Supposedly Stalin said, " A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic."

Today's statistic is 15,600 dead people since 2012 because Republicans in Red States have refused to expand Medicaid to cover low-wage working people, according to a new study quoting government statistics. Every one of those people who died prematurely and unnecessarily last year because of Republican greed and corruption had a family and people they knew, loved, and who now miss them.

Perhaps someone in your own extended family or circle of acquaintances has died because of Republican greed and corruption. Until America joins the rest of the developed world with a public national healthcare system, we can't claim to be a civilized nation. Instead, the GOP has caused us to be the heir to Stalin's cynicism.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Here's how a new study implies the Supreme Court has killed 16,000 people since 2012" by Matthew Chapman.

Article: "Trump's Medicare Chief: 'I View a Public Option and Medicare for All as Equally Dangerous'" by Andrea Germanos.

Article: "Medicaid and Mortality: New Evidence from Linked Survey and Administrative Data" by Sarah Miller, Sean Altekruse, Norman Johnson, Laura R. Wherry.

Quote: "A Single Death is a Tragedy; a Million Deaths is a Statistic" - attributed to Joseph Stalin.

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

Article: "This 32-Year-Old Florida Woman Is Dead Because Her State Refused To Expand Medicaid" by Tara Culp-Ressler.

Article: "Shooting of Kate Steinle" by Wikipedia.

Case: "National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius", 2012 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump campaign selling branded plastic straws as alternative to 'liberal paper straws'" by Jessica Campisi.

Article: "Arkansas is the latest state to ban calling veggie burgers “veggie burgers”" by Kelsey Piper.

Article: "Conservatives erupt in outrage against budget deal" by Niv Elis.

Article: "Suspect in NYC Mafia boss killing has pro-Trump slogans written on hand in court" by Tim Stelloh.

Video: Senator Schumer Pledges to Stop Plan to Cut Food Stamps Eligibility.

Article: "Republican Group Launches Ridiculous Attack On Medicare For All" by Farron Cousins.

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

Video: Alan Grayson on the GOP Health Care Plan: "Don't Get Sick! And if You Do Get Sick, Die Quickly!"'.

Article: "35 arrested in Trump-touted ICE operation that targeted 2,000" by Priscilla Alvarez.

Article: "German magazine depicts Trump giving Nazi salute on cover" by Emily Shugerman.

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

Event: July 25, 2020: "Bermuda Bliss Cruise Hosted by Thom Hartmann".

Article: "Steyer calls on Pelosi to cancel six-week 'vacation' for Congress" by Chris Mills Rodrigo.

Site: "House of Representatives Schedule".

Article: "Trump praises 'incredible' crowd who chanted 'send her back' at Ilhan Omar – as it happened" by Kari Paul, Joan E Greve.

Article: "Morning Joe Host Slams Donald Trump For Promising To Lower Deficit, But Agreeing To Record Budget Spending" by Jason Lemon.

Article: "A Wretched Start for Democrats" by Bret Stephens.

Article: "Donald Trump 'kept book of Adolf Hitler's speeches in his bedside cabinet'" by Benjamin Kentish.

Article: "Record high temperatures in Alaska have sent salmon into cardiac arrest" by Pakalolo.

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

Article: "Does It Cost $750 a Day to House Migrant Children in Camps?".

Article: "The Pentagon had its first audit ever in 2018, and it didn't go so well for the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marines" by Blake Stilwell.

Article: "Defense Department Audit Report Card" by Truth in Accounting.

Article: "Manhattan Project" by Wikipedia.

Article: "U.S. House passes $733-billion defense policy bill after Trump threatens veto" by Mike Stone.

Article: "Barack Obama signs $618 billion defence bill, boosts security ties with India" by Lalit K Jha.

Quote: "We have lost the South for a generation" - attributed to Lyndon B. Johnson.

Quote: "I think we just delivered the South to the Republican party for a long time to come" - Lyndon B. Johnson.

Law: "Civil Rights Act of 1964" by Wikipedia.

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

Law: "Taft-Hartley Labor Act", 1947.

Article: "With PRO Act, Democrats Commit to Dramatic Labor Reforms" by Sarah Jones.

Article: "As Storm Season Begins in the United States, FEMA Is Already Stretched Thin" by Christopher Flavelle.

Article: "FEMA opens disaster recovery center in Jefferson City" by Gladys Bautista.

Article: "US Christian groups as big a threat to EU elections as Russia" by Mary Fitzgerald.

Hour Three: Boris & Brexit
- Victoria Jones, Executive Director - DC Radio Company LLC

Article: "Boris Johnson wins race to be Tory leader and PM" by BBC.

Article: "Boris Johnson" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "Boris told such dreadful lies
It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes..." - James Landale.

Article: "British Rail" by Wikipedia.

Site: Prime Minister's Questions.

Article: "Queen Elizabeth Moving to Canada" by Andy Borowitz.

Article: "Boris Johnson hires Sky's Andrew Griffith as business adviser" by FT.

Article: "Boris Johnson: 15 of the Conservative leader's most calamitous mistakes and gaffes" by Jon Sharman, Benjamin Kentish.

Article: "Boris Johnson's Brexit plan shot down by EU within moments of him becoming Tory leader" by Jon Stone.

Article: "What a ‘No-Deal Brexit' Means and Why It's a Risk Again" by Emma Ross-Thomas.

Can Brexit Take Down the World Economy?
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work/Capitalism's Crisis Deepens Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown / Understanding Marxism

Article: "Boris Johnson suffers setback to prospect of forcing through no-deal Brexit" by FT.

Article: "No-deal Brexit poses threat to world economy, IMF warns" by FT.

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

Quote: "Those who sign this Treaty will sign the death sentence of many millions of German men, women and children" - John Maynard Keynes.

Article: "Trump's Golfing Has Cost Taxpayers $102 Million, Just $12.7 Million Behind Obama's Travel During Entire Presidency: Report" by Daniel Moritz-Rabson.

Article: "Mueller Asks for Aide to Appear as Witness During Hearings" by Nicholas Fandos.

Book: "War Is A Lie" by David Swanson.

Talk Media News Segment:
- Douglas Christian

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Book: Loving What You Do: The Elements of a Great Working Life by Ellen Ratner.

Article: "McConnell defends budget and debt ceiling agreement" by Bryan Renbaum.

Article: "The Tax Experiment That Failed" by ITVS Independent Lens.

Book: What's the Matter with Kansas? by Thomas Frank.

Article: "Health Department Releases New Data on Tuberculosis Showing 8 Percent Decline in New Diagnoses" by NYC Health.

Article: "Mark Sanford" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Sen. Bob Corker will not run for re-election in 2018" by Michael Collins.

Article: "Arizona's Jeff Flake announces he will not seek re-election to U.S. Senate" by Dan Nowicki.

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