Sue's Daily Stack, Wednesday, 6 December, 2023

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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
Tweet: "I already miss my friend Norman…" photo of Thom and Norman Lear) by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Former House speaker Kevin McCarthy to resign from Congress at end of year" by Martin Pengelly.
Tweet: "Well.. Now in 2024, we will have a 1 seat majority in the House of Representatives. Congratulations Freedom Caucus for one and 105 Rep who expel our own for the other. I can assure you Republican voters didn't give us the majority to crash the ship. Hopefully no one dies." by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Article: "US files war crime charges against Russians accused of torturing an American in the Ukraine invasion" by Lindsay Whitehurst, Eric Tucker.
Article: "4 Russians become first charged under US war crimes act" by Laura Kelly.
Article: "Biden to press Congress to pass Ukraine aid package in Wednesday speech, as US offers dire warnings" by Zeke Miller, Aamer Madhani.
Video: University Presidents Testify on College Campus Antisemitism, Part 1.
Article: "Congressional Freethought Caucus" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Congressional Freethought Caucus members" by Jared Huffman.
Book: Playing God: American Catholic Bishops and The Far Right by Mary Jo McConahay.
Case: "Bush v. Gore", 2000. "The individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors for the President of the United States"
Bill: "H.R.9187 - Save Medicare Act" by Rep. Pocan, Mark [D-WI-2].
Article: "Over 35 Million Prior Authorization Requests Were Submitted to Medicare Advantage Plans in 2021" by Jeannie Fuglesten Biniek and Nolan Sroczynski.
Article: "The GOP has Declared War on Their New Mortal Enemy: Zoomers" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "List of military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War" by Wikipedia.
Video: FBI Director Rejects Claim That Agents Orchestrated January 6 Violence.
Article: "Defending his 2020 fraud claims, Trump turns to fringe Jan. 6 theories" by Rachel Weiner and Isaac Arnsdorf.
Article: "Rick Santorum: Kids Should Learn CPR Instead Of Rallying For Gun Laws" by Nina Golgowski.
Article: "House passes resolution condemning antisemitism" by Clare Foran, Melanie Zanona and Haley Talbot.
Article: "Marjorie Taylor Greene's 'Jewish Space Lasers' Conspiracy Theory Met With Derision, Jokes" by Jack Dutton.
Article: "Members of Texas Republican party free to associate with Nazi sympathizers" by Erum Salam.
Article: "List of school shootings in the United States (2000–present)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Republicans to blur faces in January 6 footage as 'we don't want them charged'" by Edward Helmore.
Article: ""Medicare & You" handbook" by Medicare.
Tweet: "Exposing the Medicare Advantage con is deeply personal to me. These companies operate "death panels" and cost the tax payers $140 billion a year! Don't just take it from me. Watch here: [video]" by Rep. Mark Pocan.

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Hour Two: Has "Corporate Personhood" Delivered America to the Brink of Dictatorship? You Betcha.....
Article: "Has "Corporate Personhood" Delivered America to the Brink of Dictatorship? You Betcha....." by Thom Hartmann.
Book: "Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became "People" - And How You Can Fight Back" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "'Dictator' Trump warnings spook America" by Danny Kemp.
Article: "Donald Trump" by Yahoo.
Case: "Santa Clara County vs. Southern Pacific Railroad", 1886.
Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.
Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978.
Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).
Site: Move to Amend.
 
Speaker MAGA Mike is tampering with evidence - why is this not a bigger scandal?
Article: "Speaker Mike Tampers With Evidence" by DRo.
Article: "Mike Johnson is 'taking the side' of Capitol rioters: CNN panel" by Brad Reed.
 
Article: "Trump says he will be a dictator only on 'day one' if elected president" by Chris Michael.
 
Cheney Names Key Trump 'Mastermind' With 'Probably A Lot To Hide' which is why he & others are refusing to answer subpoenas and trying to accuse Biden of everything in sight to change the subject.
Article: "Liz Cheney Names One Of Trump's Key 'Masterminds' With 'Probably A Lot To Hide'" by Lee Moran.
 
Law: "107-56 Uniting And Strengthening America By Providing Appropriate Tools Required To Intercept And Obstruct Terrorism (Usa Patriot Act) Act Of 2001".
Article: "Facebook gave police their private data. Now, this duo face abortion charges" by Johana Bhuiyan.
Article: "We won't stop speaking out about Gaza's suffering – there is no climate justice without human rights" by Greta Thunberg and Fridays for Future Sweden.
Law: "10th Amendment" "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people".
Article: "Countries That Have Sent the Most Aid to Ukraine" by Christopher Wolf.
Site: Medicare.gov/.
Article: "UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges" by Beth Mole.
Article: "Rudolf Hess" by Wikipedia.
Clip: "Dank Ihrer Führung wird Deutschland sein Ziel erreichen, Heimat zu sein. Heimat zu sein für alle Deutschen der Welt." by Rudolph Hess, 1934 Nuremburg rally.
Movie: "Triumph of the Will (1935)".

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Hour Three: The damning timeline of Ohio's biggest scandal
- David Pepper, lawyer, writer, political activist, former elected official, and adjunct professor-University of Cincinnati College of Law / served as Chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party between 2015 and 2021, author of "Laboratories of Autocracy: A Wake-Up Call from Behind the Lines"   @DavidPepper
Article: "Husted (And DeWine), We Have a Problem…" by David Pepper.
 
Roger Stone did in 2000 & Florida. And now he repeated it again in Detroit in 2020
Article: "Text messages show Trump Campaign organizing a riot to disrupt vote counts on election night, 2020" by Don Dumitru.
 
They're going to throw media in prison "We will find the conspirators in govt and the media. Yes, we are going to come after the people in the media.
Tweet: "Kash Patel says as Trump's next CIA Director he will lead "patriots" appointed by Trump in an all-out effort to prosecute and jail people in government and the media: "We will find the conspirators in govt and the media. Yes, we are going to come after the people in the media."" by Ron Filipkowski.
 
Is Facebook buying influence?
Article: "Whistleblower allegation: Harvard muzzled disinfo team after $500 million Zuckerberg donation" by AP.
 
Article: "Understanding What Medicare Supplement Plan F Covers" by Corey Whelan.
Article: "All About Medicare Supplement Plan N Coverage" by Scott Frothingham.
Article: "Health savings account" by Wikipedia.
Article: "AP fact check: Trump takes credit for Obama's gains for vets" by Hope Yen, Calvin Woodward.
Article: "FirstEnergy bet millions, reputation on Ohio nuclear plants " by Darren Sweeney.
Video: Legalize Democracy Film | Move to Amend Documentary.
Bill: "H.J.Res.54 - Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing that the rights protected and extended by the Constitution are the rights of natural persons only" by Rep. Jayapal, Pramila [D-WA-7].
Law: "Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act", 2003.