Pacific Gas and Electric, known as PG&E, just pled guilty to killing 84 American citizens.

When they want to buy politicians' favors and votes, they claim that they are a "person," but when they admit to killing real human persons, they claim that they are just a corporation and therefore nobody can or should go to jail.

Corporate Personhood is a lie.

Read more here.

-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

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

Article: "Trump says his policing order is a 'big step.' Activists call it 'breadcrumbs.'" by Jon Schuppe.

Article: "Democrats prepare sweeping police reform bills after George Floyd's death" by AP.

Article: "DC statehood bill set for June 26 House vote" by Chris Cioffi.

Article: "Policing bill authors to get action they've long sought" by Lindsey McPherson.

Article: "House Plans Vote On Health Law Tweaks Aiming To Improve Affordability" by KHN.

Article: "Hoyer: Infrastructure package to hit floor this month" by Scott Wong.

Article: "Hoyer: Appropriations markups to start in late June" by Jennifer Shutt.

Article: "McConnell, Scott announce police reform legislation" by The Hill.

Site: Greg Palast.

Article: "12th Amendment"

Article: "We need to plan now in case Trump loses in November - but refuses to leave the White House" by Thom Hartmann.

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

Article: "Progressive Democrats Call for Reducing Military Spending in Wake of COVID Outbreak" by Democracy Now!

Article: "McConnell's Legislative Graveyard" by Nancy LeTourneau.

Article: "New Polls Show the Enormous, Self-Destructive Toll of Trump's Protest Response" by Pema Levy.

Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2019" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].

Bill: "H.R.3 - Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act" by Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6] .

Article: "No FISA reauthorization until John Durham investigation is done, GOP letter led by Jim Jordan says" by Jerry Dunleavy.

Article: "List of executive actions by Donald Trump" by Wikipedia.

Site: ProgressivePunch.

Article: "$12.8M released in local cash assistance program" (Guam) by Jerick Sablan.

Article: "$2.2 Trillion CARES Act Provides A Lifeline To Small Businesses" by Rohit Arora.

Article: "PG&E pleads guilty to 84 counts of manslaughter in fire that devastated Paradise, California" by CBS News.

Article: "Camp Fire (2018)" (Paradise fire) by Wikipedia.

Case: "Santa Clara County vs. Southern Pacific Railroad", 1886

Article: "14th Amendment, July 9, 1868 (citizenship, representatives, public debt, Equal Protection Clause)

Book: "Unequal Protection: The Battle to Save Democracy" by Thom Hartmann (read online)

Book: "Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became "People" - And How You Can Fight Back" by Thom Hartmann

Quote: "As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations, and monopolies, while the citizen is struggling far in the rear, or is trampled beneath an iron heel. Corporations, which should be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people's masters." - President Grover Cleveland.

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010)

Quote: " If taken seriously, our colleagues' assumption that the identity of a speaker has no relevance to the Government's ability to regulate political speech would lead to some remarkable conclusions. Such an assumption would have accorded the propaganda broadcasts to our troops by "Tokyo Rose" during World War II the same protection as speech by Allied commanders. More pertinently, it would appear to afford the same protection to multinational corporations controlled by foreigners as to individual Americans" - Justice Stevens.

Quote: "Last week, the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests - including foreign corporations - to spend without limit in our elections." - Barack Obama.

Article: "Cumulus Gets FCC's OK For Complete Foreign Ownership" by Adam Jacobson.

Law: "Telecommunications Act of 1996" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "New disturbing video shows New Mexico Trump supporter Steven Baca shooting anti-racist protester" by Arun Gupta.

Article: "Texas Man Who Used a Chainsaw to Scare Away Protesters Has Been Arrested" by Daniel Villarreal.

Article: "Senior Trump aide apologizes after promoting video of chainsaw-wielding man yelling racial slur" by Sam Dorman.

Video: Tanker truck drives into Minneapolis protesters.

Article: "Tanker Truck Drives High Speed Into People Marching in Minneapolis" by Magnifico.

Article: "Amid massive demonstrations, vehicles striking protesters raise disturbing echoes of 2017 Charlottesville attack" by Neena Satija, Emily Davies and Dalton Bennett.

Article: "A white bar owner in Omaha shot and killed a black protester. He won't face charges" by Sophie Lewis.

Article: "Jim Jones" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Qualified immunity" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Supreme Court won't hear Second Amendment cases or qualified immunity challenge involving police" by Alex Swoyer.

Article: "Meet the Gun Club Patrolling Seattle's Leftist Utopia" by Kim Kelly.

Article: "FBI Reviewing Investigations of Recent Hangings as Third Man Found Dead in Houston" by Soo Kim.

Documentary: The Brainwashing Of My Dad by Jen Senko.

Article: "23rd Amendment"

Article: "The Apprentice (American TV series)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Oregon police told armed white men that they didn't want to look like they were 'playing favorites' when they advised them to stay inside after curfew" by Rachel E. Greenspan.

Article: "Unite the Right rally" (Charlottesville) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Charlottesville car attack" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'It Was a Fake Meat Shortage': Reporting Suggests Industry Sacrificed Workers During Pandemic to Keep Exports Moving" by Eoin Higgins.

Article: "As meatpacking plants reopen, data about worker illness remains elusive".

Article: "As Meat Plants Stayed Open to Feed Americans, Exports to China Surged" by Michael Corkery and David Yaffe-Bellany.

Article: "Smithfield Foods" by Wikipedia.

Video: Marked change in tone in CDC meat plant reports raises questions.

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

Article: "With "Midnight" Executive Order, Meatpacking Slaughterhouses Become Trump's Forced-Labor Camps of Human Sacrifice" by Mark Karlin.

Executive Order: "Executive Order on Regulatory Relief to Support Economic Recovery" by Donald J. Trump.

Article: "As workers face virus risks, employers seek liability limits" by Emily Kopp.

Article: "US COVID-19 Survivor Receives $1.1 Mn Hospital Bill" by AFP.

Article: "America's Covid-19 hot spots shed a light on our moral failures" by Dylan Matthews.

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

Article: "Will Millennials Receive Social Security Benefits?" by Miriam Caldwell.

Article: "An Interview with Michael Hutchison" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Real estate investment trust" (REIT) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Permanent normal trade relations: U.S. and China" by Wikipedia

Article: "North American Free Trade Agreement" (NAFTA) by Wikipedia

Article: "Senegal trials begin for $1 COVID-19 test kit" by Nicolas Haque.

Article: "Cheap and easy $1 coronavirus test to undergo trials in Senegal" by Peter Yeung.

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

Article: "Mutation could make coronavirus more infectious, study suggests" by CNN.

Article: "New Zealand welcomes back rugby with packed stadiums after country eradicates coronavirus" by Katherine Acquavella.

Article: "The right to refuse unsafe work is more important than ever - but expect a fight" by Kathy Wilkes.

Article: "Workers Fearful of the Coronavirus Are Getting Fired and Losing Their Benefits" by Jack Healy.

Article: "Right to Refuse Unsafe Work" by Communications Workers of America.

Article: "Occupational Safety and Health Act (United States)" (1970) by Wikipedia.

Case: "Whirlpool Corp. v. Marshall, 445 U.S. 1 (1980)" (Right to Refuse Unsafe Work).

Article: "Man Charged Over Shooting At Albuquerque Statue Protest" by Jason Slotkin.

Article: "Man Arrested In Shooting During Protest Of Spanish Conqueror Statue In Albuquerque" by Cedar Attanasio, Morgan Lee and Susan Montoya Bryan.

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