Sue's Daily Stack, The Thom Hartmann Program 05/07/26
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Thursday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: National Progressive Townhall taking your calls
- Representative Pramila Jayapal, U.S. Congressmember (D-WA, 7th District) (Committees: House Judiciary / House Foreign Affairs / House Budget / Former Chair Congressional Progressive Caucus) @pramilajayapal.bsky.social
Article: “Iran War (2026)“ by War Costs.
Law: “Louisiana V. Callais et al.“ (Louisiana gerrymandering).
Law: “Voting Rights Act of 1965“.
Article: “Reconciliation bill text would fund ICE, CBP, ballroom security“ by David Lerman.
Article: “Washington: Effectuated ACA enrollment down 11 - 16% so far; over 46,000 have already lost coverage“ by Charles Gaba.
Article: “White House torches Jayapal over Cuba oil outreach: Dems ‘sip margaritas with terrorists’“ by Stepheny Price, Ashley J. DiMella.
Video: “Rep. Pramila Jayapal: Medicare for all popularity rising in swing districts“.
Article: “Jayapal, Jackson Statement on Delegation to Cuba“ by Jonathan Jackson.
Video: Rep. Pramila Jayapal: Medicare for all popularity rising in swing districts.
Article: “Insurance and Pharmaceutical Companies Blamed for Rising Healthcare Costs“ by Maryann Cousens & Julie Alderman Boudreau.
Article: “AI-driven insurance decisions raise concerns about human oversight“ by Stanford Report.
Article: “Congressional Budget Office Scores Medicare-For-All: Universal Coverage For Less Spending“ by Adam Gaffney, David Himmelstein, and Steffie Woolhandler .
Article: “Medicare for All Act“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Insured but skipping care: 38% of Americans delay treatment over costs, study finds“ by Austin Littrell.
Article: “Jump in cancer diagnoses at 65 implies patients wait for Medicare, according to Stanford study“ by Tracie White.
Article: “Suzan DelBene“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “John Cavanaugh (politician)“ by Wikipedia.
Video: Franklin D. Roosevelt - Inaugural “The Only Thing We Have to Fear is Fear Itself” Speech.
Article: “Trump re-ups push to eliminate low-income heating assistance program LIHEAP “ by Rachel Frazin.
Article: “Social Security’s 2.8% COLA for 2026 is sparking debate over how the annual increase gets calculated“ by Lorie Konish.
Article: “The Social Security 2100 Act“ by John Larson.
Article: “Shouting match erupts after Bondi asked to apologize to Epstein victims“ by Rebecca Beitsch.
Article: “Ashley Moody“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Republican Senator Suggests Pramila Jayapal and Other Democrats May Be Guilty of Treason Over Cuba Talks: ‘Communism 101’“ by Zachary Leeman.
Site: Indivisible.
Article: “Why Isn’t News of Trump Building Vast Concentration Camps Being Treated as a National Emergency?“ by Thom Hartmann.
Article: “‘Nowhere in the text’: 11th Circuit rejects ICE’s indefinite detention policy, says Trump admin ‘profoundly oversimplifies’ the law“ by Colin Kalmbacher.
Article: “Jayapal, Booker, and Smith Introduce Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act“ by Pramila Jayapal.
Bill: “H.R.6397 - Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act“ by Rep. Jayapal, Pramila [D-WA-7].
Article: “Graham Platner“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Why is the Democratic party hiding its 2024 autopsy report?“ by Norman Solomon.
Article: “DNC “Autopsy” Finds Kamala Harris’s Silence on Gaza Genocide Cost Her Votes“ by Chris Walker.
Article: “Nixon’s Southern strategy“ by James Boyd.
Book: The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich by Thom Hartmann.
Speech: “How Long, Not Long“, March 25, 1965 by MLK.
Article: “Federalist society“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “How the Federalist Society shaped America’s judiciary“ by Zoya Haq.
Article: “Leonard Leo“ by Wikipedia.
Law: “Article II, Section 2 Clause 2: Advice and Consent“. “... The President ... hall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.“
Law: “Article. VI.“. “The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.“
Article: “Warren, Jayapal, Colleagues Introduce Bill to Reform Broken Judicial Ethics System“ by Elizabeth Warren.
Hour Two: Ukraine update
- Phil Ittner, Veteran War Correspondent based in Kiev, Ukraine & host of the ‘On the Edge‘ podcast @PhilipIttner Youtube Instagram
Article: “Victory Day (9 May)“ (Public holidays in Russia and ex-USSR) by Wikipedia.
Article: “Ukraine and Russia Declare Separate Temporary Ceasefires“ by AFP.
Article: “Ukraine’s air-defence shortage exacerbated by slowdown of US shipments“ by Christopher Miller.
Article: “Oleshky“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Drone-and-mine siege: Ukraine takes Oleshky crisis to UN as 2,000 civilians starve in occupied city“ by Alexander Moisseenko.
Article: “‘Tsunami of Disinformation’: Poland Hit by Unprecedented Troll Attack Amid Russian Drone Incursion“ by Alisa Orlova.
Article: “Poland–Ukraine relations“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Russian interference in the 2016 Brexit referendum“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Links between Trump associates and Russian officials“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Russian stuff blowing up: Russia bombs a kindergarten in Sumy“ by quaoar.
Article: “Russian stuff blowing up: Ukraine strikes Russia’s Kirishi refinery“ by quaoar.
Video: Hungary politician dances on stage after Péter Magyar wins election (Zsolt Hegedűs).
Article: “Hungary’s New Leader Reveals Viktor Orbán Was Paying CPAC“ by Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling.
Article: “Viktor Orbán tells CPAC the path to power is to ‘have your own media’“ by Flora Garamvolgyi.
Article: “Honorary Consulate of Hungary in Seattle, Washington“ by Embassies.info.
Article: “Consulate General of Hungary in Los Angeles“ by Embassies.info.
Article: “Who is Péter Magyar, the former Orbán ally heading for power in Hungary?“ by Paul Kirby.
Article: “World Leaders, Celebrities Rally behind Viktor Orbán Ahead of Decisive Election“ by Joakim Scheffer.
Was the 2024 Election Stolen, Not by Ballots, but by Algorithms?
Article: “Was the 2024 Election Stolen, Not by Ballots, but by Algorithms?“ by Thom Hartmann.
Book: The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy by Thom Hartmann.
Site: “openstates.org“.
Substack “The Peacock Report“ by Nigel Peacock.
Site: “vote.org“.
Article: “Echo chambers, rabbit holes, and ideological bias: How YouTube recommends content to real users“ by Megan A. Brown, Jonathan Nagler, James Bisbee, Angela Lai, and Joshua A. Tucker.
Article: “Elon Musk spends $277 million to back Trump and Republican candidates“ by Julia Ingram, Steve Reilly.
Article: “Did Yellow Journalism Fuel the Outbreak of the Spanish American War?“.
Article: “The political effects of X’s feed algorithm“ by Germain Gauthier, Roland Hodler, Philine Widmer & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya.
Article: “Systematic partisan content skews in TikTok during the 2024 US elections“ by Hazem Ibrahim, HyunSeok Daniel Jang, Nouar Aldahoul, Aaron R. Kaufman, Talal Rahwan & Yasir Zaki.
Article: “How Mark Zuckerberg pivoted Meta to the right“ by David Ingram.
Article: “Meta says it will end fact-checking as Silicon Valley prepares for Trump“ by Huo Jingnan, Shannon Bond, Bobby Allyn.
Article: “About half of TikTok users under 30 say they use it to keep up with politics, news“ by Colleen McClain.
Article: “42% of social media users say the sites are important for them getting involved with political, social issues“ by Eugenie Park.
Article: “New Research Points to Possible Algorithmic Bias on X“ by Prithvi Iyer.
Article: “TikTok’s algorithm favored Republican content in 2024 US elections, study finds“ by Sanya Mansoor.
Article: “YouTube Video Recommendations Lead to More Extremist Content for Right-Leaning Users, Researchers Suggest“ by Alex Russell.
Article: “What you should know about Section 230, the rule that shaped today’s internet“ by Barbara Ortutay.
Article: “Here are the candidates who have qualified for CNN’s California governor’s debate“ by Kaanita Iyer, Jack Clifton.
Article: “Katie Porter“ by Wikipedia.
Video: California Governor Debate Fight Night Round 2! Live Coverage!.
Article: “Students for a Democratic Society“ (SDS) by Wikipedia.
Article: “Rick Scott ‘oversaw the largest Medicare fraud’ in U.S. history, Florida Democratic Party says “ by Amy Sherman.
Law: “Telecommunications Act of 1996“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “‘We’re creatives - this is what AI has done to our jobs’“ by Ben Schofield, Andrew Sinclair.
Article: “I was a commercial illustrator when Mac and Adobe’s Illustrator and Photoshop programs began replacing designers, illustrators, photographers and typesetters.“ by Dan Piraro.
Bible: “Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.“ - 1 John 4:20.
Article: “Franklin Graham’s Fierce Defense Of Trump’s Jesus-Like Post Highlights A Growing Pattern, Expert Says“ by Kimberley Richards.
Article: “Antifa (United States)“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “The Israel Lobby in Us Congress“ by Track AIPAC.
Hour Three: Are MAGA Influencers Getting Paid to Lie to You?
Article: “Rumors of secret GOP payments to influencers now confirmed by ex-insider: expert“ by Travis Gettys.
Article: “Right-wing influencers were duped to work for covert Russian operation, US says“ by Alan Suderman, Ali Swenson.
A Billionaire Compares “Tax the Rich” to Racial Slurs
Article: “New York real estate titan likens the phrase ‘tax the rich’ to racial slurs“ by Gaya Gupta.
Article: “Ken Griffin slams Mamdani’s tax video as ‘creepy and weird,’ says New York ‘doesn’t welcome success’“ by Tanya Rawat.
Movie: “Charlie Wilson’s War“.
Article: “U.S. Sues The New York Times, Claiming Discrimination Against a White Man“ by Rebecca Davis O’Brien.
Article: “Studies show white women benefit more from DEI than Black people“ .
Law: “Civil Rights Act of 1964“.
Law: “Voting Rights Act of 1965“.
Article: “Trump’s supposedly private-funded ballroom could cost US taxpayers $1bn“ by Sky News.
Article: “These Are The 37 Donors Helping Pay For Trump’s $300 Million White House Ballroom“ by The Wealth Advisor.
Article: “Trump has tapped an unprecedented 13 billionaires for his administration. Here’s who they are“ by Peter Charalambous, Laura Romero, and Soo Rin Kim.
Quote: “Behind Every Great Fortune There Is a Crime“ - Honoré de Balzac.
Article: “White House State Ballroom“ by Wikipedia.
Quote: “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.“ - Thomas Jefferson.
Quote: “The earth belongs in usufruct to the living : that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it.“ - Thomas Jefferson.
Quote: “We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.“ - Thomas Jefferson.
Article: “Who pays the most income tax?“ by USAFacts.
Article: “How the Rich Live Off Loans: A Deep Dive into Debt Strategies of the Wealthy“ by Bella Mertz.
Article: “Iroquois Woman“ by Micki M. Caskey, Ph.D., Theresa J. Rapida, Ph.D. and Mark Wubbold.
Book: “The Hidden History of American Democracy: Rediscovering Humanity’s Ancient Way of Living “ by Thom Hartmann.
Article: “Donor States 2026 “ by World Population Review.
Article: “Ask an Analyst: What makes a “donor state”?“ by Chris G.
Article: “Tammany Hall“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “To Rename Its Airport After Trump, Palm Beach Had to License His Name“ by Patricia Mazzei.
Article: “Ted Turner“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Understanding the legacy of Ted Turner and the creation of the 24-hour news cycle: ‘there is no hyperbole here’“ by Jocelyn Noveck, Wyatte Grantham-Philips and The Associated Press.
Article: “Director John Huston, crusty in defense of black-and-white movie...“ by Vernon Scott.
Article: “Technicolor“ by Wikipedia.
Movie: “The Wizard of Oz“.
Article: “Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District election, 2026“ by Ballotpedia.
Article: “Ryan Mackenzie“ by Ballotpedia.
Article: “Lamont McClure“ by Ballotpedia.
Article: “Trump shelved ‘Project Freedom’ after Saudis refused use of bases and airspace“ by Patrick Wintour.