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Tarabuster Friday with Tara Devlin - featuring Richard Chew 08/28/26 🎙️ Richard Chew joins Tarabuster: Richard Chew—host of Chew’s Views on Chicago’s progressive WCPT 820 and Heartland Signal—joins us to cut through the chaos and talk about Trump’s corrupt maladministration, the Supreme Court, election threats, racism, working-class economic pain, and where real resistance can still make a…
Tarabuster Tuesdays with Tara Devlin. Aug 27, 2026 💖 Dolly Parton: The Anti-Trump: As the world celebrates Dolly Parton’s legacy of generosity, compassion, and inclusion, her life stands as a living rebuke to the cruelty, greed, and bullying that define Trumpism. ⚓ Hegseth’s “Hardcore” Cruelty: Pete Hegseth’s reported punishment of a sailor in crisis is a grim reminder that right-wing “toughness”…
Tarabuster Tuesdays with Tara Devlin. Aug 25, 2026 Today on Tarabuster: Brad Bannon of Deadline D.C. joins us to break down the latest assaults on democracy, public health, and basic accountability.| Subscribe to Brad Bannon's Substack: https://bradbannon.substack.com/ 🤝 Hakeem Jeffries meets with Jared Kushner: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries held a private meeting with Jared Kushner,…
Tarabuster Friday with Tara Devlin. 08/21/26 📱 Meta’s Rage-Bait Payday: Facebook’s parent company reportedly monetized accounts connected to white-nationalist and neo-Nazi-linked networks—because hate, outrage, and division are apparently good for business. Meanwhile, progressive voices face opaque bans and suppression. 💸 Pardoning Grifters, Abandoning Victims: An 80-year-old Colorado farmer…
Tarabuster Tuesdays with Tara Devlin. Aug 20, 2026 🎙️ Dr. Steve Macek from Project Censored joins Tarabuster to examine the state of independent journalism, media criticism, censorship, and the stories powerful institutions would prefer the public never see. Dr. Macek is a communication professor, Project Censored contributor, and specialist in the First Amendment, journalism history, and media…
Tarabuster Tuesdays with Tara Devlin. Aug 18, 2026 🩺 Hakeem Jeffries abandons Medicare for All—after cashing insurance checks Jeffries once co‑sponsored Medicare for All but now says he opposes it while taking more health‑insurance PAC cash than any other member of Congress—a reminder that “fixing” a system that lets insurers deny lifesaving treatment is not the same as replacing the racket with…
Tarabuster Friday with Tara Devlin. 08/14/26 📞 Scott Jennings says he spoke to Mitch McConnell—so why are Kentucky voters still being kept in the dark? And now the CNN MAGA mouthpiece may be headed for the White House press podium. 🤡 Elon Musk’s Austin Powers-style AI vanity video is peak billionaire cringe. The larger story is what unchecked wealth does to public discourse and democracy. 🐺…
Tarabuster Tuesdays with Tara Devlin. Aug 13, 2026 🚨 Lauren Boebert’s son faces child‑exploitation charges Tyler Boebert, 21, was arrested on five felony counts—including three related to alleged sexual exploitation of a child—stemming from a video authorities say he recorded with a 17‑year‑old in 2024; he was released on $10,000 bond and is due in court August 19. 📚 Trump’s sex‑ed purge is a…
Tarabuster Tuesdays with Tara Devlin. Aug 11, 2026 🚨 Today on Tarabuster, Tara Devlin welcomes sociologist and author Charles Derber to discuss his urgent new book, Wired for Authoritarianism: American Oligarchies and How to Re-Wire America for the People. 📚 Derber argues that Trump didn’t invent American authoritarianism—he made a long‑standing system of oligarchic power more open, brutal, and…
Tarabuster Friday with Tara Devlin. 08/07/26 Follow Dr. Chic's Substack: (The Crisis Papers) https://chiccanfora.substack.com/ 🎓 Tonight on Tarabuster, Tara Devlin welcomes Dr. Roseann “Chic” Canfora—Kent State survivor, journalist, educator, activist, and Ph.D.—to confront the MAGA madness and the dangerous lessons America refuses to learn. Dr. Canfora was a student at Kent State on May 4, 1970,…
Tarabuster Tuesdays with Tara Devlin. Aug 3, 2026 ⚖️ Cornyn and Tillis bend the knee to Todd Blanche After Todd Blanche rescinded Trump’s grotesque $1.8 billion “anti‑weaponization” slush fund, Cornyn and Tillis declared themselves satisfied and freed up his attorney‑general vote—despite Trump promising to bring the fund right back whenever he can. 🩺 Blanche promises a nationwide abortion…
Tarabuster Thursday with Tara Devlin. July 30, 2026 🩺 Republicans smear American hero Dr. Fauci In a new round of Senate “hearings,” GOP Senators led by Rand Paul are using subpoenas and bad‑faith questions to taunt Fauci as a liar and criminal, trying to rewrite history so the guy who spent four decades fighting disease becomes the villain and their own deadly Covid sabotage disappears. 🐴 Why…
Brad Bannon from Deadline D.C. joins to discuss the madness 🧨 DSA National Chair hands Republicans a talking‑point bonanza The DSA’s new “Workers Deserve More” platform—defended by National Co‑Chair Megan Romer—calls for abolishing the Senate, prisons, ICE, and even borders while drafting a new constitution and putting big corporations into public ownership, giving Republicans an easy caricature…
Tarabuster Friday with Tara Devlin. 07/24/26 Subscribe to Doc Adam James' Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@UCeKACwqI4XigwUr_W90z1jg and TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@epistemiccrisis5 🧠 Dr. Adam James joins to dissect the MAGA madness Dr. Adam James is back on Tarabuster to break down the psychological, political, and cultural rot at the heart of MAGA—from grievance politics to authoritarian…
Tarabuster Thursdays with Tara Devlin. July 23, 2026 ⚠️ MAGA wants warning labels on queer people Trump’s FCC and Republican allies are pushing to slap “LGBTQ content” warning labels on kids’ shows, treating queer characters like biohazards even as civil rights groups flood the agency with comments calling the proposal discriminatory, unconstitutional, and pure culture‑war hate. 😭 MAGAT whines no…
Tarabuster Thursdays with Tara Devlin. July 21, 2026 ♿ Trump’s assault on the disabled From policy rollbacks to rhetoric that dehumanizes vulnerable Americans, Trump’s agenda continues to target people with disabilities—undermining protections, dignity, and basic human rights. 💪 Toxic masculinity is destroying America From gun culture to political posturing, the right’s obsession with grievance,…