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Friday's Daily Stack

Article: "Congressional Subpoena Power and Executive Privilege: The Coming Showdown Between the Branches" by Margaret Taylor.

Article: "Hillary Clinton's "Libya Tick Tock" email".

Article: "Pentagon Papers" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mueller Report (Redacted) Searchable Version (PDF)".

Article: "Michael Cohen reveals Stormy Daniels check with Trump's signature" by MSNBC.

Article: "Trump Called Sean Hannity to Rant On-Air for 45 Minutes About the 'Coup' Against Him. Everything Is Fine." by Jack Holmes.

Article: "National Popular Vote Interstate Compact" by Wikipedia.

Article: "MGM Resorts to Replace Bartenders With Machines (No, Really)".

Site: FairVote.

Book: The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler.

Article: "Andrew Yang, the 2020 long-shot candidate running on a universal basic income, explained" by Dylan Matthews.

Article: "Basic income" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Alaska Permanent Fund" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Alaska Permanent Fund: Socialism in a Republican State" by John Lawrence.

Article: "Kansas Supreme Court rules state constitution protects abortion rights, a decision that could lead to challenges in other states" by Emily Wax-Thibodeaux.

Article: "Roe v. Wade" by History Channel.

Article: "Hillary Clinton: Mueller documented a serious crime against all Americans. Here's how to respond." by Hillary Clinton.

Article: "McConnell can't pre-emptively be given veto power over impeachment proceedings" by Joan McCarter.

Article: "It's Official: Trump Shifts All Security Clearance Work to Pentagon" by Aaron Boyd.

Article: "House panel moves to hold former White House official in contempt after he obeys Trump administration's instruction not to testify" (formerly: White House instructs official to ignore Democratic subpoena over security clearances) by Tom Hamburger.

Site: Our Revolution

Article: "Ranked Choice Voting / Instant Runoff" (RCV) by FairVote.

Article: "Proportional representation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Equal Rights Amendment" - "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.".

Article: "ERA History" by Alice Paul Institute.

Article: "The journey toward the Equal Rights Amendment began decades ago, but activists say the finish line is in sight" by Jessica Ravitz.

Article: "Can a dormant proposed constitutional amendment come back to life?" by Scott Bomboy.

Video: Equal Rights Amendment - Why We Still Need to Ratify the ERA (with Winsome McIntosh).

Site: Democracy Watch News.

Site: Pass the ERA.

Article: "US slides down global press freedom rankings amid warning of 'climate of fear' for journalists" by Rob Picheta.

Article: "Annapolis shooting: What it was like inside the Capital Gazette newsroom" by Nicole Chavez.

Quote: "If a nation expects to be ignorant & free, in a state of civilisation, it expects what never was & never will be. the functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty & property of their constituents. there is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves; nor can they be safe with them without information. where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe." - Thomas Jefferson.

Article: "Obama slaps Russia with sanctions for meddling in the U.S. election" by Christi Parsons and Brian Bennett.

Article: "Trump Campaign Blasts Out ‘Official Obama-Russia Accountability' Survey" by Allegra Kirkland.

Article: "Donald Trump is laying the groundwork to de-legitimize the 2020 election" by Chris Cillizza.

Article: "'Textbook voter suppression': Georgia's bitter election a battle years in the making" by Khushbu Shah.

Article: "N.C. election officials: Harris operative collected and falsified ballots, then tried to obstruct state investigation" by Amy Gardner.

Hour Two: Why Would Trump Veto Combating Rape As A Weapon of War
- Amanda M. Klasing, Acting Co-Director, Women's Rights - Human Rights Watch

Article: "'Morally Despicable': Trump Administration Threatens to Veto UN Resolution Combating Rape as Weapon of War" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Serbs 'enslaved Muslim women at rape camps'" by Ian Black.

Article: "Sexual violence in the Iraqi insurgency" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Resolution 2106 (2013) Adopted by the Security Council at its 6984th meeting, on 24 June 2013" by UN.

Article: "Here's one thing Democrats can do to win rural voters: Fight factory farms" by George Goehl.

Article: "Trump Wants To Let Big Hog Farmers Decide If Pork Is Safe" by Alex Formuzis.

Site: Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF)

Article: "Charlottesville car attack" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "you also had people that were very fine people on both sides" - Donald Trump.

Article: "Rep. Ilhan Omar Keeps Getting Death Threats" by Clint Hendler.

Article: "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez receives so many death threats her staff performs visitor risk assessments" by Chelsea Ritschel.

Article: "Watch live: Trump speaks at NRA convention" by The Hill.

Article: "Trump defends Charlottesville comments by praising a Confederate general" by Colby Itkowitz.

Article: "Fox News' Jon Decker Blasts Colleagues Over Charlottesville in Leaked Emails: Like a ‘White Supremacist Chat Room'" by Aidan McLaughlin.

Quote: "If this were a dictatorship it would be a heck of a lot easier... as long as I'm the dictator. Hehehe" - George H. W. Bush.

Video: Planned Parenthood President: Trump's "Pro-Life" Agenda Is Killing Thousands in the U.S. and Globally.

Article: "Judge blocks Trump administration 'gag rule' on abortion referrals" by Reuters.

Article: "Amal Clooney backs UN resolution to fight rape as a weapon of war as US 'threatens to veto it'" by Andrew Buncombe.

Article: "Saudi Arabia executes 37 people, crucifying one, for terror-related crimes" by Tamara Qiblawi.

Article: "What Happened With Merrick Garland In 2016 And Why It Matters Now" by Ron Elving.

Article: "Senate to take up Trump's Yemen veto next week" by Jordain Carney.

Article: "So you want to start a progressive podcast? These 10 tips will help you be successful" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "How deep does the Russia collusion go? To McConnell?" (aluminum factory) by Joan McCarter.

Article: "Bannon vows a daily fight for 'deconstruction of the administrative state'" by Philip Rucker and Robert Costa.

Article: "Alleged Russian agent Maria Butina sentenced to 18 months in prison on conspiracy charge" by Sara Murray and David Shortell.

Article: "Espionage Act of 1917" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Julius and Ethel Rosenberg" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment" by Department of Homeland Security.

Talk Media News Segment:
- Luke Vargas, "The World in 2:00" with Luke Vargas

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Book: Loving What You Do: The Elements of a Great Working Life by Ellen Ratner.

Article: "Kim Jong Un departs for home after ceremony and lunch in Vladivostok" by Colin Zwirko.

Article: "Kim Jong Un woos Putin as North Korean labourers toil in Russia" by AFP.

Article: "Runaway Saudi sisters call on Google and Apple to pull 'inhuman' woman-monitoring app" by Reuters.

Hour Three: The 33rd anniversary of the world's greatest nuclear disaster - Chernobyl - is today - April 26th
- Adam Higginbotham, Journalist & Contributor to Wired, GQ, The New Yorker, The NY Times Magazine & Smithsonian / Author, latest book: MIDNIGHT IN CHERNOBYL: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Video: When Will the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Happen Again?.

Article: "Chernobyl disaster", 26 April 1986 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Chernobyl's Deadly Effects Estimates Vary" by John Laforge.

Article: "UN issues landmark health report on Chernobyl: excess cancer cases, deaths" by UN.

Article: "Nuclear power in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "German Renewable Energy Sources Act" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Three Mile Island accident" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Flood Risk at Nuclear Power Plants" by Union of Concerned Scientists.

Article: "Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster" by Wikipedia.

Article: "U.S. nuclear plants similar to Fukushima spark concerns" by Matt Smith.

Article: "Nuclear power in France" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Did the Pope Endorse Trump?" by Sydney Schaedel.

Article: "Biblical Magi" by Wikipedia.

Article: "US GDP: Trump hails pick-up in growth, but consumer spending slows - as it happened" by Graeme Wearden.

Book: "The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America--and What We Can Do to Stop It" by Thom Hartmann

Article: "Rod Rosenstein: Trump says he has no plans to fire deputy attorney general".

Article: "FBI to discuss Florida election hacking with Scott, DeSantis" by Gary Fineout.

Article: "Clinton email investigation should be revisited, Sen. Lindsey Graham says" by FOXBusiness.

Article: "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Says Impeachment Would Be Divisive But Is Not Off the Table" by Abby Vesoulis.

Book: The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Biden joins 2020 race and vows to fight 'everything Trump embraces' - live" by Erin Durkin.

Article: "Hours After Entering 2020 Race, Biden to Attend Big-Money Fundraiser Hosted by Comcast, Blue Cross Execs" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Reminder: Comcast Claims To Support Net Neutrality, But Its Actions Show Otherwise" by Chris Brantner.

Monday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET

I'll be talking with Lily Eskelsen Garcia, President-National Education Association (3 million members strong) about how teachers' salaries are decreasing.

Plus, we'll be hearing from Peter Daou, Democratic digital media strategist / Author of the new book, Digital Civil War: Confronting the Far Right Menace.

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