Monday 21 June '21 show notes

  • Biden Should Withhold What's Most Sacred to Rightwing Churches...Money
  • Crazy Alert! - Is Ted Cruz the Chief Dido Cop? You can have all the guns you want - but - no dildos or you will be arrested!
  • How Far Will the GOP Go To Steal the 2022 Election?
  • How Does the Democratic Caucus Co-Exist With Members Who are Openly Sold Out to Big Money? - Lee Fang, Investigative Journalist - The Intercept
  • How Will America Deal with the "Butcher of Tehran." - Jamal Abdi, President - National Iranian American Council (NIAC)
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Biden Should Withhold What's Most Sacred to Rightwing Churches —Money
Thom plus logo Enough is enough. President Biden must reverse Trump's executive order and direct the IRS to enforce the so-called "Johnson Amendment.”

A group of rightwing American Catholic bishops are trying to withhold one of that church's most sacred rituals – communion or the Eucharist – from President Joe Biden, a devout Catholic, because he and his political party favor a woman having the right to choose abortion and birth control.

Biden, for his part, should withhold from them what many of them (and the Catholic Church for centuries) appear to hold most sacred: money. Specifically, the massive, multi-billion-dollar annual subsidies American taxpayers provide rightwing churches every year via their tax-exempt status, which forces you and me to pay for everything from their land to their police and fire services to the roads people use to attend their services where they're preaching politics instead of Jesus.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom
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How Far Will the GOP Go To Steal the 2022 Election?
Thom plus logo The Congressional switchboard is 202-224-3121. Americans who care about the fate and future of our republic damn well better get active now.

How far will the GOP go to steal the 2022 election?

The corrupt Republican Party, a wholly-owned division of corporate and billionaire America, has dropped all pretense of having any governing ideas that will help or improve America.

Instead, they've gone all-outrage, all-the-time and believe that getting white people all cranked up about America's racial history will provide a veneer of "issues” while they work hard in the background to rig and then steal elections.

This is not new for the GOP.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom
Monday's Daily Stack Daily Stack
Hour One: Biden Should Withhold What's Most Sacred to Rightwing Churches...Money.
Article: "Johnson Amendment" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Ronald Reagan: Budget Cutter" by Veronique de Rugy.
Article: "The Exorcists Who Are Battling Black Lives Matter" by Audrey Clare Farley.
Article: "Massive Resistance" by Segregation in America.
Article: "I.R.S. Tax Fraud Cases Plummet After Budget Cuts" by y Jesse Eisinger and Paul Kiel.
Article: "Meeting with Pope John Paul II" by Thom Hartmann.
Case: "Plessy v. Ferguson", 1896 (separate but equal).
Case: "Brown v. Board Of Education", 1954 (Segregation in public schools) (overturned Plessy v. Ferguson).
Article: "Summer solstice" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Cyrus the Great" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Why Trump Reigns as King Cyrus" by Katherine Stewart.
Crazy Alert! - Is Ted Cruz the Chief Dido Cop? You can have all the guns you want - but - no dildos or you will be arrested!
Tweet: "Dear @USCCB: I'm Catholic and I support:
-Contraception
-A woman's right to choose
-Treatments for infertility
-The right for people to get a divorce
-The right of same sex marriage
Next time I go to Church, I dare you to deny me Communion.
" by Ted Lieu.
Tweet: "Dear @USCCB : I'm Catholic and you are hypocrites. You did not tell Bill Barr, a Catholic, not to take communion when he expanded killing human beings with the death penalty. You are being nakedly partisan and you should be ashamed. Another reason you are losing membership." by Ted Lieu.
Tweet: "Dear @USCCB : You did not deny Communion to the following Catholic Republicans:
-Newt Gingrich, who believed in open marriage & had multiple divorces
-Bill Barr, who expanded death penalty executions
-Chris Collins, who stole by insider trading
You are being partisan hypocrites.
" by Ted Lieu.
TV: "The Family".
Article: "Fines and court: What can happen if you don't vote" (Australia) by Ben Millington.
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].

Hour Two: How Far Will the GOP Go To Steal the 2022 Election?
Article: "Will Trump End Up In Prison?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "How Republican States Are Expanding Their Power Over Elections" by Nick Corasaniti and Reid J. Epstein.
Article: "North American Free Trade Agreement" (NAFTA) by Wikipedia
Article: "General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade" (GATT) by Wikipedia
Article: "Labor unions in the United States" by Wikipedia.
Quote: "As a matter of fact, in interviews in 1999 with respected journalist, and long time Bush family friend, David Herskowitz, then Governor George Bush stated: 'One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander-in-chief. My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it. If I have a chance to invade... if I had that much capital, I'm not going to waste it. I'm going to get everything passed that I want to get passed and I'm going to have a successful presidency." - My Testimony for the Downing Street Memo Hearings" by Cindy Sheehan, June 16 2005.
Article: "Schumer Set to Challenge GOP With Vote to Advance Election Bill " by Laura Litvan and Steven T. Dennis.
Article: "Critical Race Theory" by Encyclopaedia Britannica.
How Does the Democratic Caucus Co-Exist With Members Who are Openly Sold Out to Big Money?
- Lee Fang, Investigative Journalist - The Intercept @lhfang @theintercept
Bill: "S.4263 - John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act" by Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT].
Article: "Kyrsten Sinema" by Open Secrets.
Article: "Wilmington insurrection of 1898" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Tulsa race massacre" (1921) by Wikipedia.

Hour Three: How Will America Deal with the "Butcher of Tehran."
- Jamal Abdi, President - National Iranian American Council (NIAC) @jabdi @IACouncil @NIACAction
Article: "Ebrahim Raisi" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Iran nuclear deal framework" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Sanctions against Iran" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Modern Paganism" (Neopaganism) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Çatalhöyük" by Wikipedia.
Article: "lord (n.)" by Douglas Harper.
Article: "lady (n.)" by Douglas Harper.
Article: "Tax Deductions for Pastors" by Steve Lander.
Article: "Roe v. Wade" by History Channel.
Article: "15th Amendment", February 3, 1870 "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude"
Article: "Bahá'í Faith" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Unitarian Universalism" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Daniel Ortega" (Nicaragua) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Monroe Doctrine" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Organization of American States" by Wikipedia.
Article: "United Church of Christ" by Wikipedia.
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