Mike Pence's and the GOP's war on women took a sinister turn this week when Planned Parenthood was forced to abandon Title X funding; they can no longer get payment for serving low income women for cancer screenings and STD treatments.

Just south of us, El Salvador has accomplished what Mike Pence has been working toward his entire life: a complete ban on abortions. And this week a woman there who was arrested and put in prison for almost 3 years because she had a miscarriage that the police decided might have been an abortion has had a new trial and been released from prison.

Get ready, American women. Pence already pushed legislation in Indiana that required women who have miscarriages or abortions to notify police and provide funerals for the remains, while the New York Times reports that numerous women across America have already been imprisoned for having miscarriages. Thirty eight states now have laws that treat miscarriages as potential crime scenes because of "fetal homicide" laws that have led to the imprisonment of American women who had miscarriages as the result of accidents or suicide attempts.

The Republican war on women is picking up steam...

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Hour One: How Forced Arbitration Takes Away Your Rights
- Remington A. Gregg, Counsel for civil justice and consumer rights at Public Citizen

Article: "Salvadoran woman at center of controversial abortion trial acquitted of all charges" by Flora Charner and Kara Fox.

Article: "Forced Arbitration Clauses Are Everywhere" by Public Citizen.

Article: "Federal Arbitration Act" by Wikipedia.

Petition: "Companies Must End Forced Arbitration" by Public Citizen.

Bill: "Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal Act".

Article: "Lobbyists in (and out of) the Trump Administration" by Open Secrets.

Article: "Title X" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Planned Parenthood Refuses Federal Funds Over Abortion Restrictions" by Pam Belluck.

Article: "Goodbye, net neutrality-Ajit Pai's FCC votes to allow blocking and throttling" by Jon Brodkin.

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

Article: "Trump Administration Guts Endangered Species Act" by Rafi Letzter.

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

Article: "For Animals, Plastic Is Turning the Ocean Into a Minefield" by Natasha Daly.

Article: "Trump Administration Announces Stripping Gray Wolf Protections Across Country" by Collette Adkins.

Article: "Trump Administration Again Seeks to Slaughter Tens of Thousands of American Wild Horses" by American Wild Horse Campaign.

Article: "United States withdrawal from the Paris Agreement" by Wikipedia.

Why the Haters Are Grabbing Hold of the Environmental Movement & Re-Framing It...
- Dr. Mustafa Santiago Ali, Vice President of Environmental Justice, Climate, and Community Revitalization - National Wildlife Federation

Article: "Two mass killings a world apart share a common theme: 'ecofascism'" by Joel Achenbach.

Article: "Trump's latest live-tweeting binge shows how Fox News sets his agenda" by Aaron Rupar.

Article: "Here's the Election Map President Trump Should Hang in the West Wing" by Chris Wilson.

Article: "Donald Trump Supreme Court candidates" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Warren says she is 'open' to expanding Supreme Court" by Kerry Picket.

Article: "Trump migrant separation policy: Children 'in cages' in Texas" by BBC.

Article: "The Trump administration lost track of thousands of migrant children separated from their parents" by Tess Owen.

Article: "Trump's EPA has exceeded its goals to deregulate environmental protections" by Zach Fitzner.

Article: "83 Environmental Rules Being Rolled Back Under Trump" by Nadja Popovich, Livia Albeck-Ripka And Kendra Pierre-Louis .

Article: "A running list of how President Trump is changing environmental policy" by Michael Greshko, Laura Parker, Brian Clark Howard, Daniel Stone, Alejandra Borunda, Sarah Gibbens.

Article: "Executive Order 13769" (Muslim ban) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump Has Killed More Civilians with Illegal Drone Strikes in 9 Months Than Obama Did in 8 Years" by Rachel Blevins.

Article: "INF nuclear treaty: US pulls out of Cold War-era pact with Russia" by BBC.

Article: "Trump's evolving remarks on Russian election interference" by John Bowden.

Article: "Trump and Netanyahu Put Bipartisan Support for Israel at Risk" by Sheryl Gay Stolberg.

Article: "The White House views the police killings of unarmed black men as a local issue. They aren't." by Eugene Scott.

Article: "Trump's 2020 budget proposal seriously cuts the nation's safety net" by Tara Golshan.

Article: "These USDA employees face a stark choice: Move to Kansas City or be fired" by Joe Davidson.

Article: "Trump's Failure to Hire People Is Doing Serious Damage" by Mark Hay.

Quote: "A Republic, if you can keep it." - Benjamin Franklin.

Article: "Adolf Hitler" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Benito Mussolini" by Wikipedia.

Article: "How Trump's Policies Are Leaving Thousands of Asylum Seekers Waiting in Mexico" by Jason Kao and Denise Lu.

Article: "Court order allows Trump asylum rules to take effect at parts of border" by AP.

Article: "USA: "You Don't Have Any Rights Here"" by AI.

Article: "A Trump policy has subjected asylum seekers to appalling conditions" by Washington Post.

Article: "Federal Court Dismisses Trump Claim That Immigrant Children Aren't Entitled to Soap and Toothbrushes" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Lest We Forget The Horrors: A Catalog Of Trump's Worst Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, And Crimes" by Ben Parker, Stephanie Steinbrecher.

Article: "Why Trump just killed a rule restricting coal companies from dumping waste in streams" by Brad Plumer, Feb 16, 2017.

Article: "A Timeline of Donald Trump's War on Public Lands" by Outside.

Article: "US poised to allow more mining on land Trump removed from monuments" by Cassidy Randall.

Article: "Key Trump Cabinet positions are filled by former lobbyists" by Shannon Vavra.

Article: "'It's a political civil war': Trump's racist tirades set tone for 2020" by David Smith.

Article: "Incel" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'Periods for Pence' Campaign Targets Indiana Governor Over Abortion Law" by Mitch Smith.

Article: "Jimmy Carter: 'illegitimate' Trump only president because of Russian meddling" by Amanda Holpuch.

Article: "Trump is still blaming his 2016 New Hampshire loss on voter fraud - with zero proof" by Victoria McGrane.

Article: "FEC chairwoman challenges Trump to provide evidence of voter fraud in New Hampshire" by Fredreka Schouten.

Article: "How Mike Pence's 'Indiana mafia' took over health care policy" by Rachana Pradhan, Alice Miranda Ollstein.

Article: "Foeticide" by Wikipedia.

Article: "When Prosecutors Jail a Mother for a Miscarriage" by New York Times.

Article: "Trust Is Collapsing in America" by Uri Friedman.

Article: "EPA won't approve warning labels for Roundup chemical" by Adam Beam.

Article: "Trump's Impact On Federal Courts: Judicial Nominees By The Numbers" by Carrie Johnson.

Article: "The Supreme Court decision gutting public sector unions, explained: Janus v. AFSCME" by Dylan Matthews.

Article: "President Trump has made more than 10,000 false or misleading claims" by Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly.

Article: "War on science: Trump administration muzzles climate experts, critics say" by Emily Holden.

Book: "They Thought They Were Free" by Milton Mayer. "What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise"

Article: "McCain's Death Hasn't Stopped Trump From Criticizing The Ex-Senator" by NPR.

Article: "Legal scholar lays out how Trump might be violating international rules of war" by Alex Henderson.

Article: "Trump keeps supporting US troops accused of war crimes, and it's 'dangerous' for the military's justice system" by Jeff Schogol.

Facebook: "I have had 22 miscarriages. Yes, 22. The agony of trying so hard to have a baby was difficult enough for my husband and me - if we had to deal with the kind of barbaric policies being put forth by this administration when we were already devastated and grieving, I don't think I would have lived through it. This whole thing makes me sick. These people should be ashamed." by Kandice Seeber.

Article: "Supreme Court compromise on Indiana abortion law keeps issue off its docket" by Robert Barnes.

Article: "Iran nuclear deal: Trump pulls US out in break with Europe allies" by BBC.

Article: "Passport Processing at State Slows as Staffing Levels Fall" by Eric Katz.

Article: "Why The Trump Organization Now Risks Being Charged As A Criminal Enterprise" by Steve Denning.

Movie: "The Godfather".

Movie: "The Sopranos".

Book: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot, Russell Kirk.

Article: "Trump has nominated over 125 judges, solidifying his judicial legacy" by Caleb Parke.

Article: "How privatization could spell the end of democracy" by Ben Tarnoff.

Article: "Trump condemned 'white supremacy' after the El Paso shooting, but his administration has made it harder to fight" by John Haltiwanger.

Quote: "you also had people that were very fine people on both sides" - Donald Trump.

Article: "Thousands of U.S. Citizens Have Been Mistakenly Detained or Deported" by Cassandra Burke Robertson and Irina D. Manta.

Article: "A Detroit diabetic was deported to Iraq, where he'd never lived. He died from lack of insulin, family says." by Tim Elfrink.

Article: "How the Media Enabled Donald Trump by Destroying Politics First" by Neal Gabler.

Article: "El Paso attack: Beto O'Rourke angrily snaps at media when asked about role of Donald Trump: 'What the f*** - join the dots'" by Andrew Buncombe.

Article: "How deep does the Russia collusion go? To McConnell?" (aluminum factory) by Joan McCarter.

Article: "Trans troops return to era of 'don't ask, don't tell' as Trump policy takes effect" by Guardian.

Article: "El Paso Walmart shooting: what we know" by Anya van Wagtendonk, Sean Collins, and German Lopez.

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: "Trump's Rollback of Auto Pollution Rules Shows Signs of Disarray" by Coral Davenport and Hiroko Tabuchi.

Article: "Major automakers buck Trump's emissions rollback by signing deal with California" by Sean O'Kane.

Article: "Mercedes to join California emissions pact, report says" by Automotive News.

Article: "Trump Spox Accidentally Confirms Payroll Tax Cut Was Discussed Seconds After Claiming It's Not Under Consideration" by Tommy Christopher.

Article: "Trump Says a Recession Isn't Possible Because Everyone Is Rich" by Ryan Bort.

Article: "'Very Selfish!': Trump blames Democrats and the Fed for the economy amid recession concerns" by Gina Heeb.

Tweet: "Sorry, I don't buy Rep. Tlaib's tears. I have watched her violence, craziness and, most importantly, WORDS, for far too long. Now tears? She hates Israel and all Jewish people. She is an anti-Semite. She and her 3 friends are the new face of the Democrat Party. Live with it!" by Donald J. Trump.

Article: "If You Think Trump Is Helping Israel, You're a Fool" by Thomas L. Friedman.

Article: "Trying to conceal tax returns, Trump sees political coordination in subpoenas" by Doug Sword.

Article: "Operation Inherent Resolve" by Wikipedia.

Article: "ISIS Is Regaining Strength in Iraq and Syria" by Eric Schmitt, Alissa J. Rubin and Thomas Gibbons-Neff.

Article: "Saddam Hussein" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Remarks by President Trump and President Iohannis of Romania Before Bilateral Meeting".

Article: "Sean Hannity Champions Donald Trump As A Result Of "Weak And Timid” Republican Party" by Media Matters.

Article: "...no Republicans ever questioned Barack Obama's legitimacy says right wing simpleton..." by Soph0571.

Tweet: "... You can't name a single major elected Republican official during Obama's presidency who challenged the legitimacy of his presidency." by Ben Shapiro.

Tweet: "History will look back and note that Republicans in Congress treated President Obama with unprecedented disrespect." by Harry Reid.

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

Article: "Memo reveals a House Republican strategy on shootings: downplay white nationalism, blame left" by Steve Contorno.

Article: "Four Mass Shootings Have Been Thwarted Since the El Paso Massacre, Authorities Say" by Mark Follman.

Article: "A white woman called police on black people barbecuing. This is how the community responded" by Gianluca Mezzofiore.

Article: "Shooting of Tamir Rice" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Death of Eric Garner" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Black patient hooked to IV arrested after going on walk outside hospital" by Bill Hutchinson.

Article: "Death of Sandra Bland", 2015 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Black teens were fundraising for their football team. Then a white woman held them at gunpoint, police say." by Katie Mettler.

Article: "Trump nepotism attacked after 'out-of-her-depth' Ivanka given key summit role" by David Smith.

Article: "Top Democrats slam Trump for nepotism over Kushner's security clearance" by Rachel Frazin.

Book: White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg.

Article: "What Does "Cadet Bone Spurs" Mean? Trump's Nickname Was Coined By Sen. Tammy Duckworth" by Monica Hunter-Hart.

Book: Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator by Dr. Greg Jaczko.

Video: Rogue Regulator Says Nuclear is Failed Technology (w/ Dr. Greg Jaczko).

Article: "AG Barr is destroying the Justice Department. The lawyers working there just staged an insurrection" by Kerry Eleveld.

Article: "Selective enforcement" by Wikipedia.

Article: "A US-born citizen who was in immigration detention for three weeks has been released" by Emanuella Grinberg, Konstantin Toropin and Jason Morris.

Article: "With No Warning, House Republicans Vote to Gut Independent Ethics Office" by Eric Lipton.

Article: "Melania Trump's Parents Become U.S. Citizens, Using 'Chain Migration' Trump Hates" by Annie Correal and Emily Cochrane.

Book: The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President by Bandy X. Lee et al.

Event: Aug. 24 730p: Portland, Or: Thom Hartmann in "This Land Sings" at the "Alberta Rose Theater".

Event: Aug. 25 3pm: Portland, Or: Thom Hartmann in "This Land Sings" at the "Alberta Rose Theater".

Article: "Donald Trump blasts NFL anthem protesters: 'Get that son of a bitch off the field'" by Bryan Armen Graham.

Article: "Trump on climate change report: 'I don't believe it'" by BBC.

Article: "How Trump is rolling back Obama's legacy" by Juliet Eilperin and Darla Cameron.

Article: "Two Years Into Trump's Presidency, Obama Remains a Top Target for Criticism" by Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman.

Article: "Trump tried to illegally withhold disaster relief money from Puerto Rico" by Matthew Yglesias.

Article: "Trump says hurricane-hit Puerto Rico has received too much aid" by Guardian.

Article: "The Cult of Trump" by Chris Hedges.Article: "MAGA Bomber's Lawyers Blame Trump, Sean Hannity for His Radicalization" by Kelly Weill.

Article: "Trump rally crowd chants 'send her back' after president attacks Ilhan Omar" by Tom McCarthy .

Article: "'Lock her up' chant erupts at CPAC after Trump jokes about Russia, Clinton's emails" by Rachel Frazin.

Article: "Auschwitz concentration camp" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Auschwitz (film)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mississippi ICE Raids Separate Mom From Her Breastfeeding Baby Girl" by Mary Papenfuss.

Article: "Why are migrant children dying in U.S. custody?" by Nicole Acevedo.

Article: "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017" by Wikipedia.

Article: "How Donald Trump Bankrupted His Atlantic City Casinos, but Still Earned Millions" by Russ Buettner and Charles V. Bagli.

Article: "Why Donald Trump's Companies Went Bankrupt" by Tom Murse.

Article: "Ben Carson Is Confirmed as HUD Secretary" by Yamiche Alcindor.

Book: The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein.

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