We need a new political vocabulary that includes "populist," "sellout," & "fascist": If the American press were to use simple, clear labels like this, it would save us all a lot of political confusion.

The Chyron on MSNBC yesterday said, "Populist Fedderman Wins PA Primary." A few weeks ago during the French elections the American press was referring to Marine Le Pen as a "French populist." Trump is often called a "populist" in our media, as is Bernie Sanders.

All of which raises the question: "Why are we using this one single word to describe radically different types and stripes of politicians?"

Is "populist" simply shorthand or pop-news-speak for media-friendly, outrageous, or high profile politicians?

Or is a populist, as Cas Mudde, author of Populism: A Very Short Introduction argues, a person representing a political position or movement that reflects the needs and desires of the majority of the population, and is opposed to the interests of corrupt elites?

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: "What the Heck is a Populist, Anyway?" by Thom Hartmann.

Book: Populism: A Very Short Introduction by Cas Mudde, Cristobal Rovira Kaltwasser.

Book: The New Deal: A Modern History by Michael A. Hiltzik.

Article: "Marine Le Pen Is a Fascist—Not a 'Right-Wing Populist,' Which Is a Contradiction in Terms" by Harvey Wasserman.

Article: "Ted Cruz: Future of conservatism is populist and libertarian" by Anthony Leonardi.

Article: "Newt Gingrich's 'elite' PhD topic" by Valerie Strauss.

Site: 104.7 WONK-FM.

Article: "John Fetterman" by Wikipedia.

Site: John Fetterman for Senate.

Article: "Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman wins Democratic primary for Senate days after suffering stroke" by Patrick Reilly.

Article: "Michigan teen hoped school massacre would get Biden impeached: court filing" by Travis Gettys.

Article: "Full List of 192 House Republicans Who Voted Against FDA Baby Formula Bill" by Khaleda Rahman.

Article: "House passes domestic terrorism bill in mostly party-line vote" by Mychael Schnell.

Article: "Conference of U.S. conservatives opens in Orban's Hungary" by Justin Spike, Jill Colvin.

Article: "Study offers clearer picture of how extremism has seeped into halls of power, and it's not good" by David Neiwert.

Article: "Trump's 'dangerous' election lies may be about to blow up in Pennsylvania Republicans' faces: NYT's Haberman" by Brad Reed.

Article: "DeSantis press secretary 'duped' by fake story about 'homophobic dog' on International Day Against Homophobia" by Gino Spocchia.

Video: Timothy Snyder Speaks, ep. 4: Sadopopulism.

Article: "Did LBJ Advocate: 'Convince the Lowest White Man He's Better Than the Best Colored Man'?" by David Emery.

Article: "Rick Scott's '11 Point Plan to Rescue America' is so insane it's basically a gift to the Democrats " by Jeffrey C. Billman.

Site: Judge Debra Jones for the Alabama Supreme Court.

Article: "Sarah Palin's 'Crosshairs' Ad Dominates Gabrielle Giffords Debate" by John Berman.

Article: "2011 Tucson shooting" (Gabby Giffords and others) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Americans Overwhelmingly Don't Want U.S. To Risk War With Russia In Aiding Ukraine, Poll Finds" by Alison Durkee.

Article: "Poll: Americans Support Sending Aid to Ukraine" by Charlie McCarthy.

Video: Cruz floor speech on Ukraine, May 18, 2022.

Site: Dow Jones Industrial Average chart.

Article: "Federal Reserve lifts interest rates by 0.5 percent in bid to slow inflation" by Rob Wile.

Article: "Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories" (birtherism) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Timothy McVeigh" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: How Overturning Roe Would Be Disastrous for the US Military
- Allison Gill, Host - Mueller, She Wrote Podcast & host - The Daily Beans (a woman owned & operated progressive news podcast)/ Navy vet w/a PHD Health Admin

Article: "Overturning Roe would be disastrous for the U.S. military" by Allison Gill.

Article: "4 things we know, and one big thing we don't, on the draft opinion overruling Roe v. Wade" by Ian Millhiser.

Article: "Hyde Amendment" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ku Klux Klan Act" by Wikipedia.

Video: The David Pakman Show, May 18, 2022.

Site: unFox my cable box.

Article: "Michelle Fischbach" by Wikipedia.

Article: "CPAC Just Decided to Not Let Any US Journalists Inside" by David Gilbert.

Article: "Orban Tells CPAC Conservatives in Europe, U.S. Must Align 'Troops' for 2024 Votes" by Krisztina Than.

Article: "Scientists Finally Did a Study to See If Taking 10,000 Steps a Day Actually Matters. Here's What They Found" by Jessica Stillman.

Article: "The Exceptions to Section 230: How Have the Courts Interpreted Section 230?" by Ashley Johnson Daniel Castro.

Article: "Ben Franklin Put an Abortion Recipe in His Math Textbook" by Molly Farrell.

Article: "Did Ben Franklin Publish a Recipe on How to Induce Abortion in a Math Textbook?" by Nur Ibrahim.

Case: "District of Columbia v. Heller", 2008 (2nd Amendment).

Book: The Evolution of Civilizations An Introduction to Historical Analysis by Carroll Quigley.

Book: Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny by Edward J. Watts.

Article: "Raphael Warnock" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Herschel Walker" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Election 2022 - Georgia Senate - Walker vs. Warnock" by RealClearPolitics.

Article: "Stacey Abrams" by Wikipedia.

Site: Fair Fight.

Article: "S&P 500 falls again on Thursday, inching closer to bear market territory" by Sarah Min, Hannah Miao.

Article: "U.S. may be barreling toward recession in next year, more experts say" by Abha Bhattarai.

Article: "More Subprime Borrowers Are Missing Loan Payments" by AnnaMaria Andriotis.

Article: "Second most-powerful Senate Republican says bill to fight domestic terrorism after Buffalo is too 'partisan' to pass" by David Badash.

Article: "Ignoring the role of profits makes inflation analyses a lot weaker" by Josh Bivens.

Article: "Oil Nations, Prodded by Trump, Reach Deal to Slash Production" by Clifford Krauss.

Article: "Saudi, UAE leaders ignore Biden when he calls to talk gas prices: report" by Steven Nelson.

Article: "Jared Kushner and Steven Mnuchin Have Reportedly Secured Billions from Saudi Government" by Ken Meyer.

Site: Richard Wolff.

Site: Democracy Now!

Site: The Chris Hedges Report.

Site: Noam Chomsky.

Book: Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky.

Video: Trump: Tinpot Dictator? (w/ Noam Chomsky).

Article: "The Plagues" by Wikipedia.

Site: Van Decker music on Amazon.

Article: "New Research Shows Most Human Pregnancies End in Miscarriage " by Michelle Starr.

Article: "What Does the Bible Really Say About Abortion?" by FFRF.

Article: "Passover" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jackie Speier" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Women's Rights" by Jackie Speier.

Article: "Assassination of John F. Kennedy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Vietnam War" (1955 - 1975) by Wikipedia.

Video: "Reagan: Government is not the solution to our problem government IS the problem".

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.

Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978.

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

Book: "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" by Thom Hartmann.

How Bad Is the Plan to Dump Fukushima Water Into the Pacific?
- Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Specialist - Beyond Nuclear

Article: "Plan to Discharge Fukushima Water Into Pacific Gets OK From Regulators" by Julia Conley.

Article: "Green Groups Urge California Gov. Newsom to Close Aging Nuclear Plant on Schedule" by Brett Wilkins.

Article: "Tritium" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Caesium 137" by radioactivity.eu.com.

Article: "Strontium-90" by radioactivity.eu.com.

Article: "Iodine" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Cobalt" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bioaccumulation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tragedy of the commons" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Nuclear power in Japan" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Nuclear power in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station" by Wikipedia.

Article: "49-51: Senate fails to advance Women's Health Protection Act, which would've codified abortion rights into federal law.".

Article: "Jimmy Carter" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump steel tariffs remain in effect indefinitely" by Billy Ludt.

Article: "U.S. Agrees to Roll Back European Steel and Aluminum Tariffs" by Ana Swanson and Katie Rogers.

Article: "Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fighting Continues in Yemen Amid Humanitarian Disaster as War Enters Its Eighth Year" by Democracy Now!

Article: "Trump admin bypassing Congress with $8 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates" by Conor Finnegan.

Article: "Canada to Ban Foreigners From Buying Homes as Prices Soar" by Brian Platt and Ari Altstedter.

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