Sue's Daily Stack, Wednesday, 3 January, 2024

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Wednesday's Daily Stack

Hour One: National Progressive Townhall Meeting
- Representative Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District) / Current 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: "Texas doctors do not need to perform emergency abortions, court rules" by Dan Diamond, Caroline Kitchener.
Article: "GOP Rep Is Leaving Congress ASAP to Take Over as University Prez" by Alex Nguyen.
Article: "Kevin McCarthy to leave Congress at the end of this year" by Melanie Zanona and Haley Talbot.
Article: "House GOP majority to shrink to 2 with Ohio lawmaker's early resignation" by Emily Brooks.
Article: "Congress faces 2 shutdown deadlines; no action yet on spending" by Bank of Hays.
Bill: "H.R.9187 - Save Medicare Act" by Rep. Pocan, Mark [D-WI-2].
Article: "'The Cash Monster Was Insatiable': How Insurers Exploited Medicare for Billions" by Reed Abelson and Margot Sanger-Katz.
Article: "Medicare Advantage Plans Often Deny Needed Care, Federal Report Finds" by Reed Abelson.
Article: "Ron Johnson tried to hand fake elector info to Mike Pence on Jan. 6, panel reveals" by Nicholas Wu and Kyle Cheney.
Article: "ACO REACH" by CMS.
Article: "Maine's secretary of state says she's received 'unacceptable' threats after barring Trump from the state's GOP presidential primary ballot" by John L. Dorman.
Article: "Kaiser Permanente to Acquire Geisinger, Along with 5-6 More Health Systems in the Near Future" by Katie Adams.
Article: "Foreign investment in United States real estate" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Wall Street has purchased hundreds of thousands of single-family homes since the Great Recession. Here's what that means for rental prices" by Carlos Waters.
Article: "Cutting the Hedges: The Bill to Ban Hedge Fund Home Buying" by Paul Centopani.
Article: "Who Employs Your Doctor? Increasingly, a Private Equity Firm" by Reed Abelson and Margot Sanger-Katz.
Article: ""The U.S. and Israel Stand Alone": World Demands Ceasefire as Gaza Death Toll Tops 20,000" by Democracy Now!
Bill: "H.Res.786 - Calling for an immediate deescalation and cease-fire in Israel and occupied Palestine" by Rep. Bush, Cori [D-MO-1].
Article: ""Medicare & You" handbook" by Medicare.
Article: "Congress returns to a new year — and a host of deadlines" by Erin B. Logan.

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Hour Two: Why Don't Americans Know Who's Manipulating our Political System & Why?
Article: "Why Don't Americans Know Who's Manipulating our Political System & Why?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "The age of effluence" (smog) by Time.
Article: "The Environment a matter of urgency" by Time.
Article: "Invisible Killer" by Time.
Article: "The Two Santas Strategy: How the GOP has used an economic scam to manipulate Americans for 40 years" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "How the Billionaire Corruption of SCOTUS Could End Social Security — and America" by Thom Hartmann.
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 and David M. Rolf.
Article: "The Air: from pollution to profit" by Time.
Article: "EPA: A Retrospective, 1970-1990" by EPA.
Article: "From the Ashes of '69, a River Reborn" (Cuyahoga River) by Christopher Maag.
Article: "The Trump Administration Rolled Back More Than 100 Environmental Rules. Here's the Full List." by Nadja Popovich, Livia Albeck-Ripka, Kendra Pierre-Louis.
Article: "A billionaire emits a million times more greenhouse gases than the average person" by Oxfam.
Article: "What billionaires want: the secret influence of America's 100 richest" by Benjamin I Page, Jason Seawright, Matthew J Lacombe.
Article: "Chevron deference " by LII.
Case: "Brown v. Board", 1954.
Book: "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson.
Article: "Lake Erie is Dead" by Michael Rotman.
Article: "Cuyahoga River Fire" by Michael Rotman.
Article: "Trickle-down economics" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Antonin Scalia's Son Confirmed As Labor Secretary" by Kevin Daley.
 
Article: "Israel Used 22,000 US-Provided Bombs on Gaza in Just Six Weeks, Report Reveals" by Sharon Zhang.
Article: "Speaker Johnson leads House GOP on a trip to a Texas border city as Ukraine aid hangs in the balance" by Valerie Gonzalez, Stephen Groves.
 
Wisdom School Alert! The #1 Lesson to Become a Brilliant Writer Revealed
Article: "The #1 Lesson to Becoming a Brilliant Writer Revealed" by Thom Hartmann.
 
Crazy Alert! A new board game is out for fascists - "Storm the Capitol"
Article: "'Storm the Capitol' board game offers an 'insurrection in a box': report" by M.L. Nestel.
 
Article: "Emergency rooms not required to perform life-saving abortions, federal appeals court rules" by Eleanor Klibanoff.
Book: The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis by Jared Yates Sexton.
Article: "Electoral College" by Wikipedia.
Article: "2018 Michigan Proposal 2" by Wikipedia.
Article: "5 Presidents Who Lost the Popular Vote But Won the Election" by Dave Roos.
Article: "List of United States presidential elections by popular vote margin" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Federalist 68" by Alexander Hamilton. "The process of election affords a moral certainty, that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications. Talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity, may alone suffice to elevate a man to the first honors in a single State; but it will require other talents, and a different kind of merit, to establish him in the esteem and confidence of the whole Union, or of so considerable a portion of it as would be necessary to make him a successful candidate for the distinguished office of President of the United States."
Law: "Taft-Hartley Labor Act", 1947.
Article: "Do-Nothing Congress" by Taegan Goddard.
Law: "The National Labor Relations Act (The Wagner Act)", 1935.
Article: "What are Medicare late enrollment penalties?" by SSA.
Article: "Eligibility for Low-Income Subsidy" by CMS.
Article: "Let's Just Say It Very Clearly: The US Supreme Court Is Corrupt" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Don't Blame Supply-Siders" by Jude Wanniski.
Article: "The Shutdown is the Two Santa Clauses Scam Rearing its Ugly Head Again" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Jude Wanniski: Taxes and a Two-Santa Theory" by Bruce Bartlett.
Article: "Jaime Harrison" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Problem Solvers Caucus" by Wikipedia.
Article: "New Democrats" by Wikipedia.

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Hour Three: Now we're starting to go after the other insurrectionists, like I called for yesterday...
Article: "Trump-loving congressman hit with lawsuit seeking to disqualify him as an insurrectionist" by Matthew Chapman.
Article: "Barr says efforts to boot Trump from primary ballots 'doomed to legal failure'" by Tara Suter.
Article: "The 147 Republicans Who Voted to Overturn Election Results" by Karen Yourish, Larry Buchanan and Denise Lu.
Article: "How Many Died as a Result of Capitol Riot?" by Robert Farley.
Article: "Rep. Scott Perry ordered to turn over phone data to DOJ in Jan. 6 case" by Rebecca Falconer.
Article: "Speech or Debate Clause" by Wikipedia.
 
The GOP's nefarious plan to impeach Biden on Trump's behalf... This is so damn cynical...
Article: "House GOP could be laying a 'trap' in Biden impeachment inquiry: report" by Matthew Chapman.
Article: "ATF gunwalking scandal" (Operation Fast and Furious) by Wikipedia.
 
Article: "Modern Monetary Theory" by Wikipedia.
Article: "National debt of Japan" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Kaizen" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Cultural Revolution" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Transcendental Meditation" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Maharishi Mahesh Yogi" by Wikipedia.
Site: David Lynch Foundation.
Article: "Charles Manson" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Self-Realization Fellowship" by Wikipedia.
Article: "In Michigan, the controversial Line 5 pipeline gets one step closer to the finish line" by Izzy Ross.
Article: "Kalamazoo River oil spill" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Biden to jump-start 2024 campaign by highlighting sharp contrast with Trump" by David Smith.
Case: "Bush v. Gore", 2000. "The individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors for the President of the United States"
Article: "Roger Stone" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Brooks Brothers riot" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Who Killed the Electric Car?" by Wikipedia.