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2022-07-05T09:35:00Z	**EU Announces Plan to Cut Pesticide Use in Half**
Paige Bennett,    -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: While the Supreme Court castrates the EPA at the same moment the European Union does something intelligent. The United States is becoming pathetic and destructive of humanity's wellbeing._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-04-at-9.49.22-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C512&ssl=1)_Vice President Frans Timmermans, EU Commissioner for Health Stella K ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/05/eu-announces-plan-to-cut-pesticide-use-in-half/)
2022-07-05T09:34:00Z	**The Green Revolution Sweeping Sweden**
Per Liljas,    -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: Sweden, a country that in every social outcome parameter I can discover that fosters wellbeing leads the United States, and this is but another example. The legacy of the Trump era was the diminishment of America's stature in the world, validated by the objective facts. Partisanship is not relevant here, or shouldn't be. Sweden is making the right choices, the choices that foster wellbeing, and the U.S.  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/05/the-green-revolution-sweeping-sweden/)
2022-07-05T09:33:00Z	**Can Phoenix, the hottest city in America, survive climate change?**
David Knowles,  Senior Editor  -  YahooNews

_Stephan: Having lived in Arizona, I wrote my first book, The Secret Vaults of Time,  there I have a sense of what is happening in Phoenix. For over a decade I have been predicting three migrations, one out of the Southwest because of temperature rise and lack of water. Here is how that is working out._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-co ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/05/can-phoenix-the-hottest-city-in-america-survive-climate-change/)
2022-07-05T09:32:00Z	**This Road Wirelessly Charges Electric Cars as They Drive**
Andrew Liszewski,    -  Gizmodo

_Stephan: Here is some positive Italian news. As I have said I think charging roads is the way this trend is going to go. In my opinion, this not charging stations should become part of the Democratic build-back better plan._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-05-at-12.45.06-AM.jpg?resize=800%2C587&ssl=1)_Credit:Stellantis_ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/05/this-road-wirelessly-charges-electric-cars-as-they-drive/)
2022-07-06T09:35:00Z	**88 percent say US is on wrong track: survey**
ZACH SCHONFELD ,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

_Stephan: Here are the facts showing just how sick America has become.

To obtain the entire survey report from Monmouth University go to: https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/documents/monmouthpoll\_us\_070522.pdf/_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-05-at-5.32.34-PM.jpg?resize=578%2C285&ssl=1)

Nearly 9 in 10 Americans say the cou ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/06/88-percent-say-us-is-on-wrong-track-survey/)
2022-07-06T09:34:00Z	**Highland Park Fourth of July parade shooting was nation’s 309th this year**
,    \-  New York Daily News

_Stephan: To anyone looking at the United States from the outside it would be obvious that Americans place gun ownership, particularly combat weapons like the AR-15 or AK-47, above social wellbeing, and are willing to live with 18-22 year old White male losers routinely murdering masses of people. You have noticed I assume that all of these mass murde ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/06/highland-park-fourth-of-july-parade-shooting-was-nations-309th-this-year/)
2022-07-06T09:33:00Z	**How do you spell ‘independence’? Turns out 1 in 3 Americans have no idea!**
Chris Melore,    -  Study Finds

_Stephan: It is a measure of how bad American public education has become that 1 out of 3 Americans can't even name the country from which we got independence, as is celebrated on the 4th of July. And most are so illiterate they can't even spell the word independence. We have become a country of morons._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzre ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/06/how-do-you-spell-independence-turns-out-1-in-3-americans-have-no-idea%ef%bf%bc/)
2022-07-06T09:32:00Z	**The Nightmare Scenario SCOTUS is Plotting For the 2024 Election Takeover**
Thom Hartmann,    -  The Hartmann Report

_Stephan: Thom Hartmann has it right. If you don't vote, and vote only for Democrats, you are voting to end the United States as a democracy, because ending democracy is what the Republicans are all about._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-05-at-6.41.30-PM.jpg?resize=729%2C483&ssl= ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/06/the-nightmare-scenario-scotus-is-plotting-for-the-2024-election-takeover/)
2022-07-07T09:35:00Z	**Democrats’ Cowardice and Complicity in the Post-Roe World**
Natasha Lennard,    -  The Intercept

_Stephan: I do not understand the Democrats, their weaknesses are so obvious, their leadership is so weak, their inability to understand that the voter profile is such that over a third of Americans vote their emotions. That is what Trump understood. They don't seem to understand that you have to touch people emotionally with a vision of America that excites them, makes them ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/07/democrats-cowardice-and-complicity-in-the-post-roe-world/)
2022-07-07T09:34:00Z	**The Catholic church is dictating reproductive health care — even in blue states**
MARY ELIZABETH WILLIAMS,    -  Salon

_Stephan: Four out of the 10 largest health systems in the United States are Catholic. Very few people seem to know that. They are all beholden to the Ethical and Religious Directives of the Roman Catholic Church, and that means they do not permit abortions, nor do they support contraception. This has now become an important factor  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/07/the-catholic-church-is-dictating-reproductive-health-care-even-in-blue-states/)
2022-07-07T09:33:00Z	**Marjorie Taylor Greene suggests July 4th Highland Park mass shooting was a false flag operation**
David Badash,  Staff Writer  -  Alter Net / The New Civil Rights Movement

_Stephan: It tells you a great deal about the voters of the 14th District of Georgia, that they chose Majorie Taylor Greene. She makes no attempt to cover up It will be interesting to see if they re-elect her in November, given that she is very clear about who sh ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/07/marjorie-taylor-greene-suggests-july-4th-highland-park-mass-shooting-was-a-false-flag-operation/)
2022-07-07T09:32:00Z	**Tucker Carlson Points Finger At Women And Weed For Latest Mass Shooting**
Ben Blanchet,    -  HuffPost

_Stephan: This is how the most widely watched MAGAt spokesman is interpreting the Highland Park massacre. This is all about women nagging man-boys like Crimo, and marijuana-provoked violence. Really. That is seriously how he is describing what happened. This willful ignorance is what is killing our culture._

Tucker Carlson is blaming mass shootings on w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/07/tucker-carlson-points-finger-at-women-and-weed-for-latest-mass-shooting/)
2022-07-08T09:35:00Z	**Dems’ climate and tax agenda to consume Congress in July**
BURGESS EVERETT and MARIANNE LEVINE,    -  Politico

_Stephan: Here is a very good assessment of the upcoming struggle to do something meaningful with environmental remediation programs, healthcare, and taxes, and this time Schumer and Manchin are working together. I hope this turns into good news, but McConnell is going to try to block this, considering Democratic success injurious to the Republican possibility t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/08/dems-climate-and-tax-agenda-to-consume-congress-in-july/)
2022-07-08T09:34:00Z	**The local news crisis is deepening America’s divides**
Sara Fischer ,    -  Axios

_Stephan: Speaking as a journalist who once worked for two major papers that now no longer exist I mourn what is happening to newspaper journalism. The thing that made newspapers special is that they covered local news, not as it is covered on social media with all the partisanship and misinformation but from a perspective of objective data. Editorial pages were biased to be sure, but news repo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/08/the-local-news-crisis-is-deepening-americas-divides/)
2022-07-08T09:33:00Z	**Inflation is making homelessness worse**
Abha Bhattarai and Rachel Siegel,  Economics Correspondent \| Economics Reporter  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: You would think that cities and towns would realize that homeless people are an enormous drain on local resources, and that law cost housing was not only the most compassionate and humane strategy, it was also the cheapest option. But no, American culture punishes people in dozens of ways for being poor, and we all pay a huge price ec ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/08/inflation-is-making-homelessness-worse/)
2022-07-08T09:32:00Z	**Uvalde mayor says he fears a cover-up of investigation into school massacre and calls on Texas Gov. Abbott to intervene**
,    \-

_Stephan: The Uvalde mass murder is being covered up. No one has been held accountable. Here is the current state of this tragic sorry situation._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-08-at-12.32.59-AM.jpg?resize=770%2C436&ssl ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/08/uvalde-mayor-says-he-fears-a-cover-up-of-investigation-into-school-massacre-and-calls-on-texas-gov-abbott-to-intervene/)
2022-07-09T09:35:00Z	**Federal Judge Restores Endangered Species Protections Gutted by Trump**
Olivia Rosane and Chris McDermott,    -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Here is some good news about the preservation of endangered species. Trump gutted the federal regulations, and now they are being restored._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-08-at-11.44.57-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C533&ssl=1)_Bald eagles are a famous Endangered Species Act s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/09/federal-judge-restores-endangered-species-protections-gutted-by-trump/)
2022-07-09T09:34:00Z	**California To Make Its Own Insulin, Lowering Costs For Diabetics**
Lydia O'Connor,    -

_Stephan: This is what Blue state governance by Demnocrats looks like. You would never see this in a Republican-governed Red state._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-08-at-11.52.59-PM.jpg?resize=716%2C477&ssl=1)Monthly insulin costs range from $300 to $500 for many Americans. Credit: Simon Dawson / Reuters

California ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/09/california-to-make-its-own-insulin-lowering-costs-for-diabetics/)
2022-07-09T09:33:00Z	**The staggering scope of U.S. gun deaths goes far beyond mass shootings**
Mark Berman, Lenny Bernstein, Dan Keating, Andrew Ba Tran and Artur Galocha ,  Reporters  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: There is no other nation in the developed world with these kinds of gun death statistics. That this goes on day after day, to a point where it has become normalized, by which I mean we constantly talk about it, but nothing ever gets done about it, tells t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/09/the-staggering-scope-of-u-s-gun-deaths-goes-far-beyond-mass-shootings%ef%bf%bc/)
2022-07-09T09:32:00Z	**The Hell of Being Pregnant in Prison Is About to Get So Much Worse**
SAMANTHA MICHAELS,    -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: The United States has the largest number of incarcerated people in the world, and an estimated 58,000 pregnant women are sent behind bars each year. Think about that. This article gives you a sense of their lives. Are you ashamed for your country? You should be. I certainly am._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/20 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/09/the-hell-of-being-pregnant-in-prison-is-about-to-get-so-much-worse/)
2022-07-10T09:35:00Z	**Covid vaccines saved more than 200,000 lives in the US over nine months: study**
MATTHEW ROZSA,    -  Salon

_Stephan: Think about this: 319,000 died because they chose not to get vaccinated. In contrast, as this report describes, over 200,000 lives were saved in just nine months because they chose to get vaccinated. I confess that looking at this data, to me, not getting vaccinated is moronic and puts your life at risk. As I have written (see SR arch ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/10/covid-vaccines-saved-more-than-200000-lives-in-the-us-over-nine-months-study/)
2022-07-10T09:34:00Z	**Air Pollution Kills 10 Million People a Year. Why Do We Accept That as Normal?**
David Wallace-Wells,  Columnist  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Here is proof that profit is more important than people, and that is what is fundamentally wrong with human cultures, and why we are going to be so devastated by climate change._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-09-at-5.24.25-PM.jpg?resiz ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/10/air-pollution-kills-10-million-people-a-year-why-do-we-accept-that-as-normal%ef%bf%bc/)
2022-07-10T09:33:00Z	**US Life Expectancy Has Fallen Behind China**
Rachel Cheung,    -

_Stephan: As is now the case in almost everything except military expenditure, the United States ranks very poorly in longevity, how long you are likely to live. We are not in the top 10 or 20, or 30 or top 40. America ranks 46th. Yet politicians continue to lie about the status of the U.S. in everything from infant mortality to longevity, and media rarely covers or presents information telling the American people the t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/10/us-life-expectancy-has-fallen-behind-china/)
2022-07-10T09:32:00Z	**Right wing’s new social studies plan ‘American Birthright’ elevates Western civilization, pushes Christianity and rejects all talk of ‘social justice’**
Kathryn Joyce,    -  Raw Story / Commentary

_Stephan: One of the central strategies pursued by fascists is to get control of education so that children are indoctrinated with a chain of lies, as opposed to being educated with the tru ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/10/right-wings-new-social-studies-plan-american-birthright-elevates-western-civilization-pushes-christianity-and-rejects-all-talk-of-social-justice/)
2022-07-11T09:35:00Z	**Americans don’t feel safer despite nation’s high incarceration rate**
Matt Higgins,    -  Study Finds

_Stephan: President Lyndon Johnson, a Democrat, declared a national "War on Crime" on March 8, 1965, shortly after his declaration of a War on Poverty. Johnson labeled crime a crippling epidemic hindering the progress of the nation. Republicans loved the idea so much that starting with Nixon they pushed the idea of a "war on crime" claiming that more incarcerat ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/11/americans-dont-feel-safer-despite-nations-high-incarceration-rate/)
2022-07-11T09:34:00Z	**Letting Medicare Negotiate Drug Prices Would Save US Nearly $290 Billion: CBO**
Jon Queally,    -  Common Dreams

_Stephan:
Just as we lead the world on imprisoning our citizens, so we lead the world in the cost of pharmaceuticals. You will notice, of course, that both of these are strongly negative leaderships. Because our healthcare system is not about fostering wellbeing it is strictly about greed and profit, the prices Americans pay for their presc ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/11/letting-medicare-negotiate-drug-prices-would-save-us-nearly-290-billion-cbo/)
2022-07-11T09:33:00Z	**‘Disturbing’: weedkiller ingredient tied to cancer found in 80% of US urine samples**
Carey Gillam,  Staff Writer  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: If you, or someone you know, uses Roundup do yourself or them a service and get rid of it. Do not keep it on your property, do not use it. Why? Here is the hard evidence on how dangerous this product is. Most developed countries in the world have outlawed it. But in the United States where profit is mo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/11/disturbing-weedkiller-ingredient-tied-to-cancer-found-in-80-of-us-urine-samples/)
2022-07-11T09:32:00Z	**Laura Ingraham attacks the ‘madness’ of public schools in call to ‘defund government education’**
David Badash,    -  AlterNet

_Stephan: If you don't spend time in the world of MAGAt Media, and why would any rational compassionate human being do something that toxic, you will have seen that MAGAt Republicans are doing everything they can to end public education in the United States because they want children indoctrinated, just as the  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/11/laura-ingraham-attacks-the-madness-of-public-schools-in-call-to-defund-government-education/)
2022-07-12T09:35:00Z	**Ken Griffin Spent $54 Million Fighting a Tax Increase for the Rich. Secret IRS Data Shows It Paid Off for Him.**
Paul Kiel and Mick Dumke,  Business and Consumer Finance Reporter \| Politics and Government Reporter  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: The Republican Party beginning with the Reagan administration has rewritten and rigged the American tax code so it favors the very rich, and makes life more difficult for middle class ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/12/ken-griffin-spent-54-million-fighting-a-tax-increase-for-the-rich-secret-irs-data-shows-it-paid-off-for-him/)
2022-07-12T09:34:00Z	**Green energy jobs are on the rise as fossil fuel companies lose workers**
Chad Small,  Data Fellow  -  Grist

_Stephan: Here is some excellent good news. It describes the change that is occurring in the labor market between carbon energy and non-carbon energy._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-11-at-5.27.42-PM.jpg?resize=645%2C521&ssl=1)

At least in terms of the job market, 2021 was a good year f ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/12/green-energy-jobs-are-on-the-rise-as-fossil-fuel-companies-lose-workers/)
2022-07-12T09:33:00Z	**26,000 Kids Could Be Alive Today If US Had Same Gun Mortality Rate as Canada**
KENNY STANCIL,    -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: What kind of country finds it acceptable and normal that tens of thousands of children and teens are murdered by guns, and decides that guns are more important than the country's children. Only one country, The United States of America._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Screen-Sho ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/12/26000-kids-could-be-alive-today-if-us-had-same-gun-mortality-rate-as-canada%ef%bf%bc/)
2022-07-12T09:32:00Z	**Food additive or carcinogen? The growing list of chemicals banned by EU but used in US**
Mikaela Conley,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Amongst the nations of the European Union fostering wellbeing is part of the purpose of governance. In contrast, in the United States the purpose of social policies is to produce the ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/12/food-additive-or-carcinogen-the-growing-list-of-chemicals-banned-by-eu-but-used-in-us%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc/)
2022-07-13T09:35:00Z	**US emissions inflict almost $2 Trillion in damage to other countries: study**
ZACK BUDRYK,    -  The Hill

_Stephan: Let's make a list of what the United States leads the world in: most people incarcerated, most expensive health care, highest maternal mortality, highest infant mortality, most money spent on the military, and leading polluter. I could go on, but I think you get my point. That's not what the politicians of either party tell you, but those  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/13/us-emissions-inflict-almost-2-trillion-in-damage-to-other-countries-study/)
2022-07-13T09:34:00Z	**Manchin, Playing to the Home Crowd, Is Fighting Electric Cars to the End**
Coral Davenport, Lisa Friedman and Hiroko Tabuchi,  Reporters  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Joe Manchin, the senator from West Virginia is, in my opinion, the most loathsome Democrat in Congress. He's not really a Democrat he is a working whore for the carbon industries that made him a millionaire. He damages the wellbeing of the people of West Virginia almost daily, and yet they ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/13/manchin-playing-to-the-home-crowd-is-fighting-electric-cars-to-the-end/)
2022-07-13T09:33:00Z	**Gov. Newsom signs bill allowing suits against gun makers for negligence**
JEREMY B. WHITE,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: With the exception of Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema, most Democrats have an interest in promoting wellbeing, and this is excellent news about holding the gun industry responsible for how their murder weapons are used. Personally, I think Gavin Newsom would be an excellent Democratic Party candidate for president in 2024._

![](ht ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/13/gov-newsom-signs-bill-allowing-suits-against-gun-makers-for-negligence/)
2022-07-13T09:32:00Z	**We don’t need no education: Now Arizona says teachers don’t require college degrees**
,    \-

_Stephan:_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-6.07.28-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C335&ssl=1)_Republican MAGAt Arizona Governor Doug Ducey_ _Credit: Getty_

Last week, just days after the Arizona legislature passed the [most expansive school voucher law](https://www.salon.com/2022/07/01/schools-out-f ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/13/we-dont-need-no-education-now-arizona-says-teachers-dont-require-college-degrees/)
2022-07-14T09:35:00Z	**States With Abortion Bans Risk Losing Their Economic Edge**
Alexander Burns,  National Political Correspondent  -  The New York Times

_Stephan:  I see an important trend developing as a result of Roe being overturned. Republican governance which on the basis of hard social outcome data can be proven to always be inferior to Democratic governance is inflicting yet another degradation of society in the Red states. We are beginning to see corporation beginning to rethink  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/14/states-with-abortion-bans-risk-losing-their-economic-edge/)
2022-07-14T09:34:00Z	**Red States Plot Use of Vigilantes to Restrict Abortion Seekers’ Travel**
Candice Bernd,  Senior Editor Staff Reporter  -  truthout

_Stephan: The hysterical anti-choice crowd who are committed to keeping women in second-class status are now planning to try and stop girls and women from leaving Red states to go to Blue states where they can get the medical procedures or pills they need. And the mechanism for doing this is vigilantes. Fanatics who hope to make ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/14/red-states-plot-use-of-vigilantes-to-restrict-abortion-seekers-travel/)
2022-07-14T09:33:00Z	**Abortion and College Admissions: Roe v. Wade Decision Makes Students Reconsider School Choices**
MELISSA MALAMUT,  Staff Writer  -  Teen Vogue

_Stephan: This piece was written prior to the announcement of the Supreme Court Roe decision but after the leaked opinion. As you can see the abortion issue was already affecting the college choices of fertile young women. Over time this is going to have a significant effect on the enrollment o ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/14/abortion-and-college-admissions-roe-v-wade-decision-makes-students-reconsider-school-choices/)
2022-07-14T09:32:00Z	**Ohio Republicans’ attempted erasure of a 10-year-old rape victim is incredibly sick and disturbed**
David Dewitt,    -  Ohio Capital Journal

_Stephan: It is hard for me to tell you how loathsome I find people like Jim Jordan, David Yost, Mike DeWine, and a host of other Republicans. These people put their own advancement and their own power above decency, American democracy, or any concern for girls who are raped. You ha ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/14/ohio-republicans-attempted-erasure-of-a-10-year-old-rape-victim-is-incredibly-sick-and-disturbed%ef%bf%bc/)
2022-07-15T09:35:00Z	**11 House Republicans attended a White House meeting with Trump to strategize about overturning the election results on January 6. Six of them later asked for pardons.**
Bryan Metzger,    -  Business Insider

_Stephan: The Republican Party is no longer interested in ethical behavior amongst its Congressional members or, indeed ethical government of any kind. What th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/15/11-house-republicans-attended-a-white-house-meeting-with-trump-to-strategize-about-overturning-the-election-results-on-january-6-six-of-them-later-asked-for-pardons/)
2022-07-15T09:34:00Z	**“It’s Incredibly Far-reaching”: Medical Students on the Roe Reversal**
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_Stephan:_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-14-at-5.58.19-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C477&ssl=1)_‘With the restrictive laws, you likely will see a behavioral change, that people will make decisions about where they choose to train, where they choose to practice.’ Illustration: The Guardian_

For students pursuing their medical educat ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/15/its-incredibly-far-reaching-medical-students-on-the-roe-reversal/)
2022-07-15T09:33:00Z	**Robert Reich: Agricultural ‘monopolies are slowly killing rural America’**
Brandon Gage,    -  AlterNet

_Stephan: Most Americans I talk with seem to believe that American agriculture is based on small family farms. Lovely image, but completely wrong. To quote Robert Reich, "Just four firms control 85% of all beef, 66% of all pork, and 54% of all poultry. This degree of monopolization is hurting farmers — and you. Monopolists control nearly every part of the ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/15/robert-reich-agricultural-monopolies-are-slowly-killing-rural-america/)
2022-07-15T09:32:00Z	**Fox News’ Laura Ingraham escalates the GOP’s war on learning: “Time to defund government education”**
Amanda Marcotte,  Senior Politics Writer  -  Salon

_Stephan: America's public education for generations was one of the nation's greatest points of pride. But, since the Reagan administration, the Republican Party has been trying to gut public education and to shift tax dollars to religious and charter schools where children can be i ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/15/fox-news-laura-ingraham-escalates-the-gops-war-on-learning-time-to-defund-government-education/)
2022-07-16T09:35:00Z	**Manchin’s decision provokes fury over potential for warmer world**
RACHEL FRAZIN and ZACK BUDRYK,    -  The Hill

_Stephan: Think about this: The United States and China are the world's two greatest polluters. It is desperately important that both countries dramatically reduce their damage to the environment. Today, one man, Joe Manchin, one of the most corrupt members of the Senate, a man who all his political life has whored for the carbon industries, which has  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/16/manchins-decision-provokes-fury-over-potential-for-warmer-world/)
2022-07-16T09:34:00Z	**Montana GOP lawmaker informs colleagues the womb ‘serves no specific purpose’ to the life of a woman**
Tom Boggioni,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: It is amazing to me that Republicans now no longer even attempt to cover up or deny their conviction that women are second class and their belief that Republican men should be able to dictate not only what women do with their bodies, but even their right to travel. In fact, it ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/16/montana-gop-lawmaker-informs-colleagues-the-womb-serves-no-specific-purpose-to-the-life-of-a-woman/)
2022-07-16T09:33:00Z	**‘They Want to Hold Women Captive’: GOP Blocks Bill Protecting Right to Travel for Abortion**
JESSICA CORBETT,    -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: It is unclear to me how any woman who thinks she is the equal of any man could vote Republican since the Republican Party's position is clearly that men are dominant and women are subordinate and second class. Yet millions of women are Republicans so I assume they also believe their gender is subordina ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/16/they-want-to-hold-women-captive-gop-blocks-bill-protecting-right-to-travel-for-abortion/)
2022-07-16T09:32:00Z	**The GOP Just Asked an Authoritarian to Headline Its Most Important Conference**
David Gilbert,  Senior Reporter  -  Vice News

_Stephan: I don't know how the Republican Party could make their intentions for American governance clearer than they have by inviting Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, a notorious christofascist, to be their keynote speaker at their most important party conference. I do not understand how anyone who supports American de ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/16/the-gop-just-asked-an-authoritarian-to-headline-its-most-important-conference/)
2022-07-17T09:35:00Z	**Valuing Nature Through Lens of Economic Growth and Profit Puts It at Risk, Assessment Finds**
Chris McDermott,    -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: The main challenge humanity faces, in my opinion, is the existential issue of what actually motivates most human decisions, and that is presently based on only one thing, profit. If we are to survive as a species we must change. All decisions must be based on the recognition that we live in a matrix of  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/17/valuing-nature-through-lens-of-economic-growth-and-profit-puts-it-at-risk-assessment-finds/)
2022-07-17T09:34:00Z	**U.S. is on Track to Fall Short of Emissions Reductions Goals, Report Finds**
Sharon Zhang,  News Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: Yesterday I published a report and made my scathing comments about Manchin's blocking the Biden plan for climate change remediation. Today I publish a report showing that we are falling far short of our goals on emission reductions. What this means is that your children and their children, and we ourselves come to that, are going ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/17/u-s-is-on-track-to-fall-short-of-emissions-reductions-goals-report-finds/)
2022-07-17T09:33:00Z	**How Climate Change Is Affecting Soil Microbiomes**
Amanda Abrams,    -  Modern Farmer

_Stephan: Something like 40 years ago two close friends, Christopher Bird, and Peter Tompkins, after writing the best seller Secret Life of Plants, wrote a second book together Secrets of the Soil, in which they argued and presented evidence showing that humanity's future was tied to the quality of microorganisms in the soil. At the time futurists and people from the industrial chemical monocu ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/17/how-climate-change-is-affecting-soil-microbiomes/)
2022-07-17T09:32:00Z	**It’s Time to Stop Living the American Scam**
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_Stephan: This, I think, is sadly true. It is part of the oligarch takeover trend that has happened in the United States._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-16-at-9.52.12-PM.jpg?resize=599%2C600&ssl=1)_Illustration by Sebastian Koenig_

Ten years ago, I wrote an essay called “ [The Busy Trap](https://archive.nytimes.com/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/30/the- ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/17/its-time-to-stop-living-the-american-scam%ef%bf%bc/)
2022-07-18T09:35:00Z	**Humanity is on track to cause one million species to go extinct, according to UN report**
MATTHEW ROZSA,    -  Salon

_Stephan: Like ignorant children playing in the garden as a tornado sweeps down on them we simply are not paying appropriate attention to what is happening with climate change. Our technologies are destroying the earth's matrix of life, and that has the potential to destroy our civilization._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwar ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/18/humanity-is-on-track-to-cause-one-million-species-to-go-extinct-according-to-un-report/)
2022-07-18T09:34:00Z	**US schools remain highly segregated by race and class, analysis shows**
Edwin Rios,    -  The Guardian (UK.)

_Stephan: The Republican Party has been trying to dismantle public education in the United States for years. They have two goals. Keep schools segregated and make sure children of color get fewer resources, and have poorer programs; make publica education a process of indoctrination not education about facts. This is all part of making Ameri ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/18/us-schools-remain-highly-segregated-by-race-and-class-analysis-shows%ef%bf%bc/)
2022-07-18T09:34:00Z	**With Few Able and Fewer Willing, U.S. Military Can’t Find Recruits**
,    \-  DNYUZ

_Stephan: From this report, "Less than a quarter of young American adults are physically fit to enlist and have no disqualifying criminal record, a proportion that has shrunk steadily in recent years. And shifting attitudes toward military service mean that now only about one in 10 young people say they would even consider it." When we transformed the American military from an eli ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/18/with-few-able-and-fewer-willing-u-s-military-cant-find-recruits/)
2022-07-18T09:32:00Z	**America has an innovation problem. The H-1B visa backlog is making it worse.**
Miranda Dixon,    -  Vox

_Stephan: The christofascists with their fear of the other, and of being replaced, whatever that means to each individual, have tried to limit immigration. In the 2019 Fortune 500 list 44.6 percent, or 223 companies, in the Fortune 500 were founded by immigrants or their children. Millions of Americans work for those immigrants who have created the j ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/18/america-has-an-innovation-problem-the-h-1b-visa-backlog-is-making-it-worse/)
2022-07-19T09:35:00Z	**‘Pro-life’? Women’s suffering is forced-birth zealots’ doing.**
Jennifer Rubin,  Columnist  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: If you are a woman in a Red state you better get comfortable with the reality that in your state you are second class. There are dozens of stories showing up in media of women in Red states whose lives hung in the balance while their doctors and the hospital's lawyers argued over whether that woman would die if her pregnancy was not terminated. Tha ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/19/pro-life-womens-suffering-is-forced-birth-zealots-doing/)
2022-07-19T09:34:00Z	**Miscarrying woman ‘lost multiple liters of blood’ because doctors had to wait to treat her under abortion laws**
Brad Reed,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: If you are a pregnant girl or woman in a Red state you had better be prepared that if something goes wrong with your pregnancy you may not survive or, at best, you may go through a horrifying and painful experience. Am I exaggerating? Here is one a dozen such stories I ha ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/19/miscarrying-woman-lost-multiple-liters-of-blood-because-doctors-had-to-wait-to-treat-her-under-abortion-laws/)
2022-07-19T09:33:00Z	**Idaho Republicans Reject Amendment Allowing Abortion to Save Woman’s Life**
KHALEDA RAHMAN ,    -  Newsweek

_Stephan: Could it get any clearer where Republicans stand about saving a woman's life in a pregnancy crisis? I wonder how Republican women are processing this, or do they just look the other way, put their fingers in their ears, and go YaYaYaYa._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-18-at-8.1 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/19/idaho-republicans-reject-amendment-allowing-abortion-to-save-womans-life/)
2022-07-19T09:32:00Z	**Betsy DeVos calls for abolition of federal Education Department — that she once led**
Laura Cassels,  Reporter  -  Florida Phoenix

_Stephan: Did you go to public school, learn to read, get an education you are still using in public school? Public education was once one of America's proudest achievements. Now the Republican Party is doing everything it can to end public education. Here is Betsy DeVos speaking on this._

Former U.S. Secretary of E ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/19/betsy-devos-calls-for-abolition-of-federal-education-department-that-she-once-led/)
2022-07-20T09:35:00Z	**The GOP’s foremost concern is the protection of white power**
John Stoehr,    -  AlterNet

_Stephan: I agree with this report but would add something important that this piece misses, something not generally recognized nor understood. At about the time of the Reagan administration, some amongst the uber-rich, men like the Koch brothers, who funded research and understood science, began funding researchers and think tanks to test paths to power. That wasn't what it was  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/20/the-gops-foremost-concern-is-the-protection-of-white-power/)
2022-07-20T09:34:00Z	**NEW POLL: More Trump Voters in Red States Say Secession Would Make Things Better**
Tommy Christopher,    -  MEDIAite

_Stephan: The Great Schism Trend I have been following for years, and with which regular readers are familiar is coming to secession, as this just published survey describes and backs up with data._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-19-at-9.07.54-PM.jpg?resize=735%2C413&ssl= ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/20/new-poll-more-trump-voters-in-red-states-say-secession-would-make-things-better/)
2022-07-20T09:33:00Z	**Growing support for political violence raises alarms**
JOHN KRUZEL AND REBECCA BEITSCH ,    -  The Hill

_Stephan: This is the violent face of MAGA world, and it is growing. When you combine this trend with the availability of military-grade weapons of war you get what we see daily in the U.S. The question is, how long will we as a culture tolerate this?_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Rightwing-Terrorism-stats.jpeg?resize=680%2C680& ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/20/growing-support-for-political-violence-raises-alarms/)
2022-07-20T09:32:00Z	**Nearly Half of GOP Congressional PACs’ 2022 Funding Comes From 27 Billionaires**
Sharon Zhang,  News Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: Twenty-seven billionaires fund the GOP. Think about that, 27 oligarchs are funding what they want. This is what Citizens United made possible. This is why the United States is becoming an anocracy._

ver a decade after _Citizens United_ and as the rich grow ever richer, billionaires are rapidly taking over Capitol Hill w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/20/nearly-half-of-gop-congressional-pacs-2022-funding-comes-from-27-billionaires/)
2022-07-21T09:35:00Z	**For the Third Time in Three Decades, Congress Punts on Serious Climate Legislation**
Bill McKibben,  Contributing Writer  -  The New Yorker

_Stephan: History is going to condemn and vilify both Congressional Republicans and even some Democrats, for their failure to make climate change remediation one of the highest priorities of the day. People like Joe Manchin will be seen as historically significant villains. The only thing that is going to c ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/21/for-the-third-time-in-three-decades-congress-pubnts-on-serious-climate-legislation/)
2022-07-21T09:34:00Z	**Manchin Has Spent Years Funneling $15M to Preserve Valley Where He Owns a Condo**
Sharon Zang,  News Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: This report makes it very clear that the ultra-corrupt coal millionaire and the largest recipient of carbon industry corruption money, West Virginia Senators Joe Manchin may not care about the rest of the world, but he and his wife are very careful to preserve the beauty of the area where their home is located. What ama ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/21/manchin-has-spent-years-funneling-15m-to-preserve-valley-where-he-owns-a-condo/)
2022-07-21T09:33:00Z	**Putin Aims to Shape a New Generation of Supporters, Through Schools**
Anton Troianovski,  Moscow Bureau Chief   -  The New York Times

_Stephan: The thing about christofascists is how predictable they are. No matter in which country they always pursue the same goals: If the country is a democracy transform it into an anocracy; take over the country's education system so that children are indoctrinated rather educated; cultivate fear of the other and replacement ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/21/putin-aims-to-shape-a-new-generation-of-supporters-through-schools/)
2022-07-21T09:32:00Z	**What really drives anti-abortion beliefs? Research suggests it’s a matter of sexual strategies**
Jaimie Arona Krems and Martie Haselton,  Assistant Professor of Psychology, Oklahoma State University \| Professor of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles  -  The Conversation

_Stephan: It is not hard to understand why men want women to be submissive and subordinate. What is harder to understand is how Republican women can als ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/21/what-really-drives-anti-abortion-beliefs-research-suggests-its-a-matter-of-sexual-strategies/)
2022-07-22T09:35:00Z	**This is what it looks like when women become second-class citizens**
Jennifer Rubin,  Columnist  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: It is hard to believe in the second decade of the 21st century that the Red states are reverting to a 19th century view of women and that large numbers of Republican women are acquiescing to what their party is doing to their status. But they are._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Screen-Shot- ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/22/this-is-what-it-looks-like-when-women-become-second-class-citizens/)
2022-07-22T09:34:00Z	**“They’re coming for contraception”: 195 Republicans vote against right to birth control, condoms**
IGOR DERYSH,  Deputy News and Politics Editor  -  Salon

_Stephan: Can you imagine what America would be like if suddenly contraception was illegal? Or that same-sex marriage would suddenly be outlawed? If the Republicans take the Senate and House in November, given the fascist nature of the present Supreme Court, those unimaginable events ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/22/theyre-coming-for-contraception-195-republicans-vote-against-right-to-birth-control-condoms/)
2022-07-22T09:33:00Z	**Big Pharma Has Raised Drug Prices 1,186 Times This Year, Analysis Shows**
Jake Johnson,    -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Because of the corruption that plagues the U.S. Congress, particularly the Republican Party, a corruption specifically designed to suck wealth out of the American population to the benefit of the corporations who rent the Congressional whores who pass the carefully crafted laws pharmaceuticals in the U.S. are orders of magnitude more costly  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/22/big-pharma-has-raised-drug-prices-1186-times-this-year-analysis-shows/)
2022-07-22T09:32:00Z	**GOP ramps up efforts to rein in Biden on student debt**
ARIS FOLLEY,    -  The Hill

_Stephan: If you are a college student old enough to vote, or you have a child in college, and you vote Republican you are voting to harm your life, or your child's life. As this article lays out the Republicans are trying to block the Biden programs to alleviate student debt._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/student-loan-debt.jpeg?resize=612%2C612&s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/22/gop-ramps-up-efforts-to-rein-in-biden-on-student-debt/)
2022-07-23T09:35:00Z	**Can we stop the 27 men who really run America?**
Thom Hartmann,    -  Raw Story / Commentary

_Stephan: A few days ago I ran a similar piece on this. I have been covering this trend since the Citizens United Supreme Court decision made it possible, and am increasingly concerned about its implications. Is Thom Hartmann exaggerating when he says 27 billionaires are the actual powers running the country? I don't think he is and there is no question that the United States is becoming,  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/23/can-we-stop-the-27-men-who-really-run-america/)
2022-07-23T09:34:00Z	**Revealed: oil sector’s ‘staggering’ $3bn-a-day profits for last 50 years**
Damian Carrington,  Environment Editor  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Several of the billionaires that have become so powerful in America derive their wealth from carbon energy. And the profit derived from what amounts to an addiction industry is so great that few people really comprehend how great it is, and what it can do in a comprised country like the United States. The sooner t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/23/revealed-oil-sectors-staggering-3bn-a-day-profits-for-last-50-years/)
2022-07-23T09:33:00Z	**CEOs average pay in 2021 was 324 times higher than employees: report**
BRAD DRESS,    -  The Hill

_Stephan: In 2022, the U.S. has 20.2 millionaires. This is not a small group of people and their wealth is going to go down through generations. Then there are 750 billionaires. We have completely changed the economics of our society, and most do not recognize this has happened because their fears, racism, and resentments are being played like an instrument by th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/23/ceos-average-pay-in-2021-was-324-times-higher-than-employees-report/)
2022-07-23T09:32:00Z	**New Marquette Law School Poll National Survey Finds Approval of the Supreme Court at New Lows, With Strong Partisan Differences Over Abortion and Gun Rights**
CHARLES FRANKLIN,    -  Marquette University Law school

_Stephan: Here is some reliable data about giving us a profile of American society. It is not very pretty. We are in a great schism that is creating two differe ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/23/new-marquette-law-school-poll-national-survey-finds-approval-of-the-supreme-court-at-new-lows-with-strong-partisan-differences-over-abortion-and-gun-rights/)
2022-07-24T09:35:00Z	**A radical plan for Trump’s second term**
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_Stephan: I think this is a very accurate description of what Trump and MAGAt world have in mind for America's future. November's election is either going to heal what has gone so badly awry in America, and democracy will be reinvigorated, or it is going to confirm the success of the MAGAt world scheme. It would be a cataclysmic disaster and will happen unless every non-MAGAt voter, a much larger population, votes Democratic. Yes, yes, I kn ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/24/a-radical-plan-for-trumps-second-term/)
2022-07-24T09:34:00Z	**Jim Jordan encouraging Trump to conduct mass federal firings when he’s re-elected to ‘send a message’: report**
Tom Boggioni,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Further evidence of what the MAGAts have planned. Jim Jordan is one of the corrupt incompetents the oligarchs moved into office, because he would say the right things, and vote the way they wanted. I just am not sure that enough Americans understand what is at st ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/24/jim-jordan-encouraging-trump-to-conduct-mass-federal-firings-when-hes-re-elected-to-send-a-message-report%ef%bf%bc/)
2022-07-24T09:33:00Z	**Police Departments Spend Vast Sums of Money Creating “Copaganda”**
ALEC KARAKATSANIS,  Civil rights Lawyer and the Founder of Civil Rights Corps  -  Jacobin / Economic Hardship Reporting Program

_Stephan: We see the stories almost every day. How can be there any question that there is something profoundly wrong with the structure, training, racism,and performance of American law enforcement? And it would seem even worse were it not for the Copaganda, as  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/24/police-departments-spend-vast-sums-of-money-creating-copaganda%ef%bf%bc/)
2022-07-24T09:32:00Z	**Alarm as Fastest Growing US Cities Risk Becoming Unliveable From Climate Crisis**
Oliver Milman,  Staff Writer  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Here is what climate change is already doing to American cities. This is not something that is going to happen, it is happening._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-23-at-10.51.23-PM.jpg?resize=613%2C370&ssl=1)_Temperature hit 102F in San Antonio,  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/24/alarm-as-fastest-growing-us-cities-risk-becoming-unliveable-from-climate-crisis/)
2022-07-25T09:35:00Z	**On the campaign trail, many Republicans talk of violence**
David Weigel,    -  Microsoft News / Washington Post

_Stephan: The Republican Party's candidates are motivating the party's racist base by talking about civil violence, as this article describes. The Republicans do not want a democracy, and they are gearing up their followers who are obsessed with guns and heavily armed, to prepare for violence. I would take this quite seriously. We are splitting into two countri ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/25/on-the-campaign-trail-many-republicans-talk-of-violence/)
2022-07-25T09:34:00Z	**Why Do Tens of Millions in US Support an Economic System That Doesn’t Benefit Them?**
MIKE LOFGREN,    -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: It is my opinion that we need to revise the government by getting rid of the Electoral College, restructuring the Senate, creating an ethics code for the Supreme Court, limiting the term of the Justices to 20 years, canceling Citizens United, and making elections publicly funded. Also radically changing the tax code s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/25/why-do-tens-of-millions-in-us-support-an-economic-system-that-doesnt-benefit-them/)
2022-07-25T09:33:00Z	**Why won’t Republicans investigate white supremacists in uniform? We know why**
Chauncey Devega,    -  Raw Story / Commentary

_Stephan: I have been following the trend of christofascists joining the military, which is desperate for enlistment, and various law enforcement organizations, and becoming increasingly concerned about this because it presages violence, and civil disorder._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/25/why-wont-republicans-investigate-white-supremacists-in-uniform-we-know-why/)
2022-07-25T09:32:00Z	**How two Texas megadonors have turbocharged the state’s far-right shift**
Casey Tolan, Matthew Reynard, Will Simon and Ed Lavandera, ,    -  CNN

_Stephan: By any social wellbeing measure you like, material mortality, healthcare, education, and on and on, Texas under Abbott is now a failed state ruled by an oligarchy. Very profitable for corporations and oligarchs. Similar in a way to Russia under Putin. This is what America will look like if Republicans take ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/25/how-two-texas-megadonors-have-turbocharged-the-states-far-right-shift/)
2022-07-26T09:35:00Z	**Steve Bannon celebrates Axios report outlining Trump’s plan to “radically reshape the federal government” if reelected in 2024**
JUSTIN HOROWITZ,    -  Media Matters for America

_Stephan: Steve Bannon, who is incapable of keeping his mouth shut, makes it very clear what Trump has in mind should he be re-elected. It is straight-out fascism._

Former Trump aide Steve Bannon is celebrating [new](https://www ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/26/steve-bannon-celebrates-axios-report-outlining-trumps-plan-to-radically-reshape-the-federal-government-if-reelected-in-2024/)
2022-07-26T09:34:00Z	**Dem blasts ‘insane’ GOP bill that would authorize ‘deadly force’ to stop abortions in North Carolina**
Brad Reed,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: This is how crazy and violent the anti-choice MAGAt community has become. What I am seeing is more and more references from Republicans promoting violence. It is coming from every quarter of MAGAt world. These people are gearing up for violence, and I increasingly expect we will see civil viol ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/26/dem-blasts-insane-gop-bill-that-would-authorize-deadly-force-to-stop-abortions-in-north-carolina/)
2022-07-26T09:33:00Z	**Hungary’s leader Viktor Orbán bashed Western Europeans for ‘mixing with non-Europeans’ and said Hungarians ‘do not want to become a mixed race’**
Taiyler Simone Mitchell,    -  Business Insider

_Stephan: The other day I ran a piece telling you that the Republican Party had invited Viktor Orbán, an explicit fascist authoritarian to be the keynote speaker at the party's most important confer ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/26/hungarys-leader-viktor-orban-bashed-western-europeans-for-mixing-with-non-europeans-and-said-hungarians-do-not-want-to-become-a-mixed-race/)
2022-07-26T09:32:00Z	**Thiel drops another $1.5M for Masters as campaign feels cash pinch**
NATALIE ALLISON,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: I keep talking about the corruption of American politics, and the opening whoring that has corrupted both houses of Congress. Here is an example of what I mean. Multi-billionaire fascist oligarch Peter Thiel is trying to buy a Senate seat for a christofascist. Are the people of Arizona smart enough to understand what is going on? I doubt it ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/26/thiel-drops-another-1-5m-for-masters-as-campaign-feels-cash-pinch/)
2022-07-27T09:35:00Z	**Red states are building a nation within a nation**
Ronald Brownstein,    -  CNN

_Stephan: I clearly am not the only analyst who sees the implications of the Great Schism Trend. If you look at the social outcome data it is obvious that life for ordinary people in Red states is significantly inferior to life in Blue states. States like Texas, for instance, run by a fascist oligarchy is essentially a failed state, implementing policies remarkably like Russia under Putin. Personall ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/27/red-states-are-building-a-nation-within-a-nation/)
2022-07-27T09:34:00Z	**Democrats blast Commerce for overseeing heavy increase in gun exports**
Rachel Oswald,  Staff Writer  -  Roll Call

_Stephan: The United States, because of the control the weapons industry has over the federal government, is the world's largest death merchant. Sadly, as this article describes the Biden administration has been woefully remiss in not changing this, which it could._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Screen ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/27/democrats-blast-commerce-for-overseeing-heavy-increase-in-gun-exports/)
2022-07-27T09:33:00Z	**No place to hide? 52% fear they’re in danger every day — even at home!**
Chris Melore,    -  Study Finds

_Stephan: This is a major trend getting almost no media coverage or discussion in the Congress. Americans are frightened, over half of us "feel like they’re in imminent danger at least once a day." This is shaping our culture in a very negative way._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-26-at-6.13.25-PM. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/27/no-place-to-hide-52-fear-theyre-in-danger-every-day-even-at-home/)
2022-07-27T09:32:00Z	**Two-thirds of Americans support Supreme Court term limits, poll finds**
Erin Doherty,    -  Axios

_Stephan: This article about the way Americans view the Supreme Court ought to be seen as an enormous alarm bell. That it is not I find very significant. In fact I see this as one component of a trend. If you look at the various polls being conducted it is clear, to me at least, that there is a major rift between the American government and the American people.  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/27/two-thirds-of-americans-support-supreme-court-term-limits-poll-finds/)
2022-07-28T09:35:00Z	**Scientists establish link between religious fundamentalism and brain damage**
Bobby Azarian,    -  AlterNet

_Stephan: From my own research and everything I have read in the academic literature Over 15 years ago I became convinced that what I have called the psychophysics of politics was what the Republican Party had decided to use to create their base. I got to this by watching what the oligarchs, like the Koch brothers, who control the MAGAt cult had ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/28/scientists-establish-link-between-religious-fundamentalism-and-brain-damage/)
2022-07-28T09:34:00Z	**GOP colluding with Big Pharma behind closed doors to undermine bill lowering prescription costs**
Jake Johnson,    -  Salon

_Stephan: What demonstrates the power of the psychophysiology of Politics being used by the Republicans is things like this. You would think that no voter would support a senator who made sure they paid multiple times more for their drugs than they would pay in any other country. And yet the Republican voters  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/28/gop-colluding-with-big-pharma-behind-closed-doors-to-undermine-bill-lowering-prescription-costs/)
2022-07-28T09:33:00Z	**Republican’s top ally says Jews aren’t welcome in the conservative movement: “This is an explicitly Christian country.”**
Brad Reed,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Here is yet another example of the truth of the Republican Party, and how powerful the psychophysiology of politics can be. How could there possibly be a Jew who would vote for Mastriano? And yet, I predict, there will be thousands of them. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/28/republicans-top-ally-says-jews-arent-welcome-in-conservative-movement-this-is-an-explicitly-christian-country%ef%bf%bc/)
2022-07-28T09:32:00Z	**Alabama Takes From the Poor and Gives to the Rich**
Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein,  Investigative Reporter  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Alabama, a reliably Republican state would be a third-world country, as this investigative journalism describes, if it were not part of the United States. And amazingly the voters of Alabama are so manipulated by racism and fear that they reliably vote Republican and keep this failed state going even though it makes their liv ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/28/alabama-takes-from-the-poor-and-gives-to-the-rich%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc/)
2022-07-29T09:35:00Z	**Living a ‘childfree’ life: 1 in 5 adults don’t want to have kids**
John Anderer,    -  Study Finds

_Stephan:_

“Women who decided in their teens to be childfree are now, on average, nearly 40 and still do not have children.”

EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN —Are families about to find themselves on the endangered species list? Researchers from Michigan State University find that over one in five adults don’t want children. Interestingly, the survey also indicates that Americ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/29/living-a-childfree-life-1-in-5-adults-dont-want-to-have-kids/)
2022-07-29T09:34:00Z	**Regional Territories: A Decentralization Plan for the USA**
Michael English,    -  Mises Wire (Austria)

_Stephan: I have done numerous articles about the growing drive for secession in Red states, and here is a proposal of how it might be done, and what it would look like from a think tank in Alabama. Mainstream media isn't paying much attention to the Great Schism Trend but I think it should be taken quite seriously. The rise of White christofascist -- its not really C ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/29/regional-territories-a-decentralization-plan-for-the-usa/)
2022-07-29T09:33:00Z	**GOP Opposition to Drug Pricing Bill Shows Scope of Big Pharma’s Grip on Congress**
Sasha Abramsky,    -  truthout

_Stephan: This is what Republican political whoring looks like. And thanks to those Congressional Republicans you are getting screwed weekly or monthly by Big Pharma._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-28-at-6.27.06-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C536&ssl=1)_Senate Minority Leader Mitch Mc ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/29/gop-opposition-to-drug-pricing-bill-shows-scope-of-big-pharmas-grip-on-congress/)
2022-07-29T09:32:00Z	**Senate Republicans block bill to help veterans exposed to burn pits**
Eugene Scott and Mike DeBonis ,  Reporters  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: Speaking as a veteran I must say I do not see how any veteran can vote Republican. I just don't know what to say to a man or woman veteran who votes against their own wellbeing, and yet I know millions will._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-28-at-6.37.59- ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/29/senate-republicans-block-bill-to-help-veterans-exposed-to-burn-pits/)
2022-07-30T09:35:00Z	**House passes bill to ban assault weapons**
,    \-

_Stephan:_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/assault-weapon2.jpeg?resize=800%2C583&ssl=1)

The House on Friday passed a bill to ban assault weapons, securing a significant victory for Democrats following a spate of mass shootings across the country and marking the first time lawmakers have approved a prohibition on the popular firearms in more than two decades.

The legislation, titled the Assault ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/30/house-passes-bill-to-ban-assault-weapons/)
2022-07-30T09:34:00Z	**‘It’s plunder’: Mexico desperate for water while drinks companies use billions of litres**
Lillian Perlmutter ,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: This story is from Mexico, but I think it is a first Robin; there is going to be much more of this. In parts of the United States, and in many other parts of many other countries as well, water is going to become a major societal factor._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/up ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/30/its-plunder-mexico-desperate-for-water-while-drinks-companies-use-billions-of-litres/)
2022-07-30T09:33:00Z	**Big Oil Has Spent Over $200 Million in 1.5 Years to Sabotage Climate Action**
Jake Johnson,  Staff Writer  -  truthout / Common Dreams

_Stephan: This is what corruption looks like, and this report also gives a sense of scale. This is how corrupt the United States government is. And notice the skew; this money went mostly to Republicans. These are facts, not partisan assertions. SR deals with facts. It also shows the reality of the vampire cap ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/30/big-oil-has-spent-over-200-million-in-1-5-years-to-sabotage-climate-action%ef%bf%bc/)
2022-07-30T09:32:00Z	**Senate Democrats Produce a Far-Reaching Climate Bill, But the Price of Compromise with Joe Manchin is Years More Drilling for Oil and Gas**
Marianne Lavelle and Nicholas Kusnetz,    -  Inside Climate News

_Stephan: I consider this good news. Not perfect but very good. I actually don't think the corruption that had to be paid to Manchin -- what a loathsome man -- is not that big a deal, becau ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/30/senate-democrats-produce-a-far-reaching-climate-bill-but-the-price-of-compromise-with-joe-manchin-is-years-more-drilling-for-oil-and-gas/)
2022-07-31T09:35:00Z	**Bank of America Memo, Revealed: “We Hope” Conditions for American Workers Will Get Worse**
Ken Klippenstein and Jon Schwarz,  Staff Writer  -  The Intercept

_Stephan: America is not a capitalist nation, it is a vampire capitalist nation, and there is an important difference. Norway is a capitalist country but within the context of making wellbeing the first priority of government. From the Reagan era onwards the goal of the Republican Party h ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/31/bank-of-america-memo-revealed-we-hope-conditions-for-american-workers-will-get-worse/)
2022-07-31T09:34:00Z	**Groups launch last-ditch effort against drug pricing changes**
Jessie Hellmann,    -  Roll Call

_Stephan: American drug prices are a prominent manifestation of Vampire Capitalism and the corruption of Congress. They are so high that when you go to other countries and have to fill a prescription you are stunned by the price difference, particularly for drugs essential to someone's wellbeing like insulin. This is what having profit as your one social priority produces ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/31/groups-launch-last-ditch-effort-against-drug-pricing-changes/)
2022-07-31T09:33:00Z	**Black women who once hated guns are embracing them as crime soars**
Peter Jamison,  Reporter  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: I have been waiting for this to happen and predicted it would. Because the murder weapon industry controls the Republicans in Congress, and their MAGAt base thinks guns are good, we are seeing a growing number of people arming themselves, including communities that previously scorned and avoided becoming involved with weapons. The resul ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/31/black-women-who-once-hated-guns-are-embracing-them-as-crime-soars/)
2022-07-31T09:32:00Z	**The backlash to Christianity: Republicans are now panicked — but they only have themselves to blame**
AMANDA MARCOTTE,  Senior Politics Writer  -  Salon

_Stephan: I consider this report to be good news. Christofascism has destroyed Christianity and produced this response in the young. Gender equality, racial equality, a fact-based (science) view, acceptance of any variety of sexual or romantic interactions are the emerging trends. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/31/the-backlash-to-christianity-republicans-are-now-panicked-but-they-only-have-themselves-to-blame/)
2022-08-01T09:35:00Z	**Phoenix could soon become uninhabitable — and the poor will be the first to leave**
Matthew Rozsa,  Staff Writer  -  Salon

_Stephan: I have been telling my readers since 1991 that this would happen, and now it is happening. This is one part of the three great migrations I predict are going to happen. As a nation our culture is beginning the massive transformation that is going to restructure America._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/01/phoenix-could-soon-become-uninhabitable-and-the-poor-will-be-the-first-to-leave/)
2022-08-01T09:34:00Z	**Democrats Introduce Bill to Place 18-Year Term Limits on Supreme Court Justices**
,    \-

_Stephan:_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-31-at-9.39.01-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C532&ssl=1)_The U.S. Supreme Court Credit: Tom Brenner / The Washington Post / Getty_

In reaction to the recent onslaught of extremist rulings by far right Supreme Court justices, a group of Democrats introduced a bill on T ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/01/democrats-introduce-bill-to-place-18-year-term-limits-on-supreme-court-justices/)
2022-08-01T09:33:00Z	**The Israel lobby is spending millions to defeat progressive Democrats in primary races: columnist**
Amy Goodman,    -  AlterNet

_Stephan: I have always had very mixed feelings about Israel because, after centuries of being ostracized and forced to live in ghettos, the Jews of Israel have done what was done to them to the Palestinians. You would think that from those centuries of mistreatment the Jews would have learned that such s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/01/the-israel-lobby-is-spending-millions-to-defeat-progressive-democrats-in-primary-races-columnist/)
2022-08-01T09:32:00Z	**Obamacare back in court as Texans challenge coverage for STDs and HIV care**
Alice Miranda Ollstein,  Healthcare Reporter  -  Politico

_Stephan: Under Greg Abbott and the Republican legislature, Texas has become a kind of failed state notable, to me at least, for the sheer nastiness of its social policies, and how hurtful they are to people living in Texas. Here is an example of what I mean. And yet, the people of Texas voted these people into office,  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/01/obamacare-back-in-court-as-texans-challenge-coverage-for-stds-and-hiv-care/)
2022-08-02T09:35:00Z	**Republicans’ next big play is to ‘scare the hell out of Washington’ by rewriting the Constitution. And they’re willing to play the long game to win.**
Grace Panetta and Brent D. Griffiths ,    -  Business Insider

_Stephan: This is the Republican Party's long game. Unfortunately, I don't think the majority of Americans are smart enough, engaged enough with their nation's wellbeing to un ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/02/republicans-next-big-play-is-to-scare-the-hell-out-of-washington-by-rewriting-the-constitution-and-theyre-willing-to-play-the-long-game-to-win/)
2022-08-02T09:34:00Z	**The Crisis Facing Nursing Homes, Assisted Living and Home Care for America’s Elderly**
ALEXANDRA MOE,    -  Politico Magazine

_Stephan: There are two reasons I chose this report. First, it illustrates another failing of the American illness profit system, and the country's failure to make wellbeing its first priority. Second, note that what elder care we do have has been dependent on immigrants. All those aging Republican voters better pay atte ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/02/the-crisis-facing-nursing-homes-assisted-living-and-home-care-for-americas-elderly/)
2022-08-02T09:33:00Z	**Employees are increasingly on the hook for their medical costs**
Caitlin Owens,    -  Axios

_Stephan: I am so tired of publishing reports on the awfulness of the American illness profit system. This is all because of the corruption of the U.S. Congress, that's why we, in the United States, have the worst health care system in the developed world. If you vote Republican you vote for the continuation and protection of this awful system._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/02/employees-are-increasingly-on-the-hook-for-their-medical-costs/)
2022-08-02T09:32:24Z	**How the climate crisis is forcing us to change our cities for the better**
Martin Wright,  Chairman of Positive News  -  Positive News

_Stephan:_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-01-at-9.19.20-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C493&ssl=1)_Bosco Verticale (Vertical Forest) is a leafy residential development in Milan, Italy. Credit: Zac Wolff_

“Hot town! Summer in the city…!”

It’s a cracking song – a 1960s ant ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/02/how-the-climate-crisis-is-forcing-us-to-change-our-cities-for-the-better/)
2022-08-03T09:35:00Z	**Republicans reverse course as Senate passes burn pits legislation after days of pressure**
Paul Kane,  Senior Congressional Correspondent  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: I am leading today's SR both because it is excellent good news and, also, because it is a wonderful example of citizen power. The Republicans initially blocked the veteran PACT Act out of spite. Then helped by Jon Stewart, citizen groups demonstrated their outrage, and  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/03/republicans-reverse-course-as-senate-passes-burn-pits-legislation-after-days-of-pressure/)
2022-08-03T09:34:00Z	**Health Cost Calculator Shows Most Californians Would Save Big With Medicare for All**
BRETT WILKINS,    -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Medicare for all. It should have been passed years ago but has been blocked repeatedly by the illness profit industries that care for nothing but profit. Here is the proof that what amounts to universal birthright single-payer healthcare is a far better form of healthcare than the awful system that currently prevai ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/03/health-cost-calculator-shows-most-californians-would-save-big-with-medicare-for-all/)
2022-08-03T09:33:00Z	**Great Salt Lake “not that far off” from an ecosystem collapse: Toxic dust storms, die-offs loom**
ERIC SCHANK,  Staff Writer  -  Salon

_Stephan: Here is the latest on climate change and its effect on Utah, the Great Salt Lake, and Salt Lake City. As the report describes is facing massive health problems, as well as water problems. I think we will begin to see people moving out of the city and the state. It will be interesting to see wh ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/03/great-salt-lake-not-that-far-off-from-an-ecosystem-collapse-toxic-dust-storms-die-offs-loom/)
2022-08-03T09:32:00Z	**Viktor Orbán Comes to CPAC**
Dalibor Rohac,   Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute  -  The Dispatch

_Stephan: Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, a thoroughly despicable christofascist has, like all such people, significantly degraded the quality of life in the country he leads. But that doesn't matter to the Republican Party, which really only cares about White supremacy, male supremacy, and an end to democracy, all three of which Orbán strongly supports. I think it is incredibly r ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/03/viktor-orban-comes-to-cpac/)
2022-08-04T09:35:00Z	**Rainwater everywhere on Earth contains cancer-causing ‘forever chemicals’, study finds**
Harry Cockburn,  Environmental Correspondent   -  Independent (U.K.)

_Stephan: If we are going to be able to get through what climate change is doing to the earth's ecosystems we are going to have to make radical changes in the technologies we use. As one example of what I mean, it is now dangerous to drink rainwater anywhere on earth. Think about that for ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/04/rainwater-everywhere-on-earth-contains-cancer-causing-forever-chemicals-study-finds/)
2022-08-04T09:34:00Z	**‘Never seen it this bad’: America faces catastrophic teacher shortage**
Hannah Natanson,  Education Reporter  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: The Republican Party beginning with Reagan realized that the dumber the American population the easier it would be to manipulate them, particularly with fear. culminating in the education disaster of Betsy DeVos, Trump's Secretary of Education. The citizens of the United States, on the basis of hard data, are  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/04/never-seen-it-this-bad-america-faces-catastrophic-teacher-shortage%ef%bf%bc/)
2022-08-04T09:33:00Z	**Trained, Armed and Ready. To Teach Kindergarten.**
,    \-  DNYUZ

_Stephan: My wife was an elementary school teacher for several decades. I asked her how she would feel, what she would do if being a teacher required weapons training and that she carry a weapon each day as she taught. Her response illustrates another reason America has such a teacher shortage. "I wouldn't do it," she said, "and I would quit teaching, at least in that state." I'd say the same, wouldn't you? How craz ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/04/trained-armed-and-ready-to-teach-kindergarten/)
2022-08-04T09:32:00Z	**“Self-Serving Multimillionaire”: Ron Johnson pushes to dismantle Social Security and Medicare**
Jon Queally,  Managing Editor for Common Dreams  -  Salon / Common Dreams

_Stephan: I think the Republican Party has made a major political miscalculation. Thanks to FOX, Infowars, and the other misinformation operations the Republicans came to believe they had a larger base than they actually have, as Kansas demonstrated yesterday. Ron Johns ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/04/self-serving-multimillionaire-ron-johnson-pushes-to-dismantle-social-security-and-medicare/)
2022-08-05T09:35:00Z	**Idaho Nears The Fulfillment of Aryan Nations Leader’s Vision For Creating a White-nationalist Haven**
David Neiwert,    -  Daily Kos

_Stephan: It is not getting much commentary, but I see The Great Schism Trend growing and a major force in the culture of those Whites, who cannot accomodate to the America that is taking form, climate change, majority minority, post carbon, gender equality, and are riven by fear of its oncoming re ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/05/idaho-nears-the-fulfillment-of-aryan-nations-leaders-vision-for-creating-a-white-nationalist-haven/)
2022-08-05T09:34:00Z	**In the GOP’s New Surveillance State, Everyone’s a Snitch**
PEMA LEVY,    -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: Getting citizens to inform on one another is what the Communists did in East Germany; it is straight out of the fascist playbook, and is going to become an issue in Red states; you can see it happening there in the context of abortion. One of the things the just-completed election showed me, was that the MAGAt states are going to be governed by a very different paradigm. It i ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/05/in-the-gops-new-surveillance-state-everyones-a-snitch/)
2022-08-05T09:33:00Z	**Pfizer CEO Complains to Investors About Lower Drug Prices Under Inflation Reduction Act**
Lee Fang,    -  The Intercept

_Stephan: The greed of the American pharmaceutical industry is without limit. It is a defining characteristic of the industry's economic model. That may be hard to believe, but here is the proof direct from one of Big Pharma's most profitable corporations._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/05/pfizer-ceo-complains-to-investors-about-lower-drug-prices-under-inflation-reduction-act/)
2022-08-05T09:32:00Z	**Price Gouging at the Pump Results in 235% Profit Jump for Big Oil: Analysis**
Jessica Corbett,    -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Each and every one of us has been bitten by the petroleum vampire. Its fangs have drained us. Like the pharmaceutical industry, its petroleum cousin is built on the same economic model of vampire capitalism. It is a disgusting economic model, not because profit is involved, but because profit is the only social priority, and foste ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/05/price-gouging-at-the-pump-results-in-235-profit-jump-for-big-oil-analysis/)
2022-08-06T09:35:00Z	**‘Grotesque greed’ of oil companies ‘destroying our only home’: UN chief**
Jessica Corbett,    -  AlterNet

_Stephan: You didn't think the carbon industries would quietly exit stage left, did you? Of course not. They are pouring millions of dollars into corrupt, mostly Republican legislators in the U.S., and equally corrupt politicians in other countries to thwart climate remediation policies and, thus, ensure their continued profits._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/06/grotesque-greed-of-oil-companies-destroying-our-only-home-un-chief/)
2022-08-06T09:34:00Z	**How Republicans Are ‘Weaponizing’ Public Office Against Climate Action**
David Gelles,  Climate Correspondent  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: MAGAt world, and the public officials who are part of that fascist fantasy, simply cannot seem to accept climate change and what it is doing to the stability of the earth's ecosystems. I confess I don't understand how they can think that way given what is obvious to anyone with eyes to see, but they do, and the people ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/06/how-republicans-are-weaponizing-public-office-against-climate-action/)
2022-08-06T09:33:00Z	**Revealed: how climate breakdown is supercharging toll of extreme weather**
Damian Carrington,  Environment Editor  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: In the previous story, I reported on how Republicans are blocking climate change remediation in their states. This report makes clear what the Republican MAGAts cannot seem to recognize or, even worse, they recognize but their corruption in service to the industries that create these conditions is so great tha ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/06/revealed-how-climate-breakdown-is-supercharging-toll-of-extreme-weather/)
2022-08-06T09:32:00Z	**The Dystopian Myths of Red America**
Paul Krugman,  Nobel Laureate, Professor, Columnist  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: As usual Paul Krugman is focused on the relevant issue. How and why does MAGAt world continue in the fact of all facts to believe nonsense? About a third of the American population has lost touch with reality and unless the other two-thirds come together to resist this Republican dystopian fear fugue the suffering is going to be inconceivable._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/06/the-dystopian-myths-of-red-america/)
2022-08-07T09:35:00Z	**A challenge for antiabortion states: Doctors reluctant to work there**
Christopher Rowland,  Business Team Reporter  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: Exactly as I predicted the overturn of Roe by the christofascists on the Supreme Court followed by Red state Republican christofascists in state legislatures, with no medical training passing and governors signing into law restrictions on OB/GYN practices is going to have a profound effect on the quality of heal ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/07/a-challenge-for-antiabortion-states-doctors-reluctant-to-work-there/)
2022-08-07T09:34:00Z	**A Very Dangerous Place to Be Pregnant Is Getting Even Scarier**
Claire Suddath,    -  Bloomberg

_Stephan: Texas based on social outcome data is a failed state, and it is a failed state proveably because it is run by Republican christofascists. Living in Texas, particularly in the rural parts of the state, and particularly for a woman is dangerous. Too many guns, very poor healthcare, radical anti-abortion policies, poor education, and growing White supremacy. What  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/07/a-very-dangerous-place-to-be-pregnant-is-getting-even-scarier/)
2022-08-07T09:33:00Z	**Watch: Tucker Carlson spins new conspiracy theory saying US gov will lace country’s water supply with antidepressants**
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_Stephan: Tucker Carlson has made himself America's leading preppy christofascist propagandist and purveyor of misinformation. Frankly, I don't see him as fundamentally any different from Alex Jones. They just do a different schtick, one preppy, one blue-collar. And If Alex Jones can be ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/07/watch-tucker-carlson-spins-new-conspiracy-theory-saying-us-gov-will-lace-countrys-water-supply-with-antidepressants/)
2022-08-07T09:32:00Z	**DeSantis says he’s willing to ‘take away lunch money from poor kids’ for anti-transgender crusade**
David Edwards,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Ron De Santis like Greg Abbott is an incompetent ideologue. He has no interest in governing to foster wellbeing. It is all about power, and that power comes from the people of Florida who elected him governor, because of their fear, hatred, and resentment._

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) v ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/07/desantis-says-hes-willing-to-take-away-lunch-money-from-poor-kids-for-anti-transgender-crusade%ef%bf%bc/)
2022-08-08T09:35:00Z	**Senate passes Democrats’ sweeping health care and climate bill**
Alex Rogers, Clare Foran, Ali Zaslav and Manu Raju,,    -  CNN

_Stephan: You have probably already heard about this excellent good news. This legislation addresses a range of trends that have been negatively affecting American society in a way that will change that and now foster wellbeing. I think it is both notable and important that not a single Republican voted for this legislation._

![](https:// ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/08/senate-passes-democrats-sweeping-health-care-and-climate-bill/)
2022-08-08T09:34:00Z	**Climate Bill Could Slash US emissions by 40% After Historic Senate Vote**
Oliver Milman ,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: This is what the Republicans voted against, the improvement of life for all life on earth. This is what the Republican Party has become and is about._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-07-at-9.54.31-PM.jpg?resize=643%2C585&ssl=1)

The US is, following decades of political ra ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/08/climate-bill-could-slash-us-emissions-by-40-after-historic-senate-vote/)
2022-08-08T09:33:00Z	**‘What the Hell is Wrong With Them’: GOP Senators Kill $35 Cap on Insulin**
Common Dreams Staff,    -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: The Republicans to a person voted against the critical bill discussed in the previous article. And to make things even worse, as this article describes they blocked lowering the price. The average price for Insulin in the United States is $98.70 per unit. This for a drug that is not proprietary and has been around for a century. In co ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/08/what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-them-gop-senators-kill-35-cap-on-insulin/)
2022-08-08T09:32:00Z	**The consciousness of bees**
Lars Chittka,  Professor - Queen Mary University of London.  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: Bees as conscious beings, new way of thinking about life on earth._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-07-at-9.02.48-PM.jpg?resize=428%2C600&ssl=1)_Credit: Elvis Swift / The Washington Post_

The French philosopher René Descartes, whose views on animals were highly influential, argued that these creatures acted purely by re ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/08/the-consciousness-of-bees/)
2022-08-09T09:35:00Z	**State Legislatures Are Torching Democracy**
Jane Mayer,    -  The New Yorker

_Stephan: I think this is a very serious article about a very serious topic, how the Republican Party at both the federal, but particularly at the state level, is trying to dismantle America as a democratic republic, transforming it into a White supremacy, male dominant christofascist anocracy. I also think that if you are reading this, and you want the United States to remain a democratic republic that you n ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/09/state-legislatures-are-torching-democracy/)
2022-08-09T09:34:00Z	**Exclusive: Trump-backed Michigan attorney general candidate involved in voting-system breach, documents show**
Nathan Layne,    -  Reuters

_Stephan: Have you noticed that whenever anyone is caught out by the media or the legal system for voter fraud or irregularities they are always Republicans? Anything the Republicans charge others with doing, almost inevitably actually turn out to be what the Republicans themselves ar ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/09/exclusive-trump-backed-michigan-attorney-general-candidate-involved-in-voting-system-breach-documents-show/)
2022-08-09T09:33:00Z	**Majority of Americans continue to favor moving away from Electoral College**
REBECCA SALZER and JOCELYN KILEY,    -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: I support this. I think the Electoral College should be eliminated. It is a part of our electoral process created during the time of slavery to get the slave states to sign off on the Constitution._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-08-at-10.19.12-PM ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/09/majority-of-americans-continue-to-favor-moving-away-from-electoral-college/)
2022-08-09T09:32:00Z	**These are the top 10 best and worst places to live in the world—and you won’t find the U.S. on either list**
Celia Fernandez,    -  make it

_Stephan: As you click through and read this article, keep this in mind. Not a single city, nor the United States itself as a country, is on the list of best places to live in the world. Personally, I found this very embarrassing for my country. What happened to us? What have we done t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/09/these-are-the-top-10-best-and-worst-places-to-live-in-the-world-and-you-wont-find-the-u-s-on-either-list/)
2022-08-10T09:35:00Z	**Climate Impacts Have Worsened Vast Range of Human Diseases**
Oliver Milman,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: I have predicted for years that all beings from bacteria to mammals will have to change to deal with the altered circumstances created by climate change. And here is some of the evidence nd what it means for humans._

[![The number of people seeking medical help for kidney stones escalates following very hot days when the risk of dehydration multiplies.](htt ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/10/climate-impacts-have-worsened-vast-range-of-human-diseases/)
2022-08-10T09:34:00Z	**Right-wing sheriffs are doing some really shady political organizing against the election system the Steal’ movement — here’s the danger it poses**
Zeeshan Aleem,    -  MSNBC

_Stephan: I think every American should be concerned about the percentage of law enforcement personnel who are MAGAts, and in no branch is the percentage hgher than Sheriffs. Personally, I think the Sheriff's posit ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/10/right-wing-sheriffs-are-doing-some-really-shady-political-organizing-against-the-election-system-the-steal-movement-heres-the-danger-it-poses/)
2022-08-10T09:32:00Z	**Business Retreats and Sanctions Are Crippling the Russian Economy**
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Steven Tian, Franek Sokolowski, Michal Wyrebkowski, Mateusz Kasprowicz,    -  Yale University

_Stephan:_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Arbat-2.jpg?resize=800%2C450&ssl=1)_Moscow Arbat commercial district_

As the Russian invasion of Ukraine enters into its fifth month, a common narrative has emerged that the unity of the world in st ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/10/business-retreats-and-sanctions-are-crippling-the-russian-economy/)
2022-08-11T09:35:00Z	**The US-China Rift Moves Climate Politics Into an Era of Competition**
Akshat Rathi,  Editor of Net Zero  -  Bloomberg

_Stephan: The idea of there being a race between China and the U.S. to advance climate remediation I see as good news, with interesting geopolitical implications._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-10-at-6.16.39-PM.jpg?resize=777%2C435&ssl=1)_Solar panels and wind turbines ne ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/11/the-us-china-rift-moves-climate-politics-into-an-era-of-competition%ef%bf%bc/)
2022-08-11T09:34:00Z	**Did Russia provide funding and support for booster of California secession movement?**
Sam Stanton,  Reporter  -  Sacramento Bee

_Stephan: This report describes a trend that I think is underreported and very dangerous, the use of our poorly regulated internet social media by foreign powers to influence our politics._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-10-at-5.58.58-PM.jpg?resi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/11/did-russia-provide-funding-and-support-for-booster-of-california-secession-movement%ef%bf%bc/)
2022-08-11T09:33:00Z	**Earth’s Days Are Mysteriously Getting Longer, Scientists Say**
MATT KING and CHRISTOPHER WATSON,  Director of the ARC Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science, University of Tasmania \| Senior Lecturer, School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences, University of Tasmania.  -  Science Alert

_Stephan: This is a very odd report but based on facts and science, so our new reality._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/08 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/11/earths-days-are-mysteriously-getting-longer-scientists-say/)
2022-08-11T09:32:00Z	**Queer Animals Are Everywhere. Science Is Finally Catching On**
Eliot Schrefer,    -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: Every single gay or lesbian person I have known, who worked for me or was just a friend, told me they knew they were gay or lesbian as soon as they became sexually aware. Contrary to the crap spewed out by Republican christofascists who are so sexually obsessed, it was not a matter of choice, it was just the way they were. It turns out further  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/11/queer-animals-are-everywhere-science-is-finally-catching-on%ef%bf%bc/)
2022-08-12T09:35:00Z	**The Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the globe since 1979**
Mika Rantanen, Alexey Yu Karpechko, ANtti Lipponen et al ,    -  Nature

_Stephan: This is a peer reviewed study published in one of the most prestigious science journals in the world. This is the best most up to date knowledge we have on the arctic. The report tells us it is melting far faster than was anticipated. I remind you of two things: The first is Schwartz' Law of Climate  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/12/the-arctic-has-warmed-nearly-four-times-faster-than-the-globe-since-1979/)
2022-08-12T09:34:00Z	**Poll: A Majority of Americans Want to Abolish the Electoral College**
Chris Walker,  News Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: Here is another report on the unpopularity of the Electoral College, this one about a poll which gives us some objectively verifiable data. I personally support the elimination of the Electoral College. It is a relic created in the 18th century to keep the slave states on board with the Constitution, just like the Democrats made a d ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/12/poll-a-majority-of-americans-want-to-abolish-the-electoral-college%ef%bf%bc/)
2022-08-12T09:33:00Z	**Manchin’s Donors Include Pipeline Giants That Win in His Climate Deal**
Hiroko Tabuchi,  The New York Times  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Democracy is always about compromises, but not this study in corruption. All of this should be changed, making the entire system publicly funded, and private donations illegal.

That said I don't think the impact of a pipeline is going to be as big a deal as one might think. Why? because the conversion out of the carbon ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/12/manchins-donors-include-pipeline-giants-that-win-in-his-climate-deal/)
2022-08-12T09:32:00Z	**China Overtakes the US in Scientific Research Output**
Donna Lu,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: This is not getting much general media attention, but to those who understand what this trend means it is a very big deal. Because of the christofascist movement and its obsessions and the Republican blockage of funding, and the things that can be funded, we are becoming a second-tier country in many ways, scientific development, as described here, being just one example_

! ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/12/china-overtakes-the-us-in-scientific-research-output/)
2022-08-13T09:35:00Z	**Scoop: GOP plans effort to sabotage Inflation Reduction Act**
Andrew Solender,    -  Axios

_Stephan: Not one Republican voted for the Inflation Reduction Act, the biggest and most important act ever passed for combating climate change. The legislation will fund more than $370 billion for climate and energy programs aimed at helping the United States cut greenhouse gas emissions by an estimated 40 percent below 2005 levels by the end of the decade. It will also extend  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/13/scoop-gop-plans-effort-to-sabotage-inflation-reduction-act/)
2022-08-13T09:34:00Z	**Biden quietly met with a group of historians who warned him about threats to democracy and compared the current moment to the pre-Civil War era, report says**
Kelsey Vlamis ,  Staff Writer  -  Business Insider

_Stephan: Historians of the American Republic, I know from talking with several of them, are running around with their hair on fire for the same reason I have been s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/13/biden-quietly-met-with-a-group-of-historians-who-warned-him-about-threats-to-democracy-and-compared-the-current-moment-to-the-pre-civil-war-era-report-says/)
2022-08-13T09:33:00Z	**Poll: 70% of Americans want to vote on abortion in state ballots**
Oriana Gonzalez,    -  Axios

_Stephan: Seventy percent of Americans want to vote on Abortion rights. Why? I think because they saw Roe overturned, and then saw what happened in Kansas and they want to take the issue out of the hands of Republican politicians and put it into the hands of voters where a woman's right to control her own body can be protected._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/13/poll-70-of-americans-want-to-vote-on-abortion-in-state-ballots/)
2022-08-13T09:32:00Z	**Medical Boards That Can Strip Abortion Providers of Licenses Are Stacked With Republican Donors**
Madison Pauly,  Reporter  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: Although it hasn't gotten much attention, in Red states, there is a major effort underway by Republican legislators and MAGAt supporters to frighten physicians so that they don't even think about ending a pregnancy. I predict the result will be that healthcare, which in Red states is  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/13/medical-boards-that-can-strip-abortion-providers-of-licenses-are-stacked-with-republican-donors/)
2022-08-14T09:35:00Z	**Cognitive biases and brain biology help explain why facts don’t change minds**
Keith M. Bellizzi ,  Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences - University of Connecticut  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Last night I listened to Sean Hannity on the Fox propaganda network. To learn about the trends shaping our future I feel I have to look at MAGAt media. It was amazing. Like all the other people on Fox, I don't know how or, more importantly, why, they d ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/14/cognitive-biases-and-brain-biology-help-explain-why-facts-dont-change-minds/)
2022-08-14T09:34:00Z	**Biden has appointed more federal judges than any president since JFK at this point in his tenure**
JOHN GRAMLICH,    -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: Here is some excellent good news. Biden with help from Schumer has been able to appoint more federal judges than any president since Kennedy, and two-thirds of them are racial or ethnic minorities, and three-quarters are women. This means that the Republican MAGAt attempt to take ove ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/14/biden-has-appointed-more-federal-judges-than-any-president-since-jfk-at-this-point-in-his-tenure/)
2022-08-14T09:33:00Z	**‘People will die waiting’: America’s system for the disabled is nearing collapse**
DAN GOLDBERG,    -  Politico

_Stephan: Healthcare in America is so bad compared with the other developed democracies you would think we would be embarrassed. Biden and most of the democrats -- not Manchin and Sinema -- are trying to do something to improve this miserable system while the Republicans are doing everything they can to make it worse, particularly in Red st ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/14/people-will-die-waiting-americas-system-for-the-disabled-is-nearing-collapse/)
2022-08-14T09:32:00Z	**Sean Hannity says that Trump could run for president from jail — if he wanted to**
KELLY MCCLURE,  Nights & Weekends Editor  -  Salon

_Stephan: This is Sean Hannity. and the sad truth is for the MAGAts what he says is probably true. They would vote for him even if he were in prison. This is America, in the midst of the Great Schism Trend which shapes American culture today. A tragic truth._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/u ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/14/sean-hannity-says-that-trump-could-run-for-president-from-jail-if-he-wanted-to/)
2022-08-15T09:35:00Z	**Southern Baptist Convention Says It Faces Federal Investigation for Sexual Abuse**
Thomas Fuller,  San Francisco Bureau Chief   -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Islam, Christianity, and Judaism are all very screwed up about sex and gender issues. So screwed up that in all three cases the patriarchal bias of these religions results in endless sex abuse of women and children, both male and female. I cannot find an exact statistic but it is clear tha ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/15/southern-baptist-convention-says-it-faces-federal-investigation-for-sexual-abuse/)
2022-08-15T09:34:00Z	**Pleasure Is Good: How French Children Acquire a Taste for Life**
Marie-Anne Suizzo,  Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin.  -  The Conversation

_Stephan: I once went with a friend, who was a teacher in France, to lunch in her school. I have never forgotten the meal because it was so superior to any meal I had ever seen in an American school, public or private. It was part of a child's education, part of the French cultu ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/15/pleasure-is-good-how-french-children-acquire-a-taste-for-life/)
2022-08-15T09:33:00Z	**Looking for Clarence Thomas**
Mitchell S. Jackson,    -  Esquire

_Stephan: I found this a very interesting bio on Clarence Thomas which gave me some real insight about the most powerful Black man in America._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-14-at-9.40.11-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C358&ssl=1)

They would call him Boy. _Deb bin call um Boye._

Boy was born in low country on a one-dirt-road-in, one-dirt-road-out patch of mainland just an eleven-mil ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/15/looking-for-clarence-thomas/)
2022-08-15T09:32:00Z	**Sinema Took Wall Street Money While Killing Tax On Investors**
Brian Slodysko,    -  Huff Post

_Stephan: Kyrsten Sinema, a Democrat, is a living example of the corruption that pervades the American Congress. This is why our government doesn't work properly._

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, the Arizona Democrat who single-handedly thwarted her party’s longtime goal of raising taxes on wealthy investors, received nearly $1 million over the past year from priv ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/15/sinema-took-wall-street-money-while-killing-tax-on-investors/)
2022-08-16T09:35:00Z	**Study: Climate change is making 58% of infectious diseases worse**
Blanca Begert,    -  Grist

_Stephan: I have been warning my readers for a decade that this was coming, and now we are beginning to get hard data that it has arrived. Viruses and bacteria are mutating to accommodate for the human-mediated changes in the climate. This is also why I predict that Covid is far from the last pandemic we will experience. I expect to see similar pandemics occurring every f ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/16/study-climate-change-is-making-58-of-infectious-diseases-worse/)
2022-08-16T09:34:00Z	**How Did Fighting Climate Change Become a Partisan Issue?**
Elizabeth Kolbert,    -  The New Yorker

_Stephan: Let me start by reminding you that not a single Republican voted for the massive climate remediation effort funded by the just passed in the Senate Inflation Recovery Act. How is it possible, I think it is reasonable to ask, that the Republican Party has made itself willfully ignorant about climate change? Or do they know and just don't care about the future clima ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/16/how-did-fighting-climate-change-become-a-partisan-issue/)
2022-08-16T09:33:00Z	**Can Biden’s climate bill undo the fossil fuel industry’s decades of harm?**
Oliver Milman,    -  The Guardian (U.K.).

_Stephan: Oliver Milman has written an excellent historical review of how we got to where we are with petroleum pollution. I think it is important to understand this trend because facts make it very clear why the current practices must end._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022- ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/16/can-bidens-climate-bill-undo-the-fossil-fuel-industrys-decades-of-harm%ef%bf%bc/)
2022-08-16T09:32:00Z	**Medical schools, students review training amid abortion bans**
Sandhya Raman,    -  Roll Call

_Stephan: In the Red states that passed anti-choice legislation healthcare is being severely impacted post-Roe. Impacted in a very negative way which will affect the lives of millions of women. Fewer OB'GYNs are going to set up practice in those Red states, and that is going to become a long-term trend. Fewer doctors to help women maintain good health, will mean poorer healt ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/16/medical-schools-students-review-training-amid-abortion-bans/)
2022-08-17T09:35:00Z	**In 30 years’ time, ‘extreme heat belt’ to cover middle of US, says report**
,    \-  Agence French-Presse (France)

_Stephan: I have been warning my readers for over a decade that this was coming, heat so great that ordinary life becomes very difficult. This is going to be the cause of one of the three great internal migrations that are going to happen in the U.S. If my wife and I owned property in these heat belt states I would begin to think about selling o ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/17/in-30-years-time-extreme-heat-belt-to-cover-middle-of-us-says-report/)
2022-08-17T09:34:00Z	**‘It’s mind-blowing’: Trump-linked firm copied sensitive data from Georgia voting systems**
Travis Gettys,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: As the days go by each day seems to bring into focus another aspect of the Trump/Republican attempt to destroy the integrity of the American voting system. My question is: Given this evidence why haven't people like Sidney Powell been indicted, convicted, and sent to prison?_

![](https://i0.wp.com/ww ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/17/its-mind-blowing-trump-linked-firm-copied-sensitive-data-from-georgia-voting-systems/)
2022-08-17T09:33:00Z	**Librarian sues over accusations that kids’ section contains “erotic” books**
Herb Scribner,    -  Axios

_Stephan: MAGAt world not only doesn't live in a fact-based reality, they don't want children to be educated with facts. They want censorship of libraries and for children to be indoctrinated into the MAGAt fantasy fascist white supremacy only heterosexual world. I consider it good news that some librarians are pushing back, as this report describes._

 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/17/librarian-sues-over-accusations-that-kids-section-contains-erotic-books/)
2022-08-17T09:32:00Z	**Genetic study provides evidence that alcohol accelerates biological aging**
,    \-  University of Oxford (U.K.)

_Stephan: Quite apart from issues of alcoholism, whose results we all know, it turns out there is much more damage than that resulting from drinking alcohol. The consumption of alcohol, particularly regularly and in quantity, Oxford University researchers have now reported, literally alters your telomeres and changes your genetics prematurely ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/17/genetic-study-provides-evidence-that-alcohol-accelerates-biological-aging/)
2022-08-18T09:35:00Z	**Study: What Americans really think**
,    \-  Axios

_Stephan: Very few polls address the very important issue of the difference between what people think privately and what they say publicly. Here, for the first time, is some hard data on this issue. It is quite surprising._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-17-at-4.43.42-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C457&ssl=1)

“Self-silencing” — people saying what they think others want to hear rather than w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/18/study-what-americans-really-think/)
2022-08-18T09:34:00Z	**Why Republicans Turned Against the Environment**
Paul Krugman,  Nobel Laureate, Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center, Columnist  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: I was gobsmacked when during the vote for the Inflation Reduction Act, which contained the largest commitment ever made for climate remediation did not get a single affirmative vote by Senate Republicans. How is it possible, given the overwhelming evidence of what climate change is al ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/18/why-republicans-turned-against-the-environment/)
2022-08-18T09:33:00Z	**Southern states like Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama named least healthy in the US – while residents of Washington, Massachusetts and Utah are considered the best off, report finds**
MANSUR SHAHEEN ,    -  Daily Mail

_Stephan: I have been telling my readers for over a decade that wherever Republicans have been voted into a control of a state that  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/18/southern-states-like-louisiana-mississippi-and-alabama-named-least-healthy-in-the-us-while-residents-of-washington-massachusetts-and-utah-are-considered-the-best-off-report-finds/)
2022-08-18T09:32:00Z	**People on TikTok are Asking Trees to Touch Their Shoulder and Now I’m Convinced Trees Can Hear Us**
Brittanie Pyper,    -  Totally the Bomb

_Stephan: I have been an experimentalist studying consciousness for over half a century, and all those decades of research, both mine and work by colleagues has taught me this truth. Max Planck's comment that consciousness is causal and fundamental, that space and time arises from consciousnes ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/18/people-on-tiktok-are-asking-trees-to-touch-their-shoulder-and-now-im-convinced-trees-can-hear-us/)
2022-08-19T09:35:00Z	**Trump rakes in millions off FBI search at Mar-a-Lago**
Josh Dawsey and Isaac Arnsdorf,  Reporters  -  MSN / The Washington Post

_Stephan: It isn't fashionable to say this, just as it probably wasn't polite or fashionable in 1930 to say that a lot of the German people supported Hitler and Nazism, but the truth is something like a third of Americans are racist christofascist nationalists. They don't like democracy, and they support and will support, Donald Trump no  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/19/trump-rakes-in-millions-off-fbi-search-at-mar-a-lago%ef%bf%bc/)
2022-08-19T09:34:00Z	**Rosaries are flying off the shelves after ‘The Atlantic’ article suggests link to ‘extremism’**
Joe Bukuras,    -  Catholic News Agency

_Stephan: It is interesting how cultural tells develop. Here's an example of what I mean. These things are important, particularly in christofascist circles. They identify a person without having to say anything. Creating totems is a classic step in authoritarian fascist cohorts, i.e., MAGAt world._

![] ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/19/rosaries-are-flying-off-the-shelves-after-the-atlantic-article-suggests-link-to-extremism/)
2022-08-19T09:33:00Z	**Asian Americans are buying guns in record numbers. What’s caused this surge?**
Claire Wang,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: This is what the MAGAt world's obsessive gun psychosis is doing to American culture. First, it was Black women who began arming themselves, now it is Asian Americans. More guns, more murders and suicides, increasing civil violence. We are entering a civil war, only the majority side has not yet recognized what is happening._

! ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/19/asian-americans-are-buying-guns-in-record-numbers-whats-caused-this-surge/)
2022-08-19T09:32:00Z	**There’s a ‘serious and spreading threat’ to America — and the media is missing it: analysis**
Bob Brigham,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: This illustrates the point I made in my comment for the previous article. The Trumper MAGAts are trying to take control of the electoral system, and they are preparing for civil violence if that doesn't work._

America could be rapidly approaching a new civil war and the August 8 search warrant execution at Mar ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/19/theres-a-serious-and-spreading-threat-to-america-and-the-media-is-missing-it-analysis/)
2022-08-20T09:35:00Z	**U.S. Youth Face Unprecedented Mental Health Challenges, Says Surgeon General**
Shannon Firth,  Investigative Reporter  -  Medpage Today

_Stephan:  The stress that is tearing America apart is causing all kinds of damage to young people. The November election is either going to foster the needed healing, or it will further exacerbate this damage which will, in turn, change the next generation of American culture profoundly. We need to recognize this and  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/20/u-s-youth-face-unprecedented-mental-health-challenges-says-surgeon-general/)
2022-08-20T09:33:00Z	**Twitter ‘permanently suspends’ HD 20 candidate after he advocates shooting federal agents**
A.G. Gancarski ,  Staff Writer  -  Florida Politics

_Stephan: Florida, like Texas, is becoming an authoritarian failed state, if social outcome data is your calibration. Abbott and DeSantis are both focused on power, and helping the individuals and corporations who bought them their position. They aren't focused on wellbeing at all. And the only thi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/20/twitter-permanently-suspends-hd-20-candidate-after-he-advocates-shooting-federal-agents/)
2022-08-20T09:32:00Z	**Louisiana Child Kicked Out of Class Because Parents are Same-sex Couple**
Gloria Oladipo,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: How interesting that a Baptist school would expel a child for being reared by a same-sex couple, as if the child had any choice in that matter, while the Baptist movement itself is under federal investigation for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of cases of clergy and staff sexual abuse of boys and girls and women. Do you think it is p ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/20/louisiana-child-kicked-out-of-class-because-parents-are-same-sex-couple/)
2022-08-21T09:35:00Z	**The Sins of the High Court’s Supreme Catholic**
James Carroll,    -  Reader support News / The New Yorker

_Stephan: In my opinion, there should not be five Roman Catholic conservatives on the Supreme Court, any more than there should be five ultra-orthodox Jews, or ultra-orthodox Sunni Muslims. (Neil Gorsuch, as the article notes was reared as a Catholic but is now an Episcopalian and, I would bet, high church Episcopalian, which is basically Catholic without the pope.) It is not representative of  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/21/the-sins-of-the-high-courts/)
2022-08-21T09:34:00Z	**Louisiana officials stall New Orleans flood funds over abortion**
ARIEL WITTENBERG,    -  Politico

_Stephan: Louisiana, a state run by MAGAts voted into office by MAGAt voters is one of the worst governed states in the United States. Its social outcome data is so bad that if it were a country it would be considered a failed state. For instance, a pregnant woman in Lousiana, unless she is rich, would be more likely to survive birth, and have her child survive birt ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/21/louisiana-officials-stall-new-orleans-flood-funds-over-abortion/)
2022-08-21T09:33:00Z	**Nebraska woman charged with helping daughter have abortion**
JOSH FUNK,    -  Associated Press

_Stephan: This is how crazy post-Roe women's healthcare has become in Red states, and what women are driven to do in this post-Roe world. The people of Nebraska are responsible for this, they voted these people into office. Only they are going to end it, if they want that, by how they vote in November. We are going to see in less than three months. Abortion has become a majo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/21/nebraska-woman-charged-with-helping-daughter-have-abortion/)
2022-08-21T09:32:00Z	**‘Snip Snip Hooray’: Vasectomies Among the Young and Child-Free May Be Rising**
,    \-  DNYUZ

_Stephan: I don't think it is properly or fully understood just what a big effect on American society the Roe decision is producing. And it is not just an effect on women, as this article explains._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-20-at-10.27.23-PM.jpg?resize=779%2C410&ssl=1)

In March, Mike Pridgen,  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/21/snip-snip-hooray-vasectomies-among-the-young-and-child-free-may-be-rising/)
2022-08-22T09:35:00Z	**‘Five-Alarm Crisis’: US Has Shortage of 300K Teachers, School Staff**
JULIA CONLEY,    -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: The teacher shortage in the United States is, as this article describes, becoming a very serious crisis. And I thihk it has long term consequences. When you consider this trend, and you add the growing attempt by the MAGAts to pull books from school libraries, and censor what can be taught in history and civics classes, and you add in the systemic mis ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/22/five-alarm-crisis-us-has-shortage-of-300k-teachers-school-staff/)
2022-08-22T09:34:00Z	**Ride along with MACRO: Oakland’s new alternative to the police**
David Debolt,  Senior Breaking News Reporter  -  The Oaklandside

_Stephan: Here is the first example of what I hope is going to be a good news trend, the development of a system for providing first responder social support that does not involve the police. Oakland is a city with a serious homeless problem and other social issues in crisis. I intend to watch what happens, and congratulate Oakland for le ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/22/ride-along-with-macro-oaklands-new-alternative-to-the-police/)
2022-08-22T09:33:00Z	**Feds cut Colorado River allocation to Arizona, Nevada as talks fail**
ZACK BUDRYK ,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

_Stephan: Everyone knows by now that there is not enough water in the Colorado River, or Lake Mead, or Lake Powell, nor is it likely there will be, for both the cities and the agriculture interests that are completely dependent on that water. And as this report spells out, the seven states that depend on the Colorado River are not yet ready  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/22/feds-cut-colorado-river-allocation-to-arizona-nevada-as-talks-fail%ef%bf%bc/)
2022-08-22T09:32:00Z	**House Democrats introduce bills to hold gunmakers accountable for selling ‘weapons of war’ to civilians**
Meaghan Ellis,  Staff Writer  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: Here is some potentially excellent good news. These weapons were designed to kill human beings in violent combat as many and as quickly as possible. There is no rational reason that such weapons should be on the streets of America, and I hope the two bills put forward by ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/22/house-democrats-introduce-bills-to-hold-gunmakers-accountable-for-selling-weapons-of-war-to-civilians/)
2022-08-23T09:35:00Z	**Massive dark money windfall: New conservative group got $1.6 billion from single donor**
Casey Tolan, Curt Devine and Drew Griffin,    -  CNN

_Stephan: The Supreme Court Citizens United Decision, which was engineered by MAGAt world, legalized bribery and gave the uber-rich the ability to create MAGAt world, and buy the kind of christofascist anti-democratic government we are becoming. Now we have one uber-rich christofascist who has ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/23/massive-dark-money-windfall-new-conservative-group-got-1-6-billion-from-single-donor%ef%bf%bc/)
2022-08-23T09:34:00Z	**‘Once We Take Control’: Far Right-Authoritarian Lays Out His Christian Fascist Agenda**
Kyle Mantyla ,    -  New Civil Rights Movement

_Stephan: This, from the mouth of a prominent christofacist you've probably never heard of, is what the MAGAts plan for America. Does this sound like a country you would enjoy living in?_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-22-at-5.40.19-PM.jpg?resize=800% ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/23/once-we-take-control-far-right-authoritarian-lays-out-his-christian-fascist-agenda/)
2022-08-23T09:33:00Z	**America used to regulate business. Now government subsidizes it**
Robert Reich,  Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Robert Reich, in my view, has it right when he says, "the three-decades-long shift in power to big corporations has transformed industrial policy into a system for bribing them to do the sorts of things government once demanded they do as the price for being part of the American syst ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/23/america-used-to-regulate-business-now-government-subsidizes-it/)
2022-08-23T09:32:00Z	**Understanding the Southern Baptist scandal: For evangelicals, women can’t say no**
Nathaniel Manderson,  Baptist Pastor  -  Salon

_Stephan: In this article, a Baptist pastor explains the deep religious conviction of Baptists, particularly evangelicals, that God intends women to be subordinate and submissive to men. This, I think, is why so many MAGAt women are anti-abortionists._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/23/understanding-the-southern-baptist-scandal-for-evangelicals-women-cant-say-no/)
2022-08-24T09:35:00Z	**Former Fox News politics editor says network stoked ‘paranoia and hatred’**
Ramon Antonio Vargas,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Here is an insider from the Fox propaganda channel telling the truth. The Murdoch family are making hundreds of millions of dollars every year purveying hate, fear, and resentment. It is, I think, accurate to say that MAGAt world was created as a result of the Fox operation. One uber-rich family is reasonable for tearing th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/24/former-fox-news-politics-editor-says-network-stoked-paranoia-and-hatred/)
2022-08-24T09:34:00Z	**GOP Candidate Said It’s “Totally Just” to Stone Gay People to Death**
Alex Bollinger,    -  LGBTQ Nation

_Stephan: What kind of party would put a person like Scott Esk forward as a candidate? And what kind of person, candidate or not, would openly advocate, as Esk has, stoning LGBTQ people to death? And what kind of person would vote for such an individual? This advocacy of violence has become an accepted part of the MAGAt world and is one of the things driving  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/24/gop-candidate-said-its-totally-just-to-stone-gay-people-to-death/)
2022-08-24T09:33:00Z	**The ‘illusion of knowledge’ that makes people overconfident**
David Robson,  Science Writer  -  BBC (U.K.)

_Stephan: I have been doing research for weeks now trying to work out why the MAGAt minority functionally lives in a different reality from the rational majority of Americans and makes choices that literally boggle my mind, and probably yours as well. How do people, for instance, like Matt Gaetz, who apparently has just won his primary, get the votes that give the ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/24/the-illusion-of-knowledge-that-makes-people-overconfident/)
2022-08-24T09:32:00Z	**Feds indict former Tennessee GOP house speaker and top aide in ‘bribery and kickback conspiracy’**
Matthew Chapman,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: It seems there is a story like this one almost every week, from one Red state or another. These indictments of MAGAt officials at the state level are so common that I wonder, do you have to be dishonest scum in order to run on the Republican ticket?_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schw ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/24/feds-indict-former-tennessee-gop-house-speaker-and-top-aide-in-bribery-and-kickback-conspiracy/)
2022-08-25T09:35:00Z	**Antisemitism Once More**
Dan Rather and Elliot Kirschner,    -  Reader Supported News

_Stephan: I am not Jewish but, because my surname is Schwartz, many people assume I am and all my life I have been aware in certain situations that what was driving a conversation was antisemitism; it is an ancient prejudice that has always been a cover for something else. In modern times the christofascists have promoted it, and it has become a core belief of the MAGAt Party, and an important trend in American society ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/25/antisemitism-once-more/)
2022-08-25T09:34:00Z	**Jews across United States harassed with wave of antisemitic letters to homes**
Michael Starr,    -  The Jerusalem Post

_Stephan: The MAGAt antisemitism trend is producing two results that really concern me. One it is a further exacerbation of the Great Schism Trend that is tearing the country apart, and second, it is smearing America around the world. This piece came from The Jerusalem Post in Israel, but I could have picked other stories from the fo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/25/jews-across-united-states-harassed-with-wave-of-antisemitic-letters-to-homes/)
2022-08-25T09:33:00Z	**Texas GOP governor refuses to acknowledge climate change while cities drown in ‘1-in-1,000 year’ floods**
Brandon Gage,    -  AlterNet

_Stephan: I have never met Greg Abbott, nor do I know anyone anymore who knows him. But there is no question that during his time as governor of Texas he has made the state he governs a failed state. Its social outcome data is horrible. As Texas labors under burning temperatures, devastating fl ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/25/texas-gop-governor-refuses-to-acknowledge-climate-change-while-cities-drown-in-1-in-1000-year-floods/)
2022-08-25T09:32:00Z	**Poll Finds 3 in 4 Voters Want to Expand Social Security by Taxing the Rich**
Sharon Zhang,  News Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: I see this poll as a report on good news, and I think there is a growing recognition in the Democratic Party that the key to winning elections is fostering wellbeing. In my view, the christofascist majority on the Supreme Court made a massive and historical mistake overturning Roe just months before the midterm elections. It ha ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/25/poll-finds-3-in-4-voters-want-to-expand-social-security-by-taxing-the-rich/)
2022-08-26T09:35:00Z	**How a Far-right, Christian Cellphone Company ‘Took Over’ Four Texas School Boards**
Mike Hixenbaugh,  Senior Investigative Reporter  -  NBC News

_Stephan: The christofascist MAGAt movement has been working for years to destroy public education or, if they can't dismantle public free education, then they want to restructure it so it does not educate instead it indoctrinates. And christofascist corporations like this cell phone company, Patriot Mobil ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/26/how-a-far-right-christian-cellphone-company-took-over-four-texas-school-boards/)
2022-08-26T09:34:00Z	**Conservatives Throw A Fit Over Biden’s Student Debt Forgiveness Plan**
Sara Boboltz,    -  HuffPost

_Stephan: Student loan forgiveness is driving the MAGAt Republicans crazy, as this report describes. The MAGAts want you to be in debt, the bigger the debt the better. It is an amazing political position. How do you feel about relieving student debt? I not only support it, but think the sum forgiven should have been much larger. It is in the interest of America ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/26/conservatives-throw-a-fit-over-bidens-student-debt-forgiveness-plan/)
2022-08-26T09:33:00Z	**One-Third of Vets End Up Arrested at Least Once. Researchers Want to Find Out Why.**
Konstantin Toropin,  Staff Writer  -  Military.com

_Stephan: There is something wrong with the American military, and this hard data report makes this clear. Part of the problem, I think is that of the 334 million people in America only 18 million Americans, or about 7 percent of the adult population have ever served in the military, and at the moment only about  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/26/one-third-of-vets-end-up-arrested-at-least-once-researchers-want-to-find-out-why/)
2022-08-26T09:32:00Z	**Counties with more slaves in 1860 have higher gun ownership rates today, study finds**
Matthew Roza,  Staff Writer  -  Salon

_Stephan: I do love rigorously researched data, it tells you truths you might not even recognize otherwise. Here is a very interesting example of what I mean, showing a strong correlation between racism and America's obsessive gun psychosis. Also, since men and women from these same Southern counties disproportionately e ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/26/counties-with-more-slaves-in-1860-have-higher-gun-ownership-rates-today-study-finds/)
2022-08-27T09:35:00Z	**The Right-Wing Christian Sect Plotting a Political Takeover**
Elle Hardy,    -  The New Republic

_Stephan: Have you ever heard of the New Apostolic Reformation? Mainstream media, which is very leery of critically covering any Christian religious movement, has reported almost nothing about it. This is one of the several failings of mainstream news organizations. But you should know about it, and I hope you will click through and read the full article, because this sec ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/27/the-right-wing-christian-sect-plotting-a-political-takeover/)
2022-08-27T09:34:00Z	**Revealed: New Leaders of Council for National Policy Set Extremist Agenda**
David Armiak,  Research Director - Center for Media and Democracy  -  Center for Media and Democracy

_Stephan: Here is another shadowy organization in the christofascist movement. I hope readers will begin to understand just how militantly our democracy is under attack, and how the former Republican now Trumpian MAGAt party is completely complicit in the effort to transform Ameri ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/27/revealed-new-leaders-of-council-for-national-policy-set-extremist-agenda/)
2022-08-27T09:33:00Z	**Revealed: leaked video shows Amy Coney Barrett’s secretive faith group drove women to tears**
Stephanie Kirchgaessner,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: In my opinion, Amy Coney Barrett should never have been nominated to become an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. It was not just her lack of competence for the post, it was her lifelong association with the secretive christofascist group The People of Praise. But that, of course, ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/27/revealed-leaked-video-shows-amy-coney-barretts-secretive-faith-group-drove-women-to-tears/)
2022-08-27T09:32:00Z	**McConnell says people being forced to have children don’t deserve any more financial help**
Joan McCarter,  Daily Kos Staff  -  Daily Kos

_Stephan: Here is further evidence, if such were needed, that the anti-choice movement is not interested in protecting and supporting babies, or nurturing children. Their interest is only about keeping women subordinate to men and their bodies controlled by the state. The very poor health outcome data i ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/27/mcconnell-says-people-being-forced-to-have-children-dont-deserve-any-more-financial-help/)
2022-08-28T09:35:00Z	**The Big Bet on Natural Gas Is Blowing Up in the World’s Face**
RYAN COOPER,    -  The American Prospect

_Stephan: Twelve years ago, when the natural gas scheme was really getting underway, I wrote my readers telling them that natural gas as a bridge out of carbon energy was a scam perpetrated by the carbon industries to extend their profits. A scam made possible because politicians across the globe had been bamboozled through the vast briberies -- excuse me, campaign ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/28/the-big-bet-on-natural-gas-is-blowing-up-in-the-worlds-face/)
2022-08-28T09:34:00Z	**2022 Scorecard on State Health System Performance – How Did States do During The COVID-19 Pandemic?**
David C. Radley, Jesse C. Baumgartner, and Sara R. Collins,    -  The Commonwealth Fund

_Stephan: I tell you week after week that if your calibration is social and individual wellbeing Republic governance always produces inferior social outcomes to Democratic governance. Nowhere is that clearer than in the Covid pandemic. Look at  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/28/2022-scorecard-on-state-health-system-performance-how-did-states-do-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/)
2022-08-28T09:33:00Z	**The Horrific Consequence of the GOP Merging Church and State Are Here.**
Thom Hartmann,    -  Raw Story / Commentary

_Stephan: Yesterday, I published data-based research focused on the aggressive war being waged by the christofascists to breach the wall between church and state to turn the United States into a christofascist anocracy. One of their most powerful bits of deliberately crafted lying by this cohort is their assertion that the Founders intended t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/28/the-horrific-consequence-of-the-gop-merging-church-and-state-are-here/)
2022-08-28T09:32:00Z	**China is burning more coal as historic heatwave cripples its hydroelectricity capacity**
Phil Rosen,  Senior Reporter  -  Insider

_Stephan: This is a huge deal that is not getting close to the attention it should. In climate change a single nation, by what it does, can impact the wellbeing of the entire planet and all the beings on it. China was making a significant effort to get out of the carbon energy era, but climate change has overwhel ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/28/china-is-burning-more-coal-as-historic-heatwave-cripples-its-hydroelectricity-capacity/)
2022-08-29T09:35:00Z	**America’s ‘Masculinity Crisis’: Republican Men ‘Prostrating Themselves Before Donald Trump’**
Kirk Swearingen,    -  AlterNet

_Stephan: For weeks now, as I have trolled through the world of MAGAt media, one the things that has stood out most strongly for me is the insecure masculinity of men in that world, their obsession with heterosexuality, and the control and subordination of women. It is very weird. In contrast, I have never given my ma ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/29/americas-masculinity-crisis-republican-men-prostrating-themselves-before-donald-trump/)
2022-08-29T09:34:00Z	**Justice Alito’s Crusade Against a Secular America Isn’t Over**
Margaret Talbot,  Staff Writer  -  The New Yorker

_Stephan: Two-thirds of Americans can't name a single Supreme Court justice. I find that appalling and a symptom telling us that our democracy is neither understood nor supported by a large percentage of the U.S. population. So months ago, to rectify this ignorance, I started looking for well-written fact-based articles on the members of the Supreme Court.  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/29/justice-alitos-crusade-against-a-secular-america-isnt-over/)
2022-08-29T09:33:00Z	**Poll: Republican voters rally behind Trump despite Mar-a-Lago search**
Ivana Saric,    -  Axios

_Stephan: You might think that the endless criminality of Trump would be causing Republicans to rethink their support for a man who is so obviously a racist, a grifter, and a crook. But you would be wrong, as this poll data makes clear._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-28-at-6.35.14-PM.jpg?resize=782%2C44 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/29/poll-republican-voters-rally-behind-trump-despite-mar-a-lago-search/)
2022-08-29T09:32:00Z	**Trump used the Mar-a-Lago raid to fire up supporters, raising up to $1 million a day in donations: report**
Lloyd Lee,    -  Insider

_Stephan: It's not just that support for Trump in the MAGAt world has gone up, his followers are also sending him millions of dollars. Unbelievable but true, and it tells us how bad the Great Schism Trend has become. It also makes clear how close the country is to breaking apart._

![ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/29/trump-used-the-mar-a-lago-raid-to-fire-up-supporters-raising-up-to-1-million-a-day-in-donations-report%ef%bf%bc/)
2022-08-30T09:32:00Z	**Missouri School District Revives Paddling to Discipline Students**
Maria Paul,    -  MSN

_Stephan: One of the things that stands out for me as I watch what is occurring in the Red and Blue states as the Great Schism Trend becomes ever more pronounced is the sheer nastiness of the Red state governments. Here is an example of what I mean. In the second decade of the 21st century, what kind of person advocates disciplining children by physically beating them with a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/30/missouri-school-district-revives-paddling-to-discipline-students/)
2022-08-30T09:35:00Z	**Feeling Unwelcome in Blue States, Gun Companies Move to Red Ones**
Todd Frankel,    -  MSN / The Washington Post

_Stephan: Something very strange is taking place in the U.S., but getting very little coverage at least on the context of the trend it represents.

Corporations requiring high intelligence, as well as physicians, nurses, and female college students are all moving out of Red states to Blue states, or choosing not to go to colleges and jobs in Red states ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/30/feeling-unwelcome-in-blue-states-gun-companies-move-to-red-ones/)
2022-08-30T09:34:00Z	**Republicans in Congress are about three times as likely as Democrats to indicate that they own a gun.**
ISABEL WEBB CAREY and DREW DESILVER,  Intern \| Senior Writer  -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: Yesterday I did several articles masculinity issues that plague MAGAt world. Well today, here is another story on this trend, a report that is very revealing about MAGAt Republicans in Congress. Guess who owns the guns amongst Con ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/30/republicans-in-congress-are-about-three-times-as-likely-as-democrats-to-indicate-that-they-own-a-gun/)
2022-08-30T09:33:00Z	**Just 2% of the richest Americans had their taxes audited in 2019, down from 16% in 2010**
Robert Frank,    -  CNBC

_Stephan: Here is a report that explains why Republicans don't want the funding of the IRS increased. During the Trump reign, the IRS was rigged by cutting its budget in such a way that the uber rich, who rented the MAGAt congressional whores to see this funding decrease occurred, assisted by Trump's administration, were much les ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/30/just-2-of-the-richest-americans-had-their-taxes-audited-in-2019-down-from-16-in-2010/)
2022-08-31T09:36:00Z	**Editor’s Note – Some Good News Trends**
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan: There have been so many negative MAGAt Republican christofascist trends shaping America that I haven't been able to cover some of the good trends, so today I decided to just focus on positive trends dealing with good things. Enjoy._ ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/31/editors-note-some-good-news-trends/)
2022-08-31T09:35:00Z	**US to see renewable energy boom in wake of historic climate bill**
Oliver Milman,  Environmental Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Here is some excellent news about moving out of the carbon energy era. Please remember every single Republican, every one, voted against the recent climate remediation bill._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-30-at-6.25.18-PM.jpg?resize=615%2C372&ssl=1)_Win ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/31/us-to-see-renewable-energy-boom-in-wake-of-historic-climate-bill%ef%bf%bc/)
2022-08-31T09:34:00Z	**Wave-riding generators promise the cheapest clean energy ever**
Loz Blain,    -  New Atlas

_Stephan: I have been following the Sea Wave EWnergy Project since it began, and it is now operational. This is a very interesting and very low cost non-polluting energy generation technology that holds enormous promise and should be getting much more attention. It's good news.

\-\- Stephan_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Screen-Shot ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/31/wave-riding-generators-promise-the-cheapest-clean-energy-ever/)
2022-08-31T09:33:00Z	**Biden administration nearly doubling number of zero-emission buses with infrastructure funds**
Rachel Frazin,    -  The Hill

_Stephan: Twenty-seven percent of America's greenhouse gas emissions come from internal combustion transportation, and Biden is making a serious attempt to reduce that, as this article describes. So good news._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-30-at-3.5 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/31/biden-administration-nearly-doubling-number-of-zero-emission-buses-with-infrastructure-funds/)
2022-08-31T09:32:00Z	**California E.V. Mandate Finds a Receptive Auto Industry**
Neal Boudette,  Reporter on Auto Industry  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: California is taking the lead on ending internal combustion transportation. Bravo California. It will be interesting to see what the Red states do in this regard. I predict they will do nothing._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-30-at-6.34.47-PM.jpg?resize=750%2C504&ssl=1)_A chargin ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/08/31/california-e-v-mandate-finds-a-receptive-auto-industry/)
2022-09-01T09:35:00Z	**Greenland ice losses set to raise global sea levels by nearly a foot, new research shows**
René Marsh and Angela Fritz,    -  CNN

_Stephan: Climate change is well underway as this story describes, and think about what it lays out and the fact that one-third of Pakistan is presently underwater. If you own coastal property I would also be thinking about selling it in the next few years, before you can't get insurance, and coastal real estate ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/01/greenland-ice-losses-set-to-raise-global-sea-levels-by-nearly-a-foot-new-research-shows/)
2022-09-01T09:34:00Z	**Amid Pakistan Wreckage, UN Chief Warns Against ‘Sleepwalking Toward’ Planetary ‘Destruction’**
Jessica Corbett,    -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: When people look back from the future the commentary will be about how willfully ignorant the governments of our time were. According to Pew Research Center, about half of MAGAts (48%) think the government is doing about the right amount and another 26% say it is doing too much about climat ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/01/amid-pakistan-wreckage-un-chief-warns-against-sleepwalking-toward-planetary-destruction%ef%bf%bc/)
2022-09-01T09:33:00Z	**The Origin of Student Debt: Reagan Adviser Warned Free College Would Create a Dangerous “Educated Proletariat”**
Jon Schwarz,    -  The Intercept

_Stephan: Have you ever wondered why the MAGAt Republicans don't like policies that reduce student debt and help young men and women of limited means get a college education? Here's where it started and why._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/202 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/01/the-origin-of-student-debt-reagan-adviser-warned-free-college-would-create-a-dangerous-educated-proletariat/)
2022-09-01T09:32:00Z	**California Begins Covering Canals With Solar Panels to Fight Drought**
Andy Corbley,    -  Good News Network

_Stephan: Here is some more good news about preparing for climate change. I have been following this trend for some time (see SR archives) and am really struck by what California is doing compared to what Mississippi hasn't done, and isn't doing concerning climate change. And I think one should note that California has been governed by Democrats for y ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/01/california-begins-covering-canals-with-solar-panels-to-fight-drought/)
2022-09-02T09:35:00Z	**U.S. life expectancy drops again, marking worst 2-year decline in a century**
ALEXANDER TIN,    -  CBS News

_Stephan: The negative consequences of the largely MAGAt anti-vaxxer movement just never seems to end. Hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children who should be alive are dead today for one reason, they didn't get vaccinated because of the lies spewed out for months by the anti-vaxxers. I am still getting from the MAGAt media bogus reports a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/02/u-s-life-expectancy-drops-again-marking-worst-2-year-decline-in-a-century/)
2022-09-02T09:34:00Z	**Idaho Abortion Ban Gives More Rights to Rapist’s Family Than The Pregnant Victim**
Sasha Abramsky,    -  truthout

_Stephan: If I were a woman in Idaho I would be furious. The christofascist MAGAts in the state legislature have passed a law which would allow the family of a rapist to sue a girl or woman who has been raped if they chose to have an abortion. The same state legislators have also repeatedly tried to make it more difficult or impossible ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/02/idaho-abortion-ban-gives-more-rights-to-rapists-family-than-the-pregnant-victim/)
2022-09-02T09:33:00Z	**The Supreme Court’s Environmental Report Card: Which Justices are Failing?**
Karsten Neumeister,    -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Thanks to Mitch McConnell, Donald Trump, and the Senatorial MAGAts, the U.S. Supreme Court has been transformed from a court committed to justice and the law into a majority made up of a MAGAt cabal of incompetents, committed to ideology and power not justice. Nowhere is this more obvious and important than in the decisions coming out  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/02/the-supreme-courts-environmental-report-card-which-justices-are-failing/)
2022-09-02T09:32:00Z	**Ginni Thomas Attempts to Influence Overturn of Election Even Wider Than Previously Known**
David Badash,  Staff Writer  -  New Civil Rights Movement

_Stephan: I find it amazing and very sad that Clarence Thomas has not been impeached and removed from the Supreme Court because both he and his wife are so blatantly corrupt and clearly working to defile American democracy. Here is the latest report on this loathsome couple and their machinations._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/202 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/02/breaking-news/)
2022-09-03T09:35:00Z	**Zero CO2 emissions by 2045: California passes multiple bills to mitigate climate change**
Meaghan Ellis,  Staff Writer  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: You are probably seeing or reading reports on the water disaster going on in Jackson, the capital city of Mississippi. A sordid tale of Republican corruption, incompetence, and racism running over decades. Well, in contrast, here is some good news from Democrat run California. The growing disparity be ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/03/zero-co2-emissions-by-2045-california-passes-multiple-bills-to-mitigate-climate-change/)
2022-09-03T09:34:00Z	**The Men Just Keep Talking**
DAHLIA LITHWICK,    -  Slate

_Stephan: This article addresses a trend that I see, but that has received almost no attention or commentary. The political stupidity of the MAGAt Republican anti-choice movement. Why don't Republican men shut up? They spew out the most egregious nonsense about women, their bodies, pregnancies, and abortion. It amazes me that the MAGAt party just doesn't seem to understand that they are alienating woman right and left. In a sense though, I hope ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/03/the-men-just-keep-talking/)
2022-09-03T09:33:00Z	**735K signed abortion-rights petition. How word spaces may keep it off ballot**
Jonathan Oosting and Yue Stella Yu,    -  Bridge Michigan

_Stephan: The Republican Party no longer supports democracy. The proof of that statement shows up in something they do almost every day. But this one is a doozy. Nearly three-quarters of a million Michigan voters signed a petition to put a vote on abortion on the ballot, as was done in Kansas. And what happened? Two  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/03/735k-signed-abortion-rights-petition-how-word-spaces-may-keep-it-off-ballot/)
2022-09-03T09:32:00Z	**Global population projected to exceed 8 billion in 2022; half live in just seven countries**
CONRAD HACKETT,    -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: Here we have the best population projections. Note the United States is going to be one of the seven most populated nations on earth._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screen-Shot-2022-09-02-at-10.18.34-PM.jpg?resize=703%2C432&ssl=1)

The world’s populatio ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/03/global-population-projected-to-exceed-8-billion-in-2022-half-live-in-just-seven-countries/)
2022-09-04T09:35:00Z	**The US has a ruling class – and Americans must stand up to it**
Bernie Sanders,  Democratic Senator from Vermont  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: In the interest of full disclosure, I should say that I was a Washington state delegate for Bernie Sanders. In my view, he has a very clear and accurate take on American society. In this short piece he lays out what he sees as the central problem of our society. He understand that we must make wellbeing our first priority  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/04/the-us-has-a-ruling-class-and-americans-must-stand-up-to-it/)
2022-09-04T09:34:00Z	**The Pandemic Erased Two Decades of Progress in Math and Reading**
Sarah Mervosh,  Reporter  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: I am increasingly concerned that American students score very poorly on various education assessments. This has been going on for many years, but the Covid pandemic has greatly exacerbated this problem, as this article describes. Poorly educated children tend to drop out or, even if they graduate highschool they are less likely to go to coll ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/04/the-pandemic-erased-two-decades-of-progress-in-math-and-reading/)
2022-09-04T09:33:00Z	**Republican AGs scheme with dark money groups to sue over student debt relief**
Jake Johnson,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story / Common Dreams

_Stephan: The MAGAt Republicans say their opposition to the student loan debt relief Biden's executive action is about money. It is not. This is all about control and power, protecting the interests of the corporations and banks that made the loans, and stopping Democrats from getting an advantage in November's elec ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/04/republican-ags-scheme-with-dark-money-groups-to-sue-over-student-debt-relief/)
2022-09-04T09:32:00Z	**Connecticut public schools must now teach about climate change**
Yale Climate Connections Editorial Team,    -  Yale Climate Connections

_Stephan: I see this development in Connecticut, a well-functioning Blue state as excellent good news. Finally, a state is getting serious about climate change and educating its students about what is happening and what can be done about it. Meanwhile, in many Red states, the state government doesn't even acknowledge that climate ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/04/connecticut-public-schools-must-now-teach-about-climate-change/)
2022-09-05T09:35:00Z	**If It Were Anyone Else, They’d Be Prosecuted**
Adam Serwer,    -  Reader Supporter News / Atlantic

_Stephan: I watched and read clips and articles of Trump's two-hour Pennsylvania speech and was appalled. Why is this man not under arrest? Why has he not be indicted? He is actively and without any restraint promoting violence, and it is clear to me his behavior is going to get worse as we approach November, and then onto 2024.

At one time in my life, I held clearances well above Top  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/05/if-it-were-anyone-else-theyd-be-prosecuted/)
2022-09-05T09:34:00Z	**Biden Finally Understands the MAGA Threat. Why Can’t the Media?**
Todd Zwillich,    -  Vice News

_Stephan: I have watched the Fox propaganda channel several times recently and watched MSNBC this afternoon, and the contrast dramatically made clear the Great Schism Trend. The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, and other papers have all been remiss in not calling out what has been going on. The christofascist MAGAts are gearin ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/05/biden-finally-understands-the-maga-threat-why-cant-the-media/)
2022-09-05T09:33:00Z	**Poll finds 43% of Americans believe it’s likely civil war will break out within the next 10 years**
Matthew Loh,    -  Business Insider

_Stephan: Am I exaggerating about the current state of America, and the potential for civil violence? Let's deal with some actual data._

_Trump supporters clash with police and security forces in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021.

Credit: Brent Stirton/Getty_

- A new poll found that 43% of Ame ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/05/poll-finds-43-of-americans-believe-its-likely-civil-war-will-break-out-within-the-next-10-years/)
2022-09-05T09:32:00Z	**A shrinking Lake Powell could herald an even worse water crisis in the Southwest’s future**
MATTHEW ROZSA,  Staff Writer  -  Salon

_Stephan: What I see no one connecting is the effect climate change is going to have on the Great Schism Trend. Large parts of Red states particularly are going to be devastated by climate change, and it is the Red states that are not making the necessary preparations they will need to cope with what is going  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/05/a-shrinking-lake-powell-could-herald-an-even-worse-water-crisis-in-the-southwests-future/)
2022-09-06T09:35:00Z	**The U.S. diet is deadly. Here are 7 ideas to get**
ALLISON AUBREY,    -  npr

_Stephan: I am increasingly concerned with the health of Americans. When I go out what I see is obese women, and men with guts so big they could not look down in the shower and see their penis because their stomach was in the way. I see longevity declining, men's sperm count decreasing, and birth rates dropping below a sustainable level. I see an increase in a whole range of medical issues, increased dia ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/06/the-u-s-diet-is-deadly-here-are-7-ideas-to-get/)
2022-09-06T09:34:00Z	**Here’s Everything You Need to Know About Saving the Bees**
,    \-

_Stephan: Without bees humanity would probably not survive. That may sound extreme but it is true. Our stupdity, greed, and ignorance is causing their demise. I ask all my readers to study this article and act on its guidance._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screen-Shot-2022-09-05-at-11.44.51-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C446&ssl=1)_Credit:  EcoWatch_

“Save the bees!”

You ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/06/heres-everything-you-need-to-know-about-saving-the-bees/)
2022-09-06T09:33:00Z	**MAGA Republican groups go from attacking teachers and librarians to target children’s hospitals: expert warns**
Sarah K. Burris,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: The MAGAt Republicans have reached a level of vileness unlike anything we have seen in living memory. This is not going to stop, in my opinion, until two things happen. Trump and members of Congress must be held accountable in public trials, and those of us who suppor ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/06/maga-republican-groups-go-from-attacking-teachers-and-librarians-to-target-childrens-hospitals-expert-warns/)
2022-09-06T09:32:00Z	**The Super-rich “Preppers” Planning to Save Themselves From the Apocalypse**
Douglas Rushkoff,    -

_Stephan: The uber-rich are buying vast acreage in the lonely central states, and building bunkers like something out of a science fiction novel. They pay people large sums to alert them to trends and they can see what is coming. This is what wealth inequality is going to look like._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Sc ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/06/the-super-rich-preppers-planning-to-save-themselves-from-the-apocalypse/)
2022-09-07T09:35:00Z	**How a Billionaire’s “Attack Philanthropy” Secretly Funded Climate Denialism and Right-Wing Causes**
Andy Kroll, Justin Elliott, and Andrew Perez,  Staff Writers  -  ProPublica \| The Lever

_Stephan: American wealth inequality has reached such a state that it is now possible for a single individual who is amongst the uber-rich to alter the course of legislation and to do so in such a way that it favors a corporation or an individual  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/07/how-a-billionaires-attack-philanthropy-secretly-funded-climate-denialism-and-right-wing-causes/)
2022-09-07T09:34:00Z	**Arms Makers Have Embraced the Youth Market as Gun Ownership in the US Declines**
Jonathan Ng,  Staff Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan:  As of today, in the United States, 30,418 men, women, and children have died from gunfire. And now, the death merchants who make these weapons are specifically targeting children to increase their profits as this article describes. No other country in the world, not in an active war, has that kind of statisti ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/07/arms-makers-have-embraced-the-youth-market-as-gun-ownership-in-the-us-declines%ef%bf%bc/)
2022-09-07T09:33:00Z	**The Economic Cost of Gun Violence**
Nathan Diller,    -  Everytown Research and Policy

_Stephan: America has become such a violent country that it is negatively affecting tourism, and costing us billions of dollars. Here is an assessment as to how bad it has become._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screen-Shot-2022-09-06-at-7.10.44-PM.jpg?resize=741%2C491&ssl=1)_Credit: Karen Bleier/AFP / Getty_

At a moment when the United States needs to marshal all  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/07/the-economic-cost-of-gun-violence/)
2022-09-07T09:32:00Z	**Why Outlawing Ghost Guns Didn’t Stop America’s Largest Maker of Ghost Gun Parts**
Anjeanette Damon,    -  ProPublica

_Stephan: Ghost guns. Here we have a perfect example of profit being more important than human wellbeing. It is a measure of American society that such untraceable guns exist at all._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screen-Shot-2022-09-06-at-7.24.45-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C536&ssl=1)_Polymer80’s so ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/07/why-outlawing-ghost-guns-didnt-stop-americas-largest-maker-of-ghost-gun-parts/)
2022-09-08T09:32:00Z	**Pregnant Alabama woman put in jail to ‘protect the fetus’ had to sleep on the floor after suffering bleeding condition**
Sarah K. Burris,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: This is an example of the kind of story I am beginning to see coming out of Red states. It is just an example and far from the only one. Alabama, which is basically an authoritarian third-world country, is committed to having men control  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/08/pregnant-alabama-woman-put-in-jail-to-protect-the-fetus-had-to-sleep-on-the-floor-after-suffering-bleeding-condition/)
2022-09-08T09:35:00Z	**The Oath Keepers Data Leak: Unmasking Extremism in Public Life**
,    \-  Anti-Defamation League

_Stephan: If you read me regularly you know that for the past several years I have been tracking and becoming increasingly concerned about the infiltration of law enforcement agencies and the military by christofascists. The Anti-Defamation League got access to secret Oath Keeper files that revealed how far along this infiltration has become. This leaves us with the que ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/08/the-oath-keepers-data-leak-unmasking-extremism-in-public-life/)
2022-09-08T09:34:00Z	**Behind a neofascist façade, Patriot Front is really just another ‘white nationalist pyramid scheme’**
David Neiwert,    -  Daily Kos

_Stephan: Two things stand out for me as I read or watch MAGAt media. First,it always requires readers or viewers to follow certain regimes. Second, there is always a scam component in which the reader or viewer is asked to send in money. Donald Trump and Steve Bannon are the masters of the craft. ea ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/08/behind-a-neofascist-facade-patriot-front-is-really-just-another-white-nationalist-pyramid-scheme/)
2022-09-09T09:35:00Z	**Sea Level Rise to Gobble Up Hundreds of Thousands of US Homes, Buildings by 2050**
JULIA CONLEY,    -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: I have been telling my readers for several years that if you live along a coast whether river delta or ocean you should think about how the next couple of decades will impact your property. Now, here is another voice confirming my thinking. Lands that border water are going to be radically changed._

![](https://i0.wp.com/ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/09/sea-level-rise-to-gobble-up-hundreds-of-thousands-of-us-homes-buildings-by-2050/)
2022-09-09T09:34:00Z	**Climate-Fueled Wildfires Are Depleting the Ozone Layer, New Study Shows**
Julia Conley,  Staff Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: The fires that are plaguing the world as I write, and doing more than destroying the trees essential to the earth's ecosystem, they are also changing the ozone layer of the atmosphere as this report describes. We, as a people, simply must wake up to what we are doing to our planet. That means voting Democratic because the D ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/09/climate-fueled-wildfires-are-depleting-the-ozone-layer-new-study-shows%ef%bf%bc/)
2022-09-09T09:33:00Z	**90% of Marine Species Face Extinction Under Emissions Status Quo: Study**
JULIA CONLEY,    -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: I get so tired and depressed doing these stories. Yet SR is a publication about trends, and this is the dominant trend. It is so clear what we must do, and yet we don't do it. All the profit in the world will not matter in the future being shaped by greedy oligarchs as willfully ignorant ordinary people slumber away._

A new study details th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/09/90-of-marine-species-face-extinction-under-emissions-status-quo-study/)
2022-09-09T09:32:00Z	**The Creative Way to Pay for Wildlife Recovery**
Paul Jepson,    -  Knowable Magazine

_Stephan: Here is some good news or, at least, a way to create good news, a good trend, if only we have the will and intelligence to do it._

_The Gelderse Poort flood plain in the Netherlands has been rewilded with horses, cattle, beavers and more — with the help of brick-making companies. Credit: Ger Beekes / Alamy_

Back in the 1980s, the Dutch were having problems with their famous “dikes and  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/09/the-creative-way-to-pay-for-wildlife-recovery/)
2022-09-10T09:35:00Z	**There’s No Escaping the Truth About Trump**
Peter Wehner,  Contributing Writer  -  The Atlantic

_Stephan: I have a sense that we are finally coming to a conclusion with Trump, and that he will finally be held accountable for something. At least I hope I am correct. It would be wonderful good news._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screen-Shot-2022-09-09-at-10.23.34-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C447&ssl=1)MAGAt leader Donald Trump _Credit: Mark Makela / Get ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/10/theres-no-escaping-the-truth-about-trump/)
2022-09-10T09:34:00Z	**Election Officials Preparing For Worst-case Scenarios: Violence Around the Midterms**
AREEBA SHAH,  Staff Writer  -  Salon

_Stephan: The MAGAts understand just as Trump understood, they are a minority. They fear they can't win the elections fairly. So they are engaging in a strategy of assaulting the structure of the elections, as this article describes. What they want is power, whatever it takes to get it and hold on to it. I think it is very  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/10/election-officials-preparing-for-worst-case-scenarios-violence-around-the-midterms/)
2022-09-10T09:33:00Z	**NDAs Are a Tool For Toxic Church Cultures**
Katelyn Beaty ,  Co-host of the RNS podcast “Saved by the City.  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Sexual dysfunction, on the basis of the endless reports of molestation we see in the media nearly every week, seems to be one of the hallmarks of conservative religious movements. Hence, the evangelical employment of Non-disclosure Agreements as this article in a religious publication no less describes._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-co ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/10/ndas-are-a-tool-for-toxic-church-cultures/)
2022-09-10T09:32:00Z	**GOP Rep. Tom Emmer: Giving women rights is like ‘Chinese genocide’**
David Edwards,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Because the MAGAts live in their bubble, listen and watch only MAGAt media they don't seem to understand that while the women in their world may accept subordination, the majority of American women do not, and that may be the miscalculation that is going to change the November election._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/10/gop-rep-tom-emmer-giving-women-rights-is-like-chinese-genocide/)
2022-09-11T09:35:00Z	**A Dozen Airlines Team Up for Half-Million Ton Carbon Capture**
Andy Corbley ,    -  Good News

_Stephan: The air pollution produced by aircraft is a major issue, and this report is good news because it show us that the airline industry is beginning to awaken to its responsibility in climate change remediation. It's only a beginning but it is a trend in the right direction._

Airbus and a partnership of more than a dozen airlines are working together to fund a new car ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/11/a-dozen-airlines-team-up-for-half-million-ton-carbon-capture/)
2022-09-11T09:34:00Z	**Trump’s army of God: Doug Mastriano and the Christian nationalist attack on democracy**
PAUL ROSENBERG,  Senior Editor for Random Lengths News  -  Salon

_Stephan: I don't think, from what I see, and hear in conversation, that many Americans properly understand what Christian nationalism is about, what it is attempting, how it is doing it, and how many people in this country support what it is attempting. Doug Mastriano, the MAGAt (read Christi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/11/trumps-army-of-god-doug-mastriano-and-the-christian-nationalist-attack-on-democracy/)
2022-09-11T09:33:00Z	**Revealed: Ginni Thomas’ Links to Anti-abortion Groups Who Lobbied to Overturn Roe**
Ed Pilkington,    -

_Stephan: There is so much else going on that the Ginni and Clarence Thomas stench has been not really registered recently. But it has come forward again, as this article describes. I understand the corruption of the integrity of the Supreme Court. What I find gobsmacking is the lack of integrity and honor of Clarence Thomas. An honorable man wo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/11/revealed-ginni-thomas-links-to-anti-abortion-groups-who-lobbied-to-overturn-roe/)
2022-09-11T09:32:00Z	**Republicans look to restrict ballot measures following a string of progressive wins**
MEGAN MESSERLY, ALICE MIRANDA OLLSTEIN and ZACH MONTELLARO,    -  Politico

_Stephan: The MAGAt Republicans didn't realize what Dobbs would produce, Michigan surprised them. So now they are trying as hard as they can to stop citizens from mounting ballot measures. The MAGAts are opposed to democracy. Here's the story._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/11/republicans-look-to-restrict-ballot-measures-following-a-string-of-progressive-wins/)
2022-09-12T09:35:00Z	**After months, it’s decided: Michiganders will vote on abortion rights in November**
Rick Pluta,  Reporter  -  npr \| Michigan Public Radio Network

_Stephan: Here is some good news about our democracy. As this article describes the MAGAt Republican attempt to stifle Michigan voters from putting an abortion ballot on November's election has come to naught and voters will be able to have their say. Democracy has prevailed._

Friday, the Michigan Board ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/12/after-months-its-decided-michiganders-will-vote-on-abortion-rights-in-november/)
2022-09-12T09:34:00Z	**Why a woman’s doctor warned her not to get pregnant in Texas**
Elizabeth Cohen and Danielle Herman,  Reporters  -  CNN

_Stephan: I am beginning to see more and more stories like this as the women in Red states, who have previously either not recognized their subordination or considered it an abstraction, confront the new post-Roe reality. It has already deeply wounded healthcare in the Red states, as physicians leave or accept the state now commands how they deliver  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/12/why-a-womans-doctor-warned-her-not-to-get-pregnant-in-texas/)
2022-09-12T09:33:00Z	**For Democracy They Died – But Politicians Betrayed Them**
Colonel John B. Alexander,PhD USA (Ret.),    -  Daily Kos

_Stephan: John Alexander says something that I have not previously heard, though thought about, that needs to be said by a retired combat experienced senior officer. Two centuries of combat veterans -- I am the latest in 12 generations of vets -- have given up their lives protecting our democracy. Are we really going to let Trump the criminal and his MAGAt Re ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/12/for-democracy-they-died-but-politicians-betrayed-them/)
2022-09-12T09:32:00Z	**Tourism is Sucking Utah Dry. Now it Faces a Choice — Growth or Survival?**
Gabrielle Canon,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan:_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/4800.webp?resize=1080%2C745&ssl=1)Visitors make their way toward the popular Narrows hike in Zion national park.

It was a typically hot summer day in Utah’s Zion national park, where early-afternoon heat hovered near 100F, even in the shadows of the red peaks ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/12/tourism-is-sucking-utah-dry-now-it-faces-a-choice-growth-or-survival/)
2022-09-13T09:35:00Z	**Scholar who saw all this coming: Americans “do not really understand liberal democracy”**
CHAUNCEY DEVEGA,  Senior Writer  -  Salon

_Stephan: This is what worries me: We have not had civil stress and violence in the U.S. in living memory; we don't expect it, and most people seem incapable of really believing our current situation in this country is as bad as it actually is. All living Americans are used to the fundamental structures of our go ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/13/scholar-who-saw-all-this-coming-americans-do-not-really-understand-liberal-democracy/)
2022-09-13T09:34:00Z	**15,000 Minnesota Nurses Launch Historic Strike to Put ‘Patients Before Profits’**
JESSICA CORBETT,    -  Common Dreams

_Stephan:_

About 15,000 nurses in Minnesota walked off the job on Monday for a historic three-day strike after months of failed contract negotiations during the Covid-19 pandemic.

“I can’t give my patients the care they deserve.”

Members of the Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA) last month [voted](https://mnnurses.org/15000-nurses ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/13/15000-minnesota-nurses-launch-historic-strike-to-put-patients-before-profits/)
2022-09-13T09:33:00Z	**Johnson & Johnson and a New War on Consumer Protection**
Casey Cep,  Staff Writer  -  The New Yorker

_Stephan: When you stress a system both its strengths and weaknesses become obvious. Every engineer and physician knows this. What Covid has shown us is how dysfunctional and corrupt the American illness profit system is. I look at data, and that is what it says. It's not the doctors, nurses, technicians, the whole hands-on contributors. They are heroes, it is the system in  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/13/johnson-johnson-and-a-new-war-on-consumer-protection/)
2022-09-13T09:32:00Z	**Survey: Chinese tourists put off by U.S. gun violence**
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian ,    -  AXIOS

_Stephan: This story is about tourists from China, but a similar story could be told of the potential tourists of other nations. It is all part of the diminishment of U.S. status in the world._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screen-Shot-2022-09-13-at-1.35.45-AM.jpg)

[Violent crime in the U.S.](https://www.axios.com/2022/09/10/homicides-down-midyear- ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/13/survey-chinese-tourists-put-off-by-u-s-gun-violence/)
2022-09-14T09:35:00Z	**Fewer than half of Americans can name all three branches of government, survey finds**
Adam Barnes ,    -  The Hill

_Stephan: How can you have a viable democracy when nearly a majority of Americans can not even name the branches of government? Or have no idea what the Constitution actually says? The Republican Party assisted by the Jones Day Law firm, and the Federalist Society, have been working for years to completely corrupt the American ju ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/14/fewer-than-half-of-americans-can-name-all-three-branches-of-government-survey-finds/)
2022-09-14T09:34:00Z	**An exposé has revealed the GOP’s disturbing endgame for education**
Amanda Marcotte,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: The MAGAt Republicans do not like a public education system that teaches children real facts, and trains them to be successful adults? Why? Because study after study has shown (see SR archives) that the more educated a person is the more likely they are to vote Democratic. Instead, what the MAGAts want is a system that lies to children and rather than e ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/14/an-expose-has-revealed-the-gops-disturbing-endgame-for-education/)
2022-09-14T09:33:00Z	**In Texas youth prisons, children trapped in their cells use water bottles and lunch trays for toilets**
,    \-

_Stephan:_

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screen-Shot-2022-09-13-at-8.08.21-PM.png)_At Giddings State School, a Texas juvenile prison, youths reported regularly soiling their cells this summer because there weren’t enough officers to take them to the bathroom. Credit: Jolie McCullough  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/14/in-texas-youth-prisons-children-trapped-in-their-cells-use-water-bottles-and-lunch-trays-for-toilets/)
2022-09-14T09:32:00Z	**The Catholic Church is Bankrolling a Nationwide Assault on Women’s Rights**
Tessa Stuart,    -  Reader Supported News / Rollingstone

_Stephan: Conservative religiosity, whatever its denomination, is almost always patriarchial, sexually dysfunctional, and views women as subordinate not quite fully equal human beings. Frankly, I am tired of this crap, and I am always surprised how many women buy into this worldview. We are not going to be able to ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/14/the-catholic-church-is-bankrolling-a-nationwide-assault-on-womens-rights%ef%bf%bc/)
2022-09-15T09:35:00Z	**Patagonia founder just donated the entire company, worth $3 billion, to fight climate change**
Lora Kolodny,  Reporter  -  CNBC

_Stephan: Given the scummy behavior of so many of the uber-rich, families such the Murdochs, this is the story of a hero and a hero family. In my opinion, Yvon Chouinard should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. And, by the way, if you are looking to buy backpacking, trekking, or expeditionary gear, Patagonia is  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/15/patagonia-founder-just-donated-the-entire-company-worth-3-billion-to-fight-climate-change/)
2022-09-15T09:34:00Z	**Manchin Asks Big Oil CEOs to Help Push Through Dirty Deal as Opposition Grows**
Jake Johnson,    -  truthout

_Stephan: Speaking of scum and who pops up, why it's the shame of West Virginia and the embarrassment of the Democratic Party, Senator Jo0e Manchin, trying once again to screw the people who elected him in order to support the corporate interests who have rented him._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screen-Shot- ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/15/manchin-asks-big-oil-ceos-to-help-push-through-dirty-deal-as-opposition-grows/)
2022-09-15T09:33:00Z	**‘States’ rights’ advocate Marco Rubio announces co-sponsorship of Lindsey Graham’s federal abortion ban**
Brandon Gage,    -  AlterNet

_Stephan: The MAGAt Republicans seem to believe that their anti-abortion stance will motivate their voters in November's election to a sufficient degree that they, together, will outvote those voters who believe women should have control over their own bodies. Given what has happened in Kansas,  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/15/states-rights-advocate-marco-rubio-announces-co-sponsorship-of-lindsey-grahams-federal-abortion-ban/)
2022-09-15T09:32:00Z	**Trump fully embraces QAnon on Truth Social — hours after obsessed supporter allegedly killed wife**
AREEBA SHAH,  Staff Writer  -  Salon

_Stephan: Trump could not make his views any clearer than this. My read on this is that he has become frightened and is beginning to recognize that he really could be indicted, and preparing his troops for violence. I don't think there is a chance that Trump is going to go to prison without creati ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/15/trump-fully-embraces-qanon-on-truth-social-hours-after-obsessed-supporter-allegedly-killed-wife/)
2022-09-16T09:35:00Z	**Trump threatens DOJ against indictments: ‘You’d have problems the likes of which you have ever seen before’**
Matthew Chapman,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Just as Trump created the 6th January insurrection he is signaling the MAGAts to gear up for civil violence should he be indicted. I interpret Trump's words that he is becoming frightened that he will be indicted. I think we should prepare for increasing civil violence. I a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/16/trump-threatens-doj-against-indictments-youd-have-problems-the-likes-of-which-you-have-ever-seen-before/)
2022-09-16T09:34:00Z	**Rep. Boebert tells churchgoers to ‘rise up’ at far-right Christian conference**
Chase Woodruff,  Reporter  -  Colorado Newsline

_Stephan: Here we have another MAGAt Republican promoting civil disorder. I think it is time to set behavior standards for members of Congress. Christofascists like Boebert are actively trying to end democracy in the U.S. and turn our country into a White supremacist, male dominant, christofascist, anocracy, and I believe they ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/16/rep-boebert-tells-churchgoers-to-rise-up-at-far-right-christian-conference/)
2022-09-16T09:33:00Z	**It’s time to enforce the Constitution and ban seditious Republicans from Congress**
Thom Hartmann,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Thom Hartmann and I agree about holding members of Congress who spout and engage in seditious behavior accountable, removing them from office, and he gives a good explanation of the 14th Amendment and how this could and should be done._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screen-Shot-2022-09-15-at ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/16/its-time-to-enforce-the-constitution-and-ban-seditious-republicans-from-congress/)
2022-09-16T09:32:00Z	**The far right’s national plan for schools: Plant charters, defund public education**
KATHRYN JOYCE,  Investigative Reporter  -  Salon

_Stephan: If you read me regularly you know that for the last decade I have been telling you that the MAGAts are trying to destroy publican education replacing it with an indoctrination system like that of North Korea. Here is a good exegetic report on how this is being done._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/16/the-far-rights-national-plan-for-schools-plant-charters-defund-public-education-2/)
2022-09-17T09:35:00Z	**America’s successful war on poverty**
Felix Salmon ,    -  Axios

_Stephan: Here is some wonderful good news, child poverty, which means family poverty has declined. That means children are not going hungry to the same degree. It means children are getting healthcare they previously did not. It means American boys and girls are more likely to have warm coats this winter. That is just the best good news, and it should be noted that this good news is directly a result of the efforts of Biden an ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/17/americas-successful-war-on-poverty/)
2022-09-17T09:34:00Z	**Attempts to Ban Books Are Accelerating and Becoming More Divisive**
,    \-  DNYUZ

_Stephan: The Republican MAGAt Party amongst its endless list of failings and perversions has decided to make a real campaign to keep students ignorant by banning books. Book banning is something straight out of the Nazis' playbook. It also is an expression of the perverted sexual obsessions that are a foundation of the MAGAt world. This is part of the MAGAt's drive to dismantle  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/17/attempts-to-ban-books-are-accelerating-and-becoming-more-divisive/)
2022-09-17T09:33:00Z	**Drifting Toward Disaster: the (Second) Rio Grande**
Dylan Baddour,  Environmental Reporter  -

_Stephan: There are two parts to the water trend as climate change goes on. Too much water, or too little water. When you change the ecosystem you change the world we live in. We have got to make wellbeing our society's first priority. Anything less produces developments like this._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screen-Shot-2022-09-16-at-8.46.13-PM-1.png) ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/17/drifting-toward-disaster-the-second-rio-grande/)
2022-09-17T09:32:00Z	**Cancer on the rise globally among adults under 50**
John Anderer,    -  Study Finds

_Stephan: From the data I have seen I think this increase in cancer among adults under 50 is the result of the increased toxins in the environment, and increased toxins from various kinds of processing in people's food, and in developed nations, increasingly sedentary behaviors patterns. All of this is human-inflicted.

The study is published in the journal Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology._

! ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/17/cancer-on-the-rise-globally-among-adults-under-50/)
2022-09-18T09:35:00Z	**Modeling the Future of Religion in America**
,    \-  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: This is a very interesting and important trend that is getting almost no media attention. Americans are abandoning Christianity in droves, by the millions. This data from Pew Research Center spells it out. Now why is this happening, and happening specifically to Christianity? The answer, in my estimation, is because christofascism has poisoned the religion. Religion should be about opening to nonlocal ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/18/modeling-the-future-of-religion-in-america/)
2022-09-18T09:34:00Z	**20 years, $6 trillion, 900,000 lives**
Dylan Matthews,    -  Vox

_Stephan: I think it should be obvious to anyone that the way to deal with terrorism is not war. Had this amount of money been spent over those years fostering wellbeing in these countries then... well, the world would be very different today._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screen-Shot-2022-09-17-at-8.16.27-PM.png)

On the evening of September 11, 2001, hours after two hijacked airliners had destr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/18/20-years-6-trillion-900000-lives/)
2022-09-18T09:33:00Z	**Republicans plan legal assault on climate disclosure rules for public companies**
Adam Lowenstein,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: And here was have another sordid tale of MAGAT Republican corruption. I find it amazing that so many Americans can't seem to recognize that Republican officials at both the federal and state levels, be they men or women, don't give a damn for the people they represent and are supposed to serve. The only t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/18/republicans-plan-legal-assault-on-climate-disclosure-rules-for-public-companies%ef%bf%bc/)
2022-09-18T09:32:00Z	**4 Countries Harbor 80% of the World’s Deforestation Caused by Industrial Mining**
Olivia Rosane,    -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: The only way we are going to effectively deal with what climate change is going to cause is if all the nations of the world cooperate and profit stops being the primary consideration. We need a true united nations, and that is what all countries should be working on, because it isn't going to be easy to achieve._

![](https://www ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/18/4-countries-harbor-80-of-the-worlds-deforestation-caused-by-industrial-mining/)
2022-09-19T09:35:00Z	**A Crisis Coming’: The Twin Threats to American Democracy**
David Leonhardt,    -  Reader Supported News

_Stephan: As I write this I am watching a PBS special, The U.S. and the Holocaust, and I am both horrified by the failure of the U.S., and the rampant anti-semitism, and struck by how closely the MAGAt Republicans are following the Nazis playbook. I don't think most of us fully comprehend just how evil this party has become, and what they are trying to do to our country ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/19/a-crisis-coming-the-twin-threats-to-american-democracy/)
2022-09-19T09:34:00Z	**Tragedy in small Michigan town once again demonstrates how lethal conspiracy theories can be**
David Neiwert,  Staff Writer  -  Daily Kos

_Stephan: The amygdala is an almond-shaped portion of the brain located in the anterior portion of the temporal lobe. It makes up just 0.3% of the volume of the human brain. Yet, it has been implicated in a wide range of neuropsychiatric disorders. About 27% of American ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/19/tragedy-in-small-michigan-town-once-again-demonstrates-how-lethal-conspiracy-theories-can-be%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc/)
2022-09-19T09:33:00Z	**Excess blue light exposure from screens can trigger early puberty in children**
,    \-  Study Finds

_Stephan: One of the things that has to change as our culture awakens are the unintended consequences of our technologies. This is an example of what I mean._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screen-Shot-2022-09-19-at-12.04.47-AM.png)_Credit: De Visu / stock.adobe.com_

ROME, ITALY — Smartphones and tablets are causing e ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/19/excess-blue-light-exposure-from-screens-can-trigger-early-puberty-in-children/)
2022-09-19T09:32:00Z	**Virginia has moved to restrict the rights of trans students in its public schools**
JACLYN DIAZ,    -  npr

_Stephan: For reasons I still do not fully understand Virginians elected a MAGAt for governor, and this is the result. The MAGAt sexual obsessions are distorting our entire culture, making LGBTQ folk's lives miserable. The whole thing is so very similar to the Nazis' sexual obsessions; it is as if the leaders of MAGAt world have read the Na ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/19/virginia-has-moved-to-restrict-the-rights-of-trans-students-in-its-public-schools/)
2022-09-20T09:36:00Z	**Editor’s Note – 21-27 September**
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan: The Indian Government has asked me to come to Bangalore, India, and I have accepted, to present my research on Nonlocal Consciousness and the Anthropology of Religions and Spiritual Practices at a large conference the Indian government is sponsoring. So today's edition will be the last until the 27th of September when I return. I am not sure that while I am in India I will be able to spend the hours needed  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/20/editors-note-21-27-september/)
2022-09-20T09:35:00Z	**‘What happened to your country?’: The poisoned well of the Trump era**
John T. Bennett,  Editor-at-Large  -  Roll Call

_Stephan: I watched bits of the Trump rally the other day, and thought I was listening to Joseph Goebbels on a bad day, and watched the crowd raise their arms and make what amounted to a Nazis salute only with one finger raised. In my view, Trump is frightened he is going to be indicted, and he is gearing up the MAGAts for civil violence to frig ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/20/what-happened-to-your-country-the-poisoned-well-of-the-trump-era/)
2022-09-20T09:34:00Z	**More US Employers Are Trapping Workers in a New Form of Indentured Servitude**
Sam Knight,    -  truthout

_Stephan: A reader wrote me because she was trapped in exactly the situation described in this report. I had never heard of this but, as I dug into it a bit, I realized this is a growing trend, and a very nasty business. If you apply for a new job I suggest you ask about this._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screen ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/20/more-us-employers-are-trapping-workers-in-a-new-form-of-indentured-servitude/)
2022-09-20T09:33:00Z	**Border Wall Construction Resumes Under President Joe Biden**
Ryan Devereaux,    -  The Intercept

_Stephan: White Americans have an irrational fear of brown immigrants, and it affects every administration be it Republican or Democratic. They fear they are going to be replaced. It is completely irrational and insane, but no less present, and Biden should be ashamed of himself for pandering to it for blatantly political purposes._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-c ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/20/border-wall-construction-resumes-under-president-joe-biden/)
2022-09-20T09:32:00Z	**Walk This Number of Steps Each Day to Cut Your Risk of Dementia**
Sandee LaMotte,    -  CNN

_Stephan: Dementia is a growing problem in the United States; I have two friends who have become lost in dementia. I suggest you take this article seriously._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screen-Shot-2022-09-19-at-7.58.43-PM.png)

People between the ages of 40 and 79 who took 9,826 steps per day were 50% less likely to develop dementia wit ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/20/walk-this-number-of-steps-each-day-to-cut-your-risk-of-dementia/)
2022-09-29T09:35:00Z	**Editor’s Note – Covid**
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan: I got back from India where I went at the invitation of the Indian equivalent of our National Institutes of Health to present a paper on my research on the nonlocality of consciousness, religions, and spiritual practices, and began to feel unwell. In spite of all my vaccinations and boosters, I tested positive for Covid, and am now flat on my back with an extremely sore throat and aching ears with what my doctor calls moderate ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/09/29/editors-note-covid/)
2022-10-02T09:36:00Z	**Editor’s Note – Thank you**
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan: Thank you very much to all the readers who wrote to send me healing and good wishes. This has meant a great deal to me. The Indian variant of Covid I contracted has been a very nasty business, one stop short of hospitalization, but thanks to the care of my loving wife Ronlyn, my gifted primary care doc Fernando Vega, and a five-day course of Pfizer's Paxlovid, while still quite a ways from healthy, I am definitely on ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/02/editors-note-thank-you-5/)
2022-10-02T09:35:00Z	**Confidence in U.S. Supreme Court Sinks to Historic Low**
Jeffrey M. Jones,    -  The Gallup Organization

_Stephan: Although the media is understandably consumed by stories about Hurricane Ian, and the Ukraine war, there is a third major story that is shaping our world but not getting anywhere near enough attention; the disastrous decline in the approval rating by Americans of their Supreme Court. This third branch of the government, whose authority is inextricably correlat ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/02/confidence-in-u-s-supreme-court-sinks-to-historic-low/)
2022-10-02T09:34:00Z	**Opinion: The Supreme Court’s Legitimacy is in Danger**
Fareed Zakaria,    -  CNN

_Stephan: Fareed Zakaria lays out why I think this Supreme Court downward trend is such a big deal. I agree with the thinking expressed in this article and see it as a real threat to our democracy._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-01-at-2.57.37-PM.png)_The Supreme Court_

The power of the first branch of American government, Congress, comes from  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/02/opinion-the-supreme-courts-legitimacy-is-in-danger/)
2022-10-02T09:33:00Z	**Justices shield spouses’ work from potential conflict of interest disclosures**
HAILEY FUCHS, JOSH GERSTEIN and PETER S. CANELLOS,    -  Politico

_Stephan: One of the peculiarities of the Supreme Court is that its members have no ethical standards but what it imposes on itself. Every other public official in the nation has them, but not the Supreme Court. As the court has been transformed into a political think tank, and not a court of justice the co ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/02/justices-shield-spouses-work-from-potential-conflict-of-interest-disclosures/)
2022-10-03T09:35:00Z	**Wealthiest 10% Responsible for Nearly 50% of Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Study Finds**
: Olivia Rosane and Chris McDermott,    -  Ecowatch

_Stephan: The grotesque wealth inequality that is the hallmark of the present day has far more implications than most people realize. For instance, consider this correlation between uber wealth and destroying the wellbeing of the earth._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/03/wealthiest-10-responsible-for-nearly-50-of-greenhouse-gas-emissions-study-finds/)
2022-10-03T09:34:00Z	**The Pandemic’s Legacy Is Already Clear**
Ed Yong,  Staff Writer  -  The Atlantic

_Stephan: As I recover from the particular Indian Covid variant I contracted I have thought a great deal about the failure of the American Illness Profit System to deal with this pandemic as well as the AIDS, SARS, and H5NI pandemics that preceded it. As I have read the research data about what climate change is going to do to viruses, it is clear to me this is just the latest in a series of pandemi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/03/the-pandemics-legacy-is-already-clear%ef%bf%bc/)
2022-10-03T09:33:00Z	**Matt Gaetz Votes No On Relief Money As Florida Grapples With Hurricane Ian Aftermath**
Ben Blanchet,    -  Huffington Post›

_Stephan: If you live in Florida, have been severely impacted by Hurricane Ian, don't get the help you desperately need, and you voted for Matt Gaetz, you have no one to blame but yourself. Indeed, if you voted for Republicans, even if you don't live in Gaetz's district, the same is true._

![](https://www.schwartzreport ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/03/matt-gaetz-votes-no-on-relief-money-as-florida-grapples-with-hurricane-ian-aftermath/)
2022-10-03T09:32:00Z	**Tucker Carlson says it’s “factually untrue” that climate change impacts hurricane season**
Media Matters Staff,    -  Media Matters for America

_Stephan: Tucker Carlson, who I see as a kind of christofascist evil caricature of a preppy is utterly without ethics. He is one of the reasons that America is not prepared for what climate change is doing, and is going to do to the country. Each day, supported by the Murdoch family, and watched by m ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/03/tucker-carlson-says-its-factually-untrue-that-climate-change-impacts-hurricane-season/)
2022-10-04T09:35:00Z	**Hundreds of Atlantic and Gulf Coast hospitals at risk of hurricane flooding, study reveals**
John Anderer,    -  Study Finds

_Stephan: As we look at what Hurricane Ian has wrought, what I don't hear is anything about how Florida or the other coastal states are going to prepare for what is almost inevitably going to happen in the future in Florida. And here, let me just focus on healthcare and hospitals. If you live in Florida or another  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/04/hundreds-of-atlantic-and-gulf-coast-hospitals-at-risk-of-hurricane-flooding-study-reveals/)
2022-10-04T09:34:00Z	**Election Workers Train for Battle Against Conspiracy Theories and Misinformation Before Midterms.**
Arit John,    -  yahoo! news

_Stephan: If I were betting given what I see in the polls today about how Americans are likely to vote I would say there is a 65%-35% chance that the outcome of the election will lead to the end of American democracy. 65% being democracy will end. Americans just don't seem to get that voting for a Republ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/04/election-workers-train-for-battle-against-conspiracy-theories-and-misinformation-before-midterms/)
2022-10-04T09:33:00Z	**‘Shaken’ law professors revolt as hyper-partisan SCOTUS rulings ‘upend constitutional principles’**
Alex Henderson,  Staff Writer  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: As you can see I am not the only one who sees the Supreme Court conservative majority as a corrupt cult working to dismantle democracy._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-03-at-8.02.01-PM.png)_Associate Justice and MAGAt supporter Samu ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/04/shaken-law-professors-revolt-as-hyper-partisan-scotus-rulings-upend-constitutional-principles/)
2022-10-04T09:32:00Z	**Gun Violence in Rural America**
,    \-  CAP

_Stephan: When people think about gun violence and murder the conversation is almost always couched in terms about urban America. But the truth is that rural America is becoming ever more dangerous as a result of such violence. Here are the facts._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-03-at-8.17.51-PM.png)

As gun violence continues to fuel violent crime across the nation, some conservative politicians are  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/04/gun-violence-in-rural-america/)
2022-10-05T09:35:00Z	**Can plants think? The burgeoning field of plant neurobiology has a lot to say on the matter**
MATTHEW ROZSA,    -  Salon

_Stephan: If you read SR regularly you will remember earlier stories I have published about the consciousness of bees, birds, sea creatures, and animals. This sort of story gets lost in the news because these reports are rarely placed in their proper context. If they were perhaps people would recognize how important a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/05/can-plants-think-the-burgeoning-field-of-plant-neurobiology-has-a-lot-to-say-on-the-matter/)
2022-10-05T09:34:00Z	**The Inner Lives of Plants: Cognition, Sentience, and Ethics**
Marc Bekoff Ph.D.,    -  Psychology Today

_Stephan: Here is another take on the matrix of consciousness. I take these reports as very good and important news because they profoundly change our view on what constitutes reality._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-04-at-5.42.35-PM.png)_Credit: Pixabay Pexels_

Late last year ago I posted an [interview](https://www ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/05/the-inner-lives-of-plants-cognition-sentience-and-ethics/)
2022-10-05T09:33:00Z	**NIH to award over $200 million to support potentially transformative biomedical research projects**
,    \-  National Institutes of Health

_Stephan: Something very profound is happening in medical science, something that is going to fundamentally change in which we deal with illnesses. I think this is good news. Now we will have to see how America's hopelessly inferior illness profit system responds to this research._

![](https:/ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/05/nih-to-award-over-200-million-to-support-potentially-transformative-biomedical-research-projects/)
2022-10-05T09:32:00Z	**Parents like their public schools, no matter how much the charter school movement tells them not to**
Gail Sunderman ,    -  AlterNet

_Stephan: Public education for centuries has been one of the proudest examples of democracy. Countless poor children have gone through this system and transformed their lives, becoming doctors, nurses, engineers, and entrepreneurs, in turn altering the lives of millions of other Americans for the  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/05/parents-like-their-public-schools-no-matter-how-much-the-charter-school-movement-tells-them-not-to/)
2022-10-06T09:35:00Z	**The United States of Confederate America**
David A. Graham,  Staff Writer  -  The Atlantic

_Stephan: Here is a very curious example of how racism is growing in the United States. Who could have imagined that people in Northern states, whose forebearers may have fought and even died in the Civil War are flying Confederate flags -- and yet they are. It is a trend that is telling us something very sad about what is happening in the United States._

![](https://www.schwartzreport ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/06/the-united-states-of-confederate-america%ef%bf%bc/)
2022-10-06T09:34:00Z	**Yoga as powerful as medication for diabetics? Mind-body practices lower blood sugar levels significantly**
Jocelyn Solis-Moreira,  Science Writer  -  Study Finds

_Stephan: Twenty seven million Americans have Type II diabetes. If you are one of them, or know someone who is, you or they might consider the practice of yoga, as described.

To read the research paper upon which this report is based: https://www.liebertpub.com/do ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/06/yoga-as-powerful-as-medication-for-diabetics-mind-body-practices-lower-blood-sugar-levels-significantly/)
2022-10-06T09:33:00Z	**Study links in utero ‘forever chemical’ exposure to low sperm count and mobility**
Tom Perkins,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: If you look into the SR archives you will see that I have been following this trend for several years. It doesn't get a lot of attention, except in the medical literature, but it has enormous implications. Humanity is literally poisoning its ability to reproduce and it is a tossup whether we are oing to wakeup to what  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/06/study-links-in-utero-forever-chemical-exposure-to-low-sperm-count-and-mobility/)
2022-10-06T09:32:00Z	**More Americans are joining the ‘cashless’ economy**
MICHELLE FAVERIO,    -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: This is a very interesting trend that I have noticed in myself. I have two $20 bills in a clip that I carry around in my pocket and they have been there for months. Instead of cash, I use a debit card, not only because it is just as easy as cash, it also gives me a record in one place when it comes time to do our taxes. In my 2060 remote viewing experiment almost all the vie ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/06/more-americans-are-joining-the-cashless-economy/)
2022-10-07T09:35:00Z	**The Mediterranean Sea Is So Hot, It’s Forming Carbonate Crystals**
Marc Simon,  Science Journalist  -  Wired

_Stephan: It is a measure of how greed overcomes even self-protection that humanity is watching the earth's matrix of life morph into something that is going to radically change the world in which we live and not to our benefit. Here is an example of why I say this._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-06-at-8. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/07/the-mediterranean-sea-is-so-hot-its-forming-carbonate-crystals/)
2022-10-07T09:34:00Z	**The Supreme Court’s Environmental Report Card: Which Justices are Failing?**
,    \-  ecowatch

_Stephan: The current Supreme Court is less a judicial institution and more a christofascist political action committee. And look at how the various justices are rated for their environmental choices. With this court America's ability to adequately deal with climate change looks very bleak._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/07/the-supreme-courts-environmental-report-card-which-justices-are-failing-2/)
2022-10-07T09:33:00Z	**Ian will ‘financially ruin’ homeowners and insurers**
THOMAS FRANK,    -  Politico

_Stephan: Like you perhaps, I watch cable news, and listen to the talk of rebuilding Florida after Hurricane Ian. It is a process as previous hurricanes have shown that will take years. But do they actually have those years? Every projection I can find showing Florida in say 2050 displays a map in which from Fort Myers down the state is underwater if the temperature only rises 2°C. If it goes to ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/07/ian-will-financially-ruin-homeowners-and-insurers/)
2022-10-07T09:32:00Z	**A majority of GOP nominees — 299 in all — deny the 2020 election results**
Amy Gardner ,  Reporter  -  The Boston Globe / msn

_Stephan: Are you as surprised as I am, at how blatant the racist MAGAt christofascists have become in their program to end democracy in the United States and turn the country into an anocracy? I mean I knew that's what they were trying to do. What I hadn't fully comprehended until now is how cynical and open they have become about wh ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/07/a-majority-of-gop-nominees-299-in-all-deny-the-2020-election-results/)
2022-10-08T09:35:00Z	**Pardons, descheduling and the DEA: Making sense of Biden’s weed actions**
MONA ZHANG,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: Hundreds of thousands of men and women, particularly Black men, have had their lives torn apart over using marijuana. It is a disgusting chapter of racism and sheer nastiness in American history. I live in a state where for some years now marijuana has been legal, and the main thing that stands out for me about this legality is that mari ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/08/pardons-descheduling-and-the-dea-making-sense-of-bidens-weed-actions/)
2022-10-08T09:34:00Z	**Wonking Out: A Jobs Survey Full of Good News**
Paul Krugman,  Nobel Laureate, Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center, columnist  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Paul Krugman has one of the best track records for accurately describing the financial circumstances of the United States. Here is his take on where we are today, and it is better than you might think._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-07-a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/08/wonking-out-a-jobs-survey-full-of-good-news/)
2022-10-08T09:33:00Z	**Wealthier people live 4 years longer than those in poorer areas, longevity study says**
John Anderer,    -

_Stephan: I see more and more research papers coming out showing the disparity between wealth and poverty, including this one based on research in Spain. What is clear, based on facts, not the usually political posturing, is that wealth inequality, and the United States has a notably extreme level of inequality, always sabotages social w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/08/wealthier-people-live-4-years-longer-than-those-in-poorer-areas-longevity-study-says/)
2022-10-08T09:32:00Z	**France makes birth control free for women up to 25**
,    \-  Agence France-Presse (France)

_Stephan: In the United States the Republican MAGAts are trying to restrict access to contraceptives. In France, they are making contraceptives available for free. Do you think access to contraceptives reduces women having to use abortions? Which path do you think will produce greater wellbeing?_

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-07-at-9 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/08/france-makes-birth-control-free-for-women-up-to-25/)
2022-10-10T09:35:00Z	**Covid Inaction Leaves US Facing ‘Major Storm Without Even an Umbrella in Hand,’ Experts Warn**
KENNY STANCIL,    -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: As someone who is still recovering from a particularly nasty variant of Indian Covid contracted in spite of multiple vaccinations and boosters, I urge you to take this article seriously and take all precautions. You don't want to get this._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/10/covid-inaction-leaves-us-facing-major-storm-without-even-an-umbrella-in-hand-experts-warn/)
2022-10-10T09:34:00Z	**Exclusive: Texas Governor Greg Abbott Used Covid Aid to Pay for a Border Wall**
Barbara Koeppel,  Investigative Reporter  -  The Nation

_Stephan: Like all MAGAt Republicans, Greg Abbott is a dishonest grifter interested only in holding power and screw the people that elected me. This sad tale is so typical of these people it is almost a cliche´. What surprises me is that the people of Texas are incapable of understanding this or, do understand and do ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/10/exclusive-texas-governor-greg-abbott-used-covid-aid-to-pay-for-a-border-wall/)
2022-10-10T09:33:00Z	**This 100% Solar-Powered Town in Florida Left Virtually Unscathed After Hurricane Ian**
Kristina Zagame,  Solar and Energy Reporter  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: I have been holding this story for a couple of days to see if anyone else covered it. They did not, until 60 Minutes briefly mentioned it tonight. Clearly, it is possible to construct a town in Florida that is capable of surviving hurricanes. What even this doesn't deal with, however, is mass ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/10/this-100-solar-powered-town-in-florida-left-virtually-unscathed-after-hurricane-ian/)
2022-10-10T09:32:00Z	**The Supreme Court is Blowing Up Law School, Too**
MARK JOSEPH STERN,    -  Slate

_Stephan: I doubt that many Americans have given much thought to the effect the transformation of the Supreme Court into a political MAGAt action committee has had on law schools. We all should be concerned because the effect is very nasty, and will affect our legal system for years. Here's the story._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-09-at-10.17.21-P ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/10/the-supreme-court-is-blowing-up-law-school-too/)
2022-10-11T09:35:00Z	**Patients face barriers to routine care as doctors warn of ripple effects from broad abortion bans**
ALICE MIRANDA OLLSTEIN and DANIEL PAYNE,    -  Politico

_Stephan: The overthrow of Roe has caused disruptions in an already second-rate healthcare system that go far beyond the issue of abortion. This and the next story will give you a sense of what is going on._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/11/patients-face-barriers-to-routine-care-as-doctors-warn-of-ripple-effects-from-broad-abortion-bans/)
2022-10-11T09:34:00Z	**Abortion Bans Are Making It Harder for Some Cancer Patients to Get Chemotherapy**
Shefali Luthra,    -  truthout

_Stephan: I got an email from a physician in Cincinnati who told me his hospital has taken the position that any medication that might affect a pregnant woman's status can only be used after lawyers are consulted. Although her kids are in school, and she has lived in Ohio all her life, she told me she and her husband are talking about m ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/11/abortion-bans-are-making-it-harder-for-some-cancer-patients-to-get-chemotherapy/)
2022-10-11T09:33:00Z	**A Study Finally Shows Just How Much Deadlier COVID Has Been for Republicans**
DONALD MOYNIHAN,    -  Slate

_Stephan: To be a Republican I think you have to a) be of lower IQ and b) be easily manipulated by misinformation propaganda. Am I just being partisan? No. This is based on facts, and the proof of this is made clear in the Covid death statistics. Republicans were, and are, literally willing to die for their false beliefs. Here are the facts._

![ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/11/a-study-finally-shows-just-how-much-deadlier-covid-has-been-for-republicans/)
2022-10-11T09:32:00Z	**For white evangelical Protestants, power is religion and Herschel Walker is their vessel**
John Stoehr,    -  AlterNet

_Stephan: I am just gobsmacked by the hypocrisy of the MAGAt Republicans, and nowhere is this made clearer than with Herschel Walker. MAGAts are clearly only interested in one thing: power. Herschel Walker can't even speak proper standard English, and his capacity to think is obviously very limited. Yet this is the person  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/11/for-white-evangelical-protestants-power-is-religion-and-herschel-walker-is-their-vessel/)
2022-10-12T09:35:00Z	**Election deniers infiltrate ranks of poll watchers and election judges ahead of November midterms, Colorado clerks warn**
Conrad Swanson,  Denver Post  -

_Stephan: Those of us who care about the preservation of American democracy need to recognize that there is a large, albeit minority, cohort of mostly White Christians who do not support or like democracy and that they are infiltrating the infrastructure of  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/12/election-deniers-infiltrate-ranks-of-poll-watchers-and-election-judges-ahead-of-november-midterms-colorado-clerks-warn/)
2022-10-12T09:34:00Z	**CPAC backpedals on pro-Russia tweet as some U.S. conservatives back Putin**
Isaac Arnsdorf,  Reporter  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: Just as there was a large cohort of Republican christofascists who supported Hitler and Mussolini at the beginning of the Second World War so, today, we see the same thing happening again with Republican support for Viktor Orban and Vladimir Putin. These people want to end democracy in the United States, replacing it wit ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/12/cpac-backpedals-on-pro-russia-tweet-as-some-u-s-conservatives-back-putin/)
2022-10-12T09:33:00Z	**Here’s the Brutal Truth: Republicans Have Given Up on Democracy**
Mitchell Zimmerman,  Attorney  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: I think this is an accurate assessment of the Republican Party._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-11-at-7.29.37-PM.png)_A supporter holds a ‘Trump Won’ sign at a rally by former President Donald Trump at the Canyon Moon Ranch festival grounds on January 15, 2022 in Florence, Arizona. Credit: Ma ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/12/heres-the-brutal-truth-republicans-have-given-up-on-democracy/)
2022-10-12T09:32:00Z	**These Republicans condemned Biden’s infrastructure bill as ‘socialism’ — before requesting funds from it**
Alex Henderson,  Staff Writer  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: The hypocrisy of the MAGAt Republicans is breathtaking. Here is an example of why I think this._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-11-at-7.33.24-PM.png)_MAGAt Republican Representative Paul Gosar of Arizona in 2014 Credit: ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/12/these-republicans-condemned-bidens-infrastructure-bill-as-socialism-before-requesting-funds-from-it/)
2022-10-13T09:35:00Z	**Almost 70% of animal populations wiped out since 1970, report reveals**
Patrick Greenfield,  Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.).

_Stephan: "Earth’s wildlife populations have plunged by an average of 69% in just under 50 years, according to a leading scientific assessment, as humans continue to clear forests, consume beyond the limits of the planet and pollute on an industrial scale." Greed, it is all driven by greed. Humanity seems incapable of seeing past shor ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/13/almost-70-of-animal-populations-wiped-out-since-1970-report-reveals/)
2022-10-13T09:34:00Z	**Inside the warped world of incel extremists**
Charlie Tye ,  PHD Candidate, York Law School, University of York  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Utterly self-referential and frightened by women, the incel movement, a product of social media is growing year by year. Overwhelmingly White, self-pitying and violent because they can't find a woman willing to have sex with them, this weird population is a growing threat to social wellbeing._

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2022-10-13T09:33:00Z	**California Becomes First State to Ban Plastic Produce Bags in Grocery Stores**
Olivia Rosane,    -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Here is some excellent good news about ending plastic pollution, and it comes from a state governed by Democrats, of course._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-12-at-9.14.24-PM.png)

Much of the movement to reduce [ocean plastic](https://www.ecowatch.com/ocean-plastic-guide-2653277768. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/13/california-becomes-first-state-to-ban-plastic-produce-bags-in-grocery-stores/)
2022-10-13T09:32:00Z	**Undersea Cable to Funnel 3 Gigawatts of Solar Energy From Egypt to Power Millions of European Households**
Andy Corbley,    -  Good News Network

_Stephan: Here is some more good news, a first report on a new trend, one that charts the replacement of petroleum with non-carbon energy. It is going to change the economy of Egypt._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-12-at-9.21.01- ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/13/undersea-cable-to-funnel-3-gigawatts-of-solar-energy-from-egypt-to-power-millions-of-european-households/)
2022-10-14T09:35:00Z	**100% Electric Vehicles = 11% Of New Vehicle Sales Globally!**
José Pontes,    -  Clean Technica

_Stephan: Here some good news giving you the hard data on the current status and coming end of the internal combustion engine._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-13-at-8.59.38-PM.png)

Global plugin vehicle registrations were up 60% in August 2022 compared to August 2021, reaching 847,000 units. This is the best result ever for a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/14/100-electric-vehicles-11-of-new-vehicle-sales-globally/)
2022-10-14T09:34:00Z	**Teenagers Are Telling Us That Something Is Wrong With America**
Jamieson Webster,  Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalyst and Professor at the New School.  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: This essay is telling us something very important about American society. The question for me is our we as a society capable of hearing what it is saying. I'm not sure we are._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-13-at-9.15.39-PM.png ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/14/teenagers-are-telling-us-that-something-is-wrong-with-america/)
2022-10-14T09:33:00Z	**How Republicans conspire with churches for social and political control**
Thom Hartmann,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: This is how christofascism works. Christianity in the United States has today largely become a white supremacy political action cult._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-13-at-9.24.32-PM.png)_Franklin Graham attends UN global call to protect religious freedom meeting at UN Headquarters in 2019.
 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/14/how-republicans-conspire-with-churches-for-social-and-political-control/)
2022-10-14T09:32:00Z	**Conservatives Are the New Useful Idiots**
Mona Charen,    -  The Bulwark

_Stephan: An amazing number of MAGAt Republican voting citizens support Putin and what he is doing and long for the kind of authoritarianism that rules Russia hoping it will be duplicated here in the United States. When I look at the polls and in spite of everything in the news see that the MAGAt Republicans, thanks to the voting by the millions of Americans, are still favored to take the House and maybe the Senate ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/14/conservatives-are-the-new-useful-idiots/)
2022-10-15T09:35:00Z	**How Koch Industries, Fake Scientists, and Rush Limbaugh Invented Climate Denial**
Geoff Dembicki,    -  Vice News

_Stephan: The Kochs, like the Murdochs, I believe will be seen as historically evil, putting their own interests ahead of the best interests of humanity. Here is a recapitulation of their role in creating climate change denial._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-14-at-9.02.56-PM.png)_Charl ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/15/how-koch-industries-fake-scientists-and-rush-limbaugh-invented-climate-denial/)
2022-10-15T09:34:00Z	**Corporate Media Mostly Ignoring GOP Ploy to Cut Social Security and Medicare**
Brett Wilkins,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: I agree with this article that the mainstream media has completely underplayed what the Republicans are planning to do with Social Security and Medicare, and that American voters are too dim to fully comprehend what they intend. When I look at the polls, what I see is a White voter population that simply isn't very b ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/15/corporate-media-mostly-ignoring-gop-ploy-to-cut-social-security-and-medicare/)
2022-10-15T09:33:00Z	**How to fix America’s broken child-care industry**
The Editorial Board,    -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: On the basis of hard data, and I have said this in a dozen papers and countless SR comments, it is clear that America as a society doesn't give a damn about the wellbeing of American children. From infant birth mortality to food, childcare, education, or health care the U.S. scores as far worse than the rest of the developed nations of the world. Here is the Washington Post' ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/15/how-to-fix-americas-broken-child-care-industry/)
2022-10-15T09:32:00Z	**Joe Manchin Impoverished 4 Million Children When He Killed Child Tax Credit**
Amy Hutchison,    -  truthout

_Stephan: West Virginia is one of the poorest least educated states in the nation, and West Virginians again and again vote for a man, Joe Manchin, who consistently votes to degrade the wellbeing of the people who vote for him. Here is a classic example of what I am saying._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-S ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/15/joe-manchin-impoverished-4-million-children-when-he-killed-child-tax-credit/)
2022-10-16T09:35:00Z	**As Hospitals Close Children’s Units, Where Does That Leave Lachlan?**
Emily Baumgaertner,  Reporter  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: The American Illness Profit System, which passes so very poorly in the United States for healthcare, is morally disgusting because what isn't regulated by mediocre male politicians, is based on profit, not healthcare. I did several articles recently on this trend, and a reader sent me this disgusting article about what is happening ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/16/as-hospitals-close-childrens-units-where-does-that-leave-lachlan/)
2022-10-16T09:34:00Z	**America’s increasingly atrocious access to maternity care, explained in 3 charts**
Dylan Scott,    -  Vox

_Stephan: Look at the map that heads this story. Maternity care deserts, which is a bureaucratic way of saying pregnant women cannot get the healthcare they need and, as equal citizens in the United States, deserve. What is it about the United States, and the mediocre cretins we seem to always elect to public office that women and children are  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/16/americas-increasingly-atrocious-access-to-maternity-care-explained-in-3-charts/)
2022-10-16T09:33:00Z	**Funding Social Security Is a Lot Cheaper Than Coddling Rich Retirees**
MICHAEL MECHANIC,  Senior Editor  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: I hear MAGAt Republican politicians whining about the increase in Social Security benefits. What you don't hear from these mediocrities is what the rich cost the government each year. Here are some facts._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-15-at-10.05.46-PM.png)_Credit: Mark Felix  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/16/funding-social-security-is-a-lot-cheaper-than-coddling-rich-retirees/)
2022-10-16T09:32:00Z	**Following Supreme Court’s Lead, Judge Finds Right to Remove Serial Numbers From Guns**
MARK JOSEPH STERN,    -  Slate

_Stephan: 45,222 men women and children died by gun fire in 2020, and 39,707 died in 2019. And so it has gone on for decades. The American gun psychosis kills more people than most diseases. And nothing substantive ever happens to end this yearly massacre. Americans love guns more than their fellow citizens, or themselves since  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/16/following-supreme-courts-lead-judge-finds-right-to-remove-serial-numbers-from-guns/)
2022-10-17T09:36:00Z	**Did Saudi Arabia Just Hand the Midterms to the GOP?**
Jonah Shepp,    -  msn

_Stephan: I don't think there is any question that the Saudis very deliberately acted as they did to skew the mid-term election for the Republicans. Remember the billion-dollar deal with the Trump family? I think it is time for a complete reappraisal of the Saudi-U.S. relationship._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-16-at-10.40.29-PM.png)_Credit: Frede ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/17/did-saudi-arabia-just-hand-the-midterms-to-the-gop/)
2022-10-17T09:35:00Z	**Saudi Arabia will face ‘consequences’, says Biden, amid anger at cuts in oil output**
Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Julian Borger,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: I have felt for many years that the United States had the same relationship with Saudi Arabia that a dope addict has with their dope dealer. As we exit the carbon era I hope we wake up and treat the Saudis as what they are, as how they behave. I had to go there when I was in government ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/17/saudi-arabia-will-face-consequences-says-biden-amid-anger-at-cuts-in-oil-output/)
2022-10-17T09:34:00Z	**DC tent cities stain the nation’s capital**
Mary Kay Linge,    -  New York Post

_Stephan: I am beginning to see more and more stories like this, and it is clear that as rents go up a great number of people are becoming homeless. What is clear to me is that the social well-being of American cities is being seriously degraded and that our social policies needed to be fundamentally reconsidered and reoriented. When you have this many thousands of people becoming homeless everyth ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/17/dc-tent-cities-stain-the-nations-capital%ef%bf%bc/)
2022-10-17T09:33:00Z	**The Industry Devouring the American Dream**
Jason Linkins,  Deputy Editor  -  The New Republic

_Stephan: Private equity is essentially the rich hoovering up everything they can for greater profit, a greed machine that, as this article lays out is disrupting American society, like cancer eating away at a body._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-16-at-10.15.00-PM.png)_Credit: Scott Olson / Getty_

Do newspaper endorsements matter? It’s a  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/17/the-industry-devouring-the-american-dream/)
2022-10-18T09:35:00Z	**Republicans Are Trying to Win by Spreading Three False Talking Points. Here’s the Truth**
Robert Reich,  Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center  -  Reader Supported News / The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: I see these three lies in almost every right-wing publication and hear and see on almost every MAGAt cable media show one Republican MAGAt liar after another rep ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/18/republicans-are-trying-to-win-by-spreading-three-false-talking-points-heres-the-truth/)
2022-10-18T09:34:00Z	**Do conservatives really have an empathy deficit? This is what social science says**
MARY ELIZABETH WILLIAMS,  Senior Writer  -  Salon

_Stephan: Here is real science and real facts that explain the bizarre lack of empathy and inability to control their anger and fear that are so much a factor in the personalities of MAGAts. To read the research paper upon which this general audience report is based go to: Political ideology and pandemic lifestyles ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/18/do-conservatives-really-have-an-empathy-deficit-this-is-what-social-science-says/)
2022-10-18T09:33:00Z	**Why Do Blue States Keep Prioritizing Lawyers Over Low-Income Americans?**
DAVID FREEMAN ENGSTROM and NORA FREEMAN ENGSTROM,   Law Professor at Stanford Law School and Co-director of the Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession \| Law Professor at Stanford Law School and Co-director of the Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession.  -  Slate

_Stephan: The legal system in the United States is very unfair, racist, and an individual's ab ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/18/why-do-blue-states-keep-prioritizing-lawyers-over-low-income-americans%ef%bf%bc/)
2022-10-18T09:32:00Z	**FBI official says field office agents are whining about prosecuting Jan. 6 attackers: Nicolle Wallace**
Sarah K. Burris,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: People are drawn to working in law enforcement not because of the money, but the authority a badge confers. As a result, a large percentage are inclined to authoritarianism and fascism. Not surprisingly, then, a significant percentage of the FBI are MAGAt Trumpers, and as a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/18/fbi-official-says-field-office-agents-are-whining-about-prosecuting-jan-6-attackers-nicolle-wallace%ef%bf%bc/)
2022-10-19T09:35:00Z	**Flow of Dark Money Has Led to Record Amount of Outside Spending This Election**
Sharon Zhang,  Staff Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: The conservative supreme court cabal, 12 years ago basically made it possible for the uber-rich and corporations to buy elections. Here is the story. It has profoundly skewed our already deeply compromised electoral system._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-18-at-5.40.18- ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/19/flow-of-dark-money-has-led-to-record-amount-of-outside-spending-this-election/)
2022-10-19T09:34:00Z	**How DeSantis and Florida Republicans are reshaping higher education**
Andrew Atterbury,    -  Politico

_Stephan: The main thing that stands out for me about Ron DeSantis is the contempt in which he holds the citizens of his state. He obviously sees them as nothing but pawns to be manipulated. And MAGAts like De Santis particularly do not like opportunities for fact-based education. Why? Because study after study shows that the more educated the person the mor ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/19/how-desantis-and-florida-republicans-are-reshaping-higher-education/)
2022-10-19T09:33:00Z	**How LIberals Should Control a Right-Wing Supreme Court**
Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath,    -  Reader Supported News

_Stephan: I have been waiting to see some democracy supporting progressively minded person address how to treat the MAGAt cabal that dominates the Supreme Court, and surprised at how silent the response has been. But here is a well-argued case for how democracy oriented individuals, particularly those seeking public office, can respond._

![](https:/ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/19/how-liberals-should-control-a-right-wing-supreme-court/)
2022-10-19T09:32:00Z	**Insulin Rationing Common Among Patients With Diabetes**
Jeff Minerd,  Medical and Science Writer  -  MedPage Today

_Stephan: If the Republicans take the House they are going to reverse a range of programs that make millions of people's lives better, and one is Biden's limitation on the cost of insulin, a drug that is essential for life itself. Already, at this moment, diabetics all over the country are rationing their use of insulin because of its cost._

![](https://www.s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/19/insulin-rationing-common-among-patients-with-diabetes/)
2022-10-20T09:35:00Z	**Chart-armed Katie Porter proves that corporate greed is the primary cause of inflation**
Brandon Gage,  Staff Writer  -  ALterNet

_Stephan: Katie Porter, Democratic Representative from California is one of the smartest people in Congress, either house. And she deals in facts not the usual claptrap and BS one hears from most Congress members. Yesterday she presented the truth about inflation; it is almost entirely the result of corporate gre ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/20/chart-armed-katie-porter-proves-that-corporate-greed-is-the-primary-cause-of-inflation/)
2022-10-20T09:34:00Z	**States with poor climate policy ‘overlap’ with those seeking to limit rights, Kamala Harris says**
Anumita Kaur and Hayley Smith,  Reporters  -  Los Angeles Times

_Stephan: Here are some more facts, as if more were needed. Based on objectively verifiable data there is no question that Republican governance is always inferior to Democratic governance, and less fostering of wellbeing. If you vote Republican you are voting to degrade yo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/20/states-with-poor-climate-policy-overlap-with-those-seeking-to-limit-rights-kamala-harris-says/)
2022-10-20T09:33:00Z	**As Himalayan Glaciers Melt, a Water Crisis Looms in South Asia**
VAISHNAVI CHANDRASHEKHAR,  Reporter and Editor  -  Yale 360 - Yale University

_Stephan: I have been telling my readers for more than a decade, based on my reading of various research reports, that this was coming. It is going to affect the lives of millions of people, as this report describes._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-19-at-3.44.30-PM.png)_Cre ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/20/as-himalayan-glaciers-melt-a-water-crisis-looms-in-south-asia/)
2022-10-20T09:32:00Z	**How the Clean Water Act Fixed the Delaware River’s Pollution Problem**
Susan Phillips,  Reporter  -  WHYY - PBS (Delaware)

_Stephan: Here is some excellent good news about how properly framed wellbeing fostering governmental policies pay off._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-19-at-3.57.23-PM.png)

When former regional EPA manager Richard Pepino was studying biology in college in the 1960s, he remembers one of ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/20/how-the-clean-water-act-fixed-the-delaware-rivers-pollution-problem/)
2022-10-21T09:35:00Z	**Peter Thiel’s midterm bet: the billionaire seeking to disrupt America’s democracy**
Andrew Gumbel,  Investigative Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: A few years back conservatives on the Supreme Court legalized bribery with the Citizens United decision -- of course, they didn't call it that -- and made it possible for the uber-rich and corporations to buy election outcomes they wanted. The Koch brothers and Peter Thiel are leading ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/21/peter-thiels-midterm-bet-the-billionaire-seeking-to-disrupt-americas-democracy%ef%bf%bc/)
2022-10-21T09:34:00Z	**GOP Plan on Threatening Recession If They Can’t Cut Medicare, Social Security**
Sharon Zang,  News Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: If you depend in any way on Social Security or Medicare and you vote for Republicans, you are in essence cutting your own throat, a kind of indirect suicide and you have no one but yourself to blame for the misery that your vote will cause to befall you. The Magat Republicans aren't even hiding what they have in mind as this ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/21/gop-plan-on-threatening-recission-if-they-cant-cut-medicare-social-security/)
2022-10-21T09:33:00Z	**Texas Schools Are Sending DNA Kits Home to Parents.  Why This Is a Communications Mess**
Arianna Prothero,  Reporter  -  Education Week

_Stephan: This is how Texas under Greg Abbott is choosing to deal with the Uvalde school massacre. Of course, you would want a DNA kit if your kid was killed in a school massacre like Uvalde, in a state that has virtually no gun control, so you could identify their body even if you couldn't recognize their da ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/21/texas-schools-are-sending-dna-kits-home-to-parents-why-this-is-a-communications-mess/)
2022-10-21T09:32:00Z	**Rooftop wind energy innovation claims 50% more energy than solar at same cost**
Ryan Kennedy,    -  PV Magazine

_Stephan: The key to ending the carbon era is to invent new technologies that foster well-being, and this is a first example of this new path, so I think this is excellent good news._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-20-at-10.49.28-PM.png)

A new bladeless wind energy unit, patente ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/21/rooftop-wind-energy-innovation-claims-50-more-energy-than-solar-at-same-cost%ef%bf%bc/)
2022-10-22T09:35:00Z	**How billionaires are building a right-wing online ecosystem**
Rebecca Klar,    -  The Hill

_Stephan: The American wealth inequality crisis is fundamentally changing the country's political system and American culture. In 2022 there are 735 American billionaires; they constitute over a quarter of the world's billionaires. There are also nearly 22 million millionaires in the U.S. making up 8.8% of the country's adult population. Meanwhile, the median net worth of the A ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/22/how-billionaires-are-building-a-right-wing-online-ecosystem/)
2022-10-22T09:34:00Z	**Saudis Sought Oil Production Cut So Deep It Surprised Even Russia**
Ken Klippenstein,  Investigative Reporter  -  The Intercept.

_Stephan: The November election has been heavily manipulated by the Saudis who seek to skew it to the Republicans by cutting back production so that gas prices go up. Where we live regular gas is $5.60 a gallon. In my opinion, the American / Saudi relationship needs to be massively restructured. We have supported the Saudis for years  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/22/saudis-sought-oil-production-cut-so-deep-it-surprised-even-russia/)
2022-10-22T09:33:00Z	**‘Stand your ground’ laws linked to increased homicide rates, study finds**
Kaanita Iyer,  Reporter  -  CNN

_Stephan: Every day I listen to Republicans make crime a major factor in the election. What you almost never hear is that in Red states crime rates have gone up the most, particularly crimes involving guns._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-21-at-8.04.58-PM.png)_Florida was the first state to enact a “s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/22/stand-your-ground-laws-linked-to-increased-homicide-rates-study-finds/)
2022-10-22T09:32:00Z	**Food Insufficiency Up 25% Since Manchin, GOP Killed Child Tax Credit Boost**
Jessica Corbett,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: This is a follow-up of an earlier report I ran about the utter uninterest the Republican Party has about nurturing healthy children. As I watch the election campaigns and how Americans are reacting I am amazed and disheartened that American voters don't even seem to be aware of what the Republicans are doing to gut socia ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/22/food-insufficiency-up-25-since-manchin-gop-killed-child-tax-credit-boost/)
2022-10-23T09:32:00Z	**Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Passes Resolution Affirming That Only Men Can Be Pastors**
Milton Quintanilla ,  Contributing Writer  -  Christian Headlines

_Stephan: Whenever I go into the world of evangelical Baptists, the reality of christofascism, I am struck by the medievalism of their thinking. This is the largest group of Protestants in the United States and their sexism and racism in the second decade of the 21st centu ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/23/southern-baptist-theological-seminary-passes-resolution-affirming-that-only-men-can-be-pastors/)
2022-10-23T09:35:00Z	**Wonking Out: Facts, Feelings and Rural Politics**
Paul Krugman,  Nobel Laureate, Distinguished Pprofessor at the City University of New York Graduate Center, Columnist   -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Paul Krugman lays out the facts on a trend that is tearing America apart. The shift to the far-far-right on the part of aging rural Americans._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-22-at-2.27.55-PM.png)_Illustration by Sam Whitney/The Ne ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/23/wonking-out-facts-feelings-and-rural-politics/)
2022-10-23T09:34:00Z	**The hidden billion-dollar cost of repeatedpolice misconduct**
Keith L. Alexander, Steven Rich and Hannah Thacker ,  Reporter \| Database Editor \| Copy Aide  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: I keep seeing story after story about police violence and misconduct. It is the defining characteristic of American law enforcement, no other developed democracy in the world has anything like this problem. Not even close. I began to wonder what does this cost us, that is we the  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/23/the-hidden-billion-dollar-cost-of-repeatedpolice-misconduct/)
2022-10-23T09:33:00Z	**Phantom Forests: Why Ambitious Tree Planting Projects Are Failing**
Fred Pearce,  Contributing Writer  -  Yale 360

_Stephan: The changes that are being wrought by climate change are going to be far more complicated to deal with than governments around the world, and certainly, in the United States realize. This article describes just one aspect of the problems humanity will face, and you can see how that has worked out._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-co ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/23/phantom-forests-why-ambitious-tree-planting-projects-are-failing/)
2022-10-24T09:35:00Z	**Federal deficit was cut in half last year, Treasury Department says**
Courtenay Brown,  Staff Writer  -  Axios

_Stephan: This is a big deal getting almost no media attention. I think the Democrats are doing a very poor job getting across to people the many wellbeing fostering policies they have gotten into place over the past two years._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-23-at-3.07.07-PM.png)_President Biden Cre ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/24/federal-deficit-was-cut-in-half-last-year-treasury-department-says/)
2022-10-24T09:34:00Z	**The Fifth Circuit Just Defunded the (Consumer Protection) Police**
Matt Ford,  Staff Writer  -  The New Republic

_Stephan: The Republican-engineered judiciary just screwed ordinary folk yet again. I do not understand why American voters cannot seem to understand that Republicans don't like them, except as useful idiots to vote them into power. Everything Republicans do is designed to serve corporate and uber-rich interests._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp- ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/24/the-fifth-circuit-just-defunded-the-consumer-protection-police/)
2022-10-24T09:33:00Z	**Dark money groups have pumped $1 billion into GOP effort to retake the Senate**
Jake Johnson,  Staff Writer  -  AlterNet / Common Dreams

_Stephan: As I watch the various television channel news operations and listen to the interviews with ordinary Americans talking about how they will vote, I am stunned at how little people seem to understand about what is going on. beneath the surface. There seems to be no real conception of how corrupt the governme ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/24/dark-money-groups-have-pumped-1-billion-into-gop-effort-to-retake-the-senate/)
2022-10-24T09:32:00Z	**Right-Wing Populist Parties Are Bad for Climate Action, Study Finds**
Olivia Rosane,  Staff Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Watching the BBC I listened to their report on how Sweden now ruled by a far-right populist party, has just scrapped its environmental agency working to prepare the country for climate change. In one stroke Sweden has gone from an environmental leader to a near climate denier, and this same process is going on all over the world, wherever ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/24/right-wing-populist-parties-are-bad-for-climate-action-study-finds-2/)
2022-10-25T09:35:00Z	**Menace: Armed Men in Tactical Gear Showing Up at AZ Ballot Boxes**
Ryan Grenoble,    -  HuffPost

_Stephan: Welcome to America, where about a third of the country, the MAGAts are actively trying to destroy the nation's democracy. Armed vigilantes egged on by Republican politicians, are hovering around ballot boxes, trying to scare people away from voting. They remind me of little girls dressing up, or little boys in Superman costumes. This is exactly what the Nazi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/25/menace-armed-men-in-tactical-gear-showing-up-at-az-ballot-boxes/)
2022-10-25T09:34:00Z	**Homicide now a leading cause of death for pregnant women in the U.S.**
Chris Melore,    -  Study Finds

_Stephan: This is one of the most appalling research studies I have seen in a long time. To quote it, "Researchers with the Harvard School of Public Health found that pregnant women are more likely to be murdered than die from pregnancy-related complications, including high blood pressure disorders, hemorrhage, or sepsis." And two-thirds of those deaths are  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/25/homicide-now-a-leading-cause-of-death-for-pregnant-women-in-the-u-s/)
2022-10-25T09:33:00Z	**Why women’s freedom threatens men**
Robert S. Mcelvaine,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story / Salon / Commentary

_Stephan: I see the MAGAt obsession with controlling women, and far-right authoritarian politics, as two intertwined trends. This is one of the few articles I have seen that sees that clearly._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-24-at-8.23.20-PM.png)_An anti-abortion protester Credit: Shutterstock_

Will America’s future be one of democracy a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/25/why-womens-freedom-threatens-men/)
2022-10-25T09:32:00Z	**A Young Victim Of Incest Was Denied An Abortion In Florida And Forced To Travel For Care, Planned Parenthood Said**
Anna Betts,  Reporter  -  BuzzFeed

_Stephan: I see stories like this one, two or three a day, every day. So often the media has begun to treat this as the new normal. It was entirely predictable with the overturn of Roe by the Dobbs decision, and the immediate rush by Republicans to pass laws at the s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/25/a-young-victim-of-incest-was-denied-an-abortion-in-florida-and-forced-to-travel-for-care-planned-parenthood-said/)
2022-10-26T09:35:00Z	**Crime: Red Delusions About Purple Reality**
Paul Krugman,  Nobel Laureate, Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center., Columnist  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: I have told you over and over that I see the endless Republican rantings about Democrats being the reason crime has gone up as a political fraud. Paul Krugman explains this, and I agree with him._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-25-at-9.01.08-P ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/26/crime-red-delusions-about-purple-reality/)
2022-10-26T09:34:00Z	**Republicans love to blame Democratic policies for violent crime. These studies debunk those claims**
Alex Henderson,  Staff Writer  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: The Republican bloviation on crime is not fact-based. Here are some facts. Why the Democrats can't seem to put together an effective response to the Republicans, I think, arises from their failure to understand what is motivating voters._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-c ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/26/republicans-love-to-blame-democratic-policies-for-violent-crime-these-studies-debunk-those-claims/)
2022-10-26T09:33:00Z	**Trudeau Orders an Immediate Freeze on the Sale of Handguns in Canada**
Giulia Heyward,    -  Reader Supported News / npr

_Stephan: How interesting it is to contrast the differing cultural visions of Canada and the United States when it comes to guns. In both countries, so similar in so many ways, there are a lot of guns held by citizens. But as this act by Trudeau shows, where Canadians like guns, they also understand there are limits for a safe civil societ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/26/trudeau-orders-an-immediate-freeze-on-the-sale-of-handguns-in-canada/)
2022-10-26T09:32:00Z	**Record-breaking chip can transmit entire internet’s traffic per second**
Michael Irving,    -  New Atlas

_Stephan: I see this report as the opening cord of a massive social transformation, and will follow this closely.

The research paper on which this report is based can be found in Nature Photonics https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-022-01082-z_

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-25-at-9.50.12- ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/26/record-breaking-chip-can-transmit-entire-internets-traffic-per-second%ef%bf%bc/)
2022-10-27T09:35:00Z	**Climate Pledges Are Falling Short, and a Chaotic Future Looks More Like Reality**
Max Bearak,    -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Humanity, represented by the various governments in the world, doesn't seem to get it, to realize what climate change is going to do to the earth, and the people of their nations. Humans, on the basis of this evidence, just can't seem to think long-term and prepare a strategy they actually implement, to deal with an on-ru ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/27/climate-pledges-are-falling-short-and-a-chaotic-future-looks-more-like-reality/)
2022-10-27T09:34:00Z	**Railroad Workers Threaten to Strike and Call for Public Takeover of the Rails**
Mike Ludwig,  Staff Reporter  -  truthout

_Stephan: You are not seeing much if anything on media about this potential national strike, but should it happen it will dramatically change your life, as this article describes. As usual, this fight is between corporate greed and human decency._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10- ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/27/railroad-workers-threaten-to-strike-and-call-for-public-takeover-of-the-rails/)
2022-10-27T09:33:00Z	**First patient receives potentially cancer-stopping pill in new clinical trial**
Shyla Cadogan,    -  Study Finds

_Stephan: In 2020, an estimated 1,806,590 new cases of cancer were diagnosed in the United States and 606,520 people died from the disease. This story is the first major thing I have seen that offers a positive change in those numbers._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-26-at-6.29.09-PM.png ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/27/first-patient-receives-potentially-cancer-stopping-pill-in-new-clinical-trial/)
2022-10-27T09:32:00Z	**New Woman Says Herschel Walker Drove Her to Abortion Clinic: Report**
David Edwards,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Here is yet another Herschel Walker cover-up and lies. I find it hard to believe that any rational person would vote for this creepy liar and cheat, but I suspect millions will. That isn't, however, the reason I am running this story. What I am noticing in story after story around the country is that Republican candidates, and I mean all of  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/27/new-woman-says-herschel-walker-drove-her-to-abortion-clinic-report%ef%bf%bc/)
2022-10-28T09:35:00Z	**Congress Urges DoD, VA to Defend Troops and Veterans Against Extremists Who Want to Recruit Them**
SONNER KEHRT,  Investigative Reporter  -  The War Horse

_Stephan: I have been following this trend for several years now (see SR archive). Infiltrating into the military, law enforcement, and military vets are completely predictable fascist moves, and sure enough it is happening big time in the United States, as this article describes ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/28/congress-urges-dod-va-to-defend-troops-and-veterans-against-extremists-who-want-to-recruit-them/)
2022-10-28T09:34:00Z	**America is Built on a Racist Social Contract. It’s Time to Tear It Up and Start Anew**
Steve Phillips,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: The hysterical fear and anger of White people in America about their place in American society, in my view, is one of the biggest problems America faces. It is the cause of an endless list of problems and until it is properly faced and changed it is going to continue to create one crisis after another._

![] ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/28/america-is-built-on-a-racist-social-contract-its-time-to-tear-it-up-and-start-anew/)
2022-10-28T09:33:00Z	**After the Men Fled Russia**
TAMARA EVDOKIMOVA,    -  Slate

_Stephan: Reading the stories about hundreds of thousands of men fleeing Russia rather than be conscripted into the army, I suspected this was happening and finally found a report on this issue. Russia is becoming a deeply dysfunctional society, and I am going to start covering this trend because I believe it has global geopolitical implications._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-27-at-7.59.46 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/28/after-the-men-fled-russia/)
2022-10-28T09:32:00Z	**Cats know when you’re talking about them: A new study sheds light in the feline mind**
MATTHEW ROZSA,  Staff Writer  -  Salon

_Stephan: Having a pussy cat as a beloved family member I could not pass this up. Like so much other research I am seeing it is proving that we lived in a matrix of consciousness and that consciousness is the defining characteristic of life at every level from plants to people._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-con ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/28/cats-know-when-youre-talking-about-them-a-new-study-sheds-light-in-the-feline-mind/)
2022-10-29T09:35:00Z	**I’m a doctor. The law shouldn’t force me to hurt my patients this way**
Mae-Lan Winchester,  Reporter  -  CNN

_Stephan: All of this pain, stress or danger is directly attributable to MAGAt world and the Republican Party and particularly Donald Trump. Period. There is no progressive equivalent to this movement on the Democratic side. It is entirely one-sided. Trump and the Republican MAGAts, both media like Fox, and politicians like Marjorie Taylor Greene are l ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/29/im-a-doctor-the-law-shouldnt-force-me-to-hurt-my-patients-this-way/)
2022-10-29T09:34:00Z	**There’s only one way to restore democracy**
Thom Hartmann,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: I have been telling my readers for over 20 years that the central problem facing the United States is that it has become a culture with only one social priority and that is profit. Greed is our central value. Thom Hartmann now seems to agree. Good for him._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-28-at-8.23.50-PM.png)_Credit: Shutterstock_

As long as money is ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/29/theres-only-one-way-to-restore-democracy/)
2022-10-29T09:33:00Z	**Megalopolis: How Coastal West Africa will Shape the Comin Century**
Howard W French,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Here is something you very rarely even see be mentioned. Whoever talks about West Africa as a major force in the future. This article raises that subject, and I run it less because I agree with what it says, and more because it describes a trend that we ought to be thinking about._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/29/megalopolis-how-coastal-west-africa-will-shape-the-comin-century/)
2022-10-29T09:32:00Z	**Mike Pence Declares That Americans Have No Right to ‘Freedom From Religion’**
Brandon Gage,  Staff Writer  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: One of the central lies of MAGAt world is that America was founded as a Christian nation. Sorry, that is a pernicious lie._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-28-at-9.17.19-PM.png)_Credit: Screengrab._

Former Vice President Mike Pence claimed during a Wednesday appearance on Fox ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/29/mike-pence-declares-that-americans-have-no-right-to-freedom-from-religion/)
2022-10-30T09:35:00Z	**Secret “Paraquat Papers” reveal corporate tactics to protect weed killer linked to Parkinson’s disease**
Carey Gillam and Aliya Uteuova,    -  The New Lede

_Stephan: In a world in which profit is the only priority, the death of thousands of humans is just an unfortunate cost of corporate business. And here is the proof of that statement.

How to respond to this greed? Never, ever, buy any product made by Syngenta. Take the trou ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/30/secret-paraquat-papers-reveal-corporate-tactics-to-protect-weed-killer-linked-to-parkinsons-disease/)
2022-10-30T09:34:00Z	**EPA Cites Environmental Racism in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley**
LISA SONG and LYLLA YOUNES,  Investigative Reporters  -  Undark, ProPublica, and Grist

_Stephan: And here we have another proof of how corporate greed takes priority over human wellbeing. The only thing that is going to change this is the people themselves. That's why I wrote The 8 Laws of Change; it explains how to do it. It's too long for a comment on SR._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uplo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/30/epa-cites-environmental-racism-in-louisianas-cancer-alley/)
2022-10-30T09:33:00Z	**OB-GYN Residency Programs Face Tough Choice on Abortion Training**
Jan Hoffman,    -  The New York Times

_Stephan: The Republican christofascists are, as this article describes, literally dismantling America's medical training system. And if these MAGAts take over the Congress and various state houses, you are going to see a major debasement of social wellbeing. Sadly, I think the American people are going to vote to destroy themselves._

![](https://www.schwart ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/30/ob-gyn-residency-programs-face-tough-choice-on-abortion-training/)
2022-10-30T09:32:00Z	**‘The Worst Possible News’: UN Report Reveals Greenhouse Gas Levels Have Hit All-time Highs**
Brett Wilkins,    -  AlterNet

_Stephan: Yet further proof. If we are to survive as a civilization we have to -- yes, have to -- restructure ourselves so that wellbeing is the first priority of all technologies and businesses. And we donb't have much time to wake up and do this._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen- ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/30/the-worst-possible-news-un-report-reveals-greenhouse-gas-levels-have-hit-all-time-highs/)
2022-10-31T09:35:00Z	**Oceans are warming faster than ever. Here’s what could come next.**
Brady Dennis ,  Pulitzer Prize-winning National Reporter  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: The bad news comes in almost daily, but the corporate world seems to be incapable of dealing with its greed addiction, and since corruption is so rampant in politicians just stand around spewing nonsense. Even worse about a third of the United States population routinely vote against their own wellbeing, so  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/31/oceans-are-warming-faster-than-ever-heres-what-could-come-next/)
2022-10-31T09:34:00Z	**Bodies of water all over North America are drying up due to drought, climate change: Experts**
Julia Jacobo,    -  abc News

_Stephan: I have been telling you for more than two decades that water is destiny, whether it is too much from sea rise, or too little from drought both caused by climate change. A large percentage of the Ameerican population lives in an area that is being affected by one or the other of these two trends. So we are ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/31/bodies-of-water-all-over-north-america-are-drying-up-due-to-drought-climate-change-experts/)
2022-10-31T09:33:00Z	**Climate-Fueled Heatwaves Cost Global Economy Trillions; Poor Countries Hit Hardest: Study**
Brett Wilkins,    -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: The thing that I see happening is that the MAGAts, particularly rural MAGAts routinely vote against their own wellbeing, and this is making it impossible for the country to effectively deal with climate change._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-30-at-6.58. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/31/climate-fueled-heatwaves-cost-global-economy-trillions-poor-countries-hit-hardest-study/)
2022-10-31T09:32:00Z	**1 in 4 Americans Say Bible Should Take Precedence Over People’s Will in US Law**
Sharon Zang,  Staff Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: The Founders had, as one of their most important purposes in creating the Constitution to create a firewall between church and state. Two hundred and thirty-five years later nearly half of Americans want that wall not just breached but destroyed. By all factual measures, America is a country in sharp decline, but few wil ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/10/31/1-in-4-americans-say-bible-should-take-precedence-over-peoples-will-in-us-law/)
2022-11-01T09:35:00Z	**EU clinches deals to ban sale of combustion engine vehicles from 2035**
Frank Rumpenhorst,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Here is some excellent good news, the end of the internal combustion engine in Europe in just 13 years._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-31-at-5.37.35-PM.png)_An internal combustion engine_

Spark plug and valves of a disassembled combustion engine at the national competition of the German au ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/01/eu-clinches-deals-to-ban-sale-of-combustion-engine-vehicles-from-2035/)
2022-11-01T09:34:00Z	**How Christian Nationalism Is Taking Root Across the World**
CAMILA VERGARA,    -  Politico

_Stephan: Christofascism, what media calls Christian Nationalism to avoid the word fascism, is spreading around the world as fear, resentment, and hate are encouraged by right-wing politicians, the Republican Party in the United States._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-31-at-5.15.51-PM.png)_Christofascist Viktor Orban speaking at ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/01/how-christian-nationalism-is-taking-root-across-the-world/)
2022-11-01T09:33:00Z	**Experts fear rising global ‘incel’ culture could provoke terrorism**
Mark Townsend,  Home Affairs Editor  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Christian nationalism, or as I call it because I think it is more accurate, christofascism, I believe is rising because of racism and fear of the other. Similarly, growing gender equality is provoking in a cohort of men the incel movement, which is basically, "I can't find a woman who will have sex with me, poor me, I'm a vic ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/01/experts-fear-rising-global-incel-culture-could-provoke-terrorism/)
2022-11-01T09:32:00Z	**‘The Future the GOP Wants for All of America’: Texas Gun Law Unleashes Deadly Mayhem**
Kenny Stancil,    -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Texas, a state ruled by Republicans, on the basis of hard objectively verifiable data, has suffered severe degradation in the wellbeing of its society. From abortion to guns, under the leadership of Greg Abbott, one of the worst governors in the United States, has seen misery, poor health, and death rise to levels p ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/01/the-future-the-gop-wants-for-all-of-america-texas-gun-law-unleashes-deadly-mayhem/)
2022-11-02T09:35:00Z	**Chicago drive-by among 9 U.S. mass shootings on Halloween weekend**
Annabelle Timsit,  Breaking News Reporter  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: So many people are murdered by gunfire in the United States that most people seem to hardly notice that it happens. There were nine mass shootings in the United States just over the Halloween weekend, led by a particularly heinous one in Chicago. This is America today, and the Republican Party is working to have open car ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/02/chicago-drive-by-among-9-u-s-mass-shootings-on-halloween-weekend/)
2022-11-02T09:34:00Z	**PFAS Left Dangerous Blood Compounds in Nearly All U.S. Study**
Tom Perkins,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Since I began SR in 1991, based on the medical research I was seeing, I have been telling you to go through your house read the labels on everything from soaps to sprays, and gardening stuff and get rid of anything with chemicals in it. Replace those things with all organic products. Forever chemicals are literally killing us by causing a wide range of chro ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/02/pfas-left-dangerous-blood-compounds-in-nearly-all-u-s-study/)
2022-11-02T09:33:00Z	**Americans Less Optimistic About Next Generation’s Future**
MEGAN BRENAN,    -  The Gallup Organization

_Stephan: The United States is a country in decline, as the Gallup Poll demonstrates. Why is this happening? MAGAts. my main takeaway from the MAGAt movement is about a third of the country wants to end democracy and create some form of white supremacy, male dominant christofascist governance. Sadly, I am afraid the other two-thirds of the country just can't get their a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/02/americans-less-optimistic-about-next-generations-future/)
2022-11-02T09:32:00Z	**45% of Americans Say U.S. Should Be a ‘Christian Nation’**
GREGORY A. SMITH, MICHAEL ROTOLO and PATRICIA TEVINGTON,    -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: Here are the facts about christofascism, Christian Nationalism, as the media calls it, not wanting to use the word fascism -- but that is another story. I think the reality is that Americans have never lived under an authoritarian fascist government and have no real comprehension of what that would be like. A week from now w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/02/45-of-americans-say-u-s-should-be-a-christian-nation/)
2022-11-03T09:35:00Z	**Jordan sends letters to DOJ and FBI previewing what GOP controlled House Judiciary Committee would investigate**
Annie Grayer,  Reporter  -  CNN

_Stephan: MAGAt Republican Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, like many of the other Republicans in the House, is utterly incompetent as a legislator, a man with a very shady reputation interested only in himself. That the people of Ohio voted this cretin into office says mo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/03/jordan-sends-letters-to-doj-and-fbi-previewing-what-gop-controlled-house-judiciary-committee-would-investigate/)
2022-11-03T09:34:00Z	**Conservative concern? Study finds Americans in ‘red states’ more likely to die early**
Benjamin Fearnow,    -  Study Finds

_Stephan: For the last 30 years I have been showing you that if individual and social wellbeing is the calibration based on objectively verifiable data, and independent of partisanship, Republican governance is always inferior to Democratic governance. There just is no way fact-based way to refute that. So when someone votes ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/03/conservative-concern-study-finds-americans-in-red-states-more-likely-to-die-early/)
2022-11-03T09:33:00Z	**Americans Believe Crime is Way, Way Up. The Stats Don’t Match That.**
Hayes Brown,  Columnist & Editor  -  MSNBC

_Stephan: No matter where you live if you tune into a Republican candidate you will hear charges and tales that Democrats are responsible for increased crime. The MAGAt disinformation machine, like Fox, endlessly spews out this scenario. It isn't true. Here are the facts._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022- ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/03/americans-believe-crime-is-way-way-up-the-stats-dont-match-that/)
2022-11-03T09:32:00Z	**The Right-Wing Media Is a Conspiracy Engine That Enables Political Violence**
Alex Shephard,  Staff Writer  -  The New Republic

_Stephan: Donald Trump, the Murdoch family, Alex Jones, and others in the MAGAt disinformation machine have made billions in profit stoking the fear, resentment, and anger of the dim, ignorant, and overwhelmingly White portion of the American population. They actively promote violence because violence in this angry, fearful,  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/03/the-right-wing-media-is-a-conspiracy-engine-that-enables-political-violence/)
2022-11-04T09:35:00Z	**Why Unhoused People in the US Are Choosing to Go to Jail: ‘I kept Reoffending’**
Wilson Criscione,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: American cities are filled with homeless people because our social policies aren't focused on wellbeing and, as a result, homeless people go to jail, particularly in the cold months, to have a safe place to live and get regular food. It is an insane approach to the problem of homelessness because prisons are incredibly ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/04/why-unhoused-people-in-the-us-are-choosing-to-go-to-jail-i-kept-reoffending/)
2022-11-04T09:34:00Z	**Prison Spending in 2015**
,    \-  Vera Institute

_Stephan: Because in America as a society we don't have wellbeing oriented social policies, our policies are mostly about punishment, so we have the largest prison population in the world. It is a completely insane system, and unbelievably expensive. Putting someone in prison is about the same cost as sending them to college. How expensive is it? That actually is not an easy question to answer, but in 2015 the Vera Institute did the hard work and put to ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/04/prison-spending-in-2015/)
2022-11-04T09:33:00Z	**Universal Basic Income Has Been Tested Repeatedly. It Works. Will America Ever Embrace It?**
Megan Greenwell,  Reporter  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: As I tell you regularly: I am a data person. I am not a theoretician, philosopher, or political partisan. What I care about is objectively verifiable data. And what it tells us is very clear, it's just that few are willing to listen because they have some other priority than fostering wel ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/04/universal-basic-income-has-been-tested-repeatedly-it-works-will-america-ever-embrace-it/)
2022-11-04T09:32:00Z	**Republicans, Eyeing Majority, Float Changes to Social Security and Medicare**
Jim Tankersley,    -  The New York Times

_Stephan: It never ceases to amaze me that millions of Republicans routinely vote for a party and its politicians who, when they get into power, equally routinely pass legislation that screws the wellbeing of those same voters. And they never seem capable of making the connection between their votes and the degradation of their wellbein ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/04/republicans-eyeing-majority-float-changes-to-social-security-and-medicare/)
2022-11-05T09:35:00Z	**465 Billionaires Have Pumped an Eye-Popping $881 Million Into the Midterms**
Sharon Zhang,  News Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: I track the serious demise of democracy in the United States to the Supreme Court Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310 decision decided in 2010. It basically legalized the bribery of politicians and permitted the uber-rich and the corporations they control to spend unlimited money to buy the election outc ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/05/465-billionaires-have-pumped-an-eye-popping-881-million-into-the-midterms/)
2022-11-05T09:34:00Z	**Inside the corporate lobbying ‘onslaught’ that tanked anti-price gouging bills as inflation surged**
Jake Johnson,  Staff Writer  -  Alter Net / Common Dreams

_Stephan: And here you can see an example of what I was discussing in the previous article. Your life was degraded because corporations through their lobbyists were able to bribe members of Congress to vote as they wanted. It wasn't called bribery, of course, but that is wha ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/05/inside-the-corporate-lobbying-onslaught-that-tanked-anti-price-gouging-bills-as-inflation-surged/)
2022-11-05T09:33:00Z	**Big Oil Companies Are Selling Their Wells. Some Worry Taxpayers Will Pay to Clean Them Up.**
Mark Olalde,  Reporter  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: This is another variation, Oil companies don't want to have to pay for the clean-up of their oil well sites. It will cost millions of dollars. So they, with the help of carefully bribed officials, are rigging the system so that you and I will have to pay for that clean-up._

![](https://www.schwartzr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/05/big-oil-companies-are-selling-their-wells-some-worry-taxpayers-will-pay-to-clean-them-up/)
2022-11-05T09:32:00Z	**The big-stack-of-paper strategy comes to House Judiciary Republicans**
Philip Bump,  Columnist  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: You have probably heard the MAGAts Representative has presented a 1,000-page report on the egregious corruption of the FBI and the DOJ. Fox, for instance, is touting this hourly. It sure sounds like a lot of evidence, right? Sorry, it is a typical Jim Jordan MAGAt grift. Nasty. Corrupt. Bogus. Here's the truth._

![](https://www.sc ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/05/the-big-stack-of-paper-strategy-comes-to-house-judiciary-republicans/)
2022-11-06T15:06:32Z	**No SR Today**
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_Stephan:_

Stephan’s power and internet have been knocked out by stormy weather. There will be no SR edition today. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/06/no-sr-today/)
2022-11-07T10:35:00Z	**The last eight years were the hottest ever recorded on Earth: World Meteorological Organization report**
Brandon Gage,  Staff Writer  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: No one in the future will ever be able to say we weren't warned... again, and again, and again. And the future is going to condemn us for our lack of appropriate response that created the world they will inherit._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/07/the-last-eight-years-were-the-hottest-ever-recorded-on-earth-world-meteorological-organization-report/)
2022-11-07T10:34:00Z	**A spiral of violence and fear is creating angst for many voters ahead of the midterm elections**
Alex Seitz-Wald and Jonathan Allen,  Reporters  -  NBC News

_Stephan: This is what Trump and the MAGAt world he has created have wrought in America. Are we going to survive as a democratic republic? Tuesday and how people vote is going to tell us a great deal about the answer to that question. Polls say the Republicans will take both hou ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/07/a-spiral-of-violence-and-fear-is-creating-angst-for-many-voters-ahead-of-the-midterm-elections/)
2022-11-07T10:33:00Z	**Debt disaster: Average American owes more than $25,000, nearly half couldn’t cover $1,000 emergency**
Chris Melore,    -  Study Finds

_Stephan: I hate doing all these negative trends but, sadly, they are the reality in which we live. And the Republicans are campaigning on cutting Social Security and Medicare. You would think no rational person would vote for such a party, but I know millions will. A large percentage of Americans don't ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/07/debt-disaster-average-american-owes-more-than-25000-nearly-half-couldnt-cover-1000-emergency/)
2022-11-07T10:32:00Z	**Biden won on infrastructure. Democrats are struggling to get voters to care.**
TANYA SNYDER, JORDAN WOLMAN, ANNIE SNIDER, JOHN HENDEL and ELEANOR MUELLER,    -  Politico

_Stephan: There are a number of things I think Biden could do better but compared to what the Republicans are proposing he is a shining knight. However, sadly, I don't think the American electorate is capable to seeing what is before their faces, and they are going to vote to further d ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/07/biden-won-on-infrastructure-democrats-are-struggling-to-get-voters-to-care/)
2022-11-08T10:35:00Z	**“This is not about stopping fraud”: GOP sues to throw out thousands of ballots in key swing states**
JAKE JOHNSON,  Staff Writer  -  Salon

_Stephan: Over 63 courts across the country and countless reassessments have shown that there is no coordinated effort to sabotage the integrity of the election process... except, that's right, except, the deliberate attempt by the Republicans to stop people from voting. Today I think we will he ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/08/this-is-not-about-stopping-fraud-gop-sues-to-throw-out-thousands-of-ballots-in-key-swing-states/)
2022-11-08T10:34:00Z	**$13,271,200 – Fortune 500 Companies Have Given Millions to Election Deniers Since Jan. 6**
Sergio Hernandez and Nat Lash,    -  ProPublica

_Stephan: Here are the corporations trying to destroy our democracy by funding election deniers. I urge you to read this list and if you are currently dealing with any of these companies stop and take your business elsewhere. If you bank with Wells Fargo, bank elsewhere. If you have insurance with MetLife, insure elsewhere. Ronlyn and I just changed our home insurance from MetLife ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/08/13271200/)
2022-11-08T10:33:00Z	**Republican candidates on climate: ‘fake science’ to ‘carbon is healthy’**
,    \-

_Stephan: If you vote Republican today, or have voted that way already, you are voting for the degradation of your personal wellbeing, and condemning your children and their children to stress and misery. The Republican Party is not supportive of a prudent response to climate change. It is that simple._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Screenshot-202 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/08/republican-candidates-on-climate-fake-science-to-carbon-is-healthy/)
2022-11-08T10:32:00Z	**Extremist Republicans openly attack public schools teaching science, history and social studies to kids**
David Badash,    -

_Stephan: If you vote Republican today, or have already voted Republican, and you have children or grandchildren in public education, you have voted for them to be indoctrinated, not educated. The Republican Party does not like public education that is fact-based. Like all fascists they want children t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/08/extremist-republicans-openly-attack-public-schools-teaching-science-history-and-social-studies-to-kids/)
2022-11-09T10:36:00Z	**Editor’s Note: I was wrong and I am so glad**
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan: Like many of you, I have been watching from network to network as the mid-term election has played out. Several things stand out for me: First, the Red wave a tidal change in governance with the MAGAt Republicans taking control that was supposed to happen did not. Second, the MAGAts took away a fundamental right of half the population -- all the females -- and those women recognized ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/09/editors-note-i-was-wrong-and-i-am-so-glad/)
2022-11-09T10:35:10Z	**Trump insists the United States is ‘rigged, crooked and evil’**
Steve Benen,  Producer - Rachel Maddow Show  -  MSNBC

_Stephan: I think history is going to condemn Merrick Garland for not indicting and prosecuting Trump before the election. WE will see what he does after the election. One thing is certain. No president in the history of the country has every called the United States evil. It is a statement ignored here but with significant geopolitical consequences._
 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/09/trump-insists-the-united-states-is-rigged-crooked-and-evil/)
2022-11-09T10:34:00Z	**U.S. democracy slides toward ‘competitive authoritarianism’**
Ishaan Tharoor ,    -  msn

_Stephan: This is another way of describing what I have been warning you about for over a year now. And it is changing the way we are seen in the world._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Screenshot-2022-11-08-at-5.56.19-PM.png)_A person dressed as Uncle Sam attends a rally held by former president Donald Trump in support of Republican candidates in Latr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/09/u-s-democracy-slides-toward-competitive-authoritarianism/)
2022-11-09T10:33:10Z	**The World’s Democracies Ask: Why Can’t America Fix Itself?**
Damien Cave,  Correspondent  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: This is my assessment of why we are in such a state of decline. First, Citizens United which has legalized bribery and stimulated corruption. Second, A large percentage of Americans are extremely provincial. Eleven percent of Americans have never traveled outside of the state where they were born. Over half (54 percent) say they’ve visited 10 states or ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/09/the-worlds-democracies-ask-why-cant-america-fix-itself/)
2022-11-09T10:32:00Z	**Trump is hoping to jail “significant numbers of reporters” in second term: report**
Bob Brigham,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Trump is a classic christofascist, and entirely predictable. Were he to be elected again we would see the end of the free press. I'm not sure Americans even understand what that means, or what its implications would be._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Screenshot-2022-11-08-at-6.27.3 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/09/trump-is-hoping-to-jail-significant-numbers-of-reporters-in-a-second-term-report/)
2022-11-10T10:35:00Z	**“How is this not a red wave?”: Fox News struggles to cope with “how to explain” GOP midterm failure**
Areeba Shah,  Staff Writer  -  Salon

_Stephan: I watched the Fox disinformation operation today and it made me realize that when a moment of truth like an election occurs, and the lies they have been peddling for months are rejected the liars have nowhere to hide, and just mumble and dissemble, as their phoniness is revealed. The Mur ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/10/how-is-this-not-a-red-wave-fox-news-struggles-to-cope-with-how-to-explain-gop-midterm-failure/)
2022-11-10T10:34:48Z	**The Public Shouldn’t Pay for Drugs Twice**
JAMES STOUT,    -  Undark

_Stephan: This article raises an issue I have been citing for some years. Why do taxpayers pay to develop a drug and then pay a second time the crazy prices people are charged in the U.S. for the drug they previously paid to develop? This is one of the most corrupt aspects of the American illness profit system, and it is time for the Democrats under Biden to change this rigged system._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.n ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/10/the-public-shouldnt-pay-for-drugs-twice/)
2022-11-10T10:33:00Z	**Abortion rights backers see big wins in Tuesday results**
Sandhya Raman, Lauren Clason, and Jessie Hellmann,    -  Roll Call

_Stephan: This is good news. It says that a majority of American voters support gender equality and an individual's right to control their own bodies. That's good news.

When I looked at this data, what it suggested to me was that this was one of history's great ironies, and I think that is how historians in the future will see it. Six ultra-conser ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/10/abortion-rights-backers-see-big-wins-in-tuesday-results/)
2022-11-10T10:32:00Z	**Meet the ‘Black Robe Regiment’ of Extremist Pastors Spreading Christian Nationalism.**
David Gilbert and Tess Owen,  Senior Reporter  -  Vice News

_Stephan:_

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Screenshot-2022-11-09-at-10.30.17-PM.png)_Christian Nationalist Pastor David Maclellan in his home Credit: Madeleine May / Vice News_

PHOENIX — Days before the midterm elections, Pastor David MacLellan was ready to preach far-r ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/10/meet-the-black-robe-regiment-of-extremist-pastors-spreading-christian-nationalism/)
2022-11-11T10:35:00Z	**Oil and Gas Industry’s Expansion Plans Decried as Attack on ‘Livable Planet’**
Kenny Stancil,    -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: You didn't think the carbon industries were going to go quietly off-stage did you? They are not, as this report spells out. They are investing hundreds of millions of dollars into expanding despite the fact that every scientific study that has been done has told us we must exit the carbon era. Why are these corporations doing this? ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/11/oil-and-gas-industrys-expansion-plans-decried-as-attack-on-livable-planet/)
2022-11-11T10:34:00Z	**Power Causes Brain Damage**
Jerry Useem,  Contributing Writer  -  The Atlantic

_Stephan: As I was reading criminal Trump's text posts, and listening to the crap being spewed out by Fox commentators, and politicians like Boebert I began to wonder if just being in a position of power could damage a person's brain. I went looking on Science Direct and PubMed, and found several papers that suggested this might be true. However, they were too technical, so I then went looking for a general audience articl ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/11/power-causes-brain-damage/)
2022-11-11T10:33:00Z	**‘Past the point of incremental changes’: The United States is warming faster than the rest of the world**
Julia Conley,  Staff Writer  -  AlterNet / Common Dreams

_Stephan: I think climate change is going to be the defining issue in the 2024 election. The Congressional Republicans to a member voted against Biden's bills to deal with climate change. I think they will pay a price for this as Americans finally really wake up to w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/11/past-the-point-of-incremental-changes-the-united-states-is-warming-faster-than-the-rest-of-the-world/)
2022-11-11T10:32:00Z	**Abortion Rights Are Reshaping American Politics**
Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux,    -  Five Thirty Eight

_Stephan: As I said in yesterday's edition I think it is one of the great political ironies that the six christofascists on the Supreme Court by their decision in Dobbs essentially, as history has now shown, assured that the anticipated "Red Wave" the Republicans thought would sweep them into power was more like a MAGAt peeing on a rock. Had the Court not overthrown Roe I think the  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/11/abortion-rights-are-reshaping-american-politics/)
2022-11-12T10:35:00Z	**How to Move a Country: Fiji’s Radical Plan to escape rising sea levels**
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_Stephan:_

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Screenshot-2022-11-11-at-8.50.00-PM.png)_Left: destruction caused by Cyclone Winston in Fiji. Right: Village of Vunidogoloa, which in 2014 was the first village moved. Credit: Reuters / NZ Defense Force_

For thepast four years, a special government taskforce in [Fiji](https://www.theguardian.com/world/fij ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/12/how-to-move-a-country-fijis-radical-plan-to-escape-rising-sea-levels/)
2022-11-12T10:34:00Z	**Jordan Is Running Out of Water, a Grim Glimpse of the Future**
Karen Zraick,  Breaking News and General Assignment Reporter.  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: The Fuji story is a tale of too much water, this is a story of too little. As I read this article about Jordan I was reminded of what is happening with the Colorado River, and the seven states that depend upon its water, which is drying up. I will say again, water is destiny, and in countries around the world, i ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/12/jordan-is-running-out-of-water-a-grim-glimpse-of-the-future/)
2022-11-12T10:33:00Z	**Is Big Agriculture Finally Having a “Come to Jesus” Moment?**
DOMINIC RUSHE,    -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: Here is some good news climate change is producing. Industrial, chemical, mono-cultural agriculture is on the way out, to the benefit of the matrix of life._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Screenshot-2022-11-11-at-6.45.00-PM.png)_A combine harvester working in a wheat field. Credit: **Getty**_

Food companies and governments must come ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/12/is-big-agriculture-finally-having-a-come-to-jesus-moment/)
2022-11-12T10:32:00Z	**‘As worrying as Big Oil’ — Big Meat fighting to keep beef on the menu at COP27**
Marc Fawcett-Atkinson,    -  National Observer (Canada)

_Stephan: Here is another aspect of climate change. It is little considered outside of a specific community, in this case the cattle business, more properly understood as the meat business. How that community is responding to what is happening is very revealing. It is the typical corruption model response, and it is s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/12/as-worrying-as-big-oil-big-meat-fighting-to-keep-beef-on-the-menu-at-cop27/)
2022-11-13T10:35:00Z	**Thawing Permafrost Exposes Old Pathogens—and New Hosts**
race Browne,  Staff Writer  -  Wired

_Stephan: Here is another little-recognized or discussed negative effect arising from climate change. When you add this to the mutation of viruses as a result of their changing environment it is easy to see why, as I have been telling you, Covid is just one of a series of pandemics humanity is going to face. This is why it is essential America change the illness profit system of  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/13/thawing-permafrost-exposes-old-pathogens-and-new-hosts/)
2022-11-13T10:34:58Z	**Climate change threatening ‘things Americans value most,’ U.S. report says**
Brady Dennis, Chris Mooney and Steven Mufson ,    -

_Stephan: As I told you the day of the election I think the 2024 Presidential election is going to hinge on which party does best of climate change remediation, which is almost certainly the Democratic Party. Why do I say this? Because I think a new majority is emerging in the electorate: 18-34s, women, and people of color. Chris ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/13/climate-change-threatening-things-americans-value-most-u-s-report-says/)
2022-11-13T10:33:00Z	**Climate change and rising seas threaten Egypt’s breadbasket**
SAMY MAGDY ,  Reporter  -  ABC News / Associated Press

_Stephan: Here is yet another report about the destiny water produces all over the world. The implications for Egypt and how they are going to feed, or not, their people in the future should be a wakeup call to us all. This is also another story that convinces me that the 2024 election is going to turn on climate change just as it is going to shape gove ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/13/climate-change-and-rising-seas-threaten-egypts-breadbasket/)
2022-11-13T10:32:00Z	**Homes are collapsing into the ocean in Florida. Here’s what’s behind the dangerous situation**
Rachel Ramirez,  Reporter  -  CNN

_Stephan: Nowhere, in my opinion, is the truth that water is destiny going to be made clearer than in Florida. People are still moving to Florida but as the coming years are going to make clear much of Florida is doomed. I anticipate a trillion-dollar real estate collapse in Florida that is going to completely  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/13/homes-are-collapsing-into-the-ocean-in-florida-heres-whats-behind-the-dangerous-situation/)
2022-11-14T10:34:02Z	**U.S. judge rejects Biden administration’s LGBT health protections**
Nate Raymond,  Staff Writer  -  Reuters

_Stephan: This decision tells us very clearly why the Democrats retaining the Senate majority is so important. Trump and McConnell attempted to restructure the judiciary into a christofascist cabal, and the judges they appointed have attempted to serve their masters. But Biden has appointed more judges than any recent president, and now has a senate that wi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/14/u-s-judge-rejects-biden-administrations-lgbt-health-protections/)
2022-11-14T10:33:00Z	**Vatican auditor says he uncovered a ‘reign of terror’ and blackmail from cardinals — now he’s suing**
Sarah K. Burris,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: It isn't getting much coverage but the Roman Catholic Church is being devastated by a new scandal. For years now the church has been degraded by the sexual dysfunction of its priesthood -- the French are just now bringing another cardinal to task for his youth sexual molestation, and millio ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/14/vatican-auditor-says-he-uncovered-a-reign-of-terror-and-blackmail-from-cardinals-now-hes-suing/)
2022-11-15T10:35:00Z	**President Biden’s Infrastructure Act is bringing electricity to areas left out for the last 90 years**
Mark Sumner,    -  Daily Kos

_Stephan: One of the reasons this election is so important is that the Democrats are the only party interested in infrastructure that is not immediately profitable to corporations. America's infrastructure for water, electricity, roads, bridges, and sewage is antiquated and inferior. Anyone who has ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/15/president-bidens-infrastructure-act-is-bringing-electricity-to-areas-left-out-for-the-last-90-years/)
2022-11-15T10:34:00Z	**Who Will Win the Race to Generate Electricity From Ocean Tides?**
Ian Austen,  Reporter for Canada  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Recognizing the matrix of consciousness as being part of all life is going to lead to new technologies, and new ways of thinking about them, which include considering their impact on the matrix. Here is an example of what I mean._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Screenshot-2022-11-14-at-9.37.14-PM.png)_T ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/15/who-will-win-the-race-to-generate-electricity-from-ocean-tides/)
2022-11-15T10:33:00Z	**India’s First Solar-Powered Village Pays Residents’ Electric Bills and Then Some**
: Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,    -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: This is another variant representing the trend of the future. It happens to be in India, but it could do equally well in rural Mississippi. And please notice that a technology that fosters wellbeing is much cheaper, indeed changes the whole money dynamic._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/15/indias-first-solar-powered-village-pays-residents-electric-bills-and-then-some/)
2022-11-15T10:32:00Z	**Affordable solar homes are lifting homeowners out of poverty**
,    \-  Inhabit

_Stephan: Here, also in India, are two more examples of what I mean by the change in technologies that climate change is going to demand. The first story again makes the point that policies that foster wellbeing are always the best solution. Homelessness in American cities has reached such a level that people avoid going into some cities, or sections of a city. Preposterous amounts of mo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/15/affordable-solar-homes-are-lifting-homeowners-out-of-poverty/)
2022-11-16T10:35:00Z	**Powerful Murdoch Media Dumps on Trump**
,    \-  Agence France-Presse

_Stephan: The Murdochs represent, to me at least, everything that has gone wrong with journalism. A billionaire and his children by careful design run a propaganda disinformation operation through multiple outlets print and electronic whose purpose is to masquerade as a journalism business and manipulate the political systems in the countries in which they operate -- Australia, UK, and US. They can exist only because of ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/16/powerful-murdoch-media-dumps-on-trump/)
2022-11-16T10:34:00Z	**New-officer Training Presents ‘Immediate Crisis for Policing,’ Report Says**
Mark Berman,  National Reporter  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: in the early 1990s, I was on the board of directors of a children's foundation with the Deputy Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department. One night over dinner, when earlier in the day I had read about an act of racist violence against a Black man by the L.A. Sheriff's Department, I asked the Deputy Chief how thes ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/16/new-officer-training-presents-immediate-crisis-for-policing-report-says/)
2022-11-16T10:33:00Z	**Why did single women vote for Democrats? Republicans have an asinine theory**
Amanda Marcotte,  Senior Political Writer  -  Salon

_Stephan: I don't know how it could be made any clearer than what this article reports, MAGAt world fundamentally believes women are not the equals of men. It is preposterous, it is one of the reasons there was no "red wave" in the election, but it is the MAGAt reality._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/16/why-did-single-women-vote-for-democrats-republicans-have-an-asinine-theory/)
2022-11-16T10:32:00Z	**The Fight to Stop Republicans From Killing Wolves and Grizzlies**
Ryan Devereaux,    -  The Intrercept

_Stephan: One of the central failings of the Republican Party is that they simply do not accept that all life is interdependent and interconnected in a matrix of life. If you understand that and actually care about facts -- the Republicans do not -- you would know that wolves and grizzlies as essential players in ecological wellbeing. That may sound like a philo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/16/the-fight-to-stop-republicans-from-killing-wolves-and-grizzlies/)
2022-11-17T10:35:00Z	**How COVID-19 Changed Life Expectancy Rates in the U.S. and Around the World**
ALICE PARK ,    -  Time Magazine

_Stephan: As climate change continues science tells us very clearly that viruses are going to mutate to accommodate for their changed circumstances. This virtually guarantees that we will have other pandemics in the future, which is one of the reasons, I think, implementing universal birthright single-payer healthcare structured to foster well ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/17/how-covid-19-changed-life-expectancy-rates-in-the-u-s-and-around-the-world/)
2022-11-17T10:34:00Z	**The World is Getting Older and Growing Slower**
Stef W. Kight and Tory Lysik,    -  Axios

_Stephan: There are fundamental changes occurring that are changing human populations throughout the world. This is going to have all kinds of implications. as this report describes._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Screenshot-2022-11-16-at-5.56.07-PM.png)

The global population is surpassing 8 billion this week — despite slowing fertility rates and aging popula ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/17/the-world-is-getting-older-and-growing-slower/)
2022-11-17T10:33:00Z	**Right-Wing Dark Money Flooded the Midterm, But Young Voters Beat the Red Wave**
Lisa Graves,  Staff Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: Here is confirmation of what I have said several times since the election. A new voter majority is emerging in the U.S. and it puts the Republicans in a very awkward position because, as this report describes, women, young people, and people of color, can trump christofascist dark money. The MAGAt base is a shrinking minor ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/17/right-wing-dark-money-flooded-the-midterm-but-young-voters-beat-the-red-wave/)
2022-11-17T10:32:00Z	**Half of Nurses Consider Quitting as Labor Shortages Take Toll on Mental Health — and Patient Care Too**
Chris Melore,    -  Study Finds

_Stephan: By almost any calculation one chooses, the illness-profit system of American healthcare is failing to meet the needs of Americans, including the men and women who provide the care. Why? Because it is a system entirely based on profit not fostering wellbeing._

![](https://www.schwartz ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/17/half-of-nurses-consider-quitting-as-labor-shortages-take-toll-on-mental-health-and-patient-care-too/)
2022-11-18T10:34:00Z	**Two Anonymous $425 Million Donations Give Dark Money Conservative Group a Massive Haul**
HAILEY FUCHS,    -  Politico

_Stephan: This is what Citizens United created, and this is why the American government is so corrupt. I think we should have publicly funded elections, and it should be illegal for an individual or corporation to legally bribe a political party or an individual. The uber-rich and the corporations they control don't give away ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/18/two-anonymous-425-million-donations-give-dark-money-conservative-group-a-massive-haul/)
2022-11-18T10:33:00Z	**GOP Strategist Pardoned by Trump Now Convicted of Illegally Funneling Him Russian Cash: Report**
Bob Brigham,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: The more time that goes by, the more criminality and corruption of Donald Trump comes to light. Here's the latest. It is amazing to me that so many millions of Americans still support such a man. He is so grotesque he is lilke a character in a satire._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/18/gop-strategist-pardoned-by-trump-now-convicted-of-illegally-funneling-him-russian-cash-report/)
2022-11-18T10:32:00Z	**New Memo Details Legal Case to Indict Trump Over Mar-a-Lago Documents**
Brett Wilkins,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Here is the case against Trump at the Federal level, distinct from what is happening in the cases in New York and Georgia. On the basis of the publicly available evidence, Garland has to indict and prosecute Trump to show that, indeed, no one is above the law in a democracy._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/18/new-memo-details-legal-case-to-indict-trump-over-mar-a-lago-documents/)
2022-11-18T10:31:00Z	**Fresh Call to Impeach Clarence Thomas After Latest ruling on Jan. 6 Insurrection**
Kenny Stancil,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Clarence Thomas never should have been put on the Supreme Court, and he has revealed through his opinions, and his wife's activities, how biased and corrupt he is. He should be impeached, should have been impeached several years ago, and removed from the Court. Thomas' bias and corruption is one of the main reasons the Court  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/18/fresh-call-to-impeach-clarence-thomas-after-latest-ruling-on-jan-6-insurrection/)
2022-11-19T10:35:00Z	**Biden Admin Joins Global Pact to Achieve 100% New Electric Car and Truck Sales by 2040**
Olivia Rosane,  Freelance Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: This is excellent good news. The latest on the trend ending the internal combustion engine. I am very surprised that it is getting so little attention since it will have such a big impact on the future in a definable way._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Screenshot-202 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/19/biden-admin-joins-global-pact-to-achieve-100-new-electric-car-and-truck-sales-by-2040/)
2022-11-19T10:34:00Z	**Fenced In: How the Global Rise of Border Walls Is Stifling Wildlife**
FRED PEARCE,    -  Yale 360

_Stephan: The fear of the "other" and the building of walls by people driven by that fear, with no consideration as to the effect such walls have on the wellbeing of earth's matrix of life is another tragic story of humanity's failure to understand that the fostering of wellbeing of the matrix is the key to our survival. The subject is rarely discussed or even con ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/19/fenced-in-how-the-global-rise-of-border-walls-is-stifling-wildlife/)
2022-11-19T10:33:00Z	**Trump’s Authoritarian Promise**
WILLIAM SALETAN,  Staff Writer  -  The Bulwark

_Stephan: When I listened to Trump's announcement of his candidacy for president for a second term two things struck me. First, his endless whining about how he is a victim; second, his blatant fascism, and assertion that if elected again he will be an outright authoritarian. I started to write an essay on this, when I came across this article in The Bulwark_

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/1 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/19/trumps-authoritarian-promise/)
2022-11-19T10:32:00Z	**Millions of missing women: China grapples with legacy of one-child policy as population ages**
Helen Davidson in Taipei, and Verna Yu,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: In 1980 the men in the Chinese government in order to control the population passed a law stating that a woman could have only one child. I have been following this situation from the beginning because it has become a classic example of what happens when men seek to c ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/19/millions-of-missing-women-china-grapples-with-legacy-of-one-child-policy-as-population-ages/)
2022-11-20T10:35:00Z	**Nations reach preliminary deal on payments as climate talks grind through overtime**
KARL MATHIESEN and ZACK COLMAN,    -  Politico

_Stephan: It's only a first step but it is good news. I say this because I think it finally represents an act based on the awareness that climate change is not a matter of national borders, it is planet-wide. However, the actions of a single country within its borders can, and has, had an effect on the entire plane ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/20/nations-reach-preliminary-deal-on-payments-as-climate-talks-grind-through-overtime/)
2022-11-20T10:34:00Z	**Emirates Has Spent $154 Million on Lobbying US Since 2016, and Has Illegally Influenced US Politics: Intel Report**
Juan Cole,    -  Reader Supported News

_Stephan: The corruption of Trump and his administration has brought into focus the appalling corruption of the American government. Citizens United legalized bribery, and not only the American uber-rich, and the corporations they control, have taken advantage of t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/20/emirates-has-spent-154-million-on-lobbying-us-since-2016-and-has-illegally-influenced-us-politics-intel-report/)
2022-11-20T10:33:00Z	**Supreme Court accused of leaking 2014 anti-choice ruling to religious leaders weeks before it was made public: report**
Tom Boggioni,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: The current Supreme Court majority, in my opinion, are not justices interested in objective judicial judgments. They constitute a corrupt christofascist cabal. This is one of the many reasons I think as I do._

![](https://www.schwartzreport. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/20/supreme-court-accused-of-leaking-2014-anti-choice-ruling-to-religious-leaders-weeks-before-it-was-made-public-report/)
2022-11-20T10:32:00Z	**Clarence Thomas Again Moves to Block January 6 Inquiry That Could Implicate His Wife**
Paul Blumenthal,  Staff Writer  -  HuffPost

_Stephan: Yet another example of the corruption of the Supreme Court, this time demonstrating yet again Associate Justice Clarence Thomas' lack of ethics. The failure of the Senate to impeach Clarence Thomas makes explicit that the Democrats know Thomas is corrupt but will do nothing to hold him accountable for hi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/20/clarence-thomas-again-moves-to-block-january-6-inquiry-that-could-implicate-his-wife/)
2022-11-21T10:35:00Z	**In rural America, the crisis of disappearing reproductive care steals lives**
Akilah Johnson,  Reporter  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: If you live in a rural Red state and are typical, you have lousy healthcare options. People who live in Blue states and cities don't really grasp how bad healthcare in rural Red state areas actually has become. As this story points out in rural Maine there is one primary care doc for every 1,300 residents, and one ps ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/21/in-rural-america-the-crisis-of-disappearing-reproductive-care-steals-lives/)
2022-11-21T10:34:00Z	**Bees’ average lifespan has halved in fifty years. That could be bad news for humanity**
MATTHEW ROZSA,  Staff Writer  -  Salon

_Stephan: Your life, and the life of your family, depends on the honey bee. Did you know that? As this article points out one-third of the human diet, the food you eat depends on the pollination of honey bees. If you can do anything to help the bees you should do so. If you have a yard or garden plant flowers that bees ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/21/bees-average-lifespan-has-halved-in-fifty-years-that-could-be-bad-news-for-humanity/)
2022-11-21T10:33:00Z	**Provention prices diabetes drug above analysts’ estimates at $13,850/vial**
Raghav Mahobe and Nandhini Srinivasan,  Reporters  -  Reuters

_Stephan: Diabetes is such a common disease I am sure you know someone who suffers from illness. It is also one of Big Pharma's gold mines. If you have diabetes you have to have insulin and other drugs that make your life liveable. Indeed, make it possible to live. So, of course, in the American illness profit system thi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/21/provention-prices-diabetes-drug-above-analysts-estimates-at-13850-vial/)
2022-11-21T10:32:00Z	**Humans could face reproductive crisis as sperm count declines, study finds**
Nicola Davis,  Science Correspondent  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: If you read me regularly you know that I have been following this very important male fertility trend story for years. You rarely hear this discussed on television media, and outside of the professional science literature, there are very few stories published. Whether covered by media or not, this trend is g ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/21/humans-could-face-reproductive-crisis-as-sperm-count-declines-study-finds/)
2022-11-22T10:35:00Z	**Gun Violence Archive**
,    \-  Gun Violence Archive

_Stephan: As we all listen, read, and watch the latest mass murder in the U.S. are you noticing that almost no politicians are talking about serious gun control? We have had 601 mass murders since 1 January 2022 that have killed almost 40,000 people so far, all involving guns, yet nothing serious is happening about military-style weapons like AR-15s. It has gotten to a point that one faces a measure of risk going anywhere to anything where a group of pe ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/22/gun-violence-archive/)
2022-11-22T10:34:00Z	**France to require all large parking lots to be covered by solar panels**
Jennifer Mossalgue ,    -  electrek

_Stephan: This is how a country moves out of the age of carbon energy, and this is good news. It is a shame that in the United States where our infrastructure is, in all too many cases, third world, we can't seem to reach the clarity, particularly in states under Republican governance. where obvious things like this move in France are being implemen ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/22/france-to-require-all-large-parking-lots-to-be-covered-by-solar-panels/)
2022-11-22T10:33:00Z	**Two EV-Charging Roads Are Coming to Detroit**
Paige Bennett,  Investigative Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: I see this as a big deal because, as I wrote about a week ago in Driving Out of the Carbon Era (see SR's archive) although most of the discussion of the future of EVs is about what I have called the gas station model of charging stations, my personal view is that as roads are upgraded if would be better if they were turned into charging roads that will charge the batteries of ca ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/22/two-ev-charging-roads-are-coming-to-detroit/)
2022-11-22T10:32:00Z	**Report: 158 Priests in Baltimore Accused of Abusing 600 Victims Over Decades**
Brian Witte,    -  Insurance Journal

_Stephan: I am publishing this report because although it is getting almost no media coverage, at this moment, all over the world there continue to be ongoing scandals about the sexual dysfunction of Roman Catholic clerics, from a cardinal in France, to dozens of priests in Baltimore, Maryland. Literally thousands of Roman Catholic pries ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/22/report-158-priests-in-baltimore-accused-of-abusing-600-victims-over-decades/)
2022-11-23T10:32:00Z	**Amy Coney Barrett urged to step away from gay rights case because of faith affiliation**
Stephanie Kirchgaessner,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Yet another integrity issue with the christofascist majority of justices on the Supreme Court._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Screenshot-2022-11-22-at-8.49.48-PM.png)_Amy Coney Barrett. Credit: Damian Dovarganes / AP_

Former members of Amy Coney Barrett’s secr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/23/amy-coney-barrett-urged-to-step-away-from-gay-rights-case-because-of-faith-affiliation/)
2022-11-23T10:35:00Z	**How Much Wealth The One Percent Dominates In Different Countries, Visualized**
Darcy Jimenez,    -  digg

_Stephan: From a historical perspective, the profit above all other priorities has had the effect of creating an aristocracy of wealth instead of blood. It is a recreation of the medieval model. Wealth inequality is not only an American problem, and worldwide it wounds wellbeing. I predict that between 2040 and 2045 we are going to undergo a massiv ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/23/how-much-wealth-the-one-percent-dominates-in-different-countries-visualized/)
2022-11-23T10:34:00Z	**Lawmakers seek to end slavery for the incarcerated, which is legal in most states**
Cheyanne M. Daniels,    -  Changing America

_Stephan: Did you know that in the United States we still have slavery? We have the largest incarcerated population in the world and by law they are, these men and women enslaved at the choice of their owners the government. The American Gulag (See the SR archive) is a humanitarian disgrace. It is a system of punishment  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/23/lawmakers-seek-to-end-slavery-for-the-incarcerated-which-is-legal-in-most-states/)
2022-11-23T10:33:00Z	**Politicians in Colorado Springs Chose Flouting Gun Laws Over People’s Lives**
Tim Miller,    -  Bulwark

_Stephan: The Colorado Springs massacre was, as this article describes, an example of what America's obsessive gun psychosis is doing to American society. Since the beginning of the year we have had 601 massacres, and suddenly no place is safe assuredly. The discussion now is all about mental health support but, I suggest, there is also an issue of m ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/23/politicians-in-colorado-springs-chose-flouting-gun-laws-over-peoples-lives/)
2022-11-24T10:35:00Z	**Science Slowly Accepts the Matrix of Consciousness**
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Columnist  -  Explore Journal

_Stephan: When I talk about the matrix of consciousness this is what I mean in spacetime. The matrix though extends into the nonlocal consciousness domain as well._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Screenshot-2022-11-23-at-9.18.23-PM.png)_Plants don’t have a nervous system but they have developed detailed molecular networks which enable them t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/24/science-slowly-accepts-the-matrix-of-consciousness/)
2022-11-24T10:34:00Z	**Plants teach their offspring how to adapt to climate change, scientists find**
Charlotte Elton ,    -  euronews.green

_Stephan: Here is yet more on the matrix of consciousness. Once you begin to understand the matrix you see clearly why fostering wellbeing at every level is the wy to go._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Screenshot-2022-11-23-at-9.27.27-PM.png)_New analysis suggests that plants can pass on climate adaptat ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/24/plants-teach-their-offspring-how-to-adapt-to-climate-change-scientists-find/)
2022-11-24T10:33:00Z	**Why solar electric vehicles might be the next generation of EVs**
Katie Brigham,    -  CNBC

_Stephan: As we exit the carbon energy era a whole range of new technologies are going to arise, technologies that foster wellbeing by reducing harm to the environment. Here is an example of what I mean._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Screenshot-2022-11-23-at-9.49.18-PM.png)

The world’s first commercial solar electric vehicles are hitting  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/24/why-solar-electric-vehicles-might-be-the-next-generation-of-evs/)
2022-11-25T10:35:00Z	**‘It’s the guns’: violent week in a deadly year prompts familiar US responses**
Ed Pilkington,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: My original plan for today's issue was to commit the entire issue to the stories about the Thanksgiving mass shooting and murders. Think about that, But, when I laid it out it was just too much, so I am doing just this one article. In the United States so far this year we have had 608 mass shootings and murders, and nearly 40, ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/25/its-the-guns-violent-week-in-a-deadly-year-prompts-familiar-us-responses/)
2022-11-25T10:34:00Z	**The Renewable Energy Transition Is Failing**
Richard Heinberg,  Senior Fellow at the Post Carbon Institute  -  Independent Media Institute

_Stephan: What becomes ever more clear as I read the scientific and professional literature is that humanity, and particularly the United States, are not only not properly planning for dealing with climate change, the allocation of resources for the task is badly screwed up because politicians simply won't face the reality of what is happening. Th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/25/the-renewable-energy-transition-is-failing/)
2022-11-25T10:33:00Z	**Children’s Hospitals Call on Biden to Declare Emergency Amid ‘Alarming Surge’ of RSV**
JULIA CONLEY,    -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: The illness profit system of healthcare, on the basis of objectively verifiable evidence (see the SR archive), is failing. And it is only going to get worse as health issues become more extreme as a result of pandemics, lack of staff, and healthcare "deserts" in rural areas where there are no hospitals, as well as fe ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/25/childrens-hospitals-call-on-biden-to-declare-emergency-amid-alarming-surge-of-rsv/)
2022-11-25T10:32:00Z	**Donald Trump Is (Still) President of White America**
Erin Aubry Kaplan,    -  Politico

_Stephan: For fearful resentful Whites, Trump is still their leader, as this article describes. The problem they face is that this cohort is a shrinking minority. The problem the rest of us face is that as these people recognize they are a shrinking minority they are likely to get more violent. We've had four mass shootings during this Thanksgiving period and I fear this is a precursor for wh ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/25/donald-trump-is-still-president-of-white-america/)
2022-11-26T10:35:00Z	**US corporations gave more than $8m to election deniers’ midterm campaigns**
Ed Pilkington,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: This is yet another report on attempted corruption by corporations controlled by UBer-rich individuals. What can you do about this? Simple. Don't shop at Home Depot. Change your phone from AT&T, and don't fly on Delta. And, of course, don't do business with anything touched by Koch Industries._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/26/us-corporations-gave-more-than-8m-to-election-deniers-midterm-campaigns/)
2022-11-26T10:34:00Z	**Biden Voices Support For Assault Weapons Ban During Lame-Duck Congress**
Sara Boboltz,  Staff Writer  -  HuffPost

_Stephan: This is good news. I doubt it will be successful immediately because few if any Republicans in either house of Congress, and not all Democrats will vote for such a weapons ban. But it starts the conversation and will, hopefully, stimulate a response from millions of American voters, and that wave of collective intention will scare Con ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/26/biden-voices-support-for-assault-weapons-ban-during-lame-duck-congress/)
2022-11-26T10:33:00Z	**So much mass death: The insurgency we refuse to see**
John Stoehr,  Staff Writer  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: I think this essay raises very relevant reports about what is going on with all these mass shootings. It is time to end the American obsessive gun psychosis and the politics it has produced._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Screenshot-2022-11-25-at-5.54.39-PM.png)_Credit: Joshua Holland_

There was another mass shooting last night, this one in ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/26/so-much-mass-death-the-insurgency-we-refuse-to-see/)
2022-11-26T10:32:00Z	**Pharma Companies Abuse the Patent System, and Patients Pay the Price**
Emily Hutto,  Associate Video Producer  -  MedPage Today

_Stephan: Big Pharma is one of the most corrupt parts of the illness profit system that passes for healthcare in the United States. You and I fund the development of drugs, then pay obscene overcharges to get access to them. This interview presents an excellent explanation of the current situation, and why it must change._

![](https ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/26/pharma-companies-abuse-the-patent-system-and-patients-pay-the-price/)
2022-11-27T10:35:00Z	**Six million Americans carried guns daily in 2019, twice as many as in 2015**
Lois Beckett,  Staff Writer  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: This is what America's obsessive gun psychosis has produced. We are becoming a nation, particularly in Red states, of armed individuals. That inevitably will mean an increase of people wounded or murdered by gunfire, plus increased suicides by gun. Nearly 40,000 men, women, and children had died from gunfire in the U ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/27/six-million-americans-carried-guns-daily-in-2019-twice-as-many-as-in-2015/)
2022-11-27T10:34:00Z	**America’s unique, enduring gun problem, explained**
Nicole Narea, Li Zhou, and Ian Millhiser ,    -  Vox

_Stephan: Think about this: "Every day, more than 110 Americans die at the end of a gun. American guns are concentrated in a tiny minority of households: just 3 percent own about half the nation’s guns, according to a 2016 Harvard and Northeastern University study. They’re called “super owners” who have an average of 17 guns each," as this essay describes. This is the sickness ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/27/americas-unique-enduring-gun-problem-explained/)
2022-11-27T10:33:00Z	**People in Portland Planted Trees. Decades Later, a Stunning Pattern Emerged**
RUSSELL MCLENDON,    -  SCIENCE alert

_Stephan: This is part of how a society fosters wellbeing. Think about how relatively inexpensive planting the trees was, and how impressive its affirmative social effect has been. This is the kind of thinking we need from Congress, instead of the culture war we now have.

To see the research paper upon which this report is based go to: ht ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/27/people-in-portland-planted-trees-decades-later-a-stunning-pattern-emerged/)
2022-11-27T10:33:00Z	**Next Covid-19 Strain May be More Dangerous, Lab Study Shows**
Antony Sguazzin ,    -  msn

_Stephan: As I have been telling you viruses mutate, and here is a report on a just published South African study showing that we are far from through with Covid, and Covid is, in my opinion, just the first of a sequence of pandemics. As climate change worsens a range of viruses will mutate to cope with their changed circumstances, so we are going to see more Covids, not Covid it ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/27/next-covid-19-strain-may-be-more-dangerous-lab-study-shows/)
2022-11-27T10:32:00Z	**Embrace what may be the most important green technology ever. It could save us all**
George Monbiot,  Columnist  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: I don't think this will completely replace agriculture. I chose this piece because it reports on one of the new technologies that recognizes the matrix of consciousness and fosters wellbeing._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Screenshot-2022-11-26-at-9.11.16-PM.png)_Illust ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/27/embrace-what-may-be-the-most-important-green-technology-ever-it-could-save-us-all/)
2022-11-28T10:35:00Z	**At Protests, Guns Are Doing the Talking**
Mike McIntire,  Investigative Reporter  -  New York Times

_Stephan: The assault by the Republican Party on American democracy is so multi-faceted that is hard to keep all the pieces straight, and see them as oriented towards a single objective: Keep a shrinking racist White minority in power whatever it takes. You probably noticed for instance the deafening silence of Congressional Republicans who have nothing to say about criminal Trump's dinner ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/28/at-protests-guns-are-doing-the-talking/)
2022-11-28T10:34:00Z	**29% say antisemitism acceptable in workplace, new survey finds**
Editorial Staff,    -  Jerusalem Post (Israel)

_Stephan: I am not Jewish, but because of my last name -- a gift from the Ellis Island clerk who processed my paternal grandparents when they came to the U.S. in 1906 and found their surname had too many consonants, hence Schwartz -- it has given me the gift of learning about antisemitism. Given what a small community Jews constitute in the U.S., 2.4% of 3 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/28/29-say-antisemitism-acceptable-in-workplace-new-survey-finds/)
2022-11-28T10:33:00Z	**The Tyranny of Inertia**
Bill McKibben,    -  Reader Support News

_Stephan: Bill McKibben has written an essay that, I think, gives the best assessment of the Sharm El-Sheikh COP27 conference I have read. The main takeaway for me is that the leaders of the governments of the world just don't understand or are willing to do what needs to be done to deal with climate change. That guarantees we will live through massive misery, social upheaval, and death._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/upl ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/28/the-tyranny-of-inertia/)
2022-11-28T10:32:00Z	**The incredible shrinking future of college**
Kevin Carey,  Staff Writer  -  Vox

_Stephan: I was wondering what the effect of America's economic issue plus the pandemic, and declining birth rates would have on colleges. Here is an assessment._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Screenshot-2022-11-27-at-6.50.37-PM.png)_Illustration by Violeta Encarnacion_

In 2021, Shippensburg University won the NCAA Division II Field Hockey championship, completing an unde ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/28/the-incredible-shrinking-future-of-college/)
2022-11-29T10:35:00Z	**How billionaire GOP megadonors are funding a major ‘hub for election denial’: report**
Alex Henderson,    -  AlterNet

_Stephan: I am increasingly concerned by what a corrupt nation the United States has become. A small group of the uber-rich are openly and actively advocating a fascist authoritarian government. Here's proof of what I am saying._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Screenshot-2022-11-28-at-8.05.07-PM.pn ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/29/how-billionaire-gop-megadonors-are-funding-a-major-hub-for-election-denial-report/)
2022-11-29T10:34:00Z	**GOP’s biggest donor funneled $20M to nationwide election denial network**
Travis Gettys,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Here is yet more of the overwhelming corruption of the Republican Party. This is what Citizens United has wrought, and why I feel so strongly that we should have publicly funded elections, and it should be a serious felony to pay anyone in public office however such a payment was transacted. The scale of this is amazing and I think it is notabl ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/29/gops-biggest-donor-funneled-20m-to-nationwide-election-denial-network/)
2022-11-29T10:33:00Z	**Humans v. Nature: Our Long and Destructive Journey to the Age of Extinction**
Phoebe Weston,    -  Reader Supported News / The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Here is an excellent essay giving the timeline showing how we got to where we are today. well worth your time to click through and read all of it. The only way we are going to end this trend is by changing our cultural worldview, and making fostering wellbeing at every level the first priority. and we h ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/29/humans-v-nature-our-long-and-destructive-journey-to-the-age-of-extinction/)
2022-11-29T10:32:00Z	**Inequality is literally killing us: The most unequal societies suffer most in public health metrics**
Stephen Bezruchka, M.D., M.P.H.,  Associate Teaching Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Health Systems & Population Health and of Global Health at the School of Public Health, University of Washington.  -  Salon

_Stephan: Here is evidence validating my assertion that wealth inequality is destructive of social wellbeing. Th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/29/inequality-is-literally-killing-us-the-most-unequal-societies-suffer-most-in-public-health-metrics/)
2022-11-30T10:35:00Z	**Same-Sex Marriage Bill Passes Senate After Bipartisan Breakthrough**
Annie Karni,  Congressional Correspondent  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: I have never understood the Right's hysteria about same-sex marriage. Why shouldn't an individual have the right to enter into marriage with anyone they love who loves them. It supports wellbeing, and creates happiness, so what's the problem? But we all know that this simple right to pick the partner you love, regardle ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/30/same-sex-marriage-bill-passes-senate-after-bipartisan-breakthrough/)
2022-11-30T10:34:00Z	**Moore v. Harper decision could ‘have catastrophic effects for democracy’**
Tiffany Terrell,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: This isn't getting much media coverage, but the Moore v. Harper case now before the Supreme Court, given the christofascist cabal that dominates the court today, could radically alter the whole structure of the American electoral process. It would basically move control of the Congress and presidency away from the voters and into ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/30/moore-v-harper-decision-could-have-catastrophic-effects-for-democracy/)
2022-11-30T10:33:00Z	**Pandemic pushes U.S. doctor burnout to all-time high of 63%**
Sara Berg, MS,  Senior News Writer  -  American Medical Association

_Stephan: Further evidence that America's illness profit system when stressed trends towards failure. Sixty three percent of physicians report they are verging on burnout. This is going to have a notably strong impact on rural areas, particularly in Red states which, because of the Dobbs decision, already have healthcare systems under stress ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/30/pandemic-pushes-u-s-doctor-burnout-to-all-time-high-of-63/)
2022-11-30T10:32:00Z	**Nearly 40 million children are dangerously susceptible to growing measles threat**
,    \-  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

_Stephan: The anti-vaxxer movement is playing a very negative role in diseases other than Covid. This movement is a form of willful stupidity that killed millions with Covid and now, as this CDC report describes, has become a factor with measles. You can't fix willful stupidity because it is a choice people make,  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/11/30/nearly-40-million-children-are-dangerously-susceptible-to-growing-measles-threat/)
2022-12-01T10:35:00Z	**US is failing to address ‘persistent and lethal threat’ of domestic terrorism, report finds**
Adam Gabbatt,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: The American obsessive gun psychosis plus the frenzied, hysterical racism and hate in the White MAGAt community has made the U.S. an unsafe nation. And, as a society, we are not dealing with this properly. Here is a brief article that lays out some of the issues. It will be interesting to see whet ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/12/01/us-is-failing-to-address-persistent-and-lethal-threat-of-domestic-terrorism-report-finds/)
2022-12-01T10:34:00Z	**America’s sudden change of heart on same-sex marriage**
Margaret Talev and Sam Baker,  Staff Writers  -  Axios

_Stephan: We saw some excellent good news with the passage of the Respect for Marriage Act. For the first time in American history, driven by the change in the culture this article describes, we are making wellbeing and love the principal definer of marriage. We have crossed a threshold. That said, I find it very interesting that 36 Republican members of the Senate ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/12/01/americas-sudden-change-of-heart-on-same-sex-marriage/)
2022-12-01T10:33:32Z	**Cigarette Smoking Rates Down Sharply Among U.S. Young Adults**
JEFFREY M. JONES,    -  The Gallup Organization

_Stephan: Here's some more good news. Far from perfect but a trend moving into increased wellbeing_

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Screenshot-2022-11-30-at-9.42.10-PM.png)

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- Rate has fallen from 35% to 12% in the past two decades
- Young adults more likely to smoke e-cigarettes, marijuana than tobacco
- Smok ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/12/01/cigarette-smoking-rates-down-sharply-among-u-s-young-adults/)
2022-12-01T10:32:00Z	**How Floating Wetlands Are Helping to Clean Up Urban Waters**
SUSAN COSIER,    -  Yale Environment 360

_Stephan: This is the kind of new technology I am talking about. It fosters wellbeing and works with, not against, the matrix of consciousness -- life itself. This is the direction we have to go._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Screenshot-2022-11-30-at-10.06.52-PM.png)_Floating wetlands along the Chicago River’s Wild Mile. Credit: Dave  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/12/01/how-floating-wetlands-are-helping-to-clean-up-urban-waters/)
2022-12-02T10:35:00Z	**61% of U.S. counties now ‘Second Amendment sanctuaries’**
Bethany Blankley ,    -  The Center Square

_Stephan: More and more counties controlled by Republicans are encouraging people to go around armed by making their counties "second amendment sanctuaries". As a result, we are sure to see an increasing number of mass murders. If you live in one of these counties I would be very alert to anyone you see who is armed, and pay close attention to the expression on their face. Sc ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/12/02/61-of-u-s-counties-now-second-amendment-sanctuaries/)
2022-12-02T10:34:00Z	**Same-sex households in the U.S. surpass 1 million for the first time, data shows**
Brooke Sopelsa,    -  NBC News

_Stephan: I think this is good news because I think marriage between people who love each other enough that they want to make their relationship a formal legal alliance fosters happiness and wellbeing. And three-quarters of Americans seem to agree. The other quarter though are hysterical, resentful, and filled with hate, MAGAt world and ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/12/02/same-sex-households-in-the-u-s-surpass-1-million-for-the-first-time-data-shows/)
2022-12-02T10:33:00Z	**Experts Warn ‘Doomsday Scenario’ for Colorado River Basin Possible in 2023**
JULIA CONLEY,    -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Seven states depend on the Colorado River, Lake Powell, and Lake Mead, for their water. As I have been reporting for more than a year the entire system is breaking down, and the implications go far beyond just those seven states because so much of the produce, nuts, and fruit that feeds Americans comes from those states, particularly C ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/12/02/experts-warn-doomsday-scenario-for-colorado-river-basin-possible-in-2023/)
2022-12-02T10:32:00Z	**Meet the Mice Who Make the Forest**
Brandon Keim,  Reporter  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Here is an important and charming story illustrating how all life is interconnected and interdependent in earth's matrix of life. We, humans, need to wake up to this reality if we are going to get through climate change as a functioning society._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Screenshot-2022-12-01-at-6.01.14-PM.png)

It’s easy to look at a forest and think it’s inevita ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/12/02/meet-the-mice-who-make-the-forest/)