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Far-Right Republicans In Pennsylvania Ban Media From Campaign Stops
Liz Skalka, - Huffington Post
_Stephan: I have been waiting for this to happen. The Republican Party doesn't like a free press, a very predictable fascist position. They only appear on propaganda operations like Fox that support their racism and male dominance and that broadcast conspiracies like Tucker Carlson promoting Replacement Theory. When was the last time you saw one of the MAGA ... ⌘ Read more_
The Confluence of Death
Stephan A. Schwartz, Editor - Schwartzreport
_Stephan: If you live in the U.S. and watched television Sunday the 16th of May you know about the White supremacy mass murder in Buffalo, New York. What you may not know, since they have gotten very little coverage except locally is that those murders were just the beginning of what happened this weekend. So I have dedicated today's edition of SR entirely to the gun shootings and murders that happened in the United States this w ... ⌘ Read more_
Here’s what’s known about the Buffalo mass shooting suspect
Quil Lawrence, Reporter - npr
_Stephan: This is the mass murder you probably know about since it has dominated the news since it happened. But from the perspective of gun murders, this is just the beginning._
_Mass murderer 18-year-old Peyton Gendron consults with his at ... ⌘ Read more_
Chicago Weekend Shootings: 5 Dead, at Least 11 Hurt in Gun Violence
, \\- NBC News (5 Chicago)
_Stephan: Here is Chicago this weekend._
_Chicago police this weekend at a shooting crime scene._ _Credit: NBC 5 Chicago_
Chicago police say that five people, including a 16-year-old boy who was shot at Millennium Park, are dea ... ⌘ Read more
21 people were injured in shootings in downtown Milwaukee; Mayor Johnson imposes curfew Saturday night
Ashley Luthern, Mary Spicuzza, and Sophie Carson, Reporters - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
_Stephan: And here we have Milwaukee this weekend._
_Police cleanup aftermath of the scene wher ... ⌘ Read more_
Double homicide in South Bend leaves people worried about rising gun violence
Julianne Grohowski, Reporter - ABC News 57 (South Bend, Indiana)
_Stephan: This weekend in South Bend, Indiana._
_Neighborhood in South Bend, Indiana were a double homicide occurred. Credit: ABC News 57 South Bend_
SOUTH BEND, INDIA ... ⌘ Read more
Shooting in Houston: Two dead, three wounded at flea market with about 1,000 people on site
, \\- Marca News (Houston)
_Stephan: This was the weekend in Houston, Texas. Also this weekend a man shot his wife and then committed suicide with his gun, and five days ago a 14-year boy was shot while bicycling._
_A sheriff’s deputy ties crime ... ⌘ Read more_
‘We know where we are headed’: humanity is sacrificing itself on the altar of corporate profits
Sonali Kolhatkar, Founder, Host and Executive Producer of “Rising Up With Sonali,” a television and radio show and Writing Fellow for the Economy for All project at the Independent Media Institute. - AlterNet / Independent Media Institute
_Stephan: To me it seems increasingly probable that it is already too late to stop massive damage ... ⌘ Read more_
How Christian Nationalism Perverted the Judicial System and Gutted Our Rights
Katherine Stewart, - The New Republic
_Stephan: White supremacy, male dominance christofascism is the passionate worldview of about a third of Americans, and it is tearing America apart as this report discusses._
_An anti-abortion d ... ⌘ Read more_
Sanders Introduces Medicare for All as Solution to “Dysfunctional” Health System
Sharon Zhang, Staff Writer - truthout
_Stephan: Bernie Sanders is one of the very few uncorrupted members of the Senate, and one of the even fewer who believes the purpose of his office is to foster wellbeing for Americans. I doubt his bill will pass, the corruption is just too extensive. But what happens will tell all of us a lot about the Senate, so we will see. ... ⌘ Read more_
The next book ban: States aim to limit titles students can search for
Hannah Natanson, - The Washington Post
_Stephan: MAGAts, through the Republican Party, don't want children to be educated, they want them to be indoctrinated with MAGAt fantasies. Why? Not to protect them from critical race theory or pornography as the MAGAts claim, but because the more educated a person is the more likely they are to vote for Democrats. That's why they don't like pu ... ⌘ Read more_
The secret world beneath our feet is mind-blowing – and the key to our planet’s future
George Monbiot, - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: This is a brilliant article that I hope all of you will read. We humans must change in consciousness and realize that we do not have dominion over the earth, instead we must recognize we are part of a matrix of life, and that all consciousness is interconnected and interdependent. This is what the change ... ⌘ Read more_
One in Four Medicare Patients Harmed in Hospitals, Nearly Half Preventable
Cheryl Clark, Medica and Science Journalist - MedPage Today
_Stephan: The American healthcare system is a shameful abomination. The worst in the world amongst the developed democracies. Why? Because the entire system is based on profit not wellbeing. The facts confirming what I am saying are clear for anyone to see. Why doesn't it change? Because the corporations which own t ... ⌘ Read more_
Analysis Exposes Big Oil’s Plot to Unleash Climate-Killing ‘Carbon Bombs’ Worldwide
Jake Johnson, Staff Writer - Common Dreams
_Stephan: Because the carbon industries basically rent the U.S. and the world's other congresses and parliaments, even though all evidence screams out that to go through climate change we must change the world's principal power technology, far too little actually does change. Because of corruption. The carbon industr ... ⌘ Read more_
Elizabeth Warren’s Long, Thankless Fight Against Our Private Equity Overlords
ARIANNA COGHILLMAY, - Mother Jones Magazine
_Stephan: Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, in my opinion, are the most interesting members of the Senate. They are both unusually intelligent, they are not corrupt, and they get why fostering wellbeing is the correct way to govern.
This is also a story of how corrupt the U.S. Senate actually is._
_Credit: Professional Studio Images/Getty_
When I w ... ⌘ Read more_
Alito reached back nearly 1,000 years to weaponize ancient misogyny — and it’s nothing short of grotesque
Heather Digby Parton, Staff Writer - Raw Story
_Stephan: As I wrote several days ago when the Alito brief was leaked what struck me about it was the mediocrity of its thinking and that it was an expression of political and religious bias, not wise jurisprudence. It read to me like something male dominance-obsessed co ... ⌘ Read more_
That 13th-century law treatise Alito uses? Here’s what else it says.
Dana Milbank, Columnist - The Washington Post
_Stephan: The full Alito opinion and its references is too long for SR, so I went looking for something that would present what I saw as the bizarre medieval thinking upon which Alito grounds the opinion he wrote and found Dana Milbank's essay which did exactly that. This is how weird Alito's thinking is. Where one would expect from a Supreme ... ⌘ Read more_
Cops Threw a 61-Year-Old to the Ground After She Tried to Film Them
Trone Dowd, - Vice News
_Stephan: Today, I saw more than two dozen stories in the media about police violence and general thuggery. Go to news.google.com search on "police violence today" and see for yourself what comes up. The one that particularly caught my attention was this account about a 61-year-old grandmother who went into a police station in New York to file a police report on ... ⌘ Read more_
House committee refers former Trump Interior Secretary David Bernhardt for criminal prosecution
Ben Adler, Senior Editor - Yahoo News
_Stephan: Should anyone be surprised that Donald Trump, a blatant criminal, appointed to high office in his administration fellow criminals? Is it possible to be a Republican official without being criminal and corrupt? On the basis of the evidence, it would appear that the answer is, no. Corrup ... ⌘ Read more_
As a ‘Seismic Shift’ Fractures Evangelicals, an Arkansas Pastor Leaves Home
Ruth Graham, National Correspondent - The New York Times
_Stephan: This story is an early report of an emerging trend that I see as quite important. White evangelicals are the core demographic of MAGAt world, and they are beginning to schism. Add this to the fact that educated younger people are dropping their involvement with evangelical churches, and often Christianity (at ... ⌘ Read more_
How the Oil and Gas Industry is Trying to Hold US Public Schools Hostage
Leanna First-Arai, - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: It should surprise no one that the carbon industries will do anything, spend anything, harm anything, to protect their profits, long term climate change damage be damned. Here is one of the many examples of this._
![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-10-at-9.10.09-PM.jpg? ... ⌘ Read more
Minnesota Lawmaker Proposes Eradicating Funding for Early Childhood Education
Chris Walker, News Writer - truthout
_Stephan: The Republicans want to indoctrinate children not educate them. The Republican Party does not like public "free" education and for at least a decade has been undermining public education, and cutting its funding where and when they can. They don't want educated children because they tend to grow up and go to college and b ... ⌘ Read more_
In a Post-Roe America, Expect More Births in a Country Where Maternal Mortality Continues to Rise
Robin Fields, Reporter - ProPublica
_Stephan: The United States has a truly shameful maternal mortality rate. For example, a woman in the United States is almost FOUR times as likely to die giving birth than a woman in Greece, and SEVENTEEN times more likely than a woman giving birth in Poland. And if Roe is overturned, as seems ... ⌘ Read more_
About a third of Asian Americans say they have changed their daily routine due to concerns over threats, attacks
LUIS NOE-BUSTAMANTE, NEIL G. RUIZ, MARK HUGO LOPEZ and KHADIJAH EDWARDS, - Pew Research Center
_Stephan: I have to be honest with you my readers; I am revolted and tired of my fellow Whites' racism. It is weak, it is stupid, and it tells the world a lot more about the Whites than it does about the p ... ⌘ Read more_
Republican wins GOP nomination from jail as he awaits trial for murdering his wife: report
Bob Brigham, - Raw Story
_Stephan: He looks like a thug. He acts like a thug, a murderer actually, and of course, Andrew Wilhoite is a Republican. When I tell you that the Republican Party is a criminal organization, I say that because those are the facts._
_A farm in the Catskills, New York \\| Credit: John Collier / Buyen Large / Getty_
A common story is told about idealistic ... ⌘ Read more
India and Pakistan heatwave is ‘testing the limits of human survivability,’ expert says
Rhea Mogul, Esha Mitra, Manveena Suri and Sophia Saifi, Reporters - CNN
_Stephan: climate change is going to create large territories around the planet that are simply unliveable on a mass basis. Like sea rise or drought, it is going to stimulate internal migrations._
![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/screen-shot ... ⌘ Read more
Connecticut Offers Refuge to Red State Women with a “Fugitive Woman Act”**
Thom Hartmann, - The Hartman Report
_Stephan: I read the opinion representing five justices and was struck by its shallowness and intellectual mediocrity. I wouldn't think a college sophomore could get a passing grade on this kind of "Originalism". Abortion is not in the Constitution? No, and nor is a single testicular disorder. They didn't anticipate the Internet either in 1787 ... ⌘ Read more_
Documents Show How Polluting Industries Mobilized to Block Climate Action
Amy Westervelt, - The Intercept
_Stephan: This is what is wrong with American capitalism. Profit is the only priority, even to the detriment of wellbeing. Until we make wellbeing our first priority we will inflict grievous wounds on all the beings of the earth including ourselves._
![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05 ... ⌘ Read more
Not OK: Average man rates his mental health just 6 out of 10, feels down 3 times a week**
Mustafa Mirreh, Staff Writer - Study Finds
_Stephan: Place this report in the context of a significant percentage of racist White men also in a state of fear and resentment about gender equality._
NEW YORK, NEW YORK —** Millions of men may be putting up a brave front, but they’re not doing as well as you may think. A new survey finds the ... ⌘ Read more
There is so little about Gaetz’s thoughts on women — and cats — that makes actual sense
Christina Wyman, Contributing Writer - Think
_Stephan: The people of Florida, who elected Republican christofascist Ron De Santis as their governor, also elected Representative Matt Gaetz, and Rick Scott and Marco Rubio as their two senators. I think the issue to be concerned about is not so much Ron De Santis, Matt Gaetz, Rick Scott and Marco Rubio but ... ⌘ Read more_
Rape As Opportunity: Because Only the GOP, Even Its Women, Could Hate Women This Much
Abby Zimet, Staff Writer - Common Dreams
_Stephan: The fact that all these anti-abortion laws in the states that are about to kick in make no exception for rape, incest, or even the life of the mother, tells you this issue is not fueled by rational thought. Instead, it is the product of hate and resentment. Be very clear, none of this is about protecting ... ⌘ Read more_
COVID-19 infection could age brain by 20 years, lower IQ significantly
Chris Melore, - Brain Tomorrow
_Stephan: More than one million Americans are now dead in the United States as a result of contracting Covid. A majority of these millions died because they would not get vaccinated or wear a mask. They were volunteers in the American death cult. Statistically, it is estimated that nine million Americans have experienced the loss of a family member or ... ⌘ Read more_
Antisemitism Increased Under Trump. Then It Got Even Worse.
Michelle Goldberg, Columnist - The New York Times
_Stephan: I have always been aware of antisemitism because my surname is Schwartz and many people, particularly antisemites, assume I am Jewish. I'm not. It was the name my father's family was given at Ellis Island when they came to the U.S. from Romania in 1906. Whatever they said had too many consonants I was told. Apparently, such name changing was once ... ⌘ Read more_
Life after Roe: Republicans are already targeting the right to a public education
AMANDA MARCOTTE, Senior Politics Writer - Salon
_Stephan: The MAGAt anti-abortion movement is just the opening salvo. Next, they will try to ban contraception, and drugs that cause abortions. At the same time they will be moving against public education because Republicans want children to be indoctrinated, not educated. This is all straight out of the authorit ... ⌘ Read more_
What Actually Happens When a Country Bans Abortion
Amy Mackinnon, National Security and Intelligence Reporter - Foreign Policy
_Stephan: I am old enough to remember when abortion was illegal and "the pill" did not yet exist, and I knew two women, one 22 the other 24 who died from back-alley abortions. And, no, I was not the father, just a friend who observed their dying, and mourns their passing. Making abortion illegal does not end abortion. And in the U.S., a country w ... ⌘ Read more_
Let’s throw out the term ‘culture wars.’ This is religious tyranny.
Jennifer Rubin, Columnist - The Washington Post
_Stephan: The Founders had a passionate commitment to seeing that there was an unbreachable firewall between religion and the state. They felt this way because personally they or members of their families had suffered from religious persecution. States like Rhode Island and Pennsylvania were specifically founded on this issue. Now because of the ... ⌘ Read more_
Climate Change is Pushing Toxic Chemicals into Drinking Wells
Erika Bolstad , - Pew Research Center - Stateline
_Stephan: If you live on a well as my wife and I do, particularly if you suffer flooding or there is a chemical industrial monocultural farm adjacent or near your property, I urge you you have your water tested at least once a year. This article explains why I make this recommendation._
... ⌘ Read more
US states could ban people from traveling for abortions, experts warn
Melody Schreiber, - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: If the leaked Alito draft judgment becomes reality, as I think will happen, it will only be the beginning, as this report explains. This decision is but one step on a long-term strategy to increase authoritarian control over citizens. Next, it will be outlawing receiving abortion medications by mail. Do you notice something about thes ... ⌘ Read more_
What Americans Can Expect If Abortion Pills Become Their Only Safe Option**
Maggie Koerth and Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux, Senior Science Writer - FiveThirtyEight
_Stephan: I wrote my comment for the previous article and decided to see if others saw the probability of the right using abortion as a way to get control of the mail established as a legal right. They do, and I think it should seriously alarm us. I also see that this November's electi ... ⌘ Read more_
What Would the End of Roe Mean? Key Questions and Answers.
Claire Cain Miller and Margot Sanger-Katz, Reporters - The New York Times
_Stephan: Here is a first take on what the end of Roe will produce._
_Anti-abortion protesters and a clinic staffer guiding patients outside a women’s health center in Jackson, Miss., last November. ... ⌘ Read more_
Editor’s Note – Overturning Roe vs Wade
Stephan A. Schwartz, Editor - Schwartzreport
_Stephan: Just as I sat down tonight Politico published Associate Justice Samuel Alito's, draft decision overturning Roe v Wade. If this is the court's decision it will be such a cataclysmic alteration in American culture that I have decided to dedicate Tuesday's SR to this report._ ⌘ Read more
Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows
JOSH GERSTEIN and ALEXANDER WARD, - Politico
_Stephan: If this story is correct, as most seem to think is the case, the 26 Red states are about to revert to the world of 50 years ago, before Roe vs Wade and Casey. These states, all of which already have poor social outcome data compared with the Blue states will, by law, render women unable to control their own bodies. In essen ... ⌘ Read more_
Why Being Anti-Science Is Now Part Of Many Rural Americans’ Identity
Monica Potts, Senior Politics Writer - FiveThirtyEight
_Stephan: This is one of the best articles on willful ignorance I have encountered. I see this as part of the Great Schism Trend, and it obvious from the social outcome data, that militant politicized willful ignorance is now one of the defining trends of American culture. These are the anti-science, anti-vaxxer, anti-masker, death ... ⌘ Read more_
DC insider explains the real reason why congress gets nothing done
Robert Reich, Carmel P. Friesen Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. He has served in three national administrations, including as Secretary of Labor - AlterNet
_Stephan: Robert Reich nails what I think is the central dynamic of the American Congress toda ... ⌘ Read more_
Manchin’s moves leave Democrats doubting their agenda will pass
Alexander Bolton, Senior Staff Writer - The Hill
_Stephan: Here is the corrupt Joe Manchin at work again screwing the voters who elected him. It is amazing to me that this man does virtually nothing to help his constituents, does much to harm their wellbeing, yet they elect him again and again. What is it they don't get?_
_Stephan: I have been warning my readers for over a decade about the internal migrations that were going to happen as a result of climate change, well, now they have started. If you own real estate where these migrations are going to occur I urge you to calculate when you should sell before the value of your property collapses or you are ... ⌘ Read more_
The Brooklyn Public Library is giving eCards to teens nationwide to challenge book bans.
Corinne Segal , Senior Editor at Lit Hub, previously a Senior Editor at PBS NewsHour Weekend. - Bklyn Public Library
_Stephan: This is the coolest story. Please pass it along, particularly to kids in Red states.
Teens who want to apply for the free eCard can send an email to BooksUnbanned@bklynlibrary.org or a message to @bklynfuture on Instagra ... ⌘ Read more_
Brilliant Planet plans cheap, gigaton-scale carbon capture using algae
Loz Blain, - New Atlas
_Stephan: Here is what looks like very good news. When I said the other day that when you recognize that all life is interconnected and interdependent and you wish to foster wellbeing you make different choices about which technologies to emphasize and this is an example of what I mean._
_Stephan: It is beginning to dawn on people with coastal properties, that climate change and th ... ⌘ Read more_
Five charts that show why our food is not ready for the climate crisis
Nina Lakhani, Alvin Chang, Rita Liu and Andrew Witherspoon, - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: Industrial, chemical, monoculture, agriculture is a system that developed with no recognition or concern for the interdependent and interconnected nature of earth's ecosystems. But it was, and is, very profitable for the corporations that make the products that sustained this unconscious sy ... ⌘ Read more_
At least 25 U.S. cities to follow Appleton in No Mow May initiative for bees and pollinators**
Ben Bokun, - NBC 26 (Green Bay, Wisconsin)
_Stephan: As you know if you read me regularly, I am extremely concerned about the bee crisis, the dramatic drop in the population of bees in the U.S.. Here is something you can do, if you do it now, that can help the bees. Please go to your city council, or town council, and ask them t ... ⌘ Read more_
Covid Drugs Save Lives, but Americans Can’t Get Them
Zeynep Tufekci, - The New York Times
_Stephan: Yet another demonstration of the failure of America's illness profit system. I don't know how it could be made any clearer that we may more than any other nation on earth for healthcare and yet get amongst the worst healthcare in the developed world. Yet other than Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren do you see members in Congress routinely advocating for universal birthr ... ⌘ Read more_
Treating COVID-19 with antibiotics leading to the creation of more superbugs**
Chris Melore, - Study Finds
_Stephan: I have been telling readers that Covid is just the beginning. As climate changes viruses and bacteria mutate to survive those changes. As we treat with antibiotics superbugs emerge for the same reason. This is one of the reasons I advocate so strongly for universal birthright single-payer healthcare. Without consistent qu ... ⌘ Read more_
Science Confirms That When White People Read About Covid Racial Disparities, They Respond Selfishly
JACKIE FLYNN MOGENSEN, Reporter - Mother Jones
_Stephan: Like everything else in American culture, the Covid data is strongly influenced by racism. Republicans are hysterical about not discussing the truth that racism has been baked into American culture since the nation's founding; they want to censor schools and libraries t ... ⌘ Read more_
We’re Running Out of Time to Hold Donald Trump Accountable
Robert Reich, Former US Secretary of Labor, is Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: It is my opinion that Robert Reich is spot on. The fact that Trump continues to operate politically while being held accountable for nothing is going to be seen in the future as a historic miscalculation and failure on the part of the Democratic Party, the Pr ... ⌘ Read more_
Editor’s Note
Stephan A. Schwartz, Editor - The Schwartzreport
_Stephan: Every day the news is dominated by two stories, Russia's evil war in Ukraine, and the rampant criminality of the Republican Party and its complete uninterest in behaving lawfully or supporting democracy. Just the naked greed for power. I picked four stories out of a large pool illustrating this, and could have picked a dozen more. I have never seen anything in politics as blatant as what is going on now.
(There is no click-through, ... ⌘ Read more_
Judge holds former President Trump in civil contempt for failing to comply with document subpoenas from New York attorney general
Sonia Moghe and Kara Scannell, -
_Stephan: It's amazing, Trump breaks the law day in and day out, and only rarely is held accountable for what he does. This is a happy exception._
_Former Republican Representative of Nebraska Jeff Fortenberry_
Former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R- ... ⌘ Read more
Letters From America – April 22, 2022
Heather Cox Richardson, History Professor and Columnist - Letters from America
_Stephan: Helen Cox Richardson is a very sensible person, and I think she places the Republican criminality in the right context._
_Professor Helen Cox Richardson_
“I don’t recall.” “I don’t remember.”
Georgia Republican representative Marjorie Taylo ... ⌘ Read more
How climate change is reshaping the world
The Editorial Staff, - The Washington Post
_Stephan: It amazes me how little coverage the earth changes are getting from most of the media. They get reported individually, but not as a comprehensive whole. Here is an exception, credit to The Washington Post. While all the usual human stupidities are going on, the earth itself is being changed by those stupidities. It has begun to seem to me to be a horserace. Do we continue the stupiditi ... ⌘ Read more_
Only 29% of hospitalised COVID-19 patients fully well one year on: Study**
, \\- cna
_Stephan: Ninety percent of the people hospitalized for Covid are unvaccinated and part of the mostly MAGAt death cult. But as this research lays out, even those that don't die in hospital are far from out of the woods._
_He ... ⌘ Read more_
Gov. Greg Abbott truck inspections turned up zero drugs, migrants but cost Texas $4.2 billion.
Ariana Garcia, - LMTonline
_Stephan: This report and the one that follows both illustrate something very important that every voter should comprehend. On the basis of objectively verifiable data, both demonstrate that Republicans are not governing on the basis of societal wellbeing. They are demonstrating authoritarian power and voters a ... ⌘ Read more_
Florida taxpayers could face a $1 billion Disney debt bomb if its special district status is revoked
Robert Frank, - CNBC
_Stephan: Here is a second example of the inferiority of Republican governance. I know that some readers will take this as a partisan position; it is not. I am an experimentalist, what I care about are objectively verifiable social outcome data, and they are very clear. If you live in Florida, next sum ... ⌘ Read more_
Gun deaths were the leading killer of US children in 2020**
BBC Editorial Staff, - BBC News (U.K.)
_Stephan: The deep sickness of America's obsessive gun psychosis is now the leading cause of death amongst U.S. children. And yet I had to go to a medical journal and a British media outlet to find this report. Evermore Republican-controlled legislatures have passed or are trying to pass laws allowing people to carry concealed firearms with no training, and ... ⌘ Read more_
Quarter of U.S. covid deaths were probably preventable with vaccination
Philip Bump, National Bump - The Washington Post
_Stephan: A million dead in the U.S., and here is the latest death report from the American, mostly MAGAt, death cult. Hundreds of thousands of Americans would be alive and well had they not been too brainwashed and moronic to not get vaccinated. Those are facts, anti-vaxxers, can you open your minds enough to comprehend them?_
![] ... ⌘ Read more_
How the American middle class has changed in the past five decades
RAKESH KOCHHAR and STELLA SECHOPOULOS, Senior Researcher \\| Research assistant for social and demographic trends - Pew Research Center
_Stephan: The American middle class is shrinking and becoming less educated, everything an authoritarian oligarchy dreams of. The MAGAts don't even realize they vote for their own degradation and shrinking financial status so great is their fear, racism, ha ... ⌘ Read more_
Are you in the American middle class? Find out with our income calculator
JESSE BENNETT, RICHARD FRY, and RAKESH KOCHHAR, Senior Researchers - Pew Research Center
_Stephan: As I noted in the previous article the American middle class is shrinking while the richer are getting much richer, and he poor are getting poorer, a clear measure of the Republican dismemberment of American democracy. Click through, answer the questions, and see where you stan ... ⌘ Read more_
The Cost of Not Indicting Trump Now Is a Presidency Without Guardrails
KIMBERLY WEHLE, - Politico
_Stephan: As I watched the news today what struck me was the astonishing corruption, lying, bullying, and scamming that now defines the Republican Party. And yet, not a single high-ranking Republican is being held to account for any of it. This lack of accountability is poisoning our democracy, and once established that you can do such things and fear no ... ⌘ Read more_
Manhattan DA’s Star Witness: Indict Trump Now or I’m Out**
Jose Pagliery, Political Investigations Reporter - Daily Beast
_Stephan: Echoing the point I made in the previous story, Michael Cohen, says to the Manhattan AG, act or count me out. I think millions of Americans feel the same. No high-ranking Republican is being held to account for anything, however egregious._
![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-0 ... ⌘ Read more
Climate change triggering global collapse in insect numbers
Tim Newbold and Charles Outhwaite, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Biodiversity and Environment, UCL \\| Postdoctoral Researcher in Biodiversity Change, UCL - The Conversation / Raw Story
_Stephan: We have been warned over and over that we must make radical changes in the way humans live and interact with the other beings on the planet or else we will face dire consequences. Instead, we vote liars and ... ⌘ Read more_
How Democratic Outrage Can End Trump’s Reign
Thom Hartmann, - The Hartmann Report
_Stephan: Thom Hartmann has it right. The data supports what he says. I keep waiting for the Democrats to move decisively as both parties did with Nixon and his cronies but it never seems to happen. The Democrats this time don't seem to have the same clarity of intent. I hope that very soon the January 6th committee will begin holding public hearings, that's what changed the nation in the previou ... ⌘ Read more_
Biden Restores Climate to Landmark Environmental Law, Reversing Trump
Lisa Friedman, Reporter - The New York Times
_Stephan: There is so much bad news today, so many lies, scams, and cheats by Republicans that have suddenly become public showing how democracy hangs by a thread in America. If you haven't already heard it listen to Kevin McCarthy's private real opinion about 6 January compared with his public lies, for instance, that I thought I would sta ... ⌘ Read more_