Sue's Daily Stack, Tuesday, 6 February, 2024
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Tuesday's Daily Stack
Hour One: Commonsense prevails - appeals court refuses Trump immunity -
Article: "Trump has no immunity from Jan. 6 prosecution, appeals court rules" by Rachel Weiner.
The Deadly New GOP Plan to Rapidly Privatize Medicare
Article: "The Deadly New GOP Plan to Rapidly Privatize Medicare" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Bush signs landmark Medicare bill into law" by CNN.
Article: "Insurers Are Gaming Medicare — To The Tune Of $140 Billion" by Matthew Cunningham-Cook and Lucy Dean Stockton.
Article: "Schakowsky, Pocan, Khanna Introduce Bill to Strengthen Medicare, Define Alternative Plans" by Jan Schakowsky.
Book: The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Why the 2005 Social Security Initiative Failed, and What it Means for the Future" by William A. Galston.
Article: "FTC Action Against Benefytt Results in $100 Million in Refunds for Consumers Tricked into Sham Health Plans and Charged Exorbitant Junk Fees" by FTC.
Article: "Cigna to sell Medicare Advantage business to Health Care Service for $3.7 billion " by Ciara Linnane.
Article: "Medicare Advantage Plans Often Deny Needed Care, Federal Report Finds" by Reed Abelson.
Article: "'Hell no': Trump allies' plan to privatize Medicare draws alarm and outrage" by Jake Johnson.
Article: "The Great Big Medicare Rip-Off" by Ezekiel J. Emanuel.
Bill: "H.R.9187 - Save Medicare Act" by Rep. Pocan, Mark [D-WI-2].
Article: "Project 2025" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Medicare Advantage overpaid by up to $140 billion annually: Report" by Business Insurance.
Social Security Threatened by Nikki Haley and Her GOP Friends
Article: "Social Security Threatened by Nikki Haley and Her GOP Friends" by Richard Eskow.
'In a word, horrific': Trump's extreme anti-environment blueprint exposed for driving forward fossil fuel production, sidelining scientists and overturning rules
Article: "'In a word, horrific': Trump's extreme anti-environment blueprint" by Oliver Milman and Dharna Noor.
Article: "Myron Ebell" by Wikipedia.
Law: "Inflation Reduction Act of 2022".
Article: "A city of 710,000 struggles to cope with 40,000 migrant arrivals" by Julia Ainsley and Didi Martinez.
Article: "Title 42, the controversial Trump-era border policy, explained" by Nicole Narea.
Article: "US Senate unveils $118 billion bill on border security, aid for Ukraine, Israel" by Richard Cowan and Costas Pitas.
Article: "Kremlin quiet as Tucker Carlson Russia visit creates Putin interview rumours" by Pjotr Sauer.
Article: "Constitution of the United States", article 2 section 4. "... The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors..."
Amicus brief: "Trump v. Anderson: Brief Of Amici Curiae American Historians".
Article: "Jefferson Davis" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Judge Unseats Official Who Trespassed at Capitol on Jan. 6" by Luke Broadwater and Alan Feuer.
Book: The Myth of Normal: Illness, health & healing in a toxic culture by Gabor Maté.
Article: "Merrick Garland to hand over duties to deputy attorney general while undergoing back surgery" by Michael Kosnar and Dareh Gregorian.
Article: "Orrin Hatch once said there was "no question" Merrick Garland could be confirmed to the Supreme Court." by Alex Shephard.
Hour Two: How the GOP will privatize medicare fast...
- Alex Lawson, Executive Director - Social Security Works / Strengthen Social Security @alaw202 @ssworks
Article: "'Hell No': Trump Allies' Plan to Privatize Medicare Draws Alarm and Outrage" by Jake Johnson.
Article: "Republicans Are Planning to Totally Privatize Medicare — And Fast" by Andrew Perez.
Article: "White House Calls Proposed GOP Commission a 'Death Panel' for Medicare, Social Security" by Jack Fitzpatrick.
Article: "National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform" (Bowles-Simpson/Simpson-Bowles) (2010) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Jennifer Crumbley trial: Jury ends Day 1 of deliberations without verdict" by Amber Ainsworth.
Article: "Watch replay: Testimony resumes in Jennifer Crumbley involuntary manslaughter trial" by Tresa Baldas and Gina Kaufman.
Why America needs a Trump election subversion verdict quickly
Article: "Nearly half of US wants Trump election subversion verdict before November, poll says" by Edward Helmore.
Video: President Biden Delivers Remarks on Bipartisan National Security Supplemental Bill.
Article: "The G.O.P. Bumper Sticker: Trump First. Putin Second. America Third." by Thomas L. Friedman.
Crazy Alert! Horrifying deepfake tricks employee into giving away $25 million - Get ready for the deepfake bosses and bankers!
Article: "Horrifying deepfake tricks employee into giving away $25 million" by Katherine Fidler.
Site: Sue's Daily Stack (Thom Hartmann Program Newsletter).
Article: "Chinese migrants, some with the help of TikTok, have become fastest-growing group trying to cross U.S. southern border" by Sharyn Alfonsi, Aliza Chasan, Guy Campanile, Lucy Hatcher.
Article: "2023 Chinese balloon incident" by Wikipedia.
Article: "fairness doctrine" by Matt Stefon.
Law: "Telecommunications Act of 1996" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Jennifer Crumbley, mother of school shooter, found guilty of manslaughter in test of who's responsible for a mass shooting " by Eric Levenson and Lauren del Valle.
Article: "Welcome to the Supreme Court, where corruption has no meaning" by Paul Waldman.
Hour Three: The absurdity of the GOP's "civil war" talk is even more off the charts
- 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: "Welfare States declare war on Donor States. But they have no money." by Michelangelo Signorile.
Article: "Trump won't let the GOP win even when they're handed a gift-wrapped victory" by Michelangelo Signorile.
Article: "List of U.S. states and territories by GDP" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Republicans at CPAC embrace a defiant Viktor Orban amid outrage over 'mixed-race' remarks." by Neil Vigdor.
Article: "Saudis take 100% control of America's largest oil refinery" by Matt Egan.
Article: "House OKs lifting 40-year-old US ban on oil exports" by Matthew Daly.
A Hunter in a Farmer's World Alert! ADHD: Find Mentors in All Areas of Your Life
Article: "ADHD: Find Mentors in All Areas of Your Life" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Lysine" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Long COVID: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations" by Hannah E. Davis, Lisa McCorkell, Julia Moore Vogel & Eric J. Topol.
Article: "401(k)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Oil reserves in Saudi Arabia" by Wikipedia.
Book: "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Army posthumously promotes 3 soldiers killed in Jordan drone attack" by Sarah Sicard.
Article: "1983 Beirut barracks bombings" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Executive Order 12464 -- Award of the Purple Heart" by Ronald Reagan.
Article: "Nidal Hasan" by Wikipedia.
Case: "Roe v. Wade" (1973) (abortion legal).
Case: "Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization" (2022) (abortion, overturned Roe v. Wade).
Case: "Brown v. Board", 1954.
Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].