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Brad Friedman, The Brad Blog. Suppressing the vote.
Tony Trupiano, Host-First Shift with Tony Trupiano. Emg. Manager shenanigans & petitions denied for wrong "font".
Jason Leopold, Lead investigative reporter-Truthout / News Junkie. From Hopeful Immigrant to FBI Informant...
How will the Koch's make millions if the Republicans crash the Government?

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23% of all American children live in poverty

Anyone who doubts the United States has been in an economic free fall for the last three decades should check out the new United Nations Children’s Fund report on child poverty. OF the 34 wealthiest nations looked at by UNICEF – the United States has the second highest child poverty rate of all of them – with a staggering 23% of all American children living in poverty.

Only two nations – the United States and Romania have child poverty rates above 20%. That number would be even higher except for federal life lines like food stamps – which reduced the number of children in extreme poverty by half last year. Unfortunately – with unemployment benefits expiring around the nation – and Republicans gutting the food stamp programs – things could get a lot tougher for children in America.

-Thom

(How can a rich country like America let this happen to its children? Tell us here.)

Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... Anti-Obama ad...written & produced by Fox "GOP TV" News (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)

Need to Know: Anti-Obama ad...written & produced by Fox "GOP TV" News

Lone Liberal Rumble:
- Adam Bitely, NetRightDaily.com

- Michael Warren, The Weekly Standard

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Bailed Out BofA outsourcing jobs
- Congressman Tim Bishop (D-NY, 1st district)

Romney Attacks Student Loan Reform, Touts For-Profit Colleges
- Mike Papantonio, Attorney/Host-Ring of Fire Radio

Daily Take: How will the Koch's make millions if Republicans crash the government?

Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET

Hour One: Suppressing the vote
- Brad Friedman, The Brad Blog

Emg. Manager shenanigans & petitions denied for wrong "font"
- Tony Trupiano, Host-First Shift with Tony Trupiano

Hour Two: From Hopeful Immigrant to FBI Informant...
- Jason Leopold, Lead investigative reporter-Truthout / News Junkie

Hour Three: How will the Koch's make millions if the Republicans crash the Government?

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Tuesday's Daily Stack

Hour One: One week to recall...Did Scott Walker Lie Under Oath to Congress?
- John Nichols, The Nation Magazine

Book: "Uprising: How Wisconsin Renewed the Politics of Protest, from Madison to Wall Street" by John Nichols.

Article: "House Members Seek Answers From Scott Walker Amid New Evidence of Lying to Congress" by John Nichols.

Article: "Wisconsin Recall Debate: Tom Barrett Aggressively Goes After Scott Walker In First Face-Off" by Amanda Terkel.

Article: "Scott Walker's Recall Hypocrisy" by John Nichols.

Article: "Wisconsin's Still A National Fight" by CNN.

Article: "Wisconsin recall: DNC’s Debbie Wasserman Schultz sees no national impact if Democrats lose " by Felicia Sonmez.

Article: "Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker to win the 5 June 2012 recall election " by InTrade.

Article: "3 Years After Taxpayer Bailout, Bank of America Ships Jobs Overseas" by Josh Harkinson.

Article: "Coal Industry Pays Fake Activists $50 To Wear Pro-Coal Shirts At Public Hearing" by Rebecca Leber.

Article: "Citizens’ United May Perversely Block Public Financing to Candidate OUTSPENT 10 to 1 By Private $" by Cynthia B Hall.

Site: "Cynthia B Hall for PRC".

Article: "Out of Reach 2012" by Elina Bravve, Megan Bolton, Linda Couch, Sheila Crowley.

Map: "Hours At Minimum Wage Needed To Afford Rent" by NLIHC.

Hour Two: Get out your tin foil hat for the new GOP platform
- Mark Williams, Former Chair-Tea Party Express

Article: "Iowa’s GOP Platform Endorses Birtherism" by Annie-Rose Strasser.

Site: "Reform Party".

Site: Republic Report.

Site: "Progressive Democrats of America".

Article: "Another View - A letter to the good people of Iowa: Are you crazy?" by Mark Potok.

Article: "Al Qaeda’s No. 2 leader in Afghanistan killed in NATO airstrike" by Sebastian Abbot.

Article: "Secret ‘Kill List’ Proves a Test of Obama’s Principles and Will" by Jo Becker and Scott Shane.

Book: "War Is A Lie" by David Swanson.

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Victoria Jones, White House Correspondent

Article: "White House sees 'chaos and carnage' in arming Syrian rebels" by Jeremy Herb.

Article: "Obama Would Rather Not Use Force Against Assad" by Geoff Holtzman.

Article: "House to begin debate Wednesday on bill banning abortions based on sex of child" by Ed O'Keefe.

Article: "Medal of Freedom awards bestowed to Bob Dylan, 12 others" by AP.

Hour Three: Congressmen obey lobbyists...request carcinogens in their own offices
- Lee Fang, RepublicReport.org

Article: "Congressmen Fulfill Lobbyist Request, File Letter Requesting Carcinogenic Chemicals In Their Own Buildings" by Lee Fang.

Article: "Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Chemical companies, Big Tobacco and the toxic products in your home" by Chicago Tribune.

Article: "Bill Moyers# Test Results" by PBS.

Article: "Healthy Milk, Healthy Baby: Chemical Pollution and Mother's Milk" by NRDC.

Article: "Romney playing with Trump-brand fire?" by Maggie Haberman.

Article: "The Bikini Graph is back: 115,000 jobs added, unemployment drops to 8.1%" by GottaLaff.

The good: "Arizona Homeowners File Suit Against State for Foreclosure Fraud Settlement Fund Raid" by David Dayen.

The bad: "Gov. John Kasich denies clemency for death row inmate Abdul Awkal" by Joe Guillen.

The very, very ugly: Todd Akin: "Senate Candidate Suggests He Wants to Eliminate Voters’ Right to Elect Him" by Alex Brown.

Article: "Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002" (McCain-Feingold).

Article: "26th Amendment".

Article: "27th Amendment".

Article: "Conservatives ramp up dirty tricks leading up to June 5 recall election" by Zach W.

Article: "Florida grabs a ($33.4 million) chunk of foreclosure settlement money for state budget".

Article: "EXCLUSIVE: Florida Telling Hundreds Of Eligible Citizens That They Are Ineligible To Vote" by Judd Legum.

Article: "U.S. Winds Down Longer Benefits for the Unemployed" by Shaila Dewan.

Article: "On Twitter, Koch Group Offers Illinois Residents Free Food, Trips To Wisconsin To Support Governor Scott Walker" by Lee Fang.

Article: "Syria violence: Families herded ‘like sheep’ to die in Houla massacre" by Khaled Yacoub Oweis.

Article: "Tuna caught off California carry radiation from the Japanese disaster, Stanford scientist finds" by Katy Ashe.

Article: "Romney Clinches Nomination" by Geoff Holtzman.

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Hour Two: How to Avoid the Austerity Trap But Still Deal With the Budget Deficit
- Robert Reich, former U.S. Labor Secretary & Professor-U.C. Berkeley

Geeky Science Rocks - Could a Fertility Gene Discovery Lead to New Male Contraception?

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Crazy Alert! Belligerent and Blotted Bovines

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Get out your tin foil hat for the new GOP platform

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The new "kill list"...making America weaker?

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The Good, The Bad and The Very Very Catecheticalously Ugly!

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Your Take/My Take Jean-Marc - from the village Trets, So. France

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The Florida election fix is in for 2012

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Charlie the tuna glows in the dark?

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Full Show 5/29/12: The GOP Platform?

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Thom discusses if Romney will adopt Iowa's Republican platform which calls for things like ending abortion and banning pornography. Also discussed: if Governor Scott Walker will survive the recall effort against him in Wisconsin, the latest evidence that the Fukushima disaster is effecting the U.S. and in tonight's "Daily Take" Thom looks at what Governor Rick Scott is doing to secure a Florida win for Romney in November.

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