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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

MMN 11/12/25
Last Wednesday at 4:00 PM

-GOP Senators set to receive $500k payout thanks to shutdown bill

-Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in Gaza since ceasefire

-SCOTUS takes up case that could restrict mail-in voting

-"Mar-a-lago Face" proliferating around D.C.


MMN 11/11/25
Last Tuesday at 4:00 PM

-A Cowards' Caucus takes the lead, Senate Dems cave on shutdown

-Newspaper workers in Pittsburgh declare victory in longest running U.S. strike

-Massacre in Rio favelas linked to U.S. State Dept.

-Trump tariffs burn pasta-loving Americans


MMN 11/7/25
11/07/2025

-Senate rejects war powers resolution to stop Trump's boat bombings

-Tax-prep vulture win big as IRS cancels Direct File

-D.C. sandwich thrower acquitted by a jury

-Rich Dicks signed off on giving Musk $1 trillion to build a robot army


MMN 11/6/25
11/06/2025

-Supreme Court grapples with another Trump power grab

-Report: World governments have failed to stop 1.5 degrees C warming

-GOP causing havoc in the skies in order to preserve Medicaid cuts

-Working Class History: The October Revolution


MMN 11/5/25
11/05/2025

-With Zohran's win, workers seize control of NYC

-Trump claims ballots cast in Calif. are "illegal"

-Government shutdown breaks the record for longest ever

-Education Dept. wants to cut off loan relief to certain public servants


MMN 11/4/25
11/04/2025

-Election Day in America: Zohran poised to do it in NYC

-Trump threatens a new oil war -- this time, Nigeria

-Courts block Admin's plan to starve tens of millions

-W.H. ballroom project is a vehicle for mass corruption


MMN 10/31/25
10/31/2025

-Judge likely to intervene to stop GOP from starving millions

-W.H. locks Dems out of briefing on legal memo underpinning boat strikes

-RFK repurposes workplace safety office to instead undermine wind energy

-Rich Dick melts down on TV


MMN 10/30/25
10/30/2025

-Pentagon to establish "quick reaction forces" to crush dissent in U.S. cities

-Top health care officials oblivious (or lying) about looming insurance crisis

-GOP blocks Dem SNAP funding bill

-Working Class History: Indianapolis Streetcar Strike!


MMN 10/29/25
10/29/2025

-Trump threatens to send more than the National Guard to cities

-Netanyahu orders airstrikes on Gaza, breaks ceasefire

-Pentagon's killing spree in Latin America continues with 4 more boats bombed

-States sue to prevent W.H. from cutting off food aid


MMN 10/28/25
10/28/2025

-For the second time this month, Venezuela warns of U.S. "false flag" attack

-British journalist arrested in U.S. for criticizing Israel

-U.S. troops paid through a variety of illegal schemes during shutdown

-Musk wants to be compensated $1 trillion to build a "robot army"


MMN 10/24/25
10/24/2025

-Trump won't seek Congressional approval for military strikes in Latin America

-Families go hungry as White House slashes food aid programs

-Musk's SpaceX on the verge of humiliation

-War profiteeering Rich Dick gets approval to start a crypto bank


MMN 10/23/25
10/23/2025

-Pentagon's illegal boat bombing spree hits the Pacific

-UN top court orders Israel to provide humanitarian aid to Gaza

-Trump screws over U.S. cattle ranchers as part of Argentine bailout

-Working Class History: Black Rhodesian Rail Strike!


MMN 10/22/25
10/22/2025

-Ecuador releases survivor of U.S. airstrike - no evidence of drug trafficking

-VP Vance meets with war criminals as Israel violates Gaza ceasefire

-Trump attempts $230 million shakedown of public treasury

-ICE expands its arsenal of weapons, including guided missiles


MMN 10/17/25
10/17/2025

-The Right wants to criminalize upcoming "No Kings" protests

-W.H. considers importing German neo-Nazis into the U.S.

-Alaskan village flooded after EPA pulls infrastructure grant

-Rich Dick is the latest billionaire to endorse Trumpian police states


MMN 10/16/25
10/16/2025

-Trump authorizes CIA ops in Venezuela, threatens ground strikes

-Judge blocks White House's shutdown layoffs

-The political right's Nazi problems come into focus again

-Working Class History: The Salt of the Earth Strike!


MMN 10/15/25
10/15/2025

-Trump threatens to violently disarm Hamas

-Israel breaks ceasefire deal, restricts aid into Gaza

-Feds attack Chicago neighborhood, teargas residents

-Pentagon carries out another extrajudicial killing in the Caribbean


MMN 10/14/25
10/14/2025

-Gaza families welcome home nearly 2,000 Palestinian hostages freed

-Trump celebrates ceasefire at Knesset, congratulates war criminals

-Shut Down Day 14: Fed workers laid off, Argentina gets bailout

-Renewable energy surges in China, India


MMN 10/10/25
10/10/2025

-Israeli war cabinet approves ceasefire, but keeps bombing Gaza

-Judge blocks National Guard deployment to Chicago

-Troubling signs in housing market: risky mortgages on the rise

-Rich Dick is assembling a media empire


MMN 10/9/25
10/09/2025

-Gaza ceasefire deal reached, pending approval from Israeli war cabinet

-Troops arrive in Chicago, Trump calls for jailing Pritzker, Johnson

-Fascist collaborators gather at W.H. to plot against antifa, DSA, Code Pink

-Working Class History: 1971 New Mexico Prison Strike!


MMN 10/8/25
10/08/2025

-Trump cuts off diplomatic talks with Venezuela, war plans drawn up

-A.G. Bondi does not deny existence of incriminating Trump/Epstein photos

-Furloughed federal workers not entitled to back pay, W.H. claims

-The U.S. economy is increasingly one giant A.I. bubble


MMN 10/7/25
10/07/2025

-Fascist Stephen Miller whines about tyranny after courts block martial law

-Israel still detaining U.S. citizens involved in aid flotilla to Gaza

-Shut Down Day 7: Air Traffic Controllers call out sick

-Zionist toady Bari Weiss appointed to lead CBS News


MMN 10/3/25
10/03/2025

-Trump's gestapo wreaks havoc on residents in Chicago

-Israel captures last boat in Sumud aid flotilla to Gaza

-Shut Down Day 3: GOP back to protecting pedos

-Rich Dick wants to ruin our games 


MMN 10/2/25
10/02/2025

-Israel intercepts Gaza aid flotilla, Italian unions declare a general strike

-Shut Down Day 2: More lies about immigrants from JD Vance

-Conservatives demand ICE raids at the Super Bowl

-Working Class History: Nazis get punched on Cable Street


MMN 10/1/25
10/01/2025

-Shutdown Mode: Trump uses lapse in funding to advance class war

-Judge rips admin's "ideological deportations" of pro-Palestine students

-Aid flotilla enters "critical zone", arrival in Gaza within hours

-War Sec. Hegseth assembles top U.S. generals, calls them fat


MMN 9/30/25
09/30/2025

-Trump names himself as overseer of Gaza in new "ceasefire" plan

-Republicans move to shut down the government to execute more mass layoffs

-Oregon sues Trump over Portland troop deployment

-White House attempts to link anti-capitalist thought to domestic terror


MMN 9/26/25
09/26/2025

-Lawmakers near enough signatures to force vote on Epstein files release

-W.H. threatens more mass layoffs if government shuts down next week

-U.S. lobbies to protect Israel from global football ban

-Rich Dick is on a crusade to bust teachers unions


MMN 9/25/25
09/25/2025

-European nations send warships to protect Gaza aid flotilla

-3 immigrants shot at an ICE detention facility in Dallas

-DOJ broke court rules in case against suspected CEO shooter Mangione

-Working Class History: 1945 NYC Elevator Strike!


MMN 9/24/25
09/24/2025

-After Trump's U.N. speech, the world must realize: We have a huge problem

-Maduro seeks peace with Trump, W.H. pushes for war

-U.S. says it will bailout the Libertarian paradise of Argentina

-Trump allies in the billionaire class set to take control of TikTok


MMN 9/23/25
09/23/2025

-Momentum builds behind Palestinian statehood at UN General Assembly

-Corrupt "Deportation Czar" walking around with $50,000 in cash from FBI

-Trump, RFK Jr. baselessly claim Tylenol causes autism

-Stephen Miller channles his inner Goebbels during Kirk memorial


MMN 9/19/25
09/19/2025

-U.S. is again the lone veto against a Gaza ceasefire at the U.N.

-Dems allow GOP to establish a day of rememberance for dead fascist

-Multi-billion dollar corruption scheme revelead inside the White House

-Rich Dick has advice for the Trump era: Roll over!


MMN 9/18/25
09/18/2025

-RFK Jr.'s hand-picked vaccine board poised to wreck public health

-Kash Patel & GOP spend a 2nd day on Capitol Hill protecting pedos

-Trump critic Jimmy Kimmel is taken off the air under pressure from FCC

-W.H. declares antifa a terrorist organization


MMN 9/17/25
09/17/2025

-U.N. commission orders countries to stop Israel's genocide in Gaza

-Kash Patel grilled by Senators for protecting pedos in the W.H.

-Right decries violence on the left as MAGA rapper releases pro-lynching song

-S. Korean workers detail abuse while in ICE custody


MMN 9/16/25
09/16/2025

-The White House, right-wing media demand forced mourning of dead fascist

-Israel launches ground invasion of Gaza City

-Artists around the world speak out against the genocide

-Trump orders another extrajudicial killing off coast of Venezuela


MMN 9/12/25
09/12/2025

-Party of Free Speech: GOP seeks to punish people for joking about Kirk's killing

-RICO charges dropped against Cop City protesters

-Bolsonaro found guilty of coup attempt in Brazil

-Rich Dick is a fan of the KKK


MMN 9/11/25
09/11/2025

-Fascist activist Charlie Kirk shot and killed

-Trump promises a crackdown on the left, despite shooter still unknown

-House lawmakers move to repeal Iraq War AUMFs

-Working Class History: A strike in 1909 that Debs called "the greatest"


MMN 9/10/25
09/10/2025

-Rogue state of Israel bombs Qatar to sabotage Gaza ceasefire talks

-NYT: JP Morgan a "crucial cog" in Epstein's sex trafficking op

-Bankers increase financing of dirty energy projects

-Trump goes out to dinner in D.C., gets called "Hitler"


MMN 9/9/25
09/09/2025

-Gaza aid flotilla attacked in Tunisia, likely by Israeli drone

-SCOTUS greenlights ICE racial profiling, Trump declares war on Chicago

-U.S. military build up continues off the coast of Venezuela

-House Committee obtains more incriminating docs tying Trump to Epstein


MMN 9/5/25
09/05/2025

-Quack Health Secretary RFK proves why he's an asset to the ruling class

-DC Grand Jury continues to stymie Trump prosecutors

-Admin. strips union rights from NASA workforce

-Rich Dicks: Failsons go full crypto


MMN 9/4/25
09/04/2025

-Court rejects Trump's use of Alien Enemies Act for mass deportations

-Hegseth, Rubio, Vance promise more extrajudicial massacres in the Caribbean

-W.H. lobbies Congress to block release of Epstein files

-Working Class History: The U.S. Textile Strike of 1934


MMN 9/3/25
09/03/2025

-Trump orders extrajudicial mass killing off the coast of Venezuela

-W.H. circulates plan to profit off Gaza's destruction

-Court rules federal troop deployment to Calif. was illegal

-UAW calls on Ford to recognize union win in the South