2025 Archives

Posted at Hartmann Report on Oct. 11, 2025

Saturday Report 10/11/25 — Find out what the Planetary Health Diet (PHD) proposed to help optimize human health globally: you’ll be shocked

The Best of the Rest of the News. — When Justice Becomes Revenge — Trump and the GOP are losing the shutdown war. — Meanwhile, rumor has it that the reason Johnson is refusing to swear Adelita Grijalva into office is because she’d be the 218th vote for a discharge petition to force a floor vote on releasing the Epstein files — About those “Democrat” agencies that Trump wants to lay people off from. — Norway could feel a chill of revenge soon, now that Donald Trump didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize. — Deep Red Oklahoma’s governor rips Trump and Texas for sending troops to Chicago. — According to reporting by Reuters, Trump is targeting progressive nonprofits for intimidation and punishment. The good news is that they’re fighting back. — Alarm is setting in as Trump mulls “antifa” foreign terrorist designation. — Geeky Science: Find out what the Planetary Health Diet (PHD) proposed to help optimize human health globally: you’ll be shocked. — ADHD: Hunter in a Farmer’s World: ADHD: Hunter's Rest? Hah! — Wisdom School: When the Body Forgets to Ask for Water

Posted at Hartmann Report on Oct. 10, 2025

Plenary Power: The Final Step in Trump’s American Autocracy

How the Insurrection Act could become the 21st-century Enabling Act, with six justices and the GOP standing by… The endgame for Trump, Vance, Noem, and Bondi is coming into clearer focus, and it's nearly a one-for-one, step-by-step implementation of Nazi jurist/philosopher Carl Schmitt's ideas that created and sustained the early Third Reich. Vance has even gone so far as to directly quote Schmitt. The concepts aren't particularly complicated, and it's easy to see how Trump and his enablers are implementing them

Posted at Hartmann Report on Oct. 9, 2025

We’re All Socialists — But Only Trump Acts Like a Communist

As Americans lose faith in capitalism, Trump’s economic nationalism looks less like free enterprise and more like state control… Trump and Miller say they’re coming for the “communists” in America, and they need the military on the streets of our cities to do it.

Posted at Hartmann Report on Oct. 8, 2025

"One Battle After Another" Is What Happens When Art Refuses to Kneel

Conservatives call Anderson's film "irresponsible" because it dares to show what happens when power turns its guns on the powerless... This week has felt like one battle after another. We all watched video after video of ICE agents dropping from helicopters onto a Chicago apartment, kicking in doors and terrorizing Black and Hispanic American and immigrant families, then trashing and stealing their possessions without ever presenting a warrant signed by a judge. The GOP pushed the country to the brink again with another government shutdown threat while right-wing legislatures redrew districts to erase the votes of millions. We heard more talk of arresting journalists for doing their jobs, and watched as the military rolled through American cities as if people here are the enemy. Each day has felt like a slow-motion assault on democracy itself. Louise and I went to see Leonardo DiCaprio's new movie One Battle After Another last weekend, and I was stunned. It's a film of rare courage and artistry. From the first scene to the last, Paul Thomas Anderson reminds us that cinema can still tell the truth about power and conscience. It's a film that demands attention, not permission.

Posted at Hartmann Report on Oct. 7, 2025

Is ICE Today’s Klan?

From concealed identities to sanctioned violence, the echoes between ICE raids and Klan terror are too loud to ignore… Masked, armed law enforcement agents who regularly violate the law and strip people of their constitutional rights is nothing new in America. They have, in fact, a long and well-documented history, including states — after years of abuse by masked men — passing laws specifically to prevent them from concealing their identities when performing law enforcement operations. In this era, we call them Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents; during the late 19th and early- to mid-20th centuries they called themselves the Klu Klux Klan. They often operated with the blessing of both federal and state governments, often deputized and given badges and guns, and “enforced the law” while wearing their famous white hoods to conceal their individual identities.

Posted at Hartmann Report on Oct. 6, 2025

America’s Fourth Amendment Is on Life Support — What Do You Do When Your Government Becomes the Criminal?

Raids without warrants, kids in zip-ties, and officials who say "F** the children": this is the moral collapse of the American state. It's time for state authorities to start making arrests... Remember the old TV crime/drama shows? A cop would bang on a suspect’s door and the suspect would say, through the door, “Do you have a warrant?” The officer would then walk away, promising to come back later with the requisite paper signed by a judge. No more. Now they’re kicking in doors, shooting pepper-gas balls into the open windows of cars driven by reporters, smashing windows and furniture, and concealing their faces and identities like the Klan did in days of old. In Chicago, they’ve shot two unarmed people, killing one. And there wasn’t a warrant signed by a judge to be seen anywhere.

Posted at Hartmann Report on Oct. 5, 2025

Ludwig von Mises and the “Critical Race Theory” of neoliberalism: The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore Its Greatness

To say that Ludwig von Mises and F.A. Hayek were both traumatized and influenced by their respective brushes with Nazism would be an understatement. Mises suffered the indignity of Hitler’s gestapo rummaging through his apartment in March of 1938, seizing 21 boxes of his papers and taking over his apartment. Two years later, Mises fled to the United States, where, ironically, he advocated many of Hitler’s racial ideas and even integrated them into his economic ideology. “It must be emphasized,” he wrote, “that the destiny of modern civilization as developed by the white peoples in the last two hundred years is inseparably linked with the fate of economic science.”

Posted at Hartmann Report on Oct. 4, 2025

Saturday Report 10/4/25 — As the wealth of the top 1% of Americans hit a record $52 trillion, young people’s support for the Trump administration is in free fall...

The Best of the Rest of the News. — Swing district voters are increasingly upset with Trump and the GOP about exploding grocery prices. — Over the past decade Republicans have voted at least 70 times to repeal Obamacare (the Affordable Care Act or ACA), and they took a major whack at it again with the Big Billionaires’ Bill this year; most Americans agree with Democrats that its worth shutting down the government to force them to repeal the cuts. — Speaking of the shutdown, Congressional Progressive Caucus Vice Chairman and California Congressman Ro Khanna, a twice-monthly regular on my radio/TV program, echoed the point yesterday on Fox News that I made here on Hartmann Report a few days ago and have been discussing on the air: Republicans in the Senate don’t need a single Democratic vote to re-open the government. Not one! And they could do it tomorrow. — As the wealth of the top 1% of Americans hit a record $52 trillion last month (up 6% over the previous quarter), young people’s support for the Trump administration is in free-fall. — Portlanders laying flowers in front of the ICE building, planning a naked bike ride as a protest, and Portland’s bicycle police arresting a rightwing influencer (and two others) for trying to get into a fight with anti-ICE protesters are apparently getting to the White House. Now they’re threatening to cutting federal funds to Portland. — Elon speaks, the FBI leaps. — “Whiskey Pete” Hegseth orders our military to kill four more Venezuelan civilians in defiance of both US and international law, and the naval airmen comply. — Hunter in a Farmer’s World: The Superpower Hidden in ADHD: Hypercuriosity — Thom TV: Sue's Daily Stack, Monday, 29 September, 2025 — Wisdom School: The Hidden Power of Gratitude and Forgiveness

Posted at Hartmann Report on Oct. 3, 2025

Twelve Steps to National Collapse: A Blueprint for How Democracies Die

A historian's alarm: when these twelve familiar steps appear in a nation, the result is often irreversible—unless citizens rise up and demand otherwise… "A house divided against itself cannot stand." —Abraham Lincoln "The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people. To render us again one people, acting as one nation, should be the object of every man really a patriot."—Thomas Jefferson People are baffled. Why are Trump and his Republican lickspittles so intent on gutting our government, destroying our alliances and reputation around the world, and screwing working class people while transferring over $50 trillion from them to the morbidly rich?

Posted at Hartmann Report on Oct. 2, 2025

The GOP’s Addiction to Lies: The Death of Truth and the Rise of Post-Fact Politics

When lies become policy and propaganda becomes identity, democracy itself is put at risk… Recently, I mentioned that when I was 13 years old I went door-to-door with my dad for Barry Goldwater. Three years later I was living on my own in East Lansing getting tear gassed and beaten for demonstrating against the Vietnam War and continuing segregation in the South. In other words, I’ve seen — and participated deeply — in both the right and left sides of American politics. Although his position against the Civil Rights Act was reprehensible, I took Goldwater at his word that it was based on his concern about federal overreach and the 10th Amendment; having read both his books, I came to deeply respect his principled stands, even though I also deeply disagreed with most of them. As most historians will confirm, Barry Goldwater believed what he said, and never, so far as I can find, knowingly lied to the American people. That was my dad’s Republican Party. They’d spin or shade the truth, but rarely told what they knew were naked lies. And many among them deeply believed in the principles they espoused. That party is dead.