Trump's first major policy change on his first full day as president was to gut implementation of the "Waters of America" Act.

His change allowed coal mines and factories to increase their profits by dumping massive amounts of poison in our rivers and waterways.

He got away with it because he only poisoned the people downstream of our waterways, and so only a few million people had their children neurologically damaged by things like mercury. His action will be diluted by time itself: it'll only produce a few hundred thousand cases of cancer, and those will come about in a scattershot fashion over the next few decades.

But now that he is trying to force every school in America to open in the next few weeks, he's threatening to "poison" every school in America with COVID-19, which will very rapidly hit over a hundred million Americans both directly and indirectly.

Read more here.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: "Supreme Court says Manhattan DA can get Trump's tax records, but rejects bid by House Democrats" by Tucker Higgins.

Article: "Supreme Court rules that large swath of Oklahoma belongs to Indian reservation" by Harper Neidig.

Article: "Militias flocked to Gettysburg to foil a supposed antifa flag burning, an apparent hoax created on social media" by Shawn Boburg and Dalton Bennett.

Article: "Did President Trump Make It Legal to Dump Coal Mining Waste Into Streams?" by Alex Kasprak.

Article: "Trump demands that schools reopen, with parents caught in the crossfire" by Howard Kurtz.

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

Article: "Tammy Duckworth" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Biden criticizes Trump camp for taking aim at Tammy Duckworth" by Sean Sullivan.

Article: "Tammy Duckworth Attacks Trump over Dubious Russia Bounty Claims" by Joel B. Pollak.

Article: "Former KKK Leader David Duke Says Tucker Carlson Should be Trump's VP" by Ewan Palmer.

Tweet: "President Trump! You have one last chance to turn the tables, win this election and save America -- and yourself ! Nominate Tucker Carlson for Vice President. This would energize your campaign beyond belief. You can replace Zio NeoCon warmonger Pompeo with Pence as Sec. of State!" by David Duke.

Video: Willie Horton 1988 Attack Ad.

Video: "Ronald Reagan States' Rights Speech in Philadelphia, MS", August 3, 1980.

Article: "Mississippi civil rights workers' murders" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Donald Trump, Jr. makes curious campaign detour" by Rachel Maddow.

Site: OpEdNews: Rohn Kenyatta.

Article: "One Big Difference About George Floyd Protests: Many White Faces" by Amy Harmon and Sabrina Tavernise.

Article: "Sarah Palin" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Send In the Troops" by Tom Cotton.

Article: "Tom Cotton" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Indiana cops do little after Black man and witnesses report attack from would-be lynch mob" by Aysha Qamar.

Article: "Harvard and MIT have sued the Trump administration over the rule barring international students from online-only classes" by Susan Svrluga.

Article: "COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan" by Wikipedia.

Tweet: ".@AmericanAir & @united,
Stop filling planes at 100% in a pandemic.
It's not "American" or standing "United" w/ taxpayers who bailed you out to throw them under the flying airbus for a profit.
I hope your affinity for unity & the American people extends beyond corporate logos. [copy of letter]" by Rep. Mark Pocan.

Hour Two: Federal Regulators Are Mortgaging the Country to Wall Street... What Can We Do About It?
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work / Understanding Marxism / Understanding Socialism

Article: "Federal Regulators Are Mortgaging The Country To Wall Street" by Zach Carter.

Article: "Volcker Rule" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act", 2010.

Law: "Glass-Steagall Act", 1933.

Article: "Financial crisis of 2007-08" by Wikipedia.

Article: "An 8-year-old boy with coronavirus antibodies went into cardiac arrest. His brother's CPR saved his life" by Christina Maxouris.

Article: "Trump threatens schools and blasts CDC guidelines in an effort to reopen" by Jess Bidgood.

Article: "CDC says guidelines for reopening schools are 'not requirements' after Trump calls them 'impractical'" by Dylan Stableford and Alexander Nazaryan.

Article: "CDC chief says agency won't rewrite school reopening guidelines despite Trump's criticism, but will offer 'additional reference documents'" by Carole Feldman.

Article: "Trump Health Secretary Says US Healthcare Workers 'Don't Get Infected' With Covid-19 (94,000 Have Contracted the Virus)" by Jake Johnson.

Book: A Brief History of Fascist Lies by Federico Finchelstein.

Article: "HHS Secretary Alex Azar Once Doubled The Price of Insulin" by Alexandra Hutzler.

Book: Democracy In Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean.

Article: "Law & Order" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Lincoln Project" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Wuhan Completes Testing Of 9 Million Residents, Finds Fewer Than 200 New Cases" by John Sexton.

Article: "More than 7,000 Children in Florida Have Tested Positive for COVID-19" by Giselle Balido.

Article: "Chickenpox" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Herpes simplex" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Multiple sclerosis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Human papillomavirus infection" by Wikipedia.

Article: "HIV/AIDS" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Heart Disease in Patients with HIV/AIDS-An Emerging Clinical Problem" by Muralikrishna Gopal et al.

Article: "Coronavirus: What Happens When You Get Infected?" by WebMD.

Article: "Shingles" by Wikipedia.

Article: "21 Myths About Coronavirus You Need to Stop Believing Now" by Colby Hall.

Article: "Ho ho ho: IRS cuts audits of rich, steps up audits of poor after budget cuts" by Igor Derysh.

Hour Three: How Do We Stop Meatpacking Plants From Killing People?
- Chloë Waterman, Program Manager - Friends of the Earth

Article: "120+ Organizations Target Meatpacking Giant Tyson Foods For Failing To Protect Workers From COVID-19" by Julia Tomkins.

Article: "Meatpacking production returns to near normal, but workers still paying the price of COVID-19" by Adam Belz, Elizabeth Flores and Greg Stanley.

Article: "Defense Production Act" by Wikipedia.

Article: "With "Midnight" Executive Order, Meatpacking Slaughterhouses Become Trump's Forced-Labor Camps of Human Sacrifice" by Mark Karlin.

Article: "As leaders warned of US meat shortages, overseas exports of pork and beef continued" by Kyle Bagenstose.

Article: "The Chinese Billionaire Whose Company Owns Troubled Pork Processor Smithfield Foods" by Jennifer Wang.

Article: "Warren and Booker Are Investigating Meatpacking Giants After Our Reporting Shed Light on Dangerous Conditions" by Daniel King.

Site: Venceremos.

Facebook: "Bob Ney".

Book: The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America by Thom Hartmann.

Case: "Slaughter-House Cases" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Munn v. Illinois" by Wikipedia.

Video: River Catches Fire in Chicago.

Article: "Cuyahoga River Fire" by Michael Rotman.

Article: "Bobbie Conner: Water was so Low, You Could Walk on the Backs of Fish" by Confluence.

Article: "Eugenics" by Wikipedia.

Article: "John Bolton briefed Trump on Russian bounty plot -and it happened a year earlier than previous reports: AP" by Bob Brigham.

Article: "Central Park jogger case" (Central Park Five) by Wikipedia.

Article: "'They admitted their guilt': 30 years of Trump's comments about the Central Park Five" by Rebecca Morin.

Article: "Donald Trump and the Central Park Five: the racially charged rise of a demagogue" by Oliver Laughland.

Article: "Thousands Of Immigrant Kids Are Detained, Far From Their Parents. They Need Protection From COVID-19, Too" by Katie Peeler.

Article: "Business career of Donald Trump" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Biden Outpaces Trump As Campaigns Report Record Fundraising" by Brett Neely.

Article: "Colbert Super PAC" by Wikipedia.

Article: "COVID-19 pandemic in France" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fairness Doctrine" by Wikipedia.

Site: League of Women Voters.

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