Rightwing billionaires have robbed & pillaged America. Sadly, the future Rosenberrys and Stacks won't hear this listening to AM radio or Fox "News." So we live in increasingly dangerous times... They are the new faces of American terrorism.

Floyd Ray Rosenberry and Joe Stack both grew up in an America before the neoliberal austerity and tax-cut policies of Reaganism gutted our country. They both mourned the loss of the middle-class prosperity of that time in America and looked to rightwing commentary to make sense of it all. They then both turned to terrorism.

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-Thom

Friday's Daily Stack

Article: "How Reaganism Turned Ray Rosenberry & Joe Stack Into Terrorists" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "The $26 an Hour Minimum Wage" by Dean Baker.

Article: "Floyd Ray Roseberry: Facebook Live Video From Truck Near U.S. Capitol" by Jessica McBride.

Article: "Joe Stack's Manifesto" by Philo.

Book: "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Rep. Mo Brooks Gets Absolutely Blasted for Tweeting 'I Understand Citizenry Anger' In Response To Capitol Bomb Threat" by Sarah Rumpf.

Article: "Who funds the Taliban? Where the Afghanistan militants' funding comes from – and who supplies their weapons " by David Hughes .

Article: "Purdue Pharma" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Afghanistan's president Ashraf Ghani flees 'with helicopter full of cash'" by Michael Howie.

Article: "Texas hospitals may soon deny unvaccinated patients access to ICU beds " by Bob Brigham.

Article: "Alabama Has No More ICU Beds Amid Rising COVID Cases, Low Vaccination Rates" by Naledi Ushe.

Article: "Naledi Ushe" by Bracey Harris.

Article: "Oregon Coronavirus at a glance".

Article: "Timothy McVeigh" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Oklahoma City bombing" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable" - John F. Kennedy.

Article: "Dan Patrick blames COVID surge on unvaccinated African Americans, prompting widespread backlash" by Charlie Zong.

Quote: "The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between the true and the false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist" - Hannah Arendt.

Article: "Advocate for Afghan translators says Trump administration 'purposely destroyed' visa program" by Aldous J Pennyfarthing.

Article: "Trump Administration Has Drastically Dropped Visas For Afghan And Iraqi Interpreters" by Quil Lawrence.

Article: "Group of students with disabilities file lawsuit against Texas Gov. Abbott — claim mask mandate ban violates ADA" by Meaghan Ellis.

Article: "Afghan conflict: Trump hails deal with Taliban to end 18-year war" by BBC.

Article: "Top Taliban leaders are among the 5000 that Trump released last year over everyone's objections " by SemDem.

Article: "Trump cancels secret meeting with the Taliban at Camp David after deadly bombings" by Meridith McGraw.

Article: "Biden defends 'messy' US pull-out from Afghanistan" by BBC.

Article: "Straub intensive care facilities full; COVID-19 child hospitalizations increasing in Hawaii" by Sophie Cocke.

Article: "Joe Biden to Americans in Afghanistan: 'We will get you home'" by BBC.

Article: "Newsom's biggest recall danger: Complacent Democrats who don't turn out to vote" by Julia Wick, Phil Willon.

Article: "2021 California gubernatorial recall election" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Explainer: How California could recall Gov. Gavin Newsom" by Michael R. Blood.

Article: "Ghost Students, Ghost Teachers, Ghost Schools" by Azmat Khan.

Article: "George Jackson (activist)" by Wikipedia.

Poem: "If We Must Die" by Claude McKay.

Article: "Claude McKay" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fred Hampton" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Huey P. Newton" by Wikipedia.

Book: Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton.

Article: "Bobby Seale" by Wikipedia.

Article: "John Lewis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Selma to Montgomery marches" by Wikipedia.

Video: "Ronald Reagan States' Rights Speech in Philadelphia, MS", August 3, 1980.

Article: "Mississippi civil rights workers' murders" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Donald Trump, Jr. makes curious campaign detour" by Rachel Maddow.

Quote: "I want to see young people in America feel the spirit of the 1960s and find a way to get in the way. To find a way to get in trouble. Good trouble, necessary trouble." - John Lewis.

Article: "Inslee brings back statewide mask order and mandates vaccines for school workers" by Monica Velez and Joseph O'Sullivan.

Article: "Oregon's governor reinstates a statewide indoor mask mandate" by Mike Baker.

Article: "Sen. Rand Paul may have violated insider trading law by failing to disclose wife's COVID drug stock purchases" by Bryan Metzger.

Article: "Martha Stewart's Insider Trading Case" by Mike Moffatt.

Article: "Lauren Boebert is in Trouble for Not Disclosing Husband's Income from Energy Firm" by Sarah Jones.

Bill: "H.R.859 - Protecting American Energy Jobs Act" by Rep. Boebert, Lauren [R-CO-3].

Site: CORE Response.

Article: "Ashley Moody Warns of Haiti Relief Scams" by Florida Daily.

Article: "George Washington and the First Mass Military Inoculation" by Amy Lynn Filsinger, Raymond Dwek.

Article: "Covid: Is there a limit to how much worse variants can get?" by James Gallagher.

Article: "The Afghan Special Immigrant Visa Program" by Human Rights First.

Article: "Special Immigrant Visas for Afghans - Who Were Employed by/on Behalf of the U.S. Government" by State Dept.

Article: "The Xenophobic Trump administration Slashed Visas for Afghan and Iraqi Interpreters stranding many" by Lefty Coaster.

Article: "Toxic algae bloom considered in death of California family" by AP.

Image: "I don't turn my headlights on because..." by @trashcanpaul.

Article: "How Long Will Biden Keep DeJoy at the Postal Service?" by Timothy L. O'Brien.

Speech: "New Nationalism Speech" by Theodore Roosevelt, August 31, 1910 (square deal).

Quote: "We stand for a living wage. Wages are subnormal if they fail to provide a living for those who devote their time and energy to industrial occupations. The monetary equivalent of a living wage varies according to local conditions, but must include enough to secure the elements of a normal standard of living-a standard high enough to make morality possible, to provide for education and recreation, to care for immature members of the family, to maintain the family during periods of sickness, and to permit of reasonable saving for old age." - Theodore Roosevelt.

Article: "Understanding the Iran-Contra Affairs" by Brown University.

Book: "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late" by Thom Hartmann

Book: "Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination" by Lamar Waldron with Thom Hartmann

Article: "Thomas Aquinas" by Wikipedia.

Book: "Cracking the Code" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "John Locke" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Thomas Hobbes" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jean-Jacques Rousseau" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Edmund Burke" by Wikipedia.

Article: "René Descartes" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Who Are the Taliban?" by Reference.

Article: "Syria: Isis Jihadis Terrified of Fanatical Kurdish Women Soldiers who will Deny Them Place in Paradise" by Gianluca Mezzofiore.

Article: "Afghan Women Take Up Arms Against Taliban as Army Flees" by John Hayward.

Article: "Uyghurs" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Chechens" by Wikipedia.

Article: "US Military Destroying Equipment They're Leaving Behind In Afghanistan" by Bradley Devlin.

Article: "Taliban's haul of US military gear includes 2,000 armoured vehicles and 40 aircraft " by Graeme Massie.

Article: "Texas forced to suspend prosecution of schools as 49 districts defy Abbott's anti-mask order" by Mark Sumner.

Article: "Texas Lt. Gov. says Black people, Dems responsible for massive spike in state's COVID-19 cases" by Aysha Qamar.

Article: "Texas school board finds a loophole in Gov. Greg Abbott's order banning mask mandates " by Travis Gettys.

Article: "Texas presidential results" by Politico.

Article: "Texas won't require schools to notify parents of COVID-19 cases" by Brian Lopez (6 August 2021).

Article: "Texas schools now must notify teachers and families of COVID cases, TEA says" by Brian Lopez (19 August 2021).

Article: "How California's Top Democrats Paved the Way for a Republican Governor This Fall" by Norman Solomon.

Video: Watch Rachel Maddow Highlights: August 18th | MSNBC.

Article: "Will Americans Who Were Right on Afghanistan Still Be Ignored?" by Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies.

Article: "Spending to Fund Vaccines for Poor Nations" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Trump Administration Diverts $3.8 Billion In Pentagon Funding To Border Wall" by Brakkton Booker.

Tweet: "Can you imagine what it would feel like if the last thing you heard before you died was: "Hey, we need a bed over here in the hallway for another one of these unvaccinated idiots!" #FoxNewsKills" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Robert W. Malone" by Wikipedia.

Article: "AP FACT CHECK: Blue high-tax states fund red low-tax states" by Stephen Ohlemacher.

Article: "Biden focuses on 'getting this job done' as chaotic evacuation from Afghanistan grows desperate" by Kate Sullivan.

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