What we're seeing today in these attempts to regulate women's behavior is a simple extension of religious fundamentalism and patriarchy that goes back as far as ancient Samaria...

"The tale is one of an evil time,
When souls were fettered and thought was crime,
And heresy's whisper above its breath
Meant shameful scouring and bonds and death!"

—John Greenleaf Whittier, "How the Women Went from Dover"

The cooperative forces are biologically the more important and vital. The balance between the cooperative and altruistic tendencies and those which are disoperative and egoistic is relatively close. Under many conditions the cooperative forces lose, In the long run, however, the group centered, more altruistic drives are slightly stronger.

Human altruistic drives are as firmly based on an animal ancestry as is man himself. Our tendencies toward goodness … are as innate as our tendencies toward intelligence; we could do well with more of both.

—W. C. Allee, "Where Angels Fear to Tread: A Contribution from General Sociology to Human Ethics," Science 97 (1943): 521

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

The Best of the Rest of the News

— Putin's Mein Kampf: he had to invade Ukraine to stop the gays.
— Poland is the next country Russia plans to invade?
— What is America going to do about its white Supremacist problem?
— Democrats honor Blue Slips while Republicans don't!
— Ronnie DeSantis' higher education legislation has been released and it's shocking.
— The Washington Post is reporting that Elon Musk's Twitter, after unbanning Nazis and white supremacists, is now selling "blue check" validation logos to Russian propaganda outlets, including one he amplified by responding to.
— Trump returns to the scene of (one of) his crime(s).
— In "Strange But Not Surprising News," if a fetus is a person then isn't imprisoning a pregnant women illegally detaining an otherwise innocent fetus?
— Crazy Alerts! Trump's favorite white supremacist and dinner date at Mar-A-Lardo is having a sad about being put on the federal No Fly List.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Article: "Do Religious Sadists Want To See "Sinning" Women Suffer?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Obergefell v Hodges" (2015) (same sex marriage).

Poem: "How the Women Went From Dover" by John Greenleaf Whittier.

Article: "‘Everyday Sadists' Among Us" by Jan Hoffman.

Site: "Democrats for Life".

Article: "House Republicans abruptly end debate as Democrats offer amendments to help poor women, children" by Bobby Harrison.

Article: "The Same Dark Money Groups That Helped Overturn Roe Are Also Behind Attacks on Abortion Pill" by Ansev Demirhan.

Article: "Nomination of Matthew Kacsmaryk to the Northern District of Texas. Questions for the Record. December 20, 2017" by Senator Feinstein.

Article: "The Texas judge who could take down the abortion pill" by Caroline Kitchener, Ann E. Marimow.

Article: "$100 million Jesus ads point to exploitable weakness in the religious right " by Valerie Tarico.

Article: "Sermon on the Mount" by Wikipedia.

Bible: "Matthew 25".

Article: "Jimmy Carter Leaves Southern Baptists" by ABC News.

Article: "'Anti-Jewish hate is no longer operating on the fringes'" by Jon King.

Article: "Forty Years Ago, Women Had a Hard Time Getting Credit Cards" (2014) by Rose Eveleth.

Bible: "If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land." - 2 chronicles 7:14.

Video: Liar, Liar Network On Fire: The Legal Case Against Fox News | The Problem With Jon Stewart Podcast.

Article: "Jesus Was A Radical Nonviolent Revolutionary" by John Fugelsang.

Article: "‘Weekend of Love' Counters ‘Day of Hate' in Portsmouth, New Hampshire" by Dan Alexander.

Article: "U.S. Lawmaker In Kyiv: Momentum Shifting Toward Atacms, F-16S For Ukraine" by News18.

Article: "On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians" by Vladimir Putin.

Article: "Patriarch Kirill of Moscow" by Wikipedia.

Video: Is Putin's Ukraine Invasion Really About Homophobia? Featuring Greg Palast.

Hour Two: Father of QAnon believer tells all: 'Don't have any idea how bad this is"
- William "Will" Sommer, Politics Reporter - The Daily Beast / Host-Fever Dreams podcast / Author of the brand new book (just released 2/21/23) Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America

Article: "What Can You Do When Someone in Your Family Goes All QAnon?" by Will Sommer.

Article: "Father of QAnon believer tells all: 'Don't have any idea how bad this is'" by Brad Reed.

Article: "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" by Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Article: "Wilfried Daim" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Blood libel" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Germany arrests dozens suspected of plotting far-right extremist coup" by Andy Eckardt and Patrick Smith.

Article: "Marjorie Taylor Greene" by Wikipedia.

Documentary: Q: Into the Storm.

Article: "QAnon-supporting mom found guilty in plot to kidnap her son from foster care" by AP.

Video: Dispatch from the Donbas & why the Russian Orthodox Church backs Putin | Ukraine: The Latest | Pod.

Article: "Looking Back On President George H.W. Bush's Legacy On Abortion" by Sarah McCammon.

Article: "DeSantis bill lays out a right-wing takeover of Florida public colleges and universities" by Laura Clawson.

Article: "Fox News Anchor Says Network Is Barring Him From Covering The Dominion Lawsuit" by Josephine Harvey.

Article: "American Israel Public Affairs Committee" (AIPAC) by Wikipedia.

Site: Anti-Defamation League.

Site: Haaretz.

Article: "Golden Rule" by Wikipedia.

Article: "First Things" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Forces Tearing Us Apart Are Not Quite What They Seem" by Thomas B. Edsall.

Article: "For Valentine's Day, 5 facts about single Americans" by Risa Gelles-Watnick.

Article: "Scott Galloway (professor)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Elon Musk Attacked by an Old And Powerful Enemy" by Luc Olinga.

Article: "Dilbert creator, who called Black Americans a 'hate group,' faces more fallout" by Dennis Romero.

Article: "Oregon Court of Appeals brings a knockout punch to a gunfight" by Steve Duin.

Article: "Q (Star Trek)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Even after you think you bought a car, dealerships can 'yo-yo' you and take it back" by Chris Arnold.

Article: "World's First Mass-Scale Sodium-Ion Battery Plant to Debut in Michigan" by Dan McCue.

Law: "Inflation Reduction Act of 2022".

Site: Cathedral Of The Immaculate Conception, Ukrainian Catholic Church, Philadelphia.

Article: "Russian Orthodox Church" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Orthodox Church of Ukraine" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Kievan Rus'" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Florida's School Book Bans Have Teachers "Walking On Eggshells"" by Julia Reinstein.

Article: "Professor at Florida Christian college that hosted DeSantis may be fired for ‘indoctrinating' students on race" by Josh Marcus.

Article: "Q clearance" by Wikipedia.

Article: "QAnon" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Reported Ivanka and Jared subpoenas remind us: This isn't the Mueller probe" by Jordan Rubin.

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

I'll be debating Julio Rivera, Editorial Director - Reactionary Times / Contributor - Newsmax, American Thinker & Townhall.com.

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