Lying about religion — in the sphere of politics — ceases to be about religion and instead becomes about power. A power that has sought, repeatedly throughout history, to replace democracy.

It's not often that a photograph makes its way into a Supreme Court ruling, but it happened this week because Justice Sonia Sotomayor felt it necessary to expose Neil Gorsuch and his Republican colleagues on the Court as unrepentant liars.

Lying has become a habit for Republicans on the Court.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Jan 6 committee hearings live: Cheney describes possible witness tampering after ex-aide' testimony" by Joan E Greve.

Video: Sixth Hearing on Investigation of Capitol Attack, June 28, 2022.

Article: "New J6 Narrative About Trump And Secret Service Collapses Hours After Tuesday Hearing" by Tristan Justice.

Article: "Bombshell J6 Testimony About Trump's Behavior Collapses Within Hours" by Brianna Lyman.

Article: "Top Former White House Lawyer Delivers Devastating Blow To Cassidy Hutchinson Testimony" by Ryan Saavedra.

Article: "Secret Service Agents Are Itching to Debunk Latest J6 Lies" by Katie Pavlich.

Article: "L.A. Times' 8 'Bombshells' from Hutchinson Testimony Are All Duds" by Joel B. Pollak.

Article: "The Key Aspects of Yesterday's Hearing" by Amee Vanderpool.

Article: "Benito Mussolini" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Blackshirts" by Wikipedia.

Article: "March on Rome" (Mussolini, 1922) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Anthony 'Tony' Ornato: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know" by Jessica McBride.

Article: "Trump's Secret Service Detail 'Cheered on the Insurrection'—Carol Leonnig" by Gerrard Kaonga.

Article: "SCOTUS Has Dissolved Into A Blur Of BS, Qanon & Fundamentalist Religion" by Thom Hartmann.

Book: "In God we trust"; the religious beliefs and ideas of the American founding fathers by Norman Cousins.

Book: "The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment" by Thom Hartmann.

Book: The Jefferson Bible, Smithsonian Edition: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth by Thomas Jefferson.

Case: "Kennedy v. Bremerton School District" (2022).

Article: "This is a Game Where Principles are the Stake" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "GOP Rep. Boebert: 'I'm tired of this separation of church and state junk'" by Adela Suliman and Timothy Bella.

Law: "Article VI of the constitution". ("...no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States")

Case: "Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization" (2022).

Article: "Kansas City healthcare companies forced to stop giving emergency birth control to rape survivors" by Sarah K. Burris.

Article: "Adolf Hitler" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Cassidy Hutchinson's chilling testimony" by Robert Reich.

Article: "Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now" (ACORN).

Article: "Trump Tweets of January 6, 2021" by The American Presidency Project.

Article: "America Must Never Forget what Trump & the GOP Did On April 7th, 2020" by Thom Hartmann.

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 and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make...."

Article: "Atheist worker fired after refusing to attend company's Christian prayer in NC, feds say" by Julia Marnin.

Hour Two: There's a lot of talk by rightwingers about returning to the Gold Standard. What was the gold standard, how did it work, and why is returning to it either impossible or a bad idea?
- 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 e-book)

Article: "Gold standard" by Wikipedia.

Article: "European central banks remain leaders for gold" by Central Banking.

Article: "Fort Knox Bullion Depository" by United States Mint.

Article: "Cryptocurrency" by Wikipedia.

Video: Thom Hartmann on the Supreme Court and Political News of the Day - Washington Journal 06/28/2022.

Article: "ACT UP" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tucker Carlson Predicts the Government Will Lace the Water Supply with Antidepressants to Pacify Americans: 'That's Coming'" by Michael Luciano.

Article: "QAnon" by Wikipedia.

Article: "John Birch Society" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" by Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Article: "What Is "Stochastic Terrorism," And Why Is It Trending?" by dictionary.com.

Article: "The Stained Blue Dress that Almost Lost a Presidency " by Douglas O. Linder.

Tweet: "It's literally all hearsay evidence. What a joke." by House Judiciary GOP.

Article: "Attorney Gives Rep. Jim Jordan A Scathing Personal Lesson In Hearsay" by Ben Blanchet.

Tweet: "Naw, man, only some of it is hearsay. Need help understanding the difference? I'm here to help you. I'm hoping to help you. /1" by TheKetchupDeserveditHat.

Article: "John Dean" by Wikipedia.

Article: "It's Not Just the Fate of Abortion or Democrats At Stake: Democracy Hangs In the Balance" by Thom Hartmann.

Show: "June 22, 2022: Legendary progressive radio host Thom Hartmann, CNN's Julian Zelizer and journalist Alex Berg- June 22 show" by Dean Obeidallah.

Article: "How we fail black patients in pain" by Janice A. Sabin.

Article: "Governor DeWine Signs State Budget That Includes Anti-LGBTQ Medical Refusal Language " by Wyatt Ronan.

Article: "2021 Officially Becomes Worst Year in Recent History for LGBTQ State Legislative Attacks as Unprecedented Number of States Enact Record-Shattering Number of Anti-LGBTQ Measures Into Law" by Wyatt Ronan.

Article: "Nearly 240 anti-LGBTQ bills filed in 2022 so far, most of them targeting trans people" by Matt Lavietes and Elliott Ramos.

Site: Human Rights Campaign.

Article: "Sheldon Whitehouse" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Amy Klobuchar" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Roger Stone" by Wikipedia.

Article: ""Stop the Steal" Didn't Start in 2020 - It Was 20 Years In the Making" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Insurrection Day Gallows on Capitol Grounds Planned Weeks Ahead of Jan. 6 Siege" by Adele M. Stan.

Quote: "Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana.

Quote: "Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future." - George Orwell.

Article: "'New Low': Laura Ingraham Selectively Edits Jeffrey Toobin's Comments About Clarence Thomas to Make Them Sound Racist" by Michael Luciano.

Case: "Griswold v Connecticut" (1965) (contraception for married couples).

Case: "Lawrence v Texas" (2003) (made same-sex sexual activity legal).

Case: "Obergefell v Hodges" (2015) (same sex marriage).

Article: "Trump's false or misleading claims total 30,573 over 4 years" by Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly.

Article: "The Trump vs. Obama economy — in 16 charts" by Heather Long.

Quote: "If a white man wants to lynch me, that's his problem. If he's got the power to lynch me, that's my problem." - Stokely Carmichael.

Article: "Stokely Carmichael" (aka Kwame Ture) by Wikipedia.

Article: "NY AG Letitia James Set to Grill Trump During Deposition" by Laura Italiano.

Article: "Georgia lawmaker is arrested and removed from Capitol after protesting new voting restrictions" by Jason Silverstein.

Article: "Supreme Court hits voting rights again, proving 'voting harder' isn't enough for Democrats" by Joan McCarter.

Case: "Shelby County v. Holder", 2013.

Article: "When John Roberts Said There Isn't Enough Racism In America To Justify The Voting Rights Act" by Ian Millhiser.

Article: "Rich New Yorkers are getting bladder surgery and Botox to avoid bathroom breaks on the drive to the Hamptons" by Doree Lewak.

Article: "The Supreme Court May Be Preparing to Light our Planet on Fire" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Anne Gorsuch Burford, Neil's Mother: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know" by Chris Bucher.

Article: "Justice Stephen Breyer to retire Thursday at noon, swear in Ketanji Brown Jackson" by ABC News.

Bible: "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." - 2 Timothy 2:15.

Site: Enjoy The Bible Ministries.

Article: "Acts 9" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Exactly What Is 'the Dispensation Of Grace' Anyway?" by Shawn Brasseaux.

Article: "Lessons the Jan. 6 panel could take from the 9/11 Commission" by PBS NewsHour.

Article: "Greenback (1860s money)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Executive Order 6102" "forbidding the hoarding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the continental United States." (FDR) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Notes on the State of Virginia" by Thomas Jefferson.

Article: "Monrovia", Liberia by Wikipedia.

Book: Writings : Autobiography / Notes on the State of Virginia / Public and Private Papers / Addresses / Letters by Thomas Jefferson.

Article: "The Kentucky Resolutions of 1798" by Thomas Jefferson.

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

I'll be talking with Rev. William Barber, Pastor-Greenleaf Christian Church, Disciples of Christ in Goldsboro, North Carolina / President & Senior Lecturer - Repairers of the Breach and the architect of the Forward Together Moral Movement

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