Month: September 2025

How Trump Will Take Advantage of the Government Shutdown

We begin with the government shutdown hours away which Trump is blaming on the Democrats for wanting more money to spend on healthcare for illegal immigrants while the crude vulgarian crosses the line into gutter indecency by promoting a racist and profane AI deep fake video of the House and Senate Democratic leaders. Joining us to discuss how Trump will take advantage of the shutdown is Robert Kuttner, the co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect and the Ida and Meyer Kirstein Chair at Brandeis University. He was formerly an assistant to the legendary I.F. Stone, a chief investigator for the Senate Banking Committee, and for 20 years wrote a column at Business Week. His books include Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism? and Going Big: FDR’s Legacy, Biden’s New Deal, and the Struggle to Save Democracy, and we discuss his article at The American Prospect “The Art of the Budget Deal.”

Trump Tells Our Admirals and Generals That the Enemy is Within and Democratic U.S. Cities Should be Military Training Grounds

Then, with Trump telling hundreds of our Admirals and Generals today that the enemy is within and that Democratic-led U.S. cities should be military training grounds, we speak with Stuart Schrader, a Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. His research focuses on: security, policing, and counterinsurgency; the entwinement of foreign and domestic policy; and urbanization, and he is the author of Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing and the forthcoming book, Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves.

Ignorance is the Key Ingredient That Keeps MAGAworld Believing Trump’s Lies and Absurdities

Then finally we look into Trump’s war of science and expertise with faith-based ignorance the required ingredient to keep the MAGA coalition believing the lies and absurdities issuing forth from the administration. Joining us is Michael Mann, presidential distinguished professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media. He contributed to the award of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize and was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2020 and is the author of numerous books, including Dire Predictions: Understanding Climate Change, The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet, and his latest book just out co-authored with Peter Hotez, is Science Under Siege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces that Threaten Our World.