The Bonnie Simmons Show – December 18, 2025
Bonnie Simmons presents a unique mix of singer/songwriter folk, rock, soul, country, and R&B.
Special Fund Drive Programming
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Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Trump administration announces ban on transgender care for minors, with threat to cut funds to hospitals that don’t comply; Bay area school districts consider school closures, as parents and educators fear disruption; Republican bill to amend Endangered … Continued
Flashpoints – December 18, 2025
An award winning front-line investigative news magazine, that focuses on human, civil and workers right, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.
Fund Drive Programming: ICE Operations and Political Surveillance in Minneapolis: A Rising Threat to Press Freedom
Host Davey D brings on Minneapolis–St. Paul journalist and activist Georgia Fort to dig into ICE raids, attacks on Somali communities, and the growing repression of journalists and protesters in Minnesota and beyond. Georgia starts by describing a November 25 raid on St. Paul’s East Side where several hundred people showed up and three journalists … Continued
Background Briefing – December 18, 2025
Background Briefing offers an educational approach to providing information in an era of “fake news.”
The Visionary Activist Show – Dark O Moon Dark o Year Radio
Visionary Activist Show 12.18.25 2pm KPFA/ 12.19.25 run wee hours & 1 pm KPFK Dark O Moon Dark o Year Radio Winter Solstice Delving Diving Deep into the Dark To Liberate our Mad Whimsy, skookum for now! astro* animist, weaver of context Caroline W Casey once again welcomes Sean Padraig O’Donoghue, long-time bardic Flora Fauna … Continued
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Fundraising special: the problem with lithium
Thea Riofrancos, author of Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism, on the complications of using lithium batteries to green our future (think tank here)
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Special Fund Drive Programming – Mitch Reads Animal Farm
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Democracy Now! (Rebroadcast) – December 18, 2025
On today’s show: “Divorced from Reality”: Economist Dean Baker Fact-Checks Trump’s Primetime Speech Meet Tania Nemer, Fired Immigration Judge Suing Trump Admin Amid Purge of Immigration Court System “No Military Solution”: Is Peace Possible in Sudan as “Proxy War” Expands? Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and … Continued
Law & Disorder – December 18, 2025
Law & Disorder exposes the cracks in our system, agitates for resistance and collectively builds a new world where all of us thrive. Hosted by Cat Brooks. Produced by Jesse Strauss.
U.S. to blockade “sanctioned” Venezuela oil tankers with military; John Nichols responds to Trump’s Oval Office address
0:10 – We start today’s coverage in Venezuela. President Trump has announced a blockade on “sanctioned” Venezuelan oil vessels. Miguel R. Tinker Salas is professor emeritus of History at Pomona College and joins us to talk about Venezuela’s oil industry and this development, and parse the “absurdity” of Trump’s comments. He is the author of The … Continued
Democracy Now! – December 18, 2025
On today’s show: “Divorced from Reality”: Economist Dean Baker Fact-Checks Trump’s Primetime Speech Meet Tania Nemer, Fired Immigration Judge Suing Trump Admin Amid Purge of Immigration Court System “No Military Solution”: Is Peace Possible in Sudan as “Proxy War” Expands? Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and … Continued
Non-fiction Music – December 18, 2025
A mix of jazz, folk, blues and more with Joel Sachs.
LoveSoul with Al Glenn – December 18, 2025
Enjoy sensuous bedroom soul, sexy Smooth Jazz, and scintillating social commentary with Bay Area native and longtime Classic Soul radio taste-maker and Smooth Jazz connoisseur Al Glenn. Have some before this tasty Midnight snack is all gone!