Sue's Daily Stack, Friday, 18 April, 2025

Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show

Friday’s Daily Stack

Hour One: Will Trump's Corruption Be the Fatal Flaw That Even MAGA Can't Defend?
Article: "Will Trump's Corruption Be the Fatal Flaw That Even MAGA Can't Defend?" by Thom Hartmann.
Site: Anti-Corruption Foundation.
Article: "Trump administration plans to end the IRS Direct File program for free tax filing, AP sources say" by Fatima Hussein.
Article: "The First Corruption Scandal of Trump's Second Term Is Already Here " by Hafiz Rashid.
Article: "Hungary is the most corrupt Member State of the European Union" by Transparency International.
Article: "Trump's $1bn pitch to oil bosses 'the definition of corruption', top Democrat says" by Peter Stone.
Book: "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" by Thom Hartmann.
Book: "The Prophet's Way" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "A Donald Trump ally has a suggestion for Warner Bros. Discovery: Why don't you pay us or give us a TV show?" by Peter Kafka.
Article: "Biden's Lax Corporate Crime Enforcement Gives Way to Trump's Total Lawlessness" by Public Citizen.
Article: "How did Russian oligarchs get their wealth?" by Shlomo Maital.
Article: "Playbook: Shutdown? Averted. Crisis? Delayed." by Eugene Daniels, Rachael Bade.
Article: "Biography" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Anxious Trading Partners Promise to Buy American to Stave Off Trump's Tariffs" by Timothy W. Martin, Kim Mackrael, Ryan Dubé.
Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978.

Article: "Good Friday" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Ishtar" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Bernie Sanders rally in LA draws thousands to protest Trump: 'We can't just let this happen'" by Victoria Clayton.
Article: "United States war crimes" by Wikipedia.
Article: "John Yoo" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Torture Memos" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Donald Trump: I'd bring back 'a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding'" by Tom McCarthy.
Article: "Nixon's Enemies List" by Wikipedia.
Article: "John N. Mitchell" by Wikipedia.
Article: "A Four-Decade Secret: One Man's Story of Sabotaging Carter's Re-election" (Iran hostages) by Peter Baker.

News...Are we abandoning Ukraine?, 5M may lose medicaid?, JD Vance is asking that the UK be more hateful for trade deal, and More corruption - if you're a Trump buddy - you may get out of IRS tax audits.
Article: "US ready to abandon Ukraine peace deal if there is no progress, says Marco Rubio" by Luke Harding.
Article: "Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Rep. Garcia: Why Did Saudi Government Give Kushner $2 Billion?" by Robert Garcia.
Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 9. "No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state." (foreign emoluments clause).
Article: "Five Million Could Lose Medicaid Coverage Under Republican Proposals" by Hugh Cameron.
Article: "JD Vance wants the UK to repeal its LGBTQ+ hate speech laws to secure a trade deal" by Ryan Adamczeski.
Article: "JD Vance stuns Munich conference with blistering attack on Europe's leaders" by Patrick Wintour.
Article: "'So inappropriate': Trump Treasury appointee asks IRS to reconsider audit of Mike Lindell" by David Edwards.

Article: "Senate GOP divided over House demands for spending cuts" by Alexander Bolton.
Article: "FSU shooting: What we know about the victims and suspected attacker" by Al Jazeera.
Article: "John Dean" by Wikipedia.
Book: "They Thought They Were Free" by Milton Mayer. "First they came for the ... What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise..."
Book: "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany" by William L. Shirer.
Video: Constituent Hammers Morgan Luttrell With Questions About The SAVE Act During Town Hall.
Article: "Trump's "Hitler's Birthday" Gift: The Death of American Democracy" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Sen. Warren: Congress Can Declare There's No National Emergency, Immediately Cancel Tariffs" by Tim Hains.
Article: "Alien and Sedition Acts of the United States". "old, querulous, Bald, blind, crippled, Toothless Adams."
Article: "To stop migrants, US Army to take control of some of border with Mexico" by Luis Martinez.
Article: "Trump 2.0 is in a state of permanent emergency" by Zachary B. Wolf.
Article: "Maryland Senator Meets With Wrongly Deported Man in El Salvador" by Robert Jimison.
Audio: The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell - April 17 | Audio Only.
Article: "Trump's Counterterror Czar Proposes Terror Charges for Political Opponents" (Sebastian Gorka) by Ken Klippenstein.

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Hour Two: Idaho gave families $50M for private schools — and scrapped $30M used for public education..say what?!
Article: "Idaho gave families $50M for private schools — and scrapped $30M used for public education" by Audrey Dutton.

Can Trump fire Fed chair Jerome Powell? Here's what to know.
Article: "Can Trump fire Fed chair Jerome Powell? Here's what to know." by Avery Lotz.

Geeky Science. Why the position you sleep in could shorten your life?
Article: "Why your sleeping position is shortening your life" by Nick Harding.

Video: Bill Clinton regrets persuading Ukraine to give up nuclear weapons | Latest English News | WION.
Article: "Had Trump been president, 'maybe' there would not have been war in Ukraine, Putin says – as it happened" by .
Quote: "Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." - Harry S. Truman.
Book: American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard.
Article: "Murkowski on Trump: "We are all afraid"" by Stef W. Kight.
Article: "Hericium erinaceus" (lion's mane mushroom) by Wikipedia.
Article: "DOGE Will Allow Elon Musk to Surveil the US Government From the Inside" by Vittoria Elliott.
Article: "Maryland senator meets Kilmar Ábrego García in El Salvador amid battle over US return" by AP.
Article: "Green Party of the United States" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Libertarian Party (United States)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "How climate risks are driving up insurance premiums around the US – visualized" by Oliver Milman.
Article: "Trump denies extra FEMA funding to people who voted for him in North Carolina | Opinion" by Sara Pequeño.
Video: Last Hours.
Substack: "LookingNWords" by Rohn Kenyatta.
Article: "Trump promises $1 trillion in defense spending for next year" by Leo Shane III.

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Hour Three: When NYT Columnist call for a "National Civic Uprising" to defeat Trumpism complete with rallies and strikes - the GOP has a problem....
Article: "Conservative NYT Columnist David Brooks Calls for 'National Civic Uprising' to Defeat Trumpism – Complete With 'Mass Rallies, Strikes'" by Michael Luciano.
Article: "What's Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal" by David Brooks.

Article: "Does Donald Trump Have a Driver's License? What We Know" by Ewan Palmer.
Book: The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
Article: "Quantitative Easing (QE)" by Investopedia.
Article: "Dow Jones Industrial Average" by Google Finance.
Article: "Jonathan Krohn" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Gov. Polis warns of 'economic disaster' in Colorado if Medicaid is cut" by Brandon Richard.
Article: "Trump fires 17 Inspectors General" by EPI.
Site: Paradisos del Sol Winery and Organic Vineyard.
Article: "Weather Service Prepares for 'Degraded Operations' Amid Trump Cuts" by Lisa Friedman.
Article: "The State Department is changing its mind about what it calls human rights" by Graham Smith.
Article: "Sen. Chris Van Hollen says Abrego Garcia described being 'traumatized' at CECOT, has been moved to different detention center" by Lauren Fox and Kaanita Iyer.
Article: "Supreme Court rules Trump officials must 'facilitate' release of man deported to El Salvador" by Ali Abbas Ahmadi.
Article: "U.S. national anthem kneeling protests" by Wikipedia.
Video: 'I'm pissed!': Town hall erupts in anger at Republican lawmaker (Chuck Grassley).
Article: "Spiro Agnew" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Bosch (TV series)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "250 Years and 16 Miles: Following Paul Revere's Footsteps" by Jenna Russell.
Article: "Battles of Lexington and Concord", April 19, 1775 by Wikipedia.
Article: "New Study: Nearly $80 Trillion Redistributed from the Bottom 90% to the Top 1% Since 1975" by Bernie Sanders.
Article: "The Economic Bill of Rights" by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Article: "American Concentration Camps" by Chris Hedges.
Article: "MSU joins amicus brief in support of international students amid visa revocations" by Ria Gupta.
Article: "Harvard just stood up to Trump. How long can it last?" by Robin Levinson-King and Mike Wendling.
Article: "Mark Russell, Piano-Playing Political Satirist, Dies at 90" by Robert D. McFadden.
Site: "Project 2025".
Article: "Department of Peace" by Wikipedia.