Sue's Daily Stack, Thursday, 7 March, 2024

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Thursday's Daily Stack

Hour One: News...The SOTU challenge - Is Biden up for it?
Article: "House GOP once again hopes they can be respectful at the State of the Union" by Walter Einenkel.
Article: "Biden's SOTU challenge: Old-man vibes" by Leigh Ann Caldwell, Theodoric Meyer.
Article: "Bernie Sanders's private warning to Biden about the 2024 campaign" by Jeff Stein.
 
The vile & un-American reason Viktor Orbán is manipulating US politics
Article: "The Vile & Un-American Reason Viktor Orbán is Manipulating US Politics" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Hungary's Viktor Orbán to visit former President Trump at Florida home next week" by Michelle L. Price.
Article: "At CPAC, Hungary's Orban decries LGBTQ+ rights, migration" by Justin Spike.
Article: "Hungary's Mafia State Fights for Impunity" by Balint Magyar and Balint Madlovics.
Article: "Activists Fear Abortion at Risk in Hungary from Orban's Family-First Crusade" by Edward Szekeres.
Article: "Trump adviser: Orbán aims to 'make Hungary great again'" by Christian Keszthelyi.
Article: "Immigration threatens Christianity" by CathNews NZ.
Article: "Pro-Orban media moguls who destroyed Hungary's media now targeting European outlets" by Alison Mutler.
Article: "NEW REPORT: Freedom in the World 2020 finds established democracies are in decline" by Freedom House.
Article: "The Gruevski affair and how Viktor Orbán turned Hungary into a criminal state" by Hungarian Free Press.
Article: "Viktor Orbán and women in politics" by Hungarian Spectrum.
Article: "Orbán's dirty little trick: Conflating pedophilia with homosexuality" by Hungarian Spectrum.
Article: "What is behind Viktor Orbán's climate change doublethink?" by Fábián Tamás.
Article: "Orbán's Next Victim: the Hungarian Science Academy" by Edit Zgut-Przybylska.
Article: "Ukraine funding, Orban's opposition set to dominate crucial EU summit" by John Psaropoulos.
Book: Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright.
Article: "Hungary's Orbán: Christian Persecution Is 'Organized Attack on an Entire Culture'" by Thomas D. Williams.
Article: "Orban addresses conservative confab in Texas, setting the stage for Trump speech this weekend" by Michael Warren.
Article: "GOP strategist files sexual battery lawsuit against Matt Schlapp" by Jamie Gangel, Tierney Sneed and Elizabeth Stuart.
Article: "Trump placed hold on military aid to Ukraine well before he called its president" by Mark Sumner.
Article: "EU Parliament delivers Article 7 blow to Orban" by Rebecca Staudenmaier.
Article: "The Great Wall of Europe: Hungary splits continent in two with huge fence to stop migrants" by Nick Gutteridge.
Article: "Connecting Fox News' Tucker Carlson, Hungary — and Trump" by Casey Michel.
Article: "How Viktor Orban Bends Hungarian Society to His Will" by Patrick Kingsley.
. Article: "Hungary's Judges Warn of Threats to Judicial Independence" by Benjamin Novak and Patrick Kingsley.
Article: "Orban and His Allies Cement Control of Hungary's News Media" by Patrick Kingsley.
Article: "At CPAC, Hungary's Viktor Orban decries LGBTQ+ rights, migration" by AP.
Article: "The Roma people's Hungarian hell" by Barbora Černušáková.
Article: "Govt to detain migrants in container camps" by pulse.
Article: "Parliament approves detention of all asylum-seekers " by pulse.
Article: "Tens of thousands join rally for Hungary's Orban before April vote" by Krisztina Than.
Article: "Hungary's anti-Soros posters recall 'Europe's darkest hours': Soros' spokesman" by Krisztina Than.
Article: "Who Is Viktor Orban, Really?" by Rod Dreher.
Article: "'The Most Dangerous Man in the European Union'" by Paul Lendvai.
Article: "Viktor Orbán's War on Intellect" by Franklin Foer.
Article: "Heather Heyer, victim of Charlottesville car attack, was civil rights activist" by Maev Kennedy.
Article: "Viktor Orbán tells CPAC the path to power is to 'have your own media'" by Flora Garamvolgyi.
Article: "'A useful punching bag': why Hungary's Viktor Orbán has turned on George Soros" by Shaun Walker.
Article: "'We won't keep quiet again': the women taking on Viktor Orbán" by Shaun Walker.
Article: "Orbán deploys Christianity with a twist to tighten grip in Hungary" by Shaun Walker.
Article: "Hungary passes law banning LGBT content in schools or kids' TV" by Jennifer Rankin.
Article: "Could a New Far-Right Party Grouping Take Europe by Storm?" by Mihailo S. Zekic.
Article: "CPAC Just Decided to Not Let Any US Journalists Inside" by David Gilbert.
Article: "The American right's favorite strongman" by Zack Beauchamp.
Article: "It happened there: how democracy died in Hungary" by Zack Beauchamp.
Article: "'He's a tough man': Trump shrugs off concerns about Hungary's hard-right leader during White House visit" by Anne Gearan.
Quote: "A number of my friends who belong in these very high upper brackets have suggested to me, more in sorrow than in anger, that if I am reelected they will have to move to some other Nation because of high taxes here. I shall miss them very much." - Franklin D. Roosevelt, "Address at Worcester, Mass.," October 21, 1936.
Quote: "We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred." - Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Article: "if I wrote Joe Biden's State of the Union speech" by Jeff Tiedrich.
 
Article: "In New York Win, Democrats Sense a Pivot on Immigration and Border Politics" by Shane Goldmacher.
Article: "Bracero Program" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Did Biden commit treason? Dissecting Elon Musk's public meltdown" by Judd Legum, Tesnim Zekeria.
Article: "Morgan Stanley cuts Tesla's price target, warns this could be the year Tesla loses money" by Pras Subramanian.
 
Crazy alert! WWE wrestler Donald Trump endorsed just turned himself in for murder
Article: "Ex-GOP Congressional candidate and ex-WWE wrestler endorsed by Trump turns himself in on MURDER charge in Las Vegas after 47-year-old man was found dead in Resorts World hotel room" by Bethan Sexton.
 
Article: "Cities with more immigrants enjoy less crime, study finds" by Dell Cameron.
Article: "Who is Sen. Katie Britt, the Alabama Republican giving the SOTU response?" by Allison Pecorin.
Article: "How Biden's SOTU guest upended the abortion debate" by Alice Miranda Ollstein and Megan Messerly.
Article: "Equal Rights Amendment" by Britannica.
Article: "Trump told Bob Woodward he knew in February that COVID-19 was 'deadly stuff' but wanted to 'play it down'" by Dareh Gregorian.
Article: "Fees for proposed Iowa 'don't tread on me' license plates would fund NRA-affiliated gun trainings" by Caleb McCullough.
Article: "Branstad: 'no big thing' collective bargaining bill supporter present at signing" by James Q. Lynch.
Article: "How Bad Are Iowa's Bridges?" by Matt Milner.
Article: "Kim Reynolds promises more tax cuts as she reports $1.83 billion budget surplus" by Katie Akin.
Article: "What we know about the killing of over 100 Palestinians near aid trucks" by Julian Borger.
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.".
Video: Don't Be a Sucker.
Article: "Nikki Haley exits race but stops short of endorsing front-runner Donald Trump" by BBC.
Article: "Families of Israeli hostages in Gaza call for their safe return" by Lucy Manning & Sofia Ferreira Santos.
Site: End The Bribe System (bumper stickers, etc.).
Article: "Some OPEC+ members will cut the oil that they send to the world to try to boost prices" by Courtney Bonnell, Ellen Knickmeyer.
Article: "U.S. Supreme Court justices take lavish gifts — then raise the bar for bribery prosecutions" by Marty Schladen.
Article: "Sweden officially joins NATO, ending decades of post-World War II neutrality" by Matthew Lee, Lorne Cook.Hour Two: Ukraine Update
- Phil Ittner, Veteran War Correspondent based in Kyiv, Ukraine.   @IttnerPhilip Youtube
Article: "Ukraine Update: Russian missile strikes within a few hundred meters of Zelenskyy" by Mark Sumner.
Article: "Russian stuff blowing up: Russia attacks Odesa during Greek prime minister's visit" by quaoar.
Article: "After long tussle, Sweden to become NATO member" by AFP.
Article: "Collective defence and Article 5" by NATO.
Article: "Odesa" by Wikipedia.
Article: "'French mercenaries' killed in Ukraine: Paris calls out a Russian disinformation operation" by Elise Vincent.
Article: "Ukraine war: Russian strikes on Odesa damage Orthodox cathedral" by James Waterhouse, George Wright.
Article: "Ukraine war: Baby killed in Russian strike on Kharkiv hotel" by Paul Kirby.
Article: "Five children among 12 killed as Russia hits Odesa apartment block" by Maria Kostenko and Catherine Nicholls.
Article: "Saint Petersburg" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Is the Baltic Sea a NATO Lake?" by John R. Deni.
Article: "Putin's right-hand man unveils new map of Russia - with plans to invade two NATO allies" by Alessandra Scotto di Santolo.
Article: "The Biggest Cities In Ukraine" by WorldAtlas.
Article: "As Russia pushes forward, Ukrainian soldiers say U.S. aid delays have left them exposed" by Daryna Mayer, Yuliya Talmazan, Dan De Luce, Ostap Hunkevych, Marc Smith.
Article: "Russians kick out the rest of Ukrainian staff from Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant" by Economichna Pravda.
Article: "Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Chernobyl disaster", 26 April 1986 by Wikipedia.
 
Site: Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum.
Article: "Letitia James warns she'll seize property if Donald Trump can't pay $454m debt" by Fiona Leishman.
Article: "Marjorie Taylor Greene Tells Emily Mailtis To 'F*** Off' In Uncomfortable Exchange" by Kate Nicholson.
Article: "Putin's aide threatens to 'claim back' Alaska in response to US sanctions" by AP.
Article: "Putin Ally Hints at Russian Plot to Reclaim Alaska" by Thomas Kika.
 
Dan Rather has something to get off his chest & It's brilliant...
Tweet: "If I may, there's something I need to get off my chest.
As democracy remains under siege, it has been frustrating to watch how the press covers politics these days.
I am reminded by lessons that came to me during the Nixon years as a CBS News correspondent, which I'll add here" by Dan Rather.
 
Are republicans are helping Mexicans smuggle fentanyl into the United States?
Article: "Another consequence of that GOP-blocked border bill? It's easier to smuggle fentanyl" by Aldous J Pennyfarthing.
 
Article: "Congressman Who Shouted 'You Lie' At Obama Gets A Taste Of His Own Medicine" by Sam Levine.
Article: "Joe Wilson (American politician)" by Wikipedia.
Quote: "Taxes, after all are the dues we pay for the privilege of membership in an organized society. And as society becomes more civilized government, national and state and local, is called on to assume more obligations to its citizens. The privileges of membership in a civilized society are vastly increased in modern times. But I am afraid we still have many who still do not recognize their advantages and want to avoid paying their dues" - Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Article: "Trump supporters target black voters with faked AI images" by Marianna Spring.
Article: "Nixon Resignation" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The Economic Bill of Rights" by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Article: "Full Transcript of Nikki Haley's Remarks as She Dropped Out of G.O.P. Primary" by .
Article: "Natural gas in Ukraine" by Wikipedia.

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Hour Three: When there's money to be made, Republicans don't care how many people die
Article: "Nearly Half the States Sue E.P.A. Over New Limits on Deadly Pollution" by Lisa Friedman.
Article: "Cancer Alley" by Wikipedia.
 
Geeky Science? Did COVID protection wipe out a strain a flu? Wow.
Article: "The Covid-19 pandemic killed off one strain of the flu, and that will change the next vaccines" by Brenda Goodman.
Article: "Polio Is Back in the US and UK. Here's How That Happened" by Maryn McKenna.
Article: "US suffers year's worth of measles cases already in first two months of 2024 - as vaccine uptake dips below dangerous threshold" by Luke Andrews.
Article: "Florida surgeon general defies science amid measles outbreak" by Lena H. Sun, Lauren Weber.
 
Article: "Older Adults Now Able to Receive Additional Dose of Updated COVID-19 Vaccine" by CDC.
Article: "Tonight, Biden Must Vow to Go Even Further to Combat Corporate Greed" by Robert Reich.
Article: "Why the Corporate Tax Bracket Should Go Back to 52%" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Border Security And Aid To Ukraine Deal Derailed By Trump Intervention" by Andy J. Semotiuk.
Article: "Unitary executive theory" by Wikipedia.
Article: "A Four-Decade Secret: One Man's Story of Sabotaging Carter's Re-election" (Iran hostages) by Peter Baker.
Article: "Hamas officials leave Gaza truce talks without deal" by Yolande Knell.
Article: "Normandy landings" (D-Day) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Speech or Debate Clause" by Wikipedia.
Article: "USPS removed 711 sorting machines this year, new court documents show" by Kristen Holmes and Paul P. Murphy.
Article: "Eyebrows raised as Viktor Orbán to visit Donald Trump in Florida" by Lili Bayer.
Site: Where's My Ballot? :: California Secretary of State.
Law: "Logan Act", 1799 - forbids unauthorized citizens from negotiating with foreign governments having a dispute with the U.S.
Bill: "S.4365 - Social Security Expansion Act" by Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT].
Article: "5 takeaways in Supreme Court's ruling to keep Trump on 2024 ballot" by Dave Goldiner.
Article: "GOP lawmakers were deeply involved in Trump plans to overturn election, new evidence suggests " by Kyle Cheney and Nicholas Wu.
Article: "AIPAC uncorks $100 million war chest to sink progressive candidates" by Elena Schneider and Melanie Mason.
Book: "Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination" by Lamar Waldron with Thom Hartmann.
Site: OpenSecrets.org: Money in Politics -- See Who's Giving & Who's Getting.
Article: "Kamala Harris called for a cease-fire in Gaza. Here's what we know about the talks" by D. Parvaz.
Article: "Israel Demographics" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump challenges Biden to debates 'anytime' after Super Tuesday wins" by Max Matza.
Article: "Exclusive: Thieves stealing 'arrow keys' to access your mail" by WBAL.
Article: "Here's How to Watch the State of the Union Address" by Aishvarya Kavi.