Climate change is making the weather more severe. From arctic cyclone bombs bringing freezing damage to the country, to severe thunderstorms destroying homes and communities, this is all being made worse by climate change. Individuals whose homes have been destroyed, and communities that have been damaged should send invoices to the petro-billionaires and big corporations who have been funding climate denial.

These companies and people have been, through their well-funded lies and political pressure, blocking the kind of changes necessary to stop adding carbon to our atmosphere. As a result, they have a direct responsibility for some of this death and destruction and should, in part, be paying for it.

-Thom

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Monday's Daily Stack

Article: "Tornadoes, Damaging Winds and 'Unprecedented Flooding' Hit Parts of the Central U.S." by Tara Law And Rachel E. Greenspan.

Article: "Explosive cyclogenesis" (weather bomb, bomb cyclone) by Wikipedia.

Article: "More CO2 than ever before in 3 million years, shows unprecedented computer simulation" by Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).

Article: "Commodity News: Will Grain Prices Rise? Late-Planting Midwest Farms Expect New Storms" by Bloomberg News.

Article: "Crop Progress" by USDA.

Article: "Illinois farmers could run out of time to plant if wet weather doesn't subside" by John Garcia.

Article: "Pete Buttigieg Calls for Carbon Capture and Tax - Climate Proposals Backed by the Fossil Fuel Industry" by Jessica Corbett.

Article: "Are ExxonMobil Execs the Most Evil People in the 200K-Year History of Humanity?" by Juan Cole.

Article: "'Playing Catch-Up in the Game of Life.' Millennials Approach Middle Age in Crisis" by Janet Adamy and Paul Overberg.

Article: "Elizabeth Warren's claim that minimum wage supported her family in the 1960s" by Glenn Kessler.

Article: "McConnell won't allow vote on election reform bill" by Marianne Levine.

Article: "Roe v. Wade" by History Channel.

Case: "Planned Parenthood v. Casey", 1992.

Article: "9th Amendment"

Article: "14th Amendment, July 9, 1868 (citizenship, representatives, public debt, Equal Protection Clause)

Article: "4th Amendment". "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

Article: "A Brief History of White House Solar Panels" by Tom Murse.

Article: "Tucker 48" by Wikipedia.

Article: "J&J's Talc Defense Gets Harder After Cases Kept in State Courts" by Jef Feeley and Margaret Cronin Fisk.

Article: "Historic Mississippi River flooding could extend into June, experts warn" by Elizabeth Weise.

Law: "G.I. Bill" (Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944) by Wikipedia.

Article: "You're Probably Pooping Hundreds Of Pieces Of Plastic Every Day" by Eric Mack.

Article: "The climate change lawsuit that could stop the U.S. government from supporting fossil fuels" (Juliana v. United States) by Steve Kroft.

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

Tweet: "Here are my principal conclusions:
1. Attorney General Barr has deliberately misrepresented Mueller's report.
2. President Trump has engaged in impeachable conduct.
3. Partisanship has eroded our system of checks and balances.
4. Few members of Congress have read the report." by Justin Amash.

Tweet: "If Iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of Iran. Never threaten the United States again!" by Donald J. Trump.

Article: "415 PPM: We Are All Part of Exxon's Unchartered Climate Experiment Now" by Andy Rowell.

Article: "U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan: Trump's tariffs are devastating farmers" by Mark Pocan.

Law: "Sherman Antitrust Act", 1890.

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

Article: "Congress gets serious about retirement saving" by Alessandra Malito.

Article: "Climate Solutions Caucus" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Outstanding Student Loan Debt Approaches $1.5 Trillion" by Alexandre Tanzi.

Article: "Pelosi, Schumer say they've agreed with Trump on a $2T infrastructure bill" by Jordan Fabian.

Site: One Wisconsin Now.

Article: "Student Loan Debt Crisis" by Mark Pocan.

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976

Article: "'Antitrust was defined by Robert Bork. I cannot overstate his influence.'" by Dylan Matthews.

Article: "The Real Reason College Tuition Costs So Much" by Paul F. Campos.

Article: "Trump Expected to Instruct McGahn to Defy Subpoena and Skip House Testimony" by Michael S. Schmidt, Nicholas Fandos and Maggie Haberman.

Article: "Congress Might Finally Overhaul Higher Education" by Adam Harris.

Article: ""Think of me as the Grim Reaper": McConnell vows to thwart Democratic proposals" by Camilo Montoya-Galvez.

Article: "Contempt of Congress" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Inherent contempt" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mueller Report (Redacted) Searchable Version (PDF)".

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 8 (Powers of Congress).

Article: "These six corporations are financing the war on women in six states" by Judd Legum.

Tweet: "This thread contains images with passages from the Mueller Report. I will add new ones as I create them..." by Tami Burages.

Article: "The Cleveland Model - How the Evergreen Cooperatives are Building Community Wealth".

Article: "Vietnam War" by Ronald H. Spector.

Article: "Watergate scandal" by Wikipedia.

Tweet: "In order to get elected, @BarackObama will start a war with Iran." by Donald J. Trump.

Tweet: "Now that Obama's poll numbers are in tailspin - watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran. He is desperate." by Donald J. Trump.

Tweet: "I predict that President Obama will at some point attack Iran in order to save face!" by Donald J. Trump.

Tweet: "Remember that I predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly-not skilled!" by Donald J. Trump.

Site: Ecosia (search engine that plants trees).

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.

Article: "Fossil fuel companies lobby Congress on their own solutions to curb climate change" by Karl Evers-Hillstrom and Raymond Arke.

Article: "The big corporate shift on climate change" by Amy Harder.

Article: "Romney disagrees with GOP congressman's conclusion on Trump's 'impeachable conduct'" by Sarah Westwood and Eli Watkins.

Article: "Trump plans official launch of re-election campaign in mid-June - sources" by Steve Holland.

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

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