Sue's Daily Stack, Wednesday, 8 May, 2024

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Wednesday's Daily Stack

Hour One: Why America Needs to Know about Trump Getting Spanked in Silk Pajamas
Article: "Why America Needs to Know about Trump Getting Spanked in Silk Pajamas" by Thom Hartmann.
Book: The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Trump Investigations: tracking the cases" by AP.
Article: "FBI Director James Comey Under Fire After Hillary Clinton Email Investigation Announcement" by Sam Frizell.
Article: "10 times Trump may have obstructed justice, according to Mueller" by Will Rahn.
Article: "Access Hollywood, Russian hacking and the Podesta emails: One year later" by Marshall Cohen.
Article: "Joint Statement from the Department Of Homeland Security and Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Election Security", October 7, 2016 by DHS.
Article: "A Close Rudy Giuliani Associate Alerted FBI's Assistant Director to Charles McGonigal's Alleged Albanian Graft" by emptywheel.
Article: "Former Special Agent in Charge of the New York FBI Counterintelligence Division Sentenced to 50 Months for Conspiring to Violate U.S. Sanctions on Russia" by Office of Public Affairs.
Article: "John Adams Drafts the Massachusetts Constitution" by Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Article: "Did Comey Cost Clinton the Election?" by Nate Cohn.
Article: "Trump, in Taped Call, Pressured Georgia Official to 'Find' Votes to Overturn Election" by Michael D. Shear and Stephanie Saul.
Article: "Stormy Daniels's Attempt to Sell Her Story Began the Road to Trial" by Michael Rothfeld.
Article: "Kayleigh McEnany: 'Jurors are human' so 'Stormy Daniels should not be on the stand'" by David Edwards.
Article: "Trump revealed intelligence secrets to Russians in Oval Office - officials" by Jeff Mason and Patricia Zengerle.
Article: "Meet Donald Trump's Top FBI Fanboy" by Wayne Barrett.
Article: "Johnson Demands All Trump Prosecutions Cease, Vows to Use Congress 'In Every Possible Way'" by David Badash.
Article: "Trump Accused of Routinely Stiffing His Own Employees" by Tina Nguyen.
Article: "'No Vacancies' for Blacks: How Donald Trump Got His Start, and Was First Accused of Bias" by Jonathan Mahler and Steve Eder.
Article: "Trump University" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Judge fines Trump $2 million for misusing charity foundation" by Michael R. Sisak.
Article: "Magna Carta" by Wikipedia.
 
Article: "BREAKING: This is a BFD, even if 6 1/2 months late" by Albanius.
Article: "Biden Puts Arms Shipment to Israel on Hold Amid Dispute Over Rafah Attack" by Peter Baker.
 
World's top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target - we're heading for 2.5C - Why isn't this all over the media?
Article: "World's top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target" by Damian Carrington.
Article: "April was the moistest April on record for the planet" by IntelliNews.
Article: "Homeowner's Guide to the Federal Tax Credit for Solar Photovoltaics" by Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy.
Article: "Carbon Dioxide Levels Have Passed a New Milestone" by Aatish Bhatia.
Article: "Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)" by Wikipedia.
 
Crazy Alert: RFK Junior says a worm ate part of his brain(LITERALLY!)....really?!
Article: "R.F.K. Jr. Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His Brain" by Susanne Craig.
 
What happens if Trump is found guilty on all accounts?
- Dean Obeidallah, Host of Dean Obeidallah show weekdays 6-9PMET @SXMProgress Radio Ch127 / Columnist - CNN.com / Contributor - The New Republic   @DeanObeidallah   @SXMProgress   @MSNBC

Site: The Dean's Report by Dean Obeidallah.
Article: "Trump is planning his next Jan 6 attack right in front of our eyes" by Dean Obeidallah.
Article: "Trump reminds us again how dangerous MAGA is to our nation" by Dean Obeidallah.
Article: "Steve Bannon sentenced to 4 months in prison, but remains free pending appeal" by CBS News.
Article: "Brooks Brothers riot" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The Wildest Things Trump Said at His Private Mar-a-Lago Fundraiser" by Chas Danner.
Article: "Hitler sentenced for his role in Beer Hall Putsch" (April 1 1924) by history.com.
Article: "Horst Wessel" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Horst-Wessel-Lied" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Deutschlandlied" by Wikipedia.
Book: Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism by Rachel Maddow.
 
Article: "Supreme Court is about to have 3 Bush v. Gore alumni sitting on the bench" by Joan Biskupic.
Article: "What stochastic terrorism is and why the US may see more of it" by Mihai Andrei.
Video: King Kong: "It Wasn't The Airplanes, It Was Beauty Killed The Beast." (2005).
Article: "'Do you worry about STDs?': Stormy Daniels's testimony on Trump affair off to lurid start" by Victoria Bekiempis.
Video: Trump's history of germaphobia.
Article: "No One Wants To Talk About Cannon's Husband's Mob Connections" by Susie Madrak.

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Hour Two: Is this a accurate description of America conservatives?
Article: "Krugman's Blisteringly Accurate Description of American Conservatives" by Dan K.
 
Tweet: "The cat who was completely obsessed with my bump when I was pregnant is quite uninterested in the baby now that she's out. It's a weird way to find out that my cat is a Republican." by Dr. Dana "3 desk rejects in a trench coat" Ménard.
Article: "Meat accounts for nearly 60% of all greenhouse gases from food production, study finds" by Oliver Milman.
Tweet: "I'm pretty sure I ate 4 pounds of red meat yesterday. That's going to be a hard NO from me." by Donald Trump Jr..
Article: "Are These Donald Trump's Sons in Game-Hunting Photos?" by Kim LaCapria.
Article: "Court upholds ruling striking down NYC's ban on large sugary drinks" by Elizabeth Chuck.
 
Trump just received a YUGE warning sign in Indiana by Republicans
Article: "Unexpected warning signs for Trump in busy Indiana primary " by Adam Wren and Madison Fernandez.
 
Article: "This congresswoman was born and raised in Ukraine. She just voted against aid for her homeland" by Isabella Volmert.
Article: ""Smoking Doesn't Kill" And Other Great Old Op-Eds From Mike Pence" by Andrew Kaczynski.
Article: "How Scandal Derailed Gary Hart's Presidential Bid" by Becky Little.
Article: "From the river to the sea" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Henry Ford Pioneered Modern Industry, Made America An Economic Power, And Was A Fervent Anti-Semite" by Samuel Warde.
Article: "Elise Stefanik has gained widespread attention in recent antisemitism hearings" by Nicholas Fandos.
Article: "Trump hosted Zuckerberg for undisclosed dinner at the White House in October" by Dylan Byers and Ben Collins.
Article: "Musk Increasingly Puts His Thumb on the Scale for Trump's GOP" by Craig Trudell.
Article: "Trump's Shadow Cabinet is Part of his Ongoing Coup" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "House Un-American Activities Committee" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Top US university president quits after anti-Semitism uproar" by AFP.
Article: "Stefanik calls out head of Columbia University" by Scott Atkinson.

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Hour Three: Trustee Reports Show Medicare, Social Security Must Be Defended From Trump
- Alex Lawson, Executive Director - Social Security Works / Strengthen Social Security   @alaw202   @ssworks
Article: "Trustee Reports Show Medicare, Social Security Must Be Defended From Trump" by Jessica Corbett.
Article: "The 2024 Trustees Report Shows that Social Security is Benefiting From a Strong Economy" by Social Security Works.
Article: "Analysis of the 2024 Medicare Trustees' Report" by Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
Article: "Medicare Advantage in 2023: Enrollment Update and Key Trends" by Nancy Ochieng, Jeannie Fuglesten Biniek, Meredith Freed, Anthony Damico, Tricia Neuman.
Article: "Lankford Pushes to Expand Healthcare Access for Rural Oklahomans" by James Lankford.
 
Article: "Donald Trump goes low by parading women accusing Bill Clinton" by Ben Jacobs, Amber Jamieson.
Article: "Donald Trump's Child-Rape Accuser Drops Lawsuit After Receiving Threats" by Tim Kenneally.
 
Gaza, the protests, big oil and more....
Senator Bernie Sanders U.S. Senator (I-VT),   @Sensanders   @BernieSanders
Article: "Sen. Bernie Sanders, 82, announces he will run for reelection" by Kaia Hubbard.
Article: "2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Gaza Strip" by Wikipedia.
Article: "More than 30,000 killed in Gaza, Hamas-run health ministry says" by Yolande Knell.
Article: "Gaza Strip famine" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Joint World Bank, UN Report Assesses Damage to Gaza's Infrastructure" by World Bank.
Article: "Satellite images reveal the destruction of hospitals in Gaza" by AJLabs and Sanad Verification Agency.
Article: "All 12 universities in Gaza have been the target of Israeli attacks: 'It's a war against education'" by Ghazal Golshiri.
Article: "Chuck Schumer to co-sign Mike Johnson's invite for Netanyahu to address Congress" by Clarissa-Jan Lim.
Article: "Israel's Ben-Gvir threatens to withdraw support from Netanyahu unless Rafah operation goes ahead" by Middle East Eye.
Article: "Israel fears Benjamin Netanyahu set to be charged with war crimes" by Ross Hunter.
Article: "Netanyahu's unprecedented snub of Obama meeting defies explanation" by Raphael Ahren.
Article: "Some Medicare drug prices will drop under new law, insulin co-pays to be capped" by Caitlin Granfield.
Article: "Biden touts inhaler price drops with Bernie Sanders: "Finally, finally we beat big Pharma"" by Kathryn Watson.
Law: "Inflation Reduction Act of 2022".
Article: "Novo Nordisk" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Semaglutide" (Ozempic and Wegovy) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Sanders launches Senate investigation into 'outrageously high' pricing of Ozempic, Wegovy" by Tami Luhby and Katherine Dillinger.
Article: "UAW wins big in historic union vote at Volkswagen Tennessee factory" by Nora Eckert.
Article: "In clash with Bernie Sanders, Starbucks' Howard Schultz insists he's no union buster" by Alina Selyukh, Andrea Hsu.
Article: "Workers at Mercedes factories near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to vote in May on United Auto Workers union" by AP.
Article: "New US-China climate envoys to hold their first in-person talks in Washington" by Nike Ching.
 
Article: "Strom Thurmond" by Wikipedia.
Article: "League Refuses to "Help Perpetrate a Fraud"" by League of Women Voters.
Article: "Republican Party withdraws from U.S. commission on presidential debates" by David Morgan and Doina Chiacu.
Article: "Why is Canada's Covid death rate so much lower than US?" by Bernd Debusmann Jr.