Sue's Daily Stack, Wednesday, 7 February, 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: "Nevada Presidential Primary Election Results 2024" by NBC News.
Article: "Democrat Al Green arrived in Congress in a WHEELCHAIR and blue hospital scrubs to cast vote that sank Mayorkas impeachment bid" by Morgan Phillips.
Article: "Senate GOP blocks border bill, Democrats shift focus to Israel and Ukraine aid" by Deirdre Walsh.
Article: "Marjorie Taylor Greene would have a major role in DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas' impeachment trial" by Brent D. Griffiths.
Article: "Scalise temporarily leaves Washington for stem cell treatment" by Maegan Vazquez, Marianna Sotomayor.
Article: "Texas Republican Blames Trump For Border 'Mess'" by Matthew Impelli.
Bill: "H.R.3421 - To establish an improved Medicare for All national health insurance program" by Rep. Jayapal, Pramila [D-WA-7].
Bill: "S.1655 - A bill to establish a Medicare-for-all national health insurance program" by Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT].
Article: "Starlink in the Russo-Ukrainian War" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Tax our wealth, super-rich tell politicians at Davos" by Rupert Neate.
Article: "House votes to expand child tax credit, beef up corporate tax breaks" by Jacob Bogage, Jeff Stein.
Article: "Mudslides, flash flooding threaten tens of millions in California" by Janet Loehrke, George Petras.
Law: "Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013".
Article: "United States embargo against Cuba" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Record-breaking numbers of Cuban migrants entered the U.S. in 2022-23" by Eric Bazail-Eimil.
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: "Dred Scott Case" by History.com.
Article: "Roger B. Taney" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Rand Paul Goes To Russia And Delivers Letter For Trump, Marking Our Era Of Irony" by Ron Elving.
Article: "Trump Era Tax Cuts Are Set To Expire — Here's How Much More You'll Pay" by David Nadelle.
Video: Laurence Tribe: Biden should transfer frozen Russian bank assets to Ukraine.
Book: The Art Of War by Sun Tzu.
Book: The Art Of War by Sun Tzu.
Quote: "In the Midst of Chaos, There Is Also Opportunity" - Sun Tzu.
Article: "The Social Security 2100 Act" by John Larson.
Article: "Colon cancer screening: At what age can you stop?" by Michael F. Picco.
Hour Two: Was the GOP Plan All Along to "Break" America to Make Room for an Authoritarian Strongman?
Article: "Was the GOP Plan All Along to "Break" America to Make Room for an Authoritarian Strongman?" by Thom Hartmann.
Book: "The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore Its Greatness" by Thom Hartmann.
Book: "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" by Thom Hartmann.
Site: "Dale Carnegie Course".
Article: "The Lewis Powell Memo: A Corporate Blueprint to Dominate Democracy".
Article: "Health Care Debt In The U.S.: The Broad Consequences Of Medical And Dental Bills" by Lunna Lopes, Audrey Kearney, Alex Montero, Liz Hamel, and Mollyann Brodie.
Article: "Are US prescription drug prices 10 times those of other nations? Only sometimes" by Lily Ramsey.
Article: "Donald Trump Supporters Excited About Him Becoming a 'Dictator'" by Ewan Palmer.
Article: "The Tipping Point: Most Americans No Longer Are Middle Class" by Marilyn Geewax.
Article: "Exacerbation of COVID-19 mortality by the fragmented United States healthcare system: A retrospective observational study" by Travis Campbell, Alison P. Galvani, Gerald Friedman, Meagan C. Fitzpatrick.
Article: "Carter Proposes $100 Million Solar Energy Bank" by Edward Walsh.
Article: "Chinese migrants, some with the help of TikTok, have become fastest-growing group trying to cross U.S. southern border" by Sharyn Alfonsi, Aliza Chasan, Guy Campanile, Lucy Hatcher.
Article: "Benito Mussolini" (Italy) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Ferdinand Marcos" (Philippines) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Detention Camps, "Vermin" Rivals, and a Government Purge: Trump Wants to Go Full Authoritarian" by Caleb Ecarma.
Article: "Trump promised a 'beautiful' healthcare plan, but it's pretty basic" by Noam N. Levey.
Quote: "I expect the German legal profession to understand that the nation is not here for them but they are here for the nation ... From now on, I shall intervene in these cases and remove from office those judges who evidently do not understand the demand of the hour." - Adolf Hitler.
Russia is now putting gay people in jail prison
Article: "Russia hands out first convictions in connection with anti-LGBT law".
Think it can't happen here? Republicans are trying to strip hate crime protections from queer Americans
Article: "GOP lawmakers propose removing LGBTQ+ people from hate crimes law to promote women's rights" by Alex Bollinger.
Article: "Missouri MAGA candidate films herself taking flamethrower to LGBTQ books" by Matthew Chapman.
Article: "Florida's governor signs controversial law opponents dubbed 'Don't Say Gay'" by Jaclyn Diaz.
Article: "Florida's DeSantis pushes expansion of so-called 'Don't Say Gay' law" by Brandon Drenon.
Book: The Hidden History of the War on Voting: Who Stole Your Vote and How to Get It Back by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Electoral College abolition amendment" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Efforts to reform the United States Electoral College" by Wikipedia.
Site: "National Popular Vote Interstate Compact".
Article: "Maddow Sounds Alarm On Death of Two-Party System: The Republican Party 'Is Dissolving Itself' For Trump" by Jamie Frevele.
Article: "Moscow confirms Putin interview with Tucker Carlson" by Richard Luscombe, Chris Michael, Andrew Roth.
Article: "Putin Opponent Nadezhdin Awaits Decision On Presidential Election Bid" by Current Time, Austin Malloy.
Article: "Dmitry Medvedev" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Boris Nemtsov: Murdered Putin rival 'tailed' by agent linked to FSB hit squad" by BBC Eye Investigations.
Article: "Assassination of Boris Nemtsov" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Boris Nemtsov" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Zhanna Nemtsova" by Wikipedia.
Video: The American Middle Class Crisis | Real Stories Noam Chomsky Wealth Inequality Documentary.
Article: "Trump Allies Forming "Army" of Ideological Loyalists for 2025 Power Grab" by Sharon Zhang.
Article: "Trump zeroes in on a key target of his 'retribution' agenda: Government workers" by Allan Smith.
Article: "The Jewel Box Revue..." by Danny Brown.
Hour Three: Oh, oh - looks like Clarence Thomas' Sugar Daddy Harlan Crow has been using his yacht to avoid millions in taxes illegally...
Article: "Wyden Letter Questions Harlan Crow's Pleasure Yacht Tax Deductions" by Senate Committee on Finance.
They've tracked down and busted the guys who did those Robo calls into New Hampshire telling people not to vote....
Article: "Texas companies behind fake Biden robocalls to NH voters could face 'severe' felony charges" by Carl Gibson.
Article: "Donald Trump faces new NY ballot challenge for 'insurrection through his personal actions'" by David Edwards.
Article: "Biden Says He Wants to Avoid 'Wider War.' Fox Host Calls Him a 'Wuss'" by William Vaillancourt.
Article: "U.S. strike in Baghdad kills key militia commander, officials say" by Kareem Fahim, Dan Lamothe, Mustafa Salim, Alex Horton.
Article: "Assassination of Qasem Soleimani" by Wikipedia.
Article: "12th Amendment". "...The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President..."
Article: "The forgotten story of Jimmy Carter's White House solar panels" by John Wihbey.
Site: Poor People's Campaign.
Article: "Project 2025" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump's team fired the White House chief usher right before Biden took office, maybe at Biden's request" by Peter Weber.
Article: "Speech or Debate Clause" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Matthew Lyon" by Wikipedia.
Book: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon.
Article: "black swan event" by Sanat Pai Raikar.
Article: "Neural Correlates of Hate" by Semir Zeki * and John Paul Romaya.
Case: "Marbury v Madison".
Article: "Why Biden is keeping Trump's China tariffs in place" by Katie Lobosco.
Video: "Q&A: Thom Hartmann" by Brian Lamb.
Article: "Do the Rich Dudes Want the Court to Ban Trump or Not?" by Thom Hartmann.