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Monday 27 February '23 show notes

Feb. 28, 2023 8:49 am

By SueN

Do Religious Sadists Want To See "Sinning" Women Suffer?
Do the $100m Jesus ads show how the religious right has damaged religion?
Why is America tolerating anti-Jewish hate right out front?
Father of QAnon believer tells all: 'Don't have any idea how bad this is" - William "Will" Sommer, Politics Reporter - The Daily Beast / Host-Fever Dreams podcast / Author of the brand new book (just released 2/21/23) Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America
The ongoing right-wing takeover of FL schools continues
How can you call yourselves news when you don't allow your reporter to report the news?
Is, as Ralph Nader explains, Elon Musk the biggest welfare queen masquerading as a capitalist business man?
Reality bites far right gun loving Oregon town
In Good News! World's First Mass-Scale Sodium-Ion Battery Plant to Debut in Michigan

Thom's blog

Do Religious Sadists Want To See "Sinning" Women Suffer?

What we're seeing today in these attempts to regulate women's behavior is a simple extension of religious fundamentalism and patriarchy that goes back as far as ancient Samaria...

"The tale is one of an evil time,
When souls were fettered and thought was crime,
And heresy's whisper above its breath
Meant shameful scouring and bonds and death!"

—John Greenleaf Whittier, "How the Women Went from Dover"

Mifepristone, the abortion and miscarriage drug that is used in over half of all US abortions and routinely given to women having miscarriages to prevent complications, may well be functionally outlawed this week by a federal judge in Texas who's been a Christian activist his entire life.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Thom's blog

Threshold: The Crisis of Western Culture: Chapter 9 - The Maori: Eating Themselves Alive

The cooperative forces are biologically the more important and vital. The balance between the cooperative and altruistic tendencies and those which are disoperative and egoistic is relatively close. Under many conditions the cooperative forces lose, In the long run, however, the group centered, more altruistic drives are slightly stronger.

Human altruistic drives are as firmly based on an animal ancestry as is man himself. Our tendencies toward goodness … are as innate as our tendencies toward intelligence; we could do well with more of both.

—W. C. Allee, "Where Angels Fear to Tread: A Contribution from General Sociology to Human Ethics," Science 97 (1943): 521

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Thom's blog

Saturday Report 2/25-23 - If a fetus is a person then isn't imprisoning a pregnant women illegally detaining that fetus?

The Best of the Rest of the News

— Putin's Mein Kampf: he had to invade Ukraine to stop the gays.
— Poland is the next country Russia plans to invade?
— What is America going to do about its white Supremacist problem?
— Democrats honor Blue Slips while Republicans don't!
— Ronnie DeSantis' higher education legislation has been released and it's shocking.
— The Washington Post is reporting that Elon Musk's Twitter, after unbanning Nazis and white supremacists, is now selling "blue check" validation logos to Russian propaganda outlets, including one he amplified by responding to.
— Trump returns to the scene of (one of) his crime(s).
— In "Strange But Not Surprising News," if a fetus is a person then isn't imprisoning a pregnant women illegally detaining an otherwise innocent fetus?
— Crazy Alerts! Trump's favorite white supremacist and dinner date at Mar-A-Lardo is having a sad about being put on the federal No Fly List.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Hour One: Do Religious Sadists Want To See "Sinning" Women Suffer?

Article: "Do Religious Sadists Want To See "Sinning" Women Suffer?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Obergefell v Hodges" (2015) (same sex marriage).

Poem: "How the Women Went From Dover" by John Greenleaf Whittier.

Article: "â€˜Everyday Sadists' Among Us" by Jan Hoffman.

Site: "Democrats for Life".

Article: "House Republicans abruptly end debate as Democrats offer amendments to help poor women, children" by Bobby Harrison.

Article: "The Same Dark Money Groups That Helped Overturn Roe Are Also Behind Attacks on Abortion Pill" by Ansev Demirhan.

Article: "Nomination of Matthew Kacsmaryk to the Northern District of Texas. Questions for the Record. December 20, 2017" by Senator Feinstein.

Article: "The Texas judge who could take down the abortion pill" by Caroline Kitchener, Ann E. Marimow.

Do the $100m Jesus ads show how the religious right has damaged religion?

Article: "$100 million Jesus ads point to exploitable weakness in the religious right " by Valerie Tarico.

Article: "Sermon on the Mount" by Wikipedia.

Bible: "Matthew 25".

Article: "Jimmy Carter Leaves Southern Baptists" by ABC News.

Why is America tolerating anti-Jewish hate right out front?

Article: "'Anti-Jewish hate is no longer operating on the fringes'" by Jon King.

Article: "Forty Years Ago, Women Had a Hard Time Getting Credit Cards" (2014) by Rose Eveleth.

Bible: "If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land." - 2 chronicles 7:14.

Video: Liar, Liar Network On Fire: The Legal Case Against Fox News | The Problem With Jon Stewart Podcast.

Article: "Jesus Was A Radical Nonviolent Revolutionary" by John Fugelsang.

Article: "â€˜Weekend of Love' Counters â€˜Day of Hate' in Portsmouth, New Hampshire" by Dan Alexander.

Article: "U.S. Lawmaker In Kyiv: Momentum Shifting Toward Atacms, F-16S For Ukraine" by News18.

Article: "On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians" by Vladimir Putin.

Article: "Patriarch Kirill of Moscow" by Wikipedia.

Video: Is Putin's Ukraine Invasion Really About Homophobia? Featuring Greg Palast.

Hour Two: Father of QAnon believer tells all: 'Don't have any idea how bad this is"
- William "Will" Sommer, Politics Reporter - The Daily Beast / Host-Fever Dreams podcast / Author of the brand new book (just released 2/21/23) Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America