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Finally, a Federal Court Hits Back Hard at Big Tech on Section 230

This week saw a dramatic turn in our nation’s desperate efforts to clean up the increasingly poisonous online sewers that we call social media. ...

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New Republic

Thom Hartmann

The Corrupt Right-Wing Supreme Court Is the Cancer at the Heart of US Democracy

Republicans on the Supreme Court, 5 of the 6 appointed by presidents who lost the national vote, are the main reason why Americans can’t have nice...

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Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

The GOP’s Voter Intimidation Strategy Is Straight Out of the Confederate Playbook

28.08.2024 20

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

GOP: If We Can’t Win, We’ll Cheat; if We Can’t Cheat, We’ll Intimidate

The Republican attorney general of Texas sent armed police officers after Black voters in their eighties to intimidate, threaten, and destroy them...

27.08.2024 100

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

The Politics of Joy Versus the Only Thing Republicans Have Left: Cruelty

Compassion for a learning-disabled child is dead on the right: all they have left is cruelty.

23.08.2024 4

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz’s Secret Weapon Against the Republicans

When President Biden was running for re-election, he repeatedly talked about the dangers Trump and his neofascist buddies in the billionaire class...

22.08.2024 8

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

The Dark and Very Dangerous Side of the Far-Right's Tradwife Obsession

19.08.2024 10

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Can the Morbidly Rich Ever Become Good Citizens Again?

Twenty-two years ago, Nobel Prize–winning economist Paul Krugman wrote for The New York Times Magazine about the era in which he and I both grew up,...

16.08.2024 20

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

Trump's Dreamland for Billionaires Is a Nightmare for America's Working Class

15.08.2024 10

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

The GOP’s War on Retirees Is Just Blatantly Ripping Seniors Off

Recently, a retired woman seeking advice wrote in to MarketWatch’s financial adviser, saying: “I was ‘financially set’ after my husband...

13.08.2024 60

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

The GOP Is Just Fine With Greedy Scammers Cheating Seniors Out of Their Retirement Savings

13.08.2024 10

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

A Tsunami of Right-Wing Dark Money Is Barreling Toward Harris and Walz

Get ready: Massive pools of dark right-wing money are soon going to clobber us. Will Democracy survive this onslaught by the morbidly rich? Democrats...

09.08.2024 2

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

Tim Walz Is the Perfect Antidote to the Brainwashed Fox News Dads

All across America families are in mourning: Their parents and grandparents, particularly the men in their lives, have been stolen from them by the...

07.08.2024 30

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

JD Vance Is Just the Latest GOP Grifter to Try and Con America

25.07.2024 6

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

J.D. Vance Is a Grifter—Just Like His New Boss

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz on Tuesday blasted J.D. Vance for being a “grifter,” because Vance claimed he was some sort of a hillbilly who grew...

24.07.2024 7

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

J.D. Vance Wants Kamala Harris to Be “Grateful” for White Male Power

At a campaign stop in Ohio on Monday, J.D. Vance said that Kamala Harris shouldn’t lead America because she isn’t “grateful for it.” Vance...

23.07.2024 40

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

Rally Behind Harris to Defeat Trump

Because the RNC failed three times to protect America from a dictatorial madman, that job now falls to us.

22.07.2024 4

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Trump Will Make “Us” Wealthy? Depends on Who the “Us” Is.

Marjorie Taylor Greene told Republicans at the RNC this week that Donald Trump “will make us wealthy.” What’s she really saying? And who is...

17.07.2024 9

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

How Trump and His Band of Fascists Will Exploit Assassination Attempt to Silence, Demonize Their Critics

Will the media jump on the bandwagon and condemn Democrats and Biden for normal campaign rhetoric while continuing to normalize Trump's violent...

15.07.2024 4

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

AOC’s Move on Thomas and Alito Has All the Right Historical Echoes

Article 3 of the Constitution, which defines the roles and powers of the court system, says: “The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts,...

12.07.2024 6

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

The Corporate Media Continue to Ignore That Trump Is an Explicit Threat to Democracy

Somebody should tell the New York Times and others that it is, in fact, their job to treat one candidate with pronounced alarm when the threat posed...

10.07.2024 8

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

How the Real Mainstream Media Bias Favors Donald Trump

Watching and reading American media, a certain bias becomes immediately evident. Stories proliferate about pundits and a handful of Democrats calling...

09.07.2024 20

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

Trump's Far-Right Army Is Threatening Bloodshed. Believe Them.

We must not only resist, but prevail. If we do not, it will be nearly impossible to reverse the course that America’s right-wing billionaires have...

05.07.2024 30

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

The Next Step Is to End All Prosecutions of Trump

Now that the Supreme Court has made any president into a king who chooses to corruptly use the power granted him by six Republicans on the Supreme...

02.07.2024 3

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

The Supreme Court Just Turned Trump Into the First American King

The six Republicans on this court have essentially declared that they and Trump are so far above the law that the entire concept this nation was...

01.07.2024 4

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

The Supreme Court Was Never Meant to Be Kings and Queens

With the leaked Idaho emergency abortion ruling yesterday, it appears the conservatives on the Supreme Court are trying to do the same thing they did...

27.06.2024 3

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

How the Trump and Right-Wing Media Hate Virus Spreads

She may never be the same. On May 19, three American citizens were hanging out at their apartment complex swimming pool. A mom and her two children, a...

25.06.2024 5

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

Trump and the GOP Want to Drown the Middle Class in the Bathtub

As the middle class shrinks and poverty grows, the cash stash at the very top of the American economic pyramid grows exponentially.

25.06.2024 30

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Beware the Republican Plot to Replace US Democracy With a New Confederacy

21.06.2024 7

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

On Juneteenth, Let’s Examine the Link Between MAGA and the Old South

Have you noticed how rarely Republicans talk about actual issues? They rant about brown people pouring over the Southern border but refuse to even...

19.06.2024 30

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

From the Border to Bump Stocks, the MAGA Lie Machine Is Heating Up

Hitler’s brilliant propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, famously told the Fuhrer, “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth.” Donald...

17.06.2024 5

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

Abortion Pill Ruling Nothing to Celebrate When GOP Attack on Women Is Only Just Beginning

Get ready. The GOP is not backing down one inch on their war against women’s rights and bodily autonomy.

16.06.2024 10

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Why Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos Want Women to Stay Barefoot and Pregnant

Elon Musk, the father of 11 children , thinks that declining population is a crisis and the world needs more babies—particularly those with his...

13.06.2024 10

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

Americans Are Wising Up to the GOP’s Tired Trickle-Down Scam

Trump and other Republican politicians are trying their best to revive their nonsensical horse-and-sparrow supply-side rationale so the rest of us can...

13.06.2024 20

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Trump and the GOP Are Doubling Down—Again—on Trickle-Down Economics

They’re at it again. And it’s not even original: The trickle-down economics that two dozen Republican governors and Donald Trump are reviving as...

11.06.2024 10

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

Trump + Murdoch = Another Racially Toxic Presidential Campaign

The politically cancerous pattern of using racism for political gain and financial profit dates back to the earliest days of our republic, but now,...

07.06.2024 4

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

We Are the Last Barrier to America Being Overwhelmed by Trump’s Fascist Tide

It’s not too late to stop this madness, although that task is being made harder every day as gutless Republicans, a spineless national media, and...

06.06.2024 10

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Gird Yourself for the Coming Avalanche of Pro-Trump A.I. Propaganda

In one of the great and thought-provoking comedy albums of all time, I Think We’re All Bozos on This Bus (1971), my dear old buddy Phil Proctor...

05.06.2024 7

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

Why Are Any of Us Paying for the Scam That is Medicare Advantage?

These plans are private health insurance provided by private corporations, who are then fully reimbursed by the Medicare trust fund regardless of how...

29.05.2024 40

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

How Trump’s Dictator Pals Might Get Him Back to the White House

Donald Trump has overtly taken the side of dictators including Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Viktor Orbán, and Kim Jong Un over the past eight years,...

28.05.2024 20

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

Why Republicans Want and Need a Permanent Economic Underclass

Odds are you’ve never heard of the “mudsill theory of labor,” but everybody in this country really should learn about it. It explains a whole...

24.05.2024 10

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

In Backing Trump, America’s Billionaires Are Digging Their Own Graves

I just finished watching the extraordinary Showtime series A Gentleman in Moscow , which takes place in the years and decades immediately after the...

21.05.2024 60

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

Are Our Oligarchs Going to Drag Us Into Civil War?

17.05.2024 50

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

US Oligarchs Started One Civil War — and They Could Do It Again

17.05.2024 20

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

More Dangerous to Your Dog Than Kristi Noem? Private Equity

14.05.2024 20

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

How Will Trump 2024 Add to the GOP’s Long History of Election Theft?

14.05.2024 40

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

Trump Keeps Dragging America Into More Moral Sewers Than We Can Count

09.05.2024 90

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

Right-Wing CEOs and Billionaires Think Trump Will Protect Them. Wrong.

The oligarchs are on the move, and they know who they want leading America. The Republican National Committee held an annual fundraiser at...

06.05.2024 20

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

What’s More Deadly—a New H5N1 Flu or the Republican Party?

The H5N1 “bird flu” is ripping across America, decimating bird flocks and even infecting a few humans and other mammals. Should we be concerned?...

03.05.2024 20

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

The True Shocking Driver Of Crime In America – OpEd

In the midst of all of his trials, in a moment pregnant with irony, Donald Trump recently claimed that if he was reelected he would seize direct...

02.05.2024 10

Eurasia Review

Thom Hartmann

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