The Hartmann Report

Common Dreams reports that Stephen Miller wants to increase mass surveillance on Americans. More than 90 civil society groups on Thursday urged congressional Democrats to “stand firm against White House efforts to extend government surveillance powers” by renewing “without new safeguards” a highly controversial surveillance authorization historically abused by federal agencies. Free Press Action and Demand Progress are leading the call to senior Democratic lawmakers to not reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)—a controversial law that has been abused hundreds of thousands of times—without first enacting privacy reforms.
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Iranian Schoolgirls Killed After Hegseth Uses ChatGPT To Send Strike Trump's Iran Lies, Miller's surveillance grab, Democrats' 28-0 winning streak, and neo-Nazis at a GOP rally. What do we do if our national leader is guided and manipulated by adversarial foreign countries?
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Elections, favors, nuclear secrets, federal land- it's all for sale. Washington is in the grips of a cabal of billionaires, stealing us blind while drowning the average person in a flood of propaganda and distraction.
Plus - Thom reads from 'The Meat Racket' by Christopher Leonard.
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The slogan that promised efficiency was really a blueprint to dismantle public government and hand its power—and money—to the billionaire class…
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Substack's Christopher Armitage joins Thom- is there anything more powerful than action- or will the despair win out? Also- veteran war correspondent Phil Ittner joins Thom from Kiev, Ukraine.
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