Sue's Daily Stack, Monday, 17 June, 2024
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Monday's Daily Stack
Hour One: The Dark Side of Politics: The GOP's MAGA Lie Machine
Article: "The Dark Side of Politics: The GOP's MAGA Lie Machine " by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "How Low Can Fox Go?" by Adam Kinzinger.
Article: "Trump's drumbeat of lies about the 2020 election keeps getting louder. Here are the facts" by Robert Yoon.
Article: "The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection (Continued)" (Federalist 10) by James Madison.
Article: "Saturday Report 6/15/24 — Thankfully, I'm getting over Covid…" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "The GOP's Grand Immigration Con Job" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "The NRA & GOP Broke America: How Many Dead Children's Voices Must We Hear?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Inflation rate drops to nearly zero in May" by Kevin Drum.
Article: "MAGA Media Won't Stop Sharing This Doctored Biden Video" by Talia Jane.
Article: "George Conway: GOP 'addicted to lies under Trump'" by Lauren Sforza.
Article: "Who's Really "Meandering"?" by Unprecedented.
Book: Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism by Rachel Maddow.
Article: "More than half of Americans think the U.S. is in a recession. It's not." by Emily Peck.
Article: "Rumsfeld 'helped Iraq get chemical weapons'" by William Lowther.
Site: Democracy Docket.
Article: "Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra".
Article: "Under Biden, U.S. economic growth becomes the 'envy of the world'" by Steve Benen.
Article: "What the data says about crime in the U.S." by John Gramlich.
Article: "MAGA Senate hopeful attacks reporter over damning story: 'Only leftists take you serious'" by Alex Henderson.
Article: "The truth about late-term abortions in the US: they're very rare" by Mona Chalabi.
Article: "GOP turns to false insinuations of LGBTQ grooming against Democrats" by Colby Itkowitz.
Article: "Stanford's top disinformation research group collapses under pressure" by Joseph Menn.
Article: "Fact check: Biden says Republicans plan to cut Social Security by 13%" by Louis Jacobson.
Article: "Is the "Horse & Sparrow" Economic Scam Returning?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Orange Felon Donald Trump's Blacks For Trump Event In Detroit Packed With White Folks" by Lance Strong.
Article: "Trump portrays rampant crime in speech at Black church in Detroit" by Isaac Arnsdorf.
Article: "Trumpworld keeps overstating Trump's support among Black voters" by Philip Bump.
Article: "Tavis Smiley" by Wikipedia.
Site: Tavis Smiley.
Article: "KBLA" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Monopoly in Media: How Big Money Controls the Stories We Tell" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Sinclair floods local news websites with hundreds of deceptive articles about Biden's mental fitness" by Judd Legum.
Surgeon general says there should be warning labels on social media. Why don't we simply demand that they publish their algorithms?
Article: "Surgeon general demands warning label on social media apps" by David Goldman.
Article: "Associations Between Time Spent Using Social Media and Internalizing and Externalizing Problems Among US Youth" by Kira E. Riehm, Kenneth A. Feder, Kayla N. Tormohlen et al.
Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).
Article: "Hochul plans push to limit some social media features for kids" by Kevin Tampone.
Mask bans...
Article: "North Carolina's updated mask bill passes House of Representatives 69-43" by Sean Coffey.
Article: "New York Governor Considers Banning Face Masks on Subways" by Chantelle Lee.
Article: "Wisconsin's 'uninstructed' voters send Biden a strong message on the war in Gaza" by Padmananda Rama, Chuck Quirmbach.
Article: "Israeli minister Benny Gantz resigns from war cabinet in blow to Netanyahu" by Nadeen Ebrahim.
Article: "Netanyahu dissolves Israeli war cabinet in wake of opposition leader having quit" by Tom Watling and Chris Stevenson.
Article: "The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax" by Jesse Eisinger, Jeff Ernsthausen and Paul Kiel.
Article: "Syria: Bread Crisis Exposes Government Failure" by Human Rights Watch.
Article: "Russian intervention in the Syrian civil war" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump on Trial: What we learned from David Pecker's testimony" by Cameron Joseph.
Case: "District of Columbia v. Heller", 2008 (2nd Amendment).
Case: "McDonald v. City of Chicago" (2010. Right to keep & bear arms for self defense in one's home).
Case: "United States v. Lopez".
Article: "Supreme Court strikes down bump stock ban" by Amy Howe.
Article: "Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era ban on bump stocks on guns" by John Fritze, Devan Cole and Lauren Fox.
Hour Two: The GOP's Unrelenting Attacks on Women's Rights: This is Just the Beginning
Article: "The GOP's Unrelenting Attacks on Women's Rights: This is Just the Beginning" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Rep. Cori Bush Becomes 1st Lawmaker to Call to Repeal the Comstock Act" by Cori Bush.
Article: "Hyde-smith, Lankford Lead Letters To Pharmacies On Abortion Drug Distribution" by Cindy Hyde-Smith.
Letter: "to Tom Moriarty, General Counsel, May 5, 2023" by Cindy Hyde-Smith.
Law: "18 U.S. Code § 1461 - Mailing obscene or crime-inciting matter" (An Act for the Suppression of Trade in, and Circulation of, obscene Literature and Articles of immoral Use).
Law: "18 U.S. Code § 1462 - Importation or transportation of obscene matters".
Article: "Texas man sues ex-wife's friends for allegedly helping her get abortion pills" by Sarah McCammon .
Article: "Why anti-abortion groups are citing the ideas of a 19th-century 'vice reformer'" by Sarah McCammon.
Article: "Justice Alito Caught on Tape Discussing How Battle for America 'Can't Be Compromised'" by Tessa Stuart, Tim Dickinson.
Case: "Food And Drug Administration Et Al. V. Alliance For Hippocratic Medicine Et Al".
Article: "Alito and Thomas kept bringing up Comstock. That scared abortion rights supporters." by Dan Diamond.
Article: "Repeal the Comstock Act before the GOP tries using it to ban abortion" by Washington Post.
Article: "Comstock Act of 1873" (Comstock Act ban on birth control information overturned) by Brandon R. Burnette.
Case: "Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization" (2022) (abortion, overturned Roe v. Wade).
Far-right Republicans' latest target? No-fault divorce
Article: "Far-right Republicans' latest target? No-fault divorce" by Arwa Mahdawi.
Article: "Divorce Laws and Family Violence" by Betsey Stevenson, Justin Wolfers.
Book: The Perilous Fight: Overcoming Our Culture's War on the American Family by Ben Carson with Candy Carson.
Article: "The Pentagon ran a secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic, an investigation finds" by Reuters.
Mad Men Alert! GOP has a YUGE issue - A place to smoke cigars
Article: "House Republicans' burning problem: 'We desperately need a place to smoke cigars'" by Kathleen Culliton.
Article: "FBI Searches Property Management Company in Rent Price-Fixing Investigation" by John Triplett.
Article: "FBI raid on real estate company linked to Harlan Crow's RealPage rental price fixing" by NBBooks.
Article: "Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signs election law overhauls. Here's what has changed since 2020" by Kathryn Palmer.
Video: Why are more young people in the West embracing authoritarianism?.
Article: "Turning Point USA" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Matt Gaetz" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Rishi Sunak wins Rwanda bill vote after facing down rebels" by Bethany Dawson.
Article: "Back-to-Africa movement" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Putin to visit North Korea for first time in 24 years" by Guy Faulconbridge and Josh Smith.
Article: "Trump told donors he'll deport pro-Palestinian protesters" by Mike Bedigan.
Video: Weighing in on Citizens United (w/ David Cobb).
Article: "'Happy retirement': SEPTA says farewell to its last diesel-only bus " by Cherise Lynch.
Article: "'The Tesla of trolleys': Behold the return of SEPTA's cream-and-green 1947 trolleys" by Michelle Myers.
Hour Three: Looks like Dems are finally coming for Kushner and his shady firm....
Article: "Democrats Are Finally Coming for Jared Kushner and His Shady Firm" by Talia Jane.
Article: "Opinion: There should be sunlight about the kinds of deals Jared Kushner and Hunter Biden struck overseas" by Casey Michel.
Article: "Nepo baby" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Jared Kushner" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Charles Kushner" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Public Investment Fund" (saudi wealth fund) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Jared Kushner and Steven Mnuchin Have Reportedly Secured Billions from Saudi Government" by Ken Meyer.
Article: "Before Giving Billions to Jared Kushner, Saudi Investment Fund Had Big Doubts" by David D. Kirkpatrick and Kate Kelly.
Geeky Science! Scientists discover plants have their own form of intelligence
Article: "Scientists discover plants have their own form of intelligence" by Jocelyn Solis-Moreira.
Article: "Public Inspection Files" by FCC.
Article: "Judge Strikes One Element From Trump Indictment in Documents Case" by Alan Feuer.
Law: "Rule 404. Character Evidence; Other Crimes, Wrongs, or Acts".
Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 9. "No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state." (foreign emoluments clause).
Article: "How Trump fused his business empire to the presidency" by Anita Kumar.
Article: "Reductio ad absurdum" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Dwight D. Eisenhower" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The 3 Richest Americans Hold More Wealth Than Bottom 50% Of The Country, Study Finds" by Noah Kirsch.
Article: "Fact Check: No evidence of Trump post to nominate Judge Cannon to Supreme Court" by Reuters Fact Check.
Article: "No One Wants To Talk About Cannon's Husband's Mob Connections" by Susie Madrak.
Book: Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever by Rick Wilson.