi as she landed in newly independent Algeria in the early 1960s and found herself at the center of a special period in the country’s history when it was known as the Mecca of revolution. This episode first aired on Making Contact in September 2024 and Kerning Cultures 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: Growing up Palestinian in Israel (00:58:00)
Hend Ayoub – Growing up Palestinian in Israel, and her one-woman show. News…Time to shut down the government since we’d be finding a wannabe dictator? Massive protest in DC, Garcia is now being deported to Eswatini, Beyond the boos at the US Open, there’s more. It’s pretty astounding when a SCOTUS judge “can’t answer” if Trump has any accountability. It looks like an assisted coup.
THE CHILDREN’S HOUR: Mars (00:53:00)
Have you ever looked up and spotted a bright red dot in the night sky? Thats Mars ” our neighbor in the solar system, and a planet full of mysteries. On this episode of The Children’s Hour, we journey to the Red Planet with planetary volcanologist Dr. Larry Crumpler from the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. He works directly with NASAs Perseverance Rover, which is exploring Mars right now!
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair – ch. 30 (00:33:31)
It is the end of the 19th century. Like thousands of others, the Rudkus family has emigrated from Lithuania to America in search of a better life. As they settle into the Packingtown neighborhood of Chicago, they find their dreams are unlikely to be realized. In fact, just the opposite is quite likely to occur. The family, naïve to the ways of Chicago, quickly falls prey to con men and makes a series of bad decisions that lead them into wretched poverty and terrible living conditions. All are forced to find jobs in dismal working conditions for their very survival. The main character Jurgis, broken and discouraged, eventually finds solace in the American Socialist movement. This novel was written during a period in American history when “Trusts” were formed by multiple corporations to establish monopolies that stifled competition and fixed prices. Unthinkable working conditions and unfair business practices were the norm. The Jungle’s author, Upton Sinclair, was an ardent Socialist of the time. Sinclair was commissioned by the “Appeal To Reason”, a Socialist journal of the period, to write a fictional expose on the working conditions of the immigrant laborers in the meat packing industry in Chicago. Going undercover, Sinclair spent seven weeks inside the meatpacking plants gathering details for his novel. (Summary by Tom Weiss)
https://librivox.org/the-jungle-by-upton-sinclair
WITH GOOD REASON Weekly Half Hour: Melting Futures (half) (00:29:00)
Polar bears are no one’s prey, except for climate change itself. John Whiteman says our human fate is tied up with the fate of the polar bears. And: Birds have an unusual predator. Windows. Karen Powers says that an $8 pack of window decals could be lifesaving.
THE BRADCAST: 9/8/2025 Trump Readies Wars on Venezuela and Chicago — the Epstein Files must be really bad for him (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: We are sounding twin alarms about the fact that Donald Trump has issued unprecedented threats of war against both Venezuela and Chicago. Major legacy media outlets ignored that Trump used his social media site to threaten Chicago with armed military occupation, while referencing the film ‘Apocalypse Now’. Trump, who told voters he was ‘anti-war’ during the 2024 campaign, also sent ten warships to Central America and violated international and U.S. law by bombing a speedboat that he claimed, without providing evidence, was smuggling drugs. Congressional Republicans blocked a discharge petition in the U.S. House to release the Epstein Files, but two upcoming special elections this month could provide enough votes to pass it. Callers weigh in with their own thoughts on all of this madness.
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
MONDAY 09.08.25 PROGRAM Notes
6-hour loop begins at NOON, repeats until following noon
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Monday September 8, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: The 1995 Chicago heat wave killed hundreds. A new tool aims to prevent the next tragedy (00:01:30)
Climate Connections is a 90-second daily (M – F) module that moves climate change away from debate and focuses on how it’s impacting listeners’ lives. The features report on what diverse people and organizations are doing to reduce the associated risks, and “connects the dots” between climate change and energy, public health, extreme weather, food, water, jobs and the economy, national security and more.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
WHEN THE BIOMASS HITS THE WIND TURBINE #66 Donating Sustainably (00:29:32)
Define the problem, Goodwill, Salvation Army
Support Local
Donate your time
Donate your stuff
Donate your money
Donate your body parts, blood
https://bluerockstation.podbean.com
ECONOMIC UPDATE: Social Problems Require Social Movement Solutions (00:29:00)
This week’s updates covers Trump ending Housing First, Spain goes for a wealth tax, Trump disqualifies unions at government agencies, France’s mass movement on September 10th against the Macron government, and Air Canada’s strike by flight attendants who defied the government back-to-work order and won against both the Canadian government and their employer, Air Canada.
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: DJT Tries to Distract from Epstein with Dept of War Proposal (00:58:00)
It’s shouldn’t be surprising to us that Trump wants a Department of War – he is war-mongering with Greenland, Mexico, Venezuela, India, Canada, Puerto Rico, and apparently North Korea…who am I forgetting? It also should not surprise us that the Trump administration is redacting every Republican and leaving every Democrat on the Epstein list. Plus – Thomas Massey names a billionaire in the Epstein files! CNN has uncovered audio of RFK Jr. praising a description of Trump and his supporters as belligerent idiots, outright Nazis, cowards, and bootlickers, while also comparing Trump to Adolf Hitler. We have the audio.The Jobs numbers are in and it looks like Trump is leading us over the cliff. The NATO chief is warning that China and Russia are preparing for a “long-term confrontation.” What a disaster for the world, and there isnt much hope with Trump in charge and an absent Congress.
SPIRIT IN ACTION: Wind Power, Old Style: Bryce Black (00:55:00)
I’ve seen alternative & sustainable energy technology evolve tremendously in my lifetime, and yet I know there are applications, like hydroelectric energy, that continue to be valuable contributors to our world. One that, sadly, has diminished mightily in most of our eyes, is the water-pumping windmills. At one time they were spread widely across our country, but now they are mostly broken, non-functional, and rusty relics seen here-and-there. Today’s guest is Bryce Black, and he has worked for almost 45 years under the name LoTec Windmill Service. We’re going to explore this still-valuable energy source with Bryce, and it’s role in American life, past and present. Besides Bryce’s windmill work, he makes music with Yata and with The Sliced Bread Jug Band. Plum Creek Seeds also runs out of his home. Past/present religious/spiritual influences: Lutheran, Evangelical Christian, Quaker
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair – ch. 29 (00:24:54)
It is the end of the 19th century. Like thousands of others, the Rudkus family has emigrated from Lithuania to America in search of a better life. As they settle into the Packingtown neighborhood of Chicago, they find their dreams are unlikely to be realized. In fact, just the opposite is quite likely to occur. The family, naïve to the ways of Chicago, quickly falls prey to con men and makes a series of bad decisions that lead them into wretched poverty and terrible living conditions. All are forced to find jobs in dismal working conditions for their very survival. The main character Jurgis, broken and discouraged, eventually finds solace in the American Socialist movement. This novel was written during a period in American history when “Trusts” were formed by multiple corporations to establish monopolies that stifled competition and fixed prices. Unthinkable working conditions and unfair business practices were the norm. The Jungle’s author, Upton Sinclair, was an ardent Socialist of the time. Sinclair was commissioned by the “Appeal To Reason”, a Socialist journal of the period, to write a fictional expose on the working conditions of the immigrant laborers in the meat packing industry in Chicago. Going undercover, Sinclair spent seven weeks inside the meatpacking plants gathering details for his novel. (Summary by Tom Weiss)
https://librivox.org/the-jungle-by-upton-sinclair
GREEN STREET with PATTI and DOUG WOOD: The Invisible Threat with Dr. Silvia Aroca (00:29:00)
This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about chemical lobbyists inside the EPA gutting regulations on PFAS, how the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has been ordered by the administration to quickly approve new nuclear power plants, and a new study showing that males are more impacted by exposure to some PFAS chemicals than females. Then Dr. Silvia Calbo Aroca talks about her new book, Playing with the Invisible: The secrets to raising healthy kids in a world of technology.
https://www.greenstreetnews.org
THE BRADCAST: 9/5/2025 Encore: Historian Seth Cotlar on ‘Americanism’ and Trump’s ‘Stalinesque’ plot to whitewash American history (00:58:00)
Encore: original airdate 8-20-2025. On today’s ‘BradCast’: The Trump Administration has turned its authoritarian focus onto the independent Smithsonian Institution to ‘ensure alignment’ with Donald Trump’s directive to celebrate ‘Americanism.’ The Organization of American Historians warns the order is ‘in service of authoritarian control over the national narrative.’ Historian SETH COTLAR explains the long, disturbing history of fascistic movements in America, embodied in the phrases ‘Americanism’ and ‘America First,’ and Trump’s ‘Stalinesque’ effort to whitewash U.S. history. Texas Republicans move forward on their extreme gerrymandering scheme to steal U.S. House seats from voters, as both blue and red states examine their own potential redistricting countermeasures. A third federal judge rejected Trump’s attempt to distract from his refusal to release the Epstein Files. A new folk music song hilariously declares that Trump’s Epstein Files problem ‘ain’t gonna go away.’
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
SUNDAY 09.07.25 PROGRAM Notes
6-hour loop begins at NOON, repeats until following noon
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SCHOLARS’ CIRCLE & THE INSIGHTERS: Aug 31 25 Alien Enemy’s Act (00:58:00)
Rebroadcast of the show on Alien Enemies Act.
The Trump Administration has been using the Alien Enemies Act to seize undocumented immigrants and send them to other countries without due process. What can be done to protect and uphold the rule of law and human rights in the face of the Trump Administrations rejection of them? What are some means of legal and political resistance when human rights are being violated
EARTH RIOT RADIO: The American Earthalution! (00:29:00)
No, it’s a worldwide uprising. But I’m speaking to my home country just now – addressing the persistent mental disease of Consumerism. This passivity! It’s over. We have a history of rising up. It’s time to be radical freedom-fighters again. We’ve done it before. Our gas and oil gov’t kills how many thousands of us each month with heat, storm, wildfire and drought? WE ALL KNOW IT. Earthalution. What are the weapons of an Earthalution? Would we resemble the French resistance in WW2, or the Civil Rights Movement of the 50’s and 60’s, or ACT UP in the 80’s and 90’s… we know that Consumerism seats us in the chair watching the screen as the wind blows off the roof. Leave the screen first. We have to do this together.
BARNABY DRUTHERS: Barnaby Druthers: Scarecrows in the Meadow (remastered 2025) (00:28:00)
Barnaby Druthers: The Scarecrows in the Meadow
A Modern Druthers audio theater story inspired by the Scarecrows in the Meadow event by the Litchfield Historical Society.
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: September 6, 2025 (00:59:30)
Segment One
We begin the show with Chris Tomlinson about the energy situation in Texas. What will be the consequences for abandoning/cancelling sustainable energy generation (wind, solar) in Texas, which currently gets 40% of its energy from clean sources?
Segment Two
We then sit with Bill Curry and Robert Hockett. We discuss the abandonment of the Rule of Law, replaced with the Rule of Trump. The decent into fascism here in the US has been swift, increasing in scale and cruelty by the month. The Trump administration ramps up its attacks upon US institutions, States, the citizenry and minorities as it has guttered social programs and set the stage for increased instability for the foreseeable future.
https://www.arniearnesen.org/WP
BACKGROUND BRIEFING with IAN MASTERS: September 7, 2025 (00:59:00)
Trump Escalates Threats Against Venezuela as Rubio Calls For a Regional Latin American Campaign of Extrajudicial Killings | The Weak and Cynical Trump Plans For Defending Ukraine In a Possible Deal With Putin | The Consequence of DHS Violence Prevention Funding Cuts to Minnesota Just Ahead of the Minneapolis Mass Shooting of Kids on Their First Day of School
https://www.backgroundbriefing.org
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR: A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries – an Interview with Terry Patten (00:59:00)
Terry Patten speaks and consults internationally
as a community organizer, philosopher, and teacher. Over the last twenty years he has devoted his efforts to the integral project of evolving consciousness through practice and facing, examining, and healing our global crises through the marriage of spirit and activism. With Ken Wilber and a core team at the Integral Institute, Terry Patten co-wrote Integral Life Practice, which distills ancient and modern practices into a contemporary transformational lifestyle. As creator and host of the online series Beyond Awakening, he has explored the big questions of our time with some of our most prominent and dynamic thought leaders. He led a team at the Heart-Math Institute that developed its first heart-rate variability monitor; and he founded the catalog company Tools For Exploration, which defined the field of consciousness technologies. He is also a social entrepreneur involved in supporting restorative redwood forestry, innovating new technological alternatives to fossil fuels, and creating new currencies for a sustainable economy. And he is the author of A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries, a book about dealing with the highly complex global climate and cultural crises that is threatening the survival of humanity and many other species of life on planet Earth. In this interview we talk about the need for spiritually oriented people to bring their inner practice into the world for the common good, and for worldly people to recognize the emergent nature of the Universe, reality and human evolution. And that we all need to see things in a new way if we are to survive the great challenge we face at this time in our history.
DEEP DIVE CYBERSECURITY SHOW: Complying with Impossible Laws (00:58:32)
If a law is literally impossible to follow, it undermines the legitimacy of the legal system itself.
Decentralized social network platform Mastodon says it can’t comply with Mississippi’s age verification law.
A law that cannot be complied with doesn’t regulate behavior, instead it criminalizes existence. In this case, the law is less about shaping user behavior than about shaping which platforms survive. And this is where the US is heading.
We explore this and so much more. Please don’t miss this one.
SATURDAY 09.06.25 PROGRAM Notes
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TECHTONIC with MARK HURST: Cory Doctorow, author and journalist (00:59:30)
The descent of Big Tech into exploitative behavior prompted author Cory Doctorow to coin a new term, something like enfecalization. Cory explores the idea in his upcoming book, subtitled Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It.
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: Rising in the UK and the US: A Democratic Left (00:00:00)
Englands Labour Party is a lot like Americas Democratic Party: all over the map. Both used to be the party of laboring people. The UKs current PM Kier Starmer won claiming to be of the left. Now hes pushing an austerity agenda, helping the richest, and trying to play both sides of Gaza; like most American Democrats. Its not working. Safe center Starmer is now quite unpopular. Meanwhile there is a rising racist fascist party: Nigel Farages Reform. On this show Jacobin magazines Europe editor David Broder speaks with us from across the pond about a surging new left party headed by former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and a young MP Zarah Sultana. In just the first day, 650,000 Britons signed up. What Corbyn says applies in America too: Politics should be about empowerment ” and thats what I want this party to be about. Lets learn!
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
AGING MATTERS: Creative Writing (00:58:00)
Creative writing offers many benefits for older adults including keeping their minds active and brightening their lives with purpose. By starting with activities such as journaling and trying different forms of creative writing, older adults can tap into the many benefits of this activity. Katherine Schweit, JD, Author, Attorney, Former Senior FBI Official, https://www.katherineschweit.com/ talks about her decision to become an author, and the process she followed to achieve that goal. She also describes benefits of creative writing for older adults and what to know and do to get started.
https://www.agingmattersonline.com
GROWING GREENER: Finding Hope in Ecological Gardening (00:29:00)
Leader of the Ecological Gardening movement Rebecca McMackin shares reasons why in a time of discouragement, gardening can restore optimism.
https://www.thomaschristophergardens.com
TUC RADIO: Hurricane Katrina and the War on the Poor (from Archive) (00:29:00)
After being turned away from shelters they and a large group of African Americans try and walk to safety. Gretna Sheriffs block the Greater New Orleans Bridge across the Mississippi and shoot over their heads when they try to leave the flooded city. Later their temporary shelter is destroyed by a helicopter, a police officer, gun drawn, threatens them in a furious rage and takes away their food and water. Just before night he forces the group to flee into the night of a shoot to kill curfew in New Orleans. When they finally get picked up they, and thousands of others, sit in a dirty cage at the New Orleans airport, again without food and water, forced to wait for the George W. Bush photo opportunity to end. As they arrive in San Antonio they are made to stand on a dark tarmac and are subjected to a dog sniffing ordeal. This and more in a 24 minute interview with Lorrie Beth Slonsky and Larry Bradshaw by Maria Gilardin recorded on Sept. 9, 2005.
THE BOPST SHOW: Wobble Cha Champ (00:55:00)
The Bopst Show, the critically acclaimed music radio show hosted by artist, musician, writer, DJ and founding member of GWAR, Chris Bopst, features a wide assortment of audio stimulations from a myriad of genres, eras and inspirations. On this week’s show, you’ll hear the 21st century Palestinian sound of Ahmed El Sewesy & Mahmoud ElOmda, the modern metal of Richmond’s own Leather Hearse, and the soothing cocktail orchestrations of Franklyn MacCormack with Russ Garcia and his Orchestra as well as music by Cool Benny, Seema Mishra and many others locked out of the nation’s largest terrestrial bandwidths.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
RALPH NADER RADIO HOUR #600 (00:58:00)
Ralph welcomes Palestinian-American writer, activist, and scientist Susan Abulhawa to discuss the ongoing Palestinian genocide and the evidence that supports a vastly higher death toll in Gaza.
https://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com
FRIDAY 09.05.25 PROGRAM Notes
6-hour loop begins at NOON, repeats until following noon
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Friday September 5, 2025
https://www.democracynow.org/shows
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: People experiencing homelessness often have nowhere to retreat from the hea (00:01:30)
To save lives, communities can provide water and air conditioning to people in need.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
THE LABOR HERITAGE POWER HOUR: A Discography of Workers Revolt (00:55:00)
On this weeks Labor Heritage Power Hour: Chris Garlock sits down with Strike While the Needle is Hot: A Discography of Workers Revolt authors Josh MacPhee and Kennedy Block to spin and unpack strike records from the 60s”80s”including the rousing 1978 EP Ford Workers on Strike. A fast-moving tour of worker-made music and how vinyl captured picket lines, speeches, and solidarity anthems.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: How Badly is Trump’s CDC Endangering the Health of Americans? (00:58:00)
Thom is joined by Dr. Rob Davidson, West Michigan ER Physician. Executive Director of the Committee to Protect Health Care, and co-host of “Paging America.” Also more weakness and war mongering from Trump. Veteran War Correspondent in Kyiv & host of the ‘On the Edge’ podcast, Phil Ittner reports from the war zone in Ukraine.
SEA CHANGE RADIO: Nathan Tankus, Pt. 1: Notes on The Fed Crisis (00:29:00)
The Federal Reserve is supposed to be a non-political entity that, with a steady, measured hand, sets interest rates and economic policy in the United States. But, as we are seeing time and time again under this current Administration, absolutely nothing is sacred. If there are levers of power in reach, they will be tested by this authoritarian regime. This week on Sea Change Radio, the first half of our two-part conversation with Nathan Tankus, a journalist and the President of Notes on the Crises, who’s been covering the Fed closely for many years. We hear about the history of the Federal Reserve, learn why its independence is pivotal, and discuss the recent attempts by the Trump Administration to fire the Fed’s first Black woman governor, Lisa Cook, for the flimsiest of reasons.
FLANDERS AND FRIENDS: Liev Schreiber on Meeting Zelenskyy & Ukraine’s Rare Resistance v. Putin’s Russia [rewind] (00:28:00)
Renowned actor, writer and director Liev Schreiber recently released Meeting Zelenskyy, a feature documentary in which he sits down with Ukraine’s embattled leader. In an extended conversation, Schreiber speaks actor-to-actor about Volodymyr Zelensky’s rise from entertainer to war time leader. In this exclusive interview with Laura Flanders, Schreiber discusses how the documentary came to be, how he personally became involved, and how technology could shape the outcome of the Russia-Ukraine war. The film includes never-before-seen footage from Zelensky’s childhood and career. Join us for this historic conversation, plus a commentary from Laura.
THE BOPST SHOW: Wobble Cha Champ (00:55:00)
The Bopst Show, the critically acclaimed music radio show hosted by artist, musician, writer, DJ and founding member of GWAR, Chris Bopst, features a wide assortment of audio stimulations from a myriad of genres, eras and inspirations. On this week’s show, you’ll hear the 21st century Palestinian sound of Ahmed El Sewesy & Mahmoud ElOmda, the modern metal of Richmond’s own Leather Hearse, and the soothing cocktail orchestrations of Franklyn MacCormack with Russ Garcia and his Orchestra as well as music by Cool Benny, Seema Mishra and many others locked out of the nation’s largest terrestrial bandwidths.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
THE BRADCAST: 9/3/2025 Guest: Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Hiltzik on Trump’s ‘Cook’ed-up mortgage fraud claims (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: Authoritarianism has descended upon America, but the pushback against it continues. A federal judge ruled that the Trump Administration unlawfully blocked $2 billion in federal funding from Harvard University. Voters are rejecting Republicans in ever-greater numbers in new special state legislative elections. Denver news anchor Kyle Clark calls out Republicans’ open authoritarianism. House Republicans voted to create a new January 6 Committee to revisit the Trump-incited insurrection. L.A. Times business columnist Michael Hiltzik explains how the very MAGA head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is using bogus ‘investigations’ and allegations of mortgage fraud for political retribution against Trump’s perceived political enemies, including an attempt to oust the first Black female Federal Reserve governor, Lisa Cook, and much more.
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
THURSDAY 09.04.25 PROGRAM Notes
6-hour loop begins at NOON, repeats until following noon
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Thursday September 4, 2025
https://www.democracynow.org/shows
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Grieving parents work to protect student athletes from deadly heat (00:01:30)
The Jordan McNair Foundation trains coaches, trainers, and athletes to recognize the symptoms of heat exhaustion and act quickly.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
RADIO ECOSHOCK: Down at the Bottom of the World (00:58:00)
NEW SEASON: Two Tasmanian experts with strange and shocking discoveries on the new emerging Continent, down at the bottom of the world. Dr. Edward Doddridge reports on impacts of abrupt Antarctic sea ice loss. Dr. Matt King, Director at the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science talks latest science – planetary-scale shifts in currents, glacier melt and sea level rise. Not reported on the news, but this changes everything.
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: Epstein Abuse Survivors Speak Out on the Capitol Steps (00:58:00)
MAGA is figuring out that they are being played – what does this mean? The Republican-led House Oversight Committee was promptly ridiculed Tuesday night into Wednesday morning for its release of 33,000 files on Jeffrey Epstein; the vast majority of which, critics have noted, were either redacted or already public.
RISING UP WITH SONALI – 2025-09-02 (00:58:30)
This week, well go to Chicago, where thousands marched over Labor Day to resist Donald Trumps threatened deployment of National Guard troops. My guest, Richard Wallace, executive director of Equity and Transformation, will explain how Chicago’s Black-led activism is rooted in abolitionist principles in a city whose Black neighborhoods have long been overpoliced. Then, well turn to Andreanecia Morris, Executive Director of Housing NOLA. We’ll mark the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina by examining how fair housing advocates are working to address the root causes of on-going inequality exacerbated by the storm. Finally, Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum, president emerita of Spelman College will join us for a back-to-school look at how centers of higher education are responding to conservative attacks on diversity and free speech.
https://risingupwithsonali.com
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair – ch. 29 (00:40:51)
It is the end of the 19th century. Like thousands of others, the Rudkus family has emigrated from Lithuania to America in search of a better life. As they settle into the Packingtown neighborhood of Chicago, they find their dreams are unlikely to be realized. In fact, just the opposite is quite likely to occur. The family, naïve to the ways of Chicago, quickly falls prey to con men and makes a series of bad decisions that lead them into wretched poverty and terrible living conditions. All are forced to find jobs in dismal working conditions for their very survival. The main character Jurgis, broken and discouraged, eventually finds solace in the American Socialist movement. This novel was written during a period in American history when “Trusts” were formed by multiple corporations to establish monopolies that stifled competition and fixed prices. Unthinkable working conditions and unfair business practices were the norm. The Jungle’s author, Upton Sinclair, was an ardent Socialist of the time. Sinclair was commissioned by the “Appeal To Reason”, a Socialist journal of the period, to write a fictional expose on the working conditions of the immigrant laborers in the meat packing industry in Chicago. Going undercover, Sinclair spent seven weeks inside the meatpacking plants gathering details for his novel. (Summary by Tom Weiss)
https://librivox.org/the-jungle-by-upton-sinclair
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.
THE BRADCAST: 9/3/2025 Guest: Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Hiltzik on Trump’s ‘Cook’ed-up mortgage fraud claims (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: Authoritarianism has descended upon America, but the pushback against it continues. A federal judge ruled that the Trump Administration unlawfully blocked $2 billion in federal funding from Harvard University. Voters are rejecting Republicans in ever-greater numbers in new special state legislative elections. Denver news anchor Kyle Clark calls out Republicans’ open authoritarianism. House Republicans voted to create a new January 6 Committee to revisit the Trump-incited insurrection. L.A. Times business columnist Michael Hiltzik explains how the very MAGA head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is using bogus ‘investigations’ and allegations of mortgage fraud for political retribution against Trump’s perceived political enemies, including an attempt to oust the first Black female Federal Reserve governor, Lisa Cook, and much more.
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
WEDNESDAY 09.03.25 PROGRAM Notes
6-hour loop begins at NOON, repeats until following noon
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Wednesday September 3, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Why a group of Catholics urged Congress to take climate action (00:01:30)
They made a pilgrimage to Washington to mark the 10th anniversary of the late Pope Francis groundbreaking call to protect the Earth.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
FOOD SLEUTH RADIO: Terrence Collingsworth, Founder and Executive Director of International Rights Advocates (00:28:00)
Did you know that some of the most popular brands of chocolate rely on child labor/slavery on cocoa plantations? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn for her conversation with Terrence Collingsworth, Founder and Executive Director of International Rights Advocates, which works globally to stop corporate human rights abuses and end modern day slavery. Collingsworth will discuss how children are kidnapped, taken to cocoa plantations, and the conditions of their forced labor. He exposes chocolate brands to avoid, and how to find chocolate that is free of child slavery. See: https://www.slavefreechocolate.org/ethical-chocolate-companies. To see films exposing child labor in the chocolate industry, see the Dark Side of Chocolate: https://www.slavefreechocolate.org/dark-side-of-chocolate
and The Chocolate War: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9K2yevB8IU
Related Websites: https://www.internationalrightsadvocates.org/
https://foodsleuth.transistor.fm
THIS WAY OUT #1953: Jennifer Knapp: Lesbian-Christian Singer-Songwriter & global LGBTQ news! (00:28:59)
Jennifer Knapps Christian rock travels from Kanas to Oz and back again; a Kenya court orders protections for transgender people, gay CDC hero Dr. Demetre Daskalakis resigns with other RFK, Jr. protesters, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker goes on offense with a first-in-the-U.S. state queer legal hotline, a U.S. federal judge sides with a trans sister in a University of Wyoming sorority lawsuit, and Australian Football League pro Mitch Brown flies like an Eagle out of the bi closet.
Those stories and more this week when you choose This Way Out.
[https://jenniferknapp.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: What Do We Know About the Epstein Trump Pedo Connection? (00:58:00)
MAHA Madness: Bob Kennedys Cruel New Gospel of “Fitness” – Survival of the Fittest…These questions need to be answered. Where were the children and why were we kept in the dark?
Thom is joined by Craig Unger, journalist & author of six books including House of Bush, House of Saud; House of Trump, House of Putin; and American Kompromat. What do you know about the Epstein/Trump connection that involves young women or girls? Modi joins hands with Xi and Putin in message to Trump.
CIVIC CIPHER: Democratic Socialism – A National View with Bobby Nichols / Socialism in Your Community (00:59:00)
Bobby Nichols is the former Phoenix Democratic Socialist of America’s chapter chair and current member. He is the founder of Arizona Works Together, a pro-union political action committee operating at the state level. Additionally, Bobby Nichols works for the Office of the Arizona Attorney General as a state attorney representing Arizona’s Departments of Child Safety and Economic Security in Superior and Administrative Court cases involving the abuse, neglect, and exploitation of minor children and vulnerable adults. In the first half of today’s program, we discuss the DSA National Convention, key takeaways for the forthcoming political season, and revisit the merits of socialism relative to other economic models. In the second half of the show, we discuss the implementation of socialist ideas in local communities, how to get involved in local politics, and we discuss Bobby’s own campaign for City Council.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair – ch. 27 (00:37:56)
It is the end of the 19th century. Like thousands of others, the Rudkus family has emigrated from Lithuania to America in search of a better life. As they settle into the Packingtown neighborhood of Chicago, they find their dreams are unlikely to be realized. In fact, just the opposite is quite likely to occur. The family, naïve to the ways of Chicago, quickly falls prey to con men and makes a series of bad decisions that lead them into wretched poverty and terrible living conditions. All are forced to find jobs in dismal working conditions for their very survival. The main character Jurgis, broken and discouraged, eventually finds solace in the American Socialist movement. This novel was written during a period in American history when “Trusts” were formed by multiple corporations to establish monopolies that stifled competition and fixed prices. Unthinkable working conditions and unfair business practices were the norm. The Jungle’s author, Upton Sinclair, was an ardent Socialist of the time. Sinclair was commissioned by the “Appeal To Reason”, a Socialist journal of the period, to write a fictional expose on the working conditions of the immigrant laborers in the meat packing industry in Chicago. Going undercover, Sinclair spent seven weeks inside the meatpacking plants gathering details for his novel. (Summary by Tom Weiss)
https://librivox.org/the-jungle-by-upton-sinclair
TEXT: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/140/140-h/140-h.htm
TED TALK: My descent into America’s neo-Nazi movement & how I got out – Christian Picciolini (00:20:30)
At 14-years-old, Christian Picciolini went from naive teenager to white supremacist, and soon, the leader of America’s first neo-Nazi skinhead gang. How was he radicalized, and how did he ultimately get out? In this courageous talk, Christian shares a surprising and counterintuitive solution to hate in all forms. After leaving the white-supremacist skinhead movement that he helped build in the 1980s and 90s, Christian Picciolini co-founded Life After Hate, a nonprofit dedicated to helping people disengage from violent extremism. His memoir, White American Youth: My Descent into America’s Most Violent Hate Movement—and How I Got Out (Hachette), which details his involvement, and eventual disengagement, from the early American white nationalist movement, will be published on December 26, 2017. Christian lives in Chicago. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.
THE BRADCAST: 9/2/2025 While We Were Out: An eye-opening roundup of everything we missed or wished we had over the past week (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: We’re back after a much-needed break, which also turned out to be one of the most insanely busy news weeks of Donald Trump’s second term. We focus on catching us all up on ‘our story so far’ as a nation, or at least as much as possible amidst the insanity. From many of the ongoing losses for Trump in the (lower) courts, to some VERY good electoral news on several fronts for Democrats, to Americans pushing back (effectively) against the regime on several levels, to the not-so-good news, and the ongoing, non-stop, self-destructive idiocy of the Trump Administration, and much more. Plus Desi Doyen has our new ‘Green News Report.’
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
TUESDAY 09.02.25 PROGRAM Notes
6-hour loop begins at NOON, repeats until following noon
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Tuesday September 2, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Program in Buffalo, New York, lets riders enjoy the perks of e-bikes without the price tag (00:01:30)
The effort is working to expand access to biking in communities of color.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
ENCOURAGEMENTOLOGY: You Can Do Hard Things: Build Resilience & Beat Procrastination (00:29:00)
On this show we’re exploring how you can do hard things, build resilience & beat procrastination! We’re diving into that moment when your brain whispers, nah, let’s just wait, doing hard stuff is hard. And you know what? That’s totally okay. Procrastination isn’t about laziness, it’s your body’s way of dodging discomfort. Well explore how resilience isn’t about superhero strength, it’s about learning to lean into the challenge, even when you’d rather binge watch from your comfort zone.
MAKING CONTACT: Beyond the Glass Wall (00:29:00)
To contextualize what’s happening with immigration today under Trump 2.0, we bring you one persons story of being caught in the anti-Muslim fervor post-9/11 and how she became an organizer advocating for the immigrants rights. We’ll also hear what her story teaches us about avoiding burnout in doing social justice work.
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: Taylor Swift Engagement Fuels Far Right Fantasies (00:58:00)
Taylor Swift is getting married, and while most Americans are wondering about the dress she will wear or sharing felicitations… the far right is hoping that marriage will turn Taylor Swift, into a barefoot and pregnant conservative trad wife.
THE CHILDREN’S HOUR: Mars (00:53:00)
Have you ever looked up and spotted a bright red dot in the night sky? Thats Mars ” our neighbor in the solar system, and a planet full of mysteries. On this episode of The Children’s Hour, we journey to the Red Planet with planetary volcanologist Dr. Larry Crumpler from the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. He works directly with NASAs Perseverance Rover, which is exploring Mars right now!
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair – ch. 26 (00:44:51)
It is the end of the 19th century. Like thousands of others, the Rudkus family has emigrated from Lithuania to America in search of a better life. As they settle into the Packingtown neighborhood of Chicago, they find their dreams are unlikely to be realized. In fact, just the opposite is quite likely to occur. The family, naïve to the ways of Chicago, quickly falls prey to con men and makes a series of bad decisions that lead them into wretched poverty and terrible living conditions. All are forced to find jobs in dismal working conditions for their very survival. The main character Jurgis, broken and discouraged, eventually finds solace in the American Socialist movement. This novel was written during a period in American history when “Trusts” were formed by multiple corporations to establish monopolies that stifled competition and fixed prices. Unthinkable working conditions and unfair business practices were the norm. The Jungle’s author, Upton Sinclair, was an ardent Socialist of the time. Sinclair was commissioned by the “Appeal To Reason”, a Socialist journal of the period, to write a fictional expose on the working conditions of the immigrant laborers in the meat packing industry in Chicago. Going undercover, Sinclair spent seven weeks inside the meatpacking plants gathering details for his novel. (Summary by Tom Weiss)
https://librivox.org/the-jungle-by-upton-sinclair
TEXT: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/140/140-h/140-h.htm
TED-X: A Southern Historian’s Lost Cause – Roy Wisecarver (00:09:18)
Growing up in the Deep South, Roy “Trae” Wisecarver was taught a different story about the Civil War than he learned as a historian. In this compelling talk, he mixes history and common sense to make the case that he and his fellow Southerners can love their home without lying about its history. Roy Wisecarver graduated from UAM with a BA in History in 2013. He subsequently earned an MA from the University of Mississippi and is currently a PhD student at Texas A&M University. His dissertation examines the relationships between the Confederate government, state government, and people of Arkansas during the Civil War. He will be talking about the dissonance between Civil War memory and history. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
THE BRADCAST: 9/1/2025 Encore: ‘Superman is the Story of America,’ with Prof. Nicholas Grossman of Univ. of IL (00:58:00)
Encore: original airdate 7-16-2025. On today’s ‘BradCast’: MAGA and Fox ‘News’ are attacking the new Superman movie as ‘woke’, apparently angered by the film’s traditional portrayal of the iconic character as pro-kindness, pro-immigrant, pro-justice, anti-Nazi, and more. NICHOLAS GROSSMAN of the University of Illinois discusses his new article, ‘Why MAGA Hates Superman,’ his cultural significance as a symbol of American values, rightwing efforts to rewrite American history, and much more. Donald Trump and his supporters are falling out over the ‘Epstein Files.’ The rightwing supermajority on the US Supreme Court allowed the Trump Administration to fire tens of thousands of federal workers, gutting vital agencies. In Arizona, Adelita Grijalva, daughter of the late Rep. Raul Grivalva, won the Democratic primary in a special US House election to fill her father’s seat.
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675
MONDAY 09.01.25 PROGRAM Notes
6-hour loop begins at NOON, repeats until following noon
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Monday September 1, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Free house calls help Californian residents save money on their utility bills (00:01:30)
As part of a workforce development program, young people are visiting neighbors to assess their water and energy efficiency.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
WHEN THE BIOMASS HITS THE WIND TURBINE #65 (00:29:00)
Like humans, it all starts with food.
Story of feeding pets fish “hair fell out” fed ground turkey
Used a raw food diet for kittens we fostered
Raw food included ground meat, bones to chew, eggs, raw oats, brewer’s yeast and my vita supp mix
Foods to avoid
What to feed a sick animal
Bribe foods
Common health problems:
URI ” 2 pronged approach antibiotic given through the eye (page 24)
Kelp, vitamins, back remedies, golden seal, garlic, acidophilus ” sends strong message to the second brain to step up to the plate and it sends a strong message to the first brain to say that things are getting better and there is no need to feel hopeless ” releasing the immune system to do its job.
Ear Mites
Ringworm
Mange Mites
Feral/fearful behavior: back remedies/CBD
https://bluerockstation.podbean.com
ECONOMIC UPDATE: Government Deficits- Why They Happen, Who Benefits From Them, and MMT (00:29:00)
Professor Wolff explains what deficits are and why the capitalist system enables and invites employers to cause them. He then proceeds to explain how deficits both solve specific problems of capitalism while also causing others. Over time, problems accumulate to undermine the credit of the US and bring economic crisis. Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is shown to offer one way out of the crisis by changing how money is created.
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: The Fascist Grip Tightens (00:58:00)
Once a strongman takes power it’s very difficult to dislodge them from ruling a country. As our institutions gradually succumb to Trump’s grip, can American Democracy survive?
SPIRIT IN ACTION: Learning from WW2 – Nazi Oppression on Russian Ground (00:55:00)
Our guest is Suzanne Parry (suzanneparrywrites.com and www.instagram.com/suzanneparrywrites/), and she is the author of a historical fiction novel, The Communists Secret, the 2nd of a trilogy centered on events during WW2 around Russia. It might be enough to talk about the history of that time in terms of lessons and implications we can draw for our times about tyrannical governments, oppression, & the necessary self-examination for truly understanding what we are serving and upholding by the actions of our country. That might be enough to make this visit with Suzanne valuable, but, in addition, Suzanne was also an arms control negotiator in the mid-1980’s, near the collapse of the Soviet Union. Suzanne’s studies at Purdue and Princeton, and also at the Pushkin Russian Language Institute in Moscow, helped equip her in Russian and in Public and International Affairs. As such, The Communist’s Secret, draws on deep understanding of both history and the way governments, both US & Russian, still operate today. Suzanne Parry joins us via Zoom, though not from her home bases in Portland OR & Washington, DC. Past/present religious/spiritual influences: Humanism, Lutheran
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair – ch. 25 (00:51:20)
It is the end of the 19th century. Like thousands of others, the Rudkus family has emigrated from Lithuania to America in search of a better life. As they settle into the Packingtown neighborhood of Chicago, they find their dreams are unlikely to be realized. In fact, just the opposite is quite likely to occur. The family, naïve to the ways of Chicago, quickly falls prey to con men and makes a series of bad decisions that lead them into wretched poverty and terrible living conditions. All are forced to find jobs in dismal working conditions for their very survival. The main character Jurgis, broken and discouraged, eventually finds solace in the American Socialist movement. This novel was written during a period in American history when “Trusts” were formed by multiple corporations to establish monopolies that stifled competition and fixed prices. Unthinkable working conditions and unfair business practices were the norm. The Jungle’s author, Upton Sinclair, was an ardent Socialist of the time. Sinclair was commissioned by the “Appeal To Reason”, a Socialist journal of the period, to write a fictional expose on the working conditions of the immigrant laborers in the meat packing industry in Chicago. Going undercover, Sinclair spent seven weeks inside the meatpacking plants gathering details for his novel. (Summary by Tom Weiss)
https://librivox.org/the-jungle-by-upton-sinclair
TEXT: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/140/140-h/140-h.htm
THE BRADCAST: 8/29/2025 Encore: Heather Digby Parton of Salon; ‘Driftglass’ of ‘Pro Left Podcast’ on CA’s ‘Nuclear Deterrence’ Map, Trump’s ‘Fascist Theatre’ and Beyond (00:58:00)
Encore: original airdate 8-21-2025. On today’s ‘BradCast’: A New York appeals court upheld Donald Trump’s civil fraud conviction, but found the $500 million fine to be ‘excessive’ and ordered a re-determination. Texas state Republican lawmakers rammed through their extreme gerrymandered maps to steal five U.S. House seats from voters, triggering the California state legislature to pass the ‘Rigged Election Response Act,’ paving the way for the state to counter Texas’ obnoxious scheme. HEATHER DIGBY PARTON of Salon and Hulaballoo and ‘DRIFTGLASS’ of ‘The Pro Left Podcast’ delve into the Gerrymandering War begun by Texas, Trump’s authoritarian takeover of Washington, D.C., California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s hilarious trolling of Trump, and much more in a lively, wide-ranging conversation. Plus Desi Doyen has our new ‘Green News Report.
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675