Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides August 17, 2025 show features quasi-establishment reports from D.C. on Trump’s anti-homeless war+ a Flashback to March 5, 2017 with Candlelight Kim, Freedom Sleepout 86, and lots more

The August 17, 2025 show includes 

  • Furious Facebook posting:  Alicia Kuhl outraged irony; Tyler, Sonya, and Wes chime in.
  • [throughout] David Rovics’ enraged response to the U.S. armed Gaza slaughter
  • Alternate media on Trump’s planned D.C. raids against the vulnerable homeless
  • 2 Logans and Shawn interviews in the aftermath of today’s earlier Coral Street sweeps
  • [8-9 & 8-16]  Dedicated Drew on the weekend Food Not Bombs 3-hour meal
  • Sean reports on this year’s Rainbow Gathering
  • Lighthouse Linda Lemaster on elder life and discrimination in the S.C. outskirts
  • HUFFster Athena reports on “at least the 5th[successive] weekly Coral St. sweep” in front of the Housing Matters [aka “Funding Matters”] poverty-industrial complex.
  • Frequently seized “Danger” describes the SCPD routine.

The Flashback to March 5, 2017 includes: 

  • Entrapment, abuse, and criminalization: Council-Cop collaboration
  • Rent stabilization in Santa Cruz?
  • Freedom Sleep Out #86: adjacent Council meeting on SCPD cop Bradley’s Arlt shooting back in October; cops withholding Officer’s Report and D.A. investigation; Viper on City tent theft
  • S.F.’s Jan Chan story—audio of video exchange
  • [2-26] Candlelight Kim’s eviction from the Homeless [Lack of] Services Center for a bite of bread; Bob Lamonica, Keith M., and a homeless library patron “suspended” for making faces at a computer screen.
  • More on the Sean Arlt killing and Chief Vogel’s apologia for ICE agent in the SCPD
  • Interview with Councilmember Chris Krohn