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Republicans pick Putin over democracy — and Rick Scott’s creepy blueprint for America shows why
Amanda Marcotte, Senior Politics Writer - Salon
_Stephan: If you have been watching the various news and "news" channels perhaps you are as amazed as I have been that the Republicans have put their naked fascism and support for Putin on display. Tucker Carlson is now being run on Russian state media. Can you believe it?
My personal vi ... ⌘ Read more_
Kremlin-backed Media Now Broadcasts Entire Tucker Carlson Monologues with Russian Subtitles
Brad Reed, - Raw Story
_Stephan: This tells you the real truth about the Fox propaganda operation. And Carlson is not alone.Tulsi Gabbard and Alex Jones are also notable on this. I find it amazing that there is so little Republican pushback about this, and that Fox allows it._
_Stephan: The anti-democracy orientation of the Republican Party cannot be exaggerated, nor can the party's racism. Republicans really do not want one person, one vote to take place, as this very nasty and sorry story about North Dakota illustrates. Personally, I would not live in a Red state, the quality of life is increasingly second rate compared wi ... ⌘ Read more_
How a battery shortage could threaten US national security
Matt McFarland, - CNN
_Stephan: The corporate interests that don't want the carbon power era to end have kept the United States from preparing as it should for the transition out of the carbon era and left the country vulnerable. This is a little understood trend that gets very little media coverage, but this article will give my readers a good sense of what is in play._
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The Idea That Everything From Spoons to Stones is Conscious is Gaining Academic Credibility
Olivia Goldhill, Science Writer - Pocket/Quartz
_Stephan: If you understand that consciousness is causal and fundamental, then it follows that everything was created by consciousness through direct intention, and everything is a manifestation of consciousness. This totally freaks out materialists but the evidence that it is valid grows year ... ⌘ Read more_
Prejudice grew in Trump supporters during his presidency, studies find
Andrew J. Nelson, Staff Writer - Courthouse News Service
_Stephan: Donald Trump is the worst and most criminal president in our history. He is also, and always has been, an open unrepentant Black American hater, as his known history makes clear. And he has really harmed the United States by legitimizing open race hate, and has stimulated the MAGAts to express it. That is not a political statement, it is a scientific one, as this report makes cle ... ⌘ Read more_
White men as Victims: America’s Most Dangerous Fantasy
Chauncey DeVega, Senior Political Writer - Salon
_Stephan: Increasingly, if you look at MAGAt media, you read or hear a growing sense of White grievance, a perception that Whites are the victims of Black, Hispanic, or Asian Americans. What exactly they are supposedly suffering from is never defined, just an existential sense that Whites, particularly White men, are losing something. It is, of course, nonsense from ... ⌘ Read more_
“Stand Your Ground” Laws Linked to 11% Spike in US Gun Homicides: Study
Kenny Stancil, - Common Dreams
_Stephan: Here is what has happened as a result of the Republican push to pass "Stand Your Ground" Laws at the state level. This is the latest data we have on the American obsessive gun psychosis. More death by firearms. With people wandering around armed with weapons, and poorly written "Stand Your Ground" laws we are becoming an increasingly dangerou ... ⌘ Read more_
Scientists say humans are part of a ‘planetary intelligence’**
Tristan Greene, - Neural
_Stephan: Here is an article supporting my argument that scientific research shows a matrix of consciousness in which all consciousness and that is much more than just human consciousness or even terrestrial consciousness is interconnected and interdependent. This is part of the emerging paradigm which sees consciousness as causal and fundamental, just as Max Planck, Einstein a ... ⌘ Read more_
Life in the soil was thought to be silent. What if it isn’t?**
Ute Eberle, - Knowable Magazine
_Stephan: Bioacoustics, is a term you may never have heard before, but it represents a particularly exciting new research field. It is very early days but it is already clear that the matrix of life is far more complex than most, even in science realize._
 has resulted in a massive increase in the childhood poverty rate throughout the U.S.
The program allotted payments to families with children, with families rece ... ⌘ Read more
Dirty Dozen: The Private Equity Firms Driving Fossil Fuel Expansion
Nina Lakhani, - Mother Jones
_Stephan: Here is yet another story focused on how rich people who derive much or all of their wealth from the petroleum industries are renting Congress members, and Presidential administration high ranking officials to get them to preserve the nation's reliance on oil and gas. Billions of people world wide are having their lives degraded by these greedy mons ... ⌘ Read more_
World spends $1.8tn a year on subsidies that harm environment, study finds
Patrick Greenfield, - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: It is a measure of the unconsciousness of most humans that profit is the only consideration that matters. Greed above all has produced this. We are literally destroying the wellbeing of the planet in order to satisfy the lust of greed._
_Flare system of a sea oil production platform Credit Stock photo_
While continuing to fuel the climate emergency over the past decade, oil and gas majors relied on misleading messages rather than actually taking action to tran ... ⌘ Read more
Study shows political affiliation drove use of ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine
Nathaniel Weixel , Staff Writer - The Hill
_Stephan: This is further proof of the MAGAt world death cult, and the triumph in that community of weaponized disinformation over facts and science. These people are literally committing medical suicide, and you and I are paying for part of that public seppuku._
Consciousness, Creativity, Innovation, and Survival
Stephan A. Schwartz, Editor - Schwartzreport
_Stephan: I wrote this because once you understand that consciousness is casual and fundamental as Planck, Einstein, Pauli, Schrodinger, and a host of other leading figures in physics have told us, you realize that creativity, new ways of thinking about technologies, for instance, are going to be critical to deal with climate change effectively if human civilization is going to ... ⌘ Read more_
Why America Has So Few Doctors
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_Stephan:_
By the time Elizabeth Erickson was a freshman at Davidson College in 2002, she knew she wanted to become a doctor. Because she understood that the earliest health interventions are among the most important, she set herself on a pediatrics track. After four years of premed classes, she went straight to medica ... ⌘ Read more
Physicians Slam Industry Push to ‘Fix’—Not End—Medicare Privatization Scheme
Jake Johnson, - Common Dreams
_Stephan: Here is yet another illustrating how all decisions about healthcare in the United States are made not on the basis of fostering wellbeing but, instead, on how to preserve and increase profit. That's why we have the worst healthcare in the developed world._
_Stephan: I thought, and maybe you did to, that the seemingly endless reports about the pedophilia problem in the Roman Catholic Church had been handled, and they had taken the needed measures to clean their house. But no, that is not the case. In Italy, Spain, France, and several Latin American countries a whole new wave of accounts con ... ⌘ Read more_
The Seeds of Political Violence Are Being Sown in Church
David French, - The Dispatch
_Stephan: If you are a regular churchgoer and it is one of the shrinking number of congregations practicing traditional Christianity you may not even be aware of what is happening to your religion in the United States. Let me say it straight out. Evangelical and charismatic Christianity in America is no longer about Christianity as that term has been understood for centuries. Oh, ... ⌘ Read more_
‘Far-right road shows’ are turning Christian churches into hotbeds of insurrection: conservative
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According to longtime political columnist David French, the next insurrection is likely be ... ⌘ Read more
US oligarchs don’t care what the majority of Americans thinks about taxing the rich — here’s why
Noah Berlatsky, - AlterNet
_Stephan: When you can rent Congress members as needed, and infuence elections as you like, naturally you don't want anything to restrain your wealth or power. And that is exactly where we are in the United States today. Not surprisingly, as proof of what I have just said, we have the worst wealth inequalit ... ⌘ Read more_
GOP Rep. Says Americans Must Own Enough Weapons to Overthrow the Government if 30-40% Agree on ‘Tyranny’**
David Badash, - New Civil Rights Movement
_Stephan: I want my readers to be clear, when I express my growing concern about politically motivated civil violence, I feel this way because of facts like this.
there is a sizeable segment of the Republican Party that is arming itself with even more weapons than it already ... ⌘ Read more_
Biden tells Zelenskyy U.S. will respond ‘swiftly and decisively’ if Russia invades Ukraine
Teaganne Finn, - Yahoo! News
_Stephan:_
_The world is at a major geopolitical crossroads, and the American media doesn't seem to be knowledgeable enough to understand why Putin is so interested in Ukraine. It always gets played as Putin wants to absorb back into Russian Ukraine and the other countries that were once part of the Soviet Union. T ... ⌘ Read more_
Scientists Raise Alarm Over ‘Dangerously Fast’ Growth in atmospheric Methane
Jeff Tollefson, - nature
_Stephan: This paper came from nature one of the most prestigious science journals in the world. I mention that to make the point that this warning should be taken very seriously, except it isn't. Climate change is changing the entire matrix of life on earth, and most of us, in government and out, are just worried about who won the Super Bowl or ... ⌘ Read more_
U.S. Energy Department Advances $6 bln Nuclear Plant Program
Timothy Garner, - Reuters
_Stephan: You would think after the disasters of Chernobyl and Fukushima, and the growing problem of nuclear waste that intelligent government planners would decide to let nuclear wither and waste away. But, of course, the corporations that control the nuclear industry still have the power and funds to rent Congress members, and influence the Biden administration, and this $6 ... ⌘ Read more_
Fewer Americans now say Trump bears a lot of responsibility for the Jan. 6 riot
Bradley Jones, - Pew Research Center
_Stephan: We are undergoing a major cultural transformation. The rightwing uber-rich have been funding scientists and physicians for years, and from their research have learned that fear can be politicized and weaponized through spewing dis- and mis-information out as news. They learned that conservative Americans particularly ... ⌘ Read more_
Schoolkids Are Falling Victim to Disinformation and Conspiracy Fantasies
Melinda Wenner Moyer, Contributing Editor - Scientific American
_Stephan: Over the last 20 years the American culture has undergone a dramatic, but far too little remarked cultural transformation. It is a major anthropological event: The rise of social media and commercial digital media, coupled with the decline and often demise of local newspaper coverage, has allowed for the ... ⌘ Read more_
Separation of church and state? Let’s get real — that’s over. So what do we do now?**
February 12, 2022 12:00PM (EST) , - Salon
_Stephan: Even though the percentage of people entrenched in the United States has been dropping for years, the strange form of White supremacy, male dominance, christofascism that passes for Christianity today is still a major force to be reckoned with, particularly the crumbling wall between church, in the form White s ... ⌘ Read more_
People In South Dakota Are Already Living In A Post-Roe World
Alanna Vagianos, -
_Stephan: What many don't seem to understand is that if Roe is overturned, it will not be national. Each state will decide. If that happens, the schism between the Red and Blue states will grow even greater and more contentious. The Red states will try to control women coming to Blue states for abortions. a growing number of women will leave the Red state and move to a Blue one. R ... ⌘ Read more_
These Are the World’s Most — and Least — Democratic Places
Alex Millson, - Bloomberg Quint
_Stephan: For most of my lifetime the United States has been seen as a leading democracy. That used to be true but no longer. We are now ranked 26th and given the "Flawed Democracy" classification. This diminution of democracy is not unique to America, however. Democracy around the world is under attack. This report will give you some hard facts. They aren't pleasant._
White House Rolls Out $5 Billion Electric Vehicle Charging Program
Arianna Skibell, - Scientific American
_Stephan: Here is some excellent and very important news from the Biden administration. This will have a huge effect on our transition out of the carbon era. I have my issues with the Biden admin but, compared with the incompetent criminal thuggery of Donald Trump and his orcs, the Biden folk are angels._
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Biden’s Hidden Health Care Triumph
Paul Krugman, Nobel Laureat in Economics, Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center, columnist - The New York Times
_Stephan: Paul Krugman has an extraordinary record of being accurate. And he is the only person in media I have seen truly recognize what the Biden administration has done to improve healthcare in the United States, after Trump and the Republicans did everything they could to sabotage Obama care. If you car ... ⌘ Read more_
Christian nationalism drove Jan. 6: Now it’s embraced the Big Lie, and wants to conquer America
Kathhryn Joyce, - Salon
_Stephan: Here is a very important and, in my opinion, accurate assessment of White supremacy christofascism, and what they want. This is the anti-wellbeing side of the Great Schism Trend. It is driven by the irrefutable reality that the United States is becoming a majority-minority nation, Whites are going to b ... ⌘ Read more_
How Manchin Used Politics to Protect His Family Coal Company
Scott Waldman, - Politico
_Stephan: Corruption is bipartisan in the United States, and Democratic Senator Joe Manchin, steeped in greed and corruption as he is, has personally assured the degradation of the lives of 333 million people all to his personal benefit, but so great is the corruption of American democracy that like Trump and his orcs he has not been held accountable._
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Fatal police shootings in 2021 set record since The Post began tracking, despite public outcry
Marisa Lati , Steven Rich and Jennifer Jenkins , Reporters - The Washington Post
_Stephan: The police in the United States are notable for several things. They get the least training in any developed nation, they have the lowest education requirements, and they kill more people than any other, as research organizations style it, "rich" ... ⌘ Read more_
USDA Offers $1 Billion to Farmers and Ranchers to Help Fight Climate Change
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, - EcoWatch
_Stephan: Here is some excellent econews. In my opinion, the Biden administration is doing a pretty good job in out of the spotlight matters like this. This is going to make a long term difference by fostering wellbeing._
_Credit: Jenny Dettrick / Getty_
The state of Califor ... ⌘ Read more
1 in 5 applicants to the white supremacist Patriot Front has military ties: report
Alex Henderson, - AlterNet
_Stephan: White supremacists are actively recruiting an army of people your tax dollars paid to train. It is happening right out in the open and even though there is a growing recognition that White terrorism is a growing threat to America's wellbeing nothing is being done about the recruitment programs white racists are running -- ... ⌘ Read more_
House Republicans and Democrats agree on $57 billion USPS overhaul
Jacob Bogage, - The Washington Post
_Stephan: Here is some good, if mixed, news about the USPS, and I believe this is happening on a rare bipartisan basis, because Americans, individuals and businesses, in both Red and Blue states are unhappy with their experience of the post office and have voiced their feelings._
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Oklahoma Proposed Bill Would Fine Teachers $10,000 For Contradicting A Student’s Religious Beliefs
Peter Greene, - Forbes
_Stephan: The christofascists, Republican State Senator Rob Standridge of Oklahoma being an example, have discovered it is easy to get control of local government agencies to which, normally, no one paid much attention. This bill, were it to pass would make education impossible. Any group could take except ... ⌘ Read more_
Russia and China Unveil a Pact Aginst America and the West
Robin Wright, Contributing Writer - The New Yorker
_Stephan: This is a completely cynical but very important geopolitical trend. The Chinese having gone through the bloodbath of communism, have recreated the Mandarin system of scholar bureaucrats which provided a stable government in China for 1,300 years, from 605 to 1905 -- the oldest continuous form of government in human history.
They look at the Uni ... ⌘ Read more_
Hard Times: 7 in 10 Americans Say They’re Living Paycheck to Paycheck Now
Chris Melore, - Study Finds
_Stephan: Most economists are talking about how well the economy is doing and, if one looks at the top layer numbers it is true. But when you dig deeper, it does not look so good. And that is because the economy is completely skewed to favor the rich and corporate profit. Okay you have a job, but what are you getting paid? Do you have cost free heal ... ⌘ Read more_
The Fed is about to raise interest rates and shaft American workers – again
Robert Reich, Former US Secretary of Labor, is Professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: Robert Reich is absolutely spot on in what he says. The proceeding story lends credence to his words, and Reich explains it well, accurately, and in some detail._
_This 2021 photo shows Doug Olson of Pleasanton, Calif, in Bend, Ore. Credit: Family Photo via AP_
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – In 2010, doctors t ... ⌘ Read more
North Carolina Supreme Court strikes down GOP-drawn congressional map
Ally Mutnick, Staff Writer - Politico
_Stephan: Here is some good news from North Carolina about voting fairness in that state. In spite of everything the Republican legislature and the Republicans on the North Carolina Supreme Court could do to sustain blatant racist gerrymandering, the court as a whole ruled against the Republicans, “Achieving partisan advantage incommensurate with ... ⌘ Read more_
US reports more than 900,000 total Covid-19 deaths
Deidre McPhillips, - CNN
_Stephan: The American death rate from Covid is appalling, particularly when compared with other developed nations. And I think it is important to realize why this is happening. It is my view there are two reasons. First, is the inadequacy of the illness profit system of healthcare in the United States. Covid has proven to anyone who can see past their ideology to the actual facts that universal ... ⌘ Read more_
Amnesty International, joining other human rights groups, says Israel is ‘committing the crime of apartheid’**
Miriam Berger, - The Washington Post
_Stephan: This has always been my problem with Israel. The Jews who created Israel came out of the Holocaust after centuries of being consigned to live in walled off ghettos, blocked from higher education, often unable to own land. And yet as soon as they were given a count ... ⌘ Read more_
G.O.P. Declares Jan. 6 Attack ‘Legitimate Political Discourse’**
Jonathan Weisman and Reid J. Epstein, - The Washington Post
_Stephan: It is the consensually chosen view of the Republican Party that January 6th, whose details everyone should know by now, was "legitimate political discourse." How much clearer could they make their anti-democracy prejudice._
![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-05-at-10.19.04-P ... ⌘ Read more
Republicans in Congress Were in on Trump’s Coup Plot
Heather Digby Parton, - Raw Story / Salon / Commentary
_Stephan: This is very important trend and not getting anything like the attention it should be receiving. These Republican men and women, members of Congress from both houses, knew what Trump was doing. And yet they are still in office. What this is teaching us as a culture is that you can commit treason and sedition and still hold high office._
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The psychological reason that so many fall for the “Big Lie”**
Matthew Rozsa, Staff Writer - Salon
_Stephan: I think it is very important that those of us who live in a fact based world understand why about a third of us can't seem to see the Big Lie cancer for what it is. What stands out for me is that this Big Lie strategy is the same playbook that Hitler and the Nazis used to come to power in the 1930s. I have never forgotten that Trump's previous wife said that ... ⌘ Read more_
Biden administration to give states $1.15 billion to plug orphaned wells, which leak planet-warming methane
Tik Root, - The Washington Post
_Stephan: Here is some good news, The Biden administration is taking some serious steps to deal with carbon energy's effect in climate change. There have been other positive steps, and I think we can see this as a trend._
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More Thoughts on America’s Feel-Bad Boom
Paul Krugman, Nobel Laureate, Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center., Columnist - The New York Times
_Stephan: The economic news is mostly quite positive, but this is not recognized by most people as polls report almost weekly. Paul Krugman presents, as he usually does, the best discussion for what is going on economically that I have read._
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Study: laughter is common among more than 65 species of animals
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_Stephan: There is so much bad news, I thought readers might enjoy this report.
Citation: This story is based on a research paper, "Play vocalisations and human laughter: a comparative review": https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09524622.2021.1905065_
![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-04-at-11.02.50-PM.jpg?r ... ⌘ Read more_
U.S Historically Black Colleges and Universities Face Second Day of Bomb Threats
Reuters, - The Guardian / Reuters
_Stephan: First, note that this articles appears in The Guardian, a British publication read and respected around the world. The only newspaper I know of that is owned and operated by a foundation.This is how the White terrorist MAGAts present American to the world. Second, racism in the MAGAt world has reached a level I have n ... ⌘ Read more_
Record Number of Blacks Buy Firearms, Boost Overall Gun Sales During COVID-19 Pandemic
Jeff Mordock , - Washington Times
_Stephan: I found this in a rightwing newspaper. I think they ran it to excite fear in their White readership. I see it as the obvious evolution of America's obsessive gun psychosis. If you are a Black person constantly hearing about the police and Whites generally threatening Blacks, killing them, is it surprising ... ⌘ Read more_
McCloskey Praises Missouri Bill to Loosen Gun Laws; Prosecutor Calls It the ‘Make Murder Legal Act’**
Jack Suntrup, Reporter - St Louis Post Dispatch
_Stephan: Wherever Republicans are in control the quality of life is degraded. This is their latest obscenity concerning gun laws. The research data is very clear, the weaker the gun laws the greater the murder and suicide rates. This law, as the prosecutor notes, would essentiall ... ⌘ Read more_
Trump escalates racist rhetoric and plays on white grievance at recent rallies
Domenico Montanaro , - npr
_Stephan: I do not understand why Donald Trump has not been arrested, and is presently out on bail awaiting trial. How many crimes is the Garland Justice Department prepared to let slide. Because he has not been held to account, he has been able to continuously spew out the racism that is a fundamental part of his character. And that has ... ⌘ Read more_
U.S. Has Far Higher Covid Death Rate Than Other Wealthy Countries
Benjamin Mueller and Eleanor Lutz, - The New York Times
_Stephan: This is all due, everything described by this article is the effect arising from the politicization of an illness, the conscious weaponizing of Covid by one party, the Republicans. It has resulted in the emergence of a uniquely American death cult. This cannot be disputed, as this article lays out. What strikes me about this ... ⌘ Read more_
Heads in the cloud: Scientists predict internet of thoughts ‘within decades’**
Frontiers, - Science Daily
_Stephan: I published, and commented on this paper several years ago, and wrote about it in my Awakening novel. I thought in 2019 it was probable, and in 2022 think it even more likely to happen. It will continue the cultural transition begun with social media._
![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Screenshot. ... ⌘ Read more
Putin gambles Russia’s economy over Ukraine
Eva Hartog , - Politico
_Stephan: I think this is an accurate assessment of what Putin is doing. It is typical fascist behavior. Power is more important that the wellbeing of the peasants. The Russian, oil and gas industry in 2021 provided 39% of the federal budget revenue and made up 60% of Russian exports. Know anyone outside of Russia with a Russian refrigerator? Smartphone? Car? Russia is incredibly vulnerable to economic isolatio ... ⌘ Read more_
Historic Bridge May Be Dismantled for Jeff Bezos’ Big, Beautiful Boat
Mark DeGeurin, - Gizmodo
_Stephan: I have said this before but I think it bears saying again. Wealth inequality in the United States has reached a level in which the divide is so great that neither side can really comprehend the reality of the other. As a nation, which is to say most of the people in the United States, we range at the bottom of nearly every social outcome measure when ... ⌘ Read more_
Editor’s Note — Will American Democracy Survive
Stephan A. Schwartz, Editor - The Schwartzreport
_Stephan: I decided to dedicate today's edition entirely on what I see as a determined attack on American democracy by the MAGAt Republicans, Dark Money fascists, White supremacists, men and women obsessed with male dominance, militant heterosexuals, anti-science people, and evangelical phony Christians. I assembled today's articles to make it clear just as nasty, vulgar and vile t ... ⌘ Read more_
Guns, Germs, Bitcoin and the Antisocial Right
Paul Krugman, Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center, Columnist - The New York Times
_Stephan: As usual Paul Krugman gets it right, and tells the fact based truth, and the truth is crazier then generally understood, and he makes it clear just how vile the Republican Party is. I mean really vile. This is a party of cretins who really do not like democracy or sci ... ⌘ Read more_
A disparate group of billionaires, Republicans, televangelists and white supremacists has found common cause
Thom Hartmann, - AlterNet
_Stephan: You and I are living in a country that is barely a democracy today, and depending on how the 2022 may cease to be a democracy in November. As Thom Hartmann points out a coalition of rich fascists, White supremacists, Evangelicals, and obsessive male dominants have taken ov ... ⌘ Read more_
Michigan GOP candidate: Rape victims shouldn’t get abortions because ‘God put them in this moment’ to give birth
Brad Reed, - Raw Story
_Stephan: A reader, a woman, wrote me today asking me how it is possible the anti-choice bigots always seek to block women and girls who are raped, or are the victims of incest from termination their unwanted pregnancies should such result from such attacks. She wrote, "How could ... ⌘ Read more_
Furry Panic Is the Latest Dumb GOP Attack on Public Schools
Kelly Weill, Reporter - Daily Beast
_Stephan: When I started reading this I thought it was a joke. Surely, even the MAGAt crazies aren't this crazy? As it turns out, yes they are. Public education is under attack in the United States in states controlled by MAGAts. All of it is about control, and attempting to brainwash children with MAGAt culture values instead of teaching them to think and learn fact- ... ⌘ Read more_
While Lobbying to Kill Build Back Better, Pharma Hikes Cost of 866 Drugs
Jake Johnson, Staff Writer - Common Dreams
_Stephan: The American pharmaceutical industry is a study in greed. In the United States we have the worst drug price situation on earth. The entire operation is a racket. The government through grants to researchers pays for much of the development of drugs, which are then patented by drig corporations, and those corporations then prof ... ⌘ Read more_
1 in 4 Americans say violence against the government is sometimes OK
Matthew S. Schwartz, - npr
_Stephan: I think everyone needs to be clear that about a third of the American population, this survey makes it 25%, is not only willing to consider a violent civil war, but actually wants it. This is primarily the White racist community, and these people are dangerous, and the rest of us should not have any doubt about that._
, and my predictions are becoming realities. Water is destiny._
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We Uncovered How Many Georgians Were Disenfranchised by GOP Voting Restrictions. It’s Staggering.
Ryan Little and Ari Berman, - Mother Jones
_Stephan: We are watching the 2022 election being rigged by the White Supremacy Republicans in front of our eyes so that they stay in power. This is the 11th and fiftieth minute for American Democracy,_
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