Trump's rally in Tulsa this weekend and his moving the Republican convention to Florida both demonstrate that he is more than willing to take actions that will kill Americans in order to get his ego stroked and increase his chances of reelection.

A new book by Trump's niece tells the story of how Donald Trump cut off payments for his nephew's medical treatment, who had cerebral palsy, as a negotiating weapon to extract more money from his father's estate.

Meanwhile, scientists report that if more than 80% of Americans simply wore masks, the R transmission rate would go below one, and the virus would begin to fade out.

These three separate data points are not really separate. They are all the same thing.

Donald Trump is willing to take specific, willful, intentional actions that will lead to the deaths of other people in order to get what he wants, even when they are members of his own family.

Read more here.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Hour One: How Do We Reform & De-militarize the Police?
- Dr. Cedric Alexander, Former law enforcement professional / former President of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement (NOBLE) and was on President Barack Obama's Task Force on 21st Century Policing / Doctorate of Clinical Psychology / Author, latest: In Defense of Public Service: How 22 Million Government Workers Will Save Our Republic. (His previous book is The New Guardians: Policing in America's Communities for the 21st Century

Article: "Minneapolis Is Not the First City to Disband Its Police Department - the Lessons Learned From Camden, New Jersey" by Khaleda Rahman.

Article: "Camden police reboot is being misused in the debate over police reform" by Stephen Danley.

Article: "US police reform: Trump to sign executive order on 'best practice'" by BBC.

Article: "Killing of George Floyd" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Soon: Trump to sign police reform order" by Jeremy Diamond and Kaitlan Collins.

Article: "Plessy v. Ferguson", 1896 (separate but equal).

Article: "Frederick Ludwig Hoffman" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Woodrow Wilson: This So-Called Progressive was a Dedicated Racist" by Paul Rahe.

Article: "Dixiecrat" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Medicare Part D Coverage Gap (“Donut Hole”) Made Simple" by eHealthInsurance Services.

Video: Americans Learn First-Hand The Burdens Of Post-Policy Politics | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC.

Video: Trump Indifference To Governing A Symptom Of Post-Policy GOP | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC.

Book: The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics by Steve Benen.

Article: "Members of Congress took small-business loans - and the full extent is unknown" by Sarah Ferris, Melanie Zanona And Zachary Warmbrodt.

Article: "Tiffany Trump" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mont Pelerin Society" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ludwig von Mises" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Friedrich Hayek" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Milton Friedman" by Wikipedia.

Image: "If I hid black Americans in my uterus, would their lives finally matter?" by Helen Long.

Article: "Forty Percent of Police Families Experience Domestic Violence, Compared to 10% in the General Population" by Thomas Neuburger.

Article: "Chiapas" by Wikipedia.

Article: "I'm a Black American. I Had to Get Out" by Tiffanie Drayton.

Video: Kimberly Latrice Jones Full Interview On Where We Are In History.

Quote: "If you don't understand white supremacy/racism, everything that you do understand will only confuse you" - Neely Fuller Jr..

Book: The United-Independent Compensatory Code/System/Concept by Neely Fuller Jr.

Law: "Patriot Act", 2001.

Article: "The Many Occasions Joe Biden Took Credit For Writing The Patriot Act" by Andrew Kaczynski.

Article: "The Republican Trilemma" by Big Fish Ink.

Article: "Killology" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!" - Walter Scott.

Article: "Tim Scott" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Clarence Thomas" by Wikipedia.

Site: Appalachian Electric Cooperative.

Article: "Juneteenth" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump makes a rare retreat by rescheduling Juneteenth rally in Tulsa" by Maeve Reston.

Article: "Ax Handle Saturday" by Florida Historical Society.

Article: "Republicans pick Jacksonville, Florida, as convention site for Trump to accept nomination" by Dartunorro Clark.

Article: "FBI Reviewing Investigations of Recent Hangings as Third Man Found Dead in Houston" by Soo Kim.

Article: "Killing of Rayshard Brooks", June 12, 2020 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Selma to Montgomery marches" (Bloody Sunday), March 7–25, 1965 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Man shot in New Mexico at protest over statue of Spanish conquistador" by David Aaro.

Article: "Trump niece's bombshell book to detail family 'trauma, neglect and abuse'" by Martin Pengelly.

Article: "If 80% of Americans Wore Masks, COVID-19 Infections Would Plummet, New Study Says" by David Ewing Duncan.

Site: Trump Death Clock.

Article: "Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia faces blowback as he curtails scope of worker relief in unemployment crisis" by Jeff Stein, Heather Long and Josh Dawsey.

Article: "New Zealand welcomes back rugby with packed stadiums after country eradicates coronavirus" by Katherine Acquavella.

Article: "Coronavirus may never go away, even with a vaccine" by William Wan and Carolyn Y. Johnson.

Article: "Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Puts Face Mask on Sideways" by NowThis.

Article: "Pence forgoes a face mask at Mayo Clinic, appearing to violate policy" by Kathryn Watson.

Article: "'It's very sad': Fauci warns blacks disproportionately affected by coronavirus" by Cassidy Morrison.

Video: Willie Horton 1988 Attack Ad.

Article: "Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Richard Mack" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Patrick Lynch (police officer)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'They are babies!' Bystanders plead with Georgia officers as they hold 5 black children at gunpoint" by David Edwards.

Article: "The Turner Diaries" by Wikipedia.

Hour Three: How Trump's Anti-Environment Agenda Is Also a Racist Agenda
- Caroline Henderson, Senior Climate Campaigner - Greenpeace US

Article: "Donald Trump's Anti-Environment Agenda Is a Racist Agenda" by Greenpeace.

Article: "EO on Accelerating the Nation's Economic Recovery from the COVID-19 Emergency by Expediting Infrastructure Investments and Other Activities" by Donald J. Trump.

Law: "Endangered Species Act of 1973".

Law: "National Environmental Policy Act".

Article: "The Trump Administration Is Reversing Nearly 100 Environmental Rules. Here's the Full List." by Nadja Popovich, Livia Albeck-Ripka And Kendra Pierre-Louis.

Article: "The EPA Just Refused to Reduce Levels of Soot During a Pandemic Made Worse by Air Pollution" by NRDC.

Article: "Keystone XL, Dakota Pipeline Green-Lighted in Trump Executive Actions" by Phil McKenna.

Article: "8 Requirements To Become A Police Officer".

Article: "Demographic Patterns of Cumulative Arrest Prevalence By Ages 18 and 23" by Robert Brame, Shawn D. Bushway, Ray Paternoster, and Michael G. Turner.

Article: "Racial Gaps in High School Graduation Rates Are Closing" by Allie Bidwell.

Article: "Killings by American police harm the education of some local students".

Article: "Accused California Cop Killer Linked To Right-Wing Extremist Boogaloo Movement" by Mary Papenfuss.

Article: "Timothy McVeigh" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Turner Diaries" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Waco siege", 1993 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ruby Ridge", 1992 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Cops Bought Dylann Roof Burger King Hours After Charleston Shooting" by Simon McCormack.

Article: "Disavowed 2009 Report on Domestic Terrorism Now Rings True" by Curtis Tate.

Book: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ by Daniel Goleman.

Book: We Built Reality: How Social Science Infiltrated Culture, Politics, and Power by Jason Blakely.

Article: "Death of Eric Garner" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Parable of the broken window" by Frédéric Bastiat.

Article: "Drapetomania" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Dysaesthesia aethiopica" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Samuel A. Cartwright" by Wikipedia.

Book: How the Irish Became White by Noel Ignatiev.

Article: "Black Georgia State Trooper to Protesters: I Only Kneel for God" by Joshua Caplan.

Quote: "The occupation of an hairdresser, or of a working tallow-chandler, cannot be a matter of honour to any person - to say nothing of a number of other more servile employments. Such descriptions of men ought not to suffer oppression from the state; but the state suffers oppression, if such as they, either individually or collectively, are permitted to rule. In this you think you are combating prejudice, but you are at war with nature" - Edmund Burke.

Article: "Edmund Burke" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is that Good Men Do Nothing" - attributed to Edmund Burke.

Book: Rights of Man by Thomas Paine.

Article: "Thomas Paine" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Arizona man tased 11 times by officers at traffic stop in front of family, video shows" by Elisha Fieldstadt.

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