When a guy shooting up a subway car is charged with terrorism but a group kills six people trying to end the rule of law in America isn't, something is out of kilter. Congress must act.

Terrorism is defined as using violence or the threat of violence to achieve political ends. Although the Brooklyn subway shooter has been charged with terrorism, we don't yet know if he had any actual political goals or was simply mentally ill.

Ted Cruz was closer to the mark when he called the January 6th insurrectionists "terrorists" … at least until Tucker Carlson called him in for a spanking. No more of that kind of talk from Ted.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Friday's Daily Stack

Article: "How Do We Break the Cycle Of Political Violence?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Judge calls Donald Trump a 'charlatan' and says 'democracy is in trouble' after trial of January 6 defendant" by Charles R. Davis.

Article: "Man arrested in New York subway attack tipped off police to his location" by Michael R. Sisak, Michael Balsamo and Jennifer Peltz.

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

Law: "Civil Rights Act of 1964".

Case: "Church Arson Prevention Act of 1996".

Case: "Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act".

Article: "Red Brigades" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Red Army Faction" by Wikipedia.

Article: "ETA (separatist group)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Timothy McVeigh" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Oklahoma City bombing" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Vehicles flying Trump flags try to force a Biden-Harris campaign bus off a highway in Texas" by David Montgomery and Maggie Haberman.

Article: "The suspect accused of placing pipe bombs outside the DNC and RNC headquarters before the January 6 riot still hasn't been arrested" by Grace Panetta.

Article: "Republicans pull out of presidential debate commission" by Dave Goldiner.

Article: "Good Friday" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Why Good Friday was dangerous for Jews in the Middle Ages and how that changed" by Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski.

Article: "Passover" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tax Day" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Sinking of the Titanic" by Wikipedia.

Site: FairTax.

Article: "Yes, They Want You Dead" by Jessica Valenti.

Article: ""You are what's wrong with America today."" by kpete.

Article: "We're willing to make a deal to restore N.J. property tax break, top Biden official says" by Jonathan D. Salant.

Article: "Your Complete Guide to the 2018 Tax Changes" by Matthew Frankel.

Article: "State and Local Tax (SALT) Deduction" by Tax Foundation.

Article: "300 snow geese killed, then abandoned along road near Falls City" by Kearney Hub.

Article: "Wind company pleads guilty to killing at least 150 bald eagles" by Isaac Orr.

Law: "19th Amendment, August 18, 1920. "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex."

Article: "Abortion in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Historical Abortion Law Timeline: 1850 to Today" by Planned Parenthood Action Fund.

Article: "How many troops has Russia sent into invasion of Ukraine?" by AS USA.

Article: "Putin Fires 150 Russian Officers, Some Imprisoned Over Failed Ukraine War: Report" by Danielle Ong.

Article: "Fuming Putin fires generals over invasion losses, says Ukraine" by Evan Simko-Bednarski.

Article: "Why are so many Russian generals dying in Ukraine?" by Economist.

Article: "Mystery as Putin's defence chief has heart attack 'NOT from natural causes' amid disastrous Ukraine war, critic claims" by Will Stewart, Tom Hussey.

Article: "U.S. is the least socially and economically mobile in developed world, says Jeb Bush" by Joshua Gillin.

Speech: "A Rendezvous With Destiny", 27 June 1936 acceptance speech by Franklin D. Roosevelt. "An old English judge once said: "Necessitous men are not free men.""

Article: "The debate dividing the January 6 committee" by Andrew Prokop.

Tweet: "Rep. @IanMack03007724 spoke for our entire caucus last night:
We are not afraid to stand for trans children and the families who love and support them. And we will ALWAYS stand against bigotry, no matter what form it takes. #moleg" by Missouri House Democratic Caucus.

Article: "A restaurant manager flew a Ukrainian flag. Hateful messages followed." by Jonathan Edwards.

Article: "German collaboration and complicity" by The Wiener Holocaust Library.

Movie: "WarGames".

Article: "Leonardo da Vinci" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Reagan paid back his friends for house they bought for him" by Pam Stevens.

Article: "Patti Davis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ron Reagan" by Wikipedia.

Bible: "For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places" - Matthew 24:7".

Article: "Black Death" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Revelation 19" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Antifa (United States)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Nina Turner Mounts Likely Rematch Bid Against Rep. Shontel Brown in Ohio" by Ursula Perano.

Article: "'Nina Is a Real Leader Who Fights': Sanders Endorses Turner for Congress" by Jake Johnson.

Video: Why French Elections Are a Warning to the World (w/ Cole Stangler).

Article: "Marine Le Pen proposes closer Nato-Russia ties after Ukraine war" by Angelique Chrisafis.

Article: "Is 'long Covid' worsening the labor shortage?" by Katie Bach.

Article: "Understanding Long Covid" by Jonathan Wolfe.

Article: "It's Time to Nationalize the Fossil Fuel Industry" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Natural Resources Revenue Data: Alabama" by U.S. Department of the Interior.

Article: "Alaska Permanent Fund" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Supreme Court allows Alabama's redistricting map despite racial gerrymandering claim" by Alex Swoyer.

Article: "Rep. Barry Moore" by govtrack.

Article: "Republican Party withdraws from U.S. commission on presidential debates" by David Morgan and Doina Chiacu.

Video: TNC:172 Kennedy-Nixon First Presidential Debate, 1960.

Article: "League Refuses to "Help Perpetrate a Fraud"" by League of Women Voters.

Article: "Deb Haaland" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Yellowstone (American TV series)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Why Russia's thawing permafrost is a global problem" by Michel Martin.

Article: "Power and myth of the Kremlin" by DW.

Law: "Telecommunications Act of 1996" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fairness Doctrine" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream by Thom Hartmann.

Site: Quiet Clean PDX.

Article: "Georgia runoff: Democrats win US Senate control after taking two seats" by DW.

Article: "American Rescue Act Brings Back Government For The People" by Frances Langum.

Article: "Mitt Romney Applauds Ketanji Brown Jackson's Confirmation as Fellow Republican Senators Walk Out" by Virginia Chamlee.

Speech: "A Rendezvous With Destiny", Franklin D. Roosevelt, 27 June 1936 speech to the Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. "These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power."

Article: "Inflation is out of control! Urgent memo to Biden and the Democrats! " by Robert Reich.

Video: Beau of the Fifth Column: Let's talk about the Air Force sending a message.....

Book: The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Killing of Vanessa Guillén" by Wikipedia.

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

I'll be talking with Rachel Laser, President & CEO - Americans United for Separation of Church and State (the legal team legal team representing the Bremerton School District) about the Supreme Court's "Praying Coach" Case

Plus, Does Nature Have Rights? - Thomas Linzey. Senior Counsel - Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights (CDER)

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