Scientists are projecting 400,000 deaths by the end of the year from coronavirus, although a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that we have already undercounted the total deaths so far by as many as 75,000.

Meanwhile, we're learning that back in February the Trump administration gave a private briefing to elites at the conservative Hoover Institution, telling them the economy was about to get into big trouble because of the virus. As a result numerous multimillionaires and billionaires made a huge killing, while the American middle class got wiped out.

The New York Times is reporting today that over 8 million American families have slipped into poverty in the last seven months. This almost certainly understates the breadth and depth of the problem caused by the Trump administration's failure to stop the virus in the United States.

Dr. Anthony Fauci is even suggesting that, because of Trump's and the Republicans' failure to do anything about the virus, we should cancel Thanksgiving.

Read more here.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: "It's Time to Unpack the Court" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Native American Day" by Wikipedia.

Article: "As shocking pictures and damning emails emerge from a laptop handed to Trump's right-hand man...Joe Biden's son, his crack pipe - and a new low in the dirtiest ever U.S. election" by Tom Leonard.

Article: "Twitter says it banned New York Post articles about Hunter Biden for violating its policies against doxxing and sharing hacked materials" by Tyler Sonnemaker.

Article: "Hunter Biden" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Joe Biden" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ivanka, Don Jr. and Eric Had to Undergo 'Mandatory Training' on How to Not Rip Off Charities" by Timothy Clary.

Article: "Jared Kushner's Real-estate Firm Sought Money Directly From Qatar Government Weeks Before Blockade" by Clayton Swisher, Ryan Grim.

Article: "Coronavirus model projects U.S. deaths will surpass 400,000 by end of year" by Sophie Lewis.

Article: "An additional 75,000 Americans may have died in the spring and summer because of COVID-19, a new study found" by Connor Perrett.

Article: "As Virus Spread, Reports of Trump Administration's Private Briefings Fueled Sell-Off" by Kate Kelly and Mark Mazzetti.

Article: "8 Million Have Slipped Into Poverty Since May as Federal Aid Has Dried Up" by Jason DeParle.

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

Article: "COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fauci Says Americans Should Consider Canceling Thanksgiving as COVID Cases Soar" by Julie Mazziotta.

Article: "Herd immunity" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Proposal to hasten herd immunity to the coronavirus grabs White House attention but appalls top scientists" by Joel Achenbach.

Article: "Fauci on coronavirus herd immunity: 'That is nonsense and very dangerous'" by Crystal Hill.

Article: ""Smoking Doesn't Kill" And Other Great Old Op-Eds From Mike Pence" by Andrew Kaczynski.

Article: "Amy Coney Barrett Is the Supreme Court Justice Big Oil Needs" by David Sirota, Andrew Perez, Walker Bragman.

Article: "Past EPA Leaders Endorse Biden, Denounce Trump's Impact on Environment" by Bloomberg News.

Article: "If the Supreme Court ends Obamacare, here's what it would mean" by Reed Abelson and Abby Goodnough.

Article: "Dogs can sniff out COVID-19 with 94 percent accuracy, study says" by Natalie O'Neill.

Article: "These Scientists Are Sewer-Diving in an Attempt to Detect Silent COVID-19 Outbreaks" by Bloomberg.

Article: "Wisconsin breaks more records: 1,582 new cases, over 20% positive test rate, over 10,000 active cases" by Robert Chappell.

Article: "California Republican Party plans to defy cease-and-desist order, won't remove unofficial ballot boxes" by Adam Beam, Amy Taxin.

Article: "Trump tweets support for Republicans who installed unofficial ballot drop boxes in California" by Justine Coleman.

Article: "Pence's Red Eye Raises COVID Concerns" by Aaron Gould Sheinin.

Event: Thu Oct 15, 3:30 - 4:30 PM ET: "Virtual Events - The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream" - Thom Hartmann and David Korten.

Article: "Originalism" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Constitution of the United States"

Article: "4th Amendment". "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

Article: "Gun Control Is as Old as the Old West" by Matt Jancer.

Article: "Coronavirus, herd immunity and the eugenics of the market" by Louis Philippe Romer, Vito Laterza.

America's true unemployment rate
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System

Article: "Exclusive: America's true unemployment rate" by Felix Salmon.

Article: "Statistical Measures of Unemployment" by Jodi Beggs.

Article: "Unemployment Rate by Year Since 1929 Compared to Inflation and GDP" by Kimberly Amadeo.

Article: "8 Million Have Slipped Into Poverty Since May as Federal Aid Has Dried Up" by Jason DeParle.

Article: "Historical racial and ethnic demographics of the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "How Republicans will try to destroy a Biden presidency" by Greg Sargent.

Article: "GOP Specifically Stated They Wanted Obama To Fail And Would Obstruct At Every Turn" by Egberto Willies.

Article: "The astounding advantage the Electoral College gives to Republicans, in one chart" by Ian Millhiser.

Article: "Electoral College: How the states stack up in terms of representation" by Stephanie Weaver.

Hour Two: Mid-day with Mark
- Congressman Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District)

Article: "Why Trump's expected Supreme Court nominee believes all Civil Rights legislation is 'illegitimate'" by Mark Sumner.

Article: "US election polls tracker: who is leading in the swing states?" by Ashley Kirk, Pablo Gutiérrez, Frank Hulley-Jones and Juweek Adolphe.

Article: "House Passes $3 Trillion Coronavirus Relief Bill That Has Dim Future" by Claudia Grisales, Kelsey Snell, Susan Davis.

Article: "House Passes $2.2 Trillion 'Heroes' Act, Including 'Save Our Stages' Provisions for Indie Venues" by Jem Aswad.

Article: "Trump mocks virus as he launches potential superspreader sprint to win reelection" by Stephen Collinson.

Article: "Pelosi says White House proposal on COVID-19 relief is "one step forward, two steps back"" by Grace Segers.

Article: "Trump Signs Continuing Resolution To Fund The Government Through Dec. 11" by Andrew Taylor.

Article: "When did Mitch McConnell say he wanted to make Obama a one-term president?" by Glenn Kessler.

Article: "Rush Limbaugh At CPAC: Doubles Down On Wanting Obama To Fail (VIDEO)" by Sam Stein.

Article: "Donald Trump's Only Policy Agenda Seems to Be "Undo Obama Stuff"" by Jack Moore.

Article: "Why Trump's expected Supreme Court nominee believes all Civil Rights legislation is 'illegitimate'" by Mark Sumner.

Article: "13th Amendment", December 6, 1865. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

Article: "14th Amendment, July 9, 1868 (citizenship, representatives, public debt, Equal Protection Clause)

Article: "15th Amendment", February 3, 1870 "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude"

Article: "How Trump compares with other recent presidents in appointing federal judges" by John Gramlich.

Article: "Bad blood from Kavanaugh confirmation may resurface in U.S. Senate hearings" by Susan Cornwell.

Video: Senators Cruz, Graham, and Hawley Comment on Hunter Biden Article.

Article: "John Marshall" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Thomas's wife takes on Obama" by Kenneth P. Vogel.

Article: "Ginni Thomas, activist and Supreme Court justice's wife, says George Soros' family 'is really running the Democrat Party'" by Ben Sales.

Article: "NBC Faces Blowback for Holding Trump's Town Hall Opposite Biden's" by Michael M. Grynbaum.

Article: "Ron Johnson (Wisconsin politician)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Pelosi chafes at Wolf Blitzer's questions on Covid talks" by Sarah Ferris.

Hour Three: His Great-Grandfather Mato Niyanpi Meeting Gen. Custer, and Recognizing Native American Day...
- Mnincoju Lakota Robin Zephier, Attorney & Co-Author (w/his brother Harley Zephier) of Warrior Is...the life story of their great-grandfather, Mnincoju Lakota.

Article: "Who a Warrior Is" by Maren Chaloupka.

Article: "Battle of the Little Bighorn" by Wikipedia.

Video: President Obama Roasts Donald Trump At White House Correspondents' Dinner! (2011).

Article: "Green New Deal" (GND) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Videos show closed-door sessions of leading conservative activists: 'Be not afraid of the accusations that you're a voter suppressor'" by Robert O'Harrow Jr.

What it's Like Voting in Indian Country
- Jean Schroedel, Professor of Public Policy-Claremont Graduate University & Author of the new book, Voting in Indian Country: The View From the Trenches (Jean has written or co-edited 6 books).

Article: "Tribal nations face continued voter suppression" by Jessica Douglas.

Article: " Indian Citizenship Act of 1924" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Voter identification laws by state" by BallotPedia.

Article: "Genocide of indigenous peoples" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Wounded Knee Massacre" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Wounded Knee incident" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rosebud Indian Reservation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "For the Navajo Nation, 'Everything Takes Time,' Including Voting" by Maggie Astor.

Article: "Transcript: Sheldon Whitehouse at Senate nomination hearing for Amy Coney Barrett for Supreme Court - 13 October '20".

Site: I Will Vote.

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