Republicans are channeling Joseph Stalin who once suggested, "It doesn't matter who votes; what matters is who counts the votes."

Lore has it that Joe Stalin once said, "It doesn't matter who votes; what matters is who counts the votes." Republicans in Arizona are today engaged in an act of political treachery worthy of Stalin's quote.

There's history here.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Fox News host Tucker Carlson claims making children wear masks is 'abuse'" by Martin Pengelly.

Article: "Tucker Carlson Urges Audience to 'Call the Police Immediately' if They See Kids Wearing Masks Outdoors" by Michael Luciano.

Article: "Tucker Carlson" by Wikipedia.

Article: "New CDC guidelines say fully vaccinated Americans don't need to wear masks outside, except in crowded settings" by Adrianna Rodriguez.

Article: "Herd immunity" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The 1918-19 Spanish Influenza Pandemic and Vaccine Development" by Karie Youngdahl.

Article: "Miami school bars vaccinated teachers from seeing students" by BBC.

Article: "COVID variant detected in wastewater from Albany, Corvallis" by Jes Burns.

Article: "First-grader in southwestern Minnesota dies of COVID-19" by AP.

Article: "CDC Study: 85% of Coronavirus Patients Reported Wearing Masks 'Always' or 'Often'" by Edwin Mora.

Article: "Fact check: Misrepresented CDC study about community exposure to the new coronavirus" by Reuters.

Transcript: "This American Life: 736: The Herd".

Article: "Trump Was Sicker Than Acknowledged With Covid-19" by Noah Weiland, Maggie Haberman, Mark Mazzetti and Annie Karni.

Article: "Biden's first big speech to Congress is on Wednesday. Here's what to expect" by Robert Schroeder.

Law: "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act" (HIPAA).

Article: "Explainer: Is China's Sinovac coronavirus vaccine less effective?".

Site: Daily Kos

Hour Two: Why is Fox-So-Called-News and All the Far Right Wingers Lying About Meat Eating & Joe Biden??
- Julio Rivera, Editorial Director - Reactionary Times / Contributor - Newsmax, American Thinker & Townhall.com @ohyeahitsjulio

Article: "How Biden's climate plan could limit you to eat just one burger a MONTH, cost $3.5K a year per person in taxes, force you to spend $55K on an electric car and 'crush' American jobs" by Emily Crane.

Article: "Biden's fake burger ban and the rising culture war over meat" by Zack Beauchamp.

Article: "Not only is there no scientific evidence that CO2 is a pollutant, higher CO2 concentrations actually help ecosystems support more plant and animal life" by Catharine Richert.

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

Article: "Personality disorders" by Mayo Clinic.

Article: "Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)" by NHS.

Article: "Lawyers say Black man killed by North Carolina police hit with 'kill shot' to back of head" by Nathan Layne.

Article: "Andrew Brown shooting: anger as family shown only 'snippet' of police footage" by Richard Luscombe, Ed Pilkington.

Article: "'It Was An Execution': Andrew Brown's Son Speaks Out After Watching Body Cam Footage of Father's Shooting" by Ken Meyer.

Article: "Family of Black man shot by N.C. deputies says it appears he was 'executed' in body-camera footage" by Jim Morrison, Paulina Villegas, Meryl Kornfield and Timothy Bella.

Article: "When Will America End "Slave Patrol" Policing?" by Thom Hartmann.

Law: "13th Amendment".

Book: "The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Robert Peel's 9 Principles of Policing, aka "General Instructions": London, 1829".

Article: "How Many Americans Do the Cops Kill Each Year?" by Daniel Bier.

Article: "Number of nonfederal police officers arrested for murder who have been convicted between 2005 and 2020, by charge" by Statista.

Article: "Recordings show chaos surrounding Ma'Khia Bryant shooting" by Farnoush Amiri And Andrew Welsh-Huggins.

Article: "1033 program" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Law enforcement in Finland" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fact check: No, Biden is not trying to force Americans to eat less red meat" by Daniel Dale.

Article: "GOP mega-donor's private school announces 'policy not to employ' vaccinated teachers " by David Badash.

Article: "Everything you need to know about attending the 2021 NFL Draft in Cleveland" by Clay LePard.

Article: "Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS, MERS-CoV)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Coronavirus:10 days of hospital building in 60 seconds" by BBC.

Article: "Black Americans Face Alarming Rates of Coronavirus Infection in Some States" by John Eligon, Audra D. S. Burch, Dionne Searcey and Richard A. Oppel Jr.

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

Article: "Trump White House COVID-19 coordinator Deborah Birx says most deaths could have been avoided" by Matthew Brown.

Article: "Who Killed the Berkeley School? Struggles Over Radical Criminology " by Herman & Julia Schwendinger.

Law: "George Floyd Justice in Policing Act" by Karen Bass (D–CA).

Article: "The Hidden Secret Behind the Arizona ballot Counting" by Thom Hartmann.

Book: "None Dare Call It Treason" by John A. Stormer.

Book: "The Hidden History of American Oligarchy" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Richard Milhous Nixon" by Naval History and Heritage Command.

Article: "How a Republican Desegregated the South's Schools" by George P. Shultz.

Article: "Here's a voter fraud myth: Richard Daley 'stole' Illinois for John Kennedy in the 1960 election" by Paul von Hippel.

Article: "Now OANN is involved in Arizona's Senate election audit? Can this thing get any more absurd?" by Laurie Roberts.

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

Bill: "S.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR].

Article: "President Biden's first address to Congress is invite-only" by Colleen Long.

Article: "An unarmed man was shot by a Virginia deputy who gave him a ride home an hour earlier" by CNN.

Site: Fair Fight.

Site: Public Citizen

Site: Progressive Democrats of America

Site: Indivisible

Article: "Lava in a cold climate: Icelanders rush to get wed at volcano site " by Harriet Sherwood.

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