CURE News Digest - August 30, 2025
CURE News
8-29-25 Lincoln Square Media substack
Internet post by Rick Wilson
Title: The Forever Presidency
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-forever-presidency8-29-25 The Bulwark Morning Shots
Internet post by Kristol, Egger & Swift
Title: Camelot for Crazies
Subtitle: RFK Jr. f*cked around. Now we get to find out.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/camelot-for-crazies-rfk-jr-cdc-hhs-vaccines-covid-flu
8-29-25 The Bulwark Triad
Internet post by Jonathan V. Last
Title: Democracy, Simple-Complex Systems, and ‘The Cascade’
Subtitle: Things fall apart.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/democracy-simple-complex-systems8-29-25 Brian Tyler Cohen’s YouTube Channel
12-minute video recording featuring Brian Tyler Cohen
Title: Susan Collins BOOED mercilessly at her own town hall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cKS7BmcjPU&ab_channel=BrianTylerCohen8-29-25 The Borowitz Report
30-second video recording featuring Dean Obeidallah & Andy Borowitz (comedian & satirist)
Title: Trump Just Punched in the Face
Subtitle: The Andy Borowitz Show
https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/trump-just-got-punched-in-the-face
8-29-25 Tangle News
Internet post by Isaac Saul
Title: We are (still) broken.
Subtitle: We’re re-running our 2022 Uvalde piece after the recent shooting in Minnesota.
https://www.readtangle.com/we-are-still-broken-2025-minnesota-shooting/8-29-25 Brennan Center for Justice/The Briefing substack
Internet post by Michael Waldman
Title: Crime as a Cover
Subtitle: The claim that troops are needed to fight local crime is nothing but a pretext.
https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/crime-as-a-cover8-29-25 Hopium Chronicles by Simon Rosenberg
5 ½ minute video recording featuring Simon Rosenberg
Title: Ernst is Out, FIRE HIM, Leon Krauze On Challenging Trump Far More Directly,Every Day
Subtitle: Sending love to the good people of Minnesota today…
https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/ersnt-is-out-fire-him-leon-krauze8-29-25 Allison Gill’s The Breakdown substack
33-minute video recording featuring Allison Gill & Heather Cox Richardson
Title: Live with Allison Gill and Heather Cox Richardson
Subtitle: A recording from Allison Gill’s live video
https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/live-with-allison-gill-dbd?utm_source=live-stream-redirect&triedRedirect=true8-29-25 The Jim Acosta Show substack
18-minute video recording featuring Jim Acosta & Andy Parker
Title: Gun Violence in America: Andy Parker, who lost daughter Alison to gun violence, joins Jim to discuss Minneapolis shooting
Subtitle: A recording from Jim Acosta’s live video
https://jimacosta.substack.com/p/gun-violence-in-america-andy-parker8-29-25 The Contrarian substack
16-minute video recording featuring Jennifer Rubin & Xavier Becerra
Title: The CDC is in chaos: Xavier Becerra on Trump’s attacks against the health agency
Subtitle: “We should all be concerned, because when a politician tries to do science we never get good results.”
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-cdc-is-in-chaos-xavier-becerra
8-29-25 The Contrarian substack
Internet post by The Contrarian
Title: The Contrarian covers the Democracy Movement
Subtitle: Friday: Employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention walk out, D.C. protests continue, Vice President JD Vance gets protested in Wisconsin, and planning for Labor Day.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-contrarian-covers-the-citizens8-29-25 The Contrarian substack
12 ½ - minute video recording featuring Jennifer Rubin & Craig Baker
Title: Craig Becker on the power of unions & Trump’s attacks against civil institutions at large
Subtitle: “The president has gone about very systematically to try to silence the major institutions of civil society.”
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/craig-becker-on-the-power-of-unionsInternet post by Peter Rothpletz
Title: Why Aren’t Democrats Capitalizing on the Scandal of the Summer?
Subtitle: Trump, Israel, pedophilia, corruption. If you were to lab-engineer a scandal to hurt the president and the GOP, this is exactly what you would concoct.
https://zeteo.com/p/why-arent-democrats-capitalizing-scandal-alexandrovich8-29-25 The Contrarian substack
44-minute podcast featuring Jennifer Rubin & Mitch Landrieu
Title: 20 years after Katrina and the future of unions
Subtitle: The former mayor of New Orleans and AFL-CIO President explain how Trump’s vision of America jeopardizes its safety.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/20-years-after-katrina-and-the-future8-29-25 The Contrarian substack
Internet post by Maria Peralta
Title: Labor Day 2025: Workers will take to the streets to protest the billionaire agenda
Subtitle: Mobilizations will take place at over 1,000 “Workers Over Billionaires” rallies, demanding an end to wealthy inequality amidst a deepening economic squeeze.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/labor-day-2025-workers-will-take
8-29-25 Letters from an American substack
Internet post by Heather Cox Richardson
Topics: Chaos at the CDC, EPA & tariffs
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-29-20258-30-25 Lincoln Square Media substack
Internet post by Stuart Stevens
Title: The GOP’s White Grievance Politics Made Trump Inevitable
Subtitle: In the area of race, there’s a direct line from the more genteel prejudice of Ronald Reagan to the white nationalism of Trump.
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-gops-white-grievance-politics8-29-25 The Contrarian substack
Internet post by Frederic J. Frommer
Title: 50 years ago, Springsteen resisted the hype around his seminal album, Born to Rum
Subtitle: The hard-charging, kinetic album lifted the Boss to the echelons of rock.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/50-years-ago-springsteen-resisted8-29-25 Brian Tyler Cohen’s Democracy Watch
13-minute YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen
Title: OMG: Trump pulls DISGUSTING stunt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEWyVOAx5TI&ab_channel=BrianTylerCohen8-30-25 Lincoln Square Media substack
Internet post by Rick Wilson
Title: Trump Goes to Hell
Subtitle: “Take the escalator,” St. Peter said. “It’s the one going down.”
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/trump-goes-to-hell8-30-25 Lincoln Square Media /Lincoln Logue substack
Internet post by Charles Penneys
Title: The Dictator Pitch: Focus-Grouping America
Subtitle: Where graffiti control doubles as martial law and funerals become propaganda.
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-lincoln-logue-the-dictator-pitch8-30-25 Lincoln Square Media/That Joe Trippi Show substack
30-minute video recording featuring Joe Trippi & Alex Shashlo
Title: “It’s Getting Really Bad for Trump. Focus.”
Subtitle: Is Trump…OK?
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/its-getting-really-bad-for-trump
8-30-25 The Contrarian substack
Internet post by Norman Eisen
Title: Contrarians Fight for – & Celebrate! – Unions
Subtitle: Publisher’s Roundup 33
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/contrarians-fight-for-and-celebrate8-30-25 Adam Kinzinger’s substack
Internet post by Adam Kinzinger
Title: Maxwell: The Sex Predator Who Is Incentivized to Exonerate Trump
Subtitle: As Act III begins, don’t expect the truth
https://adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/maxwell-the-sex-predator-who-is-incintivized8-30-25 America, America substack
Internet post by Steven Beschloss
Title: Are You More Driven By Inspiration or Outrage?
Subtitle: A Saturday prompt
https://www.americaamerica.news/p/are-you-more-driven-by-inspiration8-25-25 The Conversation
Internet post by Sarah Pessin
Title: Forget the warm fuzzies of finding common ground – to beat polarization, try changing your expectations
8-27-25 The Conversation
Internet post by Charlotte Rogers
Title: Latin American literature contains warnings for American universities that yield to Trump
8-29-25 Brian Tyler Cohen’s Another Day
8-minute YouTube video featuring Brian Tyler Cohen
Title: Mike Johnson HUMILIATED, Can’t Answer BASIC Question
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acKvpsJUD2A&ab_channel=BrianTylerCohen