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TMI 07/18/2025 – BEST OF TMI – Will Roberts Documents the Vital CUNA/Trustage Strike in “Out of Office”, “Alligator Alcatraz” is a 21st Century Concentration Camp, WI Supreme Court News, more

On this Bestof TMI episode, Will Roberts joins us 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!

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TMI 07/11/2025 – Will Roberts Documents the Vital CUNA/Trustage Strike in “Out of Office”, “Alligator Alcatraz” is a 21st Century Concentration Camp, WI Supreme Court News, more

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!

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TMI 05/30/2025 – Lisa Graves Says Chief Justice John Roberts is ‘Unprecedented’, Bill in Congress to Destroy Courts’ Oversight of Trump, Federal Court Blocks Iowa Book Ban, more

Today’s episode opens with an illuminating interview with Lisa Graves, Co-host at Legal AF, MeidasTouch and the Five 8 1/2, discussing her forthcoming book “Unprecedented,” which examines Chief Justice John Roberts’ leadership in the Supreme Court and his rise to power on the backs of the nation’s most fascist interests- listen in to hear more.

Next, we looked at alarming developments in Congress, where provisions buried within Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” are designed to systematically dismantle judicial oversight, including the No Rogue Rulings Act, which would strip judges of their power to issue nationwide injunctions against Trump’s policies. Finally, a federal court has struck down Iowa’s anti-LGBTQ book ban law as largely unconstitutional for its prohibition of school library books “containing descriptions or depictions of sex acts.” All this and more on TMI for Friday, May 30, 2025 – listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!

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TMI 12/13/2024 – People Think Health Care Has To Be Unaffordable, GOP Officials Push Back on Trump, Dhillon is a Stealth Disaster for Civil Rights AAG, Albertsons Sues Kroger for Failed Merger, more

On this episode of TMI, we explore one of the fundamental misunderstandings about health care in the USA: that the bills we receive are the ACTUAL cost of the care. Going through a number of examples, we see that what is being billed is often ten times the cost OR MORE. Because of this deceptive pricing, many people are genuinely concerned when universal coverage comes up and they ask “HOW will it get paid for”? Taking out the need to profit shrinks the pricing to affordable size.

Next, GOP officials throughout the country are responding to the reality that mass deportations and trade war tariffs would ruin their local businesses, and have begun to push back to stave off disaster for their constituents. Then, we look at the nominee who has flown completely under the media radar who spells BIG trouble for civil rights in the USA: Harmeet Dhillon. Dhillon’s anti-trans litigation history and many other issues make her distinctly abhorrent to hold the office in charge of upholding the civil rights of Americans.

Finally, in what is admittedly a bit of schadenfreude, we look at how the proposed merger of Kroger and Albertsons not only failed, but was so spectacularly demolished that Albertsons is suing Kroger over it. All this and more on TMI for Friday, December 13, 2024 – listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!

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TMI 08/30/2024 – Why Things Improve Most When They’re Terrible, ProPublica Examines the Failure to Reclaim Food Deserts, a Federal Judge Rules Trans Teen May Play Soccer in Female Team, more

Jessica Wildfire of OK Doomer wrote a piece this week that lost her more than a few subscribers, which is a shame given that it tells us a very important truth: that we often only improve things when faced with a horrible fate. The Region-Beta Paradox is important to understand, and we use Jessica’s plain-language distillation to get a grip on it.

Then, we head over to look at the national effort to combat food deserts (or as is catching on more lately, food apartheid). ProPublica reported on how the millions poured into founding local grocery stores in the middle of these under-served regions have met with frustrations and failure that can only be explained by understanding how these conditions began in the first place – we go over it all. Finally, we talk about a bright spot: a trans teen was allowed to play with her supportive cisgender teammates on a female soccer team, challenging the hateful ban in favor of community and joy. All this and more on TMI for Friday, August 30, 2024 – listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!

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TMI 08/07/2020 – Labelled as Human, March Against Biden and Amnesty Int’l Dings Us

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If you feel that no label has quite fit how you feel about your gender or sexual identity, we run through over 30 that are custom made BY and FOR the people they describe. Listen and feel reconnected to humanity.

Then we talk to Preston Scott Smith of the March Against Biden, an event happening in over 20 locations tomorrow, August 8th and again a week later on August 15th, as well as virtual events. It’s not a pro-Trump event AT ALL – it BEGS the DNC to do something different in order to actually DEFEAT Trump. Check out the interview!

Finally, we talk about how Amnesty International has dinged a nation very familiar to you with well over 100 human rights violations in a span of under two weeks, and how that adds to the woes being faced at getting an important segment of the vote ready for November.

All that and more was on TMI for Friday, August 7, 2020, at 5PM Central on 91.7FM WSUM in Madison and streamed at WSUM.org EVERYWHERE.

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TMI 6/07/2014 – The Wave of Equality with Devin Gatton, the Mistaken Surveillance with Steve Horn and More!

U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb in Madison on Friday overturned Wisconsin’s same-sex marriage ban, striking down an amendment to the state constitution approved overwhelmingly by voters in 2006 and prompting an emergency action by the state to halt the scores of weddings that began in the state’s two largest cities. Devin Gatton of Wisconsin’s Log Cabin Republicans joins us to discuss and show that there are things we can agree just need to happen, no matter our affiliation.

Then, Steve Horn returns to discuss how the government has been keeping anti-Keystone XL activists under close watch as suspected “terrorists”, while a military commander warns us that the threat real terrorists pose to our oil pipelines is going mostly ignored. Steve has also just concluded a three part investigation into Retired General David Petraeus’ dealings with North Dakota, forcing a public official to admit that obviously corrupt practices were just “business as usual”.

All that and more on TMI for Saturday, June 7th 2014, airing live at noon Central on WSUM FM, 91.7 in Madison or http://wsum.org/ everywhere! Tune in for YOUR cure for the common media!