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TMI 05/16/2025 – Washington Post’s Inconsistent Ethics, Omaha’s Electoral Upset, Federal ICE Free Speech Case, Women’s Prison Privacy & Pope Leo XIV’s Emerging Papacy, more

The Washington Post hasn’t been shy about criticizing RFK Jr.’s Department of Health and Human Services for pushing disinformation on a number of topics, from autism to vaccines, but when RFK Jr’s HHS released a report full of anti-trans pseudoscience, they embraced it warmly. With help from Erin Reed’s cogent reporting, we examine the falsehoods that WaPo helped endorse, and work to combat the corrosive effect of a major American newspaper spreading them.

We then give a rapid overview of four more topics – the surprise win for Democrat in the race for Omaha’s mayor, how a Federal judge is questioning if noncitizens have Constitutional rights, how Michigan’s Department of Corrections is violating women prisoners’ rights by video recording them even in the shower, and finally what Pope Leo XIV’s past and choice of name tells us about his political positions. All this and more on TMI for Friday, May 16, 2025 – listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!

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TMI 01/24/2025 – Bishop Budde’s Own Words of Mercy, SCOTUS Calls Montana’s ISL Bluff, Our Friend Ahmed Shows Beauty During Hardship, Alabama Uses Prisoners Like Slaves, more

Bishop Mariann Budde is being attacked mercilessly for calling for mercy. We start this episode with something her detractors in the Trump Administration and the media won’t give you: her own words. You can judge for yourself if anything she gave in her appeal to President Trump for mercy was remotely “nasty” or even vaguely wrong. Next, We look at how SCOTUS has rejected Montana’s attempt to use the Independent State Legislature (ISL) theory to circumvent their courts’ rulings on their measures to suppress voting – SCOTUS got this one right!

Then, we give a special look at misterG’s report on his friend Ahmed, a wonderful musician and teacher living in Gaza who has been steadfast in spreading music despite the genocidal warfare there. For more, be sure to tune into greenarrowradio on WSUM 91.7FM Saturday, January 25, 2025 or stream it live on wsum.org.

Finally, we look at how Alabama’s “work release” program makes the state so much money that they don’t like granting parole – it reduces the number of prisoners they can profit from. All this and more on TMI for Friday, January 24, 2025 – listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!