Sue's Daily Stack, Wednesday, 21 February, 2024

Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Hour One: How the Religious Anti-Abortion GOP Freaks Use Data Brokers to Track Women
Article: "How the Religious Anti-Abortion GOP Freaks Will Use Data Brokers to Track Women" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "FCC: Supreme Court ruling bolsters net neutrality defense" by Brendan Sasso.
Article: "Digital Dystopia: FCC Ends Net Neutrality" by TRNN.
Book: The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy by Thom Hartmann.
Book: "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Letters to SafeGraph, Inc., Placer.ai, May 17, 2022" by Tammy Baldwin et al.
Article: "Baldwin, Colleagues Blast Data Brokers for Collecting and Selling Cell Phone Location Data of People Who Visit Abortion Clinics" by Tammy Baldwin.
Article: "EU vs US: What Are the Differences Between Their Data Privacy Laws?" by Cristina Pop.
Article: "Combined Regulation Text of All Rules" (HIPAA) by DHSS.
Article: "Judge allows feticide charge against Northern Indiana woman" by IndyStar.
Article: "Idaho Woman Arrested For Abortion Is Uneasy Case For Both Sides" by Jessica Robinson.
Article: "How My Stillbirth Became a Crime" by NY Times.
Article: "Facebook Turned Over Messages in Disturbing Abortion Case Against Teen and Mom" by Pilar Melendez, Decca Muldowney.
Article: "Data Broker Is Selling Location Data of People Who Visit Abortion Clinics" by Joseph Cox.
Article: "Top U.S. Catholic Church official resigns after cellphone data used to track him on Grindr and to gay bars" by Michelle Boorstein, Marisa Iati, Annys Shin.
Article: "Wyden Reveals Phone Data Used to Target Abortion Misinformation at Visitors to Hundreds of Reproductive Health Clinics" by Ron Wyden.
Site: DuckDuckGo.
 
The FBI informant got his info from Russia disinformation...wow!
Tweet: "Like I said in 2019-20 on countless occasions the whole Biden plot coming from Giuliani, Russian agents Derkach and Telizhenko, and others was a Russian intelligence operation to attack 2020 election. I was monitoring and documenting these traitorous clowns" by Olga Lautman.
Article: "Alexander Smirnov: FBI source accused of Biden lies 'linked to Russian intelligence'" by Mike Wendling.
Article: "Charles McGonigal" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Christopher A. Wray" by Wikipedia.
 
Article: "Epstein Had a Creepy Panopticon Room to Monitor All His Guests" by Kate Briquelet.
Article: "Alexei Navalny is the latest Putin critic to die in suspicious circumstances" by James Hider, Scott Neuman.
Article: "Weiss special counsel investigation" by Wikipedia.
 
Letitia James ready to seize Trump buildings if he can't pay $355M fine
Article: "Letitia James ready to seize Trump buildings if he can't pay $355M fine: report" by M.L. Nestel.
 
Crazy Alert! Cocaine jokes roll in as Sean Hannity demands: 'Does that look like saw dust to you?'
Article: "Cocaine jokes roll in as Sean Hannity demands: 'Does that look like saw dust to you?'" by Kathleen Culliton.
 
Article: "George Soros fund poised to take control of nation's second-largest chain of radio stations: 'This is scary'" by Josh Kosman, Ariel Zilber.
Article: "George Soros' purchase of debt of WBEN's owner sends shock waves in radio circles" by Alan Pergament.
Law: "Article I, Section 5, Clause 4: Adjournment of Congress". "Neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the Consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other Place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting.".
Law: "Article VI, Clause 3: Historical Background on Religious Test for Government Offices". "The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.".
Law: "National Security Act of 1947".
Book: The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Volodymyr Zelenskyy" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Petro Poroshenko" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Viktor Yanukovych" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Orange Revolution" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Paul Manafort" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Jeffrey Epstein" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Death of Jeffrey Epstein" by Wikipedia.

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Hour Two: Company behind Namath ads has long rap sheet of misconduct
- Matthew Cunningham-Cook, Researcher/writer focusing on health care, capital markets, and retirement policy.   @matthewccook5
Site: "HEALTH CARE un-covered" ((Wendell Potter substack)).
Article: "Company behind Joe Namath Medicare Advantage ads has long rap sheet of misconduct" by Matthew Cunningham-Cook.
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: "Joe Namath" by Wikipedia.
Law: "Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991".
Article: "Care Denied: The Dirty Secret Behind Medicare Advantage" by Matthew Cunningham-Cook.
Article: "Rahm Emanuel" by Wikipedia.
 
Article: "Taxpayers should continue to report all cryptocurrency, digital asset income" by IRS.
 
How Russia rewards brutality...
Article: "Putin PROMOTES prison official accused of torturing murdered Alexei Navalny just days after dissident's 'novichok' death" by Georgie English, Nick Parker, Will Stewart.
Article: "Russia Issues Warrant for Arrest of Alexei Navalny's Brother Days After Opposition Leader's Suspicious Death" by Isaac Schorr.
Article: "'Leave now': White House warns Americans in Russia as Biden prepares Navalny sanctions" by David Badash.
 
Before he went Mar-a-Lago, speaker Johnson was talking about not shutting down the government. Now everything has changed, because Trump wants Johnson to destroy the economy to hurt Biden
Article: "'It's about to blow up': GOP lawmakers report rumored government shutdown" by M.L. Nestel.
Article: "White House warns Americans in Russia as Biden prepares Navalny sanctions" by David Badash.
Article: "Speaker Johnson talks 2024 with Trump at Mar-a-Lago as Haley vows to stay in GOP primary" by Elizabeth Elkind.
Article: "House Republicans privately expect government shutdown" by Juliegrace Brufke.
 
Article: "Underground Railroad" by Wikipedia.
Case: "Brown v. Board", 1954.
Article: "New report shows 'dramatic exodus' of Idaho OBGYNs since repeal of Roe v. Wade" by Julie Luchetta.
Article: "NFL Legend Joe Namath Says Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Healed His Damaged Brain" by Amen Clinics.
Article: "Putin's interview with Tucker Carlson: The Russian oligarchy pleads for "peaceful coexistence" with imperialism" by Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists.
Article: "High-profile Republicans head for the exits amid House GOP dysfunction" by Melanie Zanona, Annie Grayer and Haley Talbot.
Article: "Alexander Vindman" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Eugene Vindman" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Alexei Navalny" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Now Putin goes after Alexei Navalny's family: Arrest warrant is put out for 'murdered' opposition leader's brother who has fled Russia" by James Reynolds.
Site: Back to the Future The Musical.
Article: "Canada ready to allocate funds for supply of ammunition to Ukraine from Czechia" by European Pravda, Ukrainska Pravda.
Article: "Russia's NATO neighbors are building hundreds of bunkers and anti-tank ditches in case of an invasion" by Mia Jankowicz.

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Hour Three: Why Elizabeth Warren is urging regulators to block Capital One's takeover of Discover
Elizabeth Warren urges regulators to block Capital One's takeover of Discover - Senator says $35bn deal merging two of the largest US credit card firms would 'threaten financial stability' and reduce competition
Article: "Elizabeth Warren urges regulators to block Capital One's takeover of Discover" by Callum Jones.
Case: "United States v. Google LLC (2023)".
Article: "About that government shutdown …" by Ben Leonard, Chelsea Cirruzzo.
Article: "If regulators approve, Capital One plans to buy Discover for more than $35 billion" by Leila Fadel.
 
Geeky Science! Accuweather is sounding alarm bells re possible "super-charged" hurricane season
Article: "AccuWeather sounding alarm bells: Super-charged hurricane season possible in 2024 " by Brian Lada.
 
Article: "House Republicans Flee DC for Early Vacation Amid National Security 'Crisis'" by David Badash.
Article: "House Republicans Care More About Boosting Donald Trump Than Securing the Border" by DNC.
Article: "House GOP Impeaches DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas — Just To Help Trump" by Jennifer Bendery.
Article: "Johnson's risky impeachment bet" by Jordain Carney.
Article: "Why the GOP wants to impeach Mayorkas but not pass the border deal" by Stephen Collinson,.
Article: "Republicans Against Border Enforcement" by David Leonhardt.
Article: "Border Patrol Supports 'Strong' Immigration Deal. Republicans Don't Care" by Ryan Bort.
Article: "Democrats see New York election win as model for tackling immigration issue" by Lauren Gambino.
Article: "Trump Raked in Millions From China During Presidency: Report" by Nikki McCann Ramirez.
Article: "Jared Kushner and Steven Mnuchin Have Reportedly Secured Billions from Saudi Government" by Ken Meyer.
Article: "Abraham Accords" by Wikipedia.
Quote: "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub" by Grover Norquist.
Article: "Assassination of Malcolm X" by Wikipedia.
Article: "U.S.-Russia Nuclear Arms Control" by Council on Foreign Relations.
Article: "2023 Chinese balloon incident" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The New Nuclear Age" by Scientific American.
Article: "Sacrifice zone" by Wikipedia.
Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).
Article: "Moscow says 700,000 children from Ukraine conflict zones now in Russia" by Reuters.
Article: "100 days of Ukraine invasion: How Russian soldiers weaponised rape in war with Kyiv" by Arpan Rai.
Article: "Euromaidan" (Maidan Uprising) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Ukraine: The Latest - the Telegraph's most popular ever podcast" by David Knowles, Dominic Nicholls, Francis Dearnley, Louisa Wells.
Article: "Challenger 2's secret weapon: A cup of tea" by forces.net.
Article: "Ukraine Shoots Down Seventh Russian Fighter Jet in a Week" by Isabel van Brugen.
Article: "Trump demands NATO 'pay their bills' because US is paying '$150 billion' more than their allies who have given a 'fraction' to the Ukraine war" by Rob Crilly.
Article: "Trump lecturing others on paying bills is hilariously hypocritical" by Celia Rivenbark.
Article: "Donald Trump ordered to pay over $350m in New York financial fraud case" by Lauren Aratani.
Article: "Joe Biden unleashes at Donald Trump over alleged 'suckers, losers' comment about US soldiers" by news.com.au.
Movie: "Superpower".