Sue's Daily Stack, Thursday, 22 February, 2024

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Thursday's Daily Stack

Hour One: How Far Will Republicans Go To Bring America to Her Knees on Behalf of Putin & Trump?
Article: "How Far Will Republicans Go To Bring America to Her Knees on Behalf of Putin & Trump?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "10 Donald Trump Business Failures" by Time.
Article: "How Russian Money Helped Save Trump's Business" by Michael Hirsh.
Tweet: "Israel is facing existential threat. Any funding for Ukraine should be redirected to Israel immediately" by Josh Hawley.
Article: "Russian trolls' chief target was 'black US voters' in 2016" by BBC.
Article: "The Business Deals That Could Imperil Trump" by Peter Fritsch and Glenn R. Simpson.
Article: "Russian 2016 Influence Operation Targeted African-Americans on Social Media" by Scott Shane and Sheera Frenkel.
Article: "Coincidence or coordination?" by Rosalind S. Helderman and Tom Hamburger.
Article: "Republicans came within 90,000 votes of controlling all of Washington" by Aaron Blake.
Article: "Russians interacted with at least 14 Trump associates during the campaign and transition" by Rosalind S. Helderman, Tom Hamburger, Carol D. Leonnig.
Quote: "Bellum omnium contra omnes" ("the war of all against all") by Thomas Hobbes.
 
Article: "Matt Schlapp Boasts About Banning Liberal Media From Now-Irrelevant CPAC" by Justin Baragona.
Article: "Constitution of the United States", article 2 section 3. "... He [the president] ... may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them..."
Article: "Republicans Push For Discharge Petition Against Mike Johnson" by James Bickerton.
Article: "Nazis marched in Nashville. Blame a growing collective ignorance that we must reverse" by David Plazas.
Article: "History of the Jews in Ukraine" by Wikipedia.
Article: "How Jewish is Volodymyr Zelensky?" by Tash Mosheim.
 
The Congressional Hate Caucus says they'll shut down the government if diversity training & trans rights aren't stripped out of federal law
Article: "Republicans Issue New Government Shutdown Threat Over Trans People" by Erin Reed.
Article: "Saudis take 100% control of America's largest oil refinery" by Matt Egan.
 
Members of Congress are calling for Comer to resign...isn't he guilty of treason?
Article: "James Comer must resign from Congress." by bigtree.
Article: "Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say" by Natasha Bertrand.
 
Good News Alert! - Biden eliminates another $1.2 billion in student loans
Article: "Biden is forgiving another $1.2 billion in student loan debt" by Nadra Nittle.
 
Article: "Not Content with Killing Navalny, Putin also Had Famed Defector Assassinated* in Spain Last Week!" by Irontortoise.
Article: "Speech or Debate Clause" by Wikipedia.
Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.
Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978.
Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).
Article: "Marjorie Taylor Greene's 'Peach Tree Dish' Blunder Viewed Over 1M Times" by Gerrard Kaonga.
Article: "Les Moonves: Trump's run is 'damn good for CBS'" by Eliza Collins.
Article: "The Black prosecutors taking on Trump know what they're up against" by Paul Butler.
Article: "Who is Jack Smith, the special counsel prosecuting Donald Trump?" by Maya Yang.
Article: "Trump's legal debts top a half-billion dollars. Will he have to pay?" by Jake Offenhartz.
Article: "How Trump's Casino Bankruptcies Screwed His Workers out of Millions in Retirement Savings" by Patrick Caldwell.
Article: "US National Debt by Year" by Kimberly Amadeo.
Article: "Why the USA lost the war in Vietnam" by BBC.
Article: "Moscow says 700,000 children from Ukraine conflict zones now in Russia" by Reuters.
Article: "Here's Everything The Mueller Report Says About How Russian Trolls Used Social Media" by Ryan Broderick.
Article: "Barr releases redacted Mueller report" by Morgan Chalfant, Olivia Beavers and Jacqueline Thomsen.
Article: "Sovereign immunity" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib tells fellow Democrats: reject Biden in primary" by Maya Yang.
Article: "Julian Assange" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Chelsea Manning" by Wikipedia.
Article: "July 12, 2007, Baghdad airstrike" by Wikipedia.
Article: "A President's Evolving Approach to Fiscal Policy in Times of Crisis" by FDR Library.

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Hour Two: Ukraine Update
- Phil Ittner, Veteran War Correspondent based in Kyiv, Ukraine.   @IttnerPhilip Youtube
Article: "Russia-Ukraine war live: death certificate says Navalny 'died from natural causes'" by Nadeem Badshah, Mabel Banfield-Nwachi, Martin Belam.
Article: "Weary but determined, women join Ukraine's fight against Russia in historic numbers" by Richard Engel, Charlotte Gardiner and Yuliya Talmazan.
Article: "US estimates Ukraine military shortages could grow catastrophic by late March" by Anne Flaherty, Luis Martinez, Yulia Drozd, and Patrick Reevell.
Article: "How a trusted FBI source became the center of a Washington scandal" by Evan Perez and Hannah Rabinowitz.
Article: "Paul Manafort" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Viktor Yanukovych" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Revolution of Dignity" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Euromaidan" (Maidan Uprising) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Russo-Ukrainian War" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Russian interference in the 2016 Brexit referendum" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Charles Lindbergh" by Wikipedia.
Article: "'America First': From Charles Lindbergh To President Trump" by Greg Myre.
Article: "Without Firing a Shot. From Nikita Khrushchev's mouth to Putin and Trump's ear." by etwife.
Article: "Texas, California Separatists Attend Kremlin-Funded Conference" by ABC News.
Article: "The Failure of the "Budapest Memorandum" Is a Betrayal of World Peace" by Thom Hartmann.
 
Article: "Hillary Clinton email controversy" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Italy's Meloni Says Navalny Death 'Disturbing', a Warning to World" by Reuters.
 
Tennessee Republicans vote affirmatively to force 10-12 year old girls to carry rape-caused pregnancies to term
Article: "Abortion, Every Day (2.21.24): Tennessee GOP says child rape victims must carry pregnancies to term" by Jessica Valenti.
 
Do conservatives want to end recreational sex?
Article: "Heritage Foundation: Make sex bad again" by Nevilledog.
 
Quote: "I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one." - Bill Moyers.
Article: "How Manafort and Stone rose to D.C. power — and helped spawn Trump's presidency " by Manuel Roig-Franzia.
Article: "Paul Manafort" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Roger Stone" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Lee Atwater" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Exclusive: Lee Atwater's Infamous 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy" by Rick Perlstein.
Article: "Sweden: How to Live in the World's First Cashless Society" by Susan Fourtané.
Article: "Death of Nex Benedict" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Chicago Boys" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The Shock Doctrine" by Naomi Klein.
Book: "The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore Its Greatness" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "George Soros fund poised to take control of nation's second-largest chain of radio stations: 'This is scary'" by Josh Kosman, Ariel Zilber.
Site: Free Speech TV.
Video: Laurence Tribe: Biden should transfer frozen Russian bank assets to Ukraine.
Article: "List of international presidential trips made by Joe Biden" by Wikipedia.
Article: "List of presidential trips made by Joe Biden (2024)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Berlin Blockade" by Wikipedia.

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Hour Three: Bogus investigation into Fani Willis
- Debbie Hines, Trial lawyer, legal/political commentator, former prosecutor & author of the forthcoming book, "Get Off My Neck: Black Lives, White Justice, and a Former Prosecutor's Quest for Reform" (out in March)   @iamdebbiehines
Article: "What to know about the Fani Willis allegations and the election subversion case" by Dan Berman, Paula Reid, Jason Morris, Nick Valencia and Zachary Cohen,.
Article: "Top takeaways from Fulton County D.A. Fani Willis' forceful testimony in contentious hearing on whether she should be removed from Trump Georgia 2020 election case" by Melissa Quinn, Katrina Kaufman, Jared Eggleston, Daniel Klaidman.
Article: "Napa Valley winery owner claims Fani Willis DID pay $400 cash for two hours of tasting with her prosecutor lover Nathan Wade" by Geoff Earle.
 
Article: "Charles McGonigal" by Wikipedia.
 
Caught You Doing Something Right Alert! Hey...Joe Scarborough finally called out both-side-ism...
Article: "Joe Scarborough Sucker Punches Fox News 'Liberal' Pundit Harold Ford and His 'Both Sides' Approach" by Jamie Frevele.
 
Crazy Alert! Right wing host openly is calling for the overthrow of America..Why is he on our airwaves?
Article: "Right-wing host wants overthrow of democracy: 'We didn't get all the way there on Jan. 6'" by David Edwards.
 
Article: "'I'm Not at Church': Speaker Mike Johnson's 'Sermon' at GOP Meeting Sparks Backlash" by Samantha Benitz.
Article: "Frozen Pre-Embryos Classified as Marital Property of a Special Character and Awarded Jointly to Divorced Couple" by Emily Peeler.
Article: "Minsk agreements" by Wikipedia.
Article: "John Floyd, the Father of Georgia DA Fani Willis, Was a Black Panther Leader" by Jessica McBride.
Book: Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton.
Article: "Report: Scalise's Pitch 20 Years Ago: I'm 'David Duke Without The Baggage'" by Matthew Boyle.
Article: "'No Vacancies' for Blacks: How Donald Trump Got His Start, and Was First Accused of Bias" by Jonathan Mahler and Steve Eder.
Article: "Stockholm syndrome" by Wikipedia.
Article: "List of countries by GDP (nominal)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Economy of the European Union" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The Countries Pulling Their Weight in Ukraine Aid" by Martin Armstrong.
Article: "Countries That Have Sent the Most Aid to Ukraine" by Christopher Wolf.
Book: Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump by Rick Reilly.
Article: "Trump Claims Winning a Golf Tournament He Appears to Have Cheated in Makes Him Fit to Be President" by Bess Levin.
Article: "761st Tank Battalion (United States)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Learned Helplessness: Seligman's Theory of Depression" by Courtney E. Ackerman.