While Brazil's Supreme Court is now pursuing what's called a "Green Docket," here in the US the GOP is supporting a "Shadow Docket" to gut environmental laws that date back to 1972.

Brazil, no environmental hero, is beginning to discuss how to save the rainforest; here in America, SCOTUS is speeding up the poisoning of our environment. When is our media going to figure out that the real threat to our country is not teaching history or acknowledging trans kids?

Brazil's former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has proposed what was once considered a radical solution to slow the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, get global warming under control, and make Brazilians healthier: eat less beef.

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-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Hour One: National Progressive Townhall Meeting
- Representative Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District)

Article: "Federal Judge Strikes Down Mask Mandate for Planes and Public Transit" by Charlie Savage and Heather Murphy.

Article: "Trump-Appointed Judge Deemed 'Not Qualified' by Bar Association Voids Mask Mandate on Planes, Other Travel" by Althea Legaspi.

Article: "Tampa federal judge voids U.S. mask mandate for planes, other travel" by AP.

Article: "Kathryn Kimball Mizelle" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Category:2022 New Mexico elections" by Wikipedia.

Video: Could The End of the 1918 Flu Pandemic Answer COVID-19? (w/ John M. Barry).

Book: The Great Influenza: the Story of the Deadliest Pandemic In History by John M. Barry.

Article: "Nina Turner Mounts Likely Rematch Bid Against Rep. Shontel Brown in Ohio" by Ursula Perano.

Article: "Crypto PAC Throws in $1 Million to Back Ohio Rep. Shontel Brown Over Nina Turner" by Ryan Grim.

Article: "Democratic Majority for Israel" by Wikipedia.

Article: "AMC trading frenzy doubles stock price as movie chain further embraces its retail investors" by Sarah Whitten.

Article: "What The Trading Irregularities Probe Means For AMC Stock" by Bernard Zambonin.

Article: "It's 4/20 Day! Here's why people commemorate the day" by EmilyAnn Jackman.

Article: "Weed is likely to remain federally illegal, but 'cannabis banking' could pass this year" by Julie Hyman.

Article: "G-20 Fossil-Fuel Support Hits Nearly $600 Billion in 2020" by Victoria Cuming and Maia Godemer.

Video: Frontline: The Power of Big Oil (Part One: Denial).

Article: "Congress passes $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, delivering major win for Biden" by Annie Grayer, Manu Raju and Clare Foran.

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

Article: "The 'Iron Stache' wants to take Paul Ryan's district and build a 'Green New Deal'"(2018) by Joe Sandler Clarke .

Article: "2022 Wisconsin elections" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Derrick Van Orden" by Wikipedia.

Article: "DCCC: Derrick Van Orden – insurrectionist, sexual harasser and bully" by .

Article: "GOP Congressional Candidate At Capitol On Jan. 6 Picks Up Trump Endorsement" by Amanda Terkel.

Article: "Does My Mask Protect Me if Nobody Else Is Wearing One?" by Tara Parker-Pope and Knvul Sheikh.

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

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

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

Article: "Lloyd Doggett" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Healthcare" by Lloyd Doggett.

Hour Two: What about inflation profiteering?
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System (now also available as an e-book)

Article: "Inflation profiteering" by Judd Legum.

Article: "Inflation hits fresh 30-year high of 7%" by Oscar Williams-Grut.

Article: "Windfall Tax" by Julia Kagan.

Article: "Fireside Chat. May 26, 1940" by Franklin D. Roosevelt. "Our present emergency and a common sense of decency make it imperative that no new group of war millionaires shall come into being in this nation as a result of the struggles abroad."

Article: "Washington's 3rd Congressional District election, 2022" by BallotPedia.

Article: "America Needs Radical Plans to Save the Environment, Not Supreme Court Secret Sellouts" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "10 Ways Andrew Wheeler Has Decimated EPA Protections in Just One Year" by Photo: Elliott Negin.

Article: "Democrat proposes expanding children's health-insurance plan" by Molly Hunter.

Article: "Combating The Climate Crisis And Pursuing Environmental Justice" by DNC.

Article: "Hunger Crisis Swells Across America" by KHN.

Case: "Jefferson Cty. v. Washington Dept. of Ecology" (1994).

Tweet: "Eu melhorei meu discurso. Não falo só do pessoal voltar a comer churrasco, mas também o pessoal vegetariano, que não come carne, poder comer uma boa salada orgânica, estimularmos uma agricultura mais saudável no nosso país." by Lula (I improved my speech. I'm not just talking about people going back to eating barbecue, but also vegetarian people, who don't eat meat, being able to eat a good organic salad, encouraging healthier agriculture in our country.).

Article: "Who is Andrew Wheeler? Youngkin's Choice for Secretary of Natural Resources and his Environmental Record" by Nicole Duimstra.

Article: "Trump administration makes another bid to slash Chesapeake cleanup funds" by Timothy B. Wheeler.

Article: "EPA unveils plan for non-stick chemicals, but it disappoints clean water proponents" by Gregory Wallace.

Article: "Carper Blasts EPA's NAAQS Proposal on Ozone Pollution" by Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.).

Article: "Brazil Court Reviews Bolsonaro's Environmental Policies" by Andrea Carvalho.

Article: "U.S. Supreme Court Reinstates Environmental Regulation Related to the States' Enforcement Rights Under the Federal Clean Water Act" by Adams and Reese LLP.

Letter: "To Scott Pruit re delayed a formaldehyde report", May 17, 2018 by Ed Markey, Sheldon Whitehouse, Thomas R. Carper.

Video: Republican smear operation exposed in new report.

Article: "The Trump administration scrubs climate change info from websites. These two have survived." by James Rainey.

Article: "Trump administration finalizes coal plant pollution rollback" by AP.

Article: "E.P.A. to Eliminate Office That Advises Agency Chief on Science" by Coral Davenport.

Article: "E.P.A. to Disband a Key Scientific Review Panel on Air Pollution" by Lisa Friedman.

Article: "New E.P.A. Plan Could Free Coal Plants to Release More Mercury Into the Air" by Lisa Friedman.

Article: "Trump Eliminates Major Methane Rule, Even as Leaks Are Worsening" by Coral Davenport.

Article: "Coal Ash: Hazardous to Human Health" by PSR.

Case: "Louisiana v. American Rivers" (2022).

Article: "Trump administration wants to freeze gas-mileage standards, reversing Obama" by Todd Spangler and Nathan Bomey.

Article: "Trump's EPA just replaced Obama's signature climate policy with a much weaker rule" by Umair Irfan.

Article: "Amy Coney Barrett Set To Hear Case Against Shell, Her Dad's Employer For 29 Years" by Alexander C. Kaufman.

Article: "Anne Gorsuch Burford" by Wikipedia.

Video: Sen. Mallory McMorrow (D-MI) shows everyone how to deal with Republican hate in powerful speech.

Article: "Ron DeSantis" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the anti-war left and black people. We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting people to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, break up their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." - John Ehrlichman.

Tweet: "Got a response back from what math textbooks the Department of Education accepted & the full list of who applied. I'm running around this morning but wanted to share ASAP for folks to see.
Books accepted: link
All who applied: link" by Rep. Anna V. Eskamani.

Site: Team Airdrop.

Hour Three: Does the war on Ukraine mark the end of the fossil fuel era?
- 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

Article: "How the war in Ukraine marks the end of the fossil fuel era" by Kingsmill Bond.

Article: "Study: Global warming will stay below 2 degrees C — if countries actually keep their promises " by Naveena Sadasivam.

Article: "Pacific Northwest bakes under once-in-a-millennium heat dome" by Jeff Berardelli.

Article: "We're in a Fossil Fuel War. Biden Should Say So." by Farhad Manjoo.

Article: "US Fossil Fuel Consumption Has Peaked, and Will Never Return" by Gregor Macdonald.

Article: "The Horrifying Lesson Republicans Have Taken From Vladimir Putin" by Justin Rosario.

Article: "Edward R. Murrow" by Wikipedia.

Article: "McCarthy-Welch Exchange: "Have You Left No Sense of Decency?"", 9 June 1954.

Article: "U.S. conservative conference with Hungary's hardline leader reflects Republican divide" (CPAC) by Peter Eisler, Alexandra Ulmer, Anita Komuves and Andrew R.c. Marshall.

Article: "Russia tests nuclear-capable missile that Putin calls world's best" by Mark Trevelyan.

Article: "A barking dog never bites" by TFD.

Article: "Ron DeSantis Threatens Disney's Special Status in Florida" by Nathan Crooks and Danielle Moran.

Site: 350 Chicago.

Article: "Cellulose Insulation: Made from up to 85% Recycled Paper" by CIMA.

Article: "HomeAdvisor" by Wikipedia.

Book: "Walking Your Blues Away: How to Heal the Mind and Create Emotional Well-Being" by Thom Hartmann

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.

Article: "Direct Contracting Model: Professional and Global Options Medicaid Managed Care Organization (MCO)-based Direct Contracting Entity (DCE) Fact Sheet" by CMS.

Article: "The biggest threat to Medicare you've never even heard of" by Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and Susan Rogers, M.D.

Article: "CMS Redesigns Accountable Care Organization Model to Provide Better Care for People with Traditional Medicare " by CMS.

Article: "Joe Biden Is Quietly Pursuing the Creeping Privatization of Medicare" by Branko Marcetic.

Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET

Dr. Marty Goldstein, Integrative Veterinarian specializing in both traditional & alternative / Creator of Nature's Blend / Author, The Nature of Animal Healing — The Definitive Holistic Medicine Guide to Caring for Your Dog and Cat / also, The Spirit of Animal Healing

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