What You May Have Missed
A roundup of the past seven days from the Hartmann Report
Is the Morbidly Rich’s “Brilliance” Just a Threat to the Republic?
The idea is as old as western civilization: “The morbidly rich are born to rule the rest of us.”
How Much More Can America Take of "Trump Derangement Syndrome?"
I have Trump Derangement Syndrome and so does much of America and much of the world.
Who’s Really Pulling the Trigger: The Shooter, or the Predator Lobby?
America’s 465th mass shooting in 2025, this one at Brown University in Rhode Island, should remind us all that it’s insane that the GOP passed and Bush signed into law the so-called Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) in 2006 that largely gives immunity from liability lawsuits to the gun industry (and only the gun industry).
Was That a Speech or a Breakdown?
Let me take off my psychotherapist hat and simply speak as a parent, an adult, a businessman, a citizen, and a human being.
Is the New Message of Trump’s White House "Power First, People Last"?
The White House has always mattered because of what it represents. It was never supposed to be a palace; it was meant to be the people’s house, a physical reminder that power in America is borrowed, temporary, and accountable.
Ossiana Talks To Thom Hartmann: The AI Bubble
Thank you Egberto Willies, Sue Nethercott, Dani Smart, Ira Krakow, Jennifer Brown, and many others for tuning into my live video with Ossiana Tepfenhart! Join me for my next live video in the app.
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Saturday Report — Why is the GOP Leaping Off the Health-Care cliff?
— How do we save journalism and democracy? As Jefferson famously pointed out, democracies can’t survive without a vigorous free press, and a free press can’t thrive without democracy. Both have been horribly damaged by five corrupt Republicans on the US Supreme Court, resulting in laws like the Telecommunications Act of 1996 specifically exempting socia…
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