Sue's Daily Stack, Wednesday, 20 March, 2024
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Wednesday's Daily Stack
Hour One: Is SCOTUS About to Make Bribing Politicians the Same as "Earning a Tip"?
Article: "Is SCOTUS About to Make Bribing Politicians the Same as "Earning a Tip"?" by Thom Hartmann.
Book: The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Problem Solvers Caucus Endorses Bipartisan Framework to Stop Government Shutdown" by Josh Gottheimer.
Article: "Report: Billionaire Bonanza 2018" by Chuck Collins, Josh Hoxie.
Book: "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Women More Likely to Have Multiple Jobs" by Julia Beckhusen.
Article: "Wealth of US Billionaires Hits $5.5 Trillion—Up 88% Since Pandemic Hit" by Chuck Collins, Omar Ocampo.
Article: "The Supreme Court Case Designed To Legalize Bribery" by Katya Schwenk.
Site: "Open Secrets".
Article: "Unprecedented surge in 'dark money' floods 2024 elections" by Anna Massoglia.
Article: "Top 1% Up $21 Trillion. Bottom 50% Down $900 Billion." by Matt Bruenig.
Case: "Snyder v United States".
Case: "Snyder v United States: U.S. brief".
Article: "The top 1% of American earners now own more wealth than the entire middle class" by Daniel de Visé.
Video: President Jimmy Carter: The United States is an Oligarchy....
Case: "Santa Clara County vs. Southern Pacific Railroad", 1886.
Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.
Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978.
Is Trump's real business pretending to be a billionaire and scamming people out of money in an election? Is his house of cards about to fall?
Article: "Trump Spurned by 30 Companies as He Seeks Bond in $454 Million Judgment" by Ben Protess, Maggie Haberman and Kate Christobek.
Article: "New York AG says she'll seize Donald Trump's property if he can't pay $454 million civil fraud debt" by Michael R. Sisak.
Article: "Full List of Donald Trump's Properties Letitia James Is About to Take" by Matthew Impelli.
Article: "Why no one will lend to Trump" by Edward Luce.
Article: "What Is Domestication of a Foreign Judgment and When Is Domestication Necessary?" by Roy Banerjee.
Article: "Defendants can appeal decision to keep Fani Willis on Trump case, judge rules" by George Chidii.
Did Judge Cannon commit gray mail? Is Cannon all in on Trump's plan to wriggle out of prosecution in FL?
Article: "Did Judge Cannon Essentially Commit Graymail?" by Subject Zero.
Article: "Takeaways From Tuesday's Primaries" by Susan Milligan.
Article: "Potential 2024 'Chaos': Election Deniers Refusing to Certify Results" by Justin Glawe.
Article: "12th Amendment".
Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 2 Section 1 Clause 2 "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector."
Article: "1880 United States presidential election" by Wikipedia.
Article: "12th Amendment". "...The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed..."
Article: "Close election? In 2000, all eyes were on Florida, and Palm Beach County because of the butterfly ballot" by Eliot Kleinberg.
Article: "No Labels can't get a 'yes' on a candidate for 2024 — and there's a good reason why " by Max Burns.
Article: ""Likely to weaponize intelligence": Experts alarmed as Trump poised to get security briefings again" by Areeba Shah.
Hour Two: There Was No Russian Election - Vladimir Putin staged an elaborate charade—so why did some Western media outlets play along?
Article: "There Was No Russian Election" by Anne Applebaum.
Article: "FACT SHEET: James Comer's Lies Are Routinely Contradicted By Witness Testimony" by Isabella Paquette.
Article: "FBI informant Alexander Smirnov who 'lied' about Ukrainian bribes to Joe and Hunter Biden had 'high-level contacts with Russian intelligence operatives,' prosecutors claim in bombshell filing" by Kelly Laco, Sarah Ewall-Wice.
Article: "Lev Parnas" by Wikipedia.
Tweet: "You will probably never see this on Hannity as it's incredibly damaging [video]" (Raskin questioning Parnas) by Acyn.
Tweet: "Parnas: Congressman Pete Sessions, then Congressman Devin Nunes, Senator Ron Johnson and many others understood they were pushing a false narrative. The same goes for John Solomon, Sean Hannity and media personnel, particularly at Fox News [video]" (Parnas introduction) by Acyn.
Article: "Haiti: what caused the gang violence and will it end now the PM has quit?" by Tom Phillips, Archie Bland and Oliver Holmes.
Article: "Proud Boys" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Oath Keepers" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Biden says he regrets using the term 'illegal' to describe suspected killer of Laken Riley" by Vishwam Sankaran.
Article: "Ivana Trump buried at Trump National Golf Club cemetery in Bedminster, NJ " by Bernadette Hogan, Natalie O'Neill.
Article: "Mystery: Why hasn't the FBI searched Trump's other properties?" by Hunter.
Article: "Questions raised over 2021 footage of Trump taking boxes from Mar-a-Lago to Bedminster" by Oliver O'Connell.
Jared Kushner, who oversaw PPP and the pandemic response, is now cutting deals in the Middle East and suggesting Gaza is real estate that he'd like to develop....say what?!
Article: "Kushner values Gaza 'waterfront property', that requires 'moving people out and cleaning it up'" by annieli.
Article: "Israel's war on Gaza live: Israel 'negative' on Hamas truce proposal" by Federica Marsi and Usaid Siddiqui.
Article: "Senator Bernie Sanders says Canada 'absolutely right' to stop arms sales to Israel" by Donkees.
Site: Progressive Victory.
Article: "Andrew Kim (New Jersey)" by Ballotpedia.
Article: "Bob Menendez Sr." by Ballotpedia.
Article: "List of United States Senators from New Jersey" by Ballotpedia.
Article: "John Fetterman Endorses Andy Kim in High-Stakes New Jersey Senate Primary" by Annie Karni.
Article: "Andy Kim Wins a Vote Rich in Symbolism in Race to Replace Menendez" by Tracey Tully.
Article: "Andy Kim is making a big bet on breaking New Jersey Democratic politics" by Brakkton Booker.
Article: "Abraham Accords" by Wikipedia.
Article: "For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it's blown up in our faces" by Tal Schneider.
Article: "US Supreme Court backs Colorado baker's gay wedding cake snub" by BBC.
Article: "Designer in Supreme Court ruling cited client who denies making wedding site request" by AP.
Video: Bombshell plot exposed: 'Secret men-only right-wing society' plots Christian government takeover.
Article: "Society for American Civic Renewal" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Unprecedented surge in 'dark money' floods 2024 elections" by Anna Massoglia.
Article: "Viktor Orbán has undermined Europe for long enough. It's time to call his bluff" by Alexander Hurst.
Article: "Orban's Hungary Is a Problem NATO Can Manage" by Marc Champion.
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."
Article: "Trump 'Giving Aid and Comfort' to Insurrection, Kirschner Says" by Andrew Stanton.
Article: "Oath of office of the president of the United States" by Wikipedia. "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Article: "Oath of office of the vice president of the United States" by Wikipedia. "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God."
Quote: "were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter" - Thomas Jefferson.
Article: "US House passes bill that could ban TikTok nationwide" by Bernd Debusmann, Matt Murphy & Natalie Sherman.
Article: "Fears for future of American journalism as hedge funds flex power" by Edward Helmore.
Article: "Joe Biden is right that more than 60 of Trump's election lawsuits lacked merit" by Amy Sherman, Miriam Valverde.
Article: "Howard Stern: Trump Ran for President as a 'Gimmick' to Get a Pay Raise on 'The Apprentice' (Video)" by Jon Levine.
Article: "'Stop the Steal' campaign has long ties to Roger Stone" by CNN.
Hour Three: new book Medgar & Myrlie...
- Joy Ann Reid, Journalist / Host-MSNBC's The Reidout / Author of the new book, "Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America" (for tour dates, etc: joyannreid.com) @joyannreid @thereidout
Article: "Medgar Evers" by Wikipedia.
Article: "7 Things You Should Know About Medgar Evers" by Barbara Maranzani.
Article: "Jackson–Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Emmett Till" by Wikipedia
Article: "Vernon Jordan" by Wikipedia.
Article: "15th Amendment", February 3, 1870 "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude".
Article: "Myrlie Evers-Williams" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Murder of Reverend George W. Lee" by Zinn Education Project.
Article: "George W. Lee" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Amos Brown" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Hazel Brannon Smith" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Ed King (activist)" by Wikipedia.
Case: "Brown v. Board", 1954.
Article: "Dr. John Louis Flateau: beloved professor, public servant, political strategist" by Medgar Evers College.
Article: "Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Freedom Riders" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Greensboro sit-ins" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Robert Mercer" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Rebekah Mercer" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Once-lukewarm billionaires set to come back around to Trump at fundraiser hosted by John Paulson" by Lydia Moynihan.
Article: "Microsoft Visio" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Vizio" by Wikipedia.
Article: "David Koch" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump's Sister Said He Is Cruel, Has 'No Principles' in Secretly Recorded Conversations" by Chas Danner.
Article: "Mary Trump's book: eight of its most shocking claims about the president" by Martin Pengelly.
Article: "An Even Darker Trump: Warns Of 'Bloodbath' If Not Elected And Calls Some Migrants 'Animals' And 'Not People'" by Zachary Folk.
Article: "Arab–Israeli conflict" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Grand Mufti Husseini Asked Hitler to Help with Arab 'final Solution'" by JTA.
Article: "Amin al-Husseini" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Balfour Declaration" by Wikipedia.
Petition: "Tell Your Legislators To Support National Popular Vote" by National Popular Vote.