News that the Johnson & Jackson vaccine can cause blood clots in about one in 1 million women under 50 has exploded across the social media world. Republicans, along with countries that hate America, are smiling.

A fellow who runs a couple of communities on a popular social media site called into my program yesterday saying that the vaccine news had caused an "absolute explosion" of vaccine denialism. People who'd been on the fence are now outright opposed to getting the jab.

And Trump and the GOP are making hay with the announcement.

Discouraging Americans from getting vaccinated, and thus preventing President Joe Biden from getting the economy back on track, has been the first order of business for the GOP ever since Trump lost the election.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Is Genocide for Political Purposes Treason?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Trump Floats Pfizer Conspiracy Theory While Blasting Biden For J&J Pause" by Jack Brewster.

Article: "Tucker Carlson is Lying to You" by Aidan McLaughlin.

Article: "New Michigan law: J&J recipients must be notified of stem cell use in vaccine development" by Kristen Jordan Shamus and Dave Boucher.

Site: The Hartmann Report.

Article: "Johnson & Johnson vaccine paused over rare blood clots" by BBC.

Site: Free Speech TV

Article: "COVID-19 hospitalizations surge again in the Q-C as Johnson & Johnson vaccine is put on pause" by Tom Loewy.

Article: "Here Are The 3 GOP Senators Who Still Refuse To Get A Covid Vaccine" by Nicholas Reimann.

Article: "Pathology expert tells Derek Chauvin's trial George Floyd had an enlarged heart that left him needing more oxygen to function - and drug use 'played a role' in his 'sudden cardiac death'" by Laura Collins, Megan Sheets.

Article: "Minnesota cop who shot dead Daunte Wright will be charged with second-degree manslaughter" by Rachel Sharp.

Article: "13 charged in plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer" by Christina Carrega, Veronica Stracqualursi and Josh Campbell.

Article: "The C.D.C. director says Michigan needs to shut down, not get extra vaccine, to slow its virus outbreak." by Noah Weiland, Mitch Smith and Eileen Sullivan.

Article: "Yes, you can be vaccinated and still get Covid-19. But don't panic." by Brian Resnick.

Article: "No, Fetal Tissue Wasn't Used to Create the J&J COVID-19 Vaccine" by Nancy Schimelpfening.

Article: "High court strikes down Whitmer's emergency powers; gov vows to use other means" by Beth LeBlanc, Craig Mauger, Melissa Nann Burke.

Hour Two: Is the GOP the Party of Authoritarianism
- Patrick Hedger, Vice President of Policy - Taxpayers Protection Alliance (Prior to joining TPA, Patrick was a Research Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Center for Technology and Innovation and also served as Director of Policy at FreedomWorks)

Article: "J.D. Vance Shows How the Populist Right Adopted the Logic of 'You Didn't Build That'" by Patrick Hedger.

Video: What Would Mamaw Say In This Situation: An Interview With JD Vance.

Article: "First Amendment to the United States Constitution"

Case: "Brown Shoe Co., Inc. v. United States, 370 U.S. 294 (1962)".

Article: "Shouting fire in a crowded theater" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Nearly 40% of Marines have declined Covid-19 vaccine" by Oren Liebermann, Ellie Kaufman and Devan Cole.

Article: "Michigan Supreme Court rules against Whitmer on emergency powers but effect unclear" by Dave Boucher, Todd Spangler.

Article: "Michigan Supreme Court overturns governor's executive orders on COVID-19 pandemic" by James Brookfield.

Article: "Vaccine Refusal May Put Herd Immunity At Risk, Researchers Warn" by Geoff Brumfiel.

Article: "'Love Your Neighbor' And Get The Shot: White Evangelical Leaders Push COVID Vaccines" by Sarah McCammon.

Article: "Michigan health department issues sweeping COVID-19 regulations that mirror Whitmer orders" by Dave Boucher.

Article: "Backlash in Fresno as evangelical church tries to buy Tower Theatre, a bohemian landmark" by Diana Marcum.

Article: "Man arrested as tensions rise at more animated and vocal Tower Theatre protest" by Robert Kuwada.

Article: "Fresno police officer who was former Proud Boy fired. Chief details investigation" by Brianna Calix.

Video: BCA agent questioned over whether Floyd said: 'I ate too many drugs' or 'I ain't do no drugs'.

Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].

Article: "Johnson & Johnson vaccine paused over rare blood clots" by BBC.

Article: "Joint CDC and FDA Statement on Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine" by CDC.

Article: "WATCH: Chris Hayes Questions Fauci on the 'Risk Calculation'" by Josh Feldman.

Video: CNN analyst calls out Nate Silver over his vaccine tweet.

Tweet: "... Say there's a 1 in 100 chance someone acquires COVID because of a delayed vaccine (maybe conservative in the US where spread is still quite high) and a 1 in 150 chance they die from it. That's a 1 in 15,000 chance vs. 1 blood clot death in 7,000,000 doses so far." by Nate Silver.

Article: "Covid-19: Vaccines and vaccine passports being sold on darknet" by Joe Tidy.

Article: "Vaccine passport apps could help us return to normal. First they need to solve the trust problem" by Samantha Murphy Kelly.

Article: "GOP legislators are pushing anti-vaxx bills devised by group associated with infamous 'Demon sperm' doctor " by Brad Reed.

Article: "Five reasons why COVID herd immunity is probably impossible" by Christie Aschwanden.

Article: "Iron lung" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Paracetamol" (Tylenol) by Wikipedia.

Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET

I'll be talking with Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Co-founder, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System (now also available as an eBook)

Plus, Is it time to move beyond the 2 party system? I'll be talking with David Jolly, Attorney, former Republican & former Congressman Florida's 13th District / Currently Chairman - Serve America Movement (SAM)

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