Let us not forget on this day that we memorialize the people lost on 9/11, that, because Donald Trump lied to us about the severity of this virus, we are today losing two 9/11's worth of Americans every single week...

-Thom

"Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost."
- Thomas Jefferson in 1786, to his close friend Dr. James Currie

In 1983, 90% of the American media landscape (including magazines, books, music, news feeds, newspapers, movies, radio, and television) was dominated by 50 conglomerates.

Just 36 years later in 2019, a mere five conglomerates dominated 90% of the media that Americans consume (Time Warner, Disney, Murdoch's News Corporation, Bertelsmann of Germany, and Viacom). Looking at terrestrial radio in particular, the radio network that airs Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity - iHeartMedia - owns 850 radio stations in 150 markets across the country.

Read more here.

-Thom

Friday's Daily Stack

Article: "Oregon Fire Map, Update As Blazes Merge, Portland Placed 'On Alert'" by Sophia Waterfield.

Article: "'Blood, toil, tears and sweat' versus 'like a miracle - it will disappear'" by Mark Sumner.

Bill: "H.R.6800 - Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act or the HEROES Act" by Nita Lowey [D-NY-17].

Article: "Wildfires Live Updates: 500,000 Under Evacuation Orders in Oregon" by New York Times.

Article: "McConnell Says No COVID-19 Bill Without Liability Protections" by Solange Reyner.

Article: "OSHA fines South Dakota meat packing plant for 'failing to protect employees' from coronavirus" by Jacob Knutson.

Book: "Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler.

Article: "The Turner Diaries" by Wikipedia.

Video: Lincoln Project: LPTV: The Breakdown - September 10, 2020.

Article: "President Trump campaign goes dark on local TV, but for how long?" by Mark Phillips.

Article: "First-ever flight: Plane with US, Israeli officials lands in UAE".

Facebook & Voting Misinformation
- Judd Legum, Founder - Popular.info (former founding Editor-in-Chief, Think Progress.org)

Article: "Large network of Facebook pages circulates voting misinformation from obscure right-wing website" by Judd Legum and Tesnim Zekeria.

Article: "Mark Zuckerberg: Flagging misinformation about mail-in voting "will apply to the president"" by CBS News.

Book: "Cracking the Code: How to Win Hearts, Change Minds, and Restore America's Original Vision" by Thom Hartmann

Article: "A Comprehensive History of 'Loose Change' - and the Seeds It Planted in Our Politics" by John McDermott.

Article: "Dangerous air quality as smoke from fires in California and Oregon pours into Western Washington" by M.J. McDermott.

Video: The Lincoln Project: 9/11.

Article: "Barron Trump is a Dual Citizen of Both Slovenia and the US Which is Odd for the Son of the 'America First' President" by Jason Miciak.

Article: "Melania Trump's parents become citizens through 'chain migration'" by AP.

Article: "Portland Friday traffic: Interstate Bridge south reopens after fatal crash" by Rosemarie Stein.

Article: "Michael Cohen Says Trump Ran For President As A 'Marketing Opportunity.' If So, It Isn't Working" by Chase Peterson-Withorn.

Book: Disloyal: A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump by Michael Cohen.

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

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

Article: "Evacuations and warnings in Clackamas County; Portland under emergency order" by OPB.

Article: "Wisconsin Supreme Court temporarily blocks absentee ballots from being mailed a week before deadline" by Caroline Kenny.

Article: "25th Amendment Section 4" "Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President..."

Article: "Cohen Links Falwell's Trump Endorsement To Falwell's Risqué Pictures" by Kate Riga.

Article: "Photos appear to show mail sorting machines in parts in US postal facility" by Olivia Rubin.

Article: "Volusia elections chief complains about mail-in ballots".

Article: "Civilian Conservation Corps" (CCC) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Durbin Introduces Bill To Create Civilian Conservation Corps" by Dick Durbin.

Article: "Kaptur Introduces Legislation to Reestablish Civilian Conservation Corps" by Marcy Kaptur.

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

Article: "Trump Mocks Biden Mask-Wearing Just as New Research Shows Stricter Compliance Could Save 120,000 Lives in US Over Next 4 Months" by Kenny Stancil.

Article: "At least 3 teachers have died from COVID-19 complications in recent weeks" by CNN.

Article: "Top US military general Mark Milley apologizes for Trump church photo-op" by Joan E Greve and Julian Borger.

Article: "Trump announces more possible Supreme Court nominees" by Seung Min Kim and Ann E. Marimow.

Article: "Trump's 2020 budget proposal seriously cuts the nation's safety net" by Tara Golshan.

Article: "What Trump proposed in his 2021 budget" by Brittany Renee Mayes, Jennifer Liberto and Damian Paletta.

Article: "White House asked DOJ to intervene in Trump rape defamation suit by E. Jean Carroll, taxpayers will pay damages if agency loses, Barr says" by Dan Mangan.

Article: "Lumber prices, shortages doubling construction costs" by Joe Rehana.

Article: "'How do you sleep at night?' Trump pounded for withholding millions from 9/11 NYC firefighters' health care" by Brad Reed.

Article: "Republican Sen. Thom Tillis' office is forced to apologize after a staffer told a cancer survivor 'you don't get to have' healthcare if you can't afford it" by Eliza Relman.

Article: "Kim Jong Un showed off executed uncle's headless body: Trump" by AFP.

Article: "Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump Reportedly Says He Protected Saudi Crown Prince After Khashoggi Murder: 'I Saved His Ass'" by Jeremy Blum.

Article: "Jared Kushner's Real-estate Firm Sought Money Directly From Qatar Government Weeks Before Blockade" by Clayton Swisher, Ryan Grim.

Article: "Pompeo's Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia Were Legal - but Heightened Risks of Civilian Casualties in Yemen" by Robbie Gramer, Jack Detsch.

Article: "Saudi Arabia Owns the 45th Floor of Trump Tower, and It Shows" by William Rivers Pitt.

Site: Joe Biden Campaign Site.

Article: "Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee" (DCCC) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee" (DSCC) by Wikipedia.

Site: Amy McGrath for Senate.

Article: "Make America Rake Again: Finland baffled by Trump's forest fire raking claim" by Martin Belam.

Article: "Mueller Report (Redacted) Searchable Version (PDF)".

Article: "Trump Lawyer Rudy Giuliani Worked With an "Active Russian Agent" to Discredit Joe Biden" by Dan Friedman.

Article: "GOP senator implicated in Rudy Giuliani plot to smear Biden with help from Russian spy" by Travis Gettys.

Book: Proof of Conspiracy: How Trump's International Collusion is Threatening American Democracy by Seth Abramson.

Article: "A Senate Intelligence Committee Report Reveals Damning New Information About Trump's Russia Ties" by David Corn, Dan Friedman.

Article: "Make America Rake Again: Finland baffled by Trump's forest fire raking claim" by Martin Belam.

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010)

Article: "The Day the FAA Stopped the World" by Sally Donnelly.

Article: "On 9/11, a tiny Canadian town opened its runways and heart to 7,000 stranded travelers" by Petula Dvorak.

Video: Manafort Gave Russian Officer Data Useful For Targeting Voters: Strzok's Book | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC.

Book: Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump by Peter Strzok.

Article: "Deputy Chief Adrian Diaz named interim Seattle Police Chief" by Alyssa Therrien.

Article: "27 arrested in Seattle as police claim protesters threw rocks, Molotov cocktails" by Bill Hutchinson.

Article: "Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan asks Supreme Court to stop recall, says none of her decisions were unreasonable" by David Gutman.

Article: "Seattle mayor to veto City Council's cuts to police, budget" by Lisa Baumann.

Article: "Transcript: Bin Laden determined to strike in US, August 6, 2001.

Article: "Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Out-of-Towner: While Bush vacationed, 9/11 warnings went unheard" by Fred Kaplan.

Article: "Bush reads 'The Pet Goat' to schoolchildren, Sept. 11, 2001" by Andrew Glass.

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