Abbott and DeSantis should be looking at jail time or serious civil fines for engaging in this heartless, racist sport. They came off the buses and planes hoping for a promised new life, a home, and paying work. They brought their children, on their best behavior, excited to meet American kids and enroll in school. Hungry from the long trip, they were wondering what their first meal would be like in their new homes in their new country.

Instead, they faced Fox "News" cameras and hack "reporters" shouting questions at them in a language they didn't understand. Blinking back tears, they asked in Spanish what they'd done wrong.

It turns out what was "wrong" was their skin color and national origin, at least in the minds of Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott.

Racists understand how to get the attention of other racists. And, really, that's all they want, no matter how many people are hurt in the process.

This is an old, old story.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Friday's Daily Stack

Article: "Abbott & DeSantis Just Revived the "Freedom Ride North"" by Thom Hartmann.

Tweet: "Governor Newsom calls on @TheJusticeDept to investigate interstate transportation of migrants. [letter]" by Office of the Governor of California.

Tweet: "7 bedrooms with 8 and a half bathrooms in a 6,892-square-foot house on nearly 30 acres. Plenty of space. [photo]" by Jeremy Redfern .

Tweet: "The Department of Justice needs to investigate Governor DeSantis for using fraud and deception to lure people out of state only to abandon them without fulfilling his false promises. Same for Greg Abbott. They’re engaging in human trafficking." by Joaquin Castro.

Article: "Reverse Freedom Ride: Negro Family On Way Here" by JFK Library.

Article: "Telegram from John M. Arruda, mayor of Fall River, Massachusetts to President Kennedy".

Article: "Migrants on Martha's Vineyard flight say they were told they were going to Boston" by Eve Zuckoff, Luis Clemens, Joel Rose, Greg Allen, Kevin Drew.

Article: "The Cruelty Is the Point" by Adam Serwer.

Article: "Lawless, corrupt, and dangerous" by Robert B. Hubbell.

Article: "Nicholas Katzenbach" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "History Does Not Repeat Itself, But It Rhymes" - attributed to Mark Twain.

Law: "Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act", 1970 (RICO).

Article: "‘The American People Deserve So Much Better Than This,’ Biden Says" by Reuters.

Article: "Arizona, Texas and Florida governors send migrants on buses, flights to Democratic states" by Rodrique Ngowi.

Site: Daily Kos.

Site: OpEdNews.

Article: "Martha’s Vineyard Could House Six Million Refugees" by John Carney.

Article: "Send All of the Illegals to Martha’s Vineyard" by Dan Gelernter.

Article: "DeSantis was right to send migrants to Martha's Vineyard. We need to bring border crisis to Democrats" by Karol Markowicz.

Article: "Denizens of Martha's Vineyard freak out over 50 illegal migrants" by Monica Showalter.

Article: "The Martha’s Vineyard Holocaust" by Scott McKay.

Article: "DeSantis Is Just Masterfully Trolling Impotent Libs Now" by Stephen Kruiser.

Article: "Lawless, corrupt, and dangerous." by Robert B. Hubbell.

Article: "Judge Cannon Assigns Special Master, Refuses to Let DOJ Examine Classified Docs" by Chris Walker.

Article: "Mexico–United States border" by Wikipedia.

Article: "George W. Bush and Mexican Immigration Policy" by Ramón Gutiérrez.

Article: "Reverse Freedom Riders: Cape Cod migrant crisis evokes 50-year-old memories of similar ploy" by Rachael Devaney.

Article: "Merrick Garland" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Civil Rights Act of 1964".

Book: "The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore Its Greatness" by Thom Hartmann.

Case: "Bush v. Gore" ("irreparable harm").

Site: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse Youtube Channel.

Article: "Japan has world's lowest proportion of working-age people, U.N. report says".

Article: "Senator calls Ron DeSantis a 'power mad tyrant' after Martha's Vineyard stunt" by Matt Laslo.

Article: "Latest poll of Florida Governor race: Ron DeSantis 50%, Charlie Crist 47%" by Jacob Ogles.

Article: "Charlie Crist" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Val Demings" by Wikipedia.

Site: Charlie Crist for Governor.

Hour Two: National Progressive Townhall Meeting
- Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA, 17th District) / Author of 2 books, his latest Dignity In A Digital Age: Making Tech Work For All Of Us

Video: Ro Khanna's questions in hearing on Big Oil's profiteering and climate disinformation efforts.

Article: "Oil Executives Privately Contradicted Public Statements on Climate, Files Show" by Hiroko Tabuchi.

Article: "Paris Agreement (Climate Change).

Article: "EU proposes $140 billion windfall tax on energy companies" by Anna Cooban.

Article: "Public Funding Is Pouring Into Texas’ Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Centers While Abortion Access Hangs in the Balance" by Mary Tuma.

Article: "US House passes bill removing 7% country-cap on Green Card, Indians may benefit" by PTI.

Article: "The Social Security 2100 Act" by John Larson.

Article: "Worker shortages are fueling America’s biggest labor crises" by Abha Bhattarai.

Article: "DeSantis Sent Planes of Migrants to Martha’s Vineyard. Residents Welcomed Them." by Igor Derysh.

Article: "Families separated by Trump administration at the border still waiting for reunification" by Sharyn Alfonsi.

Article: "Democrats clash over Manchin side deal, raising shutdown risk" by Rachel Frazin.

Article: "Biden said to be pondering a climate emergency declaration soon, along with executive actions" by Meteor Blades.

Article: "Carried Interest Explained: Who It Benefits and How It Works" by James Chen.

Bill: "H.R.8658 - Emergency Price Stabilization Act of 2022" by Rep. Bowman, Jamaal [D-NY-16].

Article: "Freddie Mac" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fannie Mae" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Culinary, stymied by NLV, shifts rent stabilization effort to Clark and Washoe" by NV Current.

Article: "There Is Way More Biden Can Do to Lower Prices" by Ro Khanna.

Article: "Record ad spend for 2022 midterms" by Sara Fischer.

Article: "Statement: Rep. Khanna welcomes Sen. Gillibrand’s ‘Democracy Dollars” plan, praises others to join the field" by Ro Khanna.

Article: "Diablo Canyon: Newsom signs bill to keep reactors running at CA's last operating nuclear power plant" by Michael R. Blood.

Article: "Congressional Committee Advances Psychedelics Amendment But Blocks Marijuana Proposal" by Kyle Jaeger.

Bill: "H.R.82 - Social Security Fairness Act of 2021" by Rep. Davis, Rodney [R-IL-13].

Article: "What’s happening at the U.S.-Mexico border in 7 charts" by John Gramlich and Alissa Scheller.

Article: "For Donald Trump, Information Has Always Been Power" by Andrea Bernstein.

Book: ADHD and the Edison Gene: A Drug-Free Approach to Managing the Unique Qualities of Your Child by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Biden Blasts Abbott and DeSantis: 'Playing Politics With Human Beings'" by Adrian Carrasquillo.

Article: "Deseret Power breaks ground on a solar project in rural Utah" by Utah Business.

Article: "Boardman smokestack demolished, marking the end of a coal-fired era in Oregon" by Tom Banse.

Article: "Inflation Reduction Act includes billions in clean energy funds for states" by Doug Cunningham.

Article: "Biden signs $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill into law, unlocking funds for transportation, broadband, utilities" by Jacob Pramuk.

Article: "Jobs created during U.S. presidential terms" by Wikipedia.

Article: "US Presidents and Recessions – What Can We Learn?" by Urban Carmel.

Article: "Size of the Federal Reserve's balance sheet since quantitative easing (QE) measures were introduced from March 2020 to May 2022" by Statista.

Article: "The Dollar Is Extremely Strong, Pushing Down the World" by Karl Russell, Joe Rennison and Jason Karaian.

Book: Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work by Dr. Paul Babiak, Dr. Robert D. Hare.

Book: "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late" by Thom Hartmann.

Video: Before the Flood.

Article: "Patagonia founder gives away company to help fight climate crisis" by Reuters.

Article: "Brittney Griner sentenced to 9 years in Russian prison after conviction on drug charges" by CBS/AP.

Article: "Biden's evolution away from drug-and-crime warrior mirrors America's — and Democrats' — changing attitudes" by Suzanne Smalley.

Quote: "History Does Not Repeat Itself, But It Rhymes" - attributed to Mark Twain.

Article: "What Happens When the Brain Goes Quiet but the Heart Continues Beating?" by Daniela J. Lamas.

Article: "Signing of the United States Constitution" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "Governments can err, presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that Divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted on different scales. Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference." - Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Speech: "Campaign dinner address of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (the Fala speech)", 9/23/1944 "Remember, a number of years ago, there was a book, Mein Kampf, written by Hitler himself. The technique was all set out in Hitler's book - and it was copied by the aggressors of Italy and Japan. According to that technique, you should never use a small falsehood; always a big one, for its very fantastic nature would make it more credible - if only you keep repeating it over and over and over again.".

Article: "Railroad CEOs Reaped Windfall As Workers Suffered" by Matthew Cunningham-Cook.

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

I'll be talking with Andy Kroll, Investigative Reporter - ProPublica / Previously DC Bureau Chief for Rolling Stone and has also worked for many other respected publications including Mother Jones & New Republic / Author of the new book (his first!!), A Death on W Street: The Murder of Seth Rich and the Age of Conspiracy

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