Republicans are proud of how they're intimidating women in Texas. But could this abortion ban & its vigilantism be the tipping point that activates women & allies to take down the GOP?

Texas Republicans and five hardcore rightwing Republican appointees on the Supreme Court are quite proud of themselves right now.

"The court's order is stunning," wrote Justice Sonia Sotomayor last night in dissent. "Presented with an application to enjoin a flagrantly unconstitutional law engineered to prohibit women from exercising their constitutional rights and evade judicial scrutiny, a majority of justices have opted to bury their heads in the sand."

But this is a political as much as a legal and social issue, bringing to mind old clichés about counting chicks and things coming home to roost.

Ever since the Reagan election of 1980 the GOP has been the party of billionaires and big business. The problem they've always faced, though, is that there aren't enough morbidly rich voters to win elections and big companies can't vote at all.

To get around that, they've brought together a coalition of fervent true believers, sometimes called "single issue voters," representing a variety of "special interests."

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Tweet: "Never forget:
The "Texas Vigilante Women-Hunting Law" is Mitch McConnell's moment in the sun.
If McConnell had not blocked Garland for over a year to hold that seat open for Gorsuch, today's SCOTUS decision would have been 5-4 to STOP Texas rather than to empower them." by Thom Hartmann.

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

Article: "Texas passes law banning abortion after six weeks" by BBC.

Article: "Key facts about the abortion debate in America" by Pew Research Center.

Article: "Texas G.O.P. Passes Election Bill, Raising Voting Barriers Even Higher" by J. David Goodman, Nick Corasaniti and Reid J. Epstein.

Quote: "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro" - Hunter S. Thompson.

Article: "Susan B. Anthony" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Reconstruction era" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Hayes-Tilden Electoral Commission" by James Monroe.

Case: "Plessy v. Ferguson", 1896 (separate but equal).

Article: "Calls to expel 'traitorous' Madison Cawthorn grow after he warns of 'bloodshed' and lies about 'rigged' election" by David Badash.

Article: "2021 United States Capitol attack" by Wikipedia.

Tweet: "We fought the Taliban for women's rights in Afghanistan, but they just won in Texas…
Today the Texas Taliban will decide who can vote, who can't, & which votes will be thrown out and not counted.
What's next? Men with guns, flags & pickup trucks? Public executions? Oh, yeah…" by .

Article: "Juneteenth" (June 19, 1865) by Wikipedia.

Case: "Dred Scott v. Sandford", 1857

Article: "Stare Decisis" by Merriam-Webster.

Article: "law of parsimony" by Dictionary.com.

Article: "Gov. Greg Abbott BANS COVID vaccine mandates and passports in Texas regardless of approval status amid increasing numbers of private employers demanding staff get shots" by Keith Griffith and Gina Martinez.

Article: "Taliban face new enemy after refusing vaccines: WHO warns Covid to rip through Afghanistan" by Sebastian Kettley.

Article: "Abortion: Is the Texas GOP the Dog that Caught the Car?" by Thom Hartmann.

Site: "Equal Rights Amendment".

Article: "Poll: Majority Want To Keep Abortion Legal, But They Also Want Restrictions" by Domenico Montanaro.

Article: "Supreme Court, Breaking Silence, Won't Block Texas Abortion Law" by Adam Liptak, J. David Goodman and Sabrina Tavernise.

Article: "Southern strategy" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Article: "Federalist Society's Leonard Leo is helping Trump make courts more conservative" by Robert O'Harrow Jr. and Shawn Boburg.

TV: "The Family".

Article: "Jair Bolsonaro" (Brazil) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Viktor Orbán" (Hungary) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tucker Carlson & Victor Orbán Together are a Bad Omen for America" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "A strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP)" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: Pro-Choice Economic Impact
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System (now also available as an e-book)

Article: "How Abortion Bans Will Cost Taxpayers Billions" by ZawnVillines.

Article: "The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime" by John J. Donohue, III, Steven D. Levitt.

Article: "Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime" by John J. Donohue, III, Steven D. Levitt.

Article: "Freakonomics" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Foundling Homes" by Nicholas Terpstra.

Article: "Millions Of People Are Missing From CDC COVID Data As States Fail To Report Cases" by Austin Fast.

Article: "What is ALEC" by ALEC Exposed.

Book: Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer

Article: "Powell Memo".

Book: "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson.

Book: "Unsafe at Any Speed" by Ralph Nader.

Article: "Nancy Pelosi Announces Vote On Bill To Codify Roe v. Wade" by Jennifer Bendery.

Bill: "H.R.3755 - Women's Health Protection Act of 2021" by Rep. Chu, Judy [D-CA-27].

Bill: "S.1975 - Women's Health Protection Act of 2021" by Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT].

Quote: "I am sick and tired of being sick and tired." - Fannie Lou Hamer.

Tweet: "Every recording artist or entertainer, every athlete, every comedian, should cancel their tour dates in Texas.
Today.
Right now.
Don't wait another second.
Don't bring money & business to a state that has put $10k bounties on women's heads. #TexasTaliban #RoeVWade" by Megan Kelley Hall.

Article: "Bounty Hunter Tears Into Houston On Motorcycle Wearing Bandolier Of Pregnancy Tests" by The Onion.

Article: "Did Clarence Thomas' Wife Ginni Sponsor 80 Buses to Capitol Riots?" by Alex Kasprak.

Article: "Watchdog Group Calls For Supreme Court Ethics Code Amid Conflict Of Interest Fears" by Mary Papenfuss.

Article: "Scalia stays on Cheney court case" by NYT.

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...."

Hour Three: Extreme Weather is on the Rise & We Are Seeing it on the east & West Coast with Fires, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes etc.....
- Dr. Ben Strauss, CEO & Chief Scientist - Climate Central

Article: "Germany floods: Dozens killed after record rain in Germany and Belgium" by BBC.

Article: "Europe floods: Rescuers race to find survivors as hundreds remain missing" by BBC.

Article: "Storm Ida: Flash flooding in New York and New Jersey kills nine" by BBC.

Article: "Floods, storms and searing heat: 2020 in extreme weather" by Jonathan Watts.

Article: "Global Warming of 1.5 °C" by IPCC.

Article: "World's most extreme weather events in 2021" by Julia O'Driscoll.

Article: "2021 Oregon wildfires" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Astounding heat obliterates all-time records across the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada in June 2021" by Tom Di Liberto.

Article: "Orrin Hatch once said there was "no question" Merrick Garland could be confirmed to the Supreme Court." by Alex Shephard.

Article: "Trump's Supreme Court Crime Spree " by Thom Hartmann.

Crazy Alert: "'Dukes of Hazzard' actor attacks Biden as floods hit his state: 'We don't need the government coming in'" by David Edwards.

Article: "Most Federally Dependent States – A Complete Rundown" by BalancingEverything.

Crazy Alert: "Conservative broadcaster who questioned vaccines and mocked AIDS deaths now sick with COVID-19 " by Travis Gettys.

Crazy Alert: "Fox News host complains vaccinated are 'otherizing' anti-vaxxers: 'Next step is putting unvaccinated into camps'" by David Badash.

Article: "Another conservative anti-vaccine radio talk show host succumbs to COVID, third in a month" by Theresa Braine.

Bible: "If people are fighting and hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely[a] but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman's husband demands and the court allows. But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life," - Exodus 21:22-23".

Article: "What the Bible says about Abortion" by SAB.

Law: "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act" (HIPAA).

Site: Progressive Voices.

Audio: TARABUSTER Weekday: Wresting America from the Clutches of Oligarchy (with Thom Hartmann).

Book: The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Hurricane Katrina" by Wikipedia.

Article: "War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "COVID-19 pandemic" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Republicans Are Giving Abortion Opponents Power Over the Rest of Us" by Michelle Goldberg.

Article: "Of Course White Women Voted for Trump Again" by Angelina Chapin.

Article: "Texas abortion: Biden vows 'whole-of-government' response to new law" by BBC.

Article: "Chile" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Peru" by Wikipedia.

Article: "South Korea" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Park Chung-hee" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Francisco Franco" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Report on the Subject of Manufactures" by Alexander Hamilton.

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