Donald Trump put former Supreme Court rightwing crazy Antonin Scalia's son, Eugene, in charge of the Labor Department. Eugene is a lawyer who has spent much of his life working against labor unions.

Now Scalia's Labor Department is advising the states that if people are unwilling to come back to work because the workplace is not safe from coronavirus, the states should rat them out and pull their unemployment benefits.

The memo from his Labor Department said: "states are strongly encouraged to request employers to provide information when workers refuse to return to their jobs for reasons that do not support their continued eligibility for benefits."

Trump is determined to get the economy open again before the election, even if it kills America's working people. He doesn't care about anybody's life except his own, and never has.

-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

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

Article: "House Democrats unveil massive new coronavirus relief bill ahead of Friday vote" by .

Bill: "'Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act' or the 'HEROES Act'" by Rep. Nita Lowey.

Article: "Following Latest Unemployment Numbers, Support Grows For Jayapal's Paycheck Guarantee Act" by Pramila Jayapal.

Article: "Democrats scrap plans to vote this week on historic rule change to allow remote voting" by Jennifer Haberkorn.

Article: "Democrats unveil $3 trillion Covid relief package and plan to vote this week" by Clare Foran, Manu Raju and Haley Byrd.

Quote: "The government should pay people to dig holes in the ground and then fill them up" - John Maynard Keynes.

Article: "Elizabeth Warren And Cory Booker Join Forces On Bill To Ban Most Factory Farming By 2040" by Aila Slisco.

Article: "Japan to Fund Firms to Shift Production Out of China" by Isabel Reynolds and Emi Urabe.

Article: "Defense Production Act" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Putin Is Well on His Way to Stealing the Next Election" by Franklin Foer.

Video: Why the 2016 election was just a 'dry run' for Russia.

Video: Sen. Rob Portman on why the GOP rejects Democrats' new $3 trillion relief bill.

Article: "Gay Men Turned Away From Blood Donation Despite FDA Rule Change" by Daniel Villarreal.

Article: "State hiring people to do contact tracing for coronavirus" (WI) by FOX 11 News.

Article: "Operation Desert Storm: 25 Years Since the First Gulf War" by Alan Taylor.

Article: "Trump again targets Lockheed's F-35 program for costs" by Scott Trubey.

Article: "The United States Probably Has More Foreign Military Bases Than Any Other People, Nation, or Empire in History And it's doing us more harm than good." by David Vine.

Article: "Military budget of the United States" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: Science Revolution: Michael Moore's 'Planet of the Humans' documentary peddles dangerous climate denial
- Dana Nuccitelli Environmental Scientist/Writer & author of 'Climatology versus Pseudoscience / Regular contributor to the Yale Center for Environmental Communication, The Guardian & Skeptical Science (plus, he has a masters degree in physics from UC Davis.)

Article: "Michael Moore's 'Planet of the Humans' documentary peddles dangerous climate denial" by Dana Nuccitelli.

Video: Michael Moore Presents: Planet of the Humans | Full Documentary | Directed by Jeff Gibbs.

Book: Maybe One: A Case for Smaller Families by Bill McKibben.

Article: "Walter Reuther's family says of the UAW icon: 'He never sold out.'" by Jamie L. LaReau.

Site: Congressional Progressive Caucus Center.

Article: "Tea Party movement" by Wikipedia.

Article: "5 things to know about Eugene Scalia, Trump's new labor secretary with a famous dad" by Alexia Fernández Campbell.

Article: "Trump Labor Dept. Pushes States to Help Employers Report Workers Who Stay Home" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Up to 43m Americans could lose health insurance amid pandemic, report says" by Jessica Glenza.

Article: "Trump Tries To Hide Leaked Report Showing Virus Cases Surging" by Jason Easley.

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

Article: "Fox News staffers will continue working from home through mid-June, according to new memo" by Brian Stelter.

Article: "Continuation of Health Coverage (COBRA)" by U.S. Department Of Labor.

Article: "Rahm Emanuel reprises 'never let a crisis go to waste' catchphrase amid coronavirus pandemic" by Emma Colton.

Book: "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" by Naomi Klein.

Law: "Tillman Act of 1907".

Article: "Estate tax in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Tax Reform Act of 1986".

Article: "Ronald Reagan's 1983 Amendments to the Social Security Act of 1935" by Georgeana Mimms.

Article: "List of countries by Internet connection speeds" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Works Progress Administration" (WPA) by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Biggest Industrial Boom in U.S. History" by Roger Mola.

Article: "Nick Cordero wakes up from coma, wife says" by Li Cohen.

Hour Three: Time To Break Up Big Everything!
- Sarah Miller Executive Director - American Economic Liberties Project & Co-Chair, Freedom From Facebook

Article: "25+ National & State Orgs Urge Congress to Pass the Pandemic Anti-Monopoly Act" by Robyn Shapiro.

Article: "The Case For A Temporary Merger Ban For America's Largest Companies" by Sarah Miller.

Article: "She Wants to Break Up Big Everything" by David McCabe.

Case: "Continental Television, Inc. v. GTE Sylvania, Inc." by Wikipedia.

Article: "'Antitrust was defined by Robert Bork. I cannot overstate his influence.'" by Dylan Matthews.

Law: "Sherman Antitrust Act", 1890.

Law: "Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "May 15, 1911 | Supreme Court Orders Standard Oil to Be Broken Up" by The Learning Network.

Article: "AOC joins Biden's climate policy panel" by Sahil Kapur, Marianna Sotomayor and Phil Helsel.

Article: "Frank Luntz" by Wikipedia.

Article: "UK rail worker dies of coronavirus after being spat at while on duty" by Matthew Weaver and Vikram Dodd.

Article: "Michigan Braced for Lockdown Protest Amid Violence Fears" by Ewan Palmer.

Article: "The Koch network, avatar of the tea party, rejects shutdown protests" by Maggie Severns.

Time For Barr To Resign: Impeachment and Flynn
- Paul S. Ryan, Vice President, Policy & Litigation - Common Cause

Article: "Attorney General's Decision to Drop Michael Flynn Prosecution Unprecedented & Further Grounds for Impeachment of William Barr" by Common Cause.

Article: "More Than 1,900 Former DOJ and FBI Officials Call on Attorney General Barr to Resign" by Peter Wade.

Article: "Michael Flynn" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump's Top Military Adviser Is Lobbying For Obscure Company With Ties To Turkish Government" by Chuck Ross.

Article: "National security adviser Flynn discussed sanctions with Russian ambassador, despite denials, officials say" by Greg Miller, Adam Entous and Ellen Nakashima.

Article: "Trump: I fired Flynn because of what he told Pence" by Jacob Pramuk.

Article: "Here's what Michael Flynn has admitted" by Dave Lawler.

Article: "Michael Flynn Moves to Withdraw Guilty Plea in About-Face After Extensive Cooperation" by Adam Goldman.

Article: "Read: DOJ motion to dismiss Flynn case".

Article: "Judge invites outside parties to weigh in on Flynn case, delaying DOJ effort to drop charges" by Harper Neidig.

Article: "Paul Manafort released to home confinement amid coronavirus threat in prison" by Catherine Herridge.

Article: "Lawyer: Michael Cohen release delayed without explanation" by Josh Gerstein.

Article: "Iraqgate" by Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Article: "Essay; The Patsy Prosecutor" by William Safire.

Article: "Bush Pardons 6 in Iran Affair, Aborting a Weinberger Trial; Prosecutor Assails 'Cover-Up'" by David Johnston.

Article: "Jury Finds Undocumented Immigrant Not Guilty Of Murder In Kate Steinle Shooting" by Richard Gonzales.

Article: "Black Panther Party" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Michigan is considering move to ban guns inside state Capitol Building" by Paul Egan.

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