Chuck Collins and Josh Hoxie are confirming the numbers that Bernie Sanders and other progressives keep pointing out - that three men in America own more wealth than the bottom half of America - over 160 million people. While one fifth of America has no or negative net worth, the Forbes 400 individuals own more wealth than 64 percent of Americans. The last time we saw these numbers was in 1929, which should give us serious pause. Inequality like this, the result of the Reagan, Bush, and Trump tax cuts, leads to an explosion of social ills, from homelessness to wiping out the middle class to a takeover of our democracy by the ultra-rich.

Will 1929 be repeated? Will democracy survive?

-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Article: "Total US household debt soars to record above $13 trillion" by Tae Kim.

Article: "U.S. GDP growth based 'exclusively' on government, corporate and mortgage debt -Gundlach" by Reuters.

TV: "Global Public Square" by Fareed Zakaria.

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976

Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010)

Case: "McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission", 2014

Article: "Washington Initiative 732" (carbon tax) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Here's everything you need to know about the second debates" by Catherine Kim.

Article: "New Deal" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Great Society" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Reaganism" by RationalWiki.

Article: "The Irony: Abraham Lincoln created the Secret Service just hours before he was assassinated" by Goran Blazeski.

Article: "Louis XVI of France" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump crosses into North Korea, meets with Kim Jong Un" by Caroline Linton.

Article: "North Korea Reportedly Executed Its Nuclear Envoy After the Failed Trump-Kim Summit" by Shinhye Kang.

Article: "Rep. Tim Ryan calls Trump's historic visit to the DMZ an 'appeasement tour'" by FOX News.

Article: "Trump's G20 Trip Was a Victory for Dictators" by Jonah Shepp.

Article: "With enemies like these, who needs friends" by Tom Squitieri.

Article: "G20 summit: Trump jokes to Putin about Russian election meddling" by BBC.

Article: "'Liberalism Is Obsolete,' Russian President Vladimir Putin Says Amid G20 Summit" by Madeline Roache.

Article: "G20 summit: Trump and Xi agree to restart US-China trade talks" by BBC.

Article: "Trump to allow U.S. companies to sell some parts to Huawei" by Ina Fried.

Article: "Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The US economy likely just entered its longest ever expansion – here's who benefited in 3 charts" by The Conversation.

Article: "Under Trump, full loan forgiveness is rare for swindled students of for-profit colleges" by Maria Danilova.

Article: "Trump seeks to slash $8.5 billion from Education Department budget" by Moriah Balingit and Danielle Douglas-Gabriel.

Article: "DeVos's proposal to change campus sexual assault guidelines draws over 100,000 responses" by Owen Daugherty.

Book: The Extreme Centre: A Warning by Tariq Ali.

Site: Free Speech TV

Book: "The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America--and What We Can Do to Stop It" by Thom Hartmann

Article: "Pete Buttigieg gets put in the hot seat for his handling of South Bend shooting in the debate" by Tara Golshan.

Article: "Pete Buttigieg Raised $24.8 Million in Second Quarter, His Campaign Says" by Thomas Kaplan.

Article: "Brokered convention" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The US isn't winning any popularity contests among Arabs" by Lawrence Pintak.

Article: "Findings revealed from The Big BBC News Arabic Survey" by BBC.

Article: "Economic trouble in Trump country ahead of 2020" by Mike Allen.

Article: "Trump Promised a Manufacturing Renaissance. What Happens in 2020 in Places That Lost Those Jobs?" by Michael Tackett.

Article: "The Treatment of Migrants Likely 'Meets the Definition of a Mass Atrocity'" by Kate Cronin-Furman.

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

Article: "'It is immoral': Former first lady Laura Bush criticizes the separation of migrant children from their parents" by Tara Francis Chan.

Article: "Jimmy Carter calls Donald Trump an 'illegitimate president' - live" by Amanda Holpuch.

Article: "Eleanor Roosevelt" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Frances Perkins" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Poll finds Trump vulnerable on health care in battleground states" by Nathaniel Weixel.

Article: "Report: Patients' out-of-pocket costs increased up to 14% in 2018" by Tara Bannow.

Article: "Trump's assault on Obamacare was much more damaging than previously thought" by Michael Hiltzik.

Article: "Twenty states sue federal government, seeking end to Obamacare" by Reuters.

Article: "'Disgraceful': While Reaping $21 Billion Windfall From Trump Tax Cuts, Report Shows, AT&T Slashed 23,000 Jobs" by Jake Johnson.

Quote: "It started with, well, AT&T. We might as well give them credit. But they gave thousand-dollar bonuses to their employees, and that's a lot of employees." - Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Bosses pocket Trump tax windfall as workers see job promises vanish" by Michael Sainato.

Article: "Union criticizes AT&T cuts totaling 1,800 jobs across U.S." by Dale Denwalt.

Twitter: "#votebluenomatterwho".

Book: It's Time to Fight Dirty: How Democrats Can Build a Lasting Majority in American Politics by David Faris.

Article: "Julian Castro" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Julián Castro: the US should launch a Marshall plan in Central America" by Ed Pilkington.

Article: "Drudge instant poll shows Gabbard winning first Democratic debate in landslide" by Joe Concha.

Article: "Tulsi Gabbard Wins Russia Bot Drudge Poll" by Scarce.

Article: "American Action Network" (w/ American Action Forum) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Treaty of Versailles" by Wikipedia (28 June 1919, at the end of World War I).

Article: "Hyperinflation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Government spending" 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: "Huawei" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Huawei ban: Full timeline on how and why its phones are under fire" by Sean Keane.

Article: "US-China trade war paused as Trump caves on Huawei" by Tom Squitieri.

Article: "U.S. companies tentatively step back into business with Huawei, but a long fight looms" by Kate Fazzini.

Article: "Congress Fumes as Trump Allows Select US Firms to Supply Huawei" by Rob Garver.

Article: "Iran nuclear deal: Enriched uranium limit breached, IAEA confirms" by BBC.

Article: "White House says US is prepared to negotiate with Iran without preconditions" by Spencer Kimball.

Article: "Don Jr.'s now-deleted birther-style retweet about Kamala Harris, explained" by Gabriela Resto-Montero.

Article: "Do the Republicans Even Believe in Democracy Anymore?" by Michael Tomasky.

Article: "Southern strategy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Supreme Court allows gerrymandering in North Carolina, Maryland, setting back reform efforts" by Pete Williams.

Video: SCOTUS makes state races key to next decade of political power.

Article: "State redistricting a target for 'dark money' after Supreme Court ruling" by Jessica Piper.

Article: "US Supreme Court blocks census citizenship question for now" by BBC.

Article: "Congress has set the record for longest stretch without a minimum wage increase" by Alexia Fernández Campbell.

Article: "Big Oil outspends billionaires in Washington state carbon tax fight" by Nichola Groom.

Book: How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky And Daniel Ziblatt.

Article: "The tea party radio network" by Kenneth P. Vogel and Mackenzie Weinger.

Article: "Malcolm Nance Issues Global Wake-Up Call: Trump Is Openly Helping Tyrants End Liberal Democracy" by Sean Colarossi.

Article: "Tucker Carlson: Leading a Country 'Means Killing People'" by Audrey McNamara.

Tweet: "The highest-ranking North Korean defector in decades told me Kim Jong UN likes President Trump because he's not “moral,” and doesn't judge."All previous US presidents so far have been very moral and they paid great attention on the America's moral image," he said of Trump." by Richard Engel.

Article: "Jimmy Carter: Donald Trump Is An Illegitimate President, Put In Office By The Russians" by Tim Hains.

Article: "Pompeo visits Saudi Arabia, but no word on whether he'll bring up Khashoggi killing" by Rachel Elbaum.

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

Article: "Saudi Strikes, American Bombs, Yemeni Suffering" by Derek Watkins, Declan Walsh.

Article: "Mount Rainier National Park" by National Park Service.

Documentary: Ice on Fire (free on demand until Tue, Jul 16 2019).

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

Book: "The Last Hours of Humanity: Warming the World to Extinction" by Thom Hartmann

Article: "Desegregation busing" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bernie Sanders says he would move to 'rotate' Supreme Court justices if elected" by Justin Wise.

Book: The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Tulsi Gabbard resigns from DNC post to endorse Bernie Sanders" by Valerie Richardson, February 28, 2016.

Documentary: The Brainwashing Of My Dad by Jen Senko.

Article: "This Mall was your mall, but now it's my Mall" by Tom Squitieri.

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