Our media and politicians need to figure out that it's not a slur to call a fascist a fascist. It's merely descriptive.

Ron DeSantis appears to have succeeded in his attempt to bully the College Board into stripping Black Lives Matter, discussion of gay Black thought leaders (perhaps like James Baldwin, whose mother was born enslaved?), and multiple well-known Black authors from their African American Studies Advance Placement course.

Over at the Popular.info newsletter, Judd Legum et al noted yesterday that the College Board's revenue is increasingly coming from selling these courses (more and more students aren't taking the SATs — their other revenue source — as colleges move away from basing admissions on testing), so to maintain their viability and their CEO's $2.5 million annual salary, they apparently decided they pretty much had to bow to DeSantis' threats and those from the right wingers who preceded him and he was imitating.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Friday's Daily Stack

Article: "Growing Fascism in America is in an "Arms Race" for Those Who Aspire to Lead" by Thom Hartmann.

Tweet: "Nazis removing banned books from a library. Looks like what Republicans are doing today. [photo]" by Trial Lawyer Richard.

Book: The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Is Cruelty Ron DeSantis' Trademark?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Republicans' Plan to Arrest Women for Abortion" by Jessica Valenti.

Article: "Newton Knight – abolitionist guerilla leader in Mississippi A hidden history of the anti-slavery struggle" by Paul Wilcox.

Article: "Why the College Board watered-down its new course on Black history" by Tesnim Zekeria, Rebecca Crosby, Judd Legum.

Tweet: "Does the @CollegeBoard realize that by not speaking out about the racist banning of its AP Black history course, it is contributing to the idea that racism is a reasonable political practice?" by Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr..

Article: "How the Arizona Attorney General Created a Secretive, Illegal Surveillance Program to Sweep up Millions of Our Financial Records" by ACLU.

Book: Authoritarian Nightmare: Trump and His Followers by John W. Dean, Bob Altemeyer.

Book: Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright.

Book: "Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South" by Keri Leigh Merritt.

Article: "Orlando shooting of 2016" by Michael Ray.

Article: "1/4 of Americans qualify as highly 'right-wing authoritarian,' new poll finds" by Eliza Relman.

Article: "Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted on all charges. Here's what we know about the 3 men he shot" by Christina Maxouris.

Article: "Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South" by Lee Ballinger.

Article: "Governor Kemp's Family Brought Slavery to Georgia" by Greg Palast.

Article: "Florida athletes may soon be required to submit their menstrual history to schools" by Sommer Brugal and Andre Fernandez.

Article: "Death sentence upheld for Dylann Roof, who killed 9 in South Carolina church shooting" by Dennis Romero and Anthony Cusumano.

Article: "Death sentence upheld for Dylann Roof, who killed 9 in South Carolina church shooting" by Dennis Romero and Anthony Cusumano.

Article: "11 Killed in Synagogue Massacre; Suspect Charged With 29 Counts" by Campbell Robertson, Christopher Mele and Sabrina Tavernise.

Article: "Gunman Kills 10 at Buffalo Supermarket in Racist Attack" by NY Times.

Article: "1 million Floridians to lose Medicaid benefits this year".

Article: "What we know about the Atlanta spa shootings that killed 8, including 6 Asian women" by Courtney Vinopal.

Article: "'Absurd but also dangerous': WaPo Editorial Board torches Ron DeSantis" by Brandon Gage.

Article: "Christian Non-Profit Faces Scrutiny Over Government Foster Care Contract for Separated Children" by Dan MacGuill.

Article: "'He came to kill Hispanics': peaceful El Paso left wounded by possible hate crime" by Sam Levin.

Article: "Fascism: a warning from Madeleine Albright" by Sean Illing.

Video: Oscars Film Shows Nazi Rally at Madison Square Garden.

Article: "Chinese spy balloon – live: Airship moving east over US as Pentagon ‘reviews options', including shooting down" by Bevan Hurley, Graeme Massie, Arpan Rai.

Article: "How Global Warming Makes it Freezing Cold" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Rachel Maddow uncovers a WWII-era plot against America in 'Ultra'" by Terry Gross.

Book: A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies by Matt Simon .

Site: End The Bribe System (incl. bumper stickers).

Article: "DHHS Grant Program On Faceboo" by Scam Detector.

Article: "Call the "woke busters": Ron DeSantis sends volunteer army to snatch books from students' hands" by Amanda Marcotte.

Article: "McCarthy emerges from meeting with Biden clearly not comprehending what happened in there" by Joan McCarter.

Article: "Murder of James Byrd Jr." by Wikipedia.

Book: At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America by Philip Dray.

Article: "People under domestic violence orders can own guns -U.S. appeals court rules" by Jonathan Stempel.

Book: Great Speeches by Native Americans by Bob Blaisdell.

Article: "Twelfth Night" by William Shakespeare.

Play: "As You Like It" by William Shakespeare.

Article: "Shakespeare and gender: the ‘woman's part'" by Clare McManus.

Article: "U.S. Hiring Surges With January Gain of 517,000 Jobs" by Sydney Ember.

Article: "UN Report: Nature's Dangerous Decline ‘Unprecedented'; Species Extinction Rates ‘Accelerating'" by UN.

Article: "About 30% Of Animal, Plant Species At Risk Of Extinction, Says IUCN Red List" by Dominique Mosbergen.

Article: "The Case of DDT: Revisiting the Impairment" by EPA.

Bill: "H.R.2773 - Recovering America's Wildlife Act of 2021" by Rep. Dingell, Debbie [D-MI-12].

Book: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes.

TV: "Real Time with Bill Maher: January 20, 2023: William Barr, Andrew Sullivan, Rep. Nancy Mace".

Article: "Read the Mueller Report: Searchable Document and Index" by David Firestone.

Article: "Unredacted Barr memo details DOJ rationale for not charging Trump" by Rebecca Beitsch and John Kruzel.

Article: "The Pardons; Bush Pardons 6 In Iran Affair, Aborting A Weinberger Trial; Prosecutor Assails 'cover-up'" by David Johnston.

Article: "GOP Rep. Who Spoke At Pro-Hitler Event Goes After Ilhan Omar Because Of ‘Anti-Semitism'" by Matt Shuham.

Tweet: ""Look in your own damn mirror!" @ericswalwell is not mincing words on the House Floor! (h/t @acyn)" by MeidasTouch.

Article: "AOC Delivers BLISTERING Speech Against Omar's Ouster, Slams Notepad: ‘This Is About Targeting Women of Color!'" by Michael Luciano.

Article: "Why the College Board watered-down its new course on Black history" by Tesnim Zekeria, Rebecca Crosby, Judd Legum.

Movie: "Django".

Movie: "Django Unchained".

Article: "Barry Goldwater" by Wikipedia.

Book: Conscience of a Conservative by Barry M. Goldwater.

Book: With no apologies: The personal and political memoirs of Barry M. Goldwater by Barry M. Goldwater.

Article: "Espionage Act of 1917 and Sedition Act of 1918 (1917-1918)" by National Constitution Center.

Movie: "The Birth of a Nation (1915)".

Article: "Nuremberg Laws" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Edward Bernays" by Wikipedia.

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: "Roswell UFO Controversy: Former Air Force Officer Says Gen. Ramey Lied To Cover Up Space Ship Crash" by Lee Speigel.

Article: "Fu-Go balloon bomb" by Wikipedia.

Book: "The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore Its Greatness" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Wonking Out: Is the Dollar's Dominance Under Threat?" by Paul Krugman.

Article: "COP26: India PM Narendra Modi pledges net zero by 2070" by BBC.

Article: "Bob Marley" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Gunmen Kill Peter Tosh, Reggae Star, in Jamaica" by AP.

Article: "Macka B" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Population Bomb by Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne Howland Ehrlich.

Book: "The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image" by Leonard Shlain (Thom's review).

Article: "UnitedHealthcare Tried to Deny Coverage to a Chronically Ill Patient. He Fought Back, Exposing the Insurer's Inner Workings." by David Armstrong, Patrick Rucker and Maya Miller.

Article: "Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 2. "... In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make...."

Article: "The Only Supreme Court Justice to Be Impeached" by Troy Brownfield.

Article: "This Is How FDR Tried to Pack the Supreme Court" by Lesley Kennedy.

Case: "Groff v DeJoy".

Article: "3 Takeaways for Employers as SCOTUS Agrees to Review Religious Accommodations Test" by Fisher & Phillips.

Case: "Groff v DeJoy".

Article: "Right to Work" by AFL-CIO.

Article: "Bonus chapter to The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "The Supreme Court keeps reminding us it doesn't have a real ethics code" by Jordan Rubin.

Article: "ADP: Only 106K Jobs Added in January as Weather Affected Hiring" by Tim Smart.

Article: "Steve Bannon Demands Higher Taxes on the Rich: 'You're Being Scammed'" by Jason Lemon.

Article: "Episode 2489: The Oligarchs In Charge Vs Working Class Wages" by War Room.

Book: "The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny" by William Strauss, Neil Howe.

Article: "FDR's ‘Great Wall of Trees' continues to provide lessons" by Leslie Reed.

Article: "Epic of Gilgamesh".

Book: "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "American Legislative Exchange Council" (ALEC) by SourceWatch.

Article: "State Policy Network" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Important dates in the 2024 presidential race" by Ballotpedia.

Book: Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised (Robert's Rules of Order (Paperback)) 11th Edition by Henry M. Robert III, Daniel H. Honemann, Thomas J. Balch with Daniel E. Seabold, Shmuel Gerber.

Article: "U.S. House Agrees on Something: Lawmakers Condemn ‘The Horrors of Socialism'" by Jennifer Shutt.

Quote: "Socialism is a scare word they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years" - Harry S. Truman.

Article: "The Articles of Association - The U.S. Constitution Online" by USConstitution.net.

Article: "Articles of Confederation" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Hidden History of American Democracy: Rediscovering Humanity's Ancient Way of Living by Thom Hartmann.

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

Article: "Disabled vet accuses George Santos of swiping $3K from his dying service dog's GoFundMe" by Matthew Chapman.

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

It's the Anniversary of Bob Marley's Birthday

I'll be talking with Viki Harrison, Director of Constitutional Convention and Protecting Dissent Programs, Common Cause about Stopping An Article V Convention of States

Plus, Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, Epidemiologist & Senior Fellow - Federation of American Scientists / (per Dr. Feigl-Ding) "first whistleblower on the Covid pandemic" / former faculty member & researcher-Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

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