White freak-out about Black people having weapons back in the 1960s was a stronger motivator for Republicans than today’s slaughter of innocent children - at least so far...

On May 2, 1967, the destinies of Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, and Ronald Reagan collided. The day saved untold thousands of lives.

At the time, California was an open-carry state with few gun restrictions. Governor Reagan was on the steps of the State Capitol to meet and share lunch with a group of visiting 8th graders when Newton, Seale, and nearly 30 other Black Panthers pulled up out front in a small caravan of cars.

Armed with everything from pistols to 12-gauge shotguns, they climbed the half-dozen steps to the area around the front doors of the building. Bobby pulled out a prepared statement, and read to the students and people in front of the capitol...

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-Thom

Friday's Daily Stack

Article: "Gun Control: How Reagan’s Racism Once Saved Lives and is Today Killing America's Children" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "California Assembly Final Histories: AB-1591".

Article: "2008–2016 United States ammunition shortage" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'It explodes the wound all over again' | Uvalde shooting elicits memories of 1989 Stockton school shooting" by Kurt Rivera.

Book: Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton by Bobby Seale.

Article: "Gun deaths by state, ranked" by Leslie Gornstein.

Article: "Firearm Mortality by State" by CDC.

Article: "Majority of Guns Used in Chicago Crimes Come From Outside Illinois: Report" by Shelby Bremer.

Article: "Lessons in Gun Control From California" by Sabrina Tavernise.

Article: "United States Navy SEALs" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series)" by Wikipedia.

Movie: "Top Gun: Maverick".

Article: "Ghost gun" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Stephen Hawking warns artificial intelligence could end mankind" by Rory Cellan-Jones.

Movie: "2001: A Space Odyssey".

Article: "'Demonic' AI generating its own secret written language that nobody can understand" by Ciaran Daly.

Article: "Robb Elementary School shooting" (Uvalde, Texas, 2022) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Gunman at a Texas elementary school kills 19 students and two adults before being fatally shot, officials say" by Eric Levenson, Andy Rose and Steve Almasy.

Article: "Guns have become the leading cause of death for American kids" by Caitlin Owens.

Article: "The Turner Diaries" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Camp of the Saints" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Protests erupt outside NRA convention" by Reuters.

Article: "Biden to visit Saudi Arabia, a country he vowed to treat as a 'pariah'" by Carol E. Lee, Josh Lederman, Courtney Kube and Andrea Mitchel.

Article: "OPEC Plus agrees to a bigger increase in oil supply. But prices keep rising." by Stanley Reed.

Article: "Mohammed bin Salman" (MBS) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Cheese, Bro' ...Chuck Grassley was in on the attempted coup" by annieli.

Article: "‘It's going to be an army': Tapes reveal GOP plan to contest elections" by Heidi Przybyla.

Movie: "Goodfellas".

Article: "Normandy landings" by Wikipedia.

Site: Indivisible.

Site: MoveOn.org.

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

Article: "There Is Way More Biden Can Do to Lower Prices" by Ro Khanna.

Article: "Where do gun reform talks stand in Congress after Biden's address?" by Rachel Scott, Allison Pecorin, and Libby Cathey.

Article: "Oakland students, teachers and parents condemn proposal to close schools at board meeting" by Ali Tadayon.

Article: "Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team (FCMAT)".

Site: Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team (FCMAT).

Article: "Rep. Lee and Sen. Sanders Introduce Tax on Wall Street Speculation Act to Curb Greed " by Barbara Lee.

Article: "Full List of Republican Senators Who Receive Funding From the NRA" by Ewan Palmer.

Bill: "H.R.2814 - Equal Access to Justice for Victims of Gun Violence Act" by Rep. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA-28].

Law: "Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act" (PLCAA) (Child Safety Lock Act of 2005).

Article: "Dickey Amendment" (1996) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Full Transcript: Biden’s Speech on Guns" (June 2 2022).

Article: "CBS Chief Les Moonves Says Trump's 'Damn Good' For Business" by Nick Visser.

Article: "Donald Trump Rode $5 Billion in Free Media to the White House" by Emily Stewart.

Article: "Rick Scott's '11 Point Plan to Rescue America' is so insane it's basically a gift to the Democrats " by Jeffrey C. Billman.

Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].

Article: "Gunman who killed 4 at Tulsa hospital was patient of doctor who is among the dead" by Timothy Bella, Bryan Pietsch, Hannah Knowles and Meryl Kornfield.

Law: "Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994" ("DSHEA").

Article: "Americans Should Know What Is In Dietary Supplements" by Dick Durbin.

Book: The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened by Bill McKibben.

Article: "Heat Pumps for Peace and Freedom" by Bill McKibben.

Article: "War Powers Resolution" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Members of Congress Introduce Bipartisan War Powers Resolution to End Unauthorized U.S. Involvement in Saudi War in Yemen" by Adam Schiff.

Hour Three: New Study Shows the Climate is Changing Faster then Scientists Thought
- 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: "New Study shows the climate is changing much faster than Climatologists had thought" by Lefty Coaster.

Article: "Scientists reveal the backstory of what happened last summer in the deadly 2021 Pacific NW heatwave." by Pakalolo.

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

Article: "Ridge (meteorology)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Antarctic ice shelf nearly the size of Los Angeles collapsed as temperatures soared to 40 above normal" by Rachel Ramirez and Hafsa Khalil.

Article: "How humid air, intensified by climate change, is melting Greenland ice" by Kasha Patel.

Article: "What is coral bleaching?" by National Ocean Service.

Article: "Fisheries, low oxygen and climate change: how much do we really know?" by B L Townhill, J K Pinnegar, D A Righton, J D Metcalfe.

Article: "Controversial geoengineering scheme will dump iron in the sea" by Adam Vaughan.

Article: "Ocean acidification" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The ocean has absorbed more than 90% of the heat gained by the planet" by Rachel Cooper.

Article: "The Right’s Violence Problem" by David Leonhardt.

Article: "Joseph Stalin" (Russia) by Wikipedia.

Progressives Slam 'Phony' Manchin...
- Troy Miller, Social Security Works - West Virginia Organizer / (Writer - The Blue Ridge Breakdown)

Article: "Progressives Slam 'Phony' Manchin for Pushing Lower Drug Prices After Killing BBB" by Jessica Corbett.

Article: "Big Pharma's greed is fueling inflation" by Troy N. Miller.

Article: "Halliburton Subsidiary Gets Contract to Add Temporary Immigration Detention Centers" (2006) by Rachel L. Swarns.

Article: "Trump’s false or misleading claims total 30,573 over 4 years" by Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly.

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

Site: Move to Amend.

Article: "Trump uses Defense Production Act to order meat processing plants to stay open " by Alex Gangitano.

Article: "Blackstone bets $550M on mobile homes" by TRD.

Article: "Justices Rule Police Do Not Have a Constitutional Duty to Protect Someone" by Linda Greenhouse.

Site: MedCram: Medicine Explained Clearly.

Site: U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Article: "Sandy Hook families settle for $73M with gun maker Remington" by Dave Collins.

Article: "Iowa gunman kills ex-girlfriend, another woman, then himself in church parking lot, sheriff says" by Jay Croft.

Law: "2nd Amendment". A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed..

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

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