CURE News Digest - August 25, 2025
CURE News
8-24-25 Lincoln Square Media substack
Internet post by Don Moynihan
Title: Trump Is Weaponizing DOJ. It’s Part of an Authoritarian Pattern.
Subtitle: Trump is now using legal threats to push a Federal Reserve member to reserve.
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/trump-is-weaponizing-doj-its-part6-11-25 The Conversation
Internet post by Art Jipson
Title: A field guide to ‘accelerationism’: White supremacists groups using violence to spur race war and and create social chaos
https://theconversation.com/a-field-guide-to-accelerationism-white-supremacist-groups-using-violence-to-spur-race-war-and-create-social-chaos-2556997-31-25 The Conversation
Internet post by Mark & Bagwell
Title: Strengthening collective labor rights can help reduce economic inequality
8-22-25 The Contrarian substack
43-minute podcast featuring Jennifer Rubin & Abbe Lowell, attorney during first half; April Ryan & Pastor Jamal Bryant, who is the face of the boycott against Target.
Title: How Trump Weaponizes law with Abbe Lowell and Pastor Jamal Bryant
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/how-trump-weaponizes-law-with-abbe8-21-25 Heather Cox Richardson/Explainer substack
6 ½ - minute YouTube video featuring Heather Cox Richardson
Title: That Idea That We Should All Have a Vote and It Should Count Is Central to Who We Are
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT4ynk7E_NY&ab_channel=HeatherCoxRichardsonJuly 2025 CNBC YouTube
12 ½ - minute YouTube video produced, directed & edited by Charlotte Morabito
Title: Why Even High Earners Are Living Paycheck To Paycheck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtDIBJiuei4&ab_channel=CNBC8-24-25 Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance substack
Internet post by Joyce Vance
Title: The Week Ahead
Subtitle: August 24, 2025
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-ahead-0ec
8-24-25 Letters from an American substack
Internet post by Heather Cox Richardson
Topic: Democratic governors are pushing back
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-24-20258-25-25 Robert Reich’s substack
Internet post by Robert Reich
Title: Life in the Shadow of the American Dream
Subtitle: Voices of Americans
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/life-in-the-shadow-of-the-american8-25-25 Lincoln Square Media substack
Internet cross-post by Brian Diatzman for The Intellectualist
Title: Don’t Compare Donald Trump to Neville Chamberlain
Subtitle: It’s the wrong analogy and the wrong history. It flatters Trump, diminishes Chamberlain, and legitimizes betrayal as leadership.
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/dont-compare-donald-trump-to-neville
8-25-25 America, America substack
Internet post by Steven Beschloss
Title: Standing By a Democratic Ally
Subtitle: If only America had a real president now, like Ukraine does
https://www.americaamerica.news/p/standing-by-a-democratic-ally
8-25-25 The Borowitz Report substack
Internet post by Andy Borowitz (comedian & satirist)
Title: Ghislaine Maxwell Becomes Only Person in America Who Has Not Seen Trump Act Inappropriately
https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/ghislaine-maxwell-becomes-only-person8-25-25 The Contrarian substack
Internet post by Jennifer Rubin
Title: Two Cases Provide Critical Guidance to Rescue Democracy
Subtitle: We need candor from the bench and the media
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/two-cases-provide-critical-guidance
8-25-25 The Contrarian substack
Internet post by Brian O’Neill
Title: Trump’s intelligence ‘reforms’ guarantee failure
Subtitle: Sabotage disguised as discipline carries a cost, and it will be measured in lives.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/trumps-intelligence-reforms-guarantee
8-25-25 Bulwark Morning Shots substack
Internet post by Egger, Kristol & Smith
Title: Despotism at the Door
Subtitle: The thread that ties John Bolton and Kilmar Abrego Garcia is clear. We have a president who wants to operate outside the law.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/despotism-at-the-door-trump-abuses-bolton-military-washington-dc-epstein-abrego-garcia-immigration-intel8-25-25 Adam Kinzinger’s substack
Internet post by Adam Kinzinger
Title: Who Really Controls the National Guard? The Second Amendment Debate We’ve Ignored
Subtitle: America’s state militias were meant as a check on tyranny. Now they can be federalized at will.
https://adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/who-really-controls-the-national
8-25-25 Keen on America substack
41-minute video recording featuring Andrew Keen & Michael Lind
Title: MAGA Voters Aren’t Stupid. That’s Why They Don’t Care What Right-Wing Podcasters Think.
Subtitle: Episode 2534: Michael Lind on Why Americans Vote for Personalities, Not Policies
https://keenon.substack.com/p/maga-voters-arent-stupid-thats-why
8-25-25 The Conversation
Internet post by Megan Donelson
Title: How federal officials talk about health is shifting in troubling ways – and that change makes me worried for my autistic child
https://theconversation.com/how-federal-officials-talk-about-health-is-shifting-in-troubling-ways-and-that-change-makes-me-worried-for-my-autistic-child-259874?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Newsletter%20%20August%2025%202025%20-%203495335611&utm_content=Daily%20Newsletter%20%20August%2025%202025%20-%203495335611+CID_bbf6b393a9fb393e72a199f273233348&utm_source=campaign_monitor_us&utm_term=singular%20focus%20on%20lifestyle%20and%20environmental%20effects8-25-25 The Conversation
Internet post by Walter S. DeKeseredy
Title: Rural women are at a higher risk of domestic violence – and less likely to get help