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Thom's blog
The Filibuster Was Grounded in Slavery and Now Threatens All Life on Earth
 It has to end, and you can help It's time to end the filibuster and bring democracy to the US Senate. The filibuster was invented by "the Grandfather of the Confederacy" John C. Calhoun, and its only purpose is to block legislation that otherwise has broad popular support but is opposed by racists and big corporate special interest groups. It's not even in the Constitution; the Founders were horrified by the thought of such a thing, because it allows a 2/5ths minority of senators to block any action by the senate majority. Sadly, two Democratic senators, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, are blocking the Senate from killing this democracy-crippling anachronism. Read more here. -Thom
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Thom's blog
Framing is the key to waking up Americans to the real forces behind GOP policies
If Dems don't figure this out soon 2022 is a loss. In politics, framing is everything, and Democrats must get with the program or 2022 will be a disaster. Framing is when you define an issue by placing it within a particular context, usually done by careful choice of language. For example, when the fabulously wealthy multi-billionaire Walton family wanted to reduce the estate tax their heirs would have to cough up, they paid Frank Luntz to come up with new language that would get average Americans to oppose a tax that only affects the tiniest percentage of the very richest Americans. Luntz famously suggested changing the name from "estate tax" to "death tax," even though it's a tax on income given to people who didn't work for or earn it, but just falls out of the sky when a relative has passed away. And, sure enough, average Americans listening to wealthy right-wing talk show hosts and multimillionaire Fox News stars ranting about the terrible "death tax" quickly decided they were very, very worried about what used to be the very popular estate tax. Read more here. -Thom
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Tuesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: The filibuster was grounded in slavery and threatens all life on earth. Two Democratic Senators are blocking Schumer from killing the racist, anti-democratic filibuster just to protect Big Oil/Coal and Big Banks...
Republicans are already scrambling to put new voter suppression tactics into place...
Republicans are continuing to lie about COVID deaths in red states...is it a remnant of the Trump cover-up or is there another reason?
Geeky Science...here's the perfect wellness activity for activists!
"No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or ... to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."
"Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers... But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States... is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State... or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State."
Hour Three: Latest on Covid...masks, variants & vaccines- Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, Epidemiologist & Health Economist / Adjunct Senior Fellow - Federation of American Scientists 
Tweet: " WORRISOME-Australia suddenly saw 5 infections of the UK Flag of United Kingdom B117 variant among 4 quarantined travelers & a cleaner on the same floor-but get this-none of the 5 people occupied the same room!
(Whisper)-it's airborne, & #B117 40-80% more contagious. #COVID19" by Eric Feigl-Ding.
Quote: " In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population." - Noam Chomsky.
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Watch & Listen to Thom
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