Sue's Daily Stack, Tuesday, 23 January, 2024
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Tuesday's Daily Stack
Hour One: National Progressive Townhall Meeting
- Representative Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District) / Current Member & Chair Emeritus-Congressional Progressive Caucus / (Committees: Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Labor Caucus, and Chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus.) @repmarkpocan
Article: "US Congress passes bill to avert government shutdown, sends it to Biden" by Richard Cowan and Makini Brice.
Article: "Look Ahead to the Week of January 22: Senate Focuses on National Security Supplemental" by Alston & Bird.
Article: "Medicaid Advantage Plus (MAP) consumer factsheet" by Medicare Rights Center.
Article: "2 children and a woman drowned in the Rio Grande, authorities say, days after Texas blocked the feds amid migrant crisis" by Rosa Flores.
Article: "House Republicans travel to border, attack Biden and Democrats over migrant crisis" by Ken Tran.
Article: "White House says GOP blocked border funding as Republicans plan tour" by Doug Cunningham.
Article: "Louis DeJoy" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 9. "No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state." (foreign emoluments clause).
Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 2 section 1. "The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them." (domestic emoluments clause).
Video: Tyler Childers - In Your Love.
Article: "Here Is One Way to Steal the Presidential Election" by Lawrence Lessig and Matthew A. Seligman.
Article: "Maxwell Frost" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Subpoenas" by Wikipedia.
Article: "'You have no balls': Hunter Biden derails GOP vote to hold him in contempt" by Jordain Carney and Anthony Adragna.
Article: "Lawyer For Hunter Biden Benefactor Says Rep. James Comer Misrepresented His Testimony" by Arthur Delaney.
Article: "Jan. 6 committee makes criminal referrals: Key takeaways and what's next" by Libby Cathey and Alexandra Hutzler.
Article: "Americans Get a Warning About Social Security Increase" by Suzanne Blake.
Article: "Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) Information for 2024" by SSA.
Article: "Consumer Price Index for the elderly" (CPI-E) by BLS.
Article: "The Social Security 2100 Act" by John Larson.
Article: "Swedish alarm after defence chiefs' war warning" by Paul Kirby.
Article: "Edward Snowden" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Half of recent US inflation due to high corporate profits, report finds" by Tom Perkins.
Article: "Economists are reconsidering how much corporate profits drive inflation" by Sarah Gonzalez.
Article: "Dismay as Mehdi Hasan's MSNBC and Peacock news show cancelled" by Erum Salam.
Article: "Tiffany Cross Puts MSNBC on Blast: I Drew the 'Ire of White Conservatives'" by Justin Baragona.
Article: "What's in the House-passed Build Back Better bill? Paid leave, universal pre-K and more" by Joey Garrison and Ledyard King.
Article: "What Is the PRO Act?" by AFL-CIO.
Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].
Article: "Barbara Lee" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Coretta Scott King" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr." (April 4, 1968) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Project 2025" by Wikipedia.
Hour Two: The Rise & Fall of the Second Trump Reich: Tick Tock…
Article: "The Rise & Fall of the Second Trump Reich: Tick Tock…" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Ten years after the Roma killings in Hungary: there's nothing 'so-called' about antigypsyism" by Bernard Rorke.
Article: "Trump defends 2017 'very fine people' comments, calls Robert E. Lee 'a great general'" by Jordyn Phelps.
Article: "15 times Donald Trump praised authoritarian rulers" by Chris Cillizza and Brenna Williams.
Article: "Trump plots mass detention and deportation of undocumented immigrants should he regain power" by Alayna Treene and Kristen Holmes.
Article: "If you have a miscarriage in Republican America, your health is now at risk" by Moira Donegan.
Article: "Trump says he will be a dictator only on 'day one' if elected president" by Chris Michael.
Article: "Trump's vows to deport millions are undercut by his White House record and one family's story" by Adriana Gomez Licon.
Article: "Trump's plans if he returns to the White House include deportation raids, tariffs and mass firings" by Jill Colvin.
Article: "Opposition to the Confirmation of Samuel A. Alito, Jr." by Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR).
Article: "Hungarian court convicts reporter Júlia Halász on criminal defamation charge" by The Committee to Protect Journalists.
Article: "Anthony Comstock is Reaching Up Out of the Grave for the Necks of Women" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Does the EPA Die Today?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "No Labels' Weird, Anti-Democratic Plot to Hand the 2024 Election to Trump" by Matt Ford.
Article: "Trump pledges to investigate MSNBC parent company for 'threatening treason'" by Rachel Scully.
Article: "Trump urges pause on Ukraine aid until agencies turn in 'every scrap' of evidence in Biden probe" by Jared Gans.
Article: "Trump Calls for Moving Homeless to 'Tent Cities' in First D.C. Speech Since Leaving Office" by Brian Bennett.
Article: "Trump Once Again Threatens to Change Federal Libel Laws That Don't Exist" by Josh Bell.
Article: "Trump's Plan to Eliminate the Department of Education is Yet Another in a List of Terrible Ideas" by Will Ragland, Ulrich Boser.
Article: "United States presidential election of 1824" by Michael Levy.
Article: "Trump says 'Americans kneel to God, and God alone' as support for Christian nationalism grows among Republicans" by Kelsey Vlamis.
Article: "'Un-American' and 'treasonous': Trump goes after Democrats who didn't clap during State of the Union" by Jacob Pramuk.
Article: "Voters Overwhelmingly Oppose GOP Efforts to Privatize Social Security" by Lew Blank.
Article: "A proclamation on the suspension of habeas corpus, 1862" by Abraham Lincoln.
Article: "How Viktor Orbán Wins" by Kim Lane Scheppele.
Article: "Trump on Hot Mic: 'When You're a Star ... You Can Do Anything' to Women" by Jane C. Timm.
Article: "Trump says Democrats are 'the party of crime.' We fact checked his campaign-trail claims." by Jane C. Timm.
Article: "Trump on 'poisoning the blood' remarks: 'I never knew that Hitler said it'" by Rebecca Shabad.
Article: "Jan. 6 panel reveals GOP lawmakers sought Trump pardons after Capitol attack" by Scott Wong.
Article: "Trump zeroes in on a key target of his 'retribution' agenda: Government workers" by Allan Smith.
Article: "Pro-Trump Pastor Hopes Israel War Sparks Jesus' Return" by Matthew Impelli.
Article: "How Trump Has Filled High-Level Jobs Without Senate Confirmation Votes" by Joel Rose.
Article: "Proud Boys celebrate Trump's 'stand by' remark about them at the debate." by Sheera Frenkel and Annie Karni.
Article: "Jeffrey Clark Was Considered Unassuming. Then He Plotted With Trump." by Katie Benner and Charlie Savage.
Article: "Trump Wanted to Fire Missiles at Mexico. Now the G.O.P. Wants to Send Troops." by Jonathan Swan, Maggie Haberman, Charlie Savage and Emiliano Rodríguez Mega.
Article: "Trump's business deal with Oman raises new ethical questions" by Laura Barrón-López, Tess Conciatori.
Article: "Trump threatens to veto defense policy bill over proposed renaming of bases honoring Confederates" by Quint Forgey.
Article: "Are Republicans trying to allow convicted felons to own guns?" by Dan Clark.
Article: "Trump's expanded travel ban targets Nigeria, five other countries" by Ted Hesson.
Article: "Trump Is First to Use PATRIOT Act to Detain a Man Forever" by Spencer Ackerman.
Article: "What Will Happen to America if Trump Wins Again? Experts Helped Us Game It Out." by David Montgomery.
Article: "Trump says Civil War 'could have been negotiated.' Historians disagree." by Marianne LeVine.
Article: "Trump says supporters might 'demand' that he serve more than two terms as president" by Felicia Sonmez.
Article: "George Floyd: Huge protests against racism held across US" by BBC.
MAGA explodes at Biden and SCOTUS over razor wire & the border
Article: "Biden gets border win as SCOTUS smacks down Texas Gov. Greg Abbott over razor wire" by David Edwards.
Article: "GOP lawmaker calls on TX to 'stand ground' against the fed's 'civil war'" by M.L. Nestel.
Article: "'Sold us out!' MAGA explodes at Amy Coney Barrett after her deciding vote against Texas" by Matthew Chapman.
Article: "Texans flock to social media to demand the state 'secede' after losing at Supreme Court" by Sarah K. Burris.
Article: "Supreme Court Justices Roberts and Coney Barrett split with conservatives to give Biden a border win" by Sonam Sheth.
The "political deepfake moment" is here...
Article: "'Political Deepfake Moment Is Here': NH Robocall Sounds Like Biden" by Jessica Corbett.
Substack: "LookingNWords" by Rohn Kenyatta.
Article: "Hungry and desperate: Climate change fuels a migration crisis in Guatemala" by Denise Chow and Carlos P. Beltran.
Movie: "Origin".
Article: "Francoist Spain" (fascist) by Wikipedia.
Movie: "Missing".
Article: "How the 'Free Helicopter Rides' Meme Went Viral" by Zach D. Roberts.
Article: "Black flag: Understanding the Trumpists' latest threatening symbol" by Chauncey DeVega.
Article: "Revealed: Prebuttal of the GOP's Debate Trashing President Biden & Progressives" (Biden achievements) by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "'Staggering refusal to govern': Mike Johnson sparks fury for tying border fix to Trump win" by David Badash.
Hour Three: Stop the simplistic black/white Biden positions on the Israeli/Gaza conflict
Article: "Israel's 55-year occupation of Palestinian Territory is apartheid – UN human rights expert" by UN.
Article: "For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it's blown up in our faces" by Tal Schneider.
Article: "2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Derided As Feeble And Bumbling, Biden Has Now Made 2 Visits To Active War Zones" by S.V. Date.
Article: "Biden tells Israel not to 'repeat mistakes' made by US after 9/11" by Julian Borger.
Quote: "As a matter of fact, in interviews in 1999 with respected journalist, and long time Bush family friend, David Herskowitz, then Governor George Bush stated: 'One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander-in-chief. My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it. If I have a chance to invade... if I had that much capital, I'm not going to waste it. I'm going to get everything passed that I want to get passed and I'm going to have a successful presidency." - My Testimony for the Downing Street Memo Hearings" by Cindy Sheehan, June 16 2005.
Article: "'In the name of God, go': Israel's ex-prime minister Ehud Barak calls for an immediate election to end the war in Gaza as critics claim time is running out for Benjamin Netanyahu" by James Callery.
Tweet: "According to new data released last month month, the Biden Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has removed a higher percentage of arrested border crossers in its first two years than the Trump DHS did over its last two years. Moreover, migrants were more likely to be released after a border arrest under President Trump than under President Biden..." by Celeste.
Article: "Israeli–Palestinian conflict" by Wikipedia.
Site: Hillcrest Village.
Is the Kentucky GOP paving the way for a "deadly physical force" bill against the homeless going to bring a wave of violence against them?
Article: "Kentucky GOP bill paves the way for 'deadly physical force' against the homeless " by Brad Reed.
Article: "Republicans Push To Legalize 'Property Owners' Killing Homeless People in Kentucky" by Roshan Abraham.
Article: "Homelessness Rises Faster Where Rent Exceeds a Third of Income" by Chris Glynn, Alexander Casey.
Article: "Housing: How Do We Protect One of the Primary Essentials of Life?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "2007-2008 financial crisis" by Wikipedia.
Article: "DeSantis signs bills banning Chinese citizens from buying land in Florida" by Gloria Oladipo.
Article: "How Reagan's Decision to Close Mental Institutions Led to the Homelessness Crisis" by Divya Kakaiya.
Article: "Damning New Biden Ad Uses Nikki Haley To Show How 'Confused' Trump Is" by Ed Mazza.
Book: "They Thought They Were Free" by Milton Mayer. "First they came for the ... What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise..."
Article: "E-Verify" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Representative Smith and Senator Merkley Lead Bicameral Action to Ban Hedge Fund Ownership of Residential Housing" by Adam Smith.
Article: "Trump's false or misleading claims total 30,573 over 4 years" by Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly.
Video: ""This is Treason!" Lyndon Johnson Everett Dirksen Phone Call November 2 1968".
Article: "Harvey Milk" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Coors strike and boycott" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump's Lawyers Invite Biden to Assassinate Him" by Ryan Cooper.
Article: "More than 100,000 protest across Germany over far-right AfD's mass deportation meetings" by The Guardian.
Article: "AfD plans to turn Germany into authoritarian state, vice-chancellor warns" by Kate Connolly.