CURE News Digest - August 26, 2025
CURE News
8-25-25 The Contrarian substack
Internet post by The Contrarian
Title: The Contrarian covers the Democracy Movement
Subtitle: Monday: Protests against ICE, including in Baltimore in support of Kilmar Abrego Garcia; protests continue in D.C.; and more.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-contrarian-covers-the-citizens
8-25-25 Dan Rather’s Steady substack
Internet post by Dan Rather & Team Steady
Title: Culture Crash
Subtitle: You can put him in a tux, but that won’t make him cultured
https://steady.substack.com/p/culture-crash
8-25-25 The Bulwark Triad substack
Internet post by Jonathan V. Last
Title: The Three Bolton Problem
Subtitle: Good Republicans are having a hard time with Trump’s vendetta against John Bolton.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-three-bolton-problem8-25-25 Zeteo substack
5 ½ - minute video recording by Team Zeteo
Title: Breaking: 5 Journalists Among at least 20 Killed by Israeli Strikes on Nasser Hospital
Subtitle: Watch our documentary on Israel’s targeting of Gaza doctors that the BBC won’t run to learn more about the horrific struggle for health workers and hospitals on the ground.
https://zeteo.com/p/breaking-5-journalists-among-at-least
8-25-25 Tangle News
Internet post by Isaac Saul
Title: The FBI raids the home of the former Trump advisor John Bolton.
Subtitle: Plus, the latest on U.S.-Venezuala relations.
https://www.readtangle.com/john-bolton-raided-fbi-trump/8-25-25 Zeteo substack
Internet post by Maung Zarni
Title: The Rohingya, Gaza, and Two Genocides the World Refuses to End
Subtitle: As I watch Gaza, I can’t help but think about what’s been inflicted on the Rohingya in Myanmar and the role Israel has played in it, writes Burmese activist Maung Zarni.
https://zeteo.com/p/the-rohingya-gaza-and-two-genocides8-25-25 The Contrarian substack
32-minute video recording featuring Jennifer Rubin & Justin Wolfers
Title: Justin Wolfers: Trump’s economic standoff with the Fed
Subtitle: “We’re one bad shock away from a recession.”
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/justin-wolfers-trumps-economic-standoff-a9b
8-25-25 Lincoln Square Media substack
32-minute video recording featuring Susan J. Demas & Jasmine Burney-Clark, founder of Equal Ground Education Fund
Title: Florida: The Next Gerrymandering Fight
Subtitle: You’ve heard what’s going on in Texas and now California. Jasmine Burney-Clark has an inside look at the next battle in Florida – and what Trump is really doing here.
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/florida-the-next-gerrymandering-fight8-25-25 The Jim Acosta Show substack
1 hour video recording featuring Acosta, Avlon & Aronberg
Title: Trump “dictator” talk with John Avlon and Dave Aronberg on the bombshell new witness to testify before Congress on Epstein files.
Subtitle: Jim correctly points out nobody in America wants a dictator after Trump says people would like one.
https://jimacosta.substack.com/p/trump-dictator-talk-with-john-avlon
8-25-25 Lincoln Square Media substack
39-minute video recording featuring Susan J. Demas & Jeff Timmer
Title: Trump’s Intel Deal is What Fascism Looks Like
Subtitle: “It’s not: ‘Can it happen here?’ It is happening here. It’s: ‘What are we going to do about it?’”
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/trumps-intel-deal-is-what-fascism
8-25-25 Simon Rosenberg’s Hopium Chronicles
47-minute video recording featuring Simon Rosenberg & Tom Bonier
Title: Democrats Need to Get Serious About Partisan Voter Registration - Some Notes and a Presentation From Tom Bonier
Subtitle: Congress returns next week and needs to hear a loud roar of disapproval from We the People
https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/democrats-need-to-get-serious-about
8-22-25 The Jim Acosta Show
1 hour, 50 - minute video recording featuring Jim Acosta, Heather Cox Richardson, Michael Fanone, & Larry Sabato
Title: Arming National Guard in DC, Searching John Bolton’s House, and the picture of Putin in Trump’s hands. Heather Cox Richardson, Michael Fanone and Larry Sabato join the show.
Subtitle: A recording from Jim Acosta’s live video.
https://jimacosta.substack.com/p/breaking-tonight-arming-national8-25-25 Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance
Internet post by Joyce Vance
Title: Only Monday
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/only-monday8-25-25 Letters from an American
Internet post by Heather Cox Richardson
Topic: Trump & Chicago
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-25-20258-26-25 Robert Reich’s substack
Internet post by Robert Reich
Title: Trump’s downfall
Subtitle: Fascist capitalism will do him in
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/whatss-fascist-capitalism-and-which
8-26-25 Lincoln Square Media substack
Internet post by Jennifer Schulze
Title: Made-for-TV Authoritarianism
Subtitle: D.C. residents are flooding social media with critical reality checks on Trump’s takeover scheme. Local news is also doing important on-the-ground reporting.
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/made-for-tv-authoritarianism8-26-25 Lincoln Square Media/Fourth & Democracy substack
Internet post by Evan Fields
Title: MAGA Alpha Male Fails & Newsom’s A+ Trump Trolling
Subtitle: Plus: A different kind of football dynasty.
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/fourth-and-democracy-maga-alpha-male8-26-25 The Borowitz Report substack
Internet post by Andy Borowitz (comedian satirist)
Title: National Guard Refuses to Go to Chicago, Citing Bone Spurs
https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/national-guard-refuses-to-go-to-chicago8-26-25 The Contrarian
Internet post by Jennifer Rubin
Title: Word & Phrases We Should Ignore
Subtitle: Assume bad faith from the Trump regime
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/word-and-phrases-we-should-ignore8-26-25 The Bulwark Morning Shots
Internet post by Egger, Kristol & Swift
Title: Dictator for a Day…a Month...Years?
Subtitle: A president who doesn’t believe in checks and balances is no president at all.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/dictator-for-a-day-a-month-years-trump-national-guard-flag-burning-kin-jong-un8-26-25 Zeteo substack
Internet post by Fatima Bhutto
Title: Why Did Pakistan Award ‘Israel’s Favorite US General’ a Prestigious Medal?
Subtitle: Bestowing a medal on the very American general who has been so intimately involved in Israel’s holocaust of Gaza is absurd.
https://zeteo.com/p/why-did-pakistan-award-israels-favorite