Republicans simply don't believe that protecting the people of America is a legitimate function of government & they're strengthened in that belief by far-right billionaires' money showered on them.

Editorials in America's major newspapers are shocked — shocked, I tell you! — that DeSantis and Abbott would exploit asylum-seekers to rack up votes from their racist base.

Whatever happened to government being the power that helped people, they want to know?

But it was entirely predictable. Even, recently, by actual medical scientists.

The Lancet is arguably the most respected medical journal in the world. Founded in London in 1823, its reputation is impeccable and it only publishes science that's peer-reviewed and scientifically sound.>

Which is why their indictment of the four years of Republican rule under Trump, McConnell, and McCarthy — and the ongoing racism Republicans are today stoking — is particularly worthy of our attention.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Arizona changed its law after 1886 so that the word person would include nonliving as well as living legal entities: "'Person' includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person."

Many states have varying definitions of person depending on the part of law at issue. For example, there was a 1998 U.S. Supreme Court case in which a large part of the argument had to do with whether the Federal Trade Commission had the authority, under California law, to act as a person in enforcing a judgment against a telemarketer.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

The Best of the Rest of the News.

— Judge "Loose" Cannon breaks the law and lies for her patron, Donald Trump.
— Trump has a long history of using confidential information and intelligence to blackmail or extort other people and institutions, according to new reporting from ProPublica.
— Trump openly reaches out to Qanon.
— DeSantis and Abbott are using asylum-seeking families as political pawns to help them both win their gubernatorial races this fall and, for DeSantis, position him to run for the GOP nomination for president in 2024.
— Speaking Of DeSantis, his emphasis on racist memes and themes appears to be working.
— Greg Abbott appears to be hiding the deaths and disabilities of Texas women caused by his 6-week abortion ban.
— In Good News, Republicans appear to have lost their midterm lead, while youth voter registration is exploding.
Crazy Alert! Russian troops in Ukraine could use some special instruction in how to quickly flee dangerous situations, and who better than Josh Hawley to teach them?

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Article: "Let's Just All Acknowledge That Cruelty & Death Is the GOP Brand" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "A Casualty Of Rick Scott, The Florida Legislature, And The Party Of "No"" by Kathleen Voss Woolrich.

Article: "Republicans Seek to Repel Country of Origin Food Labels" by BlackJackal.

Article: "The Great American Smoke Out" by Mike Pence.

Article: "Stop the Medicare "Advantage" Scam Before Medicare is Dead" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "General Welfare".

Article: "Trump's Plan To Privatize Medicare" by Emily Gee, Maura Calsyn, Nicole Rapfogel.

Article: "Why the 2005 Social Security Initiative Failed, and What it Means for the Future" by William A. Galston.

Article: "Sugar In Children's Cereals: Popular Brands Pack More Sugar Than Snack Cakes And Cookies" by Paul Pestano, Etan Yeshua, Jane Houlihan.

Article: "Biden trolls Rick Scott over Rescue America plan" by Jenny Goldsberry.

Article: "Mortality attributable to cigarette smoking in the United States" by Richard G. Rogers, Robert A. Hummer, Patrick M. Krueger, and Fred C. Pampel.

Article: "Says Rick Scott "oversaw the largest Medicare fraud in the nation's history."" by Amy Sherman.

Article: "Libertarian Party National Platform 1980"

Article: "Deadly heat is killing Americans: A decade of inaction on climate puts lives at risk" by Dean Russell, Elisabeth Gawthrop, Veronica Penney, Ali Raj and Bridget Hickey.

Article: "Public policy and health in the Trump era" by Steffie Woolhandler, David U Himmelstein, Sameer Ahmed, Zinzi Bailey, Mary T Bassett, Michael Bird et al.

Quote: "Less government in business and more business in government" - Warren G. Harding.

Article: "Republicans are wearing cruelty as a badge of honor" by Jennifer Rubin.

Article: "Time to End the Medicare Advantage Scam" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Queen Elizabeth II mourned by Britain and world at funeral" by Danica Kirka, Mike Corder, Samya Kullab.

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

Article: "Right-wing smear artists baldly lie about Idaho public schools teaching ‘porn literacy' to children" by David Neiwert.

Article: "Conservative Republican demands tight abortion laws: Women are 'not controlling their sexual impulses'" by Sarah K. Burris.

Article: "No, King Charles III won't pay any inheritance tax on his massive gain" by Bill Chappell.

Article: "The smoking gun in Martha's Vineyard" by Judd Legum.

Article: "Prince Charles reveals his car runs on cheese and wine byproducts" by Ben Quinn.

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

Article: "Pipe Bomb Suspect's Van Covered With Pro-Trump Messages" by Antonia Blumberg.

Article: "Timothy McVeigh" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Can the Queen dissolve Parliament?" by Danni Scott.

Book: The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 by Peter Baker, Susan Glasser.

Article: "Indian leader Narendra Modi tells Putin: Now is not the time for war" by Rishabh Pratap, Larry Register and Heather Chen.

Article: "Putin tells NATO, ‘leave the Crimea alone'" by Seb.

Article: "Top Putin ally appears to recruit Russian prisoners to fight in Ukraine" by Patrick Reevell and Teddy Grant.

Article: "'American carnage': Donald Trump's vision casts shadow over day of pageantry" by Ed Pilkington.

Article: "Trump warns MAGA political opponents of 'the sleeping giant that they have awoken' in belligerent speech at Ohio rally, video shows" by Joshua Zitser.

Article: "Trump Rally Plays Music Resembling QAnon Song, and Crowds React" by Alan Feuer and Maggie Haberman.

Article: "Is Trump fans' ‘weird' one-finger salute at rally a QAnon tribute?" by Gustaf Kilander.

Book: On Liberty by John Stuart Mill.

Article: "Ranked Choice Voting / Instant Runoff" (RCV) by FairVote.

Article: "Russian trolls worked overtime to disrupt 2017's Women's March pushing back at Trump: report" by Tom Boggioni.

Article: "How Russian Trolls Helped Keep the Women's March Out of Lock Step" by Ellen Barry.

Book: The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Huge AIPAC investment in primaries is paying off — but at what price down the road?" by Ron Kampeas.

Article: "Democracy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Republic" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "Generally, the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties, says what the states can't do to you. Says what the federal government can't do to you. But it doesn't say what the state or federal government must do on your behalf." - Barack Obama.

Article: "Biden Administration requests USAGM CEO Pack's resignation" by USAGM.

Article: "Soviet Union" (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis paid an aviation company $615,000 to transport migrants by plane to Martha's Vineyard" by Sarah Al-Arshani.

Site: Forensic News.

Article: "Antonov" by Wikipedia.

Article: "TikTok Browser Can Track Users' Keystrokes, According to New Research" by Paul Mozur, Ryan Mac and Chang Che.

Article: "Declaration of Independence".

Article: "First Hit by Privatization, Puerto Rico in 'Total Blackout' as Fiona Makes Landfall" by Jon Queally.

Article: "Privatization Threat Remains, Advocates Warn, After Mississippi Lifts Jackson Boil-Water Notice" by Kenny Stancil.

Article: "GOP senators visited Moscow on July 4, warned Russia against meddling in 2018 election: report" by Emily Birnbaum.

Article: "5th Circuit upholds Texas law forbidding social media ‘censorship' — again" by Rebecca Kern.

Law: "First Amendment to the United States Constitution" .

Article: "Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011" by Wikipedia.

Article: "William IV" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Black Rod" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The letters left behind by demoralized Russian soldiers as they fled" by Siobhán O'Grady and Anastacia Galouchka.

Article: "More Russian Soldiers Killed in Ukraine Than U.S. Troops in Over 20 Years" by Giulia Carbonaro.

Article: "Voice of America" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Biden Administration requests USAGM CEO Pack's resignation" by USAGM.

Hour Three: The Dangerous Digital Forever War of Far-Right Conspiracy Theories
- 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

Article: "The Dangerous Digital Forever War of Far-Right Conspiracy Theories" by Andy Kroll.

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

Article: "Portland is the most sustainable city in the U.S., according to a new study" by Fox 12.

Article: "1-hour walk through nature lowers stress, research shows" by Beth JoJack.

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

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

Site: "Convention of States".

Article: "Republicans have a Plan to Change the Constitution and it Just May Work" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Pic Of The Moment: Heil To The Chief" by EarlG.

Article: "Center-Right Leader Asked to Form New Government in Sweden" by AP.

Article: "Climate Change and Syria's Civil War" by Madhuri Karak.

Article: "Syria's Climate Refugees" by Scientific American.

Article: "Climate Change Driven Crop Failure in Central America" by Bond McGillivray.

Article: "Tulsa race massacre" (1921) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Wilmington insurrection of 1898" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Wounded Knee Massacre" by Wikipedia.

Article: "George Armstrong Custer" by Wikipedia.

Law: "5th Amendment" (double jeopardy, witness against self, due process, taking clause, due compensation).

Article: "New ETFs with tickers NANC, KRUZ aim to track lawmakers' stock buys, as ban on congressional trading looks unlikely before midterm elections" by Victor Reklaitis.

Article: "Leonard Leo" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Right-Wing Dark Money Group Gets $1.6 Billion Donation From Tax-Dodging Business Mogul" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Stress during pregnancy may have a negative emotional impact on babies, study finds" by Megan Marples.

Article: "'Defcon 1 moment': New Spanish-language conservative network fuels fresh Dem fears over disinfo, Latino outreach" by Marc Caputo.

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

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