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2023-09-16T09:35:00Z	**The Paradox of the American West**
Kyle Paoletta,  Contributing Writer  -  Insider

_Stephan: I have told you there are going to be three major internal migrations with millions of Americans moving to new locales, and that it is going to create a great deal of stress and difficulty. As this article explains, it is now happening. This is going to become a major trend in the United States and other countries._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Screenshot-2023-09-15-at ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/16/the-paradox-of-the-american-west/)
2023-09-16T09:34:00Z	**Reading is fundamental: Children who love books are happier, more physically active**
Sophia Naughton,  Associate Editor  -  Study Finds

_Stephan: Here you see the positive side of the library issue. The raping of libraries by MAGAts, which also drives away staff, is the other end of the spectrum. Which do you want your kids to experience? The rightwing nonsense about libraries and books, should be driven back into the sewer from which it arose. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/16/reading-is-fundamental-children-who-love-books-are-happier-more-physically-active/)
2023-09-16T09:33:00Z	**Why some women still vote Republican and what can be done about it**
Valerie Tarico,  Psychologist and Contributing Writer  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: I have been thinking for some time, asking how can you be a Republican woman and how could that change? Here is a very thoughtful assessment, by a woman which, in this instance, I think this is important. It answers the question._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-38.png)_Image via  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/16/why-some-women-still-vote-republican-and-what-can-be-done-about-it/)
2023-09-16T09:32:00Z	**Watchdog Finds Trump Border Wall Harmed Environment, Indigenous Sites, and Wildlife**
Jessica Corbett,  Senior Editor and Staff Writer  -

_Stephan: Has criminal Trump ever done anything that didn't cause damage and degrade wellbeing? I can't think of anything. And now we have the fact-based report on what his hate wall along the Southern border actually did. None of it is good, as this report describes.

To read the report upon which this articl ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/16/watchdog-finds-trump-border-wall-harmed-environment-indigenous-sites-and-wildlife/)
2023-09-17T09:33:00Z	**A Canadian study gave $7,500 to homeless people. Here’s how they spent it.**
Sigal Samuel ,  Senior Reporter  -  Vox

_Stephan: Ever since Ronald Reagan and his "welfare queens" assertion, the Republican Party has been against granting very poor, often homeless people any cash assistance. Now we have objectively verifiable evidence that this, like most Republican social perspectives is crap, as this report describes. As it says, "According to Foundations f ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/17/a-canadian-study-gave-7500-to-homeless-people-heres-how-they-spent-it-2/)
2023-09-17T09:36:00Z	**How a half-trillion dollars is transforming climate technology**
Casey Crownhart,  Climate Reporter  -  MIT Technology Review

_Stephan: While the septic circus that is the U.S. Congress wails about having an impeachment with no evidence, this is what the Biden Administration has done, and is doing. I don't know why the Democrats cannot work out a way to pierce the MAGAt miasma of misinformation, and get people to understand and appreciate what Biden and the Democr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/17/how-a-half-trillion-dollars-is-transforming-climate-technology/)
2023-09-17T09:35:00Z	**Gen Z Voices Lackluster Trust in Major U.S. Institutions**
ZACH HRYNOWSKI and STEPHANIE MARKEN,    -  The Gallup Organization

_Stephan: I don't think older Americans realize how badly criminal Trump and his MAGAt world have damaged American democracy. But the christofascist, White racist, gender and sex obsessed world created by criminal Trump and the Republican Party has wrought damage that may take generations to repair -- if it ever gets repaired. Frankly, if your val ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/17/gen-z-voices-lackluster-trust-in-major-u-s-institutions/)
2023-09-17T09:34:00Z	**‘It will take years to recover’ from Tuberville blockade, top Navy nominee says**
CONNOR O’BRIEN,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: I was the Special Assistant to two Chiefs of Naval Operations, Admirals Elmo Zumwalt, and James Holloway, and before that the editor of Sea Power Magazine, and it taught me that in the culture of the military promotions have many implications virtually unknown to civilians. A typical tour in a specific job for an offi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/17/it-will-take-years-to-recover-from-tuberville-blockade-top-navy-nominee-says/)
2023-09-18T09:35:00Z	**How Conspiracy Culture Benefits the Ruling Elite**
Interview with Naomi Klein,  Author and Investigative Journalist  -  Reader Supported News

_Stephan: I agree with Naomi Klein, and think she is a very smart person, and here she gives an interview that clearly lays out what she calls the "mirror world" of conspiracies, fantasies, and misinformation. Bravo. Now will Americans do something about it when they vote?_

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/im ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/18/how-conspiracy-culture-benefits-the-ruling-elite/)
2023-09-18T09:34:00Z	**Wealthy Elites Believe Capitalism Should Hurt Workers More**
Joshua Hill,  Contributing Writer  -  truthdig

_Stephan: The true attitudes of the uber-rich are rarely expressed so publicly. Capitalism is a system. But it must be governed by the morality that fostering wellbeing must be the first priority. What has happened since Reagan is that it is not. Instead, we have MAGAt social policies and that has created the worse wealth inequality since the 18th century. This  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/18/wealthy-elites-believe-capitalism-should-hurt-workers-more/)
2023-09-18T09:33:00Z	**Medical Debt Is Killing Our Patients**
Arvind Venkat, MD ,  Emergency Physician and Pennsylvania State Representative  -  MEDPAGEToday

_Stephan: Once again the social outcome data proves that we do not have a healthcare system committed to fostering wellbeing. Instead we have an illness profit system, and it is the worst in the developed world. The most expensive by orders of magnitude, with the worst social outcome data. Is it going to change? I don't think so while our Congress is paraly ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/18/medical-debt-is-killing-our-patients/)
2023-09-18T09:32:00Z	**“A Watershed Moment”: CA Sues Oil Giants Over Decades of Climate Destruction**
Jake Johnson,  Staff Writer  -  truthout / Common Dreams

_Stephan: Here is some very interesting and, I think, excellent news. Municipalities and states are beginning to sue big oil corporations for deliberatively covering up, and issuing misinformation about the role of their industry in causing climate change and doing great damage to the wellbeing of the planet and all the ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/18/a-watershed-moment-ca-sues-oil-giants-over-decades-of-climate-destruction/)
2023-09-19T09:34:00Z	**Water and Pesticide Use Cut Nearly in Half After ‘Better Cotton’ Helps Farmers Become Sustainable**
,    \-  Good News Network

_Stephan: Here is some excellent good news. This is what the governments of the world, and certainly the United States, should be doing. Here is yet more proof that even in farming, pay close attention to the numbers cited, fostering wellbeing is better in all aspects, except the pesticide corporations that ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/19/water-and-pesticide-use-cut-nearly-in-half-after-better-cotton-helps-farmers-become-sustainable/)
2023-09-19T09:33:00Z	**EVs are cutting the world demand for oil, but not in the way you may think**
Mark Sumner,  Staff Writer  -  Daily Kos

_Stephan: Here is an interesting good news on kinds of electric vehicles one rarely sees in the U.S. but that are having a significant impact on the pollution produced by internal combustion engines._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-45-1.jpg)_Electric tuk-tuk in India. Credit: Corbis / Getty_

The sam ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/19/evs-are-cutting-the-world-demand-for-oil-but-not-in-the-way-you-may-think/)
2023-09-19T09:32:00Z	**Americans are least likely to care about kids having good manners. Here’s what they prioritize instead**
Sophie Kiderlin,    -  make it

_Stephan:_

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-45-2.jpg)_A new report shows the attributes different countries value the most in kids.

Credit: Klaus Vedfelt \| Digitalvision \| Getty_

Having well-behaved kids is often a concern for parents. But not all adults ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/19/americans-are-least-likely-to-care-about-kids-having-good-manners-heres-what-they-prioritize-instead/)
2023-09-19T09:35:00Z	**Halliburton equipment worth $7.1m imported into Russia in past year, customs records show**
Daniel Boffey ,  Chief Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Take this as an example of corporate greed placing profit above all other considerations. This is only possible because since Reagan the Republican Party has been changing the tax structure, and loosening control of the corporations controlled by of the uber-rich, who rented them to m ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/19/halliburton-equipment-worth-7-1m-imported-into-russia-in-past-year-customs-records-show/)
2023-09-20T09:35:00Z	**House GOP Unveils Budget With Trillions in Cuts to Medicaid, Food Benefits, and More**
Jake Johnson,  Seniors Editor and Staff writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: It is a measure of how sick American society has become that voters elect to Congressional offices Republicans who in turn vote to trash their lives, as this report describes._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-45.png)_Republican MAGAt Rep. Jodey Arri ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/20/house-gop-unveils-budget-with-trillions-in-cuts-to-medicaid-food-benefits-and-more/)
2023-09-20T09:34:00Z	**Scientists warn entire branches of the ‘Tree of Life’ are going extinct**
Lucie Aubourg ,  Reporter  -  Agence France-Presse (France) / Yahoo! News

_Stephan: We are being warned again and again that we are destroying earth's ecosystems to our own detriment. And yet what are the Republicans in the House trying to do. Cut support for, Medicaid, and a host of other social programs designed to foster wellbeing. I think these MAGAt men and women are contemptible ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/20/scientists-warn-entire-branches-of-the-tree-of-life-are-going-extinct/)
2023-09-20T09:33:00Z	**US Behind More Than a Third of Global Oil and Gas Expansion Plans, Report Finds**
Fiona Harvey,  Staff Writer  -  Reader Supported News / The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: The corruption of the U.S. Congress is so great that this is the result. American petroleum corporations continue to promote carbon energy to keep their profits high, even though it is destroying the earth's ecosystems._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/20/us-behind-more-than-a-third-of-global-oil-and-gas-expansion-plans-report-finds/)
2023-09-20T09:32:00Z	**Trump shames Jews during Rosh Hashanah for refusing to vote for him**
Sarah K. Burris,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Trump has a long history of anti-semitism, and as he becomes more deranged he is becoming more blatant about it, as well as his anti-Black racism. And yet he remains the leading candidate of the Republican Party, which tells one so much about Republican voters._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-46.png ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/20/trump-shames-jews-during-rosh-hashanah-for-refusing-to-vote-for-him/)
2023-09-21T09:32:00Z	**The Scheme Speech 5: The Federalist Society+**
Sheldon Whitehouse,  Democratic Senator for Rhode Island  -  Sheldon Whitehouse Senatorial Website

_Stephan: This is what honorable political discourse focused on fostering wellbeing sounds like. Such a different world from what we see on the electronic media. And what Senator Whitehouse is saying deserves your close attention. This is how the christofascist Republican minority took over the Supreme Court and much of the rest of the Amer ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/21/the-scheme-speech-5-the-federalist-society/)
2023-09-21T09:35:00Z	**Biden uses executive power to create a New Deal-style American Climate Corps**
Matthew Daly,    -  Seattle Times

_Stephan: Here is some lovely good news. President Biden thwarted by the Congressional Republicans is using his executive authority to create a modern version of Franklin Roosevelt's WPA that so successfully change America for the better in ways we still benefit from. How is it possible that a convicted rapist, convicted scammer currently  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/21/biden-uses-executive-power-to-create-a-new-deal-style-american-climate-corps/)
2023-09-21T09:34:00Z	**Constitutional confusion: Survey reveals Americans woefully uninformed about their own rights**
John Anderer,  Contributing Writer  -  Study Finds

_Stephan: A few weeks ago I ran a survey showing that a large percentage of Americans have no idea how their works (see SR archive). Their understanding of the country's democracy is so poor they can't even name the branches created by the Constitution. I was appalled and saddened by that s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/21/constitutional-confusion-survey-reveals-americans-woefully-uninformed-about-their-own-rights/)
2023-09-21T09:33:00Z	**Texas Fracking Billionaire Brothers Fuel Rightwing Media With Millions of Dollars**
,    \-

_Stephan:_

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-48-2.jpg)_John (left) and Farris Wilks Credit: Forbes_

Two billionaire Texas brothers whose fortunes derive from oil and gas fracking have pumped million of dollars into rightwing media outfits that have promoted climate-crisis denialism and sent more big checks to back an ar ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/21/texas-fracking-billionaire-brothers-fuel-rightwing-media-with-millions-of-dollars/)
2023-09-22T09:20:00Z	**Twitter ranks worst in climate change misinformation report**
Nick Robins-Early,    -  The Guardian (U.K)

_Stephan: If you want to help end the distribution of misinformation stop using Twitter/X. I took the SR edition off of Twitter as soon as I learned this, and hope you will do so as well._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-52-1.jpg)_None of the five major tech companies (Meta, Pinterest, YouTube, TikTok and Twitter) scored well. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/22/twitter-ranks-worst-in-climate-change-misinformation-report/)
2023-09-22T09:25:00Z	**‘Very Bad News’: Human Activities Increased Extinction Rate of Species Groups by 35 Times**
OLIVIA ROSANE,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Yet another warning that we humans simply are not taking the damage we are doing to the earth's wellbeing seriously enough. We are literally destroying the environment our children and their children, and their children will have to live in. We are destroying the earth's matrix of life out of s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/22/very-bad-news-human-activities-increased-extinction-rate-of-species-groups-by-35-times/)
2023-09-22T09:30:00Z	**American Hatred Goes Global**
Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware,  Shelby Cullom and Kathryn W. Davis Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security at the Council on Foreign Relations \| Research Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations  -  Foreign Affairs

_Stephan: How do you feel about people all over the world seeing the United States, as a bully, a source of violence, and a spreader of hate? Frankly, it makes me quite angry that criminal Trump and the MAGAt world he has created has trash ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/22/american-hatred-goes-global/)
2023-09-22T09:35:00Z	**The Patriot – How Genereal Mark Milley Protected the Constitution from Donald Trump**
Jeffrey Goldberg,  Editor-in-Chief  -  The Atlantic Magazine

_Stephan: I wonder how many Americans realize how close we came to a military supported coup designed to keep criminal Trump in power. We owe a deep vote of thanks to General Mark Milley for saving our democracy._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-49.png)_General Mar ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/22/the-patriot-how-genereal-mark-milley-protected-the-constitution-from-donald-trump/)
2023-09-23T09:20:00Z	**In U.S., 47% Identify as Religious, 33% as Spiritual**
JEFFREY M. JONES,    -

_Stephan: Here is the latest on what is happening to religion in the United States, note the large difference between Republicans and Democrats, also the age differential._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Screenshot-2023-09-23-at-1.00.29-AM.png)

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nearly half of Americans (47%) describe themselves as religious, another 33% say they are spiritual but not  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/23/in-u-s-47-identify-as-religious-33-as-spiritual/)
2023-09-23T09:30:00Z	**Pentagon-funded Study Warns Dementia Among U.S. Officials Poses National Security Threat**
Ken Klippenstein,  Staff Writer  -  The Intercept

_Stephan: If you look at McConnell, or Feinstein, and a number of others you can see that they are beyond their optimal age, and should consider resigning. It's not just age, look at Nancy Pelosi, it's cognitive competence. But age is an issue. We have the oldest government in our history. To quote th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/23/pentagon-funded-study-warns-dementia-among-u-s-officials-poses-national-security-threat/)
2023-09-23T09:25:00Z	**Neo-Nazi Fight Clubs Are Growing Rapidly, New Research Shows**
Mack Lamoureux,  Staff Writer  -  Vice

_Stephan: The biggest threat of violence in the United States, and several countries in Euroe are militarily trained White Nationalists. Young aggrieved fearful White men training for violence. This is a growing trend, as this article describes. This trend is going to get worse and needs much greater consideration. These White men have already tried to overthrow demo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/23/neo-nazi-fight-clubs-are-growing-rapidly-new-research-shows/)
2023-09-23T09:35:00Z	**Clarence Thomas Secretly Participated in Koch Network Donor Events**
Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski,    -  ProPublica

_Stephan:  Think about this. Clarence Thomas is one of the six human beings who define the laws that control the wellbeing of the 339,996,562 rest of us and who is, on the basis of incontrovertible evidence, utterly corrupt. And yet nothing is being done. He should leave the court one way or another. That nothing is happening  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/23/clarence-thomas-secretly-participated-in-koch-network-donor-events/)
2023-09-24T09:30:00Z	**There were 1,396 cases of criminalized pregnancy in the U.S. between January 2006 and June 2022.**
,    \-  Pregnancy Justice

_Stephan: In the United States if you are a fertile woman, particularly if you are a non-White woman, you don't want to get pregnant in a Republican controlled state and have something go wrong. Not only may you find it is impossible to get needed medical care you may end up getting arrested and being sent to  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/24/there-were-1396-cases-of-criminalized-pregnancy-in-the-u-s-between-january-2006-and-june-2022/)
2023-09-24T09:25:00Z	**A Nebraska mother who provided an illegal abortion for her daughter and helped dispose of the fetus gets 2 years in prison, report says**
Mitchell McCluskey,  Reporter  -  CNN

_Stephan: This is what is happening to women, what they are driven to in Republican controlled states. I have to confess that I do not see how it is possible to be a woman and vote Republican, yet I recognize that millio ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/24/a-nebraska-mother-who-provided-an-illegal-abortion-for-her-daughter-and-helped-dispose-of-the-fetus-gets-2-years-in-prison-report-says/)
2023-09-24T09:20:00Z	**Banned in the USA: The Mounting Pressure to Censor**
Kasey Meehan, Jonathan Friedman, Sabrina Baeta, and Tasslyn Magnusson,    -  PEN America

_Stephan: States, both Red and Blue, are having their libraries attacked by hysterical semi-literate White people, mostly women, who seek to purge their libraries of books they often haven't read, nor seem to understand. There is a growing anti-intellectualism in the United States that is doing massive damage to libraries, once seen as c ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/24/banned-in-the-usa-the-mounting-pressure-to-censor/)
2023-09-25T09:30:00Z	**US states relax child labor laws amid rise in illegal work**
,    \-  Agence France-Presse (France) / Raw Story

_Stephan: Corporations having rented state legislators and governors, particularly in Republican controlled states, are doing everything they can to be child labor legal. As this report describes, "the number of illegally employed minors has surged by 69 percent since 2018, according to Labor Department figures." It is just another trend showing us that as a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/25/us-states-relax-child-labor-laws-amid-rise-in-illegal-work/)
2023-09-25T09:25:00Z	**Misinformation research is buckling under GOP legal attacks**
Naomi Nix, Cat Zakrzewski, and Joseph Menn,  Reporters  -  Microsoft Start / The Washington Post

_Stephan: As this story describes the Congressional Republicans led my MAGAT Representative Jim Jordan and others are doing everything they can to stop research on misinformation. They rely on misinformation in order to manipulate their voters whom they hold in obvious contempt, and they don't want researchers  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/25/misinformation-research-is-buckling-under-gop-legal-attacks/)
2023-09-25T09:20:00Z	**McCarthyism Rides Again at Texas Universities**
GABRIEL ARANA,    -  Texas Observer

_Stephan: The Republican Party, as this article describes, in the states it controls, is trying to gut colleges and universities that rely on public money to stop them from teaching the truth and, instead, indoctrinate them into the White Nationalist christofascist cult that they are trying to install and dominate our government. We have got to stop this. It will all turn on the 2024 election. Thin ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/25/mccarthyism-rides-again-at-texas-universities/)
2023-09-25T09:35:00Z	**Pentagon’s Budget is so Bloated That it Needs an AI Program to Navigate it**
Ken Klippenstein,  Staff Writer  -  The Intercept

_Stephan: The United States Congress manipulated by the corporations that make up the military-industrial complex that routinely rents its members has a budget larger than the next seven high budget nations on earth. We can't feed our children, we can't educate them properly, we have the worst healthcare system amongst developed ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/25/pentagons-budget-is-so-bloated-that-it-needs-an-ai-program-to-navigate-it/)
2023-09-26T09:30:00Z	**Traditional downtowns are dead or dying in many US cities — here’s what’s next**
John Rennie Short,  Professor Emeritus of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County  -  The Conversation

_Stephan: If you read me regularly you will see this as the latest on a trend SR has been covering for several years (See SR Archive). American cities are undergoing a massive change that is not being properly or adequately covered. John Short gets what is ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/26/traditional-downtowns-are-dead-or-dying-in-many-us-cities-heres-whats-next/)
2023-09-26T09:25:00Z	**Our new poll shows just how much GOP voters have diverged from everyone else on vaccines**
STEVEN SHEPARD,  Senior Campaigns and Elections Editor  -  Politico

_Stephan: The Republican view is a death cult. (See SR archive). The Covid death rate of Republicans compared with Democrats is absurd. It is an anti-vaxxer death cult._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Screenshot-2023-09-25-at-11.38.51-PM.png)

Vaccine ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/26/our-new-poll-shows-just-how-much-gop-voters-have-diverged-from-everyone-else-on-vaccines/)
2023-09-26T09:20:00Z	**A climate scientist on how to recognize the new climate change denial**
Avishay Artsy,    -  Vox

_Stephan: This is a dialogue between Michael Mann a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Sean Rameswaram. I absolutely agree with them._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-60.png)_CalFire firefighters combating the Rabbit Fire in Moreno Valley, California, on July 14, 2023.

 Credit: Jon Putman / SOPA Images/ LightRoc ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/26/a-climate-scientist-on-how-to-recognize-the-new-climate-change-denial/)
2023-09-27T09:30:00Z	**Guns and Voting**
Sean Morales-Doyle, Robyn Sanders, Allison Anderman, and Jessica Ojeda,   Director of the Brennan Center Voting Rights Program \| Counsel with the Democracy Program’s Voting Rights and Elections Team \| Senior Counsel and Director of local policy, Giffords Law Center   -  Brennan Center for Justice

_Stephan: The MAGAts particularly in the states controlled by Republicans are literally trying to scare America's democracy out of existence. Contact your state representatives and senators and dem ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/27/guns-and-voting/)
2023-09-27T09:25:00Z	**Oklahoma superintendent vows to ‘fight the radical myth of separation of church and state’**
Brad Reed,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: If you look at its social outcome data Oklahoma is a rather pathetic state run my MAGAts who don't even seem to understand how American government was set up by the Founders. The separation of church and state was a major issue to the Founders many of whom had been persecuted by the Anglican church in a Britain ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/27/oklahoma-superintendent-vows-to-fight-the-radical-myth-of-separation-of-church-and-state/)
2023-09-27T09:20:00Z	**Blame boomers? 65% of young adults fear older generations will damage their financial future**
Sophia Naughton,  Associate Editor  -  Study Finds

_Stephan: This is the first survey I have seen about how younger people see the older generation's role in their financial situation and future. BUt what I particularly took away from reading this was what a large percentage of Americans are having a very tough time financially while the uber- ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/27/blame-boomers-65-of-young-adults-fear-older-generations-will-damage-their-financial-future/)
2023-09-27T09:35:00Z	**Mouths Full of Blood: Trump and His Backers Spread Lies, Violence and Fascism**
,    \-

_Stephan:_

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-61.png)_Donald Trump leaves after speaking to supporters during a political rally while campaigning for the GOP nomination in the 2024 election on July 29, 2023, in Erie, Pennsylvania.

Credit: Jeff Swensen / Getty_

Former President Donald Trump has achieved a unique status in United S ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/27/mouths-full-of-blood-trump-and-his-backers-spread-lies-violence-and-fascism/)
2023-09-28T09:35:00Z	**In Texas, guns are everywhere, whether concealed or in the open**
Molly Hennessy-Fiske,  Reporter  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: There is a very important trend going on in the United States and I only very rarely hear anyone talking about it. If you live in a Republican controlled state you are much, much, more likely to be murdered.  Here are the top 10 states with the most gun deaths:

1\. Mississippi – 28.6 per 100k
2\. Louisiana – 26.3 per 100k
3\. Wyoming  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/28/in-texas-guns-are-everywhere-whether-concealed-or-in-the-open/)
2023-09-28T09:30:00Z	**‘Threats and harassment’ are causing America’s West to bleed election officials: report**
Alexandria Jacobson,  Staff Writer  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: The Republican Party recognizes that they are a minority and the basis of a functioning democracy they cannot win. So what to do? Destroy democracy. Literally, threaten and scare the election workers away. Scare the teachers away. scare the librarians away. Destroy or incapacitate the institutions  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/28/threats-and-harassment-are-causing-americas-west-to-bleed-election-officials-report/)
2023-09-28T09:25:00Z	**The Risk of Political Violence Looms Over US Elections**
Jessica Corbett,  Staff Writer  -  truthdig / Common Dreams

_Stephan: White MAGAt men filled with hate, resentment, and grievances are seriously threatening violence in the coming election and, I think, particularly in Red states this may happen. I just don't think most Americans really comprehend that we have one party that is seriously thinking about violence as the way to keep themselves in power. Would you be co ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/28/the-risk-of-political-violence-looms-over-us-elections/)
2023-09-28T09:20:00Z	**House GOP Shutdown Demands Include Gutting Billions From Dept. of Education, Costing Over 200,000 Teachers Their Jobs**
David Badash,    -  The New Civil Rights Movement

_Stephan: Do you have young children? Do you want them to be well-educated on the basis of facts? Well, if the Republicans have their way, that's not going to happen. In fact, your kid's school may not even be able to hire enough teachers to be a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/28/house-gop-shutdown-demands-include-gutting-billions-from-dept-of-education-costing-over-200000-teachers-their-jobs/)
2023-09-29T09:35:00Z	**UN Report Urges End to Forced US Prison Labor—a ‘Contemporary Form of Slavery’**
Brett Wilkins,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: I had five different stories about the defacto slavery that is thriving in the U.S. in its prisons. But I have chosen this UN report because it makes it clear that not only do some Americans understand that this country is still embroiled in racist slavery -- the prisoners involved are overwhelming Black -- but tha ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/29/un-report-urges-end-to-forced-us-prison-labor-a-contemporary-form-of-slavery/)
2023-09-29T09:30:00Z	**Florida school district bans all library books containing LGBTQ characters, says they ‘cannot exist’**
Dartagnan,  Contributing Writer  -  Daily Kos

_Stephan: Ron DeSantis, on the basis of his performance in office and his own words, is a not overly bright rather nasty thuggish man. He is the leader of the gutting library movement, and he is driving LGBTQ Floridians out of the state because of his sheer nastiness. Nothing but bad ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/29/florida-school-district-bans-all-library-books-containing-lgbtq-characters-says-they-cannot-exist/)
2023-09-29T09:25:00Z	**Americans have poor math skills. It’s a threat to US standing in the global economy, employers say**
JON MARCUS,    -  Associated Press \| The Hechinger Report

_Stephan: The Republicans are earnestly and actively trying to dismantle public education, trying to replace it with some bastardized profit-making system. They are also gutting libraries, gutting history programs because they don't want children to know the truth about slav ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/29/americans-have-poor-math-skills-its-a-threat-to-us-standing-in-the-global-economy-employers-say/)
2023-09-29T09:20:00Z	**The 10 States With the Highest STD Rates**
Steven Ross Johnson,   Public Health Reporter   -  US News & World Report

_Stephan: When I was a boy old enough to join my parents at the dinner table when there were family guests, most of the talk was about medicine. My father was an internationally recognized anesthesiologist, my mother had been a surgical nurse, one uncle was a cardiologist and head of a major clinic, another was a hospital administrator, two great aunts were famous nurses ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/29/the-10-states-with-the-highest-std-rates/)
2023-09-30T09:25:00Z	**Man hailed by Trump admin as a victim charged with dismembering his girlfriend: report**
David McAfee,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: This is Trump world. This is what Trump has done to American society. The news about him and the people associated with him is like reading a satire novel.  So absurd, so sleazy, so willfully ignorant. And yet day after day this stuff runs like a series. I don't like this series, and I am tired of it. What do you t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/30/man-hailed-by-trump-admin-as-a-victim-charged-with-dismembering-his-girlfriend-report/)
2023-09-30T09:30:00Z	**Here’s How Much Ron DeSantis’s Stupid Culture-War Laws Cost Taxpayers**
Tori Otten,  Associated Writer  -  The New Republic

_Stephan: On the basis of objectively verifiable data Ron DeSantis, is a somewhat worse governor of Florida than if your dog had gotten elected. Everything in touches wilts or dies. The libraries in Florida have been debased, the schools and universities are losing a significant percentage of their teachers, the largest employer in the s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/30/heres-how-much-ron-desantiss-stupid-culture-war-laws-cost-taxpayers/)
2023-09-30T09:35:00Z	**Earth’s sixth mass extinction is underway and “rapidly accelerating,” study warns**
Ivana Saric,    -  Axios

_Stephan: We have got to end this puerile schoolyard acrimony going on in the House. We don't have time for the MAGAt nonsense, as this article should make clear to the dimmest. We have got to each of us think: what can I do to foster wellbeing?_

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-71.png)_Wild Puku antelopes  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/30/earths-sixth-mass-extinction-is-underway-and-rapidly-accelerating-study-warns/)
2023-09-30T09:40:00Z	**Homes “unaffordable” in 99% of nation for average American**
KHRISTOPHER J. BROOKS,  Reporter  -  CBS News

_Stephan: We are a country in desperate shape. For nearly two hundred years we have been a two-party democracy, The parties have changed names but the agreement was that both parties supported democracy and demanded a level of integrity. That is no longer the case. The Republican Party has become a White nationalist christofascist cult and, as a result, we have a dy ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/09/30/homes-unaffordable-in-99-of-nation-for-average-american/)
2023-10-01T09:25:00Z	**Energy production: Romania among world’s greenest economies**
Radu Dumitrescu,  Reporter  -  Romania-Insider.com

_Stephan: I have been following what is going on in other countries as they work through the required trend of ending carbon energy. Some of these reports put us to shame in the U.S. Here's an example from Romania. We are not taking the end of the internal combustion engine seriously enough in the United States._

![](https://cdn.romania-insider.com/sites/de ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/01/energy-production-romania-among-worlds-greenest-economies/)
2023-10-01T09:20:00Z	**Veebs: now there’s an app for partisan shopping**
OLIVER BATEMAN ,    -  UnHerd

_Stephan: Those who have read The 8 Laws of Change will know about the Quotidian Choice. Briefly, everyday you make dozens of small choices, like choosing the things you buy at the grocery. Faced with a choice of which laundry soap, after picking organic, pick the company that has made wellbeing a priority. How do they treat their workers? That requires doing a little research. But now their is an app  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/01/veebs-now-theres-an-app-for-partisan-shopping/)
2023-10-01T09:30:00Z	**Science vs. ‘wokeism’: The growing tensions between the doctors’ lobby and the GOP**
DANIEL PAYNE,    -  Politico

_Stephan: This article is interesting for two reasons. First, it shows how Republicans believe science is just a political position that can be altered to accommodate their beliefs. Second, it reveals the role and importance of profit as a part of the illness profit system. It illustrates what a universal birthright single payer would el ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/01/science-vs-wokeism-the-growing-tensions-between-the-doctors-lobby-and-the-gop/)
2023-10-01T09:35:00Z	**Some 40 Million Americans Will Resume Student Debt Payments Next Month**
Amy Goodman,    -  truthout / Democracy Now

_Stephan: We got 45 days of grace before the government shutdown starts up again. Hopefully, at least five Republicans will see this whole pissing contest is completely contrived and harmful and join the almost total Democrat majority in both the House and Senate in creating a functioning government. This entire business is the result of the ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/01/some-40-million-americans-will-resume-student-debt-payments-next-month/)
2023-10-02T09:30:00Z	**Would-be ‘warlord’ yearns for white nationalist dictator to ‘destroy the left’ during event hosted by DeSantis ally**
Travis Gettys,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: There are White racist christofascists in the United States. That, in itself, is not notable.  There has always been such a community in this country. What stands out this time though is how large they are, how explicit, and how inclined to violence. Consider  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/02/would-be-warlord-yearns-for-white-nationalist-dictator-to-destroy-the-left-during-event-hosted-by-desantis-ally/)
2023-10-02T09:25:00Z	**GOP waging a “coordinated national effort to undermine American elections,” says leading official**
AREEBA SHAH,  Staff Writer  -  Salon

_Stephan: Here is a very good and comprehensive assessment of what is happening to the American election system as a result of harassment and threatened or actual violence by MAGAts. I believe the federal government should have a structure to protect the elections at every level. The Republican Par ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/02/gop-waging-a-coordinated-national-effort-to-undermine-american-elections-says-leading-official/)
2023-10-02T09:40:00Z	**What the world would look like without fossil fuels**
Shannon Osaka,  Climate Zeitgeist Reporter  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: This is the first article I have seen in corporate media that addresses seriously and analysis of the transition out of the carbon era. That tells you something right there. I think this is the most important issue facing human cultures, including the United States. It is not getting anything like the attention it should, let along the action. We ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/02/what-the-world-would-look-like-without-fossil-fuels/)
2023-10-02T09:35:00Z	**He, She, They: The Pronoun Debate Will Likely Land at the Supreme Court**
KIMBERLY WEHLE,    -  Politico

_Stephan: This is how deeply the MAGAt obsession with gender and sexuality has invaded our culture, and how badly it is being handled by parents. I can't imagine having a child who constantly references themselves by the other gender, and not compassionately working with them, getting therapeutic help if necessary. And yet, as this report details that is  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/02/he-she-they-the-pronoun-debate-will-likely-land-at-the-supreme-court/)
2023-10-03T09:25:00Z	**The Roots of Christian Nationalism Go Back Further Than You Think**
ROBERT P. JONES,  President and Founder of the Public Religion Research Insitute (PRRI)  -  Time Magazine

_Stephan: Robert Jones, founder of the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) has written a book I strongly recommend. It tears off the lies and cover-ups of White Nationalists like Ron De Santis and presents a fact-based history of where White Christian Nationalism comes from and how it ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/03/the-roots-of-christian-nationalism-go-back-further-than-you-think/)
2023-10-03T09:20:00Z	**White Christian nationalism threatens U.S. democracy**
Steve Corbin,  Contributing Writer  -  Michigan Advance

_Stephan: White Christian Nationalism, in my opinion, is the greatest threat to the future of America as a democracy. These are angry hate-filled racist White people who simply cannot accept that we are becoming a majority-minority society._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image-7.png)_White nationalists attend a rally on October 28, 2 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/03/white-christian-nationalism-threatens-u-s-democracy/)
2023-10-03T09:30:00Z	**North Carolina GOP-Passed Budget Creates “Secret Police,” Critics Warn**
Chris Walker,  Staff Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: Red states are becoming more fascist, more anocracies rather than democracies, as the Republicans who control those states seek ways to stay in power and give voters less and less to say about how their state is governed. Here is the latest from North Carolina. If you live in that state you will now have a "secret police" controlled by a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/03/north-carolina-gop-passed-budget-creates-secret-police-critics-warn/)
2023-10-03T09:35:00Z	**These MAGA Republicans long for a ‘Red Caesar’ to ‘impose a dictatorship’ on America**
Alex Henderson,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: About a third of America likes and supports the idea of a White supremacist authoritarian head of state. This arises, in my opinion, because Americans in living memory have never experienced what such a government would be like. Nor has there been massive civil violence in this country in living memory. Talk ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/03/these-maga-republicans-long-for-a-red-caesar-to-impose-a-dictatorship-on-america/)
2023-10-04T09:25:00Z	**Rightwing activist helps fund ‘predatory payday lenders’ in supreme court case**
Martin Pengelly,  Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Leonard Leo is a leading monster created by Citizens United. He has done more damage to the United States than anyone else who comes to mind, and he is not finished. Here is his latest effort to damage the United States._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image-9.jpg)_Leo spent year ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/04/rightwing-activist-helps-fund-predatory-payday-lenders-in-supreme-court-case/)
2023-10-04T09:30:00Z	**Inside West Virginia’s Chernobyl**
JUSTIN NOBEL,  Contributing Writer  -  truthdig

_Stephan: As we exit the carbon era expect lots of Congressional and state legislature corruption produced by the corporations that profit from nuclear energy. Nuclear is, and always has been, an extremely dangerous technology. Think Chernobyl. Think Fukushima. Think of all the costs and dangers of nuclear's multi-century waste issues. Now think West Virginia. We do not want to go down the nuclear path when we ha ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/04/inside-west-virginias-chernobyl/)
2023-10-04T09:35:00Z	**Amy Coney Barrett’s Christian Group Probed by FBI: What We Know**
KHALEDA RAHMAN ,    -

_Stephan: Is it any wonder that respect for the Supreme Court is the lowest in over 200 years? Only criminal Trump and the MAGAt world could consider a woman who is a lifelong christofascist male dominant cult member appropriate to be made an associate justice of the Supreme Court.  Thomas, a vulgar fascist grifter, Alito a fascist grifter, Roberts, a grifter, Kavanaugh, a moles ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/04/amy-coney-barretts-christian-group-probed-by-fbi-what-we-know/)
2023-10-04T09:40:00Z	**Faith in the Supreme Court is down. Voters now say they want changes.**
STEVEN SHEPARD,    -

_Stephan: The reason I picked this report is the graph that heads the story. Look at it. What stands out for you? What stood out for me was the high percentage of people who have no idea who any of these people are. That correlates with the study (see SR archive) showing that a third of Americans can't even name the three branches of government. As I have said many ti ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/04/faith-in-the-supreme-court-is-down-voters-now-say-they-want-changes/)
2023-10-05T09:20:00Z	**An Epidemic of Chronic Illness is Killing Us Too Soon**
Joel Achenbach, Dan Keating, Laurie McGinley,  Akilah Johnson and Jahi Chikwendiu,  Reporters  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: The United States is not a very healthy place to live. That is a factual statement. Not only the failings of the illness profit system, the gun violence and all the rest, but literally the length of one's life. This is a wake-up call if I have ever read one._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.n ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/05/an-epidemic-of-chronic-illness-is-killing-us-too-soon/)
2023-10-05T09:30:00Z	**Survey: Religion and race shape views on cause of climate change**
Russell Contreras and Andrew Freedman,  Staff Writer  -  Axios

_Stephan: Humanity faces the largest most devastating crisis in our history, as essentially every scientist who has studied the issue concurs, and this well-conducted survey of 5,792 men and women reveals the correlation of race, and religion with these individuals' recognition of the climate change reality. Two things stand out for me ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/05/survey-religion-and-race-shape-views-on-cause-of-climate-change/)
2023-10-05T09:25:00Z	**Overworked and Understaffed, More Than 1 in 4 US Nurses Say They Plan to Leave the Profession**
Melissa Suran, PhD, MSJ,    -  Journal of the American Medical Association \| doi:10.1001/jama.2023.10055

_Stephan: While the House has become what amounts to a bad psychedelic circus, the American illness profit system is breaking down, maybe burning out would be a more apposite term. This paper in the leading medical journal explains what ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/05/overworked-and-understaffed-more-than-1-in-4-us-nurses-say-they-plan-to-leave-the-profession/)
2023-10-05T09:35:00Z	**How a Big Pharma Company Stalled a Potentially Lifesaving Vaccine in Pursuit of Bigger Profits**
Anna Maria Barry-Jester,    -  ProPublica

_Stephan: Another Big Pharma horror story. I don't know how the executives of these corporations live with themselves, I couldn't. They consistently choose profit over human wellbeing. It is disgusting. And, as this report makes clear, the pharmaceutical corporate cabal that controls pharmacy is  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/05/how-a-big-pharma-company-stalled-a-potentially-lifesaving-vaccine-in-pursuit-of-bigger-profits/)
2023-10-06T09:25:00Z	**Income Inequality Impacted Availability of Career Role Models**
ANDREA MALEK ASH and KATE DEN HOUTER,    -  The Gallup Organization

_Stephan: This is a negative aspect of America's wealth inequality that is rarely recognized. Poor kids have a much harder time being successful than children raised in affluent family. Here are the facts._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Screenshot-2023-10-05-at-11.29.02-PM.png)

Career role models can [ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/06/income-inequality-impacted-availability-of-career-role-models/)
2023-10-06T09:20:00Z	**Pope Francis suggests gay couples could be blessed in Vatican reversal**
,    \-  Associated Press \| The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: When I think about the Roman Catholic Church what stands out for me is that for at least the last half century, what has dominated the Church are issues of sexuality. Interesting for an organization one of whose defining characteristics is celibacy. First, the molestation of children has cost dioceses billions of dollars, and  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/06/pope-francis-suggests-gay-couples-could-be-blessed-in-vatican-reversal/)
2023-10-06T09:30:00Z	**To the World, McCarthy’s Exit Is Just Another Example of U.S. Disarray**
,    \-  DNYR

_Stephan: The Republicans are not only trashing our democracy they are also trashing our stature in the world. This report gives some measure of why I say this. This is producing all manner of negative geopolitical readjustments and, if the Republicans have their way and stop further support for Ukraine, the entire world order will alter, and America will never be seen in a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/06/to-the-world-mccarthys-exit-is-just-another-example-of-u-s-disarray/)
2023-10-06T09:35:00Z	**How Red-State Politics are Shaving Years Off American Lives**
Lauren Weber, Dan Diamond and Dan Keating,  Reporters  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: Here is yet more evidence showing that if you vote Republicans into office you are voting against your own good health, and even how long you are likely to live. I confess, I simply don't understand how someone can vote for a party that is going to make their life more dangerous,  support for things like childcare harde ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/06/how-red-state-politics-are-shaving-years-off-american-lives/)
2023-10-07T09:20:00Z	**Experts shocked as ‘blockbuster’ new jobs report nearly double predictions**
David Badash,  Staff Writer  -  Alter Net / The New Civil Rights Movement

_Stephan: President Biden is not getting the credit he is due concerning what he has done for the economy. It ought to be considerable. I think this is because at the day-to-day buying of things, it is absurdly expensive. Gas here is $5.49 a gallon. Heads of lettuce are $2.35 each.  It's hard to consider n ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/07/experts-shocked-as-blockbuster-new-jobs-report-nearly-double-predictions/)
2023-10-07T09:25:00Z	**Gun Death Rate Among Children in US Grew 87 Percent Over Past Decade — Study**
Chris Walker,    -  truthout

_Stephan: Are you okay living in a country where guns are more important than the lives of children? You do. And here is further confirmation of this. (see SR archive) I'm sorry, I find this unacceptable. We need different gun laws._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image-14.png)_Empty chairs displaying the names of  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/07/gun-death-rate-among-children-in-us-grew-87-percent-over-past-decade-study/)
2023-10-07T09:30:00Z	**America’s nonreligious are a growing, diverse phenomenon. They really don’t like organized religion**
Peter Smith,    -  Axios

_Stephan: SR has been following this very important culture trend for years, and here is the latest. Two things about this trend stand out for me. There is a growing community of men and women who are spiritual but not religious. It correlates with other studies showing fewer people involved with religion.  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/07/americas-nonreligious-are-a-growing-diverse-phenomenon-they-really-dont-like-organized-religion/)
2023-10-07T09:35:00Z	**Book Banning Reaches Historic, Ominous Levels in the US**
Stephen Rohde,  Contributing Writer  -  truthdig

_Stephan: Florida, thanks to its Republican governor and legislature has been transformed from a democratic state to a fascist anocracy. Its public schools are being transformed into indoctrination centers, its colleges are losing faculty, its healthcare has seriously degraded, people can walk around with guns with no training, or license, and 40% of the ban banning  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/07/book-banning-reaches-historic-ominous-levels-in-the-us/)
2023-10-08T09:20:00Z	**How did Uruguay cut carbon emissions? The answer is blowing in the wind**
Erika Beras , Amanda Aronczyk , Keith Romer , Willa Rubin,    -  npr

_Stephan: To me, Uruguay is the most interesting country in South America. In glaring contrast to countries like Argentina, Brazil, Columbia, Venezuela, and Chile, whereas they are in almost constant turmoil Uruguay is a peaceful stable democracy. And they have taken climate change very seriously. This report descri ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/08/how-did-uruguay-cut-carbon-emissions-the-answer-is-blowing-in-the-wind/)
2023-10-08T09:25:00Z	**The GOP Abdicates Their Responsibility to America**
John B. Alexander,    -  Daily Kos

_Stephan: John Alexander names names and gives what I think, on the basis of the evidence, is an accurate presentation of what is going on with the Republican Party. The party acting as the spearhead for about a third of the White people in the voter population are working as hard as they can to destroy American democracy. The question for me is will my readers and millions of others who sup ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/08/the-gop-abdicates-their-responsibility-to-america/)
2023-10-08T09:35:00Z	**Corporate Lobbyists Are Breaking Spending Records in 2023**
Maia Cook,    -  truthout

_Stephan: Because Citizens United legalized bribery the United States at both the federal and state level has become a very corrupt country.  If you were defining another nation this level of corruption is one of the main things you would emphasize. But in America, it has become business as usual. Note particularly the millions spent by the pharmaceutical industry to get government fu ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/08/corporate-lobbyists-are-breaking-spending-records-in-2023/)
2023-10-08T09:30:00Z	**Biden Cancels an Additional $9 Billion in Student Loan Debt**
Zach Montague,  Reporter  -  The New Yorsk Times

_Stephan:_

President Biden canceled an additional $9 billion in student debt on Wednesday as repayments [started up again this month](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/31/your-money/student-loan-payments-resume.html) after a three-year pause.

The move affects 125,000 people who qualify under existing programs, including for public-service workers such as teac ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/08/biden-cancels-an-additional-9-billion-in-student-loan-debt/)
2023-10-09T09:20:00Z	**‘Something nefarious’: Florida Republicans look to loosen child labor laws**
David McAfee ,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Here is the latest from Ron DeSantis about a particularly nasty trend, child labor. The Republicans in Red States want to make it possible for the corporations that own their party to hire little children as workers. Why? Because kids are cheaper to employ and are more compliant._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/09/something-nefarious-florida-republicans-look-to-loosen-child-labor-laws/)
2023-10-09T09:25:00Z	**Abbott Demands Vouchers — Or Else**
JOSEPHINE LEE,  David McHam Investigative Reporting Fellow  -  Texas Observer

_Stephan: Here you see in Texas what the MAGAts and the billionaires who fund them are trying to do to public education. MAGAts don 't want public education. They want a profit making indoctrination system. Consequently, you see Red state children falling further and further behind in math, history, science, and English compared with their Blue state contemporaries._

![](https://ww ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/09/abbott-demands-vouchers-or-else/)
2023-10-09T09:30:00Z	**A Lab Test That Experts Liken to a Witch Trial Is Helping Send Women to Prison for Murder**
Duaa Eldeib,  Reporter  -  Propublica

_Stephan: Post-Dobbs, the MAGAt Taliban is doing anything they can to scare and punish women who, for whatever reason, do not have a successful pregnancy. This is pure Republican nastiness._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image-18.png)_Illustration by Chantal Jahchan for ProPubl ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/09/a-lab-test-that-experts-liken-to-a-witch-trial-is-helping-send-women-to-prison-for-murder/)
2023-10-09T09:35:00Z	**Gun Deaths Among US Children Rose 87% in Last Decade, Study Shows**
Julia Conley,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: The United States is the only developed nation in the world that loves and values guns more than its children. Gun wounds remain the leading cause of death of children and the death rate, as this article describes, has nearly doubled in the last decade. But because of the massive corruption of state legislatures and the national Congress, an ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/09/gun-deaths-among-us-children-rose-87-in-last-decade-study-shows/)
2023-10-10T09:30:00Z	**Nearly Half of US Nutrition Board Members Have Food and Pharma Industry Ties: Report**
Brett Wilkins,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: I cannot adequately express my disgust with these endless stories about government corruption. Ours is not a government oriented to fostering wellbeing. It is all about profit and power. What this particular corruption is telling us is that one cannot entirely trust governmental nutrition advisories be ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/10/nearly-half-of-us-nutrition-board-members-have-food-and-pharma-industry-ties-report/)
2023-10-10T09:35:00Z	**43 Million Children Forced From Homes Over Six Years Due to Climate Disasters**
Julia Conley,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Anyone who reads SR regularly knows I have been predicting this for years. The data was obvious, but it did not properly register. And now it is upon us. Think about 43 million children around the world sharing a common experience. It is estimated that there are two billion children 0-14 in age. So just over 2% of a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/10/43-million-children-forced-from-homes-over-six-years-due-to-climate-disasters/)
2023-10-11T09:20:00Z	**Garbage In, Toxics Out**
Schuyler Mitchell,  Staff Writer  -  The Intercept

_Stephan: Yet another saga of corruption through lobbying and outright lies by The American Chemistry Council and the Braven Environmental Corporation. If you live anywhere near Zebulon, North Carolina you would be well advised to move elsewhere. I suspect in a few years we are going to be learning about something awful happening to the people of this small town, particularly the children, as a result of the lies and corruption t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/11/garbage-in-toxics-out/)
2023-10-11T09:30:00Z	**Humanity could lose up to half of future medicines through plant extinctions**
Danny Halpin,  Reporter  -  Microsoft Start / Evening Standard (U.K.)

_Stephan: Scientists keep warning us, but the governments of the world, including the United States, just aren't paying attention. The result is going to be enormous misery, and death, most of which could have been avoided if world leaders and the people themselves had done what they should have._

![](h ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/11/humanity-could-lose-up-to-half-of-future-medicines-through-plant-extinctions/)
2023-10-11T09:25:00Z	**Medicare Is in Desperate Need of Modernization and Expansion — Not Privatization**
Jamila Headley and Nicole Jorwic,  Staff Writers  -  truthout

_Stephan: The United States, the richest country in the world, has a healthcare system that ranks 69th in the world, according to the Legatum Institute based in London, and yet it is nearly twice as expensive per capita ($12,914) than the far superior European healthcare systems which cost per capita betwe ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/11/medicare-is-in-desperate-need-of-modernization-and-expansion-not-privatization/)
2023-10-11T09:35:00Z	**Climate-driven extreme heat may make parts of Earth too hot for humans**
Aaron Wagner,    -  Penn State University

_Stephan: I have done several reports warning the increasing temperatures on the planet are going to cause billions of people to have to migrate to somewhere else. Consider, this quote from this report."Results of the study indicate that if global temperatures increase by 2 C above pre-industrial levels, the 2.2 billion residents of Pakistan a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/11/climate-driven-extreme-heat-may-make-parts-of-earth-too-hot-for-humans/)
2023-10-12T09:25:00Z	**Students Across the U.S. Launch Green New Deal for Schools**
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Here is some more good news. Teens are beginning to get what climate change means, even if their parents and their political officials do not._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image-30.png)_U.S. high school students have launched a Green New Deal for Schools campaign with the hope of influencing climate policy ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/12/students-across-the-u-s-launch-green-new-deal-for-schools/)
2023-10-12T09:30:00Z	**Workers walk out of Ford’s most profitable plant as UAW expands strike**
Rebecca Falconer,  Staff Writer  -  Axios

_Stephan: What I find interesting about the UAW strike and the Writers Guild strike before that is that after years of seeing the number of workers unionized go down -- the percentage of workers represented by a union was 11.3 percent in 2022, down by 0.3 percentage point from a year ago -- this is now beginning to change and it is dawning on w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/12/workers-walk-out-of-fords-most-profitable-plant-as-uaw-expands-strike/)
2023-10-12T09:40:00Z	**An Epidemic of Chronic Illness is Killing Us Too Soon**
Joel Achenbach, Dan Keating, Laurie McGinley, Akilah Johnson, and Jahi Chikwendiu,  Reporters  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: American voters just don't seem to get it. The United States has very poor health care, and I want to be clear here, the problem is not the physicians, nurses and other medical staff. They are burning out they work so hard. It is the financial structure of the American illness profit system ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/12/an-epidemic-of-chronic-illness-is-killing-us-too-soon-2/)
2023-10-13T09:20:00Z	**Menendez accused of acting as foreign agent for Egypt while helming Senate Foreign Relations Committee**
Erica Orden,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: I went through a lot of media in search of what I saw, and this is it. Menendez is an old fashioned corruption. Here's on the Democrat side. On the Republican side, particularly in the House, you have... you know the list. What stands out for me is how is that people like  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/13/menendez-accused-of-acting-as-foreign-agent-for-egypt-while-helming-senate-foreign-relations-committee/)
2023-10-13T09:30:00Z	**America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow**
Mira Rojanasakul, Christopher Flavelle, Blacki Migliozzi and Eli Murray,  Reporters  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: This research article is telling us something very important. The question I ask: is anyone in Congress. except the usual predictable Democrats and Independent Bernie Sanders listening? Can you imagine Marjorie Taylor Greene or Jim Jordan even understanding what this report is telling us? ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/13/america-is-using-up-its-groundwater-like-theres-no-tomorrow-2/)
2023-10-13T09:25:00Z	**Is European higher education better than US?**
Educationcares,    -  Medium

_Stephan: A reader and I exchanged a few emails discussing what we would do today in considering going to college in Europe. It is an increasing trend. This is pretty sensible take on this question. The one thing I think it misses is that going to college in another country is an education far beyond the classroom._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image-31.jpg)

The advantages  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/13/is-european-higher-education-better-than-us/)
2023-10-13T09:35:00Z	**Guns in America: Study reveals ‘troubling’ differences in firearm usage patterns across country**
Editorial Staff,    -  Study Finds

_Stephan: Other nations have a high percentage of gun ownership, but no other nation in the developed world has anything approaching the gun violence one sees year after year in the United States. Finally, researchers are digging into this phenomenon, and once again it is defined by the Red Blue Great Sc ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/13/guns-in-america-study-reveals-troubling-differences-in-firearm-usage-patterns-across-country/)
2023-10-14T09:25:00Z	**Pharma Nation: Americans will spend half their lives taking prescription drugs, study predicts**
John Andere,  Contributing Writer  -  Study Finds

_Stephan: Have you noticed that about 50% of the ads on MSNBC or CNN and Fox Propaganda promote pharmaceuticals. We are all manipulated to produce the vast profits of the corporate drug manufacturers_

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image-32.jpg)_Credit: Burli ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/14/pharma-nation-americans-will-spend-half-their-lives-taking-prescription-drugs-study-predicts/)
2023-10-14T09:20:00Z	**Nearly 70% of active service members are overweight, report finds**
Meghann Myers,  Pentagon Bureau Chief   -  Military Times

_Stephan: Obesity has become a defining characteristic of Americans, as anyone who has travelled abroad has surely noticed. Fat men and women, even children, are almost always Americans. It is one of the reasons Americans live years less than people from other developed nations. And it is having a strong effect on our military as this arti ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/14/nearly-70-of-active-service-members-are-overweight-report-finds/)
2023-10-14T09:30:00Z	**How a billionaire-backed network of AI advisers took over Washington**
BRENDAN BORDELON,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: The tech billionaires who understand AI far better than Congress members or their staffs are, as this article describes, moving to take control of a technology and shape how it develops. They correctly see is going to alter America and the world in the future. This is also yet another account of how incredibly corrupt the Congress has ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/14/how-a-billionaire-backed-network-of-ai-advisers-took-over-washington/)
2023-10-14T09:35:00Z	**Teens Spend Average of 4.8 Hours on Social Media Per Day**
JONATHAN ROTHWELL,    -  Gallup

_Stephan: Since social media is how young people mostly absorb information today What I see occurring in this is that the very well financed distribution of misinformation to young people is going to cause the country a great deal of trouble, particularly in Red states where concurrently they are doing their best to transform education into indoctrination.

Readers can find a more ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/14/teens-spend-average-of-4-8-hours-on-social-media-per-day/)
2023-10-15T09:20:00Z	**I Study Climate Change. The Data Is Telling Us Something New.**
Zeke Hausfather,  Climate Research Lead at Stripe and Research Scientist at Berkeley Earth  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Here is the most sensible assessment of where we stand with climate change from someone who actually knows what he is talking about, that I have read. Some good news, but nowhere near enough._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Screenshot-2023-10-14-at-11 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/15/i-study-climate-change-the-data-is-telling-us-something-new/)
2023-10-15T09:25:00Z	**6 Stories Show the Human Toll of Poland’s Strict Abortion Laws**
Anna Pamula,    -  Pulitzer Center / Time Magazine

_Stephan: Over the last 30 years, as this report describes, 60 countries have liberalized abortion law, with only four rolling back its legality: the U.S., Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Poland. Nicaragua and El Salvador have very little in common with the U.S., but Poland is similar enough to make looking at what is happening there about women's body ri ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/15/6-stories-show-the-human-toll-of-polands-strict-abortion-laws/)
2023-10-15T09:30:00Z	**What’s in a name? Why unmet medical needs are riling the pharma industry**
CARLO MARTUSCELLI,    -  Politico

_Stephan: I have been looking around the world trying get a fact-based idea how other nations are dealing with problems that so afflict the United States. Here is what the Europeans are doing to get the pharmaceutical industry to address social needs. It is a different world from the United States._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/upl ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/15/whats-in-a-name-why-unmet-medical-needs-are-riling-the-pharma-industry/)
2023-10-15T09:35:00Z	**Florida’s Insurance Crisis is About to Get Even Worse**
GIULIA CARBONARO ,    -  Newsweek Magazine

_Stephan: Here is the latest on the Florida real estate insurance market. Personally, I would not buy property in Florida, and would sell it if I owned it now. Ron DeSantis and this Republican legislature are simply not properly preparing the state for the dramatic effects climate change and sea rise are going to produce._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/15/floridas-insurance-crisis-is-about-to-get-even-worse/)
2023-10-16T09:20:00Z	**As Waters Rise, a Community Must Decide: Do We Stay or Go?**
JON HURDLE ,  Contributing Writer  -  Yale 360

_Stephan: Fires in the previous article, flooding in this one. While our state legislators are consumed with subordinating a woman's rights to control her own body, or banning books or some other nasty nonsense, and Congress is functionally dysfunctional, the people of the United States are increasingly facing the consequences of climate change and getting little o ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/16/as-waters-rise-a-community-must-decide-do-we-stay-or-go/)
2023-10-16T09:25:00Z	**In Wildfire-Prone Areas, Homeowners are Learning They’re Uninsurable**
Lois Parshley,  Contributing Writer  -  Grist

_Stephan: People are moving into forested areas because they are so pretty and then, exactly as predicted in SR, they are finding they can't get home insurance.This is going to become part of the big internal migrations we are going to see develop._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Screenshot-2023-10-15-at-6.26.51-P ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/16/in-wildfire-prone-areas-homeowners-are-learning-theyre-uninsurable/)
2023-10-16T09:30:00Z	**A generation of Texas farmers are retiring. It’s not clear who will replace them**
JAYME LOZANO CARVER,  Reporter  -  Texas Tribune

_Stephan: This is a Texas story but you could examine any state in which farming is a major activity and you would see the same age issue. According to the Department of Agriculture the average age of American farmers is 57.5 years. We are heading into a farming crisis, and you don't hear anyone in government talking a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/16/a-generation-of-texas-farmers-are-retiring-its-not-clear-who-will-replace-them/)
2023-10-16T09:35:00Z	**How Industrial Agriculture Took Over Our Food System**
HAZRA KHATOON,  Contributing Writer  -  truthdig

_Stephan: I don't think many Americans have any idea about how their food is produced. They have the idea of idealized family farms, not profit is the only priority corporate food operations. My father and I, and an extraordinary Black man ran from whom I learned a great deal ran a registered Angus cattle farm. Our goal was to make the cows and bulls as comfortable and he ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/16/how-industrial-agriculture-took-over-our-food-system/)
2023-10-17T09:25:00Z	**‘The Overwhelming Majority of Disasters Are Water Related’: WMO Report Finds Human Activity Disrupting Water Cycle**
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Day after day I see these stories, each making it clear that water is destiny. Either too much or too little. And yet no national policies to address this crisis have emerged. And so it will go on._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.n ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/17/the-overwhelming-majority-of-disasters-are-water-related-wmo-report-finds-human-activity-disrupting-water-cycle/)
2023-10-17T09:30:00Z	**The US Government Has Abandoned the Nation’s Poor**
Liz Theoharis ,  Director of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights and Social Justice  -  truthout

_Stephan: Child poverty in the United States has doubled in the United States, meanwhile America's 748 billionaires have increased their collective wealth by 2.2 trillion dollars thanks to the way Trump and the Republican Party rigged the tax structure. And it isn't just billionaires. In 1965, the average CEO made 21 times what ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/17/the-us-government-has-abandoned-the-nations-poor/)
2023-10-17T09:35:00Z	**Nearly 2 million kids have been kicked off Medicaid this year**
Dylan Scott,  Health Care Reporter  -  Vox

_Stephan: Why can't the United States do what every other developed nation on earth has the decency to do and create universal birthright single payer healthcare? Why? Because our healthcare system is owned by corporations who, in turn, own the American Congress, and who have created a healthcare system that doesn't care a damn about your wellbeing. All they c ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/17/nearly-2-million-kids-have-been-kicked-off-medicaid-this-year/)
2023-10-17T09:40:00Z	**Covid-19: A case study on the psychology of exploitation**
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Columnist and Editor  -  Explore Journal

_Stephan: This will give you factual data on the real underpinnings of the Covid-19 pandemic. It is a nasty and uniquely American story._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Screenshot-2023-10-16-at-11.51.34-PM.png)

 When medical historians look back on the Covid-19 pandemic, years after the pain, suffering, and death of th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/17/covid-19-a-case-study-on-the-psychology-of-exploitation/)
2023-10-18T09:20:00Z	**The Strange Decline of the Pax Americana**
Paul Krugman,  Nobel Prize winner, Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and a columnist for The New York Times  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: As is usually the case, Nobel Laureate economist Paul Krugman sees an important trend others have missed. And, once again, the problem is the Republican Party. I think Krugman has it dead on._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uplo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/18/the-strange-decline-of-the-pax-americana/)
2023-10-18T09:25:00Z	**Deepfake Porn Is Out of Control**
Matt Burgess ,  Senior Writer  -  WIRED

_Stephan: Imagine this. You are a 16-year-old girl, a sophomore in high school and some boy who has been hitting on you, and whom you have turned down, takes a picture of you with his iPhone one day unbeknownst to you, and a few days later you discover that half the boys in your high school have been looking at a porn video of you having sex. Or you are a 24-year-old man, who just got a promotion that another man had want ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/18/deepfake-porn-is-out-of-control/)
2023-10-18T09:30:00Z	**What Does Friendship Look Like in America?**
ISABEL GODDARD,  Research Associate  -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: How many close friends do you have? How do you compare with this research by Pew Research Center?_

[![A bar chart showing that 8% of Americans say they have no close friends; 38% report 5 or more.](https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SR_23.10.12_friendship_1.png?w=620)](https://www.pewresearch.org/?attachment_id=442366)

Americans place a lot of import ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/18/what-does-friendship-look-like-in-america/)
2023-10-18T09:35:00Z	**Billion-dollar supersize prisons are slated to be built across the U.S. But do they help or hurt public safety?**
Marquise Francis,  National Reporter  -  Yahoo News

_Stephan: The United States has the largest prison gulag of any nation on earth, and it is extremely racially biased against Blacks.  Over five million people are under supervision by the criminal legal system. Nearly two million people are incarcerated i ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/18/billion-dollar-supersize-prisons-are-slated-to-be-built-across-the-u-s-but-do-they-help-or-hurt-public-safety/)
2023-10-19T09:20:00Z	**New Research Finds Links Between Food, Higher Wellbeing**
ANDREW DUGAN,    -  The Gallup Organization

_Stephan: Here is some solid international data on the linkage between food and having a sense of wellbeing. Note: this is not about having enough food, it is about your feelings about what you are eating._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Screenshot-2023-10-18-at-10.06.51-PM.png)

Nearly nine in 10 people worldwide (87%) say they mostly enjo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/19/new-research-finds-links-between-food-higher-wellbeing/)
2023-10-19T09:25:00Z	**Scientists lay out a sweeping roadmap for transitioning the US off fossil fuels**
Tik Root,  Senior Staff Writer  -  Grist

_Stephan: The people who actually know what they talking about -- scientists, not politicians, or political commentators -- have even us a plan to exist the carbon power era. Will a Congress that can;t even elect a Speaker take it seriously, particularly since many of them are owned by corporations, we'll see. Time is running  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/19/scientists-lay-out-a-sweeping-roadmap-for-transitioning-the-us-off-fossil-fuels/)
2023-10-19T09:30:00Z	**‘Twenty-three thousand Floridians died’: A settlement over DeSantis’ Covid-19 lies imperils campaign**
Maya Boddie,  Staff Writer  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: I don't think the Americans have really comprehended that hundreds of thousands of us died because they were Republicans. Think about that for a minute. Their political affiliation and their belief in the dangerous misinformation spewed out by their political party leaders resulte ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/19/twenty-three-thousand-floridians-died-a-settlement-over-desantis-covid-19-lies-imperils-campaign/)
2023-10-19T09:35:00Z	**Large portion of Americans doubt democracy and view violence as acceptable, poll finds**
Brendan Rascius,    -  Miami Herald

_Stephan: This is the most alarming poll I have ever seen about the state of our country. It reports that not only a large percentage of the MAGAt world, but Biden supporters as well, have lost faith in the country's democracy, believe that violence is an acceptable outcome, and that states should be able to secede. If ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/19/large-portion-of-americans-doubt-democracy-and-view-violence-as-acceptable-poll-finds/)
2023-10-20T09:25:00Z	**Disinformation Researchers Are Feeling The Heat Ahead Of 2024**
Matt Shuham,  National Reporter  -  HuffPost

_Stephan: The MAGAt world lives and thrives on disinformation. I think the weaponization of lies, as I have published in SR, is the largest threat to the continuation of our democracy. Yet Congress and the Supreme Court is doing nothing about this. Young people spend 4.8 hours a day on social media, it is the main way they take in information, and most of it ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/20/disinformation-researchers-are-feeling-the-heat-ahead-of-2024/)
2023-10-20T09:20:00Z	**The zero-waste city: what Kiel in Germany can teach the world**
Ajit Niranjan,  Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Here is some good news about how cities can deal with waste. Kiel, Germany is doing what every city needs to start doing. Why don't you talk to your city's administration, show them this story, and ask when they are planning to get serious about waste._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image-52.png)_Janine Falke pro ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/20/the-zero-waste-city-what-kiel-in-germany-can-teach-the-world/)
2023-10-20T09:30:00Z	**‘For Shame’: Pfizer to Charge $1,390 for Lifesaving Covid Drug That Costs Just $13**
Brett Wilkins,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: In yesterday's SR I published a piece I had written on the obscene greed and financial exploitation of the public -- that's you and me -- by the pharmaceutical corporation, and how it created a whole new group of billionaires. When I say that we do not have healthcare in the U.S. we have an illness profit syste ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/20/for-shame-pfizer-to-charge-1390-for-lifesaving-covid-drug-that-costs-just-13/)
2023-10-20T09:35:00Z	**A timeline of Israel and Palestine’s complicated history**
Nicole Narea,  Contributing Writer  -  Vox

_Stephan: In 1973 when the Yom Kippur War occurred I was the Special Assistant for Research and Analysis to the Chief of Naval Operations, and I had to really dig into the Arab Israeli history. As I was doing this I came to realize how complicated their history is and why Israel was created at that location in the first place. Almost all of this is never discussed in the ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/20/a-timeline-of-israel-and-palestines-complicated-history/)
2023-10-21T09:20:00Z	**‘A Wake-Up Call’: 21 Species Declared Extinct by US**
Julia Conley,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: I am so sad when I see these stories describing the destruction of our planet. How can we be so stupid, so greedy, so short-term in our thinking that we don't get what science is telling us almost daily about earth's matrix of life? And yet there can be no doubt that we are all those things. Here is why I say this._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/21/a-wake-up-call-21-species-declared-extinct-by-us/)
2023-10-21T09:25:00Z	**The GOP’s Secret to Protecting Gerrymandered Electoral Maps? Claim Privilege.**
Marilyn W. Thompson,  Reporter  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: The Republicans, increasingly a minority White party, are preparing for the 2024 election and trying to ensure they stay in power by rigging how voting districts are defined. Here is an example from Texas of what I mean._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Screenshot-2023-10-20-at-6.39.42-PM ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/21/the-gops-secret-to-protecting-gerrymandered-electoral-maps-claim-privilege/)
2023-10-21T09:30:00Z	**Military obesity rates soar, compounding recruitment challenges**
Mark Satter,  Staff Writer  -  Roll Call

_Stephan: You don't see or hear stories like this in big corporate media but in fact, trends like this have an enormous impact on major parts of our culture, in this case, the military. The U.S. adult obesity rate stands at 42.4 percent and has increased by 26 percent since 2008. Think about this, nearly half of Americans aren't just overweight they are obese ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/21/military-obesity-rates-soar-compounding-recruitment-challenges/)
2023-10-21T09:35:00Z	**Ex-Florida GOP lawmaker who sponsored so-called ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill sentenced to prison**
GARY FINEOUT,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: What you see over and over is the lack of ethics, integrity, and general thuggery of MAGAt Republican politicians. I see these stories weekly and don't usually cover them. But I decided that it has become a trend and ought to be reported in SR. Also, Joe Harding is a particularly nasty example of the t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/21/ex-florida-gop-lawmaker-who-sponsored-so-called-dont-say-gay-bill-sentenced-to-prison/)
2023-10-22T09:25:00Z	**‘The Overwhelming Majority of Disasters Are Water Related’: WMO Report Finds Human Activity Disrupting Water Cycle**
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  Eco Watch

_Stephan: Water is destiny. I have been telling you that for years, and the reality of that statement gets clearer day by day. The world is just not taking this issue seriously enough. Nor is there enough planning, nor enough money being a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/22/the-overwhelming-majority-of-disasters-are-water-related-wmo-report-finds-human-activity-disrupting-water-cycle-2/)
2023-10-22T09:20:00Z	**The Time Is Now for a Just Transition From Factory Farming**
GRACE HUSSAIN ,    -  truthdig

_Stephan: Yet another research study telling humanity that we absolutely have to change the industrial mono-crop chemical-based form of agriculture currently practiced, as well as the way animals are raised for meat. There is no question of this, but are we listening? That is not so clear.

To read the report upon which this article is based see: [_A just transition in animal a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/22/the-time-is-now-for-a-just-transition-from-factory-farming/)
2023-10-22T09:35:00Z	**Democrats Propose 18-Year Term Limit for Supreme Court Justices in Most Cases**
Chris Walker ,  Staff Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: I don't know how much more obvious it could become that as a result of the last Republican appointments during the Trump administration that something has gone seriously awry with the Supreme Court. Finally, it looks like the Senate Democrats are willing to take this on. Whether this is finally what happens, to me, is l ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/22/democrats-propose-18-year-term-limit-for-supreme-court-justices-in-most-cases/)
2023-10-22T09:30:00Z	**A flood of misinformation shapes views of Israel-Gaza conflict**
Elizabeth Dwoskin,  Silicon Valley Correspondent  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: Quite apart from what is actually happening in the Gaza - Israel War what stands out for me is the glaring misinformation describing the war that is to be found on social media. This is only the latest example of what I see this as a growing international problem. Local newspapers are dying like elderly old friends, an ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/22/a-flood-of-misinformation-shapes-views-of-israel-gaza-conflict/)
2023-10-23T09:20:00Z	**Silicon Valley’s Perversion of Philanthropy**
Felix Salmon,  Staff Writer  -  Axios

_Stephan: Today someone contacted me about getting funding from two well-known fascists who have become major figures in philanthropy and it made me realize that one of the byproducts of America's obscene wealth inequality is that scientists seeking support for their research often have to make a deal with the devil. I  could certainly use the funding but I turned him down, and it has left me thinking ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/23/silicon-valleys-perversion-of-philanthropy/)
2023-10-23T09:30:00Z	**Drugstore closures are leaving millions without easy access to a pharmacy**
Aaron Gregg and Jaclyn Peiser,  Reporters  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: Where my wife and I live there are only two drugstores separated by about 15 miles. One, a non-chain pharmacy charges absurd prices, the other that we and most of the people we know use is a Rite Aid. It has left us wondering if we are going to lose our only functional pharmacy. Like the medical deserts  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/23/drugstore-closures-are-leaving-millions-without-easy-access-to-a-pharmacy/)
2023-10-23T09:25:00Z	**Abandoned Lands: A Hidden Resource for Restoring Biodiversity**
FRED PEARCE,  Contributing Writer  -  Yale Environment 360

_Stephan: The abandonment of farmland and forests is an important trend you never hear media talking about yet, as this article, points out it is going to play an important role in humanitys future. One thing I particularly note in this and other stories I have done in SR, is the reality that farming all over the world is increasingly an activit ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/23/abandoned-lands-a-hidden-resource-for-restoring-biodiversity/)
2023-10-23T09:35:00Z	**The Medicare Advantage ripoff every American should know about**
Thom Hartmann,    -  AlterNet

_Stephan: You probably see the advertisements several times everyday on your television, get Medicare Advantage for better healthcare. DON'T DO IT. Medicare Advantage has nothing to do with Medicare. It is just another insurance industry scam, and it can really screw up your life, even bankrupt you. It is a measure to the corruption of the Congress that nothing is being  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/23/the-medicare-advantage-ripoff-every-american-should-know-about/)
2023-10-24T09:20:00Z	**Group of GOP-led states asks Supreme Court to halt Biden cross-state smog plan**
Michael Macagnone,  Staff Writer  -  Roll Call

_Stephan: The Republicans as this story makes glaringly clear just do not care about the wellbeing of the people they purport to serve. They say they do, but they don't, and they don't care about societal wellbeing. Their actions on a wide range of issues demonstrate this again and again. And yet, Americans just don't seem ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/24/group-of-gop-led-states-asks-supreme-court-to-halt-biden-cross-state-smog-plan/)
2023-10-24T09:25:00Z	**Inside the Psychiatric Hospitals Where Foster Kids Are a “Gold Mine”**
JULIA LURIE,    -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: Yet another horror story about the American illness profit system and the corporations that devised and control it. Note something in this story though. The only people trying to do anything about this nastiness are Democrats. Not a single Republican gives a damn about this racket built on exploiting foster children._

![](https://www.schwartzreport ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/24/inside-the-psychiatric-hospitals-where-foster-kids-are-a-gold-mine/)
2023-10-24T09:30:00Z	**$10 trillion in added debt shows ‘Bush and Trump tax cuts broke our modern tax structure’**
Jon Queally,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: George Bush just wasn't smart enough to be president, and Donald Trump has no ethics but self-interest. Under their watches, the Republican Party and its leaders have, as this article lays out, destroyed our tax structure to enrich the oligarchs who rent people like them and It has produced the obsce ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/24/10-trillion-in-added-debt-shows-bush-and-trump-tax-cuts-broke-our-modern-tax-structure/)
2023-10-24T09:35:00Z	**Rapid melting in West Antarctica is ‘unavoidable,’ with potentially disastrous consequences for sea level rise, study finds**
Rachel Ramirez,  Staff Writer  -  CNN

_Stephan: Here is the latest report on Antarctic ice-shelf melting. This melting is going to produce disastrous sea rise. But except for the scientists who study this issue few politicians in the world seem to even be paying attention. In the Unit ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/24/rapid-melting-in-west-antarctica-is-unavoidable-with-potentially-disastrous-consequences-for-sea-level-rise-study-finds/)
2023-10-25T09:20:00Z	**This land isn’t for you or me. It’s for the meat industry.**
Kenny Torrella,  Staff Writer  -  Vox

_Stephan: America's obsession with eating mammals, particularly cattle, is the cause of a host of health issues. But did you know it is also disrupting the ecosystems of America's land. No? That's not surprising, no one in media or politics ever talks about this. But it is a growing issue._

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Last mo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/25/this-land-isnt-for-you-or-me-its-for-the-meat-industry/)
2023-10-25T09:30:00Z	**Sick and Tired of Industry Greed, Activists Across US Target For-Profit Health Insurers**
Brett Wilkins,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Here is some of what I hope will prove to be good news. The greed and poor service of the American illness profit system is finally causing voter pushback. Of course, the Republicans are paying no attention, but it looks like some Democrats are beginning to get the message._

![](https://www.schw ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/25/sick-and-tired-of-industry-greed-activists-across-us-target-for-profit-health-insurers/)
2023-10-25T09:25:00Z	**The loneliness epidemic: Nearly 1 in 4 adults feel lonely, new survey finds**
Taylor Nicioli,  Reporter  -  CNN

_Stephan: I think one of the lasting effects of the Covid pandemic is going to be loneliness. Three years of fewer dinner parties, less sports attendance, going to movies together, and a host of the small things that used to make up our social lives have left a lasting effect on people's lifestyles.

To read the Gallup survey see: [_Almost a Q ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/25/the-loneliness-epidemic-nearly-1-in-4-adults-feel-lonely-new-survey-finds/)
2023-10-25T09:35:00Z	**Global billionaire tax could yield $250 billion annually, study says**
Leigh Thomas,  Reporter  -  Reuters

_Stephan: Throughout much of the developed nations, the uber-rich have rigged the tax codes to protect their outrageous wealth. Think about this: in a world of 8,045,311,447 people 2,700 billionaires globally own $13 trillion of wealth, and this proposal to increase their taxes would only amount to 2% of their wealth, a fraction of what you pay._

![](htt ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/25/global-billionaire-tax-could-yield-250-billion-annually-study-says/)
2023-10-26T09:20:00Z	**The Evangelicals Calling for War on Poor People**
Elle Hardy ,  Contributing Writer  -  The New Republic

_Stephan: Christianity is leaving the United States. People, particularly the young, are abandoning church affiliation in droves. Those still affiliated, overwhelmingly White, are involved with churches that use the language of Christianity but advocate a perversion of Christianity, having very little to do with Jesus' teaching, as this article describes. It is christofascism ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/26/the-evangelicals-calling-for-war-on-poor-people/)
2023-10-26T09:25:00Z	**Tennessee GOP is willing to reject millions in funding, if it avoids complying with federal strings**
KIMBERLEE KRUESI,  Reporter  -  ABC News / Associated Press

_Stephan: Here is further evidence of my two countries in one nation hypothesis. It also illustrates that Republicans care more about their ideology than they do the wellbeing of the citizens of their states. This is going to have all manner of negative implications_

! ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/26/tennessee-gop-is-willing-to-reject-millions-in-funding-if-it-avoids-complying-with-federal-strings/)
2023-10-26T09:30:00Z	**Teachers Are Leaving Jobs in Kentucky and Florida as Anti-LGBTQ Laws Proliferate**
Orion Rummler ,  Breaking News Reporter  -  truthout / The 19th

_Stephan: Further evidence that we are becoming two very different countries in a single nation one, the Republican Red states, increasingly inferior to the Democrat Blue States. Poorer healthcare, higher maternal mortality, increased child poverty, inferior education, and the list goes on. If this con ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/26/teachers-are-leaving-jobs-in-kentucky-and-florida-as-anti-lgbtq-laws-proliferate/)
2023-10-26T09:35:00Z	**Governor hopeful quoted Hitler and downplayed the Holocaust in unearthed posts: Report**
Sky Palma,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Today the Republican Party voted for a christofascist to become Speaker of the House. The MAGAts now control the House. And here is an example of the kind of person they are putting forward at the state level for governor. There can be no question that the Republican Party is now openly against democracy,  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/26/governor-hopeful-quoted-hitler-and-downplayed-the-holocaust-in-unearthed-posts-report/)
2023-10-27T09:20:00Z	**A Poultry Plant in Ohio Is Under Federal Investigation for Hiring 24 Children**
Zane McNeill ,  Breaking News Staff Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: This is a disgusting story, but there is something you can do to stop this. Never buy anything from Gerber Poultry or Amish Farm Chicken, and tell all your friends to do the same. If enough people do that this wretched company will either change or go out of business, preferably the latter._

![](https://w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/27/a-poultry-plant-in-ohio-is-under-federal-investigation-for-hiring-24-children/)
2023-10-27T09:30:00Z	**Tuberville Concocts Massive Falsehood About Who’s Responsible for Wars in Ukraine and Israel**
David Badash,  Staff Writer  -  New Civil Rights Movement

_Stephan: Tommy Tuberville for months now has been sabotaging the promotion of officers in the military to the detriment of the functionality of America's armed forces. Now he is perpetrating a massive lie he has concocted. This is what the Republican Party has become. Thanks, people o ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/27/tuberville-concocts-massive-falsehood-about-whos-responsible-for-wars-in-ukraine-and-israel/)
2023-10-27T09:35:00Z	**Does MAGA Mike Johnson’s Election Prove All the GOP has Now is Hate?**
Thom Hartmann,    -  The Hartmann Report

_Stephan: Do you want the United States to continue as a democracy? If you do you better vote and get everyone you know who thinks like you to. vote, and vote only for Democrats. The Democrats are not perfect, in some cases they are not even very good. But they do believe in democracy, and the Republicans do not. It is essential that the House flip t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/27/does-maga-mike-johnsons-election-prove-all-the-gop-has-now-is-hate/)
2023-10-28T09:20:00Z	**Koch network pushes Supreme Court to ‘undermine workers’ rights’ and ‘consumer protections’**
Alex Henderson,  Staff Writer  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: More corruption by oligarchs to get what they want from the Supreme Court. How can anyone say that we are a law based nation when this is the reality of our Supreme Court? The Democrats control the Senate who aren't they doing anything about this; that's what I would like to know._

![](https://w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/28/koch-network-pushes-supreme-court-to-undermine-workers-rights-and-consumer-protections/)
2023-10-28T09:25:00Z	**‘Serious Ethics Issue’: Wealthy Friend Forgave Up to $267K of Luxury RV Loan for Clarence Thomas**
Jessica Corbett,  Senior Editor and Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Clarence Thomas' corruption just goes on and on. How you can be an unethical grifter and a Supreme Court Associate Justice I do not know. But you obviously can. Have you noticed like me that no one in the top political ranks is ever held responsible for anything ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/28/serious-ethics-issue-wealthy-friend-forgave-up-to-267k-of-luxury-rv-loan-for-clarence-thomas/)
2023-10-28T09:35:00Z	**Speaker Johnson blasted for tying mass shootings to teaching evolution and no-fault divorce**
David Badash,    -  AlterNet

_Stephan: He dresses well, speaks in a polite tone while smiling.  I suspect that is one of the reasons the Republicans chose him. He doesn't look or sound like Jim Johnson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, or the other MAGAt nutcases.  And yet the new Republican speaker is as much a fanatical christofascist ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/28/speaker-johnson-blasted-for-tying-mass-shootings-to-teaching-evolution-and-no-fault-divorce/)
2023-10-28T09:30:00Z	**Congress’ Job Approval Drops to 13%, Lowest Since 2017**
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_Stephan:_

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amid a prolonged search for a new House speaker that paralyzed the House of Representatives for three weeks while two U.S. allies are engaged in wars, Americans’ approval of Congress’ job performance fell from 17% to 13%. This is the lowest approval rating of Congress since Octo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/28/congress-job-approval-drops-to-13-lowest-since-2017/)
2023-10-29T09:20:00Z	**Mike Johnson’s Wife Runs Counseling Service That Compares Being Gay To Bestiality, Incest**
Jennifer Bendery,  Senior Politics Reporter  -  HuffPost

_Stephan: This is now the second person in line for the Presidency should something happen to Biden and the most powerful Republican in the House of Representatives. Mike Johnson is a racist bigot and christofascist, and makes no bones about it. In my lifetime, and probably yours, no person li ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/29/mike-johnsons-wife-runs-counseling-service-that-compares-being-gay-to-bestiality-incest/)
2023-10-29T09:25:00Z	**New GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson Has Proposed Trillions in Cuts to Social Security and Medicare**
Jake Johnson,  Senior Editor and Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: If you, like me, get Medicare and Social Security, get ready to have both attacked by the Congressional Republicans._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image-83.png)_Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) was applauded after being nominated fo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/29/new-gop-house-speaker-mike-johnson-has-proposed-trillions-in-cuts-to-social-security-and-medicare/)
2023-10-29T09:30:00Z	**Nearly one in four Americans believe political violence justified to ‘save’ US**
David Smith,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: MAGAt world wants violence. They want to create a White supremacy  anti-LGBTQ, female equality anocracy and are prepared to bring out their guns and kill people to achieve those goals. You can pretty much bet that Congress is not going to do anything about White nationalist violence, so get ready for lots of mass murders._ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/29/nearly-one-in-four-americans-believe-political-violence-justified-to-save-us/)
2023-10-29T09:35:00Z	**Americans are following the news less closely than they used to**
NAOMI FORMAN-KATZ,  Research Analyst  -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: Americans as a whole are very poorly informed about how their government operates. The figures are breathtaking. The Annenberg Public Policy Center extensively polled the population and discovered a third of the country can't name a single branch of government, 21 percent can only name one branch, and only 13 percent can name al ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/29/americans-are-following-the-news-less-closely-than-they-used-to/)
2023-10-30T09:30:00Z	**Poor Wellbeing Linked to Formation of New Chronic Conditions**
DAN WITTERS and SANGEETA AGRAWAL,  Research Director \| Research Staff  -  The Gallup Organization

_Stephan: This is why Americans hold their government is such low esteem. The entire system in this country has been rigged to produce profit for the few at the cost of the wellbeing of the many. This has arisen because of the Republican Party, and its creating the passage of Citizens United that legalized  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/30/poor-wellbeing-linked-to-formation-of-new-chronic-conditions/)
2023-10-30T09:25:00Z	**War Against Renewables Takes Terrifying Turn in Newsom’s Nuke-Powered California**
Harvey Wasserman ,  Contributing Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: Greed, stupidity, and more greed. That's the nuclear power industry. California, as this article describes, could have a nuclear event that could kill tens of thousands of people and render a large part of southern California, just like Chernobyl, uninhabitable. Does Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) give  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/30/war-against-renewables-takes-terrifying-turn-in-newsoms-nuke-powered-california/)
2023-10-30T09:20:00Z	**For Many in Wyoming, a Biden Plan to Protect Land Is Beyond Unpopular**
Lisa Friedman,  Reporter  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Wyoming, a deeply Red state gives us an example of how Republicans either don't or won't understand the crisis of climate change and oppose the policies Biden's administration is trying to activate to deal with it. This is becoming a chronic problem and has become part of The Great Schism Trend. Within a decade I predict as the qu ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/30/for-many-in-wyoming-a-biden-plan-to-protect-land-is-beyond-unpopular/)
2023-10-30T09:35:00Z	**Food insecurity spiked last year, new report shows**
Emily Peck,  Contributing Writer  -  Axios

_Stephan: The United States is at once the richest country in the world and one of the most difficult in the world to live in if you aren't affluent. It is a national disgrace that thousands of families don't have enough to eat properly. It is also incredibly expensive because it results in all kinds of chronic medical conditions. Meanwhile the nasty circus we call Congress does not ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/30/food-insecurity-spiked-last-year-new-report-shows/)
2023-10-31T09:25:00Z	**Wisconsin GOP blocks pay raises for university staff unless they end diversity programs**
Matthew Chapman,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Two or three times a week now I see reports on how the Republicans are trying to dismantle education in the United States from kindergarten to college. Fascists historically never want fact-based education, they always want indoctrination in support of their distorted non-fact-based view of what e ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/31/wisconsin-gop-blocks-pay-raises-for-university-staff-unless-they-end-diversity-programs/)
2023-10-31T09:20:00Z	**Chronic absenteeism in schools doubles since before pandemic, dragging down test scores**
LEXI LONAS,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

_Stephan: There are so many sectors of our culture that are breaking down. Schools and education generally are one example, including this. And what is becoming clear is that Americans, in this case American parents, are a big part of the problem._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/ima ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/31/chronic-absenteeism-in-schools-doubles-since-before-pandemic-dragging-down-test-scores/)
2023-10-31T09:30:00Z	**‘Damning Evidence’ Mounts That Links Fracking to Health Impacts**
,    \-  truthdig

_Stephan: Yet another report on the damage fracking does to the environment and the people who live anywhere near a fracking installation. Who is opposed to this scientific research and in support of fracking? Why Republicans, of course, and the corporations who profit from this technology, and rent those MAGAts. Who is damaged by fracking, as reported by thousands of scientific stu ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/31/damning-evidence-mounts-that-links-fracking-to-health-impacts/)
2023-10-31T09:35:00Z	**Pharma Nation: Americans will spend half their lives taking prescription drugs, study predicts**
John Anderer,    -  Study Finds

_Stephan: We are slaves of the pharmaceutical corporations as this research makes so very clear. It is all incredibly profitable for them.

To read the research study upon which this article is based see: [Life Course Patterns of Prescription Drug Use in the United States](https://read.dukeupress.edu/demog ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/10/31/pharma-nation-americans-will-spend-half-their-lives-taking-prescription-drugs-study-predicts-2/)
2023-11-01T09:20:00Z	**Tired of tipping! 75% think the generous practice has gotten out of control**
Chris Melore,  Staff Writer  -  Study Finds

_Stephan: The United States has one of the highest tipping rates in the world, and, as this article describes, people are getting tired of it.
Tipping around the world
EUROPE – CHECK FOR SERVICE CHARGE. ...
NORTH AMERICA – TIP MORE, AND MORE OFTEN. ...
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA – THINK 10% ...
ASIA AND THE PACIFIC – NOT USUALLY, AND  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/01/tired-of-tipping-75-think-the-generous-practice-has-gotten-out-of-control/)
2023-11-01T09:25:00Z	**‘I was extremely furious’: the dangerously high cost of insulin in America**
Lauren Mechling,    -  The Guardian

_Stephan: The American illness profit system is designed to suck as much money out of it can. And you don't really have any choice about participating. You don't have to buy a new car, or a new dress. But if you are a diabetic you do have to buy insulin. The corporate greedheads know it, and diabetics know it. It is a national shame and the Rep ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/01/i-was-extremely-furious-the-dangerously-high-cost-of-insulin-in-america/)
2023-11-01T09:30:00Z	**Mike Johnson Urged a Religious Test for Politicians**
DAVID CORN,  Washington, DC, Bureau Chief  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: American absolutely was not founded as a Christian nation, nor did the Founders intend church and state to be linked. That does not seem to be well understood by a large segment of the American population, including many Republican politicians. To the Founders the separation of church and state was very important. Many of the colonists had come to the Am ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/01/mike-johnson-urged-a-religious-test-for-politicians/)
2023-11-01T09:35:00Z	**The 2023 state of the climate report: Entering uncharted territory**
William J Ripple, Christopher Wolf, Jillian W Gregg, Johan Rockström, Thomas M Newsome, Beverly E Law, Luiz Marques, Timothy M Lenton, Chi Xu, and Saleemul Huq ,  Research Scientists  -  Bio Science

_Stephan: Yet another scientific report telling us just how dangerous the human situation is has become. You would think that an existential threat to the matrix of life on earth could command the  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/01/the-2023-state-of-the-climate-report-entering-uncharted-territory/)
2023-11-02T09:20:00Z	**Home schooling’s rise from fringe to fastest-growing form of education**
Peter Jamison, Laura Meckler, Prayag Gordy, Clara Ence Morse and Chris Alcantara,  Reporters  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: My takeaway from this research survey is that we are going to have a large portion of the next generation of American students who have been indoctrinated into all manner of nonsense and that the country's reputation as one of the best school systems in the wor ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/02/home-schoolings-rise-from-fringe-to-fastest-growing-form-of-education/)
2023-11-02T09:30:00Z	**America’s Rifle Fetish Is Destroying Its Sense of Freedom**
Jamelle Bouie,  Columnist  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: I think Jamelle Bouie makes the point few in media or politics will even acknowledge; Americans have fetishized guns, particular the AR-15. As a result as of today, 1 November 2023, 36,074 men, women, and children have already died this year from gun violence, and there have been 586 mass shootings. It has become so dangerous that fewer tourists are com ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/02/americas-rifle-fetish-is-destroying-its-sense-of-freedom/)
2023-11-02T09:25:00Z	**Majority in U.S. Continues to Favor Stricter Gun Laws**
JEFFREY M. JONES,    -  The Gallup Organization

_Stephan: Here is the latest data I could find on the current attitude of Americans about guns. I think it is pathetic. Click through to see all the charts._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-01-at-9.14.51-PM.png)

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

- 56% want stricter laws; 31% kept as they are now
- Americans believe guns make homes safer  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/02/majority-in-u-s-continues-to-favor-stricter-gun-laws/)
2023-11-02T09:35:00Z	**Effort to expel George Santos from the House fails**
MYCHAEL SCHNELL,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

_Stephan: The failure to expel an openly criminal member from the House, someone so blatantly criminal that his own party led the attempt to expel him, and who got support from Democrats should give you a sense of how corrupt the House has become. Both parties have covered themselves with shame, and shown us how the lower house of Congress has become a toxic clown circus instead o ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/02/effort-to-expel-george-santos-from-the-house-fails/)
2023-11-03T09:35:00Z	**Arctic shifts are driving dramatic population swings among gray whales, study explains**
,    \-  Study Finds

_Stephan: Yet another study of the effects of human greed and stupidity on the earth's matrix of life.

To read the research paper upon which this report was based see: [Boom-bust cycles in gray whales associated with dynamic and changing Arctic conditions](https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi1847)_

![](https://www.schwar ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/03/arctic-shifts-are-driving-dramatic-population-swings-among-gray-whales-study-explains/)
2023-11-03T09:30:00Z	**Over 400,000 Americans Demand End to Supreme Court Corruption**
JESSICA CORBETT,  Staff Writer  -  truthdig / Common Dreams

_Stephan: This, I hope, is the beginning of a new citizens' action trend. It calls for the Senate to impose a set of ethics standards on the Supreme Court since the Court will not impose one on itself. Never in our history has the court become this corrupt, and the corruption is limited to the six MAGAt justices. The question is: Will the Democ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/03/over-400000-americans-demand-end-to-supreme-court-corruption/)
2023-11-03T09:25:00Z	**America’s Adult Education System Is Broken. Here’s How Experts Say We Can Fix It.**
Annie Waldman, Aliyya Swaby and Anna Clark,    -

_Stephan: Forty eight million Americans struggle to read. Similar numbers can not do even simple math, and algebra...they can't do that at all. A third of the country can't even name a single branch of government. The fact is Americans constitute a very poorly educated society, and a good education is essential for u ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/03/americas-adult-education-system-is-broken-heres-how-experts-say-we-can-fix-it-2/)
2023-11-03T09:20:00Z	**Mother, Son Charged with “Kidnapping” for Helping Idaho Minor Access Abortion**
Zane McNeill ,  Breaking News Writing Fellow  -  truthout

_Stephan: Idaho has become a fascist state in which even helping a woman leave the state to obtain an abortion can end up putting you in prison. Meanwhile most of the OB/GYN specialists in the state have left or are planning to leave. And much of the state has become a medical desert for obtaining OB/GYN medical care ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/03/mother-son-charged-with-kidnapping-for-helping-idaho-minor-access-abortion/)
2023-11-04T09:20:00Z	**The Supreme Court will hear a case that could effectively legalize automatic weapons**
Ian Millhiser ,  Senior Correspondent  -  Vox

_Stephan: Bump stocks. Do you even know what a bumpstock is, or what it does? The answer is it is a simple addition to any semi-automatic rifle and turns its into a machine gun that fires multiple rounds in seconds. Do I have to suggest what they would mean in the hundreds of mass killings we have each year in A ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/04/the-supreme-court-will-hear-a-case-that-could-effectively-legalize-automatic-weapons/)
2023-11-04T09:30:00Z	**Poll: Most Americans Oppose Speaker Mike Johnson’s Christian Nationalist Views**
Chris Walker,  Staff Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: I think this report offers a hint of good news. Christofascism remains a minority position. Iy offers some hope that the 2024 election may not make the end of democracy. It all depends on each of us voting, and voting for Democrats._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-03-at- ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/04/poll-most-americans-oppose-speaker-mike-johnsons-christian-nationalist-views/)
2023-11-04T09:25:00Z	**Incarceration Rates for Black Americans Decline**
CANDICE NORWOOD ,  Staff Writer  -  truthdig

_Stephan: Here is some marginally good news. The United States has the largest incarceration population in the world and has hold this ugly first position for decades. And it is overwhelmingly racist against Black people. The good news is:From 2000 to 2021, the imprisonment rate fell by 70 percent for Black women and by 48 percent for Black men. MAGAts are now trying to change the numb ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/04/incarceration-rates-for-black-americans-decline/)
2023-11-04T09:35:00Z	**‘It’s an abomination’: battle brewing over proposed US laws to protect pesticide companies**
Carey Gillam,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: First, never, ever, allow Round up on your property. If you do you are putting yourself and your family at serious risk. Second, you can watch how the corruption of the Congress works as Bayer spends millions trying to protect its right to sell this poison. It's simple. If you want to promote wellbei ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/04/its-an-abomination-battle-brewing-over-proposed-us-laws-to-protect-pesticide-companies/)
2023-11-05T10:25:00Z	**Biden Admin Approves Largest U.S. Offshore Wind Farm off Virginia Coast**
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Here is some more good news from the Biden administration. It is surprising to me that American voters don't seem to get or understand that the Biden administration, on the basis of objectively verifiable data, is one of the best wellbeing fostering administrations in years. He gets no credit for what he is doing t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/05/biden-admin-approves-largest-u-s-offshore-wind-farm-off-virginia-coast/)
2023-11-05T10:20:00Z	**IRS free tax filing rollout faces hurdles after multimillion-dollar lobbying campaign**
Anna Massoglia,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story / Open Secrets

_Stephan: Yet another story of the corruption of the American Congress and the Republican Party. The tax preparation corporations pour tens of millions of dollars into Congress so they can make billions in profit. As a result most of us pay hundreds of dollars each year to have our taxes prepared. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/05/irs-free-tax-filing-rollout-faces-hurdles-after-multimillion-dollar-lobbying-campaign/)
2023-11-05T10:30:00Z	**Why Do Young Americans Support Hamas? Look at TikTok.**
Republican Wisconsin Representative Mike Gallagher,    -  The Free Press

_Stephan: Now that it doesn't serve their interests the Republicans are beginning to understand the effect of the weaponization of social media lies. I have written about how social media, which basically has no ethical or honesty standards whatever, is being used to manipulate Americans, particularly the young. You might think Congress would do so ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/05/why-do-young-americans-support-hamas-look-at-tiktok/)
2023-11-05T10:35:00Z	**EPA to push ban of toxic chemical found in US drinking water**
Tom Perkins,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Here is some good news from Biden's EPA you probably won't hear much about but which may significantly improve your health. Efforts to ban the TCE chemical date back 40 years. The Obama administration proposed strong limits on its use in 2016 but, it should be no surprise the corrupt Trump administration undid those attempts to limit is in your water and i ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/05/epa-to-push-ban-of-toxic-chemical-found-in-us-drinking-water/)
2023-11-06T10:20:00Z	**Patients don’t know how to navigate the US health system — and it’s costing them**
Dylan Scott,  Healthcare Staff Writer  -  Vox

_Stephan: The United States has the lowest ranked -- 69th -- and most expensive healthcare in the developed world and, as this report describes, it is made deliberately confusing and complex in order to suck more dollars out of you. And let me warn you again, DO NOT GET INVOLVED IN MEDICARE ADVANTAGE. It has nothing to do w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/06/patients-dont-know-how-to-navigate-the-us-health-system-and-its-costing-them/)
2023-11-06T10:25:00Z	**Saturday Report – The Medicaid “Hunger Games” have begun…**
Thom Hartmann,  Columnist  -  The Hartmann Report

_Stephan: Thom Hartmann is one of a few commentators whom I think really get what is going on in the United States, and here is his latest assessment. It agrees with my own thinking as your will recognize as you read it And it should scare the hell out of you. We are a nation in deep decline._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image-9.pn ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/06/saturday-report-the-medicaid-hunger-games-have-begun/)
2023-11-06T10:30:00Z	**How Russian disinformation toppled government after government in Africa**
Elizabeth Dwoskin,  Silicon Valley Correspondent  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: The weaponization of disinformation (see SR archive) in my opinion is the leading political trend in the world today, and no one is better at it than the Russians and Chinese who saw the implications of what it could do while the American government was asleep in its chairs. The Russians used it to  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/06/how-russian-disinformation-toppled-government-after-government-in-africa/)
2023-11-06T10:35:00Z	**How Mike Johnson’s “Covenant Marriage” Helps Explain His Politics**
MOLLY OLMSTEAD,  Staff Writer  -  Slate

_Stephan: I spent some time this weekend digging into Mike Johnson's background and worldview and I find it deeply alarming. The Republican Party has put into the Speaker's chair a fascist Christian religious fanatic who does not believe in the separation of church and state and seriously espouses that the United States is designed to be a fascist Christian  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/06/how-mike-johnsons-covenant-marriage-helps-explain-his-politics/)
2023-11-07T10:25:00Z	**‘We Feel Like We’re Drowning’: What We Heard This Week**
Editorial Staff,    -  MEDPAGE TODAY

_Stephan: The increasing corporatization of the illness profit system that constitutes healthcare in the United States is resulting in burn out in the medical staff of physicians and nurses, who are leaving the corporately owned clinics where they work. Perhaps you have noticed the increasing number of doctors who no longer take insurance, you just pay for each visit and it is painfu ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/07/we-feel-like-were-drowning-what-we-heard-this-week/)
2023-11-07T10:20:00Z	**Mike Johnson Said He and His Son Monitor Each Other’s Porn Usage, and Yeah, It’s Exactly as Weird as It Sounds**
Daniel Kreps,  Staff Writer  -  My Gay Prides

_Stephan: If you are a father do you and your teen age son monitor each other's porn viewing? No. Well christofascist House Speaker Mike Johnson and his 17 year old son do just that. Does that sound weird to you? It certainly does to me._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/07/mike-johnson-said-he-and-his-son-monitor-each-others-porn-usage-and-yeah-its-exactly-as-weird-as-it-sounds/)
2023-11-07T10:30:00Z	**Just 4% of top companies meet UN climate target guidelines: study**
Simon Jessop,  Reporter  -  Raw Story / Reuters

_Stephan: Further proof that for large corporations profit is more important to them than your wellbeing. To these corporation you are just a peasant who health and wellbeing means nothing._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-06-at-6.18.32 PM.png?resize=637%2C422&ssl=1)_Credit: Reuters_

Half  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/07/just-4-of-top-companies-meet-un-climate-target-guidelines-study/)
2023-11-07T10:35:00Z	**A Secret War, Strange New Wounds, and Silence From the Pentagon**
Dave Philipps,  Reporter  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: This is a horrible story, a report on the complete failure of the American military to protect its own troops. And as is so typical of American today the only people held responsible or negatively effected are those at the bottom of the chain of command. No one at the top of the chain of command have been held responsible for anything. It has  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/07/a-secret-war-strange-new-wounds-and-silence-from-the-pentagon/)
2023-11-08T10:20:00Z	**Foster Care Admission Surged When Abortion Access Fell, Study Shows**
Rachael Robertson,  Staff Writer  -  MEDPAGE TODAY

_Stephan: For a number of years I have been searching for data to answer this question: In the Red States when a woman is denied control over her own body, how many women give up their babies to foster care? A significant percentage of children turned over to foster care have all kinds of psychological problems. I finally found some solid da ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/08/foster-care-admission-surged-when-abortion-access-fell-study-shows/)
2023-11-08T10:25:00Z	**New Report Reveals Big Oil’s Playbook to Silence Climate Protests**
Juliana Broad ,  Researcher, The Center for Media and Democracy  -  truthout

_Stephan: The Petroleum Corporations constitute and evil industry. They place their profits above any concern about humanity's wellbeing,and there can be no dispute about that. The data is incontrovertible. If you search the SR archive you will see their behavior for decades has been completely consistent across the yea ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/08/new-report-reveals-big-oils-playbook-to-silence-climate-protests/)
2023-11-08T10:30:00Z	**85% of people worry about online disinformation, global survey finds**
Jon Henley,  Europe Correspondent  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: I consider this good news. People don't like to be manipulated, and it is beginning to dawn on people around the world that they are being subjected to just that through social media misinformation._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image-15.jpg?resize=620%2C372&ssl=1)_Social media wa ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/08/85-of-people-worry-about-online-disinformation-global-survey-finds/)
2023-11-08T10:35:00Z	**Young men in violent parts of Philadelphia, Chicago die from guns at a higher rate than US troops in the heat of battle**
Alex Knorre,   Research Fellow, Boston College  -  The Conversation

_Stephan: This is a very important article about the nature of gun violence and death in the United States. Two big points to take away. Gun murders take place in tiny sections of a few cities, and if you are wounded in ba ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/08/young-men-in-violent-parts-of-philadelphia-chicago-die-from-guns-at-a-higher-rate-than-us-troops-in-the-heat-of-battle/)
2023-11-09T10:20:00Z	**Virtual reality experiment reveals rats have imaginations just like humans**
,    \-  STUDY FINDS

_Stephan: I have been telling my readers for 30 years (see SR archive) that we must understand that all nature of the beings on this planet have a measure of consciousness, and that we need to recognize that we must learn to foster wellbeing at every level if we are to survive as a species. Here is one more experimental study proving this._

![](https://i0 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/09/virtual-reality-experiment-reveals-rats-have-imaginations-just-like-humans/)
2023-11-09T10:30:00Z	**Infants Are Born With Syphilis in Growing Numbers, a Sign of a Wider Epidemic**
Apoorva Mandavilli,  Science Reporter  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: In the United States we are seeing a terrible uptick in sexually transmitted illness like Syphilis and Gonorrhea. Why is this happening? Because we have such poor healthcare, and because Republicans have effectively blocked sex education in public schools. As with so many other health care issues Ameri ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/09/infants-are-born-with-syphilis-in-growing-numbers-a-sign-of-a-wider-epidemic/)
2023-11-09T10:25:00Z	**‘MAGA Mike Johnson’ Wants Commission to Cut Social Security Formed ‘Immediately’**
Jessica Corbett,  Senior Editor and Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: I hope you are clear that if Republicans retain the majority in the House, and Trump wins the presidency, the chances are very strong that your Social Security payments will be severely curtailed, and Medicare is likely to be gutted. You would thank that particularly older Americans would get  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/09/maga-mike-johnson-wants-commission-to-cut-social-security-formed-immediately/)
2023-11-09T10:35:00Z	**Tommy Tuberville is not acting: he really is Trump’s useful idiot**
Sidney Blumenthal,  Commentator  -  THe Guardian

_Stephan: I got an email this morningfrom a retired two star Navy admiral, I have known since he as a Commander and I was Special Assistant to two CNOs. He told me that he thinks Trump is behind what Tuberville is doing, and he is trying punish the seniors military for not backing his attempt to overthrow democracy with his insurrection. Further, t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/09/tommy-tuberville-is-not-acting-he-really-is-trumps-useful-idiot/)
2023-11-10T10:20:00Z	**The middle class is not buying electric vehicles as hoped. What happened?**
,    \-  Chicago Tribune

_Stephan: In my view the entire conversion away from the internal combustion engine could not have been handled more badly. It should have started with a national policy covering the construction of roads that can charge vehicles that drive on them, and then provide an better tax levy to encourage people to buy EVs. Instead it has been done as we have all  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/10/the-middle-class-is-not-buying-electric-vehicles-as-hoped-what-happened/)
2023-11-10T10:25:00Z	**The 20 Farming Families Who Use More Water From the Colorado River Than Some Western States**
Nat Lash, ProPublica, and Janet Wilson,    -  ProPublica

_Stephan: If you live in one of the seven states -- California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming -- that rely on the Colorado River for their water, you have probably noticed that almost all discussions on this issue talk about states. That is a grossly misleading way ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/10/the-20-farming-families-who-use-more-water-from-the-colorado-river-than-some-western-states/)
2023-11-10T10:30:00Z	**Peter Thiel is Taking a Break From Democracy**
Barton Gellman,  Staff Writer  -  The Atlantic

_Stephan: This is a very revealing very deliberately chosen portrait of an anti-democracy oligarch Peter Thiel. I encourage you to read it because it will give you some insight into how the oligarch community thinks._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image-18.png?resize=480%2C600&ssl=1)

It wasn’t clear at first why Peter Thiel agreed to talk to me.
 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/10/peter-thiel-is-taking-a-break-from-democracy/)
2023-11-10T10:35:00Z	**The public doesn’t understand the risks of a Trump victory. That’s the media’s fault**
Margaret Sullivan,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: I watch a lot of media of all biases doing research for SR so that I can keep it fact-based and not partisan. I agree with Margaret Sullivan. Corporate media is not accurately conveying to their audiences what is really going on in America. The Republican Party funded by christofascist oligarchs is trying t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/10/the-public-doesnt-understand-the-risks-of-a-trump-victory-thats-the-medias-fault/)
2023-11-11T10:20:00Z	**Amazon deforestation falls more than 20% to its lowest levels in 5 years**
Reuters editorial staff,    -  CNN

_Stephan: Here is some news about the Amazon forest that confirms earlier reports I have published. (See SR archives). So multiple reports from different sources tends to suggest the news is accurate and good news indeed._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image-21.png?resize=800%2C450&ssl=1)

_Aerial view of ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/11/amazon-deforestation-falls-more-than-20-to-its-lowest-levels-in-5-years/)
2023-11-11T10:30:00Z	**We asked every member of Congress about child care policy. Only 5 Republicans answered.**
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_Stephan:_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image-20.png?resize=800%2C532&ssl=1)_The House of Representatives holds a vote on speaker of the House on Jan. 3, the first day of the 118th Congress.

Credit: Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times/ Getty_

In September, when billions of dollars in child care fundin ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/11/we-asked-every-member-of-congress-about-child-care-policy-only-5-republicans-answered/)
2023-11-11T10:25:00Z	**A lot of Americans embrace Trump’s authoritarianism**
Philip Bump,  Reporter  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: It is my view that the central problem America faces is that a large number of us, mostly low education Red state Whites, will support criminal Trump even if he is convicted and sentenced to prison. He speaks to their resentments, hates, and grievances, and that is all they care about. Will some of these people awaken to their own stupidity. Maybe if he really is con ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/11/a-lot-of-americans-embrace-trumps-authoritarianism/)
2023-11-11T10:35:00Z	**Why Are Republicans Fiddling with Fascism While the Shutdown is Looming?**
THOM HARTMANN,  Commentator  -  The Hartmann Report

_Stephan: As is frequently the case, I agree with Thom Hartmann. It should be obvious to anyone, and certainly will be to historians, that the U.S. Congress is essentially dysfunctional. Instead of doing its job on behave of the people who voted them into office, they behave like neighborhood children in a petulant fight. This, of ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/11/why-are-republicans-fiddling-with-fascism-while-the-shutdown-is-looming/)
2023-11-12T10:20:00Z	**EU Scientists ‘Can Say With Near Certainty’ That 2023 Will Be Hottest in 125,000 Years**
Jessica Corbett,  Senior Editor and Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: This year is the hottest in 125,000 years. Do you think that would prompt governments and corporations to reassess policies whether governmental or for profit? If you do you are going to be disappointed. The United States and most of the developed nations made only a meager effort ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/12/eu-scientists-can-say-with-near-certainty-that-2023-will-be-hottest-in-125000-years/)
2023-11-12T10:30:00Z	**Medicaid ‘Unwinding’ Sows Chaos in States**
PHIL GALEWITZ, KATHERYN HOUGHTON, BRETT KELMAN, SAMANTHA LISS / KFF HEALTH,    -  truthdig / Kaiser Family Foundation

_Stephan: The United States has the worst health care system in the developed world -- we rank 69th compared to other developed nations. And it is getting worse, particularly for people of low income who are on Medicaid. What amazes me is that Americans don't seem to get any of this, and there is no national uprising of voters  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/12/medicaid-unwinding-sows-chaos-in-states/)
2023-11-12T10:25:00Z	**South Carolina Is Ripping Infants Away From Their Mothers Over Pot Use**
Emily Janakiram ,  Staff Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: The Republicans who control Red States are always on the lookout for a way to control women. This report is the latest horror story. It's from South Carolina but come from any number of Southern states. I'm sorry but I have been forced to conclude that being a Republican is to be an accessory to a series of social crimes, and this ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/12/south-carolina-is-ripping-infants-away-from-their-mothers-over-pot-use/)
2023-11-12T10:35:00Z	**How a Big Pharma Company Stalled a Potentially Lifesaving Vaccine in Pursuit of Bigger Profits**
Anna Maria Barry-Jester,  Reporter  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: The people of the United States pay more than those of any other country for pharmaceuticals. And this difference is not a small one, it is orders of magnitude, and it is obscene. Go to my weekly podcast, because this week I have focused on the outrageous way the pharmaceutica ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/12/how-a-big-pharma-company-stalled-a-potentially-lifesaving-vaccine-in-pursuit-of-bigger-profits-2/)
2023-11-13T10:25:00Z	**Catholic dioceses are declaring bankruptcy. Abuse survivors say it’s a ‘way to silence’ them**
Robin Buller,  Contributing Writer  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: The Roman Catholic Church constantly proclaims it morality and high ethical standards, but the law tells a very different story, which this article describes. To protect the institution the church has developed a strategy of Chapter 11 bankruptcy and reorganization, but has don ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/13/catholic-dioceses-are-declaring-bankruptcy-abuse-survivors-say-its-a-way-to-silence-them/)
2023-11-13T10:20:00Z	**Why Is Mike Johnson Flying a Christian Nationalist Flag Outside His Office?**
Tori Otten ,    -  The New Republic

_Stephan: This is an amazing story getting virtually no coverage in corporate media. Christofascist Speaker of the House Mike Johnson displays a Christian Nationalist flag outside of his office in the halls of Congress, and no one seems to care. Suppose it was a swastika flag. Do you think anyone would notice or care? This is what our natio ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/13/why-is-mike-johnson-flying-a-christian-nationalist-flag-outside-his-office/)
2023-11-13T10:35:00Z	**What Americans know about their government**
GABRIEL BORELLI and SHANAY GRACIA,  U.S. Politics Research Associate  -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: American's knowledge of how their government operates is pathetic. The Pew Research Center looked into this at length. Here is what they found. You can click through and take their survey._

[![A dot plot showing that virtually no partisan differences emerge in civic and political knowledge.](https://i0.wp.com/www.pewresearch.org/wp-conte ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/13/what-americans-know-about-their-government/)
2023-11-13T10:30:00Z	**It’s getting increasingly dangerous to be a newborn in the US**
Keren Landman,  Contributing Writer  -  Vox

_Stephan: Yesterday I did a piece on the rise in syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease that had virtual disappeared in the United States. Today I want to expand on this medical crisis because the data is now clear that the main research this is happening is the christofascist Supreme Court's cabal overturning Roe v Wade, followed by the Red states passing a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/13/its-getting-increasingly-dangerous-to-be-a-newborn-in-the-us/)
2023-11-14T10:20:00Z	**Amid blowback over Clarence Thomas travel, Supreme Court says it will adopt first-ever code of conduct**
John Fritze,  Staff Writer  -  USA Today

_Stephan: The Supreme Court, the lowest rated court in American history, has made a largely symbolic gesture -- there is no enforcement mechanism -- at ethics probably to offset their low rating. The thing no one in media talks about is that all the corruption involves the christofa ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/14/amid-blowback-over-clarence-thomas-travel-supreme-court-says-it-will-adopt-first-ever-code-of-conduct/)
2023-11-14T10:25:00Z	**The Inflation Reduction Act has created nearly 75,000 jobs**
Sarah Kennedy,  Staff Writer  -  Yale Climate Connections / ChavoBart Digital Media

_Stephan: It is amazing to me that American voters simply do not recognize that Joe Biden has been one of the most effective President's in decades, based on actual objectively verifiable evidence. Instead they think he is to old, but a fascist criminal just three yers younger seems to be quite acceptable. Biden has a good rec ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/14/the-inflation-reduction-act-has-created-nearly-75000-jobs/)
2023-11-14T10:30:00Z	**Ohio Republicans lay plans to overturn this week’s election**
Laura Clawson,  Staff Writer  -  Daily Kos

_Stephan: This story confirms that the Republican Party is now a fascist party that is not interested in a healthy democracy._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image-28.png?resize=800%2C533&ssl=1)_Credit: AFP / Getty_

Ohio voted [56.6% to 43.4%](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/11/07/us/elections/results-ohio-issue-1 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/14/ohio-republicans-lay-plans-to-overturn-this-weeks-election/)
2023-11-14T10:35:00Z	**Trump’s plans if he returns to the White House include deportation raids, tariffs and mass firings**
JILL COLVIN,  National Political Reporter  -  Associated Press

_Stephan: Criminal Trump makes it clear what he intends to do if re-elected. This ought to scare every American voter. That it does not suggests to me that the United States may not survive the 2024 election. Note particularly that you hear no anguished outcry from the  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/14/trumps-plans-if-he-returns-to-the-white-house-include-deportation-raids-tariffs-and-mass-firings/)
2023-11-15T10:20:00Z	**The Trouble With America’s Ultra-Processed Diet**
Andrea Petersen,    -  Wall Street Journal

_Stephan: Americans have shorter lives, particularly men, than the populations of any other developed nation -- as much as six years shorter life. Why? Largely because of a diet that is based mostly on profit not healthy nourishment. This is something you can do something about. Are you prepared to do it, or do you just want to die years before people in other countries?_

![](https://www ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/15/the-trouble-with-americas-ultra-processed-diet/)
2023-11-15T10:30:00Z	**Trump’s transition to fascism is now complete**
Bill Blum,  Staff Writer  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: As I have listened to Trump at his rallies, and read his social media posts I hear echoes of Hitler and Mussolini. Not even echoes in many cases the same words and images. Trump is now a blatant fascist, and what worries me, and should worry you, is that millions of Americans virtually worship Trump, and will do anything he asks. I'm not sure we are going to survive the 2024 election as  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/15/trumps-transition-to-fascism-is-now-complete/)
2023-11-15T10:25:00Z	**The Radical Strategy Behind Trump’s Promise to ‘Go After’ Biden**
Jonathan Swan, Charlie Savage and Maggie Haberman,  Reporters & Correspondents  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: This piece was written nearly six months ago, and I am running it today for two reasons: First: no one in the future will ever be able to say Americans were not warned about Trump and his intentions. Second, because it shows, by the party's months of silence, that the Republican Party is com ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/15/the-radical-strategy-behind-trumps-promise-to-go-after-biden/)
2023-11-15T10:35:00Z	**As Trump Vows Vengeance Against ‘Vermin,’ Republicans Look The Other Way**
Igor Bobic and Jonathan Nicholson,  Senior Politics Reporter \| Politics Reporter  -  Huffington Post

_Stephan: I think Trump has moved past anything resembling normal politics. He cares only about the MAGAts, and anticipates that if he loses the MAGAts will create a civil war that will put him in power._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image-31.png)_Tr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/15/as-trump-vows-vengeance-against-vermin-republicans-look-the-other-way/)
2023-11-16T10:20:00Z	**Global decline in male fertility linked to common pesticides**
Evan Bush,    -  NBC News

_Stephan: Yet another reason why we must end industrial chemical mono-culture farming. It is literally killing our ability to propagate. Here is the story._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image-38.png)_Credit: Getty /  Westend61_

A prolonged [decline in male fertility](https://www.nbcnews.com/health/mens-health/plunging-sperm-counts-major-public- ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/16/global-decline-in-male-fertility-linked-to-common-pesticides/)
2023-11-16T10:25:00Z	**Nuclear Panel Packed With Defense Industry Interests**
ELI CLIFTON and BEN FREEMAN,    -

_Stephan: The United States is unbelievably corrupt. And yet do you see discussion about it as a major trend? No, neither do I. Here is a classic example of how corruption works in America. One corporate group taking control of the country's decision about their industry.This is a major issue affecting our democracy._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image- ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/16/nuclear-panel-packed-with-defense-industry-interests/)
2023-11-16T10:30:00Z	**Speaker Mike Johnson calls separation of church and state ‘a misnomer’**
Ed Pilkington,  Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Johnson is incorrectly informed, willfully ignorant. The separation of church and state was a very big deal to the Founders. Pennsylvania and Rhode Island were states founded on the basis that the national government and the state were separate. Franklin, jefferson, and Madison, particularly felt very strongly about this. We hav ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/16/speaker-mike-johnson-calls-separation-of-church-and-state-a-misnomer/)
2023-11-17T10:20:00Z	**New Supreme Court Ethics Code Is Designed to Fail**
Michael Waldman,  Staff Writer  -  Brennan Center for Justice

_Stephan: It is my view that the just published Supreme Court ethics code with no form of enforcement is basically a scam to improve the extremely poor respect the Court currently suffers with. When I see something happen to hold Clarence Thomas, Alito, or Roberts accountable for their gross corruption I will believe there are any established ethics standards to wh ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/17/new-supreme-court-ethics-code-is-designed-to-fail/)
2023-11-17T10:30:00Z	**Elon Musk Shares His Thoughts on Jews**
Thomas Germain,    -  Gizmodo

_Stephan: Oligarch Elon Musk reveals he is an anti-semite. More than that he distinguishes between Whites and Jews. That is a level of anti-semitism I have not heard anyone say for decades. I wouldn't go on X if you paid me._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image-40.png)_Elon Musk Credit: Associated Press_

For years, some people with the unlucky habit of paying too much attention to Elon  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/17/elon-musk-shares-his-thoughts-on-jews/)
2023-11-17T10:25:00Z	**The problem isn’t inflation. It’s prices.**
Emily Stewart,  Business and Economy Staff Writer  -  Vox

_Stephan: I think this article explains why Biden is getting to little credit from American voters. The truth is very few Americans have anything more than the dimmest understanding about how the economy works. Study after study shows this. So all the good things Biden and his administration have done just goes over their heads. What they do understand is what things cost. When you pay $1 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/17/the-problem-isnt-inflation-its-prices/)
2023-11-17T10:35:00Z	**Expat nation: Why more young Americans than ever are emigrating**
Erica Prush,    -  Preply

_Stephan: I have a sister who has left the United States for France, and a dear friend who recently left for Mexico, as well as several young couples who tell me they are looking for some place to which they would emigrate. The two issues all of them have in common is America's desperately poor healthcare system, and the fact that women are not treated as equals to men. Wha ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/17/expat-nation-why-more-young-americans-than-ever-are-emigrating/)
2023-11-18T10:20:00Z	**Judge rules former President Donald Trump is eligible for Colorado’s primary ballot**
JESSE SARLES and JENNIFER MCRAE,  Reporters  -  CBS Colorado

_Stephan:  And so it gets down to the voters, you and me. A man with 91 indictments, numerous convictions, an man who represents the worst in American culture will be running for President. We will see who Americans chooses, because it will shape American culture, and end democracy._

![](https://www ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/18/judge-rules-former-president-donald-trump-is-eligible-for-colorados-primary-ballot/)
2023-11-18T10:25:00Z	**Students Are Missing School at an Alarming Rate**
Sarah Mervosh,  Education Reporter  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: The MAGAt generation is literally physically and psychologically damaging America's youth, and the young are fed up with the MAGAt view of healthcare and education. They are consumed and influenced by social media, and a large segment of them don't make school as a priority._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image-44.png)_Far more st ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/18/students-are-missing-school-at-an-alarming-rate/)
2023-11-18T10:30:00Z	**Rising Seas Imperil US Sites, Military Bases Worth $387 Billion**
Stephen Lee, Paul Murphy, Atthar Mirza, and Jon Meltzer,  Staff Writers  -  Bloomberg News

_Stephan: Somewhere back in the early days of SR, 1991, or 2, I was living in Manhattan Beach, California, and I studied projected climate change maps and realized that about 30% of Norfolk and Virginia Beach were going underwater, and that a big part would be the Naval Station in Norfolk. I predicted this woul ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/18/rising-seas-imperil-us-sites-military-bases-worth-387-billion/)
2023-11-18T10:35:00Z	**Terror on Repeat**
Silvia Foster-Frau, N. Kirkpatrick and Arelis R. Hernández,  Reporters  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: I hope you will click through and look at the pictures, the kind you almost never see, of what mass murder sites look like after the killings are over. It my view that we should be seeing these pictures including the bodies lying on the floors or the grass. I don't think Americans really understand what is happening in this country. Maybe seeing the pictures would wake us from our nation ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/18/terror-on-repeat/)
2023-11-19T10:20:00Z	**Inside the American Redoubt**
Jacob Furedi,  Deputy Editor - Unherd  -  Unherd

_Stephan: With almost no media attention a block of states and counties has become the center of a survivalist violence prone christofascist community. Counties on the east side of Washington and Oregon are trying to secede from their states and become a part of Idaho to join what is called Redoubt. It is dangerous to go to this part of the U.S. and be heard saying anything supportive of Biden or Democrats. As this artic ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/19/inside-the-american-redoubt/)
2023-11-19T10:25:00Z	**Teen Boys Are Falling for a Snapchat Nude-Photo Scam. Here’s How to Avoid It.**
Julie Jargon,  Staff Writer  -  The Wall Street Journal

_Stephan: For several weeks now I have been tracking a trend about another very dark side of social media. I got started on this when a reader wrote me to tell me that a boy in her daughter's school, whom her daughter had rejected, got hold of a picture of her face and using AI combined her face with a porn photo that  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/19/teen-boys-are-falling-for-a-snapchat-nude-photo-scam-heres-how-to-avoid-it/)
2023-11-19T10:30:00Z	**280 million e-bikes are slashing oil demand far more than electric vehicles**
Muhammad Rizwan Azhar and Waqas Uzair,  Scholars Edith Cowan University  -  ars technica

_Stephan: Here is some good news e-bikes involving a trend, I confess, I had not considered. Individuals are making choices for a better future._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image-46-1.jpg)_Ryan L. Jane / Getty_

We hop in the car to get groceries or dr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/19/280-million-e-bikes-are-slashing-oil-demand-far-more-than-electric-vehicles/)
2023-11-19T10:35:00Z	**Tropical diseases move north**
Claire Ainsworth,  Freelance Science Journalist  -  nature

_Stephan: Exactly as I have been predicting in SR for years (see SR archive), climate change is causing other beings to move North as the climate changes. This is a warning story about mosquitoes and the neglected diseases they are bringing into Europe and in the U.S. The governments of the world are not preparing properly for what is happening, because they are controlled by corporate interests whose only in ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/19/tropical-diseases-move-north/)
2023-11-20T10:20:00Z	**How a flood of congressional retirements is rocking the 2024 elections**
STEVEN SHEPARD,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: The growing number of Congressional retirements is going to become a major factor in the 2024 elections. It offers an opportunity, if voters awaken to it, to flip both houses to Democrat majorities, which means our democracy will survive. If it goes the other way, it will be the end of America as you and I have known it._

![](https ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/20/how-a-flood-of-congressional-retirements-is-rocking-the-2024-elections/)
2023-11-20T10:30:00Z	**Texas Officials Reject Textbooks Over Climate Science**
Brett Wilkins,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Here is an example of what happens in states in which anti-science Republicans are in charge. They don't want to talk about climate change on a factual basis in the textbooks used by children -- as if this will stop climate change from happening. I am increasingly concerned that the willful ignorance of the Republican officials is rendering the nation unprepared ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/20/texas-officials-reject-textbooks-over-climate-science/)
2023-11-20T10:25:00Z	**A hospital’s abrupt closure means, for many, help is distant**
Scott Wilson,  Senior National Correspondent  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: The American healthcare system is an ongoing tragedy, particularly for women. You've seen the stories that I have done on what is happening in Red states, but the system is so bad that it is now happening in rural sections of Blue states as well. It continues to surprise me that Americans don't seem to grasp the implications for  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/20/a-hospitals-abrupt-closure-means-for-many-help-is-distant/)
2023-11-20T10:35:00Z	**Americans’ Trust in Scientists, Positive Views of Science Continue to Decline**
BRIAN KENNEDY and ALEC TYSON,  Staff Researchers  -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: Social Media is destroying American society, as we have known it. I have now done fact-based story after story about what is happening to American culture,in both daily SR and my SR podcast, and here is the latest. Thanks to social media Americans, particularly younger Americans, no longer b ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/20/americans-trust-in-scientists-positive-views-of-science-continue-to-decline/)
2023-11-21T10:20:00Z	**It’s Official: With “Vermin,” Trump Is Now Using Straight-up Nazi Talk**
Michael Tomasky,  Editor  -  The New Republic

_Stephan: Michael Tomasky, in my opinion, has made the correct assessment of Trump. My only difference with Tomasky is that he does not address the deeper issue and that is the large percentage of Americans who are racist, male dominant, christofascists. How else to explain that in spite of his actions, his blatant criminality, and his words, T ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/21/its-official-with-vermin-trump-is-now-using-straight-up-nazi-talk/)
2023-11-21T10:25:00Z	**2024 House Appropriations Bills Slash Vital Programs**
David Reich,   Senior Fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Here is an excellent assessment of what is happening with Appropriation Bills in Congress and the devastation the Republicans seek to impose on middle class and poor families. It is horrible, and if you vote Republican be prepared to have your life seriously degraded._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/upl ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/21/2024-house-appropriations-bills-slash-vital-programs/)
2023-11-21T10:35:00Z	**The Great Carbon Divide**
Jonathan Watts, Ellen Wishart, Rich Cousins, Alessia Amitrano and Pip Burkett,  Reporters  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: This the latest report on the grotesque wealth inequality currently shaping the world, it is the worst in over a century. In the United States as of 2023, there are a 735 billionaires and 22 million millionaires. In contrast, the average median income in the U.S. is $67,521, but in some Southern Red states it is only %50,000. That means there are people w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/21/the-great-carbon-divide/)
2023-11-21T10:30:00Z	**How Big Tech Generated Billions In Fines… Then Didn’t Pay Them**
Joseph Boyle and Peter Murphy,  Staff Writers  -  Barron's / Agence France-Presse (France)

_Stephan: Part of the wealth inequality crisis that plagues the world is that corporate interests, which control governments through various kinds of bribery, are increasingly just disregarding fines they incur from breaking the law. Here is an example of what I mean._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-conte ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/21/how-big-tech-generated-billions-in-fines-then-didnt-pay-them/)
2023-11-22T10:20:00Z	**‘Climate Change Is Here’: Every Part of the U.S. Will Suffer Climate-Related Disasters, Report Finds**
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: I continue to read Republican websites and publications and what notably stands out for me is the continued climate denialism. Climate change is not a political argument, it is a scientific reality, and whether you believe in it or not it is still happening and  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/22/climate-change-is-here-every-part-of-the-u-s-will-suffer-climate-related-disasters-report-finds/)
2023-11-22T10:25:00Z	**Pentagon Failes Sixth Audit in a Row, Claiming “Progress Sort of Beneath the Surface”**
Ken Klippenstein,  Staff Writer  -  The Intercept

_Stephan: The miitary-industrial complex, as President Eisenhower warned, is beyond corruption. Americans spend via their taxes more on the military-industrial complex than the budgets of the next seven nations of the world combined. It has become a legitimized vampire scam whose corporations suck more money  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/22/pentagon-failes-sixth-audit-in-a-row-claiming-progress-sort-of-beneath-the-surface/)
2023-11-22T10:35:00Z	**The Fervent Debate Over the Best Way to Confront Global Warming**
MADELINE OSTRANDER ,  Science Writer  -  Undark

_Stephan: Here is a good essay on the struggle going on about climate change. You would think this would be a simple issue, but it isn't. Greed for profit and just unhappiness about change itself has made this issue far more complicated than it needed to be._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image-54.jpg)_A levee on the M ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/22/the-fervent-debate-over-the-best-way-to-confront-global-warming/)
2023-11-22T10:30:00Z	**40% of Americans are afraid to walk alone at night — most in decades, poll says**
Brendan Rascius,  Reporter  -  Miami Herald

_Stephan: Over my life I have travelled to 119 countries, including several involved in war or civil violence. Some I have especially enjoyed. Some I have loathed. One of the things I particularly pay attention to is: Can I walk alone at night? Japan, China, Sweden, Netherlands, Taiwan, Canada never give it a thought. Argentina ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/22/40-of-americans-are-afraid-to-walk-alone-at-night-most-in-decades-poll-says/)
2023-11-23T10:20:00Z	**Talk of “Border Crisis” Is Misleading. The Real Crisis Is US-Imposed Poverty**
C.J. Polychroniou ,    -  truthout

_Stephan: This is the most sensible thing I have read about the immigration issue in many months. The corporate media has made a complete hash of this trend, and most peopledo not have a correct understanding of what is going on. This interview will being clarity and accuracy._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/i ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/23/talk-of-border-crisis-is-misleading-the-real-crisis-is-us-imposed-poverty/)
2023-11-23T10:30:00Z	**How Electricity Is Changing, Country by Country**
Nadja Popovich,  Reporter  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Although it is not great news, on balance I think this should be seen as good news. The world is waking up to the damage of carbon emissions and most countries are trying to bring the use of carbon energy to and end. Not fast enough, but at least they are trying, wand we should all be grateful this is happening._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/23/how-electricity-is-changing-country-by-country/)
2023-11-23T10:25:00Z	**Food aid for low-income mothers, babies becomes spending flashpoint**
MARCIA BROWN and MEREDITH LEE HILL,    -  Politico

_Stephan: I confess I do not comprehend how any politician with any integrity could use adequately feeding children as a political maneuver. And yet Republican members have been doing this routinely as if it were no big deal._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image-58.jpg)_Unlike other federal nutrition programs ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/23/food-aid-for-low-income-mothers-babies-becomes-spending-flashpoint/)
2023-11-23T10:35:00Z	**Court Guts Key Provision of the Voting Rights Act**
Jake Johnson,  Staff Writer  -

_Stephan: Trump appointed judges have just gutted the Voting Rights Act, and what I see is yet another breakdown of American democracy. What is standing out for me is that it is not the political leaders like Trump it is Americans themselves. Look at the polls I think a large number of Americans are not just willing, they want the United States to become a racist male dominance christofascist st ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/23/court-guts-key-provision-of-the-voting-rights-act/)
2023-11-24T10:25:00Z	**Billionaires are lining up to fund Donald Trump’s anti-democratic agenda**
Robert Reich,  Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley and Former US Secretary of Labor  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Robert Reich is correct. The oligarchs who increasingly control the United States recognize criminal Trump as their path to power and their goal of turning the country into a racist christofascist anocracy, and you into a powerless p ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/24/billionaires-are-lining-up-to-fund-donald-trumps-anti-democratic-agenda/)
2023-11-24T10:20:00Z	**Poll: Gun ownership reaches record high with American electorate**
Alexandra Marquez,  Political Researcher  -  NBC News

_Stephan: Forty percent of Americans are afraid to walk down a dark street alone. The main cause of childhood death in the United States is a bullet in the child's body. And we have a gun psychosis as this article describes. For God's sake what kind of country are we becoming?_

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Scre ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/24/poll-gun-ownership-reaches-record-high-with-american-electorate/)
2023-11-24T10:30:00Z	**Neocolonialism: Pillaging the Earth for the ‘Climate’**
Christopher Ketcham,  Contributing Editor  -  truthdig

_Stephan: This, in contrast to the earlier story, is exactly the wrong way to go into the future. This is the corporate greed led by greedy individuals, that is destroying the earth's ecosystems and threatening the very existence of human society._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image-60.png)_The pipeline takes aim at the camp. Credit: ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/24/neocolonialism-pillaging-the-earth-for-the-climate/)
2023-11-24T10:35:00Z	**Ecosystems as Infrastructure: A New Way of Looking at Climate Resilience**
RICHARD SCHIFFMAN,  Contributing Writer  -  Yale 360

_Stephan: This, in my opinion, is the attitude and approach we must adopt to survive as a functioning society as climate change fundamentally alters earth's ecosystems. If we fail to learn this lesson we are going to experience much misery and death that could have been avoided._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/upl ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/24/ecosystems-as-infrastructure-a-new-way-of-looking-at-climate-resilience/)
2023-11-25T10:30:00Z	**The Red State Brain Drain Isn’t Coming. It’s Happening Right Now.**
Timothy Noah,  Staff Writer  -  The New Republic

_Stephan: Here is yet another aspect of the Red Blue schism. Doctors, nurses, professors, teachers,librarians are emigrating out of Red states to Blue ones, as this report details. The result is that like water in the preceding article, a growing brain drain is yet another aspect of the increasing inferiority of the quality of life in states controll ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/25/the-red-state-brain-drain-isnt-coming-its-happening-right-now/)
2023-11-25T10:25:00Z	**El Paso Residents Say “Border Crisis” Is Manufactured, Reject Militarization**
Sam Carliner,  Staff Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: I have been wondering for some time whether the whole migrant southern border business is as the MAGAts describe it, or yet another racist hate lie begun by criminal Trump and used by MAGAt governors DeSantis and Abbott to stoke racism and fear. Well, here is what seems the real answer._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/25/el-paso-residents-say-border-crisis-is-manufactured-reject-militarization/)
2023-11-25T10:20:00Z	**US coal power plants killed at least 460,000 people in past 20 years – report**
Nina Lakhani,  Climate Justice Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Here is an aspect of the damage coal burning does to humans that you may never have ever heard of. This is the first story in the media I have seen. Four hundred and sixty thousand people, think about all those lives destroyed, how many families left in grief. Why can our society not seem to understan ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/25/us-coal-power-plants-killed-at-least-460000-people-in-past-20-years-report/)
2023-11-25T10:35:00Z	**As Groundwater Dwindles, Powerful Players Block Change**
Claire O'Neill, Matt McCann and Umi Syam,  Reporters  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: American greed time after time trumps any planning for long term wellbeing, particularly in Red states, and water is perhaps the most primary example of this stupidity, as this report spells out in great detail. I predict these Red states are going to become largely uninhabitable. If you own property in these states I would start th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/25/as-groundwater-dwindles-powerful-players-block-change/)
2023-11-26T10:25:00Z	**Wages are rising. Jobs are plentiful. Nobody’s happy.**
Emily Stewart,  Business and Economics Staff Writer  -  Vox

_Stephan: I have been doing research on why Biden's poll numbers are so low, inasmuch as most of the things economists usually think positively influence polls don't seem to be working on his behalf. Here is one of the best essays on why people feel as they obviously do that I have come across in my research. However, it does not address what I think is the main  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/26/wages-are-rising-jobs-are-plentiful-nobodys-happy/)
2023-11-26T10:20:00Z	**Americans think the American dream is dying**
Dave Lawler,  Staff Writer  -  Axios

_Stephan: This is what prompted me to pick the two previous stories. How are you feeling about America? As a country we have got to make fostering wellbeing for everyone our national first priority. That is the only way our children and their children are going to live in a wellbeing oriented democracy. It's your choice how you vote._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/imag ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/26/americans-think-the-american-dream-is-dying/)
2023-11-26T10:30:00Z	**Corporate America Just Threw A Party Celebrating Tax Cuts For The Ultrarich**
Igor Volsky,  Director of Stop Deficit Squawks  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Wealth inequality has become, in my opinion, the major reason for the deep unhappiness that pervades this country. Because bribery was legalized with the Citizens United Supreme Court decision the tax system has been deliberately rigged by the Congress members the rich have purchased so that it serves ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/26/corporate-america-just-threw-a-party-celebrating-tax-cuts-for-the-ultrarich/)
2023-11-26T10:35:00Z	**Nearly 40% of conventional baby food contains toxic pesticides, US study finds**
Tom Perkins,  Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: If you have a baby or a young child DO NOT feed them baby food from Beech-Nut, Gerber and Parent’s Choice. This article explains the dangers, which are considerable. Either cook their food yourself and use a baby food grinder, or only buy organic baby food._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/20 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/26/nearly-40-of-conventional-baby-food-contains-toxic-pesticides-us-study-finds/)
2023-11-27T10:20:00Z	**Texas Republicans take aim at climate change — in textbooks**
Agence France-Presse,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: The greed and stupidity of Republican politicians who have sold themselves to the carbon industries should be seen as legendary. But the voters of Texas don't seem capable to understanding just how damaging these politicians are to their personal lives. What amazes me about Texas Republican politicians is that they seem to think that censuring the textbooks use ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/27/texas-republicans-take-aim-at-climate-change-in-textbooks/)
2023-11-27T10:25:00Z	**Archaic’: the Tennessee town that made homosexuality illegal**
Ava Sasmi,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: The MAGAt Republican hysteria and fear about LGBTQ folk I see as a form of mental illness, and this Tennessee story is an example of how extreme and out of touch with reality it gets. It is also yet another part of the Great Schism Trend that is creating two countries in one nation. I predict you are going to see a big emigration of LGBTQ people out of Tenness ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/27/archaic-the-tennessee-town-that-made-homosexuality-illegal/)
2023-11-27T10:30:00Z	**No Laughing Matter: Women’s Health Is Not a ‘Women’s Issue’**
Stacey E. Rosen, MD,  Senior Vice President of the Katz Institute for Women's Health and Professor of Cardiology at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell University  -  MedPageToday

_Stephan: Here is some good news from the Biden administration. Joe Biden is actually going to fund and emphasize women's healthcare, something no Republican President has ever even considered._

![]( ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/27/no-laughing-matter-womens-health-is-not-a-womens-issue/)
2023-11-27T10:35:00Z	**Paternity leave pays “lifelong dividend” in parental instincts, research finds**
April Rubin,  Staff Writer  -  Axios

_Stephan: I keep telling readers that policies that foster wellbeing are always the best option because they are more efficient, more effective, more fostering of social wellbeing, more productive, nicer to live under, and always cheaper. Here is an example that you probably won't hear about on CNN, MSNBC, FOX, or any of the big newspa ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/27/paternity-leave-pays-lifelong-dividend-in-parental-instincts-research-finds/)
2023-11-28T10:25:00Z	**A Troubling Trump Pardon and a Link to the Kushners**
Michael S. Schmidt, Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan and Alan Feuer,  Reporters  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: It is amazing and very depressing to me, and perhaps to you, that day after day, week after week, month after month, a constant litany of the criminality of the Trump and Kushner families emerges in the press, involving almost everyone who worked or was associated with Donald Trump. And yet none of them are in pr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/28/a-troubling-trump-pardon-and-a-link-to-the-kushners/)
2023-11-28T10:20:00Z	**Antagonisms flare as red states try to dictate how blue cities are run**
Molly Hennessy-Fiske,  Reporter  -  Microsoft Start / The Washington Post

_Stephan: Here is an aspect of The Great Schism Trend that doesn't get much media coverage. In many Red states their large cities are Blue. So in Red states all across the country Republican Red statehouses and governors, are trying to take autonomy away from the governments of their Blue cities. I think this is ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/28/antagonisms-flare-as-red-states-try-to-dictate-how-blue-cities-are-run/)
2023-11-28T10:30:00Z	**The US doesn’t have universal health care — but these states (almost) do**
Dylan Scott,  Healthcare Staff Writer  -  Vox

_Stephan: The United States illness profit system is the worst healthcare system in the developed world -- we rank 69th. But a few states are making important wellbeing fostering changes in their state policies that move their state closer to full healthcare coverage. Do I need to tell you these states are all Blue states controlled by Demo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/28/the-us-doesnt-have-universal-health-care-but-these-states-almost-do/)
2023-11-28T10:35:00Z	**Revealed: Saudi Arabia’s grand plan to ‘hook’ poor countries on oil**
Damian Carrington,  Environment Editor  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan:
This is what corporate and national greed and evil look like. Saudi Arabia knowingly is trying to destroy earth's matrix of life. Do not buy anything from Aramco or Valvoline._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image-68-1.jpg)_A Saudi Aramco oil refinery, one of the organisations involved in th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/28/revealed-saudi-arabias-grand-plan-to-hook-poor-countries-on-oil/)
2023-11-29T10:20:00Z	**Moms for Liberty Official Is Registered Sex Offender**
Ryan Bort,  Staff Writer  -  Advocate

_Stephan: Moms for Liberty, ostensibly a group of mothers trying to protect their children by devastating public libraries, is now revealed to be yet another MAGAt Republican scam. The Philadelphia chapter leader is now revealed to be a convicted registered sex offender. Do the MAGAt woman in this organization seem to care? They do not. I find increasingly notable that MAGAt Republi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/29/moms-for-liberty-official-is-registered-sex-offender/)
2023-11-29T10:25:00Z	**‘Explosive’ lawsuit accuses longtime Trump aide of rape**
Brad Reed,  Managing Editors  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Yet another MAGAt who appears of have raped a woman. There is something very sick about the MAGAt view of women, but Republican women don't seem to care._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image-72.png)_Screen grab of Jason Miller appearing on Fox_

[The Daily Beast’s Jose Pagliery](https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-trump-staffer-aj-del ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/29/explosive-lawsuit-accuses-longtime-trump-aide-of-rape/)
2023-11-29T10:35:00Z	**Was the Trump White House Selling Pardons?**
THOM HARTMANN,  Commentator  -  The Hartmann Report

_Stephan: Thom Hartmann makes what I think is the critical and relevant point. Why isn't Merrick Garland investigating and prosecuting the Trump/Giuliani/Kushner pardon for sale racket? Come to that, why isn't anyone being held responsible, why are the Trump trials running on for almost three years? These people are destroying our democracy in front of our eyes._

![](https://www.schwartzr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/29/was-the-trump-white-house-selling-pardons/)
2023-11-29T10:30:00Z	**In Alabama, another small-town paper hit in ‘open season’ on free press**
Paul Farhi,  Media Reporter  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: Yet another story about the Republicans attempting to sabotage a free independent Press. I think that in Red states freedom of press is going to under increasing threat. Republicans don't like a free press because a free press can report their criminality and corruption. If you live in a Red state prepare yourself for the en ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/29/in-alabama-another-small-town-paper-hit-in-open-season-on-free-press/)
2023-11-30T10:25:00Z	**Dozens of migrants wait at Finland-Russia border after Helsinki blocks crossings**
Anne Kauranen in Helsinki, Attila Cser in Nuijamaa, and Kevin Liffey in London,  Reporters  -  Reuters

_Stephan: Finland which has an over 800 mile border with Russia has had enough. They have closed their borders to Russian immigrants fleeing the disaster Putin has made of Russia. For over a decade I spent a lot of time in Russia, and find what Putin has done to R ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/30/dozens-of-migrants-wait-at-finland-russia-border-after-helsinki-blocks-crossings/)
2023-11-30T10:20:00Z	**Vladimir Putin demands Russian women have ‘eight more children’ to make up for war deaths**
CHARLIE BRADLEY,    -  Express (U.K.)

_Stephan: Vladimir Putin, Just like his buddy Donald Trump, has trashed his country, albeit in a different way. Russia has become a very sad nation. Hundreds of thousands have immigrated or been killed in the war Putin started in Ukraine that has made Russia's economy a disaster. The only thing they have to sell ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/30/vladimir-putin-demands-russian-women-have-eight-more-children-to-make-up-for-war-deaths/)
2023-11-30T10:30:00Z	**Republicans continue effort to erode US child labor rules despite teen deaths**
Michael Sainato,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: In contrast to the previous report on Democrat Governor Whitmer here is an example of how Republican governance operates. If you live in a Red state maybe your 14 year old should be looking for a job instead of doing their homework._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image-74.jpg)_Workers a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/30/republicans-continue-effort-to-erode-us-child-labor-rules-despite-teen-deaths/)
2023-11-30T10:35:00Z	**Whitmer Praised for ‘Game-Changing’ Michigan Clean Energy Bills**
Jessica Corbett,  Senior editor and Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Here is both good news and an example of how Democrats govern. I simply do not understand why Americans, particularly Americans in Red states do not seem to be able to comprehend the difference and how it affects the quality of their personal lives. But they don't._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/11/30/whitmer-praised-for-game-changing-michigan-clean-energy-bills/)
2023-12-01T10:20:00Z	**Co-founder of Students for Trump charged with assaulting a woman with a firearm**
Emily Olson,  Staff Writer  -  npr

_Stephan: The other day I did a report on how the man who was the spiritual leader of Moms for Liberty in Philadelphia was a convicted sex offender. Today the co-founder of Students for Trump has been charged with assaulting a woman with a firearm. Si here is the question. Are there any honorable ethical leaders in MAGAt world? It d ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/01/co-founder-of-students-for-trump-charged-with-assaulting-a-woman-with-a-firearm/)
2023-12-01T10:25:00Z	**Fl. GOP chair and husband of Moms for Liberty co-founder accused of sexual battery: report**
Kathleen Culliton,  Assistant Managing Editor  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: The other day I did a report on how the man who was the spiritual leader of Moms for Liberty in Philadelphia turned out to be a convicted sex offender. Today, it is the Florida GOP chair and husband of Moms for Liberty co-founder who has been accused of sexual battery by a woman ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/01/fl-gop-chair-and-husband-of-moms-for-liberty-co-founder-accused-of-sexual-battery-report/)
2023-12-01T10:35:00Z	**If At First You Don’t Secede**
ERIN AUBRY KAPLAN ,    -  truthdig

_Stephan: As each day goes by I become ever more concerned that the Republican Party is destroying our democracy. These are men and women who seem to have no loyalty to our democracy and who seem to care only for their own power and privilege. What is even worse it is obvious that a large percentage of Americans not only don't understand how a democracy works, but have little interest in sustaining ours._

![](https://www.schwartzrep ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/01/if-at-first-you-dont-secede/)
2023-12-01T10:30:00Z	**Consuming content from Fox News is associated with decreased knowledge of science and society**
Eric W. Dolan,  Editor PsyPost  -  PsyPost

_Stephan: I have written at length about the major negative effects produced by social media (see SR archive), and today I wondered how that compared to the effects of watching the Fox fascist propaganda operation, and went looking for some data. Here's what I found. This is clearly one of the rea ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/01/consuming-content-from-fox-news-is-associated-with-decreased-knowledge-of-science-and-society/)
2023-12-02T10:25:00Z	**Japan Debuts Six-Story Experimental Fusion Reactor**
DENNIS NORMILE,  Staff Writer  -  Science

_Stephan: For almost 20 years scientists all over the world have been trying to create fusion as a non-polluting energy source without success. But now there is some interesting and potentially good news. This may be the technology the remote viewers are talking about when I ask them to look at the future._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image-1.png)_ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/02/japan-debuts-six-story-experimental-fusion-reactor/)
2023-12-02T10:20:00Z	**New Battery Crushes Tesla’s Tech, Unveils A Solid-State Marvel With 300% Higher Energy Density, 15-minute Ultra-Fast Charge**
Jeannine Mancini,  Staff Writer  -  Yahoo Finance

_Stephan: Here is a third good news story, which is going to have a big effect on the adaptation of EVs, and which will also reduce the risks of both the pollution associated with lithium mining and the fire hazards associated with con ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/02/new-battery-crushes-teslas-tech-unveils-a-solid-state-marvel-with-300-higher-energy-density-15-minute-ultra-fast-charge/)
2023-12-02T10:35:00Z	**America once valued life more than guns. How did that change?**
Dominic Erdozain,  Historian  -  CNN

_Stephan: Boy, do I agree with Dominic Erdozain. The people of the United States are suffering from a national form of mental illness. We have a gun psychosis, and we are willing to see tens of thousands of us die from gunfire every year. What country other than the U.S. would tolerate that the largest cause of childhood death was a bullet in a child's body? The Ameri ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/02/america-once-valued-life-more-than-guns-how-did-that-change/)
2023-12-02T10:30:00Z	**Natural superhero fungi boosts crop yields by 40%**
Bronwyn Thompson,  Staff Writer  -  New Atlas

_Stephan: If you read me regularly you know for the past several years I have done a number of reports on how industrial chemical monoculture agriculture is destroying the health of the soil in which this kind of farming is carried out. This has all kind of implications for farming and increasing foo0d scarcity. (see SR archive) Well, here is some just reported good news.

If you w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/02/natural-superhero-fungi-boosts-crop-yields-by-40/)
2023-12-03T10:20:00Z	**Audiences are declining for traditional news media in the U.S. – with some exceptions**
MICHAEL LIPKA and ELISA SHEARER,  Research staff  -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: As I have reported Americans, particularly young Americans pay little or no attention to local newspapers and television. They get all their information from social media much of it politicized misinformation. This year researchers surveying this little discussed issue found t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/03/audiences-are-declining-for-traditional-news-media-in-the-u-s-with-some-exceptions/)
2023-12-03T10:25:00Z	**The oil baron running the climate talks — and the US envoy who’s had his back**
ZACK COLMAN, KARL MATHIESEN and CORBIN HIAR,  Staff Writers  -  Politico

_Stephan: I chose this article because it shows the complexity and difficult relationships that impact any attempt to exit the carbon energy era. John Kerry, I think, has been doing about as good a job as any American official could. It isn't perfect, or even sometimes good, but he is at least leaning  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/03/the-oil-baron-running-the-climate-talks-and-the-us-envoy-whos-had-his-back/)
2023-12-03T10:35:00Z	**A Giant Inland Sea Is Now a Desert, and a Warning for Humanity**
Jacob Dreyer,  Editor  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: It is happening all over the world. This is the story of the loss of the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan, but similar stories are happening in the U.S.. Consider The vanishing Great Salt Lake, or Lake Mead. Water is destiny, and human just can't seem to undertand that.The result is going to be great misery._

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2023-12-03T10:30:00Z	**Fascism and Climate Change Go Hand in Hand**
Stan Cox,  Staff Writer  -  truthdig

_Stephan: I think Stan Cox makes a very important point in linking fascism with the denial to make the necessary changes to deal with climate change. We are producing the most oil in our history, and the corporations whose profits are tied to carbon energy are spending millions bribing politicians and buying misinformation ads on corporate media. And, if that were not bad enough, about 30 per cent of Am ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/03/fascism-and-climate-change-go-hand-in-hand/)
2023-12-04T10:25:00Z	**Cop28 president says there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of fossil fuels**
Damian Carrington and Ben Stockton,  Reporters  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Yesterday I presented a story about how John Kerry was working with some seeming success at COP28 with the man selected as president of the conference, who is also chief executive of the United Arab Emirates’ state oil company Adnoc, Sultan Al Jaber, seeking to find a way t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/04/cop28-president-says-there-is-no-science-behind-demands-for-phase-out-of-fossil-fuels/)
2023-12-04T10:20:00Z	**The Medicare Advantage Trap**
MATTHEW CUNNINGHAM-COOK,    -  The American Prospect

_Stephan: I have warned you several times not to fall for the Medicare Advantage schemes that have and will plague every advertising break on any television channel until the 7th December. Don't fall for these offers. Here's why._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image-8.png)_Medicare was founded in 1965 to end the crisis of medical care being denied to senior citizens in America, but pr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/04/the-medicare-advantage-trap/)
2023-12-04T10:30:00Z	**Fevered Planet: How a shifting climate is catalysing infectious disease**
John Vidal,    -  BBC (U.K.)

_Stephan: From my own extensive research, and from my 2060 remote viewing project, I have been warning my readers for almost 10 years that this was coming. We are going to have more pandemics that are going to change the earth's matrix of life. Viruses and bacteria are going to mutate as the climate changes and the ecosystems change to accommodate those c ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/04/fevered-planet-how-a-shifting-climate-is-catalysing-infectious-disease/)
2023-12-04T10:35:00Z	**America’s Adult Education System Is Broken. Here’s How Experts Say We Can Fix It.**
Annie Waldman, Aliyya Swaby and Anna Clark,  Staff Writer  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: The United States as in most things has the most unequal education system amongst the developed nations. Public education has gotten so bade in America that according to the National Center for Education Statistics 48 million adults in this country struggle to read schoolchild basic  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/12/04/americas-adult-education-system-is-broken-heres-how-experts-say-we-can-fix-it-3/)