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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

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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 4/11/2025 – 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 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!