Tens of millions of Americans are going hungry right now. Today. But Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans don't give a damn, because they only exist to serve their billionaire donors.

Almost 20 million Americans will lose all their unemployment benefits the week after Christmas, but Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans don't give a damn, because they only exist to serve their billionaire donors.

Over 12 million Americans have Covid and millions of them will suffer long-term consequences like strokes, heart damage, dementia, and chronic fatigue, but Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans don't give a damn because they only exist to serve their billionaire donors.

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-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Article: "A Thanksgiving like no other: Thousands of desperate Texans wait in line at drive-thru food bank in hope of getting one of the 7,000 frozen turkeys ahead of the holiday" by Luke Kenton.

Article: "New York food bank hands out Thanksgiving turkeys to those in need in Harlem" by NBC News.

Article: "Food Insecurity In The U.S. By The Numbers" by Christianna Silva.

Article: "Puzzling, often debilitating after-effects plaguing COVID-19 "long-haulers"" by Anderson Cooper.

Site: Mount Sinai Center for Post-COVID Care.

Article: "If Congress doesn't act, 12 million Americans could lose unemployment aid after Christmas" by Eli Rosenberg.

Article: "U.S. hits 12 million COVID-19 cases as many Americans defy Thanksgiving travel guidance" by Gabriella Borter.

Article: "America's year of fire and tempests means climate crisis just got very real" by Oliver Milman.

Article: "How Outsourcing Jobs Affects the US Economy" by Kimberly Amadeo.

Article: "Medicare Advantage" (Medicare Part C) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Here's why many prescription drugs in the US cost so much-and it's not innovation or improvement" by Yoni Blumberg.

Article: "Revealed: Trump officials rush to mine desert haven native tribes consider holy" by Annette McGivney.

Article: "Trump administration calls for Arctic oil drilling bids by mid-December - in race to beat the clock before Biden takes office" by Louise Boyle.

Article: "US still hasn't reunited 666 children with parents after 'zero tolerance' at border" by Josh Marcus.

Article: "Expanding Medicaid in All States Would Save 14,000 Lives Per Year" by Rachel West.

Article: "7 places where high-speed rail is having an impact" by Andrea Carlos.

Article: "What the deadliest mass shootings have in common" by Chris Canipe, Lazaro Gamio.

Article: "The US supreme court has become a threat to democracy. Here's how we fix it" by Sabeel Rahman.

Article: "New Deal" by Wikipedia.

Speech: "Great Society" by Wikipedia.

Article: "US Pharma & Healthcare Marketers Up Their Digital Ad Spend" by Marketing Charts.

Article: "Pharmaceutical industry TV advertising spending in the United States from 2016 to 2019" by Statista.

Article: "Pharma and healthcare digital advertising jumps during pandemic: report" by Sharon Klahr Coey.

Article: "Cabinet of Joe Biden" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Overton window" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Amtrak" by Wikipedia.

Video: Trump bails on surveillance treaty used to monitor Russia, guts program of resources.

Article: "Trump quits treaty allowing US to fly reconnaissance missions over Russia - will destroy planes" by David Badash.

Article: "Andrzej Duda" (Poland) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Viktor Orbán" (Hungary) by Wikipedia.

Tweet: "Any suggestions for location of a Trump Presidential library?" by Michael Beschloss.

Article: "North American Free Trade Agreement" (NAFTA) by Wikipedia

Article: "General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade" (GATT) by Wikipedia

Site: World Trade Organization (WTO)

Article: "The Impact of the Filibuster on Federal Policymaking" by Alex Tausanovitch and Sam Berger.

Article: "'Grim Reaper' Mitch McConnell Admits There Are 395 House Bills Sitting in the Senate: 'We're Not Going to Pass Those'" by James Crowley.

Article: "Elon Musk overtakes Bill Gates to become world's second-richest person" by Rupert Neate and Julia Kollewe.

Article: "A Trump Appointee Is Trying to Force New Bank Investments in Fossil Fuel Extraction" by Christof Rindlisbacher.

Article: "Mitch McConnell, an Emperor Without Clothes?" by Nicolas Carteron.

Article: "Madison's notes on the Constitutional Convention of 1787: July 20, 1787" by James Madison.

Article: "Manual of Procedure" (Senate) by Thomas Jefferson.

Article: "Cheney Has Discretion Over Records, Judge Says" by Courthouse News.

Article: "Cheney Energy Task Force Documents Detail Iraqi Oil Industry" by AP.

Hour Two: "We Beat Trump, Now Let's Save Democracy!"
- Meagan Hatcher-Mays, Lawyer & Director of Democracy Policy - Indivisible

Article: "Fox News exit polls accidentally show Americans are liberal" by Claire Goforth.

Article: "Fight for $15 minimum wage boosted in Florida but Biden faces tough task" by Michael Sainato.

Article: "Joe Lieberman Kills Public Option in Exchange for $1,000,000 from Insurance Industry" by Jorge Rivas.

Article: "Tom Steyer - you want Trump out? Buy Clear Channel" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "James Murdoch's exit paves way for News Corp to move further right" by Edward Helmore.

Article: "Meet the contenders for Biden's Cabinet" by Politico.

Article: "Laurence Tribe" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Pompeo, Netanyahu and Saudi crown prince 'attend secret meeting'".

Article: "Trump sends B-52 nuke bombers to Middle East in warning to Iran after being 'talked out' of blitzing nuclear plant" by Henry Holloway.

Article: "Salting the earth" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Top Talk Audiences" by Talkers.

Article: "U.S. Radio Industry - Statistics & Facts" by Amy Watson.

Article: "President pro tempore of the United States Senate" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Leading cable news networks in the United States in June 2020, by number of primetime viewers" by Amy Watson.

Article: "Beijing-Controlled News Outlet Paid US Newspapers Millions To Publish Propaganda This Year" by Chuck Ross.

Article: "Thucydides Trap" by Graham Tillett Allison, Jr.

Book: The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization by Thomas L. Friedman.

Article: "The American Middle Class Is Losing Ground" by Pew Research.

Article: "Health care industry spends $30 billion a year on marketing" by Liz Szabo.

Article: "The Medicare Part D Coverage Gap ("Donut Hole") Made Simple" by eHealthInsurance Services.

Article: "Why Medicare Can't Get The Lowest Drug Prices" by John F. Wasik.

Article: "White Supremacy Is the Point" by Nicholas Carteron.

Article: "Nixon's Southern strategy" by James Boyd.

Article: "Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories" (birtherism) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump wall" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Biden makes history with pick of Janet Yellen for Treasury secretary as his Cabinet begins to take shape" by Bart Jansen, Deirdre Shesgreen and Paul Davidson.

Article: "Janet Yellen" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "Ralph Nader" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mike Papantonio" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream by Thom Hartmann.

Site: "Ralph Nader Radio Hour".

Article: "H. R. Haldeman" by Wikipedia.

Quote: Nixon "emphasized that you have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognized this while not appearing to" - H. R. Haldeman.

Article: "Lee Atwater" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Paul Weyrich" by Wikipedia.

Clip: "Paul Weyrich - "I don't want everybody to vote" (Goo Goo)".

Article: " Let's remember, he said animatedly, that the Religious Right did not come together in response to the Roe decision. No, Weyrich insisted, what got us going as a political movement was the attempt on the part of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to rescind the tax-exempt status of Bob Jones University because of its racially discriminatory policies.".

Article: "Bob Jones University" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Two reps were sworn in on the Quran. It's a symbolic moment for Muslim Americans." by Tania Karas.

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

Article: "Neoconservatism" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Neoliberalism" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Elliott Abrams" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Two Princes: Jared Kushner and Mohammed bin Salman" by Greg Olear.

Video: Gerrymandering Victory! (Katie Fahey) Ax the Max!.

Article: "Textualism" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Justice Gorsuch Reassures That "Textualism and Originalism" Aren't Going Anywhere" by Kimberly Ross.

Article: "The religious right see one of their own in Trump justice pick Amy Coney Barrett" by David Yaffe-Bellany and Lydia Wheeler.

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