America has a bully problem, and we're not going to solve it by giving in; today's Democrats need to take a lesson from FDR & LBJ and take on the bullies so they can get things done for Americans.

Democrats must stop giving in to grifter bullies.

If you don't take on bullies, they keep going further and further until either they win or you fight back and defeat them. The best political example of this writ large was Hitler. He pushed around most of Europe and they kept giving in or trying to appease him, thinking at some point he'd have gotten enough.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

The best of the rest of the news.

— "But it was just theater!" Counties that went along with Donald Trump's Big Lie that the election was stolen from him are now discovering (as they were warned) that when they turned their voting machines and ballots over to unqualified, uncertified Republican-affiliated hustlers for "audits," their equipment would lose its certification and must be replaced. Now they're facing huge bills to replace their voting infrastructure, while also facing possible prosecution should Merrick Garland's Justice Department ever decide to finally start holding Republicans accountable for their crimes. (It's a clear and felonious violation of federal law to hand over ballots or machines within 22 months after a federal election.) Nonetheless, even more Republicans around the country are trying to repeat the stunt in an effort to further erode faith and confidence in American democracy so when, in 2022 and 2024, they start using their new "election integrity" laws to throw out huge numbers of ballots from mostly-Black districts people will think it's normal.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Article: "America is Suffering from an Epidemic of Political Bullying" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "The Most Important Thing to Know about Bullies and Predators" by Shawn T. Smith.

Article: "Surviving Aggressive People: Practical Violence Prevention Skills for the Workplace and the Street" by Shawn T. Smith.

Article: "Negotiating with Bullies" by Bill Eddy.

Article: "Americans demand arrest of Michael Flynn after he 'jokes' about assassination in Washington, DC with his new gun" by Sarah K. Burris.

Article: "Richest 25 Americans reportedly paid 'true tax rate' of 3.4% as wealth rocketed" by Adam Gabbatt.

Article: "House passes $1.5 trillion infrastructure bill, but McConnell calls it 'pointless political theater'" by Michael Laris.

Article: "United States Federal Corporate Tax Rate 1909-2020 Data" by Trading Economics.

Quote: "A number of my friends who belong in these very high upper brackets have suggested to me, more in sorrow than in anger, that if I am reelected they will have to move to some other Nation because of high taxes here. I shall miss them very much." - Franklin D. Roosevelt, "Address at Worcester, Mass.," October 21, 1936.

Article: "Neville Chamberlain" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "COVID-19 pandemic in the United States" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "America Must Never Forget what Trump & the GOP Did On April 7th, 2020" 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: "White House abandoned plan to send 650 million face masks across the U.S. in April, report says" by Hannah Miao.

Article: "The Most Influential Spreader of Coronavirus Misinformation Online" by Sheera Frenkel.

Article: "Disinformation for Hire, a Shadow Industry, Is Quietly Booming" by Max Fisher.

Tweet: "Taiwan has recorded 786 Covid deaths, according to Worldometer. That works out to a rate of 33/1M pop., compared to the U.S.'s 1,882/1M." by Mark Farrell.

Article: "The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Missouri AG plans to sue St. Louis over reinstatement of mask mandate" by Marisa Schultz.

Article: "Prayer for a Just War" by Greg Jackson.

Article: "National debt of the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Angela Merkel rejects US move to waive patents on vaccines" by Guy Chazan, Erika Solomon, Hannah Kuchler and Jim Brunsden.

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010)

Article: "Andrew Wakefield" by Wikipedia.

Article: "National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program" by HRSA.

Article: "Fact Check: Are Pharmaceutical Companies Immune From COVID-19 Vaccine Lawsuits?" by Shayna Greene.

Article: "France reports rush for vaccines after Macron tightens Covid rules" by Jon Henley.

Article: "Germany mulls restrictions for unvaccinated as cases soar" by Elena Sánchez Nicolás.

Article: "The NHS App has quietly become a vaccine passport" by Chris Stokel-Walker.

Article: "George Washington and the First Mass Military Inoculation" by Amy Lynn Filsinger, Raymond Dwek.

Article: "Can 'viral shedding' after the COVID vaccine infect others? That's a big 'no'" by Peter Wark.

Article: "Worried About Breakthrough COVID Cases? Here's What To Know" by Selena Simmons-Duffin, Rob Stein.

Hour Two: Covid Passports and Herd Immunity
- Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, Epidemiologist & Health Economist / Adjunct Senior Fellow - Federation of American Scientists @DrEricDing @FAScientist

Article: "5 Things To Know About the Delta Variant" by Kathy Katella.

Article: "Here's what you need to know about the lambda Covid variant" by Holly Ellyatt.

Article: "De Blasio mandates Covid-19 vaccinations or weekly testing for entire NYC municipal work force, including teachers and police" by Artemis Moshtaghian and Kristina Sgueglia.

Article: "Major medical groups call for employers to mandate Covid-19 vaccines for health care workers" by Nadia Kounang.

Article: "The Great Reboot: Airport security app Clear looks to score with U.S. 'vaccine passport'" by Paresh Dave.

Article: "V-safe After Vaccination Health Checker" by CDC.

Article: "France achieves record Covid jabs with Macron's 'big stick' approach" by Jon Henley.

Article: "What You Need to Know About the Delta Variant" by Carolyn Crist.

Article: "We may finally know why the delta variant of coronavirus is so infectious" by Yasemin Saplakoglu.

Article: "Delta Covid variant has a new mutation called 'delta plus': Here's what you need to know" by Holly Ellyatt.

Article: "What Does MERV 13 Mean and Why Does it Matter? MERV 13 Filters Explained" by IAQ.

Article: "UV Lights and Lamps: Ultraviolet-C Radiation, Disinfection, and Coronavirus" by FDA.

Article: "What Does an HVAC Air Purifier Do? The Facts for Buyers" by Michael Rosone.

Article: "HEPA" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Upper-Room Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation (UVGI)" by CDC.

Article: "Nurse Kaci Hickox sues Gov. Chris Christie over Ebola quarantine" by Aliyah Frumin.

Article: "It's starting to look like Republicans don't want to have a bipartisan infrastructure bill after all" by Joan McCarter.

Article: "The insect apocalypse: 'Our world will grind to a halt without them'" by Dave Goulson.

Article: "Purdue Pharma" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Quackery" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump rally triples down on Arizona audit lies in new phase of a damaging legacy" by Zeeshan Aleem.

Quote: "Personnel Is Policy" - Elizabeth Warren.

Article: "Al Green (politician)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Nina Turner" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bernie Sanders" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jester" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Jacobson v. Massachusetts" (1905).

Article: "Leper colony" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Norway to 'completely ban petrol powered cars by 2025'" by Jess Staufenberg.

Article: "Toyota Led on Clean Cars. Now Critics Say It Works to Delay Them" by Hiroko Tabuchi.

Article: "Rep. Clay Higgins, a staunch opponent of mask mandates, announces he and his family have Covid-19." by Jonathan Weisman.

Article: "After Covid Diagnosis, a Conservative Radio Host Sends a New Message" by Hamilton Matthew Masters and Giulia Heyward.

Article: "Oregon Coronavirus at a glance".

Article: "Sean Hannity Urges Viewers to Get COVID Vaccine: 'Enough People Have Died'" by Virginia Chamlee.

Article: "Hannity Makes Vax Stance 'Very Clear': 'I Never Told Anyone to Get a Vaccine!'" by Justin Baragona.

Article: "Fox creates its own vaccine passport while its big names undermine vaccination push" by Mayank Aggarwal.

Article: "Trump's PAC collected $75 million this year, but so far the group has not put money into pushing for the 2020 ballot reviews he touts" by Josh Dawsey, Rosalind Helderman.

Article: "Hernán Cortés" by Wikipedia.

Book: "Man's Rise to Civilization: The Cultural Ascent of the Indians of North America" by Peter Farb.

Article: "Steve Scalise reportedly said he was 'like David Duke without the baggage'" by The Week.

Article: "Rep. Steve Scalise Finally Gets COVID-19 Vaccine, Asserts It's 'Safe And Effective'" by Sanjana Karanth.

Article: "Western monarch butterflies are nearly extinct. California has a plan to save them" by Erin McCormick.

Article: "Milkweed for Monarchs" by NWF.

Book: "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson.

Article: "DDT" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Environmental migrant" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Syria's Climate Refugees" by Scientific American.

Article: "With a pen stroke, President Joe Biden cancels Keystone XL pipeline project" by DW.

Article: "Society is right on track for a global collapse, new study of infamous 1970s report finds" by Brandon Specktor.

Documentary: 3 Billion and Counting.

Article: "Alabama Republican Gov. Ivey says 'start blaming the unvaccinated folks' for rise in Covid cases" by Veronica Stracqualursi.

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

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