Sue's Daily Stack, Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
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Tuesday's Daily Stack
Hour One: Hunter Biden found guilty on gun charges
Article: "Hunter Biden, the son of the president, found guilty on federal gun charges after a trial that laid bare his addiction struggles" by Gary Grumbach, Daniel Barnes, Owen Hayes, Sarah Fitzpatrick and Dareh Gregorian.
Article: "The Arbitrary Ban on Gun Possession by Drug Users Invites Wildly Uneven Enforcement" by Jacob Sullum.
Article: "Appeals court rules for man who challenged ban on illegal drug users possessing firearms" by Zach Schonfeld.
Republicans' Trickle-Down Revival: Bold Move or Blunder?
Article: "Republicans' Trickle-Down Revival: Bold Move or Blunder?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Kansas lawmakers scuttle a plan for cutting taxes, defying the governor and GOP leaders" by John Hanna.
Article: "Pennsylvania Senate approves GOP's $3B tax-cutting plan, over objections of top Democrats" by Marc Levy.
Letter: "Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 15 April 1811".
Article: "Why the "Reagan Revolution" Scheme to Gut America's Middle Class is Coming to an End" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "New Kansas flat tax proposal would mainly benefit state's top 20% of earners, analysis shows" by Rachel Mipro.
Article: "Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 1 [1824-Aug. 28, 1848].".
Article: "Republicans roll out $2B tax cut package, telling Evers 'we heard you'" by Erik Gunn.
Article: "Revenge of the billionaires: How an oligarchy of the morbidly rich can take down democracy" by Thom Hartmann.
Book: "The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore Its Greatness" by Thom Hartmann.
Book: "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Panic of 1896" by Armstrong Economics.
Article: "Not an anomaly: 2020's red states have higher murder rates" by Alexi McCammond.
Article: "States' Recent Tax-Cut Spree Creates Big Risks for Families and Communities" by Wesley Tharpe.
Bill: "H.R.976 - TCJA Permanency Act" by Rep. Buchanan, Vern [R-FL-16] (Tax Cuts and Jobs Act).
Speech: "1888 State of the Union" by Grover Cleveland.
Article: " Cutting Mississippi's income and grocery taxes is House Speaker's top priority for 2025 session " by Will Stribling.
Article: "Extending Trump tax cuts would add $4.6 trillion to deficit: CBO" by Jessica Corbett.
Article: "Blue versus red states: Higher education policy-making in the US" by John Aubrey Douglass.
Article: "The 10 States With the Highest Infant Mortality Rates" by Steven Ross Johnson.
Speech: "Remarks by President Biden at a Campaign Reception | Greenwich, CT".
Article: "Trickle-down economics" by Wikipedia.
Article: "1876 United States presidential election" 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: "Is the "Horse & Sparrow" Economic Scam Returning?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Are We All Bozos On this Giant Experimental Bus?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "GI Bill of Rights: A Profitable Investment for the United States" by Labor Party.
Video: Republicans use misleading videos to attack the president: WaPo.
Substack: Robert Reich.
Substack: Egberto Off The Record.
Alito and his wife show themselves to be full on MAGA
Article: "Samuel Alito's Wife, Martha-Ann, Goes Full MAGA in Secret Recording" by William Vaillancourt.
Article: "Secret recording captures Justice Alito agreeing that US should return 'to a place of godliness'" by Léonie Chao-Fong.
Can other Democrats step in and help our SCOTUS corruption crisis?
Article: "Senator won't act on SCOTUS corruption, so other Democrats are stepping in" by Joan McCarter.
Article: "Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 2. "... In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make...."
Article: "Alito wasn't bluffing: He believes the Supreme Court is above the law" by Steven Lubet.
Article: "It's so hot in Mexico that monkeys are dropping dead from trees" by Mark Stevenson.
Article: "Famines" by Joe Hasell and Max Roser.
Article: "One of the world's biggest cities may be just months away from running out of water" (Mexico City) by Laura Paddison, Jack Guy and Fidel Gutiérrez.
Video: Mexico's political rebellion: Following AMLO, new President Claudia Sheinbaum paves multipolar path - Geopolitical Economy Report.
Quote: "The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover didn't know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellows hands" - Will Rogers.
Article: "Here's How Inflation and Prices Have Compared Under Trump vs. Biden" by Andrew Lisa.
Article: "United States Wages and Salaries Growth" by Trading Economics.
Article: "Dow Jones - DJIA - 100 Year Historical Chart" by Macro Trends.
Article: "MTG Says Trump Is a 'Convicted Felon' Just Like Jesus" by Peter Wade.
Article: "'Fear her': GOP sources reveal Marjorie Taylor Greene directly threatened James Comer" by Kathleen Culliton.
Article: "AP Fact Check: Blue high-tax states fund red low-tax states" by Stephen Ohlemacher.
Article: "Biden asks Americans to recommit to democracy in speech in Normandy" by News Wires.
Video: Lawrence: Alito tapes prove justice isn't telling the truth about flag controversy.
Article: "Neoliberalism" by Wikipedia.
Hour Two: She was sentenced to prison for voting to intimidate others...
Article: "She was sentenced to prison for voting. Her story is part of a Republican effort to intimidate others" by Sam Levine.
Article: "LaRose's Smoking Gun on Voter Purging" by David Pepper.
What happening with the far right in France?
- Cole Stangler, Journalist based in Marseilles, France @colestangler
Article: "France's Snap Elections" by Cole Stangler.
Article: "Paris mayor 'stunned' by snap French election weeks before Olympics" by Owen Amos.
Article: "French far right obliterates Macron's party in EU election" by Victor Goury-Laffont.
Article: "Who is 28-year-old far-right leader who could be France's next prime minister?" by Sky News.
Article: "'Win together or lose separately?': French left calls for unity ahead of snap elections" by Romain Brunet.
Article: "Putin's allies in the European Parliament rally around Le Pen's party" by Jean-Baptiste Chastand, Clément Guillou and Thomas Wieder.
Article: "Alternative for Germany" (Alternative für Deutschland, AfD) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Donald Trump Jokes to Las Vegas Rally Attendees: 'I Don't Care About You'" by Natalie Venegas.
Article: "Trump undergoes probation interview virtually" by Katrina Kaufman, Graham Kates, Fin Gómez.
Article: "Trump Server Mystery Produces Fresh Conflict" by Charlie Savage and Adam Goldman.
Article: "U.S. has new intel that Manafort friend Kilimnik gave Trump campaign data to Russia" by Tom Winter and Monica Alba.
Article: "Cambridge Analytica" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Was a Trump Server Communicating With Russia?" by Franklin Foer.
Article: "Alfa-Bank" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Megyn Kelly" by Wikipedia.
Article: "A new look at Ötzi the Iceman's DNA reveals new ancestry and other surprises" by Tina Hesman Saey.
Geeky Science! Are you surprised that Elephants call each other by name?
Article: "Elephants call each other by name, study finds" by AFP.
Article: "Kyle Rittenhouse" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Doublespeak" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Friedrich Hayek" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Milton Friedman" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Mont Pelerin Society" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Libertarianism" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Neoconservatism" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Donald Rumsfeld" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Dick Cheney" by Wikipedia.
Article: Veterans for Peace by Wikipedia.
Event: D.C, July 6-7: No to NATO, Yes to Peace.
Article: "Ukraine war: President Putin speech fact-checked" by BBC Reality Check.
Article: "Code Pink" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump drug hydroxychloroquine raises death risk in Covid patients, study says" by BBC.
Article: "Is Private Equity as Dangerous to Your Dog as Kristi Noem?" by Thom Hartmann.
Book: The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America by Adam Serwer.
Article: "Six years later, 1,400 children remain separated from their families" by Philip Bump.
Hour Three: Does America have a YUGE crisis with serial killer truckers?
Article: "FBI hunting 500 serial killer truckers loose on America's roads: Their favorite highway for finding victims revealed - and inside their mobile 'rape and torture chambers'" by Christopher Stevens.
Book: Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers by Frank Figliuzzi.
Citizen's United Alert! Will an $800,000 wire transfer from billionaire to the US Chamber raise an alarm on dark money?
Article: "$800,000 wire transfer from billionaire donor to US Chamber raises curtain on dark money" by Taylor Giorno.
Quote: "A Lie Can Travel Halfway Around the World While the Truth Is Putting On Its Shoes" - various.
Article: "Report from Gaza: "Devastating" Israeli Raid to Free 4 Israeli Hostages Kills 270+ Palestinians" by Democracy Now!
Article: "Israeli minister Benny Gantz resigns from war cabinet in blow to Netanyahu" by Nadeen Ebrahim.
Article: "USS Liberty incident" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The Case for Reparations" by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Article: "Ta-Nehisi Coates" by Wikipedia.
Video: Ta-Nehisi Coates Speaks Out Against Israel's "Segregationist Apartheid Regime" After West Bank Visit.
Article: "14th Amendment section 3, July 9, 1868 "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."
Case: "Trump v. Anderson".
Article: "Jan. 6 committee's final report finds Trump was 'central cause' of attack on U.S. Capitol" by AP.
Substack: "Law Dork" by Chris Geidner.
Movie: "The Shawshank Redemption".
Article: "Stockholm syndrome" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Pardoned felon cannot run for elected office in Missouri, state Supreme Court says" by Kacen Bayless.
Quote: "The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is that Good Men Do Nothing" - various.
Quote: "The Greatest Trick the Devil Ever Pulled Was Convincing the World He Didn't Exist" - Charles Baudelaire.
Article: "'Rip it up': Inside the dramatic unraveling of Hunter Biden's plea deal" by Lucien Bruggeman, Olivia Rubin, and Will Steakin.
Article: "Pardoned felon cannot run for elected office in Missouri, state Supreme Court says" by Kacen Bayless.
Quote: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing," - attributed to Edmund Burke.
Quote: "The Greatest Trick the Devil Ever Pulled Was Convincing the World He Didn't Exist" - Charles Baudelaire.
Site: Democracy Now!
Article: "Julian Assange" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Donald Trump/Billy Bush leaked video: Full transcript - read the full sexist exchange here" by Melanie Ehrenkranz.
Article: "WikiLeaks dumps Podesta emails minutes after Access Hollywood tape breaks" by Yahoo News Video.
Book: "Common Sense, The Rights of Man, The Age of Reason" by Thomas Paine.
Quote: "A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody." - Thomas Paine.
Quote: "All power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely." - Lord Acton.
Article: "How a Secretive Billionaire Handed His Fortune to the Architect of the Right-Wing Takeover of the Courts " by Andrew Perez, Andy Kroll and Justin Elliott.
Video: Watch Rachel Maddow Highlights: June 10.