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When I began Schwartzreport my purpose was to produce an entirely fact-based daily publication in favor of the earth, the inter-connectedness and interdependence of all life, democracy, equality for all, liberty, and things that are life-affirming. Also, to warn my readers about actions, events, and trends that threaten those values. Our country now stands at a crossroads, indeed, the world stands at a crossroads where those values are very much at risk and it is up to each of us who care about wellbeing to do what we can to defend those principles. I want to thank all of you who have contributed to SR, particularly those of you who have scheduled an ongoing monthly contribution. It makes a big difference and is much appreciated. It is one thing to put in the hours each day and to do the work for free, but another to have to cover the rising out-of-pocket costs. For those of you who haven’t done so, but read SR regularly, I ask that you consider supporting it.
This morning when I was doing my first search through media for SR I came across this article, about teaching elementary school children how to to deal with gun wounds to stop someone from bleeding out. As I was reading the article I also saw on CNN a video on the same thing. I told my wife, a former elementary school teacher what I had seen and read. Her response, “You’re telling me we are now living in a war zone.” As I thought about what she had said I realized, yes we are in a war zone. Bullet wounds are the leading cause of death for children in the United States. Yet, despite that the christofascist cabal on the Supreme Court has just relegalized bump stocks, and we have more guns than people in the country. We also have a growing problem with White terrorism amongst the MAGAt population. So, I thought, that teaching little boys and girls how to take off a sock or their shirt and stuff it into a bullet wound, and press down to stop the bleeding, might actually save some lives given that there so many children are shot each year
In case of heavy bleeding, children are taught to use anything that’s available to pack a wound, even a “dirty, smelly sock. Credit: CNN
ROCKLIN, CALIFORNIA — When I visited Rocklin Elementary school, I sat in on a lesson with a third-grade class – a lesson I would never have imagined as a father, a journalist or a trauma surgeon.
“Chances are, you’re never ever going to have to use this. If you do, it’s gonna be scary,” Kate Carleton told the 20 or so 8- and 9-year-olds. “But because we’ve taught you what to do, it makes it a little less scary.”
She spent the next 30 minutes teaching them how to stop a wound from bleeding out. The lesson is appropriately titled “Stop the Bleed.”
Carleton is a trauma nurse at Sutter Roseville Medical Center, a level 2 trauma center in Rocklin, California, a northern suburb of Sacramento. At the beginning of her 17-year career, she saw a lot of car crashes, motorcycle accidents and falls. More recently, the number of gunshot wounds coming through her hospital has increased, most often from domestic […]
Finally, someone in a position of authority speaks the truth about the gun violence in this country. Now we will see whether the Surgeon General is more powerful than the weapons corporations and the NRA.
Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy speaks during an event on the White House in April. The nation’s top doctor has issued an advisory about the public health risks of widespread gun violence. Credit: Susan Walsh/AP
America’s top doctor issued a first-of-its-kind advisory on Tuesday declaring gun violence a national public health crisis and recommending it be treated as such.
The 40-page publication from U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy outlines the scope of firearm violence, its impact on victims and communities and a slew of policy suggestions for lawmakers, community leaders and health systems.
A public health approach, Murthy said in the report, can guide the nation’s strategy and actions “as it has done in the past with successful efforts to address tobacco-related disease and motor vehicle crashes.”
“It is up to us to take on this generational challenge with the urgency and clarity the moment demands,” he added. “The safety and well‑being of our children and future generations are at stake.”
The advisory notes that firearm-related injury has been the leading cause of death for U.S. children and adolescents since […]
To Nobel Laureate economists there is no question: Biden is who should win the election because his economics are far superior to the economics of criminal Trump. You would think anyone who spent five minutes doing an Google on the felonious Trump would know that. He went bankrupt six times. But a large segment of American voters doesn’t seem capable of comprehending the truth about this horrible businessman.
Photo illustration: Tiffany Herring / Axios
Sixteen Nobel prize-winning economists are jumping into the presidential campaign with a stark warning: Former President Trump‘s plans would reignite inflation and cause lasting harm to the global economy if he wins in November.
Why it matters: The Nobel laureates are lending their academic prestige to a political argument the Biden administration has been making for weeks: Inflation would be worse under Trump.
“While each of us has different views on the particulars of various economic policies, we all agree that Joe Biden’s economic agenda is vastly superior to Donald Trump,” the 16 economists write in a letter, first obtained by Axios.
Criminal Trump and MAGAt world are stimulating White hate as a political weapon, and it is resulting in the kind of story that begins this essay. Thom Hartmann has it exactly right, I think. It is like a cancer growing in our culture, reinforced by evangelical pseudo-Christianity.
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She may never be the same.
This past weekend we learned about an incident from May when three American citizens were hanging out at their apartment complex swimming pool, a mom and her two children, a little girl, 3, and a boy who was 7 years old. Mom was Muslim, so she wore a modest swimsuit and a hijab.
Which infuriated Elizabeth Wolf, a 42-year-old white woman, who, upon arriving at the pool, began loudly berating the young mother, using racial slurs to tell her she wasn’t welcome in white America. Wolf then jumped into the pool and grabbed the two children, who were playing in the shallow end, and tried to drown them.
With mom’s help, the little boy escaped with scratches from Wolf’s fingernails, but Wolf succeeded in dragging the 3-year-old girl into a deeper part of the pool and was repeatedly holding her head under water as the little girl began to drown.
A bystander intervened, jumping into the pool and rescuing the little girl; when police arrived and handcuffed Wolf, she […]
I have been noticing in the business news that CEOs Fortune 500 corporations are not coming out in support of Trump, and wondered about that. What we see are uber-rich billionaires like Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos, but not CEOs of corporations with thousands of employees. I have been thinking about this for several days and doing research on this trend What I have found is that men and women CEOs with large numbers of employees seem to understand that what criminal Trump would do to the economy would seriously disrupt the lives of those employees, so they don’t want any part of the MAGAt minority and their felonious leader. This article lays out what I think is the correct take on this.
Professor Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld of Yale Credit: Yale School of Management
Yale’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld claimed Fortune 100 CEOs will be “reluctant [Joe] Biden voters” in November because they “truly fear” Donald Trump.
Sonnenfeld joined CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin on Monday to discuss a New York Times op-ed in which Sonnenfeld noted Trump’s lack of support among the CEOs he works with. Sonnenfeld is the senior associate dean for leadership at the Yale School of Management.
“I know this because I work with roughly 1,000 chief executives a year, running a school for them, which I started 35 years ago, and I speak with business leaders almost every day. Our surveys show that 60 to 70 percent of them are registered Republicans.
“The reality is that the top corporate leaders working today, like many Americans, aren’t entirely comfortable with either Mr. Trump or President Biden. But they largely like — or at least can tolerate — one of them. They truly fear the other.”
Lies, lies, and more lies. The petroleum-based plastic industries and petroleum corporations are pouring millions into the corruption of politicians to stop any laws that would threaten their profits. At the same time, they are spewing forth endless misinformation about plastic pollution which is now such a vast issue that babies are born with microplastics in their bodies. Ronlyn and I do all we can to recycle everything possible. But increasingly, we have replaced plastic wherever we can glass containers so we don’t use plastic in the first place. Please adjust your lifestyle as you can, so you can do the same. The plastic pollution problem is damaging the matrix of life in thousands of ways.
Members of Greenpeace Indonesia display plastic waste from British multinational hygiene and food giant Unilever’s products as part of their “Return to Sender” action in front of Unilever’s office in Tangerang, a suburb of Jakarta, on June 20, 2024. Credit: Yasuyoshi Chiba / Getty
Last year, I became obsessed with a plastic cup.
It was a small container that held diced fruit, the type thrown into lunch boxes. And it was the first product I’d seen born of what’s being touted as a cure for a crisis.
With the media obsessed with the upcoming oddly early Presidential debate I was struck over the weekend by the number of psychos who carried out public shootings. Although the murder rate has gone down, there have still been 248 mass shootings so far this year. Basically, it is a daily event in the United States, with 15,441 people injured and 8,098 murdered since the first of January. There is no other country in the world, not in active war, that has anything like what happens in the U.S.. It goes on year after year and nothing meaningful ever happens. Indeed, now that the Supreme Court has legalized bum stocks, I think, things will get worse. When will Americans wake up to this ongoing massacre and demand change?
One dead and 34 wounded as incidents in New York, Alabama, Missouri and Ohio swell 2024 mass shooting tally.
A series of mass shootings rocked the US early on Sunday, leaving at least one dead and 34 others wounded in just four cases reported in New York, Alabama, Missouri and Ohio.
The shootings came amid a broader spate of recent mass shootings, including the one at an Arkansas grocery store on Friday that left four dead and nine wounded – as well as another at a nightclub in Kentucky on Saturday that killed one and injured seven.
The violence brought the number of mass shootings in the US so far this year, as of Sunday, to more than 240 – an average of more than one daily, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
The non-partisan archive defines a mass shooting as one in which four or more victims are wounded or killed.
Such a high rate of mass shootings in the US has prompted some public calls for more substantial gun control. But the federal government has generally been unwilling or unable to heed those calls.
The weekend’s bloodshed came after the US supreme court’s decision earlier in […]
Based on facts, not partisanship politics, criminal Trump was an irrefutably inferior president in comparison to Biden. In fact, he was one of the worst presidents in American history. Here is one of the critical facts. And yet, many voters seem to want him to return to the Presidency. Why? Because he is the personification of their hate, religiosity, and racism. In my view this election is about who we are as a people, a society. What we choose to be.
The fiscal policies of the Trump administration added twice the amount to the national deficit as have President Biden’s, a new analysis has found.
Trump’s administration borrowed $8.4 trillion during the former president’s time in office, while Biden has borrowed $4.3 trillion, according to an analysis by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), a Washington think tank.
Ignoring the pandemic relief measures enacted by both presidents, the proportion of debt addition still holds around 2-to-1, with former President Trump adding $4.8 trillion in non-pandemic-aid fiscal debt and Biden adding $2.2 trillion.
Those additions were mostly due to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), changes to the Affordable Care Act, and different budgetary acts in 2018 and 2019.
Most of Biden’s non-pandemic-related additions were due to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, student debt relief, appropriations bills and other executive actions.
The two parties add to the debt in different ways, with Republicans doing it mostly through bipartisan legislation and Democrats doing it more through executive actions, the CRFB says in a preview of future work.
Seventy-seven percent of the Trump administration’s additions to the national debt were attributable to bipartisan legislation, while […]
The fiscal policies of the Trump administration added twice the amount to the national deficit as have 
