Sue's Daily Stack, Friday, 5 January, 2024

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Friday's Daily Stack

Hour One: Will the New Rightwing Grift "Pink Slime Journalism" Con the Average Joe?
Article: "Will the New Rightwing Grift - "Pink Slime Journalism" - Con the Average Joe?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Conservatives Caught Publishing Fake Newspapers Again, as Party Mimics Defunct Local Outlet" by Josiah Mortimer.
Article: "Caveat Donator: When Scams Influence Elections" by Michael Watson.
Site: The Hartmann Report.
Site: The New Republic.
Article: "50 Million Down The Tubes: How 17 Conservative PACs Are Spending Their Money" by John Hawkins.
Site: Slate.
Site: Alternet.
Article: "Gov. J.B. Pritzker says racism behind political mailings disguised as newspapers that attack new criminal justice laws" by Rick Pearson.
Article: "As election looms, a network of mysterious 'pink slime' local news outlets nearly triples in size" by Priyanjana Bengani.
Article: "'Disinformation Weekly': How midterm newspapers are failing the electorate" by Jem Bartholomew.
Article: "The rise and rise of partisan local newsrooms" by Jem Bartholomew.
Article: "Trump pardons Steve Bannon as one of his final acts in office" by Pamela Brown, Paul LeBlanc and Kaitlan Collins.
Site: Common Dreams.
Article: "Court Approves Vigilante Mass Voter Challenges: Devastating Threat To 2024 Election" by Greg Palast.
Article: "Dozens of new websites appear to be Michigan local news outlets, but with political bent" by Carol Thompson.
Article: "The Right's Grifter Problem" by Jim Geraghty.
Article: "Right-wing 'zombie' papers attack Illinois Democrats ahead of elections" by David Folkenflik.
Article: "How to Raise $89 Million in Small Donations, and Make It Disappear" by David A. Fahrenthold and Tiff Fehr.
Article: "A look back at Roger Stone's 'big league scam' super PAC" by Karl Evers-Hillstrom and Raymond Arke.
Article: "PAC Profile: Great America PAC" by Open Secrets.
Article: "Right-Wing Websites Connected to Former Trump Lawyer Are Scamming Loyal Followers With Phony Celebrity Pitches" by Craig Silverman.
Article: "True the Vote Leadership Accused of Using Donations for Personal Gain" by Cassandra Jaramillo.
Site: Raw Story.
Site: Salon.
Article: "WhoDunnIt?: West Texas Billionaire Funds "Pink Slime" Journalism" by Steven Monacelli.
Site: The Guardian.
Site: The Nation Magazine.
Article: "The News Landscape in 2020: Transformed and Diminished" by UNC.
 
Article: "A Texas program pushes drivers to pay old tickets – and over 600,000 have lost their licenses" by KERA News.
Article: "Trump Turns His Attention to Iowa as Caucuses Grow Near" by Michael Gold.
 
Trump's foreign cash scandal is YUGE
Article: "BIG: Donald Took Foreign Cash In WH" by Mary L Trump.
Article: "'A stunning web of millions of dollars': Trump accused of taking foreign cash payments " by Tom Boggioni.
Article: "Donald Trump Lands in Saudi Arabia on First Overseas Visit of Presidency" by Ali Vitali and Saphora Smith.
 
Breaking News - New evidence shows Trump "directly orchestrated" fake elector plot
Article: "Bombshell report reveals evidence Trump campaign 'directly orchestrated' fake elector plot" by Carl Gibson.
 
Article: "The US just capped off another banner year of job growth. Now it's at a turning point" by Alicia Wallace.
Article: "U.S. economic performance by presidential party" by Wikipedia.
Article: "United States Tax Rates and Economic Growth" by Ted Peterson and Zachary Bair.
Article: "Jobs created during U.S. presidential terms" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Woman's miscarriage leads to 'abuse of corpse' case before grand jury".
Article: "Louisiana legislature overrides governor's veto of ban on gender-affirming care for minors" by Jack Forrest.
Article: "Colorado secretary of state slams Lauren Boebert for 'blatant self-preservation' and 'trying to hold on to power' by switching to safer district" by Emily Goodin, Harriet Alexander.
Article: "House Republican Admits He'll Kill Border Deal If It Helps Biden" by Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling.
Article: "The Epic Times" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The Epoch Times" by Wikipedia.
Site: Transit Unplugged (Earl Blumenauer podcast).
Movie: "Basic Instinct".
Article: "A Texas program pushes drivers to pay old tickets – and over 600,000 have lost their licenses" by Christopher Connelly.
Article: "Energy in Texas" by Wikipedia.

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Hour Two: A new report lays 17,000 deaths on Trump's fake covid cure and btw, Covid is back
Article: "Trump's fake cure for COVID is responsible for 17,000 deaths" by Mark Sumner.
Article: "Keeping up with vaccinations greatly decreases chance of long COVID" by Mark Sumner.
 
Crazy Alert! FL's strange surgeon general is calling Covid vaccines the "anti-Christ." Really!?
Article: "Florida's Controversial Surgeon General Calls Covid Vaccines 'The Anti-Christ' in Bonkers Comments to Steve Bannon" by Alex Griffing.
 
Secret UFO meeting prompts speculation over what government is hiding
Article: "Secret UFO meeting prompts speculation over what government is hiding" by Katherine Fidler.
 
Article: "Tom Smothers, a Counterculture Comedy Legend With the Smothers Brothers, Dead at 86" by Jon Blistein.
Article: "Domino Theory" by History.com.
Article: "Letter from Ho Chi Minh to President Harry Truman Asking for Intervention, February 28, 1946" by .
Article: "Castro and Eisenhower" by Frank E. Smitha.
Article: "Central Intelligence Agency" by Wikipedia.
Article: "United States in the Vietnam War" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Anna Chennault" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Icahn's ethanol push fuels ethics storm" by Eric Wolff.
Article: "Elaine Chao" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Mitch McConnell" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Jared and Ivanka made up to $640 million in the White House" by Jordan Libowitz and Caitlin Moniz.
Article: "Jared Kushner's private equity firm draws in around $2.5 billion from the Emirates and Qatar: report" by Sky Palma.
Article: "N.Y. AG calls for $370M fine against Trump and lifetime ban from real estate industry in the state" by Adam Reiss, Lisa Rubin and Rebecca Shabad.
Article: "Texas flies over 120 immigrants to Chicago in expansion of Gov. Greg Abbott's busing plan" by Uriel J. García.
Article: "Harvard president resigns amid claims of plagiarism and antisemitism backlash" by Adria R Walker.
Article: "Following new accusations of plagiarism, Harvard president resigns" by Leila Fadel, Tovia Smith.
Article: "Perspective: Did social conservatives go too far in celebrating the fall of Claudine Gay?" by Jennifer Graham.
Article: "MSNBC's Ali Velshi: How Conservative Activist Christopher Rufo Forced Claudine Gay Out Of Harvard" by Tim Hains.
Video: Conservatives broaden attacks on U.S. institutions to weaken resistance to right-wing overhaul.
Article: "Les Moonves: Trump's run is 'damn good for CBS'" by Eliza Collins.
Site: Democracy Now!
Article: "Voting in Texas" by Ballotpedia.
Article: "Blinken Returns to Middle East as Tensions Grow With Israel" by Edward Wong and Michael Crowley.
Article: "Palestine: The Greatest Moral Issue of Our Time" by M. Reza Behnam.
Article: "The Veterans Choice Program" by Military.com.

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Hour Three: Florida is set to follow Ohio and secure abortion rights - they qualify for this year's ballots
Article: "Florida ready to follow Ohio and secure abortion rights " by Arek Sarkissian.
 
Help California close the money loophole
Article: "#CloseTheLoophole: Help California fix the foreign money mess Citizens United made" by Michele Sutter.
 
Geeky science! Hearing aids can extend your life!
Article: "Hearing aids found to help people live longer" by DPA International.
 
Article: "A Month Before JFK's Assassination, Dallas Right Wingers Attack Adlai Stevenson" by Bill Minutaglio, Steven L. Davis.
Book: "Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination" by Lamar Waldron with Thom Hartmann.
Book: "Ultimate Sacrifice" by Lamar Waldron with Thom Hartmann
Article: "Rob Reiner and Soledad O'Brien Aim to Reveal JFK's Real Killers in New Podcast: 'The American People Deserve to Know the Truth'" by Todd Spangler.
Article: "Biden marks the anniversary of Jan. 6 with campaign speech near Valley Forge" by Deepa Shivaram.
Article: "Larry King" by Wikipedia.
Site: Farron Balanced.
Article: "Texas questions rights of fetus in prison guard lawsuit despite arguing opposite on abortion" by Michael Sainato.
Article: "Fifth Circuit: Federal guidance on emergency abortions does not preempt Texas law" by Cameron Langford.
Video: Carole King - I Feel the Earth Move.
Article: "Moderate earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.1 shakes Southern California" by John Antczak.
Substack: "LookingNWords" by Rohn Kenyatta.
Article: "Farmers' suicides in the United States" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Israeli MKs Call on West to 'Welcome' Refugees From Gaza" by Noa ShpigelSam Sokol.
Article: "2003 invasion of Iraq" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Bombing of Dresden" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki" by Wikipedia.