Sue's Daily Stack, Wednesday, 5 June, 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
Article: "Trump suggests that, if re-elected, he would have Biden indicted" by Summer Concepcion.
Article: "Behind the Curtain: MAGA's jail plan" by Mike Allen, Jim VandeHei.
Article: "Steve Bannon wants Don Jr. at 'top of the list' to become Trump's next attorney general" by David Edwards.
Article: "Schumer: Senate to vote on "Right to Contraception" this Wednesday" by Rebecca Falconer.
Video: The Senate will vote on whether to advance legislation to establish federal protections for contraception.
Case: "Griswold v Connecticut" (1965) (contraception for married couples).
Article: "House Democrats Begin Bid to Force Contraceptive Vote, Pressuring G.O.P." by Annie Karni.
Article: "Biden lands in France for D-Day anniversary as Western alliances face threats at home and abroad" by Chris Megerian and Zeke Miller.
Article: "Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are 'Losers' and 'Suckers'" by Jeffrey Goldberg.
Article: "How the Federalist Society became the de facto selector of Republican Supreme Court justices." by Lawrence Baum and Neal Devins.
Article: "Sen. Mike Lee leads effort to block Biden administration appointees and Democrat bills after Trump verdict" by Hanna Seariac.
Article: "Rent Going Up? One Company's Algorithm Could Be Why." by Heather Vogell, Haru Coryne, Ryan Little.
Article: "Lina Khan" (chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)) by Wikipedia.
Article: "FTC says Texas oil exec sought to work with OPEC to boost prices" by Ben Lefebvre.
Article: "Why 30 Years of Defense Consolidation May Be at an End" by Jon Sindreu.
Article: "Cutting the Hedges: The Bill to Ban Hedge Fund Home Buying" by Paul Centopani.
Article: "Tempers flare as Robert DeNiro clashes with Trump supporter outside hush money trial" by David Edwards.
Article: "Trump must 'immediately' schedule a pre-sentence interview with NYC probation. Playing hooky may add to his legal woes." by Laura Italiano.
Book: How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future by Maria Ressa.
Article: "Maria Ressa" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Another State Department official resigns over Gaza, taking aim at aid" by John Hudson, Michael Birnbaum.
Article: "Is Israel meeting promise to let more aid into Gaza?" by Jemma Crew & Tom Spender.
Article: "A timeline of Trump's many, many positions on abortion" by Natasha Korecki.
Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].
Article: "What Is the PRO Act?" by AFL-CIO.
Article: "Equal Rights Amendment" by Britannica.
Article: "Will Congress Address the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Sunset Provisions in an Election Year?" by Smith Legacy Law.
Article: "Revealed: Prebuttal of the GOP's Debate Trashing President Biden & Progressives" (Biden achievements) by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "The Social Security 2100 Act" by John Larson.
Article: "Joy: Michael Cohen went to jail for same crime Trump's now on trial for" by MSNBC.
Article: "Isolated and Defiant, Israel Vows to 'Stand Alone' in War on Hamas" by Damien Cave.
Article: "Timeline: How the gun charges against Hunter Biden turned to a trial" by CBS.
Article: "Project 2025".
Hour Two: His recent New Republic piece,"Off Leash: Inside the Secret, Global, Far-Right Group Chat."
- Ken Silverstein, Investigative reporter based in Washington who has reported from Colombia and elsewhere in Latin America for 30 years @KenSilverstein1
Article: "Off Leash: Inside the Secret, Global, Far-Right Group Chat" by Ken Silverstein.
Article: "Alternative for Germany" (Alternative für Deutschland, AfD) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Erik Prince" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Blackwater (company)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Betsy DeVos" by Wikipedia.
Video: "Triumph of the Will" by Leni Riefenstahl.
Article: "Matt Taibbi" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Jordan Peterson" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Bread and circuses" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Oral Contraceptives and Cancer Risk" by National Cancer Institute. "Ovarian cancer: Women who have ever used oral contraceptives have a 30% to 50% lower risk of ovarian cancer than women who have never used oral contraceptives... This protection has been found to increase with the length of time oral contraceptives are used"
Article: "Matthew Kacsmaryk" by Wikipedia.
Article: "A notorious Trump judge just fired the first shot against birth control" by Ian Millhiser.
Article: "Texas man details wife's devastating miscarriage amid state's strict abortion laws: "Nobody uses the word abortion"" by Omar Villafranca, Jennifer Earl, Rachel Bailey.
Jared Kushner's new development deal includes a memorial to the victims of NATO. Say what? He's spending a half $1 billion on a pro Russian project?
Article: "Kushner's Deal with Pro-Russia Serbs Raises Hackles" by Michael Isikoff.
Article: "Rep. Garcia: Why Did Saudi Government Give Kushner $2 Billion?" by Robert Garcia.
Article: "Takeaways from Day 3 of the Hunter Biden gun trial" by Marshall Cohen and Holmes Lybrand.
Article: "Biden campaign sends De Niro to Trump trial to put focus on 2021 Capitol attack" by PA News Agency.
Article: "Moscow trials" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Senate GOP candidates attacked Obama over Ebola but defend Trump on coronavirus pandemic" by Manu Raju and Alex Rogers.
Article: "Intelligence report warned of coronavirus crisis as early as November: Sources" by Josh Margolin and James Gordon Meek.
Article: "SARS" by Wikipedia.
Article: "'I'm just not': Trump told Woodward he wasn't concerned about catching Covid in newly released audio" by Jamie Gangel, Elizabeth Stuart and Michael Warren.
Article: "COVID-19 pandemic death rates by country" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Louis DeJoy" by Wikipedia.
Article: "'When is it going to be fixed?' Ossoff demands answers from postmaster general over mail issues" by Richard Elliot.
Article: "USPS removed 711 sorting machines this year, new court documents show" by Kristen Holmes and Paul P. Murphy.
Article: "USPS sees mail delays amid network overhaul. Now lawmakers, regulator seek answers" by Jory Heckman.
Article: "The Postal Service is slowing the mail to save money. Critics say it's a death spiral" by Brian Naylor.
Article: "USPS Lists Hundreds of Post Offices and Other Facilities Where It Will Consolidate Operations" by Eric Katz.
Article: "Legislation, lawsuit vowed in fight to block USPS plan to move Reno mail processing" by Mark Robison.
Article: "Establishment Clause (Separation of Church and State)" by Hana M. Ryman and J. Mark Alcorn.
Article: "Amid calls to #TaxTheChurches – what and how much do US religious organizations not pay the taxman?" by Ryan Cragun.
Article: "Billions in taxpayer dollars now go to religious schools via vouchers" by Laura Meckler, Michelle Boorstein.
Article: "About Form 990, Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax" by IRS.
Bible: "Matthew 25:31-46 The Sheep and the Goats".
Article: "Trump Spews False Claims and Fury in Wake of Conviction" by Here's what to know after Trump's conviction.
Hour Three: Are We All Bozos On this Giant Experimental Bus?
Article: "Are We All Bozos On this Giant Experimental Bus?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Exclusive: US intelligence spotted Chinese, Iranian deepfakes in 2020 aimed at influencing US voters" by Zachary Cohen, Sean Lyngaas and Evan Perez.
Article: "Microsoft Threat IntelligenceSame targets, new playbooks: East Asia threat actors employ unique methods" by Microsoft Threat Intelligence.
Article: "OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance" by Kevin Roose.
Site: "The Firesign Theatre".
Article: "With GOP opposed, U.S. Senate panel advances bills to combat AI in elections" by Zachary Roth.
Article: "Disrupting malicious uses of AI by state-affiliated threat actors" by OpenAI.
Article: "Facebook’s AI Told Parents Group It Has a Gifted, Disabled Child" by Jason Koebler.
Record: I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus by The Firesign Theatre.
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: "Exclusive: Biden officials confront limits of federal response in exercise preparing for 2024 election threats" by Sean Lyngaas.
Article: "Grand Jury Indicts Thirteen Russian Individuals and Three Russian Companies for Scheme to Interfere in the United States Political System" by DoJ.
Article: "What Is the Internet Research Agency?" by Krishnadev Calamur.
Article: "Study Confirms Influence of Russian Internet “Trolls” on 2016 Election" by Zizhu Zhang.
Article: "Chinese nationalist trolls pretend to be Trump supporters ahead of US elections" by Lin Yang.
Site: Perplexity AI search engine.
Democrats are daring the GOP to vote against the right to birth control
Article: "Conservative attacks on birth control could threaten access" by Lauren Weber.
Article: "Senate Republicans block bill to recognize legal right to contraception" by Carter Sherman.
Article: "14 of Trump's most outrageous 'birther' claims – half from after 2011" by Gregory Krieg.
Article: "Mudsill theory" by Wikipedia.
Video: Whodini - Big Mouth.
How criminal is this guy Trump?
Article: "Felonious Trump" by Unprecedented .
Article: "The Lincoln Project" by Wikipedia.
Documentary: The Great Hack.
Article: "The Near Future of Deepfakes Just Got Way Clearer" by Nilesh Christopher.
Article: "34 Guiltys. 57 to go." by charles's Substack.
Article: "Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy" (June 5, 1968) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Assassination of Malcolm X" (February 21, 1965) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Has Trump Spent '278.5 Years' of Salary on Taxpayer-Funded Golf Outings?" by Alex Kasprak.
Article: "Donald Trump Paid $1.4 Million in a Dispute Over Undocumented Workers. Read the Newly Unsealed Legal Papers" by Ryan Teague Beckwith.
Article: "Yes, US shipped donated personal protective equipment to China in February" by Bill McCarthy.