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Why 7 Bees On the Endangered List Is A Disaster

Laurie Davies Adams, The Pollinator Partnership, joins Thom. The US Department of Agriculture reports that over the last 50 years - nearly 30 percent of beehives in the U.S. have collapsed. But bees aren't only pollinator facing an existential threat.

Pence Bet Big On Gaming... After Big Donations

David Sirota, International Business Times, joins Thom. Mike Pence claims that he doesn't support expanding the gaming industry in Indiana - and that he's never even bought a lottery ticket! So how did Indiana become the fifth largest gaming state in the country under Pence's watch?

Politics Panel: The Filipino Trump Says, “Go To Hell"

Hughey Newsome, BOLD.global/Move-On-Up & Sarah Badawi, Progressive Change Campaign Committee & Bryan Pruitt, RedState joins Thom. "You can go to hell" That's what Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte said today after President Obama expressed concern about his country's increasingly violent drug war. Since Duterte - who calls himself the Phillipino Donald Trump - took office in July - 3,600 people have been murdered in a wave of vigilante killings that the Phillppine president has apparently fully endorsed. Duterte has even gone so far as to positively compare the violence to the Holocaust - saying, "Hitler massacred 3 million Jews … there’s 3 million drug addicts I’d be happy to slaughter them.”

Politics Panel: GOP Pulling a “Willie Horton” on Kiane?

Hughey Newsome, BOLD.global/Move-On-Up & Sarah Badawi, Progressive Change Campaign Committee & Bryan Pruitt, RedState joins Thom. Republicans are waging an all-out war on Tim Kaine's record as a defense attorney for death row inmates. But in a day and age when less than half of Americans support the death penalty - is this really all that smart of a strategy?

Full Show 10/4/16: The Real Mike Pence Revealed

Tonight’s Politics Panel discusses how Trump supporters may actually be voting for a Pres. Pence, the bizarre Willie Horton-style attack ad on Tim Kaine, and the similarities between Rodrigo Duterte and Donald Trump.

Is It Time To Start Talking About Doomsday Scenarios?

We've passed another terrifying climate change threshold - and there's now more carbon in the atmosphere than there has been in millions of years.

The Toxic Trade Map

The terrifying thing about the TPP is that it would be just as devastating to the environment as the economy - maybe even more. Joining me now to explain why is Ben Beachy - Senior Policy Advisor to the Sierra Club's Responsible Trade program.

30 Pipeline Protesters Arrested

Sarah Jaffe, Nation Institute/NECESSARY TROUBLE: Americans in Revolt/Belabored (podcast) for Dissent Magazine & Erich Pica, Friends Of the Earth-US both join Thom Hartmann. The movement against the Dakota Access Pipeline is growing - as almost 30 people were arrested protesting the project this weekend in Iowa. What’s this fight really about - the environment or something much bigger?

Progressive Roundtable - Is Trump Helping Down Ticket Dems?

Joe Madison, The Joe Madison Show/SiriusXM Urban View & Linda Benesch, Communications Director-Social Security Works both join Thom. Clinton's surge comes after Trump suffer a week-long meltdown after Hillary Clinton brought up Trump's sexist treatment of a former Miss Universe winner. Instead of running on the issues and focusing on how Hillary Clinton would move the country forward - the Democrats have spent most of their time and money attacking Trump's personality as being so defective that he couldn't possibly win the presidency. Are we seeing that strategy finally payoff at the presidential level? And will downticket Democrats be able to attach Trump to downticket Republicans to help take back the House and Senate?

Progressive Roundtable - Trump the Artful (Tax) Dodger

Joe Madison, The Joe Madison Show/SiriusXM Urban View & Linda Benesch, Communications Director-Social Security Works both join Thom. If an average person were unemployed and filed a year or two of "losses" on their tax return - they couldn't use those losses to get out of future taxes owed - but billionaire real estate developers like Donald Trump can - and that's essentially what he did. Beyond that - even though Trump's campaign is acting outraged at the tax loopholes helping special interests - Trump's tax plan doesn't do ANYTHING to close those loopholes and it's likely that he - or his children - would still manage to pay nothing in taxes if he became president. Trump lost nearly $1 billion in a single year - so why have we been paying for it for almost two decades?

Full Show 10/3/16: Trump The Artful (Tax) Dodger

Tonight’s Progressive Roundtable talks Trump’s $1 Billion loss in 1995 that has allowed him to not pay taxes since, whether Hillary’s ad strategy of ignoring policy and focusing on Trump will work, and Hillary’s potential problems with millennials following some leaked audio. Thom discusses the latest arrests of Dakota Pipeline protestors and how this is bigger than just one pipeline with Friends Of the Earth’s Erich Pica and the Nation Institute’s Sarah Jaffe, the TPP’s potential impact on our climate with Sierra Club’s Ben Beachy, and in tonight’s Daily Take Thom details the dire news about our planet and whether we’ve reached a tipping point.

Full Show 9/30/16: Why Are Millennials Supporting Johnson?!?

Tonight’s Rumble discusses Harry Reid “thanking” Congressional Republicans for obstructing Obama’s presidency, Trump’s late night misogynistic tweeting, and how teen pregnancies are down thanks to birth control. Thom discusses how the North Dakota pipeline protests are spreading across the country with the Indigenous Environmental Network’s Kandi Mossett and Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps, who millennials will vote for in November with Free Speech for People’s Scott Greytak, and Thom responds to your questions and comments in tonight’s Your Take, My Take Live.

How the TPP Could Be A Death Sentence For Some Americans

Lori Wallach, Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch & Zahara Heckscher, Cancer Families for Affordable Medicine both join Thom. The Transpacific Partnership isn't dead yet - and if it passes, sick Americans will find their drug prices climbing higher than ever.

Justice Watchdog Rips DEA's Confidential Sources

Sam Sacks, The District Sentinel, joins Thom. The DEA's confidential informant program is the agency's "bread and butter" for investigations - and it's costing taxpayers millions.

40 Years of Reaganism Behind This Disastrous Train Crash

Today's train crash wasn't just a "random" accident - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has blood on his hands.

ADHD: Hunter in a Farmer's World

Thom Hartmann has written a dozen books covering ADD / ADHD - Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder.

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