Back on March 24, when Americans were just beginning to start dying from Covid in substantial numbers, I asked the question, "Why?"

Why did Trump initially procrastinate for two months?

Was he trying to squeeze a few months extra revenue out of his hotels?

Read more here.

-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

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

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: "The extra $600 unemployment benefits will end before July 31" by Megan Leonhardt.

Article: "GOP tucks $8 billion for military weaponry in coronavirus bill" by AP.

Article: "McConnell says Senate won't pass coronavirus relief bill without liability shield for businesses" by Greg Robb.

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

Article: "Report: Navy ships need $400K 'flushes' to unclog toilets" by AP.

Article: "U.S. Military Spending/Defense Budget 1960-2020" by Macrotrends.

Article: "Our Budget" by CDC.

Article: "Golden Fleece Award" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Reps. Barbara Lee and Mark Pocan Statement on House Vote for 10% Cut to Pentagon Budget".

Article: "A look at Democrats' sweeping proposals to overhaul policing" by Colleen Long, Michael Balsamo.

Article: "What's in the House Democrats' $3 trillion coronavirus relief bill?" by Grace Segers.

Bill: "H.R.7120 - George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020" by Rep. Bass, Karen [D-CA-37].

Article: "Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006" by Wikipedia.

Video: Bernie Sanders: The Next 100 Days.

Article: "Complaint: Trump Making Illegal Secret Payments, Including To His Own Family" by S.V. Date.

Site: American Bridge.

Article: "Rep. Pramila Jayapal excoriated AG Bill Barr during a heated Congressional hearing over his 'aggressive' approach to Black Lives Matter protests" by Lauren Frias.

Article: "Schumer Claims Dems "Have A Lot Of Leverage & Aren't Afraid To Use It"" by Mark Hale.

Article: "Pramila Jayapal" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Barbara Lee" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Barbara Lee for vice president" by John Nichols.

Article: "Medicare Advantage" (Medicare Part C) by Wikipedia.

Article: "House Passes HEROES Act With Limits On Student Loan Relief - What's Next?" by Adam S. Minsky, Esq.

Article: "Dwight D. Eisenhower and the birth of the Interstate Highway System" by Lee Lacy.

Bill: "H.R.860 - Social Security 2100 Act" by Rep. Larson, John B. [D-CT-1].

Article: "The Social Security 2100 Act" by John Larson.

Hour Two: Separated: Inside An American Tragedy
- Jacob Soboroff, Correspondent-NBC News & MSNBC / Author of the new book, SEPARATED: Inside An American Tragedy

Tweet: ""The kids here don't get out much - spending almost 22 hours a day indoors."- @jacobsoboroff is one of the first journalists invited inside America's largest detention facility for migrant children [video]" by TODAY.

Article: "Inside a Reporters Notebook at the US-Mexico Border" by Jacob Soboroff.

Quote: "A Single Death is a Tragedy; a Million Deaths is a Statistic" - attributed to Joseph Stalin.

Article: "More Than 450 Migrant Parents May Have Been Deported Without Their Children" by Miriam Jordan and Caitlin Dickerson.

Article: "Early Reports Warned Migrant Kids Suffered From Separations. Trump Ramped Up Practice Anyway" by Susan Ferriss.

Article: "Stephen Miller (political advisor)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Scott Lloyd (lawyer)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Did Kirstjen Nielsen Lie to Congress about Family Separation? New Evidence Emerges." by Jeremy Stahl.

Video: Nancy Pelosi calls coronavirus 'the Trump virus'.

Article: "Americans Still Want to Know Why Donald Trump Is Letting Us Die" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Why? America Deserves an Answer" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Coronavirus Live Updates: Deaths Top 150,000 in the United States" by NY Times.

Tweet: "I am happy to inform all of the people living their Suburban Lifestyle Dream that you will no longer be bothered or financially hurt by having low income housing built in your neighborhood..." by Donald J. Trump.

Tweet: "...Your housing prices will go up based on the market, and crime will go down. I have rescinded the Obama-Biden AFFH Rule. Enjoy!" by Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Trump's company applied to trademark 'telerally.' Then, President Trump held a telerally" by David A. Fahrenthold and Colby Itkowitz.

Article: "'Racist AF': Internet slams Trump's 'flaming racism' after dig at Cory Booker during Iowa 'telerally'" by David Badash.

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

Article: "Tenants say 'slumlord' Jared Kushner's Maryland properties are crawling with mice and maggots - even as father-in-law Trump tweets about 'rodent infested' Baltimore".

Article: "Oregon governor announces 'phased withdrawal' of federal officers from Portland" by Luke Barr and Alexander Mallin.

Article: "Trump administration has agreed to withdraw some federal officers from Portland" by Dylan Stableford and Christopher Wilson.

Article: "Portland issues 'maximum fine' on feds for unpermitted fence outside courthouse; bill is $192,000 'and counting'" by Andrew Theen.

Article: "Tucker Carlson: Banned Viral Video Of Doctors Enraged Left, Criticize Fauci And You Will Disappear From The Internet" by Ian Schwartz.

Article: "Thomas Robert Malthus" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Population Bomb by Paul R Ehrlich.

Book: Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt.

Article: "Kodak Shifts Into Drug Production With Help of $765 Million U.S. Loan" by Rachael Levy.

Article: "Rising costs of raw materials from China: NPPA to allow pharma cos to raise heparin price by 50%" (India) by Prabha Raghavan.

Article: "'There's more spirit now than ever!' Donald Trump claims bikers and boaters for Trump parades PROVE the polls are wrong - because his base is more enthused than Joe Biden's" by Nikki Schwab.

Hour Three: Climate change: Polar bears could be lost by 2100
- Dr. Steven Amstrup, Chief Scientist at Polar Bears International

Article: "It's Summer. Let's Talk About Hockey." by David Waldstein, Veronica Penney and Lisa Friedman.

Article: "Climate change: Polar bears could be lost by 2100" by Helen Briggs and Victoria Gill.

Article: "Fasting season length sets temporal limits for global polar bear persistence" by Péter K. Molnár, Cecilia M. Bitz, Marika M. Holland, Jennifer E. Kay, Stephanie R. Penk & Steven C. Amstrup.

Article: "Florida sets death toll record, while trailer truck outside funeral home raises COVID-19 fears" by Joe Murphy and Corky Siemaszko.

Article: "Even mild coronavirus cases can cause lasting cardiovascular damage, study shows" by Kathryn Krawczyk.

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

Article: "Portland briefly reaches 100 degrees Sunday afternoon, breaking 1998 record" by Ryan Nguyen.

Article: "Trump admits he did not bring up Russian bounty story in recent phone call with Putin" by Ronn Blitzer.

Article: "Great Depression (1929 - 1930s) by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "Trump returns to old ways, pushes unproven coronavirus treatment" by Jordyn Phelps and Ben Gittleson.

Article: "Clapped out of ICU, passed away days later: the secondary impact of Covid-19" by Aamna Mohdin.

Article: "Trump on Portland: 'We're Not Leaving Until They've Secured Their City'" by Melanie Arter.

Article: "Louie Gohmert, who refused to wear a mask, tests positive for coronavirus" by Jake Sherman.

Article: "Gomer Pyle" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Why the Capitol needs testing" by Jake Sherman, Anna Palmer, Garrett Ross, Eli Okun.

Article: "How Quack Doctors And Powerful GOP Operatives Spread Misinformation To Millions" by Nick Robins-Early, Hayley Miller, Jesselyn Cook.

Article: "Dr. Judy Mikovits Plandemic documentary removed from YouTube for violating "misinformation" rules" by Constitutional Nobody.

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

Article: "If You Can't Stop People From Voting, Just Help Them Die?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "'Containment Area' Is Ordered for New Rochelle Coronavirus Cluster" by Sarah Maslin Nir and Jesse McKinley.

Article: "New Rochelle, NY Coronavirus Updates & News For July 29" by Patch Media.

Article: "Oklahoma City bombing" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Timothy McVeigh" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Turner Diaries" by Wikipedia.

Article: "A harsh lesson in the reality of COVID-19" by Tony Green.

Article: "Reichstag fire", 27 February 1933 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Analysis: Coronavirus now third-leading cause of death in US" by Kaelan Deese.

Article: "Andrew Jackson" (Old Hickory).

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