Democrats (Bernie & Lee) in the senate proposed legislation saying what the Constitution already says: that Trump can't go to war with Iran without congressional authorization. Every Republican on the committee, except Rand Paul, voted against it.

These Republicans are spitting on the Constitution, every American who has ever served in the military, and the Founders of this country in their frightened rush to placate Trump and his fellow billionaires, particularly those who got rich in the Military Industrial Complex.

It's time to overturn the Supreme Court decisions that gave war contractor billionaires the ability to own an entire political party.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Hour One: A Small Tax on Wall Street to Make Big Change!
- the honorable Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT)

Article: "Securities turnover excise tax" (STET tax) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bernie Sanders Revives Plan to Tax Stock, Bond and Derivatives Trades" by Laura Litvan.

Article: "Bernie Sanders to McDonald's workers: Vote for me and $15 minimum wage guaranteed" by Aamer Madhani.

Article: "Bernie Sanders campaign rallies support at McDonald's strikes across US" by Michael Sainato.

Article: "Workplace Democracy Act" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bernie Sanders's Medicare-for-all plan, explained" by Sarah Kliff.

Article: "Trade war sparks fears of China weaponising US Treasuries" by Joe Rennison and Colby Smith.

Article: "Long March" by Wikipedia.

Article: "China Faces New 'Long March' as Trade War Intensifies, Xi Jinping Says" by Alexandra Stevenson.

Article: "Shocking news: Elizabeth Warren used to work in her chosen profession, and got paid well for it" by Joan McCarter.

Article: "While teaching, Elizabeth Warren worked on more than 50 legal matters, charging as much as $675 an hour" by Elise Viebeck and Annie Linskey.

Tweet: "BREAKING NEWS: Lady Had A Job, Got Paid More Than Me
Nice work. Now do the amount of Wall Street, Big Pharma, & Fossil Fuel $ presidential candidates accepted over their careers & how much they're taking now." by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Article: "Buttigieg accuses Trump of faking disability to avoid Vietnam draft" by David Smith.

Article: "Ex-bank CEO charged with lending millions to Paul Manafort in exchange for help getting Trump White House job" by Christina Wilkie.

Article: "How many of Donald Trump's advisers have been convicted?" by Mattha Busby.

Quote: "Again, I pray for the president of the United States. I wish that his family or his administration or staff would have an intervention for the good of the country." - Nancy Pelosi.

Article: "How Do We Take Back the Military From the Billionaire Owned Military Industrial Complex?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1.

Article: "Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists" (AUMF) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Senate committee rejects proposal to require congressional approval before US strike on Iran" by Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani.

Article: "Right-wing plutocrats try to rebrand in face of rising support for progressive policies" by Joe Romm.

Article: "There were reports of 30 tornadoes in the central US on Tuesday" by Jason Hanna, Ed Lavandera, Jason Morris and Steve Almasy.

Hour Two: Medicare For All and the Latest on the House Judiciary Committee
- Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, U.S. Congressmember (D-WA, 7th District) & Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus / Senior Whip-Democratic Caucus & serves on multiple committees including the House Budget Committee & the House Judiciary Committee

Bill: "H.R.1384 - Medicare for All Act of 2019" by Rep. Jayapal, Pramila [D-WA-7].

Video: First-ever hearing for Medicare for All.

Article: "CBO: Medicare for All gives 'many more' coverage but 'potentially disruptive'" by Peter Sullivan.

Article: "Infant mortality rate" by CIA.

Article: "Maternal mortality in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Three Bills Tackling Skyrocketing Drug Prices Can Save Lives, Money" by Lloyd Doggett.

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

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

Article: "Trump tells ex-White House counsel McGahn not to appear before Congress" by Sarah N. Lynch, David Morgan, Steve Holland.

Article: "Harriet Miers" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Alaska Permanent Fund" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Has Ivanka Trump's Line Been Rebranded as 'Adrienne Vittadini'?" by Kim Lacapria.

Book: "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late" by Thom Hartmann

Article: "I DARE you not to laugh out loud at this tweet" by StarfishSaver.

Tweet: "I was extremely calm yesterday with my meeting with Pelosi and Schumer, knowing that they would say I was raging, which they always do, along with their partner, the Fake News Media. Well, so many stories about the meeting use the Rage narrative anyway - Fake & Corrupt Press!" by Donald J. Trump.

Tweet: "I AM COMPLETELY CALM shouts Trump, as he runs around the west wing with a soup pot on his head and falls down a flight of stairs with his pants around his ankles" by Jeff Tiedrich.

Article: "Judge says Deutsche Bank, Capital One can give Trump financial records to House Democrats" by Dan Mangan, Kevin Breuninger.

Article: "Wells Fargo, TD Bank have already given Trump-related financial documents to Congress" by Leigh Ann Caldwell and Alex Moe.

Article: "Election security bills in the Senate are hitting one big roadblock: Mitch McConnell" by Li Zhou.

Video: Will You Vote for Universal Basic Income in 2020 Election? (w/Andrew Yang).

Article: "Basic income" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "'Free tuition' is the opposite of progressive policymaking" by Sandy Baum and Sarah Turner.

Article: "Artificial intelligence diagnoses lung cancer" by James Gallagher.

Article: "United States Marshals Service" (USMS) 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.

Video: Trump storms out of meeting with Pelosi and Schumer.

Article: "Judge's ruling allows banks to hand over Trump's financial records to Congress - as it happened" by Vivian Ho, Adam Gabbatt.

Article: "Key House committee obtains subpoenaed Trump financial documents from two banks: report" by Zack Budryk.

Article: "Trump And Tillerson Feud Over Who Is "dumber Than A Rock"" by Eric Lutz.

Hour Three: Everything you Wanted to Ask Richard Wolff but were Afraid to ask! (What is Series)
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work/Capitalism's Crisis Deepens Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown

Article: "Capitalism" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Democracy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Entrepreneurship" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rent-seeking" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rentier capitalism" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Monopoly" by Wikipedia.

Book: Understanding Marxism by Richard D. Wolff.

Article: "Karl Marx" by David T. McLellan, Lewis S. Feuer.

Article: "American Revolution" by Willard M. Wallace.

Article: "French Revolution" by Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Article: "Joseph Stalin" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mao Zedong" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Inquisition" by Wikipedia.

Law: "The National Labor Relations Act (The Wagner Act)", 1935.

Article: "Commons" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Tragedy of the Commons" by Garrett Hardin, 1968.

Quote: "Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…" - Winston S Churchill.

Site: Mondragon Corporation (co-op)

Book: "Threshold: The Progressive Plan to Pull America Back from the Brink" by Thom Hartmann

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