Sue's Daily Stack, Wednesday, 20 November, 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
Bluesky: "Thom Hartmann".
Article: "Howard Dean" by Wikipedia.
Article: "2025 Democratic National Committee chairmanship election" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Ben Wikler" by Wikipedia.
Movie: "Idiocracy".
Movie: "Being There".
Tweet: "Please, Donald Trump. Give @RepNancyMace (who apparently was never held by her mother as a child) some attention. 47 tweets today about changing bathroom policy for one person. Think if she tried to get a farm bill or the appropriation bills done. Nah, that would be useful." by Mark Pocan.
Article: "Matt Gaetz" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet (United Kingdom)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Duty to Warn Letter - to VP Harris - Re: Election 2024" by Stephen Spoonamore.
Article: "Incumbents are losing around the world, not just the U.S." by Janet Nguyen.
Article: "Matt Gaetz controversy: What to know about the sexual misconduct allegations against Trump's attorney general pick" by Josh Marcus.
Article: "House Ethics panel meets on Matt Gaetz report, as a Democrat preps to force a vote on its release" by Scott Wong, Kyle Stewart and Syedah Asghar.
Article: "Trump's pick for attorney general 'showed videos of his sexual partners' to Congress colleagues" by Ben Farmer.
Article: "Rahm Emanuel" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Spending in presidential and congressional races projected to hit nearly $16 billion and smash records, new analysis shows" by Fredreka Schouten.
Site: "Project 2025".
Article: "Agenda 47" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Dr. Oz, Tapped to Run Medicare, Has a Record of Promoting Health Misinformation" by Dani Blum, Emily Schmall and Nina Agrawal.
Article: "Louis DeJoy" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Postal changes will harm rural America" by The Star News.
Article: "Biden withdraws Marty Walsh nomination to USPS governing board" by USPS.
Hour Two: Are Trump's Appointees the Trojan Horses That Could Lead to America's Strategic Collapse?
Article: "Are Trump's Appointees the Trojan Horses That Could Lead to America's Strategic Collapse?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Trump's disclosure endangered spy placed inside ISIS by Israel, officials say" by ABC News.
Article: "Real estate developer Donald J. Trump bought full-page ads in three major U.S. newspapers to say the United States should stop paying to defend countries that can afford to protect themselves" by AP.
Article: "Gabbard's sympathetic views toward Russia cause alarm as Trump's pick to lead intelligence services" by David Klepper, Ellen Knickmeyer, Edith M. Lederer.
Article: "What to know about Pete Hegseth, Trump's pick to serve as defense secretary" by Meg Kinnard.
Article: "Uri Shvets" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump made a secret call to Vladimir Putin just before the 2020 election, report says" by Tom Porter.
Article: "Rand Paul Suggests FBI May Have Planted Evidence" by Taegan Goddard.
Article: "White House Says Trump Called Putin to Talk About Wildfires" by Joshua Keating.
Article: "Trump Got Burned by a Major Mistake in His First Term. He Won't Make It Again." by Donald Moynihan.
Site: "The Moscow Project".
Book: American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery by Craig Unger.
Book: Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win by Luke Harding.
Article: "A radical plan for Trump's second term" by Jonathan Swan.
Article: "Tschechen-Stasi spähte die Trumps aus" by Hans-Wilhelm Saure.
Article: "Erdogan Gets a Timely Boost From Putin" by Onur Ant.
Article: "Exclusive: Paul Manafort admits he passed Trump campaign data to a suspected Russian asset" by Mattathias Schwartz.
Article: "Trump's Pentagon pick criticized US involvement in Ukraine, said Putin probably wouldn't go 'much further' if he wins" by Thibault Spirlet and Mia Jankowicz.
Article: "Ukrainian soldiers greet Trump's victory with a new kind of anxiety" by Mia Jankowicz, Sinéad Baker, and Jake Epstein.
Article: "Exclusive: US extracted top spy from inside Russia in 2017" by Jim Sciutto.
Article: "Hillary Clinton suggests Russians are 'grooming' Tulsi Gabbard for third-party run " by Dan Merica.
Article: "Members of the IC" by Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Article: "Putin languages: Why he won't speak English - Inside Putin's bizarre power play" by James Gray.
Article: "Executive Order 13957: Creating Schedule F in the Excepted Service" by Donald Trump.
Article: "An unburdened Rep. Gaetz calls for abolishing the FBI, CDC, ATF" by Natasha Korecki.
Article: "Rand Paul blocks quick passage of $40 billion Ukraine aid package" by AP.
Article: "Rand Paul Calls for Espionage Act Repeal as Trump Fumes Over FBI Search" by Jason Lemon.
Article: "F.B.I. Used Informant to Investigate Russia Ties to Campaign, Not to Spy, as Trump Claims" by Adam Goldman, Mark Mazzetti and Matthew Rosenberg.
Article: "Kremlin Sources Go Quiet, Leaving C.I.A. in the Dark About Putin's Plans for Midterms" by Julian E. Barnes and Matthew Rosenberg.
Article: "Report Details Manafort's Ties During 2016 Trump Campaign to a Russian Agent" by Sharon LaFraniere and Julian E. Barnes.
Article: "Captured, Killed or Compromised: C.I.A. Admits to Losing Dozens of Informants" by Julian E. Barnes and Adam Goldman.
Article: "Trump had as many as 7 private calls with Putin since leaving office, Bob Woodward writes in new book" by AP.
Article: "WATCH: Inside the Night President Obama Took On Donald Trump" by Patrice Taddonio.
Article: "The Hidden History of Trump's First Trip to Moscow" by Luke Harding.
Article: "Rand Paul delivers letter from Trump to Putin" by Rebecca Morin.
Article: "White House Asks for List of Top Spies During Intelligence Shakeup" by Betsy Swan, Erin Banco.
Article: "Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Putin for two years, says report" by Julian Borger.
Article: "Czechoslovakia spied on Donald and Ivana Trump, communist-era files show" by Kate Connolly.
Article: "Czechoslovakia ramped up spying on Trump in late 1980s, seeking US intel" by Luke Harding.
Article: "'The perfect target': Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy" by David Smith.
Article: "The City That Raised – and Rejected – Donald Trump" by The City That Raised – and Rejected – Donald Trump.
Article: "One chart that shows how brutal the Russian air campaign in Aleppo really is" by Zack Beauchamp.
Article: "Disgraced Trump adviser Mike Flynn admits he worked as a "foreign agent" for the Turkish government" by Jennifer Williams.
Article: "Trump's communications with foreign leader are part of whistleblower complaint that spurred standoff between spy chief and Congress, former officials say" by Greg Miller, Ellen Nakashima, Shane Harris.
Article: "Inside Trump's war on the National Archives" by Jacqueline Alemany, Isaac Arnsdorf, Josh Dawsey.
Article: "Trump has spoken privately with Putin at least 16 times. Here's what we know about the conversations." by Adam Taylor.
Article: "Gap continues to widen between Trump and intelligence community on key issues" by Greg Miller.
Site: Move to Amend.
Site: "Indivisible".
Site: MoveOn.org.
Article: "Manhattan D.A. Suggests Freezing Trump's Case While He Is President" by Ben Protess, Kate Christobek and Jonah E. Bromwich.
Is Comcast trying to get rid of MSNBC before Trump comes after them? Will Murdoch buy it?
Article: "How a Comcast Cable Network Sale Could Fuel Media Consolidation | Analysis" by Lucas Manfredi.
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos will be arguing before the Supreme Court that the National Labor Relations Board, which enforces the rights of workers to unionized, is unconstitutional and should be destroyed
Article: "Musk and Bezos Declare The National Labor Relations Board Unconstitutional" by Bill Addis.
Article: "Trump praised Elon Musk for firing striking workers, sparking a clash with the UAW" by Tom Krisher, AP.
Article: "1935 passage of the Wagner Act" by NLRB.
Law: "6th Amendment" (speedy trial, witnesses, defense).
Article: "Reichstag fire" by Britannica.
Article: "Indivisible: A Practical Guide to Democracy on the Brink" by Indivisible.
Site: End The Bribe System (bumper stickers, etc.).
Movie: "Don't Look Up".
Article: "Dynasty (1981 TV series)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The Top 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90%—And That's Made the U.S. Less Secure" by Nick Hanauer.
Article: "Personal and business legal affairs of Donald Trump" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Automatic recount of Pa. votes to begin in race for Senate between Casey, McCormick " by Emily Rose Grassi.
Bill: "H.R.9495 - Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act" by Rep. Tenney, Claudia [R-NY-24].
Hour Three: Marjorie Taylor Greene is threatening the many Republican men who have hidden sex scandals. Apparently there's quite a few of them, and she's threatening to out them. She's also threatening Epstein's information; is she threatening Trump? Or RFK Junior? Demanding that they jump in and defend her buddy Getz?
Article: "MAGA pedos are trying to cover up Pedo Matt's underage sex scandal." by Oliver Markus Malloy.
Article: "Constitution of the United States", article 2 section 3. "... He [the president] ... he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper..."
Behind closed doors, Chris Wright - trump's pick for energy secretary - says "There is no climate crisis. Period."
Article: "What Trump's Energy Secretary Pick Says Behind Closed Doors" by Chris Walker.
What's up with Nancy Mace's obsession with the ladies restroom in the Capitol? Is she doing coke in there? Masturbating? What gives?
Article: "What The Hell Is It That Nancy Mace Is Doing In the Ladies' Room?" by Robyn Pennacchia.
Article: "Elizabeth Warren" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Adam Schiff" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Sherrod Brown" (D-OH) by Wikipedia.
Article: "influenza pandemic of 1918–19" by Britannica.
Article: "Historical Inflation Rates: 1914-2024" by US Inflation Calculator.
Article: "Trump's Former ICE Head's Plan for Mass Deportation: More Family Separation or Deporting US Citizens" by Isabela Dias.
Article: "Why Trump Is Wrong & Alexander Hamilton Was Right About Tariffs" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Volunteers of America" by Wikipedia.
Article: "New LA police chief's resistance to Trump deportation plans has little to do with liberal politics" by Jim Newton.
Article: "An Update on getting a Recount for 2024." by Stephen Spoonamore.
Article: "What is Newton's Third Law" by Science Facts.
Article: "Selina Gray" by Wikipedia.
Article: "New Estimates Highlight Differences in Growth Between the U.S. Hispanic and Non-Hispanic Populations " by US Census Bureau.