Student debt is a crime against our nation, weakening our intellectual infrastructure - Any nation's single biggest asset is a well-educated populace and student debt diminishes that.

Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) along with 55 colleagues just sent a letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona requesting both details and rapid action on President Biden's campaign promise to forgive student debt in America.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Friday's Daily Stack

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

Quote of the day: "The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election" - Gerald R. Ford.

Article: "Father's Day" by Wikipedia.

Article: "White House seeks $500 mln for farmers to grow more wheat, pay for market loans" by Leah Douglas and P.j. Huffstutter.

Article: "Remarks by President Biden on Supporting Farmers and American Families ".

Article: "12th Amendment". "the President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted"

Law: "25th Amendment" (presidential succession).

Article: "Sen. Grassley confuses DC over whether he will handle electoral certification " by Steven Nelson.

Article: "Betsy DeVos Says Trump Cabinet — Including Pence — Discussed 25th Amendment to Remove Him From Office" by Kipp Jones.

Event: June 18: "Mass Poor People's & Low-Wage Workers' Assembly & Moral March on Washington and to the Polls".

Site: Poor People's Campaign.

Article: "January 6 committee division on criminal referrals surfaces long-simmering debate behind the scenes" by Zachary Cohen, Ryan Nobles and Annie Grayer.

Article: "Raskin: Jan. 6 committee will convince ‘reasonable’ people Trump knew he lost" by Zach Schonfeld.

Article: "Nixon shock" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Exclusive: House Democrats call for Biden to ban oil exports and tap emergency reserves" by Ro Khanna.

Article: "Release: Rep. Khanna Calls for Investigation of Aerospace Defense Contractor Business Practices" by Ro Khanna.

Bill: "H.R.4853 - Medical Device Nonvisual Accessibility Act of 2021" by Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9].

Article: "William Barber II" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The U.S. needs to place an export ban on oil, says Rep. Ro Khanna" by CNBC.

Article: "Dems Introduce Windfall Tax on Big Oil So Companies 'Pay a Price When They Price Gouge'" by Andrea Germanos.

Article: "Louis DeJoy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ginni Thomas and the Jan. 6 Committee Are on a Collision Course" by Brendan Cole.

Article: "Congress nears deal to reform how Electoral College votes are counted" by PBS News Hour.

Hour Two: Who Is Bankrolling White Nationalist Hate Groups?
- Alex Kotch, Investigative reporter with the Media and Democracy / Campaign finance expert - helped launch the money-in-politics website Sludge / Contributor to The American Prospect, The Nation, and Vice.com

Article: "Buffalo Murderer’s Manifesto Cites White Nationalist Groups Bankrolled by DonorsTrust" by Alex Kotch.

Article: "DonorsTrust" by SourceWatch .

Article: "VDARE" by Peter Brimelow.

Article: "American Renaissance" by SPLC.

Site: "Convention of States".

Article: "What is ALEC" by ALEC Exposed.

Article: "James E. Casey" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Annie E. Casey Foundation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Oil Nations, Prodded by Trump, Reach Deal to Slash Production" by Clifford Krauss.

Article: "Forgiving Student Debt Isn't Giving a Gift - It's Righting a Wrong" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "A chat with David Stockman".

Article: "GI Bill of Rights: A Profitable Investment for the United States" by Labor Party.

Book: Over Here: How the G.I. Bill Transformed the American Dream by Edward Humes.

Article: "List of land-grant universities" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Educational Legacy of Ronald Reagan" by Gary K. Clabaugh.

Tweet: "We led a letter with 55 colleagues to @SecCardona requesting information on how the Department of Education will carry out President Biden's executive order to cancel student debt.
It is important that borrowers get relief quickly and aren't hampered by unnecessary roadblocks." by Rep. Ilhan Omar.

Book: Thirteenth Man: A Reagan Cabinet Memoir by Terrel H. Bell.

Article: "How US students get a university degree for free in Germany" by Franz Strasser.

Article: "Student Loan Statistics" by Chamber of Commerce.

Article: "What Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan would mean for borrowers" by Annie Nova.

Article: "GI Bill created generation of business leaders" by Mary Paulsell.

Article: "Ronald Reagan – the Out–House President" by Andrew Seifter.

Article: "Student loans forgiveness a slap in the face to millions" by Bethany Mandel.

Article: "Morrill Land Act" by State Historical Society of North Dakota.

Article: "Media Matters exposes Bennett: "[Y]ou could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down"" by Andrew Seifter.

Article: "Trends in U.S. Study Abroad" by NAFSA.

Article: "Ronald Reagan Is Giving 'Em Heck" by Jerry Anderson.

Article: "8 Countries Where US Students Can Study For Free In Europe" by Helen Scarr.

Article: "Born of Controversy: The GI Bill of Rights" by VA.

Article: "My students pay too much for college. Blame Reagan." by Devin Fergus.

Article: "IRS funding, technology assessed in House hearing" by Paul Bonner.

Article: "Internal Revenue Service" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Charles Rettig" (IRS) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Scientific American: Western Megadrought 'Worst In 1,200 Years'" by Susie Madrak.

Article: "Desalination" by Wikipedia.

Article: "What Would An American Fascist Government Look Like?" by Thom Hartmann.

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

Article: "United States Crude Oil Production" by Trading Economics.

Article: "Articles of Confederation".

Article: "Shays' Rebellion" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The NRA Supported Gun Control When the Black Panthers Had the Weapons" by Thad Morgan.

Movie: "The Spook Who Sat by the Door".

Article: "Poor People’s March on Washington Saturday Demands “Moral Reset” on Poverty, Voting Rights, Climate" by Democracy Now!

Speech: "1944 State of the Union Address" (Second Bill of Rights or Economic Bill of Rights Speech) by Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Article: "Government Pension Fund of Norway" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Alaska Permanent Fund" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot by Russell Kirk.

Article: "How Joe Lieberman helped the Democrats lose the election" by Ezra Klein.

Article: "Tom Carper" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Universal health care bill dies in California" by AP.

Article: "Everything You Need To Know About Block Grants — The Heart Of GOP’s Medicaid Plans" by Shefali Luthra.

Article: "Why single payer died in Vermont " by Sarah Wheaton.

Article: "Five Questions About the Medicare Waiver" by Johns Hopkins Physicians.

Bill: "H.R.5905 - Sgt. Isaac Woodard, Jr. and Sgt. Joseph H. Maddox GI Bill Restoration Act of 2021" by Rep. Moulton, Seth [D-MA-6].

Article: "Jan. 6 Latest: Trump Team Raised $250 Million on Fraud Claims" by Billy House and Chris Strohm.

Article: "Pro-Trump Turning Point group paid Guilfoyle's $60,000 January 6 speaking fee, sources tell CNN" by Kara Scannell.

Article: "Colbert Super PAC" by Wikipedia.

Site: Save Soil.

Article: "Dust Bowl" by Wikipedia.

Article: "We are facing soil extinction! What it is, why you must care" by Vaibhav Agarwal.

Article: "The 700 Club" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jubilee (biblical)" by Wikipedia.

Site: National Action Network.

Site: Indivisible.

The 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in - New Info
- Lamar Waldron, Political Commentator / JFK Historian & Author of numerous books, including Watergate: The Hidden History: Nixon, The Mafia, and The CIA.

Book: "Ultimate Sacrifice" by Lamar Waldron with Thom Hartmann.

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

Article: "Half a century later, Watergate remains that crazy thing we can’t forget" by Michael Granberry.

Article: "Watergate scandal" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Richard Nixon" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Roger Stone" by Wikipedia.

Article: "How Roger Stone Connects Donald Trump to Richard Nixon" by Lily Rothman.

Article: "Roy Cohn" by Wikipedia.

Movie: "Nixon".

Article: "1954 Guatemalan coup d'état" by Wikipedia.

Article: "E. Howard Hunt" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Dwight D. Eisenhower" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fulgencio Batista" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jimmy Hoffa" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fidel Castro" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Frank Sturgis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bernard Barker" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bay of Pigs Invasion" (1961) by Wikipedia.

Article: "James W. McCord Jr" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Alexander Haig" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Alexander Butterfield" by Wikipedia.

Article: "John Roselli" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jack Anderson (columnist)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "White House Plumbers" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Pentagon Papers" by Wikipedia.

Article: "G.I.s’ Drug Use in Vietnam Soared—With Their Commanders’ Help" by Adam Janos.

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.

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

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