Sue's Daily Stack, Thursday, 6 May, 2024
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Thursday's Daily Stack
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Hour One: Why the Spineless, Craven & Sold-Out GOP Sides with Trump's Big Lie 2.0
Article: "Why the Spineless, Craven, & Sold-Out GOP Sides with Trump's Big Lie 2.0" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Russia: Trump & His Team's Ties" by Eric Swalwell.
Article: "Mar-a-Lago a magnet for spies, officials warn after nuclear file reportedly found" by Julian Borger.
Article: "Report: Trump wanted to prosecute Comey, Hillary Clinton" by Zeke Miller.
Article: "The 10 instances of possible obstruction in Mueller report" by Mark Sherman.
Article: "How Trump's Casino Bankruptcies Screwed His Workers out of Millions in Retirement Savings" by Patrick Caldwell.
Article: "We're watching Trump's 7th bankruptcy unfold" by Rick Newman.
Article: "How Russian Money Helped Save Trump's Business" by Michael Hirsh.
Article: "Why is the Guy Who Told Us to Drink Bleach a Step Away from Being President?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Donald Trump Paid $1.4 Million in a Dispute Over Undocumented Workers. Read the Newly Unsealed Legal Papers" by Ryan Teague Beckwith.
Article: "The 26 women who have accused Trump of sexual misconduct" by Eliza Relman and Azmi Haroun.
Article: "Trump's casino was a money laundering concern shortly after it opened" by Jose Pagliery.
Article: "Trump raised prosecuting Clinton with top White House, Justice officials" by Pamela Brown, Jeremy Herb, Laura Jarrett and Eli Watkins.
Article: "Rape Allegations Refiled Against Trump" by Josh Russell.
Article: "Eric Trump Foundation Told Donors Money Went To Kids With Cancer, Then Gave To Different Causes" by Dan Alexander.
Article: "How a War Widow and Single Mother Lost $35,000 to Trump University" by Maggie Mallon.
Article: "Trump made up injury to dodge Vietnam service, his former lawyer testifies" by Leo Shane III.
Article: "Donald Trump, Mob Boss—Then and Now" by David Corn.
Article: "Judge orders Trump to pay $2 million for misusing his foundation" by Dareh Gregorian.
Article: "Trump Pays $2 Million to 8 Charities for Misuse of Foundation" by Luis Ferré-Sadurní.
Article: "The Republicans who voted to overturn the election" by Reuters.
Article: "USA TODAY exclusive: Hundreds allege Donald Trump doesn't pay his bills" by Steve Reilly.
Article: "Trump niece files suit saying family cheated her of millions" by Larry Neumeister.
Article: "Republicans who warned about Trump's words in 2016 decline to fault him now" by Sean Sullivan.
Article: "D-Day 80th anniversary commemoration of Normandy invasion" by NBC News.
Article: "Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are 'Losers' and 'Suckers'" by Jeffrey Goldberg.
Article: "Edison Chiloquin" by Wikipedia.
Article: "John Gofman" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll" by Wikipedia.
News...
Article: "Trump's Vows to Prosecute Rivals Put Rule of Law on the Ballot" by Adam Liptak.
Article: "In Context: Comparing Bill Barr's summary of Mueller's findings to the publicly released report" by Miriam Valverde.
Article: "FBI raid on real estate company linked to Harlan Crow's RealPage rental price fixing" by NBBooks.
Article: "'Utterly medieval': Radical GOP senators vote against birth control" by Kaili Joy Gray.
Article: "GOP will defund DOJ in retaliation for Trump conviction: Johnson" by David Badash.
Article: "Savings and loan crisis" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Vacant Homes vs. Homelessness in Cities Around the U.S." by United Way NCA.
Article: "Jury nullification" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Chris Hayes Warns Trump Is 'Openly Colluding' With Putin to Keep WSJ Reporter Evan Gershkovich Imprisoned in Russia | Video" by Ross A. Lincoln.
Law: "Logan Act", 1799 - forbids unauthorized citizens from negotiating with foreign governments having a dispute with the U.S.
Article: "A Four-Decade Secret: One Man's Story of Sabotaging Carter's Re-election" by Peter Baker.
Article: "Donald Trump's Military Cowardice Goes Beyond His 5 Draft Deferrals" by Lincoln Anthony Blades.
Movie: "The Longest Day".
Article: "Theodore Roosevelt Jr." by Wikipedia.
Hour Two: Ukraine Update
- Phil Ittner, Veteran War Correspondent in Kyiv, Ukraine & host of the 'On the Edge' podcast
Article: "Russian attacks on Ukrainian power grid force Kyiv into rolling blackouts ahead of peak demand" by Samya Kullab.
Article: "Russia destroys another Epicentr hypermarket in Kherson – Photo" by The New Voice of Ukraine.
Article: "Ukraine Strikes Into Russia With Western Weapons, Official Says" by Maria Varenikova, Constant Méheut and Aric Toler.
Article: "Biden reveals if he will ever let Ukraine use American missiles to strike Moscow or the Kremlin and dodges question on whether US weapons have already been fired inside Russia" by Katelyn Caralle.
Article: "Russia's latest threat is troubling – Putin's words feel like a step up in rhetoric" by Ivor Bennett.
Article: "June 2024 Ukraine peace summit" by Wikipedia.
Video: On the Edge Episode 2: Volodymyr Yelchenko & The Diplomatic Front (one of Ukraine's top diplomats).
Article: "Kamala Harris will represent the US at a Swiss 'peace summit' for Ukraine" by Zeke Miller.
Article: "Ukraine war: new US stance on targeting Russia gives Kharkiv's defenders a fighting chance " by Christoph Bluth.
Video: On the Edge Episode 3: Peter Dickinson & The Information Space.
Article: "Ukraine Invasion Day 834: combat continues as the Kremlin centralizes control over irregular troops" by annieli.
Article: "Russian stuff blowing up: Russian logistics suffering from Bukhankocide" by quaoar.
Article: "How Many Were Killed on D-Day?" by Dave Roos.
Did the Republican vote to save birth control? Is the rule of law on the ballot? Article: "'Utterly medieval': Radical GOP senators vote against birth control" by Kaili Joy Gray.
Case: "Griswold v Connecticut" (1965) (contraception for married couples).
Article: "Biden, other critics fear Thomas's 'extreme' position on contraception" by Meryl Kornfield, Timothy Bella, Amy B Wang.
Case: "Obergefell v Hodges" (2015) (same sex marriage).
Case: "Lawrence v Texas" (2003) (made same-sex sexual activity legal).
Case: "Loving v Virginia" (1967) (interracial marriage).
Article: "Eisenstadt v. Baird" (1972) (birth control for unmarried women) by Wikipedia.
An all Republican court gives Trump a delay past the election in the Georgia case where he demanded, threatening prison, that the Secretary of State give him over 11,000 votes. This is as bad as it gets.
Article: "Appeals court halts Trump's Georgia election fraud case" by AP.
Article: "Judge Cannon Will Allow Third Parties To Argue In Trump's Defense At Hearing" by Ryan Grenoble.
This needs a lot of circulation in the gun nut community. This is going to be so humiliating to Trump, if it gets out in a big way, although it'll probably just be a letter he gets in the mail.
Article: "NYPD preparing to revoke Donald Trump's license to carry a gun after felony conviction in New York" by John Miller.
Article: "Medgar Evers" by Wikipedia. "Evers served in the United States Army during World War II from 1943 to 1945. He was sent to the European Theater, where he participated in the Normandy landings in June 1944"
Book: Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America by Joy Ann Reid.
Speech: "Remarks by President Biden Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of D-Day | Collevile-sur-Mer, France".
Article: "Treaty of Versailles" by Wikipedia (28 June 1919, at the end of World War I).
Article: "John Maynard Keynes predicts economic chaos" by history.com.
Law: "Sherman Antitrust Act", 1890.
Article: "Neoliberalism" by Wikipedia.
Video: Fascism Won't Be What You Expect… w/ Michael Tomasky - Thom Hartmann Program.
Article: "PayPal Mafia" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Julius Evola" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Bronze Age Pervert" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Oswald Spengler" by Wikipedia.
Article: "It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis.
Article: "Dr. Phil's Exclusive Interview With Donald Trump To Air On Merit Street Media™ Thursday, June 6" by PR Newswire.
Article: "'Heavily edited' Trump interview on Fox has internet 'very curious what they edited out'" by David McAfee.
Hour Three: was a best of today...
What about the bill banning non-profit status to pro-Palestinian organizations?
- Yasmine Taeb, Esq, Human Rights Lawyer | Progressive Strategist / Legislative & Political Director - Mpower Change @YasmineTaeb
Video: Hearing: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, & Terror Financing.
Bill: "H.R.6408 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to terminate the tax-exempt status of terrorist supporting organizations." by Rep. Kustoff, David [R-TN-8] (Introduced 11/14/2023).
Article: "2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel" (10/07/2023) by Wikipedia.
Bill: "H.R.6090 - Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2023" by Rep. Lawler, Michael [R-NY-17] (Introduced 10/26/2023).
Article: "AIPAC Is Secretly Intervening in Portland's Congressional Race to Take Down Susheela Jayapal, Sources Say" by Ryan Grim.
Article: "Donald Trump goes low by parading women accusing Bill Clinton" by Ben Jacobs, Amber Jamieson.
Article: "Donald Trump's Child-Rape Accuser Drops Lawsuit After Receiving Threats" by Tim Kenneally.
Gaza, the protests, big oil and more....
Senator Bernie Sanders U.S. Senator (I-VT), @Sensanders @BernieSanders
Article: "Sen. Bernie Sanders, 82, announces he will run for reelection" by Kaia Hubbard.
Article: "2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Gaza Strip" by Wikipedia.
Article: "More than 30,000 killed in Gaza, Hamas-run health ministry says" by Yolande Knell.
Article: "Gaza Strip famine" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Joint World Bank, UN Report Assesses Damage to Gaza's Infrastructure" by World Bank.
Article: "Satellite images reveal the destruction of hospitals in Gaza" by AJLabs and Sanad Verification Agency.
Article: "All 12 universities in Gaza have been the target of Israeli attacks: 'It's a war against education'" by Ghazal Golshiri.
Article: "Chuck Schumer to co-sign Mike Johnson's invite for Netanyahu to address Congress" by Clarissa-Jan Lim.
Article: "Israel's Ben-Gvir threatens to withdraw support from Netanyahu unless Rafah operation goes ahead" by Middle East Eye.
Article: "Israel fears Benjamin Netanyahu set to be charged with war crimes" by Ross Hunter.
Article: "Netanyahu's unprecedented snub of Obama meeting defies explanation" by Raphael Ahren.
Article: "Some Medicare drug prices will drop under new law, insulin co-pays to be capped" by Caitlin Granfield.
Article: "Biden touts inhaler price drops with Bernie Sanders: "Finally, finally we beat big Pharma"" by Kathryn Watson.
Law: "Inflation Reduction Act of 2022".
Article: "Novo Nordisk" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Semaglutide" (Ozempic and Wegovy) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Sanders launches Senate investigation into 'outrageously high' pricing of Ozempic, Wegovy" by Tami Luhby and Katherine Dillinger.
Article: "UAW wins big in historic union vote at Volkswagen Tennessee factory" by Nora Eckert.
Article: "In clash with Bernie Sanders, Starbucks' Howard Schultz insists he's no union buster" by Alina Selyukh, Andrea Hsu.
Article: "Workers at Mercedes factories near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to vote in May on United Auto Workers union" by AP.
Article: "New US-China climate envoys to hold their first in-person talks in Washington" by Nike Ching.
Article: "Strom Thurmond" by Wikipedia.
Article: "League Refuses to "Help Perpetrate a Fraud"" by League of Women Voters.
Article: "Republican Party withdraws from U.S. commission on presidential debates" by David Morgan and Doina Chiacu.
Article: "Why is Canada's Covid death rate so much lower than US?" by Bernd Debusmann Jr.