Squeals of "socialism!" aside, we know how to do this and have done it before, repeatedly. This time it's not just about saving our banks or fighting a war: this time, it's about saving the world…

If you want to trigger a conservative, just suggest nationalizing the US gas and oil industry. "Venezuela!" they'll scream hysterically, perhaps adding a few, "Iran!" squeals. (Somehow, they always forget to yell about Norway…)

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

How Corporations Became 'People' - and How You Can Fight Back.

While corporations can live forever, exist in several different places at the same time, change their identities at will, and even chop off parts of themselves or sprout new parts, the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, according to its reporter, had said that they are "persons" under the Constitution, with constitutional rights and protections as accorded to human beings. Once given this key, corporations began to assert the powers that came with their newfound rights.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

The Best of the Rest of the News.

— Why are people in power afraid of Trump?
— The incredible takedown of Josh Hawley (R-QA).
— Rightwing movements around the world & the GOP share a common goal with Putin: fascism.
— While Ron DeSantis has spent weeks describing LGBTQ people as sexual predators or "groomers" of future victims it appears he's also trying help Rep. Matt Gaetz get away with paying underage girls for sex.
— There's a global food crisis coming soon.
— How the Supreme Court could endanger our lives.
— Keep classy, Republicans. Video shows that as soon as Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed by the Senate Democrats stood to applaud her while all but three Republicans simply walked out.
— UFO Alert? Shouldn't Americans know what security issues surround UFOs, including "unaccounted-for pregnancies"?
— Geeky Science! Are sugar substitutes worse than sugar?
— Death Cult Alert! Fox-so-called "News" talked about Ivermectin 300 times, then ignored a definitive new study of its ineffectiveness.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Article: "It's Time to Nationalize the Fossil Fuel Industry" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Maxine Waters Threatens to Socialize the Oil Companies".

Site: "The Democracy Collaborative".

Article: "Nationalize the U.S. Fossil Fuel Industry to Save the Planet" by Robert Pollin.

Article: "A History of Nationalization in the United States 1917-2009" by Thomas M. Hanna.

Book: Our common wealth: The return of public ownership in the United States by Thomas M. Hanna.

Article: "Energy and National Goals: Address to the Nation", July 15, 1979 speech by Jimmy Carter.

Article: "Climate change is killing people, but there's still time to reverse the damage" by Rebecca Hersher.

Article: "Rare, record-breaking April snow blankets Portland area" by Savannah Eadens

Article: "American Think Tanks Are Fueling the Mexican Right" by Kurt Hackbarth.

Article: "Jan. 6 Panel Has Evidence for Criminal Referral of Trump, but Splits on Sending" by Michael S. Schmidt and Luke Broadwater.

What are the takeaways from the French elections?
- Cole Stangler, Paris-based journalist covering labor, culture & politics - Contributor-NY Times, Jacobin and other news outlets / Writer & producer-France 24 (international news network)

Article: "Macron finishes ahead of far-right leader Le Pen in first round of French presidential election" by Rick Noack.

Article: "Yellow vests movement" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Emmanuel Macron Is Polling Poorly Because He Has a Terrible Record" by Francesco Massimo.

Article: "Emmanuel Macron" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Marine Le Pen" by Wikipedia.

Article: "General Motors" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Chrysler" by Wikipedia.

Article: "72 people at high-profile D.C. dinner test positive for Covid" by Christina Zhao and Molly Roecker.

Article: "GOP New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu calls Trump 'f***ing crazy' and said if he was in a mental asylum 'he would not be getting out', during annual white-tie Gridiron Dinner" by Katelyn Caralle.

Article: "Before Giving Billions to Jared Kushner, Saudi Investment Fund Had Big Doubts" by David D. Kirkpatrick and Kate Kelly.

Article: "White House calls claim that Jared Kushner gave Saudi ruler permission to arrest Jamal Khashoggi before journalist was killed and dismembered 'false nonsense'" by Ariel Zilber.

Article: "The Guide To Becoming Jared Kushner" by Ben Walsh.

Article: "Mnuchin's Private Equity Fund Raises $2.5 Billion" by Alan Rappeport.

Article: "The Totally Dodgy Backstory of the Bank that Just Refinanced Trump Tower" by Tim Dickinson & Andy Kroll.

Article: "The Trump Organization used to borrow from major banks. Now look who's lending it money." by Gretchen Morgenson.

Article: "Axos Bank" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Saudi Women Can Now Drive. Overcoming Beliefs on Gender Will Be Harder." by Margaret Coker.

Article: "Guy McPherson" by Wikipedia.

Article: "How Jared Kushner's Secret Testing Plan "Went Poof Into Thin Air"" by Katherine Eban.

Article: "Why People Are Acting So Weird" by Olga Khazan.

Article: "Nerves for EU and NATO as Le Pen heads into second round clash with Macron " by Clea Caulcutt.

Article: "Jerry Springer Says His Wild Talk Show Guests Prepared Us For Trump — With Key Difference" by Mary Papenfuss.

Site: Dean Obeidallah.

Article: "Jared Kushner 'voluntarily' gives Capitol attack panel information in testimony" by Joan E Greve.

Article: "Ivanka Trump testified for 8 hours before House panel investigating Jan. 6 riot" by Dan Mangan.

Article: "Which Presidents Have Been Tied to a Crime? A History" by Sara Randazzo.

Article: "John Yoo, Jay Bybee of Bush's DOJ Are Off the Hook for Torture Memos" by Julia.

Article: "Brett Kavanaugh and the Risk of a Return to Torture " by Jamie Mayerfeld.

Article: "Allow American People to Review Records of Brett Kavanaugh's Involvement in Bush Administration's Torture Policies" by Tammy Duckworth.

Article: "Trump's oldest son said a decade ago that a lot of the family's assets came from Russia" by Brennan Weiss.

Article: "Joe Manchin has finally worn out his welcome with fellow Democrats" by Joan McCarter.

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

Book: "They Thought They Were Free" by Milton Mayer. "First they came for the ... What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise..."

Article: "Rwandan genocide" by Wikipedia.

Book: "Conservatives Without Conscience" by John W. Dean.

Book: "The Authoritarians" by Robert Altemeyer.

Article: "'Smoking rifle': Trump Jr texted Meadows strategies to overturn election – report" by Martin Pengelly.

Article: "Read: Former President Donald Trump's January 6 speech".

Article: "Russia Warns Sweden, Finland Against Joining NATO" by Isabel van Brugen.

Article: "Finland–Russia border" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ukraine update: Reports say Russia is massing for massive Donbas attack, but can they really?" by kos.

Article: "Ukraine Shot Down One of Russia's Most Advanced Fighter Jets" by Kyle Mizokami.

Article: "Report of large Russian column 12.8 kilometers long 'destroyed' North of Izyum" by Lefty Coaster.

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

Article: "Ohio GOP Senate hopeful: Middle class doesn't pay fair share" by Julie Carr Smyth.

Hour Three: How GA turned purple & broke the monopoly on republican power
- Greg Blustein, Political Reporter - Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) / Host - Politically Georgia podcast / Author - Flipped: How Georgia Turned Purple and Broke the Monopoly on Republican Power

Article: "Stacey Abrams" by Wikipedia.

Site: Stacey Abrams for Governor.

Article: "Georgia's governor signs a controversial abortion bill into law" by Alanne Orjoux, Jessica Ravitz and Jason Hanna.

Article: "Georgia lawmakers make last-minute U-turn on cruel ban on trans athletes" by Maggie Baska.

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

Article: ""Really stupid or really corrupt": State Department reveals Trump's foreign gift records are missing" by Igor Derysh.

Article: "National Archives retrieved 15 boxes of Trump White House documents from Mar-a-Lago" by Kevin Breuninger.

Article: "January 6 Committee to Start Public, Likely Televised, Hearings Next Month" by Chris Walker.

Article: "Watergate scandal" by Wikipedia.

Article: "How the prosecution of Donald Trump can continue" by David Cay Johnson.

Article: "How much legal jeopardy is Hunter Biden in?" by Andrew Prokop.

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

I'll be talking with Marc H. Morial, President & CEO - National Urban League / Former Mayor of New Orleans, LA (1994 to 2002)

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Nationalizing Oil? It's About Saving the World

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Why Finland Is Happier Than America

Crazy Alert: Are QAnon Believers Just Reinvented Lizard People?