CURE News Digest - September 8, 2025
CURE News
9-2-25 We (the people) Dissent substack
Internet post by K. Starling
Title: No Kings! October 18
Subtitle: A second No Kings event is confirmed for October 18
https://thepeopledissent.substack.com/p/no-kings-october-189-8-25 The Bulwark Triad substack
Internet post by Jonathan V. Last
Title: Understanding Trump’s Pivot to “Crime”
Subtitle: Where does Kamala Harris go to get her apology?
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/understanding-trumps-pivot-to-crime9-8-25 Stay Tuned with Preet Bharara substack
Internet post by Rachel Barkow
Title: Trump’s Fake Fight on Crime
Subtitle: Deploying the National Guard is about many things, but it is not about fighting crime
https://staytuned.substack.com/p/trumps-fake-fight-on-crime
9-8-25 The Bulwark substack
Internet post by Jill Lawrence
Title: Here’s Shocking Idea: Democrats Don’t All Have to Sound Alike
Subtitle: Four candidates in widely different races show the value of being yourself.
9-8-25 The Grassroots Connector substack
Internet post by Dawn Olcott
Title: Bearing Witness @ ICE
Subtitle: How one Massachusetts group is keeping its eyes on injustice
https://grassrootsconnector.substack.com/p/bearing-witness-ice9-8-25 America, America substack
Internet post by Steven Beschloss
Title: Trump’s Threat to Go to War…with Chicago
Subtitle: Trump escalates his military rhetoric. It’s an alarming turning point.
https://www.americaamerica.news/p/trumps-threat-to-go-to-warwith-chicago9-8-25 The Bulwark Morning Shots
Internet post by Kristol, Egger & Swift
Title: Baghdad Bessent
Subtitle: Here’s what happens when your treasury secretary chooses to serve an audience of one.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/baghdad-bessent-treasury-secretary-economy9-8-25 Zeteo substack
Internet post by Mouin Rabbani
Title: Israel Is Definitely Held to a Different Standard – Just Not the Way It Thinks
Subtitle: From secret nukes to open war crimes, no state since WWII – and this includes the United States, Soviet Union, Russia, and China – has enjoyed the kind of impunity that the state of Israel has.
https://zeteo.com/p/israel-is-definitely-held-to-a-different9-8-25 Lincoln Square Media substack/Winners & Loser Newsletter
Internet post by Sam Osterhout
Title: Winners & Losers: Mendacity & Bravery
Subtitle: A look at who gets heard in Trump’s America.
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/winners-and-losers-mendacity-and9-8-25 The Contrarian substack
Internet post by Jennifer Rubin
Title: Even Federal Court Judges Know the MAGA Justices are Out of Control
Subtitle: The Roberts Court makes obvious the need for serious reform
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/even-federal-court-judges-know-the9-7-25 The Bulwark substack
Internet post by Adrian Carrasquillo
Title: Trump Drags JAGS Into Immigration Court
Subtitle: Possibly illegal move “makes as much sense as having a cardiologist do a hip replacement.”
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-hegseth-jag-immigration-judges-courts
9-8-25 Adam Kinzinger’s substack
Internet post by Adam Kinzinger
Title: Who Is RFK Jr? The Psycho at HHS
Subtitle: He’s a menace who is more like Trump than you know
https://adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/who-is-rfk-jr-the-psycho-at-hhs
9-8-25 Tangle News (posts views from both the “left & right”)
Internet post by Isaac Saul
Title: RFK Jr. testifies on health agency shakeups.
Subtitle: The health secretary sparred with senators on Capitol Hill.
https://www.readtangle.com/rfk-jr-senate-testimony-hhs-firings-and-vaccines/9-8-25 The Contrarian
Internet post by Austin Sarat
Title: Judges must address Trump’s radical constitutional refashioning
Subtitle: The administration isn’t playing on the terrain of the existing Constitution.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/judges-must-address-trumps-radical
9-8-25 Lincoln Square Media substack
Internet post by Don Moynihan
Title: Your Government Is Under Attack: EPA Edition
Subtitle: Scientists are being purged, while the Trump administration offers imaginary gold bars for the rubes.
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/your-government-is-under-attack-epa9-8-25 ProPublica
Internet post by Eli Hagar
Title: The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-doge-social-security-takeover-leland-dudek9-8-25 Popular Information substack
Internet post by Judd Legum
Title: How airlines lobbied away your flight compensation
Subtitle: After a $62 billion federal bailout, the airline industry secures the repeal of a key consumer protection.
https://popular.info/p/how-airlines-lobbied-away-your-flight9-7-25 Letters from an American substack
Internet post (YouTube video) by Heather Cox Richardson
Topic: An embedded 3 minute, 41 second YouTube video featuring Heather Cox Richardson & Liza Donnelly who provide an illustrated review of the day’s news.
Video Title: Ford Pardons Nixon
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-7-20259-8-25 The Borowitz Report substack
Internet post by Andy Borowitz (comedian & satirist)
Title: Did JD Vance Really Say That?
Subtitle: People are saying he did.
https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/did-jd-vance-really-say-that
9-8-25 Zeteo substack
Internet post by Team Zeteo
Title: This Week in Democracy - Week 33: Trump Loses in Court. Again
Subtitle: Zeteo’s project to document the ongoing, pressing, week-by-week growth of authoritarianism in Trump’s second term.
https://zeteo.com/p/this-week-in-democracy-week-33-trump
9-8-25 Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance substack
Internet post by Joyce Vance
Title: The Week Ahead
Subtitle: September 7, 2025
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-ahead-afb2-14-25 The Conversation
Internet post by Zachary Price
Title: Congress, not the president, decides on government spending – a constitutional law professor explains how the ‘power of the purse’ works
https://theconversation.com/congress-not-the-president-decides-on-government-spending-a-constitutional-law-professor-explains-how-the-power-of-the-purse-works-2486448-21-25 The Contrarian substack
Internet post by Tom Malinowski
Title: The D.C. takeover proves Democrats are the true law-and-order party
Subtitle: Trump is diverting the only people in our country with the training and experience to stop the next terror attack or serial murderer for a made-up crime problem in D.C.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-dc-takeover-proves-democrats9-7-25 The Contrarian substack
Internet post by The Contrarian
Title: More voices, more resistance
Subtitle: A spotlight on the Contrarians fighting for democracy
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/more-voices-more-resistance9-7-25 Open Letters, from Anne Applebaum substack
Internet post by Anne Applebaum
Title: Unilateral Disarmament
Subtitle: America Surrender in the Information Wars
https://anneapplebaum.substack.com/p/unilateral-disarmament9-7-25 Hopium Chronicles by Simon Rosenberg
16-minute video recording featuring Simon Rosenberg & Mikie Sherrill
Title: Sunday Hopium – Winning the Fall And A New Check-in With Mikie Sherrill
Subtitle: Trump is down 14, 43% - 57%, in a brutal new NBC News poll
https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/sunday-hopium-winning-the-fall-and