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Monday's Daily Stack

Article: "Israel-Gaza conflict: 200 Palestinians killed in a week, say officials" by Hazem Balousha and Oliver Holmes .

Article: "U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel" by U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel" by Congressional Research Service.

Article: "Episode 9: Trump's war with his generals" by Jonathan Swan, Zachary Basu.

Article: "GOP Is Raising the Next Racist Generation of Right Wing Crackpots" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Life Will Dramatically Change Under Brutal American Oligarchy" by Thom Hartmann.

Law: "Citizens United"

Article: "Highlights of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (H.R. 4)" by Redistrictingonline.org.

Article: "How the Supreme Court and the morbidly rich are ruining democracy in America" by Thom Hartmann.

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976

Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010)

Book: "Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchial Tendencies of Modern Democracy" by Robert Michels.

Article: "Congress Must Pass the 'For the People Act'" by Wendy R. Weiser, Daniel Weiner, Dominique Erney.

Article: "Cheney says some GOP members voted against impeachment out of fear for their lives" by Caroline Kelly.

Article: "Leaked Video: Dark Money Group Brags About Writing GOP Voter Suppression Bills Across the Country" by Ari Berman, Nick Surgey.

Article: "Fact Sheet: The American Jobs Plan" by White House.

Article: "Fact Sheet: The American Families Plan" by White House.

Article: "Benjamin Netanyahu" (Israel) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Recep Tayyip Erdoğan" (Turkey) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Andrzej Duda" (Poland) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Narendra Modi" (India) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Viktor Orbán" (Hungary) by Wikipedia.

Book: The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "US supreme court agrees to consider major rollback of abortion rights" by David Smith.

Article: "Cheney says some GOP members voted against impeachment out of fear for their lives" by Caroline Kelly.

Article: "Benito Mussolini" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Vladimir Putin" (Russia) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rodrigo Duterte" (Philippines) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jair Bolsonaro" (Brazil) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Le Pen family" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Cheney defiant as Republicans oust her from leadership for rebuking Trump" by Sahil Kapur, Haley Talbot, Kasie Hunt and Leigh Ann Caldwell.

Article: ""Normal tourist visit": Some Republicans downplay January 6 riot amid Democratic objections" by Grace Segers.

Article: "Sturmabteilung"(brown shirts) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Night of the Long Knives" by Wikipedia.

Video: "Reagan: Government is not the solution to our problem government IS the problem".

Article: "Fact Sheet: The American Jobs Plan" by White House.

Article: "Fact Sheet: The American Families Plan" by White House.

Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].

Bill: "S.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR].

National Progressive Townhall Meeting
- Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA, 7th District / Chair, Congressional Progressive Caucus @RepJayapal

Article: "One key to getting women back to work post-pandemic: Childcare" by Jonnelle Marte.

Article: "Fact Sheet: Congressional Progressive Caucus Priorities" by Institute for Policy Studies.

Article: "Biden to send 20 million U.S.-approved vaccines abroad by end of June" by Lauren Egan.

Article: "Biden calls for passage of PRO Act, $15 minimum wage in joint address" by Alex Gangitano.

Article: "Biden attempts to consign trickle-down economics to the dustbin of history" by Larry Elliott.

Article: "Fireside chats" by Wikipedia.

Video: Rep. Jayapal decries GOP governors ending expanded federal unemployment benefits.

Article: "Ex-White House lawyer McGahn agrees to U.S. House interview -panel chairman" by Reuters.

Article: "Louis DeJoy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Biden's USPS board nominees aren't likely to oust embattled postmaster DeJoy, insiders say" by Lucien Bruggeman.

Article: "USPS removed 711 sorting machines this year, new court documents show" by Kristen Holmes and Paul P. Murphy.

Hour Two: National Progressive Townhall Meeting, continued
- Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA, 7th District / Chair, Congressional Progressive Caucus @RepJayapal

Bill: "H.R.2474 - Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2019" by Rep. Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [D-VA-3].

Law: "The National Labor Relations Act (The Wagner Act)", 1935.

Law: "Taft-Hartley Labor Act", 1947.

Article: "Amazon defeats historic Alabama union effort" by BBC.

Bill: "H.R.3884 - MORE Act of 2020" by Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-10].

Quote: "The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the anti-war left and black people. We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting people to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, break up their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." - John Ehrlichman.

Article: "'Shocking and horrifying': Israel destroys AP office in Gaza" by Josef Federman.

Video: 'Very scary:' Jayapal describes being in gallery as Trump supporters storm US Capitol.

Article: "Congressional leaders reach deal on Jan. 6 commission, but McCarthy has concerns" by Adam Edelman and Garrett Haake.

Article: "Cheney defiant as Republicans oust her from leadership for rebuking Trump" by Sahil Kapur, Haley Talbot, Kasie Hunt and Leigh Ann Caldwell.

His Family in the West Bank Dealing w/the Current Crisis.
- Dean Obeidallah, Host of Dean Obeidallah show weekdays 6-9PMET @SXMProgress Radio Ch127/Columnist-The Daily Beast @DeanObeidallah @SXMProgress @thedailybeast

Article: "Palestinians deserve the same security, equality and right to a homeland as the Israelis" by Dean Obeidallah.

Article: "'Racist and reprehensible': Jewish Power set to enter Israel's parliament" by Oliver Holmes.

Book: "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late" by Thom Hartmann

Article: "Hydraulic fracturing" (fracking) by Wikipedia.

Article: "History of Israel" by Wikipedia.

Hour Three: Why Biden should reappoint Powell as Fed chair, as soon as possible
- Dean Baker, Senior Economist - Center for Economic and Policy Research, which he co-founded in 1999. Author of several books, including Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer / Read more at his blog "Beat the Press" @DeanBaker13 @ceprdc @beat_the_press

Article: "President Biden Should Reappoint Powell as Fed Chair, Now" by Dean Baker.

Article: "What Is the Federal Reserve and What Does It Do?" by Kimberly Amadeo.

Article: "Fed Chief Sets Monetary Policy By Seat-of-the-Pants Approach" by David Wessel.

Article: "US military consumes more hydrocarbons than most countries – with a massive hidden impact on the climate" by Lancaster University.

Article: "Energy usage of the United States military" by Wikipedia.

Book: "The Last Hours of Humanity: Warming the World to Extinction" by Thom Hartmann

The Resurrection of Reagan's Welfare Queen
- David Sirota, Founder-The Daily Poster / Jacobin Magazine Editor & Guardian Columnist @davidsirota @DailyPoster

Article: "The Resurrection Of Reagan's "Welfare Queen"" by Andrew Perez, David Sirota.

Article: "White House to work with states on reimposing work-search requirements following GOP outcry" by Jeff Stein and Matt Viser.

Article: "Andrew Jackson" (Old Hickory).

Article: "The Trail of Tears " by PBS.

Article: "Second Bank of the United States" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "John Marshall has made his decision: now let him enforce it!" -- Andrew Jackson.

Article: "Lincoln and Taney's great writ showdown" by Scott Bomboy.

Case: "Dred Scott v. Sandford", 1857

Article: "Jurisdiction stripping" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Brown v. Board Of Education", 1954 (Segregation in public schools) (overturned Plessy v. Ferguson).

Site: Cascadia Climate Action.

Article: "Paramilitary" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Blackshirts" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Death squads in El Salvador" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Three Percenters" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Killing of George Floyd" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Who is Kyle's mom Wendy Rittenhouse and did she drive him to Kenosha the night of the shooting?" by Patrizia Rizzo.

Article: "Terry Nichols" by Wikipedia.

Article: "List of United States military bases" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Unemployment benefits: What's the deal with more states canceling $300 checks and pandemic assistance?" by Oscar Gonzalez, Laura Michelle Davis.

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