Sue's Daily Stack, Tuesday, 13 August, 2024

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Tuesday's Daily Stack

Hour One: Why is Trump slurring?
Article: "Trump's conversation with Musk is even bigger disaster than expected" by kos.
Article: "Donald Trump Says He Will Go to Venezuela if He Loses Election" by Flynn Nicholls.
 
Vance gets busted for campaign lies - They involve gas stoves, red meat and childless Americans, who Vance has repeatedly criticized as sociopaths
Article: "'Channeling Donald Trump Jr.' J.D. Vance's 'silly' lies called out by WaPo fact-checker" by Kathleen Culliton.
 
ERs are turning away bleeding pregnant women out of fear of abortion bans and prison
Article: "ERs are turning away bleeding pregnant women out of fear of abortion bans and prison" by AP.
 
Article: "Election certification under threat" by CREW.
Video: EXCLUSIVE: New report aims to protect election certification from Trump subversion strategy.
 
Golden Years or Golden Scams? The Republican Battle Against Your Retirement
Article: "Golden Years or Golden Scams? The Republican Battle Against Your Retirement" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Jeremy Kernodle" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Reed O'Connor" by Wikipedia.
Article: "What Commissions Do Financial Advisors Earn?" by Ashley Chorpenning.
Article: "I was 'financially set' after my husband died. But my current adviser lost $500,000 over the last few years, and then a new adviser said my portfolio was 'a mess' and wants 1.25% to fix it. What's my move?" by Alisa Wolfson.
Article: "Virginia Foxx" by opensecrets.org.
Article: "Insurance lobbyists block federal crackdown on costly retirement advice" by Tony Romm.
Video: President Biden Delivers Remarks on Protecting Americans' Retirement Security.
 
Article: "Kamala Harris press performances prompt more questions than answers" by Michael M. Grynbaum.
Article: "Elon Musk and other DEI critics are latching on to 'MEI,' a new hiring catchphrase that experts say misses the point" by Paige McGlauflin.
Article: "Elon Musk" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Russia–South Africa relations" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Nicolás Maduro" (Venezuela) by Wikipedia.
Harlan Crow Helped Fund Swiftboating. Trump Campaign Continues That Legacy in Walz Attack" by David Badash.
Article: "October 7, 1960 Debate Transcript: The Second Kennedy-Nixon Presidential Debate".
Video: Kennedy vs. Nixon: The second 1960 presidential debate.
Article: "Study of Disputed Florida Ballots Finds Justices Did Not Cast the Deciding Vote"(Al Gore won) by Ford Fessenden and John M. Broder, November 12, 2001.
Article: "Voting Irregularities in Florida During the 2000 Presidential Election" by U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
Article: "Donald Trump's go-to McDonald's order revealed - includes two popular menu items" by Alahna Kindred.
Article: "Elon Musk says civil war is coming to the U.K. The British beg to differ." by Yuliya Talmazan.
Article: "Supremacy Clause" by Wikipedia.
Article: "10th Amendment" "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people"
Case: "Santa Clara County vs. Southern Pacific Railroad", 1886.
Article: "Chevron Deference" (1984) by Jonathan Kim.
Article: "Supreme Court curbs federal agency power, overturning Chevron precedent" by Ann E. Marimow.
Article: "Elon Musk Blasts Venezuela's Maduro in an Escalating War of Words" by Ryan Mac and Simon Romero.
Article: "Juan Guaidó" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Chavez nationalizes Venezuela's last private oilfields" by AP.

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Hour Two: Are You Ready for the Quiet Coup?
- Greg Palast, Investigative reporter-Guardian & New York Times / / Author-"The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" / His latest film about the latest attacks on the right to vote, Vigilantes Inc: America's New Vote Suppression Hitmen, (narrated by Rosario Dawson and produced by Martin Sheen) debuts on September 6th.   @Greg_Palast
Article: "Prepare for November's Quiet Coup" by Greg Palast.
Article: "Meet five women who helped get out the vote in Georgia with Stacey Abrams" by Anagha Srikanth.
Article: "What Trump Asked of Pence" by Robert Farley.
 
Article: "Biden Administration Announces Savings on 43 Prescription Drugs as Part of Cost-Saving Measures Under President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act" by HHS.
Article: "Chief Justice John Roberts' Wife Made Over $10 Million As Legal Consultant, Report Says" by Nicholas Reimann.
 
Father laments 'losing' his son to Trump cult...Have you lost a family member too?
Article: "Father laments 'losing' his autistic son to Trump cult: He 'was a sweet kid'" by Sarah K. Burris.
Article: "Jim Jones" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Lancet Study Finds 40 Percent of U.S. COVID-19 Deaths Could Have Been Avoided" by Elliot Hannon.
 
Article: "Peru has the world's highest COVID death rate. Here's why" by Jason Beaubien.
Tweet: "Donald Trump awarded Jared Kushner's college roommate Adam Boehler, $100Million to procure PPE for our doctors & nurses during TrumpVirus. Adam only spent $1 million while our doctors died in droves. Who else wants to know where the other $99Million went? #TrumpVirusJustice" by Lara reads banned books in Florida.
 
Geeky Science! Ants perform surgery on each other and it dramatically increases survival times!
Article: "Wound-dependent leg amputations to combat infections in an ant society" by Erik.T. Frank, Dany Buffat, Joanito Liberti, Lazzat Aibekova, Evan P. Economo, Laurent Keller.
 
Article: "Now, Here's How We Do It: 93 Days to a Better World" by Michael Moore.
Site: Vote.org.
Article: "Ukraine says it is still advancing in Russia's Kursk region, hints at 'next steps'" by Anastasiia Malenko, Tom Balmforth and Yuliia Dysa.
Site: "National Popular Vote Interstate Compact".
Article: "The real reason for the Supreme Court's corruption crisis" by .
Article: "Clarence Thomas: Here Are All The Ethics Scandals Involving The Supreme Court Justice Amid New Harlan Crow Trips" by Alison Durkee.
Article: "The Alito Scandal Is Worse Than It Seems" by Ankush Khardori.
Article: "Donald Trump Cheers Elon Musk Over Firing Workers: 'You're the Greatest!'" by Aila Slisco.
Article: "Auto workers union seeks NLRB investigation of Trump and Musk comments about firing striking workers" by Tom Krisher.
Article: "Home Depot issues a warning about the economy" by Nathaniel Meyersohn.
 
Site: "Project 2025".
Article: "The People's Guide to Project 2025" by Democracy Forward.
Tweet: "Myths vs. Facts about Project 2025...." by Project 2025.
Article: "Viral Claims About Project 2025 Are Mostly False" by Alex Demas.
Tweet: "Trump's project 2025 plan for workers" by Suomi Fella.
Article: "Takeaways: A Project 2025 author makes plans, rallies loyalists as Trump aims for 2nd term" ("180-Day Transition Playbook", Russell Vought) by Richard Lardner.
Site: "Project 2025: A Trump Dictatorship".
Site: "How Project 2025 Will Ruin Your Life".
Site: "Project 2025 Takedown".

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Hour Three: How project 2025 will radically change how the federal government works and what it does
- Andy Kroll, Reporter - Propublica / Previously the Washington Bureau Chief-Rolling Stone / Author, "A Death on W Street: The Murder of Seth Rich and the Age of Conspiracy"   @propublica   @AndyKroll
Article: "Inside Project 2025's Secret Training Videos" by Andy Kroll, Nick Surgey.
Article: "The Man Behind Project 2025's Most Radical Plans" (Paul Dans) by Alec MacGillis.
Article: "As sea levels rise, DeSantis signs bill deleting climate change mentions from Florida state law" by Ella Nilsen,.
Article: "What we know about suspected Iranian cyber intrusion in the US presidential race" by Ali Swenson.
Article: "Steele dossier" by Wikipedia.
 
Article: "Could things get worse for J.D.? Yes: New viral photo of him in drag at Yale" by SemDem.
Article: "Second Photo Alleged to Show JD Vance in Drag Posted Online" by David Gardner.
Article: "Call Gaza ceasefire and we will not attack you, Iranian officials reportedly tell Israel" by Paul Nuki, Jotam Confino.
Article: "Gretchen Whitmer" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Multiple-Term Presidents Who Switched VPs" by Barclay Palmer.
Article: "20 Countries Without Extradition to US 2024: Justice or Just Out of Reach?" by Srdjan Ilic.
Article: "Solar I" by MIT.
Movie: "Bad Faith".
Article: "Jesse Ventura calls JD Vance's criticism of Walz military record 'despicable'" by CNN.
Article: "Harris, Walz bring historic campaign to Michigan, rallying at Detroit Metro Airport" by John Wisely, Todd Spangler, Jenna Prestininzi.
Video: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer speaks at Harris-Walz rally in Detroit.
Law: "Patriot Act", 2001.