Donald Trump wants to go after social media because Twitter pointed out one of his lies. And, in fact, social media has done a lot of damage to America and the American body politic, with the most visible example being its help in putting Donald Trump in the White House in 2016.

But even more concerning should be Fox News and right wing hate radio. A new study out of Columbia university finds that when people in any particular ZIP Code experience a 1% increase in Fox News viewership, it "reduces the propensity to stay at home by 8.9 percentage points compared to the pre-pandemic average."

In other words, one of the reasons that so many people have died in America right now is because conservative media has been repeatedly and consistently promoting the idea that this virus is a Democratic hoax or a "bad flu."

Read more here.

-Thom

Friday's Daily Stack

Article: "As Minneapolis burns, Trump fans the flames" by Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Carrie Dann and Melissa Holzberg.

Tweet: "These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won't let that happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!" by Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Where does the phrase 'When the looting starts, the shooting starts' come from?" by Rebecca Shabad.

Video: Are White Dudes Sabotaging The George Floyd Uprising?.

Article: "Activists call for murder charges in George Floyd's death. But they're rare against police." by Erik Ortiz.

Article: "The Officer Who Arrested George Floyd Doesn't Live in Minneapolis" by Samantha Michaels.

Article: "Family seeks answers in fatal police shooting of Louisville woman in her apartment" by Errin Haines.

Article: "Justice Department launching investigation into Ahmaud Arbery's death as a hate crime, family's attorneys say" by CBS News.

Article: "Four Minneapolis police officers fired after death of unarmed man George Floyd" by Erin Donaghue.

Article: "The Real Boston Tea Party was Against the Wal-Mart of the 1770s" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "3rd Amendment". No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

Article: "CNN correspondent Omar Jimenez has been arrested while covering Minneapolis protests live on the air Friday." by Jason Hanna.

Article: "Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz apologizes for 'unacceptable' CNN arrests" by Jessica Chasmar.

Article: "Watch: Shocking new footage shows three police officers kneeling on George Floyd" by Eva Wall.

Tweet: "This man doesn't look like any civil rights protestor I have ever seen. Looks like a provocateur. Can anyone ID him? “Suspicious Man Breaks Window & Starts Minneapolis Riots” " by Keith Ellison.

Article: "Jacob Pederson Is Not the AutoZone Umbrella Man, St. Paul Police Say" by Jessica McBride.

Article: "Minneapolis Police Fire Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets at Crowds Protesting George Floyd Killing" by Mahita Gajanan.

Article: "Timothy McVeigh" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rioters set Minneapolis police precinct on fire as protests reignite over George Floyd's death" by FOX 9.

Minneapolis is on fire over the death of George Floyd
- Trahern Crews, National Co-Chair, Green Party / Organizer - Black Lives Matter

Article: "'Let My Building Burn': Gandhi Mahal Restaurant Owner Calls For Justice For George Floyd" by WCCO.

Article: "Boston Massacre" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Shooting of Jamar Clark" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Grand jury clears St. Paul officers in Marcus Golden shooting" by Kevin Giles.

Article: "The Police Call Was Supposed to Be a Wellness Check on a Friend. So How Did Travis Jordan End Up Dead?" by Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

Article: "Minnesota Ranked 2nd-Worst In U.S. For Racial Equality" by Jeff Wagner.

Article: "Fired MPD Officer Chauvin Has Been Involved In Use-Of-Force Situations Before" by Jennifer Mayerle.

Article: "500 National Guard troops deployed in Minneapolis" by AFP.

Article: "Hidden in the HEROES Act, A New Multiemployer Pension Plan Bailout" by Elizabeth Bauer.

Article: "1999 Seattle WTO protests" by Wikipedia.

Article: "What is the 'boogaloo'? How online calls for a violent uprising are hitting the mainstream" by Brandy Zadrozny.

Article: "The Turner Diaries" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Obama on death of George Floyd: 'This shouldn't be 'normal' in 2020 America'" by Kate Sullivan and Jeff Zeleny.

Article: "Trump faces backlash after calling Tiananmen Square protest a 'riot'" by Guardian.

Article: "1989 Tiananmen Square protests" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Don The Despot? Donald Trump says he admires murderous tyrant Kim Jong-un claiming 'he speaks and his people sit up for attention - I want my people to do the same'" by Jay Akbar.

Article: "Cop who targeted George Floyd had 17 complaints against him, but Klobuchar still didn't prosecute" by Lauren Floyd.

Article: "Amy Cooper, White Woman Who Called Cops on Black Man in Central Park, Fired From Job at Franklin Templeton" by Jenni Fink.

Article: "Nat Turner" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Medgar Evers" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr." by Wikipedia.

Article: "Stokely Carmichael" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Man seeks $2 million after he says Scottsdale officer let police dog attack him" by Bree Burkitt.

Tweet: "Every officer involved in George Floyd's murder must be arrested and held criminally accountable. Going forward, the DOJ must independently investigate every time a person dies in police custody. That includes officers who passively stand by and allow these killings to happen." by Bernie Sanders.

Article: "Oswald Mosley" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fascist Defence Force" (Blackshirts) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ku Klux Klan" (KKK) by Wikipedia.

Article: "French Revolution" by Wikipedia.

Article: "1968 Democratic National Convention protest activity" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Derek Chauvin, Officer Involved in George Floyd's Death, Arrested After Four Days of Protests" by Katherine Fung.

Article: "2017 Berkeley protests" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "Emmett Till", 1955 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Supply-side economics" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Keynesian economics" by Wikipedia.

Case: "City of Houston v. Hill, 482 U.S. 451 (1987)".

Article: "Twitter flags White House tweet identical to Trump's George Floyd post" by Noah Manskar.

Article: "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes.

Article: "George Floyd And Derek Chauvin Worked At The Same Nightclub-But May Not Have Known Each Other, Owner Says" by Carlie Porterfield.

Article: "Derek Chauvin, Minneapolis Cop Shown Kneeling on George Floyd's Neck, Hires Philando Castile Shooter's Lawyer" by Kelly Weill, Solomon Gustavo.

Book: Brown Is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority by Steve Phillips.

Book: Degradation Rituals: Our Sadomasochistic Society by L. Romanienko.

Article: "The Coronavirus Won't Usher in an American Welfare State" by Lane Kenworthy.

Article: "James Baldwin" by Wikipedia.

Video: Become a Police Officer.

Article: "The Latest Massacre Shows the Second Amendment Model of 'Slave Patrols' Is Still in Effect" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Ulysses S. Grant" by History.com.

Video: Grant: The Legacy of Ulysses S. Grant | History.

Quote: "The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is that Good Men Do Nothing" - attributed to Edmund Burke.

Article: "Aurora police chief condemns actions of Minneapolis officer charged with murder: 'Resisting suffocation is not resisting arrest'" by Megan Jones.

Article: "George Floyd's mother was not there, but he used her as a sacred invocation" by Lonnae O'Neal.

Article: "George Floyd's heartbreaking cry for 'Mama' hits home".

Article: "Ferguson unrest" by Wikipedia.

Documentary: Where to Invade Next - Michael Moore.

Book: "Leviathan" by Thomas Hobbes, 1651.

Book: "Two Treatises on Government" by John Locke.

Site: Free Speech TV

Book: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.

Article: "Spain To Roll Out Permanent Universal Basic Income 'Soon'" by Isabel Togoh.

Article: "Trump wall" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump tells cops they should rough people up more during arrests" by Kelly Swanson.

Article: "What Donald Trump has said through the years about where President Obama was born" by Chris Megerian.

Article: "'They admitted their guilt': 30 years of Trump's comments about the Central Park Five" by Rebecca Morin.

Article: "Trump Allegedly Discriminated Against Blacks Renting His Apartments" by Hank Berrien.

Book: The Glass House Tapes by Louis E. Tackwood.

Article: "Trump backpedals after 'shooting' threat to Minneapolis rioters" by Reuters.

Article: "You've Got To Be Carefully Taught" by Richard Rodgers.

Article: "Rosa Parks" by Wikipedia.

Book: Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin.

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