The Republican coronavirus relief negotiating position, over the past six months, tells you everything you need to know about why the modern GOP is so corrupt it needs to be rebuilt from the ground up or die.

First, Democrats in the House of Representatives passed the HEROES Act, with $3 trillion for unemployed Americans, small businesses, and state and local governments. Republicans said that was too much money for average Americans, and refused to even hold a vote in the Senate.

Mitch McConnell refused to even hold a debate on the HEROES Act for months, so Democrats in the House of Representatives gave them a compromise $2 trillion bill with a lot less money for unemployed people, but Republicans again said it was too much money for average Americans.

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-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Article: "Winter solstice" by Wikipedia.

Article: "New coronavirus variant: What do we know?" by James Gallagher.

Article: "Herd immunity" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Guardian view on herd immunity: yes it was 'part of the plan'" (UK) by The Guardian.

Article: "Scientist admits Sweden could have battled virus better" by David Keyton.

Article: "Sweden's king says 'we have failed' over COVID-19, as deaths mount" by Reuters.

Article: "Covid-19: New coronavirus variant is identified in UK" by Jacqui Wise.

Article: "U.S. Hits 300,000 Covid Deaths, Nearly 1 In Every 1,000 Americans" by Jemima McEvoy.

Article: "Los Angeles Is Now Worst-Hit U.S. Metro Area for Covid-19 Cases" by Jonathan Levin and Christopher Palmeri.

Site: COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium.

Article: "Vatican permits use of COVID-19 vaccines made using aborted fetal tissue" by Philip Pullella.

Article: "What's in the House Democrats' $3 trillion coronavirus relief bill?" (Heroes act, passed House May 15, 2020) by Grace Segers.

Article: "House passes $2.2 trillion Democratic coronavirus stimulus bill" by Jacob Pramuk.

Article: "Mitch McConnell's Liability Shield Is Major Holdup For COVID-19 Deal" by Arthur Delaney, Igor Bobic.

Article: "Tyson Foods manager had betting pool for how many workers would get COVID-19: suit" by Ben Feuerherd.

Article: "Mitch McConnell slammed for pushing '3-martini lunch' deduction and zero relief for 26 million Americans" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Three-martini lunch" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Paul Ryan and the $350 Bottles of Wine" by Jim Newell.

Article: "Trump Tax Cuts Helped Billionaires Pay Less Taxes Than The Working Class In 2018" by Camilo Maldonado.

Article: "MAGA leaders call for the troops to keep Trump in office" by Tina Nguyen.

Article: "Trump's talk of martial law could be taken by far-right groups as a violent call to action, former DHS official says" by Tom Porter.

Article: "Sens. Bernie Sanders and Josh Hawley team up in push for second $1,200 stimulus checks" by Lorie Konish.

Article: "McConnell included $600 checks in COVID-19 stimulus plans after hearing that opposition could cost Republicans the Senate runoffs in Georgia, report says" by Mia Jankowicz.

Book: Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised (Robert's Rules of Order (Paperback)) 11th Edition by Henry M. Robert III, Daniel H. Honemann, Thomas J. Balch with Daniel E. Seabold, Shmuel Gerber.

Article: "Where Alabama stands with CARES Act spending as deadline nears" by Angel Coker.

Article: "Republicans, Not Biden, Are About to Raise Your Taxes" by Joseph E. Stiglitz.

Article: "The Powell Memo or Powell Manifesto".

Article: "Over 75,000 new voters register in Georgia ahead of runoffs" by Brendan Morrow.

Article: "Over 1.1 million ballots cast in early voting for Georgia U.S. Senate runoffs" by Jason Lange.

Article: "American Legislative Exchange Council" (ALEC) by SourceWatch.

Article: "Think you'll get a second stimulus check? Better know your rights" by Katie Conner.

Article: "McConnell: Pelosi, Schumer could have had COVID aid bill months ago, but wanted to damage Trump campaign" by David Rutz.

Hour Two: Big News Out of Georgia...!
- Greg Palast, The Guardian / Investigative Journalist/Author/Filmmaker, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy / His new book, How Trump Stole 2020: The Hunt For America's Vanished Voters

Article: "Georgia Lawsuit to Restore Voters to Rolls Ahead of Runoff" by Nicole Powers.

Article: "Federal judge hears case challenging Georgia voter purges" by Maya T. Prabhu.

Article: "Legendary Civil Rights Attorney Fred Gray Joins our Georgia Lawsuit" by Greg Palast.

Article: "Judge Urges Parties to Meet in Georgia Voter Purge Case" by Julia Wouk-Brown.

Article: "Palast, Black Voters Matter and Voting Rights Lawyers File New Lawsuit in Georgia" by Zach D. Roberts.

Tweet: "We now know for sure that Texas-based Republican organization True The Vote is behind 'local' voter challenges in Cobb & other Georgia counties. GA law allows any voter to challenge any other voter in same county. Cobb has denied 49,000+ challenges from 2 people..." by Brendan Keefe.

Article: "Brad Raffensperger" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Voting rights groups alarmed after Cobb County cuts half of its early-voting sites for Ga. Senate runoffs" by Vanessa Williams.

Article: "Georgia Senate Runoffs: More Voters Turn Out For First Day Of Early Voting Than For General Election" by Jemima McEvoy.

Article: "Operation Eagle Eye (United States)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "GOP Sen. Pat Toomey explains why he fought to end emergency Fed lending programs in Covid bill" by Kevin Stankiewicz.

Article: "Fed Balance Sheet Hits $7 Trillion: Increased Buying Of Corp Bond ETFs" by Derek Wolfe.

Article: "What Is 13-3? Why a Debate Over the Fed Is Holding Up Stimulus Talks" by Jeanna Smialek.

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

Article: "Conspiracy theorist attorney Sidney Powell meets Trump in White House for the SECOND time in 48 hours 'to pitch plan to use executive order to seize voting machines for inspection'" by Emily Goodin.

Article: "'There's now one pro-democracy political party': Steve Schmidt announces he's a Democrat" by MSNBC.

Article: "Bev Harris" by Wikipedia.

Site: Black Box Voting.org.

Article: "BUSTED? Why the numbers behind Mitch McConnell's re-election don't add up" by Alison Greene.

Article: "Was McConnell's re-election a fraud? (And Graham's and Collins's.)" by subtropolis.

Site: Don Siegelman.

Article: "Fired Trump lawyer Sidney Powell claims Iran and China used Venezuelan voting machine software to rig election in favor of Biden and says 96,000 absentee ballots in Georgia were NOT recorded - in typo-ridden lawsuits with flimsy 'expert' evidence" by Harriet Alexander, Daniel Bates.

Article: "Trump Campaign Owes El Paso $570,000, And The City's Lawyering Up To Collect" by Jemima McEvoy.

Article: "Trump campaign reaches $2 million in unpaid security bills just as Mike Pence rallies with cops" by Sarah K. Burris.

Article: "After shilling for Trump for 'free,' Giuliani apparently needs a preemptive pardon" by Kerry Eleveld.

Case: "District of Columbia v. Heller", 2008 (2nd Amendment).

Case: "Bush v. Gore", 2000. "The individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors for the President of the United States"

Article: "Election Systems & Software" by Wikipedia.

Hour Three: Is NASA Working on Space Based Nuclear Power?
- Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Specialist - Beyond Nuclear

Article: "White House Encourages NASA to Work on Space-Based Nuclear Power and Propulsion Systems" by Alan Boyle.

Article: "Vice President Mike Pence admits nuclear weapons could be deployed in space as Trump threatens to pull out of Cold War arms treaty with Russia" by Chris Dyer.

Article: "US Making Outer Space the Next Battle Zone - Karl Grossman" by Finian Cunningham.

Site: Karl Grossman

Site: Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space.

Article: "Cassini-Huygens" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The FORCE Behind Cassini" by Karl Grossman and Jonathan Mark.

Article: "The Crash Of Cassini And The Nuclearization Of Space" by Karl Grossman.

Article: "Nuclear fusion" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Nuclear fission" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Nuclear reactor" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Uranium-235" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Manhattan Project" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Nuclear history of the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Project Independence" (Nixon - 1,000 nuclear power plants by 2000) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Price Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act".

Article: "Three Mile Island accident" by Wikipedia.

Article: "China syndrome" by Wikipedia.

Book: The People of Three Mile Island by Robert Del Tredici.

Article: "Cracking the Media Silence on Three Mile Island" by Harvey Wasserman.

Article: "Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Japan 'to dump' Fukushima water in sea" by Reuters.

Article: "The Great Lakes and a High-Level Radioactive Nuke Waste Dump Don't Mix" by Kevin Kamps.

Article: "Tritium" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bioaccumulation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Nuclear power in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fukushima" by Arnie Gundersen.

Article: "Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Oct. 14, 2011: Markey: Davis Besse Nuclear Plant Crack Another Chink In Armor Of Nuclear Safety" by Ed Markey.

Article: "Pebble-bed reactor" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Thorium-based nuclear power" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Uranium mining and the Navajo people" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Centralized Storage" by Beyond Nuclear.

Article: "Indian Point Energy Center" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Spent fuel fire on U.S. soil could dwarf impact of Fukushima" by Richard Stone.

Article: "Fatal flaws in Holtec's plan" by John Buchser.

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