Republicans in Congress right now are fighting each other over how severely they should cut back on unemployment benefits to people out of work because of this administration's incompetence in handling the coronavirus.

Some Republicans want to do away with the $600 a week altogether, others suggest it should be cut to $100 or $300 a week, and others want to make it some fraction of a person's previous income, which will produce a math challenge for the Treasury Department that could take months to untangle.

Whatever they decide, the bottom line should be clear to all Americans: Republicans were more than happy to hand more than $3 trillion to billionaires, giant corporations and the very, very wealthy but don't give a flying flip about America's working people.

Read more here.

-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Article: "Watch live: Body of Rep. John Lewis arrives in DC to lie in state at the Capitol" by The Hill.

Article: "Leahy pushes for voting rights bill named after Rep. John Lewis" by WCAX.

Case: "Shelby County v. Holder", 2013.

Article: "Trump to leave Washington instead of paying respects to John Lewis: report" by David Edwards.

Article: "Trump to visit North Carolina, cite work on COVID-19 vaccine" by AP.

Article: "6-day celebration of life for Rep. John Lewis continues Monday" by Libby Cathey.

Article: "Senate GOP Slammed for Allowing Eviction Moratorium to Expire, Putting Millions of US Families at Risk During Covid-19 Crisis" by Jessica Corbett.

Article: "'Could Mean a Huge Gap in Payments': Memo Warns GOP Unemployment Benefit Formula Would Take Months to Implement" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Trump Jr.'s new book to get boost from RNC preordering copies for donors" by J. Edward Moreno.

Quote: "If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows" - John Kenneth Galbraith (referring to "trickle down" economics).

Article: "Reaganomics" (voodoo economics) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Massive Protests in Portland Continue After Judge Denies State Request for Restraining Order Against Federal Agencies" by Jessica Corbett.

Article: "Portland Mom Says She Was Groped & Assaulted by Feds During Protest Arrest" by Tom Cleary.

Video: Willie Horton 1988 Attack Ad.

Article: "Tyler Democrat Hank Gilbert's campaign manager injured in scuffle at Sunday protest" by Benjamin Wermund.

Article: "Sturmabteilung" (Brownshirts).

Article: "Sturmabteilung" (SA, Storm Troopers, Brownshirts) by Shoah Resource Center.

Article: "Federal agents using similar tear gas canisters in Portland as used in DC" by Nathan Baca.

Article: "Judge orders feds in Portland not to use force against journalists" by Josh Gerstein.

Article: "Rubber bullet" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Plastic bullet" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Photojournalist and author Linda Tirado blinded in Minneapolis protests" by Jack Gramenz.

Article: "The Dangers of Rubber Bullets" by Kaiser Health News.

Article: "The Deadly Truth About Rubber Bullets" by David Hambling.

Hour Two: State of the race...
- Tom Perez, DNC Chairman/former U.S. Secretary of Labor

Article: "Trump is trying to rig the election right before our eyes" by Joshua Holland.

Article: "As Trump Falsely Claims Fraud, Experts Laud Voting By Mail As Pandemic Deepens" by Madelyn Beck.

Article: "McConnell's Stimulus Waiting Game Turns Into Race Against Clock" by Steven T. Dennis.

Site: Democratic National Convention 2020 - Milwaukee, August 17 - 20.

Article: "John Lewis (civil rights leader)" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "The vote is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have." - John Lewis.

Article: "Important Election Dates & Deadlines in Arizona" by RockTheVote.

Article: "DNC, WisDems: File lawsuit to expand access to voting in wake of global pandemic".

Article: "Wisconsin Dems push for mail-in, online voting during 2020 elections" by Jackson Danbeck.

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

Article: "The Courts Won't End Gerrymandering. Eric Holder Has a Plan to Fix It Without Them" by Ari Berman.

Article: "Stacey Abrams" by Wikipedia.

Site: Fair Fight.

Article: "No, the election is NOT 100 days away" by Old Redneck.

Article: "Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.", April 4, 1968 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump Constitutionally Could Remain President Even if He Loses 2020 Popular and Electoral Votes, and He Knows It. Thom Hartmann Explains." by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "12th Amendment"

Article: "Bexar County GOP chair refuses to certify runoff election totals after losing in landslide" by Fares Sabawi.

Article: "You don't have mail: New postmaster general is generating exactly the anger and distrust Trump wants" by Mark Sumner.

Article: "Starve the beast" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Study of Disputed Florida Ballots Finds Justices Did Not Cast the Deciding Vote" by Ford Fessenden and John M. Broder, November 12, 2001.

Article: "Cash-strapped House Republicans furious with Jared Kushner for blocking RNC help: report" by Tom Boggioni.

Article: "House GOP's pleas to Republican National Committee for financial help go unanswered" by Rachael Bade, Josh Dawsey and Michelle Ye Hee Lee.

Site: ConcreteReporting - some live streaming of protests on Twitch.

Article: "60th night of protests draws crowd of 1000; federal police deploy waves of tear gas after some set off fireworks" by K. Rambo, Jamie Hale, Mark Graves.

Article: "Amy McGrath" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Sara Gideon" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Sara Gideon wins Democratic race to challenge Susan Collins" by Max Greenwood.

Article: "MJ Hegar wins Senate runoff in Texas, setting stage to take on John Cornyn" by Paul Kane and Colby Itkowitz.

Hour Three: Touching the Jaguar
- John Perkins, Author of 10 books including his latest, Touching the Jaguar and the bestselling Confessions of an Economic Hitman

Article: "How Big Business Bailed Out the Nazis" by Ciara Torres-Spelliscy.

Article: "Chad Wolf" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Pence to headline 'Cops for Trump' event in Pennsylvania next week" by Tal Axelrod.

Law: "3 U.S. Code § 15. Counting electoral votes in Congress" (Electoral Count Act of 1887).

Article: "White supremacists posing as BLM protesters instigated Richmond riots: Police" by Travis Gettys.

Article: "Trump's Interference In The Fbi Headquarters Relocation Plan" by American Oversight.

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 2 section 1. "The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them." (domestic emoluments clause).

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

Article: "Donald Trump and the Central Park Five: the racially charged rise of a demagogue" by Oliver Laughland.

Article: "Central Park jogger case" (Central Park Five) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Man holding Black Lives Matter sign in ‘America's most racist town' gets pelted with nonstop threats and abuse" by Brad Reed.

Article: "Anti-fascists linked to zero murders in the US in 25 years" by Lois Beckett.

Article: "Police: Fire at Arizona Democratic Headquarters Was Arson" by AP.

Article: "St. Louis' top prosecutor says she's charging couple who flashed guns at crowd marching to mayor's home" by Louis Casiano.

Article: "Missouri's Governor Will Pardon Mark And Patricia McCloskey" by Radius.

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