Donald Trump just guaranteed more Americans will die.

Trump has been saying for some time that he wishes there was less testing for coronavirus in America, because that would reduce the number of cases that we find, which would improve, in his mind, his numbers compared to other countries.

So yesterday the Centers for Disease Control, under pressure from the White House, revised their guidelines to say that you should only be tested if you were physically sick. They made the decision while Anthony Fauci was unconscious under general anesthesia having minor surgery on his throat.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Hour One: The RNC Convention, Pandemic Testing, USPS & Vote By Mail
- Tom Perez, DNC Chairman/former U.S. Secretary of Labor

Article: "Fact-checking the third night of the 2020 Republican National Convention" by Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly.

Article: "GOP Tunes Out Hurricane, Cop Violence, and 180,000 Dead Americans" by Hunter Woodall, Asawin Suebsaeng, Sam Stein.

Article: "Trump adviser Larry Kudlow is referring to the still raging coronavirus pandemic in the past tense" by The Week.

Article: "More than 1 million Americans file for unemployment, again" by Paul Wiseman.

Article: "Shooting of Jacob Blake" by Wikipedia.

Article: "California wildfires have charred 1.2 million acres, with more than 100,000 evacuees" by Scott Wilson.

Article: "Hurricane Laura strikes Louisiana as Category 4 storm, battering Lake Charles area and bringing flood threat" by Nick Miroff.

Article: "The G.O.P.'s official stance in 2020 is that it is for whatever Trump says." by Reid J. Epstein.

Article: "Mail-In Vote Suppression Underway in Virginia" by FDRDemocrat.

Article: "What We All Had to Lose" by Jamil Smith.

Site: I Will Vote.

Quote: "I say from time to time that the vote is precious. It's almost sacred. It is the most powerful nonviolent tool or instrument that we have in a democratic society. And we must use it." - John Lewis.

Article: "What to Know About Friday's Commitment March in DC" by NBC Washington Staff, Associated Press and Cory Smith.

Article: "Where We Stand" by DNC.

Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".

Article: "Shelby County v. Holder" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The GOP's Stealth War Against Voters" (Interstate Crosscheck) by Greg Palast, August 24, 2016.

Article: "Pence Warns Of An Unsafe America Under Biden: Takeaways From Day 3 Of The RNC" by Deirdre Walsh.

Article: "Did Kyle Rittenhouse Attend a Trump Rally?" by Dan Evon.

Article: "Lebron James Is A Bigot" by Jason Whitlock.

Article: "The NBA playoff 'boycotts' are an empty gesture, but at least it makes the players feel good" by Zachary Faria.

Article: "Good Riddance: NBA May Cancel Remainder of Season to Protest Jacob Blake Shooting" by Stephen Kruiser.

Article: "In Kenosha, The Seeds of Civil War" by Scott McKay.

Article: "Craven Democrats invite violence" by Miranda Devine.

Article: "Gofundme Nukes Kyle Rittenhouse Fundraiser, Allows Blm Rioters To Receive Over $1.3m In Bail Donations" by Infowars.

Law: "Logan Act", 1799 - forbids unauthorized citizens from negotiating with foreign governments having a dispute with the U.S.

Article: "Trump: 'With smaller testing we would show fewer cases'" by Morgan Chalfant.

Article: "In stunning reversal, CDC abruptly changes position on when to get tested" by Anne Flaherty, Sophie Tatum.

Article: "Defense Production Act" by Wikipedia.

Article: "CDC's abrupt change to COVID-19 testing guidelines was evidently forced through while Dr. Fauci was unconscious in surgery" by Jeva Lange.

Article: "Black Diabetics Lose Limbs at Triple the Rate of Others. Here's How Health Care Leaders Are Starting to Act." by Lizzie Presser.

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

Article: "Medicare (United States)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Black patients half as likely to receive pain medication as white patients, study finds" by Amanda Holpuch.

Article: "Lebanon" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "Corporate America gives out a record $1 trillion in stock buybacks" by Matt Egan.

Article: "Trump had public meltdown over missed phone call from Putin, former No 10 aide says" by Adam Forrest.

Article: "What we know about accused Kenosha gunman Kyle Rittenhouse" by Lee Brown.

Hour Two: What is the Fed Up To Now & Has the Pandemic Exposed Reaganism For What It Is?
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work / Understanding Marxism / Understanding Socialism

Article: "The Fed is expected to use a new pandemic-era tool to fight a long-running battle against low inflation" by Patti Domm.

Article: "Fed chief Jerome Powell revises inflation strategy to keep rates low" by UPI.

Article: "Basic income" by Wikipedia.

Video: Will You Vote for Universal Basic Income in 2020 Election? (w/Andrew Yang).

Article: "Assam govt to transfer Rs 1,000 per month to each family" by ANI.

Article: "A night of protest: Where NBA, WNBA, MLS, and MLB stand after players boycott games" by Nate Scott.

Movie: "The Birth of a Nation (1915)".

Article: "Nikki Haley says America's not racist. She's either disgracefully ignorant or blatantly lying" by Dahleen Glanton.

Article: "Plessy v. Ferguson", 1896 (separate but equal).

Case: "Dred Scott v. Sandford", 1857

Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".

Article: "Shelby County v. Holder" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Civil Rights Act of 1964" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump-loving dirty tricksters named in robocall that's spreading lies about mail-in voting in Michigan" by Brad Reed.

Article: "Shooting of Breonna Taylor" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Kenosha shooting victims identified, remembered as 'sweet,' 'loving' guys" by Daily News.

Article: "Trump Looted $44 Billion From FEMA's Disaster Relief Fund in the Middle of a Record-Setting Hurricane Season" by Tessa Stuart.

Article: "A Former Administration Official Says Trump Told FEMA to Withhold California Fire Relief Out of Spite" by Gwynedd Stuart.

Article: "1 big thing: Justice" by Dion Rabouin.

Article: "Death of Eric Garner" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Death of Sandra Bland", 2015 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fact check: Blackburn's claim that Democrats encourage looting is misleading" by CNN's Daniel Dale and Holmes Lybrand.

Quote: "President Trump will stand up against Biden-Harris, who are the most anti-life presidential ticket ever, even supporting the horrors of late-term abortion and infanticide." - Sister Deirdre "Dede” Byrne.

Article: "Fact-checking the third night of the 2020 Republican National Convention" by Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly.

Article: "The Federalist Papers : No. 68: The Mode of Electing the President" by Alexander Hamilton.

Site: National Popular Vote.

Article: "Mark McCloskey & Patricia McCloskey: St. Louis Couple Pull Guns on Protesters" by Emily Bicks.

Article: "The 'Father of Modern Gynecology' Performed Shocking Experiments on Slaves" by Brynn Holland.

Article: "Serena Williams on Motherhood, Marriage, and Making Her Comeback" by Rob Haskell.

Hour Three: The Greenland Ice Sheet is Losing 1 Million Tons Per Minute...What Does That Mean?
- Dr. Michael Mann, Professor of Meteorology & Director, Earth System Science Center-Penn State University AND recipient of this year's 'Nobel Prize for the Environment', the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement / Member-National Academy of Sciences / author of several books including The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy

Article: "Greenland ice sheet lost a record 1m tonnes of ice per minute in 2019" by Damian Carrington.

Article: "Derecho" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Deadly derecho leaves path of destruction across Midwest, 800,000 without power" by Doyle Rice.

Article: "June 2012 North American derecho" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tucker Carlson suggests teen charged in Kenosha protester killings had to 'maintain order when no one else would'" by Tim Elfrink.

Article: "Three victims of Kenosha riot shootings identified, including volunteer medic" by Lee Brown.

Tweet: "Found it" by Khanman (video of armed white guys who apparently told by police that the police would herd the protesters to them).

Tweet: "An innocent black guy is killed by police and Tucker Carlson calls him a thug.
A guilty white guy murders two people and Tucker Carlson calls him a patriot." by Keith Boykin.

Article: "Donald Trump's Sons in Game-Hunting Photos?" by Kim Lacapria.

Article: "Donald Trump Jr. got approval to hunt an endangered sheep days after he killed it" by Marisa Iati.

Article: "Guccifer 2.0" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Cambridge Analytica" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (G6PDD)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Armed locals keep shooting at Black activists marching from Milwaukee to DC" by Travis Gettys.

Article: "Here's why the Postal Service wanted to remove hundreds of mail-sorting machines" by Jacob Bogage and Christopher Ingraham.

Article: "Starve the beast" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Antifa (United States)" by Wikipedia.

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

57th Anniversary of the March on Washington & MLK's I Have a Dream Speech

I'll be talking with Benjamin "Ben" Jealous, President - People For the American Way (PFAW) & PFAW Foundation / Visiting Scholar-Annenberg School @Penn / Former President-NAACP

Plus, Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA, 17th District) will be here to talk issues of the day and take your calls.

And, the best of the rest of the news along with your calls right here on...

The Thom Hartmann Program, Occupying The Media 3 hours a day 5 days a week for "we the people"

And don't forget...Democracy is NOT a spectator sport...it begins with you...

Will CDC COVID Guidelines Decide 2020 Election?

The Slave Patrol Returns In Kenosha Wisconsin....

Voting Trump Out May Be The Best Way To Stop Police Violence (w/ Mark Pocan)

Fri, Sep 4, 6pm PT: Town Hall Seattle virtual event.

Get Tickets here for the Livestream event