Sue's Daily Stack, Tuesday, 16 April, 2024
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Tuesday's Daily Stack
Hour One: Bill Barr: The GOP's Master "Fixer" for Decades Exposed
Article: "Bill Barr: The GOP's Master "Fixer" for Decades Exposed" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "How the Corrupt "Old GOP" & Bill Barr Laid the Foundation for Today's MAGA Movement" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "How Different Would America be if 4 Presidents Hadn't Committed Treason?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "William P. Barr Oral History" by Miller Center.
Book: Holding the Line: Inside the Nation's Preeminent US Attorney's Office and Its Battle with the Trump Justice Department by Geoffrey Berman.
Article: "'Argo' helps Iran's dictatorship, harms democracy " by Abolhassan Bani-Sadr.
Article: "Essay; Justice Corrupts Justice" by William Safire.
Article: "Essay; The Patsy Prosecutor" by William Safire.
Article: "The Pardons; Bush Pardons 6 In Iran Affair, Aborting A Weinberger Trial; Prosecutor Assails 'cover-up'" by David Johnston.
Article: "Bob Mueller's Extraordinary Letter to Bill Barr" by NYT.
Article: "Why was Trump indicted by the Manhattan D.A. over hush money, but not by the Justice Department?" by Glenn Thrush, Ben Protess and Benjamin Weiser.
Article: "How Trump's Justice Dept. Derailed an Investigation of a Major Company" by Jesse Drucker.
Article: "10 episodes where Trump might have obstructed justice" by Politico.
Article: "The familiar stench of the Justice Department's Michael Flynn decision" by Aaron Blake.
Article: "Geoffrey Berman's big claims about Trump's Justice Department" by Aaron Blake.
Video: President Ronald Reagan - Address on Iran-Contra.
Video: Rachel Maddow: The real DOJ corruption scandal at the heart of Trump's criminal trial in New York.
Article: "Obesity hypoventilation syndrome" (Pickwickian syndrome) by Wikipedia.
Looks like Maine is joining interstate alliance to elect prez by popular vote
Article: "Maine joins interstate alliance to elect president by popular vote" by Stephen Wolf.
Article: "What if the Person the Majority of Americans Voted for Became President? " by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Details of How Trump Scored $175M Bond Revealed in Court Filings" by Jose Pagliery.
Article: "Supreme Court divided over key charge against Jan. 6 rioters and Trump" by Ann E. Marimow.
Hate Alert! Why is Tom Cotton suggesting protesters have their skin ripped off and thrown off the bridge?
Article: "'Skin Ripped Off': Tom Cotton Says There'd Be 'Wet Criminals' Thrown Off Bridge If Protesters Blocked Traffic In His State" by Robert McGreevy.
Article: "Trump hosts hard-line Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán at Mar-a-Lago" by Zoë Richards and Dan De Luce.
Article: "A Locked Door, A Secret Meeting And The Birth Of The Fed" by Robert Smith, Jacob Goldstein.
Article: "Sovereign citizen movement" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Fact Check: Capitalized Name Does NOT Mean Individual Is A Corporation Rather Than A Person" by Lead Stories.
Case: "Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 17 U.S. 518" (1819).
Case: "Santa Clara County vs. Southern Pacific Railroad", 1886.
Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.
Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978.
Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).
Article: "Federal Reserve" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Deflation" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump Media & Technology Group Corp." (DJT) by TradingView.
Article: "Trump Mastered The Art of the SPAC Deal. Cashing Out Is Harder" by Bailey Lipschultz and Tom Maloney.
Article: "Trump's Truth Social plans to launch a live TV streaming platform" by Aisha Malik.
Article: "Alex Jones Still Sells Supplements On Amazon Despite Bans From Other Platforms" by Tom Dreisbach.
Site: "National Popular Vote Interstate Compact".
Article: "Trump fake electors plot" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Faithless elector" by Wikipedia.
Hour Two: An honest assessment of rural white rage is long overdue
Article: "An Honest Assessment of Rural White Resentment Is Long Overdue" by Paul Waldman, Tom Schaller.
Article: "White Rural Rage: The Secret Political Force Shaping America's Future" by Thom Hartmann. (list of links)
Book: White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy by Tom Schaller, Paul Waldman.
Article: "An Utterly Misleading Book About Rural America" by Tyler Austin Harper.
Article: "What Liberals Get Wrong About 'White Rural Rage' — Almost Everything" by Nicholas F. Jacobs.
Why the French youth want to fight in Ukraine!
Article: "Another Reason Why Macron Is Willing to Be More Confrontational with Putin?" by Irontortoise.
Article: "Battle of France" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Vichy France" by Wikipedia.
TV: "The Plot Against America (miniseries)".
Article: "Attack on Pearl Harbor" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Pro-Palestinian demonstrators shut down airport highways and key bridges in major US cities" by Sophia Tareen.
Article: "Hamas-Run Gaza Health Ministry Admits to Flaws in Casualty Data" by FDD.
Article: "Gaza: No let up in deadly toll as rights chief demands end to suffering" by UN.
Article: "Project 2025".
Article: "'Agenda 47': What Trump Has Promised If He Wins In 2024" by Frankie Taggart.
Article: "Right Wing Broadcaster Asks Trump Fans In NYC To Do Something Very Illegal" by David Moye.
Article: "Israel says it will retaliate against Iran. These are the risks that could pose to Israel" by Julia Frankel, Jack Jeffery.
Article: "Julius and Ethel Rosenberg" by Wikipedia.
Article: "State Gas Price Averages" by AAA.
Case: "Brown Shoe Co. v. United States" (1962).
Law: "Sherman Antitrust Act", 1890.
Law: "Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Mergers and acquisitions" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Merger mania" by Wikipedia.
Case: "United States v. Google LLC (2023)".
Book: The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (1776).
Article: "United States Corporate Profits" by FXEmpire.
Hour Three: Is the arc of justice finally bending against big oil?
- Sabrina Haake, Federal trial attorney (20+ years) specializing in First and 14th Amendment defense / Contributor to numerous law journals & publications including the Chicago Tribune @haake_sabrina
Article: "The arc of justice finally bends against Big Oil" by Sabrina Haake.
Article: "political question doctrine" by LII.
Book: The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is - and Isn't by Steven Conn.
Video: Steven Conn.
Article: "Beyond the Myth of Rural America" by Daniel Immerwahr.
Article: "Buffalo Soldier" by Wikipedia.
Hunter in a Farmer's World Alert! ADHD: "Good German Schools" Come to America
Article: "ADHD: "Good German Schools" Come to America" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Horace Mann" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Have YOU got what it takes to join the CIA? Intelligence agency job posting reveals the WILD requirements that potential agents have to meet - including top-notch language skills and jaw-dropping fitness tests" by Charlie Watton and Kelsi Karruli.
Article: "Transatlantic (TV series)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The Trump donor whom Biden can't fire is running the U.S. Postal Service directly into the ground—just what everyone warned about when he was confirmed during the pandemic" by Sydney Lake.
Article: "DeSantis Signs Bill Banning Abortions After 6 Weeks During Late Night Closed Door Ceremony" by Colby Hall.
Article: "'Every time I buy more, the price drops more': Truth Social backers baffled by stock woes" by Tom Boggioni.
Article: "Pump and dump" by Wikipedia.
Article: "United States–Taliban deal" (Doha Accord) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Initial Listing Guide" by Nasdaq.
Article: "Why Anchoring Positive States is Useful" by Thom Hartmann.