Sue's Daily Stack, Friday, 16 August, 2024
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Friday's Daily Stack
Hour One: News - Harris to fight poverty, and help homebuyers. What happens if Trump spirals out of control? Mpox is dangerously evolving.
Article: "'Huge flip of circumstances': end of US child tax credit pushing kids into poverty>" by Chris Stein.
Article: "Harris to target predatory Wall Street landlords with four-year housing plan" by Jake Johnson.
Article: "Donald Trump allies fear he is sabotaging his presidential campaign since Joe Biden dropped out of the race amid worries he has PTSD after assassination bid" by Natasha Anderson.
Article: "WHO Warns More Mpox To Come In Europe After Case In Sweden" by Camille Bas-Wohlert with Marthe Bosuandole.
Article: "Mpox Vaccine Maker Ready To Produce 10 Million Doses" by AFP.
Event: Aug. 19–22: Chicago: 2024 Democratic National Convention.
Article: "Watch: J.D. Vance Makes Wildly Racist Claim About Causes of Crime" by Hafiz Rashid.
Movie: "Gangs of New York".
Article: "US Tech Giants Are Storing Data for Israeli Military as It Destroys Gaza" by Brett Wilkins.
Article: "Fact Check: Prosecutor's request for Netanyahu warrant still pending at international court" by Reuters Fact Check.
Article: "United States and the International Criminal Court" by Wikipedia.
Are the Morbidly Rich Sabotaging the Very System that Made Them Wealthy?
Article: "Are the Morbidly Rich Sabotaging the Very System that Made Them Wealthy?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "How Libertarianism is a Poison that's Crept into America (Part 1)" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "The Two Decades That Created Our World's First Mass Middle Class" by Sam Pizzigati.
Article: "Middle Class Life in the Late 19th Century" by Tim Lambert.
Article: "Are You In the "Having Mode" or the "Being Mode?"" by Thom Hartmann.
Book: On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation by David Ricardo.
Book: Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith, 1759.
Book: The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.
Article: "Secret recording catches Project 2025 architect revealing plans" by Brad Reed.
Article: "Laissez-faire" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Keynesian economics" by Wikipedia.
Book: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
Article: "Arizona sees nearly 50,000 new voters in last few months" by AP.
Article: "Latest Polls: Arizona" by FiveThirtyEight.
Tweet: "People are saying that Trump asked Judge Merchan to delay his sentencing until after the election because if he loses he's planning to flee to Venezuela the next day. (He discussed this with Elmo.) Should Merchan impound his passport and plane?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "12 things to know about Tim Walz, the Midwestern dad who coined the biggest insult of 2024" by Talia Lakritz, Alice Tecotzky, and Brent D. Griffiths.
Article: "The Right Gets Heartburn Over Tim Walz Joking About Spicy Food" by Nikki McCann Ramirez.
Video: Kamala Harris and Tim Walz on tacos, music, and the future of America.
Video: The Seekers - I'll never find another you (1968).
Article: "The World's Billionaires" by Wikipedia.
Article: "List of presidents of the United States by net worth" by Wikipedia.
Article: "U.S. Presidents' Net Worth, Before and After Taking Office" by Andrew Lisa.
Article: "Quantitative Easing (QE)" by Investopedia.
Article: "America's billionaires have become even richer since Donald Trump became president, and it says a lot about the country's record-high wealth gap" (2020) by Hillary Hoffower.
Article: "America's wealthiest added $195 billion to their fortunes in Biden's first 100 days" by Juliana Kaplan.
Article: "Wealth of Elon Musk" by Wikipedia.
Article: "FBI raids landlord tied to rent price fixing scandal in 10 states, including Calif." by Tessa McLean.
Article: "Mpox" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Efficacy of smallpox vaccines against Mpox infections in humans" by Melissa M Christodoulidou, Neil A Mabbott.
Article: "How Crude Smallpox Inoculations Helped George Washington Win the War" by Dave Roos.
Article: "Thousands flock to Intuit Dome opening, as Bruno Mars performs at LA Clippers' new Inglewood home" by Christina Merino.
Article: "Clippers Community Benefits Package includes $3 million emergency support to Inglewood residents" by 2UrbanGirls.
Article: "Reagan to Urge Change In Cost-of-Living Raises" by Herbert H. Denton.
Hour Two: Can all the right-wing do is insult? Can't they just let people be who they are and debate policy?
Article: "JD Vance Dismissed Kamala Harris As A Childless Cat Lady In 2021" by Jennifer Bendery.
Article: "J.D. Vance wrote the foreword to the book of Project 2025 architect Kevin Roberts — and proceeds will benefit his organization" by Madeline Peltz.
Article: "Delayed publication of Heritage president's book reflects Project 2025 shell game" by Madeline Peltz.
Article: "'I'm Entitled To Personal Attacks': Trump Defends Insulting Kamala Harris's Intelligence And Race" by Phillip Nieto.
Article: "Federalist 69" by Alexander Hamilton. "The President of the United States would be an officer elected by the people for four years. The King of Great-Britain is a perpetual and hereditary prince. The one would be amenable to personal punishment and disgrace."
Case: "Trump v. United States (2024)". (Immunity)
Article: "Tim Walz Takes Heat from Right-Wing Critics After Joking With Kamala Harris About Spice-Less 'White Guy' Food" by Charlie Nash.
Article: "How Trump's 'campaign to belittle Harris' is only hurting himself: D.C. insider" by Alex Henderson.
Article: ""Remember when Trump called your wife ugly?": Ted Cruz brutally heckled at Yankee Stadium" by Brandon Gage.
Article: "How Yale Propelled J.D. Vance's Career" by Stephanie Saul.
Article: "Will the Morbidly Rich Ever Go Back to Being Good American Citizens?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "2024 Venezuelan presidential election" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Summer's Weight: Bridging the Meal Gap While School is in Recess | Opinion" by Nancy Brumbaugh.
Article: "As sea levels rise, DeSantis signs bill deleting climate change mentions from Florida state law" by Ella Nilsen.
Article: "Financial statement for Florida abortion amendment faces backlash" by News Service of Florida.
White House has announced Medicare's negotiated drug prices...
- Tony Carrk, Executive Director - Accountable.US (the group that authored the report) @accountable_us @tonycarrk
Article: "White House set to unveil Medicare price negotiation savings" by Adam Cancryn, Lauren Gardner.
Article: "Big Pharma "unleashed an army" of lawyers to avoid lowering Medicare drug costs: report" by Marin Scotten.
Article: "Patent Gouging: How the makers of ten drugs on Medicare's price negotiation list have used patent tactics to keep costs high for American consumers" by Accountable.
Article: "U.S. Unveils Price Limits for 10 Costly or Common Medications" by Noah Weiland and Rebecca Robbins.
Article: "America's Seniors Are About to Pay a High Price for Wall Street's Growing Disenchantment with Medicare Advantage" by Wendell Potter.
Article: "Supreme Court rejects multibillion-dollar Purdue Pharma opioid settlement that shielded Sackler family" by John Fritze and Devan Cole.
Article: "Supreme Court Jeopardizes Opioid Deal, Rejecting Protections for Sacklers" by Abbie VanSickle.
Event: Oct 9: Darien, Il: Thom Hartmann Book Signing Even - Hidden History of the American Dream.
Book: The Hidden History of the American Dream: The Demise of the Middle Class-and How to Rescue Our Future by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Replay: President Joe Biden visits LBJ Library in Austin to commemorate Civil Rights Act" by John C. Moritz, Bayliss Wagner, Hogan Gore and Cross Harris.
Article: "President Biden speaks at LBJ Library".
Hour Three: Back to the first hour. While Trump calls universal healthcare is a "communist system" it is really regulated capitalism - look at the rest of the world...
Article: "Trump Warns Harris Will Enforce 'Communist System' Where 'Everyone Gets Healthcare'" by David Gilmour.
Article: "List of countries with universal health care" by Wikipedia.
Book: Race traits and tendencies of the American Negro by Hoffman, Frederick L.
Article: "Frederick Ludwig Hoffman" by Wikipedia.
Book: The mortality from cancer throughout the world by Hoffman, Frederick L.
Article: "Robert M. Ball: A Life Dedicated to Social Security" by Carolyn Puckett.
Article: "Medigap" by Wikipedia.
Article: "James Madison's Notes on the Debates in the Federal Convention, May 25, 1787".
Article: "Tax Cuts Are Primarily Responsible for the Increasing Debt Ratio" by Bobby Kogan.
Article: "After record-breaking years, migrant crossings plunge at US-Mexico border" by Lauren Villagran.
Article: "Trump's Misleading Chart on Illegal Immigration" by Robert Farley.
Movie: "Local Hero".
Article: "The Troubled Histories of Donald Trump's Scottish Golf Courses" by Ewan Palmer.
Article: "Black Panther Party" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Shingles shots" by Medicare.
Article: "Libertarian Party National Platform 1980"
Article: "Operation Gideon (2020)" (Venezuela) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Harris offers proposals to cut food and housing costs, trying to blunt Trump's economic attacks" by Matt Brown and Makiya Seminera.
Article: "Kamalanomics" by Robert Reich.
Article: "The shock Ukrainian invasion of Kursk has the Kremlin pulling some troops out of Ukraine to defend Russia, per reports" by Kelsey Vlamis.