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TMI 3/28/2025 – Jasmine Mooney’s Firsthand Account of 2025 ICE Detention Will Leave You Chilled, Trump Seeks to Make Military Border Zone with Mexico, Why It Is Wrong To Call MAGA Stupid, more

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Canadian actress and entrepreneur Jasmine Mooney spent a nearly two week span this year detained by ICE. She gives a harrowing firsthand account of how, despite being assured by the intaking officer “You didn’t do anything wrong. You are not in trouble, you are not a criminal,” she was literally imprisoned with hundreds of others, many of whom were there before her and remain in captivity to this day. You need to hear what happened if you want to understand how dire the situation is.

Next, we go over how Trump wants to make a long narrow military base at the border between Mexico and New Mexico to act as a “buffer zone” run by the US Military, in order to skirt the Posse Comitatus Act. Then we check out reports that a French scientist heading for Houston was refused entry to the USA because his phone contained mean texts about Trump. Finally, we go over how it is a mistake to refer to MAGA-voting people as “stupid”, when the unfortunate truth is far darker. All this and more on TMI for Friday, March 28, 2025 – listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!

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TMI 3/21/2025 – Musk Pours Millions Into Wisconsin’s April 1st Election, YouTuber Shows How DOGE’s Targets Are Musk’s Revenge, Walz Rallies in Eau Claire and Eichorn Gets in Minor Trouble, more

In case you haven’t paid much attention to the statewide election coming up on April 1st here in Wisconsin, then you aren’t thinking like a billionaire. And not just ANY billionaire, either: Elon Musk has put over $13 million into our little State Supreme Court race between Brad Schimel and Susan Crawford. Usually you’d be excused for not worrying about what Elon might know that you don’t, but in this case, you might want a quick primer. Next, we keep our sights on Mr. Musk as YouTuber (and engineer) Mark Rober puts his Tesla Autopilot through a series of tests to see if it is safe. It becomes rapidly apparent why Musk has DOGE going after Executive Branch departments like the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

Then we review how Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (of Kamala Harris running-mate fame) came to Eau Claire this week to not just rally the faithful, but to so what Representative Van Orden has refused to do: hold a town hall meeting in his district and LISTEN to the constituents. Finally we look at how Minnesota’s most MAGA-devoted State Senator, Justin Eichorn, got himself into some “minor” trouble that forced him to resign his seat in the Senate. All this and more on TMI for Friday, March 21, 2025 – listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!

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TMI 3/14/2025 – The Forward Initiative Helps Progressives Get Firearm Permits and More, Trump Aims to Strip 60 Universities Over Last Year’s Protests, Attacks on Trans People Defeated Nationwide, more

Progressives often feel unwelcome in concealed carry classes or out on the practice ranges, as stark political differences can be heightened in the presence of firearms. Enter Blake Alvarenga, Executive Director of The Forward Initiative or “TFI”. TFI is devoted to not JUST making sure progressives can be comfortable in exercising their Second Amendment rights, but also offers the “Stop the Bleed” program, affiliated with the American College of Surgeons, to instruct people on how to stop a severely injured person from bleeding out. We discuss TFI’s goals and classes.

Next, despite political protests being one of the most protected forms of expression by the First Amendment, the Trump Administration is threatening to cut all Federal funding for 60 institutions of higher learning, including UW-Madison, over the protests of the genocide in Gaza that went on last year. Finally, we talk about how judges have been pushing back against Trump’s attacks on transgender people, and how even in the very-red State of Montana, the legislature has had Republican Representatives cross the aisle to stand with Democratic Representatives there against heinous anti-trans bills. All this and more on TMI for Friday, March 14, 2025 – listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!

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BEST OF TMI 3/7/2025 – Wisconsin Supreme Court race has been hidden in the newscycle, AMA Steps Up for the CDC’s Loss of Vital Info, Obsolescence Was Invented to Make Billionaires, more

On this BEST OF TMI episode, we look back at three of the most important topics of 2025 so far! First, the State of Wisconsin has one of the MOST important elections in the USA for 2025 coming up in less than a month! On Tuesday, April 1st, Wisconsin’s GOP wants to pull the most cruel April Fool’s joke ever by ripping control of our state’s Supreme Court away from us after just two short years. With Ann Walsh Bradley retiring after 30 years of liberal rulings, the 4-3 liberal mix of the court would be put back in conservative hands if Scott Walker’s former Attorney General Brad Schimel is allowed to beat Susan Crawford in this spring election. We got over what is at stake.

Next, we show how private medical establishments like the American Medical Association are stepping up to try and preserve and SERVE the vital medical information that Trump is having scrubbed from the CDC, DHS and other government websites before it is lost forever. Finally, Jessica Wildfire’s post at The Sentinel Intelligence tells how obsolescence was an idea purposefully put into place to ensure the profits kept rolling in – right to the top! All this and more on TMI for Friday, March 7, 2025 – listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!

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TMI 02/28/2025 – Earth’s Plants Are Full of Carbon, Rubio’s Rules for Visas to Based on Gender Are Full of Loopholes, Bernie Sanders is Full of Purpose, and Jeff Bezos is Full of… Himself

On today’s episode, we go over a recent report that Earth’s plants have hit the maximum amount of carbon that they want to take out of the atmosphere every year, which isn’t great considering we continue to increase the amount we are putting into it. Then, Secretary Rubio’s new rules for obtaining a visa into the United States that supposedly were to be aimed only at athletes, but are so full of holes that they could be applied to anyone who doesn’t happen to match their assigned gender at birth.

Next, the leadership we might be looking for out of the Democratic Party to oppose the machinations of the Trump regime are actually coming from Bernie Sanders and his National Tour to Fight Oligarchy. Finally, Jeff Bezos is says his new editorial policy at the Washington Post will censor pieces that go against what made him successful, because he IS America. All this and more on TMI for Friday, February 28, 2025 – listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!

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DOGE organization members
Name	Title/role	Federal agencies	Past employer(s)	Notes
Jacob Altik	Lawyer	EOP	D.C. Circuit Court (clerk for Neomi Rao); Weil, Gotshal & Manges (lawyer)	Scheduled to clerk for Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch
Marc Andreessen	Top adviser to Musk (title unknown)			Key networker for talent recruitment
Anthony Armstrong	Senior Adviser to the Director	OPM	Morgan Stanley (banker)	Worked on Musk’s Twitter purchase
Jehn Balajadia		ED	Boring Company	Assisted Musk for years; close confidant
Alexandra T. Beynon		EOP	Mindbloom (engineer); Goldman Sachs	Mindbloom, a ketamine-assisted therapy company, was founded by her husband, Dylan Beynon.
Riccardo Biasini	Senior Adviser to the Director	OPM	Boring Company; Tesla	Involved with new government-wide email system at OPM
Brian Bjelde	Senior Adviser	OPM	SpaceX; Twitter	Known as a “top DOGE lieutenant”
Akash Bobba	Senior Adviser to the Director	OPM	Bridgewater Associates (intern); Meta (intern);Palantir (intern)	Has not yet graduated from UC Berkeley
James Burnham	General Counsel	EOP	Supreme Court (clerk for Neil Gorsuch); Jones Day (litigation partner); White House	High-ranking Justice Department and White House official from the first Trump administration
Nate Cavanaugh		GSA	Brainbase; FlowFi (co-CEO)
Edward Coristine	Expert; Senior Adviser	DT, OPM, DOS, DHS, FEMA, USAID	LesserEvil; Path Network; Neuralink (intern);	Youngest member; nicknamed “Big Balls”; owner of Tesla.sexy;[159] accused of leaking documents; allegedly associated with “The Com”, a group of users engaged in criminal activity
Steve Davis	Head of DOGE (title unknown)	EOP	Boring Company (CEO)	Longtime Musk confidant
Stephen Duarte	Expert	OPM	SpaceX (human resources)
Stephen Ehikian	Acting Administrator	GSA	Salesforce, Airkit.ai (founder)
Marko Elez		USDT	SpaceX (engineer); Twitter (engineer)	Fired from DOGE for past racist posts; Musk said he would be re-hired
Luke Farritor	Executive Engineer in the Office of the Secretary	HHS, DOS	SpaceX (intern)	Attended the University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Justin Fulcher	Advisor	VA	RingMD
Joe Gebbia	(Position unclear)		Airbnb (co-founder)	Board member of Tesla; billionaire
Amy Gleason	Top adviser to Musk (title unknown)		US Digital Service
Joshua Gruenbaum	Federal Acquisition Service Commissioner	GSA	KKR & Co.; Moelis & Co.	Restructurings, mergers and acquisitions
Nicole Hollander		GSA	Twitter	Married to Steve Davis; seeking to initiate thousands of lease cancellations on federal buildings.
Stephanie Holmes	Human Resources		Jones Day (lawyer); Oklo (chief people officer)
Gautier “Cole” Killian	Federal Detailee	EPA	Jump Trading (engineer)	Graduated from high school in 2019; attended McGill University in math and computer science.
Gavin Kliger	Senior Adviser to the Director	CFPB, OPM, USAID, IRS	Databricks; LinkedIn	Graduated from UC Berkeley in 2020; problematic tweets and substack post
Keenan D. Kmiec[a]	Lawyer	EOP	InterPop; federal circuit court (clerk for Samuel Alito); Supreme Court (clerk for John Roberts); Tezos	Son of former U.S. ambassador Douglas Kmiec
Tom Krause	Fiscal Assistant Secretary of the Treasury	USDT	Cloud Software Group (CEO)	Said to have access to payment systems at Treasury, believed to still be the CEO of Cloud Software Group
Jeremy Lewin		CFPB, GSA	Munger, Tolles & Olson (lawyer)	Graduated from Harvard; studied under Trump critic Laurence Tribe; wrote an op-ed with Tribe arguing for the liquidation of Russia’s federal reserves, to be given to Ukraine; his law firm has represented Tesla
Kendall M. Lindemann		EOP		Associate at Russell Street Ventures, founded by Brad Smith
Russell McGranahan	General Counsel	GSA
Katie Miller	Spokesperson		Mike Pence (press secretary)	Wife of White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller
Aram Moghaddassi			Neuralink; Twitter
Justin Monroe	Adviser	FBI	SpaceX; US Navy (information warfare officer)	First naval information warfare officer to be commissioned out of the Naval Academy in 2011
Elon Musk	Leader of DOGE (disputed; title unknown)		SpaceX; Tesla; Twitter; xAI; Boring Company; Neuralink
Michael Peters	Public Buildings Service Commissioner	GSA
Nikhil “Nik” Rajpal	Expert	CFPB, NOAA, OPM	Twitter	Studied computer science and history at UC Berkeley
Adam Ramada		EOP		Investment firm with links to a SpaceX alumnus
Ryan Riedel	Chief Information Officer	DOE	SpaceX (network security engineer)
Rachel Riley	Senior Adviser in the Office of the Secretary	HHS	McKinsey & Company
Michael Russo	Chief Information Officer	SSA	Shift4 Payments (executive and senior adviser)
Amanda Scales	Chief of Staff	OPM	Uber (recruiting); xAI (HR)	Attended the University of California, Davis
Kyle Schutt	Software engineer	GSA	Revv; WinRed
Ethan Shaotran		GSA		Is a senior at Harvard University; identified as a runner-up at a hackathon held by xAI; received a $100,000 grant from OpenAI to develop an AI scheduling assistant.
Thomas Shedd	Federal Acquisition Service Deputy Commissioner; Director of Technology Transformation Services	GSA	Tesla (engineer)
Brad Smith	Top adviser to Musk (title unknown)		FEMA COVID-19 Supply Chain Stabilization Task Force	Allegedly pushed during the COVID-19 pandemic to adjust a government model in order to produce fake estimates showing lower death rates; friend of Jared Kushner
Christopher Stanley	Aide to Musk (title unknown)		Twitter	Assisted with the pardons of January 6 rioters
Jordan M. Wick		EOP	Waymo	Graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chris Young	Top adviser to Musk (title unknown)		PhRMA (senior political official)	Republican political advisor, hired by Musk in 2024

The above information is courtesy of Wikipedia, and is copied here in case retributive action forces Wikipedia to take it down. Permission is granted – hell, ENCOURAGED – for you to copy this table of informaiton to your own websites or offline archives for safekeeping. Elon Musk says posting this is committing a crime, but I’m not taking the word of a fascist criminal like him on what crimes are.

Carry this information onward. Don’t make the above people famous; make them INFAMOUS. None of these people should be able to get a coffee without wondering if the waitstaff recognized them as being the agents of destruction they are, and thus did something to their order out of sheer contempt. They deserve NO peace.

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TMI 02/21/2025 – Wisconsin’s Supreme Court Race Gets Hidden in the Newscycle, the EEOC and NLRB Are Under Attack to Destroy Workers Rights, George Monbiot Shows How International Our Troubles Are, more

You might not be aware of it, with Elon Musk and Donald Trump taking virtually all the air out of the news lately, but the State of Wisconsin has one of the MOST important elections in the USA for 2025 coming up in just over a month! On Tuesday, April 1st, Wisconsin’s GOP wants to pull the most cruel April Fool’s joke ever by ripping control of our state’s Supreme Court away from us after just two short years. With Ann Walsh Bradley retiring after 30 years of liberal rulings, the 4-3 liberal mix of the court would be put back in conservative hands if Scott Walker’s former Attorney General Brad Schimel is allowed to beat Susan Crawford in this spring election. We got over what is at stake.

Next, we review how the recent strategic firings at the National Labor Relations Board and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (The NLRB and the EEOC, respectively) hamstring those organizations’ ability to act in any way, robbing them each of the quorum necessary to act on behalf of workers nationwide. Then we read, with permission, the writings of our UK friend George Monbiot, as he details how there, those who had been pointing out the ways in which their society needed to be improved to forestall calamity were pushed aside in a way that’s all too familiar here in the United States. All this and more on TMI for Friday, February 21, 2025 – listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!

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TMI 02/14/2025 – Confronting Ezra Klein’s Naive Denial of Trump’s Nascent Dictatorship, the AMA Steps Up to Help Mitigate the Loss of Vital CDC Info, Howard Hamm Uses Trump to Attack Climate, more

Ezra Klein typically has good instincts when it comes to political analysis, often proving to be correct when countering “common sense” views that don’t fit reality. Sadly, this time his attempt to be the calm voice of reason has backfired, as he has woven a rosy picture about how Trump has limits to what he can do – limits that often don’t exist, with a hard look at what has happened in just the twenty-five days of his new administration. We discuss.

Next, we show how private medical establishments like the American Medical Association are stepping up to try and preserve and SERVE the vital medical information that Trump is having scrubbed from the CDC, DHS and other government websites before it is lost forever. Finally, we reveal how oil tycoon Howard Hamm has been leading the charge in goading Trump 2.0 into giving Big Oil everything it could ever have wanted, at the expense of the environment’s future. All this and more on TMI for Friday, February 14, 2025 – Valentine’s Day! – listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!

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TMI 02/07/2025 – Greg Palast on the Hard Numbers of Trump’s 2024 Election Theft, How Linux Kernel 6.13 and DeepSeek Could Usher In an Era of Climate-friendly AI, more

Investigative Reporter Greg Palast has recently been on The Thom Hartmann Program to give the news that Trump and his allies STOLE the 2024 Presidential Election, just as Greg had predicted with his documentary on electoral shenanigans “Vigilantes Inc”. He joins us today to get the most airtime ANY program has yet given him to go over the hard numbers that took MONTHS to fully compile – it takes time when not everyone wants to cooperate with an investigation! Tune in for a DEEP dive that shows that not only does Trump have NO “mandate” to do what he’s doing, he has no right to be President at all!

Next, we find out that the energy-ravenous data centers that are expanding tremendously to accommodate the exponential growth of AI have been given a tool to use LESS energy in all that computing from an unexpected source: just 30 lines of code in the Linux kernel used by many of those servers! Combine that with the reported efficiency of the nascent AI DeepSeek, and we may be able to include AI in a future that DOESN’T destroy the environment… that is, if we don’t blow the rest of the effort. All this and more on TMI for Friday, February 07, 2025 – listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!

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