Sue's Daily Stack, Friday, 10 May, 2024
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Friday's Daily Stack
Co-host with Thom Today...Jefferson Smith, Host-Democracy Nerd Podcast.
Hour One: News of the week - Stormy weather trial
Article: "Trump appears frustrated in court while possible Cohen testimony looms" by Victoria Bekiempis.
Article: "Trump's trial trap: Voters to be his most important jury" by Erin Doherty, Alex Thompson.
Article: "Trump's lawyers blasted by judge for not objecting to Stormy Daniels's graphic testimony" by Annabella Rosciglione.
Article: "Why Harvey Weinstein's rape conviction was overturned and what happens next" by Brendan Pierson.
Article: "The jurors: who is on the Trump trial jury?" by Nick Robins-Early.
Article: "'He Raped Me': When Donald Trump Was Accused of Sexual Assault" by Sophie Weiner.
Article: "Judge Pushes Back Critical Filing Deadline in Trump Documents Case" by Alan Feuer.
Article: "Donald Trump already won the only Supreme Court fight that mattered" by Ian Millhiser.
Article: "Georgia appeals court to hear Trump's bid to disqualify Fani Willis" by Andrew Goudsward.
Article: "Antisemitism" by Wikipedia.
Article: "A huge solar storm is slamming into the Earth. Scientists say you should look up" by Geoff Brumfiel.
Article: "USPS moving forward to change Springfield facility" by Cole Henke.
Article: "Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Postal Clause" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump team throws out GOP plan and builds a 'leaner' 2024 operation" by Michael Scherer, Josh Dawsey, Maeve Reston, Yvonne Wingett Sanchez.
Article: "Full List of Trump Family Members Serving as Florida Delegates" by Mandy Taheri.
Article: "Trump's youngest son Barron 'declines' to be RNC delegate, his mother Melania says" by Sam Cabral.
Article: "Project 2025" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Next Up (organization)" (formerly known as The Bus Project) by Wikipedia.
Article: "'Defcon 1 moment': New Spanish-language conservative network fuels fresh Dem fears over disinfo, Latino outreach" by Marc Caputo.
Article: "COVID-19 pandemic death rates by country" by Wikipedia.
Article: "US Consumer Sentiment Slumps as Inflation Expectations Rise" by Jarrell Dillard.
Article: "The Saudi & Putin Scheme for Screwing Biden's Election Hopes" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Saudi Arabia Now Controls the Largest Oil Refinery in North America" by Robbie Gramer.
Article: "Fed's interest rate history: A look at the fed funds rate from the 1980s to the present" by Sarah Foster.
Article: "Mnuchin still considering TikTok purchase, says technology could be rebuilt" by Julia Shapero.
Article: "Trump hosted Zuckerberg for undisclosed dinner at the White House in October" by Dylan Byers and Ben Collins.
Article: "Musk Increasingly Puts His Thumb on the Scale for Trump's GOP" by Craig Trudell.
Article: "Nikki Haley's latest target on the campaign trail? Kamala Harris" by Sarah McCammon.
Article: "J. D. Vance" by Wikipedia.
Hour Two: Puppy Slayer, Noem expects America understand puppy killing. No!
Article: "Kristi Noem Calls Off Disastrous Book Tour, Canceling Hits on Fox News and CNN at Last Minute" by Zachary Leeman.
Article: "Puppy Slayer Kristi Noem Had a Very, Very Bad Day on Conservative TV" by Bess Levin.
Article: "Kristi Noem keeps expecting us to understand why she murdered her dog. It's mindboggling." by Nicole Russell.
Book: "The Authoritarians" by Robert Altemeyer.
Book: "Conservatives Without Conscience" by John W. Dean.
Book: Authoritarian Nightmare: Trump and His Followers by John W. Dean, Bob Altemeyer.
Article: "Presidential Morality at Stake: Is Trump America's Political Harvey Weinstein? " by Thom Hartmann.
What happens when you invite churches into schools..
Article: "A Louisiana school gave kids a biblical advice book comparing sex to slavery" by Friendly Atheist.
Article: "Florida says it doesn't want indoctrination in schools — but look at the materials it just approved" by Valerie Strauss.
Article: "Vermont poised to become first US state to charge big oil for climate damage" by Dharna Noor.
Article: "Lawyer's RICO suit seeks to force fossil fuel companies to pay for hurricane damage" by Debra Cassens Weiss.
Movie: "Who Framed Roger Rabbit".
Article: "Maria Butina" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Reince Priebus" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Rex Tillerson" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The New Propaganda War" by Anne Applebaum.
Article: "The Latest | Prosecutors likely to call just 2 more witnesses in Trump's hush money case" by AP.
Article: "Cancer eating the heart of Australian democracy" by Kevin Rudd.
Article: "Brexit" by Wikipedia.
Movie: "Ladyhawke".
Video: Paul Weyrich - "I don't want everybody to vote" (Goo Goo).
Documentary: SiCKO - Michael Moore.
Quote: "It all began with democracy" - Tony Benn.
Book: Willie Nelson's Letters to America by Willie Nelson with Turk Pipkin.
Article: "Should Election Day Be a Holiday?" by Martin P. Wattenberg.
Article: "Jerry Falwell Sr." by Wikipedia.
Article: "Ralph Reed" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Moral Majority" by Wikipedia.
Bible: "For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." - Luke 18:25.
Article: "Salem witch trials" by Wikipedia.
Article: "James Madison And Church-State Separation" by Rob Boston.
MAGA is already doubting the 2024 election
Article: "MAGA Republicans are already doubting the 2024 election results" by Eugene Robinson.
Hour Three: Teacher Appreciation Week / Promoting literacy / Campus Protects: must protect our right to protest, etc.
- Randi Weingarten, President - American Federation of Teachers @AFTunion @rweingarten
Article: "10 million books and counting: How the AFT-First Book partnership is boosting literacy" by Randi Weingarten, Kyle Zimmer.
Article: "Libertarian Party National Platform 1980"
Article: "Betsy DeVos" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Christopher Rufo" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Educators, Parents, Students Won Big in Historic Midterm Elections" by Amanda Litvinov.
Case: "Scopes Trial" by Britannica.
Video: "Havana Syndrome" | 60 Minutes Full Episodes.
Article: "Ex-Trump security adviser McMaster warns West 'on the cusp of another World War'" by Josh Christenson.
Article: "Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation" (2014) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Internet Research Agency" (IRA) (Yevgeny Prigozhin troll farm) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump Dismisses Haley Supporters Saying He Won't "Need" Them" by Troy Matthews.
Article: "Trump is Willing to Trade Our Children's Future for a Billion Dollars" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Trump Demands "termination" Of Constitution And By Passing All Laws To Restore Him To Power" by Joe Gandelman.
Article: "Trump wants to change the libel laws. Here's how they came to be" by Patricia U. Bonomi.
Article: "Hungary: where editors tell reporters to disregard facts before their eyes" by Jennifer Rankin, Flora Garamvolgyi.
Article: "KXRY" (XRAY.FM) by Wikipedia.
Article: "NY Times editor: Not media's job to prevent Trump from winning" by Dominick Mastrangelo.
Movie: "God Forbid: The Sex Scandal That Brought Down a Dynasty".
Article: "Proclamation 4483" (Granting Pardon for Violations of the Selective Service Act) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Biden's $7.5 billion investment in EV charging has only produced 7 stations in two years" by Shannon Osaka.
Article: "AIPAC Is Secretly Intervening in Portland's Congressional Race to Take Down Susheela Jayapal, Sources Say" by Ryan Grim.
Article: "How progressive ceasefire advocate Summer Lee defanged the opposition ahead of her primary in Pennsylvania" by Gregory Krieg.
Article: "Pro-Israel US groups plan $100m effort to unseat progressives over Gaza" by Joan E Greve, Alice Herman and Will Craft.
Article: "Trump is Willing to Trade Our Children's Future for a Billion Dollars" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "World's top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target" by Damian Carrington.
Article: "Will Rogers Quotes".
Book: "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "The Saudi & Putin Scheme for Screwing Biden's Election Hopes" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Trump: 'I'm very greedy' " by Bradford Richardson.
Bible: "Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed…" - Luke 12:15.
Article: "'I am starting to panic about my child's future': climate scientists wary of starting families" by Damian Carrington.
Article: "Vermont poised to become first US state to charge big oil for climate damage" by Dharna Noor.
Article: "Trump: "My whole life I've been greedy … Now I want to be greedy for the United States"" by Ezra Klein.
Article: "Oil and gas supermajors recorded big profits in 2023" by Nancy Vu.
Article: "A key election metric for Democrats is on a sign in your neighborhood" by Philip Bump.
Article: "What Trump promised oil CEOs as he asked them to steer $1 billion to his campaign" by Josh Dawsey and Maxine Joselow.
Video: Last Hours.