Sue's Daily Stack, Wednesday, 2 October, 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.) @repmarkpocan
Article: "Fact checking VP debate claims from Walz and Vance's 2024 showdown" by Laura Doan, Emma Li, Jui Sarwate, Alexander Tin, James LaPorta, Camilo Montoya-Galvez.
Article: "'This was so so so bad': Critics highlight J.D. Vance's 'terrible gaffe' from debate night" by David McAfee.
Article: "Rosh Hashanah: Your guide to the Jewish new year holiday - explainer" by Aaron Reich.
Article: "Labor Caucus (United States)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "'I will cripple you' - dockworker's union vows to shut down U.S. economy with strike" by Louis Goss.
Article: "Why an old photo of Trump, Longshoreman's president returned to prominence with strike" by James Powel, Kinsey Crowley, Medora Lee.
Article: "CNN Instant Poll: No clear winner in VP debate between Tim Walz and JD Vance" by Ariel Edwards-Levy and Jennifer Agiesta.
Video: Joe: Vance clearly said he was going to continue the lies of Donald Trump.
Article: "Iranian strikes on Israel: what happened and why did Iran attack?" by Oliver Holmes.
Site: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Article: "January 6 United States Capitol attack" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Republican Study Committee" by Wikipedia.
Site: "Project 2025".
Article: "How a second Trump term could destroy Medicare as we know it" by Helaine Olen.
Article: "Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, praises 'very valuable' potential of Gaza's 'waterfront property'" by Meg Kinnard.
Article: "Israel's airstrikes and incursion against Hezbollah show limits in Biden's ability to influence Netanyahu, foreign policy experts say" by Lloyd Lee, Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert.
Article: "Walz misleadingly claims to have been in Hong Kong during period tied to Tiananmen Square massacre" by Josh Boak, Didi Tang.
Article: "What is the Constitutional Role of the Vice President?" by Scott Bomboy.
Site: From Russia With Lev.
Article: "Governor Cooper 'disappointed' after Trump and Congress fail to deliver on hurricane relief" by WTVD.
Article: "Puerto Rico: Trump paper towel-throwing 'abominable'" by BBC.
Article: "Report Reveals 'Pipeline' of Undocumented Costa Rican Immigrants at Trump Club: 'A Very Open Secret'" by Ronn Blitzer.
Article: "State and FBI investigators are reportedly probing allegations that Trump's golf club gave fake green cards to undocumented workers" by Ellen Cranley.
Article: "Trump Says Mar-A-Lago Can't Find US Workers To Hire. New Documents Show Dozens Applied." by Ken Bensinger, Jeremy Singer-Vine, Jessica Garrison.
Article: "How much does each of Donald Trump's golf rounds cost taxpayers?" by Ryan Ballengee.
Article: "United States House of Representatives elections in Alabama, 2024" by Ballotpedia.
Video: "VP Debate Exchange on Violence, Shootings, and Gun Control".
Article: "Police believe the Birmingham, Alabama, mass shooters used 'conversion devices.' Here's what that means " by Eric Levenson.
Article: "President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Approves North Carolina Disaster Declaration " by White House.
Article: "How Project 2025 Could Impact Hurricane Victims" by Marni Rose McFall.
Hour Two: Fact checking the debate....
Article: "Fact checking VP debate claims from Walz and Vance's 2024 showdown" by Laura Doan, Emma Li, Jui Sarwate, Alexander Tin, James LaPorta, Camilo Montoya-Galvez.
Article: "Fact-checking the VP debate: Walz and Vance's contested statements" by Nick Evans.
Article: "Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Aftermath of a routine debate with a banger ending" by Greg Dworkin.
Article: "Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are 'Losers' and 'Suckers'" by Jeffrey Goldberg.
Site: Sue's Stack.
Article: "Port Strike Leader Harold Daggett's Salary, Connection to Trump Scrutinized" by Jenni Fink.
Law: "Taft-Hartley Labor Act", 1947.
The Planet's Begging for Mercy — Why Aren't We Listening?
Article: "The Planet's Begging for Mercy — Why Aren't We Listening?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Thousands of Migratory Birds Suddenly Died in New Mexico. What Does This Mean for Conservation?" by John C. Mittermeier.
Article: "Botulism Outbreak Kills Over 75,000 Birds and Counting at Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge" by Bird Alliance of Oregon.
Article: "Is the Loss of Insects a Desperate Cry for Help From a Planet Under Assault?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Carbon intensity: CO2 emissions per dollar of GDP" by Our World in Data.
Article: "Nearly 3 Billion Birds Gone" by Cornell Lab.
Article: "What's going on with all the dead birds across Colorado and the Southwest?" by Sam Tabachnik.
Article: "Trump sparks controversy for calling climate change a 'scam' as Hurricane Helene leaves trail of destruction" by James Liddell.
Article: "Mass bird die-off in eastern US baffles scientists" by Cameron Duke.
Article: "A Lake Turned to a Hot 'Soup.' Then the River Dolphins Died." by Ana Ionova and Livia Albeck-Ripka.
Article: "The biomass distribution on Earth" by Yinon M. Bar-On, Rob Phillips, Ron Milo.
Article: "North America Has Lost Nearly 3 Billion Birds Since 1970" by Rachael Lallensack.
Article: "Humans just 0.01% of all life but have destroyed 83% of wild mammals – study" by Damian Carrington.
Article: "The insect apocalypse: 'Our world will grind to a halt without them'" by Dave Goulson.
Article: "Seabird Die-offs in Alaska" by USGS Alaska Science Center.
Article: "Bizarre debate moment Trump wildly claims Haitian migrants are eating pet dogs and cats" by Ariana Baio.
Article: "JD Vance admits he 'created' story about migrants eating pet cats and dogs spread by Trump during TV debate" by Danielle de Wolfe.
Article: "The V.P. Debate Might Boost Vance and Walz, but It Probably Won't Shift the Polls" by Kaleigh Rogers.
Article: "Mobile home" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump acknowledges losing the 2020 election 'by a whisker'" by Alexandra Marquez.
Article: "Do Americans have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of Tim Walz?" by 538.
Article: "Hurricane Frances" by Wikipedia.
Hour Three: How the hell could Trump be neck and neck with Kamala?
Article: "Robert Reich answers the question "How the hell could Trump be running neck-and-neck with Harris?"" by davidkc.
Article: "How the hell could Trump be running neck-and-neck with Harris?" by Robert Reich.
Book: The Hidden History of the American Dream: The Demise of the Middle Class-and How to Rescue Our Future by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Will Democracy Survive the Tsunami of Rightwing Dark Money Coming this Fall?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Janelle Bynum" by Ballotpedia.
Article: "Ad bashing Democratic congressional candidate Bynum features GOP legislative staffer" by Julia Shumway.
Article: "AIPAC" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Rep. Cori Bush Ousted By AIPAC-Backed Primary Challenger" by Daniel Marans.
Article: "AIPAC Is Secretly Intervening in Portland's Congressional Race to Take Down Susheela Jayapal, Sources Say" by Ryan Grim.
Article: "AIPAC Unleashes a Record $14.5 Million Bid to Defeat a Critic of Israel" by Nicholas Fandos.
Article: "Kristallnacht" by history.com.
Quote: "There is no such thing as bad publicity" -attributed to P. T. Barnum.
Want a tubal with your C-Section? The Pope won't allow that, so Colorado is making Catholic hospitals tell people the risks of being there.
Article: "Colorado will now make Catholic hospitals say what services they won't provide" by Friendly Atheist.
Article: "What Trump's Payroll Tax Cut Will Mean for You" by Rocky Mengle.
Article: "Trump: 'I was able to kill Roe v. Wade'" by Sahil Kapur.
Article: "List of United States presidential elections by popular vote margin" by Wikipedia.
Law: "25th Amendment Section 4" (presidential succession). "Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President."
Article: "Maddow: Vance Has Spent His Entire Adult Life Being Financially Supported By Eccentric Right-Wing Tech Billionaires" by Ian Schwartz.
Article: "Curtis Yarvin" by Wikipedia.
Article: "He Said, She Said: Trump Refuses Another Debate, Harris Launches New Attack Ads" by Cecelia Smith-Schoenwalder.
Article: "Jasmine Crockett" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Jared Moskowitz" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Can You File for Bankruptcy on Student Loans?" by Kim Porter and Jerry Brown.
Article: "Garrison Keillor" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Keith Olbermann" by Wikipedia.
Article: "'The closest thing to a concession': Trump administration finally allows Biden transition to begin" by Rachel Elbaum.
Article: "A detailed timeline of all the ways Trump failed to respond to the coronavirus" by Cameron Peters.
Article: "Biden inauguration: New president sworn in amid Trump snub" by BBC.
Article: "How San Jose is aligning zoning districts with General Plan" by Bob Staedler.
Article: "'SNL' returns with Jim Gaffigan as Tim Walz, Dana Carvey as President Biden" by Brendan Morrow.
Article: "Jimmy Carter" by Wikipedia.
Article: "How The Economy Really Fared Under Biden/Harris And Trump—From Jobs To Inflation" by Derek Saul.