Biden and Congress must unpack our courts and free women and working people.

The American Taliban is having its moment, and billionaire groups are riding its energy toward larger and larger profits and control of government. In the process, it's all showing how dark-money right-wing groups have corrupted our Courts.

On CNN this past weekend, Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson told Dana Bash that the main reason he signed an anti-abortion law that would put women in prison for getting abortions, even if they were the victims of rape or incest, was because he wanted it to go to the Supreme Court.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

It takes a month in Georgia to register to vote, but you can buy a gun for a mass murder in 10 minutes.

The Massage Parlor murders in Georgia remind us that guns, the South, and racially motivated murders have a long history.

As I lay out in detail in my book The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment, the Second Amendment was written the way it was, at the time it was, to guarantee that Virginia, South Carolina and Georgia could maintain their state-based militias, which they explicitly referred to as "Slave Patrols."

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

And we may have no protection

Because of Rand Paul and his fellow maskholes, America may be facing an entirely new pandemic, one that can kill you even if you've already had Covid.

Probably the most under-reported story of the week, and perhaps of the year, was a comment that Dr. Anthony Fauci made in response to harassment from Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul.

Paul, an entitled, preening ass of the first order, refuses to wear a mask because, he says, he's already contracted Covid, survived it, and now claims he is immune to the disease. He says people who've been vaccinated shouldn't bother with masks, either.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Article: "First Day Of Spring 2021: The Spring Equinox" by Catherine Boeckmann.

Article: "Rand Paul May Be Infecting America with a Brand New COVID Epidemic" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Republican Governors Are Sabotaging COVID Recovery, Creating Vectors For New Variants To Emerge" by AZ BlueMeanie.

Article: "The GOP Is a Modern-Day Death Cult and Proud Of It" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Johnson & Johnson vaccine 66 percent effective, drops against South Africa variant" by Peter Sullivan.

Article: "Vaccine brawl riles House" by Kadia Goba.

Article: "Estimates of SARS death rates revised upward" by Robert Roos.

Article: "'I totally disagree with you,' Fauci tells GOP senator in fiery exchange over masks" by Berkeley Lovelace Jr., Will Feuer.

Article: "Rand Paul accuses Dr. Fauci of telling a 'noble lie' to keep people wearing masks after being vaccinated: Reveals he was attacked by a 'Karen' for not wearing one on treadmill in Capitol gym" by James Gordon.

Article: "The Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Is 100 Percent Effective at This One Thing" by Lauren Gray.

Article: "States with Republican governors had highest Covid incidence and death rates, study finds" by Dareh Gregorian.

Article: "Biden: U.S. on Track for 100 Million Vaccinations Since Jan. 20" by AP.

Article: "Coronavirus Florida: Editorial: Gov. DeSantis still hiding crucial data on COVID-19 deaths from the public".

Article: "South Africa variant on UK's doorstep: new travel restrictions from France mooted" by Brodie Owen.

Article: "Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV)" by WHO.

Article: "Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS, MERS-CoV)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Severe acute respiratory syndrome" (SARS, SARS-CoV-1) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2" (SARS-CoV-2) by Wikipedia.

Article: "In Idaho, parents and children burn masks at the Capitol steps" by Herb Scribner.

Article: "Idaho Legislature shuts down due to Covid-19 outbreak" by AP.

Podcast: "COVID-19: Europe expects a third wave amid vaccine shortage" by BBC.

Article: "Taiwan confirms first case of infection from new coronavirus" by Reuters.

Article: "First US case of Wuhan coronavirus confirmed by CDC" by Elizabeth Cohen.

Article: "COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ron DeSantis wants an award and he deserves one—for conducting the biggest cover-up of COVID-19 data" by Mark Sumner.

Article: "Ron DeSantis on the Pandemic Year: Don't Trust the Elites" by Ron DeSantis.

Article: "Miami Beach, Overwhelmed by Spring Break, Extends Emergency Curfew" by Neil Vigdor, Michael Majchrowicz and Azi Paybarah.

Article: "Florida Coronavirus Cases: 2,011,211 Deaths: 32,792" by worldometer.

Article: "Florida stops releasing medical examiners' coronavirus death counts after they report higher total" by Igor Derysh.

Article: "Rebekah Jones Tried to Warn Us About COVID-19. Now Her Freedom Is on the Line" by Emily Bloch.

Article: "FDLE releases list of COVID-19 deaths. Top medical examiner calls it a sham." by Carol Marbin Miller, Sarah Blaskey, Nicholas Nehamas, Mary Ellen Klas, And Ben Wieder.

Article: "Ron DeSantis May Refuse To Extradite Trump If He Is Criminally Charged" by Jason Easley.

Article: "Herd immunity" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tracking Coronavirus Vaccinations Around the World" by Josh Holder.

Article: "When Will the Pandemic End and Life Return to Normal?" by Michelle Crouch.

Article: "Associations Between Governor Political Affiliation and COVID-19 Cases, Deaths, and Testing in the U.S." by Brian Neelon et al.

Quote: "It goes through air, Bob. That's always tougher than the touch. You know, the touch, you don't have to touch things. Right? But the air, you just breathe the air and that's how it's passed. And so, that's a very tricky one. That's a very delicate one. It's also more deadly than your – you know, your, even your strenuous flus. You know, people don't realize, we lose 25,000, 30,000 people a year here. Who would ever think that, right? ... This is deadly stuff" - Donald J. Trump.

Quote: "he [Xi] will be successful, especially as the weather starts to warm & the virus hopefully becomes weaker, and then gone" - Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Police raid Frank Artiles' home as they investigate his involvement in SD 37 race" by Ryan Nicol.

Article: "COVID Vax in the Immunosuppressed: Reason for Concern" by Dorry Segev, MD.

Article: "The Covid-19 variant first found in Brazil is up to 2.2 times more transmissible, new study finds" (P.1) by Meera Senthilingam.

Article: "Covid-19: Many poor countries will see almost no vaccine next year, aid groups warn" by Owen Dyer.

Hour Two: Keep Your Eyes on Georgia This Week...
- Aunna Dennis, Executive Director - Common Cause Georgia

Article: "Common Cause Georgia Opposes Newest "Omnibus" Voting Bill " by Aunna Dennis.

Article: "Putting 'cologne on Jim Crow'" by Paul LeBlanc and Zachary B. Wolf.

Article: "The American Taliban Has Seized Our Courts and It's Time to Take Them Back" by Thom Hartmann.

Law: "An Act to provide Circuit Courts for the Districts of California ".

Article: "Never Forget: Myra Selby Is The Black Woman Judge Whose Court Seat Was 'Stolen' For Amy Coney Barrett" by Carma Henry.

Law: "Judiciary Act of 1801".

Article: "One in three women worldwide experience violence in their lifetime, WHO says" by Zamira Rahim.

Article: "Arkansas governor says he signed near-total abortion ban so Supreme Court can decide if it's a 'direct challenge' to Roe" by Devan Cole,.

Article: "Nixon, George H.W. Bush helped Planned Parenthood push U.S. 'family planning' programs" by Carole Novielli.

Law: "An Act to fix the Number of Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States, and to change certain Judicial Circuits".

Law: "An Act to Amend the Judicial System of the United States".

Article: "Gorsuch Took Aim at Legal Root of Abortion, Birth Control Law While Trashing Chief Justice and Gov. Cuomo" by Aaron Keller.

Article: "Fact-check: Did Obama leave Trump with 128 judges to appoint?" by Jon Greenberg.

Article: "Another Texas GOP lawmaker is attempting to make abortion punishable by the death penalty" by Shannon Najmabadi.

Article: "How Right-Wing Dark Money Is Trying to Kneecap the Biden DOJ" by Sheldon Whitehouse.

Article: "The anti-abortion conservative quietly guiding Trump's supreme court pick" by Jon Swaine .

Article: "The hypocrisy of white evangelicals" by David Fryson.

Article: "A Timeline of School Shootings Since Columbine" by Aliza Vigderman, Gabe Turner.

Article: "Krispy Kreme will give you a free doughnut every day this year — if you've been vaccinated" by Sophie Lewis.

Article: "'Echoed every conceivable GOP talking point': Critics slam Washington Post's immigration coverage" by Gabe Ortiz.

Article: "Nearly $1 million has been raised for Kenosha shooting suspect Kyle Rittenhouse, according to a Christian fundraising site and the teen's lawyers" by Kelly McLaughlin.

Video: House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on District of Columbia Statehood Legislation, 22 March 2021.

Article: "Statehood movement in Puerto Rico" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Democrats introduce bill on Puerto Rico status in House and Senate" by Nicole Acevedo.

Bill: "H.R.1976 - To establish an improved Medicare for All national health insurance program." by Rep. Jayapal, Pramila [D-WA-7].

Hour Three: Science Revolution: 2021 Water Act - The Growing Threat of Water Privatization
- Rianna Eckel, Senior Organizer - National Organizing Team, Food and Water Watch

Site: World Water Day.

Petition: "The Growing Threat of Water Privatization" by Food & Water Watch.

Article: "Congress Just Introduced the Answer to America's Water Woes With Unprecedented Support: The WATER Act of 2021" by Lena Greenberg.

Bill: "S.611 - Water Affordability, Transparency, Equity, and Reliability Act of 2019" (WATER Act) by Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]].

Article: "Funding for EPA Water Infrastructure: A Fact Sheet" by FAS.

Article: "Flint water crisis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Enron scandal" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The fight to stop Nestlé from taking America's water to sell in plastic bottles" by Tom Perkins.

Bill: "H.R.1352 - To establish a trust fund to provide for adequate funding for water and sewer infrastructure, and for other purposes." by Rep. Lawrence, Brenda L. [D-MI-14].

Article: "How Institutional Racism & Gun Culture Have Poisoned America " by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment" by Thom Hartmann.

Site: "Georgia website for voter registration".

Article: "Handgun waiting periods reduce gun deaths" by Michael Luca, Deepak Malhotra, and Christopher Poliquin.

Article: "U.S. Leads World in Mass Shootings" by Joe Palazzolo and Alexis Flynn.

Article: "2021 Atlanta spa shootings" by Wikipedia.

Video: Trump snaps at Fox News host after she calls him 'ex-president'.

Book: "The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment" by Thom Hartmann.

Tweet: "If you're all-in for D.C. statehood, here is more you can do: ..." by Indivisible Guide.

Article: "McConnell seems to call the prospect of D.C. statehood 'full-bore socialism'" by Jenna Portnoy.

Book: The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle.

Article: "Coronavirus meltdown: Why April 7th must go down in infamy" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Black Americans Face Alarming Rates of Coronavirus Infection in Some States" by John Eligon, Audra D. S. Burch, Dionne Searcey and Richard A. Oppel Jr.

Article: "How Jared Kushner's Secret Testing Plan "Went Poof Into Thin Air"" by Katherine Eban.

Article: "Microplastics" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Independence movement in Puerto Rico" by Wikipedia.

Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET

I'll be debating Larry Klayman, Lawyer / Chairman - Freedom Watch / Founder & former chairman-Judicial Watch / Author - It Takes a Revolution: Forget the Scandal Industry!

Plus, I'll be talking with Jamal Holtz a lead advocate at 51 for 51 / D.C. statehood advocate...born & raised in DC's ward 8 and a Commissioner on the DC Mayor's Commission on Juvenile Justice Reform

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