Ian Bremmer of GZeroMedia.com is known for solid, factual analysis, so when he posted his examination of the effect Trump’s tariffs are going to have on the USA and the world, I knew I had to share it with you. How a topic so widely talked about has had so many details go unreported is a mystery to me, but that’s why you listen to the Cure for the Common Media. Next, we look at how bills originally aimed at stopping trans youth from receiving the gender affirming care they deserve are now halting that same care for trans adults – funny how the party of “small government” gives that up the moment BIG government will cause suffering for those they hate. Finally, we look at France’s new high-speed rail system, and how the responses to its unveiling from Americans are steeped in envy. All this and more on TMI for Friday, April 18, 2025 – listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!
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Bill McKibben’s recent blog post tackled brilliantly the fact that while the Trump regime has been announcing emergencies everywhere, the ones that legitimately need to be addressed are only made WORSE by the corporate-friendly “solutions”, and the rest of these EXCUSES only benefit a VERY few tied directly to Trump – we review it. Then, we look at Ezra Klein’s book “Abundance” (co-authored by Derek Thompson) and how it falsely frames problems in doing good things for people as the fault of those who created the solutions, rather than expose the sinister actions of monopolies that don’t want their profits harmed. Finally, we briefly note that, likely for the first time ever, Trump issued a full Presidential Pardon for a corporation. All this and more on TMI for Friday, April 11, 2025 – listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!
You’ve heard that ICE raids and sweeps have sent many people to horrific confinement and even brutal violence in El Salvador, but did you hear about the US Citizen that was swept up and sent along? We examine why he likely won’t be coming back, and then we hear the firsthand experience of Leslie “Uber Girl” James with two women who had the heartbreak of self-deportation, escaping the nightmare the USA has become for hopeful future citizens.
Next, we aim to give fresh insights into the horrible losses suffered by Elon Musk, Donald Trump and the GOP in general this past Tuesday. Yes, its all over the common media, but there are parts to it that they aren’t talking about. Finally, we wrap up with some GOOD news for trans and intersex people. All this and more on TMI for Friday, April 4, 2025 – listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!
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!
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!
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!
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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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!
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 | 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 | 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) | 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.