It appears there is at least one branch of the federal government that Donald Trump has been unable to corrupt. So far.

He put loyal toadies who would lie and cheat for him over at the Department of Justice with William Barr, at EPA and Interior with a couple of fossil fuel lobbyists, at the FCC with a Verizon lawyer, at the Department of Education with a billionaire hack who hates public schools, and he even a former defense lobbyist in charge of the Pentagon.

But the intelligence community, or at least people in it, appear to have resisted.

Read more here.

-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Quote: "If a white man wants to lynch me, that's his problem. If he's got the power to lynch me, that's my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it's a question of power. Racism gets its power from capitalism. Thus, if you're anti-racist, whether you know it or not, you must be anti-capitalist. The power for racism, the power for sexism, comes from capitalism, not an attitude" -- Stokeley Carmichael.

Article: "Timeline: What we know about Russia's bounties on U.S. troops - and Trump's response" by Aaron Blake.

Article: "Stokely Carmichael" (Kwame Ture) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump Retweets Video of White Couple Pointing Guns at Protesters" by Adam K. Raymond.

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

Article: "Donald Trump defends Charlottesville responses, omits reference to 'many sides'" by Eric Bradner.

Article: "Thousands gather in Aurora to protest Elijah's McClain's death; tensions rise as evening falls" by Sam Tabachnik, Judith Kohler.

Article: "Police Are Determined to Prove Protesters' Point" by Jack Holmes.

Article: "Fox's Gasparino: GOP operatives raising possibility Trump 'could drop out of race' if polls don't rebound" by Joe Concha.

Tweet: "Intel just reported to me that they did not find this info credible, and therefore did not report it to me or @VP. Possibly another fabricated Russia Hoax, maybe by the Fake News @nytimesbooks, wanting to make Republicans look bad!!!" by Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Pelosi Requests All-House Briefing from the Director of National Intelligence and Central Intelligence Agency on Press Reports of Russian Bounties on U.S. Troops in Afghanistan" by Nancy Pelosi.

Article: "Cabinet of Donald Trump" by Wikipedia.

Article: "New Details About Wilbur Ross' Business Point To Pattern Of Grifting" by Dan Alexander.

Article: "The next Fed chair is not an economist. Does it matter?" (Jerome Powell) by Allison Schrager.

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

Article: "The Supreme Court Struck Down An Anti-Abortion Law In Louisiana In Its First Major Abortion Case Under Trump" by Ema O'Connor.

Article: "Susan Collins Was Wrong on Kavanaugh" by Taegan Goddard.

Article: "Supreme Court makes it easier for president to fire CFPB head" by AP.

Book: "Unsafe at Any Speed" by Ralph Nader.

Article: "Container deposit legislation in the United States" (bottle bills) by Wikipedia.

Article: "From my doctor...yes, I get emails from him." by Heartstrings.

Article: "High Blood Sugar Levels Detected in Coronavirus Patients, Suggesting COVID-19 Triggers Diabetes" by Carla Simmons.

Article: "COVID-19 caused strokes in young people who had mild coronavirus symptoms, NYC doctors say" by Adrianna Rodriguez.

Article: "Wave of cognitive disorders in young people from COVID-19" by Wilfred Van Gorp.

Article: "Republicans recruit 50,000 volunteers to police “voter fraud” in November" by Igor Derysh.

Article: "Justice Clarence Thomas: 'We are destroying our institutions'" by Elizabeth Koh.

Article: "In 1927, Donald Trump's father was arrested after a Klan riot in N.Y." by Philip Bump.

Quote: "Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference." - Franklin Roosevelt's Re-Nomination Acceptance Speech (1936).

Article: "New Mueller Report Details: Roger Stone Told Trump In Advance WikiLeaks Would Release Clinton Campaign Emails" by Jason Leopold, Anthony Cormier, Ken Bensinger.

Article: "DOJ: Trump's Early Businesses Blocked Blacks" by Gideon Resnick.

Quote: "You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time" - attributed to Abraham Lincoln.

Article: "Chris Kyle" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump Rips Bolton: "All He Wants To Do Is Drop Bombs," "He's Kind Of A Sick Guy" That Never Smiles" by Ian Schwartz.

Article: "Russian elite invested nearly $100 million in Trump buildings" by Nathan Layne, Ned Parker, Svetlana Reiter, Stephen Grey and Ryan McNeill.

Book: Proof of Conspiracy: How Trump's International Collusion is Threatening American Democracy by Seth Abramson.

Hour Two: "The Most Important Thing In This Moment is For Us to Realize That What We See Happening to Black People On the Streets Is What's Happening to Black Students In Their School Hallways"
- Judith Browne Dianis Executive Director - Advancement Project National Office

Article: "Over-Policing In Schools Is an Issue Black Students Have Been Fighting for Years" by Zach Schermele.

Article: "A Looming Financial Meltdown For America's Schools" by Cory Turner.

Site: We Came To Learn: Alliance for Educational Justice.

Site: Police Free Schools.

Article: "Drug Abuse Resistance Education" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Caligula" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Russian bounties to Taliban-linked militants resulted in deaths of U.S. troops, according to intelligence assessments" by Ellen Nakashima, Karen DeYoung, Missy Ryan and John Hudson.

Article: "2012 Benghazi attack" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'Treason on the links': Lindsey Graham buried for playing golf with Trump after Russian bounty bombshell" by Tom Boggioni.

Article: "Trump Is Golfing In Virginia After Pledging To Stay In D.C. This Weekend" by Sean Colarossi.

Article: "'Her fingerprints are all over this': Susan Collins pummeled after Brett Kavanaugh votes to uphold Louisiana anti-abortion law" by Alex Henderson.

Article: "Kavanaugh on the Importance of Precedent" by Mark Rosneck.

Article: "Supreme Court blocks Trump from ending DACA" by Devin Dwyer.

Article: "Supreme Court decision reveals the GOP divide over LGBT rights" by Alan Fram.

Article: "BUSTED: Trump engaged in 3-week 'flurry of communication' with Putin this year - and the White House hid some of the calls" by David Badash.

Article: "'I can't breathe': A 2nd-grader. A security guard. A Seattle school." by Ann Dornfeld.

Article: "Pacific Grove police officer under review" by Dennis L. Taylor.

Article: "Authorities charge alleged Santa Cruz deputy killer with assassinating federal cop in Oakland, link attacks to Boogaloo movement" by Nate Gartrell.

Article: "Foreign interventions by the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fox News abandons vehicle in Seattle protest zone after hitting Black man: report" by David Edwards.

Hour Three: DNC 2020 Environment & Climate Crisis Platform Informed By Green New Deal
- Charlie Jiang, Climate campaigner w/ Greenpeace USA Campaigner fighting for a Green New Deal

Article: "DNC Climate Crisis Council 2020 Platform".

Article: "Green New Deal" (GND) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Lev Parnas is afraid of Bill Barr - and he should be" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler says calls to impeach AG Barr are a 'waste of time' because of 'corrupt Republican majority in the Senate'" by Connor Perrett.

Article: "Otto Warmbier" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Puerto Rico" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump in 'fragile' mood and may drop out of 2020 race if poll numbers don't improve, GOP insiders tell Fox News" by Richard Hall.

Article: "The data is in: Fox News may have kept millions from taking the coronavirus threat seriously" by Margaret Sullivan.

Article: "Judge Throws Out Lawsuit Against Fox News Over Coronavirus Coverage" by Ted Johnson.

Podcast: Capitol Connection - WCIA - Sunday 28 June 2020.

Article: "1983 Beirut barracks bombings" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Defense Production Act" by Wikipedia.

Site: Tracking COVID-19 - Johns Hopkins University.

Article: "Estimated Influenza Illnesses, Medical visits, Hospitalizations, and Deaths in the United States - 2018-2019 influenza season" by CDC.

Article: "Rush Limbaugh on coronavirus: 'The common cold' that's being 'weaponized' against Trump" by Allyson Chiu.

Article: "'Remarkably cheap' steroid called dexamethasone can improve COVID-19 survival, researchers say" by Marilynn Marchione.

Article: "The coronavirus death lag explained: How it can take three weeks between catching the disease and being hospitalised (and three days for the NHS to record the fatality)" by Connor Boyd.

Quote: "Figures Don't Lie, But Liars Do Figure" - anon.

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