So why is it that Republicans tolerate breathtaking levels of corruption and criminality among their elected representatives and cronies, but Democrats won't?

Hunter Biden traded on his father's name to get positions on boards of directors that paid him millions, but there's no evidence he ever harmed American foreign policy or American interests. Jared Kushner, though, appears to have been paid $2 billion by the Saudis for steering his father-in-law's administration away from the Khashoggi murder and toward millions in congressionally banned weaponry to further destroy Yemen.

Now the Saudis, apparently still collaborating with the Trump family, are refusing to increase oil production so that high prices at the pump will politically damage President Biden and Democrats in the elections this fall.

There's not even proportionality here.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Federal Judge Strikes Down Mask Mandate for Planes and Public Transit" by Charlie Savage and Heather Murphy.

Tweet: "I am on a plan with my 2 not-yet-eligible for vax kids & the pilot just announced that the mask mandate has just this minute ended. Ppl clapped & took off their masks. Here we are having boarded a plane with our kids. Very upset, @Delta, that this was announced mid flight." by Brooke Tansley.

Tweet: "Here we are, trapped in the sky with our 8 month old unmasked baby (you can't actually mask a baby that young) under the supposition that everyone who can be masked would be masked, and the flight 325 crew has taken our choices away from us. Very very angry about this." by Brooke Tansley.

Article: "COVID-19 may cause numerous microbleeds in the brain, even in mild disease" by novapsyche.

Article: "Moderna says its new 'bivalent' vaccine shows promise against COVID variants" by Rob Stein.

Article: "How Democratic Outrage Can End Trump's Reign " by Thom Hartmann.

Tweet: "Jovan Pulitzer, who conducted the Maricopa "audit," was just asked to describe Trump: "A messiah in Judaism is the person who would bring the one true God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to the world .. I believe that Donald Trump is a messiah .. he's a prophecy fulfilled."" [video] by Ron Filipkowski.

Article: "There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc." by Frank Wilhoit.

Article: "TNR Poll: Americans Agree Democracy Is Doomed, but Not About Why" by The New Republic.

Article: "Gov. Ron DeSantis signs fascist new anti-protesting law and the response was not what he wanted" by Christopher Powell.

Article: "Teen models, powerful men and private dinners: when Trump hosted Look of the Year" by Lucy Osborne, Harry Davies and Stephanie Kirchgaessner.

Case: "Marbury v Madison" (1803).

Video: Rachel Maddow Show: Republican smear operation exposed in new report.

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

Article: "Covid cases rise in US amid new virus strain" by IANS.

Article: "Coronavirus in Oregon: Reported infections up 50% in third week of case growth" by Fedor Zarkhin.

Article: "Trump-Appointed Judge Deemed 'Not Qualified' by Bar Association Voids Mask Mandate on Planes, Other Travel" by Althea Legaspi.

Site: Indivisible.

Site: Our Revolution.

Site: Progressive Democrats of America.

Article: "Don Rivers" by BallotPedia.

Hour Two: "Everyone everywhere is inextricably connected to and utterly dependent upon the existence of the sea." What is the state of the ocean?
- Dr. Sylvia A. Earle, President & Chairman - Mission Blue / National Geographic Explorer at Large, / former Chief Scientist of NOAA / Author of the new book National Geographic Ocean: A Global Odyssey

Article: "Ocean Conveyor Belt" by National Geographic.

Article: "Thermohaline circulation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "El Niño" by National Geographic.

Article: "What is the carbon cycle?" by NOAA National Ocean Service.

Article: "Photosynthesis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Commercial Fleets Reduced Big Fish by 90%, Study Says" by Andrew C. Revkin.

Article: "Micro plastics found in human blood for the first time…" by Damian Carrington.

Article: "Homosexuality in the New Testament" by Wikipedia.

Article: "What Does the Bible Really Say About Abortion?" by FFRF.

Bible: "The Sermon on the Mount".

Bible: "Matthew 25".

Article: "Rick Scott's '11 Point Plan to Rescue America' is so insane it's basically a gift to the Democrats " by Jeffrey C. Billman.

Article: "Brett Kavanaugh" by Wikipedia.

Book: Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present by Ruth Ben-Ghiat.

Book: "Cracking the Code: How to Win Hearts, Change Minds, and Restore America's Original Vision" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Jared Kushner Flaunted His Influence With Saudi Arabia, Russia in Pitch to Investors" by Ken Klippenstein.

Article: "Before Giving Billions to Jared Kushner, Saudi Investment Fund Had Big Doubts" by David D. Kirkpatrick and Kate Kelly.

Article: "Pulmonary hygiene" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Democrats Can Avoid Disaster in November" by Elizabeth Warren.

Article: "5 things to know about Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, Tampa judge who struck down travel mask mandate" by Dan Sullivan.

Article: "Tampa federal judge voids U.S. mask mandate for planes, other travel" by AP.

Article: "Kathryn Kimball Mizelle" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Democrats Should "Take On the Swamp" and Mean It" by Thom Hartmann.

TV: "Route 66: The Complete Series".

Law: "Sherman Antitrust Act", 1890.

Movie: "Wall Street (1987 film)".

Article: "Mergers and acquisitions" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Michael Milken" by Wikipedia.

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: "We Regret to Inform You That Tucker Carlson's New Special Does In Fact Promote 'Testicle Tanning'" by Sarah Rumpf.

Article: "'Why is that so hard to say?' CNN host slams GOP's Mike Lee for repeatedly refusing to call America a democracy" by Matthew Chapman.

Book: What Would Jefferson Do?: A Return to Democracy by Thom Hartmann by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Federalist 10" by James Madison.

Article: "The Federalist Papers : No. 1" by Alexander Hamilton.

Article: "Democratic-Republican Party" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Biden vows to send Ukraine more artillery as Congress pushes for military aid czar " by Joe Gould and Bryant Harris.

Article: "Dwight D. Eisenhower and the birth of the Interstate Highway System" by Lee Lacy.

Quote: "Every constitution then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of right." - Thomas Jefferson.

Article: "South Africa's Post-Apartheid Constitution" by Roger Omond.

Site: "Convention of States".

Article: "Convention to propose amendments to the United States Constitution" (Article V Convention) by Wikipedia.

Bible: "Exodus 20 : Ten Commandments".

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

I'll be talking with Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Co-founder, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System (now also available as an eBook)

Plus, Dr. Michael Mann, Distinguished Professor of Meteorology & Director, Earth System Science Center-Penn State University / Member-National Academy of Sciences & recipient of the Tyler Prize / author of several books including including his latest just out, The New Climate War / (previously, The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy) / Recipient of the Tyler Prize

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