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TMI 05/09/2025 – Interview with Ricky Gaona, Documentary Filmmaker of Means TV’s “Parque Central”, Judge Quotes Shakespeare in Takedown of Trump, Gov. Evers Stands Up to ICE Czar Homan, more

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Post date May 9, 2025
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Parque Central, exclusive to Means TV (means.tv), is a documentary about the sharp divides to be found in the day to day lives of those native to the Antigua, Guatemala area and the rich tourist-catering class that runs the city – Ricky Gaona comes to us to talk about his experiences in making such a visceral and vital look at how the need for money turns people into problems.

Next, we look at how Judge Beryl Howell used Shakespeare in permanently blocking Trump’s attempt to destroy law firm Perkins Coie and how that then stops Trump from doing the same to other lawyers who don’t agree with his edicts. Finally, we follow up on Governor Tony Evers’ memo on how to handle interactions with ICE agents, as Tom Homan, acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) threatened Evers with dire consequences over what was a perfectly legal statement by the Governor. Evers isn’t going to back down, and we let you hear it in his own words. All this and more on TMI for Friday, May 09, 2025 – listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!

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BEST OF TMI 5/02/2025 – McKibben’s Review of How Trump’s “Emergencies” Make Things Worse, Ezra Klein’s “Abundance” Book Abundantly Wrong, Corporation Gets Presidential Pardon, more

Bringing back the 4/11/2025 episode in this Best of TMI presentation!

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, May 02, 2025 – listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!

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TMI 4/18/2025 – Analyzing the Economic Damage Done by Trump’s Tariffs, Keeping Trans Kids From Gender Affirming Care Now Stops Trans Adults, France’s High-Speed Rail Leaves USA Envious, more

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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TMI 4/11/2025 – Bill McKibben’s Review of How Trump’s “Emergencies” Make Things Worse, Ezra Klein’s “Abundance” Book Abundantly Wrong, A Corporation Gets a Presidential Pardon, more

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!

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TMI 4/4/2025 – The Horror of ICE AND Self Deportation with Leslie “Uber Girl” James, Elon’s “Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day”, Some Good Trans News, more

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!

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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

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 3/14/2025 – 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.

DOGE organization members

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Notes