What You May Have Missed
A roundup of the past seven days from the Hartmann Report
Italy Called Trump an "Asshole" - Why Won’t America’s Media be Similarly Candid?
This weekend, the right-wing Italian daily Libero, a major conservative newspaper that shares a fair amount of Donald Trump’s politics, ran a one-word verdict on the President of the United States across its front page. The Italian word is coglione. The polite translation is “idiot.” The translation that George Conway and half of social media reached fo…
168 Dead Children. One Secret Report. And Elon Musk’s AI.
On the morning of February 28th, the first day of Donald Trump’s war on Iran, the children of the Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school in the southern Iranian town of Minab were at their desks a little after ten o’clock when the missiles arrived. The name of the school means “The Good Tree.”
The Voting-Machine Report They’re Hiding Until November
Somewhere inside the White House right now there’s a federal intelligence report sitting in a drawer, and Trump’s lickspittles who put it there are betting you won’t see it before you vote in November.
The Truth About "Socialism" that Republicans and Corporate Dems Don't Want You to Hear
On Tuesday night, the establishment wing of the Democratic Party got a message it would prefer to pretend it didn’t hear. In New York, Mamdani-backed progressives swept the congressional primaries, ousting two sitting Democratic congressmen and taking an open seat in a single evening.
Six Unelected Justices Just Gave Trump the Power to Ignore Congress and Every American Should Be Terrified
Something happened inside the Supreme Court chamber on Thursday that almost never happens: Justice Sonia Sotomayor was so disgusted by what the six radical, on-the-take Republican appointees had just done that she read her dissent aloud from the bench, and Justice Samuel Alito, who’d written the majority opinion,
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Saturday Report 6/27/26 — The Supreme Court files its anti-democracy paperwork, California goes after 250 billionaires, and the DOJ stands guard over Trump’s sex secrets…
— There’s no longer any mystery about whose side the Supreme Court is on; the only mystery is why it bothers pretending otherwise. The Roberts Court has turned its so-called shadow docket — the emergency pipeline once reserved for death-row stays — into a drive-thru where Trump places an order and the six Republican justices hand it out the window, usua…
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Ask me what he DIDN’T cover! Excellent post 💙
I’m Not A Loser! Am I??
For Cheeto the deadliest word in the English language is loser. Cheeto wants to be a major global powerbroker but like Napoleon, Iran has become Cheeto’s Waterloo. There is prevalent magical thinking in the WH supporting his crazed policy origins. It began with the ICE lack of habeas corpus in deportation arrests, the illegal tariff policy banned by SCOTUS, the Iranian war not approved by Congress, refusing to hand over the Epstein Trump files mandated by law, the incessant election interference and subversion(SAVE Act), getting paid for pardons, refusing to help Americans with housing while giving large tax breaks to wealthy political donors, refusing to abide by court orders, blatant corruption with no bid contracts, funneling $$ into his own pockets through crypto, nepotistic awarding of contracts to companies that has loose ties to his family, and destroying the DC property.
The need for his legacy to be seen as the most powerful ruler the world ever known is the product of a demented psychotic man who wants to do what he wants to do. As he has done most of his life Cheeto is now making presidential decisions on gut instinct ignoring the advisors around him because he has some psychic powers.
But there are people who are complicit in supporting this dictatorship. And WE the People are keeping a scorecard on what can be done when this hellscape called leadership ends. The Nazi Republicans should not be allowed to run for dog catcher. And I would argue that the electorate that supports Nazi Republicans are complicit in their avowed racism, corruption, and immorality. How disgusting that there are Americans to turn a blind eye to authoritarian rule.