While Steve Mnuchin and Donald Trump are passing out hundreds of billions of dollars to each other and their good buddies while refusing to let the American people know who got what, the coronavirus continues its deadly spread. It's now killing over 1000 Americans a day.

The mainstream news focuses on deaths in nursing homes and among people over 60, but last week a woman in her 20s got a double lung transplant; right now, otherwise healthy people in their 30s, 40s and 50s are in induced comas and living on ventilators in hospitals across the nation. And Trump does nothing.

America has the world's highest rate of infection and death from the coronavirus, and Donald Trump and the Republicans are trying their best to pretend there's nothing going on.

Read more here.

-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Article: "In landmark case, Supreme Court rules LGBTQ workers are protected from job discrimination" by Pete Williams.

Article: "Anne Gorsuch Burford" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964" by U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

Article: "Trump administration reverses health protections for transgender people" by The Guardian.

Article: "Texas set a new record for COVID-19 hospitalizations in four of the last five days, officials said. Hospitals are scrambling to accommodate the spike." by Jenny Deam, Todd Ackerman and Matt Dempsey.

Article: "Killing of Rayshard Brooks" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Woman on the brink of death receives first known double lung transplant due to COVID-19 in US" by Madeline Buckley.

Article: "President Trump changes Tulsa rally date after controversy over Juneteenth choice" by Jeanine Santucci.

Article: "Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 2. "... In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make...."

Article: "Certiorari" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Where the Virus Is Growing Most: Countries With 'Illiberal Populist' Leaders" by David Leonhardt and Lauren Leatherby.

Book: "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand.

Article: "Milton Friedman" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ayn Rand" by Wikipedia.

Article: "S. Korea reports 1st confirmed case of China coronavirus" by Yonhap.

Article: "First US case of Wuhan coronavirus confirmed by CDC" by Elizabeth Cohen.

Article: "How South Korea Succeeded Where The U.S. Has Failed On Coronavirus Testing" by Chad Terhune, Dan Levine, Hyunjoo Jin and Jane Lanhee Lee.

Article: "Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia faces blowback as he curtails scope of worker relief in unemployment crisis" by Jeff Stein, Heather Long and Josh Dawsey.

Article: "The Masks Masquerade" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

Article: "Porn star Stormy Daniels is taking a victory lap after Michael Cohen's guilty plea. Here's a timeline of Trump's many marriages and rumored affairs." by Kate Taylor.

Article: "Past Seasons Estimated Influenza Disease Burden" by CDC.

Article: "What is 'Obamagate' and why is Trump so worked up about it?" by David Smith.

Article: "Police Chiefs Are Finding Job Security Is Hard to Come By" by Shaila Dewan.

Article: ""We were wrong," NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says" by Caroline Linton.

Article: "Peter principle" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Colin Kaepernick" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Names of Small-Business Borrowers From Paycheck Protection Program Won't Be Released, Mnuchin Says" by Mark Niquette And Zachary R. Mider.

Article: "Steven Mnuchin, Foreclosure King Of America" by Nomi Prins.

Article: "Labor unions in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rupert Murdoch" by Wikipedia.

Audio: "It's Time to Change the Redskins Name" by Joe Madison.

Article: "Confederate flag officially banned by NASCAR at events" by Kelly McCarthy.

Article: "COVID-19 pandemic in Oklahoma" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Top Tulsa Health Official and Newspaper Beg Trump Not to Hold His Plague Rally" by Whitney Kimball.

Article: "23andME reports people with type O blood less likely to get COVID-19" by Bob Yirka.

Article: "Intelligence report warned of coronavirus crisis as early as November: Sources" by Josh Margolin and James Gordon Meek.

Article: "US alerted Israel, NATO to disease outbreak in China in November - TV report" by Times of Israel.

Article: "On 31 December 2019, the WHO China Country Office was informed of cases of pneumonia unknown etiology (unknown cause) detected in Wuhan City" by WHO.

Article: "China releases genetic data on new coronavirus, now deadly" by Lisa Schnirring.

Article: "A Berlin Biotech Company Got a Head Start on Coronavirus Tests" by Stefan Nicola.

Article: "Refrigerated Trucks Parked Outside New York City Hospitals As Improvised Morgues Amid Spikes in COVID-19 Death Toll" by Denis Bedoya.

Article: "'It's very sad': Fauci warns blacks disproportionately affected by coronavirus" by Cassidy Morrison.

Article: "Confederate States of America" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Confederate States of America - Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union", December 24, 1860.

Image: "If pulling down a statue of a slave trader 'ruins your way of life' You are either ... a) racist b) a pigeon".

Article: "Tulsa Health Department director 'wishes' Trump rally would be postponed as local COVID cases surge" by Stetson Payne.

Article: "Trump Consumer Safety Nominee Lobbied for Chemical Industry" by AP.

Movie: "Dark Waters".

Article: "We found 85,000 cops who've been investigated for misconduct. Now you can read their records." by John Kelly, and Mark Nichols.

Article: "Neoliberalism" by Wikipedia.

Speech: "A Rendezvous With Destiny", 27 June 1936 acceptance speech by Franklin D. Roosevelt. "An old English judge once said: "Necessitous men are not free men.""

Speech: "First Inaugural Address", Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 4 March 1933. "Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself-nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."

Article: "Babylon Berlin" by Wikipedia.

Book: "It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis.

Video: Democracy Now! Jun 12, 2020 (Angela Davis).

Article: "Wendi Deng Murdoch" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Cancer eating the heart of Australian democracy" by Kevin Rudd.

Article: "2008-2013 United States ammunition shortage" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Wayne LaPierre" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Oliver North" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The tea party radio network" by Kenneth P. Vogel and Mackenzie Weinger.

Tweet: "Not facetious/rhetorical: If I see a police officer (in or out of uniform) choking someone to death - can I as a non-police individual intervene to stop a murder? Still waiting for response. @VTStatePolice @OneNorthAvenue @GovPhilScott @VTAttorneyGen #vtpoli @VTdigger @timesargus" by Rama Schneider.

Hour Three: Chicken to China for Processing?!
- Tony Corbo, Senior Government Affairs Representative - Food & Water Watch and Food & Water Action

Article: "Group Warns USDA May Be Quietly Trying to Outsource Chicken Processing to China" by Food & Water Watch.

Article: "Jim Crow laws" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Hayes-Tilden Electoral Commission" by James Monroe.

Article: "Plessy v. Ferguson", 1896 (separate but equal).

Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".

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

Book: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander.

Law: Posse Comitatus Act (1878).

Article: "Send In the Troops" by Tom Cotton.

Article: "The FDA Just Pulled Chloroquine And Hydroxychloroquine As Coronavirus Treatments" by Dan Vergano.

Article: "Facebook Pitched New Tool Allowing Employers To Suppress Words Like "unionize" In Workplace Chat Product" by Lee Fang.

Article: "Fired inspector general says he told aides about Pompeo probe so that they 'wouldn't be surprised'" by Karen DeYoung.

Article: "Hooverville" by Wikipedia.

Article: "One-fifth of Americans fear they can't pay June rent or mortgage, federal survey finds" by Sarah D. Wire.

Native vs. Invasive Plants & the Battle for Carbon Sequestration
- Dr. Lauren Waller, Researcher-Lincoln University / Postdoctoral Fellow - Bio-Protection Research Centre in New Zealand

Article: "Native Plants Sequester Carbon in the Soil for Longer" by Marc Daalder.

Article: "Biotic interactions drive ecosystem responses to exotic plant invaders" by L. P. Waller et al.

Article: "Southern Manifesto" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Robert Byrd" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Strom Thurmond" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Lee Atwater" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Benedict Arnold" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Timothy McVeigh" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ramsey Orta, Man Who Filmed Eric Garner's Arrest, Has Been Released From Prison" by Brenna Ehrlich.

Article: "Florida scientist says she was fired for refusing to change Covid-19 data 'to support reopen plan'" by Richard Luscombe.

Article: "President Trump Delivers West Point Graduation Speech as Relationships With Military Leaders Grow Strained" by Darlene Superville.

Article: "Paul Whelan: US 'outraged' as Russia jails ex-marine for spying" by BBC.

Article: "Venezuela orders arrest of former Green Beret involved in botched raid" by AP.

Article: "Friedrich Paulus" by Wikipedia.

Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET

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