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TMI with Aldous Tyler
by Aldous Tyler
The Cure for the Common Media
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TMI 02/21/2025 - Wisconsin's Supreme Court Race Gets Hidden in the Newscycle, EEOC and NLRB Are Under Attack to Destroy Workers Rights, George Monbiot Shows How International Our Troubles Are, more
You might not be aware of it, with Elon Musk and Donald Trump taking virtually all the air out of the news lately, but the State of Wisconsin has one of the MOST important elections in the USA for 2025 coming up in just over a month! On Tuesday, April 1st, Wisconsin's GOP wants to pull the most...
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TMI 02/14/2025 - Confronting Ezra Klein's Naive Denial of Trump’s Nascent Dictatorship, the AMA Steps Up to Help Mitigate the Loss of Vital CDC Info, Howard Hamm Uses Trump to Attack Climate, more
Ezra Klein typically has good instincts when it comes to political analysis, often proving to be correct when countering "common sense" views that don't fit reality. Sadly, this time his attempt to be the calm voice of reason has backfired, as he has woven a rosy picture about how Trump has…
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TMI 02/07/2025 - Greg Palast on the Hard Numbers of Trump’s 2024 Election Theft, How Linux Kernel 6.13 and DeepSeek Could Usher In an Era of Climate-friendly AI, more
Investigative ReporterGreg Palast has recently been on The Thom Hartmann Program to give the news that Trump and his allies STOLE the 2024 Presidential Election, just as Greg had predicted with his documentary on electoral shenanigans "Vigilantes Inc". He joins us today to get the most airtime…
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TMI 01/31/2025 - Clara Mattei Introduces Us to the Center for Heterodox Economics (CHE), The History of AIDS & How Big Pharma Kills for Profit, Obsolescence Was Invented to Make Billionaires, more
We are joined once again by Professor Clara Mattei, Director of the nascent Center for Heterodox Economics (CHE) at the University of Tulsa. CHE's entire mission is formed around breaking the grip of the exploitative model of economics we are all too familiar with and finding a better path.…
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TMI 01/24/2025 - Bishop Budde's Own Words of Mercy, SCOTUS Calls Montana's ISL Bluff, Our Friend Ahmed Shows Beauty During Hardship, Alabama Uses Prisoners Like Slaves, more
Bishop Mariann Budde is being attacked mercilessly for calling for mercy. We start this episode with something her detractors in the Trump Administration and the media won't give you: her own words. You can judge for yourself if anything she gave in her appeal to President Trump for mercy was...
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TMI 01/17/2025 - Amanda Moore Sounds Alarm on Journalism Under Trump, SCOTUS Sides With Hawaii Over Big Oil, DoJ Report on Tulsa Massacre of 1921 Released, Tryptophan Tripped Life's Beginnings, more
We start this episode with an interview of Amanda Moore, freelance journalist specializing in exposing the far right in the USA, as she alerts us to how the normally difficult life of freelance reporting is being made all the more tenuous by the incoming Trump Administration - even before...
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BEST OF TMI 01/10/2025 - SCOTUS Trans Youth Rights Case Can Destroy All Women's Rights, Finland Seizes Russian Spy Ship, Fighting Smear Campaign Against Jimmy Carter, Quantum Teleportation, more
Rebroadcasting the first TMI for 2025, we look at how the arguments being used to take rights away from trans youth would, if allowed to be the basis by SCOTUS for their decision, also decimate rights for all women in the United States, cis and trans alike! Next, we move over to Finland, who in...
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TMI 01/03/2025 - SCOTUS Trans Youth Rights Case Can Destroy All Women's Rights, Finland Seizes Russian Spy Ship, Fighting Smear Campaign Against Jimmy Carter, Quantum Teleportation Breakthrough, more
On the first TMI for 2025, we look at how the arguments being used to take rights away from trans youth would, if allowed to be the basis by SCOTUS for their decision, also decimate rights for all women in the United States, cis and trans alike! Next, we move over to Finland, who in investigating...
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TMI 12/27/2024 - Corporate Media Denies Success of CA’s Minimum Wage Hike, FL Dept of Corrections Uses Conversion Therapy Tactics, Biden Admin Admits LNG Is Equivalent to Coal for Climate Crisis, more
Despite full page ads taken out by lobbying groups in USA Today and complicit articles in the Wall Street Journal decrying the maneuver, the Minimum Wage increase in California for fast food workers appears to have been an unmitigated success. We look at who exactly is behind the spin and why we...
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TMI 12/20/2024 - George Carlin's Wisdom and Insight Was NOT Immune to One Critical Flaw: The Immune System, Michael Moore Responds to Being Name-Checked in Luigi Mangione's Manifesto, more
In this episode, we show that even the most sacred of American cows, George Carlin, had his limitations when it came to the wisdom to be found in his humor. Jessica Wildfire's piece at The Sentinel Intelligence takes on his famous comedy routine about germs and the immune system, where Carlin...
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TMI 12/13/2024 - People Think Health Care Has To Be Unaffordable, GOP Officials Push Back on Trump, Dhillon is a Stealth Disaster for Civil Rights AAG, Albertsons Sues Kroger for Failed Merger, more
On this episode of TMI, we explore one of the fundamental misunderstandings about health care in the USA: that the bills we receive are the ACTUAL cost of the care. Going through a number of examples, we see that what is being billed is often ten times the cost OR MORE. Because of this deceptive...
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TMI 12/06/2024 - Bad Media Watchdog, No Biscuit!, Act 10 Struck Down in Mighty Win for Unions, Detroit Mayor Duggan Will Run for MI Gov as Independent, more
As the Cure for the Common Media, TMI aims to be an effective media watchdog, holding it to account for distortions and omissions... which means the piece from Jessica Wildfire on how human beings associate the ones giving bad news with badness itself was deeply troubling. We go over it all,...
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TMI 11/29/2024 - The Origin of Black Friday, Whites Voted Trump Into Power, Texas' D&C Effective Ban Claims Another Life, NY Times' Call For Better Treatment of Trans Haters Betrayed by Rowling, more
We start this week with a staple of TMI's Black Friday episodes, with Aldous giving the true story of how Black Friday got its name. Next, we note that no matter how bewildered we may be at Latino or Black support for Trump this year, White people have to face facts: there are too many of us to...
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TMI 11/22/2024 - The Inisidious Effect of Atlas' Secret, How Sarah McBride Has Become Far More Consequential Than Any Other Freshman Congressional Representative, more
On this week's episode of TMI with Aldous Tyler, we look at how two books, taken together, help explain much of the ethos behind modern American conservatism. Not only do we speak to how Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" had been an obvious cornerstone of the "I've got mine, screw you" crowd, but how...
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TMI 11/15/2024 - Congress Was Ready to Give Trump Tool to Declare Nonprofits "Terrorists" Without Evidence, AOC’s Instagram Survey of Split Ticket Voters Inspires Deeper Look at Voting, more
This week, Congress voted on whether or not to fast track a bill that would hand the Treasury Department the ability to strip any nonprofit of its 501 (c)(3) status by declaring it a "terrorist" supporting organization. This was set to fly trough easily UNTIL Trump got elected and enough…
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TMI 11/08/2024 - How the 2024 Presidential Election Makes America Grim Again, What RFK Jr Intends for Our Health, Baldwin Remains Our Senator, more
On this episode, Aldous goes over the results of the 2024 Election and where we go from here. Then he takes a special look at the proposals of RFK Jr for how he intends to "improve" our public health systems, and finally we celebrate retaining Tammy Baldwin as the Senior Senator for the State of...
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TMI 11/01/2024 - OpenAI's Careless Whisper Puts Hallucinations Into Medical Records, Paraquat's Links to Parkinson's Have Become Undeniable, WaPo and LATimes' Endorsement Failures are Dangerous, more
OpenAI can't just rely on ChatGPT subscriptions to pay for everything, so they have other professional offerings, like their "Whisper" AI-powered transcription app. The problem is, like other AI Large Language Modeled apps, Whisper has an alarming amount of "hallucinations" - phrases or sentences...
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TMI 10/25/2024 - JV Altharas Introduces the Realm of Aeodar, How Fixating on the Polls is a Mistake, New York Sues Big Oil for Climate Crisis, more
In a different turn for TMI, we invite creator JV Altharas, the force behind new multi-modal fantasy world Realm of Aeodar. He tells us how, inspired by the completionism Tolkien aimed to have, his plan enacts an immersive literary world via not just stories, but also music, cooking, and so much...
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TMI 10/18/2024 - Sharing Bernie Sanders' Vision of Progress, A Review of Florida Reps Calling Climate a "False Emergency" in National Legislation, Two Science Breakthroughs, more
On TMI for October 18, 2024, we start off by going over a recent summary Bernie Sanders made of the political progress that we've seen here in the United States by examining the differences in the Democratic Party platforms from 2012 and 2024. A span of just twelve years provides truly…
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TMI 10/11/2024 - Florida Reps Call Climate a "False Emergency" in National Legislation, Norman Stockwell on Vigilantes Inc. at the Barrymore, Why Wild Weather Conspiracies Don't Hold Up, more
On today's episode, we expose the GOP Congressional Representatives who ignore the needs of their constituents at the request of their Big Oil donors, calling the Climate Crisis a "false emergency" in legislation to try and prevent the President from acting to help curb the worst of it. Greg…
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TMI 10/04/2024 - Norman Stockwell announces Greg Palast's "Vigilantes Inc." at the Barrymore, James Hansen Predicts We Are Underestimating Climate Crisis Severity, more
On TMI for Friday, 10/04/2024, Norman Stockwell of The Progressive Magazine joins us to talk about how Greg Palast's "Vigilantes Inc." is coming to Madison, Wisconsin's own Barrymore Theater on Thursday, October 17th! We go over how this is a can't-miss opportunity to see Palast's investigations...
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TMI 09/27/2024 - "How We Win" Contributor Ben Manski on His Part in the Guidebook to Securing Our Future, The Climate Crisis is Destroying the Insurance Industry as More Disasters Keep Happening, more
You're heard of the conservative playbook "Project 2025", a top-down authoritarian guide to how they intend to restructure every aspect of our nation to cement their backwards vision of society - what if there was a book that took the entirely opposite direction? Joining us today, Ben Manski is a...
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TMI 09/20/2024 - Greg Palast's "Vigilantes Inc." Exposes How YOUR Vote Has Been Stolen, How Disney/Pixar's Blockbuster Inside Out 2 Robbed Their Unionless Animators, more
On TMI for Friday, 9/20/2024, Greg Palast tells us how his investigations team has busted the most brazen, racist attack on voting rights yet. We're introduced to a terrible new threat to the right to vote: “Vigilante” challenges by self-appointed vote-fraud hunters - not government officials…
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TMI 09/13/2024 – Presidential Coverage Shows How Media and Government Both Disregard Climate and Trans Rights, How Deep Space Nine's Bell Riots Would Fit in Our 2024, Three Science Breakthroughs, more
Watching the media cover the rise of Kamala Harris and her debate with Donald Trump this week shows how blatantly both the enormous issue of the Climate Crisis and the human rights issues surrounding gender are treated to nothing short of journalistic malpractice. We go over the reality of…
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TMI 09/06/2024 - Trump's Brain Soup is Getting Cold, MySchoolBucks is Stealing Your Kid's Lunch Money, the GOP Keep Running Losing Anti-trans Attack Ads, more
On today's episode, we delve into the concerning reality of Donald Trump's advanced age and growing health issues as he campaigns for a second term in the White House. Next, we expose the exploitative fees levied by MySchoolBucks, a payment processor that's been profiting excessively from parents...
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TMI 08/30/2024 – Why Things Improve Most When They're Terrible, ProPublica Examines the Failure to Reclaim Food Deserts, a Federal Judge Rules Trans Teen May Play Soccer in Female Team, more
Jessica Wildfire of OK Doomer wrote a piece this week that lost her more than a few subscribers, which is a shame given that it tells us a very important truth: that we often only improve things when faced with a horrible fate. The Region-Beta Paradox is important to understand, and we use...
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TMI 08/23/2024 – BEST OF TMI: Musk and Trump Botch the Climate, Palast Alerts Us to Georgia Legalizing Vote Non-certification, Stoller Examines Google's Search Antitrust Loss, Science News, more, more
THIS IS A REBROADCAST OF TMI for 8/16/2024 When men as rich and powerful as Elon Musk and Donald Trump decide to have a conversation and invite the world to listen in, it's a good idea to check in and see what their vision is for the world we have to share with these reckless giants. On just…
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TMI 08/16/2024 – Musk and Trump Botch the Climate, Palast Alerts Us to Georgia Legalizing Vote Non-certification, Stoller Examines Google's Search Antitrust Loss, Teens Use Plasma To Boost Crops, more
When men as rich and powerful as Elon Musk and Donald Trump decide to have a conversation and invite the world to listen in, it's a good idea to check in and see what their vision is for the world we have to share with these reckless giants. On just about every front, it's not good, and with...
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TMI 08/09/2024 – Interview: Peter B. Collins Goes Over the Incoming Attacks on Kamala Harris, This Looks Like a Job for Minnesota Governor Tim Walz!, more
No matter how qualified, how centered, or how well-placed a Democratic candidate may be, you can count on the GOP to bring out every possible angle of attack on them. With much of Vice President Kamala Harris' political career being based out of California, we bring in local expert Peter B.…
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TMI 08/02/2024 – Science & Law Merge to Charge Big Oil with Climate Homicide, Harris Causes Rejuvenation in Dem Election Effort, Contrasting Honoring Vel Phillips with the Murder of Sonya Massey, more
On the first TMI of August, we do a deep dive into how mounting death tolls from climate-induced disasters have pushed scientists and lawyers together to hold Big Oil accountable. Lois Parshley's report in The Lever gives insight into the birth of the idea of "Climate Homicide", and how advancing...
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TMI 07/26/2024 – Untangling Biden Stopping Re-election, A Look at Who Kamala Harris Is, Politically, Joan Hunter Iovino and Jessica Wildfire Provide Separate Insights on the Mental Health Crisis, more
This week on TMI, we get a thorough look at how Joe Biden stepped down from being the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party for President, as well as why. In an era where one incumbent president attempted a fascist coup to stay in office, it is a stark and welcome contrast to see another…
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TMI 07/19/2024 – Leslie James Assures You That You're Not Alone in Having a Very Bad Day, JD Vance is a Harbinger of an Even Worse Future, The GOP is Worse Than the Taliban on the Climate Crisis, more
This week on TMI, Aldous reads a quick word by Leslie James - UBER Girl - on how one can have a very bad day and carry on, to let you know you are NOT alone. Next, we look at Trump's pick for Vice President, J.D. Vance. If you haven't heard of him, you're in good company, but what should alarm…
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TMI 07/12/2024 – Uber Girl's Essay on False Prophets and the Murder of Pauly Likens, A Deep Dive Into the Future of President Biden's Campaign for Re-election, more
TMI starts differently than usual, with Aldous reading you a short essay written by Leslie "Uber Girl" James on how, far too often, we find people using religion to control, to harm, to encourage others to hate. She masterfully delves into how these false prophets and their twisted agenda led...
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TMI 07/05/2024 – SCOTUS’ Trump v. United States Takes Presidency Above the Law, Justice Kagan Dissents on Death of Chevron Doctrine, LA, TX and OK Place Christianity Into Public Schools at Once, more
On this week's "TMI with Aldous Tyler", we kick off with a discussion on SCOTUS' July 1 ruling on Trump v. United States. This landmark ruling, which grants presidents immunity from prosecution when carrying out "official acts", has sparked a nationwide debate about the extent of presidential...
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TMI 06/28/2024 – Coastal Flooding Risk Has Been Underestimated by IPCC, AI Data Centers’ Hidden Power Use is Being Paid For By Us, What Do We Do When Digital News Archives Like MTV News Vanish?, more
On this week’s episode, we look at a pair of new studies that have discovered a flaw in the UN’s IPCC models that predict how much sea levels will rise, and how horrific coastal flooding will get. Next, we examine the surprise unilateral move by media conglomerate Paramount Global to pull all MTV...
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TMI 06/21/2024 - UN Women Declare TERF Groups Extremist Movements, Old Questions Underreport National Support for Abortion, A History of the 1918 Bird Flu, Archaea Processes Hydrogen Renewably, more
This week, we look into the recent declaration by UN Women, categorizing so-called "Gender Critical" TERF groups as an extremist anti-rights movement. Join us as we unpack the implications of this landmark decision and its impact on the fight for gender rights. Next, we turn our attention to the...
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TMI 06/14/2024 - Examining the Intersecting S-Curves of Change in Renewable Energy and Fossil Fuel Use and Technology, A Scientific Look at How to Have Better Conversations, more
On this episode, we discuss how Bill McKibben lays out in his blog "The Crucial Years" the fact that advances in renewable energy technology and adoption are forming an "S-curve" where the slope of increase is moving sharply upwards, leading us into a future where the slope of decrease on…
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TMI 06/07/2024 - Big Food’s Stock Buybacks Cost Us More Than Inflation, Florida’s “Freedom Summer” Bans Pride Light Displays on Bridges, Lawsuit Makes Absentee Voting in Wisconsin More Complicated
On this episode, we dissect the profit-driven machinations of Big Food (the grocery monopolies and fast food giants). While inflation is hitting us hard, these monolithic corporations blame supply chain issues, all while channeling massive profits into stock buybacks and dividends to make their...
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TMI 05/31/2024 - Joe Biden is Running Away From How He Fights Monopoly Power and That Could Cost Him Like it Did Feingold, The Real Carbon Footprint of EVs Versus Internal Combustion Cars and more
President Joe Biden's administration has taken numerous steps to fight monopoly power in the interest of the people, but at almost every turn, the White House Communications team refuses to comment on these positions and accomplishments, making it look like Biden is doing nothing for we, the...
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TMI 05/24/2024 - Medicine Scarcity in England Causes a National Emergency, RTO Mandates Lead to a Talent Exodus, and Magnetic Insights Give a New Understanding Behind Evolution on Earth and more
As England grapples with dangerously short supplies of essential medications, pharmacists raise their voices in urgent warning. We dive into the crisis, exploring why patients face immediate harm due to unavailability of crucial drugs. From life-saving treatments to everyday prescriptions, we…
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TMI 05/17/2024 - BEST OF TMI: John Fugelsang Tells Us Everything About How to Be a Sexy Liberal, USA Shale Oil Drives Inflation Out Of Control, Congress Report Fracks Natural Gas Greenwashing and more
THIS IS A REBROADCAST OF TMI for 5/10/2024 Today on TMI: John Fugelsang, host of "Tell Me Everything" on SiriusXM Channel 127 and proud co-founder of the Sexy Liberal Tour right here in Madison, Wisconsin twelve years ago talks to us about the return of the Tour to the Barrymore on Saturday, May...
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TMI 05/10/2024 - John Fugelsang Tells Us Everything About Jesus and How to Be a Sexy Liberal, USA Shale Oil Drives Inflation Out Of Control, Congress' Report Fracks Natural Gas Greenwashing and more
Today on TMI: John Fugelsang, host of "Tell Me Everything" on SiriusXM Channel 127 and proud co-founder of the Sexy Liberal Tour right here in Madison, Wisconsin twelve years ago talks to us about the return of the Tour to the Barrymore on Saturday, May 11, 2024, how Jesus was everything your...
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TMI 05/03/2024 - The World Ending Isn’t Enough to Alarm Many, Resident Owned Communities are Fighting Back Against Corporate Housing, Congress Releases Report Accusing Big Oil of Climate Conspiracy
In a world teetering on the brink, why do some remain unfazed by impending doom? Delving into the human psyche we exploring the paradox of apathy and even reactionary anger in the face of global catastrophe. It's not just cognitive dissonance or existential fatigue, this process has been known as...
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TMI 04/26/2024 - Louisiana's Tim Temple Teams Up with Climate Change to Leave Ever More Homeowners Screwed By Their Insurance, USA's First Electric Bullet Train Breaks Ground, more
On today's episode of TMI, we find Louisiana's GOP lawmakers at a crossroads. The ongoing insurance crisis caused by devastating hurricanes has left homeowners at the mercy of companies that seemingly have none. Louisiana legislators are on track to repeal a consumer protection law adopted after...
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TMI 04/19/2024 - Research Universities Join Big Pharma in Fighting to Keep Medicine Expensive, SCOTUS Allows Fifth Circuit to Kill Protests in Three States, Black Hole Discovered Near Earth, more
On today's TMI, we pull back the curtain on how public universities such as UCLA, founded on land grants and given billions in tax dollars, are joining the huge pharmaceutical companies in fighting to keep the prices of the drugs they developed out of reach of most Americans, despite the massive...
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TMI 04/12/2024 - How Gaza and Ukraine Are Alike, and How They Are Being Treated VERY Differently, Big Oil Fights Back Against Activist Investors Making Them More Climate-Friendly, more
In this episode, we examine the parallels between the genocide in Gaza and the invasion in Ukraine, shedding light on how, despite having much in common, they are treated differently on the world stage. Then, we dive into the high-stakes battle between Big Oil and climate-conscious investment...
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BEST OF TMI 04/05/2024 - Examining the Real Factors of the Key Bridge Disaster, Argentina Confronts Historic Crimes Against Trans Women, How AI May Doom Efforts to Abate the Climate Crisis, more
THIS IS A REBROADCAST OF THE EPISODE FROM FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 2024. ENJOY! Today on TMI, we look at the tragedy of the Francis Scott Key Bridge Disaster that happened on Tuesday, reporting the facts that combat the conspiracy theories that immediately cropped up to confound our understanding of…
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TMI 03/29/2024 - Examining the Real Factors of the Key Bridge Disaster, Argentina Confronts Historic Crimes Against Trans Women, How AI May Doom Efforts to Abate the Climate Crisis, more
Today on TMI, we look at the tragedy of the Francis Scott Key Bridge Disaster that happened on Tuesday, reporting the facts that combat the conspiracy theories that immediately cropped up to confound our understanding of this horrible event. We go beyond the initial reports that crowded our...
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TMI 03/22/2024 - Fossil Fuel Dems Try to Stop Biden’s LNG Pause, FBI’s Crime Rate Stats Show Decline, Meet the Society for American Civic Renewal: the Vanguard of Christian Nationalist Fascism, more
In this episode, we expose the treachery of "Fossil Fuel Democrats" as they brazenly join the efforts of GOP lawmakers to halt President Biden's pause on the expansion of liquid natural gas (LNG) projects. Beholden to the interests of big oil and gas corporations, these Dems tout themselves as...
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