Last month Donald Trump brought a Fox News radiologist into the White House to advise him on the coronavirus.

Dr. Scott Atlas has no meaningful experience or training in public health or infectious diseases, but he offers his opinions in a way on Fox News that impressed Donald Trump.

His principal opinion is the idea of "herd immunity" (although he is reluctant to use the phrase) , which, if pursued in America, would mean several million deaths and tens of millions of people permanently disabled with heart damage, strokes, dementia, chronic fatigue and other long-term health conditions that result from even mild cases of this infection.

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-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Hour One: Mid-day with Mark
- Congressman Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District)

Article: "House Majority Leader Hoyer says will put 'continuing resolution' legislation floor next week" by Reuters.

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

Article: "Trump attacks Biden on coronavirus mask mandates. But Biden doesn't hold public office" by William Cummings.

Article: "Hillary Clinton won Latino vote but fell below 2012 support for Obama" by Jens Manuel Krogstad, Mark Hugo Lopez.

Article: "AOC's DNC speech was 60 seconds. What she said - and couldn't say - spoke volumes." by Jill Filipovic.

Article: "The party of inclusion's convention excluded Julián Castro" by Suzanne Gamboa and Janell Ross.

Article: "Trump told Bob Woodward he knew in February that COVID-19 was 'deadly stuff' but wanted to 'play it down'" by Dareh Gregorian.

Article: "Basic income" by Wikipedia.

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

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

Bill: "H.R.5 - Equality Act" by Rep. Cicilline, David N. [D-RI-1].

Article: "House passes wide-ranging Democratic police reform bill " by Grace Segers.

Article: "In Oregon, you can vote a ballot for your home address, even if your home burned and you're staying elsewhere" by Betsy Hammond.

Article: "'Everyone in America Should Be Outraged': McConnell Quietly Rams Through More Lifetime Trump Judges While Blocking Covid Relief" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Office of Inspector General (United States)" by Wikipedia.

Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2019" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].

Article: "Bank of North Dakota" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 2 section 1. "The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them." (domestic emoluments clause).

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 9. "No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state." (foreign emoluments clause).

Article: "Hatch Act of 1939" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'We'll put them down very quickly': Trump threatens to quash election night riots" by Quint Forgey.

Article: "Eyewitness testimony: Death of Portland protester Michael Reinoehl was targeted assassination" by Patrick Martin.

Tweet: "Trump on a purported antifa sympathizer who allegedly killed someone in Portland being killed by federal forces: "This guy was a violent criminal, and the US Marshals killed him. And I'll tell you something -- that's the way it has to be. There has to be retribution."" by Aaron Rupar.

Article: "Trump Camp Refuses To Condemn Rittenhouse: 'People Have To Defend Themselves Some Way'" by Cristina Cabrera.

Hour Two: Why Are We Allowing landlords to Get Bailouts & Evict Tenants?
- Judd Legum, Founder - Popular.info (former founding Editor-in-Chief, Think Progress.org)

Article: "These 62 landlords received at least $60 million in taxpayer bailouts. Now they are evicting tenants." by Judd Legum and Tesnim Zekeria.

Article: "Federal Register Notice: Temporary Halt in Residential Evictions to Prevent the Further Spread of COVID-19" by CDC.

Article: "Financial crisis of 2007-08" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Steven Mnuchin, Foreclosure King Of America" by Nomi Prins.

Article: "Investors Are Buying More of the U.S. Housing Market Than Ever Before" by Laura Kusisto.

Article: "Democratic Leadership Council" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Did Lieberman Just Kill the Public Option?" by Timothy Noah.

Article: "In Coronavirus Vaccine Race, China Inoculates Thousands Before Trials Are Completed" by Reuters.

Article: "Lawyers allege abuse of migrant women by gynecologist for Georgia ICE detention center" by Jacob Soboroff, Julia Ainsley and Daniella Silva.

Tweet: "It's astounding that after a massive family separation operation, mass sexual assault of detainees, trapping immigrants in COVID-infected detention centers, and now reports of mass hysterectomies (which the US has done before), abolishing ICE is controversial.
Where's the line?" by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Video: Nurse alleges abuse of female ICE prisoners by gynecologist.

Video: Soboroff: Latest ICE scandal shows systematic lack of oversight.

Video: Lawyers for several women back ICE whistleblower claim.

Voting, USPS & Wildfires
- Tom Perez, DNC Chairman/former U.S. Secretary of Labor

Site: I Will Vote.

Article: "Voting Season Begins: North Carolina Mails Out First Ballots" by Pam Fessler.

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

Article: "Trump's most stunning whopper: 'I already have a plan' protecting preexisting conditions" by Joan McCarter.

Article: "Donald Verrilli Once Again Will Defend Obamacare at the US Supreme Court " by Marcia Coyle.

Article: "Wisconsin Supreme Court rules Green Party presidential ticket is ineligible for state ballot" by Amy Gardner.

Article: "Democratic National Committee Puts Support Behind Wisconsin Voting Lawsuit On Absentee Ballots" by Wisconsin Public Radio.

Article: "Two key 2020 states could ramp up vetting absentee ballots" by Steven Rosenfeld.

Article: "QAnon" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "QAnon is a Nazi Cult, Rebranded" by Gregory Stanton.

Article: "QAnon backer Marjorie Taylor Greene wins congressional primary in Georgia" by Caroline Linton.

Book: "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late" by Thom Hartmann

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

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

Article: "Michael Ratner" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Hamdi v. Rumsfeld" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Hamdan v. Rumsfeld" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Nuremberg trials" by Wikipedia.

Article: "How to Read Obama's Pandemic Playbook PDF" by Stephanie Dube Dwilson.

Article: "Taiwan's COVID-19 Success Story Continues as Neighbors Fend Off New Outbreaks" by Nick Aspinwall.

Article: "COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump Replaced White House Pandemic-Response Team With Jared Kushner" by Jonathan Chait.

Book: The Hysterectomy Hoax: The Truth About Why Many Hysterectomies Are Unnecessary and How to Avoid Them by Stanley West MD with Paula Dranov.

Hour Three: Science Revolution: "Apocalyptic" Wildfires and Climate Warming
- Dr. Gary Yohe, Senior Member - United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) / Huffington Foundation Professor of Economics & Environmental Studies-Wesleyan University / And, 2007 Nobel Peace Prize recipient

Article: "At least 33 dead as wildfires scorch millions of acres across Western U.S. - 'It is apocalyptic'" by Emma Newburger.

Article: "September 2020 Western United States wildfires" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Western wildfires: An 'unprecedented,' climate change-fueled event, experts say" by Diana Leonard and Andrew Freedman.

Article: "Giant Sequoias Falling Victim To Climate Change, Study Says" by Jan Wesner Childs.

Article: "Record-smashing year for Calif. fires: 5 of 20 largest ever are burning now" by Kellie Hwang.

Article: "Oregon Evacuation Map, Update as Half a Million Forced to Flee, 'Militia Checkpoints' Patrol Roads" by Sophia Waterfield.

Article: "Washington County wine grower on climate change and wildfire: The grapes don't lie" by Jeff Manning.

Article: "Wildfires, record warmth and rapidly melting ice: Arctic climate goes further off the rails this summer" by Andrew Freedman.

Article: "Why Hurricane Sally's slow movement makes it more dangerous over Gulf Coast" by Emma Newburger.

Article: "The Law of Regression to the Tail: How to Mitigate Covid-19, Climate Change, and Other Catastrophic Risks" by Bent Flyvbjerg.

Article: "Trump's Bonkers Coronavirus 'Herd Mentality' Claim Lights Up Twitter" by Ed Mazza.

Article: "Dr. Scott Atlas: Trump's New Coronavirus Adviser Backs Him on Schools & Sports" by Erik Hawkins.

Article: "Trump Adviser Scott Atlas Pushing For 'Herd Immunity' Strategy For COVID-19".

Article: "Herd immunity" by Wikipedia.

Article: "A vaccine, or a spike in deaths: How America can build herd immunity to the coronavirus" by Harry Stevens.

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

Article: "Taiwan's COVID-19 Success Story Continues as Neighbors Fend Off New Outbreaks" by Nick Aspinwall.

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

Article: "Asked about Sweden, Trump undercuts the idea of quickly reopening the United States" by Philip Bump.

Article: "Even Trump's CDC Director Thinks Masks Might Be More Effective Than POTUS-Rushed Vaccine" by Summer Concepcion.

Article: "With "Midnight" Executive Order, Meatpacking Slaughterhouses Become Trump's Forced-Labor Camps of Human Sacrifice" by Mark Karlin.

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

Video: Slap-on-the-wrist fine for multi-billion dollar meat corporations over worker Covid deaths.

Article: "USDA and Meatpacking Industry Collaborated to Undermine Covid-19 Response, Documents Show" by Brett Wilkins.

Article: "Trump's Top Health Spokesman Michael Caputo Goes On Social Media Rant" by Bruce Y. Lee.

Article: "Pizzagate conspiracy theory" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Kristallnacht" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "As Trump Again Rejects Science, Biden Calls Him a 'Climate Arsonist'" by Peter Baker, Lisa Friedman and Thomas Kaplan.

Article: "American Civil War" (1861 - 1865) by Wikipedia.

Article: "World War I" (1914 - 1918) by Wikipedia.

Article: "World War II" (1939 - 1945) by Wikipedia.

Article: "German American Bund" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "Ku Klux Klan" (KKK) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ted Patrick" by Wikipedia.

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

I'll be talking with Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Co-founder, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books including Understanding Marxism and his latest, Understanding Socialism.

Plus, I'll be talking with Sarah Kendzior Writer and scholar. Co-host of @gaslitnation / Author of 2 books...her first, The View From Flyover Country (2018) and her latest, Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump & the Erosion of America (2020)

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