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Thom's blog
America's Chief Grifter Strikes Again
 Trump says he is going to boost unemployment payments by $400, stop evictions, cut payroll taxes, and extend student loan relief. In fact, these are all lies. As usual, it's a new con job, a grift from our grifter-in-chief. On the unemployment payments, he lacks the authority to appropriate money for people from the Treasury Department like Democrats did with the cares act, so he's taking $44 billion still left in the FEMA budget and saying that he will pass that money out to unemployed people - if states match $300 from FEMA with $100 from the state. If every state took him up on that, the FEMA budget would be exhausted in a few weeks, just as we are entering what may be the worst hurricane and wildfire season in decades. It's a scam. It also was not an executive order: it was merely a directive to the emergency agency. Read more here. -Thom |
Monday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: America's Chief Grifter Strikes Again...
Tweet: " I've set up a whistleblower email - reportmyschool@gmail.com - for #Georgia students, teachers & admins to share photos, videos & testimonials of unsafe conditions at school. I'll give you the anonymous cover you need if you've been threatened w/ "consequences." #gapol #paulding" by Beth Moore, GA House Rep HD-95. Tweet: " Worst testimony so far - from a verified teacher in a North #Georgia School District: "I am planning for 27 students in my tiny classroom. They are not making masks mandatory. My principal is joking to people that this is 'god's cleansing plan'." reportmyschool@gmail.com #gapol" by Beth Moore, GA House Rep HD-95. Quote: " You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time." - attributed to Abraham Lincoln.
Hour Two: How Trump Is Going to Drop the Biggest Ever Great Depression on Joe Biden & America...
Tweet: " In the last 12 months the Fed has injected the equivalent of nearly $10,000 per US citizen into financial markets. And Congress is squabbling about $600 in unemployment checks." by Sven Henrich.
Tweet: " Twenty-two percent – more than 1 in 5 ballots – never get counted. But just because I point out this inconvenient truth doesn't mean I'm against them." by Greg Palast.
Quote: " The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan.
Science revolution: Proof We Are Made Of Stars and We Depend On Them...
Article: " 20th Amendment " The terms of the President and the Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January..." |
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Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET
I'll be talking about Covid & Trump's complete denial of the public health crisis & the nation's lack of a competent response with Dr. Howard Koh, Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health / formerly, Assistant Secretary for Health w/HHS (nominated by President Barack Obama, confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2009) / Dr. Koh oversaw the HHS Office of Public Health & Science, the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service, and the Office of the Surgeon General.
Plus, Open Markets Releases Statement on TikTok - Barry Lynn, Director - Open Markets Institute (previously wrote about monopoly & corporate power at The New America Institute)
And, the best of the rest of the news along with your calls right here on...
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