Mike Brownfield, The Heritage Foundation & Stewart Acuff, Utility Workers Union of America (UWUA) & Dan Bongino, Candidate for US Senate (R-MD) all join Thom for the Big Picture Rumble. Thanks in part to ALEC - the number of so-called justifiable homicides have skyrocketed in America. Isn't it time we laid down our weapons - and took our fingers off the trigger? That and the future of Obamacare in tonight's Big Picture Rumble...

Mitt Romney has just this week declared he's going try to to lie his way into the White House - and new science shows conservatives will believe his lies even more when they're refuted - no matter how outrageous they are.

Joe Madison, Joe Madison Show & Human rights activist joins Thom Hartmann. What fuels racism and police brutality in America? Is it politcal rhetoric from the right - or something more deep-seated? And what can we do about it? We'll pose those questions and more to Joe Madison in tonight's Conversations with Great Minds.

Joe Madison, Joe Madison Show & Human rights activist joins Thom Hartmann. What fuels racism and police brutality in America? Is it politcal rhetoric from the right - or something more deep-seated? And what can we do about it? We'll pose those questions and more to Joe Madison in tonight's Conversations with Great Minds.

Thom looks at the deadly impact of Greece's continued austerity policies. Also discussed: how workers got screwed at the Hostess Brands Company, the radioactive plume of debris heading our way from Japan's Fukushima disaster and in tonight's "Daily Take" Thom looks at why conservatives are so afraid of facts.

The secret weapon Conservatives are using to take down public universities in America. Conservatives are arming up for their war on public universities, trying to de-fund them, destroy them, and replace them with for-profit colleges. Think it's impossible? They did the same thing during the Reagan years with our national system of non-profit hospitals, which have nearly all now been replaced with for-profit hospitals, which is a large part of why our healthcare costs are soaring and hospital executives are suddenly multimillionaires. So the war is on to destroy our state colleges and promote more for-profit colleges. And their primary weapon of choice ISN'T budget cuts to education or tax breaks to for-profit universities. No - their primary weapon of choice is frames.

The Good! *Walter Wilde* Walter Wilde helped form a group called Missoula Moves to Amend - which will soon be part of the national Move To Amend organization. The Bad! *Arizona State Senator Judy Burges* Burges - along with other Arizona Tea Party members - introduced a bill in the state legislature to stop energy efficiency programs. and the Very Very Ugly! *Newport, California Police Department* Police were called to the home of Tori Hunter - a professional baseball player - when his house alarm went off. When they arrived - they saw Hunter outside his house - and drew their weapons.

You may have noticed over the last few years that the price of honey - like many food products - has gone up. This is mainly due to a loss of honeybee colonies - the result of a phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder. And it doesn't just raise the cost of honey - it could lead to famines. Dave Goulson - from the University of Stirling in Great Britain - and a team of fellow researchers have shown that pesticides - including widely used neonicotinoid insecticides - may be to blame.

Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear, joins Thom Hartmann. California beware! A radioactive wave is headed toward the West Coast of the United States courtesy of the Fukushima nuclear disaster? So with nuclear power still wreaking havoc on the environment - why are the Japanese about to flip on more of their nuclear reactors?

Rashad Robinson, Color of Change, joins Thom Hartmann. The Koch-funded American Legislative Exchange Council may have met its match - how one campaign is having success in cutting off the flow of corporate money to ALEC

Snakes on a Plane...No - Really!

Neal Asbury, Truth for America, vs. Thom Hartmann. Mitt Romney resorts to lying about President Obama. That shouldn't be too surprising. What is surprising, though, is that the media goes right along with it...

David Cay Johnston, Reuters, joins Thom Hartmann. The corruption of American capitalism by Reaganomic deregulation is on full display at Hostess Brands company. Kids in American have been eating Twinkies since 1930. But the people running the corporation that manufactures Twinkies might have just broken the law. The story of CEO greed at the Twinkie factory - and what it means for American capitalism in general...

Chuck Collins, Institute for Policy Studies joins Thom Hartmann. So with Republicans ready to bring the same trickle-down austerity to the United States - will pain and suffering follow suit?

The banksters and technocrats pushing trickle-down austerity in Greece now have blood on their hands. Yesterday - a man walked up to the Greek parliament building in Athens and shot himself in the head. It's the latest consequence of trickle-down austerity measures choking the Greek nation.