We're now learning that the Department of Homeland Security officials were given talking points to share with the media the defended Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old who traveled with his semiautomatic assault rifle from Illinois to Kenosha, Wisconsin to kill two people and blow the arm off a third.

Specifically, members of DHS were given written talking points that Rittenhouse "took his rifle to the scene of the rioting to help defend small business owners."

Other DHS talking points said that another right wing street-gang group had been "incorrectly" labeled as racist.

Our nation's top law-enforcement agency is now charged with providing a public defense, in the media, of a racist, fascist murderer and groups that consider him a hero.

Read more here.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Hour One: Science Revolution: Greenland Set To Lose More Ice Than the Past 12,000 Years
- Dr. Michael Mann, Professor of Meteorology & Director, Earth System Science Center-Penn State University / Member-National Academy of Sciences / author of several books including The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy / Recipient of the Tyler Prize

Article: "Greenland set to lose more ice than any time in the past 12,000 years" by Nature.

Article: "'Extreme' ice loss as Greenland smashes record" by Matt McGrath.

Article: "Melting Antarctic ice will raise sea level by 2.5 metres – even if Paris climate goals are met, study finds" by Fiona Harvey.

Article: "The worst is yet to come for the Greenland ice sheet" by Andy Aschwanden.

Tweet: ""The worst is yet to come for the Greenland ice sheet" via @Nature : https://nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02700-y
Oh, I flipped their graph (of Greenland ice melt) so it's a bit more recognizable: ..." by Michael E. Mann.

Article: "In just 10 minutes, Tuesday's presidential debate made climate history" by Denise Chow.

Article: "What Is the Sun's Role in Climate Change?" by NASA.

Article: "The Arctic is burning in a whole new way" by Shelly Sommer.

Tweet: "From the @AP investigation of People of Praise, the group that demands subjugation to men: "When she told her husband she wanted to wait to have more children...he accompanied her to gynecological appointments to ensure she couldn't get birth control."" by David Beard.

Article: "Barrett tied to faith group ex-members say subjugates women" by Michael Biesecker, Michelle R. Smith.

Article: "Revealed: Amy Coney Barrett supported group that said life begins at fertilization" by Stephanie Kirchgaessner.

Article: "Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett tied to People of Praise, a religious group with a Portland presence" by AP.

Article: "People of Praise, a faith group, deletes mentions and photos of Barrett from its website" by AP.

Article: "Kenosha Shooting: Video Shows Suspected Gunman Kyle Rittenhouse Being Allowed To Leave Scene" by Chris Tye.

Article: "DHS Talking Points Reportedly Emphasized Kenosha Shooter's Side of the Story" by Elliot Hannon.

Article: "Timothy McVeigh" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Oklahoma City bombing" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "Trump tells white audience in Minnesota they have 'good genes'" by Christopher Wilson.

Article: "2019 El Paso shooting" by Wikipedia.

Article: "2017 Las Vegas shooting" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump requires food aid boxes to come with a letter from him" by Helena Bottemiller Evich.

Article: "White Supremacist Infiltration of US Police Forces: Fact-Checking National Security Advisor O'Brien" by Danielle Schulkin.

Article: "Ilhan Omar" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Judge rules Chad Wolf likely unlawfully serving as Homeland Security secretary and temporarily blocks some asylum restrictions" by Laura Ly and Paul LeBlanc.

Article: "More than 4,000 New York children have lost a parent to coronavirus - and up to 25% of them may wind up in foster care, report finds" by Mary Kekatos.

Article: "Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act" by Wikipedia.

Article: "HHS wanted A-list celebrities for an ad campaign to 'inspire hope' amid the pandemic. It got Dennis Quaid." by Kathryn Krawczyk.

Article: "Kyle Rittenhouse: What we know about teenager who 'killed two' at Jacob Blake protests" by Matt Mathers.

Article: "World population" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Paris Agreement (Climate Change).

Article: "China Just Promised To Go Carbon Neutral By 2060. How Important Is That?" by David Vetter.

Article: "California to phase out sales of new gas-powered cars by 2035" by Dino Grandoni, Faiz Siddiqui and Brady Dennis.

Article: "Norway preps project Longship for second attempt at carbon 'moon landing'" by Nora Buli, Nerijus Adomaitis.

Article: "World energy consumption" by Wikipedia.

Article: "What Is Antifa, the Movement Trump Wants to Declare a Terror Group?" by Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Sandra E. Garcia.

Article: "Biden: Antifa Is An Idea, Not An Organization" by Ian Schwartz.

Movie: "The Missouri Breaks".

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.

Article: "DOJ: Trump's Early Businesses Blocked Blacks" by Gideon Resnick.

Article: "'Totally accurate': Trump defends calling Mexican immigrants 'rapists'" by Benjamin Landy.

Quote: "The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest." - Thomas Jefferson.

Bible: "Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." - John 8:32.

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976

Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978

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

Case: "Dred Scott v. Sandford", 1857

Hour Two: With 30 million on unemployment and half of all American facing utility shut offs and a looming eviction crisis - how long will it take America to recover from the damage trump has done?
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System

Article: "More than half of Americans at risk of shutoffs as economic crisis causes utility bills to pile up" by Matthew Chapman.

Article: "Nearly 30 Million Still Jobless Nationwide; $300 Federal Payments Run Out For Florida's Unemployed" by Laura Cassels.

Article: "Millions of Americans risk losing power and water as massive, unpaid utility bills pile up" by Tony Romm.

Article: "The eviction crisis has begun. It will get so much worse." by Alieza Durana and Anne Kat Alexander.

Article: "Great Depression (1929 - 1930s) by Wikipedia.

Law: "Taft-Hartley Labor Act", 1947.

Article: "Dot-com bubble" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "2020 stock market crash" by Wikipedia.

Book: "The Fourth Turning" by William Strauss, Neil Howe.

Quote: "When the last man who remembers the horrors of the last great war dies, the next great war becomes inevitable." - attributed to Arnold Toynbee.

Article: "List of recessions in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "American Revolutionary War" (1775-1783) by Wikipedia.

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

Book: Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty.

Article: "Black Death" (Bubonic plague, 1347-1351) by Wikipedia.

Article: "History of smallpox" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Antonine Plague" (165 to 180 AD, Roman Empire) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Here are 8 reasons COVID is so much worse than the skeptics think" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "How Democrats Could Try To Delay And Derail Trump's New Supreme Court Pick" by By Paul Blumenthal.

Article: "Schumer invokes "two-hour rule" to block Senate committee hearings" by Grace Segers, Alan He.

Article: "Christine Blasey Ford" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Examining Tara Reade's Sexual Assault Allegation Against Joe Biden" by Lisa Lerer and Sydney Ember.

Article: "Landmark Study: A Much Bigger Income Shift To Top 1% Than Anyone Thought" by Susie Madrak.

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.

Science revolution: The Widespread Failure to Track and Report Data on Covid 19 Deaths, Testing and Infections
- Jean Ross, Acute Care Nurse & a Co-President - National Nurses United

Article: "New Report Reveals Widespread Government Failure to Track and Report Data on Covid-19 Deaths, Testing, and Infections" by National Nurses United.

Article: "Sins of Omission: How Government Failures to Track Covid-19 Data Have Led to More Than 1,700 Health Care Worker Deaths and Jeopardize Public Health" by National Nurses United.

Article: "NNU Statement on Transparency, Accuracy, and Timeliness of Publicly Reported Covid-19 Data" by National Nurses United.

Article: "COVID-19 Has Killed More Than 1700 Healthcare Workers: Report" by Marcia Frellick.

Article: "Trump Administration Strips C.D.C. of Control of Coronavirus Data" by Sheryl Gay Stolberg.

Article: "Defense Production Act" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Top 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90%—And That's Made the U.S. Less Secure" by Nick Hanauer, David M. Rolf.

Article: "Fox News layoffs at their 'Brain Room' described as 'virtual frontal lobotomy': report" by Bob Brigham.

Article: "Antifa (United States)" by Wikipedia.

Site: Rick Steves' Classroom Europe.

Article: "Golden Rule" by Wikipedia.

Article: "13th Amendment", December 6, 1865. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

Article: "14th Amendment, July 9, 1868 (citizenship, representatives, public debt, Equal Protection Clause)

Article: "15th Amendment", February 3, 1870 "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude"

Case: "Brown v. Board Of Education", 1954 (Segregation in public schools) (overturned Plessy v. Ferguson).

Article: "Affirmative action" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Civil Rights Act of 1957".

Law: "Civil Rights Act of 1960".

Law: "Civil Rights Act of 1964".

Article: "Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965" by Wikipedia.

Article: "As Kim wooed Trump with 'love letters,' he kept building his nuclear capability, intelligence shows" by Joby Warrick and Simon Denyer.

Article: "Cuban missile crisis" (1962) by Wikipedia.

Hour Three: Conversations with Great Minds: Nordic Secrets for Happiness...
- Harald Eia, Sociologist & TV host / his Ted Talk: "Where In the World Is It Easiest To Get Rich" has been seen over 1.9 million times

Article: "The World's 10 Most Free Countries" by .

Article: "Norway Is Happiest Country in the World. What's the Secret?" by Zamira Rahim.

Article: "Nordic model" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Education in Norway" by David Nikel.

Article: "A record 64 million Americans live in multigenerational households" by D'Vera Cohn And Jeffrey S. Passel.

Article: "52% of young adults in the US are living with their parents. That's the highest share since the Great Depression" by Catherine E. Shoichet.

Article: "America's Most Wanted" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Norway-USA in contrast: Wages and taxes" by M. Michael Brady.

Article: "Gender Equality: How Norway Measures Up" by Mathew Paul Gundersen.

Article: "Gender inequality in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "List of Countries By Literacy Rate" by James Burton.

Article: "What is written on Thomas Jefferson's gravestone?" by PeriodicPresidents.

Article: "Genes shown to influence how well children do throughout their time at school" by Kaili Rimfeld, Margherita Malanchini.

Article: "Public Trust in Government: 1958-2019" by Pew Research Center.

Article: "Anders Behring Breivik" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trade union" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Healthcare in Norway" by Wikipedia.

Article: "List of countries by life expectancy" by Wikipedia.

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