Sue's Daily Stack, Friday, 17 January, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Friday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: Trump's Hit List: Who Will Be His First Victims?
Article: "Trump's Hit List: Who Will Be His First Victims?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "What Will Happen To Everyone Who is Not White, Straight, & Male If We Don't Speak Out?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Trump proposes genocidal national ban on transgender existence if he wins 2024" by VPSReports.
Article: "Robert B. Parker" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Nazi book burnings" by Wikipedia.
Is CNN the next media to bend knee to Trump?
Article: "CNN Reportedly Considering Exiling Jim Acosta's Show To Midnight 'To Throw a Bone To Trump'" by Charlie Nash.
Article: "'Courage and resilience': NYT editors warn against 'bending the knee' to Trump" by Brad Reed.
Article: "Standing Up to Donald Trump's Fear Tactics" by NY Times.
Article: "Jeff Bezos enables Trump's threat to democracy, Washington Post columnist Rubin says as she quits" by Dan Mangan.
Article: "Pam Bondi" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Jeff Bezos' Editorial Board Calls Trump's AG Pick, Who Lobbied for Amazon, 'Qualified'" by Althea Legaspi and Andrew Perez.
Article: "Los Angeles Times editor resigns after newspaper owner blocked plans to endorse Harris" by Liam Reilly.
Article: "'Morning Joe' meeting with Trump was driven by fears of retribution from incoming administration, sources say" by Brian Stelter.
Article: "Trump's swearing-in will move inside the Capitol Rotunda because of intense cold weather" by Zeke Miller.
Article: "Thom 30 paces from Obama/Bush" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "FACT CHECK: Trump overstates crowd size at inaugural" by Jonathan Lemire, Jill Colvin.
Article: "Ernst, Under MAGA Pressure, Signals Backing for Hegseth's Pentagon Bid" by Karoun Demirjian and Annie Karni.
4 states want to prosecute women for murder if they get abortions
Article: "Four States Consider Bills to Punish Abortion Patients As Murderers" by Jessica Valenti.
Article: "Who is Kristi Noem? Dog controversy and what else to know on day of confirmation hearing" by Anthony Robledo.
Article: "Rush Limbaugh" by Wikipedia.
Article: "WABC (AM)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Michael Jackson (radio commentator)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "ABC agrees to give $15 million to Trump's presidential library to settle lawsuit" by AP.
Site: Daily Song.
Article: "U.S. physicians - statistics & facts(1,109,460) by Statista.
Article: "Number of employees in life, health and medical insurance industry in the United States from 2005 to 2023" (912,300) by Statista.
Substack: "Ana Nomis in Hell".
Quote: "Given the choice between a Republican and someone who acts like a Republican, people will vote for the real Republican all the time." - Harry S. Truman.
Article: "Biden Says Equal Rights Amendment Has Passed, but Does Not Force Certification" by Peter Baker, Erica L. Green and Annie Karni.
Article: "Statement from President Joe Biden on the Equal Rights Amendment" by Joe Biden.
Article: "National Archivist Rejects Bid to Certify the Equal Rights Amendment" by Annie Karni.
Article: "Biden says Equal Rights Amendment is ratified, kicking off expected legal battle as he pushes through final executive actions " by Betsy Klein and Arlette Saenz.
Article: "New world order (politics)" by Wikipedia.
Site: Democracy Watch News.
Article: "The Latest: Trump calls media 'enemy of the American people'" by AP.
Article: "2024 World Press Freedom Index - journalism under political pressure" (USA 55th) by Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
Article: "Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris, paper reports" by Dan Mangan.
Article: "Why I'm quitting the Washington Post" by Ann Telnaes.
Quote: "Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy." - Walter Cronkite.
Quote: "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter" - Thomas Jefferson.
Article: "Fourth Estate" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Fifth Estate" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Thousands to rally in Seattle for Women's March, ahead of Trump inauguration" by Ramsey Pfeffinger.
Article: "Martin Luther King Jr. Day" (January 20, 2025) by Wikipedia.
Site: Committee to Protect Journalists.
Site: Ukraine Defense Support.
Site: NewsGuard's Reality Check.
Site: Sue's Stack.
Site: Sue's Newsletter.
Hour Two: Treasury pic warn here will be "economic calamity" of tac cuts not extended....really?!
Article: "Trump's Treasury Secretary Nominee Claims There Will Be 'Economic Calamity' If Republican Tax Cuts Are Not Extended" by Luke Funk.
Tweet: "Right now, in America, 22 million workers make less than $15/hr. 40 million make less than $17/hr. Shamefully, the federal minimum wage hasn't been raised since 2009 and remains at $7.25/hr. I asked Trump's nominee for Treasury if we should raise it. His response? "No sir." [video]" by Bernie Sanders.
Article: "Scott Bessent" by Wikipedia.
Quote: "The projected fiscal path under current budgetary policies is simply not sustainable, and the consequences of inaction, or action that exacerbates projected deficits, could be dire." - Janet Yellen.
Article: "If Not for Republican Policies, the Federal Government Would Be Running a Surplus" by minority staff of the Senate Budget Committee.
Far-right group plans to use boy scouts to get younger recruits....
Article: "Far-right group Oath Keepers plan to use Boy Scouts to get younger recruits: report" by Matthew Chapman.
Article: "Who Are the Oath Keepers?" by Sarah Fader.
Article: "'Living in fear': Oath Keepers leader's ex-wife terrified he'll get a Trump pardon" by Brad Reed.
Book: Mrs Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous Words by Josefa Heifetz Byrne.
Book: Breakdown by William W. Johnstone.
Book: "Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became "People" - And How You Can Fight Back" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "The Difference Between Xeriscape and Zeroscape" by Mellco Landscaping.
Why is a democrat voting for Pam Bondi calling it a, "close call?
Article: "Bondi fields questions on Trump, DOJ independence at confirmation hearing" by Graham Kates.
Article: "Democrat Says He's 'Still Considering' Voting to Confirm Pam Bondi: It's a 'Close Call'" by Sarah Rumpf.
Article: "Pete Hegseth" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Robert F. Kennedy Jr." by Wikipedia.
Article: "Tulsi Gabbard" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Springtime for Hitler (song)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump Unleashes His Secret Police in Portland" by Jeet Heer.
Law: "25th Amendment Section 4" (presidential succession). "Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President."
Netflix: "Hitler's Circle of Evil".
Video: Hitler's Inner Circle: Part One.
Article: "Night of the Long Knives" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Dachau concentration camp" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Finland–Russia border" by Wikipedia.
Article: "2024 Estlink 2 incident" (Estonia–Finland) by Wikipedia.
Substack: "Stephen Spoonamore".
Article: "Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine appoints Lt. Gov. Jon Husted to Vance's Senate seat" by Henry J. Gomez.
Article: "Elon Musk's Secret Conversations With Vladimir Putin" by Thomas Grove, Warren P. Strobel, Aruna Viswanatha, Gordon Lubold and Sam Schechner.
Article: "We Deserve Pete Hegseth" by David Brooks.
Article: "Pete Hegseth suggests he "will shoot protestors in the legs" if asked by Trump (video)" by Carla Sinclair.
Article: "Fire at one of world's largest lithium battery facilities in Northern California forces evacuations" by Dave Pehling.
Article: "Here's where the Moss Landing fire smoke will be worst" by Stephen Council.
Article: "80% charge in 6 mins: World's first fully inorganic EV battery achieves 900 Wh/L density" by Ameya Paleja.
Article: "Moore's law" by Wikipedia.
Site: Hal Sparks.
Article: "Kansas experiment" (Sam Brownback) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Sam Brownback" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Kansas officials rebuff lawsuit seeking voting machine records" by Melissa Yeager.
Article: "Kansas Will Be Prepared for the Zombie Apocalypse" by Elizabeth Barber.
Hour Three: Putin just sent Alexey Navalny's lawyers to prison
Article: "The Russia Report 236" by Sarah Hurst.
Article: "Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI)" by yahoo!finance.
Article: "US bank regulation under Trump: Basel in doubt, digital assets rise & consumer setbacks expected" by Henry Engler.
Article: "A Brief History of U.S. Banking Regulation" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Rep. Garcia: Why Did Saudi Government Give Kushner $2 Billion?" by Robert Garcia.
Article: "Ben Wikler" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Ken Martin (politician)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "DNC Chair Candidate Martin O'Malley Wants To Be More Than Just A Bureaucrat" by Daniel Marans.
Article: "America's Future Hangs on a Democratic Party Decision" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Hydatidiform Mole" by NHS Scotland.
Article: "Trump will pull US out of NATO if he wins election, ex-adviser warns" by Jim Sciutto.
Article: "NATO under Trump. Possibility and consequences of US withdrawal from alliance" by Roman Kot, Liliana Oleniak.
Article: "What happens with and to BRICS with POTUS Trump?" by Florence Muchai.
Article: "Study reveals social media influence on cryptocurrency investment behavior" by Brenda Kanana.
Article: "Congress approves bill barring any president from unilaterally withdrawing from NATO" by Laura Kelly.
Article: "Killing of George Floyd", 2020 by Wikipedia.
Article: "About 93% of racial justice protests in the US have been peaceful, a new report finds" by Harmeet Kaur.
Article: "How The Police Beating Of Rodney King Changed L.A. History Forever" by .
Article: "Watts riots" (Los Angeles) by Wikipedia.
Article: "1967 Detroit riot" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Does Video Show Police Officer Smashing Windows During Minn. Protests?" by Dan Evon.
Article: "Kyle Rittenhouse" by Wikipedia.
Article: "15 February 2003 anti-war protests" by Wikipedia.
Video: FBI Director Christopher Wray: The 60 Minutes Interview.
Book: The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "TikTok" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Jeff Yass" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Ivanka's Trademark Requests Were Fast-Tracked In China After Trump Was Elected" by Tommy Beer.
Article: "How Gerrymandering and Fair Maps Affected the Battle for the House" (2024) by Michael Li.
Site: The Keeling Curve (CO2).
Site: "350.org".
Article: "January 2025 Southern California wildfires" by Wikipedia.
Article: "'Nowhere is safe': shattered Asheville shows stunning reach of climate crisis" by Oliver Milman.
Article: "Rex Tillerson" by Wikipedia.