Emperor Nero, it's said, fiddled while Rome burned; If you don't want our politicians to continue to follow his example while the world burns, get politically active now.

We are standing in an extinction event. Many of us started noticing it when the insects began to vanish in large numbers right after the turn of the century.

I'll never forget the day the trucker called into my radio show. It was probably around 14 years ago, and he identified himself as a long-haul trucker who regularly ran a coast-to-coast route from the southeast to the Pacific Northwest dozens of times a year.

"Used to be when I was driving through the southern part of the Midwest like I am right now," he said, "I'd have to stop every few hours to clean the bugs off my windshield. It's been three days since I've had to clean bugs off my windshield on this trip. There's something spooky going on out here."

The phone lines lit up. People from Maine to California, from Florida to Washington state shared their stories of the vanishing insects where they lived. Multiple long-haul truckers listening on SiriusXM had similar stories.

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-Thom

Friday's Daily Stack

Article: "Civilization-Ending Climate Change Is Knocking On Our Door" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Lake Mead hits lowest water levels in history amid severe drought in the West" by Julia Jacobo.

Article: "Quantification of drought during the collapse of the classic Maya civilization" by Nicholas P. Evans et al.

Article: "Humbaba: A Monstrous Foe for Gilgamesh or a Misunderstood Guardian?" by Wu Mingren.

Article: "Nature crisis: 'Insect apocalypse' more complicated than thought" by Matt McGrath.

Article: "Arab Spring" by Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Article: "Little Ice Age Shrank Europeans, Sparked Wars" by Brian Handwerk.

Article: "It's Not a Border Crisis. It's a Climate Crisis." by Sabrina Rodriguez.

Article: "The Anasazi" by Richard Cassaro.

Article: "Greenland's ice sheets are disappearing faster than anyone predicted. Climatologist Jason Box has a radical theory why – and even more radical ideas about upending the global-warming science establishment" by Jeff Goodell.

Article: "The best place to ride out a global societal collapse is New Zealand, study finds" by Adam Taylor.

Video: Last Hours.

Video: Dr Jason Box Says We're On "Catastrophic Path." (w/ Dr. Jason Box).

Article: "Not again: Another heat dome to bring scorching temperatures to continental U.S." by Andrew Freedman.

Article: "As Portland Heat Hits 116 Degrees, Road Buckles in Kenton Neighborhood" by Sophie Peel.

Article: "Environmental migrant" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Syria's Climate Refugees" by Scientific American.

Article: "Little Ice Age" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Total Losses in Power Distribution and Transmission Lines" by jiguparmar.

Article: "California Announces Historic Agreement with Federal Partners to Advance Offshore Wind Development" by Gavin Newsom.

Article: "Here's what's in the bipartisan infrastructure bill" by Katie Lobosco and Tami Luhby.

Article: "Democrats Roll Out $3.5 Trillion Budget to Fulfill Biden's Broad Agenda" by Jonathan Weisman, Emily Cochrane and Jim Tankersley.

Article: "'The war has changed': Internal CDC document urges new messaging, warns delta infections likely more severe" by Yasmeen Abutaleb, Carolyn Y. Johnson, Joel Achenbach.

Article: "C.D.C. Internal Report Calls Delta Variant as Contagious as Chickenpox" by Apoorva Mandavilli.

Article: "Arkansas hospital reveals alarming findings about kids and COVID-19 " by Travis Gettys.

Article: "Unvaccinated man thought he was 'in a low-risk situation' – then he lost his leg to COVID-19 " by Sky Palma.

Article: "Shocking drone footage shows a mass burial site of hundreds of COVID-19 victims on the banks of India's Ganges River" by Sophia Ankel.

Article: "Rep. Mace tweets video in defiance of House mask mandate: 'Madam Speaker, come and get me' " by Ronn Blitzer.

Book: "The Fourth Turning" by William Strauss, Neil Howe.

Site: "Convention of States".

Article: "A Radical Right-Wing Dream To Rewrite The Constitution Is Close To Coming True" by Travis Waldron.

Video: "Concord Project GOTV - 2010-01-07 precinct committeemen recruitment 13 minutes.wmv".

Video: "Concord Project GOTV - the importance of precinct committee members".

Video: "Concord Project GOTV - how you become a precinct committee member".

Article: "Shahid Buttar" by BallotPedia.

Article: "Nancy Pelosi says Biden cannot cancel Americans' student loans " by Mark Moore.

Site: Project Drawdown.

Book: Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken.

Article: "If We Release a Small Fraction of Arctic Carbon, 'We're Fucked': Climatologist" by Brian Merchant.

Article: "The Arctic Ice Crisis" by Bill McKibben.

Article: "China floods: death toll climbs as questions raised over preparedness" by Helen Davidson and Vincent Ni.

Article: "EV battery-swapping finds new life in China" by Wang Tianyu.

Video: EV battery-swapping finds new life in China.

Article: "Massive Wildfires Rage in Arizona as Drought Worsens Across Western United States" by Democracy Now!

Site: Carolyn Baker.

Article: "Dmitry Orlov (writer)" by Wikipedia.

Site: Club Orlov (blog).

Article: "Jacque Fresco" by Wikipedia.

Tweet: "A big middle finger to all the Floriduh unvax'd
You gave me Covid you dumb asses. Double vax'd, NO symptoms BUT NOW ALL have to get tested, call our contacts, isolate in separate rooms from our family for 10 days.
MORONS! COWARDS!
#GetTheVaccineAlready #GetTested #WearAMask" by Randi Rhodes.

Article: "99% of COVID deaths are now of unvaccinated people, experts say " by Jessica Rendall.

Hour Two: Progressive Town Hall
- Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA, 17th District)

Article: "Trump Pressed Justice Dept. to Declare Election Results Corrupt, Notes Show" by Katie Benner.

Article: "President Obama: The United States Formally Enters the Paris Agreement" by Tanya Somanader.

Article: "Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Workers Beg Joe Manchin to Save West Virginia Pharma Plant as His Daughter Walks Away with $31M" by Democracy Now!

Article: "AMA backs update to CDC opioid prescribing guidelines" by Jack Deutsch.

Book: American Agony: The Opioid War Against Patients in Pain by Helen Borel.

Article: "Louis DeJoy" by Wikipedia.

Site: youarewithinthenorms.

Article: "House Dems Ask ExxonMobil Lobbyist to Testify About Climate Misinformation " by Brett Wilkins.

Article: "Convention to propose amendments to the United States Constitution" (Article V Convention) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Foreign Firms Sucking "Virtual" Water From America's Parched Southwest" by Diana Kruzman.

Article: "Windfall Elimination Provision" by SSA.

Bill: "H.R.860 - Social Security 2100 Act" by Rep. Larson, John B. [D-CT-1].

Article: "COVID+Credit: Self-Employed? Where to Find Assistance During the COVID-19 Pandemic" by Equifax.

Article: "The Decade's Biggest Political Deadline" by Walker Bragman.

Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].

Bill: "S.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR].

Bill: "S.4263 - John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act" by Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT].

Article: "'Hemp can sequester 15t of carbon per hectare'" by Siobhán Walsh.

Article: "What Happens to Campaign Contributions After Elections?" by Deborah D'Souza.

Article: "A Survey of Campaign Finance and Lobbying Laws in the 50 States, District of Columbia, New York City, and Seattle" by Eric Wang.

Article: "Paul Ryan Is Poised to Earn Millions When He Retires Next Year" by Bloomberg.

Event: July 24: March For Medicare For All.

Article: "Congress scrambles to extend eviction moratorium expiring Saturday" by Jonathan Allen and Rebecca Shabad.

Article: "Mitch McConnell cancels Congress's summer vacation" by Joe Perticone.

Hour Three: Congress MUST Lower the Medicare Age - The Medicare Perfect Storm & It's Deadly
- Larry Cohen, Board Chair - Our Revolution / Board chair-Democracy Initiative / Past President-Communication Workers of America (CWA)

Article: "Congress must lower the Medicare Age to save the lives of older Americans" by Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and Dr. Joseph B. Shrager.

Article: "Progressives Launch Medicare For All Act with Rep. Pramila Jayapal".

Bill: "H.R.1976 - Medicare for All Act of 2021" by Rep. Jayapal, Pramila [D-WA-7].

Bill: "H.R.2474 - Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2019" (PRO Act) by Rep. Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [D-VA-3].

Article: "On Medicare's 56th Birthday, Activists Deliver 125,000+ Petitions Urging Congress to Expand the Program" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "2021 Ohio's 11th congressional district special election" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Biden Asks Congress to Act to Prevent Evictions—Just 3 Days Before Moratorium Expires" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Trump's Supreme Court Crime Spree " by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Brett Kavanaugh" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Congresswoman Cori Bush Introduces the Unhoused Bill of Rights, First Ever Federal Resolution Affirming the Rights of the Unhoused" by Cori Bush.

Article: "Housing is a human right: How Finland is eradicating homelessness" by Tahiat Mahboob.

Speech: "1944 State of the Union Address" (Second Bill of Rights or Economic Bill of Rights Speech) by Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Speech: "New Nationalism Speech" by Theodore Roosevelt, August 31, 1910 (square deal).

Article: "Appendix C: Ingredients included in COVID-19 vaccines" by CDC.

Article: "McCarthyism" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "William E. Jenner" by Wikipedia.

Article: "America First Committee" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Charles Lindbergh" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Glenn Kirschner" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rep. Greg Pence votes to object to Pennsylvania Electoral College results" by Andy East.

Article: "Pelosi Under Fire for Parroting 'Right-Wing Lies' Against Student Loan Debt Cancellation" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Jake Johnson" by David Badash.

Article: "The meaning of exponential" by Jon Butterworth.

Article: "Logarithmic scale" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mike Pompeo" by Wikipedia.

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