Thom's blog
How Will Planet Earth Cope With Early Stage Lung Cancer?
Last night in Portland, as the winds kicked up to 50 miles an hour, our sky turned a dark golden brown and the air filled with smoke. California is getting all the national news coverage, but the reality is that wildfires have consumed virtually every western state this summer. This is what early-stage global warming looks like. Read more here. -Thom
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Thom's blog
Is a second American civil war really possible?
The cover story of the December 2019 edition of The Atlantic magazine, founded itself in the years just before the Civil War, was ominously titled, "How to Stop a Civil War." If we are, indeed, on the brink of a second Civil War, it's already being waged as a "cold war," with the occasional armed skirmish being provoked by the so-called Alt-Right movement, which, as of summer, 2020, had murdered thousands of Americans since Tim McVeigh kicked off the modern "boogaloo" white supremacy era. And, as in the past, this would be a war where the very, very rich - the oligarchs - pit Americans against each other, dividing us by class, region, race and religion simply to gain and hold more and more power and wealth. This is not the first time we've faced such a crisis as a nation. Read more here. -Thom
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Tuesday's Daily Stack
Hour One: Will Calling Trump a Fascist Help Or Hurt Biden?
Tweet: " My dad wasn't a sucker when he volunteered to fight fascists in 1944: [photo]" by Thom Hartmann.
Tweet: " (THREAD) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: In 2008, Trump believed himself to be cutting an eight-figure real estate deal with Vladimir Putin himself—a transaction that netted him tens of millions. This news appears to unlock the Trump-Russia collusion mystery. I hope you'll read on and RT." by Seth Abramson.
How Will Planet Earth Cope With Early Stage Lung Cancer?
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"
Hour Three: Could Trump Make Social Security Obsolete?- Nancy Altman, President - Social Security Works & Chair-Strengthen Social Security Coalition / Author of 3 books about the program
Quote: "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub" by Grover Norquist.
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Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET
Congressman Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District) will be calling in to talk about the issues of the day and take your calls.
Plus, I'll be talking with Dr. Mustafa Santiago Ali, Former EPA official who helped found the agency's environmental justice office (worked for the EPA for 24 years), about Trump's EPA Chief Andrew Wheeler's Vision for the Agency which Critics Warn Would Create 'Apocalyptic, Devastated Planet'
And, Michigan declares racism a public health crisis - Garlin Gilchrist II, Lt. Governor - Office of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
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...
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Watch & Listen to Thom
How Dangerous is Our Over-powerful President?
Trump's Republican Enemies Are No Friends To Democracy
200,000 People Can't Vote - Is That YOU? (w/ Greg Palast)
You Paid.. They profited... Big Pharma's Tax Funded Monopolies (w/ Alexander Zaitchik)
The Secret History Of American Labor (w/ Richard Wolff)
Trump Sets To Burn America Down To Win 2020
The COVID Cure, You'll Never Get... Thanks To Donald Trump
Trump Knew COVID Would Kill Americans...
How Are You Dealing With COVID-19?
How the GOP Stopped Your Stimulus Check (w/ Rep. Mark Pocan)
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