Sue's Daily Stack, Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Tuesday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: When Corporations Kneel: How CEOs Are Funding America's Dangerous Shift to Fascism
Article: "When Corporations Kneel: How CEOs Are Funding America's Dangerous Shift to Fascism" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Trump Calls Türkiye 'Very Smart' and Praises Erdogan's Leadership" by Caspian Post.
Article: "What's Behind the GOP's War Against Democracy?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Obeying in advance" by Timothy Snyder.
Article: "The Walt Disney Company (DIS)" by Stock Analysis.
Article: "Donald Trump has threatened to shut down broadcasters, but can he?" by Tom Wheeler.
Article: "just what the fuck does ABC News think they're doing?" by Jeff Tiedrich.
Article: "Foreign companies in Hungary complain of growing pressure from the authorities" by Jean-Baptiste Chastand.
Article: "1896 : 'Without Fear or Favor'" by David W. Dunlap.
Article: "ABC to Pay $15 Million to Settle a Defamation Suit Brought by Trump" by Michael M. Grynbaum and Alan Feuer.
Case: "Times v. Sullivan" (1964).
Article: "Hungary's Viktor Orban meets Trump, Musk at Mar-a-Lago" by Reuters.
Article: "Trump sues Des Moines Register and top pollster over final Iowa survey" by Brian Stelter, Katelyn Polantz, Hadas Gold and Paula Reid.
Article: "First Zuckerberg, now Bezos: Amazon to donate $1m to Trump's inaugural fund" by Joe Sommerlad.
Article: "Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach" by Wikipedia.
Book: I Paid Hitler by Fritz Thyssen.
Article: "Constitutional Convention (United States)" by Wikipedia.
Law: "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...."
What will replace the "old liberal order?"
Article: "'Great capitulation': Writer warns 'ruthless' new opposition coming as elites bow to Trump " by Adam Nichols.
Article: "Billionaire newspaper owner slaps major new restrictions on anti-Trump editorials: report" by Brad Reed.
Article: "Trump sues Des Moines Register and top pollster over final Iowa survey" by Brian Stelter, Katelyn Polantz, Hadas Gold and Paula Reid.
Article: "Trump Sues Des Moines Register And Ann Selzer For Bad Poll That Was Election Interference Because" by Evan Hurst.
Do democrats need to pass the torch? You betcha....
Article: "Democrats have exciting young leaders—if the torch ever gets passed" by Evan Hurst.
Article: "Democrats elect Rep. Gerry Connolly over progressive star AOC for top Oversight Committee post" by Scott Wong and Syedah Asghar.
Article: "Gerry Connolly" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Elon Musk's wealth jumps by $170bn since election after he backed Trump with $277m" by Josh Marcus.
Article: "Alternative facts" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Minted" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Etsy" by Wikipedia.
Article: "DNC Chair Candidate Martin O'Malley Wants To Be More Than Just A Bureaucrat" by Daniel Marans.
Article: "LA Times Owner's Pro-MAGA 'Meddling' Ramps Up to Demand Ed Board 'Take a Break From Writing About Trump': Report" by Sarah Rumpf.
Article: "William Randolph Hearst" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Is the press 'sanewashing' Trump?" by Jon Allsop.
Video: LIVE: President Biden gives statement on US economy (Dec. 16, 2024).
Article: "LAT Loses Subscribers, More Staff After Endorsement Uproar" by Jenn Gidman.
Article: "Musk, Thiel and the shadow of apartheid South Africa" by Simon Kuper.
Article: "Patrick Soon-Shiong's controversial shakeup at the L.A. Times: 'Bias meter,' opinion upheaval and a call for growth" by James Rainey.
Article: "Horatio Alger" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Mark Zuckerberg" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Jeff Bezos" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Elon Musk" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Tesla Wouldn't Be Tesla Without Stimulus Spending" by Brian Eckhouse.
Article: "Trump team set to end key vehicle safety rule opposed by Elon Musk's Tesla: report" by Travis Gettys.
Article: "Rachel Maddow Says Trump's Move to Scrap Crash Reports on Self-Driving Cars Means 'Problem Solved' for Elon Musk | Video" by Raquel 'Rocky' Harris.
Article: "New video of Bay Bridge 8-car crash shows Tesla abruptly braking in 'self-driving' mode" by Dan Noyes.
Hour Two: Is America going to have a constitutional convention forced upon us?
Article: "A Constitutional Convention? Some Democrats Fear It's Coming." by Heather Knight and Kate Selig.
Site: Convention of States.
Book: The Case Against the Supreme Court by Erwin Chemerinsky.
No college degree? No worries. Newsom unveils plan for well-paying jobs without one
Article: "No college degree? No worries. Newsom unveils plan for well-paying jobs without one" by Teresa Watanabe.
Video: Better for the billionaire: Rachel Maddow on the fallout when the presidency caters to billionaires.
Article: "Abundant Life Christian School shooting live updates: Female student named as suspect " by NBC News.
Article: "Watch: Vance says school shootings are 'the reality we live in' at campaign rally in Phoenix" by Jonathan J. Cooper.
Quote: "The gun lobby's interpretation of the Second Amendment is one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American people by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime." - Dan Evon.
We now have second graders calling 911 about a shooters - let that sink in. We need gun control!
Article: ""A second-grade student called 911 at 10:57 AM to report a shooting at school. Let that soak in"" by annieli.
Article: "In an attempt to reverse the Supreme Court's immunity decision, Schumer introduces the No Kings Act" by Mary Clare Jalonick.
Article: "Judge rejects Trump's bid to toss hush money conviction because of Supreme Court immunity ruling" by Michael R. Sisak, Jake Offenhartz, Jennifer Peltz.
Article: "White House gives major update on the source of drones swarming over New Jersey" by Geoff Earle.
Site: State Health Insurance Program SHIP.
Site: MyMedicare.gov.
Hour Three: Latest health risks for humans
- Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, Epidemiologist & Health Economist - New England Complex Systems Institute / (per Dr. Feigl-Ding) "first whistleblower on the Covid pandemic" / former faculty member & researcher-Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. @drericding.bsky.social @DrEricDing @FAScientists
Article: "Free COVID tests are back. Here's how to get yours" by Jon Healey.
Article: "13 Things To Know About Paxlovid, the Latest COVID-19 Pill" by Kathy Katella.
Article: "Vaccination Trends" by CDC.
Article: "Association between vaccination rates and COVID-19 health outcomes in the United States: a population-level statistical analysis" by Hongru Du, Samee Saiyed, Lauren M Gardner .
Article: "'Mysterious' illness kills 79, sickens 376 in Congo. Here's what we know" by Mary Kekatos.
Article: "DR Congo mystery illness is 'severe form of malaria'" by AAP.
Article: "Coronavirus is found in sewage water that was circulating in Italy in DECEMBER, six weeks before the country's first confirmed case" by Harry Howard.
Article: "Influenza: Avian" by WHO.
Article: "Infectious Bird Flu Can Linger in Refrigerated Raw Milk for 5 Days" by Ed Cara.
Article: "State Secures Broad Voluntary Recall of Raw Milk and Cream to Protect Consumers " by California Department of Public Health.
Article: "Cats in L.A. County die after drinking recalled raw milk" by Susanne Rust.
Article: "Bird flu in B.C.: Teen infected with H5N1 stable but remains critically ill" by Cheryl Chan.
Article: "Patient in Louisiana Hospitalized With First Bird Flu Case in That State" by Robin Foster.
Article: "Chimera (virus)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Human mortality from H5N1" by Wikipedia.
Site: White House: Contact Us.
Article: "Biden's full statement pardoning son Hunter" by BBC.
Article: "Takeaways from the Supreme Court's historic decision granting Donald Trump immunity" by John Fritze, Tierney Sneed and Devan Cole.
Video: Pilots report mysterious 'UFO' sightings in Oregon.
Article: "Donald Trump Has 'Obligations' to Those Who Brought Him to Power—Putin Ally" by Jordan King.
Article: "Hungary's Viktor Orban meets Trump, Musk at Mar-a-Lago" by Reuters.
Article: "Duty to Warn Letter - to VP Harris - Re: Election 2024" by Stephen Spoonamore.
Article: "Thanks. Apology. Correction. Tips Update. Old Friends. IT Allies." by Stephen Spoonamore.
Article: "Musk accuses Trump whistleblower Vindman of 'treason,' says 'he will pay'" by Miranda Nazzaro.
Article: "German Government Collapses at a Perilous Time for Europe" by Christopher F. Schuetze and Jim Tankersley.
Article: "Canadian dollar slumps as Trudeau's government teeters on collapse" by Greg McKenna.French government falls as MPs oust Barnier" by The Telegraph.
Article: "Internet Research Agency" (IRA) (Yevgeny Prigozhin troll farm) by Wikipedia.
Article: "2024 World Press Freedom Index - journalism under political pressure" by Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
Article: "John Kerry 2004 presidential campaign" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Swiftboating" by Wikipedia.
Site: Progressive Caucus.
Article: "RBG PAC" by .
Article: "Brexit" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Beyond the Tax Pledge" by Robert P. Beschel, Jr.
Article: "What Is A Tariff And Who Pays It?" by Howard Gleckman.
Article: "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez leads sit-in at Nancy Pelosi's office before being sworn-in to Congress" by Clarrie Feinstein.
Article: "Fracked Gas is Now a Growing Share of the Fossil Fuels Being Turned Into Plastics" by Plastic Pollution Coalition.
Article: "Micro- and Nanoplastics Breach the Blood–Brain Barrier (BBB): Biomolecular Corona's Role Revealed" by Verena Kopatz et al.
Article: "We consume up to a credit card's worth of plastic *every* week" by Chris Cillizza.