Sue's Daily Stack, Monday, 11 March, 2024
Sue's Daily Stack, Monday, 11 March, 2024
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Monday's Daily Stack
Hour One: In for Thom Today...Jefferson Smith, Host-Democracy Nerd Podcast. State of the Union, Academy Awards & SNL - Your thoughts on any / all...!
Article: "Good Timber" by Douglas Malloch.
Quote: "I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph" - Theodore Roosevelt.
Video: President Biden Delivers 2024 State of the Union Address.
Article: "Full Transcript of Biden's State of the Union Speech" by New York Times.
Video: Republican Response to the State of the Union Address.
Article: "READ: Sen. Katie Britt's remarks giving the GOP rebuttal to Biden's State of the Union address" by CNN.
Article: "The Machine (social group)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Katie Britt" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Inside Katie Britt's time in student government at the University of Alabama" by Rebecca Griesbach.
Article: "Who is Katie Britt? State of the Union response pushes Alabama senator into national spotlight" by AP.
Article: "Wesley Britt" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Oklahoma County Republican Party censures US Sen. James Lankford" by Nolan Clay.
Article: "Jimmy Kimmel gets the biggest laugh on Oscar night after Trump criticizes him in a tweet" by madasheck.
Movie: "Dune: Part Two".
Video: State of the Union Cold Open - SNL.
Article: "Journalist says Katie Britt's story about child sex abuse 'out-and-out lie'" by Robert Tait.
Article: "The Twilight Zone" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Stepford wife" by Collins.
Article: "The Stepford Wives" by Ira Levin.
Article: "Westworld" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Joe Biden On Beau: 'He Said It Was My Obligation To Run, My Duty'" by Jenna Amatulli.
Article: ""Likely to weaponize intelligence": Experts alarmed as Trump poised to get security briefings again" by Areeba Shah.
Book: Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky.
Article: "Pete Wilson" by Wikipedia.
Hour Two: Reagan Tax Cuts' Legacy of Inequality...
- James Steele, Pulitzer Prize winning Investigative Reporter - Center for Public Integrity @publicintegrity
Article: "How four decades of tax cuts fueled inequality " by James B. Steele.
Article: "James B. Steele" by Wikipedia.
Article: "1975 Pulitzer Prize: Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele of The Philadelphia Inquirer".
Article: "1989 Pulitzer Prize: Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele of The Philadelphia Inquirer".
Article: "United States Federal Corporate Tax Rate 1909-2020 Data" by Trading Economics.
Article: "State of the Union: Biden vows to raise taxes on wealthy, corporations" by David Lawder.
Article: "Trump gave top US firms staggering tax cuts, with some paying $0 or less – report" by Adam Lowenstein.
Law: "Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981".
Book: America: What Went Wrong?: The Crisis Deepens by Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele.
Article: "Tear down this wall!" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Subsidized housing in the United States" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Battle of Gettysburg" by Wikipedia.
Article: "List of American Civil War battles" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Estate tax in the United States" by Wikipedia.
Article: "How many people pay the estate tax?" by Tax Policy Center.
Tweet: "TikTok is not just another video app. That's the sheep's clothing. It harvests swaths of sensitive data that new reports show are being accessed in Beijing..." by Brendan Carr.
Article: "TikTok's Threat Requires It Break Ties With CCP" by Brendan Carr.
Article: "Exclusive – FCC's Brendan Carr: Pass the Bill to Ban TikTok" by Joel B. Pollak.
Video: TikTok; Google; Your Data | 60 Minutes Full Episodes.
Article: "Trump's Biden Mockery Upsets People Who Stutter: 'We've Heard This Before'" by Maggie Astor.
Video: ... we don't want the Irish!.
Article: "The story behind MTG's 'Say her name' shirt at State of the Union, and the slogan it appropriated" by James Powel and Jeanine Santucci.
Site: "The Righting".
Article: "Killing of Breonna Taylor", 2020 by Wikipedia.
Article: "Death of Sandra Bland", 2015 by Wikipedia.
Article: "Biden says he regrets using term 'illegal' to describe Laken Riley murder suspect" by AP.
Hour Three: Who's the WORST president of your lifetime?
Article: "Sen. Mike Lee Skewered Over Fake Shock When Biden Accuses GOP Of Targeting Social Security" by Mary Papenfuss.
Article: "Video of Mike Lee Vowing to Gut Social Security Resurfaces" by Nick Mordowanec.
Article: "Larry Krasner" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Philadelphia shootings: Violent week leaves 3 dead, 10 students injured" by Shaynah Ferreira.
Article: "Men cleared of murder after 2 decades; ex-detective with 'absolute belief' worked to free them" by Richard Winton.
Video: Will Sen. Bernie Sanders Miss Kyrsten Sinema? "Not At All".
Article: "Next stop for Democratic 'uncommitted' vote campaign for Gaza: Washington" by Rachel Leingang.
Article: "Trump told Bob Woodward he knew in February that COVID-19 was 'deadly stuff' but wanted to 'play it down'" by Dareh Gregorian.
Article: "Lancet Study Finds 40 Percent of U.S. COVID-19 Deaths Could Have Been Avoided" by Elliot Hannon.
Article: "The Biden-versus-Trump economy: Who did better on inflation, jobs, gasoline prices and more?" by Louis Jacobson.
Article: "How the Corrupt "Old GOP" & Bill Barr Laid the Foundation for Today's MAGA Movement" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "How Different Would America be if 4 Presidents Hadn't Committed Treason?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "William P. Barr Oral History" by Miller Center.
Article: "Exclusive: Barr obliterates Trump's defense: 'He knew well that he had lost the election'" by Kaanita Iyer.
Article: "'Argo' helps Iran's dictatorship, harms democracy " by Abolhassan Bani-Sadr.
Article: "Trump says Republican Party is 'getting rid of the Romneys'" by Suzanne Bates.
Article: "Essay; Justice Corrupts Justice" by William Safire.
Article: "Essay; The Patsy Prosecutor" by William Safire.
Article: "The Pardons; Bush Pardons 6 In Iran Affair, Aborting A Weinberger Trial; Prosecutor Assails 'cover-up'" by David Johnston.
Article: "Bob Mueller's Extraordinary Letter to Bill Barr" by NYT.
Article: "How Trump's Justice Dept. Derailed an Investigation of a Major Company" by Jesse Drucker.
Article: "10 episodes where Trump might have obstructed justice" by Politico.
Video: President Ronald Reagan - Address on Iran-Contra.
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