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Kim Chandler,  Reporter  -  Associated Press

_Stephan: Yet another Great Schism Trend sad story about a declining Red State. Alabama already has a semi-literate population and awful social outcome data on everything from childcare to racism, and they are about to make things worse. They are attacking not just their public and school libraries, they are also threatening libra ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/27/alabama-lawmakers-advance-bill-that-could-lead-to-prosecution-of-librarians/) 2024-04-27T09:35:00Z **‘Doesn’t Care if Pregnant Women Live or Die’: Alito Slammed Over Emergency Abortion Remarks**
David Badash,  Senior Editor  -  New Civil Rights Movement

_Stephan: What I have taken away this week from the coverage of the Supreme Court is how corrupt, fascist, and anti-women, the male clique of the Supreme Court has become. These are not justices interested in the law and the wellbeing of American society. These men are political hacks who believe they themselves are above the law, and have the power to determine what ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/27/opinion/) 2024-04-27T09:30:00Z **Kristi Noem: It’s a ‘tragedy’ not to force rape victims to give birth**
David Edwards,  Senior Editor  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: South Dakota has a population in 2024 of just 858,469, less than a third of the population of Seattle, Washington, and they chose the loathsome TCP/Republican Kristi Noem, who recently garnered a lot of attention for shooting a puppy she said she "hated",  to be their governor. She also thinks women or girls who are raped or the victims ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/27/kristi-noem-its-a-tragedy-not-to-force-rape-victims-to-give-birth/) 2024-04-27T09:25:00Z **This Whole King Trump Thing Is Getting Awfully Literal**
JAMELLE BOUIE,    -

_Stephan: Jamelle Bouie asks, "Trump has asked the Supreme Court if he is, in effect, a king. And at least four members of the court, among them the so-called originalists, have said, in essence, that they’ll have to think about it." I agree with what he has said. What I heard yesterday is the christofascist clique on the court actually do support the president as a king above the law. You also h ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/27/this-whole-king-trump-thing-is-getting-awfully-literal/) 2024-04-28T09:25:00Z **56 Companies Responsible for Half of Global Plastic Pollution That Researchers Could Trace**
Paige Bennett,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Materialism and greed are destroying the earth's matrix of life, and plastic pollution is a major factor in this. Just 56 companies are responsible for over 50% of the branded plastic items that are creating this pollution, led by the Coca-Cola Corporation. Think about that for a minute. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/28/56-companies-responsible-for-half-of-global-plastic-pollution-that-researchers-could-trace/) 2024-04-28T09:20:00Z **‘Where are they supposed to sleep?’: US supreme court appears divided on key homelessness case**
Diana Ramirez-Simon, Dani Anguiano, Isabeau Doucet and agencies,  Reporters and news agencies  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: When I read this report what I thought about was: Have we become this debased and sad a country that we can't even house the almost a million people who have nowhere to live, nowhere to sleep, except outdoors on the ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/28/where-are-they-supposed-to-sleep-us-supreme-court-appears-divided-on-key-homelessness-case/) 2024-04-28T09:30:00Z **With US Workers on the March, Southern States Take Aim at Unions**
Jessica Corbett,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: As this article describes, in the Southern Red states the Republicans are doing everything they can to undercut and stop unionization. It is part of The Great Schism Trend that is transforming the United States into two quite different countries. It surprises me that many hourly workers vote Republican because the Republican Party for deca ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/28/with-us-workers-on-the-march-southern-states-take-aim-at-unions/) 2024-04-28T09:35:00Z **How the Trump trial is playing in Maga world: sublime indifference, collective shrug**
David Smith ,    -

_Stephan: I had the most informative email exchange this morning with a MAGAt, a man I have never met, who wrote to tell me I was being very unfair and biased against Trump. I was making him out to be a criminal. I responded by saying to him This is a man who is a convicted rapist, who has multiple fraudster convictions and is under indictm ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/28/how-the-trump-trial-is-playing-in-maga-world-sublime-indifference-collective-shrug/) 2024-04-29T09:25:00Z **Mass Graves in Khan Yunis Reveal Unspeakable Horror of US-Backed Gaza Invasion**
Seraj Assi ,  Staff Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: What I am seeing on college campuses today remains me more than anything of the anti-Vietnam war rallies of the of the late 60s early 70s. What Hamas did was a war crime, no question, but what Israel under Netanyahu has done is far worse. The way I see it Netanyahu like Trump, a fellow fascist, has destroyed his country ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/29/mass-graves-in-khan-yunis-reveal-unspeakable-horror-of-us-backed-gaza-invasion/) 2024-04-29T09:20:00Z **Cybersecurity Researchers Find a New Ransomware Threat – Be Careful Where You Upload Files**
Selcuk Uluagac,  Professor of Computing and Information Science, Florida International University  -  Raw Story / The Conversation

_Stephan: The internet is becoming an increasingly dangerous world, as this article describes. Why? Because governments have not really comprehended or been willing to develop regulatory approaches that do not impact f ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/29/cybersecurity-researchers-find-a-new-ransomware-threat-be-careful-where-you-upload-files/) 2024-04-29T09:30:00Z **QAnon Was Born Out of The Sex and Moral Panic That Took Down Backpage.com**
Trevor Aaronson,    -  The Intercept

_Stephan: Here is the best article I have seen on what I see as an alarming obsessive right-wing trend, the child sex trafficking conspiracies. Do you remember the conspiracy about Hillary and Bill Clinton running with other Democrats a child sex trafficking operation in the Comet Ping Pong pizza restaurant in Washington, D.C.,  otherwise know ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/29/qanon-was-born-out-of-the-sex-ad-moral-panic-that-took-down-backpage-com/) 2024-04-30T09:20:00Z **Prison officers traumatized by rate of executions in US death penalty states**
Ed Pilkington,  Staff Writer  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: One of the things that stands out for me about states governed by Republicans is the sheer nastiness of their governance. Take the authorization of government murder of prisoners. Only five states -- Texas, Florida, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Alabama -- authorize such killings and, of course, they are all Red stat ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/30/prison-officers-traumatized-by-rate-of-executions-in-us-death-penalty-states/) 2024-04-30T09:25:00Z **91% of Europe’s cities are looking to nature-based solutions to fight climate change**
Rosie Frost,  Staff Writer  -  Euro News

_Stephan: I have been looking at how The Great Schism Trend is affecting cities in the U.S. as the climate changes. The first thing that stands out is how poorly many urban centers in Red states are preparing for what is happening. The second thing that stood out for me was how poorly America is doing overall. You woul ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/30/91-of-europes-cities-are-looking-to-nature-based-solutions-to-fight-climate-change/) 2024-04-30T09:30:00Z **The meat industry’s war on wildlife**
Kenny Torrella,  Staff Writer  -  Vox

_Stephan: Under the Biden administration, and the Trump administration before that, and the Obama administration before that the Department of Agriculture which is the submissive servant of Big Agriculture, as it is called, has been destroying the earth's matrix of life in America so you can eat steaks. It is a horrible policy mistake that has been going on for a generation and it is leaving the U.S. in a growing cri ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/30/the-meat-industrys-war-on-wildlife/) 2024-04-30T09:35:00Z **Companies aim to release more treated oilfield wastewater into rivers and streams**
Martha Pskowski and Dylan Baddour,  Staff Writers  -  Texas Tribune \| Inside Climate News

_Stephan: This is what greed for profit above all other considerations looks like, and it pretty much defines the carbon industries. We are not going to be able to deal effectively with climate change as long as corporations like the two reported on in this article are allo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/04/30/companies-aim-to-release-more-treated-oilfield-wastewater-into-rivers-and-streams/) 2024-05-01T09:25:00Z **New book details Steve Bannon’s ‘Maga movement’ plan to rule for 100 years**
Martin Pengelly ,  Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: This is what the TCP Republican Party has in mind to end American democracy and turn the country into a christofascist pseudo-democracy like Orban's Hungary. If you vote for a single Republican this is what you are voting for._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-30-at-9.40 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/01/new-book-details-steve-bannons-maga-movement-plan-to-rule-for-100-years/) 2024-05-01T09:20:00Z **Taxing Fossil Fuel Companies Could Be ‘Powerful Tool’ to Cut Emissions and Promote Climate Justice, Report Finds**
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Good news. Here is an example of restructuring the tax system not only in the U.S. but other rich nations as well could help humanity prepare to deal with climate change. It seems to obvious, but the strangle hold the rich have on the U ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/01/taxing-fossil-fuel-companies-could-be-powerful-tool-to-cut-emissions-and-promote-climate-justice-report-finds/) 2024-05-01T09:30:00Z **How a Few Secret Donors Are Fueling the New Right-Wing Infrastructure**
Isabela Dias,  Staff Writer  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: As a result of the rigging of the U.S. tax system by Republicans America has seen the rise of the oligarch, mostly fascist men who are actively and openly trying to take control of the government and end democracy. The story of the Bradley Impact Fund, recounted in this report, is one of the ways they are doing this. The only thing ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/01/how-a-few-secret-donors-are-fueling-the-new-right-wing-infrastructure/) 2024-05-01T09:35:00Z **29% of households have jobs but struggle to cover basic needs: They are ‘one emergency from poverty,’ one expert says**
Jessica Dickler,  Reporter  -  CNBC

_Stephan: America's grotesque wealth inequality is one of the major trends destroying our social wellbeing, and threatening our democracy. This is one of the reasons low income people are thinking about voting for Trump, or not voting at all. This trend has been ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/01/29-of-households-have-jobs-but-struggle-to-cover-basic-needs-they-are-one-emergency-from-poverty-one-expert-says/) 2024-05-02T09:25:00Z **US Republicans vote to remove wolf protections**
,    \-  Agence France-Presse

_Stephan: The people of the 3rd District of Colorado should be ashamed of themselves for electing an ignorant slattern like Lauren Boebert, and it is a measure of the nasty incompetence of the Republican Representatives in the House that they followed her lead._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-4.jpg)_A quarter of a million wolves once roamed from coast to coast befo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/02/us-republicans-vote-to-remove-wolf-protections/) 2024-05-02T09:30:00Z **Arizona just repealed its 1864 abortion ban. Democrats don’t want voter outrage to disappear with it.**
MEGAN MESSERLY,    -  Politico

_Stephan: Here is some potentially good, but complicated news about what is going on in Arizona about women having the right to control their own bodies. I bring this to your attention because I think it is a precursor to what is going to happen at the state level across the country._

![](https: ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/02/arizona-just-repealed-its-1864-abortion-ban-democrats-dont-want-voter-outrage-to-disappear-with-it/) 2024-05-02T09:35:00Z **‘Work Until You Drop Dead’: House GOP Plan Takes Ax to Social Security, Healthcare, Civil Rights**
David Badash,  Senior Editor  -  New Civil Rights Movement

_Stephan: If you are on Social Security. Medicare, Medicaid, or a fertile woman and you vote for Republicans this is what they tell us they are going to do to degrade your wellbeing. There is no secret plan, it is all very explicit, and yet I know millions of Americans are going t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/02/work-until-you-drop-dead-house-gop-plan-takes-ax-to-social-security-healthcare-civil-rights/) 2024-05-02T09:40:00Z **In Rafah I saw new graveyards fill with children. It is unimaginable that worse could be yet to come**
James Elder,   UNICEF’s Global Spokesperson  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: It is my opinion that the Biden administration has committed a grievous error, or more accurately continued an American practice that over the last half-century has resulted in the murder of millions of people, to our great and everlasting shame. To ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/02/in-rafah-i-saw-new-graveyards-fill-with-children-it-is-unimaginable-that-worse-could-be-yet-to-come/) 2024-05-03T09:20:00Z **Abortion Bans Push Some in US to Travel to Mexico for Reproductive Health Care**
Alejandra Marquez Guajardo ,  Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance and Classical Studies at Michigan State University.   -  truthout

_Stephan: With abortion essentially illegal in what was the old Confederacy, states now controlled by TCP Republicans, are seeing a dramatic decrease in the quality of female healthcare. Concurrently Mexico is becom ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/03/abortion-bans-push-some-in-us-to-travel-to-mexico-for-reproductive-health-care/) 2024-05-03T09:25:00Z **U.S. Loses Soft Power Edge in Africa**
BENEDICT VIGERS,    -  The Gallup Organization

_Stephan: The geopolitical status of the United States, as this Gallup survey illustrates, is declining. Our international policies, largely because of the way the Congressional Republicans are controlling funding, and because of the choices being made by the Biden administration are causing a loss of confidence in America. Other world leaders see The Great Schism Trend as it is happening, and the very rea ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/03/u-s-loses-soft-power-edge-in-africa/) 2024-05-03T09:30:00Z **The Rise Of Big Oil’s Zombie Pipelines**
,    \-

_Stephan:_

_Carbon dioxide pipelines. Once again we are going down a path controlled by misinformation, lobbying, and corruption. We must give up carbon not try it under a new system. This is part of materialism and the denial of the Matrix of Consciousness._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-6.jpg)_Credit: Rogelio V. Solis / AP_

A [carbon dioxide pipeline rupture](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gassing- ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/03/the-rise-of-big-oils-zombie-pipelines/) 2024-05-03T09:35:00Z **New documents show oil executives promoted natural gas as green — but knew it wasn’t**
Kate Yoder and Joseph Winters,    -  Grist

_Stephan: Yet further proof that the carbon industry has known for years that their argument that gas was a green replacement for coal was deliberate misinformation. I think a case could be made that the executives of the petroleum industry are criminals working against the wellbeing of humanity in order to protect th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/03/new-documents-show-oil-executives-promoted-natural-gas-as-green-but-knew-it-wasnt/) 2024-05-04T09:20:00Z **Why Florida banned a kind of meat that doesn’t really exist**
Kenny Torrella,  Staff Writer  -  VOX

_Stephan: More corruption of the political process. We are one of the most corrupt developed nations in the world, and this is yet another example of an existing industry trying to block an emerging technology in order to ensure its continuing profits even though it does damage to society's wellbeing._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/04/why-florida-banned-a-kind-of-meat-that-doesnt-really-exist/) 2024-05-04T09:30:00Z **An AI tool used in thousands of criminal cases is facing legal challenges**
Tim Stelloh,    -  NBC News

_Stephan: Ai is becoming a factor in a wide range of public sectors with very little public discussion in Congress as to how this should be regulated. In this report, you can already see how AI is becoming a major factor in criminal cases in courts all over the country. As time goes on and the AI technology continues to develop I predict this is going ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/04/an-ai-tool-used-in-thousands-of-criminal-cases-is-facing-legal-challenges/) 2024-05-04T09:25:00Z **Congressman Henry Cuellar in court accused of receiving $600,000 in bribes**
,    \-

_Stephan:_

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-10.jpg)_Democrat Representative from Texas 28th District Henry Cuellar: ‘Everything I have done in Congress has been to serve the people of South Texas.’ Credit: Mark Schiefelbein / AP_

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The US justice department on Friday accused the Democratic congressman Henry Cuellar an ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/04/congressman-henry-cuellar-in-court-accused-of-receiving-600000-in-bribes/) 2024-05-04T09:35:00Z **Employers added 175,000 jobs in April, as labor market growth slows**
Lauren Kaori Gurley,  Reporter  -  Microsoft Start / The Washington Post

_Stephan: Here is the latest on the labor market and, as the report describes it, "marks the 27th consecutive month that the unemployment rate was below 4 percent. This was last recorded during a low-unemployment period between 1967 and 1970, and again for a longer period between 1951 and 1953." Sadly, I don't think Bide ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/04/employers-added-175000-jobs-in-april-as-labor-market-growth-slows/) 2024-05-05T09:25:00Z **Are electric vehicles safer than gas-powered cars? Maybe for the passengers—but not for everyone else.**
Jingwen Hu,   Professor, Michigan Transportation Research Institute, University of Michigan  -  Live Science

_Stephan: Here is the best report I have found after considerable research on the safety of EVs. It is clearly an evolving technology, but moving in the right direction which, I think, is good news._

![](https://www ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/05/are-electric-vehicles-safer-than-gas-powered-cars-maybe-for-the-passengers-but-not-for-everyone-else/) 2024-05-05T09:20:00Z **Mandatory evacuations ordered in Texas after heavy rain and floods**
Phil Helsel,  Staff Writer  -  NBC News

_Stephan: This flooding in Texas, I think, should be taken as a warning as to what climate change is doing, and how it is going to get worse and worse. Texas under the Republicans is not preparing properly, but then nor is much of the rest of the country, particularly the Red States. It is a sad business to watch because it is going to cause so much mis ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/05/mandatory-evacuations-ordered-in-texas-after-heavy-rain-and-floods/) 2024-05-05T09:30:00Z **Tyson Foods Dumped Hundreds of Millions of Pounds of Slaughterhouse Pollutants Into U.S. Waterways, Report Finds**
Paige Bennett,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Yet another example of a corporation choosing greed for profit over integrity and fostering wellbeing. What can you do about something like this? The answer is simple, and it can be very effective. Do not ever buy anything produced by the Tyson F ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/05/tyson-foods-dumped-hundreds-of-millions-of-pounds-of-slaughterhouse-pollutants-into-u-s-waterways-report-finds/) 2024-05-05T09:35:00Z **Trump’s bombardment of dishonesty: Fact-checking 32 of his false claims to Time**
Daniel Dale,    -  CNN

_Stephan: Several readers wrote me to ask my views on the Time Magazine cover article about Trump, and I have seen commentators talking about it all day on various television channels. I read the interview, thought it was crap, and then found this CNN fact-check which shows it was just what I thought it was. It is indeed nothing but a sequence of ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/05/trumps-bombardment-of-dishonesty-fact-checking-32-of-his-false-claims-to-time/) 2024-05-06T09:20:00Z **CPJ condemns Israeli vote to shut down Al-Jazeera; warns of alarming precedent**
,    \-  Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

_Stephan: Fascism is arising in countries around the world, and Israel, under Netanyahu, has joined the trend. As a country it is also, in my view a nation guilty of crimes against humanity. I am not the only one with this view as polls show. Israel is becoming a pariah nation, and now it is sabotaging journalism, a classi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/06/cpj-condemns-israeli-vote-to-shut-down-al-jazeera-warns-of-alarming-precedent/) 2024-05-06T09:30:00Z **‘Everything’s on fire’: Inside the nation’s failure to safeguard toxic pipelines**
MIKE SORAGHAN,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: Another report on the corruption and scams of the carbon industries which always place profit above the wellbeing of the people and communities impacted by their work. These reports, one after another -- SR has been covering them for years -- all tell the same story: Greed for profit ends in environmental catastrophes. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/06/everythings-on-fire-inside-the-nations-failure-to-safeguard-toxic-pipelines/) 2024-05-06T09:25:00Z **Report: Taxing Fossil Fuel Extraction Could Raise Nearly $1 Trillion for Climate Aid**
MATTHEW TAYLOR,  Reporter  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: I picked this article because I think it raises a very pertinent issue that needs international attention. The carbon industries through corruption of politicians and scams have avoided taking responsibility let alone paying for the damage they are doing to the matrix of life. They should be held responsibl ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/06/report-taxing-fossil-fuel-extraction-could-raise-nearly-1-trillion-for-climate-aid/) 2024-05-06T09:35:00Z **North Carolina Map Shows Where State Could Be Underwater From Sea Level Rise**
Alia Shoath,  Contributing Writer  -  Newsweek

_Stephan: Here is the latest from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration concerning what is likely to happen to North Carolina as climate change continues. It is going to produce massive change in the state, displace large numbers of people, and cause enormous negative economic impacts. This is going to be replica ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/06/north-carolina-map-shows-where-state-could-be-underwater-from-sea-level-rise/) 2024-05-07T09:20:00Z **More women are working now than at any time in U.S. history**
Emily Peck,    -  Axios

_Stephan: This is good news and bad news. Women who want a job are working. But because the United States has such appallingly poor child care as a society that many working women have a very hard time getting child care for their kids.  As a culture we just can't seem to make fostering wellbeing important._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-20 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/07/more-women-are-working-now-than-at-any-time-in-u-s-history/) 2024-05-07T09:25:00Z **A decade later, Flint’s water crisis continues**
Adam Mahoney,  Contributing Writer  -  Grist / Capital B

_Stephan: Do you remember the water crisis in Flint, Michigan? Well, it is still going on, and is as racist as ever. There are two takeaways here. One is the racism, America remains a deeply racist country. Two is that the water crisis from old lead piping remains a crisis throughout the older towns and cities all over the country. If you live in such a community I suggest you ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/07/a-decade-later-flints-water-crisis-continues/) 2024-05-07T09:30:00Z **How Trumpism has pushed a fringe charismatic theology into the mainstream**
Matthew D. Taylor and Paul A. Djupe,  Senior Scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian and Jewish Studies \| Director of the Data for Political Research Program at Denison University  -  Religion News Service

_Stephan: The New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) movement is the religious side of christofascism with TCP Republicanism the political side, and this report explains how ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/07/how-trumpism-has-pushed-a-fringe-charismatic-theology-into-the-mainstream/) 2024-05-07T09:35:00Z **Stranded in the ER, Seniors Await Hospital Care and Suffer Avoidable Harm**
Judith Graham,  Staff Writer  -  Kaiser Family Foundation Health News

_Stephan: The inferiority of the American Illness Profit System becomes clearer day-by-day, here is just the latest in an endless sequence of reports showing a factual basis proving its inferiority. Yet nothing happens in Congress to correct any of this because the Congress members are so corrupt, and in the po ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/07/stranded-in-the-er-seniors-await-hospital-care-and-suffer-avoidable-harm/) 2024-05-08T09:25:00Z **Aid Groups Warn of “Bloodbath” After Israeli Forces Seize Rafah Crossing**
JULIANNE MCSHANE,  Staff Writer  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: I do not in any way excuse or defend the crimes against humanity committed by Hamas. They are war crimes. But I do not think what they have done compares with the genocide of Muslim women and children being carried out by the Israelis. How is it possible that Jewish men, many of whose forebearers were murdered by Hitler's Na ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/08/aid-groups-warn-of-bloodbath-after-israeli-forces-seize-rafah-crossing/) 2024-05-08T09:20:00Z **The Trump campaign contemplates a jail sentence**
Shelby Talcott,  Staff Writer  -  Semafor

_Stephan: We have never seen a former president who has been convicted as a rapist, financial fraudster, and eventually very possibly committer of treason. Now I think there is an excellent chance we are going to see a former president convicted and sent to prison. What do you think America will do if that happens?_

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-20.j ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/08/the-trump-campaign-contemplates-a-jail-sentence/) 2024-05-08T09:30:00Z **The Collapse of the News Industry Is Taking Its Soul Down With It**
Jak Shafer,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: This is an excellent article on the change in journalism. It is a major trend changing our culture as it withers, and not in a good way. Journalism is being replaced by the weaponization of lies on social media. The result is a population of ill-informed people who have lost contact with the truth, and who no longer understand or value democracy. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/08/the-collapse-of-the-news-industry-is-taking-its-soul-down-with-it/) 2024-05-08T09:35:00Z **Poll: States With Strict Abortion Bans Are Driving Young Workers Away**
Chris Walker,  News Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: I told you this would happen, and it is. We are seeing the population of the United States sort itself in accordance with the Great Schism Trend. Conservatives in significant numbers are moving to Red States so they can be around people who agree with their sense of resentment, victimization, racism, and views on abortion, education, and ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/08/poll-states-with-strict-abortion-bans-are-driving-young-workers-away/) 2024-05-09T09:20:00Z **How Republicans keep U.S. guns and ammo flowing to Latin American drug cartels**
Max Taves,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story / DC Report

_Stephan: American guns are the murder weapons of choice throughout Central and South America. How is this possible? Because the Republicans in Congress have been rented like prostitutes by the corporations that make the murder weapons, and no law constraining gun manufacture or sales can get passed. The result is not o ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/09/how-republicans-keep-u-s-guns-and-ammo-flowing-to-latin-american-drug-cartels/) 2024-05-09T09:25:00Z **The 10 Most Obese States in America**
Brianna Navarre,  Staff Writer  -  U.S. News

_Stephan: Obesity has become one of the defining characteristics of the American population. It is one of the main ways Europeans and Asians identify American tourists on sight. It is also, as this report describes, costing us almost $200 billion dollars in health costs because it is the source of a whole spectrum of health problems. It is also, although nobody talks about this, one of the defines of the Grea ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/09/the-10-most-obese-states-in-america/) 2024-05-09T09:30:00Z **Desperate for Workers but Dead Set Against Migrant Labor: The West Virginia Dilemma**
Paul Kiernan ,  Reporter  -  Microsoft Start

_Stephan: West Virginia has never been a well-governed state. The population is poor, poorly educated, and getting more elderly because young people don't stay in the state. It is the only state to see its population decline.  As this article describes all manner of hourly worker jobs now can not be filled and as a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/09/desperate-for-workers-but-dead-set-against-migrant-labor-the-west-virginia-dilemma/) 2024-05-09T09:35:00Z **Renewable Energy Surpasses 30% of Global Electricity Supply for First Time Ever**
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Here is some good news -- not great news, it could be better, but good -- about humanity emerging from the carbon era and addressing the pollution humans have created that is destroying the earth's matrix of life._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-08- ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/09/renewable-energy-surpasses-30-of-global-electricity-supply-for-first-time-ever/) 2024-05-10T09:20:00Z **East Asia’s Coming Population Collapse and How It Will Reshape World Politics**
Nicholas Eberstadt,    -  Foreign Affairs Journal

_Stephan: The world of the next century is going to be very different than it is today. It isn't just climate change, it is also dramatically changing population levels, and vast migrations both internally and across nations. Here is the headline on population from this research paper. "In the decades immediately ahead, Ea ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/10/east-asias-coming-population-collapse-and-how-it-will-reshape-world-politics/) 2024-05-10T09:25:00Z **Louisiana GOP Blocks Abortion Exception for Young Survivors of Rape and Incest**
Chris Walker ,  News Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: This story about the Republican politicians in Louisiana is disgusting. I don't know how Republicans live with themselves. As this report describes how would you ever get the image of a raped child delivering a baby while holding her Teddy Bear out of your memory? I certainly couldn't. But then most of these anti-choic ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/10/louisiana-gop-blocks-abortion-exception-for-young-survivors-of-rape-and-incest/) 2024-05-10T09:30:00Z **Biden draws GOP’s wrath with pause in bombs shipment to Israel**
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_Stephan:_

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-09-at-6.55.20 PM.jpg)_Speaker of the House Republican Mike Johnson Credit: The Hill_

[President Biden’s](https://thehill.com/people/joe-biden/) move to pause a shipment of heavy bombs to Israel has drawn the fury of Republicans, further polarizing U.S. efforts to deter Israel from launching a bloody c ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/10/biden-draws-gops-wrath-with-pause-in-bombs-shipment-to-israel/) 2024-05-10T09:35:00Z **The evolution of the Southern economic development strategy**
Chandra Childers ,    -  Economic Policy Institute

_Stephan: Recently I have had several readers write me, often criticizing me, and asking why I say the Red States, particularly the Red States of the South, have such inferior governance, and such poor wellbeing. They tell me they accept the social outcome data I publish frequently. but they don't understand or deny my conclusions. So why do the old Confed ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/10/the-evolution-of-the-southern-economic-development-strategy/) 2024-05-11T05:00:13Z **Biden admin says it’s ‘reasonable to assess’ Israel used American weapons in ways ‘inconsistent’ with international law**
Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood,  Reporters  -  CNN

_Stephan: Biden has changed his position on Israel and its genocide, and I think this is happening because of the large demonstrations at colleges and universities across the country. I believe the Democrats and Biden are beginning to reali ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/10/biden-admin-says-its-reasonable-to-assess-israel-used-american-weapons-in-ways-inconsistent-with-international-law/) 2024-05-11T09:20:00Z **Biden admin says it’s ‘reasonable to assess’ Israel used American weapons in ways ‘inconsistent’ with international law**
Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood,  Reporters  -  CNN

_Stephan: Biden has changed his position on Israel and its genocide, and I think this is happening because of the large demonstrations at colleges and universities across the country. I believe the Democrats and Biden are beginning to reali ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/11/biden-admin-says-its-reasonable-to-assess-israel-used-american-weapons-in-ways-inconsistent-with-international-law/) 2024-05-11T09:30:00Z **Vermont Could Be the First State to Bill Oil Firms for Climate Damage**
DHARNA NOOR,  Staff Writer  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: As the damage of the carbon industries and their role in creating climate change becomes ever more evident I think many Blue states are going to follow what Vermont is doing. This issue of the responsibility of the carbon industries, I think, is going to become a major political issue strongly influenced by the corruption of Congress ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/11/vermont-could-be-the-first-state-to-bill-oil-firms-for-climate-damage/) 2024-05-11T09:25:00Z **Is AI lying to me? Scientists warn of growing capacity for deception**
Hannah Devlin,  Science Correspondent  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: What I have been warning you about AI is now becoming increasingly recognized as this article describes. I think this is going to have a significant impact on our democracy because many people are easily manipulated by influences they see as authoritarian. To understand why take a look at my podcast. What I describe is ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/11/is-ai-lying-to-me-scientists-warn-of-growing-capacity-for-deception/) 2024-05-11T09:35:00Z **The Parents Who Want Daughters—and Daughters Only**
EMI NIETFELD,  Staff Writer  -  Slate

_Stephan: This article is the first I have seen that really climbs into the IVF procedure in the United States which, as it describes is very different than in other nations. Why? Because in the U.S. you can gender select, something you cannot do in other nations. And, because we don't have healthcare focused on wellbeing, having an illness profit system, IVF is increasing a profit scheme ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/11/the-parents-who-want-daughters-and-daughters-only/) 2024-05-12T09:20:00Z **Schools are bracing for widespread teacher layoffs. Here’s why**
Katie Lobosco,    -  CNN

_Stephan: We are heading, as this article describes, for a further degradation of America's public education system. Why? Because the Republicans in Congress will not extend funding that began with the Covid pandemic. America is becoming the most poorly educated nation amongst the other developed nations in the world; the least literate, and the least capable in mathematics. Th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/12/schools-are-bracing-for-widespread-teacher-layoffs-heres-why/) 2024-05-12T09:30:00Z **‘His cult followers are nuts’: Eruption after fact-check confirms Trump rally diaper story**
David McAfee,  Senior Editor  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: If you have watched my latest SR podcast you know why people will violate all the principles they claim to base their morality on when they are told to do so by an authority who does not so much lead them as personify them. But I confess I never thought it would come to this. Trumpers wearing dia ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/12/his-cult-followers-are-nuts-eruption-after-fact-check-confirms-trump-rally-diaper-story/) 2024-05-12T09:25:00Z **‘Undisguised corruption’: Critics slam Trump for ‘selling the White House’ to Big Oil**
David Badash,    -  AlterNet

_Stephan: If you vote for Trump or any of the cretins who serve him in Congress or State legislatures you will be voting for all efforts to end the carbon era to end and preparations for what climate change is doing to stop. In the years to come your children and their children will hate you for destroying their wellbeing._

![](ht ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/12/undisguised-corruption-critics-slam-trump-for-selling-the-white-house-to-big-oil/) 2024-05-12T09:35:00Z **Project 2025, the policy substance behind Trump’s showmanship, reveals a radical plan to reshape the world**
Emma Shortis,  Adjunct Senior Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University  -  The Conversation

_Stephan: Project 2025. This is what the TCP Republican Party and criminal Trump seek to do to American society, including eliminating true democracy in the country. We stand at a precipice, and a la ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/12/project-2025-the-policy-substance-behind-trumps-showmanship-reveals-a-radical-plan-to-reshape-the-world/) 2024-05-13T09:20:00Z **North America’s Biggest City is Running Out of Water**
Caroline Houck,  Senior Editor  -  Vox

_Stephan: Mexico City, I think, should be seen as an alarm bell warning cities throughout the United States, and the world come to that. Water and how it it handled is going to become a major factor in the wellbeing of communities, and neither Mexico nor the cities in the United States are preparing properly. I urge you to do some research into the community in which you live to see ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/13/north-americas-biggest-city-is-running-out-of-water/) 2024-05-13T09:35:00Z **U.S. health care is increasingly like a casino**
Caitlin Owens,  Senior Policy Reporter  -  Axios

_Stephan: Here is a recent report on the state of America's Illness Profit System. It isn't good, things that were already bad are getting worse. As the report lays out it is all about the social status of the patient and money. The United States has the worst and most expensive pseudo-healthcare system in the world. And, because the healthcare industry rents through lobbying funding ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/13/u-s-health-care-is-increasingly-like-a-casino/) 2024-05-13T09:30:00Z **What Trump promised oil CEOs as he asked them to steer $1 billion to his campaign**
Josh Dawsey and Maxine Joselow,    -

_Stephan: Here is further information on the absolute corruptness of criminal Trump. (And yes, I say criminal Trump given all his convictions for rape, and fraud, what else should he be called.) The carbon industry CEOs who went down to Mar-a-Lago to kiss criminal Trump's ass and to whine about how ineffective the $400 million ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/13/what-trump-promised-oil-ceos-as-he-asked-them-to-steer-1-billion-to-his-campaign/) 2024-05-13T09:25:00Z **Dobbs Has Created a Health Care Apocalypse**
ABBY VESOULIS,  Reporter  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: Yet another report on the decline of healthcare for women in states controlled by Republicans. Tracking this trend is one of the saddest American stories I have ever tracked. So much misery for no reason other than prejudice._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-12-at-7.34.31 PM.png)

Dr. Leilah Zahedi-Spung spent four years in medical school, ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/13/dobbs-has-created-a-health-care-apocalypse/) 2024-05-14T09:25:00Z **In DC, a new wave of AI lobbyists gains the upper hand**
BRENDAN BORDELON,  Tech Lobbying and Influence Reporter  -  Politico

_Stephan: Here we see once again the corruption of the U.S. Congress, and how this country gets into the terrible situations in which it so frequently finds itself. Instead of developing policies that foster wellbeing, once again Congress is whoring itself out to lobbying money. They are creating policy based not on facts, they are making policy on ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/14/in-dc-a-new-wave-of-ai-lobbyists-gains-the-upper-hand/) 2024-05-14T09:20:00Z **How rich is too rich?**
Lucas Chancel,    -  nature

_Stephan: Grotesque wealth inequality has become a major social force shaping the United States and much of the rest of the world. Here is a very good take on this reality._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-41.jpg)_In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, residents in unplanned settlements live just blocks away from wealthy suburbs.

 Credit: Viviane Moos / Corbis / Getty_

**BOOK:** **Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth* ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/14/how-rich-is-too-rich/) 2024-05-14T09:35:00Z **America’s second civil war? It’s already begun**
Robert Reich,  The Carmel P. Friesen Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies.   -  AlterNet

_Stephan: Robert Reich has just published his version of The Great Schism Trend that I have been talking about for the last decade. We are essentially in complete agreement.  Now the questions are: Will Americans ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/14/americas-second-civil-war-its-already-begun/) 2024-05-14T09:30:00Z **Tennessee woman denied abortion after fetus’ ‘brain not attached’ slams state ban**
Kelly Rissman,  Reporter  -  The Independent (U.K.)

_Stephan: More and more of these horrible stories about women in Red states not getting the healthcare they need keep coming out. I picked this one not only because it proves what the Republicans have done to women's healthcare in the states they control but also because it is from a British paper, and it gives one ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/14/tennessee-woman-denied-abortion-after-fetus-brain-not-attached-slams-state-ban/) 2024-05-15T09:25:00Z **4 GOP-led states sue administration over Title IX rules for transgender students**
BROOKE MIGDON ,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

_Stephan: The perverse obsession MAGAts have about gender issues is one of their hallmarks. Part of it has to do with keeping women subordinate to men. But part of it, I think, is fear. MAGAt men, particularly White MAGAt men, are unclear about their own masculinity. When I look at media directed to women, especially White ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/15/4-gop-led-states-sue-administration-over-title-ix-rules-for-transgender-students/) 2024-05-15T09:20:00Z **Jared Kushner Has Big Plans for Delta of Europe’s Last Wild River**
FRED PEARCE ,  Contributing Writer  -  Yale Environment 360

_Stephan: Albania is on the verge of making a dreadfully bad decision about its environmental future because of greed stimulated by Jared Kushner and his partners. The Trump family has no ethics and no concern for the wellbeing of the Matrix of Life.  As they show us again and again, they care only about profit and power. I increasingly ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/15/jared-kushner-has-big-plans-for-delta-of-europes-last-wild-river/) 2024-05-15T09:30:00Z **School segregation surges 70 years after Brown v. Board ruling**
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_Stephan:_

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-14-at-8.16.53 PM.jpg)

Racial segregation in schools across the country has increased dramatically over the last three decades, according to two new reports and an Axios review of federal data.Why it matters: As the U.S. marks the 70th anniversary of the landmark ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/15/school-segregation-surges-70-years-after-brown-v-board-ruling/) 2024-05-15T09:30:00Z **School segregation surges 70 years after Brown v. Board ruling**
Russell Contreras,    -  Axios

_Stephan: This is very sad news for those of us who worked so hard to end school segregation and bad news for the United States. We are going in the wrong direction in so many ways._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-14-at-9.00.49 PM.jpg)

Racial segregation in schools across the country has increased dramatically over th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/15/school-segregation-surges-70-years-after-brown-v-board-ruling-2/) 2024-05-15T09:35:00Z **FERC Overhauls Electric Grid to Pave Way for Renewables**
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Here is some way too late, but nonetheless still good news. Finally, the country is beginning to seriously restructure the electrical grid to prepare for the conversions to Renewables._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-42.jpg)_Electric power lines are attached to the transmission tower along the power grid in ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/15/ferc-overhauls-electric-grid-to-pave-way-for-renewables/) 2024-05-16T09:20:00Z **Climate change is likely to aggravate brain conditions, study finds**
,    \-  Medical Press - University College London

_Stephan: As the climate changes and an increasing number of researchers look at the effects it is likely to produce the news that comes out of their work is ever more alarming. Here is the latest I have read about._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-48.jpg)_Credit: CC0 Public Domain_

Climate change, and i ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/16/climate-change-is-likely-to-aggravate-brain-conditions-study-finds/) 2024-05-16T09:30:00Z **Extreme heat will put millions more older adults at risk in the future**
Aimee Cunningham,  Biomedical. Writer  -  Science News

_Stephan: The human population of earth is getting older. Fewer children are being born. Cared for the aged and aging is going to become a growing issue, and the medical research is clear, as this research article describes. By 2050, because of the greed I described in the preceding report,  as many as an additional 246 million ad ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/16/extreme-heat-will-put-millions-more-older-adults-at-risk-in-the-future/) 2024-05-16T09:25:00Z **DeSantis, amid criticism, signs Florida bill making climate change a lesser state priority**
,    \-  Associated Press

_Stephan:_

_The majority of voters in Florida elected a governor and state legislature that is openly and actively destroying their future. Large parts of Florida are going to disappear under the sea; it has already started. The rest of the state that stays above the sea will still face all kinds of temperature and water ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/16/desantis-amid-criticism-signs-florida-bill-making-climate-change-a-lesser-state-priority/) 2024-05-17T09:20:00Z **Former Far-Right Hard-Liner Says Billionaires Are Using School Board Races to Sow Distrust in Public Education**
Jeremy Schwartz,  Contributing Writer  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: Here is another part of what is happening. I see more and more trends like this, and none of them predict a happy unified country of people educated to think rationally on the basis of facts.  We need to start talking about this reality that is ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/17/former-far-right-hard-liner-says-billionaires-are-using-school-board-races-to-sow-distrust-in-public-education/) 2024-05-17T09:25:39Z **Trump seen editing angry speeches before allies gave them outside court: reporter**
M.L. Nestel,  News Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Think about what this article is telling us, and it is based on first-hand factual observation. We have a party whose Congress members walked away from doing their Congressional duties, so they could go to the trial of a convicted rapist and con man in order to lie as he told them, and attack America's judicial sys ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/17/trump-seen-editing-angry-speeches-before-allies-gave-them-outside-court-reporter/) 2024-05-17T09:35:00Z **The Trump hush-money trial reveals a seedy world shot through with moral rot**
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_Stephan:_

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-16-at-6.11.42 PM.jpg)_‘The trial has introduced us to a world of moral and ethical loathsomeness in which people use and abuse one another routinely. It’s Trump world.’ Credit: Mark Peterson / AFP / Getty_

There is something important about Trump’s criminal trial in New Yo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/17/the-trump-hush-money-trial-reveals-a-seedy-world-shot-through-with-moral-rot/) 2024-05-18T09:20:00Z **Confused about Biden’s Israel weapons policy? Here’s what you should know.**
LARA SELIGMAN,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: It is my personal view that the Biden administration is making a major error in its policy about arming Israel. To me, it is very clear Netanyahu and his cronies are committing genocide. This is the best explanation I have found about why Biden is doing what he is doing and what the rationale is. I don't agree with it, but I do u ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/18/confused-about-bidens-israel-weapons-policy-heres-what-you-should-know/) 2024-05-18T09:25:00Z **It’s the End of Google Search As We Know It**
,    \-  WIRED

_Stephan: Google is the largest search engine in the world, with a 90.91% market share and you probably use it every day. As this article tells us it is about to change radically._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-16-at-11.25.22 PM.jpg)

Google Search is about to fundamentally change—for better or worse. To align with Alphabet-owned Google’s grand vision of [artificial intell ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/18/its-the-end-of-google-search-as-we-know-it/) 2024-05-18T09:30:00Z **The Medicare Bubble Has Burst**
David Wainer,  Reporter  -  Micrsosoft Start / The Wall Street Journal

_Stephan: I have been warning readers not to get embroiled with the Medicare Advantage scam the health insurance corporations are pushing. Yes, you may need a supplemental to your Medicare policy. My wife and I both have such. But that is not Medicare Advantage. Here is a very good explanation from the conservative Wall Street Journal about why I keep warning you about this. And it also gives so ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/18/the-medicare-bubble-has-burst/) 2024-05-18T09:35:00Z **America is hurtling toward a gray trap**
Caitlin Owens,    -  Axios

_Stephan: Our population is aging, and as the article describes we are painfully unprepared for what that means in terms of social wellbeing. Take just one example, healthcare.  Our illness profit system is not getting better it is deteriorating. You hear Republicans saying Medicare is already too expensive. It is a dastardly lie. What passes for healthcare in the United States is already orders of magnitude more costly ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/18/america-is-hurtling-toward-a-gray-trap/) 2024-05-19T09:20:00Z **Far Right Billionaires Are Waging a War to Capture State Courts**
Alyssa Bowen and Evan Vorpahl,  Staff Writers  -  truthout

_Stephan: If Biden isn't re-elected and both the Senate and the House do not end up with Democratic majorities this is what is going to happen to destroy a fair judiciary based on law not politics. It all comes down to who votes, how many, and how the vote comes out._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-56.j ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/19/far-right-billionaires-are-waging-a-war-to-capture-state-courts/) 2024-05-19T09:30:00Z **Trump-linked dark-money group spent $90m on racist and transphobic ads in 2022, records show**
Brendan Fischer and Victoria Cadostin,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: We have an active and growing movement of people who want to take over America, end its democracy, and make it a christofascist White supremacy, male-dominant heterosexual-only society. It is not one single unified movement. Rather a collection of groups each promoting ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/19/trump-linked-dark-money-group-spent-90m-on-racist-and-transphobic-ads-in-2022-records-show/) 2024-05-19T09:25:00Z **Russian Disinformation Videos Smear Biden Ahead of U.S. Election**
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![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-55.jpg)_Microsoft said the video probably came from a group it calls Storm-1516, a collection of disinformation experts who now focus on creating videos they hope might go viral in America. Credit: Nanna Heitmann / The New York Times_

Last month, a video began circulating on social media purporting to tell the ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/19/russian-disinformation-videos-smear-biden-ahead-of-u-s-election/) 2024-05-19T09:35:00Z **Consumption of ultra-processed foods and risk of multimorbidity of cancer and cardiometabolic diseases: a multinational cohort study**
Reynalda Cordova Vivian Viallon Emma Fontvieille Laia Peruchet-Noray Anna Jansana Karl-Heinz Wagner,  World Health Organization -- International Agency for Research on Cancer  -  The Lancet

_Stephan: A physician reader wrote to say that since SR publishes research ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/19/consumption-of-ultra-processed-foods-and-risk-of-multimorbidity-of-cancer-and-cardiometabolic-diseases-a-multinational-cohort-study/) 2024-05-20T09:20:00Z **‘A Truer Reality Beyond Reality’: Hannah Arendt’s Warning About How Totalitarianism Takes Root**
JOANNA WEISS,  Contributing Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: We have about a third of the American population who make up MAGAt world, and loneliness and a sense of abandonment producing resentment and hate, as this article describes, is one of the reasons seemingly rational people become so irrational. Take a look also at my podcast, Conscious ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/20/a-truer-reality-beyond-reality-hannah-arendts-warning-about-how-totalitarianism-takes-root/) 2024-05-20T09:25:00Z **Louisiana moves to add abortion pills to list of controlled dangerous substances**
Carter Sherman,  Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Louisiana is a poor, poorly educated state scoring at the lowest rank in most social outcome research. It is ruled by a small group of christofascist White supremacist Republicans more interested in preserving their ideology than fostering wellbeing.  This is their latest move in the post-Dobbs era to cont ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/20/louisiana-moves-to-add-abortion-pills-to-list-of-controlled-dangerous-substances/) 2024-05-20T09:30:00Z **How ‘kitty cats’ are wrecking the home insurance industry**
Jake Bittle,  Staff Writer  -  Grist

_Stephan: I have been warning readers for years about the insurance crisis climate change is going to cause. You may live in a state that is already being affected, and it is going to get much worse. As this article describes it isn't just coastal states, and I predict we are going to see a growing internal migration as this trend worsens. Take a look at what is predicted for ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/20/how-kitty-cats-are-wrecking-the-home-insurance-industry/) 2024-05-20T09:35:00Z **Trump flattened for talking about executing Biden before gun owners**
Tom Boggioni,  Contributing Writer  -  Rw Story

_Stephan: This is the candidate for President of the Republican Party calling for the execution of the serving President while speaking to an audience of individuals notably suffering from obsessive gun psychosis and with a demonstrated proclivity for violence. It should also be mentioned that criminal Trump, whose mental abilities are clearly ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/20/trump-flattened-for-talking-about-executing-biden-before-gun-owners/) 2024-05-21T09:20:00Z **Local officials react to Hicksville Community Memorial Hospital’s closure**
Marin Murphy,    -  Channel 15 - WANE (Ohio)

_Stephan: This is one the many stories I see about hospitals closing. Rural hospitals and healthcare systems have been in a growing crisis, and since 2010, over 130 have closed. Yet when was the last time you ever saw this medical crisis discussed on a network news program?_

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/0 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/21/local-officials-react-to-hicksville-community-memorial-hospitals-closure/) 2024-05-21T09:25:00Z **Medicaid “Unwinding” Disproportionately Affects Disabled People, Advocates Say**
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_Stephan:_

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-62.jpg)_Disabled people are losing benefits with little or no notice, getting bad advice when they call for information, and facing major disruptions in care while they wait for issues to be sorted out._ _Credit: Rich Legg / Getty_

Jacqueline Saa has a genetic condition that leaves he ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/21/medicaid-unwinding-disproportionately-affects-disabled-people-advocates-say/) 2024-05-21T09:35:00Z **Conserving Wildlife Can Help Mitigate Climate Change**
Fran Silverman,  Associate Director of Communications  -  Yale School of the Environment

_Stephan: Further proof that we live in an interconnected, interdependent matrix of life, and if we are to survive we must protect the matrix. As a country, as a society, fostering wellbeing must become our most important priority._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-60.jpg)_Credit: Yale School of t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/21/conserving-wildlife-can-help-mitigate-climate-change/) 2024-05-21T09:30:00Z **How Much is a Planet Worth?**
BILL MCKIBBEN,    -  The Crucial Years

_Stephan: Bill McKibben spells out what I said in the previous article and why I said it.   Climate change prevention, like our democracy based on the data, hangs by a thread. Except for Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren , Katie Porter, and a few others no one in Congress, certainly no Republicans, seem to give a damn about what is happening. As the data in the chart shows other countries seem to get it but in the U.S. as a culture, ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/21/how-much-is-a-planet-worth/) 2024-05-22T09:20:00Z **Trump shares video suggesting his victory will bring ‘unified Reich’**
Patrick Smith,  Reporter  -  NBC News

_Stephan: "Unified Reich." Criminal Trump is so far gone mentally that he has begun to openly employ Hitler's language when he speaks to his followers. This is the latest example but not the only one. And the MAGAt Congress members and voters continue to kneel at his feet rendering their obeisance to their master. This is straight out of what happened i ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/22/trump-shares-video-suggesting-his-victory-will-bring-unified-reich/) 2024-05-22T09:30:00Z **A quarter of U.S. teachers say AI tools do more harm than good in K-12 education**
LUONA LIN,    -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: AI is becoming an issue in education, yet another example of how it is growing in influence in all aspects our society with almost not coherent thought as to how to integrate it so it is a positive influence instead of a destructive one. There needs to be a major societal-wide discussion about AI, and it is not happenin ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/22/a-quarter-of-u-s-teachers-say-ai-tools-do-more-harm-than-good-in-k-12-education/) 2024-05-22T09:35:00Z **‘Deeply alarming’ report finds almost a third of Congress are ‘election deniers’**
Alex Henderson,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: This is how deranged the Congressional Republicans have become. There have been 63 court cases testing whether there was something  awry in the 2020 election, thousands of hours of research tested the idea., nothing confirmed the claim that there was anything amiss in the election. It is all criminal Trump's fabrica ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/22/deeply-alarming-report-finds-almost-a-third-of-congress-are-election-deniers/) 2024-05-23T09:20:00Z **Stocks are up 12% this year, but nearly half of Americans think they’re down. What’s going on?**
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_Stephan:_

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-66.jpg)_Many Americans incorrectly think the stock market is down, inflation is rising and a U.S. recession is underway.

 Credit: Patrick Smith / Getty_

A new poll is offering fresh evidence that the U.S. economy’s strong performance isn’t resonating with ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/23/stocks-are-up-12-this-year-but-nearly-half-of-americans-think-theyre-down-whats-going-on/) 2024-05-23T09:30:00Z **‘We don’t have a democracy’: why some Oregonians want to join Idaho**
Kiran Moodley ,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: They don't like electric vehicles, they are obsessed with guns. They say their faith and Christianity determine their behavior and yet they violate everything Jesus teaches. When I tell you we have become two different countries in a single nation, this article illustrates the difference very clearly. The East side of Oregon as the article des ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/23/we-dont-have-a-democracy-why-some-oregonians-want-to-join-idaho/) 2024-05-23T09:25:00Z **The campaign to gut Washington’s power over corporate America**
DECLAN HARTY, JOSH SISCO and JOSH GERSTEIN,  Staff Writers  -  Politico

_Stephan: The christofascist revolution that is going on in the United States is being financed by corporations and the uber-rich, and they are banking on the Supreme Court to reduce the regulation and oversight of their financial base, as this report describes. The rich always try to do this, so there is nothing particularly surpri ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/23/the-campaign-to-gut-washingtons-power-over-corporate-america/) 2024-05-23T09:35:00Z **Second flag carried by Jan. 6 rioters displayed outside house owned by Justice Alito, report says**
,    \-  Associated Press

_Stephan: You have probably already seen one of the many reports on Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito's open, one might even say blatant, proclamation that he is a christofascist, not a neutral law-based Justice. Everyone is talking about how Alito and Thomas clearly think themselves above the law ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/23/second-flag-carried-by-jan-6-rioters-displayed-outside-house-owned-by-justice-alito-report-says/) 2024-05-24T09:20:00Z **Biden administration cancels $7.7 billion in student debt for 160,500 people. Here’s who qualifies.**
Aimee Picchi,  Associate Managing Editor for CBS MoneyWatch  -  CBS News

_Stephan: With the christofascist takeover of our democracy dominating the media, this very good news from Biden and his administration is getting very little attention. But it is a big deal. If you have student debt or know someone who does read this follow th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/24/biden-administration-cancels-7-7-billion-in-student-debt-for-160500-people-heres-who-qualifies/) 2024-05-24T09:35:00Z **Supreme court rules South Carolina doesn’t need to redraw congressional map to consider Black voters**
Sam Levine,    -

_Stephan: This decision by the christofascists majority on the Supreme Court castrates the Voting Rights Act, promotes anti-Black racism, and legalizes minority White rule in states. I think it should also be noted that Chief Justice Roberts chose to assign Associate Justice Alito to write the decision and the ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/24/supreme-court-rules-south-carolina-doesnt-need-to-redraw-congressional-map-to-consider-black-voters/) 2024-05-24T09:35:00Z **Supreme court rules South Carolina doesn’t need to redraw congressional map to consider Black voters**
Sam Levine,    -

_Stephan: This decision by the christofascists majority on the Supreme Court castrates the Voting Rights Act, promotes anti-Black racism, and legalizes minority White rule in states. I think it should also be noted that Chief Justice Roberts chose to assign Associate Justice Alito to write the decision and the ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/24/supreme-court-rules-south-carolina-doesnt-need-to-redraw-congressional-map-to-consider-black-voters/) 2024-05-24T09:30:00Z **Republican calls for economic ‘shut down’ while accusing Biden of Marxist agenda**
David Badash,  Senior Editor  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: I don't know whether Victoria Spartz the Republican representing the 5th District of Indiana is as stupid as she sounds or whether she is just an anti-democracy christofascist follower of criminal Trump. What I do know is that a majority of the voters in the 5th District elected this woman, she reflects their thinki ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/24/republican-calls-for-economic-shut-down-while-accusing-biden-of-marxist-agenda/) 2024-05-24T09:30:00Z **Republican calls for economic ‘shut down’ while accusing Biden of Marxist agenda**
David Badash,  Senior Editor  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: I don't know whether Victoria Spartz the Republican representing the 5th District of Indiana is as stupid as she sounds or whether she is just an anti-democracy christofascist follower of criminal Trump. What I do know is that a majority of the voters in the 5th District elected this woman, she reflects their thinki ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/24/republican-calls-for-economic-shut-down-while-accusing-biden-of-marxist-agenda/) 2024-05-24T09:30:00Z **Clarence Thomas Makes a Full-Throated Case for Racial Gerrymandering**
MARK JOSEPH STERN,    -  Slate

_Stephan: As bad as the Alito majority decision on [_Alexander v. South Carolina NAACP_](https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-807_3e04.pdf) is, it was not radical enough for Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, who is so obviously a flagrantly corrupt self-loathing Black man who feels he is above any law. The Supreme Court is no longer a judicially n ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/24/clarence-thomas-makes-a-full-throated-case-for-racial-gerrymandering/) 2024-05-24T09:30:00Z **Clarence Thomas Makes a Full-Throated Case for Racial Gerrymandering**
MARK JOSEPH STERN,    -  Slate

_Stephan: As bad as the Alito majority decision on [_Alexander v. South Carolina NAACP_](https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-807_3e04.pdf) is, it was not radical enough for Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, who is so obviously a flagrantly corrupt self-loathing Black man who feels he is above any law. The Supreme Court is no longer a judicially n ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/24/clarence-thomas-makes-a-full-throated-case-for-racial-gerrymandering/) 2024-05-25T09:25:00Z **FACT: Democrats restore economies that Republicans wreck**
D. Earl Stephens,  Contributing Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Although a large number of Americans don't seem to recognize it, the facts are irrefutable. The economy and individual Americans do better under Democratic governance than under Republican governance. It is true at both the federal level and at the state level._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-70.jpg)_Barack Obama ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/25/fact-democrats-restore-economies-that-republicans-wreck/) 2024-05-25T09:20:00Z **Majority of Americans wrongly believe US is in recession – and most blame Biden**
Lauren Aratani ,  Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: This article describing how many Americans are completely out of touch with what is really going on in the U.S. economy. I see this as an illustration of how powerful misinformation on social media, and the endless lies spewed out by the MAGAt cult has become in this country._

![](https://www.schwartzreport. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/25/majority-of-americans-wrongly-believe-us-is-in-recession-and-most-blame-biden/) 2024-05-25T09:30:00Z **Supreme court rules South Carolina doesn’t need to redraw congressional map to consider Black voters**
Sam Levine,    -

_Stephan: This decision by the christofascists majority on the Supreme Court castrates the Voting Rights Act, promotes anti-Black racism, and legalizes minority White rule in states. I think it should also be noted that Chief Justice Roberts chose to assign Associate Justice Alito to write the decision and the ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/25/supreme-court-rules-south-carolina-doesnt-need-to-redraw-congressional-map-to-consider-black-voters/) 2024-05-25T09:35:00Z **Trump Pressures Republicans to Pass a Law to Keep Him Out of Jail Forever**
Asawin Suebsaeng and Adam Rawnsley,  Staff Writer  -  RollingStone

_Stephan: The Republicans in Congress are no longer interested in governing. They are no longer a political party, they are a cult. What they are doing is kneeling subserviently before their master because their political advisors have told them if they don't, and criminal Trump says something against them, they ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/25/trump-pressures-republicans-to-pass-a-law-to-keep-him-out-of-jail-forever/) 2024-05-26T09:20:00Z **Amendment killing nationally legal cannabis makes it into House farm bill**
SAUL ELBEIN ,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

_Stephan: This is what the MAGAt House Republicans are doing. Rather than passing policies that foster wellbeing, they are creating more chaos in a Congress already barely functional. Marijuana an issue from decades ago is being reintroduced by two MAGAts, Mary Miller, representing the 15th District of Illinois, and Doug LaMalfa, represen ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/26/amendment-killing-nationally-legal-cannabis-makes-it-into-house-farm-bill/) 2024-05-26T09:30:00Z **‘Absolute miracle’ breakthrough provides recipe for zero-carbon cement**
Michael Irving,    -  New Atlas

_Stephan: Here is some very good news from Cambridge University. Most of us don't think much about cement as a problem but, as this article describes, it is a significant source of CO2 emissions, and this may be a solution to make it greener._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-71.jpg)_Old concrete can be recycled in furn ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/26/absolute-miracle-breakthrough-provides-recipe-for-zero-carbon-cement/) 2024-05-26T09:25:00Z **A Hidden Threat**
Brady Dennis, Kevin Crowe and John Muyskens,  Reporters  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: If you live along a coast and are on a septic system I urge you to do research to see what your future sea rise is projected to be. Ihave lived much of my life on properties dependent on septic systems. We live on such a system now. But, before we moved here 16 years ago, I did a lot of research to make sure sea rise was not going to be an issue in the future. For much of the South, however, where millio ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/26/a-hidden-threat/) 2024-05-26T09:35:00Z **Alabama’s War on Women**
Tessa Stuart,    -  Rolling Stone

_Stephan: This is one of the most horrifying stories I have ever published in SR, and it is the account of a trend that is growing throughout the country. The anti-choice Republican Party of the United States has become the equivalent of the Taliban, and it seeks complete dominance over women through legally making a fertilized egg a person. Alabama, a state with grossly inferior social outcome data, is leading the way in this trend but it is spr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/26/alabamas-war-on-women/) 2024-05-27T09:20:00Z **DeSantis says he’s ‘restoring sanity’ by erasing climate change from Florida laws**
Kate Yoder,  Staff Writer  -  Grist

_Stephan: Ron DeSantis has an ego so large that he seems to think he can banish or ignore climate change. Either way he is deliberately and consciously failing to prepare the people of his state for what is coming, and Florida is going to become one of the most severely impacted of all the states_

![](https://www.schwartzreport.n ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/27/desantis-says-hes-restoring-sanity-by-erasing-climate-change-from-florida-laws/) 2024-05-27T09:25:00Z **Biden has no plan to touch the Alito controversy, even with a 10-foot pole**
ADAM CANCRYN,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: I think Biden is making another mistake; he seems to be trapped in a Washington political structure that no longer exists. We a House that is controlled by a cult, where they even dress like their master, and a Supreme Court with a majority cabal at a level of corruption never before seen. In my opinion, Biden needs to speak ou ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/27/biden-has-no-plan-to-touch-the-alito-controversy-even-with-a-10-foot-pole/) 2024-05-27T09:30:00Z **‘Kitty cat’ storms hitting US heartland are growing threat to home insurance**
Jake Bittle,    -  The Guardian (u.K.)

_Stephan: Another report on the growing insurance crisis in the United States. This crisis is spreading all over the country has climate change becomes an ever larger factor in local weather. As a country, we need a new nationwide insurance structure, but with our present dysfunctional Congress, I don't see how it is going to happen._

 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/27/kitty-cat-storms-hitting-us-heartland-are-growing-threat-to-home-insurance/) 2024-05-27T09:35:00Z **Divided states of America: From Oregon to Louisiana, campaigns for secession are taking place at local and state levels – and some are succeeding**
LEWIS PENNOCK,  Reporter  -  Daily Mail (U.K.)

_Stephan: The Great Schism Trend is moving into a new phase. I have reported on this before but, as we move towards the election, it is now gathering momentum. Somewhere from 20 to 30% of the po ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/27/divided-states-of-america-from-oregon-to-louisiana-campaigns-for-secession-are-taking-place-at-local-and-state-levels-and-some-are-succeeding/) 2024-05-28T09:20:00Z **Media Scorn Protestors for Distrust of Corporate Reporters**
ARI PAUL ,  Contributing Writer  -  truthdig

_Stephan: This is an interesting insight into the recent college protest movements arising from the Israeli genocide against the Palestinians. It is a rather sad commentary on what is happening in corporate media._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-79.jpg)_Pro-Palestinian protesters chant at University of Chicago police while bei ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/28/media-scorn-protestors-for-distrust-of-corporate-reporters/) 2024-05-28T09:25:00Z **Biden’s got a plan to protect science from Trump**
ERIN SCHUMAKER,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: Here is some good news. In preparation for the upcoming election, President Biden is trying to Trump-proof the NIH, the largest medical research entity in the U.S. so that even if Biden loses medical science will not be subject to the same medical nonsense espoused by criminal Trump when he was president._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screensh ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/28/bidens-got-a-plan-to-protect-science-from-trump/) 2024-05-28T09:35:00Z **The assault on America’s libraries designed to foster ignorance and damage social and individual wellbeing**
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Columnist  -  Explore

_Stephan: All my life, beginning when I was five, I have valued and cherished public libraries. I understood even as a young boy how important they were. Libraries were the place you could go to learn about anything that interested you or that could entertain you when you ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/28/the-assault-on-americas-libraries-designed-to-foster-ignorance-and-damage-social-and-individual-wellbeing/) 2024-05-28T09:30:00Z **Inside the GOP plan to destroy social mobility in America**
Thom Hartmann,  Commentator  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Thom Hartmann lays out very well what the leaders of the MAGAt cult are trying to do. You would think voters who support criminal Trump and the MAGAt Republican cult would understand that the leaders of the cult are trying to create an easily manipulated ignorant semi-literate peasantry to serve the autocratic uber-rich authoritarians. You might think that si ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/28/inside-the-gop-plan-to-destroy-social-mobility-in-america/) 2024-05-29T09:25:00Z **Supreme Court rejects claim that South Carolina’s congressional map was racially gerrymandered**
JOSH GERSTEIN and ZACH MONTELLARO,  Staff Writers  -  Politico

_Stephan: Anyone with an IQ higher than the measurement of their waist who is even minimally enlightened about what has been going on in South Carolina knows the redistricting carried out by the MAGAt Republican legislature was racially based. But, of course, the corrupt MAGAt ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/29/supreme-court-rejects-claim-that-south-carolinas-congressional-map-was-racially-gerrymandered/) 2024-05-29T09:20:00Z **Justice Alito’s Upside-Down Flag Claim Dismantled by Police, Neighbors: Report**
CHARISMA MADARANG,  Contributing Writer  -  Rolling Stone

_Stephan: The actual truth about the Alitos' behavior about the flags they flew is beginning to come out. What is clear to me is that Samuel Alito should not be on the Supreme Court, and it is a measure of how dysfunctional our highest court and our Congress have become that nothing is happening to deal with any of ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/29/justice-alitos-upside-down-flag-claim-dismantled-by-police-neighbors-report/) 2024-05-29T09:30:00Z **Majority of US voters support climate litigation against big oil, poll shows**
Dharna Noor,  Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: It appears that Americans are slowly, very slowly, awakening to what the carbon energy industries have done to wreck the earth's matrix of life and destroy the environment. As the article about the first national poll reports, "Asked if fossil fuel companies “should be held legally accountable for their contributions ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/29/majority-of-us-voters-support-climate-litigation-against-big-oil-poll-shows/) 2024-05-29T09:35:00Z **US-Backed Camps in Northeast Syria Are Holding 29,000 Children in Detention**
Aisha Maniar,  Contributing Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: The military-industrial complex empowered by thoughtless unconscious American officials in Washington has condemned tens of thousands of individuals, mostly women and children to horrific detentions that gone on year after year because no one in media reports on it and no one in Congress or the Executive branch seems t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/29/us-backed-camps-in-northeast-syria-are-holding-29000-children-in-detention/) 2024-05-30T09:20:00Z **Improved Refrigeration Could Reduce Global Food Waste by 41%, Study Finds**
CRISTEN HEMINGWAY JAYNES ,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: This article, and the study upon which it is based, are examples of the kind of thinking that needs to inform our entire society. New technologies, new versions of old technologies. That needs to become our priority as a society if we are going to maintain our culture in the coming climate change era._

![](htt ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/30/improved-refrigeration-could-reduce-global-food-waste-by-41-study-finds/) 2024-05-30T09:25:00Z **Once a Sheriff’s Deputy in Florida, Now a Source of Disinformation From Russia**
,    \-  DNYUZ

_Stephan: This is the damage one single traitor can do to the United States, or any other country, using the internet and AI. Human culture is changing fundamentally because nothing is being done to regulate to regulate these technologies. This is a trend that is being ignored at the peril of human culture._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/u ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/30/once-a-sheriffs-deputy-in-florida-now-a-source-of-disinformation-from-russia/) 2024-05-30T09:35:00Z **‘A dying empire led by bad people’: Poll finds young voters despairing over US politics**
Shelby Talcott,    -  Semafor

_Stephan: The corruption and lack of ethics of the Supreme Court, the dysfunction and corruption of the House of Representatives, the silence and lack of positive work by the Senate, the inability of the Biden administration to make a positive impression, particularly its disastrous policies concerning the Israeli genocide g ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/30/a-dying-empire-led-by-bad-people-poll-finds-young-voters-despairing-over-us-politics/) 2024-05-30T09:30:00Z **Texas GOP Appears To Put Death Penalty For Abortion Patients On 2024 Wish List**
Alanna Vagianos,  Senior Reporter  -  HuffPost

_Stephan: The christofascist MAGAt Republicans of Texas are so profoundly altering female healthcare that Texas is becoming another country compared with any of the Blue states. There is also a growing secession movement in the state. Depending on how the November national election turns out, and who the people of Texas vo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/30/texas-gop-appears-to-put-death-penalty-for-abortion-patients-on-2024-wish-list/) 2024-05-31T09:20:00Z **GOP mega-donor Miriam Adelson to fund colossal super PAC for Trump**
ALEX ISENSTADT,  Reporter  -  Politico

_Stephan: I don't know how it could be made any clearer that the oligarchs want criminal Trump as President because of what he will do to reduce their taxes and give them greater control over the country. They don't care if he is a convicted rapist, multi-convicted grifter, and convicted super-felon. It is all about money and power; it has nothing to do ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/31/gop-mega-donor-miriam-adelson-to-fund-colossal-super-pac-for-trump/) 2024-05-31T09:25:00Z **States With Abortion Bans Are Among Least Supportive for Mothers and Children**
Emily Badger, Margot Sanger-Katz and Claire Cain Miller,    -

_Stephan: This article dates to 2022, but I am running it today to show the obscene lie behind the anti-abortion movement in MAGAt States. The anti-abortion claim of MAGAt advocates is protecting babies. But the truth is it is about controlling women, and keeping them subordinate. What is the proof? You have a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/31/states-with-abortion-bans-are-among-least-supportive-for-mothers-and-children/) 2024-05-31T09:30:00Z **Directed energy weapon replaces million-dollar missiles at 13 cents a shot**
David Szondy,    -  New Atlas / U.K. Government

_Stephan: Drones have changed the nature of war weaponry, and this new British technology is a response to that. It makes the Israeli genocide in Gaza even more obscene. It forces one to ask, was their no other way to conduct Israel's war than killing tens of thousands of women and children?_

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/31/directed-energy-weapon-replaces-million-dollar-missiles-at-13-cents-a-shot/) 2024-05-31T09:35:00Z **Next year’s battle royale over tax policy will shape America’s fiscal future**
Neil Irwin,  Contributing Writer  -  Axios

_Stephan: How you vote in November, as this article explains, is going to make a big difference as to what your tax rate will be._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-86.jpg)_Illustration: Sarah Grillo / Axios_

When Americans go to the polls in November, they will be deciding the playing field for t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/31/next-years-battle-royale-over-tax-policy-will-shape-americas-fiscal-future/) 2024-06-01T09:25:00Z **A national network of local news sites is publishing AI-written articles under fake bylines. Experts are raising alarm**
Hadas Gold,  Reporter  -  CNN

_Stephan: Journalism, as it has existed for centuries, is disappearing in the United States. First, local newspapers are closing by the dozens. Getting local news is becoming harder and harder to obtain. Second, even when a paper still exists, as this article de ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/01/a-national-network-of-local-news-sites-is-publishing-ai-written-articles-under-fake-bylines-experts-are-raising-alarm/) 2024-06-01T09:20:00Z **Vermont becomes first state to mandate that fossil fuel companies pay for climate damages**
Maura Barrett and Lucas Thompson,  Reporters  -  NBC News

_Stephan: This is very good news. Vermont has now done what every state should do. As this article describes the state has passed a law holding fossil fuel companies responsible for the disasters that are occurring because of the climate change carbon energy has caused. Bravo, Vermont._

![ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/01/vermont-becomes-first-state-to-mandate-that-fossil-fuel-companies-pay-for-climate-damages/) 2024-06-01T09:35:00Z **‘They wronged our Donald!’ Russian state TV holds pity party for Trump**
Brad Reed,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Russia has been trying to support criminal Trump first to become President, then to cut deals with him when he was President and, now, as he seeks to be re-elected. It is perfectly clear who Putin favors and why. The interesting thing for me is that yesterday as I was working I had the Foix Disinformation Channel playing in the background, ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/01/they-wronged-our-donald-russian-state-tv-holds-pity-party-for-trump/) 2024-06-01T09:30:00Z **Congressional leaders invite Israel’s Netanyahu to deliver an address at the Capitol**
LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK,  Reporters  -  Associated Press

_Stephan: Here is a clear example of the failure of the U.S. Congress, both Democrat and Republican leaders. They have invited Benjamin Netanyahu, a war criminal responsible for the death of tens of thousands of Palestinian women and children, to address a joint session of Congress in orde ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/01/congressional-leaders-invite-israels-netanyahu-to-deliver-an-address-at-the-capitol/) 2024-06-02T09:25:00Z **Industrialized countries meet $100B climate finance pledge, two years late**
Andrew Freedman ,  Staff Writer  -  Axios

_Stephan: Here is some semi-good news. The industrialized nations, including the United States, are doing better to help developing nations prepare for what climate change is doing, but late and not nearly enough. The governments of the developed nations of the world just seem to understand yet that the Earth's matrix of life is under th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/02/industrialized-countries-meet-100b-climate-finance-pledge-two-years-late/) 2024-06-02T09:20:00Z **The Texas Supreme Court Tells Women They Can Go Die**
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling,  Associate Writer  -  The New Republic

_Stephan: About 8% of pregnancies in the US develop complications that could harm the mother or baby if left untreated. If you are a pregnant woman in Texas and something goes wrong you now have only two choices. Leave the state or die._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image-3.jpg)_Texas pro-choice demonstration. Credit: Monti ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/02/the-texas-supreme-court-tells-women-they-can-go-die/) 2024-06-02T09:30:00Z **Is US Offshore Wind Dead in the Water—Or Just Poised for the Next Big Gust?**
Pam Radtke,  Staff Writer  -  Inside Climate News

_Stephan: You would think that wind energy would be the obvious next step for the carbon energy industry, as we exit the carbon power era. You might think that but the carbon corporations don't or can't see it as this important article on this technology reports. Note also how criminal Trump did everything he could to sabotage ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/02/is-us-offshore-wind-dead-in-the-water-or-just-poised-for-the-next-big-gust/) 2024-06-02T09:35:00Z **Is the Loss of Insects a Desperate Cry for Help From a Planet Under Assault?**
Thom Hartmann,  Commentator  -  Daily Kos

_Stephan: I don't know about where you live but I do know this. Cultivate plants on your property that nourish bees, butterflies, and other insects. Humans are destroying Earth's matrix of life, and the end result will be humanity's endangerment. Our grandchildren will curse us if we do not work now to restore the health of the matr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/02/is-the-loss-of-insects-a-desperate-cry-for-help-from-a-planet-under-assault/) 2024-06-03T09:25:00Z **The Little-Known Reason Counties Keep Building Bigger Jails: Architecture Firms**
Amanda Abrams,  Staff Writer  -  The Intercept

_Stephan: There was a time in the United States when there were safe residential mental health institutions staffed by physicians, nurses, and orderlies all over the country. My father, who was an anesthesiologist, would volunteer time for surgeries at one called Longwood and, in the summer, I would sometimes go out with ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/03/the-little-known-reason-counties-keep-building-bigger-jails-architecture-firms/) 2024-06-03T09:20:00Z **‘Breaking point’: Trump signals for violence from supporters if he’s jailed**
David Edwards,  Senior Editor  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Criminal Trump on the Fox propaganda network, and elsewhere is doing just what he did January 6th; he is stirring up his MAGAts for violence if he is jailed. What we are seeing is a political cult putting forward as their leader a convicted felon who is trying in every way he can to create civil violence._

![](https://www.sc ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/03/breaking-point-trump-signals-for-violence-from-supporters-if-hes-jailed/) 2024-06-03T09:30:00Z **Elon Musk and Peter Thiel’s War on Democracy**
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  -  truthdig

_Stephan: The oligarchs are making it clear that they want to put criminal Trump back into office, and they are putting their money where the mouths are. How it is possible for a political party to put forward a candida ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/03/elon-musk-and-peter-thiels-war-on-democracy/) 2024-06-03T09:35:00Z **Senate to vote on ‘right to contraception’ bill**
ALEXANDER BOLTON,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

_Stephan: Twenty Republican-controlled states have now passed legislation allowing non-medical politicians to control a woman's body. Now several are going after contraception, and so this is what the Senate of the United States has been reduced to.  It will be interesting to see how the vote goes Wednesday. I predict many Republicans will vote against contraception rights. The MAGAt cul ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/03/senate-to-vote-on-right-to-contraception-bill/) 2024-06-04T09:20:00Z **OPEC+ Agrees to Extend Production Cuts in Bid to Boost Oil Prices**
Summer Said and Benoit Faucon,  Reporters  -  Microsoft Start / The Wall Street Journal

_Stephan: Expect your cost of gasoline to go up; where we live it is now over $5 a gallon. OPEC+, as this article describes, wants to feed their greed by cutting back on production. I also think that the Saudis, who have given Felon Trump's family billions of dollars, also want the price of gas to go up so th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/04/opec-agrees-to-extend-production-cuts-in-bid-to-boost-oil-prices/) 2024-06-04T09:25:00Z **Brain Health Compromised by Climate Change**
Judy George,  Deputy Managing Editor  -  MedPage Today

_Stephan: As this article describes climate change is going to have all kinds of effects that no one except a few medical researchers has even thought about. Yet still American politicians, with a few exceptions, blather away endlessly over political disinformation so they can stay in power and rig the government to serve the interests of corporations, and oligarchs to whom they are wh ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/04/brain-health-compromised-by-climate-change/) 2024-06-04T09:35:00Z **Religious Change in America**
,    \-  PRRI

_Stephan: This is the best most meticulous research paper I have seen about religion in the United States. The one thing that stands out for me is the perversion of Christianity into christofascism by the evangelical fundamentalist movement._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-03-at-5.01.08 PM.jpg)

Executive Summary

America encompasses a rich diversity of faith traditions, and “religious churning” is very ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/04/religious-change-in-america-2/) 2024-06-04T09:30:00Z **Multiple Trump Witnesses Have Received Significant Financial Benefits From His Businesses, Campaign**
Robert Faturechi, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski,  Reporters  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: If Michael Cohen went to prison for three years for serving Felon Trump's interests in the Stormy Daniels episode, shouldn't the boss, the man who has now been convicted for setting the whole scheme up also go to prison for the same thing? I ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/04/multiple-trump-witnesses-have-received-significant-financial-benefits-from-his-businesses-campaign/) 2024-06-05T09:20:00Z **Johnson Says GOP Will Defund DOJ in Retaliation for Trump Conviction**
David Badash,  Senior Editor  -  New Civil Rights Movement

_Stephan: I wonder what it is going to take before MAGAt world voters wake up to the fact that the people they are committed to do not want democracy to continue in the United States. We have a Speaker of the House who is a liar, and a christofascist. He knows what he is saying is not true, and he knows that you cannot have an ope ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/05/johnson-says-gop-will-defund-doj-in-retaliation-for-trump-conviction/) 2024-06-05T09:30:00Z **The Next Great Human Migration: Abrahm Lustgarten on America’s Future Climate**
Craig Thompson,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: If you read me regularly you know that for a decade based on my calculations I have estimated that at least three million Americans are going to be displaced by climate change. Apparently, over three million were in 2022 just from climate emergencies. This is the best assessment of what this is going to mean that ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/05/the-next-great-human-migration-abrahm-lustgarten-on-americas-future-climate/) 2024-06-05T09:25:00Z **The children who remember their past lives**
Caitlin Gibson,  Feature Writer  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: Most people seem to think reincarnation is just an Asian religious belief, and it is that. But it is also a scientifically objectively verified reality and I am glad to see the public perception about this is changing. I find it interesting that a story of this length would appear in one of the most important newspapers in the U.S. It is a report on the work of a good friend ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/05/the-children-who-remember-their-past-lives/) 2024-06-05T09:35:00Z **Rising temperatures will significantly reduce streamflow in the upper Colorado river basin as groundwater levels fall**
Desert Research Institute,    -  Science Daily

_Stephan: Seven U.S. states depend on the Colorado River, and a significant share of our agriculture is made possible by that water. It is drying up, and we are not properly preparing for what is coming._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-co ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/05/rising-temperatures-will-significantly-reduce-streamflow-in-the-upper-colorado-river-basin-as-groundwater-levels-fall/) 2024-06-06T09:20:00Z **Inside the ‘irregular warfare’ campaign fascists are conducting against America**
Thom Hartmann,  Commentator  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Thom Hartmann gives an excellent explanation of what Trump and the criminal Republican Party are trying to do. The question is: Is any of this penetrating through MAGAt social media?  It doesn't seem to be. What stands out to me is how confident the criminal Republican Party seems to be, and how openly they say what t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/06/inside-the-irregular-warfare-campaign-fascists-are-conducting-against-america/) 2024-06-06T09:25:00Z **Why Is a Group of Billionaires Working to Re-Elect Trump?**
,    \-

_Stephan:_

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image-12.jpg)_Robert Reich. Credit: Steve Russell / Toronto Star_

Elon Musk and the entrepreneur and investor David Sacks [reportedly](https://puck.news/elon-musk-david-sacks-host-anti-biden-dinner-party/?_cio_id=f6c6060cb87cf9f816&utm_campaign=The+Daily+Courant+-+LEADS+%285%2F1%2F24%29&utm_content=The+Daily+Courant+-+LEADS+%283% ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/06/why-is-a-group-of-billionaires-working-to-re-elect-trump/) 2024-06-06T09:30:00Z **Rising Concerns Over Future of Medicare and Social Security**
DAN WITTERS,  Staff Researcher  -  The Gallup Organization

_Stephan: Fears over the integrity or Medicare and Social Security are, I think, a major part of the fear that so infects American voters. And they should be worried. If criminal Trump and his Republican minions in the Congress come to power in November, I think both of these programs will suffer degradation and reduction, as will a woman's right t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/06/rising-concerns-over-future-of-medicare-and-social-security/) 2024-06-06T09:35:00Z **Republicans block bill to protect contraception access as Democrats make election-year push**
Mary Clare Jalonick,  Reporter  -  Associate Press

_Stephan: With the Dobbs decision and states laws passed in Republican controlled states immediately after its announcement, the Great Schism Trend that has been breaking the United States into two countries in a single nation has taken on a much more emphatic and dramtic dimension. Healthcare ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/06/republicans-block-bill-to-protect-contraception-access-as-democrats-make-election-year-push/) 2024-06-07T09:25:00Z **BYD Unveils Plug-In Hybrid With 1,305 Miles Of Total Range**
Steve Hanley,    -  Clean Technica

_Stephan: China is cleaning Americas clock on EVs and hybrids. Here is their latest offering, and look at the price._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image-15.jpg)_1,305 Mile range BYD Qin Credit: BYD._

People, here’s a story that could alter the landscape for non-traditional automobiles — a plug-in hybrid from BYD that has a claimed total ran ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/07/byd-unveils-plug-in-hybrid-with-1305-miles-of-total-range/) 2024-06-07T09:20:00Z **Trump heads west for $500K-per-couple, California buck-raking swing**
MERIDITH MCGRAW and JESSICA PIPER,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: I am simply amazed that the oligarchs are literally trying to buy the government they want with criminal Trump as their easily manipulated "leader" and most of the Trump followers don't seem to comprehend what that is going to mean for them. If we become Hungary the era of United States leadership will be over and the dec ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/07/trump-heads-west-for-500k-per-couple-california-buck-raking-swing/) 2024-06-07T09:30:00Z **Thomas has accepted $4M in gifts during career: Watchdog**
Lauren Irwin,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

_Stephan: Associate Justices Samuel Alito is the most blatantly biased justice in the history of the United States, and Clarence Thomas is the most corrupt. And yet nothing is being done to hold either of them to account. It is all part of the christofasccist effort to destroy the integrity of our democracy in order to get voters to end it._

![](https://www.schwartzreport. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/07/thomas-has-accepted-4m-in-gifts-during-career-watchdog/) 2024-06-07T09:35:00Z **Consciousness, Authoritarianism, and Political Violence**
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Columnist  -  Explore

_Stephan: I am genuinely concerned that a part of MAGAt world already armed and not very emotionally stable may create serious civil violence, and the criminal Republican Party knows this and is betting on its happening. He is my take on consciousness, authoritarianism, and political violence, which I see as a major threat to our democracy._

![](https://www.schwartzreport ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/07/consciousness-authoritarianism-and-political-violence/) 2024-06-08T09:25:00Z **Psst: Don’t Fall for a Third Party (Pass It On)**
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  -  Reader Supported News

_Stephan: I have recently had an exchange with someone I don't know about voting for JFK Jr. He seems to think it is a kind of protest vote. I have tried to explain to him that we have a two-party system, ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/08/psst-dont-fall-for-a-third-party-pass-it-on/) 2024-06-08T09:20:00Z **Wildfire smoke prematurely killed over 50,000 Californians in a decade – study**
Dani Anguiano,  Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: I have not seen this story covered in any newspaper, or mentioned on any network. I had to go to a British paper to get a general article for SR. I see this as a major wakeup call about what climate change is doing. We are simply not taking climate change seriously enough. Only the insurance companies seem to get ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/08/wildfire-smoke-prematurely-killed-over-50000-californians-in-a-decade-study/) 2024-06-08T09:35:00Z **Victoria Spartz was named the ‘worst boss’ on Capitol Hill, as staffers describe her as a ‘manic’ representative who threw FURNITURE in her ‘toxic’ office**
MORGAN PHILLIPS,  Congressional Reporter  -  Daily Mail

_Stephan: You've probably never heard of  Victoria Spartz, MAGAt Republican representing Indiana's mostly rural 5th District. Like Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz, Tommy Tubbervil ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/08/victoria-spartz-was-named-the-worst-boss-on-capitol-hill-as-staffers-describe-her-as-a-manic-representative-who-threw-furniture-in-her-toxic-office/) 2024-06-08T09:30:00Z **FBI raid on real estate company linked to Harlan Crow’s RealPage rental price fixing**
NBBooks,    -  Daily Kos

_Stephan: This article makes it very clear why so many Americans are worried and angry over the cost of renting a place to live. What do you know? As this article describes it is largely the result of the actions of real estate owning oligarchs, particularly Harlan Crow._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/08/fbi-raid-on-real-estate-company-linked-to-harlan-crows-realpage-rental-price-fixing/) 2024-06-09T09:25:00Z **Florida schools are closing, but not everyone blames school choice**
Lexi Lonas,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

_Stephan: There was a time when the United States was considered to have the best public education system in the world. However, those days are long gone. The U.S. now has one of the worst public education systems in the developed world, and the American population as a result is the least literate, and the least numerate compared with populations in othe ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/09/florida-schools-are-closing-but-not-everyone-blames-school-choice/) 2024-06-09T09:20:00Z **Trump’s ridiculous claim that “millions” of immigrants came illegally from jails, mental facilities**
Maria Ramirez Uribe and Amy Sherman,  Staff Writers  -  Politifact

_Stephan: I got an email today from a woman who wrote asking me did I not understand "that the immigrants Biden is letting in are drug dealers, people from mental institutions, and criminals? You say you do trends, why aren't you writing about this trend? It is dest ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/09/trumps-ridiculous-claim-that-millions-of-immigrants-came-illegally-from-jails-mental-facilities/) 2024-06-09T09:35:00Z **AI Systems Are Learning to Lie and Deceive, Scientists Find**
NOOR AL-SIBAI,  Staff Writer  -  Futurism

_Stephan: You hardly hear, read, or see anything about this in the mainstream media but those who are focused on AI are becoming more and more alarmed. Here is one of the reasons, AI lies very well and convincingly. This is becoming a growing danger to our society._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image-20.jpg)_Image by Getty_

AI mode ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/09/ai-systems-are-learning-to-lie-and-deceive-scientists-find/) 2024-06-09T09:30:00Z **Trump to escalate blame on trial judge Juan Merchan if sentenced to prison**
Hugo Lowell,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: I don't know how anyone can see this as anything but a threat by criminal Trump to Judge Juan Merchan. A threat that he better not to put him in prison or, if Trump is elected, he will face severe retribution. We are watching one man get away, again and again, with actions, and words, that would result in the incarceration of an ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/09/trump-to-escalate-blame-on-trial-judge-juan-merchan-if-sentenced-to-prison/) 2024-06-10T09:25:00Z **Texas towns try to close roads to abortion-seekers**
,    \-  Agence France-Presse (France)

_Stephan: Abortion is illegal statewide in Texas, but residents in the city of Amarillo want to go a step further -- banning even the use of the city's roads by people seeking the procedure elsewhere. Texas, a state that already has anti-abortion laws with no exception for rape or incest, has towns such as Amarillo that want to take the control of women still further, as this report ex ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/10/texas-towns-try-to-close-roads-to-abortion-seekers/) 2024-06-10T09:20:00Z **How right-wing media turned racism into a machine that generates billions a year**
Thom Hartmann,  Commentator  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Do you get information from the Fox propaganda channel? If you do you are being lied to constantly, and continuously, and it is the cause of the Great Schism Trend. Thom Hartmann presents the best explanation I have seen explaining how villains like Rupert Murdoch, his Fox propaganda organization, and the oligarch ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/10/how-right-wing-media-turned-racism-into-a-machine-that-generates-billions-a-year/) 2024-06-10T09:35:00Z **US patients charged for ‘hospital facility fees’ – even if they don’t set foot in one**
Jessica Glenza,  Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: The American illness profit system is the most expensive in the world and one of the worst in the developed world in terms of social outcome data. Now it is getting even more expensive as this article describes. Because the bribery of politicians is legal in this country none of the Congressional whor ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/10/us-patients-charged-for-hospital-facility-fees-even-if-they-dont-set-foot-in-one/) 2024-06-10T09:30:00Z **Cops Using AI That Automatically Generates Police Reports From Body Cam Footage**
VICTOR TANGERMANN,  Staff Writer  -  Futurism

_Stephan: AI generating police reports for law enforcement, as this article describes. What could possibly go wrong? Everything, and it will be incredibly racist.  AI is slowly taking over the structure of our culture, and nothing good is going to come of this._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/10/cops-using-ai-that-automatically-generates-police-reports-from-body-cam-footage/) 2024-06-11T09:20:00Z **Sand Batteries Could Be The Next Frontier In Renewable Energy–And it’s Already Heating Homes in Finland**
,    \-  Good News Network

_Stephan: Sand batteries. It is a fascinating post-carbon technology, and here is some good news about this energy production that is actually being implemented in Scandinavia._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image-28.jpg)_Credit: De an Sun_

Could plain old beac ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/11/sand-batteries-could-be-the-next-frontier-in-renewable-energy-and-its-already-heating-homes-in-finland/) 2024-06-11T09:25:00Z **The GOP’s Stalinesque Plan 2025 to Shape the Future of U.S. Food and Agriculture**
ELIZABETH HENDERSON,  Contributing Writer  -  COUNTERPUNCH

_Stephan: You don't often read, hear, or see anything about the far-right's views on agriculture, but here taken directly from the Right's Plan 2025 they are, and they are dangerous to wellbeing of humans and the matrix of life, and disgusting. They display no awareness of the impact of climate change, or any ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/11/the-gops-stalinesque-plan-2025-to-shape-the-future-of-u-s-food-and-agriculture/) 2024-06-11T09:35:00Z **100% of cancer patients cured long-term in ‘remarkable’ human trial**
Bronwyn Thompson,  Staff Writer  -  New Atlas

_Stephan: Here is what looks like some very good news about colorectal cancer. If you know someone suffering from this, you might pass it on, so they can discuss it with their oncologist._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image-26.jpg)

_High hopes for the use of dostarlimab-gxly in successfully ‘reversing’ a type of c ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/11/100-of-cancer-patients-cured-long-term-in-remarkable-human-trial/) 2024-06-11T09:30:00Z **The Snowflake Attack May Be Turning Into One of the Largest Data Breaches Ever**
MATT BURGESS,  Senior Writer  -  WIRED

_Stephan: The weaponization of misinformation is only one of the assaults on the wellbeing of American society that is occurring as a result of internet usage. The thief of personal data is another, as this article describes. I urge you to become very careful about filling in internet requests for personal data and understand that ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/11/the-snowflake-attack-may-be-turning-into-one-of-the-largest-data-breaches-ever/) 2024-06-12T09:20:00Z **$800,000 wire transfer from billionaire donor to US Chamber raises curtain on dark money**
TAYLOR GIORNO,  Money-in-Politics Reporter  -  The Hill

_Stephan: This report illustrates why the United States is so corrupt, and how the oligarchs are trying to gain control over the government. In my opinion, all donations like this should be illegal. We should have publicly funded elections, and candidates should be designated on the basis of the ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/12/800000-wire-transfer-from-billionaire-donor-to-us-chamber-raises-curtain-on-dark-money/) 2024-06-12T09:30:00Z **Canada’s Big Worry: A US Civil War**
ALEXANDER BURNS,  Head of News  -  Politico Magazine

_Stephan: The MAGAts led by criminal Trump are literally destroying the stature of the United States to the point where our northern neighbor Canada is beginning to calculate whether we are about to break into a civil war. I think that if Trump loses in spite of everything the Republican Party is doing to engineer the election they may be right. There are a large number of gun-toting MAGAts who would like ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/12/canadas-big-worry-a-us-civil-war/) 2024-06-12T09:25:00Z **Trump and Biden are tied in 538’s new election forecast**
G. Elliott Morris ,    -  538

_Stephan: 538, which has a good track record for the accuracy of their polling, says with "95% confidence rating" that criminal Trump and President Biden are closely tied in the judgment of voters. Frankly, while I believe it, I do not see how any rational person of average intelligence could possibly vote for multiple convicted felon and rapist and business grifter Donald Trump. The r ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/12/trump-and-biden-are-tied-in-538s-new-election-forecast/) 2024-06-12T09:35:00Z **Biden Admin Tightens Vehicle Mileage Standards in Effort to Bolster EVs and Fight Climate Change**
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Here is some good news to encourage the transition out of the carbon era. My concern is that U.S. auto makers just don't get why this transition is so important or, they do understand it and just don't care because continuing profit from carbon-powered vehicles wit ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/12/biden-admin-tightens-vehicle-mileage-standards-in-effort-to-bolster-evs-and-fight-climate-change/) 2024-06-13T09:20:00Z **Biden’s overlooked campaign to protect Americans from Big Business**
Nicole Narea,  Staff Writer  -  Vox

_Stephan: Here is some important good news that is getting almost no media coverage at all. I searched for half an hour to find a story that explained. it. While criminal Trump is telling the oligarchs and the corporations they control how he is going to reduce their taxes, President Biden is making a major move, as this article describes, to improve your fi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/13/bidens-overlooked-campaign-to-protect-americans-from-big-business/) 2024-06-13T09:25:00Z **A List of the Sinclair Broadcasting Network of Stations**
,    \-

_Stephan: You may think the Fox propaganda channel is nothing but the weaponization of misinformation to support the MAGAt Republicans, and it certainly Is just that. What you may not know, few seem to, is that Sinclair Broadcasting which owns or operates nearly 200 local channels, is the same thing, spewing the same kind of crap. So I am publishing a list of all those local channels. Notice they are often ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/13/a-list-of-the-sinclair-broadcasting-network-of-stations/) 2024-06-13T09:30:00Z **New FBI stats show ‘historic’ declines in violent crime rate, with murder showing sharpest drop**
Tom Costello and Corky Siemaszko,  Correspondent \| Senior Reporter  -  NBC News

_Stephan: If you watch the Fox propaganda network or any local channel of the Sinclair Network you think that crime is rising and out of control. It is a standard MAGAt Republican lie. And that is just what it is, a deliberate example of the weaponization of ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/13/new-fbi-stats-show-historic-declines-in-violent-crime-rate-with-murder-showing-sharpest-drop/) 2024-06-13T09:35:00Z **Largest Protestant US group condemns IVF in win for anti-abortion movement**
Carter Sherman,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: You may not realize it, polls seem to show most Americans don't, but the United States is in the middle of a religious war. Christianity although he talks endlessly about Jesus, actually has almost nothing to do with Jesus' teachings. Instead, this is a christofascist war against authentic American followers of Jesus, secular ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/13/largest-protestant-us-group-condemns-ivf-in-win-for-anti-abortion-movement/) 2024-06-14T09:20:00Z **Senate GOP blocks bill to guarantee access to IVF nationwide**
Clare Foran and Ted Barrett,  Reporters  -  CNN

_Stephan: Yet another report on the Congressional Republicans seeking to control how Americans are able to conduct their own reproductive process. Anyone who knows someone who has had to use IVF for a woman to get pregnant knows what a desperate, expensive, difficult process it is. A couple has to really, really, want to have a child to have to resort to IV ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/14/senate-gop-blocks-bill-to-guarantee-access-to-ivf-nationwide/) 2024-06-14T09:25:00Z **Child Marriage Havens Emerging Across America**
Khaleda Rahman,  Senior News Reporter  -  Newsweek

_Stephan: Here is yet another example that you rarely hear anyone talk about showing how women, young girls in this case really, are controlled by adult men. The more research I do on this subject the more I realize what a big factor it is in American society._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-9.37.23 PM.jpg)_Source: U.S. Census ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/14/child-marriage-havens-emerging-across-america/) 2024-06-14T09:35:00Z **The Christian right is coming for divorce next**
Anna North,  Staff Writer  -  Vox

_Stephan: The christofascist Republicans have made their next move clear: eliminate no-fault divorce. They want to take the United States back to the 1950s, and the years before that. This is their next move to control women. If you are a woman, and you vote for a Republican in November, you are saying that you choose to be submissive to your husband, and let him through the laws control you, and m ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/14/the-christian-right-is-coming-for-divorce-next/) 2024-06-15T09:25:00Z **Trump quietly funneled $5M from campaign coffers into private businesses: analysis**
Kathleen Culliton,  Assistant Managing Editor  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: As the Republican Congress members yesterday knelt to kiss criminal Trump's ass, I wonder if his diaper was on or not. It is amazing that they are so frightened about losing their own office and power that they are willing to tolerate anything this convicted felon does. Congress and the Supreme ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/15/trump-quietly-funneled-5m-from-campaign-coffers-into-private-businesses-analysis/) 2024-06-15T09:20:00Z **US Puts Solar Panels on Old Nuclear Weapons Sites for Powering 70,000 Homes**
Andy Corbley,    -  Good News Network

_Stephan: Here is some good news about the transition out of the carbon era. I happened to see a reference in a professional journal and went looking for a general audience report and found this. Like most of the good things the Biden administration is doing the development described in this report isn't really getting any coverage. The m ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/15/us-puts-solar-panels-on-old-nuclear-weapons-sites-for-powering-70000-homes/) 2024-06-15T09:30:00Z **US Health Care Spending Expected to Outpace Economic Growth Over Next Decade**
Jake Johnson,  Staff Writer  -  truthout / Common Dreams

_Stephan: The Illness Profit System that passes for healthcare in the United States is running amuck financially. Ours is already the most expensive and yet the most inferior healthcare system in the developed world. Also, it is highly racist. It is blatantly obvious that we should convert to universal single-payer b ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/15/us-health-care-spending-expected-to-outpace-economic-growth-over-next-decade/) 2024-06-15T09:35:00Z **In a Scathing Dissent, Sonia Sotomayor Calls Out the Conservative Justices’ Hypocrisy**
SHIRIN ALI and BRADEN GOYETTE,    -  Slate

_Stephan: Today, Clarence Thomas wrote the Supreme Court majority decision for Garland v. Cargill. No surprise, the majority was made up of the corrupt christofascist cabal that now controls one of the three branches of the U.S. government. It is a decision that I predict is going to result in a significant increas ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/15/in-a-scathing-dissent-sonia-sotomayor-calls-out-the-conservative-justices-hypocrisy/) 2024-06-16T09:20:00Z **For Republicans, raw milk is the new masking**
ASHLIE D. STEVENS,  Food Editor  -  Salon

_Stephan: The strategists in the MAGAt Republican Party as a result of research done by scientists funded by oligarchs learned that one of the best ways to manipulate people is to stimulate fear and resentment. It is the hallmark of this party, and it is getting increasingly bizarre. The latest weaponization of misinformation is, believe it or not, the lie about drinking raw milk. You would thin ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/16/for-republicans-raw-milk-is-the-new-masking/) 2024-06-16T09:30:00Z **To save the high seas, plan for climate change**
Lee Hannah, Amy Irvine, Isaac Brito-Morales, Susanna Fuller, Tammy Davies, Derek Tittensor, Grace Reville, Nancy Shackell, Janos Hennicke and Ryan Stanley,    -  nature

_Stephan: Here is what needs to be done to save the oceans and, thus, save Earth. Will humanity have enough sense to overcome our species' greed and short-sightedness? Maybe._

![Species on the move. Map showing historical and predicted movements of four species and ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/16/to-save-the-high-seas-plan-for-climate-change/) 2024-06-16T09:25:00Z **Only 22 Companies Out of 147 Are on Track to Meet Their Plastic Waste Reduction Targets, Report Finds**
: Paige Bennett,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Plastics, once considered a great benefit, have now been revealed to be a dangerous pollutant. But, as this report shows, profit still trumps all other considerations, and all but 22 out of 147 plastics companies are failing to meet their commitment to end the dama ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/16/only-22-companies-out-of-147-are-on-track-to-meet-their-plastic-waste-reduction-targets-report-finds/) 2024-06-16T09:35:00Z **‘Our Leaders Are Not Leading’: Groups Decry Yet Another G7 Climate Failure**
Brett Wilkins,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dream

_Stephan: It has become very evident that world leaders simply can not or are not willing to do what needs to be done to protect Earth's matrix of life. The result is going to be chaos, hundreds of millions forced to leave where they live, misery, and death, One would think with a catastrophe of this magnitude clearly in progress that ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/16/our-leaders-are-not-leading-groups-decry-yet-another-g7-climate-failure/) 2024-06-17T09:20:00Z **Biden’s overlooked campaign to protect Americans from Big Business**
Nicole Narea,  Staff Writer  -  Vox

_Stephan: What I find very strange about corporate media, the big networks, the big newspapers, is that they are hardly covering what Biden is doing to foster wellbeing for average Americans. Here is an example of that if mean when I say they are not properly covering what is happening._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image- ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/17/bidens-overlooked-campaign-to-protect-americans-from-big-business-2/) 2024-06-17T09:30:00Z **Native American tribe wins right to hunt gray whales off Washington coast**
Dani Anguiano,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Please do me the service of writing Richard W. Spinrad, Ph.D. (nos.info@noaa.gov), and tell him how much you disapprove of the decision of NOAA to allow the Makah Tribe in Washington State to begin whaling again. And send a copy of your email to Janine Ledford Executive Director of the Makah Cultural and Research Center (COS@mak ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/17/native-american-tribe-wins-right-to-hunt-gray-whales-off-washington-coast/) 2024-06-17T09:25:00Z **Weakening or collapse of a major Atlantic current has disrupted NZ’s climate in the past – and could do so again**
,    \-  The Conversation

_Stephan: The Earth is talking to us, unfortunately, we are not paying appropriate attention and the impact is going to cause enormous misery and death, and not just for humans. The matrix of life is under threat, and it is our fault._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-conte ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/17/weakening-or-collapse-of-a-major-atlantic-current-has-disrupted-nzs-climate-in-the-past-and-could-do-so-again/) 2024-06-17T09:35:00Z **The Return of Whaling**
Peter Corkeron,  Contributing Writer, Marine Ecologist and Conservation Biologist.  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: I think whaling is disgusting and evil. The return of whaling provides two leading examples of this truth: The leaders and governments of human societies neither understand nor respect the matrix of life, and greed always trumps any other consideration._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image-1-10.jpg)_The harpoon ship Hvalur 9 is seen transp ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/17/the-return-of-whaling/) 2024-06-18T09:25:00Z **Israel’s New Air War in the West Bank: Nearly Half of the Dead are Children**
Catherine Cartier,  Staff Writer  -  The Intercept

_Stephan: This is my view of the Israeli - Hamas war: Hamas is a despicable terrorist movement hiding amidst the Palestinian population in Gaza. That said the Israeli approach to dealing with Hama has been equally despicable, and tens of thousands of innocent civilians have died as a result of the approach implemented by Benja ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/18/israels-new-air-war-in-the-west-bank-nearly-half-of-the-dead-are-children/) 2024-06-18T09:20:00Z **171,300 patients traveled out of state for abortions in 2023**
NICK ROBERTSON,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

_Stephan: This is how distorted and difficult health care has become for women and girls in the 14 states that have banned abortion but who need OB/GYN care to terminate a pregnancy. This is a manifestation of what happens when medical decisions are made by politicians overwhelmed by ideology instead of physicians._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/18/171300-patients-traveled-out-of-state-for-abortions-in-2023/) 2024-06-18T09:35:00Z **The Vile Sextortion and Torture Ring Where Kids Target Kids**
Mack Lamoureux,  Senior Reporter  -  Vice

_Stephan: An SR reader sent this article to me and asked me to feature it.  Her 13 year old daughter got caught up in this, they are still dealing with the nude pictures of her that were circulated in both their community in North Dakota, as well as over the world, and, she told me, it has resulted in her daughter going into long-term psychiatric care, and the fami ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/18/the-vile-sextortion-and-torture-ring-where-kids-target-kids/) 2024-06-18T09:30:00Z **Project 2025: Building now for a conservative victory through policy, personnel, and training**
,    \-  Project 2025

_Stephan: You need to be clear the November 2024 election is in no way a normal or typical election. The United States is in the midst of a civil revolution being conducted through criminal Trump and what was the Republican Party by christofascist White supremacist, militatant male dominant insurrectionists, who are supp ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/18/project-2025-building-now-for-a-conservative-victory-through-policy-personnel-and-training/) 2024-06-19T09:25:00Z **New Polling Shows the Real Fallout From the Trump Conviction**
ANKUSH KHARDORI,  Senior Writer  -  Politico Magazine

_Stephan: It tells you a sad and sorry tale about the United States that millions of Americans are still willing to vote for a multiple convicted felon, rapist, and grifter. I wouldn't sit down at a table for dinner with him. I met Trump once at a party in Manhattan when we were both in our twenties. I thought he was a loathsome nouveau-riche braggart ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/19/new-polling-shows-the-real-fallout-from-the-trump-conviction/) 2024-06-19T09:20:00Z **Miami Is Entering a State of Unreality**
Mario Alejandro Ariza,  Staff Writer  -  Microsoft Start

_Stephan: This is climate change as a reality. Much of Florida is going to be destroyed, and the moron Floridians elected as their governor, Ron DeSantis won't even allow the words "climate change" to be used by his administration. This is the eleventh-hour alarm. Pay close attention to how your state's governor and his administration respond to what anyone can see is happening._

![](https: ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/19/miami-is-entering-a-state-of-unreality/) 2024-06-19T09:30:00Z **Breaking down the South’s economic underperformance**
Chandra Childers ,    -  Economic Policy Institute

_Stephan: One would think that the fact that the Red states, particularly those in the old Confederacy, have the worst economic outcomes would be a subject of national discussion.  Some are little more than third-world countries.  Here is a fact-based answer to why this is happening. Part of it is  "a key component of this model is ensuring the absolute minimal levels of r ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/19/breaking-down-the-souths-economic-underperformance/) 2024-06-19T09:35:00Z **Senate GOP blocks Democratic effort to ban bump stocks after Supreme Court ruling**
AL WEAVER,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

_Stephan: Even criminal Trump sought for a ban on bump stocks. I think he was afraid he might be assassinated by someone with an AR-15 with a bump stock. They have no use even as a. military weapons because they make the weapons so inaccurate; the only purpose of these devices is civilian mass shootings. But the Republican cu ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/19/senate-gop-blocks-democratic-effort-to-ban-bump-stocks-after-supreme-court-ruling/) 2024-06-20T09:20:00Z **New law requires all Louisiana public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments**
SARA CLINE,  Reporter  -  Associated Press

_Stephan: Controlled by christofascist White supremacy Republicans, Louisiana, based on its social outcome data, is essentially the equivalent of a developing country. Your baby or its mother are more likely to die at its birth in Louisiana than in 45 other states. Most people don't even live as long in Louis ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/20/new-law-requires-all-louisiana-public-school-classrooms-to-display-the-ten-commandments/) 2024-06-20T09:30:00Z **UN food chief: Poorest areas have zero harvests left**
Aleks Phillips,  Reporter  -  BBC (U.K.)

_Stephan: Air pollution and the death it causes in children is just one of the trends shaping the earth, and the people living on it. Food is another and this is what is happening. This is going to result in massive death and tens of millions of people displaced and on the move. This is the world that is emerging. Take a moment and on Friday look at my podcast, Five Trends that ar ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/20/un-food-chief-poorest-areas-have-zero-harvests-left/) 2024-06-20T09:25:00Z **The Schools That Are No Longer Teaching Kids to Read Books**
Xochitl Gonzalez,  Contributing Writer  -  Microsoft Start / The Atlantic

_Stephan: America is one of the least literate nations in the developed world. Fifty-four percent of American adults can't read past sixth-grade level, and 43% can read past fifth-grade level. That means there are literally millions of Americans who can not read and properly comprehend The Washington Post or the magazine in which this ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/20/the-schools-that-are-no-longer-teaching-kids-to-read-books/) 2024-06-20T09:35:00Z **Global Air Pollution Kills 2,000 Kids Under Five Every Day: Report**
Julia Conley,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Global air pollution kills 2,000 kids under five every day -- that 730,000 little kids a day. It has become, as this report describes, the second-biggest killer of children under the age of five globally. Meanwhile, the carbon corporations pour tens of millions of dollars a year into further corrupting America's politicians in order to pre ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/20/global-air-pollution-kills-2000-kids-under-five-every-day-report/) 2024-06-21T09:25:00Z **Yes in God’s backyard? This housing solution may be the answer to your prayers.**
Rachel M. Cohen,  Staff Writer  -  Vox

_Stephan: Here is the latest on some good news about homelessness SR has been covering.  It offers an example of how real Christians, as opposed to christofascists, behave and seek to foster social wellbeing._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image-2-3.jpg)_A rendering of Bethel AME’s new housing compl ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/21/yes-in-gods-backyard-this-housing-solution-may-be-the-answer-to-your-prayers/) 2024-06-21T09:20:00Z **Four Out of Five People Want Increased Climate Action, UN Poll Says**
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Here is some more good news. It is clear that the collective consciousness of humanity is shifting; people are beginning to realize much more needs to be done to prepare for what climate change is doing. I hope we see this same awareness in the upcoming election._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/21/four-out-of-five-people-want-increased-climate-action-un-poll-says/) 2024-06-21T09:30:00Z **CEO pay is rising, widening the gap between top executives and workers. What to know, by the numbers**
,    \-  Associated Press

_Stephan: The United States has the worst wealth inequality of any developed democracy. This grotesque inequality combined with the Citizens United Supreme Court decision which legalized bribery is why our dmoecracy hangs by a thread, and will be determined by the outcome of the election in November. Bu ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/21/ceo-pay-is-rising-widening-the-gap-between-top-executives-and-workers-what-to-know-by-the-numbers/) 2024-06-22T09:20:00Z **Billionaire Grandson of Gilded Age Plutocrat Gives Trump Super PAC $50 Million**
Jake Johnson,  Senior Editor  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Why would a man give $50 million to a convicted 34-count felon the day after his conviction? How could he be allowed to? He did it because criminal Trump told him he would significantly reduce his taxes, which are already a proportional fraction of what you pay. He was allowed to do it because the United States is ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/22/billionaire-grandson-of-gilded-age-plutocrat-gives-trump-super-pac-50-million/) 2024-06-22T09:30:49Z **Texas Secessionists Working With Five Other States, Leader Says**
James Bickerton,  News Reporter  -  Newsweek

_Stephan: I have been following and reporting on the secessionist trend for several years now (see SR archive), watching it grow in Republican-controlled Red States and amongst Republicans in Blue States. What I find particularly interesting is that these secessionist Red States have notably inferior social wellbeing and poorer governance. Some like Missi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/22/texas-secessionists-working-with-five-other-states-leader-says/) 2024-06-22T09:26:00Z **Funding Instability Plagues Program That Brings Docs to Underserved Areas**
Michelle Andrews,    -  Med Page Today / Kaiser Family Foundation

_Stephan: The United States has the worst healthcare system in the developed world. As I have said repeatedly it isn't really a healthcare system it is an illness profit system. We are the only developed democracy that does not have universal birthright single-payer healthcare. Why is that? Because the United Stat ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/22/funding-instability-plagues-program-that-brings-docs-to-underserved-areas/) 2024-06-22T09:35:00Z **In Just First Year of State’s Ban on Plastic Bags, 1.5 Billion Fewer Have Been Used**
Andy Corbley,    -  Good News Nework

_Stephan: Here is some good waste plastics news from Colorado. Now if all the states would adopt this approach we could achieve a serious improvement in our waste plastic problem._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image-2-5.jpg)_Used plastic bags. Credit: velkr0_

At the beginning of 2023, Color ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/22/in-just-first-year-of-states-ban-on-plastic-bags-1-5-billion-fewer-have-been-used/) 2024-06-23T09:20:00Z **Wyden wants more Medicaid funding to keep obstetric units open**
Jessie Hellmann,  Staff Writer  -  Roll Call

_Stephan: This is how bad the American illness profit system has become. If you live in a rural area, particularly in a state where voters have put Republicans in control, and you are a pregnant woman, even if you want desperately to have a child you may have nowhere close to you to go for OB/GYN care. Why? Because nearly 25 percent of rural hospitals stop ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/23/wyden-wants-more-medicaid-funding-to-keep-obstetric-units-open/) 2024-06-23T09:35:00Z **‘We’re failing right now’ in type 2 diabetes, FDA chief says**
Elizabeth Cooney,   Cardiovascular Disease Reporter   -  Stat

_Stephan: Here is a good news, bad news, report from FDA Commissioner Robert Califf. What also caught my attention is that Commissioner Califf's testimony also illustrates how wealth and education inequality in the illness profit system contributes to the Great Schism Trend that is making us two different nations._

![](https://www.schwartzreport. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/23/were-failing-right-now-in-type-2-diabetes-fda-chief-says/) 2024-06-23T09:30:00Z **Trump-aligned nonprofit pays $100k in legal fees for Nevada ‘fake electors’**
ELLA LEE ,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

_Stephan: This story, one of many similar reports, makes it clear there is a nationwide network of MAGAt christofascists who are organized and working together to end American democracy. I hope that all of you who read SR are clear about this. It is the reason that every voter should forget about partisanship and Biden's age, and vote Democ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/23/trump-aligned-nonprofit-pays-100k-in-legal-fees-for-nevada-fake-electors/) 2024-06-23T09:25:00Z **Aquatic Farming Surpasses Fishing for First Time: UN Report**
Paige Bennett,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Here is some semi-good news about Aquatic Farming. Good news because it has helped reduce overfishing which causes the breakdown the oceanic ecosystem. Bad news because how the system works has not been refined to a point where the waste does not cause damage. But, at least, it is moving in the right direction._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/23/aquatic-farming-surpasses-fishing-for-first-time-un-report/) 2024-06-24T09:25:00Z **In the Year of Climate Finance, We Need to See Billions Flow Towards Transforming Our Food Systems**
LAUREN BAKER, JANE MALAND CADY, and MICHAEL KWAME NKONU,  Senior Director of Programs at the Global Alliance for the Future of Food \| Program Director, Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems, McKnight Foundation \| Head of Portfolio - Agricultural Livelihoods at the IKEA Foundation.  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Finally, h ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/24/in-the-year-of-climate-finance-we-need-to-see-billions-flow-towards-transforming-our-food-systems/) 2024-06-24T09:20:00Z **How milk became the new culture war dividing America**
Tony Diver,  Reporter  -  Yahoo News / The Telegraph (U.K.)

_Stephan: The willful ignorance, actually the stupidity, of anti-vaxxers anti-science mostly Republican MAGAts is amazing to me. The anti-vaxxers died by hundreds of thousands because they would not get vaccinated. Now they want to go back to drinking raw milk.  Milk has been pasteurized for over a hundred years since Louis Pasteur discovered pasteurization in ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/24/how-milk-became-the-new-culture-war-dividing-america/) 2024-06-24T09:30:00Z **Gen Z putting homeownership dreams on hold**
Sami Sparber,  Staff Writer  -  Axios

_Stephan: Because of the endless greed of American corporations, the Great Schism Trend, the lack of universal birthright single payer healthcare and the cost of every aspect of healthcare, as well as the grotesque wealth inequality, and what climate change is doing, the culture of the United States is radically changing, and not in a good way. Like many of my friends, I bought my first house in 1971 w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/24/gen-z-putting-homeownership-dreams-on-hold/) 2024-06-24T09:35:00Z **The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax**
Jesse Eisinger, Jeff Ernsthausen and Paul Kiel,  Senior Editor \| Senior Data Reporter \| Business and Consumer Finance Reporter  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: If American voters are stupid enough to elect criminal Trump for President, which I hope does not happen, he has promised his uber-rich backers he will lower their taxes and ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/24/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax-2/) 2024-06-24T09:40:00Z **Editor’s Note — SR Needs Some Help**
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan: Readers --

SR needs some help. I have been doing this every day for 33 years without pay, and Beth Alexander, SR's webmaster, does her part for a fraction of what she ought to be paid. I don't permit advertising because I don't have time to research whether an advertiser is a company that fosters wellbeing. So there is no income from that. But doing this is getting difficult. Every aspect of producti ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/24/editors-note-sr-needs-some-help/) 2024-06-25T09:20:00Z **Trump added twice as much to the national debt as Biden: Analysis**
TOBIAS BURNS,    -  The Hill

_Stephan: Based on facts, not partisanship politics, criminal Trump was an irrefutably inferior president in comparison to Biden. In fact, he was one of the worst presidents in American history. Here is one of the critical facts. And yet, many voters seem to want him to return to the Presidency. Why? Because he is the personification of their hate, religiosity, and r ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/25/trump-added-twice-as-much-to-the-national-debt-as-biden-analysis/) 2024-06-25T09:35:00Z **Trump Doesn’t Have the Support of a Single Fortune 500 CEO, Top Business School Prof Claims On CNBC**
Zachary Leeman,    -  MEDIAite

_Stephan: I have been noticing in the business news that CEOs Fortune 500 corporations are not coming out in support of Trump, and wondered about that. What we see are uber-rich billionaires like Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos, but not CEOs of corporations with thousands of employees. I have been thinkin ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/25/trump-doesnt-have-the-support-of-a-single-fortune-500-ceo-top-business-school-prof-claims-on-cnbc/) 2024-06-25T09:30:00Z **Plastic Industry Is Selling False Promise of New Recycling Tech. Don’t Buy It.**
Lisa Song,    -  ProPublica

_Stephan: Lies, lies, and more lies. The petroleum-based plastic industries and petroleum corporations are pouring millions into the corruption of politicians to stop any laws that would threaten their profits. At the same time, they are spewing forth endless misinformation about plastic pollution which is now such a vast issue that babies are ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/25/plastic-industry-is-selling-false-promise-of-new-recycling-tech-dont-buy-it/) 2024-06-25T09:25:00Z **Series of US mass shootings brings weekend of death and mayhem**
Maya Yang,  Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: With the media obsessed with the upcoming oddly early Presidential debate I was struck over the weekend by the number of psychos who carried out public shootings. Although the murder rate has gone down, there have still been 248 mass shootings so far this year. Basically, it is a daily event in the United States, with 15,441 people injured and 8, ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/25/series-of-us-mass-shootings-brings-weekend-of-death-and-mayhem/) 2024-06-25T09:40:00Z **Editor’s Note — SR Needs Some Help**
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan: Readers --

SR needs some help. I have been doing this every day for 33 years without pay, and Beth Alexander, SR's webmaster, does her part for a fraction of what she ought to be paid. I don't permit advertising because I don't have time to research whether an advertiser is a company that fosters wellbeing. So there is no income from that. But doing this is getting difficult. Every aspect of producti ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/25/editors-note-sr-needs-some-help/) 2024-06-26T09:25:00Z **Scoop: 16 Nobel economists see a Trump inflation bomb**
Hans Nichols,  Staff Writer  -  Axios

_Stephan: To Nobel Laureate economists there is no question: Biden is who should win the election because his economics are far superior to the economics of criminal Trump. You would think anyone who spent five minutes doing an Google on the felonious Trump would know that. He went bankrupt six times. But a large segment of American voters doesn't seem capable of comprehending the ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/26/scoop-16-nobel-economists-see-a-trump-inflation-bomb/) 2024-06-26T09:20:00Z **How the right-wing media ‘hate virus’ spreads**
Thom Hartmann,    -

_Stephan: Criminal Trump and MAGAt world are stimulating White hate as a political weapon, and it is resulting in the kind of story that begins this essay. Thom Hartmann has it exactly right, I think. It is like a cancer growing in our culture, reinforced by evangelical pseudo-Christianity._

![](blob:https://www.schwartzreport.net/1cff04b5-9da8-49f9-91ad-c5799a00dfa4)_Photo by CDC / Unsplash_

She may never be the ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/26/how-the-right-wing-media-hate-virus-spreads/) 2024-06-26T09:30:00Z **The surgeon general declared gun violence a public health crisis. What does that do?**
Rachel Treisman,  Staff Writer  -  npr

_Stephan: Finally, someone in a position of authority speaks the truth about the gun violence in this country. Now we will see whether the Surgeon General is more powerful than the weapons corporations and the NRA._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image-2-18.jpg)_Surgeon General Dr. Vivek M ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/26/the-surgeon-general-declared-gun-violence-a-public-health-crisis-what-does-that-do/) 2024-06-26T09:35:00Z **Born from the tragedy of gun violence, this program teaches children how to stop a wound from bleeding out**
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, MD,    -

_Stephan: This morning when I was doing my first search through media for SR I came across this article, about teaching elementary school children how to to deal with gun wounds to stop someone from bleeding out. As I was reading the article I also saw on CNN a video on the same thing. I ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/26/born-from-the-tragedy-of-gun-violence-this-program-teaches-children-how-to-stop-a-wound-from-bleeding-out/) 2024-06-26T09:40:00Z **Editor’s Note — SR Needs Some Help**
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan: Readers --

I am going to run this one last day because it is not getting much of a response. SR needs some help. I have been doing this every day for 33 years without pay, and Beth Alexander, SR's webmaster, does her part for a fraction of what she ought to be paid. I don't permit advertising because I don't have time to research whether an advertiser is a company that fosters wellbeing. So there is ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/26/editors-note-sr-needs-some-help/) 2024-06-27T09:25:00Z **Multivitamin myth: Study shows no benefit to long-term health, longevity**
StudyFinds Staff,    -  StudyFinds

_Stephan: If you take multivitamins with the intent it will help your health, you should read this._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image-2-22.jpg)_Credit: Pixelbliss_

Key Takeaways

1. For generally healthy adults, taking a daily multivitamin doesn’t appear to help you live longer.
2. The study found no benefit for ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/27/multivitamin-myth-study-shows-no-benefit-to-long-term-health-longevity/) 2024-06-27T09:20:00Z **More Than 20,000 Children Are Missing in Gaza, New Report Finds**
YASMEEN SERHAN,  Staff Writer  -  Time Magazine

_Stephan: Hamas exists because Israel was not wise enough to realize that a two-state solution would have allowed the Palestinians to create a functioning culture. I want to be clear that doesn't excuse or justify what they have done. But fascist Netanyahu and his government are committing genocide, and as an American, I wouldn't give them a single bull ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/27/more-than-20000-children-are-missing-in-gaza-new-report-finds/) 2024-06-27T09:35:00Z **Inside Big Oil’s Business as Usual: Climate Failure and War Profits**
STELLA LEVANTESI,  Staff Writer  -  truthdig

_Stephan: This report, and the factual data upon which it is based, is telling us that everything being done about climate change is not going to stop humanity from crossing the 2°F threshold into civilization-changing catastrophe. And why is that? Because the few hundred people who make the decisions about the carbon power industries care more abo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/27/inside-big-oils-business-as-usual-climate-failure-and-war-profits/) 2024-06-27T09:30:00Z **Rising Seas Will Disrupt Millions of US lives by 2050, Study Finds**
Nina Lakhani,  Staff Writer  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: The evidence for climate change and sea rise is so irrefutable and the response to the damage it is going to do is so pathetically inadequate. Do you think this issue will even come up in this afternoon's debate?_

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image-2-21.jpg)_Jim Comunale and Pam Mervos walk in Hollywood, F ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/27/rising-seas-will-disrupt-millions-of-us-lives-by-2050-study-finds/) 2024-06-27T09:40:00Z **Editor’s Note — SR Needs Some Help**
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan: Readers --

I wasn't going to run this request again, however, it was suggested very strongly to me that I run it one more day so I am. SR needs some help because it is getting quite expensive to produce SR and now the SR podcast, which so many of you asked me to do. So if you are able to help I would very much appreciate any support you could provide. I particularly thank those of you who make monthl ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/27/editors-note-sr-needs-some-help/) 2024-06-28T09:25:00Z **Oklahoma state superintendent orders schools to teach the Bible in grades 5 through 12**
Sean Murphy,  Statehouse Reporter  -  Associated Press

_Stephan: Christian Nationalism across the country, but particularly in Republican-controlled Red States, is a growing trend with all kinds of implications, from the gutting of libraries, to how American history is taught, to how LGBTQ kids and issues are treated and taught, to outright attempts to ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/28/oklahoma-state-superintendent-orders-schools-to-teach-the-bible-in-grades-5-through-12/) 2024-06-28T09:20:00Z **Climate Lawsuits Against Polluting Companies Are Increasing Around the World, Report Finds**
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Here is some good news. People are beginning to awaken to the reality that the problem of climate change arises largely because corporations put profit above all other considerations, and they are holding them responsible -- and winning. If this is the trend, it will not be lon ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/28/climate-lawsuits-against-polluting-companies-are-increasing-around-the-world-report-finds/) 2024-06-28T09:30:00Z **Are today’s teens more content being single? Study reveals surprising trends**
StudyFinds Staff ,    -  StudyFinds

_Stephan: This is a large study, and although it is about young people in Germany, other research I have seen suggests that these trends are also what is happening in the United States. To properly understand these trends they must be placed in the proper context with other related trends: decreased fertility of men, marriage for both gend ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/28/are-todays-teens-more-content-being-single-study-reveals-surprising-trends/) 2024-06-28T09:35:00Z **Economic performance is stronger when Democrats hold the White House**
Josh Bivens ,  Chief Economist  -  Economic Policy Institute

_Stephan: Okay, here are the facts. If you want a strong more vital economy you vote Democratic. There is no question about this. Sadly, I don't think a large percentage of American voters comprehend this, and instead, they vote based on politically weaponized misinformation.  If you know someone like that send the research ar ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/28/economic-performance-is-stronger-when-democrats-hold-the-white-house-2/) 2024-06-28T09:40:00Z **Editor’s Note**
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan: I want to thank all of you who have offered support for SR.  I cannot express to you how much I appreciate it. Beth, my wonderful webmaster, wrote asking me to post something to suggest anyone who has donated this week check to see that the transaction was processed on their end. Apparently, there were a few technical issues._ ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/28/editors-note-53/) 2024-06-29T09:25:00Z **Elena Kagan’s Scathing Chevron Dissent Highlights US Supreme Court’s Disregard for Precedent**
Ed Pilkington,  Staff Writer  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: The corruption and politicization of the christofascist cabal on the Supreme Court has reached a point where even the honorable justices that make up the consistent minority have had enough and are speaking out. If criminal Trump is elected I think the American judiciary will be fi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/29/elena-kagans-scathing-chevron-dissent-highlights-us-supreme-courts-disregard-for-precedent/) 2024-06-29T09:20:00Z **The First National Data on Birth Control Post-Dobbs Is Here, and the News Is Not Good**
NINA MARTIN,  Editor / Reporter  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: More bad news as a result of the Dobbs decision. Take a look at this week's SR podcast where I go into this in detail. As I said in the previous comment, six people are changing our world, as everyone looks on._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-28-at ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/29/the-first-national-data-on-birth-control-post-dobbs-is-here-and-the-news-is-not-good/) 2024-06-29T09:30:00Z **The Supreme Court Upends the Separation of Powers**
Matt Ford,  Staff Writer  -  The New Republican

_Stephan: American society is being restructured by six corrupt christofascists. Think about that for a minute. There are 337 million Americans and their their lives are being changed by six people who are political agents, not law-based justice agents. And no one is doing anything about it._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image-2-27.jpg)_The Supr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/29/the-supreme-court-upends-the-separation-of-powers/) 2024-06-29T09:35:00Z **‘Greatest disseminator of disinformation’: CNN gets brutal takedown over debate ‘silence’**
Tom Boggioni,  Contributing Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: All day off and on I have been listening to, reading, and watching media. Everybody gets that Biden was a disaster and that criminal Trump, as usual, endlessly lied and didn't answer any of the questions he was asked. But, except for Heather Digby Parton, what I haven't seen is what stood out f ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/29/greatest-disseminator-of-disinformation-cnn-gets-brutal-takedown-over-debate-silence/) 2024-06-30T09:20:00Z **A private call of top Democrats fuels more insider anger about Biden’s debate performance**
STEVE PEOPLES,  Reporter  -  Associated Press

_Stephan: In my opinion, the entire election dynamic has changed. Here is one example, of many, describing what I mean. This time next year the United States may no longer be a genuine democracy._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image-2-29.jpg)_President Biden and his wife ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/30/a-private-call-of-top-democrats-fuels-more-insider-anger-about-bidens-debate-performance/) 2024-06-30T09:25:00Z **Rate of Young Women Getting Sterilized Doubled After ‘Roe’ Was Overturned**
Aaron Bolton,    -  Kaiser Family Foundation

_Stephan: It seems like almost every day now I find, or someone sends me, yet another unanticipated consequence of the Dobbs decision. No politician predicted or, I believe, even imagined what the insanity of the christofascists and their political operatives that make up the majority of the Supreme Court, would do to American society. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/30/rate-of-young-women-getting-sterilized-doubled-after-roe-was-overturned/) 2024-06-30T09:30:00Z **If you want to see what the GOP has in store for the rest of America, visit the Old South**
Thom Hartmann,  Commentator  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: If you are a regular SR reader you know about what I call the Great Schism Trend, that is very deliberately tearing the United States into two countries in a single nation. Thom Hartmann is one of the few commentators that gets this, and understands that it is a policy the Republicans have been fo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/30/if-you-want-to-see-what-the-gop-has-in-store-for-the-rest-of-america-visit-the-old-south/) 2024-06-30T09:35:00Z **‘Terrifying and dystopian’: the dark realities of the supreme court’s homelessness decision**
Sam Levin,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: This is what America has come to. Frankly, I find this Supreme Court decision by the christofascist cabal of Justices to be so heartless I don't understand how a person with any integrity or compassion, certainly no one who is a genuine Christian, could make such a decision. Homeless people are not ho ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/06/30/terrifying-and-dystopian-the-dark-realities-of-the-supreme-courts-homelessness-decision/) 2024-07-01T09:25:00Z **Renewable Energy 44.7% of EU Electricity Production in 2023 — Now #1!**
Zachary Shahan,  Staff Writer  -  Clean Technica

_Stephan: The EU nations are really trying to get out of the carbon power era. This also makes a difference, or should, to Americans, because the Earth's matrix of life is is an interconnected interdependent system, and the success of the EU countries helps the Earth and all the countries on it._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/01/renewable-energy-44-7-of-eu-electricity-production-in-2023-now-1/) 2024-07-01T09:20:00Z **Israel Opposes Rebuilding Gaza’s Internet Access Because Terrorists Could Go Online**
Sam Biddle,  Staff Writer  -  The Intercept

_Stephan: I confess I do not understand Israel. How can a religious nation of Jews who themselves for hundreds of years were persecuted, ghettoized, and killed by the millions, become a nation carrying out a genocide, and carrying out policies that replicate what was once done to them? To be candid I just can't get p ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/01/israel-opposes-rebuilding-gazas-internet-access-because-terrorists-could-go-online/) 2024-07-01T09:30:00Z **What to Do if You Can’t Afford Your Medications**
DIANE HARRIS,  Staff Writer  -  Time Magazine

_Stephan: One of the major issues with the United States' awful illness profit system, instead of universal birthright healthcare, is the obscene greed of the pharmaceutical industry. For many Americans, the cost of the drugs they need to stay healthy or even alive is a daily crisis. I hope this article will help any of you who are caught up in this disgusting system to find a solution ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/01/what-to-do-if-you-cant-afford-your-medications/) 2024-07-01T09:35:00Z **The Looming Threat of Christian Nationalism**
,    \-  Americans United for Separation of Church and State / Mother Jones

_Stephan: I am seeing more and more explicit calls to make and enforce Christianity as the national religion of the state, and to breach the firewall separating church and state. That firewall was one of the things the Founders felt most strongly about. At the time of the Revolution (and today for that matter) Great Britain was a nation that since King Henry  VII ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/01/the-looming-threat-of-christian-nationalism/) 2024-07-02T09:20:00Z **‘Sophomoric and foolish’: Harvard Law professor rips into Chief Justice’s immunity logic**
Sarah K. Burris,  Senior Editor  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: I think Harvard Professor Laurence Tribe has the correct view of the immunity decision the Supreme Court just issued. The court as I said in my earlier comment, by decision after decision is turning the United States into Hungary. I am not even sure we should be called a democracy anymore. We have ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/02/sophomoric-and-foolish-harvard-law-professor-rips-into-chief-justices-immunity-logic/) 2024-07-02T09:25:00Z **Justice Jackson Warns New Ruling Could ‘Devastate’ Federal Regulators**
Brett Wilkins,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: We are no longer a genuine democracy and the minority of Justices on the Supreme Court realize this. Read this dissent on the Corner Post regulatory decision and you can see that Jackson, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan all recognize that the federal regulatory agencies are being castrated so that corporate and uber-rich interests ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/02/justice-jackson-warns-new-ruling-could-devastate-federal-regulators/) 2024-07-02T09:30:00Z **Sotomayor’s dissent: A president should not be a ‘king above the law’**
LINDSAY WHITEHURST,  Reporter  -  Associated Press

_Stephan: The christofasscist cabal that controls the laws of the United States, have made the President a kind of king. The Founders would be appalled; this is exactly what they did not want. I think it should also be noted that Associate Justices Alito and Thomas, were they ethical men, which they are not, would and should have recused th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/02/sotomayors-dissent-a-president-should-not-be-a-king-above-the-law/) 2024-07-03T09:20:00Z **Monster 310-mile automated cargo conveyor will replace 25,000 trucks**
Loz Blain,  Staff Writer  -  New Atlas / The Japan News (Japan)

_Stephan: Here is a fascinating bit of good news from Japan. The country's engineers, scientists, and, leadership have come up with a technology to get freight-hauling trucks off their highways._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image-2.jpg)_The Tokyo-Osaka automated logistics system, pictured usi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/03/monster-310-mile-automated-cargo-conveyor-will-replace-25000-trucks/) 2024-07-03T09:30:00Z **Trump Amplifies Calls to Jail Top Elected Officials, Invokes Military Tribunals**
,    \-  DNYUZ

_Stephan: Since we are now reduced to being a semi-kingdom, potentially ruled by a rapist and crook, if Americans elect Trump as king I think this is what we should prepare ourselves for: Military tribunals, and the persecution of anyone who has offended the monarch. Look at what has happened to people like Stormy Daniels who behaved as citizens should, ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/03/trump-amplifies-calls-to-jail-top-elected-officials-invokes-military-tribunals/) 2024-07-03T09:25:00Z **South Carolina implements one of US’s most restrictive public school book bans**
Olivia Empson,  Staff Writer  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: The christofascists have achieved yet another win in gutting public school libraries. South Carolina, a Republican Red State, of course, has now made it possible for the christofascists to make sure that school children can only read what they approve. As a result, an already rather poorly educated state wil ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/03/south-carolina-implements-one-of-uss-most-restrictive-public-school-book-bans/) 2024-07-03T09:35:00Z **God Save Us From This Dishonorable Court**
Ruth Marcus,  Columnist  -  Reader Supported News / The Washington Post

_Stephan: The Federalist Society, Leonard Leo, criminal Trump, and the christofascist Republicans in the Senate, after years of effort, have achieved what they have wanted: a Supreme Court that is not a court based on justice and laws, but a court dominated by a corrupt political cabal. In one decision that cabal has transformed the United States from a democracy into a qu ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/03/god-save-us-from-this-dishonorable-court/) 2024-07-04T09:20:00Z **The Strategy of Beingness**
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan: Today we celebrate the ratification of the Declaration of Independence by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. In my lifetime, in my opinion, from World War II to today the United States has never been in greater peril as the democracy the Founders created. Our Congress is corrupt. Our Supreme Court is corrupt, and little more than a political action group. And we have a multiple convicted felon, rapist, ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/04/the-strategy-of-beingness/) 2024-07-05T09:20:00Z **110 Million People in U.S. Under July 4 Heat Warnings and Advisories**
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Just under a third of the American population is under heat warnings. Welcome to climate change, and it is going to get much worse. Nothing but major changes in government policies and the development of new non-polluting technologies is going to moderate what the future holds._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-con ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/05/110-million-people-in-u-s-under-july-4-heat-warnings-and-advisories/) 2024-07-05T09:25:00Z **American Pride Remains Near Record Low**
MEGAN BRENAN,    -  The Gallup Organization

_Stephan: This is beginning to seriously concern me. A growing number of Americans are losing pride in our country. We, as the people of the United States, must change our culture.  Our wealth inequality particularly, but also our poor and outrageously expensive illness profit system, the absurd cost of a college education, the rising christofascism as an increasing number of Americans leave any religiou ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/05/american-pride-remains-near-record-low/) 2024-07-05T09:35:00Z **Russia’s Popularity With Americans Is Growing**
Brendan Cole,  Senior News Reporter  -  Newsweek

_Stephan: This is appalling. But if you know that  40% of Americans have never left the United States, 11% have never even traveled outside of the state where they were born, and 54% can't read and comprehend anything more complex than 6th-grade level, perhaps not surprising. We are a provincial poorly educated country. and much of the population is driven by their hates, racism, resent ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/05/russias-popularity-with-americans-is-growing/) 2024-07-05T09:30:00Z **Leader of the pro-Trump Project 2025 suggests there will be a new American Revolution**
,    \-  Politico / Associated Press

_Stephan: This is what is going to happen to the United States if Americans make criminal Trump president and give the Republicans a majority in the House and Senate. On the 6th of November when we know the election outcome we will learn what kind of country we will be, and whether we will remain a democracy. As I writ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/05/leader-of-the-pro-trump-project-2025-suggests-there-will-be-a-new-american-revolution/) 2024-07-06T09:20:00Z **Why Gen Z’s turned off by sex scenes in movies**
,    \-  talker research

_Stephan: There are two trends I see going on in the United States about sexual imagery and sex in movies. One is the growing AI generation of fake porn being created particularly by schoolboys about their classmates (see SR archive). The other is the growing distaste for sexual imagery in the Gen Z generation (1997-2012), as described in this survey. What I don't see in these trends is a growing acceptance ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/06/why-gen-zs-turned-off-by-sex-scenes-in-movies/) 2024-07-06T09:25:00Z **The Supreme Court’s War on Regulation Is Going to Tank the Economy**
Timothy Noah,  Staff Writer  -  The New Republic

_Stephan: The christofascist cabal that controls the Supreme Court has openly and deliberately skewed the laws to reduce regulatory. oversight and protect corporate profits. This article describes what may happen as a result of several decisions to eliminate regulations. Although the economic data proves it is not the case, the fascist view of t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/06/the-supreme-courts-war-on-regulation-is-going-to-tank-the-economy/) 2024-07-06T09:35:00Z **New Research Links Common Foods to Higher Levels of PFAS in the Body**
Edward Carver,  Staff Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: Our lives are being shortened, and we are being killed -- the data says this literally -- by corporations like 3M -- that created and distributed throughout the world "forever chemicals" such as polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Why was this done? For profit of course. In my. opinion, these corporations should be fined billions of dolla ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/06/new-research-links-common-foods-to-higher-levels-of-pfas-in-the-body/) 2024-07-06T09:30:00Z **Trump’s Camp Says It Has Nothing to Do With Project 2025 Manifesto Aside From Writing It.**
Shawn Musgrave,  Staff Writer  -  The Intercept

_Stephan: Criminal Trump who is a compulsive liar, I don't think he would tell you the truth if you asked him the time of day, denies he knows anything about Project 2025, which is the Republican election platform. You would think the media would pick this up and may a significant story about his lie i ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/06/trumps-camp-says-it-has-nothing-to-do-with-project-2025-manifesto-aside-from-writing-it/) 2024-07-06T09:40:00Z **Editor’s Note- More On The Strategy of Beingness**
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan: A number of you have written to ask me where they can get more information on The Strategy of Beingness.

As it happens I am about to teach a two-week online course on how to use the strategy to become an agent of change fostering wellbeing. You take the course when it is convenient for you during those two weeks, and you can ask questions and I provide answers. It starts ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/06/editors-note-more-on-the-strategy-of-beingness/) 2024-07-07T09:20:00Z **US Gets More Offshore Wind Farms And A New WIV, To Boot**
Tina Casey,  Staff Writer  -  Clean Technica

_Stephan: Here is some good news about the advancement of offshore wind, and evidence that the lies promoted by the petroleum industries are nothing more than their usual lies to stop the transition out of the carbon era. Wind power is not harming whales._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image-14.jpg)_The pace of the US offshore wind indust ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/07/us-gets-more-offshore-wind-farms-and-a-new-wiv-to-boot/) 2024-07-07T09:25:00Z **Law schools left reeling after latest Supreme Court earthquakes**
LEXI LONAS ,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

_Stephan: We are watching our nation's laws be taken apart by the christofascists who control the Supreme Court. This is the only article in the general media I have seen that touches on this, but the professional legal media is aflame with what this political cabal is doing to our justice system. Nothing but a strong Democratic majority in the Senate is goin ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/07/law-schools-left-reeling-after-latest-supreme-court-earthquakes/) 2024-07-07T09:30:00Z **Trump’s Bizarre Culture War Rhetoric Is Eroding Public Support for Clean Energy**
OLIVER MILMAN,  Staff Writer  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: If convicted felon and rapist Trump wins the election you may be sure that the United States will be woefully and miserably unprepared for climate change. Criminal Trump is not smart enough to understand the realities of climate change, and he has whored himself to the carbon industries to get them to give his ca ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/07/trumps-bizarre-culture-war-rhetoric-is-eroding-public-support-for-clean-energy/) 2024-07-07T09:35:00Z **The Bidens Can’t Let Go**
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,  Staff Writer  -  The New Yorker

_Stephan: It is my view that Biden should retire on his laurels which are many, but not the relevant point. This election is not about his ego or his family's egos; it is about whether the United States remains a democracy. Biden's answer to George Stephanopoulos' question about how, given what he knows will happen if criminal Trump wins, he will feel if he loses -- I'll feel I did my best -- is appallingly egotistical, a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/07/the-bidens-cant-let-go/) 2024-07-08T09:20:00Z **Why the sociopaths are winning — and the obvious thing we’re not doing about it**
Jeremy Sherman,  Staff Writer  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: I think this article is a very good assessment of the social dynamic that is really going on in the United States politically. It is not about political philosophy, it is about sociopaths who want power and money vs decent ethical people who want to preserve democracy and foster wellbeing. WE all get to choose which s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/08/why-the-sociopaths-are-winning-and-the-obvious-thing-were-not-doing-about-it/) 2024-07-08T09:30:00Z **How to Replace Biden as the Democratic Nominee**
Scott W. Lang,  Attorney and Former Mayor of New Bedford, Masssachusetts  -  Boston Globe

_Stephan: There is, as this article by a long-term Democrat politician describes, a growing sense in the Democratic Party that it is time for Biden to retire. The problem is who would replace him and could a campaign be organized in the short time remaining? I don't see Kamala Harris as the replacement. I would propose, as I have been doing si ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/08/how-to-replace-biden-as-the-democratic-nominee/) 2024-07-08T09:25:00Z **The world wasn’t ready for Trump in 2016. It’s not making that mistake this time.**
PAUL MCLEARY, CHRISTOPH SCHILTZ,,    -  Politico

_Stephan: The rest of the world is looking at America and not at all sure that the people of the United States are smart enough not to elect criminal Trump to the Presidency again, and to preserve their democracy. So they are making, as this article describes, all sorts of calculations and arrangements to prepare for t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/08/the-world-wasnt-ready-for-trump-in-2016-its-not-making-that-mistake-this-time/) 2024-07-08T09:35:00Z **The Supreme Court rules that state officials can engage in a little corruption, as a treat**
,    \-

_Stephan:_

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image-16.jpg)Former President criminal Donald Trump greets corrupt Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh before his 2019 State of the Union address.

Credit: Mandel Ngan / AFP

On a 6-3 party-line vote, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that state officials may accep ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/08/the-supreme-court-rules-that-state-officials-can-engage-in-a-little-corruption-as-a-treat/) 2024-07-09T09:25:00Z **Trump-appointed judge forced to resign as damning ethics report details sex misconduct**
Matthew Chapman,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: I am surprised the media has not seemed to comprehend that everyone criminal Trump apooints to anything, from staff to agencies, to courts are corrupt. Look at how many are in prison. I think you have to be corrupt and willing to be subservient to Trump in order for him to appoint or hire you._

![] ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/09/trump-appointed-judge-forced-to-resign-as-damning-ethics-report-details-sex-misconduct/) 2024-07-09T09:20:00Z **U.S. Confidence in Higher Education Now Closely Divided**
JEFFREY M. JONES,    -  The Gallup Organization.

_Stephan: I have many issues with the cost of colleges and universities, but this sad decline in confidence about higher education I see as the result of misinformation and MAGAtism. Note that there is a correlation between the drop in confidence and affiliation with the MAGAt Party. Consider this: 54% of the American public can only read to 6th grade level -- so the ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/09/u-s-confidence-in-higher-education-now-closely-divided/) 2024-07-09T09:30:00Z **The future is all bot vs. bot**
Scott Rosenberg,    -  Axios

_Stephan: The more I learn about AI the more it seems to me to be a very mixed bag. For one thing, I think bots may be one of the reasons SR gets so many hacks. What really concerns me is the amount of misinformation being spewed out by bots that influence human perceptions and thinking. I believe it is affecting governments all over the world, particularly democracies because they are based on human consensus._

![](https://www.schwartz ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/09/the-future-is-all-bot-vs-bot/) 2024-07-09T09:35:00Z **How the IRS went soft on billionaires and corporate tax cheats**
David Ake,    -  International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

_Stephan: Yet another story about the vast corruption of the U.S. government, this story one about how the rich and big corporations get special treatment from the IRS. What this country needs is a revolution. It is a disgusting tale of the real facts. The revolution we need is not the kind criminal Trump and the MAGAts have in mi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/09/how-the-irs-went-soft-on-billionaires-and-corporate-tax-cheats/) 2024-07-10T09:20:00Z **‘Yacht trip to Russia’: Senators publish list of Clarence Thomas’ gifts from benefactors**
Carl Gibson,  Staff Writer  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: Clarence Thomas is the most corrupt Justice of the Supreme Court in two centuries. And yet there he sits, untouched and held to no accountability for his corruption, one of the six christofacists who are taking our democracy apart and affecting the lives of over 300 million Americans in a negative way._
 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/10/yacht-trip-to-russia-senators-publish-list-of-clarence-thomas-gifts-from-benefactors/) 2024-07-10T09:30:00Z **One key factor drives White nationalism — and it’s probably not what you think: expert**
Daniel Hampton,  Senior Editor  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Here is an insight into one of the major dynamics driving White Nationalism. White men so unattractive in their attitudes and behavior that they can't find a woman willing to have sex with them. The Incel movement and White Nationalism have merged, and become a major part of the MAGAt Party that seeks t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/10/one-key-factor-drives-white-nationalism-and-its-probably-not-what-you-think-expert/) 2024-07-10T09:25:00Z **‘I was handed to a complete stranger’: the survivors fighting to end child marriage in 37 US states — and the people who want to keep it legal**
Alaina Demopoulos,  Feature Writer  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Child marriage, which really means young girl marriage, even barely pubescent girls, is an issue that, in my view is not getting anywhere near the attention it should be getting. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/10/i-was-handed-to-a-complete-stranger-the-survivors-fighting-to-end-child-marriage-in-37-us-states-and-the-people-who-want-to-keep-it-legal/) 2024-07-10T09:35:00Z **With the End of Chevron, Health and Environmental Experts’ Hands Are Tied**
Elizabeth Cerceo, MD,  Associate Professor and Director of Climate Health  -  MedPage Today

_Stephan: What the media have not understood is that the Supreme Court's Chevron decision transfers absolute power from scientific experts in regulatory agencies to non-scientist judges and will have no competence is assessing a measure. The corrupt christofascist majority on the Supreme Co ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/10/with-the-end-of-chevron-health-and-environmental-experts-hands-are-tied/) 2024-07-11T09:30:00Z **Josh Hawley Says Quiet Part Out Loud on Christian Nationalism**
Hafiz Rashid,  Staff Writer  -  The New Republic

_Stephan: The person Missouri voters put into office as one of their senators, Josh Hawley, has come out and said it. So have Marjories Talor Greene and Lauren Boebert. They, and others who have not spoken out yet, want to make Christianity the official religion of the United States, and to breach the firewall between church and state that was so importa ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/11/josh-hawley-says-quiet-part-out-loud-on-christian-nationalism/) 2024-07-11T09:25:00Z **‘Thought It Was a Joke’: Bullets Now For Sale in Vending Machines in 3 GOP-Led States**
Edward Carver,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Planning to kill someone but a little short of ammunition? No problem if you live in Texas, Oklahoma, or Alabama. Just go to the nearby vending machine and you can buy all the bullets you need. Yes, in those three MAGAt controlled states, and soon to be other Red States, you can buy ammunition along wi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/11/thought-it-was-a-joke-bullets-now-for-sale-in-vending-machines-in-3-gop-led-states/) 2024-07-11T09:20:00Z **Ocasio-Cortez introduces articles of impeachment against Supreme Court Justices Thomas and Alito**
Owen Dahlkamp,  Reporter  -  CNN

_Stephan: Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has done what needed to be done. Bravo to her. I doubt she will be successful because of the MAGAts in the House, but with her impeachment articles she has brought focus and media attention onto the two most corrupt Justices in the history o ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/11/ocasio-cortez-introduces-articles-of-impeachment-against-supreme-court-justices-thomas-and-alito/) 2024-07-11T09:35:00Z **Temperatures 1.5C above pre-industrial era average for 12 months, data shows**
Ajit Niranjan,   Europe Environment Correspondent  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: This year we have seen a temperature rise in excess of 1.5°C (2.7°F) which was the threshold world leaders had agreed we would not exceed by the end of the century.  We haven't totally crossed the limit because the target was not a yearly but a decadal average. However, as things are setting ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/11/temperatures-1-5c-above-pre-industrial-era-average-for-12-months-data-shows/) 2024-07-12T09:20:00Z **Extreme Heat Takes a Toll on the Rails**
MATT SIMON,    -  truthdig

_Stephan: Climate change, and the rise of temperature it is producing is having all kinds or negative effects, but have you ever heard anyone talking about buckling railroad rails? I think this is just one of hundreds of climate change problems few have thought about, predicted, or for which preparations have been made._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image-25.jpg)_Railway tracks. Credit: ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/12/extreme-heat-takes-a-toll-on-the-rails/) 2024-07-12T09:25:00Z **Busted: GOP lawmaker pushed millions for pipeline to benefit companies that donated to her**
Matthew Chapman,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: When I tell you that the United States has one of the most corrupt governmental structures amongst the developed democracies of the world this is exactly what I mean. This is a report on a MAGAt Representative, but the trial of Senator Menendez is a Democrat example. Citizens United legalized ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/12/busted-gop-lawmaker-pushed-millions-for-pipeline-to-benefit-companies-that-donated-to-her/) 2024-07-12T09:30:00Z **Hungary’s Viktor Orbán to Visit Trump Following NATO Summit and Putin Meeting**
JENNIFER JACOBS and ALBERTO NARDELLI,  Staff Writer  -  Time Magazine

_Stephan: Two christofascist criminals, Donald Trump and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban hung out together at Mar-a-Lago, just after Orban met with Putin. Do you think for a moment that Orban didn't bring a message from Putin to Trump, and that Trump didn't respond? I am sure Orban will now pass s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/12/hungarys-viktor-orban-to-visit-trump-following-nato-summit-and-putin-meeting/) 2024-07-12T09:35:00Z **Donald Trump is Unfit to Lead**
The Editorial Board,    -  The New York Times

_Stephan: I completely agree with this._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-11-at-7.16.50 PM.jpg)_Credit: Kenny Holston / The New York Times_

Next week, for the third time in eight years, Donald Trump will be nominated as the Republican Party’s candidate for president of the United States. A once great political party now serves the interests of one man, a man as demonstra ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/12/donald-trump-is-unfit-to-lead/) 2024-07-13T09:20:00Z **‘Moment of crisis’: Expert links Trump to ‘staggering’ uptick in hate crimes**
Kathleen Culliton,  Assistant Managing Editor  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: The MAGAt side, the Trumper side, of the Great Schism Trend, is given to civil violence as this article describes. I am very concerned that if Trump loses we are going to see events as bad or worse than 6 January. These people are heavily armed and filled with hate and resentments._

![](https://www.schwartzr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/13/moment-of-crisis-expert-links-trump-to-staggering-uptick-in-hate-crimes/) 2024-07-13T09:25:00Z **There Is No ‘Alternative’ to IVF, Ob/Gyns Warn**
Rachael Robertson,  Enterprise & Investigative Writer,  -  MedPage Today

_Stephan: In the MAGAt media they are talking about alternatives to IVF. As this medical publication reports there are none. That means that there are couples, women, seeking to have a child who, if the MAGAts are in power and outlaw IVF, will simply not be able to do so._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image-29.jpg)_IVF Lab Credit ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/13/there-is-no-alternative-to-ivf-ob-gyns-warn/) 2024-07-13T09:35:00Z **China building two-thirds of world’s wind and solar projects**
Amy Hawkins,  Senior China Correspondent  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Almost no one in the general media or Congress seems to understand how China is governed. Everyone says it is communist. In actuality, it is not. What China has done is recreate the Mandarian system that consolidated China and governed it from about 1115 CE to about 1911/12. The Mandarin system was a central bureaucracy of highly e ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/13/china-building-two-thirds-of-worlds-wind-and-solar-projects/) 2024-07-13T09:30:00Z **Trump’s Plan for NATO Is Emerging.**
MICHAEL HIRSH,  former Foreign Editor and Chief Diplomatic Correspondent for Newsweek, and the Former National Editor for POLITICO Magazine.  -  Politico Magazine

_Stephan: If Trump were to be elected to President again, not only would he destroy the American economy reversing all the good things Biden has achieved, he will also diminish the influence of the United States in the world. In almost every way imaginable our world would change in a negative way. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/13/trumps-plan-for-nato-is-emerging/) 2024-07-14T09:20:00Z **These are America’s 10 worst states for quality of life in 2024**
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_Stephan:_

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-13-at-7.16.41 PM.png)

- Worker shortages have eased a bit, but companies still look closely at quality of life when choosing a location that will attract skilled employees.
- CNBC’s annual ranking of state business climates considers quality of life among ten categories of competitiveness.
- Quality ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/14/these-are-americas-10-worst-states-for-quality-of-life-in-2024/) 2024-07-14T09:30:00Z **Project 2025: The Right’s Dystopian Plan to Dismantle Civil Rights and What It Means for Women**
CARRIE N. BAKER,    -  Ms. Magazine

_Stephan: If you read Project 2025, what you see is how incredibly sexist it is. It tells one a lot about the psychology of the men who wrote this document. They clearly do not see women as equals. Any woman who votes for any MAGAt republican, from Trump down to local officials, is either too ignorant, n ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/14/project-2025-the-rights-dystopian-plan-to-dismantle-civil-rights-and-what-it-means-for-women/) 2024-07-14T09:25:00Z **15 GOP Governors Are Refusing Free Summer Meals for School Kids**
Bryce Covert,  Staff Writer  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: This story is so absolutely typical of MAGAt public officials, who from Trump on down don't give a damn about the wellbeing of families or children. It made me very angry just to read it. How could any honorable public official not want to see children fed properly? Yet the MAGAts do it over and over; it is one of the reasons the quality of lif ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/14/15-gop-governors-are-refusing-free-summer-meals-for-school-kids/) 2024-07-14T09:35:00Z **Project 2025: The myths and the facts**
Andrew Prokop,  Senior Politics Correspondent  -  Vox

_Stephan: I have been rereading parts of the Project 2025 book which explains what would happen to America if criminal Trump was elected President. It is horrifying. Here are the best cliff notes I could find._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-13-at-5.16.45 PM.jpg)_Project 2025. It can be downloaded at: https://static.project2025.org/2025\_MandateFo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/14/project-2025-the-myths-and-the-facts/) 2024-07-15T09:25:00Z **Going Undercover in the Incel Movement**
SIAN NORRIS,  Contributing Writer  -  truthdig

_Stephan: One of the foundational groups in MAGAt world are White men who can't find a woman willing to have sex with them. It is that basic. As Sian Norris, the author of this article says, "Through my research I discovered that many incels believe in the far-right Great Replacement conspiracy theory which, they claim, is fueled by women’s reproductive rights, leading to extreme anti-abortion content ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/15/going-undercover-in-the-incel-movement/) 2024-07-15T09:20:00Z **Israel Opposes Rebuilding Gaza’s Internet Access Because Terorrists Could Go Online**
Sam Biddle,  Staff Writer  -  The Intercept

_Stephan: The Israelis just bombed the remaining children's hospital in Gaza, just as the Russians destroyed a children's hospital in Ukraine. In both instances the hospitals were deliberately chosen targets. Both Russia and Israel are basically attempting to carry out a genocide. The Israelis, with the help of the U ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/15/israel-opposes-rebuilding-gazas-internet-access-because-terorrists-could-go-online/) 2024-07-15T09:35:00Z **‘He was a Republican’: Juan Williams reminds Fox News that Trump shooter wasn’t a Dem**
David Edwards,  Senior Editor  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Fox News, and NBC News report that Thomas Matthew Crooks who attempted to assassinate criminal Trump was a registered Republican._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image-32.jpg)_Thomas Matthew Crooks, the Republican gunman who tried to assassinate Donald Trump. Credit: The New ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/15/he-was-a-republican-juan-williams-reminds-fox-news-that-trump-shooter-wasnt-a-dem/) 2024-07-15T09:30:00Z **72% of Americans say the U.S. used to be a good example of democracy, but isn’t anymore**
JANELL FETTEROLF and SOFIA HERNANDEZ RAMONES,    -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: Almost three-quarters of Americans, and an average of 40% of the people of the rest of the world recognize that the United States is no longer a good example of democracy. The turning point will come on November 2nd when Americans decide whether they wish to continue as a de ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/15/72-of-americans-say-the-u-s-used-to-be-a-good-example-of-democracy-but-isnt-anymore/) 2024-07-16T09:20:00Z **“Nearly all” AT&T customers had phone records stolen in new data breach disclosure**
,    \-  Malwarebytes

_Stephan: If you use AT&T for your mobile phone you have probably been compromised and your data has been hacked. Read this article and follow its recommendations. As I said in my previous comment, as a country we lack the necessary enforcement security for our internet and mobile phones._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/upload ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/16/nearly-all-att-customers-had-phone-records-stolen-in-new-data-breach-disclosure/) 2024-07-16T09:25:00Z **RockYou2024: 10 billion passwords leaked in the largest compilation of all time**
Vilius Petkauskas ,  Deputy Editor  -  Cybernews

_Stephan: I didn't know what RockYou2024 was, don't use it, and never heard of it until I read this article. But if you do use it your passwords may have been compromised. This and the next story about AT&T make it clear that our electronic devices are very vulnerable, and that legal enforcements to protect the internet ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/16/rockyou2024-10-billion-passwords-leaked-in-the-largest-compilation-of-all-time/) 2024-07-16T09:30:00Z **J.D. Vance Is an Oil Booster and Doubter of Human-Caused Climate Change**
Lisa Friedman,    -  The New York Times

_Stephan:_

_I have been listening to the commentators on Fox Propaganda, and MSNBC talk about why Trump picked J.D. Vance for his vice president. I don't think any of them get it. Not one has talked about his corruption, which is perfectly in synch with criminal Trump. But of equal importance, like Trump he is an agent for the carbon energy in ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/16/j-d-vance-is-an-oil-booster-and-doubter-of-human-caused-climate-change/) 2024-07-16T09:35:00Z **The Supreme Court Just Limited Federal Power. Health Care Is Feeling the Shockwaves.**
STEPHANIE ARMOUR,    -  Kaiser Family Foundation Health News

_Stephan: What stands out for me about the christofascist cabal that dominates the Supreme Court is their commitment to ideology over social wellbeing. I don't know any of them personally so I'm not sure whether it is that they aren't intelligent enough to understand what they are doing, or whether ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/16/the-supreme-court-just-limited-federal-power-health-care-is-feeling-the-shockwaves/) 2024-07-17T09:20:00Z **A Trump-owned company sells $299 sneakers with an image of his bloodied face after rally shooting**
ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON,    -  abc News / Associated Press

_Stephan: There is simply no limit to criminal Trump's sleaziness. Can you imagine Dwight Eisenhower, or Theodore Roosevelt, or any other Republican President as vulgar as this? I certainly can't._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image-38.jpg)_Crim ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/17/a-trump-owned-company-sells-299-sneakers-with-an-image-of-his-bloodied-face-after-rally-shooting/) 2024-07-17T09:25:00Z **California needs a million EV charging stations — but that’s ‘unlikely’ and ‘unrealistic’**
ALEJANDRO LAZO,    -  Bakersfield.com

_Stephan: Charging is the major obstacle to ending the carbon era. I have been telling you for several years now that the gas station model for EV charging isn't going to work. The major roads need to be built to charge the vehicles that drive over them. Not every road, just the bigger ones. It will be cheaper and mu ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/17/california-needs-a-million-ev-charging-stations-but-thats-unlikely-and-unrealistic/) 2024-07-17T09:30:00Z **Trump’s Environmental Impact Endures, at Home and Around the World**
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_Stephan: Criminal Trump tried to trash as many of the policies designed to protect us from the destruction of climate change as he could in order to serve the interests of the petroleum industry billionaires whose interests align with his. The damage was far greater than anyone knew, or few know today. Here is a good assessment of what he has done. If Trump and Vance, who is also a flu ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/17/trumps-environmental-impact-endures-at-home-and-around-the-world/) 2024-07-17T09:35:00Z **10 facts about Republicans in the U.S.**
J. Baxter Oliphant,  enior Researcher  -

_Stephan: The MAGAt Party: overwhelmingly White, less educated, frightened by immigration, incapable of understanding economics, and hostile to those who don't think as they do, or look as they do. We are two countries in a single nation._

[![A horizontal stacked bar chart showing how Republican voter demographics compare with those of voters overall.](https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/17/10-facts-about-republicans-in-the-u-s/) 2024-07-18T09:20:00Z **Almost two-thirds of Democrats want Biden to step down, poll finds**
Ivana Saric,  Staff Writer  -  Axios

_Stephan: I think Biden should announce his retirement. He would leave and history would see him as perhaps the most successful President since Franklin Roosevelt. If he stays and loses I think history will revile him for for letting his ego and his family's egos put himself above his nation's best interests. If he stays and wins it will be seen as one of t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/18/almost-two-thirds-of-democrats-want-biden-to-step-down-poll-finds/) 2024-07-18T09:30:00Z **The World’s Problems Explained in One Issue: Electricity**
TREVOR JACKSON,    -  The Nation

_Stephan: Here you see an excellent analysis of why so many countries in the world are being so slow to prepare for climate change. Simple answer: Because profit is the only priority that matters. As this piece describes to exit the carbon era, the electrical systems cannot be principally petroleum fueled as they are in the United States. As the author says, "The idea that markets ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/18/the-worlds-problems-explained-in-one-issue-electricity/) 2024-07-18T09:25:00Z **The American republic is crumbling before us – and Democrats must share the blame**
Owen Jones,  Columnist  -  The Guardian

_Stephan: Throughout the day I have watched different channels cover the Trump Republican Party convention. It is astonishing. Every person speaking at the convention does nothing but lie and spread misinformation. I have never seen anything like it. Meanwhile Biden is diagnosed with Covid and we have only 110 days until the ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/18/the-american-republic-is-crumbling-before-us-and-democrats-must-share-the-blame/) 2024-07-18T09:35:00Z **Growing Evidence of ‘Harm’ From Social Media, Says Surgeon General**
Emily Hutto,  Associate Video Producer  -  MedPage Today

_Stephan: Social media with its torrent of misinformation and lies, AI generated fake audio, and fake porn, its use to make classmates and fellow workers humiliated and hurt is, as the Surgeon General of the United States spells out, causing great social damage. Through it all the Congress sits on its hands and does nothing. Social media i ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/18/growing-evidence-of-harm-from-social-media-says-surgeon-general/) 2024-07-19T09:20:00Z **Is gun violence an epidemic in the U.S.? Experts and history say it is**
Destinee Adams,  Production Assistant  -  npr

_Stephan: Studies show the the largest population of gun killers are lonely isolated White men. I have thought a lot about why this is the case. One obvious part of an answer is the laxity of gun laws. But there is more to it than that. When I was young men there was a draft and a large percentage of young men went into the armed forces. Whe ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/19/is-gun-violence-an-epidemic-in-the-u-s-experts-and-history-say-it-is/) 2024-07-19T09:25:00Z **‘There are no guardrails’: Supreme Court empowers cities to take tougher steps to police homelessness**
DUSTIN GARDINER,    -

_Stephan: One of the outcomes of the grotesque wealth inequality in the United States has been the massive increase in homeless people. In many American cities, if you walk the streets of the city or look in the parks or along the highways you see thousands of men and women who have been reduced to living ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/19/there-are-no-guardrails-supreme-court-empowers-cities-to-take-tougher-steps-to-police-homelessness/) 2024-07-19T09:35:00Z **Billionaires Take Sides as Turbulent Presidential Race Heats Up**
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_Stephan:_

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-18-at-5.28.40 PM.jpg)

The US presidential election has seen a wave of unprecedented events, but one constant has been donor money pouring into campaign coffers.

Since surviving an assassination attempt on Saturday, former President Donald Trump has received a cascade of money, capped by billionair ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/19/billionaires-take-sides-as-turbulent-presidential-race-heats-up/) 2024-07-19T09:30:00Z **Elon Musk and Peter Thiel’s War on Democracy**
ROBERT REICH ,   the Carmel P. Friesen Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies  -

_Stephan: Elon Musk and Peter Thiel are explicitly trying end democracy in the United States. They have been joined by other billionaires, but they are the main villains in this naked attempt to end our democracy. What can ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/19/elon-musk-and-peter-thiels-war-on-democracy-2/) 2024-07-20T09:20:00Z **In photos: Trump bandage “newest fashion trend” at RNC**
Rebecca Falconer,  Staff Writer  -  Axios

_Stephan: I can't upload all the images. So please click through and look at them. As you do, realize this is how psychologically damaged a large segment of American voters in the MAGAt (formerly Republican) Party have become._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-19-at-10.21.39 PM.jpg)

Ear bandages are a widely seen accessory at th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/20/in-photos-trump-bandage-newest-fashion-trend-at-rnc/) 2024-07-20T09:25:00Z **A Faulty Software Update Causes Havoc Worldwide For Airlines, Hospitals And Governments**
CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY, ELAINE KURTENBACH, DAVID McHUGH and HALELUYA HADERO,  Reporters  -  HuffPost / Associate Press

_Stephan: You may have been affected by this technological havoc Friday, or you may not even know it occurred. I am publishing this report because it illustrates how vulnerable the world is to the electronic networks. This is the secon ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/20/a-faulty-software-update-causes-havoc-worldwide-for-airlines-hospitals-and-governments/) 2024-07-20T09:30:00Z **It’s time to stop arguing over the population slowdown and start adapting to it**
Bryan Walsh,  Editorial Director  -  Vox

_Stephan: It is interesting how frequently wrong rational assessments of the future are compared with remote viewing predictions. Back in the early 1970s, when I was a member of the MIT-Secretary of Defense Study Group on innovation, technology and the Future, and the Smithsonian Institution Discussions Group on Innovation, Tec ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/20/its-time-to-stop-arguing-over-the-population-slowdown-and-start-adapting-to-it/) 2024-07-20T09:35:00Z **International Court of Justice Tells Israel to End Occupation of Palestinian Territories, Pay Reparations**
Michel Moushabeck ,  Staff Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: The countries of the world are turning against Israel because of its racism and its genocidal war in Gaza. I think this is one of the reasons anti-semitism is on the rise in Europe and the United States. I don't think that in any way excuses Hamas, and what it ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/20/international-court-of-justice-tells-israel-to-end-occupation-of-palestinian-territories-pay-reparations/) 2024-07-21T09:25:00Z **It’s Not an Accident That So Many GOP Senate Candidates Are Rich**
Alex Roarty and Katherine Swartz,  Reporters  -  NOTUS

_Stephan: I was reading a story about Republican candidates for both the Senate and realized there was a commonality to many of these candidates that most of the corporate media either did not realize, or chose not to cover -- I think the current state of corporate media in this country is appalling. The trend that I saw was that not only is t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/21/its-not-an-accident-that-so-many-gop-senate-candidates-are-rich/) 2024-07-21T09:20:00Z **U.K. Foreign Secretary Addresses Calling Trump a ‘Neo-Nazi-Sympathizing Sociopath’**
OLIVIA-ANNE CLEARY,  Staff Writer  -  Time Magazine

_Stephan: I read a lot of foreign press looking for trends shaping our future and two things stand out for, particularly in the European and British press: They are very very concerned that after 82 years of being led by the United States democracy that this historical period may well be ending, and they will nee ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/21/u-k-foreign-secretary-addresses-calling-trump-a-neo-nazi-sympathizing-sociopath/) 2024-07-21T09:30:00Z **Hummingbirds Are in Rapid Decline**
,    \-  Wiki Observatory

_Stephan: Human stupidity and greed is destroying the matrix of life upon which the life of our own species depends. I hate having to do these stories but this trend is growing, which imperils us more each year._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-20-at-6.18.15 PM.jpg)_A Hummingbird hovering, the only bird species that can do this. Credit: Wiki Observatory_

Introduction

In Native Ame ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/21/hummingbirds-are-in-rapid-decline/) 2024-07-21T09:35:00Z **AR-15 style rifles rose to iconic status in US via marketing, militarization**
Brad Brooks,    -  Reuters

_Stephan: As you can see in the image that heads this article, we have become a country so obsessed with guns, particularly AR-15s, that people bring them to church to have them blessed, and give them away as prizes at church gatherings. In fact, there is a strong correlation between the evangelical perversion of Christianity and these weapons. If ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/21/ar-15-style-rifles-rose-to-iconic-status-in-us-via-marketing-militarization/) 2024-07-21T09:35:00Z **AR-15 style rifles rose to iconic status in US via marketing, militarization**
Brad Brooks,    -  Reuters

_Stephan: As you can see in the image that heads this article, we have become a country so obsessed with guns, particularly AR-15s, that people bring them to church to have them blessed, and give them away as prizes at church gatherings. In fact, there is a strong correlation between the evangelical perversion of Christianity and these weapons. If ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/21/ar-15-style-rifles-rose-to-iconic-status-in-us-via-marketing-militarization/) 2024-07-22T09:20:00Z **Microsoft and Google’s electricity consumption surpasses the power usage of over 100 countries**
Kevin Okemwa,    -  Windows Central

_Stephan: AI is going to complicate our world in hundreds of ways, many of them negative. Misinformation, Fake porn, political manipulation, and the stress it is creating on the country's capacity to generate electricity. What worries me about this last consideration is this as quoted from this report b ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/22/microsoft-and-googles-electricity-consumption-surpasses-the-power-usage-of-over-100-countries/) 2024-07-22T09:30:00Z **Free medical school won’t solve the doctor shortage**
Dylan Scott,  Senior Correspondent  -  Vox

_Stephan: Michael Bloomberg like Ruth Gottesman before him has just donated $1 billion to John Hopkins Medical School to allow students to train as physicians without incurring the usual quarter of a million dollar debt, the price of getting a medical degree and training. But, as this article points out, while thesse are wonderful gifts from the uber-rich, this is not, or itself, ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/22/free-medical-school-wont-solve-the-doctor-shortage/) 2024-07-22T09:25:00Z **‘I’m a Never Trump guy’: All of J.D. Vance’s Trump quotes that could come back to bite him**
MIA MCCARTHY,    -  Politico

_Stephan: J.D. Vance is the very personification of the corruption that pervades American politics. Am I exaggerating? Am I unfairly representing him? You have probably heard him since he became criminal Trump's Vice Presidential partner saying saying that women should not be able to leave a violent marriage. That abortion ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/22/im-a-never-trump-guy-all-of-j-d-vances-trump-quotes-that-could-come-back-to-bite-him/) 2024-07-22T09:35:00Z **New AAMC Report Shows Continuing Projected Physician Shortage**
,    \-  Association of American Medical Colleges

_Stephan: The illness profit system in the United States continues to deteriorate. In Republican controlled Red States the anti-woman laws passed by the state legislatures are causing are causing physicians, particularly OB/GYN specialists to abandon the state a move elsewhere, and causing college graduates who wish to become physicians to choose medica ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/22/new-aamc-report-shows-continuing-projected-physician-shortage/) 2024-07-23T09:20:00Z **Texas’ Christian-influenced curriculum spurs worries about bullying, church-state separation**
JADEN EDISON,  Staff Writer  -  Texas Tribune

_Stephan: This is the other thing the christofascists who control the MAGAt Republican Party seek to do with American public education: breach the firewall between church and state and make American education a vehicle for indoctrinating children into their perversion of Christianity. This is why p ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/23/texas-christian-influenced-curriculum-spurs-worries-about-bullying-church-state-separation/) 2024-07-23T09:25:00Z **Republicans aim to take Florida’s education model nationwide**
Sommer Brugal,  Staff Writer  -  Axios

_Stephan: Over half of the American population cannot read past 6th grade level. That's right they can't beyond what an 11 year old can read. And one in five adults can't do fractions or percentage calculations. And thanks to what the MAGAt Republicans are trying to do American history it is being so debased it is about indoctrination not education. What the moneyed ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/23/republicans-aim-to-take-floridas-education-model-nationwide/) 2024-07-23T09:30:00Z **GOP Platform Doesn’t Mention the Word “Climate” Once — Even After the Hottest Year on Record**
Prem Thakker,  Staff Writer  -  The Intercept

_Stephan: In contrast to the previous article on what Harris and the Democrats have in mind about the climate, this is what the Trump-Vance Party has in mind, which is to say nothing helpful. This is a big deal which is not getting enough attention in the media. It is something that should shape the t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/23/gop-platform-doesnt-mention-the-word-climate-once-even-after-the-hottest-year-on-record/) 2024-07-23T09:35:00Z **What Would a Harris Presidency Mean for the Climate?**
Zoya Teirstein,  Staff Writer  -  Grist

_Stephan: Criminal Trump and his corrupt partner Vance would gut the U.S. federal government effort to prepare for the climate change that is occuring. What would Kamala Harris do? This seems to me a very important question, indeed a question whose answer should determine for whom you vote. Here is the answer._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image-51 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/23/what-would-a-harris-presidency-mean-for-the-climate/) 2024-07-24T09:25:00Z **Babies don’t come with instructions. But in Oregon, they now come with a nurse**
Cory Turner,  Senior Editor  -  npr

_Stephan: Here is some lovely good news. I am so happy to publish this. This is what I mean when I say that good governments create social policies that foster wellbeing._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image-56.jpg)_Barb Ibrahim, left, drove half an hour to visit Amber and Matt Luman and their new daught ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/24/babies-dont-come-with-instructions-but-in-oregon-they-now-come-with-a-nurse/) 2024-07-24T09:20:00Z **Going ‘boy sober’ is about more than celibacy**
Anne Branigin,  Reporter  -  Microsoft Start / The Washington Post

_Stephan: I have done several stories on the Incel movement of males. It turns out there is a female counterpart, boy sober. Less angry and resentful than Incel, it is still a generational change getting little attention. As I read this what I took away from it was that the internet and social media have affected American culture in ways that alter how men and women int ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/24/going-boy-sober-is-about-more-than-celibacy/) 2024-07-24T09:30:00Z **Scathing N.Y. Times column warns J.D. Vance and Aileen Cannon are working hand-in-hand**
Matthew Chapman,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: I try to avoid using The New York Times, or the Washington Post because they are behind a paywall. But this article from Raw Story catches the essence of the NYT piece. I think Aileen Cannon should be removed from the bench. She is one of the worst most biased judges in American history._

![](https:/ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/24/scathing-n-y-times-column-warns-j-d-vance-and-aileen-cannon-are-working-hand-in-hand/) 2024-07-24T09:35:00Z **Earth likely just had its hottest day in thousands of years**
Andrew Freedman,  Staff Writer  -  Axios

_Stephan: In the MAGAt textbook Project 2025 there isn't a word about preventive programs to reduce what climate change is doing. Quite the contrary. The Trump/Vance position is the Department of the Interior and the Environmental Protection Agency should be curbed significantly or eliminated altogether. I simply do not understand how anyone with an IQ greater than ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/24/earth-likely-just-had-its-hottest-day-in-thousands-of-years/) 2024-07-25T09:25:00Z **How Americans View National, Local and Personal Energy Choices**
LEC TYSON and BRIAN KENNEDY,    -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: The tragic reality of the MAGAt cult that supports criminal Trump and his varlet Vance is that they have been conned by Trump and other leaders in the cult to not believe in the reality of climate change, as reflected by their sharp decline of support for non-polluting energy. Sadly, even Democrats have been influenced by this humanity t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/25/how-americans-view-national-local-and-personal-energy-choices/) 2024-07-25T09:20:00Z **Severe turbulence ahead — how scientists can keep air travellers safe in a warming world**
Haoxuan Yu,    -  Nature

_Stephan: Here is an aspect of climate change I have not seen mentioned previously. He shows that every part of our society is going to be affected, and it is just going to get worse if the nations of the world do not make radical changes. If the MAGAt cult wins that isn;t going to happen, as I showed you in the previous artic ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/25/severe-turbulence-ahead-how-scientists-can-keep-air-travellers-safe-in-a-warming-world/) 2024-07-25T09:35:00Z **Revealed: wealthy western countries lead in global oil and gas expansion**
Oliver Milman and Nina Lakhani,  Environmental Reporters  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: This report in The Guardian describes both the shame and the corruption of the United States and other rich countries, and the servitude of the many to the few. It assures we will not meet the Paris accord for climate control. As it says, "the oil and gas rush, led by the richest countries, r ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/25/revealed-wealthy-western-countries-lead-in-global-oil-and-gas-expansion/) 2024-07-25T09:30:00Z **Oil Billionaires Bet on Trump’s Energy Agenda**
Benoît Morenne and Collin Eaton,  Reporters  -  Wall Street Journal

_Stephan: In this article in the Murdoch-owned fascist Wall Street Journal you see how blatant corruption in the United States has become, and how criminal Trump and his varlet J.D. Vance have openly whored themselves to the oil billionaires._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image-58.jpg)_Donald Trump and Harold Hamm, the billionaire fou ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/25/oil-billionaires-bet-on-trumps-energy-agenda/) 2024-07-26T09:20:00Z **J.D. Vance Endorsed Book That Calls Progressives “Unhumans” and Praises Jan. 6 Rioters**
David Corn,  Washington, DC, Bureau Chief  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: J.D. Vance is one of the weirdest people in the history of American politics. Spend a few moments Googling his quotes, and what he believes. The Republican Party in 2024 is running a crook and a weirdo, and in Project 2025 they tell you exactly what they have in mind for your future. It st ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/26/j-d-vance-endorsed-book-that-calls-progressives-unhumans-and-praises-jan-6-rioters/) 2024-07-26T09:25:00Z **Kids? A Growing Number of Americans Say, ‘No Thanks.’**
,    \-  DNYUZ

_Stephan: Recently I have done articles on the Incel movement of celibate men, and yesterday I published a piece on the "Boy Sober" movement of women. Now this. Increasingly younger men and women are not making having children a priority in their lives. The net-net of this is that our population is going to get older -- which has all kinds of negative implications -- and, except for immigration, smaller. To ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/26/kids-a-growing-number-of-americans-say-no-thanks/) 2024-07-26T09:30:00Z **Prisoners fight against working in heat on former slave plantation, raising hope for change in South**
MARGIE MASON AND ROBIN MCDOWELL,  Investigative Reporters  -  Associated Press

_Stephan: As I have written and published,(see SR Archive) the American Gulag is the largest in the world with the largest number of prisoners under lock and key of any country in the world. And this system has produced another effect. Slavery has n ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/26/prisoners-fight-against-working-in-heat-on-former-slave-plantation-raising-hope-for-change-in-south/) 2024-07-26T09:35:00Z **Southern policymakers leave workers with lower wages and a fraying safety net**
Chandra Childers ,    -  Economic Policy Institute

_Stephan: I have been telling you for decades now that based on objectively verifiable social outcome data Red State Republican governance is always inferior to Blue State Democratic governance and always produces significantly less wellbeing for the people who live in those Red States. In every election it always amazes ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/26/southern-policymakers-leave-workers-with-lower-wages-and-a-fraying-safety-net/) 2024-07-27T09:20:00Z **JD Vance, Menstrual Surveillance Hawk**
Josh Marshall,  Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Talking Points Memo  -  Talking Points Memo

_Stephan: If you are a woman how would you feel about your state government, or even the federal government, monitoring your menstrual cycle? Criminal Trump's Frankenstein signed a bill_

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image-65.jpg)_JD Vance, criminal Trump’s Frankenstein Credit: Drew Angerer / Getty_

This spring, HHS [finalized ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/27/jd-vance-menstrual-surveillance-hawk/) 2024-07-27T09:25:00Z **Kevin Roberts, architect of Project 2025, has close ties to radical Catholic group Opus Dei**
Rachel Leingang and Stephanie Kirchgaessner,  Reporters  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: The Heritage Foundation is a christofascist organization closely intertwined with the MAGAt cult. Opus Dei, similarly, is a secret -- they don't release the names of it members -- radically conservative cult within the Roman Catholic Church. Both are obviou ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/27/kevin-roberts-architect-of-project-2025-has-close-ties-to-radical-catholic-group-opus-dei/) 2024-07-27T09:30:00Z **Key Facts About Americans and Guns**
KATHERINE SCHAEFFER,  Research Analyst  -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: The leading cause of death for children 17 and under is a bullet in their body. It is one of the most outstanding manifestations of America's gun psychosis. A mentality distinct from any other country in the world. No other nation not in active war has the kind of killing that goes on in the United States. What are the real facts about how Americans currently look at guns. It is ha ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/27/key-facts-about-americans-and-guns-2/) 2024-07-27T09:35:00Z **World’s Richest 1% Gained $42 Trillion in a Decade: Oxfam**
,    \-  Microsoft Start

_Stephan: The G20 nations is a group of19 countries (Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Türkey, United Kingdom and United States and the European Union. The wealth inequality of the G20 nation has become obscene, with the United States leading the pack. OxFam, a global ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/27/worlds-richest-1-gained-42-trillion-in-a-decade-oxfam/) 2024-07-28T09:20:00Z **Elena Kagan: Supreme Court Should Have Enforcement Mechanism for Ethics Rules**
Chris Walker ,  news writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: The Supreme Court has become so corrupted that even the ethical justices are calling for change. Here is what Associate Justice Elena Kagan has just publicly said._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image-69.jpg)_Supreme Court Associate Justice Elena Kagan participates in a discussion at the G ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/28/elena-kagan-supreme-court-should-have-enforcement-mechanism-for-ethics-rules/) 2024-07-28T09:30:00Z **Project 2025’s Extreme Vision for the West**
MICHELLE NIJHUIS and ERIN X. WONG,    -  truthdig

_Stephan: The American media, both print and electronic is failing the American public in a major way. They have not spent any significant time talking about what is in Project 2025, the christofascist textbook the villain Trump and his varlet Vance plan to follow. But that will not be said of SR. Here are some specific details, and their page number, describing the horrifying details of wha ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/28/project-2025s-extreme-vision-for-the-west/) 2024-07-28T09:25:00Z **Supreme Court Could Face Huge Changes Under Proposed Plan**
Sean O'Driscoll,  Senior Crime and Courts Reporter  -  Newsweek

_Stephan: I have seen a number of media sources reporting that on Monday Biden is going to put forward a proposal to significantly alter the Supreme Court to make it 13 justices, and an 18 year tenure. No other developed democracy in the world has a court with lifetime tenure and, as this report describes the court structure has been altered seven ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/28/supreme-court-could-face-huge-changes-under-proposed-plan/) 2024-07-28T09:35:00Z **‘Wannabe dictator’: Outrage as Trump tells fans ‘you won’t have to vote anymore’**
Daniel Hampton,  Senior Editor  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Just as Hitler was brought to power by the support of a large percentage of the German people, so Viktor Orban was voted into office in Hungary, and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Turkey. This is how authoritarians come into power, not by military violence but through elections. So about a third of American voters, overwhel ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/28/wannabe-dictator-outrage-as-trump-tells-fans-you-wont-have-to-vote-anymore/) 2024-07-29T09:20:00Z **PTSD Ripples Through Communities After Mass Violence**
Nicole Lou,  Senior Staff Writer  -  MedPage Today

_Stephan: America's gun psychosis has far greater negative effects than just the victims of gun violence and their families and friends. It is causing social destruction throughout American society, and here is the data confirming what I am saying. We as a culture have a desperate need to get this obsession about guns under control. No other developed nation in the worl ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/29/ptsd-ripples-through-communities-after-mass-violence/) 2024-07-29T09:25:00Z **Misinformation floods social media in wake of breakneck news cycle**
ELLA LEE and SARAKSHI RAI ,  Staff Writers  -  The Hill

_Stephan: Almost every day I get emails from SR readers sending a story link and asking whether I know about it, or did I know I was wrong about something, and the great majority of these links lead to social media misinformation. Since a large percentage of Americans, particularly young people, get their news from social media I think w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/29/misinformation-floods-social-media-in-wake-of-breakneck-news-cycle/) 2024-07-29T09:35:00Z **Biden just got one step closer to replacing Postmaster General Louis DeJoy**
Carl Gibson,    -  AlterNet

_Stephan: I have a personal and strong dislike for Louis DeJoy because I live on a rural island and DeJoy's sabotage of the Postal Service has caused all kinds of problems. I pay a bill but it takes two weeks to get to the recipient so there is a late fee I have call to get excused. Someone sends me a time sensitive mailing and I don't get it in tim ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/29/biden-just-got-one-step-closer-to-replacing-postmaster-general-louis-dejoy/) 2024-07-29T09:30:00Z **US voter registrations surge as Republicans try to limit ballot access**
Brett Wilkinsand,  Staff Writer  -  AlterNet / Common Dreams

_Stephan: The MAGAt cult is getting scared because of the sudden change in the polls, the Harris fundraising success, and the tens of thousands of men and women who have volunteered work to get Harris elected. In response, they are doing everything they can to make it more difficult for people to register and vote. Trump and ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/29/us-voter-registrations-surge-as-republicans-try-to-limit-ballot-access/) 2024-07-30T09:20:00Z **Trauma Patients Without Insurance Taken Off Life Support Sooner, Study Finds**
Ian Ingram,   Managing Editor  -  MedPage Today

_Stephan: It seems almost every day as I do the research for SR I come across one story after another about the dysfunction of the American Illness Profit System. This one is just plain evil. Yet, do you hear anyone in either party, except Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren talking about instituting universal birthright single ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/30/trauma-patients-without-insurance-taken-off-life-support-sooner-study-finds/) 2024-07-30T09:25:00Z **Protected: Biden proposes Supreme Court term limits, binding code of conduct**
Andrea Shalal and Jeff Mason,  Reporters  -  Reuters

_Stephan: Look at the graph at the head of this article. Notice that the United States is the only developed democracy offering justices lifetime tenure. Biden is proposing this be changed. This is very good news from President Biden. I don't think it will work until after the election and, then, only if Harris elected President and ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/30/biden-proposes-supreme-court-term-limits-binding-code-of-conduct/) 2024-07-30T09:25:00Z **Protected: Biden proposes Supreme Court term limits, binding code of conduct**
Andrea Shalal and Jeff Mason,  Reporters  -  Reuters

_Stephan: Look at the graph at the head of this article. Notice that the United States is the only developed democracy offering justices lifetime tenure. Biden is proposing this be changed. This is very good news from President Biden. I don't think it will work until after the election and, then, only if Harris elected President and ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/30/biden-proposes-supreme-court-term-limits-binding-code-of-conduct/) 2024-07-30T09:35:00Z **Heat is testing the limits of human survivability. Here’s how it kills**
Laura Paddison, Jen Christensen, Mary Gilbert, Henry Zeris, Yukari Schrickel, Lou Robinson and Way Mullery,  Reporters  -  CNN

_Stephan: If you read SR regularly you know that I have been telling you for years that climate change is going to render large parts of the world uninhabitable because of heat, and this will also ravage the matrix of life in Earth's ecosystems. As you read this ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/30/heat-is-testing-the-limits-of-human-survivability-heres-how-it-kills/) 2024-07-30T09:30:00Z **Asphalt burns, delirium, body bags: extreme heat overwhelms ERs across US**
Aliya Uteuova,  Environmental Justice Reorter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: The American illness Profit system is unprepared and already being overwhelmed by climate change, and we are just at the beginning of this trend._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-29-at-9.24.37 PM.jpg)_Paramedics in Phoenix, Arizona, rush a resident to th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/30/asphalt-burns-delirium-body-bags-extreme-heat-overwhelms-ers-across-us/) 2024-07-31T09:20:00Z **Harris and Trump in Statistical Tie: Survey Reveals Complex Views on Demcoracy**
,    \-  Main Street Research

_Stephan: I am running an article on this poll because of what it reveals about how Americans feel about democracy. "When asked whether democracy is the best system of government, 58% of all voters “strongly agreed,” while 21% reported that they “somewhat agreed.” I think this is telling us one of the most important things we can know about ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/31/harris-and-trump-in-statistical-tie-survey-reveals-complex-views-on-demcoracy/) 2024-07-31T09:25:00Z **‘Truly frightening’: Pesticides increasingly laced with forever chemicals**
Agence France-Presse,    -  Raw Story / Agence France-Presse

_Stephan: Do some research, and get these products out of your life._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image-77.jpg)_New research published in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives says that pesticides used for both agricultural and residential applications are an import ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/31/truly-frightening-pesticides-increasingly-laced-with-forever-chemicals/) 2024-07-31T09:35:00Z **Covid surges in US as unequal access plagues vaccination and treatment rates**
Melody Schreiber,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: There is a new cycle in the Covid pandemic, and yet I see almost no discussion in the media about it. We are already seeing deaths and, as this report details, "Nationally, emergency room visits for Covid increased by 15.7% in the past week. Rising hospitalization rates are now higher than last summer at this time.....N ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/31/covid-surges-in-us-as-unequal-access-plagues-vaccination-and-treatment-rates/) 2024-07-31T09:30:00Z **Iowa abortion ban taking effect as residents flee out of state for care**
Annie Gowen,  Reporter  -  Microsoft Start / The Washington Post

_Stephan: Even though they must surely have access to all the social outcome data I do, the state legislature of Iowa has passed, and the governor has signed, the same remarkably stupid anti-choice laws passed in 17 other MAGAt controlled states. The result will be, as it is in all those states, that women will face de ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/07/31/iowa-abortion-ban-taking-effect-as-residents-flee-out-of-state-for-care/) 2024-08-01T09:20:00Z **Fed holds interest rates steady, but hints at cut ahead**
Neil Irwin and Courtenay Brown,  Staff Writers  -  Axios

_Stephan: If you are like me you find interest rates so high they are mind-boggling. Consider: 24.9% for some credit cards 7.62% for a 30-year fixed rate mortgage. Well, it looks like in September we may see some improvement._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image.jpg)_Fed chair Jerome Powell at a press conference in June. Credi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/01/fed-holds-interest-rates-steady-but-hints-at-cut-ahead/) 2024-08-01T09:30:00Z **Do Ultraprocessed Foods Harm Your Brain?**
,    \-  DNYUZ

_Stephan: If your diet includes ultraprocessed foods, as this report outlines, research is showing you are harming your brain and increasing your chances of developing dementia late in life. What we eat becomes who we are. Make the right choices._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image-79.jpg)_Credit: The New York Times_

People who regularly eat processed red meat, like hot dogs, bacon, sausage, sal ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/01/do-ultraprocessed-foods-harm-your-brain/) 2024-08-01T09:25:00Z **An Existential Question**
Col. John Alexander, USA (Ret.),  Commentator and Retire Amy Officer  -  Daily Kos

_Stephan: I have known John Alexander for over half a century. He is a retired Army colonel with both combat and strategic experience. I have great respect for his insights and, in this essay, he raises an existential question that I think we must answer if we are to remain a functioning democracy._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image-80.jpg)_Colonel John B. Alex ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/01/an-existential-question/) 2024-08-01T09:35:00Z **Elon Musk Shared Fake Video of Kamala Harris. Experts Are Sounding the Alarm.**
Tatyana Tandanpolie ,  Salon News Fellow  -  truthout

_Stephan: This is exactly what I have been talking about when I warn you about the use of AI to spread fake videos and audios to damage the campaign of a candidate. Mostly, it is being done by christofascist billionaires, Elon Musk as described in this report, as well Russian, Chinese and other authoritarian governments ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/01/elon-musk-shared-fake-video-of-kamala-harris-experts-are-sounding-the-alarm/) 2024-08-02T09:20:00Z **JD Vance In 2021: ‘We Have To Go To War’ Against The Idea That Women Don’t Have To Have Kids**
Jennifer Bendery,  Reporter  -  yahoo / HuffPost

_Stephan: I hope you realize how very revealing these stories that are coming out almost daily are about what was once the Republican now the MAGAt Party. Can you imagine Dwight Eisenhower, or even George Bush (41), choosing such a loathsome man to be their running partner? Vance sounds like a dru ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/02/jd-vance-in-2021-we-have-to-go-to-war-against-the-idea-that-women-dont-have-to-have-kids/) 2024-08-02T09:25:00Z **Top 5 Problems for Doctors in Today’s Healthcare System**
Angela Rose,  Staff Writer  -  MedPage Today

_Stephan: A physician who is also an SR reader sent me this telling me these trends are accurately described and that he had experienced them and saw them as a serious threat to our declining healthcare system. I have covered a number of these trends (see SR archive) but not together as a package. The American illness profit system is clearly failing, and I hope that if ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/02/top-5-problems-for-doctors-in-todays-healthcare-system/) 2024-08-02T09:30:00Z **Trump Falsely Claims Harris Hasn’t Always Identified as Black**
PHILIP ELLIOTT,  Staff Writer  -  Time Magazine

_Stephan: From the time I met him in New York when we were both in our twenties I have never thought of criminal Trump as much above average intelligence. But in the last two weeks, since Kamala Harris became the Democratic candidate, listening to him he seems to have become obviously mentally impaired. He says things that are so blatantly stupid, and so e ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/02/trump-falsely-claims-harris-hasnt-always-identified-as-black/) 2024-08-02T09:35:00Z **Antarctic temperatures soar 50 degrees above norm in long-lasting heat wave**
Kasha Patel,  Reporter  -  Microsoft Start / THe Washington Post

_Stephan: Out of stupidity and mostly greed, the small group of people who control the gas and oil industries are destroying the Earth's Matrix of Life. You would think that they would understand that they and their families will suffer from this as well as all the other humans, and all the other beings that ma ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/02/antarctic-temperatures-soar-50-degrees-above-norm-in-long-lasting-heat-wave/) 2024-08-03T09:20:00Z **In ‘Historic Shift,’ Renewables Overtake Fossil Fuels to Provide 30% of EU Electricity**
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Here is some more good EU news, and actually it is good news for Earth. As a country exits the carbon power era, so the matrix of life is less threatened. I wish I could so the same kind of stories about similar changes being made in the U.S.._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-conte ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/03/in-historic-shift-renewables-overtake-fossil-fuels-to-provide-30-of-eu-electricity/) 2024-08-03T09:30:00Z **Andean glacier retreat unprecedented in human civilization, study finds**
,    \-  RTE on Climate

_Stephan: Yesterday it was a report that Antarctica is 50°F over normal temperature. Today is it is this alarming report about the Andes, the world's largest longest mountain range. When you realize that a tiny group of rich people who control the oil and gas industries are enriching themselves in a manner that is putting the entire Earth at risk you understan ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/03/andean-glacier-retreat-unprecedented-in-human-civilization-study-finds/) 2024-08-03T09:25:00Z **In world first, EU’s sweeping AI law enters into force**
,    \-  Agence France-Presse (France)

_Stephan: The Europeans are doing what the United States has not done, beginning to establish AI regulations. Far from perfect but at least a start. I see this as very good news for the EU. Let us hope that Harris is elected President, and that the Democrats have significant majorities in both the Senate and House so that before AI becomes an existential threat to our democracy i ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/03/in-world-first-eus-sweeping-ai-law-enters-into-force/) 2024-08-03T09:35:00Z **$10M cash withdrawal drove secret probe into whether Trump took money from Egypt**
Aaron Davis, Carol D. Leonnig ,  Reporters  -  Microsoft Start \| The Washington Post

_Stephan: Here is the story, just emerging, of what history will record as the largest bribe of an American President by a foreign government -- who else but criminal Trump -- in the history of the United States. And, because of the Supreme Court decision on immunity, he will get a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/03/10m-cash-withdrawal-drove-secret-probe-into-whether-trump-took-money-from-egypt/) 2024-08-04T09:20:00Z **‘Significant shift’ away from coal as most new steelmaking is now electric**
MOLLY LEMPRIERE,  Contributing Writer  -  Carbon Brief

_Stephan: Here is some more transitional good news. As this report says, "The bulk of steelmaking around the world still relies on coal-based blast furnaces.
As a result, the steel and iron industry is responsible for 7% of greenhouse gas emissions and 11% of carbon dioxide emissions globally, according to the consultancy fi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/04/significant-shift-away-from-coal-as-most-new-steelmaking-is-now-electric/) 2024-08-04T09:25:00Z **Scientists uncover microbes that destroy ‘forever chemical’ pollutants**
Miriam Bergeret ,  Live Science Contributing Writer  -  Live Science

_Stephan: Here is some good news concerning research on how to degrade "forever" chemicals (PFAS), that have become a major human-created pollutant with all kinds of negative consequences for the Matrix of Life, including humans._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image-11.jpg)_Scientists h ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/04/scientists-uncover-microbes-that-destroy-forever-chemical-pollutants/) 2024-08-04T09:35:00Z **Exposed: The ‘Bigoted Conspiracy Caucus’ in US Congress**
Brett Wilkins,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: We are less than 100 days from the weirdest and most important election in any of our lifetimes, and we have one party that is openly and explicitly planning to end democracy, create an oligarch controlled authoritarian country, break the firewall between church and state, and reduce women to permanent second-class status as citizens. If you don't vote, and vot ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/04/exposed-the-bigoted-conspiracy-caucus-in-us-congress/) 2024-08-04T09:30:00Z **The Secret Plan to Strike Down US Gun Laws**
WILL VAN SANT,  Staff Writer  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: Perverted Christianity, fascism, White supremacy, male dominance, and an obsession with guns, that's the combo of the MAGAt world, and it is all funded by christofascist oligarchs who hire lawyers without honor to play the laws like a banjo to get the American they want. Here's the story._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image-10.jpg)_Mother Jones illust ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/04/the-secret-plan-to-strike-down-us-gun-laws/) 2024-08-05T09:20:00Z **Trump Cancels a Debate With Harris on ABC News and Pitches One With Fox News Instead**
Neil Vigdor, Maggie Haberman and Simon J. Levien,  Reporters  -  Reader SUpported News / The New York Times

_Stephan: I told you criminal Trump would find a way to back out of a debate with Kamala Harris. He is afraid of her because unlike Biden she will call him a liar to his face. So he is trying to rerig a debate using the Fox propaganda network to condu ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/05/trump-cancels-a-debate-with-harris-on-abc-news-and-pitches-one-with-fox-news-instead/) 2024-08-05T09:25:00Z **Why thousands of Michigan votes likely won’t be counted in Tuesday’s primary**
Hayley Harding,  Reporter  -  Votebeat Michigan

_Stephan: It is getting harder and harder to vote in the United States, either because of the MAGAt sabotage of the voting system, or because of the incompetent bureaucratic poor design of the ballets, as is happening in Michigan. We are a country that claims to be a democracy but the individual states, as this Michigan article ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/05/why-thousands-of-michigan-votes-likely-wont-be-counted-in-tuesdays-primary/) 2024-08-05T09:35:00Z **Trump congratulates Putin on ‘great’ hostage swap**
NICOLAS CAMUT,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: Criminal Trump is the only political leader in any country who is congratulating criminal Putin on making the better deal on the largest prisoner exchange between Russia and the United States since the end of the Cold War. It tells us a great deal about MAGAt worldthat he said this to a mass of MAGAt supporters and no one seems to find it weird. I certainly do._

![](https://w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/05/trump-congratulates-putin-on-great-hostage-swap/) 2024-08-05T09:30:00Z **Oklahoma schools in revolt over Bible mandate**
LEXI LONAS,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

_Stephan: For over a decade the MAGAt (formerly Republican) Party has been trying to dismantle public education. In Project 2025 they go so far as to propose to eliminate the Department of Education. And in Red states like Oklahoma, as this article describes, MAGAt legislators and state officials as actively breaching the Founders fundamental firewall between church and state. As a result teache ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/05/oklahoma-schools-in-revolt-over-bible-mandate/) 2024-08-06T09:20:00Z **The Heritage Foundation Is Pushing a Nuclear Arms Race**
WILLIAM HARTUNG ,  Contributing Writer  -  Truthdig

_Stephan: This is the latest evil from The Heritage Foundation. Fascists liked the Cold War, it created the military-industrial industries President Eisenhower warned us about, and for a small group of fascists it was astonishingly profitable. The people who fund The Heritage Foundation would like another run down that profit street. Criminal Trump would be only to ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/06/the-heritage-foundation-is-pushing-a-nuclear-arms-race/) 2024-08-06T09:30:00Z **Public Land Solar Plan Can Balance Energy and Conservation**
Laurel Williams,  Staff - The Pew Charitable Trust Conservation Project  -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: Here is some more good news from the Biden administration about preparing the United States for reducing the dynamics creating climate change. It isn't even being covered by most of the media, nor is much else about climate change. We're having an election in which most of the news is about Criminal Trum ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/06/public-land-solar-plan-can-balance-energy-and-conservation/) 2024-08-06T09:25:00Z **Top Israeli Official: “Morally Justified” to Starve 2 Million to Death in Gaza**
Sharon Zhang ,  News Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: This is the Israeli government's mindset. I don't think there is anything else to say._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image-17.jpg)_Israeli Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich is pictured outside Damascus gate in Jerusalem on June 5, 2024.

Credit: Eyal Warshavsky / Sopa Images / Lightroc ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/06/top-israeli-official-morally-justified-to-starve-2-million-to-death-in-gaza/) 2024-08-06T09:35:00Z **‘The money was critical’: Forbes report shows staggering amount Trump earned as president**
Kathleen Culliton,  Assistant Managing Editor  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Saturday I covered the $10 million dollar bribe the dictator of Egypt gave to criminal Trump in the form of 200 pounds of $100 bills (the image sticks in my mind) which resulted in a significant change in U.S. policy toward Egypt, and hundreds of millions of dollars of aid. But tha ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/06/the-money-was-critical-forbes-report-shows-staggering-amount-trump-earned-as-president/) 2024-08-07T09:25:00Z **Israel Has Damaged or Destroyed 85 Percent of Schools in Gaza**
Sharon Zang,  News writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: I confess I do not understand what has happened to Israel. Fascism. Genocide of little children and women. Deliberately destroying the schools, which is to say the Palestinian next generation's future. And the Israeli population. What has happened to them? I understand about the hostages, and I do not in anyway excuse Hamas. But this is about to not only ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/07/israel-has-damaged-or-destroyed-85-percent-of-schools-in-gaza/) 2024-08-07T09:20:00Z **My Uncle Donald Trump Told Me Disabled Americans Like My Son ‘Should Just Die’**
Fred C. Trump,  Donald Trump's Nephew  -  Time Magazine

_Stephan: Day after day we learn another yet another story about the loathsome criminal Trump. This a first person account from his nephew Fred. And yet millions of Americans worship this man no matter what he does. It is one of the most notable things about Americans, and our society. I confess I do not fully under ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/07/my-uncle-donald-trump-told-me-disabled-americans-like-my-son-should-just-die/) 2024-08-07T09:35:00Z **As World’s Springs Vanish, Ripple Effects Alter Ecosystems**
CHRISTIAN SCHWÄGERL,    -  Yale 360

_Stephan: This is the first and only article I have ever run across that gives the real picture of natural springs and their role in the Matrix of Life. Like so many ecology stories it is a sad story._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image-19.jpg)_A spring in a forest in Bavaria, Germany. Credit: Imagebroker.com / GMHH / Alamy_

Strong winds sw ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/07/as-worlds-springs-vanish-ripple-effects-alter-ecosystems/) 2024-08-07T09:30:00Z **Rates of Shoplifting Reach Staggering Level**
Suzanne Blake,  Consumer & Social Trends Reporter  -  Newsweek

_Stephan: Think about this story. What it is telling us is that the United States has such grotesque wealth inequality that large number of Americans have become shoplifters out of necessity. I hate reporting these trends, and I hate what it says about our country. PLease vote only for Democrats. They are far from perfect but the alternative is Project 2025 and that is despic ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/07/rates-of-shoplifting-reach-staggering-level/) 2024-08-08T09:25:00Z **The Rising Fear of American Christians**
Elle Hardy,  Staff Writer  -  UnHerd

_Stephan: Active affiliation with a Christian church is dwindling significantly in the American population. It seems to be generally replaced by people describing themselves as spiritual not religious. As this report describes, however, for White Christians this is an alarming and threatening development, and so America's gun psychosis is melding with white Christians who are threatened by their declining perce ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/08/the-rising-fear-of-american-christians/) 2024-08-08T09:20:00Z **Operating theaters, bowling alleys and home cinemas: Not happy with safe rooms, the super-rich are building luxury fortresses**
Simon Usborne,  Reporter  -  CNN

_Stephan: The uber-rich who are largely blocking effective attempts to mitigate climate change because such policies negatively impact their profits are, as this article describes, reverting to a kind of neo-medievalism by building fortresses to k ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/08/operating-theaters-bowling-alleys-and-home-cinemas-not-happy-with-safe-rooms-the-super-rich-are-building-luxury-fortresses/) 2024-08-08T09:30:00Z **Broadcasting & Cable to Shutter As This Year’s Media Meltdown Escalates**
Alex Weprin,  Buisness and Media Writer  -  The Hollywood Reporter

_Stephan: The media we knew as children is disappearing. Newspapers are closing, magazines are no longer publishing or going only online, or just closing. The three broadcast networks, ABC, CBS, NBC have been transformed. And AI is growing and spewing ever more misinformation. In the 33 years I have been doing SR it has ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/08/broadcasting-cable-to-shutter-as-this-years-media-meltdown-escalates/) 2024-08-09T09:20:00Z **Mass Shootings and the Impacts to Emotional Health & Well-Being**
,    \-  ProTrainings

_Stephan: Here are the facts showing us what America's gun psychosis and the mass murders it has manifested are doing to the wellbeing of the United States. It is not a happy story._

![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXfQYKr561O1ylh1ucyYaHMZkFDKQ3EuN0kMZ37MyLHrn2iGb0oQK15vOtwBm2rzOO5m5RLxLdZ_-xzJSHVffuJ9w1ue1QbaRjN13MDmVXm5Wyrh8_RP99TXFnb4yczMyKHZQHM7Ibj_0Q1USi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/09/mass-shootings-and-the-impacts-to-emotional-health-well-being/) 2024-08-09T09:25:00Z **Elon Musk’s misleading election claims have accrued 1.2 billion views on X, new analysis says**
David Ingram,  Reporter  -  NBC News

_Stephan: For starters, do not use, or stop using, X. Elon Musk is one of the billionaires who want to end democracy in the United States so that they can establish an authoritarian oligarchy that they control. Criminal Trump is their puppet because his mind is fading as his ego grows and they have figure ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/09/elon-musks-misleading-election-claims-have-accrued-1-2-billion-views-on-x-new-analysis-says/) 2024-08-09T09:30:00Z **The Biggest Success Story the Country Doesn’t Know About**
Dean Baker,  Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.  -  The New Republic

_Stephan: There is so much misinformation being spewed out all over the internet, particularly on X, that I am afraid most American voters really don't know what is going on with the economy. I searched for what I felt comfortable publishing as a fact-based report that might help my readers to make a valid assessmen ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/09/the-biggest-success-story-the-country-doesnt-know-about/) 2024-08-09T09:35:00Z **“Offer our children healthier choices”: The growing push for school lunch reform**
ASHLIE D. STEVENS,  Food Editor  -  Salon

_Stephan: If you have ever seen what children are offered for lunch in Europe compared to what they get in the U.S., you know how inferior school lunches in America are. It's pathetic and, of course, it is all about money and profit. The fundamental problem we have as a country is that the only social priority we have is profi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/09/offer-our-children-healthier-choices-the-growing-push-for-school-lunch-reform/) 2024-08-10T09:25:00Z **Mediterranean Diet Linked to Better Heart Health in Children and Teens**
Samantha Anderer,    -  JAMA Network

_Stephan: Do you know a child or teenager, or have a child or teenager in your family? If you do read this, and get them to change their diet as described. IT will change their entire life in a good way._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image-30.jpg)

The Mediterranean diet, which emphasizes eating more fruits, vegeta ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/10/mediterranean-diet-linked-to-better-heart-health-in-children-and-teens/) 2024-08-10T09:20:00Z **Tech giants will be forced to ban fake news under Labour plans**
Amy Gibbons, Dominic Penna, and Cameron Henderson ,  Reporters  -  Microsoft Start / The Telegraph (U.K.)

_Stephan: Finally, someone in the position to do something is trying to take on the tidal wave of misinformation that has flooded the internet to the benefit of the oligarchs who own social media, particularly Elon Musk. The democracies of the world, particularly the United States are in crisis, ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/10/tech-giants-will-be-forced-to-ban-fake-news-under-labour-plans/) 2024-08-10T09:30:00Z **More Rural Hospitals Are on the Verge of Closing, Report Finds**
Joyce Frieden,  Washington Editor  -  MedPage Today

_Stephan: We are the only developed nation in the world that does not have universal birthright single payer healthcare; what we have is an illness profit system. It is the worst healthcare in the developed world. And, by orders of magnitude, the most expensive. It is also getting worse ever year. It has nothing to do with the wellbeing of the Americ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/10/more-rural-hospitals-are-on-the-verge-of-closing-report-finds/) 2024-08-10T09:35:00Z **From New York to Denver, US Cities Are Seeking Migrants for Jobs**
Ella Ceron,  Staff Writer  -  Bloomberg

_Stephan:_

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image-29.jpg)_Migrant kitchen worker. Credit: SBS_

Mark Berzins has a devil of a time finding enough kitchen staff for his 17 bars and restaurants in the Denver area.

The metropolis has an unemployment rate slightly below the national average and a highly educated populace that shies ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/10/from-new-york-to-denver-us-cities-are-seeking-migrants-for-jobs/) 2024-08-11T09:20:00Z **Kroger’s new dynamic AI pricing scheme is ‘corporate greed is out of control’: critics**
Julie Conley,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story \| Common Dreams

_Stephan: The United States has become, based on objectively verifiable social outcome data a second-tier nation with a societal cancer. We have only one social priority: profit. The wellbeing of Americans just doesn't seem to matter to the oligarchs and the corporations they control. Here is the la ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/11/krogers-new-dynamic-ai-pricing-scheme-is-corporate-greed-is-out-of-control-critics/) 2024-08-11T09:30:00Z **U.S. Supreme Court rejects Missouri AG push to delay Trump sentencing in hush money case**
JASON HANCOCK,  Reporter  -  Missouri Independent

_Stephan: Unless I am missing something, criminal Trump is going to face sentencing in September on the 34 felony counts for which he was found guilty. That's an election changer for sure._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image-32.jpg)_Missouri’s Attorney General Andrew ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/11/u-s-supreme-court-rejects-missouri-ag-push-to-delay-trump-sentencing-in-hush-money-case/) 2024-08-11T09:25:00Z **Harris and Walz Announced Assault Weapons Ban, Not Gun Ban, During Rally**
Taija Perry Cook,    -  Snopes

_Stephan: The MAGAt media is screaming that Harris and Walz are proposing a universal gun ban designed to take your guns away. As with most of the things MAGAt media claims about Democrats, this is crap. What they are proposing is to reinstitute an assault weapons ban. I absolutely support that. Speaking as a former Viet Nam era Army medic I can see no ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/11/harris-and-walz-announced-assault-weapons-ban-not-gun-ban-during-rally/) 2024-08-11T09:35:00Z **Inside Project 2025’s Secret Training Videos**
Andy Kroll, ProPublica, and Nick Surgey,,  Reporters  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: This is a fact-based report of what the christofascist MAGAts have in mind to do with the United States if criminal Trump wins the Presidency. It is horrifying, of course, these people are not in the least interested in America remaining a democracy. But what strikes me as particularly weird, and I mean really weird, is that they don't seem. to believe climate ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/11/inside-project-2025s-secret-training-videos/) 2024-08-12T09:25:00Z **‘Massive disinformation campaign’ is slowing global transition to green energy**
Fiona Harvey,  Environment Editor  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: The corporations involved with the carbon era are pouring billions of dollars into lies and misinformation on corporate and social media. These people have no interest in the wellbeing of humanity, only in their immediate continued profit. The MAGAt (formerly Republican) Party is fully in league with thi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/12/massive-disinformation-campaign-is-slowing-global-transition-to-green-energy/) 2024-08-12T09:25:00Z **Oxygen discovery defies knowledge of the deep ocean**
Victoria Gill,  Science Correspondent  -  BBC (U.K.)

_Stephan: There is still so much we do not know about the systems of the Earth, as this article describes. This is why we need to be focused on new technologies and how to create a healthy Earth. Instead all we focus on is profit._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image-37.jpg)_The potato-sized metal nodules look like rocks, littering parts ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/12/oxygen-discovery-defies-knowledge-of-the-deep-ocean/) 2024-08-12T09:30:00Z **Why isn’t the media reporting on Trump’s increasing dementia?**
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.  -  Raw Story \| Commentary

_Stephan: Robert Reich clearly describes the other failure I see in media. Criminal Trump is not only a psychopathic liar, if you listen to him it is clear he is also increa ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/12/why-isnt-the-media-reporting-on-trumps-increasing-dementia/) 2024-08-12T09:35:00Z **162 lies and distortions in a news conference. NPR fact checks former President Trump**
Domenico Montanaro,    -  nprhere were a host of false things that Donald Trump said during his hour-long news conference Thursday that have gotten attention. A glaring example is his helicopter emergency landing story, which has not stood up to scrutiny. But there was so much more. A team of NPR reporters and editors reviewed the transcript of his news con ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/12/162-lies-and-distortions-in-a-news-conference-npr-fact-checks-former-president-trump/) 2024-08-13T09:20:00Z **House Republicans spent millions more on taxpayer-funded travel than Democrats**
Gabriella Grabovska,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story / Open Secrets

_Stephan: Being a member of Congress can entail very hard work, or it can be a very cushy job with lots of perks and not much work. One of the perks is that you can travel where you like, lodge and eat as you like, and have everything paid for by you and me. MAGAt members tend to fall in the second categor ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/13/house-republicans-spent-millions-more-on-taxpayer-funded-travel-than-democrats/) 2024-08-13T09:25:00Z **Canada unveils engine that beats hydrogen: Bad news for America and an unexpected fuel**
D. García,  Contributing Writer  -  Eco News

_Stephan: Here is what looks like the engine for the car of the future and, once again, it is not an American design. It is Canadian, and the research I have read about this suggests, as this article does that this is a completely new deal, and is going to change cars, trucks, all vehicles._

![](https://www.s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/13/canada-unveils-engine-that-beats-hydrogen-bad-news-for-america-and-an-unexpected-fuel/) 2024-08-13T09:35:00Z **The US Navy’s warship production is in its worst state in 25 years. What’s behind it?**
DAVID SHARP,  Reporter  -  Associated Press

_Stephan: I have been telling you for years now that the MAGAt (formerly Republican) Party's attempt to dismantle public education and privatize it, coupled with the obscene cost of obtaining a college education, is having a very negative long-term consequence. Consider: The average cost of attendance for a student ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/13/the-us-navys-warship-production-is-in-its-worst-state-in-25-years-whats-behind-it/) 2024-08-13T09:30:00Z **621-mph maglev vacuum train “T-Flight” test successful**
Joe Salas,  Contributing Writer  -  New Atlas \| Xinhua (China)

_Stephan: Here is another example of the point I am trying to make. Because the MAGAt Party does not want an educated skilled population because well-educated people overwhelmingly vote for Democrats, and want greater wealth equality. Billiionaires as a rule are no patriots. They think in terms of the world and their personal profit. As a result we are no ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/13/621-mph-maglev-vacuum-train-t-flight-test-successful/) 2024-08-14T09:20:00Z **What We Learned From Harvard’s New Study on Healthy Aging**
MATT FUCHS ,  Contributing Writer  -  INSIDEHOOK

_Stephan: Here is some fact-based information that will help you become healthier._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image-42.jpg)_People who eat a precise amount of fruit per day (2.5 servings!) are more likely to age healthfully.

Credit: Emmanuel Phaeton / Unsplash_

Last month, two [opinion](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/10/mag ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/14/what-we-learned-from-harvards-new-study-on-healthy-aging/) 2024-08-14T09:30:00Z **Dozens Of Pregnant Women Are Turned Away From ERs Despite Federal Law**
AMANDA SEITZ,  Reporter  -  HuffPost / Associated Press

_Stephan: I wonder, have the women in the MAGAt controlled states, finally realized they have been reduced to second-class status, and their wellbeing is now controlled by politicians not themselves or their doctors? Did they vote for those politicians? Is this what they wanted?_

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploa ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/14/dozens-of-pregnant-women-are-turned-away-from-ers-despite-federal-law/) 2024-08-14T09:25:00Z **Child rape survivors face extraordinary barriers in states with abortion bans**
Sara Cincurova and Virginia Williams,  Reporters  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: "A study published earlier this year estimated that 65,000 rape-related pregnancies probably occurred in states with abortion bans since Roe fell," this article reports. And it describes the misery inflicted by MAGAt politicians on girls who are raped. This is what the Red States have dege ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/14/child-rape-survivors-face-extraordinary-barriers-in-states-with-abortion-bans/) 2024-08-14T09:35:00Z **A tsunami is coming: The shocking influence of right-wing money on American politics**
Thom Hartmann,  Contributing Writer  -  Alter Net

_Stephan: The oligarchs created by the MAGAt (formerly Republican) Party by restructuring the U.S. tax system to favor the rich, do not want democracy to continue. They want America to become a kind of Hungary. Phony elections, and total control of society by an authoritarian leader and the oligarchs who crea ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/14/a-tsunami-is-coming-the-shocking-influence-of-right-wing-money-on-american-politics/) 2024-08-15T09:20:00Z **‘I’m down to eating ramen’: Social Security benefits aren’t keeping up with inflation**
Tami Luhby,    -  CNN Business

_Stephan: I, too, get Social Security, having started to contribute to it in 1958, when I was 16. I don't know how anyone lives on the meager sums one gets from Social Security. This article describes what the reality of this system has become, and I think it is disgraceful. Why is this not a major issue in the Presidential campa ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/15/im-down-to-eating-ramen-social-security-benefits-arent-keeping-up-with-inflation/) 2024-08-15T09:30:00Z **U.S. Wind and Solar Are on Track to Overtake Coal This Year**
BENJAMIN STORROW,  Staff Writer E&E News  -  Scientific American \| E&E News

_Stephan: I am happy to publish this good news. It is happening in spite the hundreds of millions of dollars the oligarchs whose money is based on the carbon powered technologies and corporation are pouring into the MAGAt (formerly Republican) Party. The party that doesn't believe in climate change, and doesn't support non-pollutin ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/15/u-s-wind-and-solar-are-on-track-to-overtake-coal-this-year/) 2024-08-15T09:25:00Z **How China Became the World’s Leader on Renewable Energy**
ISABEL HILTON,  Contributing Writer  -  Yale 360

_Stephan: The Chinese still have a lot of problems, some of which are outlined in this article, but they get very clearly the importance of moving their culture out of the carbon energy era._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Screenshot-2024-08-14-at-6.24.13 PM.jpg)

Last November, Chinese climate envoy Xie Zhenhua and U.S. climate envoy ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/15/how-china-became-the-worlds-leader-on-renewable-energy/) 2024-08-15T09:35:00Z **Americans dying younger than their English-speaking peers worldwide**
Jessica Ho and Penn State,  Researchers  -  Study Finds

_Stephan: The United States is now ranked as one of the poorest democracies and Americans have the shortest lifespans amongst all the English speaking democracies. and part of the reason for the short lifespan data is that people in Red States have notably shorter lifespans than people in Blue states. Here are the facts about our lengt ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/15/americans-dying-younger-than-their-english-speaking-peers-worldwide/) 2024-08-16T09:35:00Z **Project 2025 Would Add 2.7 Billion Tons of CO2, Subtract 1.7 Million Jobs: Analysis**
Edward Carver,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: When I read Project 2025, which by design is so long few even in media will read it carefully, I was so appalled by the implications of what criminal Trump and his MAGAts want to do to stop the transition out of the carbon energy era, that I read it again, and went looking for a thorough fact-based assess ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/16/project-2025-would-add-2-7-billion-tons-of-co2-subtract-1-7-million-jobs-analysis/) 2024-08-16T09:30:00Z **U.S. approves $20 billion weapons package for Israel**
,    \-  Raw Story \| Agence France-Presse

_Stephan: The United States is funding the Israeli genocide against the Palestinian people, and here is the proof. The Israelis fly American fighter jets, their tanks fire American cartridges, their mortars fire American rounds, and it is all carted around in American military cargo vehicles. Over 40,000 Palestinians, largely women, children, and the elderly have died as a result ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/16/u-s-approves-20-billion-weapons-package-for-israel/) 2024-08-16T09:25:00Z **US Resumes Offensive Weapons Sales to Major Human Rights Abuser: Saudi Arabia​**
Medea Benjamin,   Co-founder of Global Exchange and CODEPINK: Women for Peace.  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: We are not only sending weapons to Israel, now we are sending them again to Saudi Arabia. Basically, the U.S. military-industrial complex and the oligarchs who control it are now funding both sides of a regional conflict to their great profit. Biden should be ashame ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/16/us-resumes-offensive-weapons-sales-to-major-human-rights-abuser-saudi-arabia/) 2024-08-16T09:20:00Z **U.S. Poured Billions of Military Aid Into Lebanon. Now Israel Threatens to Invade.**
Nick Turse,    -  The Intercept

_Stephan: It gets even worse, as this report describes. We have poured billions of dollars of military aid into Lebanon, to the immense profit of the U.S. oligarchs and the military-industrial complex of industries they control. Basically we are now providing the weapons used by all sides in these the Middle East conflicts. What do ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/16/u-s-poured-billions-of-military-aid-into-lebanon-now-israel-threatens-to-invade/) 2024-08-17T09:25:00Z **We’re Entering an AI Price-Fixing Dystopia**
Rogé Karma,  Staff Writer  -  The Atlantic

_Stephan: More AI evil. The fact is American society is being altered in a way that is degrading the wellbeing of Americans to the benefit of the rich. I thought it was very interesting to hear the good things Kamala Harris is proposing to do about the U.S. housing crisis that is so negatively impacting average middle class Americans, particularly younger couples. She didn't mention the role AI is ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/17/were-entering-an-ai-price-fixing-dystopia/) 2024-08-17T09:20:00Z **Video of Sexual Abuse at Israeli Prison is Just Latest Evidence SDE Teiman is a Torture Site**
Jonah Valdez,  Staff Writer  -  The Intercept

_Stephan: Given their own experience living through the Holocaust, I find it very hard to understand, how the Jews of Israeli have brought to power a fascist authoritarian, and his ultra-right cohort of minions who have authorized the murder of well over 40,000 Palestinians, mostly children, wome ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/17/video-of-sexual-abuse-at-israeli-prison-is-just-latest-evidence-sde-teiman-is-a-torture-site/) 2024-08-17T09:30:00Z **Flood of ‘junk’: How AI is changing scientific publishing**
,    \-  Raw Story \| Agence France-Presse (France)

_Stephan: As a research scientist who has published several hundred papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals, I take this article quite personally. If AI, and personal corruption of scientists, destroys the integrity of scientific publications where does truth and integrity go? What kind of world would we have if facts no longer matter? Neo-medievalism would ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/17/flood-of-junk-how-ai-is-changing-scientific-publishing/) 2024-08-17T09:35:00Z **New data shows violent crime dropping sharply in major U.S. cities**
Russell Contreras,    -  Axios

_Stephan: The endless vomiting of lies by criminal Trump and his Frankenstein Vance about the rising crime rate under Biden are, in my view not only completely untrue, these lies are also dangerous to the social wellbeing of America society. Here is the actual data, and crime is going down._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image-51. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/17/new-data-shows-violent-crime-dropping-sharply-in-major-u-s-cities/) 2024-08-18T09:40:00Z **No SR Edition Today**
,    \-

_Stephan:_

Stephan cannot publish today’s edition due to an Internet outage in his area. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/18/no-sr-edition-today/) 2024-08-19T09:20:00Z **US Air Force avoids PFAS water cleanup, citing Supreme Court’s Chevron ruling**
Tom Perkins,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: And here we see what the Chevron decision of the corrupt MAGAt majority on the Supreme Court is doing to ordinary Americans. This is the world the corrupt justices have in mind. What I do not understand is why Biden has not stepped in? Why the Secretary of Defense is silent? Also, why isn't this getting more media coverage?_ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/19/us-air-force-avoids-pfas-water-cleanup-citing-supreme-courts-chevron-ruling/) 2024-08-19T09:25:00Z **Trump has ‘made clear’ he will turn the U.S. military loose on America if re-elected: NYT**
Tom Boggioni,  Contributing Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Day after day the stories come out about what criminal Trump plans to do with the military to assure his authoritarian rule. Like his corruption he makes what he intends very clear. What amazes me is that millions of Americans are still willing to vote for this cretin. They don't seem to under ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/19/trump-has-made-clear-he-will-turn-the-u-s-military-loose-on-america-if-re-elected-nyt/) 2024-08-19T09:35:00Z **Project 2025: Barefoot, Pregnant, and in the Kitchen**
Sunday, August 11, 2024 \| 12:44:13p PDT,  Contributing Writer  -  Daily Kos

_Stephan: John Alexander, who will be familiar to regular readers, has written an important take on Project 2025, with which I very strongly agree. I am leading with this because I particularly note the point he makes about how the corrupt majority on the Supreme Court has already laid the groundwork for the implementation of Project 2025. Should ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/19/project-2025-barefoot-pregnant-and-in-the-kitchen/) 2024-08-19T09:30:00Z **Climate Disaster Survivors Call For Criminal Investigation Into Fossil Fuel Industry**
: Michael Riojas and Chris McDermott,  Reporter and Editorial Assistant for EcoWatch  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: I think this is the beginning of an important trend, and I think we should pay close attention. The fossil fuel industries have been pouring tens of millions of dollars, maybe hundreds of millions in total over the last few years, into the coffers of ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/19/climate-disaster-survivors-call-for-criminal-investigation-into-fossil-fuel-industry/) 2024-08-20T09:20:00Z **Burned and uninsured: Wildfires are leaving California’s housing market in trouble**
Shania Baweja and Taylor Galgano,  Reporters  -  CNN Business

_Stephan: I have been telling you this would happen, and here is a confirmation of my prediction. Just as sea rise has made obtaining home insurance very difficult in Florida, so forest fires are affecting Northern California, as this report describes. And this is just the beginning of what we will see ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/20/burned-and-uninsured-wildfires-are-leaving-californias-housing-market-in-trouble/) 2024-08-20T09:25:00Z **S&P 500 CEOs made 268 times what the typical worker made last year, report says: ‘CEO payflation strikes again’**
Aarthi Swaminathan,  Personal Finance Reporter  -  Market Watch

_Stephan: As The New York Times quoted him: "In the 1980s, Peter F. Drucker, the economist and Wall Street Journal columnist, cited research showing it felt “about right” when C.E.O.s received 10 to 12 times what workers earned. He said pay ratio ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/20/sp-500-ceos-made-268-times-what-the-typical-worker-made-last-year-report-says-ceo-payflation-strikes-again/) 2024-08-20T09:30:00Z **Koch network’s flagship super PAC pours big money into 2024 elections**
Maia Cook,    -  Open Secrets

_Stephan: This is what the Reagan and Republican Congresses restructuring of the U.S. tax system and the Citizens United Supreme Court decision legalizing bribery of politicians has produced. This grotesque wealth equality has completely reshaped America producing so much fear, resentment, and stress in our society today._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/20/koch-networks-flagship-super-pac-pours-big-money-into-2024-elections/) 2024-08-20T09:35:00Z **Inside the tax cut that changed everything for the middle class in America**
Thom Hartmann,  Contributing Writer  -  Raw Story \| Commentary

_Stephan: I have been telling you for 30 years that the tax changes made during the Reagan administration fundamentally changed the structure of America, and created the vast wealth inequality and the uber-rich oligarchs who are now trying to end democracy in the United States. Thom Hartmann apparently agrees with ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/20/inside-the-tax-cut-that-changed-everything-for-the-middle-class-in-america/) 2024-08-21T09:20:00Z **Red States Get 85% of the Benefit of Climate Law. Some Still Hate It.**
Kristi E. Swartz,    -  truthout

_Stephan: This is a classic story of why Republican governance is always inferior to Democrat governance. I say that not as a partisan statement but as a matter of objectively verifiable facts. Every congressional Republican voted against the the Biden administration's Inflation Reduction Act bill, arguing it was nothing more than handouts to prop up climat ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/21/red-states-get-85-of-the-benefit-of-climate-law-some-still-hate-it/) 2024-08-21T09:25:00Z **New College of Florida tosses hundreds of library books, empties gender diversity library**
Steven Walker,  Reporter  -  Herald-Tribune

_Stephan: MAGAt Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has been steadily dismantling public education in Florida from elementary school to public colleges. He wants christofascist indoctrination not fact-based education, and here is one of the latest moves he has arranged. Why the people of Florida continue to ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/21/new-college-of-florida-tosses-hundreds-of-library-books-empties-gender-diversity-library/) 2024-08-21T09:35:00Z **New Lines of Attack Form Against the Affordable Care Act**
Julie Appleby,    -  Med Page Today \| Kaiser Family Foundation

_Stephan: The MAGAt Republicans are owned by the illness profit corporations as their opposition to honorable wellbeing oriented healthcare makes clear over and over. Here is their latest move. But although the Republicans are the worst villains in this neither party seems to understand the importance of universal birthright single payer healthcare. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/21/new-lines-of-attack-form-against-the-affordable-care-act/) 2024-08-21T09:30:00Z **The FDA should withdraw approval of more than 400 tainted medicines**
Suzanne Robott,  President of MedShadow Foundation  -  STAT

_Stephan: Here, in this article we see the depth of corruption of the healthcare regulatory agencies of the UNited States, in this case the FDA. This is a demonstration of how in America corporate profit is more important than the wellbeing of the nation's people. This is insane, and as a people we must speak out demanding change._ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/21/the-fda-should-withdraw-approval-of-more-than-400-tainted-medicines/) 2024-08-22T09:20:00Z **Antibiotics are failing. The US has a plan to launch a research renaissance.**
Jess Craig,  Contributing Writer  -  Vox

_Stephan: If you are a regular SR reader you know I have been predicting this for years. Climate change is causing viruses, and bacteria to muttate and produce mutated variations of diseases for which our present antibiotics will not work. The question, as this article describes is whether a pharmaceutical industry will respond as the ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/22/antibiotics-are-failing-the-us-has-a-plan-to-launch-a-research-renaissance/) 2024-08-22T09:25:00Z **Building Collisions Are Killing as Many as 1 Billion Birds a Year in the U.S., Study Finds**
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  Eco Watch

_Stephan: Many species of birds in the U.S. are in decline, and one of the reasons is decribed in this report. A billion birds a year dying by flying into buildings. Do you think it might be time to begin to devise programs to stop this? I do. The death of so many birds threatens not onl ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/22/building-collisions-are-killing-as-many-as-1-billion-birds-a-year-in-the-u-s-study-finds/) 2024-08-22T09:35:00Z **‘Nobody ever saw anything like this before’: how methane emissions are pushing the Amazon towards environmental catastrophe**
,    \-  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Yet another tale of human stupidity and greed. Until we get universal agreement that climate change must be stopped and that methane production must end, we are not going to deal with climate change productively, as this report describes. Climat ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/22/nobody-ever-saw-anything-like-this-before-how-methane-emissions-are-pushing-the-amazon-towards-environmental-catastrophe/) 2024-08-22T09:30:00Z **‘Unacceptable’: a staggering 4.4 billion people lack safe drinking water, study finds**
Alix Soliman,  Contributing Writer  -  nature

_Stephan: What can be more essential to wellbeing than clean water. Yet nearly half the human population it seems does not have access to clean water. If you think this is true only of third world developing countries I am sorry to tell you that you are mistaken. More than 2 million people lack access to safe drin ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/22/unacceptable-a-staggering-4-4-billion-people-lack-safe-drinking-water-study-finds/) 2024-08-23T09:20:00Z **The Government Spends Millions to Open Grocery Stores in Food Deserts. The Real Test Is Their Survival**
Molly Parker,  Reporter  -  ProPublica \| Capitol News Illinois

_Stephan: I knew about medical deserts, and have written about them, and published many articles about them in SR. But until I read this ProPublica report I had never heard about Food Deserts, defined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as any low-income urb ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/23/the-government-spends-millions-to-open-grocery-stores-in-food-deserts-the-real-test-is-their-survival/) 2024-08-23T09:25:00Z **Locking up items to deter shoplifting is pushing shoppers online**
Kelly Tyko,  Staff Writer  -  Axios

_Stephan: Our culture is changing in very unhappy ways as this report describes. I see the shoplifting trend and what it is doing to the shopping experience for millions of us as the result of our obscene wealth inequality. People shoplift not just because they are dishonest. They do it also because they are poor._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/23/locking-up-items-to-deter-shoplifting-is-pushing-shoppers-online/) 2024-08-23T09:30:00Z **When will climate change turn life in the U.S. upside down?**
JEFF MASTERS,  Staff Writer  -  Yale Climate Connections

_Stephan: Jeff Masters is a meteorologist who has been studying the climate for 45 years. His assessment of what is coming as a result of climate change validates what I have been warning you about since the early 2000s when I began researching the scientific studies. We, as a country, are not taking this seriously enough because the oligarchs who cont ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/23/when-will-climate-change-turn-life-in-the-u-s-upside-down/) 2024-08-23T09:35:00Z **Trump will hold an ‘awards gala’ for rioters who stormed the Capitol on January 6**
Graig Graziosi,  Reporter  -  The Independent (U.K.)

_Stephan: I thought this story had to be misinformation, but I have checked five sources and it is authentic. I chose to use a British source because it makes the point that this is how the world is reporting about criminal Trump. This is what the MAGAt Republican candidate for president has chosen to do 73 days ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/23/trump-will-hold-an-awards-gala-for-rioters-who-stormed-the-capitol-on-january-6/) 2024-08-24T09:30:00Z **No SR Today**
,    \-

_Stephan:_

Due to a service disruption with Hughesnet, which has been a constant source of problems, Stephan can’t do SR because he has no Internet connection. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/24/no-sr-today-4/) 2024-08-25T09:20:00Z **Trees Hold Their Breath to Avoid Wildfire Smoke**
DELPHINE FARMER AND MJ RICHES,   Professor of Chemistry at Colorado State University.  -  Atlas Obscura

_Stephan: Gradually, slowly, science is beginning to understand that all living beings have a measure of consciousness. Here is the latest research making this point. What all this research is telling us is that We live in a matrix of consciousness and all consciousnesses are interconnected and interdependent._

![](https://www ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/25/trees-hold-their-breath-to-avoid-wildfire-smoke/) 2024-08-25T09:30:00Z **Biden admin wants to make canceling subscriptions easier**
Ivana Saric,  Breaking News Reporter  -  Axios

_Stephan: I just had two personal experiences being charged for two subscriptions I cancelled over a year ago. It took me a total of two hours to get this sorted out, so this story definitely caught my attention. You have probably had similar experiences. We seem to have entered the age of scamming. We get about five scam calls or requests to sign up for something o ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/25/biden-admin-wants-to-make-canceling-subscriptions-easier/) 2024-08-25T09:25:00Z **Startup Replaces 6 Million Plastic Bags with Prototype Made from Corn Waste That Decomposes in 180 Days**
Andy Corbley ,  Staff Writer  -  Good News Network

_Stephan: Here is some more good news. Finally, someone has invented a way to get rid of non-compostable plastic bags. I hope this spreads and is embraced in the United States. Chemical plastic bags, as I am sure you know, have become a huge problem._

![](https://www.s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/25/startup-replaces-6-million-plastic-bags-with-prototype-made-from-corn-waste-that-decomposes-in-180-days/) 2024-08-25T09:35:00Z **Trump’s businesses are raking in millions of dollars from Republican political campaigns – including his own**
Casey Tolan, Isabelle Chapman and Nelli Black,  Senior Writer \| Producer CNN Investigates \| Senior Producer for CNN's Investigations Unit  -  CNN

_Stephan: I don't think, and can find no example in doing research, that anyone has ever seen running for president basically use the campaign process as a way to per ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/25/trumps-businesses-are-raking-in-millions-of-dollars-from-republican-political-campaigns-including-his-own/) 2024-08-26T09:30:00Z **No more fiscal favours? Calls to tax super-rich gain traction around world**
Phillip Inman,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: This is a very interesting development of a new trend in my view, because it indicates that wealth inequality has become not just a U.S. issue but an international issue, and change is coming. I see this as good news because wealth inequality is the cancer of democracy._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/20 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/26/no-more-fiscal-favours-calls-to-tax-super-rich-gain-traction-around-world/) 2024-08-26T09:25:00Z **The West’s Next Challenge Is the Rising Axis of Autocracies**
Yaroslav Trofimov,    -  The Wall Street Journal

_Stephan: We are going into a new Cold War. I don't agree with everything in this article, in the conservative Wall Street Journal, but I am using it in SR to make the fundamental point. The democracies and the autocracies of the world are facing off against one another. But this isn't going to be like the last Cold War. Russia was never the super power most ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/26/the-wests-next-challenge-is-the-rising-axis-of-autocracies/) 2024-08-26T09:20:00Z **Whaling: why the practice will not go away**
,    \-  Raw Story / Agence France-Presse (France)

_Stephan: Whaling is evil, and incredibly stupid. Whales are a major part of the oceans' ecosystem and Earth's matrix of life. The only way, I see it ending is if every individual human makes the personal decision not to eat whale. If there is no money in it, the whaling industry will wither away._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image-69.jpg)_Sperm whal. Cred ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/26/whaling-why-the-practice-will-not-go-away/) 2024-08-26T09:35:00Z **Our Buildings Were Built for a Different World**
KATE WAGNER,  Architecture Critic Staff Writer  -  The Nation

_Stephan: I have been telling you that to deal effectively with climate change it is going to require a radical change in everything from energy technologies to architecture. I very rarely see any coverage of this in media, so was quite interested in seeing this piece on the need to develop new approaches in architecture._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/u ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/26/our-buildings-were-built-for-a-different-world/) 2024-08-27T09:20:00Z **During a year of extremes, carbon dioxide levels surge faster than ever**
,    \-  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

_Stephan: The warnings keep coming, as this report from NOAA illustrates, but do you hear this earth transforming crisis, which is going to have a major effect on your life and the lives of everyone of your family and friends, indeed humanity as a whole, being discussed by politicians in the upcoming election? I doubt it. So as ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/27/during-a-year-of-extremes-carbon-dioxide-levels-surge-faster-than-ever/) 2024-08-27T09:25:00Z **Teenagers at more risk online than Interrailing in Europe, say experts**
Emily Dugan,    -  The Guardian

_Stephan: European countries are beginning to recognize that children face more danger online with social media than they do travelling alone on the railroad, particularly young girls. My question is: why is the United States doing virtually nothing about the danger faced by American children as a result of social media interactions._

![](https://www.sc ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/27/teenagers-at-more-risk-online-than-interrailing-in-europe-say-experts/) 2024-08-27T09:30:00Z **America is in the midst of a mental health crisis.**
Annie Waldman, Maya Miller, Duaa Eldeib and Max Blau,    -  ProPublica

_Stephan: Millions of Americans are experiencing a mental health crisis for a variety of reasons, from loneliness, to PTSD, depression, paranoia, and schizophrenia. And they are not getting the help they desperately need. Why? The usual reason, greed and profit. The United States as a society, as a government, as a culture, just doesn't seem to be capable ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/27/america-is-in-the-midst-of-a-mental-health-crisis/) 2024-08-27T09:35:00Z **A Trump judge ruled there’s a Second Amendment right to own machine guns**
Ian Millhiser,  Senior Correspondent  -  Vox

_Stephan: Felon Trump's corruption of the U.S. judiciary system is made manifest in this account. You may be sure that the White Nationalist militias will take advantage of this evil decision by a Trump judge. That strongly suggests there is going to be more civil violence, more mass murders by gun fire. We are becoming an ever more dang ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/27/a-trump-judge-ruled-theres-a-second-amendment-right-to-own-machine-guns/) 2024-08-28T09:25:00Z **Researchers Detect ‘Alarming’ Levels of Microplastics in Human Brain Samples**
Paige Bennett,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Here is yet another alarming story about microplastics; this one about their growing presence in the human brain. Why is this happening, why is nothing being done to curtail the plastics corporations? I think the answer to that question is that this is a measure of the corruption in our society making profit more imp ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/28/researchers-detect-alarming-levels-of-microplastics-in-human-brain-samples/) 2024-08-28T09:20:00Z **Water-Related Conflict On The Rise Across The World, Study Finds**
Jamie Hailstone,  Contributing Writer  -  Forbes

_Stephan: I have been telling you for more than two decades that this trend was coming, and it is only going to get worse in the coming years. Climate change is going to cause enormous migrations both inside countries and between countries, and water violence is going to become a critical aspect of this crisis._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/28/water-related-conflict-on-the-rise-across-the-world-study-finds/) 2024-08-28T09:30:00Z **NOBEL PRIZE PHYSICIST THINKS CONSCIOUSNESS MUST UNDERLIE UNIVERSE**
DENYSE O'LEARY ,  Nobel Prize Physicist  -  Mind Matters

_Stephan: Brian Josephson is a colleague in consciousness research I have known for something like 40 years. Like many in physics he is struggling with making consciousness foundational and causal in physics but is getting there. I publish this to make the point that physicists including Nobel laureates are beginning to recognize that the ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/28/nobel-prize-physicist-thinks-consciousness-must-underlie-universe/) 2024-08-28T09:35:00Z **Extreme weather disrupts supply, pushing up prices on common supermarket items everywhere.**
ORLA DWYER ,    -  truthdig

_Stephan: Here is another prediction I have published in SR becoming and acknowledged reality. Climate change is going to transform agriculture of all kinds across the Earth. Plants that grew in one place will no longer do so. This fact-based article should be seen as a warning about what is coming. And I chose this rep ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/28/extreme-weather-disrupts-supply-pushing-up-prices-on-common-supermarket-items-everywhere/) 2024-08-29T09:25:00Z **From Weapons to Fossil Fuels — 10 Firms Control $50 Trillion of Global Wealth**
Peter Handel ,  Staff Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: This is one of best articles I have read about the obscene wealth inequality that has developed in the United States. This is why we are not preparing properly for climate change. This is why our democracy is in serious danger. This is why the United States does not have a healthcare system that has anything to do with fos ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/29/from-weapons-to-fossil-fuels-10-firms-control-50-trillion-of-global-wealth/) 2024-08-29T09:20:00Z **Harvard neurology expert reveals study on how religious fundamentalism impacts the brain**
Sarah K. Burris,  Senior Digital Editor  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Neuroscience is beginning to give us insight into the attraction of fundamentalist religions and an individual's neuroanatomy.

Citation for the full study: [A neural network for religious fundamentalism derived from patients with brain lesions](https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.232 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/29/harvard-neurology-expert-reveals-study-on-how-religious-fundamentalism-impacts-the-brain/) 2024-08-29T09:30:00Z **The Unequal Effects of School Closings**
Alec MacGillis,  Staff Writer  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: The United States, as you can see from the chart that heads this report the U.S. scores 36th in the world on educational capabilities. That we are the world's leader on education is another of the lies we routinely tell ourselves. In fact we have a very poorly educated population, and a well-educated population is critical to a successful democracy._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-cont ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/29/the-unequal-effects-of-school-closings/) 2024-08-29T09:35:00Z **Supreme Court rebuffs Biden administration plea to restore multibillion-dollar student debt plan**
,    \-  Associated Press

_Stephan: The United States was once a world leader in education, now we aren't even in the top 50 nations, and college has become a source of financial crisis for millions. This did not happen by chance, it is the result of a deliberate policy of the Republican Party. Project 2025 even proposing eliminating ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/29/supreme-court-rebuffs-biden-administration-plea-to-restore-multibillion-dollar-student-debt-plan/) 2024-08-30T09:20:00Z **EPA Issues Emergency Ban on the Pesticide Dacthal**
: Paige Bennett,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: As this article explains the EPA has issued an emergency ban on a chemical used in commercial pesticides called Dacthal. I hope you don't use chemical pesticides but, if your do, If you have any pesticides in your garage or garden shack that contain Dacthal, listed on products as dimethyl tetrachloroterephthalate immediately take the container to some center that ha ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/30/epa-issues-emergency-ban-on-the-pesticide-dacthal/) 2024-08-30T09:25:00Z **The American Dream Feels Out of Reach for Most**
Rachel Wolfe,  Reporter  -  The Wall Street Journal

_Stephan: I have had occasion to meet and speak candidly with several people I didn't know, and their comments have left me seriously concerned with what I see as the growing sense that America is no longer a country where working hard will give you the success your seek. I see this as a fundamental aspect of the obscene wealth inequality that now shapes American society. I find i ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/30/the-american-dream-feels-out-of-reach-for-most/) 2024-08-30T09:30:00Z **The AI safety bill Big Tech hates has passed the California legislature**
Kelsey Piper,  Senior Writer  -  Vox

_Stephan: As you know from reading me I think AI is a very mixed bag. I can see how it could be helpful, I also see how it could, and has been, used in very negative ways spewing AI generated misinformation and fake porn to mention just two of the many damages AI is causing. California is the first state to really think the issue through by passi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/30/the-ai-safety-bill-big-tech-hates-has-passed-the-california-legislature/) 2024-08-30T09:35:00Z **Fluoride at Twice the Recommended Limit Tied to Lower IQ in Kids, U.S. Report Says**
,    \-  MedPage Today / Associated Press

_Stephan: Fluoride has long been an issue as to its effects on health. But here is a new, and quite alarming report. Fluoride, it seems, lowers the IQ of children when they are exposed to twice the recommended limit, as many childrren are. I urge you to have your water tested. Pay close attention particularly to Fluoride, ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/30/fluoride-at-twice-the-recommended-limit-tied-to-lower-iq-in-kids-u-s-report-says/) 2024-08-31T09:20:00Z **Texas megachurch faces exodus of worshippers after a sex abuse scandal set off a summer of turmoil**
Nicole Chavez,    -  CNN

_Stephan: Yet another sex scandal involving a fundamentalist mega church pastor. There are so many of these, I don't usual cover them as individual events, but I am doing this story because there are so many of these scandals it is clearly a trend. Evangelicals pastors, like Roman Catholic priests, clearl ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/31/texas-megachurch-faces-exodus-of-worshippers-after-a-sex-abuse-scandal-set-off-a-summer-of-turmoil/) 2024-08-31T09:25:00Z **Israeli military launches fatal airstrike on humanitarian aid convoy in Gaza**
Julian Borger,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Israel led by a fascist authoritarian, Benjamin Netanyahu, who like criminal Trump, cares for nothing but staying in power to avoid going to prison has led his country into committing genocide. And it is being made possible by the bombs and weapons the United States gives Israel. I hope Kamala Harris wins the Presidency, b ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/31/israeli-military-launches-fatal-airstrike-on-humanitarian-aid-convoy-in-gaza/) 2024-08-31T09:30:00Z **Documents Reveal Plan to Fight PFAS Regulations With Industry-Backed Research**
Edwaard Carver,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: This is a prime example of corporations choosing greed over the wellbeing of their customers. This is also a prime example of the corruption of Congress. This is what is wrong with the culture of the United States._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Screenshot-2024-08-30-at-9.57.06 PM. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/31/documents-reveal-plan-to-fight-pfas-regulations-with-industry-backed-research/) 2024-08-31T09:35:00Z **Why the Media Won’t Report the Truth About Trump**
James Risen,  Contributing Writer  -  The Intercept

_Stephan: I find journalists covering this election hopelessly mediocre. As this article points out most of the corporate media continues to cover the election as a horeses-race contest between equals, which is egregiously incorrect. On one side we have a liar, convicted rapist, convicted felon, life-long business scammer. On the other we have a traditional public service foste ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/08/31/why-the-media-wont-report-the-truth-about-trump/) 2024-09-01T09:25:00Z **‘Fearful for my safety’: Women who accused Trump’s campaign chief of harassment speak out**
Carl Gibson,    -  AlterNet

_Stephan: In MAGAt controlled states election workers, like the staff woman at the Arlington National Cemetery as well as individuals, particularly women, involved in the election system are being threatened. As this article describes, many are too frightened to complain about the harassment they have received. This is how ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/01/fearful-for-my-safety-women-who-accused-trumps-campaign-chief-of-harassment-speak-out/) 2024-09-01T09:20:00Z **‘This Is Crazy’: Aid Groups Prepare To Fight Polio In Gaza**
Akbar Shahid Ahmed,    -  HuffPost

_Stephan: Polio. This is what the Israeli genocide is doing to the Palestinians in Gaza. This is evil, and the United States is complicit in this because we are providing the weapons the Israelis are using. Write Kamala Harris please and tell her this must stop._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image-78.jpg)_Medical workers are seen in Deir al-Ba ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/01/this-is-crazy-aid-groups-prepare-to-fight-polio-in-gaza/) 2024-09-01T09:30:00Z **The thrill of AI is fading — and Wall Street is getting a little more clear-eyed about its actual value**
Allison Morrow,    -  CNN Business

_Stephan: Here is the latest assessment about AI. What I found notable, and so typically American, is that the assessment has nothing to do with whether AI promotes or degrades social wellbeing. It is entirely a report about profit. Our media and the journalists who staff it don't seem t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/01/the-thrill-of-ai-is-fading-and-wall-street-is-getting-a-little-more-clear-eyed-about-its-actual-value/) 2024-09-01T09:35:00Z **Why Trump’s new trading cards are a very bad bet**
Michael Osacky,  ISA Accredited Sports Appraiser  -  MSNBC

_Stephan: Convicted rapist and felon, and committer of treason, multiple-bankrupt, and worker cheater, Donald Trump is something from the darkest part of the American Id. Phony steak deals, phony university deals, vulgar gold gym shoes, and on and on, and now trading cards and pieces of one of his suits. Running for the Presidency is a scam to keep himself out of prison, ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/01/why-trumps-new-trading-cards-are-a-very-bad-bet/) 2024-09-02T09:20:00Z **The US Appetite for Electricity Grew Massively in the First Half of 2024, and Solar Power Rose to the Occasion**
Dan Gearino,  Staff Writer  -  Inside Climate News

_Stephan: Here is some good news about the U.S. transition out of the carbon energy era. We are making progress._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-01-at-8.53.24 PM.jpg)

The United States increased its electr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/02/the-us-appetite-for-electricity-grew-massively-in-the-first-half-of-2024-and-solar-power-rose-to-the-occasion/) 2024-09-02T09:25:00Z **A mysterious group of Republicans is secretly rewriting the Constitution**
Thom Hartmann,  Contributing Writer  -  Raw Story \| Commentary

_Stephan: Thom Hartmann, has it right. This is what journalists should be covering, what their editors and producers should be asking them to focus on. I don't think most Americans really understand what the christofascists and the billionaires who control them are really trying to achieve. But Hartmann gets it just a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/02/a-mysterious-group-of-republicans-is-secretly-rewriting-the-constitution/) 2024-09-02T09:30:00Z **Why Americans stopped moving**
Erica Pandey,    -  Axios

_Stephan: Here is the first report I have seen on something I had suspected but not been able to find reliable data on. I see this trend as yet another function of what is happening to the United States because of our grotesque wealth inequality and the reality that as a culture we have no social priority more important than greed and profit. If this is to end we must once again become a society where fostering wellbeing is social goal and p ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/02/why-americans-stopped-moving/) 2024-09-02T09:35:00Z **The real reason corporate media won’t cover Trump’s attacks on democracy**
D. Earl Stephens,  Contributing Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: This essay by a retired newsman closely reflects my own feelings: What happened to journalists in the United States that they treat this election like a horse race between equals. It is nothing like that. Who could have imagined in the over two centuries of our nation's history that in the third decade of the 21st centur ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/02/the-real-reason-corporate-media-wont-cover-trumps-attacks-on-democracy/) 2024-09-03T09:25:00Z **‘Worst case scenario’ of Florida real estate crisis revealed as desperate residents flee**
Emma Richter,    -  Daily Mail

_Stephan: I have been telling you for years now that Florida is heading for a massive crisis because of climate change and large parts of the state are going underwater. In part this is because the people of Florida elected such an incompetent governor and legislature of racist MAGAt christofascists who are doing far too ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/03/worst-case-scenario-of-florida-real-estate-crisis-revealed-as-desperate-residents-flee/) 2024-09-03T09:20:00Z **SCOTUS ruling on citizenship proof for new voters has an outsized impact for Native voters**
Shondiiin Silversmith,  Navajo Journalist  -  AZ Mirror

_Stephan: I confess I had not realized the impact on Native Americans cause by the decision of the christofascist Supreme Court Majority. Here is the story._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/image-5.jpg)_An American flag with an image of Native American on it i ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/03/scotus-ruling-on-citizenship-proof-for-new-voters-has-an-outsized-impact-for-native-voters/) 2024-09-03T09:30:00Z **Why Many Parents and Teens Think It’s Harder Being a Teen Today**
MICHELLE FAVERIO , JEFFREY GOTTFRIED , KAITLYN RADDE , CHRIS BARONAVSKI and SARA ATSKE,  Research Staff  -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: I think it must be harder and lonelier to be a teenager today than when I was a teenager, particularly for teenage girls. The internet and social media are a very mixed bag Here is what Pew Research Center has discovered on this issue._

[![A chart showing that Te ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/03/why-many-parents-and-teens-think-its-harder-being-a-teen-today/) 2024-09-03T09:35:00Z **Convicted fraudsters launch AI lobbying firm using fake names**
Daniel Lippman,    -  Politico

_Stephan: I warned you this weaponization of misinformation (see SR archive) was happening and getting worse and worse as time went on. Here is the latest and one of the most blatant scams using social media and AI, that I have seen. The internet, and particularly social media, have become very murky and dangerous places to visit. Be very careful and check and double chec ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/03/convicted-fraudsters-launch-ai-lobbying-firm-using-fake-names/) 2024-09-04T09:20:00Z **‘Rush’ hour isn’t what it used to be. Working 10-to-4 is the new 9-to-5, commuting data shows**
Jessica Dickler,  Personal Finance Writer  -  CNBC

_Stephan: Here is another emerging trend. Our culture is changing. We are becoming two quite different countries in a single nation. Gender and racial relations are changing. Our wealth inequality has produced an luxurious elite of money and vast peasantry of financial stress. It is making us a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/04/rush-hour-isnt-what-it-used-to-be-working-10-to-4-is-the-new-9-to-5-commuting-data-shows/) 2024-09-04T09:25:00Z **Phoenix’s streak of reaching at least 100 degrees hits 100 days**
SERENA O'SULLIVAN ,  Reporter  -  KTAR News (Arizona)

_Stephan: And here we have the reason developing new technologies is so critical. Frankly, I don't know how anyone lives in Phoenix anymore._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/image-7.jpg)Credit: KTAR News

PHOENIX, ARIZONA — This summer, Phoenix has set a new benchmark for extreme heat, with the temperature reaching ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/04/phoenixs-streak-of-reaching-at-least-100-degrees-hits-100-days/) 2024-09-04T09:30:00Z **‘Transformational’: how a California city launched America’s first hydrogen-powered passenger train**
Jules Feeney,  Contributing Writer  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: More good news from Blue state California, presaging what I hope will become the dominant trend in rail. It is interesting that California has led the country in innovations for many years, and this pre-eminence seems to continue. This is an example of what I mean ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/04/transformational-how-a-california-city-launched-americas-first-hydrogen-powered-passenger-train/) 2024-09-04T09:35:00Z **California city’s $550m deal with Chevron could be a national model for environmentalists**
WILL MCCARTHY,  Reporter  -  Politico

_Stephan: Here is what I think is some important good news coming out of California: A path to controlling the pollution and environmental damage produced by manufacturing corporations, particularly those involved with carbon energy. I am going to follow this and see if it emerges as a trend._

![](https://www.s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/04/california-citys-550m-deal-with-chevron-could-be-a-national-model-for-environmentalists/) 2024-09-05T09:20:00Z **Ginni Thomas Privately Praised Group Working Against Supreme Court Reform: “Thank You So, So, So Much”**
Andy Kroll and Nick Surgey,  Staff Writers  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: The corruption of Associate Justice Clarence Thomas and his MAGAt lobbyist wife Ginni is astounding to me. How is it possible a man this corrupt and dishonorable can be one of the six people, the christofascist Trump majority on the Supreme Court, who determin ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/05/ginni-thomas-privately-praised-group-working-against-supreme-court-reform-thank-you-so-so-so-much/) 2024-09-05T09:30:00Z **Surviving a school shooting: Impacts on the mental health, education, and earnings of American youth**
Maya Rossin-Slater,  Research Scientist  -  Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research

_Stephan: This paper was published in 2022, but is the latest I could find, in the academic literature, and I doubt very much its conclusions have changed in the subsquent months. Fear of being shot while in school, according to Pew Resea ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/05/surviving-a-school-shooting-impacts-on-the-mental-health-education-and-earnings-of-american-youth/) 2024-09-05T09:30:00Z **Surviving a school shooting: Impacts on the mental health, education, and earnings of American youth**
Maya Rossin-Slater,  Research Scientist  -  Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research

_Stephan: This paper was published in 2022, but is the latest I could find, in the academic literature, and I doubt very much its conclusions have changed in the subsquent months. Fear of being shot while in school, according to Pew Resea ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/05/surviving-a-school-shooting-impacts-on-the-mental-health-education-and-earnings-of-american-youth/) 2024-09-05T09:25:00Z **Russia backed widespread election interference scheme, DOJ says**
Avery Lotz,  Staff Writer  -  Axios

_Stephan: What I see new in this DOJ report is not that Putin and his Russian government are trying to get criminal Trump elected, it is the blatant treasonous involvement in his schemes of MAGAt Republicans lobbyists and media, and politicians for that matter. We have a portion of the U.S. political system who are openly traitors as this report and public comment ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/05/russia-backed-widespread-election-interference-scheme-doj-says/) 2024-09-05T09:25:00Z **Russia backed widespread election interference scheme, DOJ says**
Avery Lotz,  Staff Writer  -  Axios

_Stephan: What I see new in this DOJ report is not that Putin and his Russian government are trying to get criminal Trump elected, it is the blatant treasonous involvement in his schemes of MAGAt Republicans lobbyists and media, and politicians for that matter. We have a portion of the U.S. political system who are openly traitors as this report and public comment ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/05/russia-backed-widespread-election-interference-scheme-doj-says/) 2024-09-05T09:35:00Z **Officials identify 14-year-old student as suspect in Georgia school shooting that left 4 dead**
Isabel Rosales, John Miller, Nick Valencia, Dakin Andone and Sharif Paget, ,  Reporters  -  CNN

_Stephan: The first week of school, students have barely gotten their new text books, and we have already had a school mass murder; the 45th school mass murder this year. And where did a 14-year-old get the gun? And yet in states controlled by R ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/05/officials-identify-14-year-old-student-as-suspect-in-georgia-school-shooting-that-left-4-dead/) 2024-09-06T09:20:00Z **Gender Care Docs Threatened; Optum Takeover Regrets; Profiting Off Patients**
Jennifer Henderson,  Enterprise & Investigative Writer  -  MedPage Today

_Stephan: Yet another story about the inferiority of the U.S. illness profit system, and how dangerous is is becoming for physicians who try to provide any kind of help for individuals with transgender issues. All of this is happening because of the MAGAt Republican cult and the sexual dysfunctionality of ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/06/gender-care-docs-threatened-optum-takeover-regrets-profiting-off-patients/) 2024-09-06T09:30:00Z **The ‘Internet of Animals’ Could Transform What We Know About Wildlife**
HILLARY ROSNER ,  Science Journalist  -  Yale 360

_Stephan: More evidence that the matrix of life is interconnected and interdependent and that the evidence for that is growing year by year. Now will our political system recognize that reality and work to foster wellbeing? Will they do what the whole of humanity is dependent on? I doubt it, and that is why I think we are moving into a cri ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/06/the-internet-of-animals-could-transform-what-we-know-about-wildlife/) 2024-09-06T09:25:00Z **The public-sector pay gap is widening. Unions help shrink it.**
Monique Morrissey and Jennifer Sherer ,  Research Staff  -  Economic Policy Institute

_Stephan: The creation of unions was one of the critical steps in creating the middle class in the United States. When workers can join and negotiate collectively they do better. Here is the proof. The Democrats support unions, the MAGAt Republicans are trying to cut them. You should keep that in mind when you vote in N ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/06/the-public-sector-pay-gap-is-widening-unions-help-shrink-it/) 2024-09-06T09:35:00Z **NASA astronaut who watched Earth from space for 178 days realized humanity is ‘living a lie’**
Good Staff,    -  GOOD

_Stephan: Here, from a vistor to space, is confirmation of what I have been telling your for decades. We live in a matrix of life that is interconnected and interdependent, and we must make fostering wellbeing at every level of the matrix of life if our planet is to be healthy. The astronauts can see this, but individual ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/06/nasa-astronaut-who-watched-earth-from-space-for-178-days-realized-humanity-is-living-a-lie/) 2024-09-07T09:20:00Z **Trump rails against DOJ for indicting Russians for election interference**
Brad Reed,  Managing Editor  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Criminal Trump in my view is a traitor. I don't know how he could make his treason any clearer. I don't understand why corporate media video and print does not actively and openly tell the truth about him._

Former [President Donald Trump](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-child-care/) on Friday angrily lashed out at the United Stat ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/07/trump-rails-against-doj-for-indicting-russians-for-election-interference/) 2024-09-07T09:30:00Z **Trust in Government Assurance of Food Safety Hits Record Low**
RACHAEL YI,    -  Gallup Organization

_Stephan: If one looks at how Americans assess Congress, the Supreme Court, or even the safety of their food in grocery stores you see it is all declining. The only thing that is going to rebuild this country are the Americans who demand that the country, its laws, tax system, educational system, and healthcare system are all restructured to foster wellbeing. Are you ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/07/trust-in-government-assurance-of-food-safety-hits-record-low/) 2024-09-07T09:25:00Z **Texas’ Right-Wing Leaders Are Going To ‘Scary’ Lengths To Intimidate Political Rivals**
Matt Shuham,  Reporter  -  HuffPost

_Stephan: This in varying degrees is what is going on in all the MAGAt controlled Red States. The MAGAt Republicans, as they spell out in their Project 2025, are trying to turn the United States into something like Hungary, a fascist pseudo-democracy controlled by a small group of oligarchs. Texas and Florida are leading e ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/07/texas-right-wing-leaders-are-going-to-scary-lengths-to-intimidate-political-rivals/) 2024-09-07T09:35:00Z **The right-wing podcasters turned Russian propaganda dupes, explained**
Aja Romano,  Staff Writer  -  Vox

_Stephan: Putin and his intelligence services are actively trying to dismantle American democracy and support criminal Trump. That isn't actually very surprising, of course they are because weaponizing misinformation is so easy because there are not ethical or factual standards on social media. WHat stands out for me is not what the Russians are doing by t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/07/the-right-wing-podcasters-turned-russian-propaganda-dupes-explained/) 2024-09-08T09:20:00Z **Gaza officials reveal 70 percent of Palestinians killed by Israel are women, children**
News Desk,    -  The Cradle

_Stephan: I find it disgusting and amazing that the Biden administration continues to ship billions of dollars of weapons to Israel to carry out what is clearly a genocide. Over 17,000 children have been murdered while this has been going on. I think Kamala Harris should be challenged repeatedly by citizens and the media on what ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/08/gaza-officials-reveal-70-percent-of-palestinians-killed-by-israel-are-women-children/) 2024-09-08T09:25:00Z **Why fascists hate universities**
Jason Stanley,  Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Here is some good international news about citizens pushing back against fascist governments. But I picked this story because it also makes a second point explaining why fascists, in the U.S. the MAGAt Republican Party, don't like citizens to be educated. This is why the MAGAts in Congress have blocked the Biden - Harris attempt to forgive student college de ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/08/why-fascists-hate-universities/) 2024-09-08T09:30:00Z **The first silent wind turbine is the end of solar panels: 1500 kWh from your garden and free electricity**
D. García,  Staff Writer  -  ECONEWS

_Stephan: This is some good news about home energy. It is the latest development in wind power and it looks very interesting. The cost to set it up is about $5,500. We can't do solar here, because it is too cloudy in the winter, but this might work and I am going to look into it. Yo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/08/the-first-silent-wind-turbine-is-the-end-of-solar-panels-1500-kwh-from-your-garden-and-free-electricity/) 2024-09-08T09:35:00Z **Biden-Harris Admin to Invest $7.3B in Rural Clean Energy Projects Across 23 States**
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Here is some good news about transitioning out of the carbon era. It is from Democrats, of course, the MAGAt Republicans don't even mention climate change in their Project 2025 book. Traitor Trump never mentions doing anything to promote the transition. so it you want to prepare for climate ch ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/08/biden-harris-admin-to-invest-7-3b-in-rural-clean-energy-projects-across-23-states/) 2024-09-09T09:20:00Z **US election 2024: How Kamala Harris and Donald Trump differ starkly on energy and climate**
JOSH GABBATISS,  Staff Writer  -  Carbon Brief

_Stephan: If you want to continue to live on an Earth that resembles the one you have known all your life, you better vote only for Democrats. It is that simple_

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-08-at-10.22.44 PM.jpg)

On 5 November, US voters will elect ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/09/us-election-2024-how-kamala-harris-and-donald-trump-differ-starkly-on-energy-and-climate/) 2024-09-09T09:25:00Z **University funding from fossil fuels slowing switch to green energy – report**
Dharna Noor,  Fossil Fuels and Climate Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: The corporations that are destroying Earth's ecosystems are trying to corrupt university science departments the same way they have corrupted U.S. politics. I find it weird actually. Many of these corporate scum seem to think they are not going to be affected by the damage they are doing to our ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/09/university-funding-from-fossil-fuels-slowing-switch-to-green-energy-report/) 2024-09-09T09:30:00Z **Residents flee as California and Nevada wildfires get dangerously close and forecasters warn of record heat**
Paradise Afshar and Cindy Von Quednow,,  Reporters  -  CNN

_Stephan: This is what carbon energy is doing to us. These climate crises are happening somewhere every day, and the effects go way beyond the fire. It is burning alive parts of our matrix of life. It is changing the very nature of the environment. At an ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/09/residents-flee-as-california-and-nevada-wildfires-get-dangerously-close-and-forecasters-warn-of-record-heat/) 2024-09-09T09:35:00Z **Americans misunderstand their contribution to deteriorating environment**
KATIE SURMA,  Contributing Writer  -  ars TECHNICA

_Stephan: As this report of recent research makes clear Americans just don't get it. As a people we don't understand or accept what we are doing to destroy Earth's matrix of life; nor do we comprehend what this destruction is doing to us. I have been thinking about this all day. Why don't Americans understand what is happening to th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/09/americans-misunderstand-their-contribution-to-deteriorating-environment/) 2024-09-10T09:20:00Z **When Cops Condone Crime**
John B, Alexander,  Contributing Writer  -  Daily Kos

_Stephan: When I tell you about the bewitchment of millions of Americans who cannot see the reality of traitor Trump and the MAGAt Republicans, no one illustrates this better than John Alexandria, himself a former law enforcement officer. I think what he is describing should outrage every American who wants the United States to remain a democracy. Even our police like our politicians, and our judiciary, have been corrupted ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/10/when-cops-condone-crime/) 2024-09-10T09:25:00Z **Buying Politicians, Selling Lies, and Suppressing the Vote**
Thom Hartmann,    -  The Hartmann Report

_Stephan: Thom Hartmann, has the same view as I do about what the MAGAt Republicans, led by traitor Trump, are doing to America as millions of American voters stand by him entranced. I wish I had the funding to write a book about what this is doing to destroy the social wellbeing of the United States as proven by objectively verifiable social outcome data. The evil afoo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/10/buying-politicians-selling-lies-and-suppressing-the-vote/) 2024-09-10T09:35:00Z **Biden admin to require mental health coverage parity**
BEN LEONARD,    -  Politico

_Stephan: Here is some good news from the Biden-Harris administration. According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), 22.8% of US adults, or 57.8 million people, had a mental illness in 2021. The number is even higher After excluding children without current health insurance and those younger than 6 years, it is estimated that 16.5 percent of U.S. children between the ages of 6 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/10/biden-admin-to-require-mental-health-coverage-parity/) 2024-09-10T09:30:00Z **‘Tsunami of anti-Semitism’ stirs fears of dark days for Jews**
,    \-  Raw Story \| Agence Frnce-Presse (France)

_Stephan: I do not in any way excuse or justify what Hamas did that set war in the Middle East in motion. But that does not justify or excuse what Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli fascists have done to keep the war going, and keep Netanyahu in power. However, this little group of Israeli fascists is is clearly destroying the status of Jews in the world a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/10/tsunami-of-anti-semitism-stirs-fears-of-dark-days-for-jews/) 2024-09-11T09:20:00Z **Watch: Giant multibody wave energy converter flaps its way toward launch**
Abhimanyu Ghoshal,  Contributing Writer  -  New Atlas

_Stephan: Here is some interesting good news about what is happening in developing renewable non-carbon energy technologies. I think it is significant that neither this technology nor the one referenced in Scotland are coming from the United States._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/image-21.jpg)_Th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/11/watch-giant-multibody-wave-energy-converter-flaps-its-way-toward-launch/) 2024-09-11T09:30:00Z **‘People need to see it’: How politics hung up a $42B Biden internet buildout**
JOHN HENDEL,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: This is a story of how dysfunctional the U.S. government has become. You would think that both parties would think that it was in the best interests of the country to get rural Americans online at the highest speed possible, just as earlier governments got them electricity. But we no longer have a government in which both parti ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/11/people-need-to-see-it-how-politics-hung-up-a-42b-biden-internet-buildout/) 2024-09-11T09:25:00Z **‘Nate Silver is paid by Peter Thiel’: Never Trumper scrambles to dismiss poll prediction**
Alex Henderson,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: This is a very sad story. I once had great respect for Nate Silver because I thought he was a pollster of real integrity. Instead, this is just another story of corruption. 538 I realize now is not to be trusted._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/donald-trump-at-trial.webp)Former P ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/11/nate-silver-is-paid-by-peter-thiel-never-trumper-scrambles-to-dismiss-poll-prediction/) 2024-09-11T09:35:00Z **Fact-checking the ABC News presidential debate**
CNN Staff,    -  CNN

_Stephan: The CNN fact checkers latest report is that Trump lied 33 times and Harris once. My personal take was that the ABC moderators were not very good. Trump kept speaking out of turn and, I timed it, for longer than he was allocated on almost every occasion. They never cut him off, never muted his mike. He also gave almost no specifics in answer to any question he was asked. I thought Harris should have be ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/11/fact-checking-the-abc-news-presidential-debate/) 2024-09-12T09:25:00Z **One Leader Under God: The Connection Between Authoritarianism and Christian Nationalism in America**
PRRI Staff,    -  Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI)

_Stephan: As I watched traitor Trump's performance in the debate Tuesday night I kept thinking: what is it about this incompetent psychopathic criminal that millions of Americans still support him? Here, I think, is the answer. It says something very sade about America, b ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/12/one-leader-under-god-the-connection-between-authoritarianism-and-christian-nationalism-in-america/) 2024-09-12T09:20:00Z **Trump’s Christian Nationalist Vision for America**
ROBERT P. JONES,  President and Founder of PRRI  -  Time

_Stephan: Here is the other side of the equation described in the previous article. This is why millions of Americans still support traitor Trump. This is why it is so important that those of us who support racial and gender equality and want us to remain a democracy, and foster wellbeing for all must turn out and vote for the Democrats. They are far from perfect, but if w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/12/trumps-christian-nationalist-vision-for-america/) 2024-09-12T09:30:00Z **7 Medicare Changes You’ll See in 2025**
Kimberly Lankford,  Contributing Writer  -  AARP

_Stephan: I have hung on to this story for a few days to see what else might happen, but nothing seems to have changed, except the scheme by MAGAt Republicans to defund the government; but I do not think that is going to happen. So if you are one of my readers on Medicare pay attention to this. It may affect you._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/image-23.jpg)_Illustration ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/12/7-medicare-changes-youll-see-in-2025/) 2024-09-12T09:35:00Z **Wyden Says Trillions in Taxes Dodged by Ultra-Rich Could Fund Social Security Until 2100**
Jake Johnson,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: The IRS harasses middle class and working class tax payers endless over a few hundred dollars, but billionaires and millionaires with their lawyers and accountants rig their reports so that they cheat the country out of literally trillions of dollars. Here are the facts from someone who knows. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/09/12/wyden-says-trillions-in-taxes-dodged-by-ultra-rich-could-fund-social-security-until-2100/)