CURE News Digest - August 22, 2025
CURE News
8-22-25 Democracy Docket
Internet post by Jacob Knutson
Title: FBI Raids Home of Trump Critic John Bolton in Major Weaponization Escalation
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/fbi-john-bolton-home-raid-trump-critic/
8-21-25 Letters from an American substack
Internet post by Heather Cox Richardson
Topics: Texas redistricting, rigging elections and Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-21-20258-22-25 Dan Rather’s Steady substack
Internet post by Dan Rather
Title: Democrats Have Finally Found the Fight
Subtitle: It was gifted to them by a rattled Donald Trump
https://steady.substack.com/p/democrats-have-finally-found-the
8-22-25 The Contrarian substack
Internet post by Michelle Wu
Title: Boston Mayor Michelle Wu rises to the moment again
Subtitle: She isn’t afraid to show that her city will do the right thing for democracy, just as it has for centuries.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/boston-mayor-michelle-wu-rises-to8-21-25 Democracy Docket
Internet post by Jim Saksa
Title: California Democrats Pass Redistricting Bill to Counter Trump’s Texas Gerrymander
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/california-democrats-pass-redistricting-bill-to-counter-trumps-texas-gerrymander/8-19-2025 The Conversation
Internet post by Garcia, Davis & Peacock
Title: One of Hurricane Katrina’s most important lessons isn’t about storm preparations – it’s about injustice
8-21-25 The Conversation
Internet post by Richard Flory
Title: By ‘focusing on the family’ James Dobson helped propel US evangelicals back into politics – making the Religious Right into the cultural force it is today
8-22-25 The Conversation
Internet post by Peter Rutland
Title: The ‘security guarantee’ paradox: too weak and it won’t protect Ukraine; too robust and Russia won’t accept it
https://theconversation.com/the-security-guarantee-paradox-too-weak-and-it-wont-protect-ukraine-too-robust-and-russia-wont-accept-it-2635188-21-25 The Conversation
Internet post by Knotts & Cooper
Title: Tit-for-tat gerrymandering wars won’t end soon – what happens in Texas and California doesn’t stay there
https://theconversation.com/tit-for-tat-gerrymandering-wars-wont-end-soon-what-happens-in-texas-and-california-doesnt-stay-there-2628358-22-25 The Contrarian substack
Internet post by Jennifer Rubin
Title: Undaunted Leaders of the Free World
Subtitle: At least these leaders will stick up for Ukraine
Internet post by Egger & Swift
Title: MAGA’s Cracker-Barrel Meltdown
Subtitle: Why let things go quietly when you can make them die violently?
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/magas-cracker-barrel-meltdown-rebrand-branding-logo8-22-25 The Contrarian substack
Internet post (cartoon) by Ruben Bolling
Title: Tom the Dancing Bug
Subtitle: Chagrin Falls: “American Horror Story”
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/tom-the-dancing-bug-a2f
8-22-25 ProPublica
Internet post by Asher-Shapiro & Bing
Title: Getting “DOGED”
Subtitle: Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U.S.-funded nonprofit.
https://www.propublica.org/article/doge-musk-mohammad-halimi-institute-peace-taliban8-22-25 America, America substack
Internet post by Steven Beschloss
Title: The Trump Regime’s Racist Agenda
Subtitle: From a burgeoning police state and deportations, to rejecting DEI and denying slavery’s horrors, Trump’s assault on Americans and our shared history demands we speak the truth
https://www.americaamerica.news/p/the-trump-regimes-racist-agenda
8-22-25 Lincoln Square Media substack
27 ½ - minute video recording featuring Susan J. Demas & Congressman Jim Hines
Title: ‘A Scary Moment for Democracy’/Congressman Jim Hines Joins Susan J. Demas
Subtitle: The Connecticut Democrat talks about the fate of Ukraine, Congress acquiescing to Trump, and how Democrats can win back voters.
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/congressman-jim-himes-joins-susan8-22-25 Lincoln Square Media substack
Internet post by Kristoffer Ealy
Title: The Art of Losing: Why MAGA Can’t Quit Defeat (And Doesn’t Want to)
Subtitle: From confederate cosplay to culture-war tantrums, the psychology behind America’s loudest losers explains why victory is never the goal.
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-art-of-losing-why-maga-cant-quit8-22-25 Robert Reich’s substack
Internet post by Robert Reich
Title: Trump’s plot against the 2026 midterms
Subtitle: How to stop him
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plot-against-the-2026-midterms8-22-25 Dan Rather’s Steady substack
Internet post by Dan Rather & Team Steady
Title: Trump Can’t Handle the Truth
Subtitle: Sycophants replace reporters in the White House
https://steady.substack.com/p/trump-cant-handle-the-truth8-20-2025 The Conversation
Internet post by Jake Rosenfeld
Title: Trump administration has proven no friend to organized labor, from attacking federal unions to paralyzing the National Labor Relations Board
https://theconversation.com/trump-administration-has-proven-no-friend-to-organized-labor-from-attacking-federal-unions-to-paralyzing-the-national-labor-relations-board-263176