If you want to carry a gun in public, earn crap wages, and don't care about access to healthcare or your kid's education, move to a Red state - but get ready, because all they have left is hate & fear.

If you're concerned about quality of life, education, living longer, and lower crime, move to a Blue state. If you want to carry a gun in public, earn crap wages, and don't care about access to healthcare or your kid's education, move to a Red state.

The only downside of the move-to-a-Blue-state strategy is that you're going to be paying for the Red states, anyway. But, still, the quality of life difference is worth it.

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-Thom

Friday's Daily Stack

Article: "Why Blue State Living Makes You Healthy, Wealthy, & Wise" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "AP FACT CHECK: Blue high-tax states fund red low-tax states" by Stephen Ohlemacher.

Article: "Police Crime Data for 2021 Show Homicides, Gun Violence Saw Significant Increases" by Bay City News.

Article: "'Devil on the loose': What's behind Kern County's soaring homicide rate?" by Nigel Duara.

Article: "The Growing Influence of State Governments on Population Health in the United States" by Steven H. Woolf, MD, MPH.

Article: "The Top 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90%—And That's Made the U.S. Less Secure" by Nick Hanauer, David M. Rolf.

Article: "Gun Violence in America: A State-by-State Analysis" by Eugenio Weigend Vargas.

Article: "Suicide: 20 states with highest rates" by CBS News.

Article: "Adult Obesity Prevalence Maps" by CDC.

Article: "Citing Likely Racist Motives, Federal Judge Blocks Florida GOP's Voter Suppression Law" by Brett Wilkins.

Article: "Like COVID-19, Jacksonville's homicides surge in 2020 and top out at unprecedented 175" by Scott Butler.

Article: "What Mitt Romney Is Really Worth: An Exclusive Analysis Of His Latest Finances" by Edwin Durgy.

Article: "Status of State Medicaid Expansion Decisions: Interactive Map" by KFF.

Article: "News Conference, August 12, 1986" by Ronald Reagan.

Article: "The racism at the heart of the Reagan presidency" by Ian Haney-Lopez.

Article: "Inside the San Francisco Bay Area's pandemic murder surge: 'No one knows this pain but us'" by Abené Clayton.

Article: "Romney suggests cutting retirement benefits for younger Americans" by Ed Pilkington.

Article: "The Red State Murder Problem" by Photo of Kylie Murdock, Jim Kessler.

Article: "Muslims to mark holy month of Ramadan with fasting, prayer" by Doug Cunningham.

Article: "Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Pete Buttigieg and his husband should 'stay out of girls' bathrooms'" by Alia Shoaib.

Article: "Micro plastics found in human blood for the first time…" by Damian Carrington.

Article: "The evidence of human exposure to glyphosate: a review" by Christina Gillezeau et al.

Article: "Teflon and 'forever chemicals:' The hidden toxins in your body " by Tim Schauenberg.

Article: "Cancer Alley" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Precautionary Principle" by Wikipedia.

Article: "National Toxicology Program" by EPA.

Article: "Precocious puberty in girls is increasing and alarming" by Martha Rosenberg.

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).

Progressive Town Hall
- Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA, 17th District)

Article: "House passes bill capping monthly insulin costs at $35 for insured patients" by AP.

Article: "How Joe Manchin Aided Coal, and Earned Millions" by Christopher Flavelle and Julie Tate.

Article: "Azov Battalion" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rolling back Trump's rollbacks: Biden seen reversing climate deregulation" by Valerie Volcovici, Richard Valdmanis.

Article: "'Healthcare Is a Human Right': Sanders Announces Medicare for All Senate Hearing" by Jessica Corbett.

Article: "'Everything has gone up': Contractors observe increase in construction costs, Nevada County acutely affected by Bay Area migration" by Rebecca O'Neil.

Article: "Contract with America" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Direct Contracting Model: Professional and Global Options Medicaid Managed Care Organization (MCO)-based Direct Contracting Entity (DCE) Fact Sheet" by CMS.

Article: "The biggest threat to Medicare you've never even heard of" by Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and Susan Rogers, M.D.

Article: "CMS Redesigns Accountable Care Organization Model to Provide Better Care for People with Traditional Medicare " by CMS.

Article: "Jeff Bezos's True Tax Rate Is 0.98%" by Jared A. Brock.

Article: "US Education Secretary Warns Florida on 'Don't Say Gay' Bill Passage: 'All Schools Must Follow Federal Civil Rights Law'" by David Badash.

Article: "10 Social Security Myths That Refuse to Die" by Andy Markowitz.

Article: "Dems Introduce Windfall Tax on Big Oil So Companies 'Pay a Price When They Price Gouge'" by Andrea Germanos.

Article: "Will Putin Kill the Global Economy?" by Paul Krugman.

Article: "Trump pulls US out of Iran nuke deal " by Rebecca Kheel and Jordan Fabian.

Article: "Trump was planning to withdraw US from Nato and ditch South Korea alliance, according to new book" by Helen Elfer.

Article: "Hardcore MAGA fans have become so 'radicalized' that they think watching sports makes you 'feminine': reporter" by Brad Reed.

Article: "US Presidents and Recessions – What Can We Learn?" by Urban Carmel.

Article: "GDP Growth by President" by Kimberly Amadeo.

Article: "U.S. economy grew by 5.7 percent last year, fastest pace since 1984" by Ben Popken.

Article: "Gold Prices - 100 Year Historical Chart" by macrotrends.

Site: Aden Forecast

Article: "13 Best Free Conservative Dating Sites (2022)" by Hayley Matthews.

Article: "That seven and a half-hour gap when the Capitol was under attack shows Trump is guilty as hell" by Dartagnan.

Article: "Revealed: Trump used White House phone for call on January 6 that was not on official log" by Hugo Lowell.

Article: "House passes bill to federally decriminalize marijuana" by Kristin Wilson.

Article: "World War II isn't over yet." by L. Coyote.

Article: "Yalta Conference" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Marie Curie" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Poland" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Smolensk air disaster" by Wikipedia.

Movie: "Johnny Got His Gun ".

Book: Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo.

Article: "Hoosick Falls PFOA Water Contamination Settlement Approved by Federal Judge" by Faraci Lange.

Site: "Hoosick Falls PFOA Settlement Website".

Movie: "Dark Waters".

Book: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow.

Article: "NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard" by Svetlana Savranskaya and Tom Blanton.

Article: "Putin denies planning to revive the Russian empire after declaring that Ukraine is not a real country and sending troops there" by Sinéad Baker.

Article: "Sen. Mitt Romney suggests he'd back cutting retirement benefits for younger Americans" by Joseph Zeballos-Roig.

Article: "Medicare Advantage" (Medicare Part C) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Time to End the Medicare Advantage Scam" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "26 things Rick Scott's 'rescue' plan for America would do" by Chris Cillizza.

Article: "Federal judge puts Florida on 10-year probation after ruling voting law disenfranchises Black voters" by Igor Derysh.

Article: "Judge blocks all new Florida voter suppression laws — then knocks the Supreme Court for putting voting rights 'under siege'" by Sarah K. Burris.

Article: "Madison Cawthorn claims he was invited to an orgy in Washington" by Chris Cillizza.

Article: "Merriam-Webster defines 'key bump' after Cawthorn's drug and orgy claims" by Julian Mark.

Article: "McCarthy rebukes Cawthorn over "orgy" and drug use remarks" by Melissa Quinn.

Article: "Roger Stone defends Madison Cawthorn, claims orgies and drug abuse not uncommon in DC" by Juliegrace Brufke.

Article: "Clinton campaign, DNC fined over improper spending disclosure tied to Steele dossier, conservative group says" by Zoë Richards.

Article: "Trump brazenly asks Putin to release dirt about Biden's family" by Marshall Cohen.

Article: "Donald Trump becomes the first president to screw over White House photographer to profit himself" by Walter Einenkel.

Article: "Greedy Trump Ruins Book Deal For His White House Photographer" by Susie Madrak.

Book: The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Church tax" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Medicare (United States)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Medigap" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Russia Poll: Putin's Approval Shoots Up to 83%" by Eric Mack.

Article: "Microplastics" by EU.

Article: "Teflon and 'forever chemicals:' The hidden toxins in your body" by Tim Schauenberg.

Article: "You're eating a credit card's worth of plastic every week, and it's altering your gut makeup" by Jocelyn Solis-Moreira.

Tweet: "Raskin: I concede our party is not for the kind of cocaine fueled orgies that a freshman Republican representative bragged about but we do understand that their marijuana prohibition laws don't work for our people [video]" by Acyn.

Article: "GOP Will Exploit Every Single Global and Domestic Crisis to Implement Authoritarian Rule" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "When you corrode and corrupt democracy, it has consequences. How an axis of awful is blocking the oil we need from Venezuela to replace Russian oil and stop Putin" by Greg Palast.

Article: "Youth turnout could save, or sink, Democrats in 2022" by Ronald Brownstein.

Speech: "1944 State of the Union Address" (Second Bill of Rights or Economic Bill of Rights Speech) by Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Article: "A Call for All Progressive Candidates and Officeholders to Embrace a 21st Century Economic Bill of Rights" by Harvey J. Kaye, Alan Minsky.

Tweet: "One month from today, crushing student loan payments are set to resume.
We cannot make people pay an extra $393/month while inflation is on the rise and gas prices are soaring. It's time to cancel at least $50,000 of student debt per borrower." by Rep. Pramila Jayapal.

Article: "DePuy Orthopaedics Hip Replacements" by Chris Elkins.

Article: "Senate candidate says Missouri office was burglarized " by Mychael Schnell.

Article: "Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?" by Elizabeth Nix.

Movie: "Red Dawn".

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