Sue's Daily Stack, Thursday, 21 March, 2024
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Thursday's Daily Stack
Hour One: National Progressive Townhall Meeting
- Representative Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District) / Member & Chair Emeritus-Congressional Progressive Caucus / (Committees: Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Labor Caucus, and Chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus.) @repmarkpocan
Article: "Congress unveils $1.2 trillion plan to avert federal shutdown and bring budget fight to a close" by Kevin Freking.
Article: "Republican Study Committee Budget Includes Social Security Benefit Cuts" by Arthur Delaney.
Article: "Indiana Pathways for Aging" by FSSA.
Article: "'The Cash Monster Was Insatiable': How Insurers Exploited Medicare for Billions" by Reed Abelson and Margot Sanger-Katz.
Article: "Abe Fortas" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Biden opposes plan to sell US Steel to a Japanese firm, citing the need for 'American steel workers'" by Josh Boak.
Article: "Senate Passes Ban On China And Other Adversaries Buying Up Farmland—Here's Why" by William Skipworth.
Article: "Saudi Arabia Now Controls the Largest Oil Refinery in North America" by Robbie Gramer.
Article: "The Saudi & Putin Scheme for Screwing Biden's Election Hopes" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "OPEC to Extend Oil Production Cuts Through June" by Stanley Reed.
Article: "Russia 'meddled in all big social media' around US election" by Andre Rhoden-Paul.
Article: "Cambridge Analytica" by Wikipedia.
Article: "YouTube now requires creators to disclose when realistic content was made with AI" by Aisha Malik.
Article: "US House passes bill that could ban TikTok nationwide" by Bernd Debusmann, Matt Murphy & Natalie Sherman.
Article: "FACT SHEET: James Comer's Lies Are Routinely Contradicted By Witness Testimony" by Isabella Paquette.
Article: "FBI informant Alexander Smirnov who 'lied' about Ukrainian bribes to Joe and Hunter Biden had 'high-level contacts with Russian intelligence operatives,' prosecutors claim in bombshell filing" by Kelly Laco, Sarah Ewall-Wice.
Article: "Lev Parnas" by Wikipedia.
Tweet: "You will probably never see this on Hannity as it's incredibly damaging [video]" (Raskin questioning Parnas) by Acyn.
Tweet: "Parnas: Congressman Pete Sessions, then Congressman Devin Nunes, Senator Ron Johnson and many others understood they were pushing a false narrative. The same goes for John Solomon, Sean Hannity and media personnel, particularly at Fox News [video]" (Parnas introduction) by Acyn.
Article: "Project 2025".
Article: "Why Oligarchs Don't Just Want to Be Rich, But Kill Democracy Too" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Pro-Ukraine Group Pushes Progressives To Help Get Aid Bill To House Floor" by Jonathan Nicholson.
Article: "As Ukraine aid languishes, 15 House members work on end run to approve funds" by Scott MacFarlane.
Article: "Trump Escalates His Dehumanization of Migrants: Some Are 'Not People … These Are Animals'" by Peter Wade.
Article: "Judge clarifies: Yes, Trump was found to have raped E. Jean Carroll" by Aaron Blake.
Article: "Immigrants are significantly less likely to commit crimes than the U.S.-born " by Stephanie Kulke.
Article: "For the most part, the US pays double for prescriptions compared with other countries, as Biden says" by Samantha Putterman.
Article: "Consumer Price Index for the elderly" (CPI-E) by BLS.
Article: "How Brian Kemp STOLE The Georgia Election" by Greg Palast.
Article: "House of Representatives Schedule" by House of Representatives.
Hour Two: Ukraine Update
- Phil Ittner, Veteran War Correspondent based in Kiev, Ukraine. @IttnerPhilip Youtube
Article: "Russia launches largest missile attack on Kyiv in weeks" by Olena Harmash and Ivan Lyubysh-Kirdey.
Article: "Ukraine war live updates: Russia launches large strike on Ukrainian capital; Moscow's defeat a matter of life or death, Kyiv says" by Holly Ellyatt.
Article: "Russian stuff blowing up: Ukraine attacks Russian bomber base" by quaoar.
Article: "No safety issue from barred staff at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, says IAEA chief" by Sakura Murakami and John Geddie.
Article: "Ukraine disrupts production at Russian refinery in cross-border strike" by Andrew Roth.
Article: "Ukraine drones 'attack' main base of Putin's long-range strategic bomber fleet deep inside Russia" by Nicholas Cecil.
Article: "9 GOP reps reject measure condemning abduction of Ukrainian kids" by Steve Benen.
Article: "International Criminal Court arrest warrants for Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova" by Wikipedia.
don't say gay Article: "Map: See which states have introduced or passed anti-DEI bills" by Char Adams and Nigel Chiwaya.
Article: "Stop WOKE Act" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Florida Parental Rights in Education Act" ("Don't Say Gay") by Wikipedia.
Is the NY attorney general's office calling Trump's bluff?
Article: "'Hardly Impossible': NY Attorney General's Office Rejects Trump's Claim That He Can't Pay Bond, Cites Use of Real Estate As 'Collateral'" by Jamie Frevele.
Article: "Letitia James takes first step to seize Trump's Seven Springs resort and N.Y. golf course " by Matthew Chapman.
Article: "Letitia James Is Prepared to Seize One of Trump's Favorite Assets" by Tori Otten.
Article: "What Is Domestication of a Foreign Judgment and When Is Domestication Necessary?" by Roy Banerjee.
Article: "Letitia James Shreds Trump's 'Practical Impossibility' Claim" by David Badash.
Article: "Child abductions in the Russo-Ukrainian War" by Wikipedia.
Movie: "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang".
Book: The Emperor Wears No Clothes: A History of Cannabis/Hemp/Marijuana by Jack Herer.
Article: "Biden announces new rule for gas car emissions that could boost EV sector" by Dharna Noor.
Article: "House Republican budget calls for raising the retirement age for Social Security" by Sahil Kapur.
Article: "'Not on my watch': Biden pledges to stop cuts to social security and Medicare" by Martin Pengelly.
Article: "Trump Is Now Fundraising Off His Inability to Pay Fraud Bond" by Nikki McCann Ramirez.
Article: "Jared Kushner and Steven Mnuchin Have Reportedly Secured Billions from Saudi Government" by Ken Meyer.
Article: ""Foreclosure King" Steven Mnuchin Doesn't Appreciate His Totally Accurate Nickname" by Bess Levin.
Article: "Joe Madison" by Wikipedia.
Article: "100 Bible Verses about Harming Children" by Open Bible.
Article: "Why are so many migrant families still separated? Chaos in the data." by Kristin Samuelson.
Quote: "I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as a civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors." - Thomas Jefferson.
Hour Three: Just when you thought Republicans couldn't get any crueler, now they're forcing women to have unnecessary major abdominal surgery
Article: "The GOP's C-Section Plan" by Jessica Valenti.
Russia is arresting LGBTQ folks under "extremism" just like Hitler used to do....
Article: "Russia Arrests Two In First LGBTQ 'Extremism' Criminal Case" by AFP.
Video: Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War.
Article: "1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident" by Wikipedia.
Article: "South Ossetia" by Wikipedia.
Site: Antichrist 45.
Why the GOP killed a motion to subpoena Jared Kushner to answer for his $2 Billion Saudi cash infusion
Article: "Republicans Kill Motion to Subpoena Jared Kushner to Answer for $2 Billion Saudi Cash Infusion" by Michael Luciano.
Article: "Jim Jordan derails subpoena of Jared Kushner at 'influence peddling' hearing" by David Edwards.
Article: "Before Giving Billions to Jared Kushner, Saudi Investment Fund Had Big Doubts" by David D. Kirkpatrick and Kate Kelly.
Site: Florida Veterans for Common Sense.
Site: Jim Hightower.
Tweet: "I'm automatically attracted to assets. I just start seizing them..." retweeted by Thom Hartmann.
Polls: "President: Republican Primaries" by 538.
Article: "Billionaires for Bush" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trailer trash" by Wikipedia.
Article: "White trash" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Kushner requests more intel info than almost all White House staff: report " by Brandon Carter.
Article: "Donald Trump's false claim that immigration hurts Social Security " by Louis Jacobson.
Article: "Number of Voters Saying Biden's Election 'Illegitimate' Jumps 20% in WaPo Poll" by C. Douglas Golden.
Article: "Partisans are equally likely to say the other candidate is 'too corrupt'" by Philip Bump.
Speech: "Campaign dinner address of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (the Fala speech)", 9/23/1944 "Remember, a number of years ago, there was a book, Mein Kampf, written by Hitler himself. The technique was all set out in Hitler's book - and it was copied by the aggressors of Italy and Japan. According to that technique, you should never use a small falsehood; always a big one, for its very fantastic nature would make it more credible - if only you keep repeating it over and over and over again.".
How Republicans Caused "Missing Americans"
Article: "How Republicans Caused "Missing Americans"" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Missing Americans: Early death in the United States—1933–2021" by Jacob Bor, Andrew C Stokes, Julia Raifman, Atheendar Venkataramani, Mary T Bassett, David Himmelstein, Steffie Woolhandler.
Book: "The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore Its Greatness" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "New Mexico proposal would extend free child care, boost pay" by AP.
Article: "Momentum Grows for State Tax Credit Programs with Key Legislative Wins" by Economic Security Project.
Article: "Early Learning Scholarships Program" by Minnesota Department of Education.
Article: "Universal Basic Income: If it Works for Billionaires' Children, Why Not the Poor?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Work Deaths by State" by NSC.
Article: "Cash at the State Level: Guaranteed Income Through the Child Tax Credit" by Halah Ahmad, Jack Landry.
Article: "Association of Chronic Opioid Use With Presidential Voting Patterns in US Counties in 2016" by James S. Goodwin, Yong-Fang Kuo, David Brown.
Article: "Minnesota's Children's Cabinet 2023 Legislative Wins For Children And Families" by Minnesota's Children's Cabinet.
Article: "Many States Resist Adapting Worker Safety Rules to Pandemic" by Alex Brown.
Tweet: "Voting for Republicans is like eating poison." by Mark Jacob.
Article: "States step in to pay for school meals for all kids" by Tami Luhby.
Article: "New study shows record high gun-related deaths are a gun problem that needs legislating" by Walter Einenkel.
Article: "Changes to SNAP Benefit Amounts - 2023 " by FNS.
Article: " New Mexico executes historic expansion of New Mexico pre-K partnership with tribes, pueblos, and nations" by Gov. Lujan Grisham.
Article: "Gov. Pritzker Signs Legislation to Address Food Deserts Across Illinois" by Governor JB Pritzke.
Article: "Viewing the US presidential electoral map through the lens of public health" by Hamamsy T, Danziger M, Nagler J, Bonneau R.
Article: "ECECD finalizes child care regulations to make child care affordable for most New Mexico families" by Jessica Preston.
Article: "America Pulled Children Out of Poverty. Now It's Set to Reverse Course With a Vengeance." by Nikhil Goyal.
Article: "Welcome to "Cancer Alley," Where Toxic Air Is About to Get Worse" by Tristan Baurick, Lylla Younes, Joan Meiners.
Article: "How red-state politics are shaving years off American lives" by Lauren Weber, Dan Diamond, Dan Keating.