Following a 16-year bet Republicans laid down in 2006 to block Postal EVs, DeJoy just told Biden to go screw himself: he's going to buy fossil-fuel vehicles for 90% of the fleet instead of electric.

The Republicans are about to win a major battle in their war on electric vehicles, this time with the second largest vehicle fleet in America owned by the US Postal Service. It's an outrageous story that most Americans don't know a thing about.

To understand what's going on with the Post Office right now, you first must know the backstory that, it seems, most media outlets aren't interested in discussing. It's an issue that's hitting millions of Americans right now.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Friday's Daily Stack

Hour One: Progressive Town Hall
- Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA, 17th District)

Article: "Joe Manchin says Build Back Better 'dead' as talks stall on Biden agenda" by Clare Foran, Manu Raju and Ted Barrett.

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

Bill: "S.2747 - Freedom to Vote Act" by Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN].

Article: "Electoral Count Act of 1887" by Wikipedia.

Article: "What the Electoral Count Act is -- and why some argue reforming it can protect future elections" by Paul LeBlanc.

Article: "Innovation Act" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rep. Khanna Speaks Against Increasing Pentagon Budget Above Biden's Request During NDAA Markup" by Ro Khanna.

Article: "Trouble for DeJoy? Biden makes new choices for USPS board" by Steve Benen.

Bill: "H.R.4447 - Clean Economy Jobs and Innovation Act" by Rep. O'Halleran, Tom [D-AZ-1].

Article: "House passes bill to ease Postal Service financial woes " by Nicholas Wu and Hailey Fuchs.

Article: "Some Medicare Advantage plans overcharged the government by billions of dollars and got away with it" by Fred Schulte.

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. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."

Article: "San Bernardino County sheriff disputes claims of illegal cash seizures from armored vehicles " by Scott Schwebke.

Article: "California utilities contributed $1.7M to coalition aiming to squash solar subsidies" by Sharon Udasin.

Article: "RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel says January 6 committee is a 'Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens who engaged in legitimate political discourse'" by Bryan Metzger.

Article: "Prices climbed 7.5% in January, compared with last year, continuing inflation's fastest pace in 40 years" by Rachel Siegel and Andrew Van Dam.

Book: The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich by Thom Hartmann.

Quote: "Figures Don't Lie, But Liars Do Figure" - anon.

Article: "Trump took multiple boxes of White House documents, including letters from Kim Jong Un and Barack Obama, to Mar-a-Lago: report" by Grace Panetta.

Article: "Haberman book: Flushed papers found clogging Trump WH toilet" by Mike Allen.

Article: "Newsom backs away from single-payer health care pledge " by Dan Walters.

Article: "Guerrilla theatre" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Abbie Hoffman" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jerry Rubin" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Biden To Propose Largest Pay Hike For Fed Employees In 20 Years" by Susie Madrak.

Article: "House unveils 2022 calendar" by Niels Lesniewski.

Article: "Why Republicans Now LOVE the Post Office" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "2006 Annual Report United States Postal Service" by USPS.

Article: "John M. McHugh" by Wikipedia.

Tweet: "Here's what happened, @SenGaryPeters. Around 2006 the post office rolled out a plan to convert their entire fleet to electric vehicles. They had a $ surplus and could do it. Republicans pushed a bill to cripple them financially. Now DeJoy has chosen a diesel truck vendor…" by Thom Hartmann.

Tweet: "Which is why now Republicans are willing to go along with funding the Post Office, because now the money will continue to flow to the fossil fuel industry for the avg. 30-year lifespan of postal vehicles. Look to the (ahem) petrobillionaires for the hand behind all this." by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "EPA, White House warn Louis DeJoy to halt plan to replace USPS fleet with gas-powered trucks" by Ella Nilsen.

Article: "Postal Service Converts Mail-Delivery Van to Hybrid Technology".

Article: "The IRS Admits It Doesn't Audit the Rich Because It's Too Hard" by Luke Darby.

Article: "ALEC/Koch Cabal Pushing Privatization of the US Postal Service for UPS and FedEx…" by Bob Sloan.

Article: "Coalition Calls for Postal Service Fleet Transition to Plug-in Hybrids".

Article: "House Strikes Back At Louis DeJoy By Passing Bill To Strengthen USPS" by Jason Easley.

Article: "Senator Whitehouse Calls For Confirmation Of USPS Board Of Governors Nominees To Address Major Operational Problems Under Postmaster General Dejoy" by Postal Times.

Law: "Unfunded Pensions Liabilities Act".

Article: "Biden officials push to hold up $11.3 billion USPS truck contract, citing climate damage" by Anna Phillips and Jacob Bogage.

Article: "Biden wants an all-electric federal fleet. The question is: How will he achieve it?" by Sarah Kaplan.

Article: "Georgia's 14th congressional district" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Georgia's 14th Congressional District election, 2022" (MTG) by BallotPedia.

Article: "Marjorie Taylor Greene" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jeff Bezos' new megayacht is so big, the Dutch are going to have to take apart a historic bridge to let it pass" by Avery Hartmans.

Book: "Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else" by Chrystia Freeland.

Book: The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Starbucks workers at Buffalo store vote to unionize" by Chris Isidore.

Article: "Starbucks fires Memphis workers seeking unionization" by Shawna Chen.

Article: "GOP Rep. Says Americans Must Own Enough Weapons to Overthrow the Government if 30-40% Agree on 'Tyranny'" by David Badash.

Video: NBC News Exclusive: One-on-one with President Biden.

Article: "Federal judge approves $65 million class-action settlement in Hoosick Falls" by Brendan J. Lyons.

Article: "350.org" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Democrats who voted against public option got $19 million from healthcare firms " by Muriel Kane.

Book: Such things are known by Dorothy Burdick.

Book: The History of England: as Well Ecclesiastical as Civil by M. Rapin De Thoyras (Paul).

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

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

Article: "Body of woman found sitting at a table, 2 years after her death" by CBSNews.

Article: "Brian Flores is no longer keeping quiet about the NFL's fraudulent attempts at diversity" by Gary Washburn.

Article: "Brian Flores" by Wikipedia.

Hour Three: What BBB means to West Virginians
- Kathy Ferguson, Interim Executive Director - Our Future West Virginia

Article: "Kyrsten Sinema" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Joe Manchin" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Neighbor to Neighbor: Invest in WV: Statewide Canvass" by West Virginia Working Families Party.

Article: "West Virginians say Joe Manchin betrayed them and still have hope the Build Back Better bill will pass" by Alexandra Martinez.

Article: "Joe Manchin targeted by millions of dollars in ad buys from all sides" by Brie Stimson.

Site: The Blue Ridge Breakdown.

It's Anything Goes Friday!

Article: "Year One What Biden Has Done Mega Thread" by whatbidenhasdone.

Video: What Biden Has Done That You Don't Know!.

Article: "Heart-disease risk soars after COVID — even with a mild case" by Xie, Y., Xu, E., Bowe, B. & Al-Aly.

Article: "Omicron sends more kids to the hospital than previous variants, but that may not be the virus' fault" by Mark Sumner.

Article: "Hundreds of e-commerce sites booby-trapped with payment card-skimming malware" by Dan Goodin.

Article: "Canada's 2 Biggest Parties Have a 'Freedom Convoy' Problem. Conservatives Especially." by Anya Zoledziowski.

Article: "White House responds to report Russia will invade Ukraine: 'We are ready either way' – live " by Joan E Greve.

Article: "White House Tells Americans to Leave Ukraine 'Immediately' " by Zachary Evans.

Article: "Florida water quality experts using bubbles to fight algae".

Article: "Black History Month" by history.com.

Article: "Nashville sit-ins" (1960) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Stokely Carmichael" by Wikipedia.

Site: Daily Kos.

Article: "Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Time is running out for Biden's Justice Department to prosecute Trump for 10 possible crimes detailed in the Mueller report" by C. Ryan Barber.

Article: "For Fraction of Pentagon Budget, World Could Prevent 1.5 Million Covid Deaths" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Johnson & Johnson temporarily stops COVID vax production: report" by Joshua Rhett Miller.

Article: "TRIPS Waiver (COVID)" by Wikipedia.

Twitter: "Eric Topol".

Article: "DHS Issues National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) Bulletin" (February 07, 2022) by DHS.

Article: "Kim Iversen: Free Speech Now Labeled As Domestic Terrorism By DHS" by Tyler Stone.

Article: "Conservative justices rescue Alabama's racially discriminatory map" by Steve Benen.

Article: "Car companies stand to make billions by charging you monthly fees for add-on features like heated seats" by Tim Levin.

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