Racism, Demagoguery & Political Opportunism are Killing America. Ray DeMonia of Cullman, Alabama was a good and decent man, an antique collector and auctioneer, beloved by friends and family. He and his family were vaccinated, so they didn't have to worry much about Covid.

Two days short of his 74th birthday Ray died of a heart attack that, in and of itself, had nothing to do with Covid.

But that's only part of the story.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

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Case: "Plessy v. Ferguson", 1896 (separate but equal).

Quote: "Nothing is more clearly shown from this investigation than that the southern black man at the time of emancipation was healthy in body and cheerful in mind" - Frederick L. Hoffman.

Article: "Scientific Racism, Insurance, and Opposition to the Welfare State: Frederick L. Hoffman's Transatlantic Journey" by Beatrix Hoffman.

Article: "The Strange History of Single-Payer Healthcare in America" by daniel.

Article: "12 red states have refused Medicaid expansion. Biden's funding offer may turn the tide." by Phil McCausland.

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Article: "Column: The price of ideology: a woman's life (w/video)" by Alan Grayson.

Article: "A Casualty Of Rick Scott, The Florida Legislature, And The Party Of "No"" by Leslie Wimes.

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Article: "Death by Dogma: Charlene Dill Didn't Have to Die" by Alan Grayson.

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Article: "The Greatest Canadian" (Tommy Douglas) by Miss Cellania.

Article: "Health Care In Canada: Popular System Now Rocked By Criticism" by Douglas Martin.

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Article: "The GOP Never Gave Ray DeMonia a Chance to Survive" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "City of Cullman declares State of Local Emergency" by Jeff Wyatt.

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Article: "Trump's next rally to be held in notorious racist "sundown town" in Alabama" by Liv Barker.

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Article: "Black Americans Face Alarming Rates of Coronavirus Infection in Some States" by John Eligon, Audra D. S. Burch, Dionne Searcey and Richard A. Oppel Jr.

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Article: "California Republican Party Admits It Placed Misleading Ballot Boxes Around State" by Glenn Thrush and Jennifer Medina.

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Hour Three: Where's the Global Plan to End the Pandemic?
- Lori Wallach, Public Citizen's Trade Watch @PCGTW @WallachLori

Article: "In Review, Top F.D.A. Scientists Question Imminent Need for Booster Shots" by Noah Weiland and Apoorva Mandavilli.

Article: "America And The TRIPS Waiver: You Can Talk The Talk, But Will You Walk The Walk?" by Vineeta Gupta, Sreenath Namboodiri.

Article: "Contrary to Pharma Company Promises, COVID-19 Vaccine Producers Are Not on Track to Make Enough for Everyone" by Global Trade Watch.

Article: "Angela Merkel rejects US move to waive patents on vaccines" by Guy Chazan, Erika Solomon, Hannah Kuchler and Jim Brunsden.

Article: "Biden To Address The UN General Assembly Meeting In New York On Sept 21, Says White House" by Zaini Majeed.

Article: "Biden To Support Waiving Patents For COVID-19 Vaccines" by Daniel Marans, Sara Boboltz.

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Article: "Advance warning: October is gay recruitment month" by Scott Lively.

Article: "Should Vaccinated People Be Forced to Contract COVID?" by Adam Mill.

Article: "Vaccine Mandates and the Labor Market" by Kevin A. Hassett.

Article: "Biden Just Rolled a Live Grenade Into Nursing Homes Across America" by Tawsif Anam.

Article: "I will never trust another doctor" by Randi Pinkerton.

Article: "The Morning Briefing: COVID Panic Merchants Might Want to Try Not Lying" by Stephen Kruiser.

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Article: "The man in the iron lung" by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie.

Article: "Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis" (motor neurone disease (MND) or Lou Gehrig's disease) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Did Sweden's coronavirus strategy succeed or fail?" by Maddy Savage.

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

Article: "Combining sunlight and wastewater nitrate to make the world's No. 2 chemical" by University of Illinois.

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