Sue's Daily Stack, Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
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
Article: "Rep. Crockett: Americans Tired Of Dems Bringing 'Butter Knife' To Fight" by NewsHound Ellen.
Article: "Ben Wikler" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Wisconsin Democratic Sen. Baldwin wins reelection by defeating a Trump-backed opponent" by Scott Bauer.
Article: "Trump appointments set off special elections to fill House seats: What to know" by Caroline Vakil.
Article: "Second inauguration of Donald Trump" (January 20, 2025) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Martin Luther King Jr. Day" (January 20, 2025) by Wikipedia.
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: "Supreme Court rules states cannot remove Trump from ballot for insurrection" by Amy Howe.
Article: "Mueller report" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Orrin Hatch once said there was "no question" Merrick Garland could be confirmed to the Supreme Court." by Alex Shephard.
Article: "Texas had over 26K rape-related pregnancies in 16 months after abortion ban, study shows" by ABC13.
Article: "China owns 380,000 acres of land in the U.S. Here's where" by Ximena Bustillo, Connie Hanzhang Jin.
Article: "TV's Dr. Oz invested in businesses regulated by agency Trump wants him to lead" by KFF Health News.
Article: "Biden administration announces additional $725 million security assistance for Ukraine" by UPI.
Article: "Germany's Scholz pledges new military aid to Ukraine during rare Kyiv trip" by Pavel Polityuk and Tom Balmforth.
Article: "Baltic Sea: Russian ship fires signalling ammunition at German army helicopter " by Euronews.
Article: "Shalanda Young" by Wikipedia.
Article: "CCTV shows masked man pull gun on healthcare boss moments before targeted killing in New York" by Dan Cairns.
Article: "UnitedHealth Group Profits Hit $22 Billion In 2023" by Bruce Japsen.
Article: "What to Do When Medicare Advantage Plans Deny Coverage" by Paul Wynn.
Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).
Hour Two: Republican Elon Musk Just Declared War on Social Security
- Alex Lawson, President - Social Security Works / Strengthen Social Security @alaw202 @ssworks
Article: "Watchdogs Say World's Richest Man Elon Musk Has 'Declared War on Social Security'" by Jake Johnson.
Article: "Problem Solvers Caucus" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Mark your calendar with key Open Enrollment dates" by Healthcare.gov.
Article: "181 rural hospitals have closed since 2005—see the states that have been impacted" by Aine Givens.
Article: "Medicare Advantage" (Medicare Part C) by Wikipedia.
The Warning from Seoul: Democracy at Risk in an Age of Authoritarian Power
Article: "The Warning from Seoul: Democracy at Risk in an Age of Authoritarian Power" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Echoes of History: How Fascism Quietly Seizes Control" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Jan. 6 as Foundational Event for American Autocracy" by Ruth Ben-Ghiat.
Article: "Decapitation Strike (December)" by Timothy Snyder.
Book: I Paid Hitler by Fritz Thyssen.
Book: "They Thought They Were Free" by Milton Mayer.
Article: "'That Curious Feeling of Unreality': Under Cover in Nazi America 1938 - 1943" by Heidi Siegmund Cuda.
Article: "Yoon Suk-Yeol: Will 'South Korea's Donald Trump' worsen tensions with North Korea?" by Shweta Sharma.
Geeky Science! The best longevity thing you can do is.....find out!
Article: "Daily walk may prolong lifespan" by Finn Cohen.
Article: "Individual mandate" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Court strikes down Obamacare's individual mandate as unconstitutional" by Pete Williams.
Article: "Donald Trump 'paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017' - NY Times" by BBC.
Hour Three: CFPB wants to rein in predatory data brokers - but won't be able to if Musk deletes them....
Article: "CFPB Wants to Rein In Predatory Data Brokers—But Can't If Musk 'Deletes' Agency" by Julia Conley.
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.
Is DeSantis willing to trade being secretary of defense for giving Laura Trump the Senate seat that Marco Rubio is vacating?
Article: "Trump Talks to DeSantis About Replacing Hegseth" by Marc A. Caputo.
Article: "Obama's 'National Security Force?'" by Brooks Jackson.
Article: "Why South Korea's Leader, Desperate and Frustrated, Made a Fateful Decision" by Choe Sang-Hun.
Article: "Gulf of Tonkin incident" by Wikipedia.
Article: "USS Maine (ACR-1)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Propaganda of the Spanish-American War" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Sudetenland" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Charles A. Flynn" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Desertion threatens to starve Ukraine's forces at a crucial time in its war with Russia" by Samya Kullab, Volodymyr Yurchuk.
Article: "Casualties of the Russo-Ukrainian War" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump confirms plans to use military for mass deportations" by Washintong Post.
Article: "The Posse Comitatus Act Explained" by Joseph Nunn.
Article: "Massachusetts health care reform" (Romneycare) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Pre-existing condition" by Wikipedia.