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Wednesday's Daily Stack

In for Thom today
- Jefferson Smith, host/owner progressive radio XRAY-FM, Portland, OR

Hour One: The Secret Society Behind the Supreme Court's Obamacare Case...
- Caroline Fredrickson, President - American Constitution Society (ACS) / Author - The Democracy Fix: How to Win the Fight for Fair Rules, Fair Courts and Fair Elections

Article: "Behind Supreme Court's Obamacare Case, A Secretive Society's Hidden Hand" by Nina Martin.

Article: "Federalist society" by Wikipedia.

Article: "All the president's judges: how Trump can flip courts at a record-setting pace" by Tom McCarthy.

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

Article: "2nd Amendment". A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Article: "Gerrymandering" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Powell Memo or Powell Manifesto".

Article: "Ralph Nader" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Clean Air Act", 1963.

Law: "Clean Water Act", 1972.

Site: US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Article: "The Heritage Foundation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "American Legislative Exchange Council" (ALEC) by SourceWatch.

Book: Democracy In Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean.

Article: "Brett Kavanaugh" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Neil Gorsuch" by Wikipedia.

Book: Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen.

Article: "What Happened With Merrick Garland In 2016 And Why It Matters Now" by Ron Elving.

Case: "Brown v. Board Of Education", 1954 (Segregation in public schools) (overturned Plessy v. Ferguson).

Article: "Pride 2019: What happened at the Stonewall riots and how did they inspire the LGBT+ rights movement?" by Joe Sommerlad.

Article: "'Nasty' debate erupts over Trump's criticism of Meghan Markle ahead of UK trip" by Quint Forgey.

Article: "Camilla winks at the camera as the Trumps come for tea – video" by Reuters.

Article: "For Trump, London Visit Is a (Royal) Family Affair" by Maggie Haberman and Katie Rogers.

Article: "New York Times Deletes Tweet Suggesting Trump Family as American Royalty" by Colby Hall.

Article: "Samwell Tarly" by Wikipedia.

Tweet: "A 16ft robot of Donald Trump sitting on a golden toilet, while tweeting, has just been wheeled into Trafalgar Square ready for today's protests @LBC" by Rachael Venables.

Article: "Setting up a State Banquet at Buckingham Palace" by The Royal Family.

Article: "Magna Carta" by Wikipedia.

Article: "American Civil War" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Otto von Bismarck" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Indian Independence Act 1947" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mahatma Gandhi" by Wikipedia.

Event: NYC, 30 Jun: "Queer Liberation March And Rally".

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

Article: "William Morris" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Boston Tea Party" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Star-Spangled Banner" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Anne, Princess Royal" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Second Constitutional Convention of the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Lawrence Lessig" by Wikipedia.

Site: Guy McPherson, Professor Emeritus, Conservation Biology-University of Arizona / Contributor-Arctic News & Author of numerous books including his latest, Only Love Remains: Dancing at the Edge of Extinction.

Article: "Philanthropy can save democracy" by Anne Snouck Hurgronje.

Book: Who Owns Britain by Kevin M. Cahill.

Book: Who Owns England? by Guy Shrubsole.

Book: Red Moon by Kim Stanley Robinson.

Article: "Climate Change and the New Age of Extinction" by Elizabeth Kolbert.

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: "Donald Trump says US is not seeking war with Iran" by Patrick Wintour.

Article: "United States withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action" (Iran Deal) by Wikipedia.

Article: "U.S. Prepared to Engage With Iran With 'No Preconditions,' Says Pompeo".

Article: "Massachusetts health care reform" (Romneycare) by Wikipedia.

Article: "John Bolton's dangerous 'obsession' with Iran" by Marc Daou.

Article: "John Bolton: the man driving the US towards war ... any war" by Julian Borger.

Hour Three: How Republicans Plan to Rig Elections for a Decade
- Alex Shephard, Staff Writer - New Republic

Article: "Republicans Plan to Rig Elections for a Decade." by Alex Shephard.

Article: "Deceased G.O.P. Strategist's Hard Drives Reveal New Details on the Census Citizenship Question" by Michael Wines.

Article: "New Evidence from Common Cause Partisan Gerrymandering Case Reveals Plot to Add Citizenship Question to 2020 Census for Republican and White Redistricting Advantage" by Common Cause.

Letter: To The Honorable Jesse M. Furman by ACLU, & related documents.

Case: "New York v. United States Dep't of Commerce".

Article: "Public bank" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bank of Pennsylvania" by Wikipedia.

Bill: "AB-857 Public banks" (California).

Article: "How California's big plans to address housing affordability crashed" by Liam Dillon.

Article: "The public banking revolution is upon us" by Ellen Brown.

Article: "Solar power in Germany" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before." - Jacob Riis.

Book: The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great by Ben Shapiro.

Article: "Ben Shapiro" by Wikipedia.

Event: June 11, 8:00PM ET: "Leonardo DiCaprio Documentary 'Ice on Fire' on HBO June 11" by Michael Malone.

Video: Michelle Obama: 'When they go low, we go high'.

Article: "Dems knock McConnell for refusing vote on election reform bill" by Jordain Carney.

Article: "McConnell now says he'd hold SCOTUS hearings in an election year — in a reversal of 2016" by Aaron Rupar.

Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET

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Mueller Investigation Report, Part 21 : Michael Cohen

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Could Term Limits for Congress Put a Time Limit on Democracy?

Amend the Constitution: Take Money Out of Politics! (w/ Kaitlin Sopoci-Belkap)

Debate: Healthcare vs Guns: Right or Privilege? (w/ Julio Rivera)

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