Sue's Daily Stack, Wednesday, 27 March, 2024
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Wednesday's Daily Stack
Hour One: The Cold, Dead Hand of Anthony Comstock is about to Fall on America's Women
Article: "The Cold, Dead Hand of Anthony Comstock is about to Fall on America's Women" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "How we discovered 'breaking history news'" by Dan Diamond.
Case: "Youngs Rubber Corp. v. C.I. Lee & Co".
Book: The Man Who Hated Women by Amy Sohn.
Article: "The Abortion Pill Fight Isn't Over. Foes Look to 1873 Obscenity Law" by Madlin Mekelburg.
Article: "Hyde-smith, Lankford Lead Letters To Pharmacies On Abortion Drug Distribution" by Cindy Hyde-Smith.
Letter: "to Tom Moriarty, General Counsel, May 5, 2023" by Cindy Hyde-Smith.
Article: "Application of the Comstock Act to the Mailing of Prescription Drugs That Can Be Used for Abortions" (downloads a PDF) by Christopher H. Schroeder.
Law: "18 U.S. Code § 1461 - Mailing obscene or crime-inciting matter" (An Act for the Suppression of Trade in, and Circulation of, obscene Literature and Articles of immoral Use).
Law: "18 U.S. Code § 1462 - Importation or transportation of obscene matters".
Article: "Why anti-abortion groups are citing the ideas of a 19th-century 'vice reformer'" by Sarah McCammon.
Article: "US appeals judges express support for opponents of abortion pill" by Tom Hals, Andrew Goudsward and Brendan Pierson.
Article: "Alito and Thomas kept bringing up Comstock. That scared abortion rights supporters." by Dan Diamond.
Article: "Abe Fortas" by Wikipedia.
Article: "It's Time to Investigate Ginni Thomas" by Thom Hartmann.
Will Jared Kushner finally get investigated?
Article: "Dems renew demand that GOP investigates Jared Kushner's overseas business dealings" by Sky Palma.
Article: "Kushner Deal in Serbia Follows Earlier Interest by Trump" by Eric Lipton, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan.
Article: "Jared Kushner and Steven Mnuchin Have Reportedly Secured Billions from Saudi Government" by Ken Meyer.
Article: "Inside Trump Treasury nominee's past life as 'foreclosure king' of California" by Sam Levin.
Article: "Charles Kushner" by Wikipedia.
There is a new "litmus test" to become part of the RNC and it's a doozy.....
Article: "Lara Trump's RNC Is Asking Job Applicants If the 2020 Election Was Stolen, Per Report" by Jamie Frevele.
Article: "Majority in U.S. Now Disapprove of Israeli Action in Gaza" by Jeffrey M. Jones.
Article: "The GOP could lose the House before Election Day. Here's how Democrats get ready" by David Nir.
Article: "California county on edge over bid to recall far-right, election-denying official" by Dani Anguiano.
Article: "NBC News drops Ronna McDaniel after on-air revolt from channel's stars" by Joe Sommerlad.
Article: "David Pecker" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Michael Steele" by Wikipedia.
Article: "NBC News Cuts Ties With Ronna McDaniel After Network Firestorm" by Michael M. Grynbaum and John Koblin.
Site: Democratic National Committee.
Article: "How Billionaire's Privilege is Taking Down Our Republic" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Parents of reporter Evan Gershkovich speak out 1 year into his Russian detainment: Exclusive" by Meredith Deliso and Caroline Guthrie.
Article: "Israeli woman who was held hostage by Hamas speaks out on her abduction and sexual assault in Gaza" by Lauren Izso, Jeremy Diamond and Eyad Kourdi.
Article: "Ditch the almond milk: why everything you know about sustainable eating is probably wrong" by Tony Naylor.
Article: "For A Few Weeks The Colorado River Reached The Ocean. Will It Happen Again?" by Luke Runyon.
Article: "Israeli Hostage Says She Was Sexually Assaulted and Tortured in Gaza" by Patrick Kingsley and Ronen Bergman.
Article: "Mifepristone" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Project 2025".
Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).
Case: "Marbury v Madison".
Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].
Article: "Joe Manchin won't run for reelection, giving GOP an opening to flip West Virginia seat " by Manu Raju, Morgan Rimmer and Lauren Fox.
Article: "Kyrsten Sinema: Independent senator won't run for re-election" by BBC.
Tweet: "The NY appellate court's unexplained reduction from $454M to $175M in the bond Trump must post in 10 days to secure the judgment pending appeal is a travesty of justice. Let's hope public disgust with this preferential treatment will come back to bite Trump politically." by Laurence Tribe.
Article: "Trump's Truth Social is now a public company. Experts warn its multibillion-dollar valuation defies logic" by Matt Egan.
Hour Two: What about that Biden economy...
- Michael Tomasky, Editor - The New Republic @mtomasky @newrepublic
Article: "It's the Biden vs. Trump Economy—and Hell No, It's Not Even Close" by Michael Tomasky.
Article: "Cancer eating the heart of Australian democracy" by Kevin Rudd.
Article: "Power and scandal: how Murdoch drove the UK, US and Australia to the right" by Dan Sabbagh.
Article: "Obama's Last Three Years Of Job Growth All Beat Trump's Best Year" by Chuck Jones.
Article: "United States Comparative Trends Analysis: Total Employment Growth and Change, 1969-2022" by Pacific Northwest Regional Economic Analysis Project (PNREAP).
Article: "These are the most and least biased news outlets in the US, according to Americans" by Pat Ralph and Eliza Relman.
Article: "The Saudi & Putin Scheme for Screwing Biden's Election Hopes" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Saudi Arabia Now Controls the Largest Oil Refinery in North America" by Robbie Gramer.
Article: "MAGA's most successful piece of propaganda"("I did that") by Nina Burleigh.
Article: "Arizona governor moves to end Saudi-owned farm's controversial leases" by Isaac Stanley-Becker, Yvonne Wingett Sanchez.
Article: "Is China really buying up U.S. farmland? Here's what we found" by Laura Strickler and Nicole Moeder.
Article: "Trump's Legal Stall FAILS! Trial Starts in 3 Weeks & He's $175M poorer." by Sarah Longwell.
Can Biden prevent Trump from stealing the election? He's working on it....
Article: "Biden Is Building a 'Superstructure' to Stop Trump From Stealing the Election" by Asawin Suebsaeng, Adam Rawnsley.
Article: "'Stop the Steal' campaign has long ties to Roger Stone" by CNN.
Article: "Supreme Court Upholds Controversial Ohio Voter-Purge Law" by Nina Totenberg .
Good News: AL democrat flips GOP seat on the Republican threat to women
Article: "Alabama Democrat flips GOP seat after campaigning against threats to IVF" by Jeff Singer.
Article: "Once-lukewarm billionaires set to come back around to Trump at fundraiser hosted by John Paulson" by Lydia Moynihan.
Article: "Recall's real reason — GOP wants Newsom off the road" by Tom Elias.
Article: "Chevron to pay over $13 million in settlement for California oil spills" by Reuters.
Site: OpenSecrets.org: Money in Politics -- See Who's Giving & Who's Getting.
Article: "Owen Jones" by Wikipedia.
Youtube: "Owen Jones".
Article: "The latest on the Iowa caucuses and 2024 primary campaign" by Elise Hammond, Aditi Sangal, Antoinette Radford, Amir Vera, Isabelle D'Antonio, Maureen Chowdhury and Jack Forrest.
Article: "What the Polls Say Today: RFK Jr. Now Hurting Biden, Helping Trump" by Ed Kilgore.
Article: "With Nicole Shanahan, R.F.K. Jr. Makes a New Play for the Disaffected" by Rebecca Davis O'Brien.
Hour Three: How Fox News is one of our top threats....
- Sabrina Haake, Federal trial attorney (20+ years) specializing in First and 14th Amendment defense / Contributor to numerous law journals & publications including the Chicago Tribune @haake_sabrina
Article: "TikTok disinformation is no more dangerous than Fox News disinformation" by Sabrina Haake.
Article: "Fox News settles with Dominion at the last second, pays more than $787 million to avert defamation trial over its 2020 election lies " by Marshall Cohen and Oliver Darcy.
Article: "NBC's ousting of Ronna McDaniel reinforces status as anti-Trump, pro-Biden network" by Joseph Wulfsohn.
Article: "fairness doctrine" by Matt Stefon.
Law: "Telecommunications Act of 1996" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Haake: The rising cost of propaganda" by .
Article: "Overcoming the Fox News-Musk-Trump propaganda machine" by Sabrina Haake.
Article: "In blow to Fox Corp., judge rules Smartmatic case over 2020 election lies can proceed" by Marshall Cohen.
Geeky Science! Can not sleeping age you?
Article: "Two nights of broken sleep can make people feel years older, finds study" by Ian Sample.
Article: "Trump is selling 'God Bless the USA' Bibles for $59.99 as he faces mounting legal bills" by Jill Colvin.
Bible: "Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves." - Matthew 21:12: Jesus Cleanses the Temple.
Article: "'The Bible is not a prop': Religious leaders, lawmakers outraged over Trump church visit" by Rebecca Shabad, Geoff Bennett, Monica Alba and Shannon Pettypiece.
Article: "Salem Media Group" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The Music Man" by Wikipedia.
Article: "2024 United States Senate election in Ohio" (Sherrod Brown) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Claire McCaskill Reacts To Todd Akin's 'Legitimate Rape' Remarks" by Sam Stein.
Quote: "A number of my friends who belong in these very high upper brackets have suggested to me, more in sorrow than in anger, that if I am reelected they will have to move to some other Nation because of high taxes here. I shall miss them very much." - Franklin D. Roosevelt, "Address at Worcester, Mass.," October 21, 1936.
Article: "Involuntary manslaughter " by LexisNexis.
Article: "Sovereign immunity" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Republicans kill border bill in a sign of Trump's strength and McConnell's waning influence" by Sahil Kapur and Frank Thorp V.
Article: "Electoral College" by Wikipedia.
Site: "National Popular Vote Interstate Compact".
Article: "Pope backtracks on Ukraine 'white flag' comments" by Alvise Armellini.
Article: "Precinct captain" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Comstock Act of 1873" (Comstock Act ban on birth control information overturned) by Brandon R. Burnette.
Case: "United States v. One Package (2d Cir. 1936)".
Law: "Youngs Rubber Corp. v. C.I. Lee & Co (2d Cir. 1930)".
After listening to Sabrina Haake, I have a few ideas on what could be done by trusted sources we have now. Some time ago Thom had an op-ed about how the right hate fact checking. When the right hates something we need to double down on it. On video broadcasts could have split screen with fact checking as it happens. How could it be done on audio; I have listened to radio while there is a thunderstorm warning active with a tone every so often. when true information is being shared a monotone sound plays in the background when false information is being shared a sharp sound plays.