What You May Have Missed
A roundup of the past seven days from the Hartmann Report
Healthcare for All: The Democratic Promise That Could Heal a Broken Nation
When politics becomes personal, policy becomes powerful. And there’s nothing more personal than survival.
The Great American Heist: How Reagan, Trump, and Their Billionaire Backers Stole the Middle Class
It’s election day in much of America, although the biggest races are in California, Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maine, and New York City. As a bellwether for next year’s midterms that could define the fate and future of Trumpism, the stakes are enormous, and are bleeding through into social media.
The SNAP Scam: How Billionaires and Politicians Built a Welfare System for the Rich
Democrats won big in last night’s election, and it’s a great sign for the future of American democracy. Voters rejected racism, fear, and cruelty. They said in a loud and singular voice — overwhelmingly voting for moderate Democrats, progressive Democrats, and even a ballot initiative without a single person on the ballot — that they want their democrac…
A Republic, If You Can Count to 51: Why the Filibuster’s Demise Could Save Democracy
Emperor Trump saw this wipeout election coming and he knew who to blame in advance: the Senate. On Tuesday (election day) morning, he posted to his Nazi-infested social media site:
The Atrocity Loop: Is America Finding New Ways to Justify the Unthinkable?
America has always been proud of its ingenuity: our capacity to invent, to innovate, to solve. But among our most consistent inventions is one we never admit to but the Trump administration is now proudly highlighting: the machinery of cruelty.
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Saturday Report 11/8/25 — Health insurance prices are exploding: where is all that money going?
— Donald Trump calls our concern over the cost of living a “con,” but the real con is being foisted on working Americans by the billionaires and corporate monopolies that bankroll him. For forty years, wages have flatlined while profits and CEO pay soared and Trump’s tax cuts, deregulation, and corporate handouts on…
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II really enjoy all the AI illustrations you use in your posts. I've been using lots of them in my Substacks and I relied on them to write "The narcoleptic news about Trump delights me, JOJOFROMJERZ calls it Napocalypse Now, AI images I made show him napping in a meeting with his clowns" > https://halbrown.substack.com/p/jojofromjerz-calls-it-napocalypse
May he rest in relative peace...but he won't because it is hot in hell. He will sweat.