The Best of the Rest of the News.
— Unless you've been living under a rock or watching Fox "News" you know that the January 6th Committee delved deeply into the 187 minutes during which Trump watched an armed crowd attack the Capitol and kill five people while looking to assassinate the Vice President and Speaker of the House.
— Arguably the most important "stabilizer" of the US government is our Civil Service, made up of around 2 million federal employees.
— One in five Americans now says that violence against other Americans to achieve a political goal is acceptable.
— Three Republican-controlled counties in Pennsylvania are
refusing to certify the recent primary election, in an apparent test of their ability to refuse to count mail-in ballots, which come predominantly from Democrats.
— Apparently some evangelical Christians have started reading their Bibles.
— Idaho Republicans say if it's a choice between a fetus or mom, mom dies and the fetus lives.
— A handful of rightwing billionaires have
put up about half of all the money raised by the two major GOP super PACs that work to elect Republicans to the House and Senate.
— Donald Trump Junior ripped off investors, vendors, employees and customers of a company he started while his dad was in the White House.
— The UN's Secretary General, António Guterres,
tells the world that humanity now faces "collective suicide" if we don't take prompt action to stop climate change.
— Geeky Science! Will monarch butterflies soon be extinct?
— A special note about Monday. I'm on a book deadline for The Hidden History of American Democracy and taking Monday off from the radio/TV show as well as this newsletter. You'll get the Sunday Book Excerpt tomorrow, then I'll be back in your inbox on Tuesday. Thanks for understanding…— Crazy Alert! Josh Hawley has broken the internet, as people all over the world are rolling on the floor laughing
Read more at
HartmannReport.com.
-Thom
