Florida governor Ron DeSantis says that he won't put into place a mask mandate because people in blue states that have used mask mandates are still getting infected. His logic is extraordinary; let's extend it.

All across the northern American states today, people are wearing coats, gloves, scarves and hats as they go outdoors. Yet only around 1330 Americans die of hypothermia every year, and almost all of those people were wearing coats, gloves, scarves and/or hats!

And the majority of people who die of hypothermia we're not only wearing warm clothing, they also had pre-existing conditions! That must be the real cause that they died, right? Those 1300 death certificates must be wrong!

Read more here.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Rabbit rabbit rabbit" by Wikipedia.

Article: "United States presidential election - Election calendar" by Wikipedia.

Video: Leonard Cohen - Democracy.

Article: "DeSantis dismisses lockdowns, mask mandates as coronavirus cases spread" by Jane Musgrave.

Article: "Winter coats and hats are 4 SHEEP! LOL! Did the research, found out 1500/year die from hypothermia in US. That's 0.0005% of population. They live in fear of something 99.9995% of pop. won't die from. Gets better, hypothermia deaths they were wearing coats and hats, still died! Coats don't work!" by mykl66.

Article: "Hypothermia is a hoax. Coats don't work and restrict my freedom" by Funny.

Article: "South Dakota gripped by pandemic amid Kristi Noem's no-mask approach" by Talli Nauman.

Article: "COVID-19 pandemic death rates by country" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Lawmakers unveil bipartisan $900 billion coronavirus stimulus package as stalemate drags on" by Jacob Pramuk.

Video: "Reagan: Government is not the solution to our problem government IS the problem".

Article: "Interstate Extradition" by USLegal.

Article: "Trump is renovating Mar-a-Lago, ostensibly preparing for life post-presidency." by Maggie Haberman.

Article: "All the Ways NY Attorney General Letitia James Will Prosecute Trump Once He's Out of Office (Watch)" by EURPublisher01.

Article: "16 Trump officials committed at least 60 Hatch Act violations in October to benefit president's reelection: report" by Alex Henderson.

Article: "Hatch Act of 1939" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Edward Snowden" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump lashes out at Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey for 'rushing to put a Democrat in office' after he appeared to IGNORE a call from the White House during press conference certifying Biden's win" by Valerie Edwards, Geoff Earle.

Article: "'You have to LOVE these Trumpers': MAGA crowd don't want GA Sens. Perdue and Loeffler to succeed" by Dara Brewton.

Article: "Here are the GOP lawmakers who have called on Trump to acknowledge Biden's victory" by Matthew Brown, Savannah Behrmann.

Article: "The Electoral College Will Meet December 14, 2020. Here's what you should know now." by Angelina Clapp.

Article: "How Congress certifies who is president - regardless of potential legal challenges" by Chad Pergram.

Article: "Democrats challenge Ohio electoral votes" (2005) by CNN.

Article: "Boxer delays presidential vote count with protest / Senator, colleague object to Ohio tally -- Electoral College confirmation held up" by Edward Epstein.

Quote: "Those who sign this Treaty will sign the death sentence of many millions of German men, women and children" - John Maynard Keynes.

Article: "1918 Germany Has a Warning for America" by Jochen Bittner.

Book: "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany" by William L. Shirer.

Bioneers Conference...what it is, what you'll learn & why now
- Kenny Ausubel, Journalist/filmmaker/author of 4 books including his latest, Dreaming the Future: Reimagining Civilization in the Age of Nature / CEO & Founder - Bioneers

Event: December 5-6: "Bioneers 2020 online conference".

Event: December 12-13: "Bioneers 2020 online conference".

Event: December 6: 11:11 am: "Bioneers 2020 online conference: Thom Hartmann - All Life Is Organized Around Democracy".

Event: December 6: 12:30 pm: "Panel: Democracy v. Plutocracy" (Thom Hartmann, Kenny Ausubel, Maurice BP-Weeks, Stacy Mitchell.

Event: December 5: 10:49 am: "Paul Stamets - Psilocybin Mushroom Medicines: A Paradigm Shift in Global Consciousness".

Event: December 5: 11:12 am : "Chloe Maxmin - Building Progressive Power in Rural Red America".

Event: December 5: 11:28 am: "Bakari Kitwana - Racial Justice and Democracy".

Event: December 5: 12:30 pm: "Panel: Democracy for the First Time" (David Orr, Monika Bauerlein, Oren Lyons, Chloe Maxmin).

Book: Democracy Unchained by David Orr.

Event: December 13: 12:30 pm: "Panel: Fighting for the Rights of Nature" (Thomas Linzey, Mari Margil, Guy Reiter).

Event: December 12: 11:28 am: "john a. powell - Creating the Conditions for Belonging and Breathing in a Toxic Environment".

Event: December 13: 11:02 am: "Leah Penniman - Farming While Black: Uprooting Racism and Seeding Sovereignty".

Event: December 12: 12:30 pm: "Panel: The New Deals We Need Now: Green, Red and Blue" (Julian Brave, Vien Truong. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Sikowis (aka Christine Nobiss)).

Hour Two: Why Did France Think It Was a Good idea to Ban Videoing Police?
- Cole Stangler, Paris-based journalist covering labor & politics / Writer & producer at the international news network, France 24

Article: "French security bill proposes to outlaw dissemination of 'malicious' images of police" by France 24.

Article: "French protesters decry bill outlawing use of police images" by Thomas Adamson, Angela Charlton.

Article: "Four police officers indicted over Michel Zecler beating in Paris" by Euronews with AFP.

Article: "Emmanuel Macron Is Creating a Liberalism Without Civil Liberties" by Cole Stangler.

Article: "Macron's party backtracks on plan to curb filming of police officers" by Geert De Clercq.

Article: "Police violence in France: 'Structural' issues behind the brutality" by David Rich.

Article: "'Antifa buses!' Panicked armed men hit small-town streets across America to fend off imagined hordes" by David Neiwert.

Article: "Are you tempted to sign up for 'Trumpcare' during open enrollment? Be careful, experts warn" by Aimee Picchi.

Article: "Losing Could Expose Trump To Prosecution For Any Number Of Crimes" by Jon Schwarz.

Article: "Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Here's how Trump's losing golf courses could be linked to foreign money laundering" by Matthew Chapman.

Article: "President Trump sued for fraud by niece Mary" by BBC.

Article: "How Donald Trump and two siblings cut off medical care for their nephew's severely disabled son - dismissing it as 'expensive babysitting' - in move that lies behind family rift with niece planning tell-all book" by Daniel Bates.

Article: "Trump tax avoidance: President dodged hundreds of millions in inheritance taxes, documents purportedly reveal" by David Barstow.

Article: "Trump revealed intelligence secrets to Russians in Oval Office: officials" by Jeff Mason, Patricia Zengerle.

Article: "Did Trump Throw Kurds under the Bus for Turkey because of his Istanbul Revenue Stream?" by Juan Cole.

Article: "Rudy Giuliani discussed getting preemptive pardon from Trump before president leaves White House, report says" by Dan Mangan, Kevin Breuninger.

Article: "Trump campaign lawyer calls for fired DHS election security official to be 'shot'" (Joe diGenova, Chris Krebs) by Luke Barr.

Article: "Dennis Banks, American Indian Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 80" by Robert D. McFadden.

Site: Indivisible

Article: "Billionaires for Bush" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Covid-19: Lung damage 'identified' in study" by Pallab Ghosh.

Article: "Constitution of the United States", article 4 section 2. "... The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
A Person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall on Demand of the executive Authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the Crime.
No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due. [amended by amendment 13]..."

Article: "Countries Without Extradition 2020" by World Population Review.

Article: "Slovenia Extradition Treaty with the United States" by International Extradition Defense Lawyers.

Article: "Panama Papers" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Reports: Germany issues warrants for Panama Papers lawyers" by DW.

The Healing Forest Inferno: Conservation of the Amazon in the Face of Fires and Covid-19
- Dr. Mark Plotkin, Co-Founder & President - the Amazon Conservation Team / Author of several books including The Killers Within: The Deadly Rise of Drug-Resistant Bacteria, coauthored with Michael Shnayerson, and The Amazon: What Everyone Needs to Know

Article: "'It burns your chest': Oregon residents struggle to live with relentless smoke" by Samantha Schmidt.

Article: "Butterfly effect" by Wikipedia.

Facebook: "Amazon Conservation Team".

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

Book: "Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!" by Ralph Nader.

Event: December 13: 11:18 am: "Mark Plotkin - The Healing Forest Inferno: Conservation of the Amazon in the Face of Fires and Covid-19".

Video: Mark Plotkin - What the People of the Amazon Know That You Don't.

Hour Three: Bye, Bye Ajit Pai
- Evan Greer, Deputy Director - Fight for the Future

Article: "Goodbye, Ajit Pai. The Senate should reject Nathan Simington and let the FCC get back to work." by Fight for the Future.

Article: "FCC Chairman Ajit Pai will step down on Jan 20" by Lauren Feiner.

Article: "Net neutrality" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Goodbye, net neutrality-Ajit Pai's FCC votes to allow blocking and throttling" by Jon Brodkin.

Article: "Editorial: Google's Threat to Democracy Hits AlterNet Hard" by Don Hazen.

Site: OpenSecrets.org: Money in Politics -- See Who's Giving & Who's Getting

Law: "Communications Act of 1934", of which Title II regulates Common carriers.

Article: "Poll: 83 percent of voters support keeping FCC's net neutrality rules" by Harper Neidig.

Article: "Senate votes to save net neutrality - but House vote looms" by Alyssa Newcomb.

Article: "Here's the real reason Trump won't give up on his attempted coup - despite facing humiliation after humiliation" by Amanda Marcotte.

Article: "Ainsley Earhardt Blames Mail-In Ballots for Trump's Defeat: If Not Reformed 'A Republican President Will Probably Never Happen Again'" by Ken Meyer.

Article: "COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "It goes through air, Bob... But the air, you just breathe the air and that's how it's passed." - Donald J. Trump.

Article: "COVID-19 transmission messages should hinge on science" by Lisa Brosseau, ScD.

Article: "Small droplet aerosols in poorly ventilated spaces and SARS-CoV-2 transmission" by Aernout Somsen, Cees van Rijn, Stefan Kooij, Reinout A Bem, Daniel Bonn.

Article: "China has given almost a million people experimental Covid vaccine, says company" by Helen Davidson.

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

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

Article: "White House abandoned plan to send 650 million face masks across the U.S. in April, report says" by Hannah Miao.

Article: "Judge tosses COVID-19 coverage lawsuit against Fox News" by Joe Concha.

Article: "DOJ hasn't uncovered widespread fraud that would change election results: Barr" by Alexander Mallin.

Article: "Fugitive slave laws in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jim Crow laws" by Wikipedia.

Article: "US Supreme Court votes to block New York Governor Cuomo's capacity caps at Catholic churches and synagogues" by Reuters.

Article: "1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic" by Wikipedia.

Article: "America's Devastating First Plague and the Birth of Epidemiology" by Joshua Kendall.

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.

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