Sue's Daily Stack, Tuesday, 28 May, 2024
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Tuesday's Daily Stack
Hour One: What Will Be Trump's "October Surprise"?
Article: "What Will Be Trump's "October Surprise"?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "The Saudi & Putin Scheme for Screwing Biden's Election Hopes" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Which "Nobody Knew at the Time" Will it be This November?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Trump Tells Putin to Keep Wall Street Journal Reporter Hostage Through Election" by Jonathan Chait.
Book: The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class by Thom Hartmann.
Book: "October Surprise" by Gary Sick.
Article: "'Argo' helps Iran's dictatorship, harms democracy" by Abolhassan Bani-Sadr.
Article: "Are Russia and North Korea planning an 'October surprise' that aids Trump?" by Courtney Kube and Carol E. Lee.
Article: "Russian veto brings an end to the U.N. panel that monitors North Korea nuclear sanctions" by AP.
Article: "Russia's foreign minister thanks North Korea for 'unwavering' support of its war in Ukraine" by AP.
Article: "How Trumpism Led To An Ideological War Over Voice Of America" by NPR.
Article: "A Four-Decade Secret: One Man's Story of Sabotaging Carter's Re-election" by Peter Baker.
Article: "China's Advancing Efforts to Influence the U.S. Election Raise Alarms" by Tiffany Hsu and Steven Lee Myers.
Article: "Annual Threat Assessment" by U.S. Intelligence Community.
Article: "Putin's purge ramps up as another general arrested over bribes" by Ellen Boonen.
Article: "Insiders reveal radical promise Trump made at meeting of pro-Israel donors" by Adam Nichols.
Article: "Why Xi Wants Trump to Win" by Michael Schuman.
Article: "Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian foreign minister and ambassador" by Greg Miller, Greg Jaffe.
Article: "Statement from President Joe Biden on Iran Sanctions", April 18, 2024.
Article: "Biden honors fallen troops on Memorial Day, praising commitment "not to a president," but to idea of America" by Bo Erickson.
Article: "As US remembers its fallen soldiers, Donald Trump calls opponents 'human scum'" by AFP.
Article: "Migrant crossings plunge at US-Mexico border - why it may not last" by Bernd Debusmann Jr.
Article: "Senate Republicans block border security bill as they campaign on border chaos" by Sahil Kapur and Kate Santaliz.
Article: "Republicans tapped him to negotiate a landmark deal on the southern border. Then they tore him apart." by Riley Beggin.
The Press: What Has Happened to the Lifeblood of our Democracy?
Article: "The Press: What Has Happened to the Lifeblood of our Democracy?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "This is how Orbán's government has restricted press freedom in Hungary" by FUF.
Book: The New Media Monopoly by Ben H Bagdikian.
Article: "Poor Marks for Biden: Middle East, Economy, Foreign Affairs" by Megan Brenan.
Article: "More Americans trust Trump on economy, inflation than Biden: Poll" by Lauren Sforza.
Article: "Criminal Defamation Law Is a Weapon of Political Warfare" by Ashish Khetan.
Article: "Polls show Americans are divided on the significance of January 6" by William A. Galston.
Article: "U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Growth by President" by Hiranmayi Srinivasan.
Video: "U.S. is not in a recession but most Americans think it is, polling shows".
Article: "The Reagan Assault on Antitrust" by Eddie Correia.
Article: "17% of Voters Blame Biden for the End of Roe" by Claire Cain Miller, Ruth Igielnik and Margot Sanger-Katz.
Article: "Poll: Majority of Americans aren't paying attention to Trump's hush money trial" by Laura Santhanam.
Article: "News Platform Fact Sheet" by Pew Research Center.
Article: "How Republicans view climate change and energy issues" by Brian Kennedy, Alec Tyson.
Article: "4. Retirement, Social Security and long-term care" by Kim Parker, Rich Morin, Juliana Menasce Horowitz.
Article: "Study: Private equity firms buying newspapers cut local news" by Brier Dudley.
Article: "Majority of Americans wrongly believe US is in recession – and most blame Biden" by Lauren Aratani.
Article: "Media To The Left! Media To The Right! The Gop, Shooting The Messengers" by Lloyd Grove.
Video: "Triumph of the Will" by Leni Riefenstahl.
Tweet: "The Public and the Supreme Court, appreciating the limits of awareness.
I poll opinion of the Court every 2 months. It is important in reporting or messaging to know 30% think there is a Dem appointed majority. And other limits. https://pollsandvotes.com/?p=431" by Charles Franklin.
Article: "Judge Denies Limited Gag Order Request in Trump Documents Case" by Alan Feuer.
Article: "Trump 'promised to throw pro-Palestinian protesters out of the country'" by Jessica Kwong.
Article: "Trump claims 25K people attended his Bronx rally — NYPD says it's much less" by Kathleen Culliton.
Article: "Photo shows Copacabana Beach concert, not Trump rally" by Bill McCarthy.
Article: "Gordon Gekko" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump Plays Up His Putin Ties in Claiming He Could Get Gershkovich Released" by Michael Gold.
Article: "Cornerstone Speech" by Alexander H. Stephens.
Article: "American Wars by President Since World War Two" by The History Guy.
Article: "RNC installs new leadership as Trump tightens hold on GOP " by Natalie Allison.
Article: "Live Updates: Prosecutor Says Trump Tried to 'Hoodwink the American Voter'" by NYT.
Article: "'A ridiculous question': Ted Cruz declines to answer whether he'd accept 2024 election results" by Sudiksha Kochi.
Article: "White House Asks for List of Top Spies During Intelligence Shakeup" by Betsy Swan, Erin Banco.
Article: "Were four current Supreme Court justices involved in the 2000 presidential election dispute?" by Austin Tannenbaum.
Tweet: "This new interview by Powell is interesting. It suggests that the purpose of the insurrection was to DELAY the electoral college certification to give Alito time to intervene on this legal challenge. But, Powell says they didn't anticipate Pelosi reconvening Congress that day. [video]" by Ron Filipkowski.
Hour Two: Why the GOP Deploys the "Mudsill Theory" to Destroy Social Mobility in America
Article: "Why the GOP Deploys the "Mudsill Theory" to Destroy Social Mobility in America" by Thom Hartmann.
Speech: "On the Admission of Kansas, Under the Lecompton Constitution: Delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 4, 1858" by James H. Hammond.
Article: "Militia-Linked Group Calls Members to Douglas County School Board Meeting Over Mask Mandates" by Madeleine Schmidt.
Article: "The American Dream is less of a reality today in the United States, compared to other peer nations" by Robert Manduca.
Article: "York County School Board Members Deny Ties To Local Militia".
Speech: "Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society" by Abraham Lincoln.
Book: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot by Russell Kirk.
Book: "The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "6 More States Will Soon Let Almost All Students Attend Private School With Public Money" by Libby Stanford.
Article: "Legislative Tracker: 2024 State Private-School Choice Bills" by Bella DiMarco.
Article: "When corporations were a source of greater equality" by Gerald Davis.
Article: "Former far-right hard-liner says pro-voucher billionaires are using school board races to sow distrust in public education" by Jeremy Schwartz.
Article: "America is divided over major efforts to rewrite child labor laws" by Lauren Kaori Gurley.
Book: "Attention Deficit Disorder: A Different Perception" by Thom Hartmann
Article: "'Limited' Tactical Nuclear Weapons Would Be Catastrophic" by Nina Tannenwald.
Article: "Andrew Jackson" (Old Hickory).
Article: "Trail of Tears" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Second Bank of the United States" by Wikipedia.
Quote: "John Marshall has made his decision: now let him enforce it!" -- Andrew Jackson.
Article: "Dred Scott Case" by History.com.
Law: "Telecommunications Act of 1996" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Matthew Wood (North Carolina)" by Ballotpedia.
Site: Elect Matt Wood.
How right wingers took over SCOTUS
- Alex Aronson, former chief counsel to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse. He worked on judicial ethics, oversight, and dark money issues and advised on the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. @alexaronson
Case: "Brown v. Board", 1954 (school desegregation).
Article: "The Lewis Powell Memo: A Corporate Blueprint to Dominate Democracy".
Case: "Roe v. Wade" (1973) (abortion legal).
Article: "Leonard Leo" by Wikipedia.
Case: "Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization" (2022) (abortion, overturned Roe v. Wade).
Article: "Citizens United V. Federal Election Comm'n: Justice Stevens' dissent".
Article: "Dick Durbin" by Wikipedia.
Article: "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...."
Article: "Sheldon Whitehouse" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Michelle Obama Explains What 'Going High' Really Means" by Raisa Bruner.
Article: "Chaos in Congress after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene insults Dallas Rep. Jasmine Crockett" by Johannah Grenaway.
Article: "David Hogg" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Fed Chief Sets Monetary Policy By Seat-of-the-Pants Approach" by David Wessel.
Book: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
Article: "Oil reserves in Saudi Arabia" by Wikipedia.
Quote: "If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito." - Anita Roddick.
Quote: "Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference." - FDR.
Hour Three: Alito Should Not Be On the Court / Will Dems remove Mike Johnson?
- Michelangelo Signorile, Journalist/Commentator & Host-Michelangelo Signorile Show-SXMProgress ch. 127 3-6 ET M-F (immediately following The Thom Hartmann Program) / Read his work at The Signorile Report on Substack.com @MSignorile @SiriusXM @SXMProgress Article: "Alito should not be serving on the Supreme Court" by Michelangelo Signorile.
Article: "Justice Alito now in hot water for another controversial flag reportedly flown at his home" by M.L. Nestel.
Article: "At Justice Alito's House, a 'Stop the Steal' Symbol on Display" by Jodi Kantor.
Article: "Seven Mountain Mandate" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Key Senate Democrat doesn't plan to probe Justice Alito over upside-down flag" by Sahil Kapur, Frank Thorp V, Kate Santaliz and Syedah Asghar.
Article: "Mike Johnson should be threatened with removal as house speaker--by Democrats" by Michelangelo Signorile.
Article: "House Democrats announce they would save Speaker Mike Johnson if Marjorie Taylor Greene triggers her effort to oust him " by Haley Talbot.
Article: "How a speaker of the House can be ousted with a 'motion to vacate'" by Kyle Stewart.
Case: "Obergefell v Hodges" (2015) (same sex marriage).
Case: "Griswold v Connecticut" (1965) (contraception for married couples).
Article: "Trump says he's 'looking at' restricting access to contraception" by Mike Bedigan.
Article: "Tempers flare as Robert DeNiro clashes with Trump supporter outside hush money trial" by David Edwards.
Article: "Robert Durst" by Wikipedia.
Article: "As Trump hush money trial draws to a close, jury instructions to play key role" by Julia Reinstein.
Article: "U.S. economic performance by presidential party" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Frances Perkins" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938" 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"
Article: "Supremacy Clause" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Zombie apocalypse" by Wikipedia.
Article: "A Four-Decade Secret: One Man's Story of Sabotaging Carter's Re-election" (Iran hostages) by Peter Baker.
Article: "Nikki Haley says she'll vote for Trump — but doesn't quite endorse him" by Grace Panetta.
Article: "Bodies of Covid-19 victims are still stored in refrigerated trucks in NYC" by Mirna Alsharif and Ray Sanchez.
Article: "Palm Beach housekeepers are making $150,000 a year due to massive demand from the wealthy " by Robert Frank.
Article: "Florida attorney general says state will investigate Starbucks for DEI practices" by Douglas Soule.
Article: "Justice Sotomayor describes crying after some Supreme Court decisions " by John Fritze.
Book: "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Trump agrees to VP debate on Fox after Biden campaign accepts CBS invite" by Tara Suter.
Article: "John Edwards" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Ron DeSantis" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Reaganomics" (Voodoo economics) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Joe Biden is right that more than 60 of Trump's election lawsuits lacked merit" by Amy Sherman, Miriam Valverde.
Article: "Supreme Court Architect Flew Same 'Appeal to Heaven' Flag as Alito" by Ryan Bort, Tessa Stuart and Andrew Perez.
Article: "Why Is Mike Johnson Flying a Christian Nationalist Flag Outside His Office?" by Tori Otten.