What if foreigners are, today, the ones largely responsible for much of the division, death and destruction sweeping America and, in many cases, are doing it not for ideology but just to make a buck?

The stories of Covid deaths and disability are often tragic, and they're happening by the millions in America. These stories — and the grim spectacle of armed white people protesting at schools, election sites and hospitals — illustrate a dangerous new intersection of public health, politics, and social media.

Many, it turns out, are driven by an entire foreign-based industry called "troll farms" using social media to crank Americans into foaming-at-the-mouth crazy, including armed groups in our streets, just to make money.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: "Is America Having a Foreign-Led "McCarthy Moment"?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Exposing Russia's Effort to Sow Discord Online: The Internet Research Agency and Advertisements" by US House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

Article: "How Communities Are Exploited On Our Platforms: A Final Look At The "Troll Farm" Pages" by Jeff Allen.

Article: "In Klamath Falls, Oregon, victory declared over antifa, which never showed up" by Brandy Zadrozny and Ben Collins.

Article: "Troll farms reached 140 million Americans a month on Facebook before 2020 election, internal report shows" by Karen Hao.

Article: "Billionaires' Democratic Bag Man" by David Sirota, Andrew Perez.

Article: "Foreign Interference in Election, Says DNI" by Grace Coulter.

Article: "Rupert Murdoch" by Wikipedia.

Article: "YouTube is banning prominent anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content" by Gerrit De Vynck.

Article: "Manchin says his spending limit is $1.5 trillion" by Alexander Bolton.

Article: "Manchin rejects Pelosi's call for deal on economic package ahead of key Thursday vote" by Daniella Diaz, Manu Raju, Morgan Rimmer and Alex Rogers.

Tweet: ""The President keeps begging her, tell us what you want. Put a proposal forward," says Rep. Ro Khanna of Senator Kyrsten Sinema.
"One Senator, Kyrsten Sinema, is holding up the will of the entire Democratic Party." [video]" by Anderson Cooper 360°.

Article: "The Koch Empire Goes All Out to Sink Joe Biden's Agenda — and His Presidency, Too " by Andy Kroll & Geoff Dembicki.

Article: "The Political History of Cap and Trade" by Richard Conniff.

Article: "No Labels" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Sinema Mockingly Dismisses Question on Democrats Not Knowing Where She Is on Reconciliation: 'I'm in the Senate'" by Josh Feldman.

Podcast: "Real Time with Bill Maher: Ep. #578: Tristan Harris, Jennifer Rubin, Richard Ojeda" by.

Article: "Richard Ojeda" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976

Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010)

Hour Two: In the Build Back Better, Democrats Want to Offer Dental, Vision and Hearing to Seniors - Why Do Conservatives Oppose This? PLUS, Which Direction Will the GOP Move To In 2024...Trump Or Liz Cheney?
- Charles Sauer, Libertarian / Economist & President - The Market Institute / author of Profit Motive: What Drives the Things We Do

Article: "Pramila Jayapal Says 'Votes Aren't There' for Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill " by Andrew Stanton.

Article: "12 states still refuse to expand Medicaid. Why that's a problem for all of us" by Andrea Riquier.

Article: "Medicare Advantage" (Medicare Part C) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Time to End the Medicare Advantage Scam" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Watchdog Suggests Medicare Advantage Customers Underserved At End Of Life" by KHN.

Article: "Splintered GOP led to Trump victory in 2016. Greitens eying the same path in 2022" by Jeff Smith.

Article: "Viktor Orbán" (Hungary) by Wikipedia.

Article: "United States midterm election" by Wikipedia.

Article: "John Lewis Voting Rights Bill Passes House With Zero Republican Votes" by Sharon Zhang.

Bill: "S.4263 - John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act" by Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT].

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: "How is Medicare Advantage plan funded?" by Medicare.

Article: "Manchin trashes Democratic spending bill: 'Fiscal insanity'" by Susan Ferrechio.

Article: "Trump Racks Up $8 Trillion In National Debt Throughout Presidency" by Jake Dima.

Article: "Walmart calls for "strong climate policy now," backs campaign to kill strong climate policy" by Judd Legum.

Article: "Reconciliation bill will include a Clean Energy Standard (Let's keep it TRULY clean)" by Jessica Corbett.

Article: "Project Veritas" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Progressive Pressure Over the Budget Reconciliation Bill Is Creating Establishment Pushback" by David Sirota.

Case: "McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission", 2014

Article: "How Facebook got addicted to spreading misinformation" by Karen Hao.

Article: "Inoculating against misinformation: Finland's efforts to bring media literacy to the classroom" by Nada Zohdy.

Article: "Cambridge Analytica" by Wikipedia.

Tweet: "Simple math:
Clinton compromised. Ds lost House, Senate in 1994
. Obama compromised. Ds lost House in 2010, Senate in 2014.
If Ds abandon their plan to expand Medicare, reduce drug prices and fight poverty, they'll lose the House and the Senate in 2022. [link]" by John Nichols.

Article: "When Democrats Go Small, They Lose Big" by John Nichols.

Article: "Robert Kagan" by Wikipedia.

Hour Three: Media Matters Fact Checks Fox "News" on Covid So You Don't Have To
- Alicia Sadowski, Media Matters Researcher & one of the authors of the report

Article: "Bear bile, vaping, and sunlight: A list of the Fox News' supposed COVID-19 cures and treatments" by Jane Lee & Alicia Sadowski.

Article: "Chris Hayes: Anti-Vax Fox Hosts Don't Have 'Courage' to Call Out Own Employer" by Justin Baragona.

Article: "Fox's effort to undermine vaccines has only worsened" by Rob Savillo & Tyler Monroe.

Article: "Rupert Murdoch receives dose of Covid vaccine in UK" by Archie Bland.

Article: "Fox News implemented vax requirements -- and now '90% of full-time employees are fully vaccinated': internal memo" by Brad Reed.

Article: "How big are fossil fuel subsidies?" by Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.

Article: "'Fire DeJoy' Demand Intensifies as 10-Year Plan to Sabotage Postal Service Takes Effect" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Louis DeJoy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "USPS removed 711 sorting machines this year, new court documents show" by Kristen Holmes and Paul P. Murphy.

Article: "'Long Past Time to Fire DeJoy': Postmaster General's Ex-Company Gets $120 Million Contract" by Jessica Corbett.

Article: "Ron Bloom" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Voting Record" by Joe Manchin.

Article: "Sen. Kyrsten Sinema" by govtrack.

Article: "Report: DeJoy's Ex-Workers Claim Reimbursement by Company for GOP Donations" by Brian Freeman.

Article: "XPO Logistics" by Wikipedia.

Article: "How Ben Franklin Established the US Post Office" by Patrick J. Kiger.

Article: "PBS" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Amtrak" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Top military leaders testify on Afghanistan withdrawal" by Meg Wagner, Melissa Mahtani, Melissa Macaya, Veronica Rocha and Mike Hayes,.

Article: "Poll Finds Parents Largely Split On Vaccinating Young Kids For COVID-19" by Nina Golgowski.

Article: "Why Are Moderates Trying to Blow Up Biden's Centrist Economic Plan?" by Zachary D. Carter.

Article: "Manchin says reconciliation bill must include controversial Hyde Amendment" by Caroline Vakil.

Article: "Hyde Amendment" by Wikipedia.

Article: "All the King's Men (2006 film)" by Wikipedia.

Speech: "Every Man a King -- Radio Speech to the Nation" by Huey Long, 23 February 1934.

Article: "Huey Long" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Demagogue" by Wikipedia.

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