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Civil Society is Fully in a State of Gun Crisis
 Civil society requires that its citizens feel safe in public spaces; destroy that generalized sense of safety and you will radically warp public opinion to the right. Yesterday was, by some media counts, the 309th terrorist mass shooting in America so far this year. No other country in the world experiences this so often or so severely. Civil society requires that its citizens feel safe in public spaces; destroy that generalized sense of safety and you will radically warp public opinion to the right (which promises safety and "tough on crime") while producing a whole new generation of safe-space destroyers. Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom |
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Next, Rightwingers on the Court Want to Take Your First Amendment Rights
The future of our nation is now at risk just as much as it was in 1800, only this time it's a radicalized Supreme Court that's hell-bent on rewriting the American social and legal compact. "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." — Ecclesiastes 1:9In that famous verse, Solomon could have been writing about the Republicans who control today's Supreme Court. Having helped blow up the Fourth, Fifth, Ninth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch now want to dial the First Amendment back to 1798. And, given that it's the 4th of July and the day we celebrate actions by our Founding generation, its the perfect time to examine the behavior of the rightwingers on today's Supreme Court in the light of our Founder's reactions to a similar effort when they were still alive. You'll find it both enlightening and shocking.Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom |
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Unequal Protection: Unequal Taxes
You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessings. —President Andrew Jackson It costs money to run a government, and the more you want the government to do, the more it usually costs. One point to consider is how much do we want our government to do? Another is, who should pay for it? Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom
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Saturday Report 6/2/22 - Can a Flu Shot Reduce Your Risk of Alzheimer's Disease by 40%?
The Best of the Rest of the News. — This weekend we celebrate the Founding generation successfully fighting a Revolutionary War against what several identified as the rich, theocrats, and warlord kings. — Polling shows that Trump beats all comers, including DeSantis, in a Republican primary as speculation swirls that he may announce a 2024 run for president this 4th of July weekend.
— This Supreme Court is committed to remaking America in the vision of the rightwing billionaires who paid for it.
— Texas educators are stuck between the proverbial rock and a hard place when it comes to teaching the history of slavery in that state.
— Tucker Carlson is two-timing Orbán for Bolsonaro, his newest favorite strongman wannabee dictator.
— Florida's "Don't Say Gay" law took effect this past week and schools are rolling out restrictions on teachers wearing rainbows, blocking discussion in class of same-sex parents, and forcing teachers to notify parents if they think a child may be dressing or behaving in a way that's not "traditional" for their gender.
— Arizona is doubling down on the GOP war on public education wit a new "universal voucher" law that gives $7000 a year to families who pull their kids out of public schools and put them into for-profit private, religious, or all-white rightwing schools.
— Worries about the economy are spreading, according to polling.
— Geeky Science! Can a flu shot reduce your risk of Alzheimer's Disease by as much as 40 percent?
— Crazy Alert! Rudy Giuliani was offended when Cassidy Hutchison testified this past week that he'd sought a pardon from former President Trump.
Read more at HartmannReport.com.
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The Nightmare Scenario SCOTUS is Plotting For the 2024 Election Takeover
This scenario isn't just plausible: it's probable. GOP-controlled states are already changing their state laws to allow for it, regardless of how their people vote. Six Republicans on the Supreme Court just announced — a story that has largely flown under the nation's political radar — that they'll consider pre-rigging the presidential election of 2024. Here's how one aspect of it could work out, if they go along with the GOP's arguments that will be before the Court this October... Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom |
Tuesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Civil Society Is Fully In A State Of Gun Crisis
Tweet: " TW BLOOD please dont go to parades today i do not trust anything right now" by lilli.
Child Rapist Awarded Joint Custody - How was this kind of injustice even possible in America?
Why Is the Media Down Playing the Gun Terrorist Was a Mean Trumpster?
Tweet: " Methotrexate is an important part of lupus care. We are aware of reports that some people are having difficulty accessing methotrexate in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Dobbs case." by Lupus Foundation of America.
Hour Two: Next, Rightwingers on the Court Want to Take Your First Amendment Rights
DeSantis Brings in Fascism in Florida - Will He Also Bring it to America in 2024?
Article: " Sharia" by Wikipedia.
Article: " LDF opposes the confirmation of judge Amy Coney Barrett" by LDF. " Judge Barrett has written that the entire Fourteenth Amendment is “possibility illegitimate,†that Brown v. Board of Education, which ended legal apartheid in the United States, may have been incorrectly decided, and that the entire administrative state may be untenable from an originalist perspective. She has signed a newspaper advertisement stating: “It’s time to put an end to the barbaric legacy of Roe v. Wade.†And she made a speech suggesting that Title IX of the Civil Rights Act does not protect transgender persons." Quote: " The Phocion essays contain the most withering critique that Hamilton ever leveled at Jefferson as a slaveholder, and they hint heavily at knowledge of the SallyHemings affair." - Ron Chernow. |
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DeSantis Tests Fascism in Florida Before Nationwide Debut
America's Gun Crisis Strikes 4th of July
Why Trump Tried To Turn You Against Antifa
Can We Stop Radical Right's Political Violence?
Is Tucker Carlson Inciting Violence Again?
Why Progressives are DONE with Corporate Democrats
SCOTUS Dissolved Democracy into Blur Of Qanon & Fundamentalist Religion
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