While the GOP are in the pocket of the chemical industry, we can still lobby them as citizens to do something about PFAS chemicals and their impact on us, our children, and our grandchildren. How'd you like a side of liver cancer with those fries? Testicular cancer with your chicken sandwich? Childhood obesity with your "kid's meal"?

These were the findings of a 2022 analysis of wrappers performed by Consumer Reports while looking for chemicals called PFASs in packaging for fast food products sold across America.

PFAS is an acronym for Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances, a family of over 12,000 chemicals that was first discovered in 1938 by a 27-year-old chemist named Roy Plunkett. By combining fluorine with carbon, he invented chemicals that resisted water, oils, grease, and even heat: they seemed both inert and indestructible.

They've since been given the nickname "forever chemicals" because of that very indestructibility: they persist for years, decades, perhaps even centuries in the environment.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Want a Side of Liver Cancer With Those Fries?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Antibody response to booster vaccination with tetanus and diphtheria in adults exposed to perfluorinated alkylates" by Katrine Kielsen et al.

Article: "Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances and measures of human fertility: a systematic review" by Cathrine Carlsen Bach.

Article: "Early-life exposure to EDCs: role in childhood obesity and neurodevelopment" by Joseph M Braun.

Article: "Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance Toxicity and Human Health Review: Current State of Knowledge and Strategies for Informing Future Research" by Suzanne E Fenton et al.

Book: "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Dangerous PFAS Chemicals Are in Your Food Packaging" by Kevin Loria.

Article: "700+ Employees Have Left the EPA Under Trump: Loss of Scientists, Staffers Undermines Agency's Purpose" by EcoWatch.

Article: "Dow, 3M and others likely exploit loophole to avoid reporting ‘forever chemicals' releases" by Jared Hayes.

Article: "Study: More Than 200 Million Americans Could Have Toxic PFAS in Their Drinking Water" by Monica Amarelo.

Article: "Perfluoroalkyl substances and changes in body weight and resting metabolic rate in response to weight-loss diets: A prospective study" by Gang Liu.

Article: "The Lawyer Who Became DuPont's Worst Nightmare" by Nathaniel Rich.

Article: "Official start to ban PFAS in Europe" by RIVM.

Article: "Biomonitoring of emerging contaminants, perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), in New Jersey adults in 2016–2018" by Chang Ho Yu.

Article: "How US chemical industry lobbying and cash defeated regulation in Trump era" by Tom Perkins.

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

Article: "Constitutional Amendment Process" by OFR.

Article: "Strategic lawsuit against public participation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Texas Republican says GOP will hold the debt ceiling hostage even if it's dangerous to do so " by Sarah K. Burris.

Article: "How worried should we be if the debt ceiling isn't lifted?" by Wendy Edelberg.

Article: "Republicans have a death wish" by Chris Cillizza.

Article: "Precautionary Principle" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trillion-dollar platinum coin could be minted at the last minute" by Felix Salmon.

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 8 (Powers of Congress). "To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures"

Law: "Federal Reserve Act" (1913).

Article: "Revenue Act of 1913" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Second Liberty Bond Act" (1917).

Article: "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle.

Movie: "Atlas Shrugged Part III: Who Is John Galt?".

Article: "A list of the conservative cameos in ‘Atlas Shrugged Part III' " by Reed Tucker.

Hour Two: As a gay republican what do you think about Ron DeSantis' war on gay people?
- Dave McCulloch, Managing Partner - Capitol Media

Article: "Here's what Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' bill would do and what it wouldn't do" by Matt Lavietes.

Article: "Olympic Committee rejects Russian demand that its athletes compete without restrictions" by AFP.

Article: "As Russian And Belarusian Players Contend At Australian Open, John McEnroe, Billie Jean King Urge Wimbledon To Lift Ban" by Adam Zagoria.

Article: "History Lesson: Anti-Abortion Movement Began as a Cynical Ploy to Defend Racial Segregation" by Dan K.

Article: "Republican National Committee to Republican candidates: It's time to get more extreme on abortion" by Laura Clawson.

Video: Paul Weyrich - "I don't want everybody to vote" (Goo Goo).

Article: "Paul Weyrich" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Real Origins of the Religious Right" by Randall Balmer.

Article: "Fleeing Florida? New state laws have LGBTQ families thinking about moving" by Rodric Hurdle-Bradford.

Article: "Joe Biden is Calling Kevin McCarthy's Bluff on the Debt Ceiling" by Eric Lutz.

Article: "Carter introduces Fair Tax Act" by Buddy Carter.

Article: "Dallas Zoo on Edge After Two Monkeys, Leopard Disappear From Enclosures" by Nikki Main.

Article: "Quirks & Quarks: The Nature of Sex" by CBC Radio.

Article: "What's With All the Gay Penguins?" by Eric A. Carstens.

Article: "Peter Thiel" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Stockholm syndrome" by Wikipedia.

Article: "All the Periods in History When Homosexuality Was Celebrated & Embraced" by David Sharp.

Article: "A magnetic method to clean PFAS contaminated water" by University of Queensland.

Article: "Ground-water contamination at Wurtsmith Air Force Base, Michigan" by USGS.

Article: "Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signs private school voucher expansion bill, now largest in U.S." by AP.

Article: "Zelenskiy: Ukraine needs more weapons, faster" by Reuters.

Article: "Putin mobilising 200,000 troops for new invasion to topple Ukraine – and he won't stop, warns Nato chief" by Henry Holloway.

Article: "France open to sending fighter jets to Ukraine" by Leila Abboud, Henry Foy, Ben Hall.

Article: "Biden says no F-16s for Ukraine as Russia claims gains" by Reuters.

Article: "She named her breakfast cafe Woke. A conservative backlash followed." by Kyle Melnick.

Article: "Jim Jordan called out for "particularly offensive" comment on Tyre Nichols' beating death" by Tom Boggioni.

Article: "Doing this effortless habit can help relieve stress, improve your heart health" by John Andere.

Article: "Ronna McDaniel reelected to fourth term as RNC chair" by Samuel Chamberlain, Caitlin Doornbos.

Article: "RNC Chief Urges GOP To Pass Even More Extreme Abortion Bills" by Susie Madrak.

Article: "Preamble to the Constitution of the United States".
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

Book: Laboratories of Autocracy: A Wake-Up Call from Behind the Lines by David Pepper.

Article: "Redistricting in Ohio" by Janie Boschma, Renée Rigdon, Byron Manley and Ethan Cohen.

Article: "Ohio House Republicans are feuding bitterly over who's in charge—including who gets the credit card" by Jeff Singer.

Article: "Michael Sam" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Language: A Key Mechanism of Control" by Newt Gingrich's GOPAC.

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