Donald Trump said in a rally last night that the coronavirus, "Affects virtually nobody."

Apparently "virtually nobody" means 200,000 dead Americans, ranging in age from the elderly to infants.

Apparently he hasn't noticed the damage his lack of coronavirus response policy has done to our economy, and that tens of millions of people have lost their jobs and health insurance, and are on the verge of eviction, homelessness, and disaster.

Read more here.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Hello fall! Equinox kicks off autumn on Sept. 22" by Laura Geggel.

Article: "Fauci warns of fall coronavirus dangers: 'We are entering into a risk period'" by Zack Budryk.

Article: "CDC stumbles again, mistakenly posting 'draft' guidance on airborne Covid spread" by Erika Edwards.

Article: "New CDC study highlights threat of coronavirus spread on lengthy flights".

Article: "Herd immunity" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Adults with Covid-19 about 'twice as likely' to say they have dined at a restaurant, CDC study suggests" by Jacqueline Howard.

Article: "CDC Says New COVID-19 Guidelines That Said Virus Can Travel More Than 6 Feet In Air Were Accidentally Updated" by Brianna Lyman.

Article: "How Coronavirus Infected Some, but Not All, in a Restaurant" by Kenneth Chang.

Article: "As death toll climbs, Trump says coronavirus 'affects virtually nobody'" by Steve Benen.

Article: "World's most stable currency shields Taiwan's vital exports" by Chris Horton.

Article: "Trump Administration Shut Down U.S. Postal Service Plan to Mail Masks to Every American: Reports" by Julie Mazziotta.

Article: "Donald Trump Invokes the Defense Production Act Against 3M for Medical Masks" by Charlie Spiering.

Article: "The N95 shortage America can't seem to fix" by Jessica Contrera.

Article: "Trump says he'll make Supreme Court pick on Saturday" by Morgan Chalfant.

Article: "The sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh, explained" by Li Zhou.

Article: "Trump says he'd prefer Senate vote on Supreme Court nominee before election" by Kathryn Watson.

Article: "12th Amendment"

Article: "We need to plan now in case Trump loses in November - but refuses to leave the White House" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Study of Disputed Florida Ballots Finds Justices Did Not Cast the Deciding Vote" by Ford Fessenden and John M. Broder, November 12, 2001.

Video: Will Trump's Supreme Court End Your Marriage & Take Your Healthcare? (w/ Alphonso David).

Article: "Religions" by Pew Research.

Article: "Front Runner For Trump's Supreme Court Pick Is A Catholic Who Opposes Abortion" by Michael Tarm and Michael Biesecker.

Article: "Australia's Victoria state reports slight rise in new COVID-19 cases" by Reuters.

Article: "Australia: New Coronavirus Lockdown Melbourne Amid Sex, Lies, Quarantine Hotel Scandal" by Tamara Thiessen.

Article: "Latest COVID-19 news and updates" by New South Wales.

Article: "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood.

Article: "How Charismatic Catholic Groups Like Amy Coney Barrett's People of Praise Inspired 'The Handmaid's Tale'" by Khaleda Rahman.

Article: "Joe Biden was denied communion at Catholic church in South Carolina" by Eric Bradner.

Article: "Pope Francis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "DOJ names New York City, Portland, Seattle 'anarchist jurisdictions' that could lose federal funding" by Kristine Phillips, Ryan W. Miller.

Article: "Manhattan DA says news reports indicate Trump could face tax fraud charges" by Daniel Uria.

Article: "Roe v. Wade" by History Channel.

Case: "Planned Parenthood v. Casey", 1992.

Site: I Will Vote.

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

Book: "Leviathan" by Thomas Hobbes, 1651. "And the life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short."

Hour Two: Trump courts cult
- Judd Legum, Founder - Popular.info (former founding Editor-in-Chief, Think Progress.org)

Article: "Trump courts cult" by Judd Legum.

Article: "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Pizzagate conspiracy theory" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Kristallnacht" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ivanka Trump and AG Barr Highlight Progress on Combatting Human Trafficking" by Reagan McCarthy.

Article: "Trump embraces support from QAnon: They "like me very much" and "love America"" by Roger Sollenberger.

Article: "FBI memo warns QAnon poses potential terror threat: report" by Zack Budryk.

Article: "What really happened to the 1,500 immigrant children the Trump administration 'lost'?" by Emily Shugerman.

Book: Thomas Paine Complete Works - World's Best Ultimate Collection - All Works: Common Sense, Age Of Reason, Crisis, Rights Of Man, Agrarian Justice, Short Writings Plus Biography & Bonuses [Annotated] by Thomas Paine.

Article: "Thomas Paine" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Not a single data point suggests the SCOTUS battle helps Republicans more than Democrats in November" by Kerry Eleveld.

Video: Democrats raise over $160 million since Justice Ginsburg's death.

Article: "Poll: Half of voters think the winner of the 2020 election should pick Ruth Bader Ginsburg's replacement" by Jeanine Santucci.

Article: "The Supreme Court's Obamacare case was high stakes before Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death. Here's why it's even more important now" by Andrew Keshner.

Article: "Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fort Belknap Indian Reservation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Navajo Nation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Montana's Tribal Nations Preserve COVID Restrictions To Preserve Their Cultures" by Kathleen McLaughlin.

Article: "List of Indian massacres" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "How Jared Kushner's Secret Testing Plan "Went Poof Into Thin Air"" by Katherine Eban.

Article: "Emergency coronavirus funds for American Indian health stalled" by Adam Cancryn.

Article: "Unpacking Donald Trump's Ties to Jeffrey Epstein, as Shown in Netflix's Filthy Rich" by Gabrielle Bruney.

Article: "Opus Dei" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jerry Falwell Sr." by Wikipedia.

Article: "Franklin Graham" by Wikipedia.

Book: We the People: A Call to Take Back America by Thom Hartmann, illustrated by Neil Cohn

Article: "Guantanamo Bay detention camp" by Wikipedia.

Article: "5th Amendment" (double jeopardy, witness against self, due process, taking clause, due compensation)

Article: "6th Amendment" (speedy trial, witnesses, defense)

Article: "7th Amendment" "In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved..."

Article: "8th Amendment" "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."

Article: "Trump administration migrant detentions" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Hospital Payments and the COVID-19 Death Count" by Angelo Fichera.

Article: "'Like an Experimental Concentration Camp': Whistleblower Complaint Alleges Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Detention Center" by Jerry Lambe.

Quote: "The white race is the cancer of human history" - Susan Sontag.

Article: "The Doctrine of Discovery, 1493" by Pope Alexander VI.

Hour Three: Will New Mexico Be Getting a Radioactive Waste Dump?
- Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Specialist - Beyond Nuclear

Article: "With the NRC Comment Window Closing Tomorrow, Thousands Weigh in To Oppose Holtec's Proposed Massive New Radioactive Waste Dump in New Mexico: NRC Public Comment Period Rammed through amidst Deadly Pandemic Despite Widespread Protest" by Kevin Kamps, Diane D'Arrigo, Stephen Kent.

Article: "Chernobyl disaster", 26 April 1986 by Wikipedia.

Book: MIDNIGHT IN CHERNOBYL: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham.

Video: When Will the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Happen Again?.

Video: Chernobyl 33 Years Later: Have we Learned from Worlds Greatest Nuclear Disaster? (w/ Adam Higginbotham).

Article: "Los Alamos National Laboratory" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trinity (nuclear test)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'Serious Near Miss' Accident at San Onofre Sparks NRC Investigation" by JW August.

Site: Alliance for Environmental Strategies.

Article: "NRC Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Denies Evidentiary Hearing on Holtec International's Proposed Spent Fuel Storage Facility in New Mexico" by David McIntyre.

Article: "UUSA" by Urenco.

Article: "Waste Control Specialists" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Department of Energy: Waste Isolation Pilot Plant to receive down blended weapons-grade plutonium" by Adrian Hedden.

Article: "Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ogallala Aquifer" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Laguna Gatuna" by Mapcarta.

Article: "Laguna Plata" by AnyplaceAmerica.

Article: "Groundwater in New Mexico".

Article: "How the Supreme Court could now limit abortion rights" by Alice Miranda Ollstein.

Law: "Sherman Antitrust Act", 1890.

Article: "New U.S. COVID-19 cases rise 17% in past week, deaths up 5%" by Reuters.

Article: "Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are 'Losers' and 'Suckers'" by Jeffrey Goldberg.

Article: "CU Boulder's football director ticketed for health violation after more than 100 players hike Mount Sanitas" by Mitchell Byars.

Quote: "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." - William Shakespeare.

Book: "Man's Rise to Civilization: The Cultural Ascent of the Indians of North America" by Peter Farb.

Book: "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn.

Book: The Story of B by Daniel Quinn.

Book: "My Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn.

Article: "counting coup" by Wikipedia.

Book: Humankind by Peter Farb.

Article: "Provisional Death Counts for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)" by CDC.

Article: "Trump Says He Is 'Counting on the Federal Court System' to Declare Winner on Election Night-Before Many Ballots Are Tallied" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 1. "... The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour..."

Article: "White House Withholds 100,000 Pages of Judge Brett Kavanaugh's Records" by Sheryl Gay Stolberg.

Article: "Massachusetts health care reform" (Romneycare) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mitt Romney backing of Supreme Court vote paves way for election-year confirmation" by Clare Foran and Manu Raju.

Movie: "BlacKkKlansman".

Article: "Dirty bomb" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Depleted uranium" by Wikipedia.

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.

And, I'll be talking with Commissioner Nikki Fried (D-FL) Florida Commissioner of Agriculture & Consumer Services / Attorney & Activist (highest ranking Democrat in Florida & was a keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention.)

Plus, 200,000 Covid victims - not just numbers - Kristin Urquiza, MPA Co-Founder & Chief Activist - Marked By Covid / she is the daughter of Mark Anthony Urquiza who died from Covid-19 in June ("...his only underlying condition was believing Donald Trump.") (Kristin also spoke at the Convention)

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

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