Sue's Daily Stack, Monday, 8 January, 2024
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Monday's Daily Stack
Hour One: Right Wing Billionaires & Trump Want a Nation Where Everything is For Sale
Article: "Rightwing Billionaires & Trump Want a Nation Where Everything is For Sale" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Protesters call out billionaire Bill Ackman's campaign to oust former Harvard president Claudine Gay" by Crystal Cranmore.
Article: "Trump admin bypassing Congress with $8 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates" by Conor Finnegan.
Book: "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "GOP torn as Greene speaks to far right amid 'Putin!' chants" by Lisa Mascaro.
Article: "Trump EPA Approves Treating Citrus With Dangerous Pesticide Banned in More Than 100 Nations, Medically Important Antibiotic" by Nathan Donley.
Article: "Trump Administration Civil and Human Rights Rollbacks " by CivilRights.org.
Article: "BIG: Donald Took Foreign Cash In WH" by Mary L Trump.
Article: "Oversight Democrats Release Report Proving Trump Pocketed Millions From At Least 20 Foreign Governments As President" by Committee on Oversight and Accountability.
Article: "Virginia's culture warrior attorney general" by Radley Balko.
Article: "Commentary: Miyares has been anything but an umpire, and instead has acted as a hitter with a corked bat" by Jay Jones.
Article: "Republican Virginia attorney general fires Jan. 6 investigator from university post" by Sevanny Campos.
Article: "Tuberville claims wars in Ukraine, Gaza were 'created' by Democrats" by Lauren Irwin.
Article: "Trump signs bill undoing Obama coal mining rule" by Devin Henry.
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 and David M. Rolf.
Article: "Thorntree Cafe Nairobi | Where the legends meet" by Anjaly Thomas.
Book: The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "The Prophet's Way" by Thom Hartmann.
Book: The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway.
Article: "Russian Intelligence Operations Tied to Decrease in US Support for Ukraine" by Byline Supplement.
Article: "50 reasons the Trump administration is bad for workers" by EPI.
Article: "EPI comment to the SEC regarding the fiduciary rule" by EPI.
Article: "Timeline on Jared Kushner, Qatar, 666 Fifth Avenue, and White House Policy" by Ryan Goodman and Julia Brooks.
Article: "Tuberville Claims Democrats 'Created' Wars in Ukraine and the Middle East" by Jennifer Bowers Bahney.
Article: "GOP's Tuberville Defends Opposition to Ukraine Aid By Declaring He 'Never Thought' It Could Win War, Doesn't Think Russia Would Invade Others" by Isaac Schorr.
Article: "Marjorie Taylor Greene Floats 'Peace Treaty' With Putin" by Kaitlin Lewis.
Article: "Marjorie Taylor Greene's Russian Propaganda Post Sparks Backlash" by Kate Plummer.
Article: "How Fred Daibes spent big on politicians long before being indicted in the Menendez case" by Benjamin J. Hulac.
Article: "2017 in Review: The Trump Administration's 10 Worst Actions for Parks" by Ani Kame'enui.
Article: "House Democrats say foreign entities paid Trump firms millions during his presidency" by Leila Fadel, Eric McDaniel.
Article: "Acosta Defends His Role in Brokering Jeffrey Epstein Plea Deal" by Katie Rogers, Maggie Haberman and Peter Baker.
Article: "Texas Supreme Court Temporarily Halts Court-Approved Abortion" by J. David Goodman.
Article: "Republicans Use Filibuster to Block Voting Rights Bill" by NYT.
Site: "SALEM-Uganda".
Article: "Attorney General Ken Paxton's securities fraud trial set for April 15" by Patrick Svitek.
Article: "The Prophet's Way: Uganda Sojurn" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "The one good thing Trump did on Jan. 6 turns out to be a lie" by Mark Sumner.
Trump trash talks Abraham Lincoln, saying he should've "negotiated" slavery:
Article: "Conservative zeroes in on 'least plausible' claim Trump made about Civil War" by Travis Gettys.
Article: "Trump declines to vow not to 'overthrow the government' in a second term: report" by David McAfee.
Biden gave a hell of a speech
Article: "Transcript: Biden's first campaign speech of the 2024 election year" by AP.
Audio: Breakdown Episode 8 with Charles Ames.
Article: "Trump tells Iowans to 'get over' school shooting at campaign event" by Michael Sainato.
Article: "Revenue Act of 1964" by Wikipedia.
Law: "18 U.S. Code § 373 - Solicitation to commit a crime of violence".
Article: "The Comey Letter Probably Cost Clinton The Election" by Nate Silver.
Article: "Ukraine war: US releases last military aid for Kyiv for now" by Mike Wendling.
Article: "Biden administration again bypasses Congress for weapons sale to Israel" by AP.
Article: "'Joe Biden and Democrats are a threat to democracy': Elise Stefanik REFUSES to commit to accepting 2024 election results as she doubles down on claim that 2020 race was 'unconstitutional'" by Claudia Aoraha.
Article: "Donald Trump signs executive order authorising up to 10 years in prison for damaging federal property after Washington protesters try to tear down statue" by AP.
Hour Two: How committed is the GOP in destroying the lives of Trans people?
- Erin Reed, Independent LGBTQ+ journalist, mom / host of Erin In the Morning @ErinInTheMorn
Article: "Florida Bill Would Make Accusations Of Transphobia Defamation With A $35K Penalty" by Erin Reed.
Article: "Florida bill would require bloggers who write about governor to register with the state" by WFLA.
Article: "Only 5 Days Into The Year, 125 Anti-Trans Bills Have Been Filed" by Erin Reed.
Article: "Governor DeWine Uses Anti-Abortion Tactic To Target Trans Adults With Defacto Ban" by Erin Reed.
Article: "Ohio's GOP Governor Vetoed an Anti-Trans Bill. Then He Made It Worse." by Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling.
Article: "90 Years On: The Destruction of the Institute of Sexual Science" by Liz Tracey.
Article: "Transgender history" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Elagabalus" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Kalonymus ben Kalonymus" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Opium production in Afghanistan" by Wikipedia.
Is Trump planning on declaring war on Latin America, instead of putting in place a comprehensive immigration plan, if he becomes prez?
Article: "'Crazy to me': Trump lawyer spills plan to use ancient war law for immigrant crackdown" by Adam Nichols.
Law: "Alien Enemies Act".
Article: "Dachau concentration camp" by Wikipedia.
Video: Biden speaks at Mother Emanuel AME church amid reelection campaign.
Article: "Mehdi Hasan announces he's leaving MSNBC after show cancellation" by Andrew Howard.
Article: "Ali Velshi" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Tim Russert" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Newport sex scandal" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Who is Bill Ackman, the hedge-fund billionaire who used corporate-raider tactics to push out Harvard's president? " by Lukas I. Alpert.
Article: "Bill Ackman says lifting from Wikipedia is not plagiarism after his wife's work questioned" by Kelly Rissman.
Article: "Supreme Court declines to fast-track Trump immunity case" by Madeline Halpert and Anthony Zurcher.
Article: "Supreme Court agrees to decide whether Trump can be barred from holding office" by Devan Cole.
Article: "Thurmond wins Senate race as write-in candidate: Nov. 2, 1954" by Andrew Glass.
Article: "Chief Justice John Roberts' Wife Made Over $10 Million As Legal Consultant, Report Says" by Nicholas Reimann.
Article: "Clarence Thomas Is On a Quest to Be the Most Corrupt Justice In the Court" by Eric Lutz.
Article: "Barrett's Husband to Stay at Law Firm Despite Her High Court Job" by Roy Strom.
Article: "Amy Coney Barrett faces recusal questions over links to Shell" by Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Emily Holden.
Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].
Article: "'Draft dodging' Trump slammed for mocking John McCain's war injuries" by Amelia Neath.
Hour Three: Why don't republicans love the "free market" when it comes to Big Pharma?
Article: "Big Pharma Vows to Fight Historic FDA Approval of Medicine Imports From Canada" by Jake Johnson.
Looks like school board members may be blocked From blocking people on social media - say what?! I'll explain.....
Article: "School Board Members Could Soon Be Blocked From Blocking People On Social Media" by Charles J. Russo.
Article: "Biden marks the anniversary of Jan. 6 with campaign speech near Valley Forge" by Deepa Shivaram.
Article: "Trump's Bonkers Plan to Weaponize an Archaic Law for Mass Deportations" by Asawin Suebsaeng.
Article: "David Pakman" by Wikipedia.
Site: David Pakman En Español.
Article: "Biden tells Israel not to 'repeat mistakes' made by US after 9/11" by Julian Borger.
Article: "Israeli MP Says It Clearly for World to Hear: 'Erase All of Gaza From the Face of the Earth'" by Julia Conley.
Article: "Ashli Babbitt's Husband Sues Federal Government Over Her Death On Jan 6th" by Merlin196360.
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."
Case: "Marbury v Madison".
Article: "Attorney General William Barr resigns, effective Dec. 23" by Kevin Breuninger, Christina Wilkie.
Article: "Dominion theology" (dominionism) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Michael Flynn's ReAwaken Roadshow Recruits 'Army of God'" by Richard Lardner, Michelle R. Smith.
Book: American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump by Tim Alberta.
Book: The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta.
Article: "Previous Guy: give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that's the end of the magnets" by annieli.
Article: "Fears of a NATO Withdrawal Rise as Trump Seeks a Return to Power" by Jonathan Swan, Charlie Savage and Maggie Haberman.
Article: "Donald Trump Admits He Withheld Funds to 'Punish' Central America Over Immigration: 'They Abused Us'" by Daniel Villarreal.
Article: "US could have averted 40% of Covid deaths, says panel examining Trump's policies" by Amanda Holpuch.
Article: "Benjamin Netanyahu" by Wikipedia.
Listening to archives again. Thanks so much for inviting Erin Reed as a guest. As a side note for Spanish language progressive media, if Thom ever puts together a Spanish team, I would like to be on it.