#1740 Monthly-ish Mix: The Enemy Within and the Enemy Without—America's Two-Front

Air Date: 09/30/25

The Monthly-ish Mix™ is here to get you caught up on recent news without being overwhelming! This month we track the dangerous convergence of domestic collapse and international chaos by looking at political violence and martyrdom accelerating division, institutional capture from the courts to the media, the dismantling of voting rights and public health infrastructure, military deployments at home and wars abroad, plus the resistance movements fighting back through town halls, labor organizing, and revolutionary art despite overwhelming odds.

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PART 1: THE HOME FRONT CRUMBLES

(00:01:50) #1739 The Charlie Kirk Assassination and the Plans to Weaponize It

1: Chris Hedges: The Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk - The Chris Hedges Report - Air Date 9-12-25

2: The "Both Sides" Scam: How False Balance Fuels Extremism - Thom Hartmann Program - Air Date 9-12-25

3: No, Charlie Kirk Was Not Practicing Politics the Right Way - Mother Jones - Air Date 9-12-25

(00:22:18) #1736 Not the Opposition Party the Country Needs Right Now

4: Why Democrats Should Cut Off Weapons Sales to Israel and Reject AIPAC Money - Pod Save America - Air Date 8-29-25

5: Journalist Exposes Dark Money on the Left - UNFTR Media - Air Date 8-30-25

(00:40:43) #1728 The Lawfare Presidency: The Case of Trump v. Journalism

6: Corporate Media's Surrender to Trump a Wake-up Call for Urgent Reforms Needed to Save Journalism, Democracy - Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine Podcast - Air Date 7-16-25

7: Trumps War on the Media - Courier - Air Date 7-29-25.mp3 08-01-26-762

8: Trump's Presidential Library Grift. Plus, the Hacker Behind the NYT_s Mamdani Story. - On the Media - Air Date 7-25-25

(01:02:37) #1731 Raw Power, the Presidency, the Courts, and Democracy in the Balance

9: When Unaccountable People Come for Your Vote - Amicus with Dahlia Lithwick - Air Date 7-26-25

10: Executive Lawlessness W/ Leah Litman on the Supreme Court Enabling Presidential Overreach Part 1 - The Intercept Briefing - Air Date 7-18-25

PART 2: INSTITUTIONAL DECAY AND CONTROL

(01:17:27) #1732 It's Never Just About the Kids (Online Censorship, Age Verification, and the Project 2025 Agenda)

11: Age Verification Will Kill Free Speech Online - Taylor Lorenz - Air Date 6-6-25

12: Can the UK Child-proof the Internet? - Front Burner - Air Date 7-31-25

13: Meet the Creepy Pro-Trump Billionaire Profiting Off of Internet Censorship - The Humanist Report - Air Date 8-7-25

(01:43:50) #1733 The Impossible Promise of Make American Healthy Again: MAHA vs MAGA

14: Despite 'MAHA' Fuss, Truth of Trump Admin's Health Priorities Seen in Drastic Cuts - The Briefing - Air Date 5-23-25

15: The Nutrition Lies We All Fell For Part 1 - Rich Roll - Air Date 8-11-25

16: Dr. Mikes Fight to Save Medicine From RFK Jr. Part 1 - Bulwark Takes - Air Date 8-4-24

(02:04:58) #1730 The Axis of the Dark Personality Triad: Unfit Leaders and the Suffering They Cause

17: The World War II Lessons Trump, Putin, & Netanyahu Actually Learned - Tad Stoermer - Air Date 8-8-25

18: 'Not About Crime': Maddow CRACKS OPEN Trump's Real Motives in Deploying the National Guard to D.C. - The Rachel Maddow Show - Air Date 8-11-25

19: Trump Pushes Forward with Revenge Presidency - All In with Chris Hayes - Air Date 8-8-25

PART 3: THE WORLD BURNS

(02:26:54) #1735 Trump's Making Friends of Enemies and Enemies of Neighbors (Foreign and Domestic Wars)

20: NATO Lost in Ukraine and the West Is In Denial, W Vijay Prashad Part 1 - BreakThrough News - Air Date 8-20-25

21: Trumps National Guard Strategy—Plus, the Secret Behind Huck Finn - Start Making Sense - Air Date 8-27-25

22: Why Are US Warships Going to Venezuela Part 1 - The Take - Air Date 8-28-25

(02:51:27) #1738 Escalations: Russia, Israel, And What We Are Allowed to Say About It

23: Israel Bombs Qatar, Nepal Protests, Russian Drones Enter Polish Airspace - American Prestige - Air Date 9-12-25

24: UK Bans Palestine Action as 'Terror Group' - Mehdi & Owen on Censorship, Silencing of Pro-Palestinian Voices - Two Outspoken - Air Date 7-3-25

25: 'Putin Is Mocking' Trump, Polish Foreign Minister Says After Russian Drone Incursion - PBS NewsHour - Air Date 9-10-25

PART 4: RESISTANCE DESPITE FRAGMENTATION

(03:15:52) #1737 State of the Resistance: Labor, Anger, and Knowing That We've Been Here Before

26: While We Were Out An Eye-opening Roundup of Everything We Missed or Wished We Had Over the Past Week - The Bradcast - Air Date 9-2-25

27: What A Raucous Nebraska Town Hall Says About The Country's Mood - The Brian Lehrer Show - Air Date 8-6-25

28: This Is An Invasion - Pritzker, Trump, and the Union Coming Apart + Venezuelan Boat Attack - Straight White American Jesus - Air Date 9-5-25

(03:39:51) #1734 Where is the Revolutionary, Anti-Fascist Art?

29: Is Revolutionary Art Possible In The Age Of Trump? - The Majority Report W/ Sam Seder - Air Date 8-17-25

30: On Kennedy Center Stage, Folk Musicians Nora Brown & Stephanie Coleman Protest Trump_s Takeover - Democracy Now! - Air Date 3-18-25

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