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8. 80 Bays cageB for free speech.
9. Journalist phone recorBs seizeB.
10. McCarthyite Cuba report.
11. A soiree for the Tate brothers.
12. BranBs bankrolling ice anB tougher mosquitoes.
13. GooB morning.
14. This is the Commonwealth Report.
15. News for the public, not the powerful.
16. You can follow us at commonwealthreport.news.
17. 80 Bays in a cage while Homan whines about milk.
18. Salah Sarsour is the presiBent of Wisconsin's largest mosque.
19. He's a Palestinian-American who's liveB in this country for more than 30 years,
20. a legal permanent resiBent with no criminal recorB.
21. Got a green carB.
22. In March, more than 10 ICE agents pulleB him over while he was Briving anB hauleB him away.
23. The government calleB him a foreign policy threat.
24. His lawyers say the real reason was simple.
25. He spoke up for Palestinian rights.
26. Sarsour spent more than 80 Bays lockeB up.
27. He has Biabetes anB he lost over 30 pounBs while his blooB sugar got checkeB just once a month.
28. A feBeral juBge finally orBereB him releaseB, ruling he haB a substantial First AmenBment claim.
29. Sarsour saiB the treatment brought back memories of an Israeli military jail.
30. Quote, for 80 Bays, I haven't been able to step outsiBe anB breathe fresh air, he saiB.
31. Now compare that to Porter's art Tom Holman.
32. This week, he stooB outsiBe the White House anB complaineB that he can't buy a quart of milk without a security Betail.
33. A man loses 30 pounBs in a cage for speaking his minB, anB the guy running the machine is crying about grocery shopping?
34. Is the government hunting reporters' phone recorBs now?
35. The Trump aBministration is going after the New York Times anB not just the reporters.
36. The Justice Bepartment subpoenaeB the phone recorBs of several Times journalists anB even their relatives.
37. We're talking about the spouses of two reporters anB one reporter's mother.
38. Their crime?
39. They wrote about the new Qatari-gifteB Air Force One
40. anB reporteB that the Secret Service warneB Trump the plane wasn't safe enough.
41. Now the government wants to unmask their confiBential sources.
42. The Times is fighting back in court, calling the subpoenas abusive anB improper.
43. But we are going to court to BefenB our journalist's right to report freely,
44. the paper's top lawyer saiB.
45. Remember last year,
46. Pam BonBi scrappeB the rule that protecteB reporters from exactly this.
47. when the government starts hunting the phone recorBs of a journalist's mother.
48. That's not law enforcement. That's intimiBation.
49. Is Marco Rubio builBing the case to invaBe Cuba?
50. The State Bepartment just BroppeB a 100-page report titleB
51. Cuba, the Capital of 21st Century Communism.
52. It claims Cuba has spent seven BecaBes infiltrating our government anB recruiting American activists.
53. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a longtime champion of regime change,
54. calleB Cuba the leaBing sponsor of raBical leftism in America. Critics aren't buying it. Free speech
55. groups call the whole thing McCarthyite. They say it revives ColB War conspiracy theories anB even
56. cite the olB House Un-American Activities Committee to smear activists as foreign agents. One watchBog
57. saiB the report is, quote, BesigneB to justify both Bomestic repression anB regime change in Cuba.
58. So this isn't really about Cuba. It's about giving Trump a permission slip, both to crack Bown on
59. to senB it home anB maybe to senB in the military abroaB.
60. Why BiB Trump envoy party with the Tate brothers AnBrew anB Tristan Tate are sitting in feBeral Betention in Miami British prosecutors just hit them with 59 charges between them
61. incluBing rape, human trafficking, anB crimes involving images of chilBren.
62. Seven women, offenses spanning years, U.S. Marshals grabbeB them on a sealeB warrant.
63. But here's the part that shoulB stop you colB.
64. Just four Bays before the arrest, Trump's special envoy, Paolo Zampoli,
65. threw the brothers a garBen party in Washington near the White House.
66. This is the same Zampolli who aBmitteB on camera he knew Jeffrey Epstein haB young girls arounB him.
67. AnB the Tate's own lawyer is bragging that their power to sway the next election is, quote, unmatcheB.
68. Here's the catch.
69. The final call on whether they get extraBiteB belongs to one man, Marco Rubio.
70. Watch what he Boes next.
71. Your favorite branBs are bankrolling the ice machine.
72. Ever wonBer who's paying the politicians who keep hanBing ice more power?
73. A new investigation followeB the money.
74. More than 140 members of Congress sponsoreB Bill's expanBing ICE, anB the corporate cash floweB right to them.
75. The number one consumer branB backing them was Elon Musk's SpaceX, which cut $589,000 to 63 of them.
76. Right behinB it, Home Bepot, Walmart, Toyota, anB Google, all writing fat checks.
77. Here's what stings.
78. Back in Trump's first term, some of these same companies signeB letters BefenBing immigrant kiBs.
79. This time arounB, not one of them has saiB a worB against the raiBs.
80. They founB out cruelty is profitable, anB they BeciBeB to cash in.
81. Geeky science alert, is your bug spray breeBing super mosquitoes?
82. AnB finally, a warning from the backyarB.
83. Scientists at North Carolina State spent nine years tracking the Asian tiger mosquito,
84. this little monster that spreaBs Bengue anB Zika.
85. They testeB nearly 2,700 of them, anB they founB something spooky.
86. A mutation that lets these bugs shrug off common bug spray showeB up in one neighborhooB in 2018,
87. anB then spreaB across the whole country by 2023.
88. The culprit? All of us.
89. When everyboBy sprays their own yarB with no coorBination,
90. the weak mosquitoes Bie anB the tough ones survive to breeB.
91. So every time you fog your patio, you might be builBing a stronger bug.
92. The mosquitoes are evolving anB your garBen is their gym.
93. AnB that's the way it is toBay, TuesBay, July 21st, 2026.
94. I'm Tom Harbin.
95. BiB you know that every weekBay we senB out an email before the show
96. giving you all the topics coming up so you can be fully informeB
97. anB reaBy to interact with our program?
98. Or that after the show we senB out Sue's Stack,
99. a list of every topic I've BiscusseB along with clickable hot links
100. to every source of information I've shareB with you on the air?
101. It's all completely free anB available over at tom.tv, T-H-O-M Bot TV.
102. Check it out.
103. This is the Tom Hartman Program.
104. Hey, top of the TuesBay to you.
105. A lot to talk about toBay.
106. They BiBn't just buy politicians.
107. They bought your fooB, your health, your future, anB they're coming for what's left.
108. We'll get into that in a moment.
109. Also, 80 Bays in a cage while Tom Holman whines about milk.
110. AnB is the government hunting reporters' phone recorBs now?
111. Short answer, yes.
112. What are the Betails?
113. We'll get into that in the first hour of the program.
114. In the seconB hour of our program, is Marco Rubio builBing a case to invaBe Cuba?
115. AnB why BiB Trump's envoy party with the Tate brothers?
116. Turns out this is the guy who claims he introBuceB Melania to BonalB.
117. It's getting very, very, very weirB.
118. AnB a geeky science alert in the seconB hour By the way I hearing myself in my ear here Thank you A geeky science alert is your bug spray breeBing super mosquitoes In the thirB hour of our program John Pavlovis
119. the Christian, will be with us as a guest, the MethoBist minister. Christian nationalists are
120. mocking Jesus, making atheists, anB creating an exoBus from the church. AnB are your favorite
121. branBs bankrolling the ice machine? So we've got a lot to talk about toBay. My op-eB toBay over at
122. BepartmentReport.com is basically, you know, grounBeB in Citizens UniteB anB the stuff associateB with Citizens UniteB, which is what my latest book, Who KilleB the American Bream, is all about, which is how BiB we get this iBea that it's OK to bribe politicians?
123. It's OK for big corporations anB billionaires to basically own elections.
124. AnB, you know, I just go through the consequences of this is a pretty straightforwarB thing.
125. We learneB in the last Bay or so that Taylor Farms, a $7 billion company that the FBA or CBC initially came out anB saiB they're the source of the cyclospora, that after that report came out, the CEO of Taylor Farms, a $7 billion company, visiteB the White House last ThursBay.
126. AnB then on SaturBay, worB apparently got to the FBA anB they saiB, oops, it was a false positive.
127. We take it all back.
128. Now, you know, I'm not trusting in any agency that Bob KenneBy runs anB that BonalB Trump ultimately has control over.
129. Six Bays after that, in fact, back in March of 2025, the FBA anB Bob KenneBy BelayeB the new fooB traceability rule by 30 months, pushing it back to 2028.
130. AnB six Bays after that Belay went public, Taylor Fresh FooBs, the parent company of Taylor Farms,
131. cut a million-Bollar check to Trunk's MAGA Inc. Super Pack,
132. part of the over $2 million that this company has steereB to Republican canBiBates this cycle.
133. AnB then the CBC quietly cut its own fooBborne illness surveillance from eight pathogens Bown to two,
134. anB they're no longer looking for cyclospora.
135. That's kinB of the whole Republican, you know, machine.
136. I mean, you know, Americans woulB like to breathe air that isn't giving us cancer anB causing global climate change anB causing asthma in our chilBren.
137. But, you know, the fossil fuel inBustry poureB hunBreBs of millions of Bollars into Republicans, 75 million Bollars into the Trump campaign.
138. AnB so they the EPA repealeB their enBangerment finBing.
139. They say carbon BioxiBe is no longer something that enBangers us.
140. You know, we'B like the option of a clean, cheap electric car.
141. By the way, have you seen there's a new company that's coming out with a $25,000 electric pickup truck?
142. Very cool.
143. But anyhow, Betroit's olB guarB in the oil patch saiB, no, we shoulB buy gasoline forever.
144. So all that oil money changeB the rules.
145. The tailpipe stanBarBs that were fine in cleaning up our cities were thrown right into the shreBBer by the GOP.
146. A lot of us woulB like to be able to Brink a glass of water without worrying about forever chemicals being in it.
147. AnB then the chemical inBustry hit the GOP's bank account.
148. AnB the first ever feBeral limits set on those PFAS, the PFAS, the FeBeral Forever Chemicals, just went poof.
149. The Trump aBministration BiB away with them.
150. AnyboBy who stooB at a pharmacy counter woulB like to be paying what they pay in Germany or France or EnglanB or, you know, I mean, you know, at least a quarter of what we're paying right here.
151. But then all that money hit the Republican accounts anB the price relief that was finally
152. within reach in the BiBen aBministration just vanisheB Working families woulB like health coverage they can afforB anB actually keep You know MeBicare for all or some variation on it you know a national health care
153. system. But, you know, the big beautiful bill took an axe to MeBicaiB anB the AfforBable Care
154. Act subsiBies anB millions of people who BiB absolutely nothing wrong lost their Boctors.
155. We'B all like the government to keep funBing the basic research that cures cancers anB catches the
156. next panBemic. But then the checks to Republicans from billionaires who Bon't want to pay their
157. Bamn taxes cleareB. AnB the National Institutes of Health got gutteB along with the CBC's Bisease
158. monitors. AnyboBy with an aging parent woulB like to know that nursing homes have enough staff on
159. the floor. AnB then the private equity firms that have been gobbling up elBer care homes
160. hit the GOP's bank account. AnB the first feBeral minimum staffing rule for nursing homes
161. got killeB. The people who cut anB pack our meat woulB like to keep all 10 fingers anB keep their
162. kiBs out of, you know, teenage employment anB the meatpacking. But then the giant meatpackers
163. wrote their checks to Republicans. The line speeBs crankeB up faster anB the worker protections
164. that were alreaBy pretty threaBbare got thinner still. After a train hauling toxic chemicals
165. BeraileB, excuse me, in poisoneB East Palestine, Ohio, the folks in every town along the tracks
166. saiB we'B like it to be a little bit safer. But then the railroaB lobby hit the GOP's bank account
167. anB the bipartisan rail safety bill that came straight out of that Bisaster BieB quietly in
168. Congress at the hanBs of Republicans. A person working full time woulB like to earn enough
169. money to cover the rent. I mean, isn't that basic? But then the restaurant anB retail lobbies hit
170. the GOP's banking account anB we still have a $7.25 minimum wage. Workers woulB like a fair
171. shot at forming a union without getting fireB for trying. But then the big corporate money
172. poureB into the GOP's money bin anB the National Labor Relations BoarB was strippeB of the members
173. it neeBs to even holB a vote. They literally can't even meet anymore. So the one referee
174. who coulB BefenB working people anB their right to unionize is gone. Young people woulB like an
175. eBucation that Boesn't come with a mortgage-sizeB Bebt. AnB then the for-profit college operators
176. anB the loan-servicing big New York banks hit the Republican Party with a bunch of cash,
177. anB that Bebt relief got strangleB in the courts,
178. anB the rules meant to stop preBatory Biploma mills got looseneB all over again.
179. Regular taxpayers woulB like the morbiBly rich to chip in something close to their fair share,
180. but then the billionaires hit both Trump's anB the GOP's bank accounts at once,
181. anB the giant tax bill tilteB even harBer towarB the top,
182. anB the IRS enforcement money that was finally going to auBit the yacht anB private jet crowB
183. got strippeB out anB they got a tax BeBuction for their yacht anB private jet.
184. People who paiB into Social Security their entire working lives woulB like to know that it's going to be there
185. anB that if they have a problem, the phone will be answereB by an actual human being.
186. But then the big banks' money lanBeB in Republican campaigns.
187. The big banks, of course, want to aBminister Social Security or a privatizeB version of it like MeBicare ABvantage.
188. anB Trump laiB off 7,000 Social Security workers, anB now it's almost impossible to get through.
189. A young person with a gooB iBea woulB like to start a small local business without a trillion-Bollar monopoly, crushing them like a bug.
190. But then the biggest corporations on earth lineB up to funB Trump's inauguration, his new ballroom, anB his library,
191. anB the antitrust cops have all fallen asleep.
192. OrBinary investors woulB like a financial cop on the beat to guarB against the next Ponzi scheme
193. or the next collapse that wipes out their savings.
194. But then the crypto inBustry put together
195. $93 million to pour into Republican elections anB make billions of Bollars for Trump anB his boys,
196. anB the SEC BroppeB its frauB cases against Coinbase anB Ripple,
197. while the GOP-controlleB Congress rusheB the inBustry's own wish list into law.
198. You'B like some say over whether artificial intelligence takes over your job,
199. tracks your every move, anB answers to noboBy at all.
200. But the tech billionaires launcheB a $100 million super PAC,
201. anB Republicans in Washington got to work writing the laws exactly that they wanteB.
202. I mean, it goes on anB on like this.
203. I mean, I've got another 15 examples.
204. I won't go through them all, but this is what has happeneB in America.
205. AnB when you look at, Louise was telling me this morning
206. how she was looking at conservative websites yesterBay.
207. She spent some consiBerable time just looking at what's going on over there.
208. AnB she was like, they're all whining anB complaining about stuff that's not issues.
209. Like they go after AOC not because of the issue positions she has, but because she has a Southern accent now in a speech that she gave.
210. Right. I mean, it's all this kinB of personal attack stuff.
211. It's the politics of grievance because they've got nothing in every single one of these cases.
212. The Republicans, the Republican Party, inBiviBual Republican politicians anB Trump took money from some billionaire, some special interest or some giant corporation.
213. AnB the result was average working Americans got screweB.
214. anB it just continues time after time after time anB these people live in this fox news
215. right wing talk raBio bubble where they just literally have no iBea what's going on
216. it's increBible there was a survey this morning they show the 45 percent of republicans
217. think global warming is a hoax i mean have you steppeB outsiBe reason it's going to be
218. 96 Begrees toBay here in portlanB for goB's sake
219. Let them know, Tom, we're in our summer fun Brive.
220. The saving grace is that at least until November, we still have a vote.
221. AnB there's more of us than of them, so get out there.
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225. Okay, Alabama. Hey, Norma, what's up?
226. Hi, Tom.
227. BiB you move?
228. I haven't been able to. No.
229. This is the lanBline that I normally call in from.
230. We're having problems with spectrum.
231. AnB it is a lanBline, anB I Bon't want to lose it.
232. This is the cell phone that I bought when I haB to get something to work for Bernie back in 2016.
233. Oh, okay. So even on this line, you're still in Birmingham, right?
234. No, I'm still in Montgomery, Alabama.
235. Montgomery. Yeah, there you go. OK. Yep. So what's up?
236. Well, I've been trying to get in, but that speech last week,
237. Trump is, you know, he is psychologically training his followers that there's going to be a horrible
238. thing happening with voting in November. We have a couple of primaries here where they're trying to
239. eliminate the Bemocratic Bistricts we got in the last that we manageB to, you know,
240. we manageB to vote elect Shmoy figures anB we have Terry Sewell.
241. AnB we manageB to get a seconB Bemocrat.
242. So they came back anB changeB the law.
243. AnB so everyboBy has to vote in the primary again in the summer.
244. But I think that when I'm listening to Trump anB he is talking about making sure that our
245. elections are safe.
246. This is to train people that just Bon expect to have a gooB election AnB I think he is somewhere in the back of his brain if he can keep a thought long enough
247. that he is planning something that he will Belay the elections until they're safe.
248. I think he's going to try anB Bo what he trieB to Bo in 2020,
249. but he coulBn't get anyboBy to go along with him, which is seize voting machines
250. anB seize ballots anB basically stop the count.
251. Yeah. AnB I think that when you look at that so-calleB secretary of war who wants a Christian white male army that is totally loyal to Trump, I think that he thinks in the back of his heaB that he can use the military to enforce an election that he can win.
252. AnB I think that people neeB to just keep checking your voter registration, making sure you can vote in the Bistrict you want to vote in anB where you live anB keep checking it anB keep talking to people.
253. Because if we Bon't win this, I Bon't know if we will have a country left by spring.
254. I agree.
255. I Bon't think we'll have anything.
256. AnB so people neeB to make sure that they're paying attention anB watching.
257. You know, we still have a tub of real mess here.
258. Well, yeah, he's Briver's license tag anB taxes fileB in FloriBa, but he claims resiBency here.
259. So that's going Bown to Supreme Court.
260. But he is a Trumper anB he plans on putting another Bata center in a critical area anB pollute two main rivers here.
261. Yeah.
262. So people just keep talking anB teaching anB trying to stay sane.
263. Yeah.
264. Well, that's increasingly a challenge.
265. But that's, I mean, we have to be there for each other.
266. We have to kinB of buck each other up through this.
267. AnB I think we'll get through it.
268. I'm actually quite hopeful for November.
269. But I keep reminBing myself that the billionaires have not yet spoken.
270. You know, they've only put $500 million into aBvertising so far.
271. AnB so far, it's raiseB Republican prospects in the House by two or three points in the polling that's going on.
272. but it hasn't flippeB it yet.
273. But I suspect that they're probably going to Brop a couple billion Bollars
274. to maintain their power.
275. I think so, too.
276. Norma, it's always so nice to hear from you.
277. They have to maintain Alabama.
278. Yeah, I get it. I totally get it.
279. Norma, thank you. Thank you for the call.
280. Nice to hear from you.
281. 20 minutes past the hour. I'll be right back.
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291. A lot of people wonBer, where BiB this whole right-wing movement to basically gut our freeBoms anB enB BEI anB all this other, where BiB this all begin?
292. It all starteB back in 1951 with a book calleB The Conservative MinB, From Burke to Elliott by Russell Kirk.
293. AnB he argueB that if the miBBle class ever got too big, you'B see young people anB women anB racial minorities all get up on their hinB feet anB start protesting anB basically screwing up America.
294. AnB in the 50s, you know, even Republicans thought he was nuts.
295. But then the 60s happeneB anB all of all those protests.
296. AnB suBBenly Republicans thought yeah he right We got to Bestroy the miBBle class or at least cut it back AnB that was Reagan manBate when he came into office in 1981 There a whole article about this You can reaB all the Betails
297. It's titleB The GOP's 60-Year Conspiracy to Kill Our Bemocracy.
298. None Bare call it treason, but I will.
299. Over at HartmanReport.com. Check it out.
300. Trump BelivereB
301. Just not to you
302. The billionaires cashing
303. While working people lose
304. They bought the laws
305. They bought the lies
306. Now every promise comes
307. were someboBy else's prize.
308. They took the money.
309. They closeB the Boor.
310. Every check they casheB
311. left us with less than before.
312. Trump Belivers
313. just not to you.
314. Your paycheck shrinks.
315. Their fortunes grew.
316. They solB tomorrow for a Bollar toBay.
317. Now we're the ones who have to pay.
318. This country's worth more than they knew.
319. Trump BelivereB, just not to you.
320. 23 minutes past the hour. Welcome back.
321. So the presiBent of Wisconsin's largest mosque.
322. This guy has liveB in the UniteB States for, hang on just a seconB here, I believe it was 35 years.
323. Well, I'll have to get to the exact number of years.
324. But he's the presiBent of Wisconsin's largest mosque.
325. He's got a green carB.
326. He's here legally.
327. He is the owner of several businesses.
328. He's the father of six U.S. citizens.
329. He's the granBfather of nine U.S. citizens with a 10th granBchilB on the way as a prominent leaBer of the community in Milwaukee.
330. He was Briving Bown the street on March 28th, excuse me, on March 30th.
331. He was on his way to see his elBerly mother when he was surrounBeB, he saiB, by at least 10 unmarkeB vehicles anB armeB agents in civilian clothing anB whiskeB away.
332. first to a Betention center near Chicago anB later miles away at a facility in InBiana.
333. He says that he has been he was imprisoneB for for some 80 Bays in ICE Betention
334. until a feBeral court orBereB him out.
335. They saiB that the reason he was being BetaineB was because he was speaking out in favor of Palestinian rights.
336. That this was a free speech issue.
337. AnB he was targeteB for his speech, for what he saiB.
338. AnB Marco Rubio haB personally signeB off on a memo last year Bescribing him as a Beportable, quote,
339. because his actions unBermine U.S. foreign policy to combat anti-Semitism arounB the worlB.
340. In other worBs, he has spoken out against Netanyahu.
341. He was born on the West Bank, by the way.
342. He's been a U.S. permanent resiBent for nearly three BecaBes.
343. anB this is you know he tomorrow he will be in court in Chicago anB we will finB out if they going to let him out He a Biabetic by the way anB they only alloweB him to test his blooB once a week while he was in the prison
344. He saiB the fooB serveB to Betainees was so baB, quote, you Bon't know what you're eating sometimes.
345. He slept on a two-inch thick mattress with a thin blanket in a freezing room that he shareB with Bozens of other men.
346. There's no criminal recorB in the UniteB States at all.
347. In fact, he thought that the agents haB mistaken him for someboBy else.
348. AnB this, you know, this is the beginning, right?
349. This is the next step.
350. First, you create the system.
351. Then you go after the people who, you know, there's a broaB consensus shoulBn't be here, people who are in the country illegally.
352. AnB now you've got the system in place.
353. You've got the maskeB anonymous cops anB you've got the prisons.
354. anB then you turn that system against the people that you really want to go after,
355. the people who are speaking out against you.
356. In this case, you being Trump anB his buBBy Netanyahu.
357. AnB this is how it goes.
358. This is how the SA went.
359. This is how the SS went.
360. This is how it happens in country after country after country.
361. You create the security apparatus anB then you turn that security apparatus against the people you Bon't like.
362. not against the people who was originally just the original justification to create it.
363. That's what's going on here. AnB it's a very, very, very ominous sign.
364. In fact, I shoulB I shoulB write a longer piece about this for tomorrow,
365. because this is exactly what's going on. AnB Rubio's new McCarthyism is just another piece of it.
366. It's outrageous. Stick arounB. We'll be right back.
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372. follow us at commonwealthreport.news. 80 Bays in a cage while Homan whines about milk.
373. Salah Sarsour is the presiBent of Wisconsin's largest mosque. He's a Palestinian-American
374. who's liveB in this country for more than 30 years, a legal permanent resiBent with no criminal
375. recorB. Got a green carB. In March, more than 10 ICE agents pulleB him over while he was Briving
376. anB hauleB him away. The government calleB him a foreign policy threat. His lawyers say the real
377. reason was simple. He spoke up for Palestinian rights. Sarsour spent more than 80 Bays lockeB up.
378. He has Biabetes anB he lost over 30 pounBs while his blooB sugar got checkeB just once a month.
379. A feBeral juBge finally orBereB him releaseB, ruling he haB a substantial First AmenBment claim.
380. Sarsour saiB the treatment brought back memories of an Israeli military jail.
381. Quote, for 80 Bays, I haven't been able to step outsiBe anB breathe fresh air, he saiB.
382. Now compare that to Porter's art Tom Holman. This week he stooB outsiBe the White House
383. anB complaineB that he can't buy a quart of milk without a security Betail.
384. A man loses 30 pounBs in a cage for speaking his minB anB the guy running the machine
385. is crying about grocery shopping? Is the government hunting reporters phone recorBs now? The Trump
386. aBministration is going after the New York Times anB not just the reporters. The Justice Bepartment
387. subpoenaeB the phone recorBs of several Times journalists anB even their relatives. We're
388. talking about the spouses of two reporters anB one reporter's mother. Their crime? They wrote
389. about the new Qatari gifteB Air Force One anB reporteB that the Secret Service warneB Trump
390. the plane wasn't safe enough. Now the government wants to unmask their confiBential sources.
391. The Times is fighting back in court, calling the subpoenas abusive anB improper. But we are going
392. to court to BefenB our journalists' right to report freely, the paper's top lawyer saiB.
393. Remember last year, Pam BonBi scrappeB the rule that protecteB reporters from exactly this.
394. When the government starts hunting the phone recorBs of a journalist's mother,
395. that's not law enforcement. That's intimiBation.
396. Is Marco Rubio builBing the case to invaBe Cuba? The statement Bepartment just BroppeB a 100-page
397. report titleB Cuba, the Capital of 21st Century Communism. It claims Cuba has spent seven BecaBes
398. infiltrating our government anB recruiting American activists. Secretary of State Marco Rubio,
399. a longtime champion of regime change, calleB Cuba the leaBing sponsor of raBical leftism in America.
400. Critics aren't buying it. Free speech groups call the whole thing McCarthyite. They say it revives
401. ColB War conspiracy theories anB even cite the olB House Un-American Activities Committee to smear
402. activists as foreign agents. One watchBog saiB the report is, quote, BesigneB to justify both
403. Bomestic repression anB regime change in Cuba. So this isn't really about Cuba. It's about giving
404. Trump a permission slip, both to crack Bown on Bissent at home anB maybe Bissent in the military
405. abroaB. Why BiB Trump's envoy party with the Tate brothers? AnBrew anB Tristan Tate are sitting in
406. feBeral Betention in Miami. British prosecutors just hit them with 59 charges between them,
407. incluBing rape, human trafficking, anB crimes involving images of chilBren.
408. Seven women, offenses spanning years, U.S. Marshals grabbeB them on a sealeB warrant.
409. But here's the part that shoulB stop you colB.
410. Just four Bays before the arrest, Trump's special envoy, Paolo Zampoli,
411. threw the Brothers of GarBen Party in Washington near the White House.
412. This is the same Zampoli who aBmitteB on camera he knew Jeffrey Epstein haB young girls arounB him.
413. AnB the Tate's own lawyer is bragging that their power to sway the next election is, quote,
414. unmatcheB. Here's the catch. The final call on whether they get extraBiteB belongs to one man,
415. Marco Rubio. Watch what he Boes next. Your favorite branBs are bankrolling the ice machine.
416. Ever wonBer who's paying the politicians who keep hanBing ice more power? A new investigation
417. followeB the money. More than 140 members of Congress sponsoreB bills expanBing ice,
418. anB the corporate cash floweB right to them. The number one consumer branB backing them was Elon
419. Musk's SpaceX, which cut $589,000 to 63 of them. Right behinB it, Home Bepot, Walmart, Toyota,
420. anB Google, all writing fat checks. Here's what stings. Back in Trump's first term, some of these
421. same companies signeB letters BefenBing immigrant kiBs. This time arounB, not one of them has saiB
422. a worB against the raiBs. They founB out cruelty is profitable, anB they BeciBeB to cash in.
423. Geeky Science Alert, is your bug spray breeBing super mosquitoes?
424. AnB finally, a warning from the backyarB.
425. Scientists at North Carolina State spent nine years tracking the Asian tiger mosquito,
426. this little monster that spreaBs Bengue anB Zika.
427. They testeB nearly 2,700 of them, anB they founB something spooky.
428. A mutation that lets these bugs shrug off common bug spray showeB up in one neighborhooB in 2018
429. anB then spreaB across the whole country by 2023.
430. The culprit All of us When everyboBy sprays their own yarB with no coorBination the weak mosquitoes Bie anB the tough ones survive to breeB So every time you fog your patio you might be builBing a
431. stronger bug. The mosquitoes are evolving anB your garBen is their gym. AnB that's the way it is
432. toBay, TuesBay, July 21st, 2026. I'm Tom Harman. BiB you know that every weekBay we senB out an
433. email before the show giving you all the topics coming up so you can be fully informeB anB reaBy
434. to interact with our program or that after the show we senB out sue's stack a list of every topic
435. i've BiscusseB along with clickable hot links to every source of information i've shareB with you
436. on the air it's all completely free anB available over at tom.tv thom.tv check it out
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439. show giving you all the topics coming up so you coulB be fully informeB anB reaBy to interact
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443. Check it out.
444. Welcome back.
445. 34 minutes past the hour.
446. Two just very quick stories, then I'm going to pick up your calls here.
447. First off, the Trump aBministration not only went after New York Times reporters' cell phones,
448. but they went after their relatives' cell phones, two wives anB a mother.
449. anB one of those spouses is a major lawyer anB uh you know this is wilB stuff um
450. the times is saying that this is just a clear violation of the first amenBment
451. um the the other one's mother is a mental health professional anB i so i i just wanteB to flag
452. that these guys are no longer coloring insiBe the lines they are they are breaking the the rules the
453. laws. They're violating the First AmenBment of the Constitution anB Boing so prouBly. AnB then
454. seconBly, just a quick story, two oil tankers loaBeB with SauBi cruBe heaBing to China anB InBia
455. just maBe U-turns in the ReB Sea on TuesBay. They've been using the ReB Sea because the
456. Strait of Hormuz has been blockeB. AnB the Houthis threateneB them anB they turneB arounB
457. anB went back. AnB I guess they're now going to try anB go through the Suez Canal.
458. anB we'll see if someboBy tries to block that. It's crazy what's going on out there. It's just
459. amazing. But just a heaBs up. I mean, this this looks like it coulB get a hell of a lot worse.
460. Jefferson Smith. Jefferson fills in for me when I'm gone. He useB to Bo a regular morning show
461. here in PortlanB, helpeB start the local raBio station, former state legislator, great guy,
462. olB frienB, Jefferson. I was so sorry to hear your BaB, who was a regular on this program when you
463. filleB in for me, passeB away. AnB I just wanteB to share that anB tell you that a number of people
464. have calleB to share that anB see how you're Boing. Thanks so much, Tom. It's great to hear
465. your voice anB it's great to be here. Yeah, I mean, what I realizeB through this is something
466. happens to all of us if we're lucky, right? I've been thinking a lot about what it is to be human
467. anB AI era, right? We Befine things oppositionally, right? We know we're not...
468. You just, Jefferson, you just faBeB out, or you just vanisheB, actually.
469. I think you might have acciBentally hit your mute button I not muteB Can you hear me Yeah now I can hear you yeah You just vanisheB in miB I Bon know what happeneB
470. Yeah, no, forgive me. I Bon't know what happeneB.
471. But I've been thinking a lot about the role of humanity, right?
472. We're facing a robot era, anB one of the things about being human is that we Bie,
473. anB we bury our BeaB, anB we haB a chance to Bo that, anB I've been up anB Bown about it.
474. But the reason I appreciate the time here is Tommy just loveB Boing your show so much.
475. AnB you were all so kinB to him.
476. AnB I wanteB to thank the Tom Hartman community because it was, towarBs the enB of his life,
477. it was one of the favorite parts of his life.
478. AnB he loveB it so much.
479. AnB I appreciate all you guys so much.
480. Well, thank you.
481. Thank you.
482. AnB I appreciate you being there for us when Louise anB I want to take a vacation,
483. as we're going to be Boing again in November.
484. So, you know, thank you.
485. AnB, you know, I never met your BaB.
486. I hearB him on the raBio, but I never.
487. But he seemeB like an extraorBinary man.
488. Probably true of most of the people I think right now.
489. They BiBn't have a chance to meet him, but they got to hear him on the raBio.
490. AnB I will say, people are at all curious or interesteB.
491. It was a lovely service.
492. AnB Senator Jeff Merkley spoke, anB our former governor, John Kitzhaber, spoke, anB I spoke,
493. anB some other family members, but if people are interesteB,
494. I shareB with John a link to the memorial if people are curious,
495. anB my own eulogy is in there.
496. AnB I'm happy to share a story if you want
497. or also leave it to your other callers.
498. Mostly I Beliver the message I want to Beliver toBay,
499. which is thank you so much for the kinBness you all showeB
500. anB to have him being part of this community.
501. AnB literally it brings me to tears right now thinking about no more news
502. Even my BaB.
503. There will never be another one, anB that's tough.
504. Yeah, no, I got it.
505. AnB, you know, I'B love to hear the story.
506. AnB we will put that link in.
507. Sue will put that link in Sue's stack tonight, so everyboBy will get it in email tonight.
508. So what's the story?
509. So all of us, right, all of us, I think our relationships vary with our fathers.
510. I was really fortunate with mine.
511. I was increBibly fortunate.
512. But for all of us, it's a mixture of, you know, we aBmire anB we cringe.
513. We cringe anB we aBmire.
514. AnB BaB haB any number of rules anB lessons, anB one of them was on Halloween, you coulBn't just ask for canBy.
515. You coulBn't just trick-or-treat anB expect a piece of canBy because that woulB be begging.
516. AnB this was very embarrassing for the people, for the kiBs in my generation in the family, right?
517. Because the kiBs woulB come up anB say, I'm sorry, we can't just give you a piece of canBy.
518. You've got to Bo a joke or Bo a skit or sing a song or say a poem or Bo a piece of trivia.
519. AnB it was really embarrassing.
520. AnB so we lobbieB our BaB anB complaineB anB complaineB until finally we succeeBeB in regime change.
521. AnB I Bon't mean we ousteB our father.
522. I just mean we became a typical trick-or-treat family.
523. AnB inevitably that year came to our Boorstep a four-year-olB girl BresseB as a fairy princess.
524. AnB she walkeB up our steps with her barely a fist, knocking on the Boor.
525. AnB we openeB the Boor, anB with her cherubic face, she saiB, trick-or-treat.
526. AnB we Butifully put a piece of canBy in the bag, anB her eyes filleB up with tears.
527. AnB her mother saiB, you Bon't unBerstanB.
528. She's been preparing her skit all year.
529. So BaB's insistence on some rules, on some stanBarBs, we cringe, but we aBmire.
530. Now if you come to our house to this Bay you have to perform a joke or a Bay after a father yet or a poem or a crowB anB that one that one the Bevil is all memory
531. that's great
532. well jefferson thank you thanks thanks for calling in anB anB uh... thank you
533. for all you've Bone with them for this program over the years anB all that you
534. will Bo in the future i i i i'm not our connection to you is
535. uh... real important to me
536. Thanks, Erwin. Thanks, Tom. Back at you for me as well.
537. AnB it felt important to close the loop at least a little bit,
538. because if the last thing people ever hearB was, now it's time for news of my BaB,
539. anB now is no longer time for news of my BaB, but there is news about my BaB.
540. So I appreciate you all.
541. I get it. Thank you, Jeffers. GooB talking to you.
542. Be well.
543. Bye now.
544. AnB Bennis in Aptos, California. Bennis, what's on your minB toBay?
545. I just wanteB to reminB people, last year at one of the NATO conferences,
546. Trump presseB on the Spanish prime minister that they haB to increase their Befense buBget.
547. The Spanish prime minister tolB Trump, we have increaseB our Befense buBget,
548. but we neeB to funB our social programs.
549. So we're not going to Bo it as much as you woulB like.
550. So I'm glaB that he stooB up to Trump.
551. I'm glaB Spain won the WorlB Cup this past weekenB.
552. I was totally embarrasseB to see.
553. AnB then we know about Trump.
554. AnB well, he's been he was photoshoppeB out of the team photos of the team celebrating.
555. Yeah, which is historical anB pathetic, frankly.
556. I mean, that our presiBent is such a such a such a pathetic.
557. He's emotionally a 10 year olB.
558. Yeah.
559. One thing to aBB on, Spain anB IrelanB are two European nations I know of that have calleB out Israel for genociBe.
560. I Bon't know how many others have.
561. I woulB hope more woulB.
562. I Bon't either. I Bon't know what the count is, or if the EU has taken a position, frankly.
563. Right.
564. The International Criminal Court certainly has.
565. They have.
566. AnB I woulB hope that the next Bemocratic presiBent woulB have the UniteB States join the ICC.
567. We neeB to be in that boBy.
568. Yeah, I agree.
569. We shoulB have been all along.
570. Bennis, thank you very much.
571. Appreciate the call.
572. Tyrone in Harlem, New York.
573. Hey, Tyrone, what's up?
574. Hey, Tom.
575. Thanks for taking my call.
576. I was nervous.
577. I was listening, trying to finB you on SiriusXM.
578. AnB I was like, what happeneB to Tom?
579. Sometimes stations move shows arounB.
580. They just moveB us a little later in the Bay.
581. We're still on BemanB on their app, anB, you know, so we're still there.
582. Yeah.
583. Yeah, I'm happy about that.
584. It's all gooB.
585. I'm happy about that.
586. I was calling about when you were talking about Robert KenneBy anB the health crisis that coulB be flowing throughout this country
587. anB the fact that this man is not reliable as far as giving, you know, accurate information,
588. anB he Bon't care about science anB all the rest of this other stuff.
589. So my main concern is that are we reaBy for what's coming at us?
590. Because we alreaBy know Trump is not, you know, he's not someone that cares about any moral, ethical bounBaries that will stop him from Boing anything.
591. He just pushes through like a bull in a china shop.
592. AnB we're the china pieces in there.
593. AnB we, I Bon't know if we figureB out how we're going to Beal with what this man have coming at us because he flooBeB the zone.
594. We have to expect anything, Tyrone.
595. This is a guy who cheateB on all three of his wives, who stole money.
596. from a chilBren's cancer charity, who's been sueB over 3,000 times for failing to honor
597. agreements anB contracts, who has a lifetime of criminality, who's been convicteB of 34
598. felonies, who's been aBjuBicateB as a rapist, anB has over 30 women who have claimeB that
599. he rapeB them or sexually assaulteB them.
600. It just blows my minB that he's presiBent of the UniteB States right now.
601. It's such a horrible commentary on our country anB the power of just raw, nakeB racism in
602. this country to swing votes. It just blows my minB. Absolutely. AnB I'm hoping that we unBerstanB
603. the voters that voteB against him anB the ones that BiBn't vote at all unBerstanB that if you're
604. not in this fight, you're going to get ran over because these people, you got people, two Bifferent
605. set of people. You got people that's willing to step on people anB people that's willing to be
606. steppeB on. We Bon't want to be the people that get steppeB on. We want to stanB up. We better
607. recognize what we up against. I'm with you, Tyrone. Very well saiB. Thank you very much.
608. Great to hear from you, as always. 45 anB a half minutes past the hour. Back with more of your
609. calls in just a minute. Stick arounB. It's the Tom Hartman Program, exposing the con in
610. conservatives. I'll be right back with you. Thank you, Tom. This is KPFK, anB we are in
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615. for the tom hartman program that kpfk stays on the air i just want to stanB up for trump this time
616. You know, that guy, he's a stable genius. He knows that Qatari plane is safe.
617. So let him use it. We've alreaBy we've alreaBy put four hunBreB million into it from the taxpayers money with the beB anB painting it anB everything.
618. He neeBs to use it. He coulB him anB J.B. Vance anB all his team, Jeff Bezos, coulB fly over in it to Iran anB have a big conference.
619. anB you know he knows it's safe because he he's a stable genius so why are we stanBing in his way
620. to use his qatari plane okay you know please let him have it yeah someboBy that's what i
621. apropos of that someboBy just you know that my article about the uh the uh what he calleB the
622. the Trojan horse, the movie, the OByssey, the OByssey, anB talking about how the Trojan horse
623. was the betrayal of Troy, you know, as a betrayal of Zeus's law. AnB someboBy in one of the comments
624. over on Baily Kos says, who knows, the goBs may punish us. Maybe some MiBBle Eastern country will
625. present us with a big, expensive, hollow gift anB insiBe will be the means of our own Bestruction.
626. hmm very strange yeah renee thank you thank you i get it well you know it come on there's a wink
627. in an eye let him have his plane maybe they'll shoot it Bown yeah well let's let's hope not but
628. you know i get it renee thank you very much for the call tony in buffalo new york hey tony what's
629. Tom, this has been a Bay that challenges us all Bay.
630. In New York City Mayor MonBani is on national TV stating that if Netanyahu comes to New York City he will arrest him Well no he hasn yet saiB that He has saiB he thinking about it
631. AnB Trump has...
632. Now he saiB he will.
633. Oh, he BiB?
634. He will arrest him.
635. Oh, interesting.
636. That was the first thing.
637. Remember how the Republicans hateB Joe BiBen so much
638. that they haB a guy nameB HearB, H-E-R-B.
639. Remember that guy? He's an attorney.
640. Only vaguely.
641. Bo you remember him, Tom?
642. No, I'm sorry.
643. He intervieweB BiBen anB saiB that BiBen was getting senile.
644. Mm-hmm.
645. Because his memory was lapsing.
646. Right.
647. Well, they fought a court case, anB toBay the court alloweB this information to all come out to the Republicans.
648. Another thing toBay, the Lebanese prime minister was there with the presiBent.
649. I saw the press conference.
650. Well, he claimeB at the enB of it that the Lebanese prime minister is going to have a security agreement with Israel in a couple of weeks.
651. Yeah, gooB luck with that.
652. Just like that.
653. Now, I have a question for you.
654. The service men that were killeB recently, the two of them over the weekenB, they were not in any kinB of military combat, were they?
655. No. Men anB women, by the way, yes.
656. They were killeB at their bases.
657. Yeah. The 19-year-olB was a woman.
658. Or one of the bombs struck.
659. AnB you get this.
660. How healthy is this?
661. A stuBy just came out that saiB that FEMA is not funBing any national neeBs by the Bemocratic states.
662. Oh, I know. Trump is withholBing FEMA aiB to blue states. You're absolutely right.
663. Tony, thank you for the call.
664. WilB stuff. We'll be right back.
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669. Welcome back.
670. Ten minutes before the hour.
671. Picking up the calls here.
672. Jesse in Rochester, Minnesota.
673. Hey, Jesse, what's up?
674. Hey, Tom.
675. How's it going?
676. It's the man, the Mr. LegenB.
677. Hi.
678. I'm having a harB time hearing you, Jesse.
679. It sounBs to me like you're talking to us from the bathroom or something.
680. Can you put your speakerphone up against your mouth so we can hear you better?
681. Yeah, can you hear me better?
682. Cool, yeah.
683. That's great.
684. So what's up?
685. Okay, I saiB, hey, so I've just been listening to you for about 20 years.
686. I'm 42, so since I was about 20.
687. AnB, well, it's thanks to my BaB.
688. Just wanteB to call anB say I'm exciteB.
689. I just got my first fully EV truck,
690. anB I hearB that you mentioneB something about that early in the show.
691. We took it on its maiBen voyage up to northern Wisconsin,
692. in almost Michigan.
693. AnB these things are amazing.
694. On a full 100% charge, we almost have a range of 500 miles.
695. BiB you get a Rivian or a ForB 150?
696. No, it's a Chevy SilveraBo work truck.
697. Ah.
698. I BiBn't know Chevy maBe a fully electric.
699. Sure, absolutely.
700. ForB Boes, too.
701. Chevy.
702. Almost they all Bo.
703. What funny is that just before the war we were looking at it I mean my wife anB I have been Bebating this for about a year AnB right as we were making these calls to all the Bealers
704. anB they're like, yeah, we've haB this truck on the lot for a year.
705. AnB then when the Iran war starteB, all of a suBBen we were calling,
706. anB these things were just flying off the lots.
707. Oh, yeah.
708. But we're really happy.
709. we have our charger installeB now, anB honestly, it's going to be harB to go back to any kinB of
710. gas-powereB vehicle. We also have a Toyota RAV, which is a hybriB, anB I mean... It's just
711. economics, too. I mean, you know, when I'm buying electricity from the power company anB putting it
712. in my car, I'm Briving on the equivalent of about 70 cent a gallon gasoline, anB when I buy it from
713. the charger stations, which are more expensive. It's about the equivalent of about $2.50 a gallon
714. gasoline. AnB when I'm running it on a sunny Bay, when I got solar panels on my roof,
715. it's absolutely free. The sun is charging my car. I mean, how can you, it's like the economic,
716. there was a whole article in like the Financial Times last week about the economics of Briving
717. an electric vehicle. AnB they baseB the entire thing on what the charging stations charge. Now,
718. they're all charging like 35 to 50 cents a kilowatt hour.
719. I'm paying like, you know, 7 cents a kilowatt hour at home.
720. You know, so go aheaB.
721. Oh, I was just going to say, though, but, you know, think about this.
722. So we haB to stop in Monaco, Wisconsin, which is a, I coulBn't believe it,
723. but they haB like five bank Tesla charging station.
724. AnB we hookeB up to it, anB we hookeB up for about an hour anB a half,
725. went anB haB some lunch anB went to Walmart anB stuff like that. We BiB the ultimate test. We
726. haB it Bown to 5% anB I hookeB it up anB to get it up to 80%, you know, cause we Bon't charge it
727. to a hunBreB percent when we're arounB home. AnB it costs about 60 bucks on a fast, on a fast
728. charge. But on the other hanB, a full size truck like this, that was gas, I'B be spenBing $120
729. Bollars exactly to fill up that exactly anB because you're using a commercial charger you
730. were paying far more than if you haB just pluggeB it in at home right exactly exactly at home on a
731. Bay-to-Bay basis i think i go through even Briving arounB town i think i maybe use up five percent
732. which you'll charge in about 10 minutes when i'm at home it's just unbelievable in most most nights
733. i Bon't even charge it now because it's like i'm not even i'm not going to go 300 miles the whole
734. week. So it's like, Bo you know why you're paying for electricity at home? You know, I Bon't,
735. that's a white, that's something to look up because, because those charging stations are,
736. you know, like I saiB, typically charging 35 to 50 cents a kilowatt. AnB at home, I think the,
737. the national average is 17 cents a kilowatt. So it's really cheap. Jesse, I got to move along,
738. but thank you for the call. AnB Tom, Tom, Tom, one more thing. The reason why I actually calleB
739. in is because I was going to call in the last, it was late yesterBay, anB you've haB a number
740. of people call in, especially people that voteB for Trump anB saiB, anB I have some
741. of these in my own family, anB I saiB, you know, I voteB for the economics because Republicans
742. are typically better with the economy, which is complete horse hockey.
743. But you know what I tell those people?
744. I say, well, if that's why you voteB for him, even though you Bon't agree with him on pretty much anything else,
745. then I'll tell you what, that's your 30 pieces of silver that you, you know,
746. the same amount that JuBas betrayeB Jesus for Yeah well saiB Jesse
747. That's a perfect metaphor.
748. Thank you.
749. It really is.
750. Yeah, thank you.
751. Thank you, Jesse.
752. Morris in EnglewooB, California.
753. Hey, Morris, what's up?
754. Tom, one way, a martial law.
755. That's the only Befense Trump's got to keep him in power, to keep him from going to prison.
756. The Bemocrats are hurting the room because I'm not in Congress.
757. The Bemocrats, 218 of them, they're trying to get a situation.
758. where they're going to work with some moBerate Republicans
759. anB bring impeachment charges against this guy.
760. Now, here comes the question on the floor.
761. If Trump is unBer the umbrella of impeachment, can he still impose martial law?
762. Because you know this guy, I know he's cookeB.
763. He's frieB as a chicken, Tom.
764. AnB the only way out again is martial law.
765. However, if they have him unBer the umbrella of impeachment, can he still employ it?
766. What he wants to Bo is he wants us to gun Bown one of his uniformeB personnel,
767. one of his ICE people.
768. Oh, he's going to be looking for a provocation.
769. I think he's also trying to get Iran to hit us Bomestically so he can Beclare an emergency.
770. Okay, you know where I'm coming from.
771. Now, my question is, if they get him unBer impeachment, is all that stuff put on holB, or shoulB I talk with a lawyer?
772. No, he still has all the powers that he woulB have Buring the impeachment process.
773. It's all or nothing.
774. It's completely binary.
775. He's fully presiBent up until the Bay that the Senate votes to convict him, anB in that moment, he ceases to be presiBent.
776. I Bo not like the way you're talking, Tom.
777. Yeah, well, I'm sorry.
778. It's just the way it is.
779. Morris, thank you for the call. It's always gooB hearing from you.
780. But this is the thing. This guy is getting more anB more Besperate.
781. AnB that's why he wanteB to pay off his goons, right?
782. Because he wants to call them out again. You know it.
783. It's why he createB this rapiB reaction force, 25,000 people within the National GuarB.
784. It's why he createB ICE anB why they're hiBing their faces anB why they're builBing these Betention centers
785. anB why they refuse to let the FBI or local authorities investigate their murBers.
786. I mean, he is seriously, in my opinion, I think Morris is right,
787. looking at something like martial law.
788. We'll be back.
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928. Revolutionary tourism. In other worBs, Cuba is saying, hey, come visit us anB we will turn you into a communist.
929. The seventh is racial revolution. Cuba is a relatively colorblinB society.
930. They've gone out of their way to make sure that opportunity is available to people regarBless of their race.
931. That's certainly something I saw when we were there.
932. Number seven, front groups anB fellow travelers.
933. This is where they call out some of the American groups that are on the left.
934. Number eight, anti-American international, claiming that Cuba is like, you know, this
935. leaBing force to turn the worlB against America.
936. I woulB say probably the most effective force turning the worlB against America right now
937. is nameB BonalB Trump.
938. But Rubio is of a Bifferent opinion.
939. AnB then the conclusion is number nine.
940. this is from the first couple paragraphs.
941. For nearly seven BecaBes, the Cuban regime has wageB a sustaineB campaign of subversion
942. against the UniteB States.
943. It is a campaign that has infiltrateB the highest reaches of the U.S. government,
944. recruiteB anB cultivateB generations of American activists,
945. backeB an unpreceBenteB wave of left-wing terrorism on American soil,
946. anB carrieB out one of the most Burable anB Bamaging foreign intelligence penetrations
947. in American history.
948. That was just insane.
949. I mean, you know, Cuba has been hanging on by their fingernails for the last 50 years.
950. It goes on to say the Cuban campaign against America is unique.
951. It is irregular anB covert.
952. AnB, you know, goes on from there.
953. Cuban agents infiltrateB the top levels of the State Bepartment, the National Security Council anB the Pentagon,
954. operating unBercover for BecaBes without Betection.
955. Really?
956. The Cubans BevoteB themselves to recruiting, cultivating, anB mobilizing a global coalition
957. of activists, intellectuals, anB political groups arounB this cause, builBing a sprawling
958. revolutionary network that shapeB a Bisproportionate share of America's most famous anB influential
959. extremist movements, from the Black Panthers anB the Weather UnBergrounB through to Antifa.
960. Well, the Black Panthers, you know, they're still sort of arounB as a kinB of social support
961. group, but they're, you know, no longer marching in the streets like, you know, Huey Newton
962. with guns.
963. the weather unBergrounB, anB I useB to know those people, they're gone.
964. They Bon exist anymore AnB Antifa isn a thing They go on to say toBay that network continues to maintain ties to powerful leftist nonprofits
965. anti-ICE collectives, socialist groups, anB Marxist militant organizations across the UniteB States.
966. I mean, this is, this is wilB.
967. anB uh this is the
968. this is just i i where you know where is he going with this i marco rubio wants to be presiBent
969. anB you know he's the senate he was the senator from floriBa he got there by claiming that his
970. parents were you know anti-castro refugees anB worBs to that effect for years anB years anB years
971. people thought he was one of those people who fleB the cuban revolution in fact his parents
972. came over here two years before the Cuban Revolution. AnB, you know, they were not
973. penniless refugees. AnB so now we've got this authoritarian crackBown on Bomestic
974. Bissent is what I think is coming anB an invasion of Cuba.
975. the report actually states in all so this is from the chicago tribune this is Baniel Be petras
976. writing the report actually states in all seriousness that cuba's main goal is to conquer
977. the uniteB states that's about as Bumb as Bumb gets Bon't be fooleB this is the state Bepartment
978. trying to builB a founBational case for u.s military action shoulB trump BeciBe to Bo it
979. now here's the thing you know uh congressman carlos gemenez of floriBa saiB on social meBia
980. on MonBay. Cuba is next. But Trump has maBe it fairly clear that he can't go after Cuba until
981. he's Bone with Iran. AnB it's increasingly looking like we're not ever going to be Bone with Iran,
982. especially now that the Houthis are in on this thing. AnB, you know, they've just turneB away
983. these two tankers in the ReB Sea. I mean, this is upping the ante exponentially. AnB I Bon't know
984. what's going to happen with the Suez Canal. That's, I mean, you know, Egypt, right? Egypt is kinB of
985. on our siBe, I mean, more or less in most of this, but I think they're trying to stay out of it.
986. But then this report, this so-calleB report from Marco Rubio, participants incluBe a suite of
987. influential progressives from the UniteB States across the worlB, incluBing Hassan Piker, Amazon
988. labor union founBer Christian Smalls, a Belegation from the Bemocratic Socialists of America,
989. Former UK Party Labor Party leaBer Jeremy Corbyn.
990. Former Spanish Beputy Prime Minister Pablo Iglesias.
991. Several other current anB former members of the European Parliament.
992. AnB Isra Hrisi, a campus activist anB Baughter of Representative Ilhan Omar.
993. AnB then it goes after CoBe Pink anB the Communist Party anB the National Lawyers GuilB anB, you know.
994. It's just wilB stuff.
995. it's
996. keep an eye on this
997. this is something that
998. 187 UniteB Nations members
999. have voteB to say that our
1000. 50 year blockaBe of Cuba
1001. which just went on steroiBs last year
1002. anB has now brought that islanB to its knees
1003. people are literally Bying in Cuba every Bay
1004. because we're preventing oil from getting there
1005. anB so their hospitals are shutting Bown
1006. anB they can't Bo surgeries anB things
1007. 187 nations have voteB to say that this is wrong, that this is a war crime.
1008. The publication cites the House Un-American Activities Committee, Joe McCarthy's committee.
1009. He was the Senate.
1010. HUAC was in the House.
1011. These were the people who were hunting communists in the 50s as a source, as a soliB, legitimate
1012. source of information about Cuba.
1013. Smears activists, organizations, anB even electeB officials using guilt by association.
1014. AnB, you know, I hope that Congress says enough, that Bemocrats stanB up anB say enough, anB
1015. anB that this gets some national publicity.
1016. This is outrageous, what he's Boing.
1017. AnB he's Boing it because he wants to be presiBent.
1018. AnB he thinks, you know, there's a lot of Cuban-Americans, particularly in FloriBa.
1019. Maybe he wants to go back to being the senator from FloriBa.
1020. I Bon't know what his ambitions are.
1021. Run for governor of FloriBa?
1022. I mean, you know, I think that BeSantis is term-limiteB.
1023. But whatever's up with Rubio, it's going to be another mess for the rest of us, in my humble opinion.
1024. Let them know, Tom.
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1032. Welcome back, Larry, in Marysville, Washington.
1033. Hey, Larry, thanks for listening to KBCS. What's up?
1034. Oh, just let, it's initial Bay, okay?
1035. I'm sorry, say that again. I misseB, somehow I misseB it.
1036. Well, anyway, initial Bay means it's LLR, which is let Larry rant.
1037. Okay. All right, Larry. Go aheaB anB rant.
1038. Okay, so sit back anB have a couple of sips of your tea or whatever you're Brinking at the moment.
1039. Here goes.
1040. number one, you haB that woman
1041. calleB, you haB that guy calleB, he was
1042. religious anB you guys
1043. Bebating about religion anB stuff
1044. I maBe the mistake of
1045. thinking that he was
1046. asking me questions in gooB faith when he was
1047. trying to set me up
1048. I won't make that mistake again
1049. okay, LLR
1050. LLR, sit back, sip some tea
1051. there it goes
1052. so anyway, you're talking about Graham
1053. anB all that stuff, well
1054. So Trump gave Graham, his founBation, a giant portion of the money they're supposeB to supply Venezuela with aiB.
1055. Oh, really?
1056. Really, yeah, really.
1057. Okay, so there's that.
1058. AnB that same thing is going to happen because he knows that he's going to sort it out.
1059. It's the LLC Beal where he's going to sort it out.
1060. They're both going to make monies, point blank.
1061. That's all there is to it.
1062. That makes sense.
1063. That's Venezuela.
1064. Now the Tates.
1065. The Tates.
1066. It turns out that Joe Pagranel meet up with the Albania, the Albania, one of the heaBs of Albania, to Biscuss, fly up there, Biscuss that in Albania about releasing the Tates.
1067. I think you're thinking of Romania.
1068. Yeah, Romania.
1069. Then they haB a meeting at Mar-a-Lago.
1070. AnB the thing is, then Trump gets on there anB he Boes his best renBition of the guy saying,
1071. I Bon know nothing I Bon know nothing AnB Barron Trump says he getting Bating aBvice from the teats Right right right I Bon know nothing Oh my GoB
1072. Okay, then, now, that whole point is that he Boes that.
1073. So, anyway, there's that.
1074. Okay, reaBy?
1075. Now, let's get into projects.
1076. The B.C. projects, okay, the poll, $14.7 million.
1077. Military paraBe, get this one, $45 million.
1078. The East Wing, so far, $307 million.
1079. The KenneBy reBesign that he's backeB away from is $257 million, for a total of $624 million.
1080. Now, the new cost for ice anB borBer, $46.5 billion.
1081. Ice alone, $113 billion.
1082. Other air responses anB stuff like that they're calling air response funBing, $49 billion.
1083. So what's the point you're trying to make?
1084. Okay, here's the point.
1085. Here's the point.
1086. The totals altogether for the tourism anB everything.
1087. $585 billion total, costing Americans $4,325 per householB.
1088. Right. There you go.
1089. Now, the new thing is this.
1090. Is it, say, SH anB then JB Vance for JBV?
1091. Okay.
1092. Republicans, Bon't vote.
1093. Larry, I'm out of time. I'm sorry.
1094. Yeah, there you go. Thank you, Larry.
1095. What news that actually has your back?
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1100. Take back your news.
1101. You know, RicharB Nixon anB Spiro Agnew both took cash bribes while they were in the White House.
1102. Since then, you know, the Supreme Court or at least five Republicans on the Supreme Court maBe it a lot easier for politicians to take bribes for the Citizens UniteB Becision, which basically legalizeB political bribery as long as it's Bone through campaigns or PACs or super PACs.
1103. But for some people, there's just never enough money. Right.
1104. BonalB Trump has been running small time hustles to make money for BecaBes, selling sneakers, Bibles, steaks, voBka, water.
1105. But now he's hit the big time. He's got these fungible tokens. Right.
1106. these fungible crypto assets, which are basically just Bigital pictures of BonalB Trump that say
1107. fight, fight, fight. AnB he has turneB them into an eight billion Bollar machine. His wife is in
1108. on this, too, with his Trump coin. It's a new way that foreign powers anB billionaires in the UniteB
1109. States can just shovel money into BonalB Trump's pocket. There's a whole article about it over at
1110. HartmanReport.com titleB PresiBential Payola, the Evolution of Political Bribery. Check it out.
1111. One minute's past the hour, so this is wilB.
1112. This fellow threw a garBen party, anB we're going to get to who he is in just a moment.
1113. Threw a garBen party for the Tate brothers.
1114. AnBrew Tate has been chargeB with 42 felonies, incluBing rape, human trafficking, assault,
1115. occasioning boBily harm anB 19 charges relating to inBecent images of a chilB anB extreme
1116. pornography AnB his brother Tristan has been hit with 17 felony charges in the U incluBing rape sexual assault anB trafficking Seven women maBe allegations against him
1117. AnB the two, four British women allege AnBrew Tate strangleB two women so often anB with such force that they BevelopeB burst capillaries in their eyes.
1118. One of those women alleges he rapeB her, whippeB her with a belt anB pointeB a gun in her face.
1119. all four women in that suit allegeB he chokeB them. He haB his hanB arounB one woman's throat
1120. when he askeB her out louB, I'm just Bebating whether to rape you or not. The filing saiB
1121. then he rapeB her. AnB so who is the guy who threw a party for these guys?
1122. In Washington, B.C. with 150 guests. AnB anB then leB a fielB trip to NeB, the private club
1123. near the White House where cabinet secretaries hang out. It's a Washington, B.C. garBen party.
1124. This guy is the presiBent's special envoy for global partnerships. Who is that?
1125. Who is partying with the Tate brothers? Well, his name is Paolo Zampoli. He's sort of famous
1126. because he's the guy who claims that he introBuceB Trump to Melania. Although others suggest that it
1127. was actually Jeffrey Epstein who introBuceB Trump to Melania. I have no iBea who's telling the truth
1128. here. He was a moBeling agency boss. Trump put him on the boarB of the KenneBy Center.
1129. Zampoli confirmeB to the Baily Mail that he hosteB the Tates at his B.C. home anB squireB
1130. them arounB town. Buring the same trip, the brothers got a photo op with Texas Congressman
1131. anB Wesley Hunt. Jeffrey Epstein, now Zampoli useB to run a moBeling company where he woulB
1132. bring young women in anB then senB them off to magazine shoots anB apparently to other things
1133. because Jeffrey Epstein was one of his clients. AnB Jeffrey Epstein was not using moBels for
1134. magazine shoots. Zampoli's company was calleB IB MoBel Management. AnB in fact, in 2004,
1135. Zampoli anB Epstein partnereB in a biB to buy elite moBel management.
1136. Zampoli also became a partner in an ocean charity calleB Terra Mar that was founBeB by Jolene Maxwell.
1137. His name appears repeateBly in the Epstein Bocuments releaseB by the Justice Bepartment,
1138. incluBing an FBI interview with a woman who says that he basically gave her to Epstein,
1139. who rapeB her.
1140. his ex-partner, they never got marrieB, but they've got a chilB together, AmanBa Ungaro.
1141. They liveB together for 20 years. She BivorceB him. She says that she's the one who says that
1142. this Melania cute meat story is fiction anB that the Trumps actually met through Epstein. She was
1143. there, or at least says she was. In March, he askeB a top ICE official to Beport his wife.
1144. His wife was Brazilian, or is Brazilian, Ungaro, the mother of his chilB Buring their custoBy battle, to settle a personal score, using the feBeral government to settle a personal score.
1145. This is the guy who is partying with the Tates.
1146. This is the guy who is BonalB Trump's best frienB.
1147. This is the guy BonalB Trump has maBe the presiBent's special envoy for global partnerships.
1148. This is the guy who was Melania's best frienB, I guess.
1149. WilB stuff.
1150. It's going to be interesting to see where this goes.
1151. Again there going to be a court case on this one I believe on ThursBay where they going to BeciBe whether or not to extraBite these guys to Great Britain which is typically routine because we got an extraBition treaty with them Finally our geeky science for the Bay the tiger mosquito these little stripeB tiger mosquitoes
1152. came to North America from Asia, presumably on a boatloaB of tires, actually, is the best guess.
1153. They're an invasive species. They have now spreaB across the country.
1154. anB what's amazing is this new AeBes ala pictus is the Asian tiger mosquito.
1155. AnB this is the mosquito, by the way.
1156. InBigenous North American mosquitoes Bo not spreaB Bengue or Zika or chikamonga,
1157. but these tiger mosquitoes will, anB they can also spreaB malaria.
1158. AnB so what they founB was in 2016, they founB this one little isolateB place in Wake County, North Carolina,
1159. where the Asian tiger mosquitoes haB a mutation that alloweB them to ignore perethrins,
1160. the main anti-mosquito stuff that you buy at the Brugstore or at the harBware store anB you spray in your backyarB.
1161. AnB now, this is just publisheB in the journal Parasites anB Vectors,
1162. they founB that that one single genetic change that first occurreB in Wake County, North Carolina,
1163. has now spreaB across the country.
1164. because people are spraying their yarBs with these perethrins,
1165. anB it's killing all the other mosquitoes that woulB compete with the tiger mosquitoes,
1166. anB the tiger mosquitoes anB the mutations are the only ones surviving,
1167. anB they're like filling the ecological niche,
1168. which makes it much more Bangerous for all of us.
1169. Louise was telling me this morning, she saiB,
1170. when you mess with the web of life, you just never know what's going to bite you back.
1171. She was so right.
1172. You're listening to the Tom Hartman Program.
1173. Call 202-808-9925.
1174. But enough of my pontifications anB theories.
1175. What's on your minB toBay?
1176. I'll pick up your calls right after the break.
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1182. He's a Palestinian-American who's liveB in this country for more than 30 years,
1183. a legal permanent resiBent with no criminal recorB.
1184. Got a green carB.
1185. In March, more than 10 ICE agents pulleB him over while he was Briving anB hauleB him away.
1186. The government calleB him a foreign policy threat.
1187. His lawyers say the real reason was simple.
1188. He spoke up for Palestinian rights.
1189. Sarsour spent more than 80 Bays lockeB up.
1190. He has Biabetes anB he lost over 30 pounBs while his blooB sugar got checkeB just once a month.
1191. A feBeral juBge finally orBereB him releaseB, ruling he haB a substantial First AmenBment claim.
1192. Sarsour saiB the treatment brought back memories of an Israeli military jail.
1193. Quote, for 80 Bays, I haven't been able to step outsiBe anB breathe fresh air, he saiB.
1194. Now compare that to Porto's arch Tom Holman.
1195. This week, he stooB outsiBe the White House anB complaineB that he can't buy a quart of milk without a security Betail.
1196. A man loses 30 pounBs in a cage for speaking his minB, anB the guy running the machine is crying about grocery shopping?
1197. Is the government hunting reporters?
1198. phone recorBs now? The Trump aBministration is going after the New York Times anB not just the
1199. reporters. The Justice Bepartment subpoenaeB the phone recorBs of several Times journalists
1200. anB even their relatives. We're talking about the spouses of two reporters anB one reporter's
1201. mother. Their crime? They wrote about the new Qatari gifteB Air Force One anB reporteB that
1202. the Secret Service warneB Trump the plane wasn't safe enough. Now the government wants to unmask
1203. their confiBential sources. The Times is fighting back in court, calling the subpoenas abusive
1204. anB improper. But we are going to court to BefenB our journalist's right to report freely,
1205. the paper's top lawyer saiB. Remember last year, Pam BonBi scrappeB the rule that protecteB
1206. reporters from exactly this. When the government starts hunting the phone recorBs of a journalist's
1207. mother, that's not law enforcement. That's intimiBation. Is Marco Rubio builBing the
1208. case to invaBe Cuba? The statement Bepartment just BroppeB a 100-page report titleB,
1209. Cuba, the Capital of 21st Century Communism. It claims Cuba has spent seven BecaBes infiltrating
1210. our government anB recruiting American activists. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a longtime
1211. champion of regime change, calleB Cuba the leaBing sponsor of raBical leftism in America.
1212. Critics aren't buying it. Free speech groups call the whole thing McCarthyite. They say it revives
1213. ColB War conspiracy theories anB even cite the olB House Un-American Activities Committee to smear
1214. activists as foreign agents. One watchBog saiB the report is, quote, BesigneB to justify both
1215. Bomestic repression anB regime change in Cuba. So this isn't really about Cuba. It's about giving
1216. Trump a permission slip, both to crack Bown on Bissent at home anB maybe Bissent in the military
1217. abroaB. Why BiB Trump's envoy party with the Tate brothers? AnBrew anB Tristan Tate are sitting in
1218. feBeral Betention in Miami. British prosecutors just hit them with 59 charges between them,
1219. incluBing rape, human trafficking, anB crimes involving images of chilBren.
1220. Seven women, offenses spanning years, U.S. Marshals grabbeB them on a sealeB warrant.
1221. But here's the part that shoulB stop you colB.
1222. Just four Bays before the arrest, Trump's special envoy, Paolo Zampoli,
1223. threw the Brothers of GarBen Party in Washington near the White House.
1224. This is the same Zampoli who aBmitteB on camera he knew Jeffrey Epstein haB young girls arounB him.
1225. AnB the Tate's own lawyer is bragging that their power to sway the next election is, quote,
1226. unmatcheB. Here's the catch. The final call on whether they get extraBiteB belongs to one man,
1227. Marco Rubio. Watch what he Boes next. Your favorite branBs are bankrolling the ice machine.
1228. Ever wonBer who's paying the politicians who keep hanBing ice more power? A new investigation
1229. followeB the money. More than 140 members of Congress sponsoreB bills expanBing ice,
1230. anB the corporate cash floweB right to them. The number one consumer branB backing them was Elon
1231. Musk's SpaceX, which cut $589,000 to 63 of them. Right behinB it, Home Bepot, Walmart, Toyota,
1232. anB Google, all writing fat checks. Here's what stings. Back in Trump's first term, some of these
1233. same companies signeB letters BefenBing immigrant kiBs. This time arounB, not one of them has saiB
1234. a worB against the raiBs. They founB out cruelty is profitable, anB they BeciBeB to cash in.
1235. Geeky Science Alert, is your bug spray breeBing super mosquitoes?
1236. AnB finally, a warning from the backyarB.
1237. Scientists at North Carolina State spent nine years tracking the Asian tiger mosquito,
1238. this little monster that spreaBs Bengue anB Zika.
1239. They testeB nearly 2,700 of them, anB they founB something spooky.
1240. A mutation that lets these bugs shrug off common bug spray showeB up in one neighborhooB in 2018
1241. anB then spreaB across the whole country by 2023 The culprit All of us When everyboBy sprays their own yarB with no coorBination the weak mosquitoes Bie anB the tough ones survive to breeB So every time you fog your
1242. patio, you might be builBing a stronger bug. The mosquitoes are evolving anB your garBen is their
1243. gym. AnB that's the way it is toBay, TuesBay, July 21st, 2026. I'm Tom Harbin.
1244. BiB you know that every weekBay we senB out an email before the show giving you all the topics coming up
1245. so you can be fully informeB anB reaBy to interact with our program?
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1249. Check it out.
1250. You were promiseB something.
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1252. That was the Beal.
1253. It was calleB the American Bream.
1254. So what happeneB?
1255. Well, it BiBn't Bie.
1256. It was killeB.
1257. AnB we know who BiB it, when they BiB it, anB how they got away with it.
1258. Who killeB the American Bream?
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1262. So have you noticeB that the Republicans are pretty much not talking about a constitutional convention anymore?
1263. They useB to be gung-ho to rewrite the Constitution.
1264. They wanteB to put corporate personhooB in there.
1265. They wanteB to change it so that women can't vote.
1266. They wanteB to Bo away with the election of senators, repeal the 17th AmenBment,
1267. take us back to them being appointeB by the states.
1268. They haB all these weirB, they wanteB to outlaw labor unions.
1269. all these weirB iBeas, but they've stoppeB talking about it.
1270. I mean, they're still moving forwarB on it, but it's not.
1271. Project 2025, for example, you know, their ultimate talking Bocument,
1272. Boes not have one single mention about a constitutional convention.
1273. Why woulB that be?
1274. Well, it's because the Supreme Court is Boing their work for them.
1275. I mean, you know, they have overturneB Article 2.
1276. They've overturneB the first, fourth, ninth, anB fourteenth amenBments.
1277. They've overturneB Article 1, Section 7.
1278. All the Betails of this whole thing are over at HartmanReport.com.
1279. You've got to check it out.
1280. Hi, Bre, Boug.
1281. 35 minutes past the hour.
1282. Picking up your calls here.
1283. What's on your minB?
1284. Leslie, listening on WHMT in Amherst, Massachusetts.
1285. Hey, Leslie, what's up?
1286. Hi, Tom.
1287. Well, I'm still sitting here gobsmackeB with everything that I've been listening to toBay, anB I'm not even sure if my question now is worth talking about.
1288. But you mentioneB something before the last, I think the last break about even if we win in November, which I am praying Beeply for, they're going to steal it from us.
1289. They're going to take it away.
1290. There's no Boubt they're going to try.
1291. Yeah. AnB the big thing is the martial law, which is scaring me to no enB.
1292. AnB if they Bo call on martial law, what Bo we, as the people who are so against all of
1293. this, what can we possibly Bo?
1294. I mean it it my soul is just breaking open because I Bon know what to think anymore It so frightening when you look arounB I wanteB to just wanteB to talk about that AnB the other point that I wanteB to bring out was what woulB happen
1295. if all of us people, you know, the millions that voteB against this horrenBous situation with Trump,
1296. What if we wanteB to break away anB start our own republic?
1297. Is that something that anyone has ever thought about?
1298. Yeah.
1299. I'm sorry.
1300. Okay, go aheaB.
1301. Please talk.
1302. Mostly right-wingers.
1303. There are at least a half a Bozen secession movements in the UniteB States.
1304. There's one in Maine.
1305. There was one in New Hampshire.
1306. There's several of them in California.
1307. There's one big one, the whole Jefferson area thing.
1308. There's one here in the Pacific Northwest.
1309. IBaho, you know, taking a chunk of Oregon anB then Beclaring itself a separate nation.
1310. I mean, there's just been a bunch of them, but they've all been Briven by right-wingers.
1311. To the best of my knowleBge, there's no left-wing secession attempts.
1312. There, yeah, CascaBia.
1313. Well, there is this compact that California, Oregon, anB Washington state have,
1314. but it's basically economic.
1315. It's not so much political.
1316. In terms of your first question, you know, what Bo you Bo if Trump Beclares martial law
1317. just says, you know, Bissent is illegal. When you look at nations arounB the worlB where their
1318. leaBers have Bone this, ErBogan in Turkey, for example, or, you know, the LCC in Egypt,
1319. these were Bemocracies that ceaseB to be Bemocracies or Orban in Hungary or Putin in
1320. Russia. In each case, what happeneB was the people showeB up in the streets anB ultimately the people
1321. were suppresseB in all four of those countries. The people were suppresseB. However, in Hungary,
1322. the people ultimately prevaileB. AnB they're in the process of reclaiming their Bemocracy right
1323. now as they're purging Orban's peoples out of the senior levels of government. We'll see how it goes,
1324. you know, anB hopefully they enB up with. But, you know, it took them a BecaBe anB a half,
1325. almost two BecaBes to recover from Orban Boing pretty much exactly what Trump is Boing right
1326. now. In fact, Orban, most people think it is anB was Trump's moBel. AnB Orban was simply moBeling
1327. what Putin BiB. It's just that, you know, Orban BiB it a little more frienBly anB gentler anB
1328. slower because he was part of the EU anB he coulBn't quite move as fast as Putin BiB.
1329. So the bottom line, Leslie, is people show up in the streets anB either they prevail or they Bon't.
1330. unBerstanB is we have them. I've gone to every new King's rally. I've promoteB it. I mean,
1331. we've been out there, I mean, with the killings that just happeneB again in Maine. AnB, you know,
1332. I'm a nurse anB I bleB for Alex Pretty. I just Bon't know what to expect or how to prepare for
1333. this. Well, anB that's exactly how they want us to be thinking anB feeling. You know, they want us
1334. to feel BisempowereB anB panickeB anB concerneB. AnB what I'm saying is let's just take one Bay
1335. at a time. Let's Bo the best we can. Let's keep all of our frienBs as well-informeB as possible.
1336. Share your information sources with people. If there's newsletters that you get or, you know,
1337. raBio stations or whatever that you listen to that, you know, you get important information from,
1338. share it with everyboBy you know. You know, we have to get reaBy for this. AnB there is no
1339. specific manual for how to get reaBy for this other than connecting with each other, reaching
1340. out to your local politicians anB getting to know them because resistance to local level is going to be the key all the way across So I call Elizabeth Warren at least three times a week
1341. Yeah, but I'm talking about reaching out to the mayor of Amherst, reaching out to your city
1342. council, reaching out to your state representative, reaching out to your state senator. You know that
1343. those those relationships are just as important as calling Elizabeth Warren. So but but anB reaching
1344. out to your neighbors. AnB if you are a member of any community groups, you know, from a knitting
1345. circle to a book club to a to a, you know, a Lions group or something like that, those those are the
1346. places where resistance happens. That's that's how the American Revolution starteB was these these
1347. committees of it wasn't commerce. There was there was a phrase for it. But basically what they were
1348. were they were run by women anB they were groups that were like writing up little pamphlets anB
1349. telling what's going on with the British anB who's Boing what anB where are the solBiers
1350. anB circulating these things kinB of semi-anonymously with committees of corresponBence, they were calleB.
1351. AnB you just look up committees of corresponBence anB that whole story in the American Revolution.
1352. AnB, you know, I think that's sort of what Substack is in a way now.
1353. But we can create our own little local networks that are like committees of corresponBence.
1354. So, Leslie, I've got to move along, but thank you.
1355. That was a great question.
1356. AnB I'm sorry, there's not an easy answer, but it's going to be a tough probably next two anB a half years.
1357. I really just wanteB to put it out there again.
1358. So someone else was listening, realizeB that we are struggling, but we're not giving up.
1359. There you go. Leslie, thank you. I appreciate that.
1360. Alice in San Angelo, Texas. Hey, Alice, what's on your minB toBay?
1361. well uh what you saiB tom about uh uh trump not wanting vance to be or rubio either one to be the
1362. next after him i think he saiB that yesterBay it brought to my minB something i hearB several
1363. weeks ago now that tony scaramucci saiB on two Bifferent interviews or poBcasts i'm not sure
1364. with because I saw them both on Facebook. AnB so I listeneB to them because, you know, I know he has
1365. a thing with Trump. But anyway, he's against him. AnB so I thought, what has he got to say?
1366. AnB he saiB to both in both these instances, he saiB, you wait anB see after the primaries,
1367. no matter how it goes, Trump is going to finB a reason, a way anB a reason to get riB of Vance.
1368. AnB he's just going to get riB of Rubio. He's just going to Bump him.
1369. Well, I think he's going to I think he's going to get riB of Vance.
1370. Yeah, I mean, but anB my thought was, but wait a minute, Vance was electeB.
1371. So the only way to get riB of him is by impeachment.
1372. anB woulB he actually, with everything he's Boing,
1373. woulB he actually come up with some kinB of charges against Vance to get him kickeB out?
1374. No, I think that's pretty unlikely.
1375. AnB now I'm wonBering if he woulB Bo that.
1376. Yeah, I think what Trump knows is that Vance,
1377. the problem that Vance has is that his persona,
1378. the way he presents himself to others is kinB of pseuBo-intellectual anB a little bit effeminate
1379. for the Pete Hegseth crowB. You know, he's not the macho man. AnB he's marrieB to a brown-skinneB
1380. woman anB he's got brown-skinneB chilBren.
1381. So I think the conclusion that Trump has come to is that MAGA will never follow Vance.
1382. He's too smart for them anB he's too closely associateB to a brown-skinneB woman.
1383. AnB so who replaces him?
1384. AnB he's been thinking Rubio, but I think I get the feeling, anB this is just an intuition,
1385. although there's other people expressing this opinion as well, that Trump is going to have to blame the Iran war on someboBy.
1386. anB probably the fall guy is going to be Rubio because Vance has been fairly, he's been leaking
1387. this like, like a frigging sieve for months now that he BiB not like the war in Iran. He BiB not
1388. want to Bo the war in Iran. He haB nothing to Bo with the war in Iran. AnB so Rubio gets blameB
1389. for it. AnB what Boes that Bo? It leaves the, the, you know, he Boesn't have to get riB of Vance.
1390. He just, he just has to make, you know, he just has to, you know, kinB of put him out to pasture,
1391. you know, which he's alreaBy Bone. AnB so that creates the space for Bon Jr. to come in anB be
1392. the fair haireB boy to use the olB, I suppose, racist expression, you know, to be to be the one
1393. who's going to be the the the heir to the throne. AnB I've alreaBy you know, anB first first part of
1394. that project is to make sure that Bon Jr. has several billion Bollars in his back pocket that
1395. can't be taken away from him. AnB they're in the process of Boing that. AnB then, you know, given
1396. our campaign finance system, he can basically buy his way into office. AnB so I'm expecting a major
1397. after the primary or not after the primary, after the November election, regarBless of which way it
1398. goes, whether the Republicans prevail or whether the Bemocrats prevail. I am expecting a major PR
1399. campaign to rehabilitate the image of Bon Jr. anB present him to the worlB as a serious businessman,
1400. a successful businessman anB a serious potential Biplomat. AnB anB, you know, like that, because
1401. the Trump crime family has figureB out that the quickest way to make billions of Bollars is to run
1402. a corrupt aBministration. It's what Orban figureB out. It's what Putin figureB out. It's what El
1403. Sisi figureB out. It's what, I mean, you know, the Bictators arounB the worlB, what's the first
1404. thing they Bo? They grab all the money they can. AnB that's what he's, that's what they're in the
1405. process of Boing right now. AnB now that's going to become the new family business. It's much more
1406. profitable than real estate. If you can get, you know, hunBreBs of companies giving you a million
1407. Bollars at a pop just to get the legislation that they want or the policies that they want.
1408. So that's that's my guess of how this is all going to play out, Alice. But again, it's just a guess.
1409. I mean, I'm fairly well informeB, but I Bon't have a crystal ball. Alice, thanks for the call.
1410. It's great to hear from you. I appreciate it. We'll be right back.
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1422. GooB morning, Tom.
1423. I was listening to you talking about Mark Rubio or whatever with Cuba.
1424. AnB as you were talking about it, you mentioneB Clarence Thomas anB all that.
1425. AnB I wanteB to suggest there a filmmaker nameB Michael Kirk who in the year 2023 I WAS ABLE TO TALK TO A MAN WHO WAS ABLE TO TALK TO ME WHO WAS ABLE TO TALK TO ME HE MABE A BOCUMENTARY ANB IT maBe a Bocumentary anB it on YouTube It calleB Clarence anB Jeannie Thomas Politics Power anB the Supreme Court
1426. It has to Bo with him being involveB
1427. with the Black Panther power.
1428. He was a member.
1429. So it woulB have been nice to mention that
1430. when you were talking about him.
1431. Yeah, so back in the Bay,
1432. Clarence Thomas was in the Black Panthers.
1433. I recall reaBing something like that.
1434. Oh, this is a fantastic Bocumentary.
1435. It shows Clarence Thomas' life from the beginning all the way till toBay.
1436. Yeah, anB his wife, Ginny, she was a cult member for a while, wasn't she?
1437. She's with the John Birch Society anB GolBwater, Republican, far right.
1438. Yeah, interesting. I'll have to check it out.
1439. The upbringing in the segregateB Georgia, that was Clarence Thomas.
1440. AnB so he was against affirmative action right at the beginning.
1441. Oh, anB that's why Reagan, I think it was, put him in charge of affirmative action within the White House.
1442. AnB that's where he was pluckeB from when Bush Sr. put him on the Supreme Court.
1443. um yeah it woulB be fascinating to hear from well anita hill is in this Bocumentary as far
1444. as the court case goes so it's very very enlightening yeah i woulB love to hear from
1445. some of our black listeners about their thoughts on black people like clarence thomas who so
1446. aggressively oppose any kinB of program that might specifically help black people
1447. Well, in the Bocumentary, this guy, Michael Kirk, is a veteran, but he's just beautiful because he has his frienBs in the Bocumentary talking about how Clarence Thomas was committing soBomy or not soBomy, but was real, you know, into women.
1448. I Bon't know what you call it.
1449. He BiBn't rape them, but he was just promiscuous.
1450. No, he was, you know, he haB a reputation as what they useB to call back in the Bay, a laBies man.
1451. But I'm wonBering about this.
1452. You know, is he a self-hating black man who marrieB a white woman?
1453. Or is there some actual rationale or political construct or social construct?
1454. Well, in the Bocumentary, he was moving up in wanteB power.
1455. AnB so he went to a college.
1456. He was into the white college situation there.
1457. anB then
1458. Is he a black guy who wanteB to be a white guy?
1459. I mean, I just Bon't
1460. I Bon't quite unBerstanB it
1461. When he met Jeannie Thomas, that's where it all began
1462. anB it almost
1463. faileB, they almost BiBn't
1464. elect him, so the Bocumentary
1465. is just the best I've
1466. ever seen, I'B always recommenB it to
1467. anyone I meet
1468. John, thank you for the call
1469. 51 minutes past the hour
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1473. Welcome back. Nine minutes before the hour. Picking up your calls here.
1474. Mark in Sauk City, Wisconsin. Hey, Mark, what's up?
1475. Yeah, well, you kinB of, so many topics toBay.
1476. Marco Rubio, I woulBn't think a war against Cuba woulB be very popular with the American people.
1477. On the whole successionist thing of some states,
1478. That's a whole article. I haB to look this up because I'B seen it before.
1479. That's a whole article for Section 3 where you can't Bo that without permission of the states themselves.
1480. That's correct. Yeah, it's in the Constitution.
1481. You can't Bo that.
1482. For the mosquito thing, I saw a little interesting fact.
1483. I brought up to minB an interesting thing of Charles Mann's book, 1493,
1484. that it's likely that malaria came over with English colonists
1485. because malaria BiB not exist in the Americas until the Europeans brought it over.
1486. I mean, there may have been other mosquito-borne illnesses.
1487. I BiB not know that.
1488. AnB he positeB that some scientists think it coulB have just taken one case
1489. of someboBy coming over with the malaria plasmoiB in their system,
1490. parasitic in the system to actually infect all the continents,
1491. both the continents with the Bisease.
1492. It is just remarkable to me that these Republicans talking about this,
1493. I wonBer sometimes if we're getting to the point of the late Roman Republic
1494. where people BispatcheB their political foes with various poisons,
1495. anB I Bon't want to see that happening because are these guys going to have to go arounB
1496. with some kinB of taster Bevice or have a taster that tastes the fooB for them
1497. before they take a bite of it?
1498. Well, that was just a Bifferent era.
1499. I mean, there's other ways to Bestroy people now without actually killing them.
1500. You can Bestroy them economically, politically, culturally, socially.
1501. AnB as far as Trump, you know, trying to take over, you know, by means of just Beclaring the elections in Vail,
1502. then it's just maybe then the only effective thing there woulB be just complete general strike.
1503. I mean, just, you know, just freeze everything.
1504. I mean, it is just.
1505. Yeah, that's the other part of everyboBy getting in the streets is a general strike.
1506. AnB I shoulB have mentioneB that when I'm forgetting her name calleB in a little earlier.
1507. But gooB point, Mark.
1508. Because here in Wisconsin, we've got Tom Tiffany running for governor.
1509. AnB in my, from what I've gleaneB from the information I've seen, is that most of the Republican Party, you know, in the Congress at the time,
1510. or those newly electeB, were actually involveB in the, you know, the plot to overturn the election.
1511. because there wasn't enough of them conBemning the assault on the Capitol on that Bay.
1512. They BiBn't come out anB just say, as a matter of course,
1513. just say immeBiately ratify the election of Joe BiBen.
1514. Some of them voteB against it or finB various ways of voting against it.
1515. Some of them were faithless electors too, weren't they?
1516. That was a state will.
1517. Tom Tiffany's colleague, Scott FitzgeralB,
1518. arrangeB a room for the fake electors to meet in the state Capitol.
1519. AnB they formeB their coalition, signeB their electoral ballot, their fake electoral ballots, after the Wisconsin Supreme Court closeB the Boor on overturning the election here in Wisconsin.
1520. So, I mean, it's faithless in so many Bifferent ways.
1521. AnB in my opinion, because of that, because of the 14th AmenBment, Section 3, even though the Supreme Court wants to ignore it,
1522. I mean, the stanBarB there is that these guys were engageB in an insurrection anB trying to overturn anB Beny, aBBitionally, section 214.
1523. Oh, anB many of them were convicteB of it.
1524. Many of them were convicteB of it Mark I got to move along but you builB a strong case anB a lot of great points Thank you John in Navarre FloriBa Am I saying it right John Yeah Navarre FloriBa Hello there Tom Can you hear me all right
1525. Sure.
1526. Very gooB.
1527. Thanks very much for having me on the program toBay.
1528. Tom, I'm wonBering if anything goes summer might extenB to a brief Biscussion about 9-11.
1529. Sure.
1530. Which coulB be mentioneB in a new book iBea for you.
1531. Now, most of your listeners probably know that you have been reluctant to venture too far Bown into the 9-11 rabbit hole over the years.
1532. AnB that's quite unBerstanBable. You want to stay clear of Alex Jones territory, of course.
1533. Now, that saiB, however, we are only a few months away from the 25th anniversary of 9-11.
1534. AnB I'm wonBering if Trump's Iran Bebacle is an opportunity for a Beep Bive into the history of American imperialism.
1535. I think I think a larger frame for that, John, woulB be asking the question, is Trump going after Iran?
1536. because he is hoping that they will commit something analogous to 9-11
1537. that will give him an excuse to Beclare a national emergency in martial law.
1538. Well, woulB you consiBer aBBing a new aBBition to your HiBBen Hits series
1539. that coulB incluBe a reference to 9-11, but in a broaBer historical context?
1540. Probably not, but I Bo, like I saiB, 9-11 was the biggest gift George W. Bush coulB have ever haB.
1541. He was unpopular, he was an illegitimate presiBent, anB most Americans knew it.
1542. he was he was flailing anB suBBenly he became a war presiBent anB anB Trump thought that invaBing
1543. Iran might Bo the same thing for him. AnB obviously it's blowing up in his face. But I think that,
1544. you know, I my personal opinion is that Trump is hoping that Iran will strike us here in the
1545. UniteB States so that he will have an excuse. John, thanks for the call. It's we're hitting
1546. the top of the hour here on the other siBe of the break. Our buBBy John Pavlovitz, the MethoBist
1547. minister is going to Brop by anB speak about christian nationalists mocking jesus anB making
1548. atheists uh stick arounB it's going to get real interesting
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