The Republican hostility to helping people who lost their jobs because of the coronavirus, to expanding healthcare to all the American people, and their hostility to doing anything about climate change all come from the same source: greed and the big money it produces.

For decades, the tobacco, fast food and alcohol industries funded junk science saying that their products were actually just fine and didn't harm people. Eventually, after millions of Americans died of diseases associated with them, we figured out they were lying to us.

They've been doing the same thing around climate change, Medicare for all and carbon pollution, and Republicans continue to quote phony science and assert that there is no problem with the status quo.

The same people, corporations and trade associations that sponsor this phony science also sponsor the Republican Party, from the White House all the way down to your local city council.

Now, right wing trade groups are arguing that unemployment benefits keep people from going to work (when people are actually simply afraid to go to work and get sick and die) and that therefore it's a good thing that the GOP let unemployment benefits expire.

Read more here.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: "Sally Yates blows up Republican conspiracies and falsehoods" by Jennifer Rubin.

Article: "Split 5 to 4, Supreme Court Rules for California Jail Over Virus Measures" by Adam Liptak.

Article: "New York attorney general to make 'major national announcement' Thursday morning" by Mark Sumner.

Article: "New York Attorney General Letitia James files lawsuit to dissolve NRA for 'fraud and abuse'" by Erik Ortiz.

Article: "Trump's Bank Was Subpoenaed by N.Y. Prosecutors in Criminal Inquiry" by David Enrich, Ben Protess, William K. Rashbaum and Benjamin Weiser.

Article: "Good News Fifth Thursday: Starving the Beast is Still the Loudest Dog Whistle" by Mokurai.

Article: "Starve the beast" by Wikipedia.

Article: "David Stockman" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Republicans Aid Kanye West's Bid to Get on the 2020 Ballot" by Danny Hakim and Maggie Haberman.

Article: "Vincent van Gogh" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rudy Giuliani calls Black Lives Matter a "terrorist group" on Fox News: "They hate white people"" by David Edwards.

Case: "Brown v. Board Of Education", 1954 (Segregation in public schools) (overturned Plessy v. Ferguson).

Article: "These Elite Contact Tracers Show the World How to Beat Covid-19" by Heesu Lee.

Article: "LA County reports nearly 3,000 new coronavirus cases, 57 more deaths" by Hayley Munguia.

Article: "Former clients of acting Homeland Security chief Chad Wolf received millions in department contracts" by Brian Schwartz.

Article: "Republicans are planning a mass attack against Biden using information from pro-Russian agents" by Mark Sumner.

Hour Two: The Trump campaign's latest contest is a scam. Here's proof...
- Judd Legum, Founder - Popular.info (former founding Editor-in-Chief, Think Progress.org)

Article: "The Trump campaign's latest contest is a scam. Here's proof" by Judd Legum.

Article: "What happened before Kodak's moment" by Judd Legum.

Article: "UPDATE: Kodak executives' surreptitious profiteering" by Judd Legum.

Article: "Donald Trump's Tab For MAGA Rallies Jumps to $1.8 Million as 14 Cities Say President Hasn't Paid Police Bills, Report Finds" by Alexandra Hutzler.

Article: "Trump involved in 3,500 lawsuits: report" by Jesse Byrnes.

Article: "In Coronavirus Economy, Somehow Trump's Friends Keep Getting Richer" by Michael Harriot.

Tweet: "For those of you having trouble telling the Trumps apart:
Donald is the lying, stupid one who thinks he's smart.
Ivanka is the lying, stupid one who thinks she's kind.
Don, Jr. is the lying, stupid one who thinks he's witty.
Eric is the lying, stupid one who thinks he thinks." by Mrs. Betty Bowers.

Article: "Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine tests positive for COVID-19" by Jackie Borchardt and Jessie Balmert.

Article: "Spectrum of Cardiac Manifestations in COVID-19" by Yishay Szekely et al.

Article: "Many people are asking how we are able to have concerts and other public events in Italy, in Summer 2020. We took drastic measures; this is not a full list but here is what I can remember:" by Little Roads Europe.

Article: "Herd immunity" by Wikipedia.

Article: "In Mumbai's Slums, Over Half of Population Probably Infected With Coronavirus, Survey Says" by Reuters.

Article: "The coronavirus is infecting and killing black Americans at an alarmingly high rate" by Reis Thebault, Andrew Ba Tran and Vanessa Williams.

Article: "If You Can't Stop People From Voting, Just Help Them Die?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "An armed Pokemon and a man with a doll in a noose were among the anti-lockdown protestors outside the Michigan Capitol" by K. Thor Jensen.

Article: "How Jared Kushner's Secret Testing Plan "Went Poof Into Thin Air"" by Katherine Eban.

Article: "No Evidence Showing Asthma Increases Severity of COVID-19" by Kara Marker.

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

Article: "Trump Administration To Hospitals: Don't Send Covid-19 Coronavirus Data To CDC" by Bruce Y. Lee.

Article: "'Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn': Pelosi on working with GOP to help the disenfranchised" by .

Article: "WHO warns it could take up to 5 years before the coronavirus pandemic is under control" by Sam Meredith.

Article: "Covid-19 Timetable" (including Trump's actions and craziest remarks).

Article: "Trump Says Surging Virus 'Will Go Away Like Things Go Away'" by Bloomberg.

Hour Three: Is Trump At the Center of the $60 Billion Utility Bribe Scandal In Ohio?
- Professor Leah Stokes Assistant Professor-Department of Political Science | Bren School of Environmental Science & Management | Environmental Studies Department-University of California Santa Barbara / ClimatePower2020 Surrogate

Book: Short Circuiting Policy: Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States by Leah Cardamore Stokes.

Article: "An FBI investigation shows Ohio's abysmal energy law was fueled by corruption" by Leah C. Stokes.

Article: "Ohio Speaker, associates accused of using $61m in 'dark money' to get energy bailout bill passed" by Ian Cross.

Article: "Ohio State House of Representatives Speaker Larry Householder, et al., arrested for $61 million public corruption racketeering conspiracy related to Ohio's 2019 $1.5 billion nuclear & coal bailout House Bill 6".

Article: "When Utility Money Talks" by Justin Gillis.

Article: "The politicians in FirstEnergy's pocket" by Emily Atkin.

Article: "Virginia passes sweeping law to mandate clean energy amid questions about cost" by Gregory S. Schneider.

Article: "Alyssa Milano tells how she kept getting negative tests when she had CV, until finally an antibody test proved she'd had it after all." by tblue37.

Article: "Here are the five most jaw-dropping details in the NY AG's lawsuit against the NRA" by Brad Reed.

Article: "Japan marks 75th anniversary of U.S. atomic bombing at Hiroshima" by Clyde Hughes.

Article: "A statement on the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki" by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

Article: "Enough Is Enough. It's Time to Cut the Defense Budget" by Mark Pocan, Barbara Lee.

Article: "2012 Benghazi attack" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jason Chaffetz Admits House GOP Cut Funding For Embassy Security: 'You Have To Prioritize Things'" by Sarah Bufkin.

Video: "Reagan: Government is not the solution to our problem government IS the problem".

Article: "Today, we are ending welfare as we know it" - "Clinton Signs Welfare Bill Amid Division" by Barbara Vobejda.

Article: "$2 million and compulsory training for president's children called 'poetic end' to Trump charity abuse case" by Jessica Corbett.

Article: "At least 250,000 bikers are expected to attend this year's annual Sturgis motorcycle rally which starts Friday despite coronavirus concerns" by Clare McCarthy.

Quote: "You know, the left plays a tougher game, it's very funny. I actually think that the people on the right are tougher, but they don't play it tougher. Okay? I can tell you I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump - I have the tough people, but they don't play it tough - until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad." - Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Altamont Free Concert" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Coronavirus hospital data goes live on new HHS system" by Rachel Roubein, Dan Diamond, Darius Tahir.

Article: "Man plants mystery seeds from China — here's what happened" by Kate Sheehy.

Article: "All Your Most Paranoid Transfer of Power Questions, Answered" by Ben Jacobs.

Article: "Trump's claims that the military is prepared to distribute COVID-19 vaccine are 100% lies" by Mark Sumner.

Article: "HHS' Last-Minute Order To Hospitals On COVID Data Created Weeks Of Chaos" by Matt Shuham.

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