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2021-11-30T10:35:00Z	**Republicans are quietly rigging election maps to ensure permanent rule**
David Pepper,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: While the media focuses on morons like Lauren Boebert, and the failure of Merrick Garland to act, the long strategy of the christofascists is playing out. We are going to know in 2022 whether they have succeeded. Our election system has been rigged to keep White racist christofascists in power, in control of economics and soc ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/11/30/republicans-are-quietly-rigging-election-maps-to-ensure-permanent-rule/)
2021-11-30T10:34:00Z	**How ‘Climate Migrants’ Are Roiling American Politics**
BEN LEFEBVRE,    -  Politico

_Stephan: I have been telling you this for several years, and now it is happening with enough impact that publications like Politico are taking note, and this is just the beginning. Soon there will be millions of Americans on the move, and later in this century it is going to change American politics profoundly._

![](https://i2.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/upload ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/11/30/how-climate-migrants-are-roiling-american-politics/)
2021-11-30T10:33:00Z	**TEPCO determined to discharge Fukushima water into Pacific**
,    \-  CGTN (China)

_Stephan: There are a number of reasons why I think nuclear power technology has no place in a non-carbon power era, and the most compelling argument against nuclear is the waste problem. Every time something goes wrong, whether it is Chernobyl, Fukushima, or St. Onofre, the attempts at solutions are always inadequate. No one has a really functional idea about how to deal with ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/11/30/tepco-determined-to-discharge-fukushima-water-into-pacific/)
2021-11-30T10:32:00Z	**Radioactive particles from Cold War-era nuclear tests found in American honey**
,    \-  Study Finds

_Stephan: I don't thing anything could more clearly make my point about the problems concerning nuclear waste and pollution than this sad little tale about honey._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-29-at-7.21.23-PM.jpg?resize=789%2C498&ssl=1)_Credit: Roman Odintsov/Pexels_

 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/11/30/radioactive-particles-from-cold-war-era-nuclear-tests-found-in-american-honey/)
2021-11-29T10:36:00Z	**Editor’s Note – The Deadly Silence**
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan: I decided this afternoon, after looking at the responses to the MAGAT Representative Boebert's comments -- so awful she had to make a sort of apology -- to dedicate this day's edition to an historical significant silence. We have a serious problem in the United States, one of the two political parties is no longer interested in actual governance. Today I give you four reports describing  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/11/29/editors-note-the-deadly-silence/)
2021-11-29T10:35:00Z	**The state of American friendship: Change, challenges, and loss**
Daniel A. Cox ,    -  Survey Ceenter on American Life

_Stephan: American society is breaking down, and one of the saddest measures of this decay is the decline of friendships. All of this is the result of the transition of America from a "We" culture to an "I" culture, with its defining characteristic that it is every person for themself. It is the exact opposite of what the Founders intended  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/11/29/the-state-of-american-friendship-change-challenges-and-loss/)
2021-12-01T10:35:00Z	**Meet the Texas Secessionist Movement: Brought to You by Russia**
Kristofer Harrison ,    -  The Bulwark

_Stephan: The MAGAt world demonstrates daily that they do not like the United States. They increasingly want to break the country up, and don't seem to mind that they have become agents of the Russians. Ted Cruz isn't stupid he just doesn't have any honor or ethics. But he seems to be the perfect candidate for Texas voters which, once again, confirms my ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/01/meet-the-texas-secessionist-movement-brought-to-you-by-russia/)
2021-12-01T10:34:00Z	**Opinion: Red states are now paying people not to get vaccinated**
Catherine Rampell,  Senior Columnist  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: The anti-science, anti-vaxxer MAGAt world seems incapable of understanding that 82% of those dying daily are the unvaccinated, and the reason that Covid keeps mutating is also because the unvaccinated are the petri dishes in which the virus can mutate into new variants. The MAGAts are the reason the rest of us are still ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/01/opinion-red-states-are-now-paying-people-not-to-get-vaccinated/)
2021-12-01T10:33:00Z	**How far-right extremist groups face exposure from army of hacktivists**
Jason Wilson,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Here is some good news. Socially progressive hackers are giving us a window into the world of MAGAt terrorists._

![](https://i1.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-30-at-9.09.13-PM.jpg?resize=742%2C443&ssl=1)M _embers of Oath Keepers attend a rally at Freedom Plaza on 5 January 2021 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/01/how-far-right-extremist-groups-face-exposure-from-army-of-hacktivists/)
2021-12-01T10:32:00Z	**Pfizer Is Lobbying to Thwart Whistleblowers From Exposing Corporate Fraud**
Lee Fang,    -  The Intercept

_Stephan: Big Pharma, at the corporate level, is an enormous grift. Americans pay more for drugs than any other nation on earth, not just a little but more, but orders of magnitude. That is why Big Pharma is also the biggest briber of members of Congress. Here is an example of what I mean._

![](https://i2.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/01/pfizer-is-lobbying-to-thwart-whistleblowers-from-exposing-corporate-fraud/)
2021-12-02T10:35:00Z	**The Rule of Six: A newly radicalized Supreme Court is poised to reshape the nation**
Ruth Marcus,  Deputy Editorial Page Editor  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: This is the best piece I have read on what is going on with the Supreme Court. We are about to see six christofascists carefully selected by Republicans to serve on the Supreme Court permanently condemn 163 million women to second class status. The Republicans defend violently ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/02/the-rule-of-six-a-newly-radicalized-supreme-court-is-poised-to-reshape-the-nation/)
2021-12-02T10:34:00Z	**These 11 countries could face extreme instability from climate change, says U.S. intelligence**
Amanda Macias,    -  CNBC

_Stephan: It is beginning to dawn on the media and, after the incompetence and willful ignorance of the Trump administration, apparently the government agencies under Biden, that there are going to be major geopolitical issues arising as a result of climate change and sea rise. Here is the declassified ver ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/02/these-11-countries-could-face-extreme-instability-from-climate-change-says-u-s-intelligence/)
2021-12-02T10:33:00Z	**Senior Pentagon official warns the US military is ‘not ready’ for climate change**
,    \-

_Stephan:_

![](https://i1.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-01-at-6.52.17-PM-1.jpg?resize=781%2C434&ssl=1)

_US Marines take part in an exercise with Norwegian troops in subzero temperatures above the Arctic Circle._

A senior Pentagon official warned the US military is “not ready” to han ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/02/senior-pentagon-official-warns-the-us-military-is-not-ready-for-climate-change/)
2021-12-02T10:32:00Z	**Trump Org fleeced Americans for $1.7 billion while in office: David Cay Johnston**
Bob Brigham,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: I wonder:  Has Donald Trump ever done anything that was entirely honest? I think not. And the sad part is the MAGAts continue to shovel their money into his coffers and don't seem to realize it is all a grift._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-01-at-7.09. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/02/trump-org-fleeced-americans-for-1-7-billion-while-in-office-david-cay-johnston/)
2021-12-03T10:35:00Z	**To Protect Abortion Rights, Turn to Elections**
The Editorial Board,    -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Almost everyone seems to think the Supreme Court is going to essentially overturn Roe v Wade, and throw the right of women to choose what they can do with their bodies back to the states. Twenty some Red value states will then tell women inthat state you are second class, and a bunch of mostly overweight corrupt White men will tell you what you can and cannot do with yo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/03/to-protect-abortion-rights-turn-to-elections/)
2021-12-03T10:34:00Z	**Poll: As Supreme Court hears Mississippi case, just 24% of Americans want Roe v. Wade overturned**
Andrew Romano,  West Coast Correspondent  -  Yahoo! News

_Stephan: The freedom to choose how to deal with her pregnancy has been a woman's Constitutional right for nearly half a century. I think that if the court decides as everyone expects, that it will be seen that the MAGAts be win this round but have badly miscalculated. If ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/03/poll-as-supreme-court-hears-mississippi-case-just-24-of-americans-want-roe-v-wade-overturned/)
2021-12-03T10:33:00Z	**America is Running on Fumes**
Derek Thompson,  Staff Writer  -  The Atlantic

_Stephan: As the American culture, beginning with the Nixon and Reagan administrations, increasingly shifted from a "We" culture to an "I" culture at the same time Ameirca shifted from being a society of exploration and innovation to one that has become increasingly anti-science, driven by the madness cultivated by the MAGAt Party. I listened to Rachel Maddow tonight talk about anti-vaxxers now promoting somethin ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/03/america-is-running-on-fumes/)
2021-12-03T10:32:00Z	**Just the Numbers: Impact of UK Sexual and Reproductive Health Funding for Family Planning, Fiscal Year 2021–2022**
,    \-  Guttmacher Institute

_Stephan: This is what social policy focused on fostering wellbeing looks like. Note that all social outcome measures improve under such priorities, and everything becomes much much cheaper. This is what MAGAts call "socialism." Benjamin Franklin would have calle ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/03/just-the-numbers-impact-of-uk-sexual-and-reproductive-health-funding-for-family-planning-fiscal-year-2021-2022/)
2021-12-04T10:35:00Z	**Republican senator blocks gun control law in wake of Michigan shooting**
Maya Yang,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, whom I find a particularly loathsome MAGAt Orc. a man heavily supported by  the American death merchant industry, just as the country is dealing with its 29th public school massacre, made a point of blocking an attempt to establish even modest gun control legislation. All these Republi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/04/republican-senator-blocks-gun-control-law-in-wake-of-michigan-shooting/)
2021-12-04T10:34:00Z	**Outlawing Abortion Will Increase Child Poverty. Republicans Couldn’t Care Less.**
Jordan Weissmann,    -  Slate

_Stephan: It is very clear, by both their words and their actions, that the whole point of reversing Roe V. Wade for the MAGAt Republicans is exerting control over women who, in their view, are not equal to men in their political rights._

![](https://i1.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Screen-Shot-20 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/04/outlawing-abortion-will-increase-child-poverty-republicans-couldnt-care-less/)
2021-12-04T10:33:00Z	**Less than 2 percent of philanthropy goes toward our biggest threat — climate change**
Andreas Karelas ,    -  The Hill

_Stephan: As this article notes the majority of charity donations come not from corporations but from ordinary folk like you and me. As you think about what to support, I suggest you consider organizations that are working to prepare for climate change._

![](https://i1.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/up ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/04/less-than-2-percent-of-philanthropy-goes-toward-our-biggest-threat-climate-change/)
2021-12-04T10:32:00Z	**Georgia teen manufacturing ‘ghost guns’ fatally shot his sister during firearms sale gone bad: cops**
Matthew Chapman,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: American gun insanity has produced school shootings and now this. I wonder if any amount of gun death will be sufficient to awaken those suffering from obsessive gun psychosis to their insanity. We are now the only nation in the developed world where students hav ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/04/georgia-teen-manufacturing-ghost-guns-fatally-shot-his-sister-during-firearms-sale-gone-bad-cops/)
2021-12-05T10:35:00Z	**A majority (52%) of young Americans believe that our democracy is either “in trouble,” or “failing”**
Harvard Youth Poll,    -  Harvard University - Kennedy School Institute of Politics

_Stephan: This is one of the most important surveys to have been carried out. Why? Because It gives us a data based, not partisanship-based, window into the future. One of my major takeaways from this poll is that now knowing these fac ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/05/a-majority-52-of-young-americans-believe-that-our-democracy-is-either-in-trouble-or-failing/)
2021-12-05T10:34:00Z	**Opinion: The media treats Biden as badly as — or worse than — Trump. Here’s proof.**
Dana Milbank,  Columnist  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: I think the Democrats are doing a very mediocre job getting across to voters the successful policies they have implemented. I also think the media, addicted to the Trump administration's caily madness, and finding Biden boring, have very badly represented what he is doing._

![](https://i2.w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/05/opinion-the-media-treats-biden-as-badly-as-or-worse-than-trump-heres-proof/)
2021-12-05T10:33:00Z	**Illinois Shows Us What the Road to Clean Energy Should Look Like**
Courtney Lindwall,    -  NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council)

_Stephan: Here is some good news. As this report describes, Illinois has produced a proven to be successful protocol for exiting the carbon energy era, and transitioning into the post-carbon era._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-04-at-9.15.51-PM-1.jpg?resize ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/05/illinois-shows-us-what-the-road-to-clean-energy-should-look-like/)
2021-12-05T10:32:00Z	**GOP lawmaker blasted for posting family Christmas photo with assault rifles in wake of Mich. massacre**
John Wright,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: As the country is rocked by the tragic tale of the Crumbley family and their deranged son's massacre of his school mates, a MAGAt Republican Congressman from Kentucky, Thomas Massie, chose this as the Christmas image he sent out of himself and his family. And for t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/05/gop-lawmaker-blasted-for-posting-family-christmas-photo-with-assault-rifles-in-wake-of-mich-massacre/)
2021-12-06T10:35:00Z	**Pro-Trump counties now have far higher COVID death rates. Misinformation is to blame**
Daniel Wood and Geoff Brumfiel,    -  npr

_Stephan: The facts are clear and unassailable, anti-vaxxer MAGAt world folk are demonstrating not so much about vaccines as their right to commit Covid-suicide; and they are dying as a result at a much higher rate than people capable of rational thought who are vaccinated._

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2021-12-06T10:34:00Z	**Klobuchar says ‘best way’ to protect abortion rights is to codify Roe v. Wade into law**
Mychael Schnell ,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

_Stephan: Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota is one of the most intelligent people in the Senate and I absolutely agree with what she is proposing. Let the politicized Supreme Court overturn Roe, then pass legislation legalizing a woman's right to choose nationally. For that to happen th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/06/klobuchar-says-best-way-to-protect-abortion-rights-is-to-codify-roe-v-wade-into-law/)
2021-12-06T10:33:00Z	**What an America Without Roe Would Look Like**
Claire Cain Miller and Margot Sanger-Katz,  Reporters  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Mississippi is a state so poorly governed for so many decades that if it were a country it would rank as third world, with Guatemala or Nicaragua. It's social outcome data is appalling, people in African nations have a better quality of life. Therefore, I find it ironic that Mississippi is likely to be the state that overturns Roe and the res ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/06/what-an-america-without-roe-would-look-like/)
2021-12-06T10:32:00Z	**If the Supreme Court curtails abortion rights it could flip the script on the 2022 midterm elections**
Gregory Krieg and Rachel Janfaza,  Reporters  -  CNN

_Stephan: It remains to be seen whether the Democrats can get their act together as a party sufficiently to capitalize on the outrage that is going to arise from the expected Supreme Court decision on Roe v Wade. Can they do it? I would give them 60-40. Sixty perc ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/06/if-the-supreme-court-curtails-abortion-rights-it-could-flip-the-script-on-the-2022-midterm-elections/)
2021-12-07T10:35:00Z	**‘Absolute liars’: Ex-D.C. Guard official says generals lied to Congress about Jan. 6**
BETSY WOODRUFF SWAN and MERIDITH MCGRAW,    -  Politico

_Stephan: This is a stunning story because what it tells us is that there are high ranking officers in the American military who are MAGAts and christofacists, and who deliberately sabotaged how the National Guard responded to the attempted coup on 6th January in order to support Trump.

I ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/07/absolute-liars-ex-d-c-guard-official-says-generals-lied-to-congress-about-jan-6/)
2021-12-07T10:34:00Z	**Over half of young adults are obese or overweight, study says**
Linda Searing,    -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: When you go to other countries Americans stand out because they are so fat. Not so visible is the fact that Americans don't live as long as citizens in other developed nations, have far more heart problems, and suffer much greater diabetes and other health issues. The perfect population for America's illness profit industry._

![](https:// ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/07/over-half-of-young-adults-are-obese-or-overweight-study-says/)
2021-12-07T10:33:00Z	**‘Global Empire of the US Christian Right’: Dark Money Fuels Attacks on Abortion Rights Worldwide**
Jake Johnson,    -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: What I see happening is that christofascists around the world are trying to undermine democracy in every nation where it is the dominant form of governance and they are terrified of gender and racial equality._

![](https://i1.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/07/global-empire-of-the-us-christian-right-dark-money-fuels-attacks-on-abortion-rights-worldwide/)
2021-12-07T10:32:00Z	**The Mantra of White Supremacy**
Ibram X. Kendi,  Contributing Writer and Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and the Director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research  -  The Atlantic

_Stephan: As we are becoming a majority minority nation it is invoking hysteria, resentment, and fear in about a third of the White American population, and the MAGAt Republican Party, which has become a race party. It isn't rational, it is not supportive of social wellbeing, it is  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/07/the-mantra-of-white-supremacy/)
2021-12-08T10:35:00Z	**Exclusive: oil companies’ profits soared to $174bn this year as US gas prices rose**
Oliver Milman,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: The United States is increasingly a kleptocracy. You're getting screwed by the oil companies and so am I. Here are the facts. As you pay $4.00 a gallon or more for gas, keep this in mind, and let it remind you to vote Democratic, except for Manchin and Sinema who are no more than orc tools working on b ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/08/exclusive-oil-companies-profits-soared-to-174bn-this-year-as-us-gas-prices-rose/)
2021-12-08T10:34:00Z	**‘Utterly Obscene’: Just 8 Pfizer and Moderna Investors Became $10 Billion Richer After Omicron Emerged**
Jon Queally,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: More kleptocracy news. Wealth inequality in the United States has become so great that it exceeds the Medieval Period of lords ladies, and peasants. You're worried about whether you can afford your insulin, while the uber-rich are thinking about can I add an ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/08/utterly-obscene-just-8-pfizer-and-moderna-investors-became-10-billion-richer-after-omicron-emerged/)
2021-12-08T10:33:00Z	**Richest 1% Took 38% of New Global Wealth Since 1995. The Bottom Half Got Just 2%**
Jake Johnson,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: What very few Americans seem to understand is that the uber-rich are not tied to a single country the way they are. When you are that rich you are an internationalist. You moor your yacht in Monaco, and keep one jet in Aspen, and another in Palm Beach. And your eight estates scattered across five countri ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/08/richest-1-took-38-of-new-global-wealth-since-1995-the-bottom-half-got-just-2/)
2021-12-08T10:32:00Z	**‘Merrick Garland shivering under his desk’: Ex-US officials slam DOJ for lack of action on ‘criminal’ Trump**
David Badash,    -  The New Civil Rights Movement / AlterNet

_Stephan: The other thing that really stands out about the rich and well-connected is they are rarely held accountable for their crimes and misdeeds. We are nearly a year into the Biden Administration and yet no one but the peasants who st ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/08/merrick-garland-shivering-under-his-desk-ex-us-officials-slam-doj-for-lack-of-action-on-criminal-trump/)
2021-12-09T10:35:00Z	**It’s time to say it: The conservatives on the Supreme Court lied to us all**
Paul Waldman,    -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: The Supreme Court was deliberately rigged by Trump and Moscow Mitch to overturn Roe v Wade, and the men and woman the MAGAts appointed as far as I can see knowingly committed perjury. Day after day we see one proof after another showing what the MAGAt Republicans are doing to sabotage American democracy. I've had enou ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/09/its-time-to-say-it-the-conservatives-on-the-supreme-court-lied-to-us-all/)
2021-12-09T10:34:00Z	**Outlawing Abortion Will Increase Child Poverty. Republicans Couldn’t Care Less.**
Jordan Weissman,    -  Slate

_Stephan: I have said it before and will say it again. Americans, particularly MAGAts don't like  children. Oh they care about their own children, but the children of the the poor, or people of a different race, they couldn't care less, and their actions prove it no matter what they say._

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2021-12-09T10:33:00Z	**Students are fed up with racist slurs and bullying. Now they’re walking out of class**
Nicole Chavez,    -  CNN

_Stephan: Kids are beginning to do now what adults lack the integrity and courage to do, deal directly and collectively in opposing racism and bullying. Bravo to these young people._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-08-at-10.14.18-PM.jpg?resize=775%2C459&ssl=1 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/09/students-are-fed-up-with-racist-slurs-and-bullying-now-theyre-walking-out-of-class/)
2021-12-09T10:32:00Z	**People who meditate regularly say they’ve got better focus, sleep — and love life too!**
Chris Melore,    -  Study Finds

_Stephan: I have been a daily meditator since 1964, and I want to say as clearly and strongly as I can that developing the daily discipline of meditation, however you choose to do it, will be the greatest gift you will ever give yourself.

If you are interested in the form of meditation I practice, which coul ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/09/people-who-meditate-regularly-say-theyve-got-better-focus-sleep-and-love-life-too/)
2021-12-10T10:35:00Z	**What’s really wrong with the mainstream media**
Robert Reich,  Former US Secretary of Labor, is Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: I think Robert Reich is spot on. The failure of the mainstream media to differentiate false equivalencies causes confusion and frustration, and leads many people to lose interest in critical issues._

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2021-12-10T10:34:00Z	**Transgender people can’t be baptized unless they’ve ‘repented,’ Catholic diocese says**
Marisa Lati,    -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: Am I the only one who finds it both perverse and lacking in ethics that a group of supposedly celibate men -- many of whom are actually homosexuals with a taste for pedophilia -- making a moral judgment about other people who are struggling with their own gender identity? I hope not._

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2021-12-10T10:33:00Z	**‘It’s just crazy’: 12 major cities hit all-time homicide records**
Bill Hutchinson,    -  ABC News

_Stephan: A reader in Sweden wrote me today to ask if she and her children would be safe if they came to the United States to see her brother and his family at Christmas. She said "the news in Europe makes America sound like a very dangerous place," and she found it both threatening and bizarre that members of the American Congress published Christmas i ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/10/its-just-crazy-12-major-cities-hit-all-time-homicide-records/)
2021-12-10T10:32:00Z	**Certifiably nuts’: Lauren Boebert posts Christmas photo of her four sons brandishing assault rifles**
7 December 2021,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Were the people of Colorado's 3rd District drunk, stoned, or was Lauren Boebert really the kind of person they wanted to represent them in Congress? That she is neither competent in the office or even interested in actual governance is obvious. It will be interesting to see i ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/10/certifiably-nuts-lauren-boebert-posts-christmas-photo-of-her-four-sons-brandishing-assault-rifles/)
2021-12-11T10:35:00Z	**Texas abortion ruling is a ‘disaster’ for the rule of law disguised as a ‘fig leaf’: Laurence Tribe**
Matthew Chapman,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: In my opinion Laurence Tribe has it exactly right. The Supreme Court has become a fascist operation in which a woman's right to control her own body is directly under attack. I just don't think that most Americans realize how very tenuous and under attack our d ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/11/texas-abortion-ruling-is-a-disaster-for-the-rule-of-law-disguised-as-a-fig-leaf-laurence-tribe/)
2021-12-11T10:34:00Z	**Biden Supreme Court study panel unanimously approves final report**
John Kruzel,    -  The Hill

_Stephan: In my opinion one of the central realities in this country today is that for over two centuries we have been a democracy, and Americans, whether lay people, or specialized academics just don't seem to be able to comprehend just how fragile our democracy is, and how compromised our Supreme Court has become with the Trump orcs MAGAt Republicans put  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/11/biden-supreme-court-study-panel-unanimously-approves-final-report/)
2021-12-11T10:33:00Z	**The Supreme Court’s Texas Abortion Decision Is a Disaster for Constitutional Rights**
Mark Joseph Stern,    -  Slate

_Stephan: Here is another take on what just happened with the Supreme Court. This is one of the worst decisions ever issued by the court. It impacts not only the immediate Texas abortion rights issue, it actually holds implications for all manner of Constitutional rights, as this article describes. We are so close to  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/11/the-supreme-courts-texas-abortion-decision-is-a-disaster-for-constitutional-rights/)
2021-12-11T10:32:00Z	**Global Public Opinion in an Era of Democratic Anxiety**
Richard Wike and Janell Fetterolf,    -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: The people in the other countries of the world make it clear in this Pew Research Center that America is no longer seen as a model of democracy. This is what the MAGAts goaded on by Trump who, in my opinion, ought to be in prison, have done to the reputation of the United States. How does that sit with you? What are you doing to protect o ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/11/global-public-opinion-in-an-era-of-democratic-anxiety/)
2021-12-12T10:35:00Z	**Inside the 38-page PowerPoint TrumpWorld circulated to justify election subversion**
Brett Bachman ,  Editor  -  Salon

_Stephan: Lest you or anyone you know have the slightest doubt about what happened on the 6th January, or what was intended, the Eastman Letter, and this Powerpoint lay it out, and make it clear that Trump encouraged and was behind it all. Had Mike Pence, or Nancy Pelosi actually have been caught and murdered by the T ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/12/inside-the-38-page-powerpoint-trumpworld-circulated-to-justify-election-subversion/)
2021-12-12T10:34:00Z	**Abortion bans and sanctuary plans: States are preparing for a possible future without Roe v Wade**
Hannah Knowles and María Luisa Paúl ,  Reporters  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: Most of the media presents stories like this one as just part of the pro-choice - anti-choice struggle going on between Red and Blue value states. I see it differently. Yes, it is all of that but I think it portends much more. This story to  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/12/abortion-bans-and-sanctuary-plans-states-are-preparing-for-a-possible-future-without-roe-v-wade/)
2021-12-12T10:33:00Z	**The Supreme Court appears really eager to force taxpayers to fund religious education**
Ian Millhiser ,  Staff Writer  -  Vox

_Stephan: The Founders, many of whom had a direct experience of persecution by religious institutions and individuals, or whose families had such a history -- states like Rhode Island and Pennsylvania had been founded by individuals seeking to9 get away from the crushing persecution of the British Anglican C ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/12/the-supreme-court-appears-really-eager-to-force-taxpayers-to-fund-religious-education/)
2021-12-12T10:32:00Z	**These Chemicals Disrupt the Sexual Development of Children – And They’re Everywhere**
Sharon Lerner,    -  The Intercept

_Stephan: I have been telling my readers for years now to go through your house, your garden, and your yard, if yo have those, and eliminate the toxins that are harming your health and the health of your family, particularly your children. Here is the latest report explaining why I feel so strongly about this._
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2021-12-13T10:35:00Z	**Americans Are Addicted to ‘Ultra-Processed’ Foods, and It’s Killing Us**
Adam Piore,  Editorial Staff  -  Newsweek

_Stephan: The other day Ronlyn and I went over to the mainland to do the shopping run we do every five weeks or so. When we went into Costco I was pleased to discover that I could get my Pfzier booster, and while I was waiting as Ronlyn shopped, a woman drove by me in one of the little electric carts Costco makes available. She was ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/13/americans-are-addicted-to-ultra-processed-foods-and-its-killing-us/)
2021-12-13T10:34:00Z	**Free press in peril**
Sara Fischer,    -  Axios

_Stephan: I am increasingly concerned that a tiny handful of corporate media sources control the narrative Americans are fed, some blatant and deliberate propaganda operations -- Fox, Breitbart, Info World, and News Max being examples. At the same time local and regional media is withering away, just as internet sites like Facebook, and Twitter are becoming dominant news sources with little of no attempt to validate the accuracy of what is posted. A ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/13/free-press-in-peril/)
2021-12-13T10:33:00Z	**‘Tis the season, once again: Evangelicals must save Christmas from an imaginary enemy**
Nathaniel Manderson ,  American Baptist Minister  -

_Stephan: Today I spent some time, as I regularly do, going through MAGAt media. It always amazes me because about 85% of it is factual nonsense. If you live in MAGAt world you really can't have an accurate understanding about anything. Every story is geared to sabotage democracy, dismiss careful ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/13/tis-the-season-once-again-evangelicals-must-save-christmas-from-an-imaginary-enemy/)
2021-12-13T10:32:00Z	**Torrance police traded racist, homophobic texts. It could jeopardize hundreds of cases**
James Queally,  Reporter  -  Los Angeles Times

_Stephan: American law enforcement, on the basis of factual data, is the worst trained, worst led, most poorly recruited amongst the developed democratic nations. Because of that it attracts a large percentage of racist thugs and bullies, as you can see in the news almost any day. This is a huge pro ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/13/torrance-police-traded-racist-homophobic-texts-it-could-jeopardize-hundreds-of-cases/)
2021-12-14T10:35:00Z	**American democracy is tottering. It’s not clear Americans care.**
Zack Beauchamp ,    -  Vox

_Stephan: This is what really worries me. I don't see anything like the needed mass consensus that democracy requires to be To be able to resist the MAGAt world's push for White supremacist authoritarian governance. At least in part, I think, this is happening because every living American, and their parents, and their parents has lived in a two party democracy,  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/14/american-democracy-is-tottering-its-not-clear-americans-care/)
2021-12-14T10:34:00Z	**Gavin Newsom calls for bill modeled on Texas abortion ban to crack down on gun manufacturers**
Sophia Bollag,    -  Sacramento Bee

_Stephan: Good for Gavin Newsom. He is doing an Aikido of what the Texas legislature and the Supreme Court have permitted, and to challenge this ghastly idea of bounty hunters. I hope this forces the court to reverse itself, because the the Texas decision was nonsense._

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2021-12-14T10:33:00Z	**Gun-Obsessed Teens Plotted Violent ‘Rebellion’ at Pennsylvania High School, Police Say**
Justin Rohrlich,    -  The Daily Beast

_Stephan: This is good news, but it is also a warning that everyone should take very seriously. Had it not been for the courage and insight of one "alarmed parent" as they are described in this report, tonight we could be reading about another school massacre with who knows how many teenagers murdered by ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/14/gun-obsessed-teens-plotted-violent-rebellion-at-pennsylvania-high-school-police-say/)
2021-12-14T10:32:00Z	**White House official allegedly said National Guard troops would protect Trump supporters Jan. 6**
Kyle Stewart and Dennis Romero,    -  NBC News

_Stephan: When you look at what came out today in the 6th January House committee, and add it to the Eastman letter, and the Powerpoint you really get a sense of how Trump and his backers carefully planned their coup; it was not spontaneous spur of the moment. It tells us also how ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/14/white-house-official-allegedly-said-national-guard-troops-would-protect-trump-supporters-jan-6/)
2021-12-15T10:35:00Z	**Kentucky on My Mind**
Paul Krugman,  Nobel Laureate, Professor of Economics, and Columnist  -  The New York Time

_Stephan: If you read SR regularly you know that by every objective measure, from infant mortality, to education, to elder care, and anything else you can think of that can be objectively measured Republican, particularly MAGAt Republican governance is always inferior to Democratic governance. And it is also true that the Democratic controlled states basically provide welfare to the Re ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/15/kentucky-on-my-mind/)
2021-12-15T10:34:00Z	**What’s Next: Fascist Takeover or New Era of Progressive Renewal?**
Thom Hartmann,    -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: I saw today, with its gobsmacking revelations as to how broad within the MAGAt ranks the Trump coup attempt had spread, the glimmerings of good news. These revelations are waking up people about how corrupt Trump and his MAGAt followers in Congress are, and how little they care for democracy. Secondaril, the 6thy January House committee is rev ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/15/whats-next-fascist-takeover-or-new-era-of-progressive-renewal/)
2021-12-15T10:33:00Z	**About Three-in-Ten U.S. Adults Are Now Religiously Unaffiliated**
,    \-  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: As Protestant Christianity in the United States has been transformed into evangelical christofascism another bail-out trend has been emerging, the shift of millions to what might be called spiritual but not religious. This Pew Research Center gives us up-to-date reliable data of what is happening. And it is not hard to predict that this trend will con ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/15/about-three-in-ten-u-s-adults-are-now-religiously-unaffiliated/)
2021-12-15T10:32:00Z	**‘Monster’ Antarctic glacier at risk as key ice shelf faces collapse years earlier than expected**
Kenny Stancil,    -  AlterNet/Common Dreams

_Stephan: Schwartz' Law of Climate Change: Whatever is described will be worse than predicted; and will happen sooner than predicted. Here is an example._

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2021-12-16T10:35:00Z	**Is America experiencing mass psychosis?**
Nicole Karlis,    -  AlterNet

_Stephan: I have thought for the last five years that what has happened is that Trump did not create the madness, but he did coalesce it into the MAGAt world we have today. The truth is that about a third of the people in the United States don't live in a rational world, and yes I think you can accurately call it a psychosis, a form of madness. And I don't think they are going to change. What that means is  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/16/is-america-experiencing-mass-psychosis/)
2021-12-16T10:34:00Z	**Three Myths About Renewable Energy and the Grid, Debunked**
Amory B. Lovins and M. V. Ramana,  Adjunct Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, and Co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of Rocky Mountain Institute \| M. V. Ramana is the Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security and Director of the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/16/three-myths-about-renewable-energy-and-the-grid-debunked/)
2021-12-16T10:33:00Z	**The Great American Teacher Exodus**
Nora De La Cour ,  High School Social Worker  -  Jacobin

_Stephan: I am married to a teacher, now retired who, when she was teaching before we married, I saw with my own eyes was putting in 60-70 hours a week, far more than the teaching day, for an absurdly low salary.  When you look inside America's schools you see one of the reasons I say Americans do not like children other than their own, and do not really understand they are the future of th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/16/the-great-american-teacher-exodus/)
2021-12-16T10:32:00Z	**Customs and Border Agents Spied on Journalists—the Latest Sign They Are Out of Control**
Dan Friedman ,  Reporter  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: Customs and Border Protection, a Homeland Security Department division, in my opinion, is amongst the worst of the bad. Remember the children torn from the arms of their parents and not accounted for? Remember the unbathed children  sleeping for weeks on air mattresses with only emergency  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/16/customs-and-border-agents-spied-on-journalists-the-latest-sign-they-are-out-of-control/)
2021-12-17T10:35:00Z	**FDA eliminates key restriction on abortion pill as Supreme Court weighs case that challenges Roe v. Wade**
Laurie McGinley and Katie Shepherd ,  Reporters  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: Bravo to the Biden administration. This is a wonderful act of political Aikido. The MAGAt states, of course, are already trying to stop telemedecine sessions by pregnant women, and the sale of pills that bring on an abortion. Bu ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/17/fda-eliminates-key-restriction-on-abortion-pill-as-supreme-court-weighs-case-that-challenges-roe-v-wade/)
2021-12-17T10:34:00Z	**In Texas, a Battle Over What Can Be Taught, and What Books Can Be Read**
Michael Powell,    -  The New York Times

_Stephan: This is what happens when you have people who put their ideological view ahead of facts. The Critical Race Theory argument is particularly relevant to this point. First of all no elementary or highschool in the country teaches a course in critical race theory It comes into play at universities, particularly at the graduate lev ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/17/in-texas-a-battle-over-what-can-be-taught-and-what-books-can-be-read/)
2021-12-17T10:33:00Z	**Stanford Professor Garry Nolan Is Analyzing Anomalous Materials From UFO Crashes**
Thobey Campion,  Former Publisher of Motherboard and the Founder of EXO Dynamics,  -  Vice

_Stephan: I have been following the UAP (UFO) saga since the 1950s, when Donald Keyhoe, one of the early investigators came to dinner at the invitation of my mother. Over the decades I have had the good fortune to know many of the researchers in this field, although ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/17/stanford-professor-garry-nolan-is-analyzing-anomalous-materials-from-ufo-crashes/)
2021-12-17T10:32:00Z	**More than 800,000 Americans have died of COVID-19. An estimated 163,000 could have been saved by vaccines.**
Alexander Tin,  Reporter  -  CBS News

_Stephan: Over 1,000 people died today, a large percentage of them unvaccinated.  It is becoming ever more obvious that not getting vaccinated is an deliberate anti-social act, and a kind of lottery death-cult.  I see the response of the vaccinated to the choice to be  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/17/more-than-800000-americans-have-died-of-covid-19-an-estimated-163000-could-have-been-saved-by-vaccines/)
2021-12-18T10:35:00Z	**The Supreme Court, Weaponized**
Linda Greenhouse,  Contributing Opinion Writer - winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: This is the best assessment of the present Supreme Court representing my view that I have come across. We are undergoing a long term strategy by the Republicans, and those who own them, to destroy democracy._

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2021-12-18T10:34:00Z	**EPA Sued Over Refusal to Close Deadly Pesticide Loophole Decimating Honey Bees**
Julia Conley,    -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: The inability of the EPA to understand what is going on with honey bee communities all over the country, is either the result of stupidity or corruption. Take profit away and it makes no sense at all. I hope this is the start of some good news._

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2021-12-18T10:33:00Z	**Ron DeSantis escalates his authoritarian purge: GOP bounty hunters are the next frontier**
Amanda Marcotte,  Senior Politics Writer  -  Salon

_Stephan: Ron DeSantis, MAGAt governor of Florida, emboldened by the fact that Donald Trump has not been held accountable for a list of crimes from treason to grifting, is following the model. MAGAt world is making its move.  That he is the governor of Florida, tells us that a majority of  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/18/ron-desantis-escalates-his-authoritarian-purge-gop-bounty-hunters-are-the-next-frontier/)
2021-12-18T10:32:00Z	**Fox News doctor calls for unvaxxed to get Covid-19: ‘It’s’ time to allow this mild infection to circulate’**
David Edwards,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Millions watch Fox and are deluded by the Murdoch propaganda operation masquerading as a news organization attuned the to MAGAt world. And there seems to be no accountability for their lies, deceits, scams, or the lives lost by people following the advice they  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/18/fox-news-doctor-calls-for-unvaxxed-to-get-covid-19-its-time-to-allow-this-mild-infection-to-circulate/)
2021-12-19T10:35:00Z	**The Atlantic’s vital currents could collapse. Scientists are racing to understand the dangers.**
James Temple,  Senior Editor  -  MIT Technology Review

_Stephan: Most Americans I find have only the dimmest comprehension about ocean currents and how critical they are to their local environment. This is a catastrophe on the edge of occurring, one with the most profound consequences. Here is a good briefing on this issue._
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2021-12-19T10:34:00Z	**Climate change has destabilized the Earth’s poles, putting the rest of the planet in peril**
Sarah Kaplan,    -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: My hope is that what happened to Mayfield, Kentucky has awakened Americans to what climate change can do and be like. As this report lays out, what happens to us in the immediate future is going to be largely dictated by how seriously we take climate change, and what we do in response.  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/19/climate-change-has-destabilized-the-earths-poles-putting-the-rest-of-the-planet-in-peril/)
2021-12-19T10:33:00Z	**USPS reaches settlement with NAACP over 2020 mail-in voting**
Jessica Schneider and Veronica Stracqualursi,,    -  CNN

_Stephan: Here we have what I hope will work out to be good news. Thank you NAACP. Louis DeJoy, yet another MAGAt not being held accountable, is still Postmaster General, and still trying to gut the USPS, so that the delivery companies in which his wealth is invested can make more profit. This decision, however, blocks some of his worst dep ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/19/usps-reaches-settlement-with-naacp-over-2020-mail-in-voting/)
2021-12-19T10:32:00Z	**Trump is about to be indicted for racketeering in New York: David Cay Johnston**
John Wright,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: I do so hope that David Cay Johnston is correct. Donald Trump belongs in prison for this and a host of other crimes._

![](https://i2.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-18-at-6.47.38-PM.jpg?resize=778%2C535&ssl=1)_Donald Trump, Allen Weisselberg and Donald Trump Jr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/19/trump-is-about-to-be-indicted-for-racketeering-in-new-york-david-cay-johnston/)
2021-12-20T10:35:00Z	**House oversight committee releases report detailing efforts of Trump administration officials to ‘undermine’ Covid-19 efforts in US**
Lauren Fox and Daniella Diaz,    -  CNN

_Stephan: Perhaps the worst of all Donald Trump's many crimes is his role facilitating the mass death resulting from Covid. Personally, I think Trump should be tried for crimes against humanity. Because of the non ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/20/house-oversight-committee-releases-report-detailing-efforts-of-trump-administration-officials-to-undermine-covid-19-efforts-in-us/)
2021-12-20T10:34:00Z	**After decades, some of America’s most toxic sites will finally get cleaned up**
Dino Grandoni,    -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: Here we have some good news. The United States is littered with over 1,300 Superfund pollution sites, lethal leftovers of the corporate world, which you and I are paying to maintain. Now thanks to the Biden administration we are going to begin cleaning some of them up._

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2021-12-20T10:33:00Z	**Stimulus Check Update: Direct Payments to Parents Set to End as Joe Manchin Opposes BBB**
Jason Lemon ,    -  Newsweek

_Stephan: Because not a single Republican in the Senate cares anything for the wellbeing of Americans, caring only for power, as they make very clear almost daily, Joe Manchin, the corrupt senator from West Virginia, by himself has been able to block millions of families from getting the monthly hundreds of dollar ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/20/stimulus-check-update-direct-payments-to-parents-set-to-end-as-joe-manchin-opposes-bbb/)
2021-12-20T10:32:00Z	**Redistricting is drying up competitive congressional races**
Michael Macagnone,    -  Roll Call

_Stephan: Through gerrymandering and voter suppression we are watching our democracy be shredded step-by-step, and few seem interested or even if interested capable to reversing this trend. Climate change poorly prepared for, and the unraveling of our democracy, are the dominant trends shaping America, and it is going to culminate in what happens in 2022._

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2021-12-21T10:35:00Z	**A quarter of a billion dollars worth of steel for Trump’s border wall is rusting away in the desert**
Tom Boggioni,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Like everything else Trump undertakes his wall was much like his casino, an ill-conceived flashy failure, a waste of other people's money, leaving a mess behind. Trump represents a very nasty American trend; he understands the fears, resentments, and racism of the people who ma ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/21/a-quarter-of-a-billion-dollars-worth-of-steel-for-trumps-border-wall-is-rusting-away-in-the-desert/)
2021-12-21T10:34:00Z	**At Their Breaking Point, Nurses Plead With Public in COVID Videos**
Jennifer Henderson,  Enterprise & Investigative Writer  -  MedPageToday

_Stephan: America's illness profit system under the best of conditions has all kinds of flaws, but Covid has stressed it in ways no one could imagine, and it is on the verge of collapse. What would that look like? Imagine that you, unvaccinated because you are part of MAGAt world, contract Covid and after days in y ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/21/at-their-breaking-point-nurses-plead-with-public-in-covid-videos/)
2021-12-21T10:33:00Z	**Biden Admin Announces Tougher Fuel Mileage Standards**
,    \-  Axios

_Stephan: Here is some more good news from the Biden administration's EPA, a new limit of 55 miles per gallon.  Beneath all the sturm and dang of politics there are some good things happening._

![](https://i1.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-20-at-5.44.31-PM.jpg?resize=784%2C438&ssl=1)_Credit: Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg/Getty_

The Environmen ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/21/biden-admin-announces-tougher-fuel-mileage-standards/)
2021-12-21T10:32:00Z	**Fox News lurches further to the right as midterm elections loom**
Adam Gabbatt,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Rupert Murdoch's fascist White Supremacist Fox propaganda operation is a curse on America that millions of poorly educated low IQ people take to be not only a news operation, but a reliable one. The hospitals of the U.S. are on the verge of collapse because Fox viewers don't get vaccinated, and the unvaccinated make up 90% of those in hosp ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/21/fox-news-lurches-further-to-the-right-as-midterm-elections-loom/)
2021-12-22T10:35:00Z	**An urgent warning from 3 retired generals explains how 2024 may trigger ‘military breakdown’ and ‘civil war’**
Alex Henderson,    -  Alter Net

_Stephan: I take this very seriously. I have known many general and flag officers, and such officers do not go public in this way unless they feel they have no other option.  I think we should take it very seriously as well, given what I am seeing and reading._
 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/22/an-urgent-warning-from-3-retired-generals-explains-how-2024-may-trigger-military-breakdown-and-civil-war/)
2021-12-22T10:34:00Z	**Steve Bannon explains latest ‘overthrow’ plan: ‘We’re going to take over the election apparatus’**
David Edwards,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: The first thing to note is this question: Why isn't Steve Bannon in prison for treason? The second thing to note is that just as the generals in the previous article stated, this man is actively advocating an insurrection to overthrow democracy. The third thing to note is that no ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/22/steve-bannon-explains-latest-overthrow-plan-were-going-to-take-over-the-election-apparatus/)
2021-12-22T10:33:00Z	**Congress is on the brink of an immense health policy failure**
Dylan Scott,    -  Vox

_Stephan: As a result of Manchin and Sinema, and their selfishness,  333 million people appear to be unlikely to get the aid they need, and the illness profit system already so expensive and inadequate is on the verge of a breakdown. What has happened to us as a culture that so many of our elected representatives care so little for the people they have taken an oath to s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/22/congress-is-on-the-brink-of-an-immense-health-policy-failure/)
2021-12-22T10:32:00Z	**The Dirty Secret of America’s Clean Dishes**
Max Blau and Lylla Younes,    -  ProPublica

_Stephan: I have been warning my readers for years now about the poisons and toxins that fill most American households, and at the plants where they are created they pollute whole districts. The soaps, the cleansers, the air fresheners, all are filled with these polluting chemicals. You are literally putting your life and the lives of your family at risk if you are using those products ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/22/the-dirty-secret-of-americas-clean-dishes/)
2021-12-23T10:30:00Z	**No SR Edition Today**
,    \-

_Stephan: Stephan is in the hospital for a procedure today.  SR will resume tomorrow._ ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/23/no-sr-edition-today-12-23-2021/)
2021-12-24T10:36:00Z	**Will Donald Trump Get Away With Inciting an Insurrection?**
Laurence H. Tribe, Donald Ayer and Dennis Aftergut,  Professor Emeritus at Harvard Law School \| U.S. Attorney in the Reagan administration and Deputy Attorney General in the George H.W. Bush administration \| Former Assistant U.S. Attorney.  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: I completely agree with this essay, and consider how Merrick Garland chooses to deal with Donald Trump as one of the defining mom ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/24/will-donald-trump-get-away-with-inciting-an-insurrection/)
2021-12-24T10:35:00Z	**US ‘Closer to Civil War’ Than Most Would Like to Believe, New Book Says**
Martin Pengelly,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: This trend is getting worse. Every month I see more and more in the MAGAt media about guns, resisting government, and the promotion of violence. If one doesn't read the MAGAt propaganda media, and I only do it because I try to pick up trends for my readers, this all seems preposterous almost cartoonish, but in Trump wor ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/24/us-closer-to-civil-war-than-most-would-like-to-believe-new-book-says/)
2021-12-24T10:34:00Z	**How seriously should we take talk of US state secession?**
William G. Gale and Darrell M. West,   The Arjay and Frances Fearing Miller Chair in Federal Economic Policy Senior Fellow \| Vice President and Director - Governance Studies and Senior Fellow - Center for Technology Innovation   -  Brookings Institute

_Stephan: This is another trend that I am seeing being more promoted in MAGAt media. It is a measure of the stupidity of those who promote the idea of st ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/24/how-seriously-should-we-take-talk-of-us-state-secession/)
2021-12-24T10:33:00Z	**Donald Trump’s Megaphone**
Jonah Goldberg,    -  The Dispatch

_Stephan: I think it is time to deal with MAGAt media and its lies, and not other MAGAt media entity has been worse than the Fox propaganda operation. In my opinion blatantly lying about a public health issue that results in the death of hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children should result in the persecution of the on-camera propagandists as well as Rupert Murdoch and his sons who have financed all this._

![](http ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/24/donald-trumps-megaphone/)
2021-12-25T10:35:00Z	**Editor’s Note: A Time to Reassess**
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan: As I worked today scanning through academic and general media, with various television news media playing in the background, I thought what can I say to my readers on this Christmas day? I have been publishing SR for 25 years now and that made me think about the changes that have occurred in the world and in the United States over those two and a half decades. By this evening has I had thou ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/25/editors-note-a-time-to-reassess/)
2021-12-26T10:36:00Z	**Editor’s Note: Some Real Facts About Covid**
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan: As we close out 2021 I thought it would be useful to consider actual facts about Covid and American Society There is such a mountain of nonsense out in the public that real facts tend to get lost. So today's issue of SR is dedicated to just that. Real facts from sources with a proven track record of being accurate._ ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/26/editors-note-some-real-facts-about-covid/)
2021-12-26T10:35:00Z	**KFF COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor: Early Omicron Update**
Ashley Kirzinger, Audrey Kearney, Liz Hamel, and Mollyann Brodie,    -  Kaiser Family Foundation

_Stephan: The Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) is a reliable source of accurate social outcome data, and this is what they report about the great schism over Covid vaccination. As I have been saying since this pandemic began and vaccines were first available, you can't fix willful ignorance. When people develop utterly un ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/26/kff-covid-19-vaccine-monitor-early-omicron-update/)
2021-12-26T10:34:00Z	**Deflated health care workers and desperate patients clash over alternative Covid treatments**
Alaa Elassar, Ed Lavandera, and Ashley Killough,    -  CNN

_Stephan: This is how crazy the anti-vaxxer movement has gotten. I think there is going to be major pushback against this ridiculous, selfish behavior. The doctors and nurses I talk to are both depressed and fed up._

![](https://i2.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-conten ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/26/deflated-health-care-workers-and-desperate-patients-clash-over-alternative-covid-treatments/)
2021-12-26T10:33:00Z	**U.S. Life Expectancy Dropped Nearly 2 Years in 2020**
Tara Law ,  Staff Writer  -  Time Magazine

_Stephan: Here is some more solid social outcome data on healthcare to cut through the crap of mis- and dis-information. In additionto the longevity aspect, this also tells of a lot about the selfishness of the anti-vaxxer cohort. They are over-stressing the healthcare system and, in the process, degrading the system's ability to help people with other medical issues._� ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/26/u-s-life-expectancy-dropped-nearly-2-years-in-2020/)
2021-12-26T10:32:00Z	**Who are the vaccine holdouts? America’s real COVID divide might not be what you think**
Anthony DiMaggio,  Staff Writer  -  Salon

_Stephan: More facts. This is an excellent and nuanced assessment of the anti-vaxxer cohort._

![](https://i1.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-25-at-8.50.42-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C335&ssl=1)**Two vaccine syringes Credit: Getty**

The dramatic rise of the o ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/26/who-are-the-vaccine-holdouts-americas-real-covid-divide-might-not-be-what-you-think/)
2021-12-27T10:35:00Z	**Striking findings from 2021**
Katherine Schaeffer,    -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: As I have told you many times culture is defined by an aggregate of individual choices. Pew Research Center, looking at a wide range of social outcome data, in this report outlines 15 trends that stood out for them in 2021. You may be surprised by some of them._

![](https://i1.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-26-at-5.24.08-PM.jpg?resize=771%2C452&ssl=1)� ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/27/striking-findings-from-2021/)
2021-12-27T10:34:00Z	**What We Lose if We Don’t Build Back Better**
Paul Krugman,  Nobel Laureate, Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center, Columnist  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: As usual Paul Krugman cuts through the partisan nonsense to address the actual facts. What he outlines in this essay about the Build Back Better legislation is, in my view, a very accurate analysis. I suggest you write or call your senators and your representative and let them know ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/27/what-we-lose-if-we-dont-build-back-better/)
2021-12-27T10:33:00Z	**Bank predicts American GDP will go down because Joe Manchin killed the human infrastructure plan**
Sarah K. Burns,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Here is further confirmation of what Paul Krugman was saying in the previous story. I find Joe Manchin despicable, particularly because he is a senator representing a state in desperate need of what the Build Back Better legislation offers. But equally despicable not a s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/27/bank-predicts-american-gdp-will-go-down-because-joe-manchin-killed-the-human-infrastructure-plan/)
2021-12-27T10:32:00Z	**Inside Clean Energy: Here Are 5 States that Took Leaps on Clean Energy Policy in 2021**
Dan Gearino,    -  Inside Climate News

_Stephan: Here is some good news about the transition out of the carbon era. You will note, of course, that with the exception of North Carolina, which is a sort of purple state, all of the other states that have made good progress are Blue states. What is happening in the United States is that the inferior  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/27/inside-clean-energy-here-are-5-states-that-took-leaps-on-clean-energy-policy-in-2021/)
2021-12-28T10:35:00Z	**How Dark Money Bought Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court Seat**
Andrew Perez and Julia Rock ,    -  Jacobin

_Stephan: Amy Coney Barrett, in my opinion, has no business being an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court. It isn't just that she does not have the legal chops for the post, there is also the issue of her being a member of religious cult with views completely out of synch with the general American culture. And then there is the fact that Donald Tru ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/28/how-dark-money-bought-amy-coney-barretts-supreme-court-seat/)
2021-12-28T10:34:00Z	**Trump supporters paid former Texas police captain over $200k for help in stealing the election: report**
Sarah Toce,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Have you noticed that MAGAt world constantly criticizes what it, itself, is doing. It is a well-established technique of misdirection, blame others for what you yourself are doing. Stop the Steal is a classic example of this. The people who were actually trying to steal the el ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/28/trump-supporters-paid-former-texas-police-captain-over-200k-for-help-in-stealing-the-election-report/)
2021-12-28T10:33:00Z	**The One Thing Biden Is Doing Exceptionally Well**
Mark Joseph Stern,    -  Slate

_Stephan: Here is some more good news from the Biden administration. They are putting well-qualified people on the American judiciary; judges who will actually serve the law and not their political prejudices._

As 2021 draws to a close, President Joe Biden has good reason to be frustrated. His legislative agenda is [stymied](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/12/the-surge-joe-ma ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/28/the-one-thing-biden-is-doing-exceptionally-well/)
2021-12-28T10:32:00Z	**Despite Uproar Over Floyd’s Death, the Number of Fatal Encounters With Police Hasn’t Changed**
Tim Arango and Giulia Heyward,    -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Let's start with some facts. By objectively verifiable data American police and sheriffs constitute the worst, most violent, least trained, most racist, and least educated law enforcement institutions amongst the developed democracy nations. So bad it constitutes wh ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/28/despite-uproar-over-floyds-death-the-number-of-fatal-encounters-with-police-hasnt-changed/)
2021-12-29T10:35:00Z	**Younger Americans still more likely than older adults to say there are other countries better than the U.S.**
Hannah Hartig,    -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: This is a trend that should concern everyone, particularly politicians. However, the quality of politicians in the U.S., particularly Republican politicians, as human beings is so degraded today many of them aren't capable of understanding the implicati ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/29/younger-americans-still-more-likely-than-older-adults-to-say-there-are-other-countries-better-than-the-u-s/)
2021-12-29T10:34:00Z	**Peter Navarro suggests FBI incited MAGA riot to stop his coup attempt from working**
Brad Reed,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: If you read this story in a novel it would seem cheap, obvious, and contrived. That it is true and coming from a major figure in the Trump administration, coming in addition to the war rooms at the Willard Hotel, and the multiple calls between Trump and his orcs can there be any doubt how pre-planned by Republican  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/29/peter-navarro-suggests-fbi-incited-maga-riot-to-stop-his-coup-attempt-from-working/)
2021-12-29T10:33:00Z	**Coal Powered the Industrial Revolution. It Left Behind an ‘Absolutely Massive’ Environmental Catastrophe**
James Bruggers,  Inside Climate News Reporting Network  -  Inside Climate News

_Stephan: Coal, like nuclear, has left American with weeping buboes of poisonous pollution. It will take generations to heal what these industries did to the environment, and the people who live proximate to their sites. This is  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/29/coal-powered-the-industrial-revolution-it-left-behind-an-absolutely-massive-environmental-catastrophe/)
2021-12-29T10:32:00Z	**The 7 most overhyped trends of 2022**
Mark Wilson,    -  Fast Company

_Stephan: I am not the only person who tracks trends but when I came across this article, I realized that my sense of trends is rather different from what Fast Company thinks of as trends and I thought my readers might find this of interest._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-28-at-11.29.00-PM.jpg?resize=701%2C395&ssl=1)_Illustration: Daniel Salo/Fas ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/29/the-7-most-overhyped-trends-of-2022/)
2021-12-30T10:35:00Z	**The M.I.T. Professor Defining What It Means to Live**
Nick Romeo,    -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Here is an attempt to calibrate a kind of minimal wellbeing, centered on a living wage, as well as a very interesting history of the thinking about this._

![](https://i2.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-29-at-9.40.22-PM-1.jpg?resize=800%2C575&ssl=1)_Credit:_ _Universal History Archive/Getty_

The idea of a living w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/30/the-m-i-t-professor-defining-what-it-means-to-live/)
2021-12-30T10:34:00Z	**Retailers surrender to unprecedented costs on online returns**
Nathan Bomey,    -  Axios / NBC News

_Stephan: Here is a little noticed trend that is having a significant effect on consumer transactions; you may have experienced it._

![](https://i1.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-29-at-10.45.43-PM.jpg?resize=789%2C431&ssl=1)_Amazon packages in front of a FedEx truck in New York on Nov. 26.

Credit: Chris ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/30/retailers-surrender-to-unprecedented-costs-on-online-returns/)
2021-12-30T10:33:00Z	**He died after waiting 15 days for a hospital bed. His family blames unvaccinated covid-19 patients.**
Timothy Bella,    -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: This is what the anti-vaxxer movement, whether young or conspiracy freak, is doing to the rest of Americans._

![](https://i1.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-29-at-9.06.08-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C575&ssl=1)_Dale Weeks, center ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/30/he-died-after-waiting-15-days-for-a-hospital-bed-his-family-blames-unvaccinated-covid-19-patients/)
2021-12-30T10:32:00Z	**What makes dogs man’s best friend?**
Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan,    -  Eureka Alert

_Stephan: If you have a dog, or grew up with a dog in your family, I think you will find his peer-reviewed research report very interesting._

![](https://i1.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/SCREEN-CAPTURE.jpg?resize=800%2C533&ssl=1)_Credit: Daily Paws_

ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN — From pugs to labradoodles to huskies, dogs are our faithful companions. The ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/30/what-makes-dogs-mans-best-friend/)
2021-12-31T10:35:00Z	**Anatomy of a Death Threat**
Peter Eisler, Jason Szep, Linda So and Sam Hart,  Reporters  -  Reuters

_Stephan: Imagine, you are a retired woman, maybe a school teacher, maybe a widow, who is civic minded, and you volunteer to work at you precinct polling place on election day. A reporter from your local paper or television station happens to come by your polling place and interviews you. Then you go home and a week later you start getting multiple phone calls threatening your life. MAGAts pa ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/31/anatomy-of-a-death-threat/)
2021-12-31T10:34:00Z	**America runs on bad jobs**
Anneken Tappe,  Business Reporter  -  CNN

_Stephan: This is an example of how the collective intent of people changes culture. America's wealth inequity has become a major consideration for workers who are barely getting by while their bosses are flying around in their private jets. Minimum wage in the U.S. ought to be something like $20 an hour and large social systems like healthcare should be nationalized and based on fostering wellbeing not making the maximum p ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/31/america-runs-on-bad-jobs/)
2021-12-31T10:33:00Z	**Here’s whether it’s actually cheaper to switch to an electric vehicle or not—and how the costs break down**
Mike Winters,    -  Make it

_Stephan: Here is an assessment of the cost of EVs and gas vehicles. It is a question more nuanced than one might initially imagine._

![](https://i2.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-30-at-9.02.56-PM.jpg?resize=697%2C389&ssl=1) ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/31/heres-whether-its-actually-cheaper-to-switch-to-an-electric-vehicle-or-not-and-how-the-costs-break-down/)
2021-12-31T10:32:00Z	**Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls It ‘Wise’ to Bar Democrats Who Move to Red States From Voting**
Jenni Fink,  Reporter  -  Newsweek

_Stephan: Marjorie Taylor Greene, is as incompetent a nut case and publicity hound as as ever served in Congress. It is hard to believe the voters of the 14th District of Georgia chose her to be their Representative in Congress. I'm not sure who is more contemptible Greene, or the people who voted f ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/31/marjorie-taylor-greene-calls-it-wise-to-bar-democrats-who-move-to-red-states-from-voting/)
2022-01-01T10:36:00Z	**Ediitor’s Note – Happy New Year and Thank You**
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan: First, I want to wish each of you my very best wishes that for you and those you care about 2022 is a year that is safe, and that you are well and prosper.

Second, I want to thank all of you who have supported SR this year. Your donations, particularly the monthly pledges, mean a great deal to me, and I thank you for them. SR gets technically more complicated a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/01/ediitors-note-happy-new-year-and-thank-you/)
2022-01-01T10:35:00Z	**The Fungal Mind: on the Evidence For Mushroom Intelligence**
Nicholas P Money,  Professor of Biology and Western Programme Director at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio   -  Psyche

_Stephan: In 1931, Max Planck, the father of Quantum Mechanics, who gave few interviews, was interviewed in London by a reporter from the Observer newspaper, who had one question: What have you learned? I think the reporter thought Planck would talk about atoms and molecules. Instea ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/01/the-fungal-mind-on-the-evidence-for-mushroom-intelligence/)
2022-01-01T10:34:00Z	**Donald Trump and his family fleeced America: Why aren’t they being held accountable?**
Dean Obeidallah,  Staff Writer  -  Salon

_Stephan: This is the question on which our future hinges: How is it that Donald Trump, his daughter, his son-in-law and his major orcs are not in prison? Trump has committed more crimes in his adult life than anyone we know of, yet he is never held accountable. Interesting karma, but it is time to end his i ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/01/donald-trump-and-his-family-fleeced-america-why-arent-they-being-held-accountable/)
2022-01-01T10:33:00Z	**Why So Many Democracies Are Floundering**
Richard H. Pildes,  Legal Scholar Analyzing the Intersection of Politics andLaw and How They Affect Our Democracy.  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Here is an excellent assessment of what is going on not only in the United States, but in democracies throughout the world by a distinguished legal scholar who has been study the dynamics of democracy for his entire professional life._

![](https://i1.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-co ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/01/why-so-many-democracies-are-floundering/)
2022-01-01T10:32:00Z	**The Unbearable Double Standard of the US Press, judging Biden Harshly and Abruptly Forgetting Trump’s Bizarre Antics**
Juan Cole,  Founder and Chief Editor of Informed Comment, and Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan  -  CNN

_Stephan: This article describes a trend which I find increasingly alarming. The mainstream media plays everything like a sports event, and cons ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/01/the-unbearable-double-standard-of-the-us-press-judging-biden-harshly-and-abruptly-forgetting-trumps-bizarre-antics/)
2022-01-02T10:35:00Z	**Modern America’s Most Successful Secessionist Movement**
Antonia Hitchens,    -  The Atlantic

_Stephan: Over 40% of MAGAt world supports some kind of secession; this is an important trend that is not getting enough attention because it seems so preposterous. This article gives a good sense of the thinking of secessionists. Several things stand out that I think you should take note of. First, the correlation of secession movements and guns. As the article points ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/02/modern-americas-most-successful-secessionist-movement/)
2022-01-02T10:34:00Z	**Just How Much is Trump’s Judiciary Sabotaging the Biden Presidency?**
Ian Millhiser ,  Staff Writer  -  Vox

_Stephan: If you read me regularly you know that I have been covering the Republican trend of skewing the American judiciary away from a nonpartisan egalitarian system to one where the judges are partisan, and the whole system is biased to a MAGAt world view. Here is an assessment of what that has meant._

![](https://i2.wp.com/www.schwart ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/02/just-how-much-is-trumps-judiciary-sabotaging-the-biden-presidency/)
2022-01-02T10:33:00Z	**The National Security Case for Lab-Grown and Plant-Based Meat**
Matt Spence,    -  Slate

_Stephan: Here is a view of national a security that I had not considered, but which is clear a geopolitical trend of growing importance._

![](https://i1.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-01-at-9.16.10-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C530&ssl=1)_Nuggets made from lab-grown chicken meat are displayed during a media presentation in Sin ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/02/the-national-security-case-for-lab-grown-and-plant-based-meat/)
2022-01-02T10:32:00Z	**Noam Chomsky on Rising Fascism in U.S., Class Warfare & the Climate Emergency**
Interview of Noam Chomsky by Amy Goodman,    -  Democracy Now!

_Stephan: Noam Chomsky just had his 93rd birthday and here is his assessment of the U.S. today. I think he is right._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-01-at-9.38.21-PM.jpg?resize=710%2C340&ssl=1)_93 year old Noam Chomsky_ _Credit: Screen ca ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/02/noam-chomsky-on-rising-fascism-in-u-s-class-warfare-the-climate-emergency/)
2022-01-03T10:35:00Z	**With Fascism Coming, America Responds: LOL Who Cares? Let’s Netflix and Chill**
Chauncey DeVega,  Politics Staff Writer  -  Salon

_Stephan: This is what worries me the most. Americans have not experienced major social violence within our boundaries in over 150 years. No American is alive who has direct memory of those events that led to the Civil War. All Americans have also lived only under a democratic system to government and, thus, have  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/03/with-fascism-coming-america-responds-lol-who-cares-lets-netflix-and-chill/)
2022-01-03T10:34:00Z	**The Steal Review: Stethoscope For a Democracy Close to Cardiac Arrest**
Charles Kaiser,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Here is another view on the state of American democracy. It is sad and pathetic, and agrees with my own views. This year we are going to see whether democracy survives in the U.S. Today, I would say it is 60%-40% that it will not._

![](https://i2.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/03/the-steal-review-stethoscope-for-a-democracy-close-to-cardiac-arrest/)
2022-01-03T10:33:00Z	**Window seat is safest? Where you sit on a bus or train impacts risk of catching COVID-19**
Chris Melore,    -  Study Finds

_Stephan: Personally, although my wife and I love traveling neither of us would willingly fly at this time, or stay in a motel/hotel. But if you have to, or want to, here is some data-based research to give you the best potential safety.

To read the research paper upon which his report is based: https:// ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/03/window-seat-is-safest-where-you-sit-on-a-bus-or-train-impacts-risk-of-catching-covid-19/)
2022-01-03T10:32:00Z	**8 Eco-Friendly Lifestyle Resolutions for the New Year**
Darlena Cunha,    -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Here are some good New Year's resolutions you might consider._

![](https://i1.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-02-at-6.28.53-PM.jpg?resize=697%2C389&ssl=1)_Now more than ever, it’s important to include the planet in our resolution plans.

Credit: Erik McGregor / LightRocket / Getty_

As we welcome in the new ye ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/03/8-eco-friendly-lifestyle-resolutions-for-the-new-year/)
2022-01-04T10:35:00Z	**The American Polity is Cracked, and Might Collapse. Canada Must Prepare**
Thomas Homer-Dixon,  Executive Director of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University.   -  The Globe and Mail (Canada)

_Stephan: This is a brilliant assessment, with which I agree, of the current state of America by a Canadian scholar, and I urge you to read it. Two points I would add. Canada is absolutely not the only country beginning to consider what it will mean fo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/04/the-american-polity-is-cracked-and-might-collapse-canada-must-prepare/)
2022-01-04T10:34:00Z	**Bernie Sanders: Pay Your Workers Better. Warren Buffett: That’s Not My Job**
Chris Isidore,    -  CNN

_Stephan: As the previous article mentioned one of the leading forces destroying America's democracy is the obscene wealth inequality, and Warren Buffett's response to Bernie Sanders perfectly illustrates this reality._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-03-at-6.38.02-PM.jpg?resize=7 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/04/bernie-sanders-pay-your-workers-better-warren-buffett-thats-not-my-job/)
2022-01-04T10:33:00Z	**Microplastics Contaminating Food and Drinks May Be Fueling a Dramatic Rise in Bowel Diseases**
,    \-  Study Finds

_Stephan: The latest information on what microplastics are doing to our health. And yet, because our society only values profit, instead of wellbeing, microplastics continue to pollute our world in spite of all the recognized damage they do._

![](https://i2.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/04/microplastics-contaminating-food-and-drinks-may-be-fueling-a-dramatic-rise-in-bowel-diseases/)
2022-01-04T10:32:00Z	**Pentagon Projected to Hand $407 Billion to Private Military Contractors This Fiscal Year**
Kenny Stancil,    -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Millions of American children do not have enough to eat, millions of families cannot make ends meet. Our infrastructure is falling apart. But there is always enough money for war and the military-industrial complex Eisenhower warned us about. Over half the Pentagon budget goes to for profit compa ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/04/pentagon-projected-to-hand-407-billion-to-private-military-contractors-this-fiscal-year/)
2022-01-05T10:35:00Z	**Seven in Ten Americans Say the Country is in Crisis, at Risk of Failing**
,    \-  Ipsos/npr

_Stephan: This is a fact-based measure of how disturbed the population of the United States has become about the state of the nation. I certainly think we are in crisis, although I do not agree with MAGAt world with why we are in crisis. What are your views?_

![](https://i2.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Ipsos-logo.jpg?resiz ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/05/seven-in-ten-americans-say-the-country-is-in-crisis-at-risk-of-failing/)
2022-01-05T10:34:00Z	**Ted Cruz Says Republicans Will Likely Impeach Biden Over Border Policy If They Win House Majority**
Mediate Staff,    -  MEDIAite

_Stephan: I think Ted Cruz is despicable, but I also think what he is saying here should be taken very seriously because my assessment is that this exactly what will happen if the MAGAt Republicans take control of the Congress. Your vote for Democrats has never mattered more. I say this not b ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/05/ted-cruz-says-republicans-will-likely-impeach-biden-over-border-policy-if-they-win-house-majority/)
2022-01-05T10:33:00Z	**If American Democracy is Going to Survive, the Media Must Make This Crucial Shift**
Margaret Sullivan,  Media Columnist  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: It is my view that the mainstream corporate media generally has done a dreadful job dealing with what the MAGAt Republicans have been doing from the last five years to subvert democracy and create a permanent MAGAt Republican White supremacy, christofascist authoritarian government. Fi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/05/if-american-democracy-is-going-to-survive-the-media-must-make-this-crucial-shift/)
2022-01-05T10:32:00Z	**The Corporate Insurrection: How Companies Have Broken Promises and Funded Seditionists**
Angela Li and Areeba Shah,    -  CREW

_Stephan: One of the things corporate media is not doing is properly reporting on the role of corporations that funded the MAGAt morons in and out of Congress in their attempt to create a coup. I have been looking for weeks for a fact-based compilation of which corporations were trying to sabotage democracy ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/05/the-corporate-insurrection-how-companies-have-broken-promises-and-funded-seditionists/)
2022-01-06T10:35:00Z	**Don’t Tell Anyone, but 2021 Was Pretty Amazing**
Paul Krugman,  Nobel Laureate, Professor of Economics, Columnist  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: In the midst of all the bad news about Covid and the collapse of democracy, Paul Krugman accurately points out some good news to keep in mind._

![](https://i1.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-05-at-10.16.35-PM.jpg?resize=773%2C512&ssl=1)

Grumpy New Year! There probably wer ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/06/dont-tell-anyone-but-2021-was-pretty-amazing/)
2022-01-06T10:34:00Z	**Trump Endorses Hungary’s Orbán for Reelection**
QUINT FORGEY,    -  Politico

_Stephan: How don't know how MAGAt "dear leader" Donald Trump could make it any clearer he is a fascist._

![](https://i1.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-05-at-10.25.02-PM.jpg?resize=752%2C499&ssl=1)_Two fascists shake hands. Donald Trump and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán_

Former President Donald Trump on Monday endorsed Hungarian  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/06/trump-endorses-hungarys-orban-for-reelection/)
2022-01-06T10:33:00Z	**‘Please help me’: Kids with guns fueled a record number of school shootings in 2021**
John Woodrow Cox and Steven Rich ,  Enterprise Reporter \| Database Editor for Investigations   -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: We are destroying public education in the United States. Not just Covid, or funding, as bad as those trends are, The American gun psychosis has extended down to the Middle School level. Student are not only at risk becaus ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/06/please-help-me-kids-with-guns-fueled-a-record-number-of-school-shootings-in-2021/)
2022-01-06T10:32:00Z	**14-year-old guns down three other teens in Texas store shooting: cops**
Mark Lungariello,    -  New York Post

_Stephan: This even occurred as the previous story was being written. That's how bad this has gotten.There are more guns than people in the U.S. -- about 400 million to 333 million. They are far too available This isn't a school shooting; this is a 14 year old just out in the civil world seeking revenge, and considering murder by firearm ap ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/06/14-year-old-guns-down-three-other-teens-in-texas-store-shooting-cops/)
2022-01-07T10:36:00Z	**President Biden’s Jan. 6 speech in full**
Joe Biden,  President of the United States  -  npr

_Stephan: This is the best speech President Biden has ever delivered. It is worth reading in full._

![](https://i1.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-06-at-10.23.24-PM.jpg?resize=641%2C300&ssl=1)_President Biden speaks in the people’s hall in the Capital_ on 6 January.

_Without uttering former President Donald Trump’s name, [Presi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/07/president-bidens-jan-6-speech-in-full/)
2022-01-07T10:35:00Z	**In an East Coast First, New Jersey Will Phase Out Diesel Trucks**
María Paula Rubiano A. ,  Environmental Justice Fellow  -  Grist

_Stephan: Here is some good news from New Jersey laying out a commitment to eliminate diesel trucks from their highways in three years. Now if other states would just take note and move in this same direction._

![](https://i2.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-06-at-9.03.04-PM.j ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/07/in-an-east-coast-first-new-jersey-will-phase-out-diesel-trucks/)
2022-01-07T10:33:00Z	**The Next US Civil War is Already Here – We Just Refuse to See It**
Stephen Marche,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: If America is going to continue as a democracy, it is going to come down to what each of us does. The MAGAt Republicans want democracy to end; they want power, and will do whatever is required to destroy democrcy if it enables them to come into power and to retain it, regardless of what the majority of Americans want. History makes it  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/07/the-next-us-civil-war-is-already-here-we-just-refuse-to-see-it/)
2022-01-07T17:34:00Z	**Homeland Security Has Devolved Into a Nearly Rogue Agency — Accused of Spying on Journalists and Activists**
Richard Sudan,    -  Raw Story / Commentary

_Stephan: Homeland Security, as this report describes has become a deeply compromised agency with too much money, and not enough oversight and regulation. Another area of government where Merrick Garland's DOJ has failed to protect our democracy._

![](http ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/07/homeland-security-has-devolved-into-a-nearly-rogue-agency-accused-of-spying-on-journalists-and-activists/)
2022-01-08T10:35:00Z	**COVID Is an Emergency. To SCOTUS’s Conservatives, It’s Also an Opportunity.**
Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern,    -  Slate

_Stephan: MAGAt Anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers, who are dying by the thousands, nonetheless continue their anti-science anti-fact protests, apparently supported by the Trumpists on the Supreme Court. Trump, McConnell, and the senate's MAGAt Republicans have destroyed the Supreme Court's integrity, and left us with th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/08/covid-is-an-emergency-to-scotuss-conservatives-its-also-an-opportunity/)
2022-01-08T10:34:00Z	**Hundreds of Crimes, Little Punishment: Inside the Sentences Since the Capitol Attack**
NICK NIEDZWIADEK,    -  Politico

_Stephan: One of the most interesting things I have noticed about the 6th January attempted coup is how lightly the peasant perpetrators have been sentenced and how their leaders from Trump to McCarthy haven't been charged with anything at all. Why is this happening? I think the answer is that Americans, including ma ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/08/hundreds-of-crimes-little-punishment-inside-the-sentences-since-the-capitol-attack/)
2022-01-08T10:33:00Z	**American Plutocracy Would Adapt Swiftly and Smoothly to American Authoritarianism**
Charles P. Pierce,    -  Esquire

_Stephan: As I have published previously (See SR Archives) behind MAGAt world are a host of corporations, who don't want regulation, or taxation, and would live quite comfortably in a fascist system, and are happy to fund it coming into being. Here is a article that lays this out quite well, I think._

There’s a lo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/08/american-plutocracy-would-adapt-swiftly-and-smoothly-to-american-authoritarianism/)
2022-01-08T10:32:00Z	**The single most important — and powerful — line from Joe Biden’s 1/6 speech**
Chris Cillizza ,  Editor-at-large  -  CNN

_Stephan: I have mentioned before the comparison of Donald Trump and Al Gore, and I think Chris Cillizza is spot on with his essay expanding on this. Patriotism is about more than yourself._

![The media reaction to President Biden's blistering speech about Trump –  Poynter](https://i0.wp.com/www.poynter.org/wp-conte ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/08/the-single-most-important-and-powerful-line-from-joe-bidens-1-6-speech/)
2022-01-09T10:35:00Z	**How Christian nationalism drove the insurrection: A religious history of Jan. 6**
Kathryn Joyce,  Investigative Report  -  Salon

_Stephan: One of the most alarming social trends in America, in my opinion, is the transmutation of Christianity from a religious movement based on Jesus' teachings, to a White supremacy christofascist political cult that talks Jesus but lives Trump. It is distorting our culture injecting a nasty hateful pulse. T ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/09/how-christian-nationalism-drove-the-insurrection-a-religious-history-of-jan-6/)
2022-01-09T10:34:00Z	**Californians Could Face $500 Fines for Wasting Water Under New Rules**
Guardian staff and agencies,    -  The Guardian

_Stephan: This is a first click on a trend that is going to become a more and more prominent part of our lives. As I have been saying for years, water is destiny._

![](https://i1.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-08-at-6.35.04-PM.jpg?resize=743%2C443&ssl=1)_One-third of California cont ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/09/californians-could-face-500-fines-for-wasting-water-under-new-rules/)
2022-01-09T10:33:00Z	**More Than 4 in 10 Americans Live in Counties Affected By Climate Disasters in 2021**
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,    -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Four in 10 Americans live in counties that had climate disasters in 2021. Do you think I am exxagerating when I tell you climate change isn't coming, it's here. And it is going to get worse, much worse._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-0 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/09/more-than-4-in-10-americans-live-in-counties-affected-by-climate-disasters-in-2021/)
2022-01-09T10:32:00Z	**The GOP’s Masculinity Panic**
Sean Illing,    -  Vox

_Stephan: Have you begun to notice that working class Trumpist MAGAt men all look and dress very much the same and carry themselves in much the same way?  It is an affectation of pseudo-masculinity. In contrast consider  the life and style, the masculinity, of Sidney Poitier and Harry Reid, to name two men who have recently died._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-08-at-6 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/09/the-gops-masculinity-panic/)
2022-01-10T10:35:00Z	**Republicans Are Trying to Pass More Voting Restrictions Ahead of 2022 Midterms**
Igor Derysh,    -  Truthout / Salon

_Stephan: What I find amazing is how blatant the MAGAt Republican attempt to destroy democracy is, and how little push back we are seeing. Fair voting by all is the base principal of democracy. What are you doing to protect it?_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/10/republicans-are-trying-to-pass-more-voting-restrictions-ahead-of-2022-midterms/)
2022-01-10T10:34:00Z	**Why it’s so hard to fix errors on your credit report**
Michelle Singletary,  Reporter  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: Our lives in the U.S. are dominated and defined by credit agencies, from your credit card interest, to what you are paying for your mortgage or car loan.  But, as this story describes, try correcting inaccurate data on your report. The entire system is structured for the corporate interest._

I’ve had the hair-pulling experience of trying ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/10/why-its-so-hard-to-fix-errors-on-your-credit-report/)
2022-01-10T10:33:00Z	**Shanghai opens superconducting line**
ZHENG XIN,    -  China Daily

_Stephan: I live on an island whose electric power grid dates back nearly a century to the 1930s and 40s, much of America still uses similar technologies, change is expensive and eats into profits. This is what is happening in China._

![](https://i1.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-10-at-1.37.38-AM.jpg?resize=693%2C455&ssl=1)_The terminal of the world’s first 35 ki ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/10/shanghai-opens-superconducting-line/)
2022-01-10T10:32:00Z	**Forsyth student: My Generation Lives in Daily Fear of a School Shooting**
Maureen Downey,    -  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

_Stephan: This is high school in America today. I find this appalling. This is where America's gun psychosis has taken us._

![](https://i2.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-10-at-1.41.59-AM.jpg?resize=800%2C447&ssl=1)_Credit: Atlanta – Constitution_

_Damian Galvan i ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/10/forsyth-student-my-generation-lives-in-daily-fear-of-a-school-shooting/)
2022-01-11T10:35:00Z	**What the Average Citizen Can Do About the Demise of US Democracy**
Zachary B. Wolf,    -  CNN

_Stephan: Readers write me asking, "You write about each of us getting involved with defending democracy, what can I do?" Here is a first answer. I hope you will act on it._

![Clinton County Polling Places | Clinton County New York](https://i1.wp.com/www.clintoncountygov.com/sites/default/files/boe/images/voting-booth.jpg?resize=669%2C268&ssl=1)

Afte ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/11/what-the-average-citizen-can-do-about-the-demise-of-us-democracy/)
2022-01-11T10:34:00Z	**Canadians Panicked Americans Will ‘Mass at the Border’ to Escape Trump’s Return to Power: Foreign Policy Expert**
Sarah K. Burris,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: What is happening in the United States, and the fact that we have one party that is now openly committed to ending the great American democracy experiment, as it is often called, is having a effect on the world's entire geopolitical structure. Author ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/11/canadians-panicked-americans-will-mass-at-the-border-to-escape-trumps-return-to-power-foreign-policy-expert/)
2022-01-11T10:33:00Z	**Manchin’s Coal Corruption Is So Much Worse Than You Knew**
Jeff Goodell,    -  Rollingstone

_Stephan: Here is a deep dive into the corruption of Joe Manchin who, I think, is a truly despicable human being. That one man could be this unconscious about what he is doing to the planet and the people of the United States is appalling. That he is doing it not from ignorance but because of corruption condemns him to history's septic tank._

![](https://i2.wp.com ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/11/manchins-coal-corruption-is-so-much-worse-than-you-knew/)
2022-01-11T10:32:00Z	**Bernie Sanders says Democrats are failing: ‘The party has turned its back on the working class’**
Steven Greehouse,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: I think Bernie Sanders has it right. I find the Democrats deeply disappointing._

![](https://i1.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-10-at-9.24.38-PM.jpg?resize=739%2C442&ssl=1)_Senator Bernie Sanders and voters_

Senator [ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/11/bernie-sanders-says-democrats-are-failing-the-party-has-turned-its-back-on-the-working-class/)
2022-01-12T10:35:00Z	**We study ocean temperatures. The Earth just broke a heat increase record**
John Abraham,  Professorof Thermal Sciences - University of St.Thomas in Minnesota  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: The alarms keep ringing, and Manchin and Sinema keep blocking the desperately needed legislation to at least start to address what is happening. How two corrupt incompetents can so grossly negatively affect the wellbeing of 333 million people with no apparent consequ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/12/we-study-ocean-temperatures-the-earth-just-broke-a-heat-increase-record/)
2022-01-12T10:34:00Z	**The Supreme Court Case That Could Upend Efforts to Protect the Environment**
Elizabeth Kolbert,  Staff Writer  -  The New Yorker

_Stephan: Given what science has made very clear and definitive about what climate change is going to do. Trump and McConnell and the MAGAt Republicans in the Senate have placed your life and wellbeing in jeopardy. How do you think the three inadequately competent and deeply ideological justices put on the court by Trump wil ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/12/the-supreme-courrt-case-that-could-upend-efforts-to-protect-the-environment/)
2022-01-12T10:33:00Z	**Treasury Warns Taxpayers to Brace for a Turbulent Tax Filing Season**
AARON LORENZO,    -  Politico

_Stephan: Here's a heads up from the IRS that I thought my readers would want to know about._

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Americans can start filing their income tax returns Jan. 24, but existing backlogs and longstanding operational problems at the IR ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/12/treasury-warns-taxpayers-to-brace-for-a-turbulent-tax-filing-season/)
2022-01-12T10:32:00Z	**Fish in the Driver’s Seat: Israeli Scientists Teach Goldfish to Operate Vehicle**
Rachel Pannett,    -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: Slowly, very slowly, it is beginning to dawn on materialist scientists that Max Planck was correct, consciousness is causal and fundamental, and that beings we formerly thought of as "dumb" animals in fact have consciousness at a level not previously imagined._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/12/fish-in-the-drivers-seat-israeli-scientists-teach-goldfish-to-operate-vehicle/)
2022-01-13T10:35:00Z	**Amid rising prices, American families fall deeper in debt**
Jessica Dickler,    -  CNBC

_Stephan: The wealth inequality in the United States   is greater than any other developed democracy, average American families struggle with debt, while a handful of wealthy men own competitive space programs. This inequality, I think, is part of why a third of the nation appears to have given up on democracy. Do you hear anyone in Congress other than Bernie Sanders,AOC, and Elizabe ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/13/amid-rising-prices-american-families-fall-deeper-in-debt/)
2022-01-13T10:34:00Z	**Trump’s Troops: The Far-right Has a Tight Grip On Too Many in Uniform**
Heather Digby Parton,  Contributing Writer  -  Salon

_Stephan: Five years ago if I had read this article I would have thought it was science fiction. It's not; instead it is another alarm warning us just how fragile our democracy is, particularly as it involves police, and especially sheriffs. Because of the way law enforcement is designed, the kind of people it attracts, and how they are ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/13/trumps-troops-the-far-right-has-a-tight-grip-on-too-many-in-uniform/)
2022-01-13T10:33:00Z	**To Get Rural Americans Involved in Climate Crisis, See Them For Who They Are**
Michelle Nijhuis,    -  Grist

_Stephan: A major part of the Great Schism Trend SR has been covering for the past 20 years is the growing separation of values between rural and urban America. Here is how it looks from the rural side. One thing is clear, until we as Americans wake up to what climate change means for all of us, and unify in our commitment to seriously address  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/13/to-get-rural-americans-involved-in-climate-crisis-see-them-for-who-they-are/)
2022-01-13T10:32:00Z	**‘I Hate to Use This Language:’ Marjorie Taylor Greene Suggests It’s Time to Use ‘Second Amendment’ on Democrats**
Brad Reed,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: This is the level to which the American Congress has sunk. A member is openly espousing civil violent insurrection, and encouraging others to join her, and nothing happens to her. There is no accountability. Oh, they took her committee assignments away from her. Boo Hoo. Th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/13/i-hate-to-use-this-language-marjorie-taylor-greene-suggests-its-time-to-use-second-amendment-on-democrats/)
2022-01-14T10:35:00Z	**Trump Supporters: Deceivers and the Deceived**
John B. Alexander,    -  Daily Kos

_Stephan: John Alexander, in this essay, makes what I think is a very significant and not properly appreciated distinction concerning the MAGAt community. There are two groups, the smaller group are people knowingly and actively trying to turn America into a White supremacy christofascist autocracy; the ones spewing out the disinformation, and plotting systematically to destroy democracy. The larger gr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/14/trump-supporters-deceivers-and-the-deceived/)
2022-01-14T10:34:00Z	**Republican Who Signed Forged 2020 Certification Ran Russian-style Troll Farm That Paid Teens to Post Pro-Trump Propaganda**
David Badash,    -  Raw Story / The New Civil

_Stephan: I am publishing this piece because I want to make clear to my readers that the MAGAt strategy to end democracy is a coordinated effort playing out at the federal, state, and county level throughout the country. This is an emergen ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/14/republican-who-signed-forged-2020-certification-ran-russian-style-troll-farm-that-paid-teens-to-post-pro-trump-propaganda/)
2022-01-14T10:33:00Z	**Gaetz’s Ex-Girlfriend Testifies Before Federal Grand Jury**
Katie Benner and Michael S. Schmidt,  Reporters  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: MAGAt Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is openly advocating the murder of her Democratic colleagues, MAGAT Representative Matt Gaetz is under investigation for having sex with underage girls, and I could go on and on. It raises the question: Does the Republican Party seek out and promote for party office grifters, t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/14/gaetzs-ex-girlfriend-testifies-before-federal-grand-jury/)
2022-01-14T10:32:00Z	**U.S. Life Ratings Retreat to Close Out 2021**
Dan Witters and Sangeeta Agrawal,    -  The Gallup Organization

_Stephan: We are a very sick and stressed country. The Gallup Organization makes this factually clear. This is what I saw and experienced during my many trips to the Soviet Union as it was coming to an end. In my opinion, the only thing that is going to make change this for the better is mass action on the part of American citizens, and I mean mass, making it clear they want  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/14/u-s-life-ratings-retreat-to-close-out-2021/)
2022-01-15T10:35:00Z	**R.N.C. Signals a Pullout From Presidential Debates**
Maggie Haberman,  Reporter  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Here is the latest sabotage by the MAGAt Party. No more presidential debates. Day by day democracy in American drains away._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-14-at-4.03.16-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C535&ssl=1)_The intensity of Republican frustration with the debate commission has increased since former President D ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/15/r-n-c-signals-a-pullout-from-presidential-debates/)
2022-01-15T10:34:00Z	**A Supreme Court Selected By Big Money Will Rule on Whether Big Money Is Corruptive**
Charles P. Pierce,    -  Esquire

_Stephan: Part of the strategy of the corporations and uber-rich, who own the MAGAt Party, is to rig the American judiciary to legalize their goals, so they can make yet more profit and have less regulation. It is all part of their attempt to restructure the United States into a fascist authoritarian nation. Here is a good essay ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/15/a-supreme-court-selected-by-big-money-will-rule-on-whether-big-money-is-corruptive/)
2022-01-15T10:33:00Z	**Civil War in the United States is Unlikely Because of One Simple Reason**
Ore Koren,  Assistant Professor of Political Science, Indiana University  -  Raw Story / The Conversation

_Stephan: In my entire life I have never before seen articles like this in the American media, and now I see variations almost every day. The Great Schism Trend is coming to a crescendo, and it comes down to each of us as to whether democracy survives._

The potential for violen ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/15/civil-war-in-the-united-states-is-unlikely-because-of-one-simple-reason/)
2022-01-15T10:32:00Z	**Could Cannabis Prevent COVID? To the Authors of a New Study, It Sure Looks Like It**
Brett Bachman,   Nights/Weekend Editor  -  Salon

_Stephan: I found this too amusing not to publish it; a kind of cosmic joke.

Citation for the research paper cited in this article: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35007072/#affiliation-2_

![An illustration showing how cannabinoids can block the entry of SARS-CoV-2 from human cells.](https://i0.wp.com/mediaproxy. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/15/could-cannabis-prevent-covid-to-the-authors-of-a-new-study-it-sure-looks-like-it/)
2022-01-16T10:35:00Z	**Why Isn’t Corporate America Behind the Pro-democracy Movement?**
Robert Reich,  Carmel P. Friesen Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California  -  Robert Reich Blog

_Stephan: Robert Reich nails the same point I have been making in SR. Capitalism and democracy only work properly when democracy is the defining authority. In this excellent piece he lays out why this is true. The MAGAt Party is owned by corporations a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/16/why-isnt-corporate-america-behind-the-pro-democracy-movement/)
2022-01-16T10:34:00Z	**The Radical Right’s Takeover of the Supreme Court is Complete**
Heather Digby Parton,    -  AlterNet / Salon

_Stephan: One of the strangest things I have noticed about the Covid pandemic is that it has become a MAGAt disease, and not by chance but by design. The MAGAt Party is doing everything in its power, from the Supreme Court to the MAGATs in Congress, to Red state governors, to create the circumstances where the MAGAt rabble will contract the disease and die.

 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/16/the-radical-rights-takeover-of-the-supreme-court-is-complete/)
2022-01-16T10:33:00Z	**How the States Have Become “Laboratories of Autocracy” — and Why It’s Worse Than You Think**
Paul Rosenberg,  Senior Editor for Random Lengths News  -  Salon

_Stephan: In this article you see a detailed exposition of how the Fascist corporate owners of the MAGAt Party are using their minions at the state level to transform democracy to autocracy. It is all quite explicit. So, I ask again, what are you doing to stop this? Citizen support for  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/16/how-the-states-have-become-laboratories-of-autocracy-and-why-its-worse-than-you-think/)
2022-01-16T10:32:00Z	**Trump Rally-goers Push Conspiracies: Gov. Newsom is a ‘Clone’ — and Vaccines Are ‘Aborted Children’**
John Wright,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Trump's rally gathered MAGAt rabble in one place, and the MAGAt media interviewed them. This allows us to see just how ignorant and crazy these people are. Click on the video. Now you can see why the red states are rewriting voting laws so that the White rural MAGA rabble can vote while the young, ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/16/trump-rally-goers-push-conspiracies-gov-newsom-is-a-clone-and-vaccines-are-aborted-children/)
2022-01-17T10:35:00Z	**America’s deepest and most dangerous divide isn’t between Democrats and Republicans**
Richard Eckersley,    -  Salon

_Stephan: This is a very good exegetic essay on the Great Schism Trend and what is behind it. It explains so much about what is tearing America apart, and how none of our public institutions, political or media, seem to understand what is happening. I urge you to read it._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/u ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/17/americas-deepest-and-most-dangerous-divide-isnt-between-democrats-and-republicans/)
2022-01-17T10:34:00Z	**Global Heating Linked to Early Birth and Damage to Babies’ Health, Scientists Find**
Damian Carrington ,  Environment Editor  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Yet another unanticipated negative consequence of climate change, and I am sure this is not the last one that will manifest._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-16-at-11.56.26-PM.jpg?resize=741%2C444&ssl=1)_Researchers found women in ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/17/global-heating-linked-to-early-birth-and-damage-to-babies-health-scientists-find/)
2022-01-17T10:33:00Z	**Road to Jan. 6: How Portland Police Grew to Love the Proud Boys and Paved the Way for Trump’s Insurrection**
Arun Gupta,    -  Raw Story / Commentary

_Stephan: When you stress a system, any system, it's weaknesses become apparent. The investigation of the January 6th Insurrection has revealed example after example of how law enforcement, and military units are infiltrated by MAGAts who supported the insurrection. Here is th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/17/road-to-jan-6-how-portland-police-grew-to-love-the-proud-boys-and-paved-the-way-for-trumps-insurrection/)
2022-01-17T10:32:00Z	**Gov. Youngkin signs executive actions banning critical race theory, appointing new parole board, ending school mask mandate and vaccine mandate for state employees**
Dean Mirshahi,  Digital Content Producer  -  WRIC-TV

_Stephan: Virginians made a bad mistake in their last election, and I present this article as another example of the difference between Democratic and  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/17/gov-youngkin-signs-executive-actions-banning-critical-race-theory-appointing-new-parole-board-ending-school-mask-mandate-and-vaccine-mandate-for-state-employees/)
2022-01-18T10:35:00Z	**U.S. Political Party Preferences Shifted Greatly During 2021**
Jeffrey M. Jones,    -  The Gallup Organization

_Stephan: This survey by The Gallup Organization should be of grave concern to every person in America who supports democracy, and wants to see the United States continue as a democratic republic. Personally, I am appalled._

![](https://i0.wp.com/content.gallup.com/origin/gallupinc/GallupSpaces/Production/Cms/POLL/lgcee9uipekjsow90933fa.png?w=1080&ssl=1)

S ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/18/u-s-political-party-preferences-shifted-greatly-during-2021/)
2022-01-18T10:34:00Z	**Newly Released Documents Show Just How Much Trump Officials Meddled With the Census**
Russ Choma,    -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: Every day brings more criminal activity to light by Trump and his orcs seeking to destroy democracy to keep him in power. How is it possible that a man so obviously criminal and corrupt is actually increasing in popularity, as the Gallup survey in the previous article reports?

I think the answer is the fear of lower I ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/18/newly-released-documents-show-just-how-much-trump-officials-meddled-with-the-census/)
2022-01-18T10:33:00Z	**Report: World’s 10 Richest Men Doubled Their Wealth During COVID Pandemic**
Daniel Politi,    -  Slate

_Stephan: America's wealth inequality is so great, I think, it is actually incomprehensible to most Americans, going both ways. If you are worried about whether you can pay your mortgage or your rent this month, or buy the new shoes you son needs, who is growing like a weed at 14, or the braces your pretty daughter needs to straighten her teeth, how can  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/18/report-worlds-10-richest-men-doubled-their-wealth-during-covid-pandemic/)
2022-01-18T10:32:00Z	**Some QAnon Believers Think JFK Disguised Himself As Trump At Arizona Rally**
David Moye,    -  Huff Post

_Stephan: Just how credulous are the QAnon MAGAts? Read and weep for America._

![Arizona Rally: Trump Claimed 'Babies Can Be Killed Even After Birth'](https://i.insider.com/61e4066304ce6e0018d76ec9?width=1136&format=jpeg)_Many MAGAts apparently thought the speaker on the podium was John F. Kennedy morphed somehow into Trump. Credit: Business Inside ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/18/some-qanon-believers-think-jfk-disguised-himself-as-trump-at-arizona-rally/)
2022-01-19T10:35:00Z	**Ohio voters asked for fairness in redistricting. They didn’t get it.**
Dan Balz,    -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: There can be no doubt that the MAGAt Republican Party is actively trying to rig elections. What amazes me is how absolutely blatant it all is, and how people in the Red states are so uninterested in what is happening to the most sacred aspects of democracy, fair elections and the ability to vote. Happily the judiciary in Ohio still has integrity. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/19/ohio-voters-asked-for-fairness-in-redistricting-they-didnt-get-it/)
2022-01-19T10:34:00Z	**Texas Synagogue Hostage Taker Able to Get a Gun Shortly After Arriving in US**
Mack Lamoureux,    -  Vice News

_Stephan: Here is a good explanation of what happened in the Texas synagogue terrorist act. Some of it you may already know. What stood out for me that I had not previously known was that a man with a terrorist record could fly into the U.S. from a foreign country, and essentially immediately purchase a weapon, a handgun with which to carry  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/19/texas-synagogue-hostage-taker-able-to-get-a-gun-shortly-after-arriving-in-us/)
2022-01-19T10:33:00Z	**Wife of Justice Clarence Thomas signed off on letter saying Capitol attackers ‘have done nothing wrong’**
Sarah K. Burris,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: I find this story both alarming and almost impossible to believe. How is it possible that a sitting Associate Justice of the Supreme Court can have a partner who is a MAGAt activist openly explicit and public in her advocacy for insurrectionists whose actions her husband may have ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/19/wife-of-justice-clarence-thomas-signed-off-on-letter-saying-capitol-attackers-have-done-nothing-wrong/)
2022-01-19T10:32:00Z	**What the Supreme Court’s Vaccine Case Was Really About**
Linda Greenhouse,  Contibuting Opinion Writer  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Here is some interesting background on the bizarre anti-science recent court decision by the conservatives on the Supreme Court concerning Biden's vaccine policy._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-19-at-12.52.31-AM.jpg?resize=800%2C525&ssl=1)_The Supreme Court in Washington. Credi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/19/what-the-supreme-courts-vaccine-case-was-really-about/)
2022-01-20T10:35:00Z	**The Supreme Court Breaks With Trump on January 6**
Ian Millhiser,    -  Vox

_Stephan: The game has changed. Except for Clarence Thomas, whose wife is a MAGAt activist, the rest of the Supreme Court denied the nonsense of Trump's attempt to keep his archival records secret. So there will be all kinds of additional criminality coming out from the 6th January committee, over the next several months. That plus the New York Attorney General's work may finally result in Trump and his ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/20/the-supreme-court-breaks-with-trump-on-january-6/)
2022-01-20T10:34:00Z	**There is a Simple Reason Why Voters Are Not Blaming Republicans for the Capitol Riot**
Amanda Marcotte,    -  Raw Story / Salon / Commentary

_Stephan: I find it astonishing that people whose lives are being made more difficult, in some cases more miserable, by the acts of MAGAt Republicans, are yet more inclined to vote for them. This article is an attempt by someone else who has been struck by this shift to explain it. A combination of low I ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/20/there-is-a-simple-reason-why-voters-are-not-blaming-republicans-for-the-capitol-riot/)
2022-01-20T10:33:00Z	**Democrats Fail to Change Filibuster Rules as Republicans Block Action on Voting Rights**
Carl Hulse,  Reporter  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Thanks to Manchin and Sinema and, of course, every single Republican, American democracy was kicked in the groin and there will be no voting rights bill. How any Black or Brown voter in the United States can vote Republican, that is vote for a party doing everything in its power to keep them from vo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/20/democrats-fail-to-change-filibuster-rules-as-republicans-block-action-on-voting-rights/)
2022-01-20T10:32:00Z	**One County in Texas Turns Down 7 Times as Many Vote-By-Mail Applications After New Suppression Laws: Report**
Sarah K. Burris,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: The MAGAt Whites in Texas are terrified that the state is becoming a majority minority state and are doing everything in their power, while they still are in power, to severely limit the non-White vote. Is that an exaggeration? Read this and make up your own mind._

![]( ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/20/one-county-in-texas-turns-down-7-times-as-many-vote-by-mail-applications-after-new-suppression-laws-report/)
2022-01-21T10:35:00Z	**A Growing List of GOP Lawmakers Are Taking Credit for the Same Infrastructure Funding They Fought Against**
Meaghan Ellis,    -  AlterNet

_Stephan: There just is no integrity in the MAGAt Republican Party. Here is their latest scam._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-20-at-6.05.52-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C452&ssl=1)_Republican Congresswoman Ashley Hinson_ _Credit:_ _Wi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/21/a-growing-list-of-gop-lawmakers-are-taking-credit-for-the-same-infrastructure-funding-they-fought-against/)
2022-01-21T10:34:00Z	**Slouching Towards Fascism With DeSantis’ Election Police**
Abby Zimet,    -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: The Republican Party really should be renamed as the MAGAt Fascist Party. Every day now there are stories like this one that confirm this and make it explicit. All of it makes it clear that the 2022 election is really about one thing: Do Americans want to live in a democratic republic, or a White supremacy fascist autocracy? Personally, I am no longer clear as to the like ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/21/slouching-towards-fascism-with-desantis-election-police/)
2022-01-21T10:33:00Z	**New Filings Reveal Another Billionaire Behind the Big Lie**
Roger Sollenberger,    -  Daily Beast

_Stephan: Yet more evidence that the MAGAt Party is owned by a small group of corporations and uber-rich individuals who, thanks to Citizens United, bought the party and provide the dark money to accomplish the transformation of the United States from a democratic republic to a White supremacy fascist autocracy that will server the funders' interests, which have nothing to ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/21/new-filings-reveal-another-billionaire-behind-the-big-lie/)
2022-01-21T10:32:00Z	**Small Gardens as Vital as Big Ones for Conserving Bees, Says Study**
Mabel Banfield-Nwachi,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Every vegetable and fruit that you put on your table depends on bees. Without bees hundreds of millions of people would face starvation. This report lays out an important truth. Your garden, however big or small, can play and important role in supporting these little creatures.

Here are 15 plants that will do that, and I urge you to p ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/21/small-gardens-as-vital-as-big-ones-for-conserving-bees-says-study/)
2022-01-22T10:35:00Z	**The Reality is That Biden Has Done a Great Job — But the Pundits Can’t Admit It**
Matt Robison,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: I have been reading in both the liberal and MAGA media about how Biden is slow, his words stumble and slur, he was clearly aging and so forth, and wasn't able to get anything done. Then I watched his two-hour press conference in which he fielded questions in the moment, and was stunned at how much  command he had over all the rele ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/22/the-reality-is-that-biden-has-done-a-great-job-but-the-pundits-cant-admit-it/)
2022-01-22T10:34:00Z	**Just What is the Antiabortion Crowd’s Plan for Supporting Pregnant People?**
Monica Hesse,    -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: When I was in my early twenties I had two women friends my age who died as the result of kitchen table abortions (I was not the father, just a friend). Both women had made the pregnancy termination choice I learned from other women who were mutual friends because of the behavior of the men who were the fathers. Until that time I  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/22/just-what-is-the-antiabortion-crowds-plan-for-supporting-pregnant-people/)
2022-01-22T10:33:00Z	**We Found the One Group of Americans Who Are Most Likely to Spread Fake News**
HEMANT KAKKAR and ASHER LAWSON,  assistant professor of management and organizations at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business \| Asher Lawson is a Ph.D. student in management and organizations at Duke.  -  Politico Magazine

_Stephan: Over the past five years we have seen a pernicious and evil trend come to dominate our politics -- dis and mis information deliberately us ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/22/we-found-the-one-group-of-americans-who-are-most-likely-to-spread-fake-news/)
2022-01-22T10:32:00Z	**How to Reuse N95, KN95, and Other Disposable Masks**
Joanne Chen,    -  Wirecutter

_Stephan: Like most of you I expect N95, and KN5 masks have become part of my daily dress. But there is an enormous amount of misinformation about them, can you reuse them, can they be cleaned, so I thought this might be helpful for my readers._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-21-at-7.05.20-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C392&ssl=1)_Credit: Sarah K ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/22/how-to-reuse-n95-kn95-and-other-disposable-masks/)
2022-01-23T10:35:00Z	**GOP’s New Voter Suppression Tactic is Also an Old One: “Election Police”**
Thom Hartmann,    -  Salon

_Stephan: The Republican attempt to destroy American democracy is becoming ever more blatant, and seems to be coming out of the Nazis playbook, and how Hitler destroyed German democracy and rose to power. Here is the latest move._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-22-at-4.05.07-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C33 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/23/gops-new-voter-suppression-tactic-is-also-an-old-one-election-police/)
2022-01-23T10:34:00Z	**Politics is Making Us Sick: The Negative Impact of Political Engagement On Public Health During the Trump Administration**
Kevin B. Smith,    -  PLOS ONE

_Stephan: The attack on democracy being mounted by the Republican Party is causing enormous widespread emotional and mental stress on the American population. Here is the actual research paper supporting this statement. You may be feeling stressed yourself. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/23/politics-is-making-us-sick-the-negative-impact-of-political-engagement-on-public-health-during-the-trump-administration/)
2022-01-23T10:33:00Z	**‘Time for Citizens United to Go’: US Oligarchs Poured $1.2 Billion Into 2020 Elections**
Jake Johnson,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: One of the negative consequences of not taxing the uber-rich fairly when combined with Citizens United is that bribery of public officials is easy, and the uber-rich have lots of money to do it. It is my view that all elections should be publicly funded, and it should be illegal for any individual, cor ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/23/time-for-citizens-united-to-go-us-oligarchs-poured-1-2-billion-into-2020-elections/)
2022-01-23T10:32:00Z	**New Study Shows an Overwhelming Correlation Between Weak Gun Laws and High Rates of Gun Deaths**
Tod Perry,    -  Upworthy

_Stephan: Day after day, week after week, month after month, as I survey literally dozens of media sources, both academic and general audience, I see the results of America's gun psychosis, and it is horrifying. As this research study says explicitly: "states with weaker gun laws make it easier to access firearm ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/23/new-study-shows-an-overwhelming-correlation-between-weak-gun-laws-and-high-rates-of-gun-deaths/)
2022-01-24T10:35:00Z	**We’ve Breached Earth’s Threshold for Chemical Pollution, Study Says**
Elizabeth Claire Alberts ,  Staff Writer  -  Mongabay

_Stephan: No nation in the world, and certainly not the United States, is taking the human pollution of the earth seriously enough. We need to undergo a massive change in the technologies we employ. Now humans treat the earth as an exploitable bank account left to us by a rich uncle. As this report spells out it is literally destroying the  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/24/weve-breached-earths-threshold-for-chemical-pollution-study-says/)
2022-01-24T10:34:00Z	**A Health System That Works for All**
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association,    -  Politico

_Stephan: The American Illness Profit System that passes for healthcare in the United States is in grievous trouble, as virtually every authority in the healthcare field is saying in speeches, academic papers, and general readership articles. We need universal birthright publicly funded healthcare, like the rest of the developed world. It will be vastly cheaper, and much more effective and fair. Can we ge ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/24/a-health-system-that-works-for-all/)
2022-01-24T10:33:00Z	**If You’re Wondering Who’s Paying for All That Ivermectin—You Are**
Kiera Butler,  Senior Editor  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: Yet another horror story about the anti-vaxxers. A generation from now, probably sooner, young researchers will be writing their doctoral dissertations on the anti-vaxxer death cult. How many hundreds of thousands of dead people this movement caused, how it almost collapsed an already dysfunctional healthcare system in America, the hundreds of ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/24/if-youre-wondering-whos-paying-for-all-that-ivermectin-you-are/)
2022-01-24T10:32:00Z	**Antarctica’s Doomed A68 Iceberg Dumped 1 Trillion Tons of Water Into the Ocean Over 3 Years**
Brandon Specktor ,    -  Live Science

_Stephan: Yet another warning about sea rise, and yet another example that the nations of the world, and particularly the United States, are not doing anywhere close to enough to deal with what climate change is doing to earth, as a result of human activity. According to the study covered in this report the ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/24/antarcticas-doomed-a68-iceberg-dumped-1-trillion-tons-of-water-into-the-ocean-over-3-years/)