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Means Morning News

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Journalist Sam Sacks reports from inside the beast - Washington, DC - breaking down the news that working people need to know. New podcast every Tuesday - Friday. Watch the show only on Means.TV

Episodes

MMN 5/9/25

-Trump admin. continues to defy court orders in Abrego Garcia case -Relatable: First American Pope is not a fan of JD Vance -Sludge merchants get a big win with GOP budget bill -Rich Dicks profit off human rights abuses

May 09, 202521 min

MMN 5/8/25

-Columbia U once again sics the NYPD on anti-genocide protesters -Musk unlocks a new level of corruption within the State Dept. -U.S. spies directed to target Greenland -Working Class History: 1912 NYC Waiters Strike

May 08, 202521 min

MMN 5/7/25

-Pentagon finds off ramp from costly and illegal war against Yemen -Pakistan and India escalate tensions amid nuclear standoff -VP Vance sends hostile message to 2026 World Cup visitors -Trump henchman in DC may be out of a job soon

May 07, 202518 min

MMN 5/6/25

-Yemen bombs Israeli airport in latest salvo to end the genocide in Gaza -Trump, horny for prisons, wants to reopen Alcatraz -U.S. air transportation system is breaking down -Rep. MTG caught up in another insider trading scheme

May 06, 202519 min

MMN 5/1/25

-Student activist targeted by Marco Rubio's visa purges is finally released -Trump signs order to "unleash" the police on U.S. cities -W.H. debuts new briefing with rightwing sycophants -Working Class History: MAY DAY!

May 01, 202517 min

MMN 4/30/25

-W.H. braces for the consequences of its trade war with China -Trump reveals serious brain rot with MS-13 tattoo claims -The military industrial complex goes global, record war spending worldwide -Don Jr. is trying to get rich selling access to his dad's administration

Apr 30, 202520 min

MMN 4/29/25

-Trump admin threatens more local officials after arrest of judge -Measles outbreak spreads under Health Sec. RFK Jr. -Canadian voters rebuke Trump, keep liberals in power -Numerous U.S. aircraft lost in six-week bombing cmapaign of Yemen

Apr 29, 202516 min

MMN 4/25/25

-Sicko Secretary RFK Jr. compiling a list of people with autism -Medical researchers who rely on NIH funding barred from Israeli boycotts -Interior Dept. limits environmental reviews for fossil fuel projects -Rich Dick, notorious for being wrong, has more bad advice for Democrats

Apr 25, 202523 min

MMN 4/24/25

-FBI raids in Michigan target pro-Palestine activists -Trump polling numbers sink due to widespread immigration abuses -EPA mass fires environmental justice workers -Working Class History: 19th Century Beer Riots

Apr 24, 202519 min

MMN 4/23/25

-More insider trading and market manipulation by the W.H. -Another man is disappeared by ICE, likely in Salvadoran torture prison -Trump restarts student loan collections, millions could see wages garnished -Prayers for Musk's downfall are working!

Apr 23, 202516 min

MMN 4/22/25

-SCOTUS temporarily blocks admin's Alien Enemies Act deportations -Pope dies after meeting with JD Vance -Port workers in Morocco disrupt weapons shipments to Israel -U.S. carries out deadliest airstrike yet against Yemen

Apr 22, 202517 min

MMN 4/18/25

-Senator secures meeting with wrongfully deported man in El Salvador -Attorneys for Luigi Mangione try to protect their client from execution -Trump dismantles climate research at NOAA -This Week's Rich Dick wants to build a space death laser

Apr 18, 202523 min

MMN 4/17/25

-U.S. Senator denied access to Abrego Garcia in El Salvador -Trump delivers big win to predatory for-profit tax filing industry -Unions launch new initiative to protect federal workers -Working Class History: The Limerick Soviet

Apr 17, 202522 min

MMN 4/16/25

-Judge weighs contempt charges as Trump lawyers defy court order -Israel bombs more hospitals in its genocide against Gaza -Whistleblower: Musk's DOGE team stole sensitive union data -Trump's trade war hastens demise of U.S. military

Apr 16, 202518 min

MMN 4/15/25

-Trump's favorite goon on the world stage Nayib Bukele visits W.H. -President asks Bukele to expand torture prison to hold U.S. citizens -Another Columbia U. student activist arrested by ICE -NASA cuts suggest the future of space is just joy rides for rich people

Apr 15, 202519 min

MMN 4/11/25

-SCOTUS orders admin. to return man wrongfully deported to Salvadoran prison -Sec. of State Rubio concedes Mahmoud Khalil broke no laws -Trump to get what he desires most: a big, stupid military parade -This Week's Rich Dick think pollution rules shouldn't apply to him

Apr 11, 202518 min

MMN 4/10/25

-Trump caves on tariffs, pulls the world economy from the crisis he started -White House accused of market manipulation amid the chaos -A major oil spill along the Keystone Pipeline -Working Class History: 1970 Teamsters Wildcat Strike

Apr 10, 202516 min

MMN 4/9/25

-A new lawsuit is launched to stop deportations to El Salvador torture prison -Government on deadline to turn over evidence in Mahmoud Khalil case -Climate Doom: Trump signs order to supercharge coal production -AIPAC goes after Dems who voted to block weapons to Israel

Apr 09, 202516 min

MMN 4/8/25

-SCOTUS greenlights "alien enemy" deportations, W.H. eyes removing U.S. citizens -Mass protests rock DC to end the genocide in Gaza -Clown economy: Markets swing wildly on fake news tweets -Trump proposes $1 trillion dollar military budget

Apr 08, 202519 min

MMN 4/4/25

-Senators reject Sanders bid to block weapons sale to Israel -DOJ drops its trust bustin' agenda, approves mega credit card merger -AI and fossil fuel companies set to muck up public lands -Rich Dick admits mistakes while destroying public health in the U.S.

Apr 04, 202516 min

MMN 4/3/25

-Even the penguins are included in Trump's trade war -Unions grow members just as W.H. guts federal labor mediators -Climate change deniers in Congress are getting dumber -Working Class History: The 504 Sit-ins

Apr 03, 202518 min

MMN 4/2/25

-DHS admits "error" in deporting protected US resident to El Salvadoran prison -Another atrocity in Gaza: Israel kills 15 rescue workers -DOJ seeks the death penalty against Luigi Mangione -Booker breaks Senate speech record, but accomplishes little

Apr 02, 202521 min

MMN 3/27/25

-Trump's gestapo kidnaps another student over her pro-Palestine views -Singal chat messages reveal evidence of a war crime, prove top officials lied -RFK Jr. is shutting down Long Covid research -Boeing set to receive a bailout with new military boondoggle

Mar 27, 202519 min

MMN 3/26/25

-More U.S. bombs fall on Yemen, but Houthis are undeterred -Christian Zionist Mike Huckabee protested at Senate hearing -Trump finds new stooge to oversee the destruction of Social Security -U.S. spies no longer regard climate change as a threat

Mar 26, 202516 min

MMN 3/25/25

-The U.S. has bombed Yemen for 11 straight days now -Israel assassinates more journalists in Gaza -Judge notes that nazis were treated better than Venezuelan migrants -Mega bank plans for post office privatization

Mar 25, 202518 min

MMN 3/21/25

-DHS claimed a soccer tattoo was a gang symbol to justify deportation -Conservatives want to execute Tesla vandals -Amazon union buster set to be NLRB's top lawyer -Rich Dick attempts small village coup

Mar 21, 202522 min

MMN 3/20/25

-Another student is targeted for deportation for Pro-Palestinian speech -Trump and Musk are trying to break Social Security -New E.O. slashes pay for federal janitors, food service workers -Working Class History: Mass wildcat strike shuts down the mail system

Mar 20, 202519 min

MMN 3/19/25

-Men deported to El Salvador were not in a gang, family members say -Mahmoud Khalil releases letter to the public from detention -U.S. bombs Yemen for the 4th straight night -- a war not declared by Congress -More Teslas set ablzae as Musk forces cuts at EPA

Mar 19, 202517 min

MMN 3/18/25

-Over 400 dead in Gaza as Israel shatters ceasefire, resumes mass bombings -Trump admin. launches airstrikes on Yemen, threatens Iran -W.H. deports hundreds of residents to El Salvador concentration camp -Dem Party apprival sinks to all-time low after capitulation

Mar 18, 202518 min

MMN 3/14/25

-Protesters hit Trump Tower demanding the release of Mahmoud Khalil -Neo-McCarthyism sweeps the U.S., punishing people for criticism of Israel -Senate Democrats under pressure to not cave on GOP spending bill -Rich Dick hopes to save his failing burger chain by going full MAGA

Mar 14, 202520 min
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