CURE News Digest - September 21, 2025
CURE News
Unsolicited & Editorial Opinion by the CURE News Team:
If you don't have time to read all of these posts, please read this first post by Robert Reich.
9-21-25 Robert Reich substack
Internet post by Robert Reich
Title: Sunday thought: Confronting tyranny
Subtitle: Seven things we’ve learned
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-e69
9-21-25 The Borowitz Report substack
18 ½ - minute video recording featuring Andy Borowitz (comedian & satirist) & Robert Reich
Title: We Could All Use Some Robert Reich Now
https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/we-could-all-use-some-robert-reich
9-21-25 Dan Rather Steady substack
Internet post by Dan Rather and Team Steady
Title: ‘September’
Subtitle: A Reason To Smile
https://steady.substack.com/p/september
9-20-25 We (the people) Dissent substack
Internet post (with several embedded YouTube video recordings) by K. Starling
Title: Good News ONLY – The Latest from The Picket Lines
Subtitle: Stories of hope from dissenters across the country
https://thepeopledissent.substack.com/p/good-news-only-the-latest-from-the9-21-25 Lincoln Square Media substack
Internet post by Robert S. McElvaine
Title: Cancel Culture Is Bad. Cancel Government Is Intolerable.
Subtitle: The time to bring together a massive Coalition to Save American Freedom is now.
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/cancel-culture-is-bad-cancel-governmentApril 2025 Massolidarity.org
Internet cross-post by Jeremy Brecher (4-8-25 Waging Non Violence)
Title: What would a general strike in the US actually look like?
https://massolidarity.org/2025/04/21/what-would-a-general-strike-in-the-us-actually-look-like/9-20-25 The Existential Republic substack
Internet post by Christopher Armitage
Title: How to (Legally) Hit Politicians Where It Hurts
Subtitle: You don’t need money to influence politicians when you can cost them money.
https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/how-to-legally-hit-politicians-where9-19-25 The Conversation
Internet post by Samer Zaky
Title: What the season of fall – and science – teaches us about life and death
https://theconversation.com/what-the-season-of-fall-and-science-teaches-us-about-life-and-death-1020168-28-25 NPR
Internet post & embedded 4-minute introductory podcast featuring Mary Louise Kelly, Greg Myre & Charles Maynes
Title: Introducing ‘Sources & Methods,’ a new podcast from NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/28/nx-s1-5520761/introducing-sources-methods-a-new-podcast-from-npr9-18-25 The Existential Republic substack
Internet post by Christopher Armitage
Title: How Democratic Governors Could Stop Illegal ICE Abductions Tomorrow.
https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/how-democratic-governors-could-stop9-20-25 Hopium Chronicles by Simon Rosenberg
30 ½ - minute video recording featuring Simon Rosenberg & Alaska Democratic Party Chair Eric Croft
Title: Trump Enters The Budget Debate In a Weak Position, A Conversation with Alaska Dem Chair Eric Croft
Subtitle: Keep voting good people of Virginia. Don’t wait, vote this weekend and let’s win this thing in the early vote!!!!!
https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trump-enters-the-budget-debate-in9-21-25 Lincoln Square Media substack
Internet post by Kristoffer Ealy
Title: Why Democrats Can’t Afford to Keep Losing the Storytelling War
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/why-democrats-cant-afford-to-keep9-20-25 Zeteo substack
Internet post by Prem Thakker
Title: EXCLUSIVE: Bill to Block Arms Sales to Israel Endorsed by Congressional Progressive Caucus
Subtitle: The endorsement of the Block the Bombs Act by one of the largest caucuses in Congress gives a significant boost to efforts to hold Israel accountable for its genocidal war in Gaza.
https://zeteo.com/p/exclusive-us-bill-to-block-arms-sales
9-21-25 Zeteo substack
Internet post by Prem Thakker
Title: EXCLUSIVE: Hundreds of Jewish Health Professionals Say ‘End the Genocide’ in Gaza
Subtitle: “To be silent is to be complicit,” the healthcare workers write in an open letter.
https://zeteo.com/p/exclusive-hundreds-of-jewish-health9-16-25 The Conversation
Internet post by Merav Amir & Hagar Kotef
Title: Israeli doctors reveal their conflicted stories of treating Palestinian prisoners held in notorious ‘black site’ Sde Teiman
9-18-25 NPR | Sources & Methods
29 - minute podcast featuring political correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben & diplomatic correspondent Michele Kelemen
Title: Can Trump’s royal welcome keep the U.S.-U.K. relationship ‘special?’
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/18/nx-s1-5545553/can-trumps-royal-welcome-keep-the-u-s-u-k-relationship-special9-20-25 Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance
Internet post by Joyce Vance
Title: “Show me the man and I’ll find the crime”
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/show-me-the-man-and-ill-find-the9-19-25 Crooked substack
Internet post by Crooked Media
Title: Trump’s Dept. of Just Us
Subtitle: How hard will Trump push the criminal justice system to target his enemies? We’re about to find out.
https://crookedmedia.substack.com/p/trumps-dept-of-just-us
9-19-25 Down Ballot substack
Internet post by David Nir & Jeff Singer
Title: Morning Digest: Trump tries to get New Hampshire to knuckle under on redistricting
Subtitle: But whichever path Gov. Kelly Ayotte chooses will be fraught
https://www.the-downballot.com/p/morning-digest-trump-tries-to-get9-20-25 Zeteo substack
Internet post by Team Zeteo
Title: This Week in Democracy – Week 35: Free Speech! Free Speech! Free Sp…Oh Wait
Subtitle: Silencing protesters. Getting Jimmy Kimmel taken off air. Ordering Mahmoud Khalil’s deportation. Another week of Zeteo’s project to document the growth of authoritarianism in Trump’s second term.
https://zeteo.com/p/this-week-in-democracy-week-35-free
9-20-25 Lincoln Square Media substack
Internet post (with embedded 1-minute video recording) by Evan Fields
Title: The Silence on Kimmel’s Suspension
Subtitle: This is state coercion made possible by billionaire media consolidation. And so-called free-speech warriors like Joe Rogan are nowhere to be found.
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-silence-on-kimmels-suspension
9-20-25 Status
Internet post by Jon Passantino
Title: Iger’s Integrity
Subtitle: Once praised for his moral clarity, Bob Iger now faces questions of integrity after bowing to political pressure and suspending Jimmy Kimmel.
https://www.status.news/p/bob-iger-jimmy-kimmel-suspension9-19-25 The Existential Republic substack
Internet post by Christopher Armitage
Title: The 23 Attorneys General Actually Prosecuting Corporate Crime
https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/the-23-attorneys-general-actually9-19-25 Letters from an American substack
9 - minute podcast featuring Heather Cox Richardson
Title: September 19, 2025
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-19-2025-6c09-20-25 Lincoln Square Media substack
25 - minute video recording featuring Joe Trippi & James Talarico
Title: ‘Time to start flipping tables’ with Texas US Senate Candidate James Talarico
Subtitle: How do Democrats finally win in Texas?
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/time-to-start-flipping-tables-with9-20-25 To the Contrary substack
Internet post by Charlie Sykes
Title: Trump’s Gilded Age of Immigration
Subtitle: Plus, a week in deplorable commentary
https://charliesykes.substack.com/p/trumps-gilded-age-of-immigration