Sue's Daily Stack, Friday, 12 January, 2024
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Friday's Daily Stack
Hour One: Progressive Town Hall
- Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA, 17th District) / Author of 2 books, his latest Dignity In A Digital Age: Making Tech Work For All Of Us @RepRoKhanna
Tweet: "The President's strikes in Yemen are unconstitutional. For over a month, he consulted an international coalition to plan them, but never came to Congress to seek authorization as required by Article I of the Constitution. We need to listen to our Gulf allies, pursue de-escalation, and avoid getting into another Middle East war. [video]" by Rep. Ro Khanna.
Article: "In rare move top Republicans back Biden's airstrikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen: 'overdue but welcome'" by Elizabeth Elkind.
Article: "Oil Up 4%: 'Crude' Implications Of U.S.-U.K. Attacks On Yemen" by Gaurav Sharma.
Article: "Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered strikes on the Houthis from the hospital using a 'full suite of secure communications'" by Thibault Spirlet.
Video: Elise Stefanik echoes Trump's comments calling Jan. 6 rioters in prison 'hostages': Full interview.
Article: "Merrick Garland" by Wikipedia.
Article: "What's behind the chaos in Ecuador?" by Jack Guy.
Article: "House Conservatives Warn: Shut the Border or the Government Shuts Down" by Lindsey McPherson.
Article: "Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Yemeni civil war (2014–present)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Barbara Lee" by Wikipedia.
Article: "'Unacceptable': Biden denounced for bypassing Congress over Yemen strikes" by Lauren Gambino.
TV: "Howdy Doody".
Article: "California 17th Congressional District Election Results 2022" (Ro Khanna D v. Ritesh Tandon R).
Article: "California's 17th Congressional District election, 2024" (Ro Khanna D v. Ritesh Tandon D).
Article: "Two Santa Clauses or How The Republican Party Has Conned America for Thirty Years" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "How Disabled Americans Are Pushing to Overhaul a Key Benefits Program" by Maggie Astor.
Article: "Has Biden violated the US Constitution by bombing Yemen?" by Al Jazeera.
Article: "The financial cost of the Jan. 6 insurrection is nearly half a billion dollars so far" by Jeff Schogol.
Article: "Covid JN.1 surge 'may be biggest ever' virologist warns as US sees 'second largest wave'" by Chris Samuel.
Article: "Security bolstered for judge overseeing Trump election case" by Daniel Barnes and Dareh Gregorian.
Article: "BRICS" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Munich massacre" by Wikipedia.
Hour Two: A Handy Guide to Translating Republican-Speak into Plain English
Article: "A Handy Guide to Translating Republican-Speak into Plain English" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "President Reagan is asking Congress to reduce financial aid to college students by $2.3 billion - a 27 percent cut that would force more than 1 million students to fend for themselves" by AP.
Article: "Voter identification" by MIT Election Data + Science Lab.
Article: "How much has the U.S. government spent this year?" by Fiscal Data.
Article: "How Term Limits Turn Legislatures Over to Lobbyists" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Libertarian National Platform 1980: Education".
Article: "Turns out IRS audits of wealthy offer terrific return on investment for taxpayers" by Clea Simon.
Transcript: "Republican Presidential Debate At Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, January 10, 2024. Part 1".
Transcript: "Republican Presidential Debate At Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, January 10, 2024. Part 2".
Book: The Hidden History of the War on Voting: Who Stole Your Vote and How to Get It Back by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Concerns with cuts to IRS funding: letter to Majority Leader Schumer, Minority Leader McConnell, Speaker Johnson, and Minority Leader Jeffries" by CBPP et al.
Article: "Inequality and Tax Rates: A Global Comparison" by Andrew Chatzky.
Article: "House passes bill for $2,000 stimulus checks – leaving it up to GOP-controlled Senate" by Jacob Pramuk.
Article: "STEM Programs Launched" by Eisenhower Foundation.
Article: "Minimum Wage Tracker" by Economic Policy Institute.
Article: "Government expenditure, percent of GDP" by IMF.
Article: "Fact-Checking the Misleading Claim About 87,000 Tax Agents" by Linda Qiu.
Article: "Total Medicaid enrollment from 1966 to 2022" by Statista.
Article: "Trump will have the worst jobs record in modern U.S. history. It's not just the pandemic" by Andrew Van Dam.
Video: Paul Weyrich - "I don't want everybody to vote" (Goo Goo).
Article: "Lake Erie" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Peter Licavoli" by Wikipedia.
MAGA Has Devoured American Evangelicalism - Are Evangelicals now just cult members?
Book: Disloyal: A Memoir by Michael Cohen.
Article: "MAGA Has Devoured American Evangelicalism" by Michelle Goldberg.
How Donald Trump became Jesus
Article: "Behold: Donald Trump the chosen son — and religious con" by Gregg Barak.
Article: "Donald Trump Shares Paul Harvey Parody Video Saying: "God Made Trump"" by Tim Hains.
Article: "Authorization for Use of Military Force of 2001" by Wikipedia.
Movie: "Network".
Article: "Ten Commandments" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Milgram experiment" by Wikipedia.
Speech: "Farewell Address", by Dwight David Eisenhower, January 17, 1961 (transcript). "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex."
Movie: "The Wizard of Oz".
Article: "Elon Musk's alleged drug use puts 13,000 jobs at risk, report suggests" by Greta Ruffino.
Article: "Elon Musk Seems to Endorse Tweet Saying Students at Black Colleges Have Low IQs" by Thomas Germain.
Article: "The Turner Diaries" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The Camp of the Saints" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Sturmabteilung" (Brownshirts).
Article: "The Sturmabteilung: Hitler's Unofficial Army Of Thugs" (brownshirts) by Gina Dimuro.
Article: "Portland winter weather: A timeline for when snow and cold temperatures are expected to arrive" by Lizzy Acker.
Article: "Weatherman visibly shaken after thundersnow strikes while he's reporting live from Winter Storm Gerri - as EVERY US state is hit by weather warning: Midwest and Northeast prepare for severe storm and temps in Montana plunge as low as -48F" by Joe Hutchison.
Hour Three: Who are the Houthis and why should we care?
Article: "Who Are the Houthis and Why Is the U.S. Attacking Them?" by Gaya Gupta.
Article: "Barbary pirates" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Treaty of Tripoli" (1796) by Wikipedia. "As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion"
Article: "Operation Prosperity Guardian" by Wikipedia.
Hunter in a Farmer's World Alert! ADHD: Train your Attention Span with Self-Realization - Learning how to focus our attention
Article: "ADHD: Train your Attention Span with Self-Realization" by Thom Hartmann.
Site: Muse.
Article: "'A pattern you can't ignore': Expert points finger at Trump after Engoron bomb threat" by Tom Boggioni.
Article: "Trump fraud trial judge home was swatting target, police say" by Kevin Breuninger, Dan Mangan.
Article: "Edward Snowden" by Wikipedia.
Article: "School bomb threats in two states not credible - FBI" by BBC.
Article: "Revealed: Prebuttal of the GOP's Debate Trashing President Biden & Progressives" (Biden achievements) by Thom Hartmann.
Lyrics: "Gallant Men" by Senator Everett Mckinley Dirksen (audio).
Article: "Trump administration won't ban pesticide tied to childhood brain damage" by Sam Levin.
Article: "White House says GOP blocked border funding as Republicans plan tour" by Doug Cunningham.
Article: "Compulsory voting in Australia" by AEC.
Article: "Donald Trump lost the popular vote, was impeached and then lost re-election. How many times has this happened before?" by Lucia Stein and Rebecca Armitage.
Article: "John Fetterman's Israel Remarks Spark Furious Backlash" by Darragh Roche.
Article: "Fetterman blasts South Africa 'genocide' case against Israel amid unrest, crime: 'Sit this one out'" by Danielle Wallace.
Article: "It's a new year and a whole new John Fetterman: He's kissing his progressive ways goodbye" by Ingrid Jacques.
Article: "Fetterman: Harvard was always a 'little Pinko' but I 'don't recognize it' anymore" by Andrew Mark Miller.
Movie: "Rosemary's Baby".
Documentary: You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment.
Docuseries: "Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones" by Amanda Richards.
Article: "Iran nuclear deal: Trump pulls US out in break with Europe allies" by BBC.
Article: "Is 100 the New 80?: Centenarians Are Becoming More Common" by Katharina Buchholz.