Sue's Daily Stack, Thursday, 4 April, 2024
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Thursday's Daily Stack
Hour One: What if the Person the Majority of Americans Voted for Became President?
Article: "What if the Person the Majority of Americans Voted for Became President? " by Thom Hartmann.
Letter: "to James Warren, 24 July 1775" by From John Adams.
Article: "The Danger of the National Popular Vote Compact" by Norman R. Williams.
Article: "Famous British Historian Claims Benjamin Franklin Was A British Spy" by Richard Deacon.
Article: "Federalist 68: The Mode of Electing the President" by Alexander Hamilton.
Site: National Popular Vote.
Article: "65% Support National Popular Vote for President in Pew Poll" by National Popular Vote.
Article: "Maine" by National Popular Vote.
Article: "The Outdated Law that Republicans Could Use to Upend the Electoral College Vote Next Time" by Steve Coll.
Article: "CIA 'warns Iran will attack Israel within 48 hours' as revenge for consulate strike" by Charlie Bradley.
Article: "X is giving blue checks to influential users (which is what blue checks were supposed to be all along)" by Amanda Silberling.
Article: "Exclusive: Trump Media saved in 2022 by Russian-American under criminal investigation" by Hugo Lowell.
Article: "List of United States presidential elections by popular vote margin" by Wikipedia.
Are Republicans are starting to realize that Trump and Maga Republicans are dancing to Putin's tune
Article: "'Russian propaganda' has 'infected a good chunk of my party's base': House GOP foreign affairs chair" by Maya Boddie.
Article: "Opinion: Biden's stunning reversal on border barriers" by Jon Gabriel.
Article: "Fact Sheet: Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Border Enforcement Actions" by White House.
Article: "'It's true': Sen. Lankford nods as Biden rehashed immigration bill in State of the Union" by Alexia Aston.
Article: "Ron DeSantis is right; Barack Obama deported more people than Donald Trump did" by Maria Ramirez Uribe.
Might the FCC bring back net neutrality? What is that?
Article: "FCC to vote to restore net neutrality rules, reversing Trump" by David Shepardson.
Article: "Net neutrality" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Common carrier" by Wikipedia.
Law: "Communications Act of 1934", of which Title II regulates Common carriers.
Article: "EVs are lowering Bay Area's carbon footprint" by Robert Sanders.
Article: "Will Mike Johnson be removed as speaker? Marjorie Taylor Greene issues warning over Ukraine aid" by Marina Pitofsky.
Article: "Trade Adviser Warned White House in January of Risks of a Pandemic" by Maggie Haberman.
Article: "Latest Polls: President: general election, 2024" by FiveThirtyEight.
Article: "Franklin & Marshall Poll Release: April 2024" by Berwood A Yost.
Article: "Forty per cent of American Covid deaths were avoidable - and the Trump administration is to blame, study finds" by Andrew Naughtie.
Article: "Trump Tells Woodward He Deliberately Downplayed Coronavirus Threat" by NPR.
Article: "Did Trump and Kushner ignore blue state COVID-19 testing as deaths spiked?" by Charlie Sykes.
Article: "Nebraska Lawmakers Block Trump-Backed Changes to Electoral System" by Maggie Astor.
Article: "Analysis: 18% Of The U.S. Population Elects 52% Of The Country's Senators" by JakeThomas.
Article: "Did third-party candidates Jill Stein and Gary Johnson lose Clinton the election?" by Mona Chalabi.
Article: "Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination 56 years later" by Morning Joe.
Article: "Joe Madison" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Abraham Bolden: Ex-Secret Service agent pardoned by Biden" by BBC.
Article: "Aileen Cannon" by Wikipedia.
Video: You Can Learn a Lot from a Dummy.
Article: "Restoration of empire is the endgame for Russia's Vladimir Putin" by Nathan Hodge.
Article: "Medvedev floats idea of pushing back Poland's borders" by Andrew Osborn and Caleb Davis.
Hour Two: Ukraine Update
- Phil Ittner, Veteran War Correspondent based in Kyiv, Ukraine. @IttnerPhilip Youtube
Article: "Russian stuff blowing up: Another Russian armored assault destroyed" by quaoar.
Article: "Russia takes Avdiivka from Ukraine, biggest gain in nine months" by Guy Faulconbridge and Tom Balmforth.
Article: "Ukraine lowers its conscription age to 25 to replenish its beleaguered troops" by Hanna Arhirova, Samya Kullab.
Article: "NATO Weighs Taking Over U.S.-Led Group Directing Ukraine Military Aid" by Lara Jakes.
Article: "Johnson Outlines Plan for Ukraine Aid; House Could Act Within Weeks" by Catie Edmondson.
Article: "U.S. corn-based ethanol worse for the climate than gasoline, study finds" by Leah Douglas.
Article: "Doctors Worry That Memory Problems After COVID-19 May Set The Stage For Alzheimer's" by Jon Hamilton.
Article: "Rapid Progression of Dementia Following COVID-19" by NIH.
Case: "Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47 (1919)". "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic."
Alabama Republicans try to 'criminalize librarians simply for doing their jobs'
Article: "Alabama Republicans try to 'criminalize librarians simply for doing their jobs'" by Jessica Corbett.
Geeky Science! Can a vegan diet help diabetics?
Article: "Low-Fat Vegan Diet Reduces Insulin Requirements and Improves Insulin Sensitivity for People With Type 1 Diabetes, Finds Groundbreaking New Study" by PCRM.
Article: "ActBlue" by Wikipedia.
TV: "The Regime (miniseries)".
Movie: "Recount".
Documentary: 537 Votes.
Case: "Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000)".
Article: "Colorado's Thompson Divide protected from new drilling for next 20 years!" by Nicole Segnini.
Article: "William Lewis Moore" by Wikipedia.
Article: "James Reeb" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Murders of Harry and Harriette Moo" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner" by Wikipedia.
Article: "My Supplement List" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Apple cider vinegar" by Wikipedia.
Article: "For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it's blown up in our faces" by Tal Schneider.
Article: "The Long Wait for Help as Massacres Unfolded in Israel" by Lauren Leatherby, Emma Bubola, Arijeta Lajka, Amy Schoenfeld Walker, Molly Cook Escobar and Pablo Robles.
Article: "Benny Gantz, Netanyahu's top rival, calls for early elections after protests in Israel" by AFP.
Article: "What we know about Israel's Supreme Court ruling on Netanyahu's judicial overhaul" by Christian Edwards.
Article: "Alabama library flagged a children's book because the author's last name is 'Gay'" by Jo Yurcaba.
Article: "Whitmire: Why was an Alabama library director fired? Read between the lines." by Kyle Whitmire.
Article: "Four Prattville library employees fired after closing library to stand with fired director" by Jacob Holmes.
Site: Read Freely Alabama.
Article: "Dominica" by Wikipedia.
Hour Three: Might judge Merchan send Trump to jail now?
Article: "Trump reposts controversial ally's attacks on hush money judge's wife despite gag order" by M.L. Nestel.
Article: "Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016" by Jonathan Watts.
Has anyone noticed that Trump's Bond Has Been Rejected in NY?
Article: "Donald Trump's $175m Bond Rejection Raises Questions" by Sean O'Driscoll.
ADHD: Put a Notepad By Your Bed For Ideas
Article: "ADHD: Put a Notepad By Your Bed For Ideas" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Project for the New American Century (PNAC)" by Wikipedia. "Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor."
Article: "Sarkozy sentenced to six months in prison for campaign overspending" by Le Monde with AFP.
Article: "List of heads of government who were later imprisoned" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Biden Tells Netanyahu U.S. Support Hinges on Treatment of Gaza Civilians" by Peter Baker.
Article: "Biden says he regrets using the term 'illegal' to describe suspected killer of Laken Riley" by Vishwam Sankaran.
Article: "The Main Driver Of Immigrants & Refugees is the Republican Party Itself" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Hispanic" by Wikipedia.
Article: "No Labels will not field third-party ticket" by Aaron Pellish.
Article: "Noam Chomsky Says GOP 'Not a Political Party' but a 'Radical Insurgency'" by Daniel Villarreal.
Quote: "I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat." - Will Rogers.
Article: "Here are the 34 charges against Trump and what they mean" by Ann E. Marimow.
Article: "Martha Stewart" by Wikipedia.
Article: "A Sober Assessment of the Growing U.S. Asylum Backlog" by Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.
Article: "Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals" (DACA) (Dreamers) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Deferred Action for Parents of Americans" by Wikipedia.