On this week's episode, we review a piece released by legendary talk radio host Thom Hartmann via Raw Story, where he breaks down the fascistic coup that has taken place in Washington DC, and how this is only the beginning. Then, we look at how something as inconsequential as AriZona Iced Tea's tallboy cans will likely double in price from Trump's tariffs, and why this is a good illustration of how no corner of our lives, no matter how trivial, will likely be spared.

Next, we move to Minnesota, where a Buffalo Wild Wings employee felt that a cis woman wasn't woman enough for the restrooms, causing a lawsuit that wouldn't exist except for the obsession with gender that some vocally hateful people continue to push. Finally, global warming is causing glacial erosion at record rates, and in the case of a Pakistani family who had lost someone in 1997 up in the mountains, that deep melting released his perfectly preserved body back to them, nearly 30 years later. All this and more on TMI for Friday, August 15, 2925 - listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media.

Russian literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin lived through the Russian Revolution and the Stalin years, and his insights on censorship and propaganda have great relevance when applied to what's been happening leading up to Paramount/CBS' cancelling of Stephen Colbert's "The Late Show", and what the future outlook may very well be, here in the USA, this century - check it out.

Next, we reveal how federal agencies are arresting people who have provided aid to those protesting ICE. The logic is the kind of "guilty-by-association" nonsense that "innocent until proven guilty" was specifically meant to fight, but this current regime has no time for that. Then, we pause to give a brief send off to musical icon Ozzy Osbourne. Finally, we tell you about how the Trump regime has now deleted all references to bisexuality from the Stonewall National Monument website, after having done the same to all transgender references to it just months before. All this and more on this BEST of TMI for Friday, August 1, 2025 - listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!

Russian literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin lived through the Russian Revolution and the Stalin years, and his insights on censorship and propaganda have great relevance when applied to what's been happening leading up to Paramount/CBS' cancelling of Stephen Colbert's "The Late Show", and what the future outlook may very well be, here in the USA, this century - check it out.

Next, we reveal how federal agencies are arresting people who have provided aid to those protesting ICE. The logic is the kind of "guilty-by-association" nonsense that "innocent until proven guilty" was specifically meant to fight, but this current regime has no time for that. Then, we pause to give a brief send off to musical icon Ozzy Osbourne. Finally, we tell you about how the Trump regime has now deleted all references to bisexuality from the Stonewall National Monument website, after having done the same to all transgender references to it just months before. All this and more on TMI for Friday, July 25, 2025 - listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!

Will Roberts joins us on this episode to discuss his Means.TV documentary "Out of Office" which succinctly and clearly shows the union's side of the 2023 OPEIU Local 39 strike on Trustage (nee CUNA Mutual). We examine how even when a union is present, effort must be made to use it to protect the workers... and when that effort is made, it can win BIG. Listen in!

Next, we look at the shame that is the "Alligator Alcatraz" detention center in Florida. Erected in eight days, designed to hold people out where escape can mean death by predator, and ready to be abused as this-century's version of a concentration camp, we look at this thing that both Trump and DeSantis hail as the new way to treat people they don't like. Finally, we go over some good news from the Wisconsin Supreme Court, as the majority decided to stop the Wisconsin State Legislature from unconstitutionally negating the rightful powers and duties of the office of Governor. All this and more on this BEST of TMI for Friday, July 18, 2025 - listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!

Will Roberts joins us on this episode to discuss his Means.TV documentary "Out of Office" which succinctly and clearly shows the union's side of the 2023 OPEIU Local 39 strike on Trustage (nee CUNA Mutual). We examine how even when a union is present, effort must be made to use it to protect the workers... and when that effort is made, it can win BIG. Listen in!

Next, we look at the shame that is the "Alligator Alcatraz" detention center in Florida. Erected in eight days, designed to hold people out where escape can mean death by predator, and ready to be abused as this-century's version of a concentration camp, we look at this thing that both Trump and DeSantis hail as the new way to treat people they don't like. Finally, we go over some good news from the Wisconsin Supreme Court, as the majority decided to stop the Wisconsin State Legislature from unconstitutionally negating the rightful powers and duties of the office of Governor. All this and more on TMI for Friday, July 11, 2025 - listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!

Everyone's focused (and rightfully so) on the horrific set of rulings that the Supreme Court of the United States just released this past week and a half, which is why it flew under the radar that they've accepted a case for this coming year that could end all campaign finance limitations as they still exist. Electing to take up a lawsuit brought by then-Senator JD Vance in 2002, what will be on the table is one of the final prohibitions on campaign spending, and the makeup of this Court makes the 2010 one that said yes to Citizens United v. FEC look moderate.

Next, we have reached the end of the world. I'm not the one to reach this conclusion, and even Jessica Wildfire of The Sentinel Intelligence merely uncovered what linguistic philosopher Donald Davidson accidentally predicted in his essay "A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs" - that as human beings are social animals, we communicate to survive, and to communicate we have to be in the same shared world. Sharing a world, however, seems to be a thing of the past.

Finally, we go over two positive news items for the rights of trans people: first we go abroad to India, where the High Court of Andhra Pradesh has ruled that trans women are legally recognized as women under the Constitution of India; second, we see that back home, action taken by the ALCU and others finally has the Trump regime relenting, and starting to allow updating of gender markers on US passports for trans people. All this and more on TMI for Friday, July 04, 2025 - listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!

On today's episode, we look at how Wisconsin's Supreme Court, on a 5 to 2 decision, upheld the WI Dept of Natural Resources' ability to regulate toxins and pollutants ahead of the lengthy process of having those materials be officially designated as dangerous.

Next, Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani's stunning and decisive win of this week's New York City Mayoral Primary over his establishment, centrist opponent Andrew Cuomo has put the leadership of the Democratic Party into a position where they must make a choice: follow the lead of the voters, who resoundingly rejected Cuomo's Centrist, pro-Zionist campaign and all the money that brought, or fight Zohran and the bright change he represents.

Finally, we look over what should have been a done deal: Google's Alphabet has lost three antitrust lawsuits, and has been determined to be an illegal monopoly, so why is it still intact? All this and more on TMI for Friday, June 27, 2025 - listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!

Jessica Wildfire posted an overview on The Sentinel Intelligence of how people in denial of the rise of 21st century fascism repeatedly told those of us who warned about it that it "can't happen here". Then she pointed out how in each and every warning that was given, we are already there, despite some of the loudest media naysayers' continued attempts to make things seem normal.

Next, the Supreme Court handed down a ruling that, while failing to destroy ALL the legal wins trans rights have had recently, puts a serious amount of medical rights for trans people in extreme peril - we review. Finally, we show how a federal judge took apart the Trump Regime's arguments for its "anti-woke" orders and directly declared them to be "racist". All this and more on TMI for Friday, June 20, 2025 - listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media