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If Republicans believe $600 makes people unwilling to go back to work - then - How low should the salaries go for billionaires so they go back to work?
If the Federalist Society is Calling for Trump's Impeachment...Then...Why Do the Trump Humpers Continue to Hump Trump?
Issues of the Day - Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA, 17th District)
Anything Goes Friday - What's On Your Mind? Thom Takes Your Calls...
Geeky Science...School Openings? Studies Now Show Young Kids Could Spread Covid-19 As Much As Older Children and Adults

Friday's Daily Stack

Hour One: If Republicans believe $600 makes people unwilling to go back to work - then - How low should the salaries go for billionaires so they go back to work?

Article: "Senate Republicans seek reduction of $600 unemployment benefits in stimulus package" by Francesca Chambers, David Lightman.

Article: "Additional Unemployment Benefits to Expire as Senate Leaves D.C. Without a Coronavirus Relief Deal" by Brittany Bernstein.

Article: "Treasury agrees to lend Postal Service $10 billion in trade for rivals' shipping contracts" by Jacob Bogage.

Article: "Coronavirus Infections Spiked In Wisconsin After In-Person Election, Study Says" by Nicholas Reimann.

Article: "Jim Jordan presses Fauci on protests, COVID-19" by Peter Sullivan.

Article: "Gun violence surges in major American cities in the midst of a pandemic and a policing crisis" by Ray Sanchez, Brynn Gingras and Laura Dolan.

Article: "Has child abuse surged under COVID-19? Despite alarming stories from ERs, there's no answer" by Julia Ingram.

Article: "Children May Carry Coronavirus at High Levels, Study Finds" by Apoorva Mandavilli.

Site: Paul Kinzelman for NM House District 8.

Article: "Video from 2004 Shows Trump Failing to Vote in Person, Threatening to Use Absentee Ballot" by Darragh Roche.

Article: "Trump 'repeatedly tears up official documents' that should be preserved, leaving staff to tape them back together" by Tom Barnes.

Article: "Dyslexia" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Donald Trump's Niece, Mary, Alleges He Got Joe Shapiro to Take the SAT for Him" by Mustafa Gatollari.

Article: "Postal Service reaches agreement for $10B loan from Treasury 'should the need arise'" by Justine Coleman.

Book: Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin.

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

Article: "12th Amendment"

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

Case: "Bush v. Gore", 2000 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: "DeVos's claim that children are 'stoppers' of covid-19" by Glenn Kessler.

Article: "Nine-year-old girl is the youngest to die from coronavirus in Florida, state health officials say" by Denise Royal and Rosa Flores.

Article: "Falklands War" by Wikipedia.

Article: "United States invasion of Grenada" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Gulf War" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Iraq War" by Wikipedia.

Article: "United States invasion of Afghanistan" by Wikipedia.

Tweet: "@BarackObama will attack Iran in the not too distant future because it will help him win the election. If the... (cont) http://deck.ly/~RSKCl" by Donald J. Trump, Nov 14, 2011.

Tweet: "@BarackObama will attack Iran in order to get re-elected." by Donald J. Trump, 17 Jan 2012.

Tweet: "Just as I predicted, @BarackObama is preparing a possible attack on Iran right before November." by Donald J. Trump, 3 Jul 2012.

Tweet: "I always said @BarackObama will attack Iran, in some form, prior to the election." by Donald J. Trump, 16 Aug 2012.

Tweet: "Now that Obama's poll numbers are in tailspin - watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran. He is desperate." by Donald J. Trump, 9 Oct 2012.

Article: "Transcripts of Michael Flynn's calls with Russian envoy confirm talk of sanctions" by AP.

Article: "America's unique gun violence problem, explained in 16 maps and charts" by German Lopez.

If the Federalist Society is Calling for Trump's Impeachment...Then...Why Do the Trump Humpers Continue to Hump Trump?

Article: "Cofounder Of Conservative Federalist Society Calls For President Trump To Be Impeached" by Matt Perez.

Hour Two: Issues of the Day
- Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA, 17th District)

Article: "DNC platform committee votes to reject Medicare for All despite overwhelming support from voters" by Igor Derysh.

Article: "'They Are Correct to Never Waver': Sanders Campaign Co-Chairs Applaud DNC Delegates for Continuing Medicare for All Fight" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Coronavirus threatened to make a mess of Kentucky's primary. It could be a model instead." by Zach Montellaro.

Article: "Sen. Sanders, Rep. Khanna Introduce Masks For All Act To Curb Deadly Coronavirus Surge" by Ro Khanna.

Site: Jessica Scarane for Congress.

Article: "United States Senate election in Delaware, 2020" by BallotPedia.

Article: "Santa Clara County Closes All Schools, Limits Gatherings Amid More Virus Cases" by NBC Bay Area.

Article: "Meet the doctor who ordered the Bay Area's coronavirus lockdown, the first in the U.S." by Julia Prodis Sulek.

Video: Drs. Fauci, Redfield & Others Testify on National Strategy to Combat COVID-19.

Article: "President Obama Eulogy for Rep. John Lewis - Complete Video - A Historic Speech".

Article: "Louie Gohmert Returns to His Capitol Hill Office to Tell Staff 'In Person' He Is Infected With Coronavirus" by David Badash.

Article: "Four tech titans go before Congress" by Brian Fung, Rishi Iyengar and Kaya Yurieff.

Law: "Telecommunications Act of 1996" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream by Thom Hartmann.

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

Article: "'Electronic Fence': Taiwan Uses Cell Phones to Track Quarantined Citizens" by John Hayward.

Article: "Taiwan Donates 2M More Masks to the U.S. for Coronavirus Battle" by Kristina Wong.

Article: "Masks Over Missiles: New Rules For Pentagon Funding Could Mean No New ICBMs" by Ro Khanna.

Article: "Next-gen ICBM program survives defunding attempt in House panel" by Joe Gould.

Article: "House Defeats Amendment To Cut Defense Spending Levels by 10%" by Eric Garris.

Hour Three: Anything Goes Friday - What's On Your Mind? Thom Takes Your Calls...

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

Article: "The Long History of Coercive Health Responses in American Law" by Adam Klein, Benjamin Wittes.

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

Article: "Did a Holocaust Museum Display a Poster Listing 'Early Warning Signs of Fascism'?" by Dan Evon.

Article: "Rick Scott 'oversaw the largest Medicare fraud' in U.S. history, Florida Democratic Party says" by Amy Sherman.

Article: "Tom Cotton" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Send In the Troops" by Tom Cotton.

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

Article: "National Guard officer says police suddenly moved on Lafayette Square protesters, used 'excessive force' before Trump visit" by Tom Jackman and Carol D. Leonnig.

Article: "Timeline: The clearing of Lafayette Square" by Philip Bump.

Article: "Tensions between Barr and House Judiciary Committee come to head in contentious hearing" by Melissa Quinn, Grace Segers.

Article: "10th Amendment" "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people"

Clip: "Paul Weyrich - "I don't want everybody to vote" (Goo Goo)".

Article: "COVID-19 Bankruptcies" by Bill Fay.

Article: "Coronavirus: Woman charged $35,000 by hospital for testing and treatment" by Louise Hall.

Article: "Portland, Oregon, Protests Relatively Calm After US Drawdown" by Gillian Flaccus and Andrew Selsky.

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

Article: "Boris Johnson tells Donald Trump he is 'on the road to recovery' from coronavirus" by Gordon Rayner.

Article: "In Race for a Coronavirus Vaccine, an Oxford Group Leaps Ahead" by David D. Kirkpatrick.

Article: "U.S. Gives $1.2 Billion To U.K. Attempt At Vaccine, 300 Million Doses Could Be Ready By October" by Hank Berrien.

Article: "Did The Oxford Covid Vaccine Work In Monkeys? Not Really" by William A. Haseltine.

Article: "Investigational ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine protects monkeys against COVID-19 pneumonia" by NIH.

Article: "Trump commutes sentence of Roger Stone, longtime friend and adviser" by Maanvi Singh.

Article: "Roger Stone" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Brooks Brothers riot" by Wikipedia.

Tweet: "Some of Louis DeJoy's changes which have crippled the US Postal Service:
- Shutting down mail-sorting machines so workers must do it by hand.
- Requiring letter carriers to LEAVE MAIL BEHIND to avoid extra trips.
- Prohibiting overtime pay.
This has created a massive backlog." by Mikel Jollett.

Article: "Seattle Mayor Durkan: We Are Seeing A "Dry Run" For Martial Law By Trump" by Ian Schwartz.

Article: "Biden Predicted Trump Might Try to Delay Election" by Theodore Bunker.

Tweet: "With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???" by Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Jefferson Smith (politician)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bus Project" by Wikipedia.

Site: XRAY-FM.

Site: 91.3 KBCS @ Bellevue College.

Article: "Homeless Americans Can Vote, But It Isn't Easy" by Dave Roos.

Article: "Trump WH Reportedly Ditched National Testing Plan in April Because Virus Was Only Hitting 'Blue States' Hard" by KJ Edelman.

Geeky Science...School Openings? Studies Now Show Young Kids Could Spread Covid-19 As Much As Older Children and Adults

Article: "Children Under 5 May Be Carrying Higher Levels of Coronavirus, New Study Suggests" by AFP.

Article: "Young kids could spread COVID-19 as much as older children and adults, study suggests" by Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago.

Article: "Age-Related Differences in Nasopharyngeal Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Levels in Patients With Mild to Moderate Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)" by Taylor Heald-Sargent, William J. Muller, Xiaotian Zheng et al.

Article: "Defense Production Act" by Wikipedia.

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