All across America today, millions of people are terrified. And it's not just fear of getting a deadly COVID illness that often leads to strokes, dementia, long-term heart disease, and kidney failure.

Over 30 million Americans are unemployed, and because of repeated Republican cuts, the unemployment benefits for many run out at the end of the year. Since early summer, we've been adding another 700,000 or so people to those rolls every month.

Millions of others have put their lives into their small businesses and are now overwhelmed with debt in the face of lost customers and shutdowns, facing the destruction of their middle-class dreams and the disintegration of their families' lives.

Read more here.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Unemployment Level" by FRED.

Article: "UK extends 80% wage subsidies as England goes back into lockdown" by Reuters.

Article: "Hundreds of companies that got PPP loans later went bankrupt" by Keith Griffith.

Article: "US tops 11 million cases of COVID with one million new infections in a WEEK as death toll approaches 250,000 and Biden's scientific advisers prepare to meet vaccine manufacturers" by Lauren Fruen.

Article: "Senate GOP Wants Stimulus Checks But Not Student Loan Relief" by Wesley Whistle.

Article: "Fossil Fuel Subsidies And Impact Greenwashing Are Stalling The Energy Transition" by Wal van Lierop.

Article: "Yes, Fossil Fuel Subsidies Are Real, Destructive And Protected By Lobbying" by Wal van Lierop.

Article: "United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement" (USMCA) (NAFTA 2.0) by Wikipedia.

Article: "What's in the House Democrats' $3 trillion coronavirus relief bill?" by Grace Segers.

Article: "6 startling facts about child hunger in the U.S. - and how you can help" by Katie Dupere.

Article: "USA approves $23bn sale of F-35s, MQ-9Bs and thousands of weapons to UAE" by Garrett Reim.

Article: "How Much Did Trump's Tax Law Benefit Corporations-And What Did It Cost?" by Jessica Goodheart.

Article: "Student Loan Debt Statistics In 2020: A Record $1.6 Trillion" by Zack Friedman.

Article: "If Trump Is Laundering Russian Money, Here's How It Works" by Garrett M. Graff.

Article: "Trump revealed intelligence secrets to Russians in Oval Office: officials" by Jeff Mason, Patricia Zengerle.

Article: "Saudi Arabia Owns the 45th Floor of Trump Tower, and It Shows" by William Rivers Pitt.

Article: "'This Is How a Torturer Ended Up Running the CIA': Biden Reportedly Hopes to Avoid Probes Into Trump Crimes" by Brett Wilkins.

Article: "Trump wealth order probe urged over Scottish golf resorts" by BBC.

Article: "Democrats blast removal of acting DOT inspector general" by Sam Mintz.

Article: "Elaine Chao" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Decades of Republican Mismanagement Have Left Red States Mired in the Past & at the Bottom" by Quaid.

Article: "Most Red States Take More Money From Washington Than They Put In" by Dave Gilson.

Article: "Governor's Energy Rebound Program launches Wednesday" (Wyoming) by County 10.

Article: "Trump Sought Options for Attacking Iran to Stop Its Growing Nuclear Program" by Eric Schmitt, Maggie Haberman, David E. Sanger, Helene Cooper and Lara Jakes.

Hour Two: What Are the Latest Right Wing Memes?
- Howard Polskin - The Righting

Article: "For Trump's 'rigged' election claims, an online megaphone awaits" by Brandy Zadrozny.

Article: "No Masking Biden's Disdain for Freedom" by Michael Reagan with Michael R. Shannon.

Article: "Who elected Anthony Fauci as dictator?" by Andrea Widburg.

Article: "Trump on Birtherism: Wrong, and Wrong" by Robert Farley.

Article: "BioNTech's Covid vaccine: a shot in the arm for Germany's Turkish community" by Philip Oltermann.

Article: "New Details About Wilbur Ross' Business Point To Pattern Of Grifting" by Dan Alexander.

Article: "Trump makes one last effort to cut Social Security, maximize hurt to the disabled" by Joan McCarter.

Article: "When the Narcissist Fails" by Joe Navarro M.A.

Quote: "It's Easier to Fool People Than to Convince Them That They Have Been Fooled" - attributed to Mark Twain.

Article: "Dunning-Kruger effect" by Wikipedia.

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

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976

Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010)

Article: "Wells Fargo to pay $185 million settlement for 'outrageous' sales culture" by James Rufus Koren.

Article: "Hatch Act of 1939" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Thousands of prisoners released as new reform effort takes effect" by David Shortell.

Article: "Mens rea" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Study of Disputed Florida Ballots Finds Justices Did Not Cast the Deciding Vote" by Ford Fessenden and John M. Broder, November 12, 2001.

Article: "'Dewey Defeats Truman': The Election Upset Behind the Photo" by History.com.

Article: "Did LBJ Advocate: 'Convince the Lowest White Man He's Better Than the Best Colored Man'?" by David Emery.

Book: Das Kapital by Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels.

Article: "The Communist Manifesto" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump, Biden Lawyer Up, Brace for White House Legal Battle" by AP.

Article: "Trump faces tough road in getting Supreme Court to intervene" by Jessica Gresko, Mark Sherman.

Article: "Poll Results" by Fox News.

Hour Three: Why the Covid Task Force Needs Nurses
- Theresa Brown RN, Clinical Nurse (PhD, BSN, RN) / Author of 2 books, Critical Care and her second, The Shift

Petition: "Add a Nurse to President-Elect Biden's COVID Task Force" by Theresa Brown .

Article: "Nurses are the "Most Trusted Profession” for 18 Years in a Row".

Site: Physicians for a National Health Plan (PNHP)

Site: National Nurses United

Article: "CDC: Nurses were largest proportion of health care workers hospitalized with COVID-19" by Korin Miller.

Article: "ICN confirms 1,500 nurses have died from COVID-19 in 44 countries and estimates that healthcare worker COVID-19 fatalities worldwide could be more than 20,000" by ICN.

Article: "Commonwealth" by Wikipedia.

Article: "A Sitting President's Amenability To Indictment And Criminal Prosecution" by U.S. Department of Justice (OLC), 2000.

Article: "Re: Amenability of the President, Vice President and Other Civil Officers to Federal Criminal Prosecution while in office." by U.S. Department of Justice (OLC), 1973.

Article: "Kelly Loeffler" by Wikipedia.

Article: "TVA: From the New Deal to a New Century" by Tennessee Valley Authority.

Article: "Rural Utilities Service" (Rural Electrification Administration, Rural Telecommunications) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Keep Your Government Hands Off My Medicare: An Analysis of the Tea Party's Paradoxical Health Care Politics" by Daniel Skinner.

The Trump Admin's Rush to Open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to Oil Drilling Could Be Catastrophic
- Ellen Montgomery, Field Director - Public Lands, Environment America

Article: "Trump Administration's Rush To Open Arctic National Wildlife Refuge To Oil Drilling Could Be Catastrophic" by Ellen Montgomery.

Article: "Trump administration calls for Arctic oil drilling bids by mid-December - in race to beat the clock before Biden takes office" by Louise Boyle.

Article: "Call for Nominations and Comments for the Coastal Plain Alaska Oil and Gas " by Bureau of Land Management.

Article: "Our decades-long campaign to defend the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is not over" by Steve Blackledge.

Article: "The Final Trump Tax Bill: A Clear Net Positive For U.S. Oil And Gas" by David Blackmon.

Article: "Progressive group slams Biden White House pick over tie to fossil fuel industry" by Rachel Frazin.

Article: "The Rich Live Longer And Get More Social Security Benefits" by Greenman Toomey.

Video: Alan Grayson on the GOP Health Care Plan: "Don't Get Sick! And if You Do Get Sick, Die Quickly!"'.

Article: "91-year-old activist James Lawson slams plantation capitalism at John Lewis funeral" by Egberto Willies.

Article: "Mississippi U.S. Senate Election Results".

Article: "Daniel Hoan" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Frank Zeidler" by Wikipedia.

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