True patriots love their country & work to make the nation better. Demagogues & rightwing billionaires just try to pit us against each other and tear our republic apart while enriching themselves.

Republicans and the Australian billionaires who own and run Fox "News" have a mighty strange idea of what it means to love and respect one’s country. The network has spent years hosting white Republicans claiming "patriotism" to trash-talk Black athletes protesting racism in America, and they’re at it again.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Article: "More than 230 deaths reported in British Columbia amid historic heat wave" by Sarah Moon, Jon Passantino and Rebekah Riess.

Article: "The ignorant ingrate who disrespected the anthem" by Ben Shapiro.

Article: "What Is True American Patriotism?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "A Corps of Colonial Marines, April 1814" by Scott S. Sheads.

Article: "Let’s take the national anthem literally, and the songwriter at his word" by Martenzie Johnson.

Tweet: "At this point, y’all are obsessed with me [+ Dan Crenshaw video]" by Gwen Berry OLY.

Book: "The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "'I never said that I hated the country,' says US hammer thrower Gwen Berry after turning from the flag" by CNN.

Article: "Gwen Berry Wins a Spot on the Olympics, Drops a History Lesson After Protesting National Anthem" by Rayna Reid.

Article: "‘I Will Die on This Hill!’ Meghan McCain Denounces Olympian Gwen Berry’s Protest as ‘Not Appropriate or Patriotic’" by Ken Meyer.

Article: "Marjorie Taylor Greene indicated support for executing prominent Democrats in 2018 and 2019 before running for Congress" by Em Steck and Andrew Kaczynski.

Article: "How Trump’s Toothless IRS Let the Rich Off Easy" by David Cay Johnston.

Article: "Contraception, Planned Parenthood dominate debate as Missouri Senate returns to Capitol" by Rudi Keller, Tessa Weinberg.

Article: "Global Express Guaranteed" (International transportation and delivery is provided by FedEx Express) by USPS.

Article: "Tulsa race massacre" (1921) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Critical Race Theory" by Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Quote: "[False] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel" - Samuel Johnson.

Event: July 24: "March for Medicare for All".

Article: "Bernie Sanders to Biden and Manchin: 'No reconciliation bill, no deal'" by Dominick Mastrangelo.

Article: "U.S. national anthem protests (2016–present)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Pat O'Callaghan" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jesse Owens" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "Trump Organization and CFO Allen Weisselberg Expected to Be Charged Thursday" by Corinne Ramey.

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).

Case: "Marbury v. Madison", 1803 (judicial review)

Article: "Trump kids ordered to 'undergo mandatory training' as part of Trump Foundation scam settlement" by Walter Einenkel.

Article: "Trump University" by Wikipedia.

Article: "14th Amendment Section 3, July 9, 1868. "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 as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, 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..."

Article: "Seditious conspiracy" by Wikipedia.

Law: "18 U.S. Code § 2384 - Seditious conspiracy".

Article: "Dear Leader: A Near-Perfect Letter From a Trump Sycophant, Annotated" by Michelle Cottle.

Article: "OAN host suggests ‘traitors’ who ‘stole’ election should be executed" by Alex Woodward.

Article: "Tucker Carlson prepares white nationalists for war: Don't ignore the power of his rhetoric" by Chauncey DeVega.

Article: "Timothy McVeigh" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Oklahoma City bombing" by Wikipedia.

Site: Outbreak.info (COVID).

Article: "Mexican–American War" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Antonio López de Santa Anna" by Wikipedia.

Article: "James K. Polk" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Vaccine Passports Could Save Us From Trump's Final Massacre" by Thom Hartmann.

Video: 5 seconds & Delta Variant Spreads (w/ Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding).

Article: "Inside the extraordinary effort to save Trump from covid-19" by Damian Paletta and Yasmeen Abutaleb.

Article: "Donald and Melania Trump quietly got Covid vaccines last month, reports say" by Gabrielle Canon.

Article: "Newest COVID Lie: Fear Delta Variant and Get Vaccinated" by Dr. Joel S. Hirschhorn.

Article: "Francis Scott Key" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Roger B. Taney" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Dred Scott v. Sandford", 1857

Article: "House votes to remove Roger Taney bust, Confederate statues from the Capitol" by Kevin Freking.

Article: "The Star-Spangled Banner" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Should America Outlaw Homelessness?" by Thom Hartmann.

Movie: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".

Article: "Nama-rupa: ‘Context and Reality’" (Buddhist name and form) by Nicky.

Book: Mexico: A Novel by James A. Michener.

Book: Texas: A Novel by James A. Michener.

Book: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin.

Book: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin.

Article: "Moral Mondays" by Wikipedia.

Article: "William Barber II" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Transcript: All In with Chris Hayes, 6/29/21" (w/ Claire McCaskill).

Article: "Survey of Arizona Registered Voters".

Article: "Nina Turner announces bid to succeed Marcia Fudge in Congress" by Seth A. Richardson.

Article: "Dems Launch Proxy War On Medicare For All" by David Sirota, Julia Rock.

Video: Whiny Little Bitch - Bill Maher Roasts Donald Trump.

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

Article: "Foundation for Defense of Democracies" by Wikipedia.

Book: The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama.

Article: "North American Free Trade Agreement" (NAFTA) by Wikipedia

Article: "General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade" (GATT) by Wikipedia

Site: World Trade Organization (WTO)

Article: "Black Lives Matter Activists Forced Minneapolis City Council Member to Sign a Statement Dropping Charges Against Alleged Rioters" by Hayley Tschetter.

Article: "Cassandra" by Wikipedia.

Video: Atlantic Ocean: Subtle Shifts Hint at Dramatic Dangers (w/ Dr. Michael Mann).

Article: "Hockey stick graph" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Late Great Planet Earth by Hal Lindsey with Carole C. Carlson.

Article: "The History of "My Country, Right or Wrong!" " by Simran Khurana.

Article: "Archie Bunker" by Wikipedia.

Article: "America the Beautiful" by Katharine Lee Bates.

Article: "This Land Is Your Land" by Woody Guthrie.

Article: "The history of the GI Bill" by Ryan Katz.

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