They revel in their efforts to end Obamacare and cut millions of Americans off healthcare.

They celebrate last night's resumption of federal executions.

They enthusiastically authorize the use of formerly banned pesticides that cause cancer and neurological damage to children.

Trump's first official action was to allow coal and oil companies to dump more waste in our rivers, poisoning people downstream.

As children were being slaughtered in classrooms across America, trump doubled down on supporting the NRA.

Read more here.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Hour One: Federal Occupying Force In Portland
- U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR)

Article: "Trump's 'occupying army' in Portland critically injure peaceful protester" by Joan McCarter.

Article: "Police shoot Portland protester in head with impact weapon, causing severe injuries" by Ryan Nguyen.

Article: "Trump says he will direct the federal government to intervene if cities do not restore law and order" by FOX News.

Article: "President Trump Says Portland Protest Was "Totally Out of Control," but the Feds "Very Much Quelled It"" by Tess Riski.

Article: "Peaceful Protesters Gassed So Trump Can Do a Sacrilegious Bible Photo Op" by Ed Kilgore.

Video: Hearing on Incident with U.S. Park Police and Protesters - House Natural Resources Committee.

Article: "Wyden, Colleagues Call For GAO Investigation into Use of Federal Law Enforcement During Washington, DC Protests Following Killing of George Floyd" by Ron Wyden.

Article: "Stimulus check: McConnell gives date for Senate debate to begin" by Reuters.

Article: "Extra $600-A-Week Unemployment Benefit Won't Get Renewed, Mnuchin Says" by Renee Morad.

Article: "The COVID-19 Pandemic And Resulting Economic Crash Have Caused The Greatest Health Insurance Losses In American History" by Stan Dorn.

Article: "Sanders, Gillibrand, Booker, Warren, Markey, Merkley, Harris Introduce Emergency Health Care Guarantee Act" by Bernie Sanders.

Article: "Israel took strong early steps against Covid-19, but now the virus is resurging and some say the country reopened too soon" by Christina Farr.

Video: DeVos asked if she has a plan to reopen schools. See her response.

Article: "No, Trump and DeVos can't withhold funding from schools whenever they want. Here's what they can do." by Valerie Strauss.

Article: "Millions Have Lost Health Insurance in Pandemic-Driven Recession" by Sheryl Gay Stolberg.

Article: "Sen. Wyden pledges to center equity in new wave of federal COVID-19 relief" by Multnomah County.

Article: "Trump's trying to end Obamacare but there's emerging evidence it could undo him" by Sahil Kapur.

Article: "Trump's EPA Won't Ban Pesticide Linked To Brain Damage In Kids" by Bess Levin.

Article: "Did President Trump Make It Legal to Dump Coal Mining Waste Into Streams?" by Alex Kasprak.

Article: "List of school shootings in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump Softens Support For New Background Check Laws After Call With NRA Head" by Tim Mak.

Article: "1,008 people have been shot and killed by police in the past year" by Washington Post.

Article: "Trump Calls George Floyd Protesters 'THUGS,' Threatens Violent Intervention In Minneapolis" by Nick Visser.

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

Article: "Trump Shares Video That Includes Supporter Shouting 'White Power' At Protesters" by Hayley Miller.

Article: "What You Need to Know About Trump's $8 Billion Saudi Arms Deal" by Marcia Robiou.

Article: "Opinion: Seven Children Have Died In Immigration Custody. Remember Their Names." by Jess Morales Rocketto.

Article: "Trump's Child Detention Camps Cost $775 Per Person Every Day" by Luke Darby.

Article: "Private prison firm quietly ramps up GOP lobbying efforts as Trump expands immigrant detention centers" by Sunny Kim.

Article: "The $600 Federal Unemployment Benefit Is Not Likely To Be Extended-Here's Why" by Jennifer Barrett.

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

Article: "Trump May Pay Legal Fees of Man Who Sucker-Punched Protester" by Melissa Chan.

Article: "Trump botching coronavirus response weighs on GOP political polls" by Rachel Maddow.

Article: "For Some Reluctant Trump Voters, Coronavirus Was The Last Straw" by Charlotte Alter and Tessa Berenson.

Site: Tracking COVID-19 - Johns Hopkins University.

Article: "Trump Rally Gives Scientists a New Virus Laboratory" by Michelle Cortez and Robert Langreth.

Article: "Trump rally 'likely' source of virus surge, health official says" by AP.

Article: "Trump administration's delayed use of 1950s law leads to critical supplies shortages" by Priscilla Alvarez, Curt Devine, Drew Griffin and Kristen Holmes,.

Article: "'I wouldn't trust you to care for a house plant': Democrats blast DeVos for insisting schools fully reopen" by Allyson Chiu.

Article: "COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "America Drank Away Its Children's Future" by Paul Krugman.

Article: "Russel L. Honoré" by Wikipedia.

Tweet: "Jesus Christ, will someone maybe @seanhannity explain to #45 stop say ignorant shit like more testing creating more #COVID19 cases , this is F ing embarrassing for man with the nuclear code saying stupid shit like this . Sad thing we have few #Governors believe the same shit ." by Russel L. Honore.

Article: "In Italy, mourning families seek justice for victims of coronavirus" by Nicole Winfield.

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

Article: "Israeli Data Show School Openings Were a Disaster That Wiped Out Lockdown Gains" by Noga Tarnopolsky.

Article: "Axios-Ipsos poll: Americans fear return to school" by Margaret Talev.

Hour Two: The 1 Percent Are Cheating Us Out of a Quarter-Trillion Dollars In Taxes Every Year
- David Sirota Journalist / TMI / Editor-at-Large, Jacobin Magazine / Author of 3 books / Former Senior Advisor-Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign

Article: "The 1 Percent Are Cheating Us Out of a Quarter-Trillion Dollars in Taxes Every Year" by David Sirota.

Article: "Trends in the Internal Revenue Service's Funding and Enforcement" by CBO.

Article: "Yes, our tax system needs reform. Let's start with this first step." by Lawrence H. Summers and Natasha Sarin.

Article: "Starve the beast" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act", 1970 (RICO).

Article: "Frank Church" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Church Committee", 1975-6.

Article: "New Deal" (1933 - 1939) by Wikipedia.

Speech: "Great Society" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)" by Public Citizen.

Article: "69 years ago, a president pitches his idea for national health care" (1945) by Dr. Howard Markel.

Article: "U.S. Carries Out First Execution in 17 Years After Overnight Supreme Court Ruling" by Reuters.

Article: "Capital punishment by country" by Wikipedia.

Article: "13th Amendment", December 6, 1865. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

Article: "Herd immunity" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Scans Reveal Heart Damage in Over Half of COVID-19 Patients in Study" by Kashmira Gander.

Article: "Everything you need to know about the Supreme Court's new Obamacare case" by Dylan Scott.

Article: "The Supreme Court showdown over Obamacare will be delayed until after the election" by Ian Millhiser.

Case: "Bush v. Gore", 2000. "The individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors for the President of the United States"

Case: "Bush v. Gore", 2000 by Wikipedia.

Book: The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Trump said European schools opened with 'no problems.' Abroad, a different story." by Henry Austin and Yuliya Talmazan and Andy Eckardt and Carlo Angerer.

Article: "Bernie Sanders is a fan of the 'Nordic model.' Finland's leader says it's the American Dream." by Ishaan Tharoor.

Article: "COVID-19 HEROES Act: When Will the Senate Vote?" by S.M. Walsh.

Article: "Extra $600 CARES Act unemployment benefit ends July 31. Here what you should know" by Oscar Gonzalez.

Article: "GOP Georgia Governor Candidate Purged Voter Rolls" by Greg Palast.

Letter: "to Edgar Newton Eisenhower, November 8, 1954" by Dwight Eisenhower. "Should any political party attempt to abolish social security ... Their number is negligible and they are stupid."

Article: "Republican Party Platform of 1956", August 20, 1956.

Article: "Donald Trump has repeatedly violated his oath of office: Reason enough for impeachment" by Chauncey Devega.

Article: "Oath of office of the President of the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs" by Saul McLeod.

Article: "State Socialism (Germany)" (Bismarck, 1883) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Why Donald Trump's Companies Went Bankrupt" by Tom Murse.

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

Book: Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump Ph.D.

Article: "Sturmabteilung" (Brownshirts).

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

Article: "Beer Hall Putsch" by Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Article: "ICE Offering 'Citizens Academy' Course with Training on Arresting Immigrants" by Chantal Da Silva.

Article: "Stacey Abrams" by Wikipedia.

Site: Fair Fight.

Article: "Supreme Court decision to allow Wisconsin vote during pandemic 'boggles the mind,' Ginsburg says" by Ariane de Vogue.

Article: "Los Angeles, San Diego School Districts To Stay Online In Fall Amid Coronavirus Spike" by Wesley Dockery.

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

Article: "Watch live: Trump speaks about China as tensions rise" by Yelena Dzhanova, Amanda Macias.

Article: "Massacre of LwÓw professors" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Vladimir Putin" (Russia) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mohammed bin Salman" (Saudi Arabia) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rodrigo Duterte" (Philippines) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Recep Tayyip Erdoğan" (Turkey) by Wikipedia.

Article: "In Turkey Versus Kurds Dispute, Trump Chooses The Side Where He Has A Condo Complex" by S.V. Date.

Article: "Bastille Day" by Wikipedia.

Book: Separated: Inside an American Tragedy by Jacob Soboroff.

Article: "The coronavirus is infecting and killing black Americans at an alarmingly high rate" by Reis Thebault, Andrew Ba Tran and Vanessa Williams.

Article: "Tuskegee syphilis experiment" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Arizona ICE Detention Center Devastated By COVID-19" by Alisa Reznick.

Article: "Allentown police release 9 minutes of surveillance video, BLM tells cops 'DO NOT' attend protest after incident likened to George Floyd" by Danielle Wallace.

Video: 5 pediatricians on the safety of schools amid pandemic.

Article: "NBC Asks: "Will Pediatricians Send Their Children Back To School?" I Send Them A Clarifying Answer" by Marihilda.

Article: "Developing a vaccine for covid-19" by Sarah Caddy.

Article: "MMR Vaccine Could Invigorate the Innate Immune System to Fight COVID-19" by Gail Dutton.

Article: "After six months of sickness, death, and turmoil, the USS Theodore Roosevelt's cruise is ending" by Jeff Schogol.

Article: "COVID-19 pandemic on USS Theodore Roosevelt" by Wikipedia.

Article: "What we could learn from the coronavirus outbreak on aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt" by Andrew Dyer.

Article: "Saint Louis Public Schools teachers sit-in protest" by St Louis Media.

Article: "Education hit hard as Parson makes $209 million in June budget cuts" by Mikayla Easley.

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

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