Sue's Daily Stack, Friday, 3 May, 2024
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Friday's Daily Stack
Hour One: News...
Article: "Michael Cohen escalates Twitter war with new Trump nickname ahead of trial testimony" by Kelly Rissman.
Tweet: "Hey Von ShitzInPantz...your attacks of me stink of desperation. We are all hoping that you take the stand in your defense." by Michael Cohen.
Article: "ICC Condemns Efforts to 'Intimidate' the Court as Netanyahu Arrest Warrant Looms" by Jake Johnson.
Article: "Claims That Student Protestors Are Chanting 'Death to America' Are Bullshit" by Ken Klippenstein.
Article: "Union plans strike vote over crackdown on University of California Gaza protests" by Michael Sainato.
Article: "Judge fact-checks Trump to his face after rant over gag order" by Kathleen Culliton.
Article: "Trump is grooming his base for 'maximum violence' this year: columnist" by Tom Boggioni.
Article: "World Press Freedom Day" by UNESCO.
Site: Democracy Watch News.
Video: World Press Freedom Day Conference .
Article: "UNESCO report reveals 70% of environmental journalists have been attacked for their work" by UNESCO.
Article: "2024 World Press Freedom Index - journalism under political pressure" by Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
Quote: "The United States (55th) falls 10 places as it prepares for the 2024 elections amid growing distrust in the media, which is at least in part fuelled by open antagonism from political officials, including calls to jail journalists. In several high profile instances, local law enforcement has carried out chilling actions, including raiding newsrooms and arresting journalists." - RSF.
Article: "Governments not protecting press freedom, report says" by Tom McArthur.
Article: "TV station identifies slain reporter among the 3 killed – including a child – in a Florida shooting spree " by Amy Simonson, Nouran Salahieh, Holly Yan and Michelle Watson,.
Article: "University of Washington students join pro-Palestinian campus protest movement" by Ruby de Luna.
What's More Deadly - a New H5N1 Flu or the GOP?
Article: "What's More Deadly - a New H5N1 Flu or the GOP?" by Thom Hartmann.
Video: Not Even Antibiotics Work Against this Bird Flu Strain w/ Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding.
Article: "Trump disbanded NSC pandemic unit that experts had praised" by Deb Riechmann.
Article: "Granger on FY24 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Bill".
Article: "Fiscal Year 2024 Labor, Health And Human Services, Education, And Related Agencies Appropriations Bill" by House Appropriations Republicans.
Article: "Ranking Member DeLauro Statement at the Subcommittee Markup of the 2024 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Funding Bill" by Rosa DeLauro.
Article: "COVID: This Month 4 Years Ago Trump & Kushner Put Together a Deadly, Evil Plan" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Pathogenesis of the 1918 Pandemic Influenza Virus" by Tokiko Watanabe, Yoshihiro Kawaoka.
Article: "In Move to Slash CDC Budget, House Republicans Target Major HIV Program Trump Launched" by Andy Miller and Sam Whitehead.
Law: "Feeds Act" by Government of Canada.
Article: "Updating the accounts: global mortality of the 1918-1920 "Spanish" influenza pandemic" by Niall P A S Johnson, Juergen Mueller.
Article: "Severe acute respiratory disease in American mink experimentally infected with SARS-CoV-2" by Danielle R Adney et al.
Article: "Trump Threatens to Shut Down Pandemic Preparedness Office Launched by Biden" by Brian Bennett.
Article: "The Influenza Pandemic of 1918" by Molly Billings.
Article: "Feeding Broiler Litter to Beef Cattle" by Kim Mullenix, Kent Stanford, Darrell Rankins, B.G. Ruffin, Norwood J. Van Dyke, and T.A. McCaskey.
Article: "Making a Candidate Vaccine Virus (CVV) for a HPAI (Bird Flu) Virus" by CDC.
Article: "H5N1 Bird Flu Detections across the United States (Wild Birds)" by CDC.
Article: "1 in 5 US retail milk samples test positive for H5N1 avian flu fragments" by Lisa Schnirring.
Article: "How worried should we be about the return of bird flu?" by Anjana Ahuja.
Article: "Alaska Bear Cub Euthanized After Testing Positive For Bird Flu" by AP.
Article: "Dead Florida dolphin was infected with highly pathogenic bird flu" by Kaycee Sloan.
Article: "Zoonotic Animal Influenza Virus and Potential Mixing Vessel Hosts" by Elsayed M. Abdelwhab1, Thomas C. Mettenleiter.
Article: "Death from 1918 pandemic influenza during the First World War: a perspective from personal and anecdotal evidence" by Peter C Wever, Leo van Bergen.
Article: "Global case fatality rate from COVID-19 has decreased by 96.8% during 2.5 years of the pandemic" by Nobuyuki Horita, Takeshi Fukumoto.
Article: "Federal health officials aim to develop a vaccine to protect people from bird flu" by Michel Martin, Rob Stein.
Article: "Coronavirus Death Rate in Wuhan Is Lower than Previously Thought, Study Finds" by Pam Belluck.
Article: "A Cruel Way to Control Bird Flu? Poultry Giants Cull and Cash In." by Andrew Jacobs.
Article: "This May Be Our Last Chance to Halt Bird Flu in Humans, and We Are Blowing It" by Zeynep Tufekci.
Article: "'Incredibly concerning': Bird flu outbreak at Spanish mink farm triggers pandemic fears" by Kai Kupferschmidt.
Article: "Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy" by White House.
Article: "Ebola virus disease" by WHO.
Article: "Coronavirus Death Toll" by Worldometers.
Article: "Bird flu outbreak is driving up egg prices — again" by Khristopher J. Brooks.
Article: "US Bird Flu Outbreak Spreads to Chickens, Cattle, Raises Concerns Over Human Infections" by Reuters.
Article: "Cats died after drinking raw milk from bird flu-infected cows" by Alexander Tin.
Article: "Bird Flu Sparks Warning for Pet Owners: 'Take Great Caution'" by Anna Skinner.
Article: "Spanish flu" by Wikipedia.
Crazy Alert! Local Paper Busts Puppy-Killing GOP Gov For False Claim She Met Infamous Dictator
Article: "Local Paper Busts Puppy-Killing GOP Gov For False Claim She Met Infamous Dictator" by Jamie Frevele.
Tweet: "I can't stop laughing" [video of dog watching Kristi Noem] by Luke Beasley.
Site: Ukraine Defense Support.
Article: "Project 2025" by Wikipedia.
Book: Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum.
Book: Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum.
Law: "Enabling Act of 1933"(Germany).
Article: "Joseph Stalin" (Russia) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Night of the Long Knives" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Soviet deportations from Estonia" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Gov. Jared Polis, lawmakers unveil new oil and gas fee in climate deal aimed at defusing ballot war " by Seth Klamann, Nick Coltrain.
Article: "'I'm Really Nervous': Hope Hicks Enters Trump Trial Courtroom to Gasps" by Zachary Leeman.
Article: "Donald Trump/Billy Bush leaked video: Full transcript - read the full sexist exchange here" by Melanie Ehrenkranz.
Documentary: Split Estate.
Article: "People's Park (Berkeley)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "COINTELPRO" by Wikipedia.
Quote: "The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder." - Richard J. Daley.
Article: "22 Hypoallergenic Doodle Breeds" by rochelle.
Article: "The man who shot Lady Gaga's dog walker gets 21 years in prison" by AP.
Article: "Trump awarded 36 million more Trump Media shares worth $1.6 billion after hitting price benchmarks" by Matt Ott.
Article: "DJT chart" (Truth Social stock) by Trading View.
Hour Two: "Act Wisely"...A Chilling Letter that Tells Us Everything
- David Pepper, lawyer, writer (his latest book is "Saving Democracy: A User's Manual For Every American"), political activist, former elected official, and adjunct professor-University of Cincinnati College of Law / served as Chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party between 2015 and 2021 & writes a regularly on Substack @DavidPepper
Article: ""Act Wisely": A Chilling Letter..." by David Pepper.
Case: "Husted v. Randolph Institute" (Ohio voter caging).
Video: Watch the ReidOut with Joy Reid Highlights: April 30.
Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.
Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978.
Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).
Are the Dems Finally Ready to Stand Up to Big Oil?
Article: "Are the Dems Finally Ready to Stand Up to Big Oil?" by Bill Mckibben.
Article: "Employers added 175,000 jobs in April, marking a slowdown in hiring" by Kate Gibson.
Article: "Jobs created during U.S. presidential terms" by Wikipedia.
Article: "When the Fed Hikes Interest Rates, Who Gets Hurt?" by Anna Helhoski.
Article: "Two Santa Clauses or How The Republican Party Has Conned America for Thirty Years" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "The 50th anniversary of Portugal's Carnation Revolution – the peaceful uprising that toppled a dictatorship and ended a decade of colonial war" by Fernando Camacho Padilla.
Book: A People's History of the Portuguese Revolution by Raquel Cardeira Varela.
Article: "Cumulus Media" by Wikipedia.
Video: Tom Petty - Roll Another Joint.
Article: "Life in the Fast Lane" by Eagles.
Article: "Trafficked With Mariana Van Zeller" by National Geographic.
Hour Three: A Path to Peace...
- Jeremy Ben Ami, President, J Street @jstreetdotorg @JeremyBenAmi
Article: "President Biden: Be Bold" by J Street.
Article: "American Israel Public Affairs Committee" (AIPAC) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Saudi Time" by Thomas L. Friedman.
Article: "Benjamin Netanyahu" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Prime Minister of Israel" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Second Intifada" by Wikipedia.
Article: "2000 Camp David Summit" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Israeli West Bank barrier" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Secretary Blinken's Travel to Türkiye, Greece, Jordan, Qatar, U.A.E., Saudi Arabia, Israel, the West Bank, Bahrain, and Egypt" by Matthew Miller.
Article: "Abraham Accords" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Yom Kippur War" by Wikipedia.
Bigot Alert: Republicans in Utah roll out a "snitch line" to turn in Trans people using bathrooms
Article: "Utah Launches "Snitch Line" To Report Trans People In Bathrooms; Memes Flood In" by Erin Reed.
Article: "RFK Jr. potluck derailed as staff fears electromagnetic radiation from microwaves: WSJ" by Brad Reed.
Article: "Third parties will affect the 2024 campaigns, but election laws written by Democrats and Republicans will prevent them from winning" by Barry C. Burden.
Article: "Surprise F-16 Update Issued by Ukraine" by Ellie Cook.
Article: "Ukraine to receive all F-16 fighter jets from Denmark - ambassador" by Ukrinform.
Article: "Spain to send Patriot missiles to Ukraine, minister says" by Reuters.
Article: "Was Chamberlain wrong to appease Hitler?" by Imperial War Museums.
Article: "Clinton's Rapid Response Team" by Dan Balz.
Article: "WATCH: Shocking Footage Captures Russian Missile Strike Using Cluster Munitions on Odesa" by Kyiv Post.
Video: "Havana Syndrome" | 60 Minutes Full Episodes.
Book: I Paid Hitler by Fritz Thyssen.
Book: "Unequal Protection: The Battle to Save Democracy" by Thom Hartmann (read online).
Book: "Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became "People" - And How You Can Fight Back" by Thom Hartmann.
Quote: "Ideally, you'd have every plant you own on a barge to move with currencies and changes in the economy." - Jack Welch.
Article: "Elon Musk wins official praise for Tesla during surprise visit to China" by Laura He.
Article: "Apple's $110 Billion Stock Buyback Plan is Largest in US History" by Carmen Reinicke.
Article: "Tesla fires charging team, leading to fears that drivers won't be able to charge their cars" by Andrew Griffin.
Article: "WATCH: Biden attends 2024 White House Correspondents' Dinner hosted by Colin Jost" by AP.
Article: "2024 Democratic National Convention" by Wikipedia.