Sue's Daily Stack, Monday, 16 December, 2024
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Monday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: Were It Not for White Supremacy, America Would Have Single-payer Healthcare
Article: "Were It Not for White Supremacy, America Would Have Single-payer Healthcare" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Scientific Racism, Insurance, and Opposition to the Welfare State: Frederick L. Hoffman's Transatlantic Journey" by Beatrix Hoffman.
Article: "The Real Reason the Freedom Caucus Hates Kevin McCarthy Is Larger Than You Think" by Thom Hartmann.
Book: The Vital Equation of the Colored Race and Its Future in the United States by Eugene Rollin Corson.
Book: The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Scientific Racism, Insurance, and Opposition to the Welfare State: Frederick L. Hoffman's Transatlantic Journey" by Beatrix Hoffman.
Article: "41% of Americans would be able to cover a $1,000 emergency with savings" by Megan Leonhardt.
Article: "2023 Employer Health Benefits Survey" by KFF.
Site: "The Reidout".
Article: "UnitedHealth forecasts 2025 profit largely in line with estimates" by Sriparna Roy.
Article: "Doctors Seethe Over Insurance Companies' "Out of Control" Tactics" by Katherine Eban.
Article: "just what the fuck does ABC News think they're doing?" by Jeff Tiedrich.
Article: "Trump says border wall material shouldn't be sold despite congressional requirement" by Meryl Kornfield, Nick Miroff.
Video: Nobody Knows Where JD Vance Has Disappeared To.
Book: The Art of Money Getting by P. T. Barnum.
It's a dark day for journalism when the so-called-news rolls over...
Article: "Shame on ABC…A National Embarrassment!" by Ben Meiselas.
Leak reveals UnitedHealth strategy to cut critical treatment for kids
Article: "Leak reveals UnitedHealth strategy to cut critical treatment for kids" by Annie Waldman.
Article: "Unitedhealth Group (UNH) Share Buybacks" by FinanceCharts.
Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).
Article: "Clarence Thomas: Here Are All The Ethics Scandals Involving The Supreme Court Justice Amid New Ginni Thomas ReportClarence Thomas: Here Are All The Ethics Scandals Involving The Supreme Court Justice Amid New Ginni Thomas Report" by Alison Durkee.
Article: "What has Trump's chosen Ukraine-Russia envoy said about ending the war?" by Ana Faguy.
Article: "No Joke: Russia Has Lost 700,000 Dead or Wounded and 3,500 Tanks in Ukraine War" by Stavros Atlamazoglou.
Article: "Russia economy in meltdown as shops lock up butter and pensioners on £146 a month fume" by Rebecca Robinson.
Article: "Trump Has 'Malignant Narcissism', According To More Than 200 Health Professionals" by Zubair Amin.
Law: "Insurrection Act of 1807".
Bill: "H.R.3421 - To establish an improved Medicare for All national health insurance program" by Rep. Jayapal, Pramila [D-WA-7].
Article: "The AMA Can Help Fix the Health Care Shortages it Helped Create" by lpierson.
Article: "Sports Wagering Revenues Monthly Summary November 2024" by Kansas Lottery.
Hour Two: The spineless, greedy ceo fascists lining up to kiss Trump is an urgent issue....
Article: "Spineless, Greedy CEOs Are Lining Up to Lick Trump's Backside" by Robert Reich.
Article: "Heather Heyer, victim of Charlottesville car attack, was civil rights activist" by Maev Kennedy.
Article: "'Jews will not replace us': Why white supremacists go after Jews" by Yair Rosenberg.
Article: "Trump defends 2017 'very fine people' comments, calls Robert E. Lee 'a great general'" by Jordyn Phelps.
Article: "A Member of Trump's Diversity Coalition Quits Over DACA, Adding to the Growing List of People Leaving Trump's Councils" by Diana Pearl.
Article: "Davos Duplicity: Corporations Promised Not to Fund Election Deniers—But Can't Seem to Quit Them" by Robert B. Reich.
Article: "Meta to Reinstate Trump's Facebook and Instagram Accounts" by Sheera Frenkel and Mike Isaac.
Substack: "The Good in Us" by Mary L. Trump.
Article: "OpenAI's Altman will donate $1 million to Trump's inaugural fund" by Sarah Parvini.
Article: "Definitions of fascism" by Wikipedia.
Law: "Sherman Antitrust Act", 1890.
Case: "Brown Shoe Co. v. United States" (1962).
Article: "Grocery Store Workers Stand to Lose Over $300 Million Annually if Kroger and Albertsons Merge" by Ben Zipperer.
Article: "Mergers and acquisitions" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Merger mania" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Michael Milken" by Wikipedia.
Article: "McGuire's payday is a shame, if not a crime" by Neal St. Anthony. Article: "William W. McGuire" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Stephen J. Hemsley" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Franklin Roosevelt's Re-Nomination Acceptance Speech (1936)".
Article: "Bernie Sanders Says Defeating Oligarchy Now Most Urgent Issue" by Jon Queally.
Article: "Rahm Emanuel is coming home" by Steve Schmidt.
Law: "Immigration Act of 1924".
Article: "List of recessions in the United States" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Medicare Savings Program (MSP)" by New York State Department of Health.
Site: End The Bribe System (bumper stickers, etc.).
Site: MyMedicare.gov.
Article: "Three dead and six injured in US school shooting, police say" by Brandon Livesay, Alys Davies, Jude Sheerin.
Even the Grifters are getting grifted...
Article: "Tiffany Trump's Father-In-Law Another Fake Billionaire, If You Can Believe That" by Gary Legum.
Geeky Science! There's is something you can do to keep your brain young...
Article: "50 Percent Slower Brain Aging Linked to Blood Sugar Control on a Mediterranean Diet" by George Citroner.
Article: "What Does Project 2025 Mean For Disabled People?" by Marni Rose McFall.
Article: "Donald Trump under fire for mocking disabled reporter" by BBC.
Article: "Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting", December 14, 2012 by Wikipedia.
Article: "FCC chair rejects Trump call to pull ABC licenses over presidential debate" by David Shepardson.
Videos: Mary Trump Media.
Article: "Annual Notice of Changes 2025" (AARP) by UHC.
Hour Three: Where are the Dems at and where to do we go from here...
- Dean Obeidallah, Host of Dean Obeidallah show weekdays 6-9PM ET @SXMProgress Radio Ch127 / Columnist - CNN.com / Contributor - The New Republic @DeanObeidallah @SXMProgress
Site: The Dean's Report by Dean Obeidallah.
Article: "Don't let the corporate oligarchs gaslight you into bending a knee for Trump" by Dean Obeidallah.
Article: "Forget waiting for Democratic leaders, it's up to us to take the fight to Trump!" by Dean Obeidallah.
Article: "First Zuckerberg, now Bezos: Amazon to donate $1m to Trump's inaugural fund" by Joe Sommerlad.
Article: "How RFK Jr. Has Said He'll Stop 'Mass Poisoning' of America's Children" by Hatty Willmoth.
Article: "Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Russian oligarchs" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Suspicious deaths of notable Russians in 2022–2024" by Wikipedia.
Article: "David Zaslav" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Lina Khan" (chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Groundhog Day" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Google unveils 'mind-boggling' quantum computing chip" by Chris Vallance.
Article: "Trump plans to launch his sons' crypto business on Monday, 50 days before Election Day" by Josh Boak.
Book: The Gathering Storm (The Second World War) by Winston S. Churchill.
Book: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder.
Substack: "Thinking about..." by Timothy Snyder.
Article: "White Rose" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Night of the Long Knives" by Wikipedia.
Site: MoveOn.org.
Site: Indivisible.
Article: "List of the largest trading partners of the United States" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Canada Threatens to Cut Power to U.S. Over Trump Tariffs" by Janna Brancolini.
Article: "Canada's Deputy Prime Minister Resigns, in Blow to Trudeau's Hold on Power" by Matina Stevis-Gridneff and Ian Austen.
Article: "Donald Trump's loyal MAGA crew dominates at 125th Army-Navy game... as Joe Biden misses event AGAIN" by Alex Raskin.
Article: "Trump attends 125th Army-Navy game alongside key allies, nominees and Daniel Penny" by CBS/AP.
Article: ""Locked in": AOC fights on for Oversight role as race is blown wide open" by Andrew Solender.
Article: "Democrat Jerry Nadler steps aside from top Judiciary role, avoiding party fight" by Farnoush Amiri.
Article: "14th Amendment section 3, July 9, 1868 "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."
Article: "EU ready 'to assume the burden' of Ukraine support from US, says Poland".