When Donald Trump was doing a reality show for NBC, he was messing with a few peoples lives - and apparently delighting in it - but the impact was minimal. Now he is quite literally running a daily reality show out of the White House and messing with the lives of all Americans and the planet more broadly. He's still delighting in the power and control, but the damage that he's doing now is far greater than what he did to the few people who were his victims on reality TV.

The American press needs to begin covering Trump as a reality show host rather than a president, because that is the simple reality.

-Thom

Friday's Daily Stack

Show LIVE from Netroots Nation in Philadelphia (w/Free Speech TV)

Hour One: How Do We Beat Trump?
- Adam Green, Progressive Change Campaign Committee

Site: PCCC National Candidate Training.

Article: "Progressive Change Campaign Committee" by Wikipedia.

Article: "From Paul Wellstone to Elizabeth Warren" by John Nichols.

Article: "The fight between Ilhan Omar and Elliott Abrams, Trump’s Venezuela envoy, explained" by Zack Beauchamp.

Law: "G.I. Bill" (Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Elizabeth Warren" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Titles of Nobility Amendment" by Wikipedia.

Article: "What we know about the agreement at the heart of Jeffrey Epstein's defense" by Erica Orden.

Site: Free Speech TV

Article: "26th Amendment". Vote for 18 year olds

Site: 91.3 KBCS @ Bellevue College.

Article: "Mandatory evacuations as Tropical Storm Barry threatens to flood New Orleans" by Mark Sumner.

Article: "Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost Was A Member Of Secret Facebook Group" by Ryan Devereaux.

Article: "Mueller testimony likely to be delayed for one week" by Olivia Beavers and Morgan Chalfant.

Article: "Trump's social media summit was a complete embarrassment ... that did just what Trump wanted" by Mark Sumner.

Article: "Acosta resigns amid furor over Epstein plea deal" by Maegan Vazquez and Jim Acosta.

Article: "Dershowitz: 'I Kept My Underwear On' During Massage At Epstein's Mansion" by John Amato.

Article: "Susan Collins, a Fixture in Maine, Has Twin Troubles: Trump and Kavanaugh" by Sheryl Gay Stolberg.

Article: "Venceremos Brigade" by Wikipedia.

Site: France 24.

Site: BBC.

Article: "Joe Sestak, former congressman and 3-star admiral, joins 2020 presidential race" by Musadiq Bidar and Adam Brewster.

Hour Two: How Do We Build An Economy That Works For Everyone?
- Marjorie Kelly, Senior Fellow & Executive Vice President - The Democracy Collaborative (TDC) / Author (w/Ted Howard) "The Making of a Democratic Economy: How to Build Prosperity for the Many, Not the Few "

Book: The Making of a Democratic Economy: How to Build Prosperity for the Many, Not the Few by Marjorie Kelly, Ted Howard.

Article: "Main Street Employee Ownership Act" by Kirsten Gillibrand, Nydia Velazquez.

Article: "Elizabeth Warren's Accountable Capitalism Act, explained" by Matthew Yglesias.

Site: Recology.

Book: "Threshold: The Progressive Plan to Pull America Back from the Brink" by Thom Hartmann

Site: Isthmus Engineering & Manufacturing.

Site: Union Cab of Madison Cooperative.

Site: Green Taxi Cooperative.

Article: "Bank of North Dakota" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Could 2019 Bring a ‘California State Bank’ to Compete with Wall Street?" by Felicia Mello and Ben Christopher.

Book: The Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy by Marjorie Kelly.

Book: "Unequal Protection: The Battle to Save Democracy" by Thom Hartmann (read online)

Book: "Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became "People" - And How You Can Fight Back" by Thom Hartmann - new updated version out now!

Article: "Trump admin stole at least 18 babies as young as 4 months from migrant families, House report says" by Gabe Ortiz.

Article: "Hahnemann University Hospital to Close, Leaving Thousands Out of Work" by NBC10 Staff.

Conference For American Muslim Activists
- Ghazala Salam, Muslim Caucus Education Collective

Event: Washington D.C., July 23-24: "First Annual Conference; Muslim Collective for Equitable Democracy in Washington D.C.".

Article: "Ilhan Omar" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tucker Carlson: Omar 'living proof' US immigration laws are 'dangerous'" by Tal Axelrod.

Article: "Bill O'Reilly's Dangerous War Against Dr. Tiller" by David S. Cohen.

Article: "Trump’s History of Using 9/11 for Political Attacks" by Sarah Maslin Nir.

Quote: "When the clergy addressed Genl. Washington on his departure from the govmt, it was observed in their consultation that he had never on any occasion said a word to the public which showed a belief in the Xn religion and they thot they should so pen their address as to force him at length to declare publicly whether he was a Christian or not. They did so. However he observed the old fox was too cunning for them. He answered every article of their address particularly except that, which he passed over without notice." - Thomas Jefferson .

Talk Media News Segment:
- Luke Vargas, "The World in 2:00" with Luke Vargas

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Book: Loving What You Do: The Elements of a Great Working Life by Ellen Ratner.

Article: "Top General: Pentagon Considering Escorts After Iran Incident at Hormuz" by Paul D. Shinkman.

Article: "Persian Gulf: UK to send second warship to Middle East amid rising tensions" by Andrew Woodcock, Borzou Daragahi.

Article: "The Geo-Politics of the Strait of Hormuz: Could the U.S. Navy be defeated by Iran in the Persian Gulf?" by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya.

Article: "House Says Trump Can’t Go To War With Iran Unless Congress Approves" by Alex Emmons.

Tweet: "President Obama made a desperate and terrible deal with Iran - Gave them 150 Billion Dollars plus I.8 Billion Dollars in CASH! Iran was in big trouble and he bailed them out. Gave them a free path to Nuclear Weapons, and SOON. Instead of saying thank you, Iran yelled....." by Donald J. Trump.

Tweet: "....Death to America. I terminated deal, which was not even ratified by Congress, and imposed strong sanctions. They are a much weakened nation today than at the beginning of my Presidency, when they were causing major problems throughout the Middle East. Now they are Bust!...." by Donald J. Trump.

Tweet: "....On Monday they shot down an unmanned drone flying in International Waters. We were cocked & loaded to retaliate last night on 3 different sights when I asked, how many will die. 150 people, sir, was the answer from a General. 10 minutes before the strike I stopped it, not...." by Donald J. Trump.

Tweet: "....proportionate to shooting down an unmanned drone. I am in no hurry, our Military is rebuilt, new, and ready to go, by far the best in the world. Sanctions are biting & more added last night. Iran can NEVER have Nuclear Weapons, not against the USA, and not against the WORLD!" by Donald J. Trump.

Hour Three: How Trump Got Trade Wrong
- Lori Wallach, Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch

Article: "North American Free Trade Agreement" (NAFTA) by Wikipedia

Article: "Analysis of the NAFTA 2.0 Text Relative to the Essential Changes We Have Demanded to Stop NAFTA's Ongoing Damage" by Public Citizen.

Article: "Investor-state dispute settlement" (ISDS)

Article: "Pelosi Slow-Walks Trump's New Nafta Deal" by Glenn Thrush and Ana Swanson.

Article: "Trade deficit up more than 8 percent in May" by Niv Elis.

Article: "Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement" (TPP) by EFF

Article: "MindGeek" (TrafficJunky) by Wikipedia.

Site: Advocating Opportunity.

Article: "New U.S. Policy Raises Risk of Deportation for Immigrant Victims of Trafficking" by Martin De Bourmont.

Time We Have a 'For the People' Agenda in the Senate
- Senator Jeff Merkley,

Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2019" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].

Bill: "S.949 - For the People Act of 2019" by Sen. Udall, Tom [D-NM].

Article: "Discharge petition" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Filibuster" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Federalist No. 22 The Same Subject Continued: Other Defects of the Present Confederation" by Alexander Hamilton.

State of Maine
- David Sullivan, Grand Lodge Rep for the Eastern Territory of the International Machinist's Union - Maine to DC

Site: New England Loggers Cooperative.

Article: "Inflation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Treaty of Versailles" by Wikipedia (28 June 1919, at the end of World War I).

Video: Is Our Economy Completely Screwed? (w/ professor Steve Keen).

Video: Trump Reducing Interest Rates to be Re-elected (w/ Richard Wolff).

Article: "Democrat Ilhan Omar becomes one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress" by Tara Golshan.

Immigrant political participation
- Sayu Bhojwani, Founder and President of New American Leaders & Author, People Like Us: Knocking at Democracy’s Door

Video: Sayu Bhojwani: Immigrant voices make democracy stronger.

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

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Lori Wallach Exposes How Trump Got Trade Wrong

Could Political Education Cure Trump Supporters?

How Mass Surveillance Targets Muslim People

Trump Reducing Interest Rates to be Re-elected (w/ Richard Wolff)