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Editor’s Note – SR Under Attack
Stephan A. Schwartz, Editor - Schwartzreport
_Stephan: You probably noticed there was no Tuesday edition of SR. Actually, I did produce one but those who are attacking SR deleted it. For two weeks now Beth Alexander my wonderfully skillful webmaster and I have been struggling to keep SR operational. It has been incredibly time-consuming and it has become expensive. I don't really understand how the attacks are carried out, but they have been constant. I do unde ... ⌘ Read more_
White rural rage: The secret political force shaping America’s future
Thom Hartmann, Commentator - Raw Story / Commentary
_Stephan: Thom Hartmann has it spot on, describing the White christofascist rural supporters of criminal Trump. Low education, low IQ, filled with fear and resentment. As Hartmann notes, and I agree, even though Trump and the Republicans have been screwing these people for decades they aren't smart enough apparently to comprehend what ... ⌘ Read more_
‘Arming up for anticipated civil conflict’: Study says gun buyers prone to ‘political violence’**
Caarl Gibson, Staff Writer - AlterNet
_Stephan: The MAGAts are arming themselves. They want civil violence, and I think as a society government at both the state and federal level should be recognizing that and planning how we are going to deal with it. No living American has ever seen major civil violence on our soil. However, there is ... ⌘ Read more_
Librarians fear new penalties, even prison, as activists challenge books
HILLEL ITALIE and KIMBERLEE KRUESI, Report - Associated Press
_Stephan: If it isn't clear to you by now it should be. The United States is under a christofascist attack led by criminal Trump. Although there are some Blacks and Hispanics this is an overwhelmingly White minority cohort, and they are trying to take control of the country and think they can achieve this in November. ... ⌘ Read more_
Big Oil Ignores Millions of Climate Deaths When Billions in Profit Are at Stake
C.J. Polychroniou , Contributing Writer - trruthout
_Stephan: Here is an important assessment showing that wellbeing is fostered by ordinary people even when the profit greed corporations and those who work within them, pour countless money into maintaining things that cause damage to the earth's wellbeing. What it is saying is that you can make a difference. Are ... ⌘ Read more_
Biden’s $7.5 billion investment in EV charging has only produced 7 stations in two years
Shannon Osaka, Reporter - The Washington Post
_Stephan: As this report lays out, the U.S. is doing pathetically badly at creating a EV charging network. The plan was 500,000 charging stations by 2026; it is not going to happen, or even anything close. At both the federal and state level there is no real understanding as to how urgent this is. Perso ... ⌘ Read more_
Earth’s water future veers into sci-fi territory, researchers say
Rizwan Choudhury, - Microsoft Start
_Stephan: I have been telling you for over 20 years that water is destiny. I did one of my recent podcasts on this. Now, as this article describes a group of water studying scientists have put together a book on the future scenarios they see. It is even bleaker than my own research had suggested. Governments, throughout the world, including the United State ... ⌘ Read more_
China Is Using AI to Sow Disinformation and Stoke Discord Across Asia and the U.S., Microsoft Reports
KOH EWE, Staff Writer - Time Magazine
_Stephan: As I have warned you the weaponization of misinformation aided by AI is threatening democracies all over the world. It is getting harder and harder to get accurate information about anything. It isn't just China, although this report focuses on that. It is also and particular ... ⌘ Read more_
China Is Using AI to Sow Disinformation and Stoke Discord Across Asia and the U.S., Microsoft Reports
KOH EWE, Staff Writer - Time Magazine
_Stephan: As I have warned you the weaponization of misinformation aided by AI is threatening democracies all over the world. It is getting harder and harder to get accurate information about anything. I am spending more hours each day than I used to because I have to be sure that what ... ⌘ Read more_
Some Colleges Will Soon Charge $100,000 a Year. How Did This Happen?**
Ron Lieber, Contributing Writer - The New York Times
_Stephan: If you lived in Norway as one of a number of possible examples your healthcare would cost you nothing, being covered by federal taxes, and your college would also be without out of pocket costs. Why because in Norway the policies of the government are designed to foster wellbeing for every Norweigan, whereas in the U.S. both he ... ⌘ Read more_
Israel Has Formed a Task Force to Carry Out Covert Campaigns at US Universities
William I. Robinson , Staff Writer - truthout
_Stephan: Israel under Netanyahu is turning itself into an international pariah for the genocide it is perpetrating. Its response is social media misinformation and sending undercover agents to American universities. Read this account and be appalled. The stupidity of these policies, I think, is going to create an anti ... ⌘ Read more_
Promise-Breaking IRS
LIZ WOLFE , Staff Writer - reason
_Stephan: Everything about the American tax system is rigged to favor the rich in everyway. Here are the actual facts, and the true story._
_IRS commissioner Charles Rettig_. _Credit: Tom Williams / CQ Roll Call / Newscom_
Liar, liar: Back in August 2022, when some of us were fresh-faced and naive, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) ... ⌘ Read more
Spent nuclear fuel mismanagement poses a major threat to the United States. Here’s how.
Mark Leyse, - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
_Stephan: I have been telling readers since I started SR 33 years ago that we should stop any development of civilian nuclear energy. After serious research at both a classified and unclassified level I became convinced that the network of nuclear waste sites was going to become a major crisis at some ... ⌘ Read more_
As obesity rises, Big Food and dietitians push ‘anti-diet’ advice
Sasha Chavkin, Caitlin Gilbert, Anjali Tsui and Anahad O’Connor, Reporters - The Washingtdon Post
_Stephan: I went to the pharmacy today and had to stand in a line for over 30 minutes. While there I noticed something that has become ever more prevalent: the number of obese people, particularly women. I counted 27 people, a lot for the rural area in which I live, and 19 of them were obese. Most ... ⌘ Read more_
US Experienced Staggering Growth in Renewables Over the Last Decade
SYRIS VALENTINE, Staff Writer - truthdig
_Stephan: Here is some good news. We are making real progress in converting to renewable energy sources. The problem I see is that the national energy grid is aging and increasingly vulnerable to failure. My hope is that in the U.S. we develop regional and local grids._
_A new map projects future inun ... ⌘ Read more_
Insurance trends are deciding where Americans will live as planet heats
SAUL ELBEIN, Staff Writer - The Hill
_Stephan: I have been telling you for years to watch what the insurance companies are doing in your region because they, more than any other industry, are following what is happening with climate change. They are the canary in the mine whose choices will tell you when it is time to sell. And here is a report on what they are doing. I urge you ... ⌘ Read more_
Religious Change in America
, \\- PRRI
_Stephan:_
_He is the latest fact-based assessment as to what is happening about religion in the United States present time. The Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) is an American nonprofit, nonpartisan research and education organization that conducts public opinion polls on a variety of topics, specializing in the quantitative and qualitative study of political issues as they relate to religious values, and their surveys have proven over time to ... ⌘ Read more_
Here’s why Americans under 40 are so disillusioned with capitalism
Heather Long, Editorial Writer and Ccolumnist - The Washington Post
_Stephan: Here is a good assessment explaining why the young no longer have much faith in the social structure the Boomers took for granted. It has not seemed to dawn on most politicians that there has been a major transformation in the relationship between workers and employers, nor do they seem to recognize the growing d ... ⌘ Read more_
More Women Are Drinking Themselves Sick. The Biden Administration Is Concerned.
Lauren Sausser, - MedPage Today
_Stephan: I am seeing more and more signs like this report about women and alcohol of growing social stress. I think this is arising not just from immediate crises but also from a precognitive awareness of the devastation that is coming caused by climate change. There are already over 117 million climate refugees, as I noted the othe ... ⌘ Read more_
We know how to save these beloved endangered whales. Yet we’re mindlessly killing them.
Benji Jones, Senior Environmental Reporter - Vox
_Stephan: Even when we try to help preserve the ecosystem we don't think it through fully and properly, as this report about Right Whales describes. We need to reorder our societies so that fostering wellbeing of all the creatures in the matrix of life are included. If our civilization is to survive th ... ⌘ Read more_
The kids aren’t all right. Are phones really to blame?**
Judith Warner, - The Washington Post
_Stephan: Another culture stressor we are not properly addressing. We are at a point in our society where we must rethink our values and the only way that is going to happen is if we each make all our daily decisions the most compassionate life-affirming and fostering of wellbeing we can. Culture is the creation of collective consciousness._
 system check to make sure you haven't been made an unwitting victim. You would think there would be a huge outcry to establish universal birthright single-payer wellbeing healthcare, but Americans, par ... ⌘ Read more_
AI Companies Want to Colonize Our Data. Here’s How We Stop Them.
Ulises A. Mejias & Nick Couldry, - truthout
_Stephan: Here is an excellent assessment of how AI is changing our culture and our economy. I agree with the analysis, but the thing that is missing in the description of the solution, in my opinion is that the key to dealing with AI is that the highest social priority must be the compassionate life-affirming fostering of wellbeing of the entirety of ... ⌘ Read more_
The Church of Trump: How He’s Infusing Christianity Into His Movement
, \\- DNYUZ
_Stephan: If you read me regularly you know that I have been calling the merging of White evangelical christianity and what used to be the Republican Party, christofascism. I don't capitalize the C because this cult may use the language of the Bible but they have nothing to do with Jesus' teaching or the values of Christianity. This is a cohort defined by their anger, White ... ⌘ Read more_
RFK Jr.’s vice presidential pick calls IVF ‘one of the biggest lies being told about women’s health’**
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_Stephan:_
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate has been a harsh critic of in vitro fertilization, while funding alternative research on extending women’s reproductive years.
Nicole Shanahan has for years denounced IVF — calling it “one of the biggest lies that’s being told about women’s health today.”
At the same time ... ⌘ Read more
Confronting the Crisis of Climate Displacement
, \\-
_Stephan:_
_Credit: Adobe_
Just months after the Carr and Mendocino Complex fires ripped through nearly 700,000 acres of northern California in 2018, the wind-driven Camp Fire erupted near Chico. The fire scorched through the abnormally dry vegetation, blazing and spreading rapidly, and at one time burned some 10,000 acres ... ⌘ Read more
Colleges Are Facing an Enrollment Nightmare
, \\-
_Stephan:_
_Colleges Are Facing an Enrollment Nightmare
Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic. Sources: Harold M. Lambert / Getty._
For years, Senator Lamar Alexander was known for theatrically unfurling a paper document so long that he could hold it above his head and still see it drag along the chamber floor. It was the Fre ... ⌘ Read more
‘We are in danger as a nation’: House and Senate aides consider leaving ‘broken’ Congress
, \\-
_Stephan:_
_House Speaker Mike Johnson on February 1, 2024 Credit: Creative Commons_
The wave of retirement announcements and sudden resignations by members of the 118th Congress may soon be spreading to lawmakers’ staff as well.
Senior-level ... ⌘ Read more
Gulf South States Advance Bills to End Legal Recognition for Trans People
Erin Reed , Commentator - Erin In The Morning. / truthout
_Stephan: Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama are so poorly governed that if you look at their social outcome data, from healthcare to education it is clear they are basically third-world countries. What is even sadder is how filled with hate and White racism they are, as this article describes. They remind me of South ... ⌘ Read more_
AI hustlers stole women’s faces to put in ads. The law can’t help them.
Nitasha Tiku and Pranshu Verma , - Microsoft Start
_Stephan: This AI fake video trend is getting worse and worse, and unsuspecting women are discovering that their faces are being "stolen" to be used in fake videos. As you can see in this story local police departments are not equipped to deal with this, and our dysfunctional Congress has neither the will nor the capability to deal ... ⌘ Read more_
Why School Absences Have ‘Exploded’ Almost Everywhere
Sarah Mervosh and Francesca Paris, Reporters - The New York Times
_Stephan: America needs to sit down with itself and have a serious conversation about what is happening with our culture. We are a deteriorating culture in every aspect from healthcare to childcare, elder care, and even just learning to read, write, and do simple math. To quote this report, "The trends suggest that something fundamental has shifted in ... ⌘ Read more_
‘Trump in 2028’: GOP-aligned organization calls for abolition of presidential term limits
Carl Gibson, Staff Writer - AlterNet
_Stephan: Because few Americans seem to have any real grasp of history, I don't think many realize that we are mimicking step-by-step Hitler's rise to power, with Trump in the role of Hitler. On 30 January 1933 after a series of negotiations amongst the parties Hitler was formally appointed as Germany's new cha ... ⌘ Read more_
“Man-made Hell on Earth”: A Canadian Doctor on His Medical Mission to Gaza
Jeremy Scahill, - The Intercept
_Stephan: This is what genocide looks like and the United States is providing the weapons to make this happen. The problem we face as a country is that in the midst of this Israeli created genocide, our American democracy hangs by a thread and we are faced with an election that is not about Democrats vs. Republicans. It is about continuing demo ... ⌘ Read more_
U.S. signs off on more bombs, warplanes for Israel
John Hudson, National Security Reporter - The Washington Post
_Stephan: This is a mistake on Biden's part, and history is going to condemn him for this. However, I will still vote for him because I believe this U.S. election is not Democrats vs Republicans, instead, it is democracy against racist christofascism authoritarianism. I understand the geopolitical thinking that has led Biden to doing this: The U.S. has to suppor ... ⌘ Read more_
How MAGA broke the media
Zack Beauchamp, Senior Correspondent - Vox
_Stephan: In my view American corporate media, with a few exceptions, either does not understand what is going on in this election or has chosen their usual approach. That is, treating the election like a sports event between two teams playing an ethical game instead of competently recognizing that this is an election between continuing as a democracy or becoming a pseudo-democracy like Hungary ruled by a fascist authoritarian an ... ⌘ Read more_
Climate change has slowed Earth’s rotation — and could affect how we keep time
Elizabeth Gibney, Scientist - nature
_Stephan: Who knew that climate change would literally alter how we keep time? No one, but it is, and here is the story.
To get the scientific report: doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00932-_
_As polar ice has melte ... ⌘ Read more
Why did more than 1,000 people die after police subdued them with force that isn’t meant to kill?**
REESE DUNKLIN, RYAN J. FOLEY, JEFF MARTIN, JENNIFER MCDERMOTT, HOLBROOK MOHR and JOHN SEEWER, Reporters - Associated Press
_Stephan: The police and sheriffs in the United States are the most poorly trained law enforcement officers in the democracies of the developed world. In those other countries you have to be a college graduate, ... ⌘ Read more_
‘Reasonable grounds’ to believe Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, UN rights expert says
Louis Mian and Benjamin Brown, Reporters - CNN
_Stephan: I agree with this article and it enrages me that the genocide being conducted by fascist Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli's Trump, is being made possible with American weapons that are fast-tracked to the Israeli armed forces._
_As testing in the US nears completion, Stadler’s Flirt H2 passenger train has taken to the track to set a distance record of ... ⌘ Read more_
Biden Is Building a ‘Superstructure’ to Stop Trump From Stealing the Election
Asawin Suebsaeng and Adam Rawnsley, Staff Writers - RollingStone
_Stephan: The Trump Christofascist Party (TCP) is now openly and actively trying to rig the election in November because they fear that Trump will not win the necessary votes if we have a free and fair election, so they are trying to build a pseudo-election procedure like Russia or Hungary. It seems the De ... ⌘ Read more_
Millions of Americans caught up in Chinese hacking plot – US
Mattea Bubal, Reporter - BBC (U.K.)
_Stephan: If you are on TikTok you may have already been hacked, and your information compromised. But even if you aren't, and are using some other social media app, it may still be happening to you. What is particularly horrifying about what is going on with the internet is how few people are required to compromise the privacy and information of millions of users, a ... ⌘ Read more_
US court: Mexico’s suit against Arizona gun stores can proceed
Editorial Staff, - Mexico News Daily (Mexico)
_Stephan: Mexico is being devastated by the gun violence of its gangs and cartels, and they have recognized that the guns used in this violence are coming from the United States and they have had enough. The article describes what Mexico as a country is doing in response. I have never seen a lawsuit like the one described in this report, but I see it as ... ⌘ Read more_
Child care benefits for workers effectively pay for themselves, new study finds
Emily Peck, - Axios
_Stephan: Here is yet another report on research that shows fostering wellbeing is always the best option to choose -- in this case providing workers with child care benefits. You would think this had become obvious, given all the studies that prove this, but it has not. Greed always seems to blind those who make the decisions, particularly in ... ⌘ Read more_
The Danger of Deepfakes to Democracy
MIchael Waldman, - Brennan Center for Justice
_Stephan: In a way, I see this as good news, because institutions like the Brennan Center are beginning to realize and talk about how AI-generated fake videos and audio tapes can and are being used to influence voters. I just don't think voters, particularly the bulk of voters who don't really have any understanding of the actual issues involved or what politicians actually are trying to do. You have t ... ⌘ Read more_
Scientists Discover Potential HIV Cure that Eliminates Disease from Cells Using CRISPR-Cas Gene Editing
, \\- Good News Network
_Stephan: Here is what is potentially major good news. According to the World Health Organization, "Since the beginning of the HIV epidemic, 85.6 million [65.0–113.0 million] people have been infected with the HIV virus and about 40.4 million [32.9–51.3 million] people have died of HIV. Global ... ⌘ Read more_
How Billionaire’s Privilege is Taking Down Our Republic
Thom Hartmann, Commentator - The Hartmann Report
_Stephan: Have you noticed that criminal Trump is treated by the courts differently than anyone you know or have ever heard of? Thom Hartmann makes it clear with the facts that oligarchs live in different world than middle-class Americans. This has happened because poor and middle-class Americans have voted Trump Christofacist Party (TCPs) into office. Do you thin ... ⌘ Read more_
Shifts in Child Health Behaviors and Obesity After COVID-19
Monica L. Wang, ScD, MS, and Cristina M. Gago, PhD, MPH, - JAMA Pedoatrics
_Stephan: The average American diet is so bad that childhood obesity has become a crisis with all manner of negative side effects as described in the medical journal JAMA Pediatrics._
_Credit: First Cry Parenting_
As COV ... ⌘ Read more
How the U.S. Is Addressing the Youth Mental Health Crisis
Emily Hutto, Associate Video Producer and Editor - MedPage Today
_Stephan: One of the reasons the United States ranks so poorly in the World Happiness Report for 2024 -- we are 23rd in the world -- is the youth mental health crisis. Our youth rank 62nd. Basically what is going on is that rich Boomers who control the Trump Christofascist Party have trashed the country socially, and young people who are going ... ⌘ Read more_
Nearly 4,000 celebrities found to be victims of deepfake pornography
Nadeem Badshah, - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: I am seeing more and more stories, and have published several in SR over the past few months, about AI-created fake child porn, and public figure porn. And yet it is rarely discussed on corporate media channels, and almost never discussed by politicians who use it to their benefit. The reality is the developed world is faced with a rights ... ⌘ Read more_
Breyer signals support for Supreme Court age, term limits
Shauneen Miranda, Staff Writer - Axios
_Stephan: I have never before seen or heard a former Supreme Court Justice speak out in this way, and I agree with retired Associate Justice Stephen Breyer. I think it should be taken as a response driven by the almost complete collapse of respect for the Court. Forty six percent of Americans disapprove of the way the Court is handling its job. If we ever get a working ... ⌘ Read more_
Congress’s new low
Robert Reich, Robert B. Reich is currently the 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 - Robert Reich Substack
_Stephan: It is becoming increasingly clear to all Americans that the U.S. Congress is barely functional. America is a failing state by almost any social outcome measure you choose to pick. Our future is going to turn on the N ... ⌘ Read more_
Study reports enormous ice loss from Greenland glacier
, \\- Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres / Phys.org
_Stephan: The climate change reports are getting more and more alarming. Meanwhile, the Trump Christofascist Party (TCP) members of Congress continue to waste time trying to impeach Biden and blather on about Hunter Biden. The TCPs are literally trying to condemn your children to death as climate changes destroy the earth's ecosystem._
Surrender: Millions of former US Military members support defeat.
John B Alexander, PhD, Colonel, USA (Ret.) - Daily Kos
_Stephan: John Alexander is a career combat leader and retired Army colonel and PhD. He is the first person I have seen tell the truth about how the Afghanistan War ended, and criminal Trump became the first American president in history to surrender. This is a story you should forward on to friends and family members. It is a major part o ... ⌘ Read more_
Putting chaplains in public school is the latest battle in culture wars
Michelle Boorstein, Religion Reporter - The Washington Post
_Stephan: If the christofascists can't get rid of public education they at least want to turn it into a "Christian" (nothing to do withe Jesus' actual teachings) indoctrination system. It is their next battle in the war to make the U.S. a christofascist autocracy._
_Vice President Kamala Harris_
Vice President Harris will make two announcements ... ⌘ Read more
World Happiness Report 2024
WHR Editorial Board, formed of John F. Helliwell, Lord Richard Layard, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Lara B. Aknin, and Shun Wang., - World Happiness Report
_Stephan: The 2024 World Happiness Report has just come out. The report is researched and written by a partnership among Gallup, the Oxford Wellbeing Research Centre, the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and the World Happiness Report’s Editorial Board. The news for America is very sad. Th ... ⌘ Read more_
What happens when an AG dares to investigate Leonard Leo’s network
HEIDI PRZYBYLA, Staff Writer - Politico
_Stephan: Another story about the depth of corruption in the United States. America is perhaps the most corrupt democracy if one can still call us a democracy, in the world. Were is not for our military power we would be considered a failing state, and if the election goes to the Trump christofascist Party (TCP) (former Republican Party) it will be ga ... ⌘ Read more_
Women are getting off birth control amid misinformation explosion
Lauren Weber and Sabrina Malhi, Accountability Reporter \\| Infant and Maternal Health Issues Reporter - The Washington Post
_Stephan: The weaponization of misinformation, and the drive to control women and girls has entered a new phase, attacking birth control. The result is going to be an increase in unplanned pregnancies which, in blue states is going to mean an increase in abortions and, ... ⌘ Read more_
Trump eyes convicts and conspiracists for 2024 reunion
Sophia Cai and Alex Thompson, -
_Stephan: Criminal Trump makes no attempt to hide what he is planning, or who he brings into his administration if he is re-elected. If American actually do vote this monster back into the presidency then it will be the end of America as a country with any honorable ethical standards or a democracy, and maybe that is what is going to happen. The Roman empire came to an end, the Rus ... ⌘ Read more_
California Wants to Pay Doctors More Money to See Medicaid Patients
, \\- MedPage Today
_Stephan: The good news part of this story is that Governor Newsom and the Democrats in California are trying to make decent eyecare available to more low-income people. They are trying to foster wellbeing within America's appallingly bad illness profit system. The bad news, of course, is this is another example of how awful our healthcare system is._
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![](https://i0.wp.com/www.s ... ⌘ Read more
Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries
Madalina Vlasceanu, Kimberly C. Doell, and Joseph B. Bak-Coleman et al., Research Scientists - Science Advances
_Stephan: One would think that the leadership of all the nations of the world understood by now that the only way to successfully address the challenge of climate change would be for all governments to agree to a pl ... ⌘ Read more_
Livestock Industry Spent Billions Courting Academics to Discredit Research
GEORGINA GUSTIN, Staff Writer - truthdig / Inside Climate News
_Stephan: This report, in my view, is important for three reasons: First, the livestock industry has been proven to be a major reason climate change is occurring, and nothing is being done. Second, this report shows how vulnerable to corruption the science community has become, and how weak its ethical standards ... ⌘ Read more_
‘Very few have balls’: How American news lost its nerve
Max Tani, Media Reporter - Semafor
_Stephan: I think Max Tani makes some very good points about what is happening in journalism in the U.S. and I thought it notable that he also cites people who don't agree with him. Personally, I think his assessments are quite accurate._
There’s too much to read and watch, too many places to read and watch it. It’s enough to distract you from the biggest news in journalism righ ... ⌘ Read more
Are men and women growing apart politically? Not so fast.
Zack Beauchamp, Senior Correspondent - Vox
_Stephan: One sees a lot of commentary on the difference between the way men and women see politics. but I think it's more complicated than most commentators make it seem. Here is a data-based assessment that, in my opinion, makes the right point. "It’s frustrating to say “we don’t know” about something as important as the future of gender politics. But sometimes, “w ... ⌘ Read more_
Medicare $$ Needed to Help State-Licensed Emergency Centers Survive, Lawmakers Told
Joyce Frieden, Washington Editor - MedPage Today
_Stephan: I read stories like this one and ask myself, how is it possible we are having a presidential election in 8 months, we have the worst healthcare amongst all developed democracies, and yet we hear not a single word about creating universal birthright single-payer healthcare. We go on year after year with ... ⌘ Read more_
Scientific Proof Republicans Are Killing Young Women
THOM HARTMANN, Commentator - The Hartmann Report
_Stephan: I was about to use the JAMA paper but was concerned it was too technical when I found this Hartmann article, which makes the same point on basically the same data, citing the JAMA paper. The sad truth is there are a lot of Handmaidens in the U.S. who vote year after year for the Trump Christofascist Party candidates, even though it oftentimes puts their own l ... ⌘ Read more_
Supreme Court Puppetmaster Explains How Billionaires Can Push America Right
Andrew Perez, - Rollingstone
_Stephan: Leonard Leo is the Joseph Goebbels of the Trump Christofasct Party (TCP), and it is amazing to me that the media pays so little attention to him considering what he has accomplished for the christofascists and Trump. Just as Hitler and the Nazis were very clear about what they are trying to do, so the TCP and Trump are quite explici ... ⌘ Read more_
The big idea: should we worry about trillionaires?**
Duncan Weldon, - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: The reality that there are already people who are richer than some countries, and they are getting still richer is a sign of how dysfunctional our national economy has become. This all happened because over and over the Trump Chritofascist Party (the former Republican Party) has cut taxes for the rich and rigged the tax system to favor them. On top of that the Supreme Court ... ⌘ Read more_
For Centuries We Have Plundered Our Planet. Now We Are Paying the Price
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Contributing Writer - Reader Supported News / The Telegraph (U.K.)
_Stephan: Here is a writer in the U.K. saying what I have been telling you for 20 years. I take this as a sign of the general awakening by journalists that all life is interconnected and interdependent. I did a media interview today, with Jeff Lippman, and most of the questions he asked ... ⌘ Read more_
Jimmy Kimmel Stumps MAGA Fanatics With U.S. Citizenship Test
Jennifer M. Wood, - Daily Beast
_Stephan: Yesterday I told you that one of the defining characteristics of the MAGAt/TCP supporters is how ignorant they are. Here's some proof of that. When asked questions immigrants are asked in order to get citizenship, they couldn't. So most of the people who support Trump could not, in fact, obtain citizenship._
 supporters are openly criminal? Trump and those who support him come straight out of the Hitler playbook and even though the TCPs have done everything they can to rig the U.S. judicial system, from the top down, there are still enough honor ... ⌘ Read more_
Evangelicals With Deep Pockets Are Funding Climate Change Denial
Dan Foster, Contributing Writer - The Good Men Project
_Stephan: White Evangelicals, as a group, are poorly educated -- according to statista only 15% are college graduates -- and lower IQ -- 34% of Americans have an I.Q. between 98 and 85, 78 is considered retarded. They tend to be fearful and resentful, male dominance-oriented, and racist. Also remember 54% of Americans can't read beyond a ... ⌘ Read more_
Ralph Reed’s army plans $62 million spending spree to boost evangelical turnout
Alex Isenstadt, Staff Writer - Politico
_Stephan: By most research estimates one in three Americans consider themselves evangelicals, and they are the Trump hard-core base. That's why the TCPs are pouring so much money into getting these low-education low-IQ people ginned up to vote for Trump. This is how Trump plans to win back the Presidency. That's part of Trump ... ⌘ Read more_
Viktor Orban and the TCP
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON, - Letters From an American
_Stephan: How blatant the TCP has become that dictator Viktor Orban was so welcomed by evangelicals, The Conservative Action Project, and the Heritage Foundation. The TCP is actively trying to turn America into a pseudo-democracy like Hungary and Russia. Hold elections but rig them so the outcome is a foregone conclusion._
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The Earthquake That Could Shatter Netanyahu’s Coalition
Yair Rosenberg, Contributing Writer - Reader Supported News / The Atlantic
_Stephan: In my view, Benjamin Netanyahu and his fascist cabinet should be indicted and tried for war crimes against humanity. They are carrying out an attempt at genocide, and as an American, I am ashamed that Biden is still supplying the weapons to carry out much of this devastation. The U.N. children's agency said on Sunday "Over 13,00 ... ⌘ Read more_
America’s Grid Isn’t Ready for the Green Transition
JUSTIN WORLAND, Staff Writer - Time Magazine
_Stephan: Here we have yet another warning that the United States is woefully unprepared for what climate change is going to do to our society. While the TCPs in the House spend most of their time and millions of our dollars trying to find some way to embarrass President Biden and his family, and the Senate TCPs block help for Ukraine, the infrastructure, of bridges, roads, el ... ⌘ Read more_
The 6% commission on buying or selling a home is gone after Realtors association agrees to seismic settlement
David Goldman and Anna Bahney,, Reporter - CNN
_Stephan: A major change in real estate transactions has just occurred, as this report describes. It is probably going to lower house prices and change the whole cost of buying or selling a house. If any of you are in the midst or such a sale or purchase check ... ⌘ Read more_
“It Feels Impossible to Stay”: The U.S. Needs Wildland Firefighters More Than Ever, but the Federal Government Is Losing Them
Abe Streep , Staff Writer - ProPublica
_Stephan: Yet another story of the failure of the U.S. government at both the federal and state levels to plan ahead and foster wellbeing. Anyone who does a half hour researching what climate change is going to do learns quickly there are g ... ⌘ Read more_
The Great Resignation hits Congress: Lawmakers are quitting, too
Paul Kane , Reporter - Microsoft Start / The Washington Post
_Stephan: Most people don't seem to have noticed what I see as an alarming trend in Congress, an unprecedented number of Congressional members are either not running in November, or like Republican Representative Ken Buck of Colorado are just quitting and walking away. Why is this happening? In my view it is a byproduct of the conversi ... ⌘ Read more_
Adult illiteracy and the distortion of American culture
Stephan A. Schwartz, Columnist - Explore Journal
_Stephan: The lack of literacy and numeracy in American adults is becoming an increasing problem undermining maintaining U.S. democracy. If you can't read and comprehend a standard newspaper report, or if you can't understand basic statements about the economy, you can't really understand why democracy is so important to our society. Authoritarianism, where some ... ⌘ Read more_
The WSJ Wants to Delegitimize Democratic Opposition to Violence
ARI PAUL, -
_Stephan: I think Biden has made a serious miscalculation by continuing to support Israel's attempted genocide of Palestinians and takeover of Gaza. Over 30,000 have died a large percentage innocent women and children, and hundreds of thousands more are facing starvation. That doesn't justify what Hamas did but if Netanayou had been properly governing the Hamas raid would not have en ... ⌘ Read more_
Trump is out of his mind and desperate
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 - Robert Reich Substack
_Stephan: Robert Reich obviously feels the same way I do. Each of us must not only vote only for Democrats, we must do everything we can to get everyone we know to do likewise. This is not a typical election, Democrat v ... ⌘ Read more_
Most Students Prefer Colleges That Restrict Guns on Campus
ZACH HRYNOWSKI, - The Gallup Organization
_Stephan: Students prefer colleges with more restrictive gun regulations, as this Gallup Survey documents. I'm not surprised, given the U.S. murder rate in schools and colleges. It would certainly be a consideration if I were choosing a college. What this survey doesn't address is the disproportionate effect this is going to have on colleges and universities in R ... ⌘ Read more_
Election disinformation takes a big leap with AI being used to deceive worldwide
ALI SWENSON and KELVIN CHAN, Reporters - Associated Press
_Stephan: This is what really concerns me, not just for the United States but all the democracies of the world. If your source of information is social media, most of what you are reading is partial or complete misinformation. I fear it is going to warp the outcome of the U.S. election, where 54% of the a ... ⌘ Read more_
Florida House Prices Fall as Homeowners Desperately Try to Sell
Giulia Carbonaro, Reporter - Newsweek
_Stephan: I have been telling readers for 15 years (see SR archive) that this was coming, and now it has begun. I have a friend in Key West who is selling his property because of rising sea levels, and another with a summer cottage on the Outer Banks of North Carolina also selling, both because insurance is becoming impossible, they see what is coming, and w ... ⌘ Read more_
8 in 10 Americans Say Religion Is Losing Influence in Public Life
MICHAEL ROTOLO, GREGORY A. SMITH and JONATHAN EVANS, - Pew Research Center
_Stephan: Christianity has profoundly altered in the United States. As this Pew Research survey shows people find religion a greatly diminished influence in American society. In my view, that is because Christianity for the evangelical/fundamentalist believers is less a religion and more a White supremacist, male dom ... ⌘ Read more_
Church pews are sitting empty. Can they become affordable housing?**
Danny Nguyen, - The Washington Post
_Stephan: While the congregations of christofascist churches are growing, traditional real Christian churches are shrinking. To a point where, as this article describes, their congregations are considering other uses for their church buildings that reflect true Christianity. Meanwhile, the christofascist churches are buying their ministers bigger fancier ... ⌘ Read more_
Nearly 30% of Gen Z women identify as LGBTQ, Gallup survey finds
Brooke Sopelsa, Editorial Director of NBC Out, NBC News - NBC News
_Stephan: Something is happening with younger women in the U.S., as this report describes. It is my opinion that this is happening because of what is happening with men, who are angry and resentful that women want and expect equality, and who are tired of men telling them the state (men) has control of their bodies. This has beco ... ⌘ Read more_
State Reproductive Policies Important to Enrollment Decisions
STEPHANIE MARKEN and ZACH HRYNOWSKI, - The Gallup Organization
_Stephan: The Great Schism Trend is having a very serious effect on colleges and universities in Red States, which will further degrade the social outcome data of states controlled by the TCP, both their educational status and the quality of their healthcare, particularly for women. It is further evidence that we are becoming two quite ... ⌘ Read more_
Another lens into the rightward shift of Black and Hispanic Americans
Philip Bump and Lenny Bronner, - Microsoft Start / The Washington Post
_Stephan: How is it possible for a Black or Hispanic person to vote for the TCP which is so blatantly White supremacist in both their words and deeds? I think it is a calculation to gain power, in hopes that if they vote for Trump they will be able to bargain for some benefit. Sadly, if Trump wins they are going ... ⌘ Read more_
100 Most Obese U.S. Cities: America’s Weight Problem Centers In The South
Matt Higgins, - Study Finds
_Stephan: This is another aspect of The Great Schism Trend. States where voters have voted into power advocates of TCP, are not just the least educated, most illiterate, shortest lifespan men and women, they are also the most obese. If you click through you can get a list of all the fatty communities. It was too long for me to put it in SR._
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Stephan’s computer has been attacked once again. He is unable to post today’s edition. Technicians are working on his system, but cleaning up the malware will cost another $500. He wants to thank everyone for your continued support. ⌘ Read more