More Americans are seeing through the "freedom" scam & are leaving the Party in droves. How will they market voter suppression as their latest twist on "freedom"? You know they'll try...

A restaurant in California is now requiring proof that you are not vaccinated before they will serve you because, the owner told the Los Angeles Times, "we chose to fire another missile of defiance to further make our point in defense of American liberty and freedom."

Republicans are running a scam about "freedom" and they've been pushing it for a very, very long time. Sadly, people are still buying it.

New Hampshire Republican Governor John Sununu just signed into law a new "Medical Freedom" bill that makes it illegal for any public venue to require proof of vaccination for entry to any event. The New Hampshire GOP explicitly wants their citizens to be "free" to be stricken with a deadly virus by idiots who don't "believe" in vaccines.

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-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Transcript: All In with Chris Hayes, 7/27/21".

Article: "CDC asks Americans to wear masks regardless of vaccination status as new COVID-19 cases soar" by Hunter.

Article: "The science didn't change, the virus did, Fauci says as CDC updates mask guidance" by Madeline Holcombe.

Article: "The Morning Briefing: Who Are the Idiots Who Still Think the CDC Has Any Credibility?" by Stephen Kruiser.

Article: "What Vaccines Say About the Precarious State of Our Freedom" by J.B. Shurk.

Article: "Biden Moves on to Insulting Americans if They're Not Vaccinated" by Nick Arama.

Article: "Study: COVID Cases are Increasing in Counties with Higher Vaccination Rates, Declining in Counties with Lower Vaccination Rates" by Big League Politics.

Article: "Tucker Carlson: New mask guidelines are about politics and control" by Tucker Carlson.

Article: "Myers–Briggs Type Indicator" by Wikipedia.

Book: "Conservatives Without Conscience" by John W. Dean.

Book: "The Authoritarians" by Robert Altemeyer.

Book: Authoritarian Nightmare: Trump and His Followers by John W. Dean, Bob Altemeyer.

Article: "The GOP "Freedom" Scam Laid Bare" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Home Republicans type "Freedom from Massive Tech Caucus"" by 10 News.

Article: "COVID pandemic: OC restaurant gets backlash for requiring proof customers are not vaccinated" by Jessica De Nova.

Article: "Norwegian Cruise Lines sues state of Florida over vaccine passport ban" by Amanda Maile and Mina Kaji.

Site: "Freedom Phone".

Article: "Gov. Ricketts Opposes Vaccine Passports" by Governor Pete Ricketts.

Article: "One-third of states have passed restrictive voting laws this year" by Reid Wilson.

Tweet: "Today I'm announcing the Freedom Phone..." by Erik Finman.

Article: "The 'Freedom Phone' that far-right leaders are hawking is a cheap Chinese Android—and a security nightmare" by Mikael Thalen.

Article: "Pete Ricketts Is A Billionaire Bully" by NebraskaDemocrat.

Article: ""Governor Brown, Rescind this Vaccine Passport Order Immediately"" by Freedom Foundation.

Article: "Huntington Beach restaurant urges unvaccinated diners in rebuff of COVID precautions" by Hannah Fry.

Article: "New 'medical freedom' law outlaws requiring COVID-19 vaccine to access public spaces" (NH) by ABC News.

Article: "Remembering when Freedom fries were the most American thing you could order" by Ella Torres.

Article: "House Freedom Caucus asks McCarthy to try to remove Pelosi as speaker" by Olivia Beavers.

Article: "US energy department rebrands fossil fuels as 'molecules of freedom'" by Luke O'Neil.

Article: "These States Have Banned Vaccine Passports" by Elliott Davis.

Article: "California restaurant demands diners to prove they aren't vaccinated before being served" by Aysha Qamar.

Was January 6th a Coup Or a Protest Out of Control?
- Philip Rucker, Senior Washington Correspondent - Washington Post / Co-Author w/Carol Leonnig, I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year (they previously penned, A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America. Both Philip and Carol are Pulitzer prize recipients for their work at the Post.

Article: "'I Alone Can Fix It' book excerpt: The inside story of Trump's defiance and inaction on Jan. 6" by Philip Rucker, Carol D. Leonnig.

Article: "What if There Wasn't a Coup Plot, General Milley?" by Christopher Caldwell.

Article: "Cheney Warns U.S. Could Face Violence 'Every Four Years' if Those Responsible for Capitol Riot Not 'Held Accountable'" by Zachary Evans.

Article: "Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election" (Stop the Steal) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Stop the Steal's massive disinformation campaign connected to Roger Stone" by Rob Kuznia, Curt Devine, Nelli Black and Drew Griffin.

Article: "Roger Stone" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mary Mallon" (Typhoid Mary) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Aldous Huxley on Overpopulation" by Leon Kolankiewicz.

Article: "1347 - 1351: BLACK DEATH kills over 1/3 of Europe population (jan 16, 1347 – jan 1, 1351)" by Time Graphics.

Article: "How smallpox devastated the Aztecs – and helped Spain conquer an American civilization 500 years ago " by Richard Gunderman.

Quote: "When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?" - John Maynard Keynes.

Book: Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress by Christopher Ryan.

Article: "L-gulonolactone oxidase" (GULO) by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: Have We Entered a New Phase of Climate Change?
- Dr. Michael Mann, Distinguished Professor of Meteorology & Director, Earth System Science Center-Penn State University / Member-National Academy of Sciences / author of several books including including his latest just out, The New Climate War / (previously, The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy) / Recipient of the Tyler Prize

Book: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway.

Article: "As Portland Heat Hits 116 Degrees, Road Buckles in Kenton Neighborhood" by Sophie Peel.

Book: The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories by Ernest Hemingway.

Article: "'No One Is Safe': Extreme Weather Batters the Wealthy World" by Somini Sengupta.

Article: "Extreme weather renews focus on climate change as scientists update forecasts" by Reuters.

Article: "Low oxygen levels off Northwest coast raise fears of marine 'dead zones'" by Bradley W. Parks.

Article: "Climate change: Researchers begin discussions on vital report" by Matt McGrath.

Video: Capitol and DC Police Testify on January 6 Attack, July 27, 2021.

Article: "Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham mocked the harrowing police testimony about the Capitol riot with snickers and a 'best political performance' trophy" by Mia Jankowicz.

Article: "'He's a Great Guy': Trump's Favored Aide Has Troubled Past" by Michael Kruse.

Article: "'Absolute gutter trash': Elise Stefanik buried for last-minute attempt to blame Nancy Pelosi for Capitol riot" by Tom Boggioni.

Article: "McCarthy, Republicans point finger at Pelosi over Jan. 6 Capitol security failure" by Ronn Blitzer.

Article: "Jake Ellzey wins Texas special election runoff, CNN projects" by Gregory Krieg, Ethan Cohen and Sabrina Souza.

Book: The Hornet's Nest: A Novel of the Revolutionary War by Jimmy Carter.

Article: "Selected Adverse Events Reported after COVID-19 Vaccination" by CDC.

Article: "American Revolutionary War" (1775-1783) by Wikipedia.

Article: "American Civil War (1861 - 1865) by Wikipedia.

Article: "23-year-old Troutdale man pleads guilty to protest, other charges" by Ryan Haas.

Article: "Progressives Launch Medicare For All Act with Rep. Pramila Jayapal".

Site: Our Revolution

Article: "Pramila Jayapal" by Wikipedia.

Site: Social Security Works.

Article: "Healthcare Parasites are Sucking Americans Dry" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Tommy Douglas" (father of Canadian Healthcare) by Wikipedia.

Article: "What Vermont learned when it tried (and failed) to launch a single-payer health system" by Advisory Board.

Tweet: "This week's Scheme speech discusses the dark-money gatekeeper, the Federalist Society, and how the group and its long-time leader, Leonard Leo, built the power necessary to deliver a complete overhaul of the Supreme Court in less than four years. [video]" by Sheldon Whitehouse.

Article: "Self-coup" (auto-coup) by Wikipedia.

Article: "RED ALERT China's 'biggest nuke expansion ever' as it builds SECOND missile base in desert in chilling warning to the West" by Alice Peacock.

Article: "Rick Scott" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tom Cotton" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Josh Hawley" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Long-term effects of coronavirus (long COVID)" by NHS.

Article: "Studies show COVID-19 helping to remove Republicans from gene pool in more than one way" by Mark Sumner.

Article: "The Spaceships of Ezekiel" by Josef F. Blumrich.

Book: Chariots Of The Gods? : Unsolved Mysteries Of The Past by Erich Von Daniken.

Article: "'We should shut this place down': Republican Chip Roy rages at the House mask mandates while surrounded by maskless Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert and Andy Biggs" by Elizabeth Elkind, Emily Goodin.

Article: "Pelosi calls Kevin McCarthy a "moron" for criticizing mask mandate" by Zak Hudak.

Article: "Lauren Boebert throws face mask back at House staffer after reintroduction of Covid rules " by Gino Spocchia.

Article: "Republicans who flouted mask rules sue Pelosi over fines" by Samantha Hawkins.

Article: "Child mortality rate (under five years old) in the United States, from 1800 to 2020" by statista.

Article: "'This virus is not tired of us': Marion County recommends masks indoors for everyone" by Justin L. Mack.

Article: "Decoding the Far-Right Symbols at the Capitol Riot" by Matthew Rosenberg and Ainara Tiefenthäler.

Article: "René Descartes" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Gaia hypothesis" by James Lovelock.

Article: "The insect apocalypse: 'Our world will grind to a halt without them'" by Dave Goulson.

Article: "House passes $1.5 trillion infrastructure bill, but McConnell calls it 'pointless political theater'" by Michael Laris.

Article: "Here's what's in the bipartisan infrastructure bill" by Katie Lobosco and Tami Luhby.

Video: Sen. Bernie Sanders' Two Solutions to Healthcare & Infrastructure.

Article: "Macron to the French: Vaccinate or Else" by Roger Cohen.

Article: "Evangelical pastor demands churchgoers ditch their masks: 'Don't believe this delta variant nonsense'" by Jaclyn Peiser.

Site: thetravisrunkelshow.

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 (now also available as an eBook)

Plus, Dr. Jason Box, ice climatologist at Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland and who is an expert on Arctic warming

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