What You May Have Missed
A roundup of the past seven days from the Hartmann Report
Is a New "New Deal" About to Wipe Out the Old Political Order?
The media is freaking out over a new Rasmussen poll that found:
Deregulation Was Never About “Freedom”—It Was About Permission to Poison
Given how the Republicans who run Congress let health insurance premiums for over 24 million Americans explode by not acting last week before going on vacation, it appears former Congressman Alan Grayson was right. The GOP Healthcare Plan is simple and straightforward:
Santa Claus for Billionaires, Debt for You: Thanks Trump
“The only thing wrong with the U.S. economy is the failure of the Republican Party to play Santa Claus.” —Jude Wanniski, March 6, 1976
Christmas: The Night We Reignite the World. When the Longest Dark Becomes the Turning Point…
Today is Christmas, a connection to some of the most ancient of all known northern European shamanic traditions. Like people living in the north for millennia, we continue to embrace them with regional, national, and religious tweaks.
Trump’s Christmas message "Scum" wasn’t just offensive. It was a warning.
Yesterday, on Christmas of all days, Donald Trump chose to call Democrats “scum.” Not criminals. Not misguided. Not wrong. Scum. A word we usually reserve for things we scrape off the bottom of a shoe or skim off polluted water. A word whose entire purpose is to dehumanize.
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Saturday Report 12/27/25 — Trump to Democrats,“Enjoy What May Be Your Last Merry Christmas!”
— Lift a toast to all the new billionaires made in 2025, including 50 of them just in the tech arena. Because of changes made to our tax laws by Reagan and Clinton, they don’t even pay income taxes like you and me; instead, they borrow against their assets, live on the borrowed money, and pay interest (a few percent) instead of the income tax that you a…
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Lot's of talk about Trump being a lame duck as if this somehow ought to be reassuring. I find it anything but. Quite the opposite. This is why I wrote "If Trump's a wounded lame duck, he's an angry, well armed, and dangerous lame duck. Can we hit the reset button to get our democracy working again? Hopefully there is one and we can find it." https://halbrown.substack.com/p/if-trumps-a-wounded-lame-duck-hes