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David Pepper,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

_Stephan:_

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

![](https://i2.wp.com/www.s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/06/pro-trump-counties-now-have-far-higher-covid-death-rates-misinformation-is-to-blame/) 2021-12-06T10:34:00Z **Klobuchar says ‘best way’ to protect abortion rights is to codify Roe v. Wade into law**
Mychael Schnell ,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

![](https://i2.wp.com/www.schwart ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/09/outlawing-abortion-will-increase-child-poverty-republicans-couldnt-care-less-2/) 2021-12-09T10:33:00Z **Students are fed up with racist slurs and bullying. Now they’re walking out of class**
Nicole Chavez,    -  CNN

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

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

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

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

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

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2021 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/10/whats-really-wrong-with-the-mainstream-media/) 2021-12-10T10:34:00Z **Transgender people can’t be baptized unless they’ve ‘repented,’ Catholic diocese says**
Marisa Lati,    -  The Washington Post

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

![]( ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/10/transgender-people-cant-be-baptized-unless-theyve-repented-catholic-diocese-says/) 2021-12-10T10:33:00Z **‘It’s just crazy’: 12 major cities hit all-time homicide records**
Bill Hutchinson,    -  ABC News

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

_Stephan: I have been telling my readers for years now to go through your house, your garden, and your yard, if yo have those, and eliminate the toxins that are harming your health and the health of your family, particularly your children. Here is the latest report explaining why I feel so strongly about this._
 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/12/these-chemicals-disrupt-the-sexual-development-of-children-and-theyre-everywhere/) 2021-12-13T10:35:00Z **Americans Are Addicted to ‘Ultra-Processed’ Foods, and It’s Killing Us**
Adam Piore,  Editorial Staff  -  Newsweek

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

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

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

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

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

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

![](https://i0.wp.com ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/14/gavin-newsom-calls-for-bill-modeled-on-texas-abortion-ban-to-crack-down-on-gun-manufacturers/) 2021-12-14T10:33:00Z **Gun-Obsessed Teens Plotted Violent ‘Rebellion’ at Pennsylvania High School, Police Say**
Justin Rohrlich,    -  The Daily Beast

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

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

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

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

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

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

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-14-at-9.39.06-PM.jpg?resize=8 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/15/monster-antarctic-glacier-at-risk-as-key-ice-shelf-faces-collapse-years-earlier-than-expected/) 2021-12-16T10:35:00Z **Is America experiencing mass psychosis?**
Nicole Karlis,    -  AlterNet

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-17-at-10.34.50-PM.jpg?resize=541%2C600 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/18/the-supreme-court-weaponized/) 2021-12-18T10:34:00Z **EPA Sued Over Refusal to Close Deadly Pesticide Loophole Decimating Honey Bees**
Julia Conley,    -  Common Dreams

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

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/20 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/18/epa-sued-over-refusal-to-close-deadly-pesticide-loophole-decimating-honey-bees/) 2021-12-18T10:33:00Z **Ron DeSantis escalates his authoritarian purge: GOP bounty hunters are the next frontier**
Amanda Marcotte,  Senior Politics Writer  -  Salon

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

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

_Stephan: Most Americans I find have only the dimmest comprehension about ocean currents and how critical they are to their local environment. This is a catastrophe on the edge of occurring, one with the most profound consequences. Here is a good briefing on this issue._
 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/19/the-atlantics-vital-currents-could-collapse-scientists-are-racing-to-understand-the-dangers/) 2021-12-19T10:34:00Z **Climate change has destabilized the Earth’s poles, putting the rest of the planet in peril**
Sarah Kaplan,    -  The Washington Post

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

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

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

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

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

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

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzre ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/20/after-decades-some-of-americas-most-toxic-sites-will-finally-get-cleaned-up/) 2021-12-20T10:33:00Z **Stimulus Check Update: Direct Payments to Parents Set to End as Joe Manchin Opposes BBB**
Jason Lemon ,    -  Newsweek

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

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

![ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/20/redistricting-is-drying-up-competitive-congressional-races/) 2021-12-21T10:35:00Z **A quarter of a billion dollars worth of steel for Trump’s border wall is rusting away in the desert**
Tom Boggioni,    -  Raw Story

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

_Stephan: I have been warning my readers for years now about the poisons and toxins that fill most American households, and at the plants where they are created they pollute whole districts. The soaps, the cleansers, the air fresheners, all are filled with these polluting chemicals. You are literally putting your life and the lives of your family at risk if you are using those products ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/22/the-dirty-secret-of-americas-clean-dishes/) 2021-12-23T10:30:00Z **No SR Edition Today**
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_Stephan: Stephan is in the hospital for a procedure today.  SR will resume tomorrow._ ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2021/12/23/no-sr-edition-today-12-23-2021/) 2021-12-24T10:36:00Z **Will Donald Trump Get Away With Inciting an Insurrection?**
Laurence H. Tribe, Donald Ayer and Dennis Aftergut,  Professor Emeritus at Harvard Law School \| U.S. Attorney in the Reagan administration and Deputy Attorney General in the George H.W. Bush administration \| Former Assistant U.S. Attorney.  -  The New York Times

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Credit: Erik McGregor / LightRocket / Getty_

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-11-at-5.31.38-PM.jpg?resize=686%2C459&ssl=1)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

_Stephan: Yet another warning about sea rise, and yet another example that the nations of the world, and particularly the United States, are not doing anywhere close to enough to deal with what climate change is doing to earth, as a result of human activity. According to the study covered in this report the ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/24/antarcticas-doomed-a68-iceberg-dumped-1-trillion-tons-of-water-into-the-ocean-over-3-years/) 2022-01-25T10:35:00Z **A growing share of Americans say affordable housing is a major problem where they live**
Katherine Schaeffer,    -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: The increase of housing costs is having a significant effect on the communities where it is happening. Here on my island it is becoming almost impossible for younger singles, or young couples to find a place to live they can afford and this, in turn, is making it hard for restaurants to get staff, ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/25/a-growing-share-of-americans-say-affordable-housing-is-a-major-problem-where-they-live/) 2022-01-25T10:34:00Z **The Curse of Financial Entrepreneurship**
Robert Reich,  Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center.  -  Robert Reich Blog

_Stephan: Robert Reich, in my opinion is correct in his assessment of what has happened to our economy, and the fact that it has only one social priority, the gratification of greed through greater profits, regardless of the effects on societal wellbeing._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwar ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/25/the-curse-of-financial-entrepreneurship/) 2022-01-25T10:33:00Z **The Super-rich Live on a Different Planet. Their Thoughts on US Salaries Prove It**
Arwa Mahdawi,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: This is how bizarre wealth inequality has become in the United States. As I have been telling my readers for several years nowthis inequality has become so great that, as this report describes, the rich, the middle class, and the poor live in different worlds and find it hard to even conceptualize what those other ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/25/the-super-rich-live-on-a-different-planet-their-thoughts-on-us-salaries-prove-it/) 2022-01-25T10:32:00Z **Companies Are Desperate for Workers. Why Aren’t They Doing the One Thing That Will Attract Them?**
Alison Green,    -  Slate

_Stephan: Very few seem to connect what employers are saying about their need to hire new people, and what those applying for those jobs report. I see this as yet another example of the wealth inequality trend._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-24-at-1 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/25/companies-are-desperate-for-workers-why-arent-they-doing-the-one-thing-that-will-attract-them/) 2022-01-26T10:35:00Z **Why should we worry that the U.S. could become an ‘anocracy’ again? Because of the threat of civil war.**
Barbara F. Walter,  Rohr Professor of International Relations at the School of Global Policy & Strategy at the University of California at San Diego  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: This is a brilliant fact-based assessment of what is really going on in the United States, and reflects my own views as regular read ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/26/%ef%bf%bcwhy-should-we-worry-that-the-u-s-could-become-an-anocracy-again-because-of-the-threat-of-civil-war/) 2022-01-26T10:34:00Z **Denmark, New Zealand and Finland Top List of Least Corrupt Nations While South Sudan is the Worst and US Drops Out of Top 25 Amid ‘Continuous Attacks on Free and Fair Elections’**
Rachel Bunyan,    -  Daily Mail (U.K)

_Stephan: By this or any social outcome data you choose America is not the leader, or the most exceptional country, we are in fact -- li ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/26/denmark-new-zealand-and-finland-top-list-of-least-corrupt-nations-while-south-sudan-is-the-worst-and-us-drops-out-of-top-25-amid-continuous-attacks-on-free-and-fair-elections/) 2022-01-26T10:33:00Z **Florida School District Cancels Real History as Anti-CRT Censorship Spreads**
Kathryn Joyce,    -  Salon

_Stephan: This is a sign of America being an an anocracy, as described in the first article in today's edition. CRT is not taught in K-12 schools. It is a subject taken up only at the university level. What this is really about is making a lie about America's racial history the official and only version of history taught, just as we are becoming a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/26/florida-school-district-cancels-real-history-as-anti-crt-censorship-spreads/) 2022-01-26T10:32:00Z **Black Texas farmers were finally on track to get federal aid. The state’s agriculture commissioner is helping stop that.**
Editorial Staff Texas Tribune,    -  Raw Story / Texas Tribune

_Stephan: The White supremacy male dominant christofascists that control Texas, just as it stands on the border of becoming a majority-minority state, is doing everything they can think of to keep the future White minority in p ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/26/black-texas-farmers-were-finally-on-track-to-get-federal-aid-the-states-agriculture-commissioner-is-helping-stop-that/) 2022-01-27T10:35:00Z **Army of Millionaires Fuel Senate Primary Spending Spree**
Natalie Allison,    -  Politico

_Stephan: The corruption in the United States political system as a result of the legalized bribery made possible by the Citizens United decision has reached a level unseen in any other developed democracy. Basically, varying combinations of the 724 billionaires, the 28 million millionaires, and the corporations they control, rent the Congress to get what they want and the other 305 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/27/army-of-millionaires-fue-senate-primary-spending-spree/) 2022-01-27T10:34:00Z **Climate Change Linked to Early Birth and Damage to Babies’ Health, Scientists Find**
Damien Carrington,  Staff Writer  -  Grist

_Stephan: There are so many aspects of life that will be profoundly impacted negatively by climate change, and we know so few of them. And yet, day after day on the television channels, and in the mainstream newspapers hardly a word of this is discussed. We are so desperately unprepared for what is happening._

![](https ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/27/climate-change-linked-to-early-birth-and-damage-to-babies-health-scientists-find/) 2022-01-27T10:33:00Z **Which Drugs Will Survive Climate Change? We investigated.**
Greg Walters and Jamie Leventhal,  Staff Writers  -  Vice News

_Stephan: Here is yet another little consider effect of climate change. The world of recreational drugs, legal and illegal is going to change radically._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-26-at-10.38.17-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C451&ssl=1)_Climate change will unleash havoc on the world of drugs. Il ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/27/which-drugs-will-survive-climate-change-we-investigated/) 2022-01-27T10:32:00Z **Plans to Quadruple Logging in US’s Most Popular Forest – Months After Biden’s Cop26 Reforestation Pledge**
Louise Boyle,  Senior Climate Correspondent, New York  -  The Independent (U.K.)

_Stephan: The British press is covering events occurring in the United States that American mainstream media can't be bothered with. I have backpacked through much of the Appalachian Trail that winds its way through the forest discussed in th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/27/plans-to-quadruple-logging-in-uss-most-popular-forest-months-after-bidens-cop26-reforestation-pledge/) 2022-01-28T10:35:00Z **Biden Didn’t Invent Affirmative Action for the Supreme Court**
Jonathan Chait,  Reporters  -  New York Magazine

_Stephan: Can there be any doubt that the Republicans speak in the voice of White supremacy? Read this._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-27-at-9.19.53-PM.jpg?resize=761%2C428&ssl=1)_Credit: CNN_

President Biden has not named his choice to fill Stephen Breyer’s vacancy on the Supreme Court, but th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/28/biden-didnt-invent-affirmative-action-for-the-supreme-court/) 2022-01-28T10:34:00Z **Book Banning Fever Heats Up in Red states**
Jon Skolnik,  Salon Staff Writer  -  Salon/Commentary/Raw Story

_Stephan: There is about a third of the U.S. population who are completely freaked out by what is happening to old prejudices, like assumed White privilege, male dominance, and anything but heterosexual relationships and sex. Equality terrifies them, and they see it only as a loss to themselves.

Their fear and resentment have gotten to a point that book burning seems a good and ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/28/book-banning-fever-heats-up-in-red-states/) 2022-01-28T10:33:00Z **Donald Trump calls for racial violence: White supremacists are listening, but the media laughs**
Chauncey DeVega,  Senior Politics Writer  -  Salon

_Stephan: As I said in my commentary on the previous report, about a third of the U.S. population is completely freaked out by the cultural changes they see around them.  Corporate news media, as this article describes, doesn't know how to deal with this, but the advertising world certainl ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/28/donald-trump-calls-for-racial-violence-white-supremacists-are-listening-but-the-media-laughs/) 2022-01-28T10:32:00Z **The U.S. Military Emits More Carbon Dioxide Into the Atmosphere Than Entire Countries Like Denmark or Portugal**
Sonner Kehrt,    -  Inside Climate News

_Stephan: First Commanding General, then President, Dwight Eisenhower, warned us. The military industrial complex is out of control. Nearly 4% of the American GDP is consumed by this complex, and climate change is hardly, you will pardon the expression, on their radar ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/28/the-u-s-military-emits-more-carbon-dioxide-into-the-atmosphere-than-entire-countries-like-denmark-or-portugal/) 2022-01-29T10:35:00Z **White Women and Fascism: Why the Far Right’s ‘Mama Bears’ are Fighting for White Supremacy**
Chauncey Devega,    -

_Stephan: When people think about the White supremacy christofascist movement they mostly think about White men with big guts hanging over their belts. Not true. Although, as this article describes, the media hardly ever discusses the role of White women in the MAGAt movement, in fact, they play a major role. Here is some of th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/29/white-women-and-fascism-why-the-far-rights-mama-bears-are-fighting-for-white-supremacy/) 2022-01-29T10:34:00Z **Birds are remarkable and beautiful animals – and they’re disappearing from our world**
Kim Heacox,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Human activity based on the exploitation of resources and profit as the only social priority is destroying the balance of the earth's matrix of life, and we just don't seem to get that this destruction will destroy our civilization as well. Bees are dying at an alarming rate, butterflies are disappearing, the oce ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/29/birds-are-remarkable-and-beautiful-animals-and-theyre-disappearing-from-our-world/) 2022-01-29T10:33:00Z **The cost of childcare has risen by 41% during the pandemic with families spending up to 20% of their salaries**
Jane Thier,    -  Fortune

_Stephan: According to the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, "The United States ranks 30th out of 33 member nations of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in public spending on families and children, which includes policies such as child payments and allow ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/29/the-cost-of-childcare-has-risen-by-41-during-the-pandemic-with-families-spending-up-to-20-of-their-salaries/) 2022-01-29T10:32:00Z **The Battle for the World’s Most Powerful Cyberweapon**
Ronen Bergman and Mark Mazzetti,    -  MSN

_Stephan: It clearly is genetically programmed into the nature of humans to anticipate and defend against attack by others, and it plays out at every level. No sooner does a new technology come along but it is put into play as a weapon, defense or offense. Here is the latest from the arcane world of cyberwarfare._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/29/the-battle-for-the-worlds-most-powerful-cyberweapon/) 2022-01-30T10:35:00Z **America’s hottest city is nearly unlivable in summer. Can cooling technologies save it?**
Nina Lakhani ,  Climate justice reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: I predicted 10 years ago, having lived in Arizona, and having studied the climate data, that climate change was going to make Phoenix unlivable. I was sneered at in print, and to my face. Well, 10 years later we have come to this, and we are only at the beginning of what is coming ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/30/americas-hottest-city-is-nearly-unlivable-in-summer-can-cooling-technologies-save-it/) 2022-01-30T10:34:00Z **The Great Lakes are Higher Than They’ve Ever Been, and We’re Not Sure What Will Happen Next**
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_Stephan: When someone thinks about the rise of the water level in coastal areas, most think of ocean coastal. Few, but locals, think about the Great Lakes. They should. This article explains why._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-30-at-12.56.33-AM.jpg?resize=646%2C335&ssl=1)_A s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/30/the-great-lakes-are-higher-than-theyve-ever-been-and-were-not-sure-what-will-happen-next/) 2022-01-30T10:33:00Z **In blow to Biden administration, judge halts oil and gas leases in Gulf of Mexico**
Mark Armao ,    -  Grist

_Stephan: One of the weaknesses of the Biden administration is their poor handling of leases in the Gulf of Mexico. In my view although the judge blocked oil leases in the already damaged Gulf of Mexico. It is my opinion that this entire situation should be seen as an example of just how corrupt the American government is, and how much adm ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/30/in-blow-to-biden-administration-judge-halts-oil-and-gas-leases-in-gulf-of-mexico/) 2022-01-30T10:32:00Z **Oxford study detects cognitive deficits months after mild COVID**
Rich Haridy,    -  New Atlas

_Stephan: Another article based on actual research showing that Covid has long term effects that are only slowly being understood. We are far from through this pandemic.

Citation for the paper upon which this report was based: https://academic.oup.com/braincomms/article/4/1/fcab295/6511053_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/30/oxford-study-detects-cognitive-deficits-months-after-mild-covid/) 2022-01-31T10:35:00Z **John Kerry Warns ‘We’re in Trouble’ on Climate Change**
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,    -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: John Kerry is so right. He knows the data, he is an ethical man, and he is telling the truth. The United States is just not preparing properly for he future, and it is going to cause an incredible amount of unnecessary misery and death. What has happened with Covid, and the rise of the Anti-vaxxer, Anti-masker death cult is going to be the model of the future. There is a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/31/john-kerry-warns-were-in-trouble-on-climate-change/) 2022-01-31T10:34:00Z **First-ever Global Assessment On Rainfall Variability And Global Migration**
OOSKAnews Correspondent,    -  OOSKA News

_Stephan: Stories are beginning to emerge revealing a trend of growing awareness of the correlation of water and migration. SR has been following this for a decade (see SR archives), and my predictions are becoming realities. Water is destiny._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screenshot-2.jpg?resi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/31/first-ever-global-assessment-on-rainfall-variability-and-global-migration/) 2022-01-31T10:33:00Z **We Uncovered How Many Georgians Were Disenfranchised by GOP Voting Restrictions. It’s Staggering.**
Ryan Little and Ari Berman,    -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: We are watching the 2022 election being rigged by the White Supremacy Republicans in front of our eyes so that they stay in power. This is the 11th and fiftieth minute for American Democracy,_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/31/we-uncovered-how-many-georgians-were-disenfranchised-by-gop-voting-restrictions-its-staggering/) 2022-01-31T10:32:00Z **Manchin Got Huge Donation From GOP Megadonor After Tanking Build Back Better**
Julia Conley,  Staff writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: 333 million Americans, men, women, and children, had their lives degraded because of this single corrupt man, and a single woman, Sinema from Arizona._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-31-at-12.04.05-AM.jpg?resize=800%2C532&ssl=1)_Sen. Joe Manchin on a phone call ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/01/31/manchin-got-huge-donation-from-gop-megadonor-after-tanking-build-back-better/) 2022-02-01T10:35:00Z **While Lobbying to Kill Build Back Better, Pharma Hikes Cost of 866 Drugs**
Jake Johnson,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: The American pharmaceutical industry is a study in greed. In the United States we have the worst drug price situation on earth. The entire operation is a racket. The government through grants to researchers pays for much of the development of drugs, which are then patented by drig corporations, and those corporations then prof ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/01/while-lobbying-to-kill-build-back-better-pharma-hikes-cost-of-866-drugs/) 2022-02-01T10:34:00Z **1 in 4 Americans say violence against the government is sometimes OK**
Matthew S. Schwartz,    -  npr

_Stephan: I think everyone needs to be clear that about a third of the American population, this survey makes it 25%, is not only willing to consider a violent civil war, but actually wants it. This is primarily the White racist community, and these people are dangerous, and the rest of us should not have any doubt about that._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.sch ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/01/1-in-4-americans-say-violence-against-the-government-is-sometimes-ok/) 2022-02-01T10:33:00Z **Republicans are Barring Medical Boards From Punishing Doctors Who Prescribe Ivermectin: Report**
Jon Skolnik,  Staff Writer   -  Salon

_Stephan: This is what the Republicans in Congress are doing to support the breathtakingly stupid anti-vaxxer death cult movement. It is killing their voters by several hundred thousands._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-31-at-8.34.48-PM.jpg ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/01/republicans-are-barring-medical-boards-from-punishing-doctors-who-prescribe-ivermectin-report/) 2022-02-01T10:32:00Z **Anti-vaxx ‘expert’ claims vaccines will turn people into ‘transhumanist cyborgs’ controlled by 5G**
Kyle Mantyla,    -  AlterNet

_Stephan: I wouldn't write something this stupid in one of my novels because no one would believe it. But the anti-vaxxer death cult is fully capable of believing this nonsense._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-31-at-9.44.17-PM-1.jpg?resize=800%2C ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/01/anti-vaxx-expert-claims-vaccines-will-turn-people-into-transhumanist-cyborgs-controlled-by-5g/) 2022-02-02T10:36:00Z **Editor’s Note — Will American Democracy Survive**
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  The Schwartzreport

_Stephan: I decided to dedicate today's edition entirely on what I see as a determined attack on American democracy by the MAGAt Republicans, Dark Money fascists, White supremacists, men and women obsessed with male dominance, militant heterosexuals, anti-science people, and evangelical phony Christians. I assembled today's articles to make it clear just as nasty, vulgar and vile t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/02/editors-note-will-american-democracy-survive/) 2022-02-02T10:35:00Z **Guns, Germs, Bitcoin and the Antisocial Right**
Paul Krugman,  Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center, Columnist  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: As usual Paul Krugman gets it right, and tells the fact based truth, and the truth is crazier then generally understood, and he makes it clear just how vile the Republican Party is. I mean really vile. This is a party of cretins who really do not like democracy or sci ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/02/guns-germs-bitcoin-and-the-antisocial-right/) 2022-02-02T10:34:00Z **A disparate group of billionaires, Republicans, televangelists and white supremacists has found common cause**
Thom Hartmann,    -  AlterNet

_Stephan: You and I are living in a country that is barely a democracy today, and depending on how the 2022 may cease to be a democracy in November. As Thom Hartmann points out a coalition of rich fascists, White supremacists, Evangelicals, and obsessive male dominants have taken ov ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/02/a-disparate-group-of-billionaires-republicans-televangelists-and-white-supremacists-has-found-common-cause/) 2022-02-02T10:33:00Z **Michigan GOP candidate: Rape victims shouldn’t get abortions because ‘God put them in this moment’ to give birth**
Brad Reed,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: A reader, a woman, wrote me today asking me how it is possible the anti-choice bigots always seek to block women and girls who are raped, or are the victims of incest from termination their unwanted pregnancies should such result from such attacks. She wrote, "How could ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/02/michigan-gop-candidate-rape-victims-shouldnt-get-abortions-because-god-put-them-in-this-moment-to-give-birth/) 2022-02-02T10:32:00Z **Furry Panic Is the Latest Dumb GOP Attack on Public Schools**
Kelly Weill,  Reporter  -  Daily Beast

_Stephan: When I started reading this I thought it was a joke. Surely, even the MAGAt crazies aren't this crazy? As it turns out, yes they are. Public education is under attack in the United States in states controlled by MAGAts. All of it is about control, and attempting to brainwash children with MAGAt culture values instead of teaching them to think and learn fact- ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/02/furry-panic-is-the-latest-dumb-gop-attack-on-public-schools/) 2022-02-03T10:35:00Z **U.S. Has Far Higher Covid Death Rate Than Other Wealthy Countries**
Benjamin Mueller and Eleanor Lutz,    -  The New York Times

_Stephan: This is all due, everything described by this article is the effect arising from the politicization of an illness, the conscious weaponizing of Covid by one party, the Republicans. It has resulted in the emergence of a uniquely American death cult.  This cannot be disputed, as this article lays out. What strikes me about this ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/03/u-s-has-far-higher-covid-death-rate-than-other-wealthy-countries/) 2022-02-03T10:34:00Z **Heads in the cloud: Scientists predict internet of thoughts ‘within decades’**
Frontiers,    -  Science Daily

_Stephan: I published, and commented on this paper several years ago, and wrote about it in my Awakening novel. I thought in 2019 it was probable, and in 2022 think it even more likely to happen. It will continue the cultural transition begun with social media._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Screenshot. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/03/heads-in-the-cloud-scientists-predict-internet-of-thoughts-within-decades/) 2022-02-03T10:33:00Z **Putin gambles Russia’s economy over Ukraine**
Eva Hartog ,    -  Politico

_Stephan: I think this is an accurate assessment of what Putin is doing. It is typical fascist behavior. Power is more important that the wellbeing of the peasants. The Russian, oil and gas industry in 2021 provided 39% of the federal budget revenue and made up 60% of Russian exports. Know anyone outside of Russia with a Russian refrigerator? Smartphone? Car? Russia is incredibly vulnerable to economic isolatio ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/03/putin-gambles-russias-economy-over-ukraine/) 2022-02-03T10:32:00Z **Historic Bridge May Be Dismantled for Jeff Bezos’ Big, Beautiful Boat**
Mark DeGeurin,    -  Gizmodo

_Stephan: I have said this before but I think it bears saying again. Wealth inequality in the United States has reached a level in which the divide is so great that neither side can really comprehend the reality of the other. As a nation, which is to say most of the people in the United States, we range at the bottom of nearly every social outcome measure when ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/03/historic-bridge-may-be-dismantled-for-jeff-bezos-big-beautiful-boat/) 2022-02-04T10:35:00Z **U.S Historically Black Colleges and Universities Face Second Day of Bomb Threats**
Reuters,    -  The Guardian / Reuters

_Stephan: First, note that this articles appears in The Guardian, a British publication read and respected around the world. The only newspaper I know of that is owned and operated by a foundation.This is how the White terrorist MAGAts present American to the world. Second, racism in the MAGAt world has reached a level I have n ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/04/u-s-historically-black-colleges-and-universities-face-second-day-of-bomb-threats/) 2022-02-04T10:34:00Z **Record Number of Blacks Buy Firearms, Boost Overall Gun Sales During COVID-19 Pandemic**
Jeff Mordock ,    -  Washington Times

_Stephan: I found this in a rightwing newspaper. I think they ran it to excite fear in their White readership. I see it as the obvious evolution  of America's obsessive gun psychosis. If you are a Black person constantly hearing about the police and Whites generally threatening Blacks, killing them, is it surprising ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/04/record-number-of-blacks-buy-firearms-boost-overall-gun-sales-during-covid-19-pandemic/) 2022-02-04T10:33:00Z **McCloskey Praises Missouri Bill to Loosen Gun Laws; Prosecutor Calls It the ‘Make Murder Legal Act’**
Jack Suntrup,  Reporter  -  St Louis Post Dispatch

_Stephan: Wherever Republicans are in control the quality of life is degraded. This is their latest obscenity concerning gun laws. The research data is very clear, the weaker the gun laws the greater the murder and suicide rates. This law, as the prosecutor notes, would essentiall ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/04/mccloskey-praises-missouri-bill-to-loosen-gun-laws-prosecutor-calls-it-the-make-murder-legal-act/) 2022-02-04T10:32:00Z **Trump escalates racist rhetoric and plays on white grievance at recent rallies**
Domenico Montanaro ,    -  npr

_Stephan: I do not understand why Donald Trump has not been arrested, and is presently out on bail awaiting trial. How many crimes is the Garland Justice Department prepared to let slide. Because he has not been held to account, he has been able to continuously spew out the racism that is a fundamental part of his character.  And that has ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/04/trump-escalates-racist-rhetoric-and-plays-on-white-grievance-at-recent-rallies/) 2022-02-05T10:35:00Z **The psychological reason that so many fall for the “Big Lie”**
Matthew Rozsa,  Staff Writer  -  Salon

_Stephan: I think it is very important that those of us who live in a fact based world understand why about a third of us can't seem to see the Big Lie cancer for what it is. What stands out for me is that this Big Lie strategy is the same playbook that Hitler and the Nazis used to come to power in the 1930s. I have never forgotten that Trump's previous wife said that ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/05/the-psychological-reason-that-so-many-fall-for-the-big-lie/) 2022-02-05T10:34:00Z **Biden administration to give states $1.15 billion to plug orphaned wells, which leak planet-warming methane**
Tik Root,    -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: Here is some good news, The Biden administration is taking some serious steps to deal with carbon energy's effect in climate change. There have been other positive steps, and I think we can see this as a trend._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/05/biden-administration-to-give-states-1-15-billion-to-plug-orphaned-wells-which-leak-planet-warming-methane/) 2022-02-05T10:33:00Z **More Thoughts on America’s Feel-Bad Boom**
Paul Krugman,  Nobel Laureate, Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center., Columnist  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: The economic news is mostly quite positive, but this is not recognized by most people as polls report almost weekly. Paul Krugman presents, as he usually does, the best discussion for what is going on economically that I have read._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/05/more-thoughts-on-americas-feel-bad-boom/) 2022-02-05T10:32:00Z **Study: laughter is common among more than 65 species of animals**
,    \-  Optimist Daily

_Stephan: There is so much bad news, I thought readers might enjoy this report.

Citation: This story is based on a research paper, "Play vocalisations and human laughter: a comparative review": https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09524622.2021.1905065_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-04-at-11.02.50-PM.jpg?r ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/05/study-laughter-is-common-among-more-than-65-species-of-animals/) 2022-02-06T10:35:00Z **US reports more than 900,000 total Covid-19 deaths**
Deidre McPhillips,    -  CNN

_Stephan: The American death rate from Covid is appalling, particularly when compared with other developed nations. And I think it is important to realize why this is happening. It is my view there are two reasons. First, is the inadequacy of the illness profit system of healthcare in the United States. Covid has proven to anyone who can see past their ideology to the actual facts that universal ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/06/us-reports-more-than-900000-total-covid-19-deaths/) 2022-02-06T10:34:00Z **Amnesty International, joining other human rights groups, says Israel is ‘committing the crime of apartheid’**
Miriam Berger,    -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: This has always been my problem with Israel. The Jews who created Israel came out of the Holocaust after centuries of being consigned to live in walled off ghettos, blocked from higher education, often unable to own land. And yet as soon as they were given a count ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/06/amnesty-international-joining-other-human-rights-groups-says-israel-is-committing-the-crime-of-apartheid/) 2022-02-06T10:33:00Z **G.O.P. Declares Jan. 6 Attack ‘Legitimate Political Discourse’**
Jonathan Weisman and Reid J. Epstein,    -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: It is the consensually chosen view of the Republican Party that January 6th, whose details everyone should know by now, was "legitimate political discourse." How much clearer could they make their anti-democracy prejudice._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-05-at-10.19.04-P ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/06/g-o-p-declares-jan-6-attack-legitimate-political-discourse/) 2022-02-06T10:32:00Z **Republicans in Congress Were in on Trump’s Coup Plot**
Heather Digby Parton,    -  Raw Story / Salon / Commentary

_Stephan: This is very important trend and not getting anything like the attention it should be receiving. These Republican men and women, members of Congress from both houses, knew what Trump was doing. And yet they are still in office. What this is teaching us as a culture is that you can commit treason and sedition and still hold high office._

![](https://i0. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/06/republicans-in-congress-were-in-on-trumps-coup-plot/) 2022-02-07T10:35:00Z **U.S. Families Set to Dodge $8.4 Trillion in Taxes Over Next Decades**
Sharon Zang,  News Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: There are whole nations that don't deal in numbers as large as the tax dodge of the American rich described in this report. And if the tax code isn't changed wealth inequality will be baked into the American economy as the Boomers die off and pass $21 trillion to their heirs, thereby creating a permanent wealth aristocracy unlike anything seen ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/07/u-s-families-set-to-dodge-8-4-trillion-in-taxes-over-next-decades/) 2022-02-07T10:34:00Z **Offshore charging buoy to cut into carbon emissions of idling ships**
Nick Lavars,    -  New Atlas

_Stephan: Here is some good news about the transition out of the carbon era. I live on an island we can see ships at anchor with their engines idling pumping pollution into the atmosphere for weeks or even months awaiting their turn to moor and offload. Here is an example of how once one recognizes a problem, a new technological approach can make a huge differen ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/07/offshore-charging-buoy-to-cut-into-carbon-emissions-of-idling-ships/) 2022-02-07T10:33:00Z **Doctors: Cancer patients cured a decade after gene therapy**
Laura Ungar,    -  Japan Today

_Stephan: Here is some exciting and dramatic news about cancer treatments. This looks really promising._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-07-at-1.10.17-AM.jpg?resize=800%2C530&ssl=1)_This 2021 photo shows Doug Olson of Pleasanton, Calif, in Bend, Ore. Credit: Family Photo via AP_

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – In 2010, doctors t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/07/doctors-cancer-patients-cured-a-decade-after-gene-therapy/) 2022-02-07T10:32:00Z **North Carolina Supreme Court strikes down GOP-drawn congressional map**
Ally Mutnick,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: Here is some good news from North Carolina about voting fairness in that state. In spite of everything the Republican legislature and the Republicans on the North Carolina Supreme Court could do to sustain blatant racist gerrymandering, the court as a whole ruled against the Republicans, “Achieving partisan advantage incommensurate with ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/07/north-carolina-supreme-court-strikes-down-gop-drawn-congressional-map/) 2022-02-08T10:35:00Z **Russia and China Unveil a Pact Aginst America and the West**
Robin Wright,  Contributing Writer  -  The New Yorker

_Stephan: This is a completely cynical but very important geopolitical trend. The Chinese having gone through the bloodbath of communism, have recreated the Mandarin system of scholar bureaucrats which provided a stable government in China for 1,300 years, from 605 to 1905 -- the oldest continuous form of government in human history.

They look at the Uni ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/08/russia-and-china-unveil-a-pact-aginst-america-and-the-west/) 2022-02-08T10:34:00Z **Hard Times: 7 in 10 Americans Say They’re Living Paycheck to Paycheck Now**
Chris Melore,    -  Study Finds

_Stephan: Most economists are talking about how well the economy is doing and, if one looks at the top layer numbers it is true. But when you dig deeper, it does not look so good. And that is because the economy is completely skewed to favor the rich and corporate profit. Okay you have a job, but what are you getting paid? Do you have cost free heal ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/08/hard-times-7-in-10-americans-say-theyre-living-paycheck-to-paycheck-now/) 2022-02-08T10:33:00Z **The Fed is about to raise interest rates and shaft American workers – again**
Robert Reich,  Former US Secretary of Labor, is Professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Robert Reich is absolutely spot on in what he says. The proceeding story lends credence to his words, and Reich explains it well, accurately, and in some detail._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-cont ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/08/%ef%bf%bcthe-fed-is-about-to-raise-interest-rates-and-shaft-american-workers-again/) 2022-02-08T10:32:00Z **California’s single-payer bill dies**
Victoria Colliver,    -  Politico

_Stephan: In spite of its endless litany of flaws and failings, it is so profitable, it is not going to be easy to transition to universal birthright publicly funded healthcare. The Illness Profit System will pay whatever it takes to continue its control of American healthcare, as this story from California illustrates,_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-07-at-10 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/08/californias-single-payer-bill-dies/) 2022-02-09T10:34:00Z **What Are the Effects of Fracking on the Environment?**
Melissa Horton, Reviewed by Jefreda R. Brown, Fact checked by Pete Rathburn,    -  Investopedia

_Stephan: A reader wrote me saying he and his wife were in a friendship ending argument with a neighbor who was in the oil business and who criticized them for attacking continued fracking in Oklahoma, citing how much money it had made, and how many jobs it had created. He asked me if I had real facts about fracking. As it hap ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/09/what-are-the-effects-of-fracking-on-the-environment/) 2022-02-09T10:33:00Z **Drug Decriminalization Is Working in Oregon. Other States Should Follow.**
Kassandra Frederique,  Executive Director of the Drug Policy Alliance  -  truthout

_Stephan: The data is now clear and, once again, it follows the 8 laws of change, and it works. Drug decriminalization fosters wellbeing. Here is the Oregon data._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-08-at-10.27.00-PM.jpg?resize=780%2C600&ssl=1) ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/09/drug-decriminalization-is-working-in-oregon-other-states-should-follow/) 2022-02-09T10:32:00Z **Oklahoma Proposed Bill Would Fine Teachers $10,000 For Contradicting A Student’s Religious Beliefs**
Peter Greene,    -  Forbes

_Stephan: The christofascists, Republican State Senator Rob Standridge of Oklahoma being an example, have discovered it is easy to get control of local government agencies to which, normally, no one paid much attention. This bill, were it to pass would make education impossible. Any group could take except ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/09/oklahoma-proposed-bill-would-fine-teachers-10000-for-contradicting-a-students-religious-beliefs/) 2022-02-10T10:35:00Z **House Republicans and Democrats agree on $57 billion USPS overhaul**
Jacob Bogage,    -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: Here is some good, if mixed, news about the USPS, and I believe this is happening on a rare bipartisan basis, because Americans, individuals and businesses, in both Red and Blue states are unhappy with their experience of the post office and have voiced their feelings._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Sc ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/10/house-republicans-and-democrats-agree-on-57-billion-usps-overhaul/) 2022-02-10T10:34:00Z **Holding in the deep: what Canada wants to do with its decades-old pileup of nuclear waste**
Emma McIntosh,    -  The Narwhal

_Stephan: The problem with nuclear power, is nuclear waste. How do you store something for thousands of years, and make sure it doesn't cause any harm over all that time? The answer to that question is that no one knows how to do that, it has never been done. And the cost when factored in makes nuclear so much more ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/10/holding-in-the-deep-what-canada-wants-to-do-with-its-decades-old-pileup-of-nuclear-waste/) 2022-02-10T10:33:00Z **Republicans are trying to turn red America into a dystopia**
Jennifer Rubin,  Columnist  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: I agree with every point Jennifer Rubin makes in this essay. She frames the diffference between Red and Blue states correctly. The Great Schism Trend is reaching an intensity such that is getting harder and harder to see how we go on as a unified democracy. As time goes on, if the Republicans continue to prevail in the Red states the increasingly d ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/10/republicans-are-trying-to-turn-red-america-into-a-dystopia/) 2022-02-10T10:32:00Z **Will Mark Cuban’s Low-Cost Pharmacy Finally Make Drugs Affordable?**
Mira Miller,    -  Verywellhealth

_Stephan: The price gouging of Americans by the big pharmaceutical corporations is a leading example of what is wrong with the this country's illness profit system. Americans pay absurdly over-inflated prices for their medications because Big Pharma rents senators and representatives as needed to see that their control of prices is not threatened.

Mark Cuban i ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/10/will-mark-cubans-low-cost-pharmacy-finally-make-drugs-affordable/) 2022-02-11T10:35:00Z **Fatal police shootings in 2021 set record since The Post began tracking, despite public outcry**
Marisa Lati , Steven Rich and Jennifer Jenkins ,  Reporters  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: The police in the United States are notable for several things. They get the least training in any developed nation, they have the lowest education requirements, and they kill more people than any other, as research organizations style it, "rich" ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/11/fatal-police-shootings-in-2021-set-record-since-the-post-began-tracking-despite-public-outcry/) 2022-02-11T10:34:00Z **USDA Offers $1 Billion to Farmers and Ranchers to Help Fight Climate Change**
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,    -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Here is some excellent econews. In my opinion, the Biden administration is doing a pretty good job in out of the spotlight matters like this. This is going to make a long term difference by fostering wellbeing._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-10-at-9.45.58-PM.jpg?r ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/11/usda-offers-1-billion-to-farmers-and-ranchers-to-help-fight-climate-change/) 2022-02-11T10:33:00Z **California’s New Law Requires Residents to Compost Food Scraps**
,    \-  Tree Hugger

_Stephan: This is very interesting and good econews. This California law went into effect 1 January, and I have been waiting to see news about how it was working. But haven't seen anything._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-10-at-10.03.59-PM.jpg?resize=766%2C508&ssl=1)_Credit: Jenny Dettrick / Getty_

The state of Califor ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/11/californias-new-law-requires-residents-to-compost-food-scraps/) 2022-02-11T10:32:00Z **1 in 5 applicants to the white supremacist Patriot Front has military ties: report**
Alex Henderson,    -  AlterNet

_Stephan: White supremacists are actively recruiting an army of people your tax dollars paid to train. It is happening right out in the open and even though there is a growing recognition that White terrorism is a growing threat to America's wellbeing nothing is being done about the recruitment programs white racists are running -- ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/11/1-in-5-applicants-to-the-white-supremacist-patriot-front-has-military-ties-report/) 2022-02-12T10:35:00Z **White House Rolls Out $5 Billion Electric Vehicle Charging Program**
Arianna Skibell,    -  Scientific American

_Stephan: Here is some excellent and very important news from the Biden administration. This will have a huge effect on our transition out of the carbon era. I have my issues with the Biden admin but, compared with the incompetent criminal thuggery of Donald Trump and his orcs, the Biden folk are angels._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/12/white-house-rolls-out-5-billion-electric-vehicle-charging-program/) 2022-02-12T10:34:00Z **Biden’s Hidden Health Care Triumph**
Paul Krugman,  Nobel Laureat in Economics, Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center, columnist  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Paul Krugman has an extraordinary record of being accurate. And he is the only person in media I have seen truly recognize what the Biden administration has done to improve healthcare in the United States, after Trump and the Republicans did everything they could to sabotage Obama care. If you car ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/12/bidens-hidden-health-care-triumph/) 2022-02-12T10:33:00Z **Christian nationalism drove Jan. 6: Now it’s embraced the Big Lie, and wants to conquer America**
Kathhryn Joyce,    -  Salon

_Stephan: Here is a very important and, in my opinion, accurate assessment of White supremacy christofascism, and what they want. This is the anti-wellbeing side of the Great Schism Trend. It is driven by the irrefutable reality that the United States is becoming a majority-minority nation, Whites are going to b ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/12/christian-nationalism-drove-jan-6-now-its-embraced-the-big-lie-and-wants-to-conquer-america/) 2022-02-12T10:32:00Z **How Manchin Used Politics to Protect His Family Coal Company**
Scott Waldman,    -  Politico

_Stephan: Corruption is bipartisan in the United States, and Democratic Senator Joe Manchin, steeped in greed and corruption as he is, has personally assured the degradation of the lives of 333 million people all to his personal benefit, but so great is the corruption of American democracy that like Trump and his orcs he has not been held accountable._

![](https://i0.wp.com ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/12/how-manchin-used-politics-to-protect-his-family-coal-company/) 2022-02-13T10:35:00Z **Schoolkids Are Falling Victim to Disinformation and Conspiracy Fantasies**
Melinda Wenner Moyer,  Contributing Editor  -  Scientific American

_Stephan: Over the last 20 years the American culture has undergone a dramatic, but far too little remarked cultural transformation. It is a major anthropological event: The rise of social media and commercial digital media, coupled with the decline and often demise of local newspaper coverage, has allowed for the ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/13/schoolkids-are-falling-victim-to-disinformation-and-conspiracy-fantasies/) 2022-02-13T10:34:00Z **Separation of church and state? Let’s get real — that’s over. So what do we do now?**
February 12, 2022 12:00PM (EST) ,    -  Salon

_Stephan: Even though the percentage of people entrenched in the United States has been dropping for years, the strange form of White supremacy, male dominance, christofascism that passes for Christianity today is still a major force to be reckoned with, particularly the crumbling wall between church, in the form White s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/13/separation-of-church-and-state-lets-get-real-thats-over-so-what-do-we-do-now/) 2022-02-13T10:33:00Z **People In South Dakota Are Already Living In A Post-Roe World**
Alanna Vagianos,    -

_Stephan: What many don't seem to understand is that if Roe is overturned, it will not be national. Each state will decide. If that happens, the schism between the Red and Blue states will grow even greater and more contentious. The Red states will try to control women coming to Blue states for abortions. a growing number of women will leave the Red state and move to a Blue one. R ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/13/people-in-south-dakota-are-already-living-in-a-post-roe-world/) 2022-02-13T10:32:00Z **These Are the World’s Most — and Least — Democratic Places**
Alex Millson,    -  Bloomberg Quint

_Stephan: For most of my lifetime the United States has been seen as a leading democracy. That used to be true but no longer. We are now ranked 26th and given the "Flawed Democracy" classification. This diminution of democracy is not unique to America, however. Democracy around the world is under attack. This report will give you some hard facts. They aren't pleasant._

![](htt ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/13/these-are-the-worlds-most-and-least-democratic-places/) 2022-02-14T10:35:00Z **Biden tells Zelenskyy U.S. will respond ‘swiftly and decisively’ if Russia invades Ukraine**
Teaganne Finn,    -  Yahoo! News

_Stephan:_

_The world is at a major geopolitical crossroads, and the American media doesn't seem to be knowledgeable enough to understand why Putin is so interested in Ukraine. It always gets played as Putin wants to absorb back into Russian Ukraine and the other countries that were once part of the Soviet Union. T ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/14/biden-tells-zelenskyy-u-s-will-respond-swiftly-and-decisively-if-russia-invades-ukraine/) 2022-02-14T10:34:00Z **Scientists Raise Alarm Over ‘Dangerously Fast’ Growth in atmospheric Methane**
Jeff Tollefson,    -  nature

_Stephan: This paper came from nature one of the most prestigious science journals in the world. I mention that to make the point that this warning should be taken very seriously, except it isn't. Climate change is changing the entire matrix of life on earth, and most of us, in government and out, are just worried about who won the Super Bowl or ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/14/scientists-raise-alarm-over-dangerously-fast-growth-in-atmospheric-methane/) 2022-02-14T10:33:00Z **U.S. Energy Department Advances $6 bln Nuclear Plant Program**
Timothy Garner,    -  Reuters

_Stephan: You would think after the disasters of Chernobyl and Fukushima, and the growing problem of nuclear waste that intelligent government planners would decide to let nuclear wither and waste away. But, of course, the corporations that control the nuclear industry still have the power and funds to rent Congress members, and influence the Biden administration, and this $6 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/14/u-s-energy-department-advances-6-bln-nuclear-plant-program/) 2022-02-14T10:32:00Z **Fewer Americans now say Trump bears a lot of responsibility for the Jan. 6 riot**
Bradley Jones,    -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: We are undergoing a major cultural transformation. The rightwing uber-rich have been funding scientists and physicians for years, and from their research have learned that fear can be politicized and weaponized through spewing dis- and mis-information out as news. They learned that conservative Americans particularly ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/14/fewer-americans-now-say-trump-bears-a-lot-of-responsibility-for-the-jan-6-riot/) 2022-02-15T10:35:00Z **The Seeds of Political Violence Are Being Sown in Church**
David French,    -  The Dispatch

_Stephan: If you are a regular churchgoer and it is one of the shrinking number of congregations practicing traditional Christianity you may not even be aware of what is happening to your religion in the United States. Let me say it straight out. Evangelical and charismatic Christianity in America is no longer about Christianity as that term has been understood for centuries. Oh, ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/15/the-seeds-of-political-violence-are-being-sown-in-church/) 2022-02-15T10:34:00Z **‘Far-right road shows’ are turning Christian churches into hotbeds of insurrection: conservative**
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_Stephan:_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-14-at-9.41.43-PM.jpg?resize=782%2C437&ssl=1)_Screengrab._

According to longtime political columnist David French, [the next insurrection](https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/the-seeds-of-political-violence-are) is likely be ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/15/far-right-road-shows-are-turning-christian-churches-into-hotbeds-of-insurrection-conservative/) 2022-02-15T10:33:00Z **US oligarchs don’t care what the majority of Americans thinks about taxing the rich — here’s why**
Noah Berlatsky,    -  AlterNet

_Stephan: When you can rent Congress members as needed, and infuence elections as you like, naturally you don't want anything to restrain your wealth or power. And that is exactly where we are in the United States today. Not surprisingly, as proof of what I have just said, we have the worst wealth inequalit ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/15/us-oligarchs-dont-care-what-the-majority-of-americans-thinks-about-taxing-the-rich-heres-why/) 2022-02-15T10:32:00Z **GOP Rep. Says Americans Must Own Enough Weapons to Overthrow the Government if 30-40% Agree on ‘Tyranny’**
David Badash,    -  New Civil Rights Movement

_Stephan: I want my readers to be clear, when I express my growing concern about politically motivated civil violence, I feel this way because of facts like this.

there is a sizeable segment of the Republican Party that is arming itself with even more weapons than it already ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/15/gop-rep-says-americans-must-own-enough-weapons-to-overthrow-the-government-if-30-40-agree-on-tyranny/) 2022-02-16T10:35:00Z **Southwest drought is the most extreme in 1,200 years, study finds**
Diana Leonard,    -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: If you read me regularly then you know that in my opinion, after studying all the available research I could track down, my assessment is that we are going to have three major internal migrations: Away from the coasts, ocean, lake, and river because of too much water; out of the Southwest because of inadequate water and temperatures that are too ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/16/southwest-drought-is-the-most-extreme-in-1200-years-study-finds/) 2022-02-16T10:34:00Z **Heart-disease risk soars after COVID — even with a mild case**
Saima May Sidik,    -  nature

_Stephan: As the months have gone by I have seen more and more research papers in the scientific journals on the long-term consequences of Covid. I have published articles on a number of them, and this is the latest. If you have had Covid, young or old, I urge you to contact a physician, particularly a cardiologist, for an evaluation.

Citation: to access the research discusse ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/16/heart-disease-risk-soars-after-covid-even-with-a-mild-case/) 2022-02-16T10:33:00Z **Republicans have dropped the mask — they openly support fascism. What do we do about it?**
Chauncey DeVega,  Senior Politics Writer  -  Salon

_Stephan: This article by Chauncey DeVega lays out the neofascism of the Republican Party about as clearly as one could make it. What appalls me is that a very large percentage, not a majority but over a third of the country, and mostly White, is either uninterested or supportive of what the Republican ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/16/republicans-have-dropped-the-mask-they-openly-support-fascism-what-do-we-do-about-it/) 2022-02-16T10:32:00Z **Pressure on Italian Catholic church to face child sexual abuse reckoning**
Angela Giuffrida,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: I thought, and maybe you did to, that the seemingly endless reports about the pedophilia problem in the Roman Catholic Church had been handled, and they had taken the needed measures to clean their house. But no, that is not the case. In Italy, Spain, France, and several Latin American countries a whole new wave of accounts con ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/16/pressure-on-italian-catholic-church-to-face-child-sexual-abuse-reckoning/) 2022-02-17T10:35:00Z **Consciousness, Creativity, Innovation, and Survival**
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan: I wrote this because once you understand that consciousness is casual and fundamental as Planck, Einstein, Pauli, Schrodinger, and a host of other leading figures in physics have told us, you realize that creativity, new ways of thinking about technologies, for instance, are going to be critical to deal with climate change effectively if human civilization is going to ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/17/consciousness-creativity-innovation-and-survival/) 2022-02-17T10:34:00Z **Why America Has So Few Doctors**
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_Stephan:_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-16-at-9.29.15-PM.jpg?resize=604%2C600&ssl=1)

By the time Elizabeth Erickson was a freshman at Davidson College in 2002, she knew she wanted to become a doctor. Because she understood that the earliest health interventions are among the most important, she set herself on a pediatrics track. After four years of premed classes, she went straight to medica ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/17/why-america-has-so-few-doctors/) 2022-02-17T10:33:00Z **Physicians Slam Industry Push to ‘Fix’—Not End—Medicare Privatization Scheme**
Jake Johnson,    -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Here is yet another illustrating how all decisions about healthcare in the United States are made not on the basis of fostering wellbeing but, instead, on how to preserve and increase profit. That's why we have the worst healthcare in the developed world._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Scr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/17/physicians-slam-industry-push-to-fix-not-end-medicare-privatization-scheme/) 2022-02-17T10:32:00Z **Trump’s Big China Flop and Other Failures**
Paul Krugman,  Nobel Laureate Economist, Distiguished Professor City University of New York, Columnist  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Paul Krugman, as usual, gives us the truth about another of the gross incompetencies of Donald Trump, his moronic orc Peter Navarro, and the damage they have done to the United States economy._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-16-at-10.34.36-PM.jpg?r ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/17/trumps-big-china-flop-and-other-failures/) 2022-02-18T10:35:00Z **Americans’ Trust in Scientists, Other Groups Declines**
Brian Kennedy, Alec Tyson and Cary Funk,  Senior Research, Associate Director, Director Science and Scoiety Research  -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: This is a big deal because it gives us actual facts about an important trend going on in the American culture, a growing anti-intellectualism, anti-knowledge bias, particularly on the part of Republican men and women, although also amongst Democrats. Why is this so import ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/18/americans-trust-in-scientists-other-groups-declines/) 2022-02-18T10:34:00Z **Despite rising wages, 61% of Americans are still living paycheck to paycheck, report finds**
Jessica Dickler,    -  CNBC

_Stephan: The American economy is doing better, but Americans families are not. The truth is American hourly wage workers are not paid enough to keep up with inflation. The rich get richer and richer, but people paid by the hour do not. The minimum wage, in my opinion, ought to be $20 an hour._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/18/despite-rising-wages-61-of-americans-are-still-living-paycheck-to-paycheck-report-finds/) 2022-02-18T10:33:00Z **Could you possibly invent a more expensive and less effective healthcare system than what we have in the US?**
Robert Reich,    -  Robert Reich Substack

_Stephan: Robert Reich and I agree about the structure of the American illness profit system. It is set up for one purpose, satisfying the greed for profit. Americans deserve better, but we are only going to get it when we rise up against what we have. Write your Repres ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/18/could-you-possibly-invent-a-more-expensive-and-less-effective-healthcare-system-than-what-we-have-in-the-us/) 2022-02-18T10:32:00Z **Here comes $7 gas prices, warns oil strategist in dire outlook**
Brian Sozzi,  Editor-at-large  -  Yahoo! News

_Stephan: We are over $4 a gallon. Conflict in Ukraine, could drive the price as high as described here. But I think there is going to be a good effect: Increased conversion to electric._

![Car fueling at gas station. Refuel fill up with petrol gasoline. Petrol pump filling fuel nozzle in fuel tank of car at gas station. Petrol industry and service. Petrol ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/18/here-comes-7-gas-prices-warns-oil-strategist-in-dire-outlook/) 2022-02-19T10:35:00Z **Study Exposes Climate Claims by Big Oil as Blatant Corporate Propaganda**
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_Stephan:_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-18-at-10.37.37-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C449&ssl=1)_Flare system of a sea oil production platform Credit Stock photo_

While continuing to fuel the climate emergency over the past decade, oil and gas majors relied on misleading messages rather than actually taking action to tran ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/19/study-exposes-climate-claims-by-big-oil-as-blatant-corporate-propaganda/) 2022-02-19T10:34:00Z **Study shows political affiliation drove use of ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine**
Nathaniel Weixel ,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

_Stephan: This is further proof of the MAGAt world death cult, and the triumph in that community of weaponized disinformation over facts and science. These people are literally committing medical suicide, and you and I are paying for part of that public seppuku._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/19/study-shows-political-affiliation-drove-use-of-ivermectin-hydroxychloroquine/) 2022-02-19T10:33:00Z **What Is the Future of Organic?**
Lisa Held,  Senior Staff Reporter  -  Civil Eats

_Stephan: This is a very good and detailed assessment of what is going on in the growing, in all senses, organic agriculture trend. Industrial chemical mono-culture agriculture, like carbon energy, must end. It does not recognize or respect the matrix of life. It does not support wellbeing._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-18-at-8.59.31-PM.jpg?resize=800%2 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/19/what-is-the-future-of-organic/) 2022-02-19T10:32:00Z **Heavy Duty Electric Trucks In Sweden & Denmark: The EV Revolution Rolls Forward**
Steve Hanley,    -  Clean Technica

_Stephan: Here is some good news. The Nordic nations lead the way all nations must follow. They are proactive on the conversion out of the carbon era, and building the necessary infrastructure to make the transition possible. This is why the Biden program to build a national universally available charging set up, just as gas stations p ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/19/heavy-duty-electric-trucks-in-sweden-denmark-the-ev-revolution-rolls-forward/) 2022-02-20T10:35:00Z **Dirty Dozen: The Private Equity Firms Driving Fossil Fuel Expansion**
Nina Lakhani,    -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: Here is yet another story focused on how rich people who derive much or all of their wealth from the petroleum industries are renting Congress members, and Presidential administration high ranking officials to get them to preserve the nation's reliance on oil and gas. Billions of people world wide are having their lives degraded by these greedy mons ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/20/dirty-dozen-the-private-equity-firms-driving-fossil-fuel-expansion/) 2022-02-20T10:34:00Z **World spends $1.8tn a year on subsidies that harm environment, study finds**
Patrick Greenfield,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: It is a measure of the unconsciousness of most humans that profit is the only consideration that matters. Greed above all has produced this. We are literally destroying the wellbeing of the planet in order to satisfy the lust of greed._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Screen-Shot-202 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/20/world-spends-1-8tn-a-year-on-subsidies-that-harm-environment-study-finds/) 2022-02-20T10:33:00Z **Pharmaceutical Drug Pollution in Rivers Poses ‘Global Threat to Human and Environmental Health,’ Study Finds**
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,    -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Pharmaceuticals have flooded the world, and polluted the rivers and lakes. SR has done stories on this but, until recently not much attention has been paid to this, but this is how virus mutations like Covid occur. These chemicals are also altering Earth's ecosys ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/20/pharmaceutical-drug-pollution-in-rivers-poses-global-threat-to-human-and-environmental-health-study-finds/) 2022-02-20T10:32:00Z **How Billions in Infrastructure Funding Could Worsen Global Warming**
Brad Plumer,    -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Renewing infrastructure or building new must be done recognizing the effect it will have on the matrix of life. Just as with the drug problem in the previous article this is going to require new technologies._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-19-at-10.27.37-PM.jpg?resize=595%2C401&ssl=1 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/20/how-billions-in-infrastructure-funding-could-worsen-global-warming/) 2022-02-21T10:35:00Z **Child Poverty Increased by 41 Percent After Monthly Tax Credits Expired**
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_Stephan:_

ew data shows that the ending of the popular Child Tax Credit payment program due to objections from conservative Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin (West Virginia) has resulted in a massive increase in the childhood poverty rate throughout the U.S.

[The program allotted payments to families with children](https://www.whitehouse.gov/child-tax-credit/), with families rece ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/21/child-poverty-increased-by-41-percent-after-monthly-tax-credits-expired/) 2022-02-22T10:35:00Z **Scientists say humans are part of a ‘planetary intelligence’**
Tristan Greene,    -  Neural

_Stephan: Here is an article supporting my argument that scientific research shows a matrix of consciousness in which all consciousness and that is much more than just human consciousness or even terrestrial consciousness is interconnected and interdependent. This is part of the emerging paradigm which sees consciousness as causal and fundamental, just as Max Planck, Einstein a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/22/scientists-say-humans-are-part-of-a-planetary-intelligence/) 2022-02-22T10:34:00Z **Life in the soil was thought to be silent. What if it isn’t?**
Ute Eberle,    -  Knowable Magazine

_Stephan: Bioacoustics, is a term you may never have heard before, but it represents a particularly exciting new research field. It is very early days but it is already clear that the matrix of life is far more complex than most, even in science realize._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-21-at-4.45.18-PM.jpg?resi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/22/life-in-the-soil-was-thought-to-be-silent-what-if-it-isnt/) 2022-02-22T10:33:00Z **Evangelical minister: Christian nationalism is a bizarre, misogynist fantasy — and totally un-Christian**
Nathaniel Manderson,    -  AlterNet/Salon

_Stephan: This is a Christian minister talking about what is happening to his religion in the United States. You will notice that it mirrors my own thinking about this pseudo-Christian political cult._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Screen-S ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/22/evangelical-minister-christian-nationalism-is-a-bizarre-misogynist-fantasy-and-totally-un-christian/) 2022-02-22T10:32:00Z **You Just Can’t Tell the Truth About America Anymore**
Jamelle Bouie,    -  The New York Times

_Stephan: It is very important to the White supremacy christofascist MAGAt movement that Americans NOT know the truth about the U.S.'s history. Why? Because if you know the truth you know that the Republican shtick is nothing but a web of lies, fear, hate, and fantasies. That's why they are so aggressively trying to limit what children, even college students can be taught in school. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/22/you-just-cant-tell-the-truth-about-america-anymore/) 2022-02-23T10:35:00Z **The Idea That Everything From Spoons to Stones is Conscious is Gaining Academic Credibility**
Olivia Goldhill,  Science Writer  -  Pocket/Quartz

_Stephan: If you understand that consciousness is causal and fundamental, then it follows that everything was created by consciousness through direct intention, and everything is a manifestation of consciousness. This totally freaks out materialists but the evidence that it is valid grows year ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/23/the-idea-that-everything-from-spoons-to-stones-is-conscious-is-gaining-academic-credibility/) 2022-02-23T10:34:00Z **Prejudice grew in Trump supporters during his presidency, studies find**
Andrew J. Nelson,  Staff Writer  -  Courthouse News Service

_Stephan: Donald Trump is the worst and most criminal president in our history. He is also, and always has been, an open unrepentant Black American hater, as his known history makes clear. And he has really harmed the United States by legitimizing open race hate, and has stimulated the MAGAts to express it. That is not a political statement, it is a scientific one, as this report makes cle ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/23/66745/) 2022-02-23T10:33:00Z **White men as Victims: America’s Most Dangerous Fantasy**
Chauncey DeVega,  Senior Political Writer  -  Salon

_Stephan: Increasingly, if you look at MAGAt media, you read or hear a growing sense of White grievance, a perception that Whites are the victims of Black, Hispanic, or Asian Americans. What exactly they are supposedly suffering from is never defined, just an existential sense that Whites, particularly White men, are losing something. It is, of course, nonsense from ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/23/white-men-as-victims-americas-most-dangerous-fantasy/) 2022-02-23T10:32:00Z **“Stand Your Ground” Laws Linked to 11% Spike in US Gun Homicides: Study**
Kenny Stancil,    -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Here is what has happened as a result of the Republican push to pass "Stand Your Ground" Laws at the state level. This is the latest data we have on the American obsessive gun psychosis. More death by firearms. With people wandering around armed with weapons, and poorly written "Stand Your Ground" laws we are becoming an increasingly dangerou ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/23/stand-your-ground-laws-linked-to-11-spike-in-us-gun-homicides-study/) 2022-02-24T10:35:00Z **More contagious version of omicron spreads in U.S., fueling worries**
Rob Stein,    -  npr

_Stephan: There seems to be a general sense in American society that we are coming to the end of this pandemic, but the numbers say otherwise. Omicron is still infecting more than 100,000 people and killing about 2,000 people every day in the U.S.Two thousand people a day is 730,000 a year. I urge all my readers to get vaccinated and boosted if they have not already done ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/24/more-contagious-version-of-omicron-spreads-in-u-s-fueling-worries/) 2022-02-24T10:34:00Z **The Long Crusade of Clarence and Ginni Thomas**
Danny Hakim and Jo Becker,  Investigative Reporters  -  The New York Times Magazine

_Stephan: Here is a very comprehensive presentation on Clarence and Ginni Thomas. It is my personal view that Thomas should never have been appointed to the Supreme Court. He was notably partisan, had issues about inappropriately pestering women, and both he and his wife have demonstrated a notable lack of ethics._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/24/the-long-crusade-of-clarence-and-ginni-thomas/) 2022-02-24T10:33:00Z **Indigenous Nations Sue North Dakota Over ‘Sickening” Gerrymandering**
Hallie Golden,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: The anti-democracy orientation of the Republican Party cannot be exaggerated, nor can the party's racism. Republicans really do not want one person, one vote to take place, as this very nasty and sorry story about North Dakota illustrates. Personally, I would not live in a Red state, the quality of life is increasingly second rate compared wi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/24/indigenous-nations-sue-north-dakota-over-sickening-gerrymandering/) 2022-02-24T10:32:00Z **How a battery shortage could threaten US national security**
Matt McFarland,    -  CNN

_Stephan: The corporate interests that don't want the carbon power era to end have kept the United States from preparing as it should for the transition out of the carbon era and left the country vulnerable. This is a little understood trend that gets very little media coverage, but this article will give my readers a good sense of what is in play._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwar ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/24/how-a-battery-shortage-could-threaten-us-national-security/) 2022-02-25T10:35:00Z **Republicans pick Putin over democracy — and Rick Scott’s creepy blueprint for America shows why**
Amanda Marcotte,  Senior Politics Writer  -  Salon

_Stephan: If you have been watching the various news and "news" channels perhaps you are as amazed as I have been that the Republicans have put their naked fascism and support for Putin on display. Tucker Carlson is now being run on Russian state media. Can you believe it?

My personal vi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/25/republicans-pick-putin-over-democracy-and-rick-scotts-creepy-blueprint-for-america-shows-why/) 2022-02-25T10:34:00Z **Kremlin-backed Media Now Broadcasts Entire Tucker Carlson Monologues with Russian Subtitles**
Brad Reed,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: This tells you the real truth about the Fox propaganda operation. And Carlson is not alone.Tulsi Gabbard and Alex Jones are also notable on this. I find it amazing that there is so little Republican pushback about this, and that Fox allows it._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/upload ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/25/kremlin-backed-media-now-broadcasts-entire-tucker-carlson-monologues-with-russian-subtitles/) 2022-02-25T10:33:00Z **Republicans are obsessed with harassing transgender kids**
Jennifer Rubin,  Columnist  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: The sexual insecurity of MAGAt world, and its obsession with how other people define their sexuality is one of the most notable hallmarks of this cohort. One of the nastiness manifestations of this Republican sexual psychosis is the way these people have attacked transgender children. They seem to think people choose to be gay, lesbian, or transgender. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/25/republicans-are-obsessed-with-harassing-transgender-kids/) 2022-02-25T10:32:00Z **Democrats Are Losing the Culture War. A Messaging Shift Won’t Save Them.**
JEFF GREENFIELD,    -  Politico

_Stephan: Always remember that culture is an expression of collective intention and awareness, and when you stress any system, whether it is mechanical or human you see its weaknesses and flaws. When I look at America, what I see is that a large percentage of Americans hunger for an authoritarian White supremacist, male dominant, christofascist culture ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/25/democrats-are-losing-the-culture-war-a-messaging-shift-wont-save-them/) 2022-02-26T10:35:00Z **Fewest Americans collecting unemployment aid since 1970**
Matt Ott,    -  Associated Press

_Stephan: In my opinion, the Biden administration has not gotten the credit they should for restoring the economy after the debacle of Trump, and radically reducing things like unemployment aid. And don't call out inflation, because there is very little a president can do about inflation. What is going on now is being driven by the effect on oil and gas prices in light of the Russi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/26/fewest-americans-collecting-unemployment-aid-since-1970/) 2022-02-26T10:34:00Z **Putin’s spiritual destiny**
Giles Fraser,  Rector at the South London Church of St Mary’s, Newington, U.K.  -  UnHerd

_Stephan: To more fully understand Vladimir Putin, his religious views must be factored in. Here from an Anglican minister and journalist is an important aspect of Putin's personality, one that is almost never even mentioned. Worth reading._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-25-at-9.55.27-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C306&ssl=1)

Threate ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/26/putins-spiritual-destiny/) 2022-02-26T10:33:00Z **North Carolina Republicans Ask SCOTUS To Decimate Voting Rights in Every State**
RICHARD L. HASEN,    -  Slate

_Stephan: Get really clear in your mind. The Republicans are trying to restructure our democracy such that the forms remain, but the substance has been drained away. If you value democracy you must vote Democratic. This is a two-party system, third parties don't win, and you can not be an ethical person and vote Republican. That is not a p ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/26/north-carolina-republicans-ask-scotus-to-decimate-voting-rights-in-every-state/) 2022-02-26T10:32:00Z **Requests for At-Home Abortion Pill Soared 1200% After Texas Ban Took Effect**
Kaitlin Sullivan,    -  NBC News

_Stephan: Outlawing abortion does not end abortion, and the development of new pharmaceuticals has radically changed the dynamics of this struggle as Texas illustrates._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-25-at-11.40.15-PM.jpg?resize=718%2C475&ssl=1)_Credit: Eric Gay / AP_

Requests for ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/26/requests-for-at-home-abortion-pill-soared-1200-after-texas-ban-took-effect/) 2022-02-27T10:36:00Z **Editor’s Note – SR Break**
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan: This will be the last SR for several days, I'm not quite sure how long. I go into the hospital for corrective surgery and will be there I'm not sure how long. I'm told one to four days, and then I am supposed to come home and stay in bed for a few more days. Please hold me in healing intention. More anon..._ ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/27/editors-note-sr-break/) 2022-02-27T10:35:00Z **‘A Game-Changer’: Defying Big Pharma, WHO Expands Vaccine Tech Sharing**
Jake Johnson,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: The entire pharmaceutical industry needs to be refocused from its fundamentals to its details, because one of the things this pandemic has made clear is that the pharmaceutical corporations place profit above wellbeing. This report suggests there is now evidence that this may be beginning._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.n ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/27/a-game-changer-defying-big-pharma-who-expands-vaccine-tech-sharing/) 2022-02-27T10:34:00Z **Covid-19: WHO efforts to bring vaccine manufacturing to Africa are undermined by the drug industry, documents show**
Madlen Davies,    -  British Medical Journal (BMJ)

_Stephan: This is the evidence upon which the previous story is based. I think it is disgusting and grounds for indicting, trying and convicting the management of the big pharma corporations involved with the Covid vaccines. They make it very clear t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/27/covid-19-who-efforts-to-bring-vaccine-manufacturing-to-africa-are-undermined-by-the-drug-industry-documents-show/) 2022-02-27T10:33:00Z **Pfizer, Moderna and Other Drugmakers Make Billions Responding to Covid-19 Pandemic**
Peter Loftus,  Reporter  -  Wall Street Journal

_Stephan: The Wall Street Journal gives us the dollar facts about the profit obscenity going on in the vaccine leaders in the pharmaceutical industry. I think it is an appalling story. I am not against profit, but I am absolutely against profit being more important than human wellbeing. Note the difference between ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/27/pfizer-moderna-and-other-drugmakers-make-billions-responding-to-covid-19-pandemic/) 2022-02-27T10:32:00Z **‘Staggering’ study reveals nearly half of unemployed U.S. men have criminal convictions**
RODRIGO PÉREZ ORTEGA,  Science Reporter  -  Science

_Stephan: I had no idea that one-third of American adults have been arrested at least once, that is an astonishing number, unlike any other developed country. In the interest of full disclosure, I was arrested multiple times back in the late 50s and early 60s for participating in civil rights demonstrat ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/02/27/staggering-study-reveals-nearly-half-of-unemployed-u-s-men-have-criminal-convictions/) 2022-03-06T10:36:00Z **Editor’s Note – SR is Back**
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan: I am home from the hospital where I had an aortic valve replacement done through my arteries not open-heart surgery, using a technique called TAVR. All went well, and I am very happy to be back in my writing house and bringing SR back online. I want to thank all of you who wrote to send me good wishes, and tell me you were holding me in healing intention. It meant a great deal to me, and I really appreciate your conc ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/06/editors-note-sr-is-back/) 2022-03-06T10:35:00Z **Four Things You Can Do For Ukraine**
Robert Reich,  Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center  -  Robert Reich Stack

_Stephan: The entire time I was in the hospital coincided with the horrifying and unprovoked rape of Ukraine by Vladimir Putin, who his adoring "useful idiot" Donald Trump called a "genius." Since when you are in a hospital you have nothing to do but lie in bed and either read or watch television, a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/06/four-things-you-can-do-for-ukraine/) 2022-03-06T10:34:00Z **Why far-right White evangelicals are among Vladimir Putin’s strongest American supporters**
Alex Henderson,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story / AlterNet

_Stephan: As the crisis in Ukraine continues, it is important to keep in mind that there is a large demographic in the United States that supports fascism, and authori8tarian government, of which Putin -- Trump's "genius" - is a living example. These people are going to try very hard to have th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/06/why-far-right-white-evangelicals-are-among-vladimir-putins-strongest-american-supporters/) 2022-03-06T10:33:00Z **Pat Robertson: Putin is “being compelled by God” to invade Ukraine and fulfill biblical prophecy**
MATTHEW CHAPMAN,    -  Salon

_Stephan: Here you see the intellectual christofascist justification for what is happening in Ukraine, put forward by one of the creators of christofascism._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-05-at-9.24.21-PM.jpg?resize=720%2C348&ssl=1)_Pat Robertson ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/06/pat-robertson-putin-is-being-compelled-by-god-to-invade-ukraine-and-fulfill-biblical-prophecy/) 2022-03-07T10:35:00Z **Ten steps everyone can take to strengthen democracy**
Jennifer Mercieca,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story / AlterNet

_Stephan: From my extensive reading over many months, even years, of right-wing media, and listening to propaganda channels like Fox and Newsmax, I have been convinced that about a third of Americans are fascists. They are White supremacists, and hysterical about anything other than heterosexual male-dominant sexuality. Even worse Christianity has become ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/07/ten-steps-everyone-can-take-to-strengthen-democracy%ef%bf%bc/) 2022-03-07T10:34:00Z **Russia’s War on Ukraine Continues**
Heather Cox Richardson,  Editor  -  Letters from America.

_Stephan: Heather Cox Richardson writes a daily blog that is very sensible. In this one she presents a case for something that I think is not getting enough attention: the relationship of the Republican Party and Vladimir Putin, and his fascist oligarchic government. The issue of fascism or, in America, christofascism as I call it. I coined that term because the cult that defines American Christianity ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/07/russias-war-on-ukraine-continues/) 2022-03-07T10:33:00Z **Gun deaths increased 11% as a result of “Stand Your Ground” laws, study finds**
Kenny Stancil,  Staff Writer  -  Salon

_Stephan: Part of the authoritarian MAGAt movement is its obsessive gun psychosis. This is what they have achieved. The Trumpian MAGAt movement is dangerous because it is about power, not factual reality._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-06-at-10.12.34-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C338& ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/07/gun-deaths-increased-11-as-a-result-of-stand-your-ground-laws-study-finds/) 2022-03-07T10:32:00Z **Panel Suggests Trump Knew He Lost the Election, Eyeing Criminal Case**
Luke Broadwater and Alan Feuer,    -  The New York Times

_Stephan: It is my view that part of the reason this Ukrainian war is occurring is that Trump's criminality and associated vulnerability led Putin to reconsider how America would react and after the poorly handled Afghanistan withdrawal that he could get what he wanted, Ukraine and its many resources. In the midst of the horror of th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/07/panel-suggests-trump-knew-he-lost-the-election-eyeing-criminal-case/) 2022-03-08T10:35:00Z **‘Key to white survival’: how Putin has morphed into a far-right savior**
,    \-

_Stephan:_

[![Conservative activists and elected officials from across United States attend CPAC 2022, in Orlandobr>Greg Aselbekian, supporter of former President Trump, sells hats as he attends the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida, U.S. February 24, 2022. REUTERS/Octavio Jones](https://i0.wp.com/i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0be4569d9726aa1 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/08/key-to-white-survival-how-putin-has-morphed-into-a-far-right-savior%ef%bf%bc/) 2022-03-08T10:34:00Z **Trump Just Endorsed an Oath Keeper’s Plan to Seize Control of the Republican Party**
Isaac Arnsdorf,    -  ProPublica

_Stephan: Donald Trump no longer bothers to hide his fascism and desire for authoritarian power. He is actively prepping for the 2024 elections aided by the fascist wing of the Republican Party. These are facts not partisan claims, and here is some of the evidence. What I want to know is where is Merrick Garland? Why isn't he beg ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/08/trump-just-endorsed-an-oath-keepers-plan-to-seize-control-of-the-republican-party/) 2022-03-08T10:33:00Z **Manchin worries free education will turn Americans into moochers. Students are left in the dust**
Claire Potter,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story / Commentary

_Stephan: Fascist Joe Manchin and his partner Kursten Sinema, and their fascist Republican partners in the Senate have damaged the wellbeing of America yet again. Fascists don't like educated citizens, they rise up. I hope the people of West Virginia and Arizona are happy ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/08/manchin-worries-free-education-will-turn-americans-into-moochers-students-are-left-in-the-dust%ef%bf%bc/) 2022-03-08T10:32:00Z **Why China Can’t Bail Out Putin’s Economy**
Paul Krugman,  Nobel Laureate Economist, Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Columnist  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: As usual Paul Krugman sees what is relevant and important in the relationship between China and Russia, as Russia returns to Stalinism and becomes a pariah state. All because one maniacal psychopath destroys the lives of the people of Ukraine, and his own peo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/08/why-china-cant-bail-out-putins-economy%ef%bf%bc/) 2022-03-09T10:35:00Z **Turning the Focus on America’s Oligarchs**
Evan Osnos,    -  The New Yorker

_Stephan: The media spends a great deal of time and energy covering the Russian oligarchs but, in my opinion, far too little focusing on American oligarchs, perhaps because most of the American media is owned by oligarchs. This absence of coverage is a major failing, I think, because the American oligarchs, many of them, as seen by which Congressmembers they rent and support do not really favor democracy. This a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/09/turning-the-focus-on-americas-oligarchs/) 2022-03-09T10:34:00Z **Russian Oligarchs Are Hurrying Their Jets and Yachts to Safety. America Is Letting Them.**
Russ Choma,  Reporter  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: The confiscation of Russian oligarchs' real estate, yachts and planes is a great idea, but the reality of how this is working out is rather different than the idea sounds, as this story describes._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Russian-Oligarchs.jpeg?resize=800 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/09/russian-oligarchs-are-hurrying-their-jets-and-yachts-to-safety-america-is-letting-them/) 2022-03-09T10:33:00Z **Senate GOP Agenda Would Hike Taxes on Poorest 40% by Average of $1,000**
Jake Johnson,    -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Rick Scott, Republican fascist senator, and multi-millionaire from Florida, has presented a GOP agenda that would hike taxes on the poorest 40% of Americans, but wouldn't raise taxes on the top 1% by a penny. How someone making less than $400,000 a year can vote for a Republican shows how strongly a large percentage of Americans support fascism ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/09/senate-gop-agenda-would-hike-taxes-on-poorest-40-by-average-of-1000/) 2022-03-09T10:32:00Z **The outrageous story about the Postal Service too many know nothing about**
Thoma Hartmann,    -  Independent Media Institute / AlterNet

_Stephan: Fascist oligarch Louis DeJoy who has diligently worked to sabotage the Post Office, as Thom Hartmann describes, is serving the interests of his fellow oligarchs not the American people. It is an utterly shameless example of what wealth inequality means in the United States_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartz ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/09/the-outrageous-story-about-the-postal-service-too-many-know-nothing-about/) 2022-03-10T10:11:00Z **Missouri lawmaker seeks to stop residents from obtaining abortions out of state**
Caroline Kitchener,  Reporter  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: I want my readers to be clear what is happening to America as the Republican christofascists try to destroy our democracy. This is all straight out of Hitler's christofascist Nazis playbook of the 1930s. Control people, particularly women, and whitewash the whole thing with a distortion of nationalistic ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/10/missouri-lawmaker-seeks-to-stop-residents-from-obtaining-abortions-out-of-state/) 2022-03-10T10:35:00Z **There Is No Excuse for Failure to Charge Trump for His Role on January 6**
Charles P. Pierce,    -  Esquire

_Stephan: I would make the case even more strongly than Charles Pierce. Just the verified evidence that has been made public makes it irrefutable that Donald Trump and his band of orcs knowingly and deliberately committed treason. Here is the definition from the dictionary.

trea·son
/ˈtrēzən/
Learn to pronounce
noun
the crime of betraying one's co ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/10/there-is-no-excuse-for-failure-to-charge-trump-for-his-role-on-january-6/) 2022-03-10T10:33:00Z **Idaho Republicans push bill that would fine and jail librarians for certain books**
Jon Skolnik,  Staff Writer  -  Salon

_Stephan: This is another example of what is happening. I could do a dozen stories like this and the previous one. Every Red state has one. Our democracy grows more fractured and threatened day by day, and this will come to a crescendo this November. Only you can stop this trend._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/10/idaho-republicans-push-bill-that-would-fine-and-jail-librarians-for-certain-books/) 2022-03-10T10:32:00Z **This is what a nation run by women looks like**
Naomi Moriyama and William Doyle,    -  CNN

_Stephan: For several years now I have been following what I consider an important social trend, the rise of wellbeing focused democracies to bring women into the leadership and what occurs when that happens. It's good news._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-10-at-1.05.40-AM.jpg?resize=800%2C444&ssl=1)_Finland’s Prime Minister Sann ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/10/this-is-what-a-nation-run-by-women-looks-like/) 2022-03-11T10:35:00Z **The Hidden Billion- Dollar Cost of Repeated Police Misconduct**
Keith L. Alexander, Steven Rich, and Hannah Thacker ,  Reporters  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: One of the major problems with law enforcement in the United States is how poorly trained police are. Add that to the bully mindset so many police have, and you see this Politifact data, and it only up to June of 2020:

"Cops in Norway: require 3 years of training, 4 people killed since 2002.

Cops in Finl ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/11/the-hidden-billion-dollar-cost-of-repeated-police-misconduct/) 2022-03-11T10:34:00Z **Half of Americans’ IQ scores shrank due to lead exposure as children, study suggests**
Editorial Staff,    -  The Charlotte Observer

_Stephan: If you have ever question the effects of pollutants on a population's health read this. I am part of the lead gas generations, and wonder what effect this had on my I.Q. We have got to make fostering wellbeing at every level our first priority, or we are going to be devastated._

![](https://i0.wp.com/ww ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/11/half-of-americans-iq-scores-shrank-due-to-lead-exposure-as-children-study-suggests/) 2022-03-11T10:33:00Z **GOP Rep. Madison Cawthorn blasts Ukraine for “pushing woke ideologies,” calls Zelenskyy a “thug”**
Jon Skolnik,    -  Salon

_Stephan: There is an aspect of how America is responding that I think is not getting enough attention, because it really identifies the fascist members of Congress. Representative Madison Cawthorn, Republican of course, from North Carolina, is such an example._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-cont ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/11/gop-rep-madison-cawthorn-blasts-ukraine-for-pushing-woke-ideologies-calls-zelenskyy-a-thug/) 2022-03-11T10:32:00Z **Fox News’ invasion expert and far-right Putin propagandist believes Russia is being ‘too gentle’ toward Ukraine**
Meaghan Ellis,  Staff Writer  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: Here is another example of what I mean. We are replaying the Nazis era of the 1930s, with Vladimir as Adolph, and Republicans as the Nazis._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-11-at-12.16.28-AM.jpg? ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/11/fox-news-invasion-expert-and-far-right-putin-propagandist-believes-russia-is-being-too-gentle-toward-ukraine/) 2022-03-12T10:35:00Z **1 in 5 Election Officials Say They’ll Likely Leave Their Jobs in a New Survey**
Noah Y. Kim,  Assistant News and Engagement Write  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: This is what the Republican christofascist movement to engineer and get control of our democracy has led to. This is not happening by chance, they are trying to do this. If you want to see democracy continue in the U.S., and you have a little time, volunteer to be and election worker. This is whe ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/12/1-in-5-election-officials-say-theyll-likely-leave-their-jobs-in-a-new-survey/) 2022-03-12T10:34:00Z **2020 Census Undercounted U.S. Population by Nearly 19 Million**
Maria Cramer,  Reporter  -  msn/The New York Times

_Stephan: This is what Trump and the Republican christofascists have done to the census. And you will remember that Trump stopped the census early. Who was not counted? Why, of course, it is Americans of color. This matters because it is upon the basis of the census that the allocation of the House membership is established. Day after day reports come o ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/12/2020-census-undercounted-u-s-population-by-nearly-19-million/) 2022-03-12T10:33:00Z **Putin’s Propaganda Machine is What America’s Far Right Wants**
Kevin Baron,    -  Defense One

_Stephan: Have you noticed the uncanny resemblance of Vladimir Putin's manipulation of disinformation in Russia and propaganda operations in the U.S. such as Fox, Infowars, and Newsmax? This weaponization of disinformation has become a hallmark of the christofascists. Here is an excellent exegetic essay addressing the resemblance. As I have said here many times the problem wi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/12/putins-propaganda-machine-is-what-americas-far-right-wants/) 2022-03-12T10:32:00Z **America’s Right Has a Putin Problem**
Paul Krugman,  Nobel Laureate Economist, Professor & Columnist  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: As usual, Paul Krugman, puts things in their right context._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-11-at-9.42.38-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C548&ssl=1)_Valdimir Putin, darling of the American christofascists and the man Donald Trump called a “genius” when he invaded Ukraine

Credit: Sasha Mordovets/Getty_

Just a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/12/americas-right-has-a-putin-problem/) 2022-03-13T10:33:00Z **Check your utility bill. You might be paying for a trade group to fight climate policy.**
Maxine Joselow,    -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: Greed. Greed. Greed. It is the evil that shapes every aspect of American society. The question is: Can we find the wisdom to recognize what it is doing to us, and can we change?_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-12-at-9.20.53-PM.jpg?resize=637 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/13/check-your-utility-bill-you-might-be-paying-for-a-trade-group-to-fight-climate-policy/) 2022-03-13T10:32:00Z **Scientists agree: Climate change is real and caused by people**
Samantha Harrington,  Associate Editor of Yale Climate Connections  -  Yale Climate Connections

_Stephan: Believe it or not, and I find it hard to believe, although I know it to be true, there are still millions of Americans who do not realize climate change is real. Or, if it is, that it is something people are causing. This willful ignorance is one of the reasons we as a country are not doing what nee ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/13/scientists-agree-climate-change-is-real-and-caused-by-people/) 2022-03-13T10:35:00Z **Climate Change Is Transforming Europe’s Birds**
Paige Bennett,    -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: For those capable of assessing facts. For those not lost in partisanship and disinformation. This report should be seen as a major alarm bell. Our world is changing very quickly, and yet no government is taking this seriously enough to focus on it properly._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-12-at-8.43.54-PM.jpg?resize=699%2C425&ssl=1)_A ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/13/climate-change-is-transforming-europes-birds/) 2022-03-13T10:34:00Z **A Planet Imperiled by Greed-Fueled Climate Crisis and War**
David Suzuki,  Professor Emeritus, the University of British Columbia  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: David Suzuki makes the right point in this essay. If we are going to survive as a species we need to change our values so that fostering wellbeing at every level of the matrix of life becomes our first concern. Greed and war will not get us through climate change and what is going to be a series of pandemics._

![ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/13/a-planet-imperiled-by-greed-fueled-climate-crisis-and-war/) 2022-03-14T09:35:00Z **Is Consciousness Everywhere?**
Christof Koch,  Chief Scientist of both the MindScope Program at the Allen Institute for Brain Science and The Tiny Blue Dot Foundation   -  MIT Press Reader

_Stephan: If you read me regularly, or have read any of my books of papers you know that I strongly believe that the experimental data confirms what Max Planck, the father of quantum mechanics told us almost a century ago: Consciousness is causal and fundamental spacetime, and everything in it, arises from consci ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/14/is-consciousness-everywhere/) 2022-03-14T09:34:00Z **A New World Energy Order Is Emerging From Putin’s War on Ukraine**
Alan Crawford and Grant Smith,    -  Bloomberg

_Stephan: As I look at what is going on with the Putin created war in Ukraine what I see is the sad reality that in the second decade of the 21st century one dictator can still destroy two countries and there is no obvious way to stop him. Putin, like Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco before him can kill thousands, or even millions, and the rest o ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/14/a-new-world-energy-order-is-emerging-from-putins-war-on-ukraine/) 2022-03-14T09:33:00Z **Putin and Trump have convinced me: I was wrong about the 21st century**
Robert Reich,  Former US Secretary of Labor now Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Robert Reich raises issues that I think many believed would be the tone of the 21st century, but sadly, is not._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-13-at-8.15.33-PM.jpg?resize=744 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/14/putin-and-trump-have-convinced-me-i-was-wrong-about-the-21st-century/) 2022-03-14T09:32:00Z **Want to Understand the Red-State Onslaught? Look at Florida.**
Ronald Brownstein,    -  The Atlantic

_Stephan: One of the largest trends shaping the future of the United States is the Republican christofascist attempt to gut American democracy, and the Great Schism Trend. This article gives a good sense of what is happening. I cannot overemphasize how fragile our democracy is, and how important the November election is. Its outcome will determine our future._

![](htt ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/14/want-to-understand-the-red-state-onslaught-look-at-florida/) 2022-03-15T09:33:00Z **‘We had no choice’: over 8,000 Russians seek US refuge in six-month period**
Editorial Staff,    -  Associated Press

_Stephan: This is another aspect of Putin's evil war on Ukraine. Since the fall of the Soviet Union Russia has slowly integrated with the rest of the world in a way never seen during the Soviet period, and I think one of Putin's miscalculations was how Russian citizens, particularly the young and well-educated have shown they are not willing ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/15/we-had-no-choice-over-8000-russians-seek-us-refuge-in-six-month-period/) 2022-03-15T09:32:00Z **Russian TikTok Influencers Are Being Paid to Spread Kremlin Propaganda**
David Gilbert,    -  Vice News

_Stephan: One of the other trends that Putin's Ukraine war has brought into high focus is the politicization, even weaponization, of disinformation. I think it is important to watch and remember, a pre-internet world without Facebook, Tiktok and others, and the present day when disinformation is in every pocket or purse. We need to develop democratically ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/15/russian-tiktok-influencers-are-being-paid-to-spread-kremlin-propaganda/) 2022-03-15T09:35:00Z **Russia was once enemy number one in the US. So how did Vladimir Putin infiltrate the Republican Party?**
Joanna Robin ,    -  ABC News

_Stephan: Does anyone remember Tokoyo Rose? Tucker Carlson is the modern variant. It tells one a great deal about Fox, the Murdoch family, Trump, and the christofascist Republicans. It is a very nasty picture based on objectively verifiable facts._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/15/russia-was-once-enemy-number-one-in-the-us-so-how-did-vladimir-putin-infiltrate-the-republican-party%ef%bf%bc/) 2022-03-16T09:33:00Z **Opinion | Putin Isn’t Just an Autocrat. He’s Something Worse.**
ALEXANDER J. MOTYL,  Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University-Newark.  -  Politico Magazine

_Stephan: I spent a lot of time in the Soviet Union between 1981 and 1993, particularly in Moscow and Leningrad/St Petersburg. I owned businesses there and worked on art exchanges, and what we called Citizen Diplomacy. My observation about what is happening is that Putin is less Yuri Andropov, or even Stal ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/16/opinion-putin-isnt-just-an-autocrat-hes-something-worse/) 2022-03-16T09:32:00Z **Leaked Kremlin Memo to Russian Media: It Is “Essential” to Feature Tucker Carlson**
David Corn,  Washington Bureau Chief  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: Here is more on how blatant the connection between Tucker Carlson and Putin's government and state-controlled media. Carlson is not a journalist, as Fox asserted in court. He is a kind of preacher to an older, overwhelmingly White, less educated demographic. Much like Jimmy Swigart, Carlson agitates his ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/16/leaked-kremlin-memo-to-russian-media-it-is-essential-to-feature-tucker-carlson/) 2022-03-16T09:35:00Z **Is America the ‘world’s greatest democracy’? We don’t even crack the top 50 in 2022**
Chauncey Devega,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story / Salon

_Stephan: Polls show that most Americans seem to believe that we are the world's leading democracy. Sorry to disabuse them but we are considered a flawed democracy and not even in the top 50. As a result what flawed democracy we do have hangs by a thread, and even that may be destroyed in the fascist Republicans ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/16/is-america-the-worlds-greatest-democracy-we-dont-even-crack-the-top-50-in-2022/) 2022-03-16T09:34:00Z **Koch Industries refuses to break ties with Russia despite Corporate America’s mass exodus**
Jon Skolnik,  Staff Writer  -  Salon

_Stephan: The Koch brothers are the American version of the Russian oligarch. Both versions think of themselves as above the law,but also capable of changing the law to suit their convenience. Oligarchs consider their personal interest to take priority over any national interest. This story is a classic example ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/16/koch-industries-refuses-to-break-ties-with-russia-despite-corporate-americas-mass-exodus/) 2022-03-17T09:35:00Z **An entire branch of government is sinking into an irredeemable Trump-fueled muck of corruption**
Thom Hartmann,    -  Raw Story / Commentary

_Stephan: I took note today that Thom Hartmann apparently agrees with me about the Supreme Court, one of the three institutions upon which the American government is based. Hartmann agrees the highest court in the land has become a corrupt body. He lays this view out in some detail, and I think ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/17/an-entire-branch-of-government-is-sinking-into-an-irredeemable-trump-fueled-muck-of-corruption/) 2022-03-17T09:34:00Z **Saudi Arabia reportedly considering accepting yuan instead of dollar for oil sales**
,    \-  The Hill \| Yahoo News

_Stephan: Saudi Arabia which the United States virtually created in the modern sense, and supported for decades, under the aspiring despot Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has taken a different turn, as the murder and dismemberment of Jamal Khashoggi made clear. Along with Xi of China, bin Salman, has been exploring ways to alter ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/17/saudi-arabia-reportedly-considering-accepting-yuan-instead-of-dollar-for-oil-sales/) 2022-03-17T09:33:00Z **Why the School Wars Still Rage**
Jill Lepore,    -  The New Yorker

_Stephan: American public education has for decades been a target for manipulation by willfully ignorant often fundamentalist Christian people who do not like facts and want only their fantasies and lies to be taught to children. Call it what it is, brainwashing. Critical Race Theory, which isn't even taught below the university level, is the current focus, but far from the first such effort. Long before CRT there was anti-evolut ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/17/why-the-school-wars-still-rage/) 2022-03-17T09:32:00Z **Texas Voting Restrictions Take Their Toll: “Sorry – No Democrat Voting”**
Akela Lacy,  Politics Reporter  -  The Intercept

_Stephan: I don't know how much clearer it could get that the Republican Party is trying to rig elections by limiting access to people who tend to vote Democratic, largely people of color. What surprises me is how little citizen pushback there has been on this. In the civil rights era, people would have been in the streets._

![](https://i ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/17/texas-voting-restrictions-take-their-toll-sorry-no-democrat-voting/) 2022-03-18T09:35:00Z **The Growing Influence of State Governments on Population Health in the United States**
Steven H. Woolf, MD, MPH,  Faculty Center on Society and Health, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond  -  JAMA

_Stephan: I have been telling my readers for years that based on objectively verifiable social outcome data that Republican governance is consistently and universally inferior to Democratic governance. You rarely see this mentioned in general ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/18/the-growing-influence-of-state-governments-on-population-health-in-the-united-states/) 2022-03-18T09:34:00Z **The far right’s national plan for schools: Plant charters, defund public education**
KATHRYN JOYCE,  Investigative Reporter  -  Salon

_Stephan: Republicans don't like educated people because research shows educated people tend to vote Democratic. Because of that Republicans don't like honest public schools which properly educate children. They are backing charter schools where they can easily control what is taught, particularly American history. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/18/the-far-rights-national-plan-for-schools-plant-charters-defund-public-education/) 2022-03-18T09:33:00Z **The Evidence Is Clear: It’s Time to Prosecute Donald Trump**
Laurence H. Tribe and Dennis Aftergut,    -  Reader Supported News

_Stephan: You have probably noticed that Putin's evil attack on Ukraine has essentially pushed Trump's blatant criminality off the news. That doesn't make indicting and prosecuting Trump any less important or urgent. Also I, for one, find the deafening silence from Merritt Garland very notable. And I am not alone in thinking it is time to bring ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/18/the-evidence-is-clear-its-time-to-prosecute-donald-trump/) 2022-03-18T09:32:00Z **Tokamak Energy achieves temperature threshold for commercial fusion**
David Szondy,    -  New Atlas

_Stephan: This may be a first report of what is going to become a major technological trend. In my remote viewing future studies people describe something like this, only smaller._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-17-at-10.26.32-PM.jpg?resize=796%2C530&ssl=1)_The ST-40 spherical tokamak fusion reactor
 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/18/tokamak-energy-achieves-temperature-threshold-for-commercial-fusion/) 2022-03-19T09:35:00Z **Will Russia’s War Spur Europe to Move on Green Energy?**
Paul Hockenos,    -  Yale Environment 360

_Stephan: Over the past 30 years, Russia has slowly integrated into world markets and countries in Europe have found Russian gas and oil convenient. Now all that is ending. It is hard to remember, but Putin has made it clear once again, that for most of history Russia has been ruled by despots. Its whole history is a story of the privileged brutally dominating the peasantry. E ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/19/will-russias-war-spur-europe-to-move-on-green-energy/) 2022-03-19T09:34:00Z **Donald Trump, Michael Flynn call for violence — they’re not kidding, but the media doesn’t care**
Chauncey Devega,  Senior Politics Writer  -  Salon

_Stephan: While Putin's moral bankruptcy and aggressive war against Ukraine dominates the news 24/7, except on the Fox propaganda channel which supports the Russians, it does not mean that the christofascists are letting up on their attempt to undermine American democracy so that White supre ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/19/donald-trump-michael-flynn-call-for-violence-theyre-not-kidding-but-the-media-doesnt-care/) 2022-03-19T09:33:00Z **As Abortion Pills Take Off, Some States Move to Curb Them**
Christine Vestal ,    -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: One of the hallmarks of American christofascists is their hysterical obsession with what people do with their genitals, and with whom they do it, and stopping women from having control over their own bodies. I see this as a major and growing factor in the Great Schism Trend, which I have been covering in SR for years now. The latest area the christofascists ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/19/as-abortion-pills-take-off-some-states-move-to-curb-them/) 2022-03-19T09:32:00Z **Sleep lab study finds sleeping with a light on harms heart health**
Rich Hardy,    -  New Atlas

_Stephan: Personally, I like to sleep in the dark, but not everyone does. However, this issue has now gone from personal preference to medical evidence which I urge my readers to take seriously, particularly if you are diabetic or obese.

Citation for the resarch study upon which this report is based: [Light exposure during sleep impairs cardiometabolic function](htt ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/19/sleep-lab-study-finds-sleeping-with-a-light-on-harms-heart-health/) 2022-03-20T09:35:00Z **Ivermectin Didn’t Reduce Covid-19 Hospitalizations in Largest Trial to Date**
Sarah Toy,  Reporter  -  The Wall Street Journal

_Stephan: No one seems to be talking about it much anymore but on average 1,000 people a day are dying of Covid, overwhelmingly the unvaccinated. Here are the CDC statistics as of 7 March 2022, the latest report I can find:

"The CDC reports demographic characteristics, including race/ethnicity, of people receiving COVID-19 vac ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/20/ivermectin-didnt-reduce-covid-19-hospitalizations-in-largest-trial-to-date/) 2022-03-20T09:34:00Z **It’s 70 degrees warmer than normal in eastern Antarctica. Scientists are flabbergasted.**
Jason Samenow and Kasha Patel,    -  msn/ The Washington Post

_Stephan: Humanity is just not doing what needs to be done to remediate the effects of climate change and, as a result, I predict tens of millions of people are going to die in the coming several decades, and hundreds of millions are going to be uprooted from their homes to become migrant refu ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/20/its-70-degrees-warmer-than-normal-in-eastern-antarctica-scientists-are-flabbergasted/) 2022-03-20T09:33:00Z **Putin’s invasion of Ukraine exposes the Fox News-QAnon feedback loop**
Amanda Marcotte,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: I don't understand why people in Congress and even on other mainstream media do not talk about the Fox propaganda operation honestly and correctly. Fox is a demonstration about how one oligarch can create, and control, a christofascist propaganda business masquerading as a news organization and get others to pay for it through advertising making a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/20/putins-invasion-of-ukraine-exposes-the-fox-news-qanon-feedback-loop/) 2022-03-20T09:32:00Z **Company Plans to Dig World’s Deepest Hole to Unleash Boundless Energy**
Becky Ferreira,    -  Vice News

_Stephan: Here is a new technology that could make a major difference in getting us out of the carbon power era. The question, of course, is what if any effect will this have on the wellbeing of the earth? All new technologies need to be evaluated in that way._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-19- ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/20/company-plans-to-dig-worlds-deepest-hole-to-unleash-boundless-energy/) 2022-03-21T09:35:00Z **Russia is Losing Tens of Thousands of Outward Looking Young Professionals**
Jane Arraf,  Baghdad Bureau Chief  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Putin is setting up Russia for disaster. First, Russia's economy depends on the sale of gas and oil. His war on Ukraine is pushing governments around the world to speed up the transition out of the carbon era. At the same time the young, the bright, the well-educated can't get out of the country fast enough, as t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/21/russia-is-losing-tens-of-thousands-of-outward-looking-young-professionals/) 2022-03-21T09:34:00Z **Trump Just Endorsed an Oath Keeper’s Plan to Seize Control of the Republican Party**
Isaac Arnsdorf,  Reporter  -  Pro Publica

_Stephan: Donald Trump is now openly fascist, and following Hitler's playbook to come back into power. He and the Republicans he leads are openly and actively trying to rig the U.S. electoral system to cheat their way into power. It is a measure of how politically ignorant Americans are that currently he is the most li ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/21/trump-just-endorsed-an-oath-keepers-plan-to-seize-control-of-the-republican-party-2/) 2022-03-21T09:33:00Z **Lobbying broke all-time mark in 2021 amid flurry of government spending**
Jonathan O'Connell and Anu Narayanswamy ,  Reporters  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: The Citizens United Supreme Court decision legalized bribery of public officials and has transformed American government. Today corporations and corporate interest groups rent congress members with low morals and ethical standards to see that laws are passed that favor the renter's interests. We c ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/21/lobbying-broke-all-time-mark-in-2021-amid-flurry-of-government-spending/) 2022-03-21T09:32:00Z **Reliance on Natural Gas Explains Why Electricity Bills Are So High**
Olivia Rosane,    -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: The increase in energy costs which we are all noticing I think are going to have the unintended consequence of stimulating the transition out of the carbon era. So short term bad news, but long term good news._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-20-at-10.09.18-PM.jpg?resize=694%2C463&ssl=1)_A Con ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/21/reliance-on-natural-gas-explains-why-electricity-bills-are-so-high/) 2022-03-22T09:35:00Z **We Are in the Midst of a Global Struggle With Nothing Less Than the Future of the Planet at Stake**
Bernie Sanders,  Senator (D-VT)  -  Reader Supported News

_Stephan: In the interest of full disclosure, I must say that I was a Washington State delegate for Bernie Sanders, the person I backed for President. I am running this as the lead story for today's SR edition because I think what Senator Sanders is saying is very important. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/22/we-are-in-the-midst-of-a-global-struggle-with-nothing-less-than-the-future-of-the-planet-at-stake/) 2022-03-22T09:34:00Z **MAGA views on Russia’s Ukraine invasion speak volumes about ‘right-wing contrarians’: conservative**
Alex Henderson,  Staff Writer  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: There is a correlation amongst those who are Trumper Republicans, anti-vaxxers and favoring Russia in Ukraine. This is a consistent group of people who also favor White supremacy Christian fascism. We need to recognize them and vote in sufficient numbers to make sure they never com ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/22/maga-views-on-russias-ukraine-invasion-speak-volumes-about-right-wing-contrarians-conservative/) 2022-03-22T09:33:00Z **Here are the 8 House Republicans who voted against suspending normal trade relations with Russia and Belarus**
Bryan Metzger ,    -  Business Insider

_Stephan: Given what you have been seeing on the television every day it may seem almost impossible that 8 Republicans from the stupid wing of Trump world could vote not to sanction Russia and Belarus for their war crimes, but they did. Now can we please vote these cretin ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/22/here-are-the-8-house-republicans-who-voted-against-suspending-normal-trade-relations-with-russia-and-belarus/) 2022-03-22T09:32:00Z **Pro-Trump group sent armed members door-to-door in Colorado to “intimidate” voters: Lawsuit**
IGOR DERYSH,  Staff Writer  -  Salon

_Stephan: What this suit is about is straight out of Hitler's playbook. Uncannily similar. And destructive of democracy. This is how Hitler came to power. It is time we started holding all these people and their leaders, particularly Trump, accountable_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/22/pro-trump-group-sent-armed-members-door-to-door-in-colorado-to-intimidate-voters-lawsuit/) 2022-03-23T09:35:00Z **Long COVID study indicates “something concerning is happening”**
Rich Haridy,    -  University of Cambridge /

_Stephan: The general gestalt seems to be we are past Covid. We are not. One thousand people a day, mostly the unvaccinated, are still dying each day, and the new study reported in this article suggests there may be long-term issues. So I would say we are far from out of the Covid pandemic.

Citation: The two new studies were published in the journal Frontie ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/23/long-covid-study-indicates-something-concerning-is-happening/) 2022-03-23T09:34:00Z **Rich Nations Must Cut Off Oil and Gas by 2034 to Keep Climate Hopes Alive: Report**
Jake Johnson,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: It is becoming clearer week by week that the world simply is not taking climate change seriously enough. THe one good thing, if I can call it that, to come out of the Ukraine war is that it will stimulate countries to speed up the transition out of the carbon power era. But as matters stand it looks like mill ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/23/rich-nations-must-cut-off-oil-and-gas-by-2034-to-keep-climate-hopes-alive-report/) 2022-03-23T09:33:00Z **The South’s health care system is crumbling under Covid-19. Enter Tennessee.**
Daniel Payne ,    -  Politico

_Stephan: For the past 10 years I have been warning that rural manifestations of the American illness profit system are collapsing. (See SR archives) Covid has now brought that into clearer focus than ever before. To a point, as this article describes, that I don't know how much clearer it could be made. Particularly in rural Red states if you li ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/23/the-souths-health-care-system-is-crumbling-under-covid-19-enter-tennessee/) 2022-03-23T09:32:00Z **Ai Weiwei on the new Silk Road: ‘This is China’s counterattack in a global game of chess’**
Ai Weiwei,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: I am deeply concerned that the United States is being outplayed by China geopolitically. I know from talking with Chinese officials in China that they have a long-term view of geopolitics while American business leaders, and the congress members they rent, generally seem to think about only short-term pro ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/23/ai-weiwei-on-the-new-silk-road-this-is-chinas-counterattack-in-a-global-game-of-chess/) 2022-03-24T09:35:00Z **New research on Trump voters: They’re not the sharpest tools in the box**
Chauncey Devaga,  Senior Politics Writer  -  Salon

_Stephan: Regular SR readers will recognize this line of research, the psychophysiology of politics, because I have been writing about it for the last six years. (See SR archives). The paper upon which this report is based is freely available to read, although not downloadable or open to copy, and I urge my readers to click through an ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/24/new-research-on-trump-voters-theyre-not-the-sharpest-tools-in-the-box/) 2022-03-24T09:34:00Z **Putin’s Holy Man Pushed for the “Eradication of Ukraine”**
A. Craig Copetas,    -  The Daily Beast

_Stephan: Putin is a christofascist authoritarian, an important part of his psychology that is not, in my opinion, getting the attention that it should. Here is a report on this._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-6.07.55-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C448&ssl=1)_Putin and Patriarch Kirill llustration by Thomas Levinson/Th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/24/putins-holy-man-pushed-for-the-eradication-of-ukraine/) 2022-03-24T09:33:00Z **Russia Will Remake Itself. But It Has to Crumble First**
Varia Bortsova,  Founder of Soviet Visuals  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: From 1981 until 2003 I and a small group of other Americans did everything we could to help Russia become a democracy. The rise of Putin and Russia's reversion to authoritarianism was one of the most tragic things I have ever witnessed. I say this to give context to why I selected this essay by a Russian woman. Watching the culmination of the ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/24/russia-will-remake-itself-but-it-has-to-crumble-first/) 2022-03-24T09:32:00Z **Crisis at Chernobyl Nuclear Plant Escalates as Forest Fires Spread**
Molly Taft,  Staff Writer  -  Gizmodo

_Stephan: Not much has been said about Chernobyl, now under Russian control, but I saw this report and realized that this may be a first account describing what could become a vast disaster. If radioactivity is released for some reason at the damaged nuclear plant the winds could blow lethal radioactivity over Russia and other countries endangering until ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/24/crisis-at-chernobyl-nuclear-plant-escalates-as-forest-fires-spread/) 2022-03-25T09:35:00Z **Trump is guilty of ‘numerous’ felonies, prosecutor who resigned says**
WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM, BEN PROTESS and JONAH E. BROMWICH ,  Reporters  -  The Seattle Times / The New York Times

_Stephan: To the astonishment of many, including me, it appears that Donald Trump once again is going to get a free pass for his endless criminality. How can this be? Only Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg knows the answer to that question and he won' provide an answer as this ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/25/trump-is-guilty-of-numerous-felonies-prosecutor-who-resigned-says/) 2022-03-25T09:34:00Z **Republican Alabama AG refuses to acknowledge Biden as the ‘duly elected’ president**
Alex Henderson,  Staff Writer  -  AlterNet

_Stephan:  If you were watching the disgusting hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, like me you heard Republican Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, while under oath, fail to acknowledge that Joe Biden was the legitimately elected President. This tells all of us how deeply anti-democratic and fascist the Republ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/25/republican-alabama-ag-refuses-to-acknowledge-biden-as-the-duly-elected-president/) 2022-03-25T09:33:00Z **New details emerge about indicted GOP lawmaker — including a ‘brown bag with $30,000’ from Nigerian billionaire**
Sarah K. Burris,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: For whatever reason corporate media, particularly television news channels just don't seem interested in the endless criminal corrupt reports about the Republican fascists. This one is about Nebraska Republican Rep. Jeff Fortenberry. You've probably never ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/25/new-details-emerge-about-indicted-gop-lawmaker-including-a-brown-bag-with-30000-from-nigerian-billionaire/) 2022-03-25T09:32:00Z **Republican Sen. Mike Braun says Supreme Court was wrong to legalize interracial marriage**
SOPHIA TESFAYE,  Senior Editor  -  Salon

_Stephan: Republican Senator and fascist White supremacist Mike Braun said out loud what many in the Republican Party, both in-office and as voters believe but don't say except amongst themselves: interracial marriage should not be legal. How a single Black, Hispanic, or Asian person can vote for a Republican ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/25/republican-sen-mike-braun-says-supreme-court-was-wrong-to-legalize-interracial-marriage/) 2022-03-26T09:35:00Z **How the Russian Invasion of Ukraine Upended Germany**
Alec MacGillis,  Staff Writer  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: Have you wondered how Germany allowed itself to become so dependent on Russian gas and oil? So have I, and for the past several weeks I have been looking for a fact-based analysis of that situation. This is the best exegetic essay on this subject I have been able to find. It makes sense and I think it is accurate._

Last October, I sat in the office of Klaus Emmerich, ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/26/how-the-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-upended-germany/) 2022-03-26T09:34:00Z **Feeding Our Future**
Interview by Kate Silver with Tim Schellpeper,  Staff Writer and CEO JBS  -  Politico

_Stephan: I have been checking farming and agriculture journals and magazines regularly because I see an emerging trend, which I think is good news, suggesting that the commercial agriculture community is beginning to recognize they have to shift away from the industrial chemical monoculture of agriculture that has dominated American farming for the past half-century. Here is an interview that gives a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/26/feeding-our-future/) 2022-03-26T09:33:00Z **California’s ‘Solar Canals’ Will Save Water and Produce Clean Energy**
Eduardo Garcia ,  Environmental Writer  -  Treehugger

_Stephan: To anyone who has seen the canals in California this is such an obvious solution to several problems -- loss of water, increasing solar power -- that it is surprising such a project was not undertaken some years ago. But now it has begun and that is very good news._

![Conceptual rendering of solar panels spanning the 110 foot-w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/26/californias-solar-canals-will-save-water-and-produce-clean-energy/) 2022-03-26T09:32:00Z **New SEC rule requires companies to disclose how they’re approaching climate change**
Naveena Sadasivam,  Senior Staff Writer  -  Grist

_Stephan: Change is coming, albeit slowly, and there is a growing recognition about the impact of climate change on financial markets. Here is a bit of good news in that area._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-25-at-9.12.45-PM.jpg?resize=595%2C418&ssl=1) ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/26/new-sec-rule-requires-companies-to-disclose-how-theyre-approaching-climate-change/) 2022-03-27T09:35:00Z **Biden to Include Minimum Tax on Billionaires in Budget Proposal**
Zolan Kanno-Youngs,  White House Correspondent  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Finally someone, a Democrat, of course, is proposing to do something about the wealth inequality that so distorts American society. This is a very big deal and will generate billions of dollars of tax revenue. I predict the Republicans, and a couple of Democrats, Manchin and Sinema, who have been rented by the oligarchs ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/27/biden-to-include-minimum-tax-on-billionaires-in-budget-proposal/) 2022-03-27T09:34:00Z **Research Finds Investment in Permanent Child Tax Credit Would Pay Off 10-Fold.**
Sharon Zhang,  News Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: You would think any human capable of rational thought would recognize that supporting the young of a country would result in many benefits, benefits far exceeding the costs of such support. Now we have factual evidence that this is true. But compared with the rest of the developed world the United States does not see thi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/27/research-finds-investment-in-permanent-child-tax-credit-would-pay-off-10-fold/) 2022-03-27T09:33:00Z **How Russian entities are retaining much of their D.C. lobbying influence**
HAILEY FUCHS,    -  Politico

_Stephan: This is a really alarming although little-covered story. What it is telling us is that so great is the corruption of the U.S. Congress, and the laws they have passed about legalized bribery that in the midst of the Russian war on Ukraine it is still possible for Russian oligarchs and their corporations to hire lobbyists to rent American congre ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/27/how-russian-entities-are-retaining-much-of-their-d-c-lobbying-influence/) 2022-03-27T09:32:00Z **Energy efficiency guru Amory Lovins: ‘It’s the largest, cheapest, safest, cleanest way to address the crisis’**
John Vidal,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Amory Lovins, in my opinion, is one of the most interesting people in American public life. All the things he has proposed over the years have been in service to fostering wellbeing, and they have all turned out to be correct. One does not hear much about him anymore, ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/27/energy-efficiency-guru-amory-lovins-its-the-largest-cheapest-safest-cleanest-way-to-address-the-crisis/) 2022-03-28T09:35:00Z **We Have Two Political Parties and One of Them Has Gone Insane**
Charles Pierce,  Columnist  -  Reader Supported News / Esquire

_Stephan: Every day, as I scan through the journals, papers, websites, and news media that I look at in preparation for SR, I find what is happening with the Republican Party ever more alarming. Our governmental design for the last two centuries has been basically a two-party system and now that fundamental is breaking down, by any reasonab ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/28/we-have-two-political-parties-and-one-of-them-has-gone-insane/) 2022-03-28T09:34:00Z **Putin’s Purge of “Traitors” Scoops Up Pensioners, Foodies, and Peaceniks**
Robyn Dixon, Mary Ilyushina,    -  Microsoft News / The Washington Post

_Stephan: For about 15 years, beginning in 1981, I spent a lot of time in Russia, particularly Moscow and St. Petersburg working both philanthropically, and with businesses. It was fascinating watching Communism die as a failed system, and that time in Russia taught me viscerally and intellectually that the best sy ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/28/putins-purge-of-traitors-scoops-up-pensioners-foodies-and-peaceniks/) 2022-03-28T09:33:00Z **‘A barbaric federal program’: US killed 1.75m animals last year – or 200 per hour**
Oliver Milman,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: I urge each reader to write Tom Vilsack, the Secretary of Agriculture and ask him to stop this obscenity. [https://www.usda.gov/contact-us](https://www.usda.gov/contact-us)_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-27-at-10.21.48-PM.jpg?resize=615%2C370&ssl=1)_The 20 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/28/a-barbaric-federal-program-us-killed-1-75m-animals-last-year-or-200-per-hour/) 2022-03-28T09:32:00Z **Before the War**
Tariq Ali,  Author of many books, including Street-Fighting Years, Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity and The Dilemmas of Lenin.   -  London Review of Books

_Stephan: Tariq Ali has written a very interesting geopolitical assessment of what is happening. I don't fully agree with Ali's assessment of NATO, but his analysis incorporates accurately nuances that are usually not even considered._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Tariq-Ali.j ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/28/before-the-war/) 2022-03-29T02:11:00Z **How Joe Manchin Aided Coal, and Earned Millions**
Christopher Flavelle and Julie Tate,  Reporters  -  The New York Times Magazine

_Stephan: I don't know about you but I am both saddened and angry at the corruption of our Congress and Supreme Court. The Congressional corruption is certainly bipartisan although the Republicans are notably worse on this score, Mitch McConnell being a horrific example. However, there are some Democrats who also stand out, and none is worse than Joe M ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/28/how-joe-manchin-aided-coal-and-earned-millions/) 2022-03-29T09:35:00Z **GOP Is Setting the Stage for a Possible Coup in 2024 While Dems Ignore Threat**
Yoav Litvin,    -  truthout

_Stephan:  This is what concerns me. If you read SR regularly you will be familiar with these trends that move us towards anocracy. My disagreement with this piece is in the final paragraph. Litvin still doesn't get that it should be framed as creating equality and the democracy it expresses with wellbeing as the first societal priority._

![] ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/29/gop-is-setting-the-stage-for-a-possible-coup-in-2024-while-dems-ignore-threat/) 2022-03-29T09:34:00Z **The Clarence Thomas Scandal Shows The Supreme Court Considers Itself Above Ethics**
Paul Blumenthal,    -  Huff Post

_Stephan: I grow increasingly concerned that what we, the public, are being shown that in America today those at a high level in government are basically above the law. Merrick Garland does nothing. Trump, Bannon, Flynn, et al, continue trying to convert us to White supremacy christofascism. The Supreme Court imposes upon itself n ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/29/the-clarence-thomas-scandal-shows-the-supreme-court-considers-itself-above-ethics/) 2022-03-29T09:33:00Z **How Joe Manchin Aided Coal, and Earned Millions**
Christopher Flavelle and Julie Tate,  Reporters  -  The New York Times Magazine

_Stephan: I don't know about you but I am both saddened and angry at the corruption of our Congress and Supreme Court. The Congressional corruption is certainly bipartisan although the Republicans are notably worse on this score, Mitch McConnell being a horrific example. However, there are some Democrats who also stand out, and none is worse than Joe M ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/29/how-joe-manchin-aided-coal-and-earned-millions/) 2022-03-29T09:32:00Z **Cory Booker Says SCOTUS Needs to “Use This Thomas Affair” to Change Its Ethics Rules**
Fernanda Echvarri,  Reporter  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey, a Democrat of course, and I think that is notable, is one of those who give me hope for Congress. His history of integrity is obvious, as is his commitment for fostering wellbeing. And what he is saying here, in my opinion, is exactly what needs to be done. It is absurd ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/29/cory-booker-says-scotus-needs-to-use-this-thomas-affair-to-change-its-ethics-rules/) 2022-03-30T09:35:00Z **Jan. 6 White House logs given to House show 7-hour gap in Trump calls**
Bob Woodward and Robert Costa ,    -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: Trump's criminality just keeps piling up as millions of MAGAts look the other way. And where is Merritt Garland and the DOJ? He and it are so different from the DOJ of the Nixon era. Increasingly Americans question the obvious corruption that pervades the American government because no one close to Trump is ever held acc ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/30/jan-6-white-house-logs-given-to-house-show-7-hour-gap-in-trump-calls/) 2022-03-30T09:34:00Z **The Media Has Yet to Grasp the Full Enormity of Ginni Thomas’s Text Messages**
Alex Shephard,  Staff Writer  -  The New Republic

_Stephan: I am running this piece because I agree with it, and am surprised and disappointed that so few in the media seem to get that it is not just that Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Virginia lack any sense of ethics or honor. That has been obvious for years. Equally important, but largely ap ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/30/the-media-has-yet-to-grasp-the-full-enormity-of-ginni-thomass-text-messages/) 2022-03-30T09:33:00Z **For red and blue America, a glaring divide in COVID-19 death rates persists 2 years later**
Arielle Mitropoulos ,    -  abc News

_Stephan: History, I think, is going to make much of the MAGAt world's death cult in which hundreds of thousands of Americans through willful ignorance chose to give up their lives in their allegiance to one of the greatest criminals in the centuries of America. Indeed, so great is their subservience to his will ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/30/for-red-and-blue-america-a-glaring-divide-in-covid-19-death-rates-persists-2-years-later/) 2022-03-30T09:32:00Z **Making It Easy to Carry a Concealed Gun Is Absolute Madness**
Michael A. Cohen,    -  The Daily Beast

_Stephan: The Republican Party is making America an increasingly dangerous country in which to live. There are already red states in which I would be hesitant to be in a large crowd where alcohol was freely present because drunkenness and gunfire strongly correlate. Why are they doing this? It's all debated through bogus analyses of the 2nd amendment, but what is rea ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/30/making-it-easy-to-carry-a-concealed-gun-is-absolute-madness/) 2022-03-31T09:35:00Z **Young women are out-earning young men in several U.S. cities**
Richard Fry,  Senior Researcher  -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: Pew Research has just published a very interesting report on changes in gender equality in the U.S.. I think this is good news because it shows that a growing percentage of the American population, and both small businesses and large corporations, are changing their attitude on this subject, even in the metropolitan areas of Red states._

! ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/31/young-women-are-out-earning-young-men-in-several-u-s-cities/) 2022-03-31T09:34:00Z **Plastic pollution could make much of humanity infertile, experts fear**
MATTHEW ROZSA,  Staff Writer  -  Salon

_Stephan: Because, with occasional exceptions, few and far between, humans have never considered technologies from the perspective of their impact on the wellbeing of life, like oil, and nuclear, the wellbeing impact of plastics has not been on most governments' radar. That is now changing but very slowly, probably too slowly. And the implications a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/31/plastic-pollution-could-make-much-of-humanity-infertile-experts-fear/) 2022-03-31T09:33:00Z **Russian state TV calls for regime change in America — to ‘help our partner Trump’: report**
Bob Brigham,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Russian state television, the official voice of the Putin government, makes it about as clear as one could. No mincing words here._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-30-at-9.37.16-PM.jpg?resize=512%2C572&ssl=1)

Former President Donal ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/31/russian-state-tv-calls-for-regime-change-in-america-to-help-our-partner-trump-report%ef%bf%bc/) 2022-03-31T09:32:00Z **Trump Asks Putin to Release Dirt on Joe Biden**
Jackson Richman,    -  MEDIAite

_Stephan: Considering also the previous story, can the collaboration and shared common interests be made any clearer._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-30-at-9.44.04-PM.jpg?resize=731%2C410&ssl=1)_Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty_

Former President **Donald Trump** called on Russian President **Vladimir Putin** to release dirt on President **Joe Bid ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/03/31/trump-asks-putin-to-release-dirt-on-joe-biden/) 2022-04-01T09:35:00Z **Amid Renewed Medicare for All Push, Study Shows 112 Million Americans Struggle to Afford Healthcare**
Jessica Corbett,    -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: The United States has the worst healthcare in the world of developed nations because the system is not about fostering wellbeing, it is about making profit. As every American knows when you try to see a doctor the first thing you are asked is not what's the problem, it's how are you ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/01/amid-renewed-medicare-for-all-push-study-shows-112-million-americans-struggle-to-afford-healthcare/) 2022-04-01T09:34:00Z **House passes insulin bill over insurers’ opposition**
ALICE MIRANDA OLLSTEIN and MEGAN WILSON,    -  Politico

_Stephan: Diabetes is a nonpartisan disease. Actually, more Republicans are obese than Democrats, and obesity correlates with diabetes, so there may be a skew such that more Republicans suffer from diabetes than Democrats. Insulin can cost an uninsured person as much as $1,000 a month. That said, how could any congress member vote against limiting the cost to $35 a mo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/01/house-passes-insulin-bill-over-insurers-opposition/) 2022-04-01T09:33:00Z **House Democrats To Focus On Expanding Health Care For All In Upcoming Hearing**
Julia Conley,  Staff Writer  -  NEWSONE

_Stephan: While the Republican Party is doing everything it can to serve its corporate masters in America's illness profit system and block anything that would reduce their masters' profits, the Democrats are trying to move to a healthcare system actually focused on fostering wellbeing. Will they succeed? Only if you and your famil ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/01/house-democrats-to-focus-on-expanding-health-care-for-all-in-upcoming-hearing/) 2022-04-01T09:32:00Z **GOP Congressman Agrees That the ‘Democrat Party Embraces Racism Against White People’**
Kyle Mantyla,    -  New Civil Rights Movement

_Stephan: One of the weirdest and saddest parts of the White Supremacy Republican Party is their continually reiterated sense of victimhood. Poor little dittums, everyone is always picking on them is their constant whine. What is important about this, I think, is that this is not a fringe part of the Republican ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/01/gop-congressman-agrees-that-the-democrat-party-embraces-racism-against-white-people/) 2022-04-02T09:35:00Z **Voting Laws Roundup: February 2022**
,    \-  Brennan Center for Justice

_Stephan: Voting arrangements are handled at the state level and throughout the country, in preparation of the upcoming November election, as of January 2022 legis­lat­ors, mostly Republicans, in at least 27 states have intro­duced, pre-filed, or carried over 250 bills with restrict­ive provi­sions. They are all defined by one thing, being expressions of White Supremacy. This is a growing threat to American democracy as ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/02/voting-laws-roundup-february-2022/) 2022-04-02T09:34:00Z **Ivermectin Did Nothing To Help COVID-19 Patients, Large Study Finds**
Nick Visser,    -  HuffPost

_Stephan: Okay, now we have the facts. Ivermectin is of no use whatever clinically in treating Covid. Sorry MAGAts, like most of your fantasies, this one was also crap._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-01-at-7.47.44-PM.jpg?resize=775%2C666&ssl=1)

[Ivermectin](https://www.huffpost.com/topic/ivermectin), ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/02/ivermectin-did-nothing-to-help-covid-19-patients-large-study-finds/) 2022-04-02T09:33:00Z **Transition to Zero-Emission Vehicles Would Save 110,000 Lives, Report Finds**
Andrea Germanos,  Senior Editor and Staff Writer  -  truthout / Common Dreams

_Stephan: Here is an assessment of what moving out of the carbon era can mean. The one good thing to come out of the Russian invasion of Ukraine may be that it will speed up the transition. The benefits are enormous as this report lays out._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/up ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/02/transition-to-zero-emission-vehicles-would-save-110000-lives-report-finds/) 2022-04-02T09:32:00Z **John Fetterman Is Facing an Attack From a For-Profit Health Super PAC**
JULIA ROCK and ANDREW PEREZ,    -  JACOBIN

_Stephan: When I tell you that we do not have a healthcare system in the United States but an illness profit system, and that corporate money shapes the laws by renting Congress members this is one of the reasons I think as I do. Lamb is just what you would expect. John Fetterman is one of the most interesting public figures at the st ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/02/john-fetterman-is-facing-an-attack-from-a-for-profit-health-super-pac%ef%bf%bc/) 2022-04-03T09:35:00Z **The Pending Death of the Supreme Court**
Robert Reich,  Carmel P. Friesen Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California and former Secretary of Labor  -  Reader Supported News

_Stephan: What strikes me about the corruption and unethical behavior of Clarence Thomas is that not only is Thomas destroying his own reputation for integrity, which was already severely compromised, he is also bringing the integrity of the entire court into ques ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/03/the-pending-death-of-the-supreme-court/) 2022-04-03T09:34:00Z **The Thomas scandal exemplifies the rot spoiling our democracy**
Jennifer Rubin,  Columnist  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: Jennifer Rubin makes the same point I made in my commentary on the previous post. The Thomases and their failure to act with integrity are damaging the Supreme Court's integrity and reputation, as well as American democracy itself, and yet it increasingly looks like they will face no consequences, just as Trump and those around him seem to be ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/03/the-thomas-scandal-exemplifies-the-rot-spoiling-our-democracy/) 2022-04-03T09:33:00Z **Congress Found An Easy Way To Fix Child Poverty. Then It Walked Away.**
Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux,  Senior Writer  -  FiveThirtyEight

_Stephan: America as a society, and particularly Republican Americans do not like children. That cannot be disputed, the social outcome data proves it irrefutably. As I have said before, of course, they love their own children, but as a culture we do not seem to understand that children really are a country's future and that a dol ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/03/congress-found-an-easy-way-to-fix-child-poverty-then-it-walked-away/) 2022-04-03T09:32:00Z **Why So Many Middle-Aged Women Are on Antidepressants**
Andrea Petersen,  Reporter  -  The Wall Street Journal

_Stephan: For a while now I have been following a health trend that I find both sad and concerning, the depression of middle-aged women, and their use of medications to deal with it. Here is the latest on this trend._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-02-at-7.28.42-PM.jpg?resize=598%2C600&ssl=1)_Illustration ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/03/why-so-many-middle-aged-women-are-on-antidepressants/) 2022-04-04T09:35:00Z **Another Billionaire Tax Bites the Dust**
Michael Mechanic,    -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: If you remember a few days ago I ran a lengthy piece in The New York Times, about the gobsmacking corruption of Senator Joe Manchin, and his indifference to the effects on the environment and climate his dirty coal business produces. Now this story on how he blocked Biden's attempt to tax the uber-rich, including himself. Manchin, a Democrat is the outlier proving that corruption in the Senate is not ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/04/another-billionaire-tax-bites-the-dust/) 2022-04-04T09:34:00Z **Senators Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema And Mark Kelly Tank Pro-Worker Labor Nominee**
Arthur Delaney and Dave Jamieson,  Senior Reporter \| Labor Reporter  -  HuffPost

_Stephan: Joe Manchin made sure the uber-rich didn't pay fair taxes, and in the same week, worked to screw his constituents, the hourly wage working men and women of West Virginia._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-03-at-8.1 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/04/senators-joe-manchin-kyrsten-sinema-and-mark-kelly-tank-pro-worker-labor-nominee/) 2022-04-04T09:33:00Z **How Much Do Things Really Cost?**
Nick Romeo,    -  The New Yorker

_Stephan: Here is a very interesting way of working out which choice to make when you are buying something -- the true price. It includes environmental impact cost, transportation costs, worker payment, and water and land use costs._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-03-at-8.29.11-PM.jpg?resize=867%2C837&ssl=1)_Illustration by Nicholas Konrad / The New Yorker_

In late 20 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/04/how-much-do-things-really-cost/) 2022-04-04T09:32:00Z **Blue states enact new laws to create abortion havens**
,    \-  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: The struggle over whether women have the right to control their own bodies has taken two very interesting turns that will significantly alter the effect of a negative Supreme Court decision. The first turn is the development of pharmaceuticals that can cause a safe abortion. The anti-choice movement recognizes this, which is why they are trying to pass legislation to eliminate the ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/04/blue-states-enact-new-laws-to-create-abortion-havens/) 2022-04-05T09:35:00Z **Biden: Rupert Murdoch ‘most dangerous man in the world’**
DOMINICK MASTRANGELO,    -  The Hill

_Stephan: I agree with President Biden. Rupert Murdoch is an oligarch who has made his money running propaganda faux news operations that push christofascism. And he has been very successful at it. He plays on White fear, blatant racism, and the hysteria of the right over non-heterosexual relationships, and Fox is the most watched television cable channel in the U.S.. As a result, ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/05/biden-rupert-murdoch-most-dangerous-man-in-the-world/) 2022-04-05T09:34:00Z **Russia Once Again Using Tucker Carlson in Its Propaganda**
Jon Jackson,  Staff Writer  -  Newsweek

_Stephan: Tucker Carlson, in my view, is a traitor to American democracy. I find it very revealing that Rupert Murdoch gives him the platform he does on the Fox propaganda. And it tells us something very depressing about the American public that Carlson is the most popular propagandist on Murdoch's propaganda operation. He has become so blatant in his support for christofa ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/05/russia-once-again-using-tucker-carlson-in-its-propaganda/) 2022-04-05T09:33:00Z **The manifold effects of partisan media on viewers’ beliefs and attitudes: A field experiment with Fox News viewers**
David Broockman and Joshua Kalla,    -  OSF Preprints

_Stephan: Here is a well-designed research report showing that Fox viewers who were paid to watch CNN for 30 days ultimately became skeptical of Fox's fake news, and began to doubt its accuracy after just three days._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.sc ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/05/the-manifold-effects-of-partisan-media-on-viewers-beliefs-and-attitudes-a-field-experiment-with-fox-news-viewers/) 2022-04-05T09:32:00Z **Flurry of New Laws Move Blue and Red States Further Apart**
Shawn Hubler and Jill Cowan,    -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Apparently, The New York Times is beginning to recognize The Great Schism Trend I have been covering in SR for more than a decade. I predict this is going to cause a growing number of people and families to move to Blue states which offer a higher quality of life than can be found in the Red states._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/05/flurry-of-new-laws-move-blue-and-red-states-further-apart/) 2022-04-06T09:35:00Z **QAnon goes mainstream**
Radley Balko,  Criminal Justice Report  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: When I first heard about QAnon I thought, no one could possibly take this crap seriously. Little did I know QAnon would become the Republican Party and tens of millions of people would believe the QAnon nonsense as gospel. We are a very sick country, and we seem to be getting sicker by the day. It is a measure ofhow sick we have become that people like Josh Hawley were elected to be senators. What I can't ans ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/06/qanon-goes-mainstream/) 2022-04-06T09:34:00Z **Here’s why MAGA world loves lies that are too big and stupid to be believed**
Amanda Marcotte,  Senior Political Writer  -  Raw Story / Salon

_Stephan:  This is one of several attempts I have seen trying to make sense and explain why the "Big Lie" and the other Trumpian MAGAt nonsense that is so widely believed has taken such a hold on the American mind. I see this discussion as good news because it assures me there is still hope of America;we have not ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/06/heres-why-maga-world-loves-lies-that-are-too-big-and-stupid-to-be-believed/) 2022-04-06T09:33:00Z **America Has a Free Speech Problem**
The Editorial Board,    -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Free speech is essential to a democracy. It is such a well-known affirmation it is a cliche´. But is it true? This is a subject taken as such a given that it does not get much discussion. The New York Times editorial board presents their view. My only issue with their view is that it does not address the issue of dis- and misinformation, which I consider one of the American culture's defining trends._
 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/06/america-has-a-free-speech-problem/) 2022-04-06T09:32:00Z **Right-Wing Book Censorship is an Attack on the Minds of Children**
Bill Ayers,  Distinguished Professor of Education and a Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (retired)  -  Truthout

_Stephan: The sabotage of public education that occurred under Betsy DeVoss, was just the beginning. Authoritarians don't like or support public education, and now are banning or burning books for several reasons. If you teach people to think and respec ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/06/right-wing-book-censorship-is-an-attack-on-the-minds-of-children/) 2022-04-07T09:35:00Z **IPCC report: ‘now or never’ if world is to stave off climate disaster**
Fiona Harvey,  Environment Correspondent  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: One last warning from the IPCC. Humanity is simply not doing enough to remediate climate change. This is an existential civilization-changing crisis and as I survey media and scientific publications every day what is see is another schism. Scientists with their hair on fire about what is coming, and politicians who ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/07/ipcc-report-now-or-never-if-world-is-to-stave-off-climate-disaster/) 2022-04-07T09:34:00Z **More Republicans have died of COVID-19. Does that mean the polls are off?**
Jim Saksa,    -  Roll Call

_Stephan: The Republican death cult is having an unintended consequence. This article presents one aspect of it that may affect voting in November._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-06-at-5.59.46-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C534&ssl=1)_A man dressed as Uncle Sam with a syringe through his head marches wi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/07/more-republicans-have-died-of-covid-19-does-that-mean-the-polls-are-off/) 2022-04-07T09:33:00Z **Over a Quarter of 12-to-19-Year-Olds Have Prediabetes, Research Shows**
Linda Searing,  Reporter  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: Diabetes is becoming a national crisis disease because of two major issues, obesity, and poor diet. What is even worse is that, as this article describes, a quarter of American youth, particularly boys, are prediabetic, and on course to becoming Type II diabetics._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/07/over-a-quarter-of-12-to-19-year-olds-have-prediabetes-research-shows/) 2022-04-07T09:32:00Z **63 Republicans vote against House resolution affirming support for NATO and its ‘democratic principles’**
PETER WEBER,    -  The Week

_Stephan: The Republicans over and over during the Ukrainian crisis have demonstrated repeatedly that about a third of them prefer Putin to democracy. I just don't see how any ethical person can vote Republican. This is not a political party as that term has been understood in the United States ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/07/63-republicans-vote-against-house-resolution-affirming-support-for-nato-and-its-democratic-principles/) 2022-04-08T09:35:00Z **Millions of children will miss healthy school meals when pandemic relief expires**
Allison Aubrey,    -  npr

_Stephan: Once again we see objective proof that America, as a society, does not like or care for, children. This reality just makes me crazy and angry. It is so obvious that children are a nation's future, and so this child neglect is so stupid, callous, and political. Republicans, particularly, by their voting make it clear they are indi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/08/millions-of-children-will-miss-healthy-school-meals-when-pandemic-relief-expires/) 2022-04-08T09:34:00Z **‘Their Inflation Strategy Is Working’: Corporate Profits Soared to Record High in 2021**
JAKE JOHNSON,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: The social outcome data is coming out now about the period of the pandemic, and it reveals that the corporate oligarchs have used this period to enrich themselves, and their major shareholders. I see this as just another manifestation of America's central social value -- greed, and the profi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/08/their-inflation-strategy-is-working-corporate-profits-soared-to-record-high-in-2021%ef%bf%bc/) 2022-04-08T09:33:00Z **‘We are at a crossroads’: New IPCC report says it’s fossil fuels or our future**
Lina Tran & Joseph Winters,    -  Grist

_Stephan: As I said the other day, 25% of Americans either don't believe climate change is real or believe it is just a natural phenomenon, not involving humanity. That 25% and the people they vote into office where they are a majority are blocking the United States from appropriately preparing for climate change. All of this funded ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/08/we-are-at-a-crossroads-new-ipcc-report-says-its-fossil-fuels-or-our-future/) 2022-04-08T09:32:00Z **The Growing Religious Fervor in the American Right: “This Is a Jesus Movement”**
Elizabeth Dias and Ruth Graham,  Reporters  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: As far as I know, I coined the term christofascist about 15 or 20 years ago. I did this because I saw three trends coalescing: the growing size and political power of the evangelical movement; its increasing obsession with White Supremacy, male dominance, and militant heterosexualism. This emergin ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/08/the-growing-religious-fervor-in-the-american-right-this-is-a-jesus-movement/) 2022-04-09T09:35:00Z **Why Is Merrick Garland Throttling the Trump Investigation**
William Rivers Pitt,    -  truthout

_Stephan: I was very glad to see this essay by William Rivers Pitt, because it means another voice speaking the objective facts. Merrick Garland is setting himself up as a historic figure. But whether as a hero or a villain is not clear._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-08-at-8.28.39-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C5 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/09/why-is-merrick-garland-throttling-the-trump-investigation%ef%bf%bc/) 2022-04-09T09:34:00Z **Marjorie Taylor Greene shredded for claiming women are their husbands’ property**
Matthew Chapman,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: The thing about people like Marjorie Taylor Greene is that they can't keep their mouths shut; they always divulge secrets. And Greene speaking for many Republicans states their secret truth. You always have to remember that she was voted into office by a majority of Republicans in her district in Georgia._

![](https://i0.wp. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/09/marjorie-taylor-greene-shredded-for-claiming-women-are-their-husbands-property/) 2022-04-09T09:33:00Z **Abortion Policy in the Absence of Roe**
,    \-  Guttmacher Institute

_Stephan: We will soon hear the decision of the Supreme Court on Roe v Wade. If it goes as expected here is what the U.S. will look like._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-08-at-10.15.01-PM.jpg?resize=505%2C564&ssl=1)

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Changes to the makeup of the U.S. Supreme Court in 2018 raise the possibility that _Roe v. Wade_ could be severely undermi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/09/abortion-policy-in-the-absence-of-roe%ef%bf%bc/) 2022-04-09T09:32:00Z **The Supreme Court’s ‘shadow docket’: What you need to know**
Louis Jacobson,    -  Politifact

_Stephan: I had two readers write me and ask for information about what a Supreme Court shadow docket was about. Here is an excellent explanation, and why it has come to matter so much._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-08-at-10.31.50-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C456&ssl=1)_The Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. Credit: Louis Jaco ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/09/the-supreme-courts-shadow-docket-what-you-need-to-know/) 2022-04-10T09:35:00Z **Healing for the home: 6 in 10 parents now seeking therapy for their entire family**
Chris Melore,    -  Study Finds

_Stephan: We are a very sick society. This gets almost no attention in the mainstream media, but I see study after study coming out on various aspects of this social illness. What I don't see is a real movement toward universal birthright single-payer healthcare._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/10/healing-for-the-home-6-in-10-parents-now-seeking-therapy-for-their-entire-family/) 2022-04-10T09:34:00Z **Adults Living With Gun Owners More Than Twice As Likely To Die Of Homicide, Study Finds**
Mary Papenfuss,    -  HuffPost

_Stephan: America's obsessive gun psychosis is producing more and more gun homicides and suicides every year. We now have more guns than people in this country, and the Republican Party in the Red states is doing everything in its power at the state level to make going around with a concealed weapon with no license or tra ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/10/adults-living-with-gun-owners-more-than-twice-as-likely-to-die-of-homicide-study-finds/) 2022-04-10T09:33:00Z **US life expectancy continues historic decline with another drop in 2021, study finds**
Deidre McPhillips,    -  CNN Health

_Stephan: Once again the statistics are in and they show that once again life expectancy in the United States has declined. There is very little discussion about this in the Congress or the media, but I find it a very striking trend._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/10/us-life-expectancy-continues-historic-decline-with-another-drop-in-2021-study-finds/) 2022-04-10T09:32:00Z **Texas Woman, 26, Charged With Murder over ‘Self-Induced’ Abortion**
Associated Press Reporters,    -  The Guardian (U.K.) / Associated Press

_Stephan: This is what is going on in Texas and, I predict, we will see more of this in other Red states that are mimicking the anti-abortion laws passed in Texas. The Republicans are trying to create a legal environment where a young woman and anyone who helps her can be arrested, prosecuted, and sent to prison for years, or ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/10/texas-woman-26-charged-with-murder-over-self-induced-abortion/) 2022-04-11T09:35:00Z **McCarthy’s Jan. 6 Committee Gamble Faces Big Test This Spring**
Scott Wong,  Senior Congressional Reporter  -  NBC News

_Stephan: We are coming to some kind of closure with Trump and January 6th, and because both the Republicans and the Democrats see this through the prism of politics for them above all else it's like a chess game of power. And like chess a bad move several moves back can suddenly come back to haunt you. As I said at the time, I had to wonder, if McC ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/11/mccarthys-jan-6-committee-gamble-faces-big-test-this-spring/) 2022-04-11T09:34:00Z **Jan. 6 Panel Has Evidence for Criminal Referral of Trump, but Splits on Sending**
,    \-  DNYUZ

_Stephan: The Democrats are so pusillanimous, over and over they fail to do what needs to be done. Let us hope this time they find the courage and do what is ethically required, just as was done in Watergate. The failure to hold Trump and his court accountable would haunt America for a century and severely damage our democracy._

![](https://i0.wp.com/ww ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/11/jan-6-panel-has-evidence-for-criminal-referral-of-trump-but-splits-on-sending/) 2022-04-11T09:33:00Z **Putin Is the Only Leader They’ve Known. And They’re Done With Him.**
ULIANA PAVLOVA,    -  Politico Magazine

_Stephan: The world at the geopolitical level is realigning itself. I don't think at least in the media that this is being fully recognized. At one level it is fascinating, one man based on his ego and the rancid nature of his character can destroy two countries, and alter the relationships amongst one hundred others. There are going to be all kind of impli ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/11/putin-is-the-only-leader-theyve-known-and-theyre-done-with-him/) 2022-04-11T09:32:00Z **L.A. County bans official travel to Florida, Texas over LGBTQ policies**
Hannah Sampson,    -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: The Great Schism Trend has taken a significant turn: travel officially banned from Blue to Red states because of wellbeing destroying social policies. I think the Blue States are also going to begin to object to underwriting the failure of the Red states. I have published several pieces on this, Blue states put a dollar into the federa ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/11/l-a-county-bans-official-travel-to-florida-texas-over-lgbtq-policies/) 2022-04-12T09:35:00Z **The Supreme Court’s Attack on the Clean Water Act Was Too Extreme for John Roberts**
MARK JOSEPH STERN,    -  Slate

_Stephan: The other day I did a piece on the Supreme Court conservatives using their secret docket option so they are not identified, and no real opinion is written. Here is an example of exactly what I mean. The reality is that for the past 30 years the Republican Party has pursued a strategy to corrupt the court, and with Trump's ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/12/the-supreme-courts-attack-on-the-clean-water-act-was-too-extreme-for-john-roberts/) 2022-04-12T09:34:00Z **Sanders’ Hearing on Corporate Greed Goes Unnoticed by Corporate Media**
Ralph Nader,    -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Bernie Sanders always has his eye on what is relevant, and the issue of corporate greed is certainly relevant today. Bravo Senator Sanders._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-11-at-7.56.15-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C287&ssl=1)_U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Budget Comm ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/12/sanders-hearing-on-corporate-greed-goes-unnoticed-by-corporate-media/) 2022-04-12T09:33:00Z **Oligarch’s big loophole for stashing money**
KATY O'DONNELL,    -  Politico

_Stephan: Here is another ethical senator -- there aren't that many -- Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island. He and Senator Sanders are trying to get American corporations to clean up their act. Few Americans know that because of the way the laws have been written the United States is one of the best countries in the world to stash dirty money or the money of oligarchs, criminals, and autocrat ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/12/oligarchs-big-loophole-for-stashing-money/) 2022-04-12T09:32:00Z **The end of the COVID emergency could mean a huge loss of health insurance**
ELISABETH ROSENTHAL,    -  Salon

_Stephan: In a few days unless Congress does something millions of low-income and lower middle-class Americans are going to be at risk of losing their health insurance. The United States is the only country in the developed world that doesn't seem to understand why universal healthcare focused on wellbeing not profit is important to maintain a su ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/12/the-end-of-the-covid-emergency-could-mean-a-huge-loss-of-health-insurance/) 2022-04-13T09:35:00Z **Tennessee’s Anti-Gay Marriage Bill Sparks Bipartisan Criticism**
,    \-  Associated Press / NBC News

_Stephan: The Republican obsession with male-dominant heterosexuality as the only "normal" religiously correct sexuality has been one of the hallmarks of the party for several decades. This prejudice is partly expressed by the anti-choice movement, partly by the christofascist attempt to stop the legality of same-sex marriages, and partly their pedophilia charges a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/13/tennessees-anti-gay-marriage-bill-sparks-bipartisan-criticism/) 2022-04-13T09:34:00Z **Why Republicans are Smearing Everyone as Pedophiles Now – Conspiracy Theories Work on Different Levels**
Jonathan Chait,    -  New York Magazine

_Stephan: I first really took aboard the Republican conspiracy tactic of using Pedophilia as a smear on Democrats when I was told, "Of course, you know that a group of Democrats led by Hillary Clinton is running a pedophilia operation out of the basement of a pizza parlor in D.C." In ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/13/why-republicans-are-smearing-everyone-as-pedophiles-now-conspiracy-theories-work-on-different-levels/) 2022-04-13T09:33:00Z **Putin bares the flaws of autocracy for world to see**
Peter Grier and Noah Robertson,  Staff Writers  -  Christian science Monitor

_Stephan: Tonight I watched PBS Frontline's production: Putin's Road to War I urge you to go to: pbs.org/Frontline and watch it if you did not see it tonight. It is absolutely the best presentation on how the world got to where it is with Russia's genocidal invasion of Ukraine. It makes clear what I said at the time, that the Obama administration ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/13/putin-bares-the-flaws-of-autocracy-for-world-to-see/) 2022-04-13T09:32:00Z **GOP Kansas legislator: The pay gap exists because women just don’t work as hard**
TIM CARPENTER and SHERMAN SMITH,  Reporters  -  Kansas Reflector

_Stephan: When I read this two things occurred to me. First, I am surprised this man's wife hasn't killed him. Any woman who has a job and is married with children knows that women work twice as hard as men. She works her job, and then goes home and works her second job. Second, how does any woman vote fo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/13/gop-kansas-legislator-the-pay-gap-exists-because-women-just-dont-work-as-hard/) 2022-04-14T09:34:00Z **99% of Humans Breathe Unhealthy Air, Latest WHO Data Shows**
Olivia Rosane,    -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: There are 7.9 people now alive on earth. According to the latest World Health Organization (WHO), 7.82 billion of us breathe unhealthy air. Yet humanity cannot seem to develop the will to make improving the air a major priority. As a result, it becomes clearer by the day that climate change is not being addressed properly or adequately_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwart ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/14/99-of-humans-breathe-unhealthy-air-latest-who-data-shows/) 2022-04-14T09:33:00Z **Space balloon company offers first look at luxury cabins**
,    \-  Agence France-Presse

_Stephan: As I have written about the obscene wealth inequality in the United States what has struck me, again and again, is that this wealth differential is so great that most Americans can not even conceive of it. If you make $35,000 a year, how do you even conceptualize buying a $150 million yacht? But this story which I discovered yesterday really brought it home to me. A whole ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/14/space-balloon-company-offers-first-look-at-luxury-cabins/) 2022-04-14T09:32:00Z **Democrats Bail On Promise To Shed Light On Corporate Political Spending**
Walker Bragman,    -  The Lever

_Stephan: I keep telling you that the United States, particularly the Congress is now as corrupt as the banana republics of South America at their worst. And, although the Republicans are the worst offenders, the Democrats aren't that much better, as this article lays out. The Citizens United Supreme Court decision must be reversed, and the Democrats ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/14/democrats-bail-on-promise-to-shed-light-on-corporate-political-spending/) 2022-04-14T09:35:00Z **In the Ocean, It’s Snowing Microplastics**
Sabrina Imbler,    -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Humans are causing all manner of breakdowns of earth's ecosystems; one of the most notable being what happens to discarded plastics. This plastic pollution issue, for me, exactly showcases why human technologies must be redesigned. Presently, technologies are developed to make a profit and service an immediate need. There is no consideration of the impact of that technology on the wellbeing of t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/14/in-the-ocean-its-snowing-microplastics/) 2022-04-15T09:35:00Z **Republicans say they’re quitting the ‘biased’ Commission on Presidential Debates**
Eric McDaniel,  Editor NPR Political Podcast  -  KPCC 89.3 FM

_Stephan: The presidential campaign of 2024 has just radically changed because the Republican Party has withdrawn from the Presidential debates. I see this as just another example of the Republican disdain for, indeed opposition to, democracy._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-cont ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/15/republicans-say-theyre-quitting-the-biased-commission-on-presidential-debates%ef%bf%bc/) 2022-04-15T09:34:00Z **As Families Grieve, Grandparents Step Up**
Paula Span,    -  The New York Times

_Stephan: We have a million dead in the U.S. as a result of Covid, and there is much in media about that. What I have not seen until now is what I have been wondering about. There are now more than 200,000 covid orphans in America. Children whose parents have died and who are now being cared for by grandparents, uncles, and aunts. Think about that for a moment. You are in your 60s, 70s, or 80s, and suddenly ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/15/as-families-grieve-grandparents-step-up/) 2022-04-15T09:33:00Z **New Analysis Details ‘Master Class in War Profiteering’ by US Oil Giants**
JESSICA CORBETT,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: The one thing about the petroleum industries that is always a predicatable constant is that they put profit above all other considerations, and take every opportunity however unethical to increase profits. Here is the data._

![Graph showing oil buybacks](https://i0.wp.com/www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/i ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/15/new-analysis-details-master-class-in-war-profiteering-by-us-oil-giants%ef%bf%bc/) 2022-04-15T09:32:00Z **Russian state television says ‘preparations’ underway to get Donald Trump reelected in 2024: report**
Brandon Gage,    -  AlerNet

_Stephan: Trump continues to praise Putin, and there is a significant segment of the christofascist Republican Party that admires Putin, as was made clear by the Republicans in Congress who voted against supporting NATO. And there is a very large segment of the American population that favors fascistic ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/15/russian-state-television-says-preparations-underway-to-get-donald-trump-reelected-in-2024-report/) 2022-04-16T09:36:00Z **Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid**
Jonathan Haidt,  Faculty Social Psychology at the New York University Stern School of Business.  -  The Atlantic

_Stephan: Anyone who reads me knows about my concern over what I call the Great Schism Trend. I urge you to read this article by Jonathan Haidt. He lays out the current cultural situation very well. He accurately presents little discussed or even recognized issues explaining what is go ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/16/why-the-past-10-years-of-american-life-have-been-uniquely-stupid/) 2022-04-16T09:35:00Z **What Should America Do With Its Nuclear Waste?**
Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow,    -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: I became interested in nuclear power in 1969 when I became editor at Seapower Magazine because I got interested in nuclear-powered ships and submarines and the visionary Admiral Hymen Rickover who created the modern nuclear fleet. The waste issue became immediately apparent to me, and since then I believe until there is a solution to spent fuel rods, and the other waste nucle ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/16/what-should-america-do-with-its-nuclear-waste/) 2022-04-16T09:34:00Z **If We Can Farm Metal From Plants, What Else Can We Learn From Life?**
James Bridle,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: I am running this piece to make a point about something I have been emphasizing in SR for years, consciousness is not restricted to humans; we live in a matrix of consciousness. Until we learn that and accept it, we are not going to be able to fully address the challenges of climate change or understand why we created the problem in the first ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/16/if-we-can-farm-metal-from-plants-what-else-can-we-learn-from-life/) 2022-04-16T09:33:00Z **Failed GOP culture war bills, “fraudits” cost taxpayers hundreds of millions to defend in court**
Tom Boggioni,  Staff Writer  -  Salon

_Stephan: I have been looking for an article on this subject for several weeks because it became obvious that the culture wars stirred up by the Republicans are costing millions of dollars to litigate, and you and I are paying for that. All I can think about is how many children could be fed for that ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/16/failed-gop-culture-war-bills-fraudits-cost-taxpayers-hundreds-of-millions-to-defend-in-court/) 2022-04-17T09:35:00Z **The Slime Machine Targeting Dozens of Biden Nominees**
Jane Mayer,  The New Yorker’s chief Washington correspondent  -  The New Yorker

_Stephan: As far as I can discern the Republican Party no longer has any interest in social wellbeing. They seem to want only one thing, to stay in power, and their strategy seems to be to stimulate fear and to smear Democrats with nonsensical crap. Here is a good essay on this._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploa ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/17/the-slime-machine-targeting-dozens-of-biden-nominees/) 2022-04-17T09:34:00Z **Turns out an awful lot of US politicians see no problem with kids going hungry**
Arwa Mahdawi,  Staff Writer  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Every single Republican in congress plus the despicable Joe Manchin opposed extending the Child Tax Credit, which act condemned millions of American children back to poverty and food stress. I don't know how these congress members live with themselves, or how it is any person with a child could vote Republic ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/17/turns-out-an-awful-lot-of-us-politicians-see-no-problem-with-kids-going-hungry/) 2022-04-17T09:33:00Z **Alabama Governor Signs Ban on Transition Care for Transgender Youth**
Rick Rojas,    -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Every gay or lesbian friend I have known, or who has worked for me has told me the same thing. They knew their sexual orientation while still children. And every one of them said that this realization made their childhood more difficult because they had to hide what they really felt. Why Republicans have this obsessive need to make the lives of ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/17/alabama-governor-signs-ban-on-transition-care-for-transgender-youth/) 2022-04-17T09:32:00Z **As Climate Fears Mount, Some in U.S. Are Deciding to Relocate**
Jon Hurdle,    -  Yale Environment 360

_Stephan: I have been telling my readers since the early 1990s that we are going to have three big internal migrations, away from the coasts because of sea rise, out of the Southwest because of too little water and higher temperatures, and out of heavily forested and the central states because of violent events like forest fires or tornadoes. Well, folks, it is happ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/17/as-climate-fears-mount-some-in-u-s-are-deciding-to-relocate/) 2022-04-18T09:35:00Z **Climate Change Proposals Favored by Solid Majorities in U.S.**
Jeffrey M. Jones,    -  The Gallup Organization

_Stephan: Here is some good news about climate change. Although Republicans still fall far behind Democrats in recognizing what is going on, they have finally come to understand that climate change is real and that preparations for what is occurring must be undertaken._

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![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/0 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/18/climate-change-proposals-favored-by-solid-majorities-in-u-s/) 2022-04-18T09:34:00Z **What Is the Greenest State in the Nation?**
Olivia Rosane,    -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: The Great Schism Trend between the Red and Blue states is becoming ever more pronounced. Red states are woefully behind the Blue states in preparing for climate change, and I predict this is going to have a wide range of implications on the wellbeing of those states. For one thing the inferior governance in Red states, their lack of preparation, is going to require them to need more federal dollars and ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/18/what-is-the-greenest-state-in-the-nation/) 2022-04-18T09:33:00Z **Pittsburgh Mass Shooting: 10 shot, 2 juveniles dead at party in Airbnb; multiple shooters suspected**
WPXI News Staff,    -  WPXI News (Pittsburgh)

_Stephan: There are so many mass shootings in the United States now it is hard to keep track of them all. This and the next story are just one day's worth._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-18-at-12.09.09-AM.jpg?resize=794%2C5 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/18/pittsburgh-mass-shooting-10-shot-2-juveniles-dead-at-party-in-airbnb-multiple-shooters-suspected/) 2022-04-18T09:32:00Z **9 people shot in mass shooting at South Carolina lounge, police say**
Amir Vera and Raja Razek,  Reporters  -  CNN

_Stephan: Here is the other mass shooting on Sunday 17th April. It is the 130th mass civilian shooting this year. Then there are the police killings; there were 1,055 police gun murders in 2021. At the same time, in Red states, it is becoming increasingly easy to carry a concealed weapon, with no license, and with no training. So what do you think ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/18/9-people-shot-in-mass-shooting-at-south-carolina-lounge-police-say/) 2022-04-19T09:35:00Z **Elizabeth Warren: Democrats Can Avoid Disaster in November**
Elizabeth Warren,  Democratic Senator from Massachusetts  -  New York Times

_Stephan: Elizabeth Warren, in my opinion, is one of the smartest most knowledgeable members of the present Congress. More than that she has a level of integrity that makes most of her opposition look like another species. This is her take on the upcoming election, and I completely agree with her. Whether the Democrats have the wisdom ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/19/elizabeth-warren-democrats-can-avoid-disaster-in-november/) 2022-04-19T09:34:00Z **‘ChristoFascism in a Nutshell’: DeSantis Mocked for Banning Nearly Half of All Math Books Claiming CRT Indoctrination**
David Badash,    -  The New Civil Rights Movement

_Stephan: Well, first let me note the use of christofascism in the headline because I coined the term back in the 1990s (I'll have to check to get an exact date). But that said this, in contrast to Elizabeth Warren in the proceeding piece is how ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/19/christofascism-in-a-nutshell-desantis-mocked-for-banning-nearly-half-of-all-math-books-claiming-crt-indoctrination/) 2022-04-19T09:33:00Z **What In the Ever-Loving Gay Fever Dream: Tucker Is Worried About the End of (Mostly Naked) Men**
ABBY ZIMET,    -  April 16, 2022

_Stephan: If you don't look at MAGAt world media, and I don't know why any rational person would, unless like me for research, you may not know how truly weird it has become, and how obsessed it is with a perverted version of manhood. These Republican White men are really frightened of women with a strong se ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/19/what-in-the-ever-loving-gay-fever-dream-tucker-is-worried-about-the-end-of-mostly-naked-men/) 2022-04-19T09:32:00Z **Documents Show How Polluting Industries Mobilized to Block Climate Action**
Amy Westervelt,    -  The Intercept

_Stephan: This is what corruption looks like. To protect their profit the individuals who control these companies were readily willing to degrade the wellbeing of billions of people, and every other living being on the planet. How's that for greed?_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-18 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/19/documents-show-how-polluting-industries-mobilized-to-block-climate-action/) 2022-04-20T09:35:00Z **Why one evangelical pastor left a radicalized, post-Jan. 6 America behind**
Patrick Smith,    -  NBC News

_Stephan: This story, I think, is important because it signals an emerging trend, young Americans leaving the evangelical christofascist movement, a bloc of voters critical to the Republican Party. Particularly in rural America, and the Red states, if young Christians desert the party it will be in real trouble. If this trend continues I see it as goo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/20/why-one-evangelical-pastor-left-a-radicalized-post-jan-6-america-behind/) 2022-04-20T09:34:00Z **The culture wars’ next frontier: Public libraries**
Annie Gowen,,    -  Anchorage Daily News / The Washington Post

_Stephan: This story, in my view, is reporting on a trend that is a very big deal. There is nothing original about it, it is straight out of the standard authoritarian christofascst playbook. The American Republican Party is following in the steps of Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin and, now Putin. These people, this party, does not want people to be educated, they do ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/20/the-culture-wars-next-frontier-public-libraries/) 2022-04-20T09:33:00Z **Oceans Aren’t Just Warming—Their Soundscapes Are Transforming**
MATT SIMON,    -  Motherjones

_Stephan: Here is an aspect of climate change, that candidly I had never thought about. Warming changes nature's soundscape. I suspect there are going to be other previously unrecognized or considered climate change effects that are going to sabotage the wellbeing of earth and the beings living on it in ways no one predicted for foresaw._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartz ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/20/oceans-arent-just-warming-their-soundscapes-are-transforming/) 2022-04-20T09:32:00Z **How Russian Media Uses Fox News to Make Its Case**
Stuart A. Thompson,    -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Rupert Murdoch's Fox by careful design is a White supremacist obsessive male dominance disinformation propaganda operation. It is also the most watched news channel in the United States, which tells you something very important and very sad about Americans. I personally think it is long past time to make a legal difference between propaganda operations and news organization ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/20/how-russian-media-uses-fox-news-to-make-its-case/) 2022-04-21T09:35:00Z **Right-Wing Populist Parties Are Bad for Climate Action, Study Finds**
Olivia Rosane,    -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: If you vote Republican you are voting against the well-being of your future and your children's future and grandchildren's future. I know that sounds terribly partisan, but it is not. SR doesn't do partisanship, SR does facts. And here are the facts._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-20-at-4.0 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/21/right-wing-populist-parties-are-bad-for-climate-action-study-finds/) 2022-04-21T09:34:00Z **Republicans Say, ‘Let Them Eat Hate’**
Paul Krugman,  Nobel Laureate Economist, Columnist, Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center.  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Paul Krugman has one of the most accurate public voices, based on facts. This is his take describing one of the strongest trends going on in the U.S. today. The transformation of the Republican Party into a cult employing the authoritarian playbook that dates back centuries. Law #1 activate fear, ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/21/republicans-say-let-them-eat-hate/) 2022-04-21T09:33:00Z **The world’s coastal cities are sinking, but not for the reason you think**
Camille Squires,    -  Quartz

_Stephan: It isn't just that sealevels are rising, it is also tectonic plates shifting, or human activity causing subsidence. We found Cleopatra's palace, the Lighthouse of Pharos, and the ancient seawall. They were all deep underwater because the African littoral sank submerging the most expensive real estate in the ancient city of Alexandria. It is ha ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/21/the-worlds-coastal-cities-are-sinking-but-not-for-the-reason-you-think/) 2022-04-21T09:32:00Z **The impact of sea level rise in North and South Carolina**
Mike Collins,    -  WFAE 90.7 (North Carolina)

_Stephan: As I said in my comment before the previous article sea level rise plus coastal subsidence, are happening all over the world, the America Carolinas, for instance. I could pull up a dozen of these stories. It is happening and it is not, in my opinion, being given enough attention._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/21/the-impact-of-sea-level-rise-in-north-and-south-carolina%ef%bf%bc/) 2022-04-22T09:35:00Z **Biden Restores Climate to Landmark Environmental Law, Reversing Trump**
Lisa Friedman,  Reporter  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: There is so much bad news today, so many lies, scams, and cheats by Republicans that have suddenly become public showing how democracy hangs by a thread in America. If you haven't already heard it listen to Kevin McCarthy's private real opinion about 6 January compared with his public lies, for instance, that I thought I would sta ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/22/biden-restores-climate-to-landmark-environmental-law-reversing-trump/) 2022-04-22T09:34:00Z **America’s endangered rivers**
Erin Doherty,    -  Axios

_Stephan: When I look at the polls and surveys what stands out for me is how ignorant and uninterested most Americans are about climate change unless it is immediately impacting their personal lives. And it is all going to get worse, much worse. Yet when do you see these kinds of stories on the news channels or discussed on the floor of either house of Congress? We are sleepwalking into catastrophe._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.ne ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/22/americas-endangered-rivers/) 2022-04-22T09:33:00Z **‘Scary’: how the American South is punishing ‘crimes of thought’ and restricting ‘freedom of movement’**
John Stoehr,  Contributing Writer for the Washington Monthly, Columnist for Public Seminar, Contributing Editor for Religion Dispatches, and Senior Editor at Alternet.  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: This is another view of the Great Schism Trend. I agree with the trends John Stoehr describes, but I don't think his causal reasoning goes ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/22/scary-how-the-american-south-is-punishing-crimes-of-thought-and-restricting-freedom-of-movement/) 2022-04-22T09:32:00Z **34 people shot in LA in what police chief calls one ‘troubling week’**
City News Service,    -  ABC News (Los Angeles)

_Stephan: More guns, more murders. A child can figure that out. But apparently, it is beyond the intellectual capacity of American politicians._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-21-at-7.40.51-PM.jpg?resize=666%2C520&ssl=1)_One of the several dozen shooting murders in the L.A. area las ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/22/34-people-shot-in-la-in-what-police-chief-calls-one-troubling-week/) 2022-04-23T09:35:00Z **The Cost of Not Indicting Trump Now Is a Presidency Without Guardrails**
KIMBERLY WEHLE,    -  Politico

_Stephan: As I watched the news today what struck me was the astonishing corruption, lying, bullying, and scamming that now defines the Republican Party. And yet, not a single high-ranking Republican is being held to account for any of it. This lack of accountability is poisoning our democracy, and once established that you can do such things and fear no ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/23/the-cost-of-not-indicting-trump-now-is-a-presidency-without-guardrails/) 2022-04-23T09:34:00Z **Manhattan DA’s Star Witness: Indict Trump Now or I’m Out**
Jose Pagliery,  Political Investigations Reporter  -  Daily Beast

_Stephan: Echoing the point I made in the previous story, Michael Cohen, says to the Manhattan AG, act or count me out. I think millions of Americans feel the same. No high-ranking Republican is being held to account for anything, however egregious._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-0 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/23/manhattan-das-star-witness-indict-trump-now-or-im-out%ef%bf%bc/) 2022-04-23T09:33:00Z **Climate change triggering global collapse in insect numbers**
Tim Newbold and Charles Outhwaite,  Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Biodiversity and Environment, UCL \| Postdoctoral Researcher in Biodiversity Change, UCL  -  The Conversation / Raw Story

_Stephan: We have been warned over and over that we must make radical changes in the way humans live and interact with the other beings on the planet or else we will face dire consequences. Instead, we vote liars and ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/23/climate-change-triggering-global-collapse-in-insect-numbers/) 2022-04-23T09:32:00Z **How Democratic Outrage Can End Trump’s Reign**
Thom Hartmann,    -  The Hartmann Report

_Stephan: Thom Hartmann has it right. The data supports what he says. I keep waiting for the Democrats to move decisively as both parties did with Nixon and his cronies but it never seems to happen. The Democrats this time don't seem to have the same clarity of intent. I hope that very soon the January 6th committee will begin holding public hearings, that's what changed the nation in the previou ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/23/how-democratic-outrage-can-end-trumps-reign/) 2022-04-24T09:35:00Z **Gun deaths were the leading killer of US children in 2020**
BBC Editorial Staff,    -  BBC News (U.K.)

_Stephan: The deep sickness of America's obsessive gun psychosis is now the leading cause of death amongst U.S. children. And yet I had to go to a medical journal and a British media outlet to find this report. Evermore Republican-controlled legislatures have passed or are trying to pass laws allowing people to carry concealed firearms with no training, and ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/24/gun-deaths-were-the-leading-killer-of-us-children-in-2020%ef%bf%bc/) 2022-04-24T09:34:00Z **Quarter of U.S. covid deaths were probably preventable with vaccination**
Philip Bump,  National Bump  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: A million dead in the U.S., and here is the latest death report from the American, mostly MAGAt, death cult. Hundreds of thousands of Americans would be alive and well had they not been too brainwashed and moronic to not get vaccinated. Those are facts, anti-vaxxers, can you open your minds enough to comprehend them?_

![] ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/24/quarter-of-u-s-covid-deaths-were-probably-preventable-with-vaccination/) 2022-04-24T09:33:00Z **How the American middle class has changed in the past five decades**
RAKESH KOCHHAR and STELLA SECHOPOULOS,  Senior Researcher \| Research assistant for social and demographic trends  -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: The American middle class is shrinking and becoming less educated, everything an authoritarian oligarchy dreams of. The MAGAts don't even realize they vote for their own degradation and shrinking financial status so great is their fear, racism, ha ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/24/how-the-american-middle-class-has-changed-in-the-past-five-decades/) 2022-04-24T09:32:00Z **Are you in the American middle class? Find out with our income calculator**
JESSE BENNETT, RICHARD FRY, and RAKESH KOCHHAR,  Senior Researchers  -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: As I noted in the previous article the American middle class is shrinking while the richer are getting much richer, and he poor are getting poorer, a clear measure of the Republican dismemberment of American democracy. Click through, answer the questions, and see where you stan ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/24/are-you-in-the-american-middle-class-find-out-with-our-income-calculator-3/) 2022-04-25T09:35:00Z **How climate change is reshaping the world**
The Editorial Staff,    -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: It amazes me how little coverage the earth changes are getting from most of the media. They get reported individually, but not as a comprehensive whole. Here is an exception, credit to The Washington Post. While all the usual human stupidities are going on, the earth itself is being changed by those stupidities. It has begun to seem to me to be a horserace. Do we continue the stupiditi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/25/how-climate-change-is-reshaping-the-world/) 2022-04-25T09:34:00Z **Only 29% of hospitalised COVID-19 patients fully well one year on: Study**
,    \-  cna

_Stephan: Ninety percent of the people hospitalized for Covid are unvaccinated and part of the mostly MAGAt death cult. But as this research lays out, even those that don't die in hospital are far from out of the woods._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-25-at-12.11.31-AM.jpg?resize=749%2C419&ssl=1)_He ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/25/only-29-of-hospitalised-covid-19-patients-fully-well-one-year-on-study%ef%bf%bc/) 2022-04-25T09:33:00Z **Gov. Greg Abbott truck inspections turned up zero drugs, migrants but cost Texas $4.2 billion.**
Ariana Garcia,    -  LMTonline

_Stephan: This report and the one that follows both illustrate something very important that every voter should comprehend. On the basis of objectively verifiable data, both demonstrate that Republicans are not governing on the basis of societal wellbeing. They are demonstrating authoritarian power and voters a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/25/gov-greg-abbott-truck-inspections-turned-up-zero-drugs-migrants-but-cost-texas-4-2-billion/) 2022-04-25T09:32:00Z **Florida taxpayers could face a $1 billion Disney debt bomb if its special district status is revoked**
Robert Frank,    -  CNBC

_Stephan: Here is a second example of the inferiority of Republican governance. I know that some readers will take this as a partisan position; it is not. I am an experimentalist, what I care about are objectively verifiable social outcome data, and they are very clear. If you live in Florida, next sum ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/25/florida-taxpayers-could-face-a-1-billion-disney-debt-bomb-if-its-special-district-status-is-revoked/) 2022-04-26T09:36:00Z **Editor’s Note**
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  The Schwartzreport

_Stephan: Every day the news is dominated by two stories, Russia's evil war in Ukraine, and the rampant criminality of the Republican Party and its complete uninterest in behaving lawfully or supporting democracy. Just the naked greed for power. I picked four stories out of a large pool illustrating this, and could have picked a dozen more. I have never seen anything in politics as blatant as what is going on now.

(There is no click-through, ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/26/editors-note-52/) 2022-04-26T09:35:00Z **Judge holds former President Trump in civil contempt for failing to comply with document subpoenas from New York attorney general**
Sonia Moghe and Kara Scannell,    -

_Stephan: It's amazing, Trump breaks the law day in and day out, and only rarely is held accountable for what he does. This is a happy exception._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/26/judge-holds-former-president-trump-in-civil-contempt-for-failing-to-comply-with-document-subpoenas-from-new-york-attorney-general/) 2022-04-26T09:34:00Z **Judge denies request to delay trial for Idaho Republican accused of rape**
KELCIE MOSELEY-MORRIS,  Reporter  -  Idaho Capital Sun

_Stephan: One of the things that stands out, for me, in all the arrests and indictments of Republican officials is their male dominance obsession. Trump has 26 -- 26! -- women who have registered complaints about his attempts to molest and dominate them. But he is far from alone in this. Here is an obscure Republican ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/26/judge-denies-request-to-delay-trial-for-idaho-republican-accused-of-rape%ef%bf%bc/) 2022-04-26T09:33:00Z **GOP lawmaker convicted of lying to the FBI is broke and facing prison**
Timothy Evans,    -  AlterNet

_Stephan: This is another Republican. I cannot imagine affiliating with an organization that has this level of criminality._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-25-at-9.23.10-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C450&ssl=1)_Former Republican Representative of Nebraska Jeff Fortenberry_

Former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R- ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/26/gop-lawmaker-convicted-of-lying-to-the-fbi-is-broke-and-facing-prison/) 2022-04-26T09:32:00Z **Letters From America – April 22, 2022**
Heather Cox Richardson,  History Professor and Columnist  -  Letters from America

_Stephan: Helen Cox Richardson is a very sensible person, and I think she places the Republican criminality in the right context._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Helen-Cox-Richardson.webp?resize=660%2C371&ssl=1)_Professor Helen Cox Richardson_

“I don’t recall.” “I don’t remember.”

Georgia Republican representative Marjorie Taylo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/26/letters-from-america-april-22-2022/) 2022-04-27T09:35:00Z **Covid Drugs Save Lives, but Americans Can’t Get Them**
Zeynep Tufekci,    -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Yet another demonstration of the failure of America's illness profit system. I don't know how it could be made any clearer that we may more than any other nation on earth for healthcare and yet get amongst the worst healthcare in the developed world. Yet other than Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren do you see members in Congress routinely advocating for universal birthr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/27/covid-drugs-save-lives-but-americans-cant-get-them/) 2022-04-27T09:34:00Z **Treating COVID-19 with antibiotics leading to the creation of more superbugs**
Chris Melore,    -  Study Finds

_Stephan: I have been telling readers that Covid is just the beginning. As climate changes viruses and bacteria mutate to survive those changes. As we treat with antibiotics superbugs emerge for the same reason. This is one of the reasons I advocate so strongly for universal birthright single-payer healthcare. Without consistent qu ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/27/treating-covid-19-with-antibiotics-leading-to-the-creation-of-more-superbugs%ef%bf%bc/) 2022-04-27T09:33:00Z **Science Confirms That When White People Read About Covid Racial Disparities, They Respond Selfishly**
JACKIE FLYNN MOGENSEN,  Reporter  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: Like everything else in American culture, the Covid data is strongly influenced by racism. Republicans are hysterical about not discussing the truth that racism has been baked into American culture since the nation's founding; they want to censor schools and libraries t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/27/science-confirms-that-when-white-people-read-about-covid-racial-disparities-they-respond-selfishly/) 2022-04-27T09:32:00Z **We’re Running Out of Time to Hold Donald Trump Accountable**
Robert Reich,  Former US Secretary of Labor, is Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: It is my opinion that Robert Reich is spot on. The fact that Trump continues to operate politically while being held accountable for nothing is going to be seen in the future as a historic miscalculation and failure on the part of the Democratic Party, the Pr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/27/were-running-out-of-time-to-hold-donald-trump-accountable/) 2022-04-28T09:35:00Z **Hawaiian Officials Consider Offering Inland Property Swaps to Those Currently Living in Beachfront Homes as Fear of Sea-Level Rise Reaches Critical Mass: “People Just Don’t Realize That They’re Doomed.”**
Chas Smith,    -  BeachGrit (Hawaii)

_Stephan: It is beginning to dawn on people with coastal properties, that climate change and th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/28/hawaiian-officials-consider-offering-inland-property-swaps-to-those-currently-living-in-beachfront-homes-as-fear-of-sea-level-rise-reaches-critical-mass-people-just-dont-realize-that-theyre-doo/) 2022-04-28T09:34:00Z **Five charts that show why our food is not ready for the climate crisis**
Nina Lakhani, Alvin Chang, Rita Liu and Andrew Witherspoon,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Industrial, chemical, monoculture, agriculture is a system that developed with no recognition or concern for the interdependent and interconnected nature of earth's ecosystems. But it was, and is, very profitable for the corporations that make the products that sustained this unconscious sy ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/28/five-charts-that-show-why-our-food-is-not-ready-for-the-climate-crisis/) 2022-04-28T09:33:00Z **Ultrasound partially destroys tumors, calls in immune cells to finish job**
Nick Lavars,    -  New Atlas

_Stephan: We all know people who have had, or who have died from cancer. Here is some new research on treating cancer that may be relevant at this time to someone in our world. If so pass it on.

Citation: The academic citation for the research upon which this article was based can be found at: https://histotripsy.umich.edu/research/ryan-hubbard/_

![ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/28/ultrasound-partially-destroys-tumors-calls-in-immune-cells-to-finish-job/) 2022-04-28T09:32:00Z **At least 25 U.S. cities to follow Appleton in No Mow May initiative for bees and pollinators**
Ben Bokun,    -  NBC 26 (Green Bay, Wisconsin)

_Stephan: As you know if you read me regularly, I am extremely concerned about the bee crisis, the dramatic drop in the population of bees in the U.S.. Here is something you can do, if you do it now, that can help the bees. Please go to your city council, or town council, and ask them t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/28/at-least-25-u-s-cities-to-follow-appleton-in-no-mow-may-initiative-for-bees-and-pollinators%ef%bf%bc/) 2022-04-29T09:35:00Z **The Brooklyn Public Library is giving eCards to teens nationwide to challenge book bans.**
Corinne Segal ,  Senior Editor at Lit Hub, previously a Senior Editor at PBS NewsHour Weekend.   -  Bklyn Public Library

_Stephan: This is the coolest story. Please pass it along, particularly to kids in Red states.

Teens who want to apply for the free eCard can send an email to BooksUnbanned@bklynlibrary.org or a message to @bklynfuture on Instagra ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/29/the-brooklyn-public-library-is-giving-ecards-to-teens-nationwide-to-challenge-book-bans/) 2022-04-29T09:34:00Z **Brilliant Planet plans cheap, gigaton-scale carbon capture using algae**
Loz Blain,    -  New Atlas

_Stephan: Here is what looks like very good news. When I said the other day that when you recognize that all life is interconnected and interdependent and you wish to foster wellbeing you make different choices about which technologies to emphasize and this is an example of what I mean._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/29/brilliant-planet-plans-cheap-gigaton-scale-carbon-capture-using-algae/) 2022-04-29T09:33:00Z **149 Democrats Demand More Cash for Underfunded Labor Board as Union Push Spreads**
Sharon Zhang,  News Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: The social outcome data makes it clear that unions generally produce increased wellbeing for workers. There are exceptions, of course, the police unions immediately come to mind. Therefore, I see this funding as good news._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04- ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/29/149-democrats-demand-more-cash-for-underfunded-labor-board-as-union-push-spreads/) 2022-04-29T09:32:00Z **Pets beware: America confronts massive veterinarian shortage**
Nathan Bomey,    -  Axios

_Stephan: I knew there was a large physician shortage in the U.S. but did not know about vets since we have a good one. But this is obviously a growing negative trend affecting many families and farmers not only because of the lack of medical care for the beings in their care but because of the rising prices._

Veterinary appointments are getting harder to come by, with clinics f ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/29/pets-beware-america-confronts-massive-veterinarian-shortage/) 2022-04-30T09:35:00Z **Study Warns Only ‘Rapid Action’ Can Prevent Worst Marine Extinction in 250 Million Years**
Jake Johnson,    -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Perhaps humanity is going to destroy civilization as we presently understand it. I am just amazed that these reports come out almost weekly now and yet nothing happens. Even worse it is becoming apparent that the Republican gerrymandering, voter suppression, and local election rigging is gathering momentum w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/30/study-warns-only-rapid-action-can-prevent-worst-marine-extinction-in-250-million-years/) 2022-04-30T09:34:00Z **Lake Mead plummets to unprecedented low, exposing original 1971 water intake valve**
Stephanie Elam,    -  CNN

_Stephan: Millions of people in Arizona, California, Colorado and Mexico now face major water problems because the Lake Mead water level, the largest manmade reservoir in the U.S., is so low the system for drawing water from the lake no longer functions as a result of climate change and the drought it is producing._

![](https://i0.wp.c ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/30/lake-mead-plummets-to-unprecedented-low-exposing-original-1971-water-intake-valve/) 2022-04-30T09:33:00Z **Over 21% of reptile species at risk of extinction**
,    \-  Agence France-Presse / Raw Story

_Stephan: The reports just keep coming in, and yet it mostly produces.... crickets, silence, incompetent failure. Ten years from now when the ocean ecosystems have collapsed further people will be going around wringing their hands as species have disappeared, fishing has become largely impossible, and a host of unrecognized consequences now face humanity. Our children and grandchildren ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/30/over-21-of-reptile-species-at-risk-of-extinction/) 2022-04-30T09:32:00Z **“It’s Happening Now”: How Rising Sea Levels Are Causing a US Migration Crisis**
Max Ufberg,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: I have been warning my readers for over a decade about the internal migrations that were going to happen as a result of climate change, well, now they have started. If you own real estate where these migrations are going to occur I urge you to calculate when you should sell before the value of your property collapses or you are ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/04/30/its-happening-now-how-rising-sea-levels-are-causing-a-us-migration-crisis/) 2022-05-01T09:35:00Z **Global Capitalism Has Become Dependent on War-Making to Sustain Itself**
William I. Robinson,  Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Global Studies and Latin American Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara  -  truthout

_Stephan: Eisenhower warned us, but few listened, and now the military-industrial complex has become a dominant factor in our economy as described in this report._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/up ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/01/global-capitalism-has-become-dependent-on-war-making-to-sustain-itself/) 2022-05-01T09:34:00Z **Where Does All That Hate We Feel Come From?**
Thomas B. Edsall,  Columnist  -  The New York Times

_Stephan:  When I think about American culture at the present time what strikes me is the hate, fear, and resentment that has become politicized and that is tearing the country apart. Here is a good essay on this. As both I and Edsall have concluded, most of this is being driven in the U.S. my White fear._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Screen-Sh ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/01/where-does-all-that-hate-we-feel-come-from/) 2022-05-01T09:33:00Z **Paid family leave makes people happier, global data shows**
Beth Daley,  Editor and General Manager  -  The Conversation

_Stephan: The social outcome data is clear, paid family leave fosters wellbeing. You would think it was obvious, but not apparently to the Republicans in Congress who have blocked it over and over. Here are the facts._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-30-at-5.56.41-PM.jpg?resize=774%2C537&ssl ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/01/paid-family-leave-makes-people-happier-global-data-shows/) 2022-05-01T09:32:00Z **Biden flips the switch on Trump’s incandescent light bulb plan**
Ella Nilsen,  Staff Writer  -  CNN

_Stephan: Remember when Trump selfishly reversed the restriction on old-fashioned incandescent bulbs because he thought that with all his foundation makeup he looked better in incandescent bulb light? Well, Biden has reversed that nonsense. Here are the facts._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-30-at-6.03.42- ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/01/biden-flips-the-switch-on-trumps-incandescent-light-bulb-plan/) 2022-05-02T09:35:00Z **Why Being Anti-Science Is Now Part Of Many Rural Americans’ Identity**
Monica Potts,  Senior Politics Writer  -  FiveThirtyEight

_Stephan: This is one of the best articles on willful ignorance I have encountered. I see this as part of the Great Schism Trend, and it obvious from the social outcome data, that militant politicized willful ignorance is now one of the defining trends of American culture. These are the anti-science, anti-vaxxer, anti-masker, death ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/02/why-being-anti-science-is-now-part-of-many-rural-americans-identity/) 2022-05-02T09:34:00Z **DC insider explains the real reason why congress gets nothing done**
Robert Reich,  Carmel P. Friesen Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. He has served in three national administrations, including as Secretary of Labor  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: Robert Reich nails what I think is the central dynamic of the American Congress toda ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/02/dc-insider-explains-the-real-reason-why-congress-gets-nothing-done/) 2022-05-02T09:33:00Z **Manchin’s moves leave Democrats doubting their agenda will pass**
Alexander Bolton,  Senior Staff Writer  -  The Hill

_Stephan: Here is the corrupt Joe Manchin at work again screwing the voters who elected him. It is amazing to me that this man does virtually nothing to help his constituents, does much to harm their wellbeing, yet they elect him again and again. What is it they don't get?_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/jo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/02/manchins-moves-leave-democrats-doubting-their-agenda-will-pass/) 2022-05-02T09:32:00Z **America Gave Up on Overtime—and It’s Costing Workers $35,451 a Year**
NICK HANAUER,    -  Time Magazine

_Stephan: The wealth inequality in America grows greater every year. A handful of the rich have seen their wealth increase by trillions of dollars who the middle class and the poor have seen their financial status become ever more stressful. Here is part of the explanation of why this is happening._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uplo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/02/america-gave-up-on-overtime-and-its-costing-workers-35451-a-year/) 2022-05-03T09:36:00Z **Editor’s Note – Overturning Roe vs Wade**
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan: Just as I sat down tonight Politico published Associate Justice Samuel Alito's, draft decision overturning Roe v Wade. If this is the court's decision it will be such a cataclysmic alteration in American culture that I have decided to dedicate Tuesday's SR to this report._ ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/03/editors-note-overturning-roe-vs-wade/) 2022-05-03T09:35:00Z **Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows**
JOSH GERSTEIN and ALEXANDER WARD,    -  Politico

_Stephan: If this story is correct, as most seem to think is the case, the 26 Red states are about to revert to the world of 50 years ago, before Roe vs Wade and Casey. These states, all of which already have poor social outcome data compared with the Blue states will, by law, render women unable to control their own bodies. In essen ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/03/supreme-court-has-voted-to-overturn-abortion-rights-draft-opinion-shows/) 2022-05-04T09:35:00Z **Majority of Americans say Supreme Court should uphold Roe, Post-ABC poll finds**
Emily Guskin and Scott Clement ,  Reporters  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: Here are the facts about where Americans stand on a woman's right to control her own body based on a survey taken by The Washington Post and ABC last week._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-03-at-8.48.46-PM.jpg?resize=679%2C326&ssl=1) ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/04/majority-of-americans-say-supreme-court-should-uphold-roe-post-abc-poll-finds/) 2022-05-04T09:34:00Z **US states could ban people from traveling for abortions, experts warn**
Melody Schreiber,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: If the leaked Alito draft judgment becomes reality, as I think will happen, it will only be the beginning, as this report explains. This decision is but one step on a long-term strategy to increase authoritarian control over citizens. Next, it will be outlawing receiving abortion medications by mail. Do you notice something about thes ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/04/us-states-could-ban-people-from-traveling-for-abortions-experts-warn/) 2022-05-04T09:33:00Z **What Americans Can Expect If Abortion Pills Become Their Only Safe Option**
Maggie Koerth and Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux,  Senior Science Writer  -  FiveThirtyEight

_Stephan: I wrote my comment for the previous article and decided to see if others saw the probability of the right using abortion as a way to get control of the mail established as a legal right. They do, and I think it should seriously alarm us. I also see that this November's electi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/04/what-americans-can-expect-if-abortion-pills-become-their-only-safe-option%ef%bf%bc/) 2022-05-04T09:32:00Z **What Would the End of Roe Mean? Key Questions and Answers.**
Claire Cain Miller and Margot Sanger-Katz,  Reporters  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Here is a first take on what the end of Roe will produce._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-04-at-1.04.32-AM.jpg?resize=864%2C573&ssl=1)_Anti-abortion protesters and a clinic staffer guiding patients outside a women’s health center in Jackson, Miss., last November. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/04/what-would-the-end-of-roe-mean-key-questions-and-answers/) 2022-05-05T09:35:00Z **What Actually Happens When a Country Bans Abortion**
Amy Mackinnon,  National Security and Intelligence Reporter  -  Foreign Policy

_Stephan: I am old enough to remember when abortion was illegal and "the pill" did not yet exist, and I knew two women, one 22 the other 24 who died from back-alley abortions. And, no, I was not the father, just a friend who observed their dying, and mourns their passing. Making abortion illegal does not end abortion. And in the U.S., a country w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/05/what-actually-happens-when-a-country-bans-abortion/) 2022-05-05T09:34:00Z **Let’s throw out the term ‘culture wars.’ This is religious tyranny.**
Jennifer Rubin,  Columnist  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: The Founders had a passionate commitment to seeing that there was an unbreachable firewall between religion and the state. They felt this way because personally they or members of their families had suffered from religious persecution. States like Rhode Island and Pennsylvania were specifically founded on this issue. Now because of the ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/05/lets-throw-out-the-term-culture-wars-this-is-religious-tyranny/) 2022-05-05T09:33:00Z **Climate Change is Pushing Toxic Chemicals into Drinking Wells**
Erika Bolstad ,    -  Pew Research Center - Stateline

_Stephan: If you live on a well as my wife and I do, particularly if you suffer flooding or there is a chemical industrial monocultural farm adjacent or near your property, I urge you you have your water tested at least once a year. This article explains why I make this recommendation._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/upload ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/05/climate-change-is-pushing-toxic-chemicals-into-drinking-wells/) 2022-05-05T09:32:00Z **Honeybees join humans as the only known animals that can tell the difference between odd and even numbers**
,    \-  The Conversation

_Stephan: Yet another research study revealing that the consciousness of bees is far more sophisticated than anyone suspected, let alone believed. Who knew bees could add and subtract and tell odd from even numbers. Humanity's wellbeing is linked to the wellbeing of bees, and we desperately ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/05/honeybees-join-humans-as-the-only-known-animals-that-can-tell-the-difference-between-odd-and-even-numbers/) 2022-05-06T09:35:00Z **Rape As Opportunity: Because Only the GOP, Even Its Women, Could Hate Women This Much**
Abby Zimet,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: The fact that all these anti-abortion laws in the states that are about to kick in make no exception for rape, incest, or even the life of the mother, tells you this issue is not fueled by rational thought. Instead, it is the product of hate and resentment. Be very clear, none of this is about protecting ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/06/rape-as-opportunity-because-only-the-gop-even-its-women-could-hate-women-this-much/) 2022-05-06T09:34:00Z **COVID-19 infection could age brain by 20 years, lower IQ significantly**
Chris Melore,    -  Brain Tomorrow

_Stephan: More than one million Americans are now dead in the United States as a result of contracting Covid. A majority of these millions died because they would not get vaccinated or wear a mask. They were volunteers in the American death cult. Statistically, it is estimated that nine million Americans have experienced the loss of a family member or ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/06/covid-19-infection-could-age-brain-by-20-years-lower-iq-significantly/) 2022-05-06T09:33:00Z **Antisemitism Increased Under Trump. Then It Got Even Worse.**
Michelle Goldberg,  Columnist  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: I have always been aware of antisemitism because my surname is Schwartz and many people, particularly antisemites, assume I am Jewish. I'm not. It was the name my father's family was given at Ellis Island when they came to the U.S. from Romania in 1906. Whatever they said had too many consonants I was told. Apparently, such name changing was once ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/06/antisemitism-increased-under-trump-then-it-got-even-worse/) 2022-05-06T09:32:00Z **Life after Roe: Republicans are already targeting the right to a public education**
AMANDA MARCOTTE,  Senior Politics Writer  -  Salon

_Stephan: The MAGAt anti-abortion movement is just the opening salvo. Next, they will try to ban contraception, and drugs that cause abortions. At the same time they will be moving against public education because Republicans want children to be indoctrinated, not educated. This is all straight out of the authorit ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/06/life-after-roe-republicans-are-already-targeting-the-right-to-a-public-education/) 2022-05-07T09:35:00Z **Connecticut Offers Refuge to Red State Women with a “Fugitive Woman Act”**
Thom Hartmann,    -  The Hartman Report

_Stephan: I read the opinion representing five justices and was struck by its shallowness and intellectual mediocrity. I wouldn't think a college sophomore could get a passing grade on this kind of "Originalism". Abortion is not in the Constitution? No, and nor is a single testicular disorder. They didn't anticipate the Internet either in 1787 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/07/connecticut-offers-refuge-to-red-state-women-with-a-fugitive-woman-act/) 2022-05-07T09:34:00Z **Documents Show How Polluting Industries Mobilized to Block Climate Action**
Amy Westervelt,    -  The Intercept

_Stephan: This is what is wrong with American capitalism. Profit is the only priority, even to the detriment of wellbeing. Until we make wellbeing our first priority we will inflict grievous wounds on all the beings of the earth including ourselves._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/07/documents-show-how-polluting-industries-mobilized-to-block-climate-action-2/) 2022-05-07T09:33:00Z **Not OK: Average man rates his mental health just 6 out of 10, feels down 3 times a week**
Mustafa Mirreh,  Staff Writer  -  Study Finds

_Stephan: Place this report in the context of a significant percentage of racist White men also in a state of fear and resentment about gender equality._

NEW YORK, NEW YORK **—** Millions of men may be putting up a brave front, but they’re not doing as well as you may think. A new survey finds the ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/07/not-ok-average-man-rates-his-mental-health-just-6-out-of-10-feels-down-3-times-a-week%ef%bf%bc/) 2022-05-07T09:32:00Z **There is so little about Gaetz’s thoughts on women — and cats — that makes actual sense**
Christina Wyman,  Contributing Writer  -  Think

_Stephan: The people of Florida, who elected Republican christofascist Ron De Santis as their governor, also elected Representative Matt Gaetz, and Rick Scott and Marco Rubio as their two senators. I think the issue to be concerned about is not so much Ron De Santis, Matt Gaetz, Rick Scott and Marco Rubio but ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/07/there-is-so-little-about-gaetzs-thoughts-on-women-and-cats-that-makes-actual-sense/) 2022-05-08T09:35:00Z **Climate Change May Fuel “Devastating” Disease Outbreaks**
Oliver Millman,    -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: I have been telling my readers for several years now that Covid is just the beginning. As the climate changes thousands of viruses and bacteria will mutate to accommodate the changes in their environment, and some unknown number of them could begin a pandemic as bad or worse than Covid. Am I exaggerating? Read this and make up your own mind. Do you think for this, and doz ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/08/climate-change-may-fuel-devastating-disease-outbreaks/) 2022-05-08T09:34:00Z **Managing the Built Environment for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention With Maharishi Vastu Architecture: A Review**
Jon Lipman, Lee Fergusson, Anna Bonshek,  Institute for Vedic Architecture, Maharishi International University, Fairfield, IA, \| Professor, Maharishi Vedic Research Institute, Gold Coast, AU-QLD, Australia \| Professor, Maharishi Vedic Research Institute, Gold C ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/08/managing-the-built-environment-for-health-promotion-and-disease-prevention-with-maharishi-vastu-architecture-a-review%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc/) 2022-05-08T09:33:00Z **We Need to Talk About Rural Gentrification**
Ben Sandman,    -  The New Republic

_Stephan: This is a trend that is receiving very little attention, but that is reshaping rural, particularly beautiful rural areas in the country._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-07-at-9.31.25-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C534&ssl=1)_A farm in the Catskills, New York \| Credit: John Collier / Buyen Large / Getty_

A common story is told about idealistic ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/08/we-need-to-talk-about-rural-gentrification/) 2022-05-08T09:32:00Z **India and Pakistan heatwave is ‘testing the limits of human survivability,’ expert says**
Rhea Mogul, Esha Mitra, Manveena Suri and Sophia Saifi,  Reporters  -  CNN

_Stephan: climate change is going to create large territories around the planet that are simply unliveable on a mass basis. Like sea rise or drought, it is going to stimulate internal migrations._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/screen-shot ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/08/india-and-pakistan-heatwave-is-testing-the-limits-of-human-survivability-expert-says/) 2022-05-09T09:35:00Z **Hidden in Plain Sight: Racism, White Supremacy, and Far-Right Militancy in Law Enforcement**
Michael German,  Fellow of the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty & National Security Program  -  Brennan Center for Justice

_Stephan: Today I listened to politicians talk about more money for police as if that were the issue. The shallowness of thinking amongst American politicians is a national shame. On the basis of facts, not partisan politic ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/09/hidden-in-plain-sight-racism-white-supremacy-and-far-right-militancy-in-law-enforcement/) 2022-05-09T09:34:00Z **U.S. police trainers with far-right ties are teaching hundreds of cops**
JULIA HARTE and ALEXANDRA ULMER,    -  Reuters Special Report

_Stephan: Part of the problem with American law enforcement is that not only are American police and sheriffs by far the worst and shortest in terms of time trained law enforcement amongst the developed democracies of the world, the people who train them tend to be christofascist thugs. Reuters has done a special report on t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/09/u-s-police-trainers-with-far-right-ties-are-teaching-hundreds-of-cops/) 2022-05-09T09:33:00Z **Michigan police killings reach fastest pace in a decade amid sluggish reform**
Gus Burns,  Reporter  -  Michigan Live

_Stephan: Here is the data on police killings from just one state, Michigan. In most countries in Europe, Scandinavia, and Japan, Michigan's annual police murder rate would cover not a year but a decade, maybe two._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-08-at-6.58.58-PM.jpg?resize ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/09/michigan-police-killings-reach-fastest-pace-in-a-decade-amid-sluggish-reform/) 2022-05-09T09:32:00Z **Three North Texas officers indicted on felony assault charges for force used on anti-police brutality protesters in 2020**
Jason Beeferman,  Journalism Fellow of The Texas Tribune  -  The Texas Tribune

_Stephan: Even if the police don't kill you, they can still beat you up. Happily these two police officers and a former police officer behaved so thuggishly that even in Texas they have finally been held to a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/09/three-north-texas-officers-indicted-on-felony-assault-charges-for-force-used-on-anti-police-brutality-protesters-in-2020/) 2022-05-10T09:35:00Z **About a third of Asian Americans say they have changed their daily routine due to concerns over threats, attacks**
LUIS NOE-BUSTAMANTE, NEIL G. RUIZ, MARK HUGO LOPEZ and KHADIJAH EDWARDS,    -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: I have to be honest with you my readers; I am revolted and tired of my fellow Whites' racism. It is weak, it is stupid, and it tells the world a lot more about the Whites than it does about the p ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/10/about-a-third-of-asian-americans-say-they-have-changed-their-daily-routine-due-to-concerns-over-threats-attacks/) 2022-05-10T09:34:00Z **Republican wins GOP nomination from jail as he awaits trial for murdering his wife: report**
Bob Brigham,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: He looks like a thug. He acts like a thug, a murderer actually, and of course, Andrew Wilhoite is a Republican. When I tell you that the Republican Party is a criminal organization, I say that because those are the facts._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/10/republican-wins-gop-nomination-from-jail-as-he-awaits-trial-for-murdering-his-wife-report/) 2022-05-10T09:33:00Z **Texas GOP Governor Considers Challenging 1982 Ruling Requiring Free Public Education**
Julia Conley,    -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Greg Abbott, the Republican governor of Texas under the best of circumstances is a small nasty little man, lacking in morals, ethics, and compassion. But what particularly stands out for me is that the people of Texas elected such a person to be their governor. And if you look across the country you see the same t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/10/texas-gop-governor-considers-challenging-1982-ruling-requiring-free-public-education/) 2022-05-10T09:32:00Z **The case against the Supreme Court of the United States**
Ian Millhiser,    -  Vox

_Stephan: For the entirety of my life and yours, the Supreme Court has stood apart from the rest of the federal government. It was an institution of Law, not a political operation. However, thanks to the christofascist Federalist Society, Donald Trump, and Mitch McConnell, that sacred status has been destroyed and the reality that the court is, and always has been, a political entity has b ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/10/the-case-against-the-supreme-court-of-the-united-states/) 2022-05-11T09:35:00Z **As a ‘Seismic Shift’ Fractures Evangelicals, an Arkansas Pastor Leaves Home**
Ruth Graham,  National Correspondent  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: This story is an early report of an emerging trend that I see as quite important. White evangelicals are the core demographic of MAGAt world, and they are beginning to schism. Add this to the fact that educated younger people are dropping their involvement with evangelical churches, and often Christianity (at ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/11/as-a-seismic-shift-fractures-evangelicals-an-arkansas-pastor-leaves-home/) 2022-05-11T09:34:00Z **How the Oil and Gas Industry is Trying to Hold US Public Schools Hostage**
Leanna First-Arai,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: It should surprise no one that the carbon industries will do anything, spend anything, harm anything, to protect their profits, long term climate change damage be damned. Here is one of the many examples of this._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-10-at-9.10.09-PM.jpg? ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/11/how-the-oil-and-gas-industry-is-trying-to-hold-us-public-schools-hostage/) 2022-05-11T09:33:00Z **Minnesota Lawmaker Proposes Eradicating Funding for Early Childhood Education**
Chris Walker,  News Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: The Republicans want to indoctrinate children not educate them. The Republican Party does not like public "free" education and for at least a decade has been undermining public education, and cutting its funding where and when they can. They don't want educated children because they tend to grow up and go to college and b ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/11/minnesota-lawmaker-proposes-eradicating-funding-for-early-childhood-education/) 2022-05-11T09:32:00Z **In a Post-Roe America, Expect More Births in a Country Where Maternal Mortality Continues to Rise**
Robin Fields,  Reporter  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: The United States has a truly shameful maternal mortality rate. For example, a woman in the United States is almost FOUR times as likely to die giving birth than a woman in Greece, and SEVENTEEN times more likely than a woman giving birth in Poland. And if Roe is overturned, as seems ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/11/in-a-post-roe-america-expect-more-births-in-a-country-where-maternal-mortality-continues-to-rise/) 2022-05-12T09:35:00Z **Alito reached back nearly 1,000 years to weaponize ancient misogyny — and it’s nothing short of grotesque**
Heather Digby Parton,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: As I wrote several days ago when the Alito brief was leaked what struck me about it was the mediocrity of its thinking and that it was an expression of political and religious bias, not wise jurisprudence. It read to me like something male dominance-obsessed co ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/12/alito-reached-back-nearly-1000-years-to-weaponize-ancient-misogyny-and-its-nothing-short-of-grotesque/) 2022-05-12T09:34:00Z **That 13th-century law treatise Alito uses? Here’s what else it says.**
Dana Milbank,  Columnist  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: The full Alito opinion and its references is too long for SR, so I went looking for something that would present what I saw as the bizarre medieval thinking upon which Alito grounds the opinion he wrote and found Dana Milbank's essay which did exactly that. This is how weird Alito's thinking is. Where one would expect from a Supreme ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/12/that-13th-century-law-treatise-alito-uses-heres-what-else-it-says/) 2022-05-12T09:33:00Z **Cops Threw a 61-Year-Old to the Ground After She Tried to Film Them**
Trone Dowd,    -  Vice News

_Stephan: Today, I saw more than two dozen stories in the media about police violence and general thuggery. Go to news.google.com search on "police violence today" and see for yourself what comes up. The one that particularly caught my attention was this account about a 61-year-old grandmother who went into a police station in New York to file a police report on ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/12/cops-threw-a-61-year-old-to-the-ground-after-she-tried-to-film-them/) 2022-05-12T09:32:00Z **House committee refers former Trump Interior Secretary David Bernhardt for criminal prosecution**
Ben Adler,  Senior Editor  -  Yahoo News

_Stephan: Should anyone be surprised that Donald Trump, a blatant criminal, appointed to high office in his administration fellow criminals? Is it possible to be a Republican official without being criminal and corrupt? On the basis of the evidence, it would appear that the answer is, no. Corrup ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/12/house-committee-refers-former-trump-interior-secretary-david-bernhardt-for-criminal-prosecution/) 2022-05-13T09:35:00Z **US has the highest rate of gun-related deaths in more than 25 years, new CDC data shows**
Jacqueline Howard,    -  CNN

_Stephan: Year after year tens of thousands of Americans are murdered or die by their own hand because of the country's obsessive gun psychosis. Yet nothing gets done to change the laws because not president has the courage to change the dynamics that shape our society, and the weapons making corporations have corrupt contr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/13/us-has-the-highest-rate-of-gun-related-deaths-in-more-than-25-years-new-cdc-data-shows/) 2022-05-13T09:34:00Z **U.S. surpasses record 100,000 overdose deaths in 2021**
Meryl Kornfield,  Staff Writer  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: Even greater than the gun deaths are the drug overdose deaths. The reality, which few want to discuss is that Americans are miserable. Because the entire tax system and the pay scale are rigged to favor the rich, wealth inequality has condemned millions to poverty or near poverty. What about the middle class you ask? Since Reagan and very deliberately than ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/13/u-s-surpasses-record-100000-overdose-deaths-in-2021/) 2022-05-13T09:33:00Z **The 5th Circuit’s Reinstatement of Texas’ Internet Censorship Law Could Break Social Media**
MARK JOSEPH STERN,    -  Slate

_Stephan: The inferiority of Republican governance, assessed by objectively verifiable social data has become a major trend in the United States. And because of the way power has been apportioned, a minority operating on the inferior Republican view of governance is shaping America. The result is as our social realit ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/13/the-5th-circuits-reinstatement-of-texas-internet-censorship-law-could-break-social-media/) 2022-05-13T09:32:00Z **Don’t Be Fooled. It’s All About Women and Sex.**
Gail Collins,    -  The New York Times

_Stephan: I think Gail Collins has made a correct assessment of the christofascist obsession with sex and the dominance of women. What amazes me is so many women volunteer to be handmaidens to this obsession._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-12-at-11.04.52-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C532&ssl=1)_Credit: Professional Studio Images/Getty_

When I w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/13/dont-be-fooled-its-all-about-women-and-sex/) 2022-05-14T09:36:00Z **The secret world beneath our feet is mind-blowing – and the key to our planet’s future**
George Monbiot,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: This is a brilliant article that I hope all of you will read. We humans must change in consciousness and realize that we do not have dominion over the earth, instead we must recognize we are part of a matrix of life, and that all consciousness is interconnected and interdependent. This is what the change ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/14/the-secret-world-beneath-our-feet-is-mind-blowing-and-the-key-to-our-planets-future/) 2022-05-14T09:35:00Z **One in Four Medicare Patients Harmed in Hospitals, Nearly Half Preventable**
Cheryl Clark,  Medica and Science Journalist  -  MedPage Today

_Stephan: The American healthcare system is a shameful abomination. The worst in the world amongst the developed democracies. Why? Because the entire system is based on profit not wellbeing. The facts confirming what I am saying are clear for anyone to see. Why doesn't it change? Because the corporations which own t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/14/one-in-four-medicare-patients-harmed-in-hospitals-nearly-half-preventable/) 2022-05-14T09:34:00Z **Analysis Exposes Big Oil’s Plot to Unleash Climate-Killing ‘Carbon Bombs’ Worldwide**
Jake Johnson,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Because the carbon industries basically rent the U.S. and the world's other congresses and parliaments, even though all evidence screams out that to go through climate change we must change the world's principal power technology, far too little actually does change. Because of corruption. The carbon industr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/14/analysis-exposes-big-oils-plot-to-unleash-climate-killing-carbon-bombs-worldwide/) 2022-05-14T09:33:00Z **Elizabeth Warren’s Long, Thankless Fight Against Our Private Equity Overlords**
ARIANNA COGHILLMAY,    -  Mother Jones Magazine

_Stephan: Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, in my opinion, are the most interesting members of the Senate. They are both unusually intelligent, they are not corrupt, and they get why fostering wellbeing is the correct way to govern.

This is also a story of how corrupt the U.S. Senate actually is._

![](https://i0.wp.com/w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/14/elizabeth-warrens-long-thankless-fight-against-our-private-equity-overlords/) 2022-05-15T09:35:00Z **‘We know where we are headed’: humanity is sacrificing itself on the altar of corporate profits**
Sonali Kolhatkar,  Founder, Host and Executive Producer of “Rising Up With Sonali,” a television and radio show and Writing Fellow for the Economy for All project at the Independent Media Institute.  -  AlterNet / Independent Media Institute

_Stephan: To me it seems increasingly probable that it is already too late to stop massive damage ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/15/we-know-where-we-are-headed-humanity-is-sacrificing-itself-on-the-altar-of-corporate-profits/) 2022-05-15T09:34:00Z **How Christian Nationalism Perverted the Judicial System and Gutted Our Rights**
Katherine Stewart,    -  The New Republic

_Stephan: White supremacy, male dominance christofascism is the passionate worldview of about a third of Americans, and it is tearing America apart as this report discusses._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-14-at-7.18.50-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C551&ssl=1)_An anti-abortion d ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/15/how-christian-nationalism-perverted-the-judicial-system-and-gutted-our-rights/) 2022-05-15T09:33:00Z **Sanders Introduces Medicare for All as Solution to “Dysfunctional” Health System**
Sharon Zhang,  Staff Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: Bernie Sanders is one of the very few uncorrupted members of the Senate, and one of the even fewer who believes the purpose of his office is to foster wellbeing for Americans. I doubt his bill will pass, the corruption is just too extensive. But what happens will tell all of us a lot about the Senate, so we will see. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/15/sanders-introduces-medicare-for-all-as-solution-to-dysfunctional-health-system/) 2022-05-15T09:32:00Z **The next book ban: States aim to limit titles students can search for**
Hannah Natanson,    -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: MAGAts, through the Republican Party, don't want children to be educated, they want them to be indoctrinated with MAGAt fantasies. Why? Not to protect them from critical race theory or pornography as the MAGAts claim, but because the more educated a person is the more likely they are to vote for Democrats. That's why they don't like pu ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/15/the-next-book-ban-states-aim-to-limit-titles-students-can-search-for/) 2022-05-16T09:30:00Z **Churchgoers hog-tied gunman after deadly Laguna Woods church shooting; motive unclear**
HANNAH FRY, RICHARD WINTON, LAURA NEWBERRY, JEONG PARK, and ANH DO,  Reporters  -  Los Angeles Times

_Stephan: This was Sunday in Laguna Woods, California during a church service._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-15-at-5.52.29-PM.jpg?resize=749%2C496&ssl=1)_A sheriff’s deputy ties crime ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/16/churchgoers-hog-tied-gunman-after-deadly-laguna-woods-church-shooting-motive-unclear%ef%bf%bc/) 2022-05-16T09:36:00Z **The Confluence of Death**
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan: If you live in the U.S. and watched television Sunday the 16th of May you know about the White supremacy mass murder in Buffalo, New York. What you may not know, since they have gotten very little coverage except locally is that those murders were just the beginning of what happened this weekend. So I have dedicated today's edition of SR entirely to the gun shootings and murders that happened in the United States this w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/16/the-confluence-of-death/) 2022-05-16T09:35:00Z **Here’s what’s known about the Buffalo mass shooting suspect**
Quil Lawrence,  Reporter  -  npr

_Stephan: This is the mass murder you probably know about since it has dominated the news since it happened. But from the perspective of gun murders, this is just the beginning._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-15-at-6.06.38-PM.jpg?resize=751%2C769&ssl=1)_Mass murderer 18-year-old Peyton Gendron consults with his at ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/16/heres-whats-known-about-the-buffalo-mass-shooting-suspect/) 2022-05-16T09:34:00Z **Chicago Weekend Shootings: 5 Dead, at Least 11 Hurt in Gun Violence**
,    \-  NBC News (5 Chicago)

_Stephan: Here is Chicago this weekend._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-15-at-5.13.16-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C448&ssl=1)_Chicago police this weekend at a shooting crime scene._ _Credit: NBC 5 Chicago_

Chicago police say that five people, including a 16-year-old boy who was shot at Millennium Park, are dea ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/16/chicago-weekend-shootings-5-dead-at-least-11-hurt-in-gun-violence/) 2022-05-16T09:33:00Z **21 people were injured in shootings in downtown Milwaukee; Mayor Johnson imposes curfew Saturday night**
Ashley Luthern, Mary Spicuzza, and Sophie Carson,  Reporters  -  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

_Stephan: And here we have Milwaukee this weekend._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-15-at-5.19.20-PM.jpg?resize=828%2C514&ssl=1)_Police cleanup aftermath of the scene wher ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/16/21-people-were-injured-in-shootings-in-downtown-milwaukee-mayor-johnson-imposes-curfew-saturday-night/) 2022-05-16T09:32:00Z **Double homicide in South Bend leaves people worried about rising gun violence**
Julianne Grohowski,  Reporter  -  ABC News 57 (South Bend, Indiana)

_Stephan: This weekend in South Bend, Indiana._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-15-at-5.30.08-PM.jpg?resize=775%2C403&ssl=1)_Neighborhood in South Bend, Indiana were a double homicide occurred. Credit: ABC News 57 South Bend_

SOUTH BEND, INDIA ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/16/double-homicide-in-south-bend-leaves-people-worried-about-rising-gun-violence/) 2022-05-16T09:31:00Z **Shooting in Houston: Two dead, three wounded at flea market with about 1,000 people on site**
,    \-  Marca News (Houston)

_Stephan: This was the weekend in Houston, Texas. Also this weekend a man shot his wife and then committed suicide with his gun, and five days ago a 14-year boy was shot while bicycling._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-15-at-5.42.26-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C454 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/16/shooting-in-houston-two-dead-three-wounded-at-flea-market-with-about-1000-people-on-site/) 2022-05-17T09:35:00Z **Environmentalists Cheer as Biden Admin Cancels Millions of Acres of Oil & Gas Lease Sales in Public Waters**
Olivia Rosane,    -  Ecowatch

_Stephan: Here is some good news about the transition out of the carbon era. Biden and the Democrats are far from perfect in this process, but they are so much better than Trump and the Republicans._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Screen-Shot-20 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/17/environmentalists-cheer-as-biden-admin-cancels-millions-of-acres-of-oil-gas-lease-sales-in-public-waters/) 2022-05-17T09:34:00Z **Kagan Pens Scathing Dissent as Supreme Court Kills Another Campaign Finance Rule**
Jake Johnson,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan:  The Republicans have been working since the 1970s to create a Supreme Court that would support their corruption, their racism, and their moving their religious beliefs into government. With Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell they succeeded, and we now have a court with political hacks in black robes. The three ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/17/kagan-pens-scathing-dissent-as-supreme-court-kills-another-campaign-finance-rule/) 2022-05-17T09:33:00Z **Oklahoma’s GOP governor threatens the state’s more than 40 Native American tribes**
Sarah K. Burris,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Kevin Stitt a Republican, of course, is a racist christofascist cretin personally, I wouldn't hire him to clean our lane, but the people of Oklahoma thought he was just what they needed to lead their state. And that I think is the problem we are not talking about. Large portions of Red state voters are White su ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/17/oklahomas-gop-governor-threatens-the-states-more-than-40-native-american-tribes/) 2022-05-17T09:32:00Z **Far-Right Republicans In Pennsylvania Ban Media From Campaign Stops**
Liz Skalka,    -  Huffington Post

_Stephan: I have been waiting for this to happen. The Republican Party doesn't like a free press, a very predictable fascist position. They only appear on propaganda operations like Fox that support their racism and male dominance and that broadcast conspiracies like Tucker Carlson promoting Replacement Theory. When was the last time you saw one of the MAGA ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/17/far-right-republicans-in-pennsylvania-ban-media-from-campaign-stops/) 2022-05-18T09:35:00Z **US Covid deaths hit 1m, a death toll higher than any other country**
Jessica Glenza,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: How is it possible that the richest nation on earth has the worst Covid death rate of all the nations of the world? Why? Poor healthcare structure for sure. But that is only a piece of it. The big reason is that the MAGAt Republicans, led by Donald Trump and Ruper Murdoch, and their minions politicized and actively misled millions of men and ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/18/us-covid-deaths-hit-1m-a-death-toll-higher-than-any-other-country/) 2022-05-18T09:34:00Z **Coronavirus vaccine could have saved 319,000 people, if they had only taken the shot: study**
Theresa Braine,  Reporter  -  Daily News

_Stephan: This is an appalling report on the hundreds of thousands of anti-vaxxer individuals who chose to join the American death cult and give up their lives to willful ignorance. And in addition to these 319,000 now dead individuals I think we can assume that are probably at least another four people cl ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/18/coronavirus-vaccine-could-have-saved-319000-people-if-they-had-only-taken-the-shot-study/) 2022-05-18T09:33:00Z **Republicans block bill to stop price gouging at the pump as gas hits new record high**
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_Stephan:_

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Take a walk through [**U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers**](https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Cathy+McMorris+Rodgers)‘ tweets and you’ll find complaint after complaint about the price of gas. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/18/republicans-block-bill-to-stop-price-gouging-at-the-pump-as-gas-hits-new-record-high/) 2022-05-18T09:32:00Z **Roger Stone elaborates on the ‘satanic portal’ he claims is visible above the White House**
Bob Brigham,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Just when I think MAGAt world could not get any weirder... well, I read the day's news and am proven wrong. Did you know about the "satanic portal" visible above the White House? Neither did I. But Roger Stone, who ought to be in prison, can see it._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp- ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/18/roger-stone-elaborates-on-the-satanic-portal-he-claims-is-visible-above-the-white-house/) 2022-05-19T09:35:00Z **The dangerous business of dismantling America’s aging nuclear plants**
Douglas MacMillan,    -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: As I have been telling my readers since SR began anytime you read something promoting nuclear power that doesn't also address the issue of dismantling the reactor, and dealing with the radioactive waste it has produced is just nuclear power propaganda. Ever since December 20, 1951 when the first civilian nuclear power reactor became op ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/19/the-dangerous-business-of-dismantling-americas-aging-nuclear-plants/) 2022-05-19T09:34:00Z **Staggering declines in bird populations taking place around the world**
,    \-  The Watchers

_Stephan: Declining bee populations, declining populations of butterflies and other insects, and now reports on declining bird populations. Human greed and stupidity, is destroying the earth's matrix of life, and instead of consciously working to repair our planet we are obsessed with racism and fascism. Want an example of what I mean? 588,042 Pennsylvanians voted ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/19/staggering-declines-in-bird-populations-taking-place-around-the-world/) 2022-05-19T09:33:00Z **Mitt Romney and fellow Republicans introduce bill that would stop Biden from canceling student loan debt**
Erin Snodgrass,    -  Business Insider

_Stephan: Student loan debt has been a huge issue and cause of stress for millions. And yet millions voted for Republicans yesterday, and five Republicans, including Mitt Romney, supposedly one of the "good" Republicans, just blocked President Biden's bill to cancel or forgive st ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/19/mitt-romney-and-fellow-republicans-introduce-bill-that-would-stop-biden-from-canceling-student-loan-debt/) 2022-05-19T09:32:00Z **Doctors in Alabama Already Turn Away Miscarrying Patients. This Will Be America’s New Normal**
LEAH TORRES,  Staff Writer  -  Slate

_Stephan: This story gives us a sense of what is coming because a large bloc of Americans are not willing to accept that women are the equal of men, and those who feel this way will vote for politicians who create policies to reflect their views. Unless something fundamentally changes before November, I am ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/19/doctors-in-alabama-already-turn-away-miscarrying-patients-this-will-be-americas-new-normal/) 2022-05-20T09:35:00Z **What you need to know about the anti-democracy movement**
Robert Reich,  Carmel P. Friesen Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California  -  Robert Reich Substack

_Stephan: Like many who study democracy, including myself, Robert Reich is deeply concerned that American democracy is on life support and may perish after the November election unless the Democrats increase their majorities in the House and Senate and reclaim ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/20/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-anti-democracy-movement/) 2022-05-20T09:34:00Z **In Wake of Buffalo Mass Shooting 203 House Republicans Vote Against Domestic Terrorism Bill That Had 3 GOP Co-Sponsors**
David Badash,    -  The New Civil Rights Movement

_Stephan: As you read this story keep in mind that at the same time as they are voting against terrorism prevention -- read White nationalist terrorism -- Republicans in Red states are also trying to get laws passed that allow anyone to carry a concealed weapon, with no background check, license, or training. What do you think will happen as a result of ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/20/news/) 2022-05-20T09:33:00Z **Overturning Roe would be disastrous for the U.S. military**
Allison Gill,    -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: When the U.S. converted from a conscription model military to an all-volunteer meritocracy military, I can guarantee you that not a single person involved with that transition even thought about abortion as a factor to be considered. How do I know this? Because I was part of the team that did it, and I wrote most of the speeches and Congressional testimony expla ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/20/overturning-roe-would-be-disastrous-for-the-u-s-military/) 2022-05-20T09:32:00Z **Fetus-powered street lamps? Republicans ramp up outrageous anti-abortion lies ahead of Roe’s demise**
Amanda Marcotte,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: MAGAt Republican Roger Stone thinks he can see a "Satanic Portal" above the White House, and anti-abortionist MAGAt Republican Catherine Gleen Foster, president of Americans United for Life, thinks street lights are powered by aborted fetuses being burnt in incinerators to power generato ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/20/fetus-powered-street-lamps-republicans-ramp-up-outrageous-anti-abortion-lies-ahead-of-roes-demise/) 2022-05-21T09:35:00Z **The Banks Collapsed in 2008 — and Our Food System is About to do the Same**
George Monbiot,  Columnist  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: The richest nation in the world doesn't have enough infant formula for to feed America's babies. Doesn't that strike you as weird? Why is that happening? When you cut through all the commentary and misinformation what becomes clear is that these babies don't have the food they need because four corporations have a kind o ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/21/the-banks-collapsed-in-2008-and-our-food-system-is-about-to-do-the-same/) 2022-05-21T09:34:00Z **The Southwest’s Drought and Fires Are a Window to Our Climate Change Future**
Mark Olalde,  Reporter  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: You can't say we weren't warned. This is what is going to cause one of the three major internal migrations, this one out of the Southwest because of lack of water, and unlivable temperatures. I have been warning about this for over 20 years (see SR archive), as I followed what was happening and was disappointed month after month ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/21/the-southwests-drought-and-fires-are-a-window-to-our-climate-change-future/) 2022-05-21T09:33:00Z **American girls are now reaching puberty as young as SIX in phenomenon scientists think may be linked to childhood obesity, chemicals in plastic and stress**
MANSUR SHAHEEN,  U.S. Deputy Editor   -  Daily Mail (U.K.)

_Stephan: Do you think it is possible Americans will wake up to how sick our culture has become, and how desperately we need to take stock of ourselves? Our valu ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/21/american-girls-are-now-reaching-puberty-as-young-as-six-in-phenomenon-scientists-think-may-be-linked-to-childhood-obesity-chemicals-in-plastic-and-stress/) 2022-05-21T09:32:00Z **Red states aren’t prepared for a post-Roe baby boom**
Caitlin Owens,    -  Axios

_Stephan: The Red state governors and legislators trying to condemn women to second-class status by taking away from them their freedom to control their own bodies haven't even considered what this story tells us. If Roe is overturned next month there is going to be great misery in the Red states._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-20-at- ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/21/red-states-arent-prepared-for-a-post-roe-baby-boom/) 2022-05-22T09:35:00Z **The 2022 Elections Are Fraught With Undisclosed Dark Money**
Anna Massoglia,    -  truthout

_Stephan: As this report lays out dark money is pouring into the upcoming election because Citizens United and this Supreme Court have legalized bribery and, except for a few ethical members, most of Congress, particularly the Republicans, metaphorically stand on a street corner like hookers flashing their tits to passing corporate shills and lobbyists. The corruption of the Am ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/22/the-2022-elections-are-fraught-with-undisclosed-dark-money/) 2022-05-22T09:34:00Z **Republicans learn to promote fascism at the feet of a master**
Thom Hartmann,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Thom Hartmann, I believe, has it right. The Republican Party has morphed into a White supremacy, male dominant, militantly heterosexual christofascist party, and about a third of Americans are onboard for that. They are trying to restructure the American political system so that they get into power and stay in power. Getting control of the Supreme Court was the fi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/22/republicans-learn-to-promote-fascism-at-the-feet-of-a-master/) 2022-05-22T09:33:00Z **Trump judges audition for Supreme Court**
Sophia Cai,    -  Axios

_Stephan: One of the major goals of the Trump administration, under all the deflecting vampire circus designed to keep everyone distracted, was a strategy to restructure the Judicial branch of government. What the christofascists wanted was to restructure the American judiciary so that what they planned would be deemed legal. That and control of the House and Senate would allow them to transform the U.S. into a full-blown ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/22/trump-judges-audition-for-supreme-court/) 2022-05-22T09:32:00Z **Trump Shares CPAC Hungary Platform with Notorious Racist and Antisemite.**
Flora Garamvolgyi and Julian Borger,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Trump has been out of office now for more than a year. He is well aware of his extensive criminal behavior, and I think is growing more confident of his control over the cult that had been the Republican Party. Why? Because he has not been held accountable for any of it. So his real fascist views our openly on ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/22/trump-shares-cpac-hungary-platform-with-notorious-racist-and-antisemite/) 2022-05-23T09:35:00Z **Southern Baptist Leaders Mishandled Sex Abuse Crisis, Report Alleges**
Ruth Graham and Elizabeth Dias,  National Religious Correspondent \| Religious Reporter  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: There is a very strong linkage between male clergy, male dominance, and inappropriate sexuality. Everyone knows it, but you never read or hear about clerical authorities doing anything in their training about it. The Roman Catholic Church has been notoriously guilty of p ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/23/southern-baptist-leaders-mishandled-sex-abuse-crisis-report-alleges/) 2022-05-23T09:34:00Z **Baby Formula Maker Chose Shareholders Over Safety Amid Deadly Bacterial Outbreak**
Jake Johnson,  Staff Writer  -  truthout / Common Dreams

_Stephan: The other day I told you that based on my analysis that contrary to all the Republican misinformation the shortage of baby formula has nothing to do with the Biden administration or Joe Biden himself and, instead, was due entirely to corporate greed. Today I watched as military personnel, at who kno ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/23/baby-formula-maker-chose-shareholders-over-safety-amid-deadly-bacterial-outbreak/) 2022-05-23T09:33:00Z **Baby Formula Industry Successfully Lobbied to Weaken Bacteria Safety Testing Standards**
Lee Fang,  Staff Writer  -  The Intercept

_Stephan: The story you hear on the television news channels is that Abbott, which is the source and cause of the baby formula crisis had a pollution problem in one of their plants, and so they closed it. What you are not hearing is how that plant came to be toxic with bacteria. In the previous story I explained ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/23/baby-formula-industry-successfully-lobbied-to-weaken-bacteria-safety-testing-standards/) 2022-05-23T09:32:00Z **Analysis confirms millions more kids going hungry since Manchin and the GOP killed expanded Child Tax Credit**
Kenny Stancil,    -  Alter Net

_Stephan: Here is further proof that America, as a country, and particularly Republicans, do not like or support children, and that Joe Manchin is a vile human being. There is a deep sickness in the United States because voters put into power men and women who care nothing for th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/23/analysis-confirms-millions-more-kids-going-hungry-since-manchin-and-the-gop-killed-expanded-child-tax-credit/) 2022-05-24T09:35:00Z **America’s billionaire class is funding anti-democratic forces**
Robert Reich,  Former US Secretary of Labor, Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: America's obscene wealth inequality is allowing a handful of billionaire fascists, who don't want to be taxed or restricted in what they want to do, to fund the christofascist cult that was once the Republican Party. These are the men, almost all ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/24/americas-billionaire-class-is-funding-anti-democratic-forces%ef%bf%bc/) 2022-05-24T09:34:00Z **How White Victimhood Fuels Republican Politics**
Alex Samuels and Neil Lewis Jr.,  Politics Reporter \| Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University and the Division of General Internal Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine  -  FiveThirtyEight

_Stephan: One of the driving forces powering the Republican cult, what Trump recognized and used, is the conviction amongst Republican Whites, male or female, but particularly male, that as Whites they are being ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/24/how-white-victimhood-fuels-republican-politics/) 2022-05-24T09:33:00Z **Manhattan DA urges judge to proceed with case against Trump Org and its CFO, says they stole more in taxpayer dollars than most New Yorkers earn in a year**
Molly Crane-Newman,  Reporter  -  Daily News

_Stephan: It looks like Trump's invincibility armor is about to be tested finally. This story explains what is happening. Hee's my take: Alan Weisselberg is an older man. He i ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/24/manhattan-da-urges-judge-to-proceed-with-case-against-trump-org-and-its-cfo-says-they-stole-more-in-taxpayer-dollars-than-most-new-yorkers-earn-in-a-year/) 2022-05-24T09:32:00Z **Trump-promoted ‘Alien DNA’ doctor says Joe Biden is dead and his body was replaced by demonic clone**
Sky Palma,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: The schism between the Democratic worldview and that of the cult is so great that few American from either side have much exposure to the media of the other. Here's an example. You've probably never heard of Stella Immanuel. If you lived in MAGAt world you would be hearing a lot of ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/24/trump-promoted-alien-dna-doctor-says-joe-biden-is-dead-and-his-body-was-replaced-by-demonic-clone/) 2022-05-25T09:35:00Z **27 school shootings have taken place so far this year**
JACLYN DIAZ,    -  npr

_Stephan: I am going to make this short and to the point. I've had enough. As you have probably heard throughout the day there is no other country on earth that has the kind of non-military gun murders and school shootings that occur regularly, almost routinely in the United States. The families hadn't even buried all the dead from the Buffalo massacre when the Uvalde, Texas massacre happened. W ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/25/27-school-shootings-have-taken-place-so-far-this-year/) 2022-05-25T09:34:00Z **Poll: Black Americans fear more racist attacks after Buffalo shooting**
Silvia Foster-Frau, Arelis R. Hernández, Scott Clement and Emily Guskin ,    -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: I don't find the data in this report surprising. If I were Black, particularly if I lived in a Red open carry state I would be stressed anytime I was in a crowd of White people fearing some kind of violent or fatal confrontation. Why is this happening? Because under Trump White s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/25/poll-black-americans-fear-more-racist-attacks-after-buffalo-shooting/) 2022-05-25T09:33:00Z **Putin and the GOP – Not Much Daylight Between Them**
John B. Alexander,    -  Daily Kos

_Stephan: John Alexander gets it. He sees the clear commonalities between Putin and the Republican Party, both committed to anocracy as their preferred form of government. I wish I had written this essay, I would have said the same thing._

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![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/25/putin-and-the-gop-not-much-daylight-between-them/) 2022-05-25T09:32:00Z **Southern Baptist scandal: It’s no coincidence that anti-abortion churches protect sexual abusers**
By AMANDA MARCOTTE,  Senior Politics Writer  -  Salon

_Stephan: Yesterday I reported on the just released study about the sex abuse committed by 700 -- 700! -- Baptist clergy. It's the sordid tale of the Roman Catholic priesthood all over again. As I thought about this, I was struck by the fact that the two religious organizations that ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/25/southern-baptist-scandal-its-no-coincidence-that-anti-abortion-churches-protect-sexual-abusers/) 2022-05-26T09:35:00Z **The effect of mass shootings on daily emotionsis limited by time, geographic proximity,and political affiliation**
Patrick Sharkeya and Yinzhi Shen - Edited by John Hagan, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL,,  Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University \| Office of Population Research, Princeton University  -  PHAS https://www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/ doi:10.1073/pnas.2100846118/-/DCSu ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/26/the-effect-of-mass-shootings-on-daily-emotionsis-limited-by-time-geographic-proximityand-political-affiliation/) 2022-05-26T09:34:00Z **Here are the gun bills stalled in Congress**
EMILY BROOKS AND MIKE LILLIS,    -  The Hill

_Stephan: The reason an 18-year-old sad loser Texan boy could walk into a gun shop on his 18th birthday and legal buy a weapon specifically designed for combat and killing as many humans as possible as quickly as possible is because the Republican whores in Congress will not permit any legislation that in any way restricts access to guns. It's not complicated, so thousands of Americans, includin ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/26/here-are-the-gun-bills-stalled-in-congress/) 2022-05-26T09:33:00Z **The GOP lawmakers who get the most cash from gun rights groups**
Oriana Gonzalez and Will Chase,   Breaking News Reporters  -  Axios

_Stephan:_

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**Driving the news:** Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) received the most money from gun rights supporters. On Tuesday, he received [major backlash](https://www.axios.com/2022/05/25/ted-cruz-tex ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/26/the-gop-lawmakers-who-get-the-most-cash-from-gun-rights-groups/) 2022-05-26T09:32:00Z **Republicans pledge allegiance to a hobbled NRA**
DAVID SIDERS and OLIVIA BEAVERS,  Staff Writers  -  Politico

_Stephan: The appearance of Trump, at the NRA convention on 27-29 May and described by the NRA as "a showcase of more than 14 acres of “the latest guns and gear,” with a 'powerhouse lineup of political speakers.'" All this just days after the massacres in Buffalo and Uvalde is a very deliberate considered political statement, and not just by Trump. Texas Republican Gov. G ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/26/republicans-pledge-allegiance-to-a-hobbled-nra/) 2022-05-27T09:35:00Z **States with the most gun violence share one trait**
Zachary B. Wolf,    -  CNN

_Stephan: Here are more facts about gun deaths. I am trying to give my readers objectively verifiable facts they can use in taking their own actions to cleanse this scourge from our culture. The one thing this article does not mention, but what is obvious as one looks at these various lists is that if you live in a state governed by Republicans there are more guns, and more gun deaths. The same is t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/27/states-with-the-most-gun-violence-share-one-trait/) 2022-05-27T09:34:00Z **Shootings Aren’t a Sign America is ‘Broken’. It’s Working Exactly as Intended**
Ryan Busse,  former executive in the firearms industry, now a Senior Policy Advisor for Giffords  -  The Guardian U.K.)

_Stephan: The measurable trends validate what Ryan Busse, a former executive in the firearms industry, is saying in this piece. Because as a society we have only one social priority, greed and the profit it produces, the military-industrial complex Eisenhowe ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/27/shootings-arent-a-sign-america-is-broken-its-working-exactly-as-intended/) 2022-05-27T09:33:00Z **After Racist Massacre in Buffalo, Senate GOP Blocks Domestic Terrorism Bill**
JAKE JOHNSON,    -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Republican governance produces violence and death. Could it be made any clearer? I know that sounds terribly partisan, but I do assure you it is not. It is a statement based on objectively verifiable data._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Rightwing-Terrorism-stats.jpeg?resize=853%2C853&ssl=1) ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/27/after-racist-massacre-in-buffalo-senate-gop-blocks-domestic-terrorism-bill/) 2022-05-27T09:32:00Z **New Documents Show How Drug Companies Targeted Doctors to Increase Opioid Prescriptions**
Charles Ornstein,  Editor  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: Thousands die each year because of opioid overdoses, and it has been going on for over a decade. It is yet another demonstration of the corruption and lack of interest in fostering wellbeing by the American illness profit system and the corporate pharmaceutical industries._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/27/new-documents-show-how-drug-companies-targeted-doctors-to-increase-opioid-prescriptions/) 2022-05-28T09:35:00Z **Australia confiscated 650,000 guns. Murders and suicides plummeted.**
Zack Beauchamp,    -  Vox

_Stephan: When Australia had only a fraction of the gun deaths that occur most weekends in the United States because their politicians still believe they have a responsibility to serve the interests of the people who elected them they instituted a weapons buyback program. Here's what happened. Could it be down in the U.S.? It could but it won't. Why not? Because congr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/28/australia-confiscated-650000-guns-murders-and-suicides-plummeted/) 2022-05-28T09:34:00Z **U.S. Senate Republicans block bill requiring agencies monitor domestic terrorism**
Ariana Figueroa,    -  News From the States

_Stephan: Once again the Republican death party served its corporate masters rather than the interests of the people they had sworn to serve._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-27-at-5.07.50-PM.jpg?resize=727%2C481&ssl=1)_The U.S. Capitol in Washington Credit: Mari ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/28/u-s-senate-republicans-block-bill-requiring-agencies-monitor-domestic-terrorism/) 2022-05-28T09:33:00Z **The G.O.P. War on Civil Virtue**
Paul Krugman,  Columnist, 2008 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center.   -  The New York Times

_Stephan: As is usually the case Paul Krugman gets it right._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-27-at-7.28.22-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C530&ssl=1)_Credit: Eric Thayer/Bloomberg_

It’s hard to say which of the Republican responses to the ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/28/the-g-o-p-war-on-civil-virtue%ef%bf%bc/) 2022-05-28T09:32:00Z **Maker of rifle in Texas massacre is deep-pocketed GOP donor**
Isaac Stanley-Becker,  Reporter  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: Just so there's no doubt about the linkage between those who make the death weapons, and the Republicans who protect them, assure their profits and see they cannot be held accountable because of carefully crafted laws._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-27-at-7.38.58-PM.jpg?resize=80 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/28/maker-of-rifle-in-texas-massacre-is-deep-pocketed-gop-donor/) 2022-05-28T09:31:00Z **How about we treat every man who wants to buy a gun like every woman who wants to get an abortion**
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_Stephan: An SR reader sent me this. All I can say is, yes, let's do that. (There is no click through.)_

- Face a mandatory 48-hr waiting period,
- Make him show a note with parental permission,
- Make him show a note from his doctor proving he understands what he’s about to do,
- Make him watch a video about the effects o ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/28/how-about-we-treat-every-man-who-wants-to-buy-a-gun-like-every-woman-who-wants-to-get-an-abortion/) 2022-05-29T09:35:00Z **Warmer Climates Lead to Loss of Pollinator Diversity, Research Finds**
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,    -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Yet another warning about what climate change and global warming are going to mean. And yet humanity and its governments can't seem to fully awaken to what this is going to mean._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-28-at-10.04.06-PM.jpg?resize=688%2C386&ssl=1)_A super-generalist bum ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/29/warmer-climates-lead-to-loss-of-pollinator-diversity-research-finds/) 2022-05-29T09:34:00Z **‘Resounding Victory’: Court Rules Exxon Must Face Trial Over Climate Lies**
Kenny Stancil,    -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Here is some lovely good news. Exxon is going to have to stand trial for lying to the public about climate change._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-28-at-9.54.27-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C288&ssl=1)_Climate activists protested outside ExxonMobil’s annual shareholder meeting in Irving ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/29/resounding-victory-court-rules-exxon-must-face-trial-over-climate-lies/) 2022-05-29T09:33:00Z **We All Know Mass Killers Love the AR-15. Now Meet Their Favorite Bullet.**
Miroslav Macala,  Staff Writer  -  The Intercept

_Stephan: There is another aspect to the Uvalde, Tx murders that is not getting covered by the media and, unless you are familiar with weapons and their ammunition, would not even be thought about by most Americans. I am speaking here about the rounds of ammunition the killer, Salvador Ramos, purchased and used to kill the children an ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/29/we-all-know-mass-killers-love-the-ar-15-now-meet-their-favorite-bullet/) 2022-05-29T09:32:00Z **Journalist slams the ‘disgusting and predictable’ hypocrisy of NRA organizers banning guns from Trump event**
Alex Henderson,  Staff Writer  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: How revealing it is that even as the NRA brays out about everyone's right to carry guns, you cannot carry a gun at an NRA conference. Could the hypocrisy be more blatant?_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022- ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/29/journalist-slams-the-disgusting-and-predictable-hypocrisy-of-nra-organizers-banning-guns-from-trump-event/) 2022-05-30T09:35:00Z **How an Organized Republican Effort Punishes Companies for Climate Action**
David Gelles and Hiroko Tabuchi,  Climate Correspondent \| Investigative Climate Reporter  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Between guns, the anti-vaxxer movement, anti-choice, climate denial, public education dismantling, and on and on, I think it is objectively fair to describe the Republican Party as the party of death. and they are very active in doing damage._

![](https://i0. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/30/how-an-organized-republican-effort-punishes-companies-for-climate-action/) 2022-05-30T09:34:00Z **How America fails children**
Dylan Scott,    -  Vox

_Stephan: I have told you for years (see SR archive) that on the basis of objectively verifiable research data that whatever politicians tell you the truth is America does not care about children. Of course, everyone cares about their kids, but I mean as a culture. Here is more data confirming this reality._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-29-at-6.10.00-PM.jpg?resize=552%2C600&ssl=1)

In ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/30/how-america-fails-children/) 2022-05-30T09:33:00Z **Canadian national security task force is preparing for the collapse of the United States**
Sarah K. Burris,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: I think this report should be taken very seriously. It is, and should be, seen as very alarming. Think about it for a moment. The Canadians are planning how they would respond if the United States became a full-on anocracy. That tells you how even the country that borders us and with whom we have a vast net ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/30/canadian-national-security-task-force-is-preparing-for-the-collapse-of-the-united-states/) 2022-05-30T09:32:00Z **Freedom in the World 2022 – The United States**
,    \-  Freedom House

_Stephan: The United States, as a result of the actions of Trump and the Republican Party, is no longer one of the world's leading democracies. Here are some facts._

Overview

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The United States is a federal republic whose people benefit from a vibrant political system, a stron ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/30/freedom-in-the-world-2022-the-united-states/) 2022-05-31T09:35:00Z **Inside Mitch McConnell’s decades-long effort to block gun control**
Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer ,  White House Bureau Chief \| National Political Reporter  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: You would think that any politician capable of rational thought would look at the data, look at the news, and see that America is unlike any other nation in the world -- in a very bad way. Guns, and recognize that something needed to be done to stop the endless murders. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/31/inside-mitch-mcconnells-decades-long-effort-to-block-gun-control/) 2022-05-31T09:34:00Z **What the data says about gun deaths in the U.S.**
JOHN GRAMLICH,    -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: This report from Pew Research was written in February, so all the recent murders and massacres like Buffalo and Uvalde had not yet occurred. However, even without that data this research spells out how deranged American society has become as a result of its obsessive gun psychosis, and how it is getting worse each year. Note the difference between 2000 and 2020 in the graph at the ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/31/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/) 2022-05-31T09:33:00Z **Trump calls Capitol attack an ‘insurrection hoax’ as public hearings set to begin**
Joanna Walters ,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: It is hard to believe that anyone in the United States thinks of the 6 January event at the Capitol as anything but an insurrection. But as recently as this last weekend Trump publicly called the whole thing a hoax, and was applauded for saying this. I am publishing this report not because it has any new news abo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/31/trump-calls-capitol-attack-an-insurrection-hoax-as-public-hearings-set-to-begin/) 2022-05-31T09:32:00Z **The world’s car buyers are ready to go electric**
Joanna Muller,    -  Axios

_Stephan: The United States, which for the last 75 years has led the world technologically in everything from airplanes to computers is no longer in the lead, as this report on the conversion out of petroleum vehicles to EVs demonstrates. President Biden had the right idea with his Build Back Better legislation, which would have created a nationwide network of charging stations, that would have encourage ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/05/31/the-worlds-car-buyers-are-ready-to-go-electric/) 2022-06-01T09:35:00Z **Eliminating Air Pollution Could Save More Than 53,000 Lives Per Year, Study Says**
Chris Walker,  News Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: You tell me, which should take priority, the wellbeing and continued life of 53,000 men, women, and children, or corporate profits? To me the answer seems simple, the wellbeing of the 53,000 take priority. But in America, corporate profits take priority, boo hoo, too bad for the 53,000._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.sch ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/01/eliminating-air-pollution-could-save-more-than-53000-lives-per-year-study-says/) 2022-06-01T09:34:00Z **Supreme Court rules against inmates in right-to-counsel case**
JESSICA GRESKO,    -  Associated Press

_Stephan: If you know anything about the law, and the courts you know that some public defenders are deeply committed to giving poor defendants good representation, and some... well it's a job. If you happen to be one of those who get poor representation you had some recourse, but the christofascists on the Supreme Court have now closed that door. Justice ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/01/supreme-court-rules-against-inmates-in-right-to-counsel-case%ef%bf%bc/) 2022-06-01T09:33:00Z **Pastors are Concerned About the Rise of Christian Nationalism in the Republican Party**
Sarah K. Burris,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Christian Nationalism is basically just another manifestation of White supremacy. There is nothing Christian about it, as some clergy are beginning to recognize, nor does it represent healthy nationalism. It is the pathetic last gasp of aging White people angry and fearful that the world is changing a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/01/pastors-are-concerned-about-the-rise-of-christian-nationalism-in-the-republican-party/) 2022-06-01T09:32:00Z **How the NRA crafted the unholy matrimony of gun culture and white supremacy**
Mia Brett,    -  AlterNet

_Stephan: This is the other leg of the christofascist movement, the linkage of guns and White supremacy; a conscious multi-decade strategy built on the weird idea of masculinity cultivated in that movement._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-31-at-8.34.44-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C451&ssl=1)Corrup ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/01/how-the-nra-crafted-the-unholy-matrimony-of-gun-culture-and-white-supremacy/) 2022-06-02T09:35:00Z **A study gave cash and therapy to men at risk of criminal behavior. 10 years later, the results are in.**
Sigal Samuel ,  Staff Writer  -  Vox

_Stephan: I have been telling my readers for over two decades that policies that foster wellbeing, are always -- I have never found an exception anywhere in the world -- more effective, more efficient, more productive, nicer for everyone to live under, and much, much cheaper. (See SR arch ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/02/a-study-gave-cash-and-therapy-to-men-at-risk-of-criminal-behavior-10-years-later-the-results-are-in/) 2022-06-02T09:34:00Z **Report: Sales of internal combustion vehicles now in “permanent decline”**
Peter Valdes-Dapena, ,    -

_Stephan: Here is some good news about the transition out of the carbon era. I want you to take particular note that, as this report describes, this trend is being driven not by corporate choice but by individual buyer choice. It is another example illustrating how when individuals reach a consensus on something it happens. IT is an example of the 8 Laws o ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/02/report-sales-of-internal-combustion-vehicles-now-in-permanent-decline/) 2022-06-02T09:33:00Z **Big-spending billionaires are upending politics. The Los Angeles mayor’s race is the latest test.**
ELENA SCHNEIDER,    -  Politico

_Stephan: I have been examining elections of all kinds all over the country, and two things stand out for me. First, the Republicans are pursuing a deliberate and organized strategy to rig the 2022 election, with the idea of perfecting their tactics in order to make America an anocracy in the 2024 elect ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/02/big-spending-billionaires-are-upending-politics-the-los-angeles-mayors-race-is-the-latest-test/) 2022-06-02T09:32:00Z **Did Joe Manchin Block Climate Action to Benefit His Financial Interests**
Chris McGreal ,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: I don't know if Joe Manchin is the most selfish and corrupt member of Congress, but he is certainly in the top handful. And he is the most irritating. The question is, will the people of West Virginia send this scumbag back to the Senate? Do they realize he routinely acts against their personal interests?_

![](https://i0.wp.com/ww ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/02/did-joe-manchin-block-climate-action-to-benefit-his-financial-interests/) 2022-06-03T09:35:00Z **A Disturbing New Pattern in Mass Shootings: Young Assailants**
Glenn Thrush and Matt Richtel,  Reporters  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: You may have heard the President tonight talk about his feelings about the recurrent mass killings over the last couple of weeks and what he would like to see done. I agree with all of it. We live in a country where you may not be able to buy a beer or even a handgun, but you can buy a combat assault weapon capable of killing a doz ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/03/a-disturbing-new-pattern-in-mass-shootings-young-assailants/) 2022-06-03T09:34:00Z **Cowardice is the point of white supremacy, too**
Damon Young,    -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: I think this essay is correct. If you look at world history, wherever racism, or its first cousin colonialism reigns, it is obvious a dominant group enjoys a privileged position not by reason of personal attainment, but because of race or religion or both. What is happening to America is that we are becoming, by 2040-2045, a majority-minority nation, and are well into the transition. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/03/cowardice-is-the-point-of-white-supremacy-too/) 2022-06-03T09:33:00Z **What the Uvalde Police department is hiding: White power killed those kids**
John Stoehr,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: It should be obvious to anyone including, I hope you, there is something very bogus going on with the humiliated Uvalde police. They are doing everything they can to deflect, or obfuscate, or just not tell the truth about what happened. I have already said that it sounded like the local police commander and at least some of his men were af ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/03/what-the-uvalde-police-department-is-hiding-white-power-killed-those-kids/) 2022-06-03T09:32:00Z **GOP senator brags gun control ‘not gonna happen’ as at least 60 separate shooting incidents occurred in just one day**
David Badash,    -  AlterNet / The New Civil Rights Movement

_Stephan: The Republicans are making a political bet. Their bet is that the largely White rabid gun obsessives will remain more politically powerful as a group than the Americans disgusted and angry over the constant gun murders. Men li ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/03/gop-senator-brags-gun-control-not-gonna-happen-as-at-least-60-separate-shooting-incidents-occurred-in-just-one-day/) 2022-06-04T09:35:00Z **Undermining Elections from Within and Without**
Michael Waldman,    -  Brennan Center for Justice

_Stephan: The alarm bells are going off all over the media about the Republican attempt to rig the 2022 election. It is a measure of how badly the Congress operates, and how extreme is the schism in both houses, that there is no effort being made to stop what is happening and to rectify what has been done. Our democracy hangs by a thread and I do not notice much response from the Amer ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/04/undermining-elections-from-within-and-without/) 2022-06-04T09:34:00Z **This is how far Republicans will go to subvert the will of the voters**
Dana MIlbank,  Columnist  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: Here is more on the Republican nationwide effort at both the federal and state level to destroy American democracy. That millions of Americans either don't get this, or are happy to have the country turned into an anocracy with the Republicans in permanent control I find one of the most chilling events of our history. We are at ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/04/this-is-how-far-republicans-will-go-to-subvert-the-will-of-the-voters/) 2022-06-04T09:33:00Z **‘You Can’t Even Bury Your Loved Ones’: 5 People Reportedly Shot at Cemetery During Funeral for Father Shot by Police**
David Badash,    -  The New Civil Rights Movement

_Stephan: We have reached a point where going anywhere a group has gathered in public is potentially an act of Russian roulette. Yet, the Republicans are blocking, and will continue to block, any meaningful change in our gun laws. How long do you th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/04/you-cant-even-bury-your-loved-ones-5-people-reportedly-shot-at-cemetery-during-funeral-for-father-shot-by-police/) 2022-06-04T09:32:00Z **The Supreme Court has blood on its hands**
Bill Blum,    -  AlterNet

_Stephan: The guiding principle of the conservatives on the Supreme Court is "originalism," an incredibly ignorant sophistry that the Founders would have rejected, and which makes the Constitution a dead not a living document. Nowhere, as this fact-based article lays out is the willful ignorance of "originalism" more apparent than the conservative majority's rulings on the Second Amendment. It is part of the reason th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/04/the-supreme-court-has-blood-on-its-hands/) 2022-06-05T09:35:00Z **Blue states are responding to Uvalde**
Nicole Narea,  Staff Writer  -  Vox

_Stephan: Here is some good news, for Blue states, at least, although a further indication of The Great Schism Trend. I have been following the state responses to the mass killings and it is very marked. Blue states tighten gun laws at the state level. Red states further loosen them, still operating, against all evidence, that good guys with guns is the way to stop bad guys with guns. The social outcome data makes i ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/05/blue-states-are-responding-to-uvalde/) 2022-06-05T09:34:00Z **Biden administration announces railroad infrastructure grants**
Niels Lesniewski,    -  Roll Call

_Stephan: More good news. The Biden administration is making serious moves to upgrade America's aging rail infrastructure, as this report describes._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Screen-Shot-2022-06-04-at-5.28.22-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C481&ssl=1)![A Union Pacific freight train passes an at-grade railroad crossing in Nipton, Cali ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/05/biden-administration-announces-railroad-infrastructure-grants/) 2022-06-05T09:33:00Z **How American Influencers Built a World Wide Web of Vaccine Disinformation**
KIERA BUTLER and NEHA WADEKAR,    -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: At least 319,000 people in the United States who volunteered to join the American anti-vaxxer death cult who ought to be alive are, instead, dead leaving at least a million three hundred thousand to grieve and mourn them. And that is just in the U.S.

Based on the hard data I have come to think of the anti-vaxxer moveme ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/05/how-american-influencers-built-a-world-wide-web-of-vaccine-disinformation/) 2022-06-05T09:32:00Z **The Expansion of Democracy Is What Republican Elites Fear Most**
Jamelle Bouie,  Columnist  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Here is an interesting commentary on what is happening with democracy in America. It makes what I think is a important, yet rarely discussed or understood point about minorities and majorities in the U.S. I see what is happening with our democracy as an issue of a minority -- bitter angry Whites guided and funded by the oligarchs -- working t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/05/the-expansion-of-democracy-is-what-republican-elites-fear-most/) 2022-06-06T09:34:27Z **Owning Guns Puts People in Your Home at Greater Risk of Being Killed, New Study Shows**
DAVID STUDDERT,  Professor of Law and of Health Policy at Stanford University  -  Time Magazine

_Stephan: It is an article of faith amongst gun obsessives that having a gun in their home makes them safer. Unfortunately, that is a lie, actually it puts a family at greater risk of homicide or suicide occurring in that family. Here are the facts, and to read ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/06/owning-guns-puts-people-in-your-home-at-greater-risk-of-being-killed-new-study-shows/) 2022-06-06T09:33:00Z **America Tolerates High Levels of Violence but Suppresses Photos of the Slaughter**
Peter Maass,  Staff Writer  -  The Intercept

_Stephan: I wanted to use a picture of a child shot by an AR-15 to visually make the point this article addresses because I think it is very important. I spent half an hour trying to find such an image, searching every way I could think of on Google. It is impossible, I discovered, to actually find such an image, and tha ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/06/america-tolerates-high-levels-of-violence-but-suppresses-photos-of-the-slaughter/) 2022-06-06T09:32:00Z **Key facts about Americans and guns**
KATHERINE SCHAEFFER,    -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: I keep focusing on guns and what they are doing to American society because it never seems to end. This weekend alone, for instance, after Buffalo and Uvalde, a string of shootings in eight states left at least 15 people dead and more than 60 others wounded. Did you know that? Guns murders are so commonplace in the United States many get only superficial coverage, and that only in local media._

![] ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/06/key-facts-about-americans-and-guns/) 2022-06-07T09:35:00Z **The Strange and Secret Ways That Animals Perceive the World**
Elizabeth Kolbert,  Environmental Writer  -  The New Yorker

_Stephan: Elizabeth Kolbert is one of the most sensible environmental writers, and I read this with interest, and present it here.

If consciousness is fundamental and causal, as Einstein and Planck asserted, and experimental data affirms, then we live in a matrix of consciousness, in which the human perception, is but one of millions. All life is ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/07/the-strange-and-secret-ways-that-animals-perceive-the-world/) 2022-06-07T09:34:00Z **Almost Half of Republicans Think ‘We Have to Accept’ Mass Shootings, Poll Shows**
Cameron Joseph,    -  Vice News

_Stephan: For the gun obsessives -- 44 percent of Republicans -- the answer to the massacres is not fewer but more guns. They actually fantasize a world in which everyone in America carries weapons as a matter of course. As for the murders, well, that's what freedom is like, get used to it. And these people are all going to vote in Novemb ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/07/almost-half-of-republicans-think-we-have-to-accept-mass-shootings-poll-shows/) 2022-06-07T09:33:00Z **Court Documents Shed Light on Secretive Christian Sect Tied to Amy Coney Barrett**
Travis Gettys,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Amy Coney Barrett, like Clarence Thomas, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh should never have been approved to sit on the court by the Senate. None of them are legal scholars, they are ideologues who make partisan judgments. And none of this is subtle. Thomas is married to a christofascist activist who was involved ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/07/%ef%bf%bccourt-documents-shed-light-on-secretive-christian-sect-tied-to-amy-coney-barrett/) 2022-06-07T09:32:00Z **The House GOP has a “Climate ” Plan. It’s a Giveaway to the Fossil Fuel Industry**
Mike Ludwig,  Staff Reporter  -  truthout

_Stephan: The GOP climate proposal is a measure of the corruption of that party. The Republican Congress members either do not understand or do not care about climate change and what it is doing to the earth. What they care about is the money they get from the carbon industry corporations that pays to keep them in power. Your we ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/07/the-house-gop-has-a-climate-plan-its-a-giveaway-to-the-fossil-fuel-industry/) 2022-06-08T09:35:00Z **Carbon Dioxide Levels Are Highest in Human History**
Henry Fountain,    -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Another alarm goes off while humanity wallows in its greed and willful ignorance. I think it is very clear that we are not going to do what needs to be done and that tens, perhaps, hundreds, of millions of people around the world, including millions in the U.S., are going to have their lives trashed because of climate change. We have been warned over and over but we just do ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/08/carbon-dioxide-levels-are-highest-in-human-history/) 2022-06-08T09:34:00Z **Teacher Wounded In Texas School Shooting Slams Police As ‘Cowards’**
Nina Golgowski,    -  HuffPost

_Stephan: Already the Uvalde massacre is fading into the past without a single police coward, or the particularly cowardly and utterly incompetent police commander on site, Pete Arredondo, being held accountable in any way for the murder of those 19 little children and their two teachers. The one teacher who was shot twice yet survived while the kids in his room w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/08/teacher-wounded-in-texas-school-shooting-slams-police-as-cowards/) 2022-06-08T09:33:00Z **EU Smashes 2020 Climate Target, Records 34% Drop in Emissions to Lowest Level Since 1990**
,    \-  Good News Network

_Stephan: The European Union, which is made up of nations each of which, albeit to varying degrees, is committed to fostering wellbeing -- what is called socialism in the United States -- has made a big achievement in the remediation of the forces that are driving climate change. Meanwhile, the United States, whose Congress ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/08/eu-smashes-2020-climate-target-records-34-drop-in-emissions-to-lowest-level-since-1990/) 2022-06-08T09:32:00Z **Will anti-abortionists use ‘uterus surveillance’ against women in the US?**
Arwa Mahdawi,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: This I think is where the anti-choice movement is going. They know that about 40% of abortions are now done by medications, requiring no visit to a physician or a clinic. That is driving the anti-choice people crazy. That is why Texas wrote the law with a bounty hunter component. These people are determined to put women in a subordi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/08/will-anti-abortionists-use-uterus-surveillance-against-women-in-the-us/) 2022-06-09T17:56:51Z **No SR Edition**
,    \-

_Stephan:_

_Stephan is in the hospital for a procedure_, so there will be no articles posted until Saturday. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/09/no-sr-edition-6-9-22/) 2022-06-11T09:36:00Z **Editor’s Note -Thank you**
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan: Thank you to all the readers who wrote to send me good wishes, and a quick recovery. I went into the hospital to get a hernia repair laparoscopic surgery. It was a bigger and more painful deal than I had realized but I am now home recuperating well. I really appreciated your warm wishes. Thank you again._ ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/11/editors-note-thank-you-4/) 2022-06-11T09:35:00Z **Americans’ Views of Government: Decades of Distrust, Enduring Support for Its Role**
Joe Davidson,    -

_Stephan: I have been telling my readers for years that Americans' trust in their government was going through a disastrous decline, and that our democracy was in dire straits. However, even I had not realized how bad this has become. This study by the Pew Research Center lays out the facts. The actual facts as to where our democracy s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/11/americans-views-of-government-decades-of-distrust-enduring-support-for-its-role%ef%bf%bc/) 2022-06-11T09:34:00Z **Fox News refuses to air Jan. 6 violence while trashing hearing as “boring” and “propaganda”**
Igor Derysh,  Deputy News and Politics Editor  -  Salon

_Stephan: Here is another take on the Fox christofascist propaganda network (FCPN). To say what they did last night was shameful, really doesn't properly address what happened. FCPN has nothing to do with news, it is an active operation of the Murdoch family to destroy American democracy, and ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/11/fox-news-refuses-to-air-jan-6-violence-while-trashing-hearing-as-boring-and-propaganda/) 2022-06-11T09:33:00Z **Bernie to Dems: Change course before you nosedive in November**
BURGESS EVERETT,    -  Politico

_Stephan: I think Bernie Sanders has the correct assessment of the current electoral situation. (In the interest of full disclosure to my readers I was a Bernie Sanders Washington state delegate.) Sanders like Warren is not partisan, he is interested in fostering wellbeing, and understands what is really going on. I am very disappointed in the Democratic leadership, and t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/11/bernie-to-dems-change-course-before-you-nosedive-in-november/) 2022-06-11T09:32:00Z **Ginni Thomas pressed 29 Ariz. lawmakers to help overturn Trump’s defeat, emails show**
Emma Brown,  Reporter  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: I find it both amazing and very revealing of the state of American justice that an active christofascist activist openly working to destroy American democracy can be married to one of the nine justices on the Supreme Court who have the power to decide how our laws are interpreted and no one is taking any ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/11/ginni-thomas-pressed-29-ariz-lawmakers-to-help-overturn-trumps-defeat-emails-show/) 2022-06-12T09:36:00Z **Consciousness, and The Weaponization of Lies**
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan: This is my take on the weaponization of lies. White supremacy, male dominance, christofascism through the internet and social media. It is a major trend shaping our culture._

_Lies — misinformation or disinformation in its polite academic and media dress — fills the news_

_today. Endless stories of lying Congress members, dark money PACs spreading conspiracy_

_theories, media’ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/12/consciousness-and-the-weaponization-of-lies/) 2022-06-12T09:35:00Z **GOP’s mass shooting response is a bizarre twist for the so-called ‘pro-life’ party**
Charlie Sykes,  Founder and Editor-at-large of the Bulwark  -  MSNBC

_Stephan: Please read this. It is very important that those of us who want to see intelligent gun control and democracy prevail, realize how really deranged the Republican position held by 44% of the party on this is. What I mean by that is starting with getting AR-15 style weapons off the street ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/12/gops-mass-shooting-response-is-a-bizarre-twist-for-the-so-called-pro-life-party/) 2022-06-12T09:34:00Z **Restoration of empire is the endgame for Russia’s Vladimir Putin**
Nathan Hodge,    -  CNN

_Stephan: I told you the week of the invasion that there were two things going on with the war that were not being properly appreciated. (See SR archive, search on "Putin".) First, Putin is not stupid, just reptilian. You're a dictator and possibly the richest man in the world, and you know it all depends on petroleum and gas, which Europe and other nations are committing t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/12/restoration-of-empire-is-the-endgame-for-russias-vladimir-putin/) 2022-06-12T09:33:00Z **White supremacists are riling up thousands on social media**
Amanda Seitz,  Reporter  -  Associated Press

_Stephan: What the majority of Americans do not yet realize is that this cohort of people see what they are doing as part of a war. They are already in combat. And as I said in today's first piece, all of this is facilitated by the internet and social media. What is happening is exactly what happened in Germany and Italy, when Hitler and Mussolini rose to power. T ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/12/white-supremacists-are-riling-up-thousands-on-social-media/) 2022-06-13T09:35:00Z **31 members of the white nationalist Patriot Front arrested near an Idaho Pride event**
ODETTE YOUSEF,    -  npr

_Stephan: We are a country with a serious hate problem consuming White men, and the submissive women who support them. Further complicating this trend is America's obsessive gun psychosis, which involves pretty much the same Whites. In my opinion, all of this arises because the United States is becoming a majority-minority nation, a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/13/31-members-of-the-white-nationalist-patriot-front-arrested-near-an-idaho-pride-event/) 2022-06-13T09:34:00Z **‘Disturbing’ GOP blitz: DeSantis orders trans care ban, Ohio GOP wants genital inspectors in school**
Igor Derysh,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story / Salon

_Stephan: One of the strangest, at least to my mind, aspects of the White christofascist community's hate is their personal sexual insecurity and obsession with non-heterosexual sex. It's not like trans or LGBTQ people are attempting to recruit them into even casual sex. The LGBTQ co ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/13/disturbing-gop-blitz-desantis-orders-trans-care-ban-ohio-gop-wants-genital-inspectors-in-school/) 2022-06-13T09:33:00Z **Current policies will bring ‘catastrophic’ climate breakdown, warn former UN leaders**
Fiona Harvey,  Environment Correspondent  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: The warnings come in almost every day. They all tell us the same thing: We are not doing enough to prepare for what climate change is doing, not going to do, already doing. I think that at least in the United States this is going to get down to what individuals do. Have you done the res ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/13/current-policies-will-bring-catastrophic-climate-breakdown-warn-former-un-leaders/) 2022-06-13T09:32:00Z **‘Unbelievable’: Half of New Drugs Launched in 2020-2021 Cost $150,000 or More Per Year**
Jake Johnson,    -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: What I do not understand, and I admit it, is why the American people are so complacent, so submissive to the illness-profit healthcare systsem when its inferiority, as shown by hard data, is so obvious._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Screen-Shot-2022-06-12-at-10.04.09-PM.j ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/13/unbelievable-half-of-new-drugs-launched-in-2020-2021-cost-150000-or-more-per-year/) 2022-06-14T09:35:00Z **Will Merrick Garland Defend Democracy?**
Mark Hosenball,    -  The New Republic

_Stephan: I do not believe it is possible for a rational person who cares about facts to doubt that Donald Trump is a criminal who attempted to overthrow America's democracy. One could not listen to Monday morning's Jan 6th hearings and come away with any other conclusion than that Trump had been told multiple times by his closest circle that he had lost the election yet continued to work to overturn the legal ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/14/will-merrick-garland-defend-democracy/) 2022-06-14T09:34:00Z **Locomotive Power: Delivering a sustainable future**
IAN JEFFERIES,  PRESIDENT AND CEO, THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN RAILROADS  -  Politico

_Stephan: Even taking into consideration the obvious bias that this is written by a railroad executive, it nonetheless is telling us something important that is true. For the last several months in the professional literature, I have seen papers reporting the pieces that, put together, will achieve what Jan Jefferies is describing. I think th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/14/locomotive-power-delivering-a-sustainable-future/) 2022-06-14T09:33:00Z **Our entire civilisation depends on animals. It’s time we recognised their true value**
Tony Juniper,  Chair of Natural England  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: All life is interconnected and independent, we live in a matrix of consciousness. Realizing that is going to fundamentally transform our culture._

![Wasp seen in close-up takes pollen from centre of flower with white petals](https://i0.wp.com/i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8078b4dd6f49e4910d34 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/14/our-entire-civilisation-depends-on-animals-its-time-we-recognised-their-true-value/) 2022-06-14T09:32:00Z **As universal school meals program nears end, Biden eyes other ways to get food to school kids**
Meredith Lee,  Food and Agriculture Policy Reporter  -  Politico

_Stephan: What kind of country doesn't make feeding its children a priority? The United States. America does not like its children, particularly Republicans in Congress. I have been saying this for years based on the factual data, and I think it is one of the saddest things ab ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/14/as-universal-school-meals-program-nears-end-biden-eyes-other-ways-to-get-food-to-school-kids/) 2022-06-15T09:35:00Z **The race against time to breed a wheat to survive the climate crisis**
Nina Lakhani ,  The 11th Hour Project  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: It doesn't get much coverage except in the professional literature but climate change is impacting agriculture in ways that threaten humanity's wellbeing, may impact your family's wellbeing. Here is a good explanation of what is going on._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Screen ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/15/the-race-against-time-to-breed-a-wheat-to-survive-the-climate-crisis/) 2022-06-15T09:34:00Z **Pollen and Heat: A Looming Challenge for Global Agriculture**
CAROLYN BEANS,    -  Yale 360

_Stephan: Here is a second piece on this very important agriculture trend. Regular readers know I have been telling you for years that industrial chemical monoculture agriculture is doomed and climate change is going to change agriculture around the world in ways great and small. Now it is upon us and has become an urgent if little discussed trend. When was the last time you he ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/15/pollen-and-heat-a-looming-challenge-for-global-agriculture/) 2022-06-15T09:33:00Z **How America Lost Its Edge**
Paul Krugman,  Nobel Laureate, Professor, Columnist  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Paul Krugman and I agree about most things, but I was surprised to see him come out and say what I have been saying, the Uniged States has been in decline for decades now, and is no longer the world leader it was from the end of WWII to the Reagan presidency. By almost any social outcome measure you like America is becoming increasingly second class. Here is Krugman's take on this._

![](h ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/15/how-america-lost-its-edge/) 2022-06-15T09:32:00Z **It’s a terrifying time to have kids in America. It doesn’t have to be this way.**
Anna North,    -  Vox

_Stephan: Here again, is another report on why America does not like its children and does not give them any priority. It is one of the most revealing and saddest aspects of American culture._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Screen-Shot-2022-06-14-at-5.08.35-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C533&ssl=1)_Parents and would-be ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/15/its-a-terrifying-time-to-have-kids-in-america-it-doesnt-have-to-be-this-way/) 2022-06-16T09:35:00Z **Mass shootings at home, mass arms exports abroad: A look at the deadly role of US weapons across the globe**
Amy Goodman Interviewer,    -  Democracy Now!

_Stephan: Here is the transcription of a really intelligent conversation about the reality of what is happening worldwide about guns and the evil role the U.S. plays.

The weapons industry has way too much influence on the U.S. government and shapes its policies. The U.S ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/16/mass-shootings-at-home-mass-arms-exports-abroad-a-look-at-the-deadly-role-of-us-weapons-across-the-globe/) 2022-06-16T09:34:00Z **Cult expert Steven Hassan sees 95% chance of worsening pro-Trump violence**
CHAUNCEY DEVEGA,  Senior Policy Writer  -  Salon

_Stephan: What most Americans don't seem to get yet is that MAGAt world sees itself in war. They expect and want violence. It is their belief that they are the true patriots, and the true protectors of the Constitution. That this view, has no substance in fact, does not matter to them. They believe it, because they believe it. It s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/16/cult-expert-steven-hassan-sees-95-chance-of-worsening-pro-trump-violence/) 2022-06-16T09:33:00Z **The Republic Is Lucky to Be Alive**
Charles P. Pierce,  Columnist  -  Esquire

_Stephan: I think Charles Pierce has it right, in his chronology of what has happened. He has hit the right trophes. America as a democratic republic hangs by a thread. It will come down to the November election, and based on what has happened in the primaries I am not feeling optimistic. Trump lost a number of his endorsements, but he also won some. Clearly MAGAts world is alive and well. It is up to us now._

![]( ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/16/the-republic-is-lucky-to-be-alive/) 2022-06-16T09:32:00Z **Patriarchy and purity culture combine to silence women in the Southern Baptist Convention – and are blocking efforts to address the sexual abuse scandal**
Julie Ingersoll,  Professor of Religious Studies, University of North Florida  -  The Conversation

_Stephan: You will remember that a short while ago I published an article reporting that the Southern Baptist Convention had j ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/16/patriarchy-and-purity-culture-combine-to-silence-women-in-the-southern-baptist-convention-and-are-blocking-efforts-to-address-the-sexual-abuse-scandal/) 2022-06-17T09:35:00Z **Record-High 50% of Americans Rate U.S. Moral Values as ‘Poor’**
MEGAN BRENAN,    -  The Gallup Organization

_Stephan: Gallup has measured the problem: our culture is completely out of whack. Its values are all screwed up. Until we learn and integrate it into our being that fostering wellbeing must be an individual commitment which will, in turn, make it a social, economic and poltical first priority, more and more people will feel the decay of our culture and it will b ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/17/record-high-50-of-americans-rate-u-s-moral-values-as-poor/) 2022-06-17T09:34:00Z **Wage gap between CEOs and US workers jumped to 670-to-1 last year, study finds**
Dominic Rushe ,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Since 1978 CEO pay has risen by 940% while worker compensation has gone up 12%. When wealth inequality becomes that great people in both groups literally live in different worlds. If you are making a million dollars or more a year, your experience of $5 a gallon gas and hundred dollar fill-ups is very different from so ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/17/wage-gap-between-ceos-and-us-workers-jumped-to-670-to-1-last-year-study-finds/) 2022-06-17T09:33:00Z **Denmark Overtakes Switzerland as World’s Most Competitive Nation**
,    \-  SWI / Bloomberg

_Stephan: I don't know what it is going to take to get Americans to wake up to the fact that since Reagan, and the rise of increasingly authoritarian racist Republican power, we have been in decline across the board. The other day I picked a piece by Paul Krugman to make this point, and here is another. As a nation, as a culture, we are simply not making the right choices, ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/17/denmark-overtakes-switzerland-as-worlds-most-competitive-nation/) 2022-06-17T09:32:00Z **Listen: Uvalde School Massacre Was God’s Plan Says Texas AG Ken Paxton – ‘Life Is Short’**
David Badash,    -  New Civil Rights Movement

_Stephan: Ken Paxton is such a repugnant person but there is nothing surprising about him. He always is, and does, exactly what a man of his character can be expected to be and do. What I think is important to know here is that the people of Texas chose him. Where do you have to be in your consciousness to ele ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/17/listen-uvalde-school-massacre-was-gods-plan-says-texas-ag-ken-paxton-life-is-short/) 2022-06-18T09:35:00Z **‘Barbaric’ System Saddles Over 100 Million in US With Healthcare Debt**
Jake Johnson,    -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: I have been telling SR readers for two decades now that America does not have a healthcare system based on fostering wellbeing. Instead it has an illness profit system based on sucking as much money out of Americans as can possibly be arranged. The entire system has only one priority, profit. One of the manifestations of this horrible system is ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/18/barbaric-system-saddles-over-100-million-in-us-with-healthcare-debt/) 2022-06-18T09:34:00Z **Who Is Financing Trump’s ‘Big Lie’ Caucus? Corporations You Know.**
Alex Kingsbury,  Member of the Editorial Board  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: As I watch us move closer and closer to being an anocracy, one of the things that stands out to me, is how blatant it is all becoming. Consider, for instance, how the corporate oligarchs are financing Trump's "Big Lie." Our democracy is dribbling away day by day. One thing you can do is buy nothing made by any of these c ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/18/who-is-financing-trumps-big-lie-caucus-corporations-you-know/) 2022-06-18T09:33:00Z **Major water cutbacks loom as shrinking Colorado River nears ‘moment of reckoning’**
IAN JAMES,    -  Los Angeles Times

_Stephan: If you read me regularly you know I predict three big migrations are coming. One, is out of the Southwest, because of temperature and lack of water. And, for those remaining, a completely different way of living and farming. We must create democracies that recognize we live in a matrix of life and understand it ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/18/major-water-cutbacks-loom-as-shrinking-colorado-river-nears-moment-of-reckoning%ef%bf%bc/) 2022-06-18T09:32:00Z **As the Great Salt Lake Dries Up, Utah Faces An ‘Environmental Nuclear Bomb’**
Christopher Flavelle,  Reporter  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Here is another manifestation of the same trend as the previous report. And I hope both make it clear we are not doing anywhere near what is needed to prepare for climate change._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Screen-Shot-2022-06-17-at-10.30.27-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C311&ssl ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/18/as-the-great-salt-lake-dries-up-utah-faces-an-environmental-nuclear-bomb/) 2022-06-19T09:35:00Z **Uvalde surveillance video shows cops did not try to open door to classroom for 77 minutes: report**
Bob Brigham,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Texas today is essentially a fascist racist state, and like all authoritarian fascist states, the police are not held responsible for anything. That said, the blatant cover-up going on, 19 kids and two teachers were murdered while the police stood in the hallway wetting themselves w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/19/uvalde-surveillance-video-shows-cops-did-not-try-to-open-door-to-classroom-for-77-minutes-report/) 2022-06-19T09:34:00Z **Uvalde Hires Private Law Firm to Argue It Doesn’t Have to Release School Shooting Public Records**
Jason Koebler,    -  Vice

_Stephan: This is how blatant the Uvalde cover-up has become. This is what Texas has become in the second decade of the 21st century. I think every American should be ashamed._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Screen-Shot-2022-06-18-at-7.27.29-PM.jpg?resize=463%2C600&ss ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/19/uvalde-hires-private-law-firm-to-argue-it-doesnt-have-to-release-school-shooting-public-records/) 2022-06-19T09:33:00Z **Pesticides Are Spreading Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals,’ Scientists Warn**
Meg Wilcox ,  Environmental Journalist  -  Scientific American

_Stephan: I am been telling readers for years that chemical industrial monoculture agriculture cannot continue and the evidence for this was becoming ever more clear. And here is the latest report making this point. Corporate greed, old habit patterns, and farmer indifference are literally poisoning the earth and ourselves. Other c ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/19/pesticides-are-spreading-toxic-forever-chemicals-scientists-warn/) 2022-06-19T09:32:00Z **President Trump has made more than 20,000 false or misleading claims**
Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly ,  Reporters  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: It tells us a lot about this country, I think, that about a third of the American public adores and follows a man who lies as he breathes and who grifts as naturally as he walks, and yet they will not hear a word against him. We need to face the fact that over 100 million of us don't live i ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/19/president-trump-has-made-more-than-20000-false-or-misleading-claims%ef%bf%bc/) 2022-06-20T09:35:00Z **If poverty is a moral issue, then the United States is bankrupt**
Sonali Kolhatkar ,    -  Alter Net / Independent Media Institute

_Stephan: America's wealth inequality is obscenely immoral. On one end of the spectrum you have a handful of men so rich they can run their own space programs, at the other end about 40% -- roughly 140 million Americans -- as this report lays out, are in poverty or one stress away from poverty. As I noted the other day the difference b ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/20/if-poverty-is-a-moral-issue-then-the-united-states-is-bankrupt/) 2022-06-20T09:34:00Z **The emerging paramilitary wing of the GOP**
J. PATRICK COOLICAN,    -  Minnesota Reformer

_Stephan: This trend, I think, is one of the most dangerous shaping our future. We have a significant percentage of White people -- and it is almost all White people -- who already see themselves as being in a war. And violence is part of war. The Republican paramilitary is a serious threat to democracy in America._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/S ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/20/the-emerging-paramilitary-wing-of-the-gop-column/) 2022-06-20T09:33:00Z **Senate Armed Services panel goes big with new defense budget**
Andrew Clevenger,    -  Roll Call

_Stephan: The United States spends more on the military-industrial complex than the next seven countries, and that includes both China and Russia, taking their budgets together. The question that should be asked, in my opinion, is: Doe this unique huge sum get us a military seven times better than theirs? One thing we know for sure, it is incredibly profitable for the co ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/20/senate-armed-services-panel-goes-big-with-new-defense-budget/) 2022-06-20T09:32:00Z **The Objective Reality of the U.S.-Saudi Relationship**
Graeme Wood,  Staff Writer  -  The Atlantic

_Stephan: The Saudis are medieval religious drug dealers, as described in this excellent piece. What interests me about Saudi Arabia, is what happens to them after about 2040 when much of the developed world will have no internal combustion engine vehicles on their roads. That's only 18 yearsand it is going to be a trend, not a single event.

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![](https://i0.wp.com ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/20/the-objective-reality-of-the-u-s-saudi-relationship%ef%bf%bc/) 2022-06-21T09:35:00Z **Texas GOP’s new platform says Biden didn’t really win. It also calls for secession**
BILL CHAPPELL,    -  npr

_Stephan: Texas Republicans are actively seeking to be a White racist anocracy, and now they are talking about seceding from the U.S. Here is the platform the Republicans in Texas just voted for. Read it and see if that is the country you would want to live in.

What the Texas Republicans don't seem to realize is that like most Red states ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/21/texas-gops-new-platform-says-biden-didnt-really-win-it-also-calls-for-secession/) 2022-06-21T09:34:00Z **Texas Republican Party Enshrines Anti-LGBTQ Hate in Extreme Right-Wing Party Platform**
MADISON PAULY,    -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: Here is more on the burgeoning hate of Texas Republican citizens, and that is why I am publishing this piece. To understand what is happening in American one has to understand this hate is coming from ordinary people, who elect people like Greg Abbott, and Dan Patrick. We have a cancer of hate that has metastasi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/21/texas-republican-party-enshrines-anti-lgbtq-hate-in-extreme-right-wing-party-platform/) 2022-06-21T09:33:00Z **Eric Greitens ad touts ‘hunting permit’ for GOP rivals in Missouri U.S Senate race**
RUDI KELLER,  Reporter  -  Missouri Independent

_Stephan: As the hate and fear spread, a second civil war trend is beginning, MAGAts are advocating killing traditional Republicans. Can this possibly be true? Surely, I am exaggerating. No, sadly I am not, and here is the proof. Eric Greitens, a truly despicable man who a long history of violence against women, and ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/21/eric-greitens-ad-touts-hunting-permit-for-gop-rivals-in-missouri-u-s-senate-race/) 2022-06-21T09:32:00Z **Florida is the only state to skip pre-ordering Covid-19 vaccines for kids**
,    \-

_Stephan:_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Screen-Shot-2022-06-20-at-6.46.50-PM.jpg?resize=739%2C568&ssl=1)_Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, front left, gestures as speaks to supporters and members of the media before a bill signing by Gov. Ron DeSantis, Nov. 18, 2021, in Brandon, Fla. Credit: Chris O’Meara/AP Photo_

TALLAH ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/21/florida-is-the-only-state-to-skip-pre-ordering-covid-19-vaccines-for-kids/) 2022-06-22T09:35:00Z **Republican Drive to Tilt Courts Against Climate Action Reaches a Crucial Moment**
Coral Davenport,  Reporter  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: We are now seeing how the Republicans, who are whores for the polluting corporations who pour money on them, are working to block preparations to help America to deal with climate change. You can also see why the Republicans advised and consented to the incompetent ideologues Trump nominated to the Supreme C ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/22/republican-drive-to-tilt-courts-against-climate-action-reaches-a-crucial-moment/) 2022-06-22T09:34:00Z **Climate change is causing “mass die-offs” of animals**
KELLY MCCLURE,    -  Salon

_Stephan: In the previous story I showed how the Republicans are using the incompettents they put on the court to block desparetly needed remedial work to prepare us for what climate change is doing. Here is why that matters._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Screen-Shot-2022-06-21-at-6.07.42-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C333&ssl=1)_Little Blue Penguins run towards ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/22/climate-change-is-causing-mass-die-offs-of-animals/) 2022-06-22T09:33:00Z **The Supreme Court’s right-wing supermajority just shredded the separation of church and state**
Alex Henderson,    -  AlterNet

_Stephan: The christofascist majority on the Supreme Court has now delivered something that the christofascist community has sought for decades: a breach of the wall the Founders created. Here one can see clearly that all the originalist arguments put out by the christofascist justices, backed by the Federalis ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/22/the-supreme-courts-right-wing-supermajority-just-shredded-the-separation-of-church-and-state/) 2022-06-22T09:32:00Z **Sotomayor accuses conservatives of ‘dismantling’ church-state separation**
JOHN KRUZEL,    -  The Hill

_Stephan: Was I exaggerating when I shared my views about the Supreme Court decision on church and state is going to mean? I will let Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor answer that question.

And I also want to note that nothing has been done about the blatant political corruption of Associate Justice Clarence Thomas. This has itself become one o ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/22/sotomayor-accuses-conservatives-of-dismantling-church-state-separation%ef%bf%bc/) 2022-06-23T09:35:00Z **By allowing community choice energy, Arizona could take advantage of its solar potential**
SHELLY GORDON,    -  AZMIrror

_Stephan: Here is good news. A proven economically viable energy business model is emerging because the existing carbon era corporations are dragging their feet in the transition out of carbon._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Screen-Shot-2022-06-22-at-9.29.59-PM.jpg?res ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/23/by-allowing-community-choice-energy-arizona-could-take-advantage-of-its-solar-potential%ef%bf%bc/) 2022-06-23T09:34:00Z **3 Oil Companies Pull Out of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge**
Olivia Rosane,    -  Eco Watch

_Stephan: Here is some more good news. I don't think they did this out of respect and concern for indigenous peoples. Rather, oil companies are beginning to reassess exploration as the industry is dying._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Screen-Shot-2022-06-22-at-10.42.28-PM.jpg?resize=700%2C465&ssl=1)_Caribou in the Ar ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/23/3-oil-companies-pull-out-of-alaskas-arctic-national-wildlife-refuge/) 2022-06-23T09:33:00Z **The Child Care Crisis Needs A Lot More Attention Than It’s Getting**
Jonathan Cohn,  Senior National Correspondent  -  Huff Post

_Stephan: America does not like children, does not make them a first priority. The evidence for this, while some may deny it, is overwhelming. To our shame, it is a significant American social characteristic. And take note of the role Joe Manchin played in this report._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/23/the-child-care-crisis-needs-a-lot-more-attention-than-its-getting/) 2022-06-23T09:32:00Z **The Texas GOP is pushing for a referendum to decide if the state will secede from the US**
Cheryl Teh ,    -  Business Insider

_Stephan: Texas is leading the christofactist side of the Great Schism Trend. This is a measure of where we are in this, as a nation._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Screen-Shot-2022-06-22-at-10.27.11-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C598&ssl=1)_The Texas GOP floated the idea of secedin ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/23/the-texas-gop-is-pushing-for-a-referendum-to-decide-if-the-state-will-secede-from-the-us/) 2022-06-24T09:35:00Z **Critics Say New Supreme Court Ruling Gives Gun Lobby ‘Just What It Paid For’**
Jake Johnson,    -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: The christofascist cabal on the Supreme Court has just made your life more dangerous, particularly if you live in a large city where gun murders are already a serious problem. This group of Trumpers have gutted the laws to carry weapons in public Given what we see almost daily going on somewhere in the U.S. it is hard to imagine ho ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/24/critics-say-new-supreme-court-ruling-gives-gun-lobby-just-what-it-paid-for/) 2022-06-24T09:34:00Z **Stephen Breyer delivers a scathing and ‘ominous’ dissent in Supreme Court gun control ruling**
Alex Henderson,    -  AlterNet

_Stephan: What has become glaringly clear this year is the christofascist cabal the Republicans have spent years under Mitch McConnell, and financed by corporate and oligarch money, getting placed on the court are now distorting the fundamental legal structure of America. The ruling in the New York case about pub ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/24/stephen-breyer-delivers-a-scathing-and-ominous-dissent-in-supreme-court-gun-control-ruling/) 2022-06-24T09:33:00Z **Uvalde school police chief placed on leave**
,    \-  Associated Press / Politico

_Stephan: Apparently the cowardly incompetence of Pedro Arredondo, the chief of the Uvalde school police that ended with the murder of 17 children and two teachers has become such a seeping wound that even in the anocracy of Texas it has become clear something must be done. So, as this report describes, Arredondo has been put on administrative leave, paid leave I suspect. But will it go any further than ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/24/uvalde-school-police-chief-placed-on-leave/) 2022-06-24T09:32:00Z **Mo Brooks texts email to CBS containing instructions from Donald Trump on how to request pardons**
Brendon Gage,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story / AlterNet

_Stephan: Here is an interesting development. Mo Brooks, who is up to his neck in the Trump insurrection, and whose political career just ended thanks to Trump who turned on him has provided a key piece of the Trump plan to CBS. I think this is going to be the first of many such ac ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/24/mo-brooks-texts-email-to-cbs-containing-instructions-from-donald-trump-on-how-to-request-pardons/) 2022-06-25T09:35:00Z **Doctors in Alabama Already Turn Away Miscarrying Patients. This Will Be America’s New Normal.**
Leah Torres,    -  Slate

_Stephan: As of the decision of the Supreme Court today overturning Roe, women in the Red states have been reduced to second-class status, and what that means is no abstraction. For instance, in Republican-controlled states, if you are a woman who has a miscarriage, you may now be subject to police investigation, an ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/25/doctors-in-alabama-already-turn-away-miscarrying-patients-this-will-be-americas-new-normal-2/) 2022-06-25T09:34:00Z **Clarence Thomas: Supreme Court Could Now Restrict Marriage Equality, Contraception**
,    \-

_Stephan:_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Clarence-Thomas-1.jpg?resize=800%2C536&ssl=1)_Associate Supreme Court Justice and christofascist Clarence Thomas Credit: Vanity Fair_

If Clarence Thomas gets his way, abortion rights are only the beginning of what should fall.

The conservative Supreme Court justice wrote ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/25/clarence-thomas-supreme-court-could-now-restrict-marriage-equality-contraception/) 2022-06-25T09:33:00Z **This week saw a trio of terrible, horrible habeas corpus Supreme Court rulings**
Mia Brett,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: The Roe decision, the NY gun decision, that's only part of it. There is also this. I think these dramatic anocratic decisions are as extreme as they are, because the Ginni and Clarence Thomas, showed the justices that even the most obvious corruption, and treason, would not incur any consequences. So let's go for it, the christofasci ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/25/this-week-saw-a-trio-of-terrible-horrible-habeas-corpus-supreme-court-rulings/) 2022-06-25T09:32:00Z **We’re Not Going Back to the Time Before Roe. We’re Going Somewhere Worse**
Jia Tolentino,    -  The New Yorker

_Stephan: I think Jia Tolentino has it right. What is happening at the court, particularly the Roe overturn, is a beginning to a dark road and, as she says, it is going to get worse. It all depends on November._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Screen-Shot-2022-06-24-at-10.29.40-PM.jpg?resize=622%2C350&ssl=1) ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/25/were-not-going-back-to-the-time-before-roe-were-going-somewhere-worse/) 2022-06-26T09:35:00Z **Scrapping Roe v. Wade makes the US an outlier in the West. Here’s how it compares on abortion rights**
Rob Picheta,    -  CNN

_Stephan: By any social outcome measure, I can think of, from maternal mortality to childcare, to care for the elderly, to incarceration, to police brutality, and on and on, the United States has deliberately, and with intention, become a second-rate country. I just hate having to write that sentence, but ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/26/scrapping-roe-v-wade-makes-the-us-an-outlier-in-the-west-heres-how-it-compares-on-abortion-rights/) 2022-06-26T09:34:00Z **Assaults against abortion clinics, patients rose 128% in 2021: report**
Oriana Gonzalez,  Staff Writer  -  Axios

_Stephan: Here is another hard truth, and another negative trend. The greatest threat to societal wellbeing is White MAGAts, and the Supreme Court has just made it easier for them to carry concealed weapons in public. These poorly educated, low-IQ Whites are the main source of terrorism in the United States, and they are becoming more violent every ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/26/assaults-against-abortion-clinics-patients-rose-128-in-2021-report/) 2022-06-26T09:33:00Z **‘The smoking gun’: Legal experts reflect on the ‘breathtaking criminality’ exposed in latest J6 hearing**
Sarah K. Burris,  Staff Writer  -  AlterNet / Raw Story

_Stephan: I don't think most Americans realize how close we came at the last election to becoming a fascist anocracy, on the Mussolini model, with Trump as Mussolini. It is also now obvious that in addition to the appointees like Eastman and Gulioni, a significant numbe ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/26/the-smoking-gun-legal-experts-reflect-on-the-breathtaking-criminality-exposed-in-latest-j6-hearing/) 2022-06-26T09:32:00Z **U.S. Adults With Low Literacy and Numeracy Skills: 2012/14 to 2017**
Anna Clark, Aliyya Swaby and Annie Waldman,    -  Institute of Educational Sciences

_Stephan: Here is what our deteriorated public education system, and the charter schools have done to the American public.

The most recent date for which I could find hard facts is a study pushed in May 2022 based on data up to 2017 Here is the headline. In 2017, approximately 48 million U.S. adults had low Engl ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/26/u-s-adults-with-low-literacy-andnumeracy-skills-2012-14-to-2017/) 2022-06-27T09:35:00Z **New Study: Medicare for All Would Have Prevented 340,000 COVID Deaths in the US**
LUKE THIBAULT,    -  Jacobin

_Stephan: Think about this:319 thousand Americans died because they would not get vaccinated. Then there are 340,000 who died because the United States has such a poor healthcare system. We need universal birthright single-payer healthcare whose first priority is fostering wellbeing, not making a profit._

![](https://i0.wp.com/ww ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/27/new-study-medicare-for-all-would-have-prevented-340000-covid-deaths-in-the-us%ef%bf%bc/) 2022-06-27T09:34:00Z **Who wants to be a billionaire? Most don’t – which is good news for the planet**
,    \-  University of Bath (U.K.)

_Stephan: What is it people really want for themselves? To be a billionaire? No, as it turns out, and this report describes the facts._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Screen-Shot-2022-06-26-at-8.59.50-PM.jpg?resize=726%2C412&ssl=1)

A founding economic principle that everyone is motivated by ‘unlimi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/27/who-wants-to-be-a-billionaire-most-dont-which-is-good-news-for-the-planet/) 2022-06-27T09:33:00Z **What the data says about abortion in the U.S.**
JEFF DIAMANT AND BESHEER MOHAMED,    -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: Here are some real facts about abortion in the United States. The data does not look at all like the anti-abortion christofascist cabal claims: women casually choosing to have abortions. What I see is that women rarely if ever choose casually to have an abortion. There is always a compelling reason for them to make such a choice._

[![A line graph showing the changi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/27/what-the-data-says-about-abortion-in-the-u-s/) 2022-06-27T09:32:00Z **Benjamin Franklin gave instructions on at-home abortions in a book in the 1700s**
EMILY FENG,    -  npr

_Stephan: THe christofacist cabal on the Supreme Court are always blathering on about originalism, what the Founders thought about something, what their original intention was. Reading their published opinions makes it clear, however, that the justices' understanding of early American history is crap. How about this for originalism? Benjamin Fra ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/27/benjamin-franklin-gave-instructions-on-at-home-abortions-in-a-book-in-the-1700s/) 2022-06-28T09:35:00Z **Roe’s Death Will Change American Democracy**
Mary Ziegler,    -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Here is one of the most insightful essays I have read about Roe, how it happened, and its implications. Well thought out and based on objectively verifiable facts. And it gets the scale right. With the Roe, gun, and using federal tax money to fund religious christofacist schools, the importance of November's election just became several orders of magnitude greater._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/28/roes-death-will-change-american-democracy/) 2022-06-28T09:34:00Z **Education Department agrees to cancel $6 billion in debt for some 200,000 student loan borrowers**
Annie Nova,    -  CNBC

_Stephan: Here is some good news. Not the final chapter, of this trend, but still good news. The college education debt in this country is obscene, just another way to milk students of limited means for the profit of the oligarchs and the corporations they control. It's disgusting. It fosters the wellbeing of a s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/28/education-department-agrees-to-cancel-6-billion-in-debt-for-some-200000-student-loan-borrowers/) 2022-06-28T09:33:00Z **The Supreme Court Is Now Forcing Taxpayers to Pay for Anti-Gay Religious Schools**
Sasha Abramsky,    -  truthout

_Stephan: Basically, five christofascist ideologues on the Supreme Court have taken over shaping the American culture to their tastes. And you are going to pay for it. There is something so fundamentally wrong about that it is hard to express. The last several months have shown us how flawed our political system is. We need to get rid ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/28/the-supreme-court-is-now-forcing-taxpayers-to-pay-for-anti-gay-religious-schools/) 2022-06-28T09:32:00Z **The 4 remaining Supreme Court cases of this blockbuster term**
Ariane de Vogue,  Supreme Court Reporter  -  CNN

_Stephan: The christofascist cabal of the Supreme Court is restructuring American culture, and they are not through, as this report spells out._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Conservatives-on-Supreme-Court.jpeg?resize=800%2C450&ssl=1)_The christofascist cabal of the Supreme Court Credit: CNN_

Although the [Suprem ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/28/the-4-remaining-supreme-court-cases-of-this-blockbuster-term/) 2022-06-29T09:35:00Z **Does Hungary Offer a Glimpse of Our Authoritarian Future?**
Andrew Marantz,  Staff Writer  -  The New Yorker

_Stephan: If you listened to or watched the 6 January Committee hearings today, you heard a former insider, Cassidy Hutchinson, describe the mindset, the behavior, and the intentions of a man so psychologically damaged, so self-centered that he throws plates of food at the wall when upset, and is okay with the idea that his vice president may get murdered by a mo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/29/does-hungary-offer-a-glimpse-of-our-authoritarian-future/) 2022-06-29T09:34:00Z **Why Did Republicans Become So Extreme?**
Paul Krugman,  Nobel Laureate, Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center, Columnist  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: As usual, Paul Krugman sees clearly and accurately what is happening with the Republican Party. we are in a war, whether we like it or not. In November we are getting what may be our last chance to reverse this trend. Otherwise, we are going to have to live with it. And that is a very different Americ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/29/why-did-republicans-become-so-extreme/) 2022-06-29T09:33:00Z **Seeking an abortion? Here’s how to avoid leaving a digital trail.**
Heather Kelly, Tatum Hunter and Danielle Abril ,    -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: I am running this story not only because it represents the desperate nature of the Roe decision in the lives of actual women. I am also running it to help any of my readers who are fertile women for whom pregnancy is a living issue. Also for readers who may know a girl or woman living in a Red state. Please pass t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/29/seeking-an-abortion-heres-how-to-avoid-leaving-a-digital-trail/) 2022-06-29T09:32:00Z **‘We Are the Christian Taliban’: White Nationalist Declares Far Right’s Goal Is Turning US Into ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’**
David Badash,    -  New Civil Rights Movement

_Stephan: It is all getting so very explicit. From top to bottom the Republican Party has become a White Supremacy, male dominance, militant heterosexual, christofascist cult, committed to making America an anocracy, with them in permanent control._

![](h ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/29/we-are-the-christian-taliban-white-nationalist-declares-far-rights-goal-is-turning-us-into-the-handmaids-tale/) 2022-06-30T09:35:00Z **‘We’re fully in.’ Utilities eye electric transition**
Miranda Willson,    -  E&E News

_Stephan: Today's SR is given over entirely to good news. There is so much bad news, that I thought we all need a break, and we need to know about some of the positive things that are happening, particularly on our transition out of the carbon era. So I will start with this, which shows that are least some power companies are getting the message and planning a transition._

![](https://i0.wp.co ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/30/were-fully-in-utilities-eye-electric-transition/) 2022-06-30T09:34:00Z **Biden Admin and 11 States Enter Partnership to Boost Offshore Wind Power**
Olivia Rosane,    -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: This is good news, and what really stood out for me is that I think this is also part of the Great Schism Trend which, I think, is going to end up moving power to the states or, like this partnership between states and the federal government. Further, I think this has a strong possibility that this is what the Red Blue struggle will produce. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/30/biden-admin-and-11-states-enter-partnership-to-boost-offshore-wind-power/) 2022-06-30T09:33:00Z **Transform our energy grid now with renewable microgrids**
KAITLYN BUNKER and LAYLA ZADAINE,    -  The Hill

_Stephan: Microgrids, I think, are the way the transition out of the carbon era is going to manifest, and I think that is good news. I also think this change is going to become part of the Great Schism Trend. We have a mega trend really taking off, the difference in the social outcome data between Red and Blue states._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/30/transform-our-energy-grid-now-with-renewable-microgrids/) 2022-06-30T09:32:00Z **New Type of Vehicle Developed by Einride Gets NHTSA Approval to Operate on US Public Road**
,    \-  Einride

_Stephan: This is a press release with the usual bias. But fundamentally the details are subordinate to the main point which is accurate. Driverless trucks are authorized on the roads. This is the future, particularly when you add to it that roads are going to be built that charge the vehicles that drive over them. It is going to ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/06/30/new-type-of-vehicle-developed-by-einride-gets-nhtsa-approval-to-operate-on-us-public-road/) 2022-07-01T09:35:00Z **Our Precarious DemocracyExtreme Polarization and Alienation in Our Politics**
,    \-

_Stephan:_

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Screen-Shot-2022-06-30-at-9.07.08-PM.jpg?resize=679%2C272&ssl=1)

As Independence Day approaches, more than one in four Americans are so alienated from their

government that they believe it may “soon be necessary to take up arms” against it, according to a

new poll released Thursday ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/01/our-precarious-democracyextreme-polarization-and-alienation-in-our-politics/) 2022-07-01T09:34:00Z **Consciousness, and the weaponization of lies**
StephanA. Schwartz,  Columnist  -  Explore

_Stephan: I wrote this because, as the poll discussed in the previous article, I realized that when you deal with facts and understand that one in five Americans can only read at the most basic level -- about third grade -- and they are also innumerate. That 34% of the American population has an IQ of 98 to 85. That 27% have overactive right amygdalas and so are trapped in their fears, resent ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/01/consciousness-and-the-weaponization-of-lies-2/) 2022-07-01T09:33:00Z **US supreme court rules against EPA and hobbles government power to limit harmful emissions**
Oliver Milman,    -  The Guardian

_Stephan:  The United States is the world's leading polluter, this EPA decision by the christofascist cabal protects the polluters and will harm the planet's ecosystem. There is nothing random about this. It is the culmination of 50 years pursuing a christofascist strategy to pack the Congress and the Court to p ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/01/us-supreme-court-rules-against-epa-and-hobbles-government-power-to-limit-harmful-emissions/) 2022-07-01T09:32:00Z **The Supreme Court Tries to Overrule the Climate**
Bill McKibben,    -  The New Yorker

_Stephan: Bill McKibben lays out the case for the implications of the Supreme Court decision very well. This is really an appalling decision, and when you see it in the context of overturning Roe, the concealed carry decision, you see a cabal of five christofascist who see themselves as untouchable and capable from that position to restructure the United States into a fascist anocracy. The only ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/01/the-supreme-court-tries-to-overrule-the-climate/) 2022-07-02T09:35:00Z **20 Ways the Supreme Court Just Changed America**
,    \-  Politico

_Stephan: It is my opinion that we have just experienced a second coup. The first coup, which was not successful was the one cooked up by criminal Trump. The second, which has worked, is the one we are just now living through; the one carried out by the christofascist cabal on the Supreme Court. Here is why I think as I do._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022- ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/02/20-ways-the-supreme-court-just-changed-america/) 2022-07-02T09:34:00Z **For Donald Trump, Treason is a Lucrative Endeavor**
Noah Berlatsky,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: The criminality of Trump is like something out of a bad novel. He is such a thug he puts mafia dons to shame. And yet he is never held accountable for any of it. If Merrick Garland's DoJ does not prosecute Trump and his orcs he will go down in history as the weakest most despicable attorney general in our history. A man who saw what was happening, understood what was happening, recogni ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/02/for-donald-trump-treason-is-a-lucrative-endeavor/) 2022-07-02T09:33:00Z **Antiabortion lawmakers want to block patients from crossing state lines**
Caroline Kitchener and Devlin Barrett ,    -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: The anti-abortion sociopaths see the overturning of Roe as a beginning, not an ending. I don't think the Democrats ever really understood that point. In Red states, there will be efforts to limit a fertile female's right to travel, whether she is 10 or 40. These fanatics are also going to try to interrupt an ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/02/antiabortion-lawmakers-want-to-block-patients-from-crossing-state-lines/) 2022-07-02T09:32:00Z **How the Christian right took over the judiciary and changed America**
Katherine Stewart,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: When I say christofascist, that's what I mean, and here is why. I don't capitalize the first letter by the way, because this religion is not Christianity, which I always capitalize._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-01-at-11.29.50-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C530&ssl=1)_An anti-abortion ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/02/how-the-christian-right-took-over-the-judiciary-and-changed-america/) 2022-07-03T09:36:00Z **Editor’s Note – The Weaponization of Lies**
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan: Yesterday I posted a paper I had written, "The Weaponization of Lies". A number of you wrote to tell me you could not access the total article. That has now been fixed by Beth Alexander, the woman who makes SR function. You can now click through and see the entirety of the piece. Let me know what you think._ ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/03/editors-note-the-weaponization-of-lies/) 2022-07-03T09:35:00Z **School’s out forever: Arizona moves “to kill public education” with new universal voucher law**
KATHRYN JOYCE,  Investigative Report  -  Salon

_Stephan: The christofascists support charter/voucher schools, because they want taxpayer dollars from all of us to support their christofascist schools, so that they can indoctrinate their children into their White supremacy, male dominant chistofascist movement. That's what the Supreme Court is ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/03/schools-out-forever-arizona-moves-to-kill-public-education-with-new-universal-voucher-law/) 2022-07-03T09:34:00Z **How Charles Koch Purchased the Supreme Court’s EPA Decision**
Sharon Lerner,    -

_Stephan: The second, Supreme Court coup continues. Behind the morons and crazies of the MAGAt christofascist movement are the oligarchs who plot and finance the strategy and tactics they are using to end democracy in the United States and replace it with a christofascist anocracy. Here is one of their stories._

![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Sc ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2022/07/03/how-charles-koch-purchased-the-supreme-courts-epa-decision/) 2022-07-03T09:33:00Z **As Ohio Restricts Abortions, 10-Year-Old Girl Travels to Indiana for Procedure**
Shari Rudavsky and Rachel Fradette,  Reporters  -  Indianapolis Star / Cincinnati Enquirer

_Stephan: You thought those stories of pregnant 11-year-olds needing an abortion were abstract hypotheticals? They are not, and here is the proof, and it's a 10 years old girl to boot. This is what America has come to._

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Jake Johnson,    -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: I'm sorry the Democrats don't really seem to understand what is happening, and Joe Biden, an honorable man, but not the leader we need, was trained for 36 years in negotiating in the Senate, which is quite different than leadership in the Executive Branch._

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