So, our president committed a felony yesterday, right out in the open, encouraging Republican voters in North Carolina to vote twice. That's a felony, and encouraging people to commit a felony is a felony.

Typically he commits his crimes in somewhat less visible fashion, but this is a man clearly comfortable with committing crimes.

Trump has spent much of his life committing crimes.

Read more here.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: "Uproar After Trump Suggests Voting Twice in North Carolina, an Illegal Act" by James Oliphant.

Article: "Texas woman sentenced to eight years for illegal voting paroled, faces deportation" by Gus Garcia-Roberts.

Article: "Barr Repeatedly Claims He Doesn't Know Whether It's Illegal to Vote Twice Following Trump Comments" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Donald Trump's 13 Biggest Business Failures" by Tessa Stuart.

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: "How Brian Kemp STOLE The Georgia Election" by Greg Palast.

Article: "Stacey Abrams" by Wikipedia.

Site: Fair Fight.

Article: "ACLU Releases Palast Fund 'Georgia Voter Purge Errors' Report" by Nicole Powers.

Article: "CDC tells states: Be ready to distribute vaccines on Nov. 1" by Michelle R. Smith.

Article: "Moderna and Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine candidates require ultra-low temperatures, raising questions about storage, distribution" by Jaimy Lee.

Article: "1976 swine flu outbreak" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Guillain-Barré syndrome" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump threatens funding to Democratic-led cities over unrest" by Paul LeBlanc.

Article: "Federal Agents in Unmarked Trucks in Kenosha, Wisconsin [Photos & Videos]" by Jessica McBride.

President Trump has made more than 20,000 false or misleading claims (July 13, 2020)

Article: "Was the 2004 Election Stolen?" by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Site: Black Box Voting.org.

Case: "Bush v. Gore", 2000. "The individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors for the President of the United States"

Article: "Moscow Mitch and his $200 Million Russian sugar daddy, Oleg Deripaska" by Frank Vyan Walton.

Virtual Event: Fri, Sep 4, 6pm PT: "Town Hall Seattle".

Article: "QAnon" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Pete McCloskey" by Wikipedia.

Site: "Elections" by Washington.

Tweet: "It never ends! Now they are trying to say that your favorite President, me, went to Walter Reed Medical Center, having suffered a series of mini-strokes. Never happened to THIS candidate - FAKE NEWS. Perhaps they are referring to another candidate from another Party!" by Donald J. Trump.

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..."

Law: "Patriot Act", 2001.

Article: "Presidential Emergency Action Documents" (PEADs) by Brennan Center.

Tweet: "Powers Trump has you never knew about:
Watch Sunday Morning: Limits of power?
https://www.cbs.com/shows/cbs-sunday-morning/video/c2GTT9IUfgKZj_7k4XvnuMpj193vK1Y_/limits-of-power-/" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Habeas corpus" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump Has Emergency Powers We Aren't Allowed to Know About" by Elizabeth Goitein and Andrew Boyle.

Article: "John Yoo" by Wikipedia.

Article: "White House seeks advice of John Yoo, known for writing 'torture memos' used to justify actions after Sept. 11 terror attacks" by Jill Colvin and Mark Sherman.

Article: "Jay Bybee" by Wikipedia.

Article: "International Court of Justice" (World Court, the Hague) by Wikipedia.

Article: "United States and the International Criminal Court" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump punishes International Criminal Court for investigating potential US war crimes in Afghanistan" by Susan M. Akram.

Book: The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class by Thom Hartmann.

Hour Two: Summary/History of the Relationship of Labor and Capital From the Founding of the Republic To Today
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work / Understanding Marxism / Understanding Socialism

Article: "Redlining" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trickle-down economics" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "The Productivity-Pay Gap" by EPI.

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

Article: "Moderators named for 2020 presidential and vice presidential debates" by Grace Segers.

Site: League of Women Voters.

Quote: "The League of Women Voters is withdrawing its sponsorship of the presidential debate scheduled for mid-October because the demands of the two campaign organizations would perpetrate a fraud on the American voter" - League of Women Voters.

Video: TNC:172 Kennedy-Nixon First Presidential Debate, 1960.

Speech: "First Inaugural Address", Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 4 March 1933. "Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself-nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."

Article: "4 US troops injured after collision with Russian vehicle in Syria" by Luis Martinez.

Article: "Trump payroll plan would deplete Social Security by 2023: Administrator" (and disability mid 2021) by Niv Elis.

Article: "Social Security could come to a screeching halt" by Nancy Altman.

Video: Trump: I'll Cut Social Security to Pay for the Tax Cuts.

Article: "Donald Trump says Joe Biden is on 'some kind of enhancement' as he calls for both to take drug test before debates" by Jon Lockett.

Article: "Is Joe Biden Jacked Up On Amphetamines? Pharmaceutical Professional Weighs In" by Joe Hoft.

Article: "Is Donald Trump on drugs? The Adderall rumors are back" by Andrew O'Hehir.

Article: "Joe Biden Goes on the Attack in Local Florida Interview: Trump Will 'Wipe Out Social Security' By 2023" by Tommy Christopher.

Article: "To Bridge the Digital Divide, Some Cities Have Taken the Matter Into Their Own Hands" (e.g. Chattanooga) by Jason Ruiz.

Article: "The Lincoln Project" by Wikipedia.

Video: #RichMitch.

Fact-checking Trump on crime in Democratic-run cities by Christopher Giles

Are US cities seeing a surge in violent crime as Trump claims? by Jake Horton

Article: "What Is Known of Michael Reinoehl, Person of Interest in Portland Killing" by Jim Carlton, Joe Barrett and Rachael Levy.

Video: Trump Camp Politicizing COVID-19 Has Deadly Consequences For Followers, U.S. | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC.

Article: "'I want the people of God to enjoy liberty': Pastor at Maine super-spreader wedding gives defiant indoor sermon" by Zoe Greenberg.

Site: Tracking COVID-19 - Johns Hopkins University.

Article: "'The 180,000 COVID-19 deaths are real': Dr Fauci says US coronavirus fatalities are NOT exaggerated after CDC data suggested only 9,000 people have died of the virus alone - and insists he and Trump are 'on the same team'" by Mary Kekatos.

Article: "Scott Atlas" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump Pandemic Advisor Scott Atlas Denies Suggesting Herd Immunity Strategy To Control Coronavirus" by Dawn Geske.

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: "Herd immunity" by Wikipedia.

Hour Three: 200,000 Screwed Out of Vote in Swing State Georgia
- Greg Palast, The Guardian / Investigative Journalist/Author/Filmmaker, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy / His new book, How Trump Stole 2020.

Article: "ACLU Releases Palast Fund 'Georgia Voter Purge Errors' Report" by Nicole Powers.

Article: "New Swing State Georgia Could Decide Control of the Senate" by Brett Pulley and Margaret Newkirk.

Article: "Donald Trump and the Central Park Five: the racially charged rise of a demagogue" by Oliver Laughland.

Article: "Central Park jogger case" (Central Park Five) by Wikipedia.

Site: Save My Vote 2020.

Article: "Martin Luther King's Cousin Blocked by Kemp from Casting a Ballot Despite Voting in every Election for 50 Years" by Greg Palast.

Article: "Here's how Brian Kemp is Stealing the Georgia Election" by Greg Palast.

Article: "Democrats Need to Step Up Their Efforts to Beat Voter Suppression" by Neil Baron.

Site: Oregon Voting & Elections.

Site: Supplemental Security Income.

Article: "How Ed Markey won, defeating Joe Kennedy in Massachusetts Senate race" by Benjamin Kail.

Article: "Trump admits "you'd never have a Republican elected in this country again" if voting access expanded" by Jon Queally.

Article: "Medicaid Block Grants Threaten The Health Of Our Fellow Americans" by Sanjeev K. Sriram.

Big Pharma Covid-19 Vaccine Price Gouging
- Alexander Zaitchik, Freelance Journalist & contributor - The New Republic, Rolling Stone & more / Author - The Gilded Rage: A Wild Ride Through Donald Trump's America

Article: "How to Break a Big Pharma Monopoly on a Covid-19 Vaccine" by Alexander Zaitchik.

Article: "Remdesivir" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fireside Chat. May 26, 1940" by Franklin D. Roosevelt. "Our present emergency and a common sense of decency make it imperative that no new group of war millionaires shall come into being in this nation as a result of the struggles abroad."

Article: "HHS Secretary Alex Azar Once Doubled The Price of Insulin" by Alexandra Hutzler.

Article: "Trump Jr and Ivanka Trump 'knew they were lying' over ploy to sell condos, book claims" by David Smith.

Article: "The Fall of the Roman Republic" by Mary Beard.

Article: "Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Coronavirus FAQs: What Veterans need to know" by VA.

Article: "High number of absentee voters may have fueled thousands of spoiled Genesee County ballots" by Ron Fonger.

Article: "Republicans recruit 50,000 volunteers to police "voter fraud" in November" by Igor Derysh.

Article: "These Presidents Won the Electoral College - But Not the Popular Vote" by Tara Law.

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