Once again, the Republican party and their members in Congress have screwed average Americans to give a huge benefit to America's super wealthy. You might've gotten $1200, but the truly rich got a fortune. As David Cay Johnston is reporting over on Raw Story, "Almost 82% of the tax savings will go to the Trump-Kushner family and 43,000 of their fellow millionaire landlords."

It wasn't until after the bill was signed that we discovered that Mitch McConnell's buddies in the Senate had slipped in a tiny provision that gave massive tax breaks and profits to real estate moguls like Trump and Kushner. No wonder Donald Trump was so eager to sign the legislation. And now Mitch McConnell is demanding hundreds of billions of dollars in more tax breaks and gifts to big corporations and the Trump crime family, while attacking Democrats for not going along.

To add insult to injury, Trump wants you to get back to work - even if you could die... Are you enthusiastic to be part of his gruesome experiment? And can you make do with $1200 for a two or three month period? Americans are sick and tired of this; we have been watching this kind of behavior ever since the Reagan revolution in 1981 and we are over it. The neoliberal Reaganomics experiment of the last 40 years is a fraud and we all need to support progressive politicians who are saying "No" to more billionaire bailouts.

-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Bill: "S.3548 - CARES Act" by Sen. McConnell, Mitch [R-KY].

Article: "What's Included In The $2 Trillion Coronavirus Stimulus Bill" by Steve Bynum, Zach Wilson.

Article: "Now we know the horrible truth about Trump's so-called 'stimulus'" by David Cay Johnston.

Article: "Why Democrats are blocking a bill that boosts funding for small businesses" by Li Zhou.

Tweet: "You can't make this shit up.
In Michigan people are clogging the streets with their cars in protest of the stay-at-home order.
They're calling it #OperationGridlock
If it's safe to re-open why are they protesting from their cars??" by Joshua Potash.

Article: "Republican Congressman Trey Hollingsworth says Americans should return to work despite coronavirus risk, calling it "the lesser of these two evils"" by Christopher Brito.

Article: "Steve Bullock (American politician)" by Wikipedia.

Site: Democracy Now!

Site: Randi Rhodes Show.

Site: Stephanie Miller Show.

Site: John Fugelsang.

Site: Dean Obeidallah.

Site: Michelangelo Signorile.

Article: "How a Supreme Court Decision Curtailed the Right to Vote in Wisconsin" by Jim Rutenberg and Nick Corasaniti.

Article: "Trump and his allies have made a dark calculation — 'reopening' at any price is his only path to re-election" by Heather Digby Parton.

Article: "Guillain-Barré syndrome" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Wisconsin Supreme Court blocks order by governor suspending in-person voting, putting Tuesday's election back on track" by Kendall Karson.

Article: "Guillain-Barré syndrome and Flu Vaccine" by CDC.

Article: "Trump wants to declare country open by May 1 — but the reality will be much slower" by Philip Rucker, Robert Costa and Ashley Parker.

Article: "Now we know the horrible truth about Trump's so-called 'stimulus'" by David Cay Johnston.

Site: WHO Coronavirus (COVID-19) dashboard.

Article: "U.S. Has Nearly A Third Of The World's Coronavirus Cases" by Soo Kim.

Article: "Germany to start 100,000 coronavirus antibody tests to get people back to work and out of lockdown - while UK still hasn't even approved them yet" by Stephen Matthews.

Article: "Trump says he'll speak to all 50 governors and will be 'authorizing' reopenings. States disagree on his role" by Kevin Johnson, William Cummings and John Fritze.

Article: "Trump promised a big announcement. Then he read off a long list of names." by Nancy Cook, Gabby Orr.

Article: "Trump wants to declare country open by May 1 — but the reality will be much slower" by Philip Rucker, Robert Costa and Ashley Parker.

Article: "He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump's Failure on the Virus" by Eric Lipton, David E. Sanger, Maggie Haberman, Michael D. Shear, Mark Mazzetti and Julian E. Barnes.

Article: "Criticized for Pandemic Response, Trump Tries Shifting Blame to the W.H.O." by Michael D. Shear and Donald G. McNeil Jr.

Site: Tracking COVID-19 - Johns Hopkins University.

Article: "Maxine Waters says during coronavirus outbreak adults should get $2G per month, children $1G per month" by Louis Casiano.

Article: "Shot heard round the world" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Battles of Lexington and Concord", April 19th, 1775.

Article: "Jonestown" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Stark aerial images show new graves being dug on Hart Island as New York coronavirus deaths surge" by N'dea Yancey-Bragg.

Article: "'Destroying our health by killing our livelihoods': Gretchen Whitmer orders spark GOP backlash" by David Eggert.

Article: "Tea Party movement" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Coronavirus outbreak spurs demand for guns, ammunition in metro Detroit" by Perez Balderrama.

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

Article: "Trump says 'governors have to get' coronavirus rapid-test materials. But feds said to order through CDC." by Brad Schmidt.

Article: "Progressive Marie Newman Beats Abortion Rights Foe Rep. Dan Lipinski In Democratic Race" by Tara Golshan.

Article: "A list of everyone who won't get a coronavirus stimulus check" by Jacob Siegal.

Article: "Coronavirus May Add Billions to U.S. Health Care Bill" by Reed Abelson.

Article: "House Democrats introduce bill to cover all wages during coronavirus crisis" by Susan Ferrechio.

Article: "The GOP's Stealth War Against Voters" (Interstate Crosscheck) by Greg Palast, August 24, 2016.

Site: Greg Palast.

Article: "Coronavirus stimulus checks: Trump signature scramble could delay first batch" by Denitsa Tsekova.

Article: "Trump's purge of inspectors general is a crisis. Alarm bells should be going off everywhere." by Andrew Bakaj, John Tye and Mark Zaid.

Article: "Washington, Oregon, California governors create 'Western States Pact' to coordinate reopening" by Joel Connelly.

Article: "Trump Wants To Reopen The Country In May, But 81% Of Americans Want To Wait Until It's Safe" by Ariel Shapiro.

Hour Three: What It Would Look Like If the U.S. Came Out of This Pandemic In the Best Way Possible...
- Mark Gamba, Mayor of Milwaukie, OR (D) (formerly a professional photo journalist for 30 years) Running for Congress against Rep. Kurt Schraeder (D-OR, 5th Congressional District)

Article: "25 Oregon mayors advise Gov. Brown stay home order is necessary".

Article: "The Green New Deal" by Bernie Sanders.

Article: "2020 Oregon Democratic primary", May 19, 2020.

Article: "1 in 4 rural hospitals is vulnerable to closure, a new report finds" by Dylan Scott.

Article: "Your Coronavirus Check Is Coming. Your Bank Can Grab It." by David Dayen.

Article: "The Daily 202: Leaked CDC and FEMA plan warns of 'significant risk of resurgence of the virus' with phased reopening" by James Hohmann.

Article: "Trump Wanted a Radio Show, but He Didn't Want to Compete With Limbaugh" by Elaina Plott.

Article: "Trump wanted to do a coronavirus radio show - but chickened out over fears of stepping on Rush Limbaugh's toes: report" by Sky Palma.

Article: "All 6 Countries With The Best Response To Covid-19 Have 1 Thing In Common: Women Leaders" by Srishti Magan.

Article: "Intercepted! How the feds wound up with 1,000 face masks meant for police in Brown County" by Doug Schneider.

Article: "Study: Thousands Of People Will Die In States That Don't Expand Medicaid" by Dylan Scott.

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

Book: The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis.

Article: "'Help save the Post Office.' Boosters buy stamps as agency struggles in pandemic" by Don Sweeney.

Article: "Possible Developments in the Treatment of Acute COVID-19" by Josh Marshall

Article: "Do COVID-19 Vent Protocols Need a Second Look?" by John Whyte.

Article: "The coronavirus is particularly unkind to those who are obese" by Melissa Healy.

Article: "What Doctors on the Front Lines Wish They'd Known a Month Ago" by Jim Dwyer.

Article: "Apple closes stores outside of China and asks employees to work from home" by Duncan Riley.

Article: "SF shuts down; shelter in place ordered" by John Ferrannini.

Article: "Whitmer vows 'we will get past this' COVID-19 moment, attacks Betsy DeVos" by Beth LeBlanc.

Article: "Gov. Whitmer OKs protest, takes shot at DeVos family in process" by Aaron Parseghian.

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