Donald Trump is nearly finished with his goal of erasing every single one of Barack Obama's accomplishments so that history will not remember our first black president in any meaningful way.

The last big piece was to take down is the entire Affordable Care Act, and yesterday his administration filed a lawsuit to end the entire ACA. No more protections for people with preexisting conditions; no more young people on their parent's policies until they're 26; no more health care for low income working people anywhere in the United States; no more limits on how much profit health insurance companies can make off you and your policy.

This is vicious, petty, and vile, and every American should be disgusted.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Hour One: Will Venezuela Be Trump's Re-Election War?
- Greg Palast, Investigative Journalist/Author/Filmmaker, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy

Article: "Hugo Chávez" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Nicolás Maduro" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Juan Guaidó" by Wikipedia.

Article: "United States invasion of Grenada" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Falklands War" by Wikipedia.

Article: "In Venezuela, White Supremacy is a Key to Trump's Coup" by Greg Palast.

Article: "Venezuela's Guaido calls for uprising but military loyal to Maduro for now" by Reuters.

Article: "William Barr testifies on the Mueller report" by Meg Wagner, Veronica Rocha, Brian Ries and Amanda Wills.

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

Article: "Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Saudi Arabia executes 37 people, crucifying one, for terror-related crimes" by Tamara Qiblawi.

Article: "Venezuela crisis: Maduro claims coup has been 'defeated' - as it happened" by Martin Farrer, Kevin Rawlinson, Amanda Holpuch and Sam Jones.

Article: "Rival protests grip Venezuela after Guaido's failed effort to beckon military" by Nicholas Casey.

Article: "Minsky's financial instability hypothesis" by Hyman Minsky.

Site: Aden Forecast

Article: "Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) Quarterly Report to The United States Congress" Apr 30 2019.

Article: "My Testimony for the Downing Street Memo Hearings" by Cindy Sheehan, June 16 2005.

Article: "Gold Star widow "shocked" by new tax bill on sons' survivor benefits" by Janet Shamlian.

Article: "Trump Administration Files Formal Request to Strike Down All of Obamacare" by Jan Hoffman and Abby Goodnough.

Article: "Pelosi accuses Barr of committing a crime by lying to Congress" by Heather Caygle and Andrew Desiderio.

Article: "Nadler threatens contempt citation against Barr" by Morgan Chalfant.

Article: "Rescission" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Pre-existing condition" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Haiti-Venezuela relations" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Petrocaribe" by Wikipedia.

Article: "U.S. sanctions on Venezuela are affecting Caribbean nations' ability to pay for oil" by Jacqueline Charles.

Article: "The Red Shift: Anomalies In Electronic Voting Trend Overwhelmingly In One Direction" by National Election Defense Coalition.

Law: "Help America Vote Act" (2002).

Article: "Fidel Castro" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "Mike Malloy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Citgo" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Economist Jeffrey Sachs: U.S. Sanctions Have Devastated Venezuela & Killed Over 40,000 Since 2017" by Democracy Now!.

Article: "International Court of Justice" (World Court, the Hague) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Organization of American States" (OAS) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Geneva Conventions" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Honduras withdraws health, school privatization on protests" by AP.

Hour Two: The Truth About 'Modern Monetary Theory'
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work/Capitalism's Crisis Deepens Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown

Article: "Trump renews Federal Reserve attacks amid controversy over his two picks" by Devan Cole.

Article: "Herman Cain withdraws bid for Federal Reserve seat" by BBC.

Tweet: "Steve Moore, a great pro-growth economist and a truly fine person, has decided to withdraw from the Fed process. Steve won the battle of ideas including Tax Cuts...." by Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Trump says Federal Reserve pick Stephen Moore has withdrawn his nomination" by Hunter.

Tweet: "Stephen Moore told me 30 minutes ago that his nomination was "full speed ahead" and he had no plans to withdraw. D'oh!" by Joshua Green.

Article: "Stephanie Kelton" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Modern Monetary Theory" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Eric Swalwell: If Barr Doesn't Testify Before Congress, He Should Be Impeached" by Pam Key.

DNC Chair Tom Perez Weighs In On the Barr Hearings, etc...
- Chair Tom Perez, Democratic National Committee (DNC)

Article: "Speaker Nancy Pelosi accuses Attorney General Barr of lying to Congress" by BBC.

Article: "House passes first major gun control legislation in nearly quarter of a century" by David Smith.

Article: "House passes Democratic voting and ethics overhaul bill H.R. 1" by Andrea Mitchell.

Article: "Trump, GOP states ask appeals court to kill the Affordable Care " by AP.

Article: "Severability" 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 administration rolls back offshore drilling safety rules" by Orion Rummler.

Article: "Deepwater Horizon oil spill" by Wikipedia.

Article: "BP's Deepwater Horizon costs total $62B" by Nathan Bomey.

Article: "Biden's comments downplaying China threat to U.S. fire up pols on both sides" by Adam Edelman.

Article: "Christine Blasey Ford Has More Guts Than Attorney General Bill Barr" by Brian Hews.

Article: "Harriet Miers" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Contempt of Congress" by Wikipedia.

Hour Three: The Stonewall Uprising
- Jason Baumann, Assistant Director for Collection Development & Coordinator of Humanities and LGBT Collections - New York Public Library (NYPL) / Jason has has edited and introduced the volume to coincide with the NYPL exhibition he has curated on the Stonewall uprising and the gay liberation movement of 1969

Book: The Stonewall Reader by New York Public Library.

Article: "50 Years After Stonewall, We're Still Disagreeing About What Happened There. That's Why the Archives Matter" by Jason Baumann.

Article: "Stonewall riots", June 28, 1969 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Compton's Cafeteria riot" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Marsha P. Johnson" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Black Cat Tavern" by Wikipedia.

Article: "List of LGBT actions in the United States prior to the Stonewall riots" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mattachine Society" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Daughters of Bilitis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump administration reportedly preparing to enable doctors to refuse to treat trans patients" by Louis Staples.

Article: "Trump Got What He Wanted - Transgender Soldiers Are Now Banned From The Military" by Dominic Holden.

Article: "Frank Kameny" by Wikipedia.

Article: "List of LGBT members of the United States Congress" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Pete Buttigieg" by Wikipedia.

Article: "N.C. election officials: Harris operative collected and falsified ballots, then tried to obstruct state investigation" by Amy Gardner.

Article: "Republican states react to 2018 Democratic wave in the usual way-by suppressing the vote" by Joan McCarter.

Book: The Mueller Report by The Washington Post.

Video: Inside The Mueller Investigation Report: Part One - Introduction. Thom Hartmann reads the Mueller Report.

Article: "Jeff Sessions's replacement once suggested a 'crafty' plan to slow down the Mueller investigation by defunding it" by Jacob Shamsian.

Article: "What does Steve Bannon want with this Italian monastery? Inside his fledgling school for populism" by Eric Reguly.

Article: "Bannon vows a daily fight for 'deconstruction of the administrative state'" by Philip Rucker and Robert Costa.

Article: "Lindsey Graham kicked off Barr's testimony by whipping up a Hillary Clinton conspiracy theory" by Philip Bump.

Article: "Windfall profits tax" by Wikipedia.

Article: "How Compulsory Voting Works: Australians Explain" by Tacey Rychter.

Article: "Trump says the White House is working on a 'great health care plan' but his administration is not drafting legislation" by Jordyn Phelps.

Article: "Pinky and the Brain" by Wikipedia.

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