Sue's Daily Stack, Thursday, 13 June, 2024
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Thursday's Daily Stack
In for Thom Today...Jefferson Smith, Host-Democracy Nerd Podcast
Hour One: It's Thank You Thursday
Poem: "The Sun-Dial at Wells College" by Henry Van Dyke.
Article: "Why Gratitude Is Good" by Robert Emmons.
Site: Gratitude Works.
Article: "How Winning The Lottery Affects Happiness, According to Psychology Research" by Kevin Loria.
Article: "Donald Trump Jokes to Las Vegas Rally Attendees: 'I Don't Care About You'" by Natalie Venegas.
Article: "He's donated 150 gallons of blood over the years — and he plans to keep it flowing" by Britt Kennerly.
Site: Foster Grandparent Program - Volunteers of America.
Case: "Marbury v. Madison", 1803 (judicial review).
Article: "Charlotte shooting: Four officers shot dead, four wounded, in North Carolina home siege" by Max Matza & Nadine Yousif.
Site: Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS).
Site: Beyond Nuclear.
Book: The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time by Antonia Juhasz.
Book: War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier by Smedley D. Butler.
Article: "Hawaii Supreme Court Declares Second Amendment Infringes on the ‘Spirit of Aloha’" by Isaac Schorr.
Article: "Primer: Evolution of the H-2A Visa Program" by Sadikshya Nepal.
Hour Two: Thank You Thursday plus "News w/My Dad"
Article: "Dog fight! Joey Chestnut out of July 4 hot dog eating contest due to deal with rival brand" by Cedar Attanasio.
Article: "Hot dog-eating champs Joey Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi will go head-to head in a Netflix special" by Kaitlyn Huamani.
Article: "Caitlin Clark Knocked Down on Video by Player Accused of Calling Her an Expletive" by Jessica McBride.
Article: "Diego Maradona" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Simone Biles" by Wikipedia.
Article: "UCLA students describe violent attack on Gaza protest encampment: ‘It was terrifying’" by Dani Anguiano.
Article: "Republicans kill border bill in a sign of Trump's strength and McConnell's waning influence" by Sahil Kapur and Frank Thorp V.
Article: "Senate Republicans block border security bill as they campaign on border chaos" by Sahil Kapur and Kate Santaliz.
Article: "Project 2025".
News w/Dad
- Joe Smith, (Jeff's Dad) attorney / former Umatilla County district attorney and a former chair of the Oregon Democratic Party
Article: "What to know about the Supreme Court’s ruling allowing mifepristone to stay on the market" by CNN.
Article: "Miranda Rights Supreme Court Cases" by Justia.
Article: "How the Federalist Society became the de facto selector of Republican Supreme Court justices." by Lawrence Baum and Neal Devins.
Article: "Civil rights icon, nonviolence advocate, Pastor James Lawson dies at 95" by City News Service.
Article: "Meet Blue, The Dog Who Traveled 4 Miles To Get Help For Owner Trapped In Ravine" by Graeme Demianyk.
Article: "Inflation slowed in May, hinting at welcome relief for consumers" by Alicia Wallace.
Article: "Violent crime is down and the US murder rate is plunging, FBI statistics show" by CNN.
Article: "‘News to Me’: Cornel West Reacts on NewsNation to Report GOP Helping Him Get Ballot Access" by Zachary Leeman.
Article: "IDF: Hamas terrorist and journalist was holding 3 hostages in home alongside family" by Emanuel Fabian.
Article: "Critical Baltimore Shipping Channel Reopens 11 Weeks After Bridge Collapse" by Campbell Robertson and Heather Knight.
Article: "Labour to BAN under-16s from buying energy drinks and change vape rules" by Thomas Godfrey.
Article: "Thailand to recriminalise cannabis as PM vows to get tough on drugs" by Panu Wongcha-um and Panarat Thepgumpanat.
Hour Three: It's Thank You Thursday
Article: "China lifts 800m people out of poverty over 40 years, accounting for 75% of global poverty reduction" by Global Times.
Article: "China's Building Cities So Fast, People Don't Have Time to Move In" by Andrew Tarantola.
Article: "Republicans host 'pep rally' with Trump in his first visit to Capitol Hill since Jan. 6 attack" by Scott Wong, Sahil Kapur, Ali Vitali, Julie Tsirkin.
Law: "19th Amendment, August 18, 1920. "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex."
Law: "14th Amendment, July 9, 1868 (citizenship, representatives, public debt, Equal Protection Clause).
Article: "Social Security (United States)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Medicare (United States)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Medicaid" by Wikipedia.
Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".
Law: "Civil Rights Act of 1964".
Article: "Peace Corps" by Wikipedia.
Law: "National School Lunch Act (1946)".
Article: "Marshall Plan" by Wikipedia.
Law: "Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993".
Law: "Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009".
Site: Democracy Docket.
Article: "Proud Boys" by Wikipedia.
Site: Black History Today.
Article: "Disappearing Fireflies" by Firefly Research & Conservation.
Article: "Bernie Sanders" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Freedom Caucus" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The Dangerous Myth of Population Growth: How Billionaires Are Leading Us Astray" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Patricia Randolph's Madravenspeak: Earth's mammals: 96% humans and livestock, just 4% wild" by Patricia Randolph.
Article: "Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk say human population not nearly big enough: ‘If we had a trillion humans, we would have at any given time a thousand Mozarts’" by Steve Mollman.
Article: "America Is Under Assault by a Cancerous Mind Virus the Founders Warned Against" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Letter from Dwight D. Eisenhower to Edgar Newton Eisenhower (November 8, 1954)".
Article: "Islamic views on contraception" by BBC.
Article: "Elon Musk pleaded with female SpaceX employees to have his babies" by DowneastDem.
Article: "Executive Pay and Labor’s Shares: Unions and Corporate Governance from Enron to Dodd-Frank " by Sanford M. Jacoby.
Article: "Who are Elon Musk's 11 children?" by Drew Weisholtz.
Tweet: "Population collapse due to low birth rates is a much bigger risk to civilization than global warming" by Elon Musk.