For some bizarre reason, our media has missed what's right in front of their faces

While Fox News, rightwing hate radio and Republican politicians have been all over the "canceling" of racist Dr. Seuss drawings (by the family foundation) and Mr. Potatohead (by toymaker Hasbro), they've been quite vigorous in pursuing "cancel culture" in other areas.

Over the past few weeks, for example, they have gone out of their way to try to cancel any sort of assistance to the tens of millions of Americans wiped out or thrown into serious crisis by Trump's incompetence in handling the Covid pandemic.

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-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: "The House just passed universal background checks for gun sales — again" by Gabby Birenbaum.

Article: "The Real "Cancel Culture" Scheme By Republicans Revealed" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "William Bennett Defends Comment on Abortion and Crime" by Jake Tapper.

Article: "Trump signs bill undoing Obama coal mining rule" by Devin Henry.

Article: "Oklahoma House Passes Bill To Give Immunity To Drivers Who Hit Protesters" by Sarah Ruiz-Grossman.

Article: "Nine Reasons Why I Will Not Be Getting The COVID Vaccine" by Parker Beauregard.

Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].

Article: "Florida Democratic Party Says Rick Scott "oversaw the largest Medicare fraud in the nation's history."" by Amy Sherman.

Article: "Rick Scott to states and cities: Turn down COVID relief funds" by Steve Benen.

Article: "Florida Sen. Rick Scott implores states to 'reject and return' stimulus money. Gov. Ron DeSantis wants more." by Wendy Rhodes.

Article: "Republican Senator Roger Wicker touts support for COVID stimulus package he trashed and voted against" by Sarah K. Burris.

Site: "The Righting.com".

Law: "The National Labor Relations Act (The Wagner Act)", 1935.

Law: "Taft-Hartley Labor Act", 1947.

Article: "Equal Rights Amendment: Federal judge rules deadline to ratify ERA 'expired long ago'" by Veronica Stracqualursi.

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

Article: "Powell Pledges to Maintain Economic Support" by New York Times.

Image: "Republican Agenda To Do List".

Article: "Texas can remove Planned Parenthood from Medicaid program, judge rules" by Rebecca Falconer.

Article: "'How dare you': Democrat educates GOP lawmaker who claimed BLM 'doesn't like the old fashioned family'" by Meaghan Ellis.

Article: "Marjorie Taylor Greene stalls final vote on Biden's 'reckless' $1.9T COVID stimulus" by Steven Nelson.

Article: "A "Jimmy Stewart Filibuster" Would Pass HR 1 & Save American Democracy" by Thom Hartmann.

Video: Mr Smith Goes To Washington.

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 2 section 1. "The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them." (domestic emoluments clause).

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 9. "No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state." (foreign emoluments clause).

Article: "Trump emoluments cases: Why the Supreme Court didn't want to hear them" by Ariane de Vogue.

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 8 (Powers of Congress). "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States... To establish Post Offices and post Roads;"

Article: "USPS removed 711 sorting machines this year, new court documents show" by Kristen Holmes and Paul P. Murphy.

Article: "First Amendment to the United States Constitution" Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Article: "Why Trump's constant attacks on an independent press are so dangerous" by Brian Stelter.

Article: "2nd Amendment". A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Article: "So You Think You Know the Second Amendment?" by Jeffrey Toobin.

Article: "3rd Amendment". No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

Article: "Inside US military stays at Trump's loss-making Scottish golf resort" by David Kirkpatrick.

Article: "4th Amendment". "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

Article: "The FBI can access your browsing history without a warrant, and the Senate is to blame" by Kaylee McGhee White.

Article: "10th Amendment" "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people"

Article: "Trump signals desire to end lockdowns: 'Our people want to return to work'" by Adam Shaw.

Article: "13th Amendment", December 6, 1865. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

Article: "14th Amendment, July 9, 1868 (citizenship, representatives, public debt, Equal Protection Clause)

Article: "President Trump may sign executive order ending birthright citizenship" by Andrew Court.

Twitter: "#projectileconservatism".

Article: "The 1619 Project" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Horace Mann" by Wikipedia.

Book: An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.

Book: Day Of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor by Robert Stinnett.

Book: The Plot to Kill King: The Truth Behind the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. by William F. Pepper Esq.

Article: "The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection (Continued)" (Federalist 10) by James Madison.

Book: The American Revolution of 1800: How Jefferson Rescued Democracy from Tyranny and Faction - and What This Means Today by Dan Sisson with Thom Hartmann

Book: White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg.

Article: "2020 Exit Polls" by CNN.

Hour Two: Rising Food Prices Could Presage Global Unrest
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System

Article: "Climate Change and Rising Food Prices Heightened Arab Spring" by Ines Perez.

Article: "Arab Spring" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Coronavirus: How the pandemic has changed the world economy" by Lora Jones, Daniele Palumbo & David Brown.

Article: "2020 California wildfires" by Wikipedia.

Article: "2021 Texas power crisis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Me Too movement" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Black Lives Matter" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Police brutality in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: ""K-shaped" economic recovery shows pandemic's uneven impact, even a year later" by AP.

Article: "Rising global food prices could presage social unrest" by Bryan Walsh.

Article: "The Fed must avoid a repeat of the March Treasuries mystery" by Gillian Tett.

Article: "CBD Reduces Plaque and Improves Cognition in Model of Familial Alzheimer's" by Dental College of Georgia.

Article: "WHO declares novel coronavirus outbreak a pandemic" by Jamie Gumbrecht and Jacqueline Howard (11 March 2020).

Article: "Māori Politician Has 'Perfect Response' To Palace Racism Claims" by Josephine Harvey.

Article: "GOP lawmakers push to permanently eliminate estate tax" by Megan Henney.

Article: "Animal testing" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The genius who grows tiny brains in a lab" by BBC.

Article: "Lewy Body Dementia" by Alzheimer's Association.

Article: "The Language Toomey Inserted into the Stimulus Bill Enshrines a $681 Billion Trading Slush Fund for Mnuchin with the NY Fed" by Pam Martens and Russ Martens.

Hour Three: It's the 10th Anniversary of the Massive Earthquake, Tsunami & Nuclear Meltdown at Fukushima, Japan - What's the Latest?
- Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Specialist - Beyond Nuclear

Article: "Fukushima: Japan marks 10th disaster anniversary while still recovering" by AP with Euronews.

Article: "Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'We don't know when it will end': 10 years after Fukushima" by Michael Penn.

Article: "Claims in new UN Fukushima report contradict its own science" by Linda Pentz Gunter.

Article: "Japan Says it Will Continue to Probe Fukushima Radiation Effects".

Article: "John Gofman" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fukushima radiation did not damage health of local people, UN says" by Justin McCurry.

Article: "The 10 Most-Prescribed and Top-Selling Medications" by Troy Brown.

Article: "Chernobyl disaster", 26 April 1986 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Iodine" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Three Mile Island accident" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Smedley Butler" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Business Plot" (1933, Smedley Butler) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Biden, Senate Democrats agree to limit eligibility for $1,400 checks" by Sahil Kapur, Frank Thorp V, Garrett Haake and Leigh Ann Caldwell.

Article: "Manchin: 'I'm supporting the filibuster' but 'it should be painful' to use" by Ronn Blitzer.

The Fukushima Story You Didn't Hear In the Mainstream Media...
- 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: "Fukushima: They Knew" by Greg Palast.

Article: "Greg Palast" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Greg Palast: Biography" by Greg Palast.

Article: "Stacey Abrams on Plant Vogtle Decision: "I strongly disagree with today's PSC decision to not hold Georgia Power accountable"" by ADW News.

Article: "Kelly L. Loeffler named to Georgia Power Board of Directors" by Georgia Power.

Article: "Three House Republicans Targeted For Jan 6 'Involvement'" by Frances Langum.

Article: "I.R.S. to Cut Tax Auditors" by David Cay Johnston.

Article: "Gavin Newsom: Facing recall, California governor pleads for optimism and patience in State of the State address" by Maeve Reston.

Article: "Enron scandal" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Kenneth Lay" by Wikipedia.

Article: "2003 California gubernatorial recall election" (replaced Democratic Governor Gray Davis with Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Wildwood Plantation Commissary and Shop" by NPS.

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