America has been preaching democracy all over the world for more than two centuries. Isn't it time we tried it here at home - end the filibuster & let the chips (and the voters) fall where they may?

Rolling Stone is reporting that President Biden has told Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer that he's prepared to begin lobbying so-called "moderate" Democratic senators to end or reform the filibuster this week. This is a very, very good thing.

Ending the filibuster could be what puts the final nail in the Republicans' coffin. When all Americans finally see their insane proclamations actually put into action, they'll never govern again.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

The best of the rest of the news.

— On this day that America remembers 9/11, as many people as died that day will die this weekend because Republican politicians across America have banned mask mandates in our schools and "conservative" media like Fox "News" promote anti-vax lies and hysteria. Meanwhile, it's a virtual guarantee that none of today's media coverage will mention how the Bush/Cheney were warned multiple times that "Bin Laden [Was] Determined To Strike Within the US" and ignored the warnings while Cheney was carving up Iraqi oil fields and Bush told Tony Blair, 3 days after 9/11, that he was going to use the terror attack as a rationale to attack Iraq. Nor will there be any mention of how the government of Afghanistan had virtually nothing to do with 9/11. But on this terrible anniversary, Donald Trump is bragging to the media that he's going to make "an obscene amount of money" calling a boxing match.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Article: "The Filibuster: Should America Try Democracy?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "States Adopting California's Clean Cars Standards" by Maryland Department of the Environment.

Article: "Voter Turnout History for General Elections" by Oregon.

Article: "Virginia Democrats look to tie GOP to Texas abortion law" by Julia Manchester.

Article: "Strictest Gun Laws By State 2021" by World Population Review.

Article: "Twice As Many Democrats Say Abortion A Top Voting Issue In Wake Of Texas Ban, Poll Finds" by Alison Durkee.

Article: "People live longer in blue states than red; new study points to impact of state policies" by Noam N. Levey.

Article: "The 10 States with the Highest Minimum Wages in 2021" by Ashley Altus.

Article: "Texas abortion law gives Democrats midterm edge" by Nolan Finley.

Article: "The Texas Abortion Gambit Is Politically Insane" by Bill Scher.

Article: "Biden Tells Top Democrats He's Preparing Lobbying Blitz on Filibuster Reform, Voting Rights" by Andy Kroll.

Article: "Texas Republicans Got What They Wanted. They Might Regret It." by David Frum.

Article: "Texas abortion law could hurt Republicans in 2022 midterm elections, experts say" by Savannah Behrmann, Phillip M. Bailey.

Article: "About 150 protesters march against Illinois' school face mask mandate" by kprsmedia.

Article: "Trump's Alabama Rally Attendance: See Crowd Size Photos" by Stephanie Dube Dwilson.

Article: "AL. Man has Heart Attack, 43 Full Hospitals Turn Him Down, Finds One 200 Miles Away, He Dies There" by Lefty Coaster.

Article: "QAnon Anti-Vaxxer Whose Followers Harassed Hospital for Ivermectin Dies of COVID-19" by David Gilbert.

Article: "CDC warns against use of anti-parasitic drug ivermectin for Covid-19, as calls to poison control centers increase " by Jen Christensen.

Article: "Evander Holyfield stopped in first round of sad spectacle as Donald Trump commentates" by Tom Kershaw.

Article: "The way we were: Denmark lifts all Covid curbs" by AFP.

Audio: "Thom Hartmann Program 26 June 2008 w/ Flemming Rose, Cultural Editor at the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten." He published the cartoons that initiated the Jyllands-Posten Mohammed cartoons controversy.

Article: "Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "ADHD: A Hunter in a Farmer's World 3rd Edition" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Joe Manchin's Dirty Empire" by Daniel Boguslaw.

Article: "Hurricane Ida" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Medical professionals at WMC hold care vigil as doctors struggle with COVID-19 surge" by Moss Brennan.

Article: "COVID-19 Care Vigil held at Watauga Medical Center (videos and transcripts)" by Appalachian Regional Healthcare System.

Article: "Veteran dies of treatable illness as COVID fills hospital beds, leaving doctors "playing musical chairs"" by CBS News.

Article: "Manchin defends CEO daughter after company raised EpiPen price" by David Wright.

Article: "Workers Beg Joe Manchin to Save West Virginia Pharma Plant as His Daughter Walks Away with $31M" by Democracy Now!

Site: Replace Joe Manchin.

Article: "Bernie Sanders Wins West Virginia Primary" by Jessica Taylor.

Video: 'Absolutely not acceptable': Sanders on Manchin's push to cut Dems' $3.5T bill.

Hour Two: Roe v. Wade: Can Adding Seats to the Supreme Court Save America?
- Meagan Hatcher-Mays, Lawyer & Director of Democracy Policy - Indivisible

Article: "Amy Coney Barrett claims supreme court 'not comprised of partisan hacks'" by Martin Pengelly and Joan E Greve.

Article: "What Happened With Merrick Garland In 2016 And Why It Matters Now" by Ron Elving.

Article: ""Did Anthony Kennedy Resign from the Supreme Court to Protect His Son?" by David Mikkelson.

Case: "Roe v. Wade".

Article: "Nothing will stop Mitch McConnell from confirming Amy Coney Barrett. Not even Covid " by Griffin Connolly.

Article: "Supreme Court: Changing number of justices not a new idea" by Bob D'Angelo.

Article: "Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 2. "... In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make...."

Case: "Marbury v Madison".

Book: "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Memorandum: Proposals to Divest the Supreme Court of Appellate Jurisdiction: An Analysis in Light of Recent Developments" by John Roberts.

Case: "Brown v. Board", 1954.

Book: "The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review" by Larry D. Kramer.

Quote: "I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion." - Thomas Jefferson.

Book: Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Book: The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health (Children's Health Defense) by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Article: "Nearly half of House Republicans still won't say publicly if they are vaccinated" by Annie Grayer, Lauren Fox.

Article: "Fox News brainwashes anti-vaxxers — and the press blames Biden" by Eric Boehlert.

Site: "The Righting".

Article: "There's No Turning Back After Joe Biden's Vaccine Mandate" by Jeff Dunetz.

Article: "Biden's vaccine mandate theater" by Washington Examiner.

Article: "Biden has gall to tell us his 'patience is wearing thin'" by Howie Carr.

Article: "The War Against Covid-19 Is Over. It's Time for Unconditional, Unequivocal Surrender" by Scott Morefield.

Article: "Long-Secret FBI Report Reveals New Connections Between 9/11 Hijackers and Saudi Religious Officials in U.S." by Tim Golden and Sebastian Rotella.

Article: "FBI report: Release of FBI Electronic Communication dated April 4, 2016 Pursuant to Executive Order 14040 § 2(a) (Sept. 3, 2021)" by FBI.

Article: "Timeline on Jared Kushner, Qatar, 666 Fifth Avenue, and White House Policy" by Ryan Goodman and Julia Brooks.

Article: "Democrats propose $3.5 trillion safety net and climate spending plan as infrastructure bill heads toward Senate passage" by Christopher Wilson.

Law: "Sherman Antitrust Act", 1890.

Article: "Reactionary" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Al-Qaeda" by Wikipedia.

Movie: "Charlie Wilson's War".

Article: "Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Out-of-Towner: While Bush vacationed, 9/11 warnings went unheard" by Fred Kaplan.

Article: "United States invasion of Grenada", 25 October 1983 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Gulf War" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Timeline: Al-Qaeda: 2 September 1996 - Osama Bin Laden calls on his followers to 'launch a guerrilla war against American forces and expel the infidels from the Arabian Peninsula'" by BBC.

Article: "US military vacates last Saudi base".

Hour Three: Conversations With Great Minds: The White Evangelical Movement: Where Did it Come From and Where Is It Going?
- Professor Sophie Bjork-James PhD, Anthropologist / Assistant Professor of the Practice - Anthropology Department, Vanderbilt University / Author of the new book, The Divine Institution: White Evangelicalism's Politics of the Family / co-editor Beyond Populism: Angry Politics and the Twilight of Neoliberalism

Article: "This concept is key to understanding evangelical culture's hypocrisy – according to an anthropologist" by Sky Palma.

Article: "Evangelicalism" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jimmy Carter" by Wikipedia.

Article: "School segregation in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jerry Falwell Sr." by Wikipedia.

Clip: "Paul Weyrich - "I don't want everybody to vote" (Goo Goo)".

Article: "Day eight: Sunday morning in the 'evangelical Vatican'" by James Ridgeway.

Article: "Focus on the Family" by Wikipedia.

Article: "James Dobson" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Patriarchy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Friedrich Hayek" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Milton Friedman" by Wikipedia.

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