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House Republicans are Playing with Fire with Our Economy
 Anybody who thinks cooler heads will prevail like they did in 2011 doesn't know these Republicans. Buckle up - we're in for a wild ride that could spell worldwide disaster. The United States is hitting our self-imposed debt ceiling this Thursday. Outside of Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, it doesn't seem that anybody in Washington or our national media is taking seriously the House Republican threat to crash our economy if Democrats don't agree to gut aid to higher education, the EPA, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.But the situation is worse than most people realize. McCarthy's goons really intend to follow through on their threat to cripple America if Democrats won't go along with cutting entitlements for average working people and regulatory agencies. And the consequence, if history is any guide, could well be a worldwide depression that might even throw us into World War III. Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom |
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Threshold: The Crisis of Western Culture : Chapter 3 -- Population
...women can act. ... Because the demographics and the opinion polls are on women's side. Because women's hour on the stage is long, long overdue. Because, whatever new obstacles are mounted against the future march toward equality, whatever new myths invented, penalties levied, opportunities rescinded, or degradations imposed, no one can ever take from the American woman the justness of her cause.
— Susan Faludi, "Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women" (1991) Read more at HartmannReport.com.
-Thom
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Saturday Report 1/14/23 - AOC taunts the "GOP meltdown" on gas stoves
The Best of the Rest of the News. — The new House rules continue to embrace Reaganomics to further impoverish the middle class and poor while making the morbidly rich even richer. — The difference between the way the French and Americans think about Social Security is fascinating — Is voter suppression the cool new thing for Republicans? — The Taliban has arrived in Missouri — Big Oil lies, wins, gains more political power, and continues working to destroy life on planet Earth — Geeky Science! Doing "acts of kindness" is one of the most effective psychotherapeutic interventions known to treat depression and anxiety
— Crazy Alert! Trump wanted to use a nuclear weapon on N Korea & blame it on someone else?
— Tweet of the day! AOC calls out the GOP meltdown on gas stoves, following a report that one in six cases of asthma are from childhood exposure to a gas stove in the home
Read more at HartmannReport.com.
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Monday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: MLK wanted to end poverty & legal discrimination
House Republicans are "Playing with Fire" with Our Economy
Quote: "When the last man who remembers the horrors of the last great war dies, the next great war becomes inevitable." - attributed to Arnold Toynbee.
Hour Two: Full Employment for All- Algernon Austin, Dir. of Race and Economic Justice at the Center for Economic and Policy Research / he was previously director of the Economic Policy Institute's Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy (PREE) 
It's always been about control
Is DeSantis running for Prez on the bodies of women?
Article: " Woke" by Wikipedia.
Hour Three: As long as GOP uses race as a political weapon - we're going to see hate crimes intensify...
Russia has stolen 700,000 Ukrainian children - Where is QAnon when you need them?
Bible: " Mark 12:31" " The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these". |
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Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET
I'll be talking with Brendan Fischer, Deputy Executive Director - Documented / Attorney - Rightwing group pours millions in ‘dark money' into US voter suppression bid
And, the best of the rest of the news along with your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program, Occupying The Media 3 hours a day 5 days a week for "we the people"
And don't forget...Democracy is NOT a spectator sport...it begins with you...
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Can America Abolish Poverty?
Do Republicans Think WWIII Will Help Them Politically?
Was The FBI Started To Stop Black Revolution?
Trump Wanted Nuclear War With North Korea
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