Sue's Daily Stack, Thursday, 30 May, 2024
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Thursday's Daily Stack
Hour One: Trump trial verdict: if guilty, what would ex-president's punishment be?
Article: "Trump trial verdict: if guilty, what would ex-president's punishment be?" by Sam Levine.
Article: "Jurors ask to review testimony in Trump hush money trial" by RTE.
Article: "Explaining The Jury Unanimity Issue In The Trump Trial" by KeithDB.
Article: "The Donald Trump I Saw on The Apprentice" by Bill Pruitt.
Article: "Fox News lied about jury instructions and incited a total wingnut meltdown" by Jeff Tiedrich.
How to deal with Alito and Thomas?
Article: "How to Force Justices Alito and Thomas to Recuse Themselves in the Jan. 6 Cases" by Jamie Raskin.
Tweet: "Alito: I can't control my wife. I can control your wife." by The Lincoln Project.
Article: "Orrin Hatch once said there was "no question" Merrick Garland could be confirmed to the Supreme Court." by Alex Shephard.
Are Georgia Republicans doing a trial run of not certifying election results for November?
Article: "Georgia Republican tries to "set the stage" for a November election challenge, won't certify primary" by Nicholas Liu.
Article: "Iron law of wages" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Mudsill theory" by Wikipedia.
Speech: "On the Admission of Kansas, Under the Lecompton Constitution: Delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 4, 1858" by James H. Hammond.
Article: "Feudalism" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Full Replay: President Biden And VP Harris Campaign Rally In Philadelphia" (29 May 2024) by Tim Hains.
Article: "Cult" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Jim Jones" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Charles Manson" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Adolf Hitler" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Benito Mussolini" (Italy) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Francisco Franco" (Spain) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Conception" by Cleveland Clinic.
Book: "Screwed: The Undeclared War Against The Middle Class" by Thom Hartmann.
Hour Two: Ukraine Update
- Phil Ittner, Veteran War Correspondent in Kyiv, Ukraine & host of the 'On the Edge' podcast
Article: "Putin's FAB-1500, 'Cheap but Destructive' Bombs Hammer Major Ukrainian Cities |Russia Releases Video" by Oneindia.
Article: "Russia's new guided bomb inflicts devastation and heavy casualties on the Ukrainian front lines" by Tim Lister and Frederik Pleitgen.
Article: "Without Western armaments, Ukraine may only have months left" by Lisa Haseldine.
Article: "Ukraine weapons: What arms are being supplied and why are there shortages?" by BBC.
Article: "Ukraine to receive F-16s 'very soon' but much aid arriving late, defence minister says" by Olena Harmash and Sergiy Karazy.
Article: "US weapons helping stabilise Ukraine's front line, Blinken says" by Humeyra Pamuk and Tom Balmforth.
Article: "Germany pledges €500 million in arms support for Ukraine" by DW.
Article: "Putin warns of 'serious consequences' if Ukraine uses western arms in Russia" by Brett Wilkins.
Article: "Taking the Fight to Russia: The West Weighs Ukraine's Use of Its Weapons" by Lara Jakes.
Article: "All you need to know about Ukraine peace summit in Switzerland" by Simon Bradley.
Video: On the Edge Episode 2: Volodymyr Yelchenko & The Diplomatic Front (one of Ukraine's top diplomats).
Article: "Russian stuff blowing up: Russia unleashes fuel-air bombs on Ukrainian village" by quaoar.
Article: "The ICC spying revelations show the Israeli government to be a lawless regime" by 29 May 2024.
Article: "Stoneman Douglas High School shooting" (Parkland) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Joe Biden signs into law landmark gun control bill" by BBC.
Article: "Chaos in Congress after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene insults Dallas Rep. Jasmine Crockett" by Johannah Grenaway.
Article: "Katy Stamper" by Ballotpedia.
Article: "Democrats Nominate A Republican In GA-11" by Ed Scarce.
Article: "Pennsylvania Polls" by FiveThirtyEight.
Is the Loss of Insects a Desperate Cry for Help From a Planet Under Assault?
Article: "Is the Loss of Insects a Desperate Cry for Help From a Planet Under Assault?" by Thom Hartmann.
Book: "The Last Hours Of Ancient Sunlight" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Microplastics, like Asbestos, Can Kill" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Illegal Wildlife Trade" by AZA.
Article: "The biomass distribution on Earth" by Yinon M. Bar-On, Rob Phillips, Ron Milo.
Article: "North America Has Lost Nearly 3 Billion Birds Since 1970" by Rachael Lallensack.
Article: "Humans just 0.01% of all life but have destroyed 83% of wild mammals – study" by Damian Carrington.
Article: "The insect apocalypse: 'Our world will grind to a halt without them'" by Dave Goulson.
Article: "'Game changing': spate of US lawsuits calls big oil to account for climate crisis" by Dharna Noor.
Article: "Renewable energy – powering a safer future" by UN.
Article: "How Eating Less Meat Can Save the Planet " by Joe Loria.
Article: "Current World Population" by Worldometers.
Article: "Alito authors 6-3 ruling in favor of South Carolina Republicans in racial gerrymandering case" by Jordan Rubin.
Article: "What Trump promised oil CEOs as he asked them to steer $1 billion to his campaign" by Josh Dawsey, Maxine Joselow.
Article: "About Derechos" by NOAA.
Article: "Houston Hit by Massive Storm with 100 mph Winds, Causing 800,000 Houses to Lose Electricity" by Akash.
Article: "Meet Allan Lichtman, the Professor Who Correctly Predicted the Last 9 Presidents" by Andrew Sanders.
Article: "Rachel Bitecofer" by Wikipedia.
Book: "Hit 'Em Where It Hurts: How to Save Democracy by Beating Republicans at Their Own Game" by Rachel Bitecofer.
Hour Three: How the red states are indoctrinating our children in Christian nationalism
Article: "Florida civics teachers are still being indoctrinated with Christian Nationalism" by Friendly Atheist.
Article: "Louisiana could become first state to require display of Ten Commandments in classrooms" by Dianne Gallagher.
Article: "Patrick Henry" by Wikipedia.
Article: "James Madison And Church-State Separation" by Rob Boston.
Article: "Separation of church and state in the United States" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Florida sticks by social studies standard teaching 'benefit' of slavery" by Andrew Atterbury.
Article: "Tulsa race massacre" (1921) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump commutes sentence of former Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich, pardons ex-NYPD commissioner Bernard Kerik" by Adam Edelman and Dareh Gregorian.
The world knows inequality is the greatest threat to Democracy everywhere...
Article: "The People of the World Think Inequality Is the Greatest Threat to Democracy" by Ramzy Baroud.
Article: "Washington State Longshore Workers Dump Scab Grain To Protect Jobs" by Evan Rohar and Jane Slaughter.
Article: "To avoid bankruptcy, ILWU pays $20.5 million to replace a shipper's lost profits" by Don McIntosh.
Article: "Timeline: Puget Sound Waterfront History 1894-2002" by Waterfront Workers History Project.
Article: "Longshoremen threaten to widen Salvadoran boycott" by UPI.
Article: ""This Is a Crime": Ken Roth on Israel's Secret War Targeting the ICC to Derail War Crimes Charges" by Democracy Now!
Site: Haaretz.
Site: Jerusalem Post.
Site: Vote Forward.