The Republican death cult is playing Russian Roulette with women's lives. People will die because of this grotesque effort to court the vote of misogynist men and religious zealots… Last week a Texas woman with an ectopic pregnancy — a life-threatening condition that never produces a baby — was forced to wait until it ruptured inside her, putting her life in danger. Imagine if that was you or someone you loved.

Republican laws are now making doctors wait until women are nearly dead before they can provide life-saving medical treatment for lethal conditions like that ectopic pregnancy and incomplete miscarriages. This is insane.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Who reads your mail? Nobody? It depends what system you use for communication.

Paper mail that is delivered by the government-run U.S. Postal Service carries legal protections for the privacy of our communications. Nobody, at least without a court order, can read our letters or track what we send and receive.

But if you send an e-mail, the corporation that provides your Internet access can keep track of who you correspond with, what Web sites you visit, and everything you write, read, and view.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

The Best of the Rest of the News.

— Because we haven't held Trump accountable he's now forming a shadow government.
— Why haven't Members of Congress who participated in Trump's traitorous coup plot been pulled before a grand jury?
— It looks like Fox "News" is trying to get another abortion doctor murdered.
— Manchin is destroying Democrats' chances in the elections this fall.
— Who deletes their texts BEFORE getting a new phone?
— Attempts to replace our secular government with white Christian dominionist theocracy have shifted into high gear.
— In a twitter thread earlier this week I laid out the GOP history Republicans hope women won't know about or remember this fall.
— What will Ted Cruz do with the items from the childhood victims of mass shooters?
— Geeky Science: How hot is too hot for the human body?
— Crazy Alert! The new rightwing story about Trump's witness tampering attempt is that it was a butt-dial. Seriously.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Article: "What Will You Do When the GOP Comes For Your Wife, Daughter, or Sister?" by Thom Hartmann.

Tweet: "Confusion post-Roe spurs delays, denials for some lifesaving pregnancy care. In Wisconsin, a woman bled for more than 10 days from an incomplete miscarriage after emergency room staff would not remove the fetal tissue [link]" by Fenit Nirappil.

Article: "Confusion post-Roe spurs delays, denials for some lifesaving pregnancy care" by Frances Stead Sellers and Fenit Nirappil.

Article: "210 House Republicans just voted against equal pay for women" by Donna Provencher and Josh Israel.

Article: "Phyllis Schlafly Bio – founder of Eagle Forum" by Eagle Forum.

Article: "Invidious Distinctions: Credit Discrimination Against Women, 1960s-Present" by Lawrence Austin Bowdish.

Article: "Where Did the Religious Nuttery Come From?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Congress Says No to Equal Pay" by Colleen Curtis.

Case: "General Electric v Gilbert" (1976).

Article: "Unequal Protection: The Corporate Conquest of America" by Thom Hartmann.

Tweet: "They did this right before interviewing the Republican Indiana Attorney General who says he is going to investigate the doctor.
The actual segment showed the doctor's face but blocking it out here." by No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen.

Book: "Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became "People" - And How You Can Fight Back" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Bill O'Reilly's No Spin News and Analysis".

Article: "Texas hospitals are refusing to see people with serious pregnancy issues for fear of violating post-Roe abortion ban, medical group says" by Bethany Dawson.

Article: "The shameful vote by 172 Republicans" by Dean Obeidallah.

Bill: "H.R.8163 - Equal Credit Opportunity Act" by Rep. Abzug, Bella S. [D-NY-20].

Bill: "H.R.5056 - A bill to amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit sex discrimination on the basis of pregnancy." by Rep. Hawkins, Augustus F. [D-CA-29].

Bill: "S.995 - A bill to amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit sex discrimination on the basis of pregnancy." by Sen. Williams, Harrison A., Jr. [D-NJ].

Case: "General Elec. Co. v. Gilbert" (1976).

Article: "Bill O'Reilly Defends His Attacks On Dr. George Tiller, The Abortion Provider Who Was Later Assassinated" by Katie Sullivan.

Article: "Limbaugh returned to “testicle lockbox”; claimed Clinton “reminds men of the worst characteristics of women”" by Anne Smith.

Article: "Rush Limbaugh's most outrageous moments in 25 years on the radio" by Morgan Whitaker.

Article: "Texas mom went through 'nightmare' after being denied treatment for miscarriage: CNN" by Brad Reed.

Article: "Doctors report compromising care out of fear of Texas abortion law" by Eleanor Klibanoff.

Article: "People Fleeing Abortion-Ban States Are Desperate for Our Help" by Dr. Jennifer Conti.

Article: "Texas Docs Told Not to Treat Some Pregnant Women Under New Abortion Ban" by Alan Halaly.

Article: "Schlafly: Sex Harrassment on Job No Problem for Virtuous Women" by Spencer Rich.

Article: "Why aren't there more Republican women in Congress?" by Laurel Elder.

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

Article: "Here's how Rand Paul could legally dissolve the Department of Education" by Abby Jackson.

Article: "Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team (FCMAT)" by California Department of Education.

Article: "Radio host Glenn Beck “thinking about killing Michael Moore”" by Media Matters.

Article: "Glenn Beck Defends Bashing Non-Profit Targeted By CA Shooting Suspect (AUDIO)" by Jillian Rayfield.

Article: "Is it time for Democrats to kick Joe Manchin out of the party?" by Robert Reich.

Article: "Economy of West Virginia" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Apocalypse': Hundreds dead as extreme heat wave broils Europe; UK could break record" by Doyle Rice.

Article: "Youngkin talks giving Va. families $1,500 tax break, doubling standard deduction to $18,000" by Potomac Local News.

Article: "Polish women protest attempts to further restrict abortion" by AP.

Song: "Face the Fire" by Dan Fogelberg.

Article: "Arctic Refuge lease sale goes bust, with no bids from major oil companies" by Tegan Hanlon and Nathaniel Herz.

Article: "Trump Tells Team He Needs to Be President Again to Save Himself from Criminal Probes" by Asawin Suebsaeng& Adam Rawnsley.

Article: "CBS Chief Les Moonves Says Trump's 'Damn Good' For Business" by Nick Visser.

Article: "Benito Mussolini" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Adolf Hitler" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Augusto Pinochet" (Chile) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ferdinand Marcos" (Philippines) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Recep Tayyip Erdoğan" (Turkey) by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "Andrzej Duda" (Poland) by Wikipedia.

Article: "A BYU student prank-called his Mormon mom saying he got a stripper pregnant. She told him to get her an abortion, sparking debate on the pro-life movement" by Jack Alban.

Article: "The billionaires buying the midterm elections" by Judd Legum.

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010)

Article: "How Much Trump's Tax Cuts Cost the Government" by Kimberly Amadeo.

Quote: "It violates the essence of what made America a great country in its political system. Now it's just an oligarchy with unlimited political bribery being at the essence of getting the nominations for president or elected president. And the same thing applies to governors and U.S. senators and Congress members. So now we've just seen a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors who want and expect and sometimes get favors for themselves after the election's over'." - President Jimmy Carter on unlimited money in politics on the Thom Hartmann Program, 28 July 2015.

Article: "After discrediting a report on a 10-year-old Ohio girl needing an abortion, Fox's Jesse Watters now targets the girl's Indiana doctor" by Media Matters.

Article: "Ohio 10-year-old's alleged rapist is Guatemalan illegal immigrant: ICE" by Adam Shaw , Bill Melugin.

Article: "California, Oregon, Washington form pact to ensure abortion, contraceptive access" by Hey SoCal.

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

Article: "GI Bill of Rights: A Profitable Investment for the United States" by Labor Party.

Article: "CNN Special Report: Steve Bannon, Divided We Fall Reported by Drew Griffin, Airs Sunday, July 17 AT 8pm ET" by CNN.

Article: "Power in chaos: Steve Bannon is disrupting democracy. This is how" by Rob Kuznia, Bob Ortega and Audrey Ash.

Article: "Ken Griffin spent $54 million to fight tax hike on the rich. Secret IRS data shows it's paying off" by Paul Kiel & Mick Dumke.

Article: "J. B. Pritzker" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Humanity faces ‘collective suicide' over climate crisis, warns UN chief" by Fiona Harvey.

Article: "UK gets ready for travel disruptions as temps may hit 104 F" by Danica Kirka.

Article: "Norway bans gas car sales in 2025, but trends point toward 100% EV sales as early as April" by Jameson Dow.

Article: "Media Matters exposes Bennett: "[Y]ou could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down"" by Andrew Seifter.

Tweet: "Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) was criticized for posting a Christmas photo Saturday showing his family members all holding long guns. The Twitter post was accompanied by the caption, 'Merry Christmas! ps. Santa, please bring ammo.'" by NowThis.

Bill: "H.R.899 - To terminate the Department of Education." by Rep. Massie, Thomas [R-KY-4].

Article: "GOP Wants To Abolish Dept of Education in the Name of Freedom" by Olafimihan Oshin.

Law: "Job Training Partnership Act of 1982".

Article: "Dem Gov. Pritzker: FL's DeSantis is Trump in a mask and GOP likes white extremism".

Speech: "First Inaugural Address", Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 4 March 1933. "Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself-nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."

Quote: "Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless." - Martin Luther King Jr..

Article: "4 great white sharks spotted off East Coast amid surge in attacks" by Ben Cost.

Article: "Roe v. Crime" by Robert J. Samuelson.

Book: Freakonomics Revised and Expanded Edition by Stephen J. Levitt, Steven D. Dubner.

Article: "Freakonomics" by Wikipedia.

Tweet: "Trump just told the crowd he will join them in marching over to the Capitol.
(It's not clear whether he actually will, given he drove from the building behind him in a motorcade and is speaking from behind bulletproof glass.)" by Josh Wingrove.

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

TX Abortion Ban Challenged By City of Austin - José “Chito” Vela, Austin City Council District 4 Council Member / prior to his election, he worked as an immigration & criminal defense lawyer / law degree from University of Texas at Austin

Plus, Iran Nuclear Deal...Where Do We Go From Here? I'll be talking with Dr. Trita Parsi, Executive Vice President, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

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