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GOP’s mass shooting response is a bizarre twist for the so-called ‘pro-life’ party
Charlie Sykes, Founder and Editor-at-large of the Bulwark - MSNBC
_Stephan: Please read this. It is very important that those of us who want to see intelligent gun control and democracy prevail, realize how really deranged the Republican position held by 44% of the party on this is. What I mean by that is starting with getting AR-15 style weapons off the street ... ⌘ Read more_
Restoration of empire is the endgame for Russia’s Vladimir Putin
Nathan Hodge, - CNN
_Stephan: I told you the week of the invasion that there were two things going on with the war that were not being properly appreciated. (See SR archive, search on "Putin".) First, Putin is not stupid, just reptilian. You're a dictator and possibly the richest man in the world, and you know it all depends on petroleum and gas, which Europe and other nations are committing t ... ⌘ Read more_
White supremacists are riling up thousands on social media
Amanda Seitz, Reporter - Associated Press
_Stephan: What the majority of Americans do not yet realize is that this cohort of people see what they are doing as part of a war. They are already in combat. And as I said in today's first piece, all of this is facilitated by the internet and social media. What is happening is exactly what happened in Germany and Italy, when Hitler and Mussolini rose to power. T ... ⌘ Read more_
Editor’s Note -Thank you
Stephan A. Schwartz, Editor - Schwartzreport
_Stephan: Thank you to all the readers who wrote to send me good wishes, and a quick recovery. I went into the hospital to get a hernia repair laparoscopic surgery. It was a bigger and more painful deal than I had realized but I am now home recuperating well. I really appreciated your warm wishes. Thank you again._ ⌘ Read more
Americans’ Views of Government: Decades of Distrust, Enduring Support for Its Role**
Joe Davidson, -
_Stephan: I have been telling my readers for years that Americans' trust in their government was going through a disastrous decline, and that our democracy was in dire straits. However, even I had not realized how bad this has become. This study by the Pew Research Center lays out the facts. The actual facts as to where our democracy s ... ⌘ Read more_
Fox News refuses to air Jan. 6 violence while trashing hearing as “boring” and “propaganda”**
Igor Derysh, Deputy News and Politics Editor - Salon
_Stephan: Here is another take on the Fox christofascist propaganda network (FCPN). To say what they did last night was shameful, really doesn't properly address what happened. FCPN has nothing to do with news, it is an active operation of the Murdoch family to destroy American democracy, and ... ⌘ Read more_
Bernie to Dems: Change course before you nosedive in November
BURGESS EVERETT, - Politico
_Stephan: I think Bernie Sanders has the correct assessment of the current electoral situation. (In the interest of full disclosure to my readers I was a Bernie Sanders Washington state delegate.) Sanders like Warren is not partisan, he is interested in fostering wellbeing, and understands what is really going on. I am very disappointed in the Democratic leadership, and t ... ⌘ Read more_
Ginni Thomas pressed 29 Ariz. lawmakers to help overturn Trump’s defeat, emails show
Emma Brown, Reporter - The Washington Post
_Stephan: I find it both amazing and very revealing of the state of American justice that an active christofascist activist openly working to destroy American democracy can be married to one of the nine justices on the Supreme Court who have the power to decide how our laws are interpreted and no one is taking any ... ⌘ Read more_
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_Stephan:_
_Stephan is in the hospital for a procedure_, so there will be no articles posted until Saturday. ⌘ Read more
Carbon Dioxide Levels Are Highest in Human History
Henry Fountain, - The New York Times
_Stephan: Another alarm goes off while humanity wallows in its greed and willful ignorance. I think it is very clear that we are not going to do what needs to be done and that tens, perhaps, hundreds, of millions of people around the world, including millions in the U.S., are going to have their lives trashed because of climate change. We have been warned over and over but we just do ... ⌘ Read more_
Teacher Wounded In Texas School Shooting Slams Police As ‘Cowards’**
Nina Golgowski, - HuffPost
_Stephan: Already the Uvalde massacre is fading into the past without a single police coward, or the particularly cowardly and utterly incompetent police commander on site, Pete Arredondo, being held accountable in any way for the murder of those 19 little children and their two teachers. The one teacher who was shot twice yet survived while the kids in his room w ... ⌘ Read more_
EU Smashes 2020 Climate Target, Records 34% Drop in Emissions to Lowest Level Since 1990
, \\- Good News Network
_Stephan: The European Union, which is made up of nations each of which, albeit to varying degrees, is committed to fostering wellbeing -- what is called socialism in the United States -- has made a big achievement in the remediation of the forces that are driving climate change. Meanwhile, the United States, whose Congress ... ⌘ Read more_
Will anti-abortionists use ‘uterus surveillance’ against women in the US?**
Arwa Mahdawi, - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: This I think is where the anti-choice movement is going. They know that about 40% of abortions are now done by medications, requiring no visit to a physician or a clinic. That is driving the anti-choice people crazy. That is why Texas wrote the law with a bounty hunter component. These people are determined to put women in a subordi ... ⌘ Read more_
The Strange and Secret Ways That Animals Perceive the World
Elizabeth Kolbert, Environmental Writer - The New Yorker
_Stephan: Elizabeth Kolbert is one of the most sensible environmental writers, and I read this with interest, and present it here.
If consciousness is fundamental and causal, as Einstein and Planck asserted, and experimental data affirms, then we live in a matrix of consciousness, in which the human perception, is but one of millions. All life is ... ⌘ Read more_
Almost Half of Republicans Think ‘We Have to Accept’ Mass Shootings, Poll Shows
Cameron Joseph, - Vice News
_Stephan: For the gun obsessives -- 44 percent of Republicans -- the answer to the massacres is not fewer but more guns. They actually fantasize a world in which everyone in America carries weapons as a matter of course. As for the murders, well, that's what freedom is like, get used to it. And these people are all going to vote in Novemb ... ⌘ Read more_
Court Documents Shed Light on Secretive Christian Sect Tied to Amy Coney Barrett
Travis Gettys, Staff Writer - Raw Story
_Stephan: Amy Coney Barrett, like Clarence Thomas, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh should never have been approved to sit on the court by the Senate. None of them are legal scholars, they are ideologues who make partisan judgments. And none of this is subtle. Thomas is married to a christofascist activist who was involved ... ⌘ Read more_
The House GOP has a “Climate ” Plan. It’s a Giveaway to the Fossil Fuel Industry
Mike Ludwig, Staff Reporter - truthout
_Stephan: The GOP climate proposal is a measure of the corruption of that party. The Republican Congress members either do not understand or do not care about climate change and what it is doing to the earth. What they care about is the money they get from the carbon industry corporations that pays to keep them in power. Your we ... ⌘ Read more_
Owning Guns Puts People in Your Home at Greater Risk of Being Killed, New Study Shows
DAVID STUDDERT, Professor of Law and of Health Policy at Stanford University - Time Magazine
_Stephan: It is an article of faith amongst gun obsessives that having a gun in their home makes them safer. Unfortunately, that is a lie, actually it puts a family at greater risk of homicide or suicide occurring in that family. Here are the facts, and to read ... ⌘ Read more_
America Tolerates High Levels of Violence but Suppresses Photos of the Slaughter
Peter Maass, Staff Writer - The Intercept
_Stephan: I wanted to use a picture of a child shot by an AR-15 to visually make the point this article addresses because I think it is very important. I spent half an hour trying to find such an image, searching every way I could think of on Google. It is impossible, I discovered, to actually find such an image, and tha ... ⌘ Read more_
Key facts about Americans and guns
KATHERINE SCHAEFFER, - Pew Research Center
_Stephan: I keep focusing on guns and what they are doing to American society because it never seems to end. This weekend alone, for instance, after Buffalo and Uvalde, a string of shootings in eight states left at least 15 people dead and more than 60 others wounded. Did you know that? Guns murders are so commonplace in the United States many get only superficial coverage, and that only in local media._
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Blue states are responding to Uvalde
Nicole Narea, Staff Writer - Vox
_Stephan: Here is some good news, for Blue states, at least, although a further indication of The Great Schism Trend. I have been following the state responses to the mass killings and it is very marked. Blue states tighten gun laws at the state level. Red states further loosen them, still operating, against all evidence, that good guys with guns is the way to stop bad guys with guns. The social outcome data makes i ... ⌘ Read more_
How American Influencers Built a World Wide Web of Vaccine Disinformation
KIERA BUTLER and NEHA WADEKAR, - Mother Jones
_Stephan: At least 319,000 people in the United States who volunteered to join the American anti-vaxxer death cult who ought to be alive are, instead, dead leaving at least a million three hundred thousand to grieve and mourn them. And that is just in the U.S.
Based on the hard data I have come to think of the anti-vaxxer moveme ... ⌘ Read more_
The Expansion of Democracy Is What Republican Elites Fear Most
Jamelle Bouie, Columnist - The New York Times
_Stephan: Here is an interesting commentary on what is happening with democracy in America. It makes what I think is a important, yet rarely discussed or understood point about minorities and majorities in the U.S. I see what is happening with our democracy as an issue of a minority -- bitter angry Whites guided and funded by the oligarchs -- working t ... ⌘ Read more_
Undermining Elections from Within and Without
Michael Waldman, - Brennan Center for Justice
_Stephan: The alarm bells are going off all over the media about the Republican attempt to rig the 2022 election. It is a measure of how badly the Congress operates, and how extreme is the schism in both houses, that there is no effort being made to stop what is happening and to rectify what has been done. Our democracy hangs by a thread and I do not notice much response from the Amer ... ⌘ Read more_
This is how far Republicans will go to subvert the will of the voters
Dana MIlbank, Columnist - The Washington Post
_Stephan: Here is more on the Republican nationwide effort at both the federal and state level to destroy American democracy. That millions of Americans either don't get this, or are happy to have the country turned into an anocracy with the Republicans in permanent control I find one of the most chilling events of our history. We are at ... ⌘ Read more_
‘You Can’t Even Bury Your Loved Ones’: 5 People Reportedly Shot at Cemetery During Funeral for Father Shot by Police
David Badash, - The New Civil Rights Movement
_Stephan: We have reached a point where going anywhere a group has gathered in public is potentially an act of Russian roulette. Yet, the Republicans are blocking, and will continue to block, any meaningful change in our gun laws. How long do you th ... ⌘ Read more_
The Supreme Court has blood on its hands
Bill Blum, - AlterNet
_Stephan: The guiding principle of the conservatives on the Supreme Court is "originalism," an incredibly ignorant sophistry that the Founders would have rejected, and which makes the Constitution a dead not a living document. Nowhere, as this fact-based article lays out is the willful ignorance of "originalism" more apparent than the conservative majority's rulings on the Second Amendment. It is part of the reason th ... ⌘ Read more_
A Disturbing New Pattern in Mass Shootings: Young Assailants
Glenn Thrush and Matt Richtel, Reporters - The New York Times
_Stephan: You may have heard the President tonight talk about his feelings about the recurrent mass killings over the last couple of weeks and what he would like to see done. I agree with all of it. We live in a country where you may not be able to buy a beer or even a handgun, but you can buy a combat assault weapon capable of killing a doz ... ⌘ Read more_
Cowardice is the point of white supremacy, too
Damon Young, - The Washington Post
_Stephan: I think this essay is correct. If you look at world history, wherever racism, or its first cousin colonialism reigns, it is obvious a dominant group enjoys a privileged position not by reason of personal attainment, but because of race or religion or both. What is happening to America is that we are becoming, by 2040-2045, a majority-minority nation, and are well into the transition. ... ⌘ Read more_
What the Uvalde Police department is hiding: White power killed those kids
John Stoehr, - Raw Story
_Stephan: It should be obvious to anyone including, I hope you, there is something very bogus going on with the humiliated Uvalde police. They are doing everything they can to deflect, or obfuscate, or just not tell the truth about what happened. I have already said that it sounded like the local police commander and at least some of his men were af ... ⌘ Read more_
GOP senator brags gun control ‘not gonna happen’ as at least 60 separate shooting incidents occurred in just one day
David Badash, - AlterNet / The New Civil Rights Movement
_Stephan: The Republicans are making a political bet. Their bet is that the largely White rabid gun obsessives will remain more politically powerful as a group than the Americans disgusted and angry over the constant gun murders. Men li ... ⌘ Read more_
A study gave cash and therapy to men at risk of criminal behavior. 10 years later, the results are in.
Sigal Samuel , Staff Writer - Vox
_Stephan: I have been telling my readers for over two decades that policies that foster wellbeing, are always -- I have never found an exception anywhere in the world -- more effective, more efficient, more productive, nicer for everyone to live under, and much, much cheaper. (See SR arch ... ⌘ Read more_
Report: Sales of internal combustion vehicles now in “permanent decline”**
Peter Valdes-Dapena, , -
_Stephan: Here is some good news about the transition out of the carbon era. I want you to take particular note that, as this report describes, this trend is being driven not by corporate choice but by individual buyer choice. It is another example illustrating how when individuals reach a consensus on something it happens. IT is an example of the 8 Laws o ... ⌘ Read more_
Big-spending billionaires are upending politics. The Los Angeles mayor’s race is the latest test.
ELENA SCHNEIDER, - Politico
_Stephan: I have been examining elections of all kinds all over the country, and two things stand out for me. First, the Republicans are pursuing a deliberate and organized strategy to rig the 2022 election, with the idea of perfecting their tactics in order to make America an anocracy in the 2024 elect ... ⌘ Read more_
Did Joe Manchin Block Climate Action to Benefit His Financial Interests
Chris McGreal , - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: I don't know if Joe Manchin is the most selfish and corrupt member of Congress, but he is certainly in the top handful. And he is the most irritating. The question is, will the people of West Virginia send this scumbag back to the Senate? Do they realize he routinely acts against their personal interests?_
Corrup ... ⌘ Read more
Inside Mitch McConnell’s decades-long effort to block gun control
Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer , White House Bureau Chief \\| National Political Reporter - The Washington Post
_Stephan: You would think that any politician capable of rational thought would look at the data, look at the news, and see that America is unlike any other nation in the world -- in a very bad way. Guns, and recognize that something needed to be done to stop the endless murders. ... ⌘ Read more_
What the data says about gun deaths in the U.S.
JOHN GRAMLICH, - Pew Research Center
_Stephan: This report from Pew Research was written in February, so all the recent murders and massacres like Buffalo and Uvalde had not yet occurred. However, even without that data this research spells out how deranged American society has become as a result of its obsessive gun psychosis, and how it is getting worse each year. Note the difference between 2000 and 2020 in the graph at the ... ⌘ Read more_
Trump calls Capitol attack an ‘insurrection hoax’ as public hearings set to begin
Joanna Walters , - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: It is hard to believe that anyone in the United States thinks of the 6 January event at the Capitol as anything but an insurrection. But as recently as this last weekend Trump publicly called the whole thing a hoax, and was applauded for saying this. I am publishing this report not because it has any new news abo ... ⌘ Read more_
The world’s car buyers are ready to go electric
Joanna Muller, - Axios
_Stephan: The United States, which for the last 75 years has led the world technologically in everything from airplanes to computers is no longer in the lead, as this report on the conversion out of petroleum vehicles to EVs demonstrates. President Biden had the right idea with his Build Back Better legislation, which would have created a nationwide network of charging stations, that would have encourage ... ⌘ Read more_
How an Organized Republican Effort Punishes Companies for Climate Action
David Gelles and Hiroko Tabuchi, Climate Correspondent \\| Investigative Climate Reporter - The New York Times
_Stephan: Between guns, the anti-vaxxer movement, anti-choice, climate denial, public education dismantling, and on and on, I think it is objectively fair to describe the Republican Party as the party of death. and they are very active in doing damage._
 that on the basis of objectively verifiable research data that whatever politicians tell you the truth is America does not care about children. Of course, everyone cares about their kids, but I mean as a culture. Here is more data confirming this reality._
In ... ⌘ Read more
Canadian national security task force is preparing for the collapse of the United States
Sarah K. Burris, - Raw Story
_Stephan: I think this report should be taken very seriously. It is, and should be, seen as very alarming. Think about it for a moment. The Canadians are planning how they would respond if the United States became a full-on anocracy. That tells you how even the country that borders us and with whom we have a vast net ... ⌘ Read more_
Freedom in the World 2022 – The United States
, \\- Freedom House
_Stephan: The United States, as a result of the actions of Trump and the Republican Party, is no longer one of the world's leading democracies. Here are some facts._
Overview
The United States is a federal republic whose people benefit from a vibrant political system, a stron ... ⌘ Read more
Warmer Climates Lead to Loss of Pollinator Diversity, Research Finds
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, - EcoWatch
_Stephan: Yet another warning about what climate change and global warming are going to mean. And yet humanity and its governments can't seem to fully awaken to what this is going to mean._
_A super-generalist bum ... ⌘ Read more_
‘Resounding Victory’: Court Rules Exxon Must Face Trial Over Climate Lies
Kenny Stancil, - Common Dreams
_Stephan: Here is some lovely good news. Exxon is going to have to stand trial for lying to the public about climate change._
_Climate activists protested outside ExxonMobil’s annual shareholder meeting in Irving ... ⌘ Read more_
We All Know Mass Killers Love the AR-15. Now Meet Their Favorite Bullet.
Miroslav Macala, Staff Writer - The Intercept
_Stephan: There is another aspect to the Uvalde, Tx murders that is not getting covered by the media and, unless you are familiar with weapons and their ammunition, would not even be thought about by most Americans. I am speaking here about the rounds of ammunition the killer, Salvador Ramos, purchased and used to kill the children an ... ⌘ Read more_
Journalist slams the ‘disgusting and predictable’ hypocrisy of NRA organizers banning guns from Trump event
Alex Henderson, Staff Writer - AlterNet
_Stephan: How revealing it is that even as the NRA brays out about everyone's right to carry guns, you cannot carry a gun at an NRA conference. Could the hypocrisy be more blatant?_
_The U.S. Capitol in Washington Credit: Mari ... ⌘ Read more_
The G.O.P. War on Civil Virtue**
Paul Krugman, Columnist, 2008 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center. - The New York Times
_Stephan: As is usually the case Paul Krugman gets it right._
_Credit: Eric Thayer/Bloomberg_
It’s hard to say which of the Republican responses to the ... ⌘ Read more_
Maker of rifle in Texas massacre is deep-pocketed GOP donor
Isaac Stanley-Becker, Reporter - The Washington Post
_Stephan: Just so there's no doubt about the linkage between those who make the death weapons, and the Republicans who protect them, assure their profits and see they cannot be held accountable because of carefully crafted laws._
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- Face a mandatory 48-hr waiting period,
- Make him show a note with parental permission,
- Make him show a note from his doctor proving he understands what he’s about to do,
- Make him watch a video about the effects o ... ⌘ Read more
States with the most gun violence share one trait
Zachary B. Wolf, - CNN
_Stephan: Here are more facts about gun deaths. I am trying to give my readers objectively verifiable facts they can use in taking their own actions to cleanse this scourge from our culture. The one thing this article does not mention, but what is obvious as one looks at these various lists is that if you live in a state governed by Republicans there are more guns, and more gun deaths. The same is t ... ⌘ Read more_
Shootings Aren’t a Sign America is ‘Broken’. It’s Working Exactly as Intended
Ryan Busse, former executive in the firearms industry, now a Senior Policy Advisor for Giffords - The Guardian U.K.)
_Stephan: The measurable trends validate what Ryan Busse, a former executive in the firearms industry, is saying in this piece. Because as a society we have only one social priority, greed and the profit it produces, the military-industrial complex Eisenhowe ... ⌘ Read more_
After Racist Massacre in Buffalo, Senate GOP Blocks Domestic Terrorism Bill
JAKE JOHNSON, - Common Dreams
_Stephan: Republican governance produces violence and death. Could it be made any clearer? I know that sounds terribly partisan, but I do assure you it is not. It is a statement based on objectively verifiable data._
... ⌘ Read more
New Documents Show How Drug Companies Targeted Doctors to Increase Opioid Prescriptions
Charles Ornstein, Editor - ProPublica
_Stephan: Thousands die each year because of opioid overdoses, and it has been going on for over a decade. It is yet another demonstration of the corruption and lack of interest in fostering wellbeing by the American illness profit system and the corporate pharmaceutical industries._
Driving the news: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) received the most money from gun rights supporters. On Tuesday, he received [major backlash](https://www.axios.com/2022/05/25/ted-cruz-tex ... ⌘ Read more
Republicans pledge allegiance to a hobbled NRA
DAVID SIDERS and OLIVIA BEAVERS, Staff Writers - Politico
_Stephan: The appearance of Trump, at the NRA convention on 27-29 May and described by the NRA as "a showcase of more than 14 acres of “the latest guns and gear,” with a 'powerhouse lineup of political speakers.'" All this just days after the massacres in Buffalo and Uvalde is a very deliberate considered political statement, and not just by Trump. Texas Republican Gov. G ... ⌘ Read more_
27 school shootings have taken place so far this year
JACLYN DIAZ, - npr
_Stephan: I am going to make this short and to the point. I've had enough. As you have probably heard throughout the day there is no other country on earth that has the kind of non-military gun murders and school shootings that occur regularly, almost routinely in the United States. The families hadn't even buried all the dead from the Buffalo massacre when the Uvalde, Texas massacre happened. W ... ⌘ Read more_
Poll: Black Americans fear more racist attacks after Buffalo shooting
Silvia Foster-Frau, Arelis R. Hernández, Scott Clement and Emily Guskin , - The Washington Post
_Stephan: I don't find the data in this report surprising. If I were Black, particularly if I lived in a Red open carry state I would be stressed anytime I was in a crowd of White people fearing some kind of violent or fatal confrontation. Why is this happening? Because under Trump White s ... ⌘ Read more_
Putin and the GOP – Not Much Daylight Between Them
John B. Alexander, - Daily Kos
_Stephan: John Alexander gets it. He sees the clear commonalities between Putin and the Republican Party, both committed to anocracy as their preferred form of government. I wish I had written this essay, I would have said the same thing._
_Stephan: America's obscene wealth inequality is allowing a handful of billionaire fascists, who don't want to be taxed or restricted in what they want to do, to fund the christofascist cult that was once the Republican Party. These are the men, almost all ... ⌘ Read more_
How White Victimhood Fuels Republican Politics
Alex Samuels and Neil Lewis Jr., Politics Reporter \\| Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University and the Division of General Internal Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine - FiveThirtyEight
_Stephan: One of the driving forces powering the Republican cult, what Trump recognized and used, is the conviction amongst Republican Whites, male or female, but particularly male, that as Whites they are being ... ⌘ Read more_
Manhattan DA urges judge to proceed with case against Trump Org and its CFO, says they stole more in taxpayer dollars than most New Yorkers earn in a year
Molly Crane-Newman, Reporter - Daily News
_Stephan: It looks like Trump's invincibility armor is about to be tested finally. This story explains what is happening. Hee's my take: Alan Weisselberg is an older man. He i ... ⌘ Read more_
Trump-promoted ‘Alien DNA’ doctor says Joe Biden is dead and his body was replaced by demonic clone
Sky Palma, Staff Writer - Raw Story
_Stephan: The schism between the Democratic worldview and that of the cult is so great that few American from either side have much exposure to the media of the other. Here's an example. You've probably never heard of Stella Immanuel. If you lived in MAGAt world you would be hearing a lot of ... ⌘ Read more_
Southern Baptist Leaders Mishandled Sex Abuse Crisis, Report Alleges
Ruth Graham and Elizabeth Dias, National Religious Correspondent \\| Religious Reporter - The New York Times
_Stephan: There is a very strong linkage between male clergy, male dominance, and inappropriate sexuality. Everyone knows it, but you never read or hear about clerical authorities doing anything in their training about it. The Roman Catholic Church has been notoriously guilty of p ... ⌘ Read more_
Baby Formula Maker Chose Shareholders Over Safety Amid Deadly Bacterial Outbreak
Jake Johnson, Staff Writer - truthout / Common Dreams
_Stephan: The other day I told you that based on my analysis that contrary to all the Republican misinformation the shortage of baby formula has nothing to do with the Biden administration or Joe Biden himself and, instead, was due entirely to corporate greed. Today I watched as military personnel, at who kno ... ⌘ Read more_
Baby Formula Industry Successfully Lobbied to Weaken Bacteria Safety Testing Standards
Lee Fang, Staff Writer - The Intercept
_Stephan: The story you hear on the television news channels is that Abbott, which is the source and cause of the baby formula crisis had a pollution problem in one of their plants, and so they closed it. What you are not hearing is how that plant came to be toxic with bacteria. In the previous story I explained ... ⌘ Read more_
Analysis confirms millions more kids going hungry since Manchin and the GOP killed expanded Child Tax Credit
Kenny Stancil, - Alter Net
_Stephan: Here is further proof that America, as a country, and particularly Republicans, do not like or support children, and that Joe Manchin is a vile human being. There is a deep sickness in the United States because voters put into power men and women who care nothing for th ... ⌘ Read more_
The 2022 Elections Are Fraught With Undisclosed Dark Money
Anna Massoglia, - truthout
_Stephan: As this report lays out dark money is pouring into the upcoming election because Citizens United and this Supreme Court have legalized bribery and, except for a few ethical members, most of Congress, particularly the Republicans, metaphorically stand on a street corner like hookers flashing their tits to passing corporate shills and lobbyists. The corruption of the Am ... ⌘ Read more_
Republicans learn to promote fascism at the feet of a master
Thom Hartmann, - Raw Story
_Stephan: Thom Hartmann, I believe, has it right. The Republican Party has morphed into a White supremacy, male dominant, militantly heterosexual christofascist party, and about a third of Americans are onboard for that. They are trying to restructure the American political system so that they get into power and stay in power. Getting control of the Supreme Court was the fi ... ⌘ Read more_
Trump judges audition for Supreme Court
Sophia Cai, - Axios
_Stephan: One of the major goals of the Trump administration, under all the deflecting vampire circus designed to keep everyone distracted, was a strategy to restructure the Judicial branch of government. What the christofascists wanted was to restructure the American judiciary so that what they planned would be deemed legal. That and control of the House and Senate would allow them to transform the U.S. into a full-blown ... ⌘ Read more_
Trump Shares CPAC Hungary Platform with Notorious Racist and Antisemite.
Flora Garamvolgyi and Julian Borger, - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: Trump has been out of office now for more than a year. He is well aware of his extensive criminal behavior, and I think is growing more confident of his control over the cult that had been the Republican Party. Why? Because he has not been held accountable for any of it. So his real fascist views our openly on ... ⌘ Read more_
The Banks Collapsed in 2008 — and Our Food System is About to do the Same
George Monbiot, Columnist - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: The richest nation in the world doesn't have enough infant formula for to feed America's babies. Doesn't that strike you as weird? Why is that happening? When you cut through all the commentary and misinformation what becomes clear is that these babies don't have the food they need because four corporations have a kind o ... ⌘ Read more_
The Southwest’s Drought and Fires Are a Window to Our Climate Change Future
Mark Olalde, Reporter - ProPublica
_Stephan: You can't say we weren't warned. This is what is going to cause one of the three major internal migrations, this one out of the Southwest because of lack of water, and unlivable temperatures. I have been warning about this for over 20 years (see SR archive), as I followed what was happening and was disappointed month after month ... ⌘ Read more_
American girls are now reaching puberty as young as SIX in phenomenon scientists think may be linked to childhood obesity, chemicals in plastic and stress
MANSUR SHAHEEN, U.S. Deputy Editor - Daily Mail (U.K.)
_Stephan: Do you think it is possible Americans will wake up to how sick our culture has become, and how desperately we need to take stock of ourselves? Our valu ... ⌘ Read more_
Red states aren’t prepared for a post-Roe baby boom
Caitlin Owens, - Axios
_Stephan: The Red state governors and legislators trying to condemn women to second-class status by taking away from them their freedom to control their own bodies haven't even considered what this story tells us. If Roe is overturned next month there is going to be great misery in the Red states._
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What you need to know about the anti-democracy movement
Robert Reich, Carmel P. Friesen Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California - Robert Reich Substack
_Stephan: Like many who study democracy, including myself, Robert Reich is deeply concerned that American democracy is on life support and may perish after the November election unless the Democrats increase their majorities in the House and Senate and reclaim ... ⌘ Read more_
In Wake of Buffalo Mass Shooting 203 House Republicans Vote Against Domestic Terrorism Bill That Had 3 GOP Co-Sponsors
David Badash, - The New Civil Rights Movement
_Stephan: As you read this story keep in mind that at the same time as they are voting against terrorism prevention -- read White nationalist terrorism -- Republicans in Red states are also trying to get laws passed that allow anyone to carry a concealed weapon, with no background check, license, or training. What do you think will happen as a result of ... ⌘ Read more_
Overturning Roe would be disastrous for the U.S. military
Allison Gill, - The Washington Post
_Stephan: When the U.S. converted from a conscription model military to an all-volunteer meritocracy military, I can guarantee you that not a single person involved with that transition even thought about abortion as a factor to be considered. How do I know this? Because I was part of the team that did it, and I wrote most of the speeches and Congressional testimony expla ... ⌘ Read more_
Fetus-powered street lamps? Republicans ramp up outrageous anti-abortion lies ahead of Roe’s demise
Amanda Marcotte, - Raw Story
_Stephan: MAGAt Republican Roger Stone thinks he can see a "Satanic Portal" above the White House, and anti-abortionist MAGAt Republican Catherine Gleen Foster, president of Americans United for Life, thinks street lights are powered by aborted fetuses being burnt in incinerators to power generato ... ⌘ Read more_
The dangerous business of dismantling America’s aging nuclear plants
Douglas MacMillan, - The Washington Post
_Stephan: As I have been telling my readers since SR began anytime you read something promoting nuclear power that doesn't also address the issue of dismantling the reactor, and dealing with the radioactive waste it has produced is just nuclear power propaganda. Ever since December 20, 1951 when the first civilian nuclear power reactor became op ... ⌘ Read more_
Staggering declines in bird populations taking place around the world
, \\- The Watchers
_Stephan: Declining bee populations, declining populations of butterflies and other insects, and now reports on declining bird populations. Human greed and stupidity, is destroying the earth's matrix of life, and instead of consciously working to repair our planet we are obsessed with racism and fascism. Want an example of what I mean? 588,042 Pennsylvanians voted ... ⌘ Read more_
Mitt Romney and fellow Republicans introduce bill that would stop Biden from canceling student loan debt
Erin Snodgrass, - Business Insider
_Stephan: Student loan debt has been a huge issue and cause of stress for millions. And yet millions voted for Republicans yesterday, and five Republicans, including Mitt Romney, supposedly one of the "good" Republicans, just blocked President Biden's bill to cancel or forgive st ... ⌘ Read more_
Doctors in Alabama Already Turn Away Miscarrying Patients. This Will Be America’s New Normal
LEAH TORRES, Staff Writer - Slate
_Stephan: This story gives us a sense of what is coming because a large bloc of Americans are not willing to accept that women are the equal of men, and those who feel this way will vote for politicians who create policies to reflect their views. Unless something fundamentally changes before November, I am ... ⌘ Read more_
US Covid deaths hit 1m, a death toll higher than any other country
Jessica Glenza, - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: How is it possible that the richest nation on earth has the worst Covid death rate of all the nations of the world? Why? Poor healthcare structure for sure. But that is only a piece of it. The big reason is that the MAGAt Republicans, led by Donald Trump and Ruper Murdoch, and their minions politicized and actively misled millions of men and ... ⌘ Read more_
Coronavirus vaccine could have saved 319,000 people, if they had only taken the shot: study
Theresa Braine, Reporter - Daily News
_Stephan: This is an appalling report on the hundreds of thousands of anti-vaxxer individuals who chose to join the American death cult and give up their lives to willful ignorance. And in addition to these 319,000 now dead individuals I think we can assume that are probably at least another four people cl ... ⌘ Read more_
Republicans block bill to stop price gouging at the pump as gas hits new record high
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_Stephan:_
Take a walk through **U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers**‘ tweets and you’ll find complaint after complaint about the price of gas. ... ⌘ Read more
Roger Stone elaborates on the ‘satanic portal’ he claims is visible above the White House
Bob Brigham, Staff Writer - Raw Story
_Stephan: Just when I think MAGAt world could not get any weirder... well, I read the day's news and am proven wrong. Did you know about the "satanic portal" visible above the White House? Neither did I. But Roger Stone, who ought to be in prison, can see it._
