Sue's Daily Stack, Tuesday, 20 August, 2024
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Tuesday's Daily Stack
Thom is LIVE from the DNC in Chicago...
Hour One: Last night's DNC
Video: Democratic National Convention, Day 1.
Video: "Hillary Clinton Listens to DNC Crowd Chants "Lock Him Up" About Trump".
Article: "Protests have hundreds of Democratic National Convention delegates stuck in buses " by Alexandria Jacobson.
Article: "James Taylor was supposed to perform at the DNC last night. Here's why he didn't" by Rin Velasco.
Video: Mallory McMorrow speech at DNC features Project 2025 book outlining 'blueprint' for Donald Trump.
Video: Full speech: AOC speaks at 2024 DNC | USA TODAY.
Video: WATCH: First daughter Ashley Biden speaks at 2024 Democratic National Convention | 2024 DNC Night 1.
Video: First Lady Jill Biden full speech at 2024 DNC (Aug. 19, 2024).
Article: "Read President Joe Biden's full speech from the DNC night one" by Sarah Gleason and Jeremy Yurow.
Video: FULL SPEECH: Biden in emotional DNC speech: 'I gave my best to you'.
Is the "Reagan Revolution's" Attack on America's Middle Class at an End?
Article: "Is the "Reagan Revolution's" Attack on America's Middle Class at an End?" by Thom Hartmann.
Book: "The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot" by Russell Kirk.
Book: "The Hidden History of American Oligarchy" by Thom Hartmann.
Book: "The Rights Of Man" by Thomas Paine.
Law: "Statute of Artificers 1562".
Article: "Legalize It All" by Dan Baum.
Letter: "to Edgar Newton Eisenhower" by Dwight D. Eisenhower, November 8, 1954. "Should any political party attempt to abolish social security ... Their number is negligible and they are stupid"
Article: "Our Broken Economy, in One Simple Chart" by David Leonhardt.
Book: The Hidden History of American Democracy: Rediscovering Humanity's Ancient Way of Living by Thom Hartmann.
Book: "The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore Its Greatness" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "What we learned from Reagan's tax cuts" by David Wessel.
Article: "New poll shows Clinton over Trump by double-digits" by Eric Bradner.
Article: "The Middle Class Is Shrinking" by Grow The Middle Class.
Article: "The tea party radio network" by Kenneth P. Vogel And Mackenzie Weinger.
Video: Rep. Crockett at DNC: 'Kamala Harris has a résumé; Donald Trump has a rap sheet'.
Video: Full Speech: President Biden's 2024 State of the Union address.
Article: "Trump posts fake AI images of Taylor Swift and Swifties, falsely suggesting he has the singer's support" by Elizabeth Wagmeister and Kate Sullivan.
Article: "Who Killed the Electric Car?" by Wikipedia.
Gabe Amo
- Gabe Amo, U.S. representative for Rhode Island's 1st congressional district @RepGabeAmo
Article: "Gabe Amo" by Wikipedia.
Article: "President Biden Announces American Rescue Plan" by White House.
Law: "Inflation Reduction Act of 2022".
Article: "Biden signs $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill into law, unlocking funds for transportation, broadband, utilities" by Jacob Pramuk.
Article: "General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade" (GATT) by Wikipedia.
Site: World Trade Organization (WTO).
Article: "North American Free Trade Agreement" (NAFTA) by Wikipedia.
Book: "Screwed: The Undeclared War Against The Middle Class" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Fox board members subpoenaed in Smartmatic's defamation lawsuit over 2020 election lies" by Jon Passantino.
Article: "A strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP)" by Wikipedia.
Law: "First Amendment"
Video: WATCH: Rep. Jamie Raskin speaks at 2024 Democratic National Convention | 2024 DNC Night 1.
Article: "Raskin to Vance: 'They tried to kill your predecessor'" by Sarah Fortinsky. "Someone should have told Donald Trump that the president's job under Article 2 of the Constitution is to take care that the laws are faithfully executed, not that the vice president is executed"
Substack: "Adam Kinzinger".
Article: "Liz Cheney" by Wikipedia.
Article: "DNC Releases 2024 Party Platform to be Voted on at Convention " by DNC.
Hour Two: Republicans ask Supreme Court to block 40,000 Arizonans from voting in November - is voter suppression and stealing the vote the only way they can win now?
Article: "Republicans ask Supreme Court to block 40,000 Arizonans from voting in November" by David G. Savage.
Putin has decided that Russia is going to be a 'safe haven' for people who want to trade liberal Western ways for Russian 'moral values'
Article: "Putin has decided that Russia is going to be a 'safe haven' for people who want to trade liberal Western ways for Russian 'moral values'" by Chris Panella.
Article: "Conservative Family 'Disappointed' After Moving To Russia To Escape LGBTQ Ideology" by Favour Adegoke.
Article: "Pack your bags: Russia-loving Canadian family's escape from "woke" Canada backfires" by Mark Frauenfelder.
Article: "Was Last Night AOC's '2004 Obama Convention Speech'? Sure Why Not!" by Evan Hurst.
Article: "Hillary Clinton At 2024 Democratic Convention: We've Got Trump "On The Run Now"" by Tim Hains.
Video: Elvin Bishop - Sure Feels Good.
Article: "DNC Crowd Size Compared to RNC in Photos" by Aila Slisco.
Article: "JD Vance agrees post-menopausal women's 'purpose' is raising grandkids - unearthed comment" by Housnia Shams.
Subsite: C-Span 2024 Democratic National Convention.
Article: "The Gun Charges Against Hunter Biden Are Unusual. Here's Why." by Glenn Thrush.
Article: "Judge rejects latest attempt by Hunter Biden to dismiss tax-related charges" by Lucien Bruggeman.
Article: "John Dillinger" by Wikipedia.
Quote: "Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." - Samuel Johnson.
Video: James Taylor - Obama Inaugural Concert 1/18/09.
Image: "Thom Hartmann's photo of the Obamas at the inauguration ball. 1." by Thom Hartmann.
Image: "Thom Hartmann's photo of the Obamas at the inauguration ball. 2." by Thom Hartmann.
Image: "Thom Hartmann in his tuxedo at the inauguration ball" by Thom Hartmann.
Video: Keb' Mo' - Put a Woman in Charge feat. Rosanne Cash (Official Music Video).
Video: Sister Act- I Will Follow Him.
Article: "'I gave my best to you': Biden receives 4-minute ovation during emotional DNC address" by Zeke Miller, Jonathan J. Cooper, Aamer Madhani, Darlene Superville.
Article: "Ann Richards" by Wikipedia.
Hour Three: More from the DNC
Article: "Snapshot: Joe Biden, A Special Man" by Steven Beschloss.
Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].
Article: "Problem Solvers Caucus" by Wikipedia.
Article: "National Voter Registration Act of 1993" (Motor Voter Act) by Wikipedia. "The Congress finds that -
(1) the right of citizens of the United States to vote is a fundamental right;"
Bill: "John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act".
Article: "Georgia Website That Lets People Cancel Voter Registrations Briefly Displayed Personal Data" by AP.
Article: "Full speech by Sen. Raphael Warnock at the DNC | Watch" by AP.
Article: "How a Far-Right Takeover of Georgia's Election Board Could Swing the Election" by Nick Corasaniti.
Article: "A Healed Femur Is the Earliest Sign of True Civilization" by Quote Investigator.
Article: "Lancet commission examines Trump's COVID response" by Erin Schumaker.
Article: "Rick Scott 'oversaw the largest Medicare fraud' in U.S. history, Florida Democratic Party says" by Amy Sherman.
Article: "Rick Scott" by Wikipedia.
PoliticsGirl joins Thom
- Leigh McGowan, PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl
Book: A Return to Common Sense: How to Fix America Before We Really Blow It by Leigh McGowan, due out September 17, 2024.
Book: Common Sense by Thomas Paine (full text).
Book: Common Sense by Thomas Paine.
Tweet: "Why would the @democrats invite social media people to the @DemConvention ???@creatorsforkamala" by PoliticsGirl.
Substack: "LookingNWords" by Rohn Kenyatta.
Article: "A Review of Racial Disparities in Infant Mortality in the US" by Caleb J. Jang, Henry C. Lee.
Article: "The Racial Makeup of America's Prisons" by Adriana Rezal.
Law: "13th Amendment", December 6, 1865. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.".
Article: "Lung Cancer Deaths and Rates by Race/Ethnicity, Sex and Year" by American Lung Association.
Article: "Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Heart Disease" by CDC.
Article: "How Race and Ethnicity Impact Heart Disease" by Cleveland Clinic.
Article: "Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals" (DACA) (Dreamers) by Wikipedia.
Law: "Civil Rights Act of 1964".
Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".
Article: "The Electoral College Explained" by Allyson Waller.
Quote: "Together, we set out to heal the land, a nation besieged by a deadly pandemic and beset by the awful and divisive rhetoric of a man too small for the office entrusted him or the task set before it." - Sen. Raphael Warnock.
Documentary: Vigilantes Inc: America's New Vote Suppression Hitmen, (narrated by Rosario Dawson and produced by Martin Sheen) debuts on September 6th.
And not even an acknowledgment of the powerful testimony at the panel discussion on Palestine and the Israeli vengeance against Palestinian women, children, infants, the sick and elderly. You’re hiding our complicity in the genocide.