Sue's Daily Stack, Friday, 26 April, 2024
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Friday's Daily Stack
Hour One: Is SCOTUS in on the Coup and Trying to End American Democracy?
Article: "Is SCOTUS in on the Coup and Trying to End American Democracy?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Bonus chapter to The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Notes on the Debates in the Federal Convention" (September of 1787) by James Madison.
Article: "Can the GOP Be Stopped from Defying Courts & Stealing Elections Out in the Open?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Threshold: The Crisis of Western Culture: Chapter 7: Gunboat Altruism" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)" by Edmund Burke.
Book: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
Book: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot by Russell Kirk.
Book: The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class by Thom Hartmann.
Book: The Hidden History of American Democracy: Rediscovering Humanity's Ancient Way of Living by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Democrats Reintroduce Bill To Expand U.S. Supreme Court" by Paige Moskowitz.
Article: "'We Didn't Get All The Way There On Jan 6': Trump Booster Pledges to End Democracy in CPAC Rant as Bannon Cheers On" by Jennifer Bowers Bahney.
Article: "Senate Speech by Sen. Bernie Sanders on Unfettered Free Trade" by Bernie Sanders.
Case: "Trump v. USA" (Scholars of Constitutional Law amicus brief re immunity).
Quote: "The occupation of an hairdresser, or of a working tallow-chandler, cannot be a matter of honour to any person - to say nothing of a number of other more servile employments. Such descriptions of men ought not to suffer oppression from the state; but the state suffers oppression, if such as they, either individually or collectively, are permitted to rule. In this you think you are combating prejudice, but you are at war with nature" - Edmund Burke.
Book: "Leviathan" by Thomas Hobbes, 1651. "And the life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short."
Article: "The Iron Fist in the Velvet Glove: Understanding Thomas Hobbes' Philosophy" by Philosophical.Chat.
Video: Supreme Court Hears Case on Former President Trump's Immunity Claim, April 25, 2024.
Article: "Anne Gorsuch Burford" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Haskell Wexler" by Wikipedia.
Documentary: Good Kurds, Bad Kurds: No Friends But the Mountains.
Article: "Warren Jeffs" by Wikipedia.
Article: "USS Liberty" by Wikipedia.
Are Jack Smith's odds for holding Trump accountable to "we the people" sinking?
Article: "Jack Smith's odds of putting Trump on trial this year are sinking" by Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein.
Article: "Here's a Summary of the Crimes Trump's Lawyer Tells the Supreme Court He Has Immunity to Commit" by News Corpse.
Climate change is dictating that we need a cat 6 for hurricanes just in time for the most active season on record....
Article: "Forecast group predicts busiest hurricane season on record with 33 storms" by Dan Stillman.
Article: "2024 tropical cyclone prediction" by Nathi Magubane.
Article: "You're gonna need a bigger number: Scientists consider a Category 6 for mega-hurricane era" by Corinne Purtill.
Article: "This Is How FDR Tried to Pack the Supreme Court" by Lesley Kennedy.
Article: "The Middle Class Is Dying in America" by Phil Davis.
Book: "Screwed: The Undeclared War Against The Middle Class" by Thom Hartmann.
Book: The Hidden History of the American Dream: The Demise of the Middle Class-and How to Rescue Our Future by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Trump on Trial: What we learned from David Pecker's testimony" by Cameron Joseph.
Article: "Mystery: Why hasn't the FBI searched Trump's other properties?" by Hunter.
Article: "Questions raised over 2021 footage of Trump taking boxes from Mar-a-Lago to Bedminster" by Oliver O'Connell.
Article: "Columbia president faces key vote of censure from faculty as protests continue nationwide" by Elizabeth Wolfe, Dalia Faheid, Aya Elamroussi and Nouran Salahieh.
Video: It's The Anti-Vietnam War Protests All Over Again.
Video: Speaker Johnson News Conference at Columbia University, April 24, 2024.
Article: "Kent State shootings" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The Federal Reserve's balance sheet" by Federal Reserve.
Article: "Quantitative Easing (QE)" by Investopedia.
Article: "How Interest Rate Changes Affect the Profitability of Banking" by Mary Hall.
Article: "Quantitative Tightening (QT)" by Investopedia.
Hour Two: Not only do right-wingers have a plan to turn the fed over to Trump....but wait....there's more....
Article: "GDP growth slowed to a 1.6% rate in the first quarter, well below expectations" by Jeff Cox.
Article: "US Yields Soar as Traders See Fed Delaying First Cut to December" by Liz Capo McCormick.
Article: "Right-Wingers Plot to Give Trump Control Over Federal Reserve If Reelected" by Jake Johnson.
Article: "Laffer curve" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Conservative Philanthropy's Plan for a Corporate Coup " by Carmen Rojas.
Crazy Alert! Who else is disgusted that Trump's VP favorite is boasting she shot her puppy - instead of training it or finding it another home? Does that show she is a tough decision maker or a heartless "you know what?"
Article: "'I am boiling with disgust': Trump VP favorite hammered after boast she shot puppy" by Tom Boggioni.
Article: "Lyndon B. Johnson" by Wikipedia.
Book: "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Dred Scott Case" by History.com.
Case: "Roe v. Wade" (1973) (abortion legal).
Case: "Marbury v Madison".
Letter: "Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane", 6 Sept. 1819 "The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist, and shape into any form they please."
Article: "Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 2. "... In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make...."
Law: "First Amendment". "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
Article: "An Overview of the Vietnam War Protests " by Robert McNamara.
Article: "Arbor Day" by Wikipedia.
Book: Diet for a Small Planet (50th anniversary edition) by Frances Moore Lappé.
Book: Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness and the Future of Life on Earth by John Robbins.
Book: How Not to Die by Dr. Michael Greger.
Article: "Chernobyl disaster", 26 April 1986 by Wikipedia.
Article: "Judging vs Perceiving: What's the Difference & Which of the Two Do You Use?" by Janey Davies, B.A.
Article: "September 11 attacks" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Kris Kobach" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Did Supreme Court Justices Lie By Claiming They Wouldn't Overturn Roe V. Wade? Here's What They Actually Said." by Alison Durkee.
Book: Not My First Rodeo: Lessons from the Heartland by Kristi Noem.
Article: "'We won't be social distancing' at Mount Rushmore celebration with Trump, says SD Gov. Noem" by William Cummings.
Article: "Snipers Were Allegedly Spotted at Ohio State University and Indiana University During Gaza Protests. Here's What We Found" by Anna Rascouët-Paz.
Article: "Columbia president assailed at highly charged antisemitism Congress hearing" by Robert Tait and Maya Yang.
Article: "Elise Stefanik" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Biden condemns 'antisemitic protests' — and absence of Palestinian empathy, too" by Eli Stokols.
Hour Three: Without drama or fanfare, Biden advances policies that matter...
Article: "Without drama or fanfare, Biden advances policies that matter" by LetMyPeopleVote.
Article: "Without drama or fanfare, Biden advances policies that matter" by Steve Benen.
Article: "Forty per cent of American Covid deaths were avoidable - and the Trump administration is to blame, study finds" by Andrew Naughtie.
Article: "Trump's tax cuts helped billionaires pay less than the working class for first time" by Dominic Rushe.
Article: "The Trump Administration Rolled Back More Than 100 Environmental Rules. Here's the Full List." by Nadja Popovich, Livia Albeck-Ripka And Kendra Pierre-Louis.
Article: "Depleted Under Trump, a 'Traumatized' E.P.A. Struggles With Its Mission" by Lisa Friedman.
Geeky science! Apparently each and every one of us needs the "bright lights." I'll tell you why...
Article: "Bright light boosts brain power and alertness, illuminating study reveals" by Chris Melore.
Article: "Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Light therapy" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Liz Cheney: The Supreme Court Should Rule Swiftly on Trump's Immunity Claim" by Liz Cheney.
Video: Watch The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell Highlights: April 25.
Article: "Did Ukraine's First Lady Spend $1.1M on Cartier Jewelry During September 2023 NYC Trip?" by Alex Kasprak.
Article: "These 112 House Republicans voted against Ukraine aid" by Bryan Metzger.
Article: "'Stop Bringing Up Nazis and Hitler': Moskowitz Goes Off On Marjorie Taylor Greene In Tense Hearing" by Alex Griffing.
Article: "Ben-Gvir, Israeli far-right minister, in car accident" by Tom Spender.
Article: "Planetary boundaries" by Stockholm Resilience Centre.
Article: "Swap Out Grass with These 14 Edible Lawn Replacements" by Catherine Winter.
Article: "Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) - August 1981 strike" by Wikipedia.
Book: "The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore Its Greatness" by Thom Hartmann.
Law: "2nd Amendment". A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed..
Article: "Biden's Deep Miscalculation on Israel and Gaza" by Nicholas Kristof and Sarah Wildman.
Article: "What Happened to the Joe Biden I Knew?" by Nicholas Kristof.
Article: "How Would Global Gas Cope with a Hormuz Closure?" by Nikos Tsafos.
Article: "Senators Urge Biden to Stop Arming Israel, Citing Violation of U.S. Aid Law" by Robert Jimison.
Article: "Rents Are Unaffordable Nationwide. A Renter's Tax Credit Would Help." by Ashley Dines.
Bible: "Matthew 25:31-46 The Sheep and the Goats".
Bible: "Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. " - Matthew 21:12.
Article: "Sermon on the Mount" by Wikipedia.
Article: "William F. Buckley Jr" by National Review.
Article: "Buckley and the Jews" by Jason Maoz.
Article: "William F. Buckley and National Review's vile race stance: Everything you need to know about conservatives and civil rights" by Kevin M. Schultz.
Law: "Civil Rights Act of 1964".
Article: "Shooting of Trayvon Martin" by Wikipedia
Article: "Jury nullification" by Wikipedia.
Article: "History of taxation in the United States" by Wikipedia.