Monday 05 April '21 show notes

  • GOP "Cancel Culture" Has its Guns Blazing Against Democracy - Their target is anything that isn't white, male or associated with a gun...
  • The latest on the Chauvin trial for the murder of George Floyd - Debbie Hines, Trial lawyer, former prosecutor and legal/political commentator
  • Progressive Town Hall - Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA, 17th District)
  • The Cyber Weapons Arms Race... - Nicole Perlroth, CyberSecurity Report-The NY Times / Author of the new book, "This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends"
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GOP "Cancel Culture" has its Guns Blazing Against Democracy
Thom plus logo Their target is anything that isn't white, male or associated with a gun.

So let me get this straight.

Republicans tried to cancel democracy in Georgia, and got called out on it. So now they're trying to cancel Coca-Cola and Delta Airlines.

All of this, according to Fox News, has something to do with "left-wing cancel culture."

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom
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How Matt Gaetz Sex Scandals Lead Back to Reagan's Long Con
Thom plus logo It's killing Americans & paralyzing our politics.

There's a clear nexus between Matt Gaetz (and, apparently, a few other Republican politicians) spending his $174,000 a year on sex…and Ron DeSantis blowing up businesses in his state. And that nexus isn't just Florida.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom
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The Distressing Truth of Why Big Tech Is Lobbying for Regulation, Not Against It
Thom plus logo Just like Monsanto, they're "locking down" their markets & Americans are falling for it

In a daily rant a few weeks ago I mentioned how I've been running a contest for 15+ years on my radio program for anybody who can identify one single piece of legislation proposed by a majority of Republicans, passed through Congress by a majority of Republicans, and signed by a Republican president that's principal goal and outcome was to help the American middle-class rather than rich people or giant corporations.

Nobody had ever won before. But last week a listener called and said he had it: it was the bill that "regulated" telemarketers. Turns out, my contest still stands. Here's why, and how Big Tech is not getting in on the game.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom
Monday's Daily Stack Daily Stack
Hour One: GOP "Cancel Culture" Has its Guns Blazing Against Democracy - Their target is anything that isn't white, male or associated with a gun...
Article: "Psychological projection" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Shelby County v. Holder" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Roe v. Wade" by History Channel.
Case: "Brown v. Board Of Education", 1954 (Segregation in public schools) (overturned Plessy v. Ferguson).
Article: "The Full Cost of Electricity" by University of Texas at Austin Energy Institute.
Article: "Boris Johnson Pushes for Covid Tests for All" by Taegan Goddard.
Article: "George Washington and the First Mass Military Inoculation" by Amy Lynn Filsinger, Raymond Dwek.
Article: "Get My Payment" by IRS.
The latest on the Chauvin trial for the murder of George Floyd
- Debbie Hines, Trial lawyer, former prosecutor and legal/political commentator Twitter
Article: "Killing of George Floyd" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Derek Chauvin trial live: Police chief testifies that restraint of George Floyd 'absolutely' violated policy, ethics of department" by N'Dea Yancey-Bragg, Kevin McCoy, Tami Abdollah, Grace Hauck and Eric Ferkenhoff.

Hour Two: Progressive Town Hall
- Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA, 17th District) Twitter
Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].
Article: "'Big structural change': What greens want on infrastructure" by Nick Sobczyk, Timothy Cama.
Article: "Inherited Stock" by Investopedia.
Article: "Where's My Refund?" by IRS.
Article: "How to track your mail-in ballot" by Jessica Campisi.
Article: "Synthetic biology" by Wikipedia.
Bill: "H.R.82 - Social Security Fairness Act of 2021" by Rep. Davis, Rodney [R-IL-13].

Hour Three: The Cyber Weapons Arms Race...
- Nicole Perlroth, CyberSecurity Report-The NY Times / Author of the new book, "This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends" Twitter Twitter
Article: "How an Entire Nation Became Russia's Test Lab for Cyberwar" (Ukraine) by Andy Greenberg.
Article: "U.S. Escalates Online Attacks on Russia's Power Grid" by David E. Sanger and Nicole Perlroth.
Article: "The Shadow Brokers" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Snowden Archive" by CJFE.
Article: "Iran's Cyber Attack on Billionaire Adelson Provides Lesson on Strategy" by Alyza Sebenius, Kartikay Mehrotra and William Turton.
Article: "India facing more cyber attacks from China and Pakistan since nationwide lockdown" by Anandi Chandrashekhar & Surabhi Agarwal.
Article: "Attack on Pearl Harbor" (2,403 Americans died) by Wikipedia.
Article: "What Is a VPN?" by Josh Smith and Bryce Colburn.
Article: "Positive Identification" (PID) by The Free Dictionary.
Article: "Meet Biden, the Newest Dwarf Planet" by Andrew Han.
Article: "Kármán line" by Wikipedia.
Article: "US Weaponizing Space in Bid to Launch Arms Race" by Finian Cunningham.
Article: "Trump Wants a Moonbase" by Whitney Kimball.
Article: "The 1619 Project" by Wikipedia.
Article: "2021 Wisconsin elections" (April 6) by Wikipedia.
Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET
Science Revolution: Dr. Michael Mann, Distinguished Professor of Meteorology & Director, Earth System Science Center-Penn State University / Member-National Academy of Sciences / author of several books including including his latest just out, The New Climate War / (previously, The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy) / Recipient of the Tyler Prize
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