Thom Hartmann

2 days ago | hartmannreport.com | Thom Hartmann |Greg Palast

Today’s Daily Take is written by my old friend and former BBC reporter Greg Palast, who in addition to being in a brilliant journalist also has a solid academic background in statistics, economics, and math. I think you’ll find it fascinating. (His Substack newsletterGreg Palast Investigates is here.)Stay with me, and I’ll explain these weird, weird facts:Trump’s tariffs on foreign steel increased the amount of steel imported.

2 days ago | thom.tv | Thom Hartmann

-- Greg Palast - The Great American Tariff Scam: Starring Donald Trump as the Savior Who Sells You Out-- How to make blue waves and young voters care.... -- People whose family members have been killed by big insurance companies withholding payments are starting to fight back-- Phil Ittner - Ukraine Update-- Republicans are setting American women up to die-- Does the GOP think retirees are useless?

2 days ago | smirkingchimp.com | Thom Hartmann

— from The Hartmann Report It wasn’t all at once (although sometimes the last three months seem that way). Authoritarianism never is. It happens drip by drip, crisis by crisis, until people forget what normal even felt like. This is how fascism seduces a nation: not by storming the gates, but by wearing down our ability to be outraged. And Donald Trump, more than any political figure in modern American history, has weaponized this steady march into moral and civic numbness.

2 days ago | rawstory.com | Thom Hartmann

It’s one of the greatest preventable mass deaths in modern history: around two people every minute of every day, day and night, week after week, soon to be year after year. In the time it takes you to read this article, several dozen children will have died because of actions taken — with full knowledge of this consequence — by South African immigrant Elon Musk, Big Balls and his teenage DOGE buddies, Donald Trump, and Marco Rubio.

2 days ago | portside.org | Thom Hartmann

The Normalization of Evil: We Thought We Were Free Published June 4, 2025 I fear our mistakes far more than the strategy of our enemies. —Thucydides (470–400 b.c.), Pericles’ Funeral OrationIt wasn’t all at once (although sometimes the last three months seem that way). Authoritarianism never is. It happens drip by drip, crisis by crisis, until people forget what normal even felt like.