Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans are proposing to let employers injure or even kill their workers and bring back the three-martini lunch...in exchange for one measly month of extended unemployment benefits.

Senate Republicans are trying to sabotage both the incoming Biden administration and screw working people by refusing to extend expanded unemployment benefits in Mitch McConnell's new "stimulus"; it does, however, make it illegal for workers to sue their employers.

Read more here.

-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

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

Article: "Trump Signs Continuing Resolution To Fund The Government Through Dec. 11" by Andrew Taylor.

Video: No Car = No Vote in Georgia Senate Run-off 2021 (w/ Greg Palast) (measure was not adopted).

Article: "Georgia Election Board Extends Emergency Rules For Absentee Voting" by Stephen Fowler.

Quote: "Personnel Is Policy" - Elizabeth Warren.

Article: "Trump pardons: US justice department unveils bribery inquiry" by BBC.

Article: "Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders to be frozen out of Biden cabinet, report says" by Matt Mathers.

Article: "Mitch McConnell rejects bipartisan proposal by Senate moderates for $900 billion COVID relief package - day after accusing Nancy Pelosi of obstructing deal making" by AP.

Article: "McConnell offering new coronavirus relief bill after talks with Mnuchin, Meadows" by Jordain Carney.

Article: "Problem Solvers Caucus" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Biden backs up Tanden as Republicans attack her tweets" by Quint Forgey.

Article: "Barr names Russia prosecutor Durham as special counsel, ensures probe continues under Biden" by Kevin Johnson and Kristine Phillips.

Article: "Darrell Issa to return to Congress after victory in California's 50th Congressional District" by Kerry Picket.

Article: "Postal Enemy #1: Darrell Issa and His Quest to Privatize the USPS...with Help from Congressional Colleagues" by Elaine Magliaro.

Article: "Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer leaves, global health security team disbanded, leaving "no single official at the highest levels of the administration who focuses only on global health security" by Lena H. Sun.

Article: "Ch.5: Medicare" by Thom Hartmann.

Book: "Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country" by Thom Hartmann (read online)

Book: "Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country" by Thom Hartmann

Article: "Expanded unemployment benefits could bump people from welfare, other assistance" by Greg Iacurci.

Article: "List of people granted executive clemency by Donald Trump" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump committed to carrying out federal executions before leaving office" by Stephanie Guerilus.

Article: "FBI investigating whether Russian money went to NRA to help Trump" by Peter Stone, Greg Gordon.

Article: "Maria Butina" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Alert: Democrat Mark Pocan wins reelection to U.S. House in Wisconsin's 2nd Congressional District" by AP.

Article: "Iowa Democrat to challenge 6-vote loss in appeal in US House" by Ryan J. Foley.

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

Article: "William Proxmire" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Golden Fleece Award" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Kelly Loeffler Buys Private Jet With Taxpayer Money" by Ed Scarce.

Article: "The Richest Politician On Capitol Hill Is Likely Georgia's Recently Appointed, Controversial Sen. Kelly Loeffler" by Michela Tindera.

Article: "'Flat-Out Sabotage' Already Underway as Mnuchin Tries to Put $455 Billion in Covid Funds Out of Biden Team's Reach" by Jake Johnson.

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

Article: "When Will the Eviction Moratorium End?" by Aly Yale.

Article: "Three-martini lunch" by Wikipedia.

Article: "GOP includes the 'three-martini-lunch' deduction in aid package" by Steve Benen.

Article: "GOP shifting on unemployment benefits as jobless numbers swell" by Alexander Bolton.

Book: Trump on the Couch by Justin Frank.

Article: "Mitch McConnell, an Emperor Without Clothes?" (role of vice president in Senate) by Nicolas Carteron.

Tweet: "Freedom never kneels except for God [WTPC Calls for President to Invoke Limited Martial Law to Hold New Election and Protect our Vote, in Full Page Washington Times Ad, if Legislators, Courts and Congress Do Not Follow the Constitution]" by .

Article: "Trump pardons: US justice department unveils bribery inquiry" by BBC.

Article: "Trump, Kushner and White House hit with lawsuit to prevent them from destroying records" by Meaghan Ellis.

Law: "Alien and Sedition Acts", 1798.

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

Article: "U.S. Senate: Rules & Procedure".

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: "Georgians have until December 7 to register to vote in Senate runoff and other key dates" by Caroline Kelly.

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

Article: "ACLU, GA Releases Palast Fund 'Georgia Voter Purge Errors' Report" by ACLU of Georgia.

Article: "The GOP's Stealth War Against Voters" (Interstate Crosscheck) by Greg Palast, August 24, 2016.

Article: "Georgia secretary of state says Trump threw him under bus despite his support" by CNN.

Article: "Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger: Trump Supporters Are Being Mislead With 'Fantastic Claims, Half-Truths'" by Zachary Petrizzo.

Article: "Georgia Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger and Wife Are Getting Death Threats - And His Republican Colleagues Won't Say Peep to Defend Him" by Sarah Rumpf.

Article: "This Ohio Case Could Change Who Gets Purged From The Voter Rolls" by Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux.

Site: Save My Vote 2020.

Article: "Trump declares a national emergency, freeing up $50 billion" by Kevin Liptak.

Article: "Trump sued by 16 states over use of emergency powers to build border wall".

Article: "Turns Out Andrew McCabe Didn't Lose His Pension After All" by Colin Kalmbacher.

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

Article: "History of Federal Income Tax Rates: 1913 - 2019" by Bradford Tax Institute.

Article: "United States GDP" by Trading Economics.

Article: "New Deal" by History.com.

Article: "Democratic Presidential Candidates Say 'No' To Corporate PAC Money" by Peter Overby.

Site: Open Secrets.

Law: "8 U.S. Code § 1324 - Bringing in and harboring certain aliens".

Article: "Green Bay Packers" by Wikipedia.

Hour Three: Conversations with Great Minds: "Next Political-Economic System" & State and Local "Laboratories of Democracy"
- Prof. Gar Alperovitz Co-Founder & Principle - Democracy Collaborative, will be here to talk about the Bioneers conference, where he'll participate in the Panel: The Emerging Transformation: Practical Strategies for Systemic Local, Regional and National Change (co-sponsored with the Democracy Collaborative)

Event: December 12th: 12:30 pm: "Panel: The Emerging Transformation: Practical Strategies for Systemic Local, Regional and National Change (co-sponsored with the Democracy Collaborative)" (with Gar Alperovitz).

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.

Article: "The State Of Global Trade Union Membership" by Niall McCarthy.

Article: "Bank of North Dakota" by Wikipedia.

Article: "New Deal" by Wikipedia.

Site: Indivisible

Article: "The Cleveland Model" by Gar Alperovitz, Thad Williamson and Ted Howard.

Article: "North West Councils partner up for Community Bank" (UK) by Preston City Council.

Article: "The firms that went bust during the financial crisis".

Article: "TVA: From the New Deal to a New Century" by Tennessee Valley Authority.

Article: "When Reagan Broke the Unions" by Julia Simon, Kenny Malone.

Article: "UK miners' strike (1984–85)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) - August 1981 strike" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Youngstown Sheet and Tube" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Black Monday, '77, When the Mill Shutdown in Youngstown Gave Birth to the Rust Belt" by Gar Alperovitz.

Article: "California now has the world's 5th largest economy" by AP.

Article: "Oregon Democrats won't try to pass cap and trade in '21: report" by Pete Danko.

Article: "How economics solved acid rain" by EDF.

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976

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

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

Book: The New Systems Reader by James Gustave Speth.

Article: "Daniel Ellsberg" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Pentagon Papers" by Wikipedia.

Book: Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam by Gar Alperovitz.

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

Article: "Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Donald Trump confirms US withdrawal from INF nuclear treaty" by Julian Borger.

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

Book: The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb by Gar Alperovitz.

Article: "Arms Control and Disarmament Agency" by Wikipedia.

Article: "John Lewis" 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 - his latest is The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself

Plus, Julian Brave NoiseCat, Vice President of Policy & Strategy - Data for Progress / proud member of the Canim Lake Band Tsq'escen and descendant of the Lil'Wat Nation of Mount Currie who'll be participating in the Bioneers panel, The New Deals We Need Now: Green, Red and Blue

And, Teri Mills MS, RN, CNE (Ret.), President - National Nursing Network Organization & 2019 Oregon Nurse of the Year on the National Nurse Act (HR 1597/ S 696) - Why We Need a National Nurse for Public Health

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