It's time to say "No" to Big Tech and "smart" appliances that are, in reality, data thieves attaching themselves to us and our homes like blood-sucking parasites.

A few weeks ago our decade-old, serially-repaired dishwasher gave up the ghost, soaking the kitchen floor in the process. Louise found a replacement online that met her needs and fitted into the space we had, and two burly guys came out this week to install it while she stood outside with all the doors and windows open.

"It's a smart dishwasher," she told me, handing me the instruction manual. "Figure out how to hook it up to my cell phone so we can control it remotely."

I dutifully read the manual and downloaded the app from the overseas company that made the dishwasher. And that's where it got weird.

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-Thom

Friday's Daily Stack

Article: "My Dishwasher Wants to Spy on Me!" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Wall Street's Barons are Causing Homelessness: Can We Stop Them?" by Thom Hartmann.

Book: The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy by Thom Hartmann.

Book: The Tyranny of Big Tech by Josh Hawley.

Letter: "Secret Surveillance Scoring: Urgent Request for Investigation and Enforcement Action" by representconsumers.org.

Article: "Wall Street Journal" by Christopher Mims.

Article: "Cambridge Analytica" by Wikipedia.

Tweet: "MUST WATCH: Project Alamo uses Cambridge Analytica data for Trump: "Without Facebook, we wouldn't have won." [link]" by Amee Vanderpool.

Article: "Psst: You really want to know why Manchin and Sinema came out against voting rights?" by Robert Reich.

Article: "What's in the House-passed Build Back Better bill? Paid leave, universal pre-K and more" by Joey Garrison and Ledyard King.

Article: "Supremacy Clause" by Wikipedia.

Article: "GOP lawmaker introduces measure for New Hampshire to secede: 'Our state's sovereignty has been stolen'" by Matthew Chapman.

Article: "Gastarbeiter" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Coronavirus: Turkish Germans raise new Covid vaccine hopes" by BBC.

Article: "Supreme Court blocks Biden vaccine-or-test mandate for large businesses" by Devin Dwyer.

Article: "Mary Mallon" (Typhoid Mary) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Polio vaccine" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The FBI just raided this conservative House Democrat's home. Fortunately, we have a better choice" by David Nir.

Article: "FBI raid on Rep. Henry Cuellar's Texas home, office said to be tied to Azerbaijan" by Michael Kosnar.

Article: "Kyrsten Sinema blames Democrats for Republican opposition to voting rights legislation" by Bil Browning.

Article: "Mike Pence Joining Heritage Foundation" by Theodore Bunker.

Article: "Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley is charging a whopping $200,000 per speaking gig" by Kayla Tausche.

Article: "The tea party radio network" by Kenneth P. Vogel and Mackenzie Weinger.

Article: "Afghanistan Faces "Tsunami of Hunger" as U.S. Sanctions Crash Country's Economy" by Democracy Now!

Article: "Black History Month" by history.com.

Article: "Women's History Month" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: Do Psychopaths Like Trump Believe Their Own Lies?
- Psychoanalyst Dr. Justin Frank MD, Psychoanalyst & Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - George Washington University / Author - Trump on the Couch (Previous books include Bush on the Couch & Obama on the Couch) @JustinFrankMD

Article: "Rudy Giuliani Led Fake State Electors Plot, Sources Tell CNN" by Susie Madrak.

Article: "Trump's false or misleading claims total 30,573 over 4 years" by Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly.

Book: Trump: The Art of the Deal by Donald J. Trump with Tony Schwartz.

Article: "Mens rea" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance." - Will Rogers.

Video: User Clip: Stephen Colbert on "Truthiness".

Article: ""I Call It Truthful Hyperbole": The Most Popular Quotes From Trump's "The Art of the Deal"" by Emily Price.

Article: "How the Iroquois Great Law of Peace Shaped U.S. Democracy" by Terri Hansen.

Article: "Trump's Covid and Election Falsehoods at Arizona Rally" by Linda Qiu.

Article: "The Affluenza Defense" by Michael Karson Ph.D.

Article: "Joseph Stalin said some version of "It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes."" by David Emery.

Article: "Hunters kill 20 Yellowstone wolves that roamed out of park" by AP.

Article: "The World at War" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Stab-in-the-back myth" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Meat Loaf Dead at 74 From COVID" by TMZ.

Article: "Reports from the Board of Trustees" by Social Security.

Article: "Hawaii Democrats: Rep. Case Does Not Reflect Party's Values And Principles" by Chad Blair.

Tweet: "I genuinely don't get how anyone can *not* think that an hour of this stuff, night after night, from people like these, beamed into millions of Americans' homes, isn't one of the main reasons why America - and especially American politics - is in such a mess right now. [link to tweet with Fox video clip]" by Mehdi Hasan.

Article: "12 Years After Citizens United, the Supreme Court's Right-Wing Revolution Continues" by Lisa Graves.

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

Article: "Biden administration raises minimum wage for U.S. federal employees to $15" by Reuters.

Article: "We Know the Real Cause of the Crisis in Our Hospitals. It's Greed." by Lucy King and Jonah M. Kessel.

Article: "Why aren't there enough hospital beds?" by Judd Legum.

Site: Relist Wolves.

Article: "Madison Announces End to Hunger Strike" by Joe Madison.

Article: "Is Ginni Thomas a Threat to the Supreme Court?" by Jane Mayer.

Book: "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Virginia Thomas" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Supreme Court paves way for Trump White House document review by Jan. 6 committee" by Devin Dwyer and Alexander Mallin.

Article: "The fight to oust Louis DeJoy and his 'disastrous' austerity plan" by Michael Sainato.

Article: "The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax " by Jesse Eisinger, Jeff Ernsthausen and Paul Kiel.

Book: The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Fox News' Murdoch buys Montana ranch from Koch Industries" by AP.

Article: "We Know the Real Cause of the Crisis in Our Hospitals. It's Greed." by Lucy King and Jonah M. Kessel.

Monday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET

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