Sue's Daily Stack, Monday, 10 June, 2024
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Monday's Daily Stack
Hour One: Had Enough? From Reagan's Promise to Trump's MAGA Chaos
Article: "Had Enough? From Reagan's Promise to Trump's MAGA Chaos" by Thom Hartmann.
Book: "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" by Thom Hartmann.
Book: The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream by Thom Hartmann.
Book: The Hidden History of American Democracy: Rediscovering Humanity's Ancient Way of Living by Thom Hartmann.
Book: "The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore Its Greatness" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "For America's Wealthy, a Sweet Start to Our 21st Century" by Sam Pizzigati.
Article: "Trump Openly Threatens to Imprison Political Enemies" by Hafiz Rashid.
Article: "The Top 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90%—And That's Made the U.S. Less Secure" by Nick Hanauer.
Book: "The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment" by Thom Hartmann.
Book: "Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became "People" - And How You Can Fight Back" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Tax Cuts Are Primarily Responsible for the Increasing Debt Ratio" by Bobby Kogan.
Article: "US women are being jailed for having miscarriages" by Robin Levinson-King.
Article: "Trump Pledges Across-the-Board Tax Cuts If He Returns to Office" by Ranjeetha Pakiam, Laura Davison, and Hadriana Lowenkron.
Article: "The Tipping Point: Most Americans No Longer Are Middle Class" by Marilyn Geewax.
Article: "Trump pressed oil executives to give $1 billion for his campaign, people in industry say" by Ben Lefebvre.
Article: "The Proud Boys are back: How the far-right group is rebuilding to rally behind Trump" by Aram Roston.
Article: "Talkers 2024 - Agenda" by Talkers Magazine.
Article: "The Lewis Powell Memo: A Corporate Blueprint to Dominate Democracy".
Article: "Macron takes huge risk with surprise election" by Hugh Schofield.
Quote: "People Sleep Peacefully in Their Beds at Night Only Because Rough Men Stand Ready to Do Violence on Their Behalf" - attributed to George Orwell.
Article: "Doublethink" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Newspeak" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Doublespeak" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Byron Donalds expresses nostalgia for the Jim Crow era, when 'the Black family was together'" by Brakkton Booker.
Article: "How rich is Utah senator Mike Lee; Mike Lee's net worth revealed" by Bogdan Stojkov.
Have the Marketers of Hate Ruined America?
Article: "Have the Marketers of Hate Ruined America?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Why the South Must Prevail" by William F. Buckley Jr.
Article: "Equal Time Rule" by Shannon K. McCraw.
Article: "How Reagan and US agencies made Murdoch a king" by Marshall Wilson.
Article: "Book review: Before Rupert – Keith Murdoch and the Birth of a Dynasty" by Peter Cochrane.
Movie: "Bad Faith".
Article: "2 Fox News employees resigned over Tucker Carlson's January 6 documentary, citing concerns it may incite violence" by Morgan Keith.
Article: "A Government Official Said The Trump Administration Ordered All Their Agency's TVs To Display Fox News" by Julia Reinstein.
Article: "Black workers sue, claiming White racists run a General Mills plant in Georgia" by Jordan Valinsky.
Site: Media Matters for America.
Article: "'The Whole Thing Seems Insane': New Documents on Fox and the Election" by Jeremy W. Peters and Katie Robertson.
Article: "Steve Schmidt shreds 'cancerous' Fox News after their Jan 6 lies are exposed: 'They despise their audience'" by Travis Gettys.
Article: "Cancer eating the heart of Australian democracy" by Kevin Rudd.
Article: "Here Are All the Republicans Who Begged Trump for Pardons" by Paul Blest.
Article: "Merrick Garland" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Video shows GOP congressman leading tour of Capitol complex the day before Jan. 6 attack" by Kathryn Watson.
Article: "Johnson Names Trump Allies to Intelligence Panel, Prompting Concerns" by Luke Broadwater.
Article: "Speech or Debate Clause" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Europe's night of election drama capped by Macron bombshell" by Paul Kirby and Laura Gozzi.
Article: "The big exodus of Ukrainian refugees isn't an accident – it's part of Putin's plan to destabilize Europe" by Mark A. Grey.
Article: "Are We All Bozos On this Giant Experimental Bus?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Grand Jury Indicts Thirteen Russian Individuals and Three Russian Companies for Scheme to Interfere in the United States Political System" by DoJ.
Article: "Florida Right to Clean Water" by Wikipedia.
Site: Florida Right to Clean Water.
Article: "2,000 Mules: Belly Laughs, Belly Aches from Film's "Proof" that Trump Won" by Greg Palast and Zach D. Roberts.
Article: "Salem Media Retracts Dinesh D'Souza's '2000 Mules'" by Ted Johnson.
Article: "Pre-Sentence Report" by NY Courts.
Article: "Victim Impact Statement" by NY Courts.
Article: "U.S. Has Far Higher Covid Death Rate Than Other Wealthy Countries" by Benjamin Mueller and Eleanor Lutz.
Article: "NASA photo analyst: Bush wore a device during debate" by Kevin Berger.
Article: "Report: Israel targeted U.S. lawmakers through hundreds of fake social media accounts" by .
Article: "Who's behind the Israeli startup blacklisted by Meta and OpenAI?" (Stoic) by Omer Kabir.
Article: "Sheldon Whitehouse" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Adam Schiff" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Val Demings" by Wikipedia.
Hour Two: How Medicare "Advantage" is Ripping Off Taxpayers
- Dr. David Himmelstein, Distinguished Professor at CUNY's Hunter College, a lecturer at Harvard Medical School, and a Research Associate at Public Citizen and a co-author of the report @himmelhandler @Hunter_College
Article: "Less Care at Higher Cost—The Medicare Advantage Paradox" by Adam Gaffney, Stephanie Woolhandler, David U. Himmelstein.
Article: "Private Insurers Bilked Taxpayers Out of More than a Half-Trillion Dollars Between 2007 and 2023" by Public Citizen.
Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).
Article: "Schakowsky, Pocan, Khanna Introduce Bill to Strengthen Medicare, Define Alternative Plans" by Jan Schakowsky.
Article: "Donald Trump Jokes to Las Vegas Rally Attendees: 'I Don't Care About You'" by Natalie Venegas.
Article: "Report from Gaza: "Devastating" Israeli Raid to Free 4 Israeli Hostages Kills 270+ Palestinians" by Democracy Now!
Article: "Yemeni Civil War (2014-present)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Sudan: WFP expands emergency response; scores dead in village massacre" by UN.
Substack: "LookingNWords" by Rohn Kenyatta.
Article: "Sarah Palin" by Wikipedia.
Article: "J. D. Vance" by Wikipedia.
DeSantis power grab
Article: "DeSantis high court majority: DeSantis can easily oust people's elected prosecutors" by Chris Geidner.
Article: "Per curiam decision" by Wikipedia.
Far-right fossil fuel company allies pressure US supreme court to shield firms in unprecedented campaign
Article: "Far-right fossil fuel company allies pressure US supreme court to shield firms in unprecedented campaign" by Dharna Noor.
Article: "Trump says he would rather get electrocuted by a sinking boat than eaten by a shark in bizarre rant at his rally" by Nikki Schwab.
Article: "Trump undergoes probation interview virtually" by Katrina Kaufman, Graham Kates, Fin Gómez.
Article: "Mother-daughter election workers describe how they lived through Trump-backed accusations of conspiracy" by Lucien Bruggeman and Marjorie McAfee.
Book: "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany" by William L. Shirer.
Article: "'Hitler and the Nazis' Review: Building a Case for Alarm" by Mike Hale.
Videos: Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial.
Speech: "Campaign dinner address of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (the Fala speech)", 9/23/1944 "Remember, a number of years ago, there was a book, Mein Kampf, written by Hitler himself. The technique was all set out in Hitler's book - and it was copied by the aggressors of Italy and Japan. According to that technique, you should never use a small falsehood; always a big one, for its very fantastic nature would make it more credible - if only you keep repeating it over and over and over again.".
Article: "Trump and the RNC say they will recruit 100,000 poll watchers. Experts are skeptical" by Erin Mansfield.
Article: "Poll Worker Resources for Voters" by U.S. Election Assistance Commission.
Events: 2024: "Stephanie Miller's Sexy Liberal Save the World Tour" w/ Stephanie Miller, John Fugelsang, Hal Sparks, and Frangela (Sat Sep 07 - Portland, OR).
Article: "U.S. has new intel that Manafort friend Kilimnik gave Trump campaign data to Russia" by Tom Winter and Monica Alba.
Article: "Mueller: I did not clear Trump of obstruction of justice" by Eric Tucker, Mary Clare Jalonick, Michael Balsamo.
Hour Three: Another Round of Ohio's Horrible Process--and a Long, Brutal Trail of Voter Suppression
- 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: "LaRose's Smoking Gun on Voter Purging" by David Pepper.
Article: "Federal Judge Backs Georgia's Purge of Nearly 100,000 Voters" by Elisha Brown.
Article: "Georgia's Kemp Purged 340,134 Voters, Falsely Asserting They Had Moved" by Greg Palast.
Article: "The Big Purge: 364,000 Voters Disqualified in Georgia" by Brian Ross.
Case: "Bush v. Gore", 2000. "The individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors for the President of the United States"
Law: "H.R.2 - National Voter Registration Act of 1993" by Rep. Swift, Al [D-WA-2].
Case: "Husted v. Randolph".
Article: "'Make America Rake Again': Confusion in Finland over Trump's wildfire comments" by Caroline Kelly.
Article: "At 95 Years Old, Former President Jimmy Carter Is Still Building Homes For The Needy" by Katie Serena.
MAGA die-hard planning on stealing election no matter who wins - surprised?
Article: "'MAGA die-hard' lawyers making plans to claim fraud in Georgia no matter who wins: report" by Tom Boggioni.
Article: "'Georgia Is Our Laboratory': Inside Trump's Plan to Rig 2024" by Adam Rawnsley, Asawin Suebsaeng.
Article: "Tucker Carlson, Kid Rock joining up at Grand Rapids tour stop" by Adam Graham.
Article: "Jay Van Andel" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Malcolm Nance" by Wikipedia.
Article: "'America First': From Charles Lindbergh To President Trump" by Greg Myre.
Podcasts: "Shrinking Trump" by John Gartner and Harry Segal.
Site: Dr. Bandy Lee.
Article: "Legality of cryptocurrency by country or territory" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Talk Radio Pioneer and Host Chuck Harder Dead at 74" by Radio Online.
Article: "Workers Reject Trump 'Pandering' on Tipped Wages—But Have Message for Democrats Too" by Julia Conley.
Article: "Donald Trump 'Special' Probation Meeting Sparks Backlash" by Katherine Fung.