Sue's Daily Stack, Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
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Wednesday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: National Progressive Townhall Meeting
- Representative Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District) / Member & Chair Emeritus-Congressional Progressive Caucus / (Committees: Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Labor Caucus, and Chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus.) @pocan.house.gov @repmarkpocan
Article: "40% of young adults find UnitedHealthcare killer's actions acceptable: New poll" by Erik De La Garza.
Article: "Youth movement among House Democrats is overrated" by Mike Lillis.
Article: "Gerry Connolly" by Open Secrets.
Article: "Seniority in the United States House of Representatives" by Wikipedia.
Article: "119th United States Congress" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Jamie Raskin" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Rosa DeLauro" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Here's what we know about the deadly school shooting in Wisconsin" by Ayana Archie, Jason Breslow, Alana Wise.
Article: "2016 United States House of Representatives sit-in" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The 2025 Social Security COLA Is Official. Here's How Much the Average Retirement Check Will Increase Next Month." by Adam Levy.
Article: "Second inauguration of Donald Trump" (January 20, 2025) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Martin Luther King Jr. Day" (January 20, 2025) by Wikipedia.
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: "Quantitative Easing (QE)" by Investopedia.
Article: "Trump revisits plan to privatize USPS, a first-term goal that didn't go far" by Jory Heckman.
Article: "Analysis-China eyes negotiations as Trump threatens new tariffs" by Joe Cash.
Article: "Exclusive: Trump prepares wide-ranging energy plan to boost gas exports, oil drilling, sources say" by Jarrett Renshaw.
Article: "Biden's LNG-Export Study Presents 'Speed Bump' for Trump" by Ari Natter and Ruth Liao.
Article: "Elon Musk: Anyone who votes for spending deal should lose reelection" by Julia Shapero.
Article: "Donald Trump Warns That Liz Cheney 'Could Be In A Lot Of Trouble' Over Jan. 6 Probe" by Graeme Demianyk.
Site: UNRWA USA.
Article: "US Congress deal bars US funds to UNRWA until March 2025, sources say" by Patricia Zengerle.
Hour Two: Where the Hell are the Next Democratic Warriors Ready to Take the Fight to Trump's Fascism & the GOP Machine?
Article: "Where the Hell Are the Democratic Warriors Ready to Take the Fight to Trump's Fascism & the GOP Machine?" by Thom Hartmann.
Site: Kamala Harris.
Article: "Democrats Duped by the Caucus Room Conspiracy" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "DNC Candidate David Hogg Blasts Dems For Dismissing His 'Concerns' About Party's Appeal To Young Men: 'Shut Down By Consultants'" by Zachary Leeman.
Article: "Democrats elect Rep. Gerry Connolly over progressive star AOC for top Oversight Committee post" by Scott Wong and Syedah Asghar.
Article: "Was mocking Musk a mistake? Democrats think about warmer relationship with the billionaire" by Holly Otterbein and Brittany Gibson.
Article: "Acceptance Speech for the Renomination for the Presidency, Philadelphia, Pa." June 27, 1936. by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Article: "Address at Worcester, Mass." October 21, 1936. by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Article: "How "Trump is a fascist" became Kamala's closing argument" by Christian Paz.
Article: "Remarks by President Biden Honoring our Nation's Labor History and Establishing the Frances Perkins National Monument" (12/16/2024) by Joe Biden.
Article: "Social Security Fairness Act clears key Senate hurdle, heads to final vote" by Kate Gibson.
Trump is already walking back his promises. Why don't the headlines simply say, "He Lied!"
Article: "Trump Is Already Walking Back His Campaign Promises" by The Big Picture and Todd Beeton.
Article: "Trump-O-Meter" by Politifact.
Article: "Trump tariff possibility helps drive increased US ocean imports" by Reuters.
Article: "Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Postal Clause" by Wikipedia.
Article: "United States Postal Service" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Amtrak" by Wikipedia.
Quote: "I want to see young people in America feel the spirit of the 1960s and find a way to get in the way. To find a way to get in trouble. Good trouble, necessary trouble." - John Lewis.
Article: "Great man theory" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Maxwell Frost" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Jasmine Crockett" by Wikipedia.
Article: "David Hogg" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Border Militias Prepare to Assist With Donald Trump's Mass Deportation Plans" by Tess Owen.
Article: "These local sheriffs are already preparing to help Trump carry out his mass deportation plans" by Josh Marcus.
Article: "Trump confirms plan to declare national emergency, use military for mass deportations" by Alexandra Hutzler.
Article: "AIPAC Millions Take Down Second Squad Member Cori Bush" by Akela Lacy.
Article: "AIPAC Is Secretly Intervening in Portland's Congressional Race to Take Down Susheela Jayapal, Sources Say" by Ryan Grim.
Article: "Why Joni Ernst Is Caving on Hegseth Confirmation" by Ed Kilgore.
Article: "Clarence Thomas: Here Are All The Ethics Scandals Involving The Supreme Court Justice Amid New Ginni Thomas Report" by Alison Durkee.
Article: "United States Semiquincentennial" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Mitch McConnell Flatly Rejects Any Obama Pick to Supreme Court" by Phil Helsel.
Hour Three: A list of actions we can take to thwart an organized crime ring from taking over the United States of America
- Heidi Siegmund Cuda, Author & Emmy-award winning investigative reporter / co-host of the "Radicalized Truth Survives" podcast / subscribe to her substack at bettedangerous.com @Heidi_Cuda
Article: "America Is Democracy: A List of What We Do Now" by Heidi Siegmund Cuda.
Article: "Georgia (country)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Moldova" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Ukraine" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Belarus" by Wikipedia.
Article: "These Right-Wing Pundits Were Allegedly Funded By Russia—What To Know About DOJ Indictment" by Siladitya Ray.
Article: "FBI dossier reveals Putin's secret psychological warfare in Europe" by Jakob Hanke Vela.
Article: "Putin's henchmen helped Musk to acquire Twitter – reports" by Jack Peat.
Article: "Moldovan Police Accuse Pro-Russian Oligarch Of $39M Vote-Buying Scheme " by RFE/RL.
Article: "Romania's cancelled presidential election and why it matters" by Paul Kirby & Nick Thorpe.
Article: "Russian disinformation" by Wikipedia.
Site: Rumble: RT.
Article: "Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra".
Book: Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism by Rachel Maddow.
Article: "Fritz Julius Kuhn" (German American Bund) by Wikipedia.
Book: Democracy in Chains by Nancy MacLean.
Article: "Revolution of Dignity" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Paul Manafort" by Wikipedia.
Site: American Muckrakers.
Article: "Telegram CEO Pavel Durov appears in Paris court for first time amid criminal investigation" by Vivian Nguyen.
Article: "Brazilian police formally accuse former President Bolsonaro and aides of alleged 2022 coup attempt" by Gabriela Sá Pessoa, Mauricio Savarese.
Article: "'So what?' Trump's response when told Pence was in danger: ABC report" by NBC.
Article: "Hippocratic Oath" by Wikipedia.
Article: "'One of the dumbest ideas': Abolishing the FDIC could backfire on Trump and his allies" by Matt Egan.
Article: "Kroger is Not Selling Abortion Pill Mifepristone, Previous Listing for Drug "in Error"" by Steven Ertelt.
Article: "Bernie Sanders" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Ukraine says it busted a Russian spy ring that was gathering information about its F-16s" by Sinéad Baker.
Article: "Ukraine says it killed senior Russian general who died in scooter blast in Moscow" by Owen Amos, Steve Rosenberg, Abdujalil Abdurasulov.
Article: "Assassination attempts on Adolf Hitler" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Assassination attempts on Volodymyr Zelenskyy" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Almost all the royal families of Europe are related to each other. This family tree shows how they share a single ancestor" by Sinéad Baker, Samantha Lee.
Article: "14th Amendment section 3, July 9, 1868 "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."
Site: Indivisible.
Site: Move to Amend.
Site: Dr. Marty Goldstein.
Geeky Science! Did you know you are ingesting a credit card's worth of plastic per week? What's that going to do?
Article: "A Breath of Fresh…Plastic? Humans Inhale a Credit Card's Worth of Microplastics Every Week" by Plastic Pollution Coalition.