TODAY DON IS IN CONVERSATION WITH MATTHEW HOH, EISENHOWER MEDIA NETWORK SENIOR FELLOW
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Hear the latest on the war between Russia and Ukraine. Eisenhower Media Network senior fellow Matthew Hoh will analyze the current crisis as the ante is upped again with Russia’s recent announcement of two new deadly nuclear weapon delivery devices. In response, President Trump has inexplicably announced a renewal of testing our nuclear weapons. Matt addressed the UN Security Council last year on the dangers of the war to world peace. Don’t miss the unique perspective this Veterans for Peace, former US Marine combat veteran and State Department diplomat brings to the largest war in Europe since WWII.
TALK OF THE TOWN with Mike Aguirre and Arthur Aguirre LIVE Sat 11am
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Today’s Guest is Professor Roddey Reid
___From Professor Reid:
Since the kick-off of the 2016 presidential campaign, a climate of fear and intimidation has dominated national life in the United States to a degree rarely seen before, poisoning our politics and reaching into our very relationships with friends, co-workers, and neighbors.
Confronting Political Intimidation and Public Bullying is about how this came to be, how we can see ourselves through it, but also why it is not likely to go away anytime soon.
At the core of this political history is a larger US public culture of intimidation and bullying in the workplace, media, and political arena that has been building for thirty-five years. The current harsh environment is a direct challenge to citizens and residents, especially those seeking to engage in progressive activism and party politics now and in the years to come.
The book’s hope is to provide a kind of clarity that helps us get a handle on events and diminish the terror of the current moment by providing some shared protective mental armor. This book offers a unique guide to the strategies and dynamics of contemporary political intimidation and public bullying: the dangers they present, the snares and traps that envelope their targets, and the lessons to be learned.
In the end, it’s about shedding light on the dark side of contemporary national life in order to see beyond it.
For this new edition I have thoroughly revised and updated the original text and added 70% more material in the way of new research and many current examples including an entirely new chapter (Chapter Seven) on civilian and state-sponsored physical and armed violence. The first five chapters lay the groundwork for the lessons offered in Chapters Six and Seven and the Conclusion.
As an appendix I have added, A Political Glossary for the Trump Era and Beyond, that highlights the dramatic shifts in U.S. politics and the emergence of far-right groups and organizations in our national life.
Modern cultures and societies of France, the U.S., and Japan; print culture and visual media; interdisciplinary studies of science and medicine; globalization and public health.
Roddey Reid is an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of French studies, science studies, communication, history, and cultural studies. He has studied and conducted research in the U.S., France, Italy, Belgium, and Japan. His teaching and scholarship at UCSD focused on the history of modern cultures and societies from the perspective of the changing ways in which citizenship and selfhood are shaped by particular cultural forms (literature, media, advertising, fashion), governmental policies, medical and scientific knowledge, and social movements. A former Japan Foundation Abe Fellow (awarded by the Social Science Research Council), his most recent book is titled, Confronting Political Intimidation and Public Bullying: A Citizen’s Handbook for the Trump Era and Beyond (2017). He is also is author of Families in Jeopardy: Regulating the Social Body in France, 1750-1910; (Stanford University Press, 1993), co-editor (with Sharon Traweek) of Doing Science + Culture: How Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies Are Changing the Way We Look at Science and Medicine (Routledge, 2000), and author of Globalizing Tobacco Control: Anti-Smoking Campaigns in California, France, and Japan (Indiana University Press, 2005). His most recent research has been on cultures of intimidation and bullying in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.
He served as Department Vice-Chair (2009-14) during which time he chaired the Literature Building Committee and oversaw the implementation of remediation measures that addressed environmental health issues affecting the Literature Building. He also chaired the Academic Senate Committee on Planning & Budget (2012-13) that authored a ground-breaking overview of UCSD’s budget and planning processes, “UCSD and Its Budget Challenges”. He co-founded and led with Shankar Subramaniam (Chair, Bioengineering, 2008-13) the Council of Chairs (2010-14), an independent organization of all 50 academic department chairs, section heads, and vice-chairs in General Campus, Health Sciences, and Marine Sciences that has enriched campus governance. He served as a member of the UCSD Future Group (2011-12) of faculty & administrators that drew up recommendations for incoming Chancellor Khosla and served as a member of Chancellor Khosla’s Strategic Planning Committee (2012-14).
In 2014-15 he chaired the Senate Coursera Workgroup that organized a UCSD campuswide workshop on Intellectual Property, Copyright, and Fair Use in the age of MOOCS and the Internet in May 2014 UCSD Campus Workshop; sponsored by the Academic Senate and the Office of the Chancellor, it was led by IP legal expert Kenneth Crews of Gipson Hoffman & Pancione of Los Angeles and featured Angus McDonald, Counsel, Office of the President and Amy Blum, Counsel, UCLA. The Senate Coursera Workgroup successfully pushed for strengthening IP protections for UCSD and its faculty in current and future contracts for online and hybrid courses developed with the UC Innovative Learning Technologies Initiative (ILTI) and with 3rd-party MOOC providers.
TALK OF THE TOWN with Mike Aguirre and Arthur Aguirre Sat 11am
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Guest Dr. Kathleen DuVal, Pulitzer Prize winning author of “Native Nations: A Millenium in North America”
Kathleen DuVal is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Native Nations: A Millennium in North America, Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution, and the U.S. history textbook Give Me Liberty! She is a history professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Guggenheim Fellow. She has written for The Atlantic, Time magazine, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal.
https://kathleenduval.net
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A magisterial overview of a thousand years of Native American history” (The New York Review of Books), from the rise of ancient cities more than a thousand years ago to fights for sovereignty that continue today
WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE, THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE, AND THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE
Long before the colonization of North America, Indigenous Americans built diverse civilizations and adapted to a changing world in ways that reverberated globally. And, as award-winning historian Kathleen DuVal vividly recounts, when Europeans did arrive, no civilization came to a halt because of a few wandering explorers, even when the strangers came well armed.
A millennium ago, North American cities rivaled urban centers around the world in size. Then, following a period of climate change and instability, numerous smaller nations emerged, moving away from rather than toward urbanization. From this urban past, egalitarian government structures, diplomacy, and complex economies spread across North America. So, when Europeans showed up in the sixteenth century, they encountered societies they did not understand—those having developed differently from their own—and whose power they often underestimated.
For centuries afterward, Indigenous people maintained an upper hand and used Europeans in pursuit of their own interests. In Native Nations, we see how Mohawks closely controlled trade with the Dutch—and influenced global markets—and how Quapaws manipulated French colonists. Power dynamics shifted after the American Revolution, but Indigenous people continued to command much of the continent’s land and resources. Shawnee brothers Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa forged new alliances and encouraged a controversial new definition of Native identity to attempt to wall off U.S. ambitions. The Cherokees created institutions to assert their sovereignty on the global stage, and the Kiowas used their power in the west to regulate the passage of white settlers across their territory.
In this important addition to the growing tradition of North American history centered on Indigenous nations, Kathleen DuVal shows how the definitions of power and means of exerting it shifted over time, but the sovereignty and influence of Native peoples remained a constant—and will continue far into the future.
____“An essential American history”—The Wall Street Journal
During the first half hour, Patricia is in conversation about Planned Parenthood and Your Rights. Also discussed is Proposition 50.
During the second half hour Patricia is in conversation with David Swarens about our unique neighborhoods, preservation, San Diego history and community development
Planned Parenthood Action Fund of the Pacific Southwest (PPAFPSW) works to protect reproductive rights and access to sexual health care across San Diego, Riverside, and Imperial Counties. The mission of PPAFPSW is to advance sexual and reproductive health and justice through non-partisan political action, advocacy, and education.
PPAFPSW has long served as a champion of sexual and reproductive health, rights and freedom across our three-county region. Partnering with other organizations, coalitions, movements and individuals, we have built a strong foundation on which to face this next moment in our history
For more information on the election, including how to check your voter registration, track your ballot, and find a polling place near you, visit planned.org/voting. To learn about additional ways to get involved, visit voteforchoice.org/getinvolve
More information on Politics, Sex & Cocktails, an event to benefit PPAFPSW’s vital advocacy work can be found a voteforchoice.org/politics To join the Honorary Committee, information at voteforchoice.org/politics.
________MEET THE GUESTS: – Neal – Neal Ortiguerra is the senior director of public affairs for Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest, the second largest Planned Parenthood affiliate in the nation. Neal also oversees the advocacy and electoral campaigns of Planned Parenthood Action Fund of the Pacific Southwest.
– Natives of San Diego’s District 8, Neal and his spouse still live in the district and are raising their family there. Neal proudly serves his community through volunteer work as board president of ACLU Cal Action, board member of the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties, board member of Engage San Diego Action Fund, and as a youth sports coach. He is an alum of UC Berkeley where he graduated with a degree in Public Health and a minor in Public Policy.
– Crissandra – Crissandra Flores is Manager of Events for Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest and Planned Parenthood Action Fund of the Pacific Southwest. A local San Diegan, it is an honor and privilege to support this work in her community and for her two young daughters.Duingthe fist
Second Half Hour Guest–David Swarens
Photo courtesy of Kate Callen
– David Swarens has been around the Golden Hill planning process for a number of years, becoming active in the GGHPC after he and his late partner moved to the South Park neighborhood in 2009.
He had served as Chair of the planning group for three terms before terming out, and currently serves in that capacity once again.
– During that period the community updated the GH Community Plan and implemented the South Park Historic District, and has been involved in community and economic development, and particularly historic preservation.
– Working with SOHO he was part of the team which negociated successful agrements with the Hotel Del Coronado and the Padre’s Petco Park.
– David served on the Enterprise Community Governance Board, and the Sherman Heights Revitaization team, and currently works with Preserve Greater Golden Hill, including on their canyon team.
– Previously lived in Sherman Heights for almost three decades, where he was one of the founders of the Sherman Heights Community Center, as well as the historic district.
– He also has served on the planning groups for Southeastern San Diego and Old Town and was active in community plan updates for both of those areas.
– A vetrano who remains active in his neighborhood, as well as community issues citywide.
News briefs: tribal government disputes, land protection, government shutdown emergency
– A struggle over who is running the Northern Cheyenne tribal government has resulted in arrests of government officials, frozen bank accounts, and an emergency action by traditional tribal leaders to ban women from voting. The divide started after newly elected President Gene Small authorized a forensic financial audit. Another long-standing divide is coming to a head on the Navajo Nation, prompting President Buu Nygren to state he will not resign his position. We’ll talk with reporters covering these two internal government disputes and take a look at some other notable issues and events.
_______GUESTS______
Krista Allen (Diné), editor of the Navajo Times
Thomas Tortez (Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians), former chairman of the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians
Brad Lopes (Aquinnah Wampanoag), Native American Teacher Retention Initiative program manager and former classroom teacher
Nora Mabie, Indigenous affairs reporter with Montana Free Press
THE THOM HARTMANN SHOW LIVE M-F 9am-noon Call In (202) 808-9925
Coming Up Today Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Bernie nails fascism – as Trump and the GOP scramble to deflect blame from those who will go hungry and the largest health care premium hike in history. We’ll see how this works.
Hold Jamaica in your thoughts as cat 5 Monster Melissa strikes there…Welcome to Climate Change Hurricanes
— Is the Assault on Democracy Stronger than We Think — and Nearing Permanent Control?
— Bernie nails fascism – as Trump and the GOP scramble to deflect blame from those who will go hungry and the largest health care premium hike in history. We’ll see how this works…
— Maple Syrup Alert! Canada is preparing to declare America as guilty of human rights abuses – How will Trump handle this? More tariffs? War mongering?
— Greg Palast – I met Chávez and Maduro. I know drugs are not the reason Trump wants war with Venezuela
— Is Corruption the New American Dream — A Nation Rebuilt on the Gospel of the Grift?
— The national redistricting wars has entered a new phase – It use to be your vote mostly counted. Now the Dems are forced to fight fire with fire…
— This is what happens to scientists in a dictatorship – why Russia arrested 70-year-old Leonid Pshenichnov for backing curbs on Antarctic krill fishing.
I am an Indie author and a current resident of San Diego. I was born in one Indian town, raised in two, and moved to eleven more across three continents for work and education. Despite earning an MBA and diving into the world of digital marketing for local companies in California, I found my true passion lay elsewhere—in the boundless realm of literature, science, and astronomy.
After a ten-year exploration of poetry and blogging, In 2015, I started to pen my first book. For eight years, I balanced writing with my studies and professional commitments and finally published my debut novel in 2023– Unearthing Idyll
I have also contributed articles and content to prestigious platforms, including NASA, Fossbytes, and Women’s Web. As of 2023, I also contribute as a writer at Club SciWri, a non-profit science communication venture.
I have also contributed articles and content to prestigious platforms, including NASA, Fossbytes, and Women’s Web. As of 2023, I also contribute as a writer at Club SciWri, a non-profit science communication venture.
Thom Hartmann has been the nation’s #1 progressive talk show host for over a decade. Talkers Magazine ranks Thom as the #1 progressive talk show host in America, with a cumulative audience of 7 million (excluding the TV audience). For 9 years he also hosted an evening TV program that was first carried by Free Speech TV and later picked up by RT TV out of Washington, DC. He separated from RT in 2017.
He is also a four-time Project Censored-award-winning, New York Times best-selling author of over 30 books in print. He invented the “hunters in a farmer’s world” reframe for ADHD and wrote 5 books on the subject.
In the early 1970s, he founded and ran The Michigan Healing Arts Center, and in the years since then has started 2 advertising agencies (Ter Graphics in the 70s, and Chandler, MacDonald dba The Newsletter Factor in the 80s), a travel agency (International Wholesale Travel, sold in 1986), and a community for abused children in New Hampshire, as well as starting relief programs on all 5 continents over the years while working with the Salem International organization. (His autobiography, documenting mostly his work with Salem, is titled The Prophet’s Way, a reference to his mentor Gottfried Mueller, and available in bookstores nationwide.)
He holds a PhD in homeopathy and a masters degree in herbal medicine from his days running an herbal tea company, as well as an honorary PhD from Goddard College in Vermont, where he was a visiting instructor. He was rostered as a psychotherapist by the State of Vermont for five years, and holds a Trainer’s Certification in NLP from The Society of NLP. He and his wife Louise have built 7 businesses together, sold most of them off, and retired 5 times in the past 49 years of marriage. They have 3 adult children.
We love America like we love our lemonade, No I.C.E. Push Back Use Your Voice. One voice can change a room, change a city, change a state, change a nation, change the world!
Deborah Ramos hosts, Jack Stuart Smith, Sound & Stage Manager
2nd Sunday is in solidarity with Activist San Diego, The World Beat Center, 100,000 Poets for Change, The San Diego/Tijuana ReEvolutionary Poets Brigade, Black Lives Matter, The New Georgia Project, Seed the Vote, The Border Angels, The Binational Friendship Garden, The Brown Berets, the San Diego Chapter of the Los Angeles Community Literature Initiative publishing numerous people of color, and defenders of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights
___ABOUT JOE MILOSCH
During the last 40 years, Joe Milosch worked as a trail locator for the Cleveland National Forest and as a heavy construction inspector in the private sector. His poetry draws on those experiences, as his experiences growing up in the farmland north of Detroit, Michigan, and his army experiences during the Vietnam War. Besides working as a construction inspector, he has taught English Composition, Literature, Creative Writing, Technical Writing, and Linguistics at National University, Vincennes University, and San Diego State University.
TALK of THE TOWN with Mike and Arthur Aguirre LIVE Sat 11 am
Guest, Award-Winning Podcaster ALLISON GILL
They are in conversation about the No Kings event, public service, rule of law, the Constitution, veterans and more.
Allison created the MSW Media: a female-led podcast network of like-minded, irreverent shows that shine light on truth in politics, news, and the arts. Our mission is to expand the community of compassionate and engaged listeners to prepare for future mobilization and activism.
Dr. Allison Gill is a Navy Veteran who spent over a decade helping active duty service members and Veterans get timely access to quality health care with the Department of Veterans Affairs. In 2012, she appeared in the Oscar Nominated documentary The Invisible War in an effort to draw attention to military sexual trauma, and in 2017 she earned a Doctorate in Health Administration to bolster her efforts.
In 2019 she was pushed out of her federal job by the Trump administration, which led her to create the MSW Media podcast network. She now hosts multiple award-winning podcasts focused on news, politics, and justice. You may know her as Mueller, She Wrote on social media.
ABOUT NEW KINGS:
No Kings is organized by Indivisible.org: “We’re a grassroots movement of thousands of local Indivisible groups with a mission to elect progressive leaders, rebuild our democracy, and defeat the Trump agenda,” and 50501: “We are a volunteer team of non-professional organizers working since day one to empower and amplify this grassroots movement.
“Our movement shows the world that the American working class will not sit idly by as plutocrats rip apart their democratic institutions and civil liberties while undermining the rule of law.”
