Sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV, are exploding across red state America right now as Republicans continue to refuse to fund programs like Medicaid expansion and sex education in school. It's just one example of the way that hard-core right wing Trump and Koch policies are actually damaging the United States. From promoting authoritarianism to denigrating our courts and other institutions to handing out public lands to his cronies and donors, Trump and the GOP have done immeasurable harm to the United States.

Notre Dame will be rebuilt within five years; repairing the damage from the Trump presidency could take a generation.

-Thom

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Wednesday's Daily Stack

Tweet: "This is a truly staggering fact: Wall Street bonuses totaled $27.5 billion last year, which is more 3 times the combined annual earnings of *all* American workers employed full-time at the federal minimum wage.
We can, and must, raise the minimum wage and tax the rich." by Robert Reich.

Article: "Judge encourages government, advocates to find faster solution to identify additional separated families" by Kate Morrissey.

Article: "Donald Trump Fast Facts" by CNN.

Article: "Trump calls media the “true Enemy of the People” the same day a bomb is sent to CNN" by Emily Stewart.

Article: "Trump promised them better, cheaper health care. It's not happening." by Adam Cancryn.

Article: "Trump nominates acting EPA head, an ex-coal lobbyist, to run agency" by Lisa Lambert.

Article: "Trump's Alleged Crimes Are Just the Tip of His Legacy" by Jamil Smith.

Article: "Key Trump Cabinet positions are filled by former lobbyists" by Shannon Vavra.

Article: "Trump seeks big cuts to science funding - again" by Heidi Ledford, Sara Reardon, Emiliano Rodríguez Mega, Jeff Tollefson & Alexandra Witze.

Article: "Trump administration to create panel to deny climate change facts almost all scientists agree on" by Adam Forrest.

Article: "The retail apocalypse has led to the announcement of more store closures at the start of 2019 than closed in the entirety of last year" by Sinéad Baker.

Article: "Shopping malls going the way of Sears, Campbell's Soup and Oscar Mayer wieners" by Chris Tomlinson.

Book: Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam.

Book: Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S.-Saudi Connection by Medea Benjamin.

Article: "Trump administration approves secret Saudi nuclear power agreement" by Tom Embury-Dennis.

Article: "Denver schools close as FBI hunt 'Columbine-obsessed' woman" by BBC.

Article: "9th Amendment"

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 8 (Powers of Congress). "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States..."

Article: "Preamble to the Constitution of the United States".
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

Article: "Julius and Ethel Rosenberg" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Roy Cohn" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Putin Almost Done Redacting Mueller Report" by Andy Borowitz.

Article: "Trump vetoes Congress's directive to end US involvement in bloody Saudi-led war in Yemen" by Tara Golshan.

Article: "Donald Trump/Billy Bush leaked video: Full transcript - read the full sexist exchange here" by Melanie Ehrenkranz.

Book: Bush on the Couch Rev Ed: Inside the Mind of the President by Justin A. Frank, M.D.

Book: Obama on the Couch by Justin A. Frank, M.D.

Article: "Transcript: Trump On The Couch... (w/Guest: Dr. Justin Frank) - 6 December '16" by Thom Hartmann.

Video: Trump on the Couch w/Dr. Justin Frank, MD.

Book: Trump on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President by Justin A. Frank, M.D.

Article: "Machines Will Do Half of All 'Work Tasks' By 2025. Here's Why You Shouldn't Worry" by Brittany Shoot.

Article: "Basic income" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Andrew Yang, the 2020 long-shot candidate running on a universal basic income, explained" by Dylan Matthews.

Article: "Veterans groups furious with White House over ‘disrespect' following John McCain's death" by Leo Shane III.

Article: "United States withdrawal from the Paris Agreement" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Electric vehicle industry in China" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Portland's Bridgeport Brewery Has Closed After 35 Years" by Jeff Alworth.

Article: "Just 11 companies brew 90 percent of beers sold in the US" by Fox News.

Article: "Why Mitch McConnell is bragging about holding up Merrick Garland from the Supreme Court, two years later" by Amber Phillips.

Article: "Trump is appointing judges at a record pace. Now McConnell wants to move even faster" by Jennifer Haberkorn.

Hour Two: Mid-day with Mark
- Congressman Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District)

Article: "Mueller's Trump-Russia report to be released on Thursday" by David Smith.

Article: "House votes 420-0 for Mueller report to be made public" by AP.

Article: "Michael Avenatti charged in 36-count federal indictment".

Video: The Last Word: Exclusive: Blocking Trump tax return release puts Treasury Sec. in legal jeopardy (w/ David Cay Johnston).

Article: "Top House Democrat sets new deadline for release of Trump's tax returns" by CBS News.

Article: "Fox News tried to humiliate Bernie Sanders in a town hall - and it hilariously backfired" by Matthew Chapman.

Video: Town Hall with Bernie Sanders | Part 1.

Video: Town Hall with Bernie Sanders: Part 2.

Article: "Watch: Sanders town hall audience surprises Bret Baier with how much they like Bernie's health care plan" by Dara Lind.

Article: "'Stop Sanders' Democrats Are Agonizing Over His Momentum" by Jonathan Martin.

Article: "Bernie Sanders Blasts Liberal Think Tank CAP in Scathing Letter" by Gideon Resnick.

Article: "Liberal Think Tank Assailed By Bernie Sanders Admits Video On Him Was 'Overly Harsh'" by Amy Russo.

Article: "US revokes visa of International Criminal Court prosecutor" by BBC.

Tweet: "Just a reminder that I'm hosting two town halls today!

Darlington Municipal Building
4:00 PM
627 Main Street, Darlington, WI

Green County Courthouse
6:00 PM
1016 16th Avenue, Monroe, WI

Hope to see you there!" by Rep. Mark Pocan.

Video: Barr record of deception for Bush calls credibility into question.

Article: "William Barr's shady track record of covering up the crimes of a Republican president" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Barr Says He Can't Release Full Mueller Report Due to Recent Court Decision. He's Right, But There's an Exception." by Ronn Blitzer.

Article: "'Denial': House Democrats Pass Law for a Fossil Fuel Future" (H.R. 1616) by Eoin Higgins.

Article: "House Democrats Voted for a Natural Gas Future, and Nobody Noticed" by Walker Bragman.

Article: "On Earth Day Pocan and Schakowsky Introduce Strongest Federal Fracking Ban in the U.S.".

Article: "GOP tax law will add $1.9 trillion to debt: CBO" by Niv Elis.

Article: "Not just Amazon: 60 big companies paid $0 in taxes under Trump law" by Kristin Myers.

Article: "2018 Wisconsin gubernatorial election" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".

Article: "HR 1: Democrats pass sweeping bill to get money out of politics" by Ella Nilsen.

Article: "Voter ID Study Shows Turnout Effects in 2016 Wisconsin Presidential Election" by Kenneth R. Mayer, Scott McDonell.

Article: "Election 2018: Democrats Add 7 Governorships" by David Catanese.

Article: "President Obama's ambitious post-White House plan to aid Democrats: Eric Holder named chair of new national redistricting effort" by Sophia Tesfaye.

Article: "Jill Wine-Banks" by Wikipedia.

Audio: ""The Full Mueller" - Jill Wine-Banks on The Stephanie Miller Show".

Article: "Congress has a clear legal path to the full Mueller report" by Gerald Goldman, Jill Wine-Banks.

Article: "'The Greed of UnitedHealth Is Killing Americans': Progressives Hit Back as Insurance CEO Bashes Medicare for All" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Bush Pardons 6 in Iran Affair, Aborting a Weinberger Trial; Prosecutor Assails 'Cover-Up'" by David Johnston.

Article: "Essay; The Patsy Prosecutor" by William Safire.

Article: "William Barr's shady track record of covering up the crimes of a Republican president" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Read my lips: no new taxes" by Wikipedia.

Talk Media News Segment:
- Bob Ney

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Book: Loving What You Do: The Elements of a Great Working Life by Ellen Ratner.

Book: "Sideswiped: Lessons Learned Courtesy of the Hit Men of Capitol Hill" by Robert Ney.

Article: "Trump vetoes get-out-of-Yemen resolution" by Tom Squitieri.

Quote: "This resolution is an unnecessary, dangerous attempt to weaken my constitutional authorities, endangering the lives of American citizens and brave service members, both today and in the future" - Donald J. Trump (Yemen war).

Article: "House Intelligence and Financial Services committees subpoena banks for Trump-Russia ties, Eric Trump responds" by Douglas Christian.

Article: "Red states' Medicaid gamble: Paying more to cover fewer people" by Sam Baker.

Article: "DNC pumps brakes on Jay Inslee's proposal for climate change debate" by Ben Geman.

Article: "In New Effort to Deter Migrants, Barr Withholds Bail to Asylum Seekers" by Michael D. Shear and Katie Benner.

Article: "Convention to propose amendments to the United States Constitution" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Constitutional amendment" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Constitution of the United States", article 5 (amendments, convention).

Book: Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever by Rick Wilson.

Article: "The Definitive Net Worth Of Donald Trump" by Forbes.

Article: "FinCEN Fines Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort $10 Million for Significant and Long Standing Anti-Money Laundering Violations" by Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.

Book: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder.

Video: Government Is the One Force That Can Constrain Great Capital and Great Power (w/Guest Tim Snyder).

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