Sue's Daily Stack, Monday, 19 August, 2024
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Monday's Daily Stack
Thom is LIVE from the DNC in Chicago...
Hour One: The Dark Side of the Tradwife Movement
Article: "The Dark Side of the Tradwife Movement" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Republicans block bill to protect contraception access as Democrats make election-year push" by Mary Clare Jalonick.
Article: "The History of Women In Real Estate" by Ann Huskey.
Article: "Threats to No-Fault Divorce and its Implications for Violence Against Women" by Kim.
Article: "The Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988" by Dyana Branchen.
Article: "Women's Rights and the Civil Rights Act of 1964" by National Archives.
Article: "Republicans' War on Divorce Is Just Christian Nationalism in Disguise" by Patricia Lopez.
Article: "Would God Be So Good?" by Barry Friedman.
Facebook: "The Tradwives Club" by The Tradwives Club.
Article: "Why White Women Won DEI" by Aparna R.
Article: "Trump calls Harris 'a beautiful woman.' He didn't mean it as a compliment." by Irie Sentner.
Article: "JD Vance Has a Bunch of Weird Views on Gender" by Laura K. Field.
Reddit: "r/tradwives".
Site: "SiriusXM Progress Channel 127".
Article: "Could Women Not Do These 9 Things in 1971?" by Dan Evon.
Article: "J.D. Vance Wants to Take Women Back to the 1950s" by Laura Bassett.
Article: "Did JD Vance say women should stay in abusive marriages?" by Monica Hesse.
Tweet: ".@realDonaldTrump: "If Hillary Clinton can't satisfy her husband what makes her think she can satisfy America?" http://politi.co/1LvAHwJ" by Politico.
Article: "Trump already freaking out about ratings for Kamala Harris acceptance speech: sources" by Travis Gettys.
Article: "Donald Trump becomes 1st US president tried and convicted of crimes" by Peter Charalambous and Ivan Pereira.
Article: "Judge clarifies: Yes, Trump was found to have raped E. Jean Carroll" by Aaron Blake.
Article: "Lancet Study Finds 40 Percent of U.S. COVID-19 Deaths Could Have Been Avoided" by Elliot Hannon.
Article: "Air America (radio network)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Mitt Romney's Secret Weapon: Clear Channel Radio" by jpeterson2012.
Article: "iHeartMedia" ( formerly Clear Channel) by Wikipedia.
Live from the DNC in Chicago
- Christine Pelosi, Attorney & Democratic Party political strategist from CA / Daughter of the Speaker of the House Emerita Nancy Pelosi @sfpelosi @TheDemocrats
Book: The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House by Nancy Pelosi.
Article: "On Biden's Exit, Pelosi Says She Was Driven by Need to Defeat Trump" by Carl Hulse.
Article: "" by .
Article: "Trump expressed support for hanging Pence during Capitol riot, Jan. 6 panel told" by Betsy Woodruff Swan and Kyle Cheney.
Article: "January 6 rioter who said she looked for Pelosi 'to shoot her in the friggin' brain' pleads guilty to misdemeanor for illegally protesting" by Marshall Cohen.
Article: "Harris Officially Secures Democratic Party's Nomination for President" by Nicholas Nehamas.
Article: "With false 'coup' claims, Trump primes supporters to challenge a Harris win" by Colby Itkowitz, Hannah Allam.
Article: "Attack on Paul Pelosi" by Wikipedia.
Trade relations, economy, new US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement
- The Honorable Katherine Tai, the principal trade expert, negotiator, and surrogate for the Harris Walz ticket. She previously spent most of her career in public service focusing on int'l economic diplomacy, monitoring & enforcement. She previously served as Chief Trade Counsel and Trade Subcommittee Staff Director for the House Ways and Means Committee in the United States Congress. @AmbassadorTai
Article: "Katherine Tai" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Biden's speech headlines DNC Day 1 schedule. See today's full agenda." by Kaia Hubbard, Aaron Navarro.
Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].
Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".
Article: "Harris Could Become First U.S. President to Have Worked at McDonald's" by Isabel van Brugen.
Song: "Mother's Little Helper" by Rolling Stones.
Article: "No-fault Divorce Laws May Have Improved Women's Well-being" by Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Book: "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding.
Article: "Project 2025's Plan to Eliminate Public Schools Has Already Started" by Jessica Alcantara and Laura Petty.
Hour Two: Terry McAuliffe joins Thom to talk about the state of the race, etc...
- Terry McAuliffe, former Governor of Virginia, now Harris Walz surrogate @TerryMcAuliffe
Article: "Terry McAuliffe" by Wikipedia.
Article: "A Four-Decade Secret: One Man's Story of Sabotaging Carter's Re-election" (Iran hostages) by Peter Baker.
Article: "'Argo' helps Iran's dictatorship, harms democracy" by Abolhassan Bani-Sadr.
Article: "The Pardons; Bush Pardons 6 In Iran Affair, Aborting A Weinberger Trial; Prosecutor Assails 'cover-up'" by David Johnston.
Article: "William J. Casey" by Wikipedia.
Article: "FBI Director James Comey Under Fire After Hillary Clinton Email Investigation Announcement" by Sam Frizell.
Article: "Study of Disputed Florida Ballots Finds Justices Did Not Cast the Deciding Vote"(Al Gore won) by Ford Fessenden and John M. Broder, November 12, 2001.
Article: "Donald Trump 'not thinking about Melania' when he paid off Stormy Daniels, says ex-lawyer Michael Cohen" by Sky News.
Article: "Karen McDougal" by Wikipedia.
Article: "How Scandal Derailed Gary Hart's Presidential Bid" by Becky Little.
Article: "An Interview With 'Playboy' Magazine Nearly Torpedoed Jimmy Carter's Presidential Campaign" by Rick Perlstein.
Quote: "In every presidential election, Democrats want to fall in love. Republicans just fall in line." - Nate Silver.
Article: "Bill Clinton" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Donald Trump" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump calls Putin 'genius' and 'savvy' for Ukraine invasion" by Joseph Gedeon.
Article: "Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are 'Losers' and 'Suckers'" by Jeffrey Goldberg.
Article: "Watch Part One of Dana Bash's interview with GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance" by CNN.
Article: "Peter Thiel, eccentric billionaire patron of JD Vance, says he is thinking about leaving the US" by Graig Graziosi.
Book: Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past by Steve Benen.
Article: "Trump Makes the Case That Kamala Harris Is Responsible for Rising Food Prices" by David Zimmermann.
Article: "Meet the queen of the 'trad wives' (and her eight children)" by Megan Agnew.
Article: "North Carolina's 5th Congressional District election, 2024" by Ballotpedia.
Article: "Chuck Hubbard" by Ballotpedia.
Site: Ashe County Democratic Party.
Article: "Shomari Figures" by Wikipedia.
Article: "United States House of Representatives elections in Alabama, 2024" by Ballotpedia.
Article: "All Alabama Democratic delegates to pledge support for Kamala Harris at DNC" by Asher Redd.
Article: "Trump 'exonerated' by Epstein docs? Here's what they do (and don't) say about the former president " by .
Article: "Trump Flew on Charter Jet Previously Owned by Jeffrey Epstein" by Chris Cameron and Michael Gold.
Article: "Philip Roth" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Jack Vance" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Ohio elections, 2024" by Ballotpedia.
Article: "Ohio 2023 ballot measures" by Ballotpedia.
Article: "150,000 Ohio voters being purged less than 150 days from presidential election" by Jennifer Jordan.
Article: "Margaret Fuller" by Wikipedia.
Book: Woman in the Nineteenth Century by Margaret Fuller.
Hour Three: Unions are good for America! AFSCME President Lee Saunders talks with Thom
- Lee Saunders, President - AFSCME @AFSCME
Article: "Lee Saunders" by Wikipedia.
Law: "Taft-Hartley Labor Act", 1947.
Article: "What Is the PRO Act?" by AFL-CIO.
Article: "Card check" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Are You Covered?" by National Labor Relations Board. "Excluded from coverage under the Act are public-sector employees (employees of state, federal and local governments and their sub-divisions)..."
Article: ""It's designed to eliminate unions": Project 2025 lays out the GOP plan to undermine organized labor" by Nicholas Liu.
Article: "Chevron Deference" (1984) by Jonathan Kim.
Article: "Supreme Court curbs federal agency power, overturning Chevron precedent" by Ann E. Marimow.
Article: "Trump Calls Harris a 'Communist.' That Shows How Worried He Is." by Paul Krugman.
Article: "Price controls" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Donald Trump Mocked for Saying He's 'Better Looking' Than Kamala Harris" by Adeola Adeosun.
Tweet: "@fromthebunkerjr @Thom_Hartmann Just heard on the @StephMillerShow broadcasting from the #DNCConvention2024 floor: Steph, "Just while we've been sitting here, Thom has written an article, wrote and published a book"… Thom responds that "its the LSD"… #HarrisWalzBringJoy" by Karen From Chicago.
Article: "How Ron DeSantis let thousands of Florida kids go hungry this summer" by Ashlie D. Stevens.
Article: "Peter Thiel" by Wikipedia.
Law: "Stolen Valor Act of 2005".
Law: "Stolen Valor Act of 2013".
Article: "Vance accused Walz of 'stolen valor.' What to know about Walz's military record" by Quil Lawrence.
Article: "Rep. Ronny Jackson was demoted by Navy after scathing Pentagon review, records show" by Dareh Gregorian.
Article: "Presidential Medal of Freedom" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Medal of Honor" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump Doubles Down on Medal of Honor Dig Despite Backlash From Vets" by Naomi LaChance.
Article: "John Kerry military service controversy" (swiftboating) by Wikipedia.
Article: "13 things to know about J.D. Vance's Catholic journey" by Matt McDonald.
Article: "Dark Ages (historiography)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "JD Vance supporters are reportedly carrying around fake cups of semen in 'cruel' dig at infertile families" by Greg Evans.
Article: "Susan Wild" by Ballotpedia.
Article: "Stefanie Rafes" by Ballotpedia.
Article: "Harris to announce 4-year plan to lower housing costs" by MJ Lee, Tami Luhby and Samantha Delouya.
Tweet: ".@NPR did I just hear you guys ask the notorious rightwing trolls at American Enterprise Institute to comment on Kamala Harris's economic plan? Seriously?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Gish gallop" by Wikipedia.
Article: "House Oversight Chair James Comer opens investigation into Tim Walz" by Clarissa-Jan Lim.