Sue's Daily Stack, Friday, 2 May, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Friday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: They're Coming for the Truth-Tellers: Bondi's Plan to Jail Journalists Is How Democracies Die & Dictatorships Begin
Article: "They're Coming for the Truth-Tellers: Bondi's Plan to Jail Journalists Is How Democracies Die & Dictatorships Begin" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Daniel Ellsberg" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Whistleblowing or leaking? Public opinion toward Assange, Manning, and Snowden" by Touchton, M. R., Klofstad, C. A., West, J. P., & Uscinski, J. E..
Article: "Pam Bondi targets journalists, leakers as U.S. attorney general" by U.S. Press Freedom Tracker.
Article: "DOJ ends Biden-era policy against subpoenaing journalists" by Andrew Solender, Marc Caputo, Sara Fischer.
Article: "Justice Department rescinds policy against seizing journalists' records in leak investigations" by Caitlin Yilek.
Article: "Attorney General Bondi rescinds Biden-era protections for journalists in leak investigations" by Katelyn Polantz and Jake Tapper.
Article: "Pam Bondi claims to be cracking down on leakers. That's not all she might be targeting." by Gabe Rottman.
Article: "Justice Department revokes Biden-era protections for reporters in leak investigations" by Ryan Lucas.
Site: ProPublica.
Article: "Pentagon Papers, Watergate and Trials" by The Ellsberg Archive Project.
Article: "Reporters' phone records could again be searched, Justice Dept. says" by Perry Stein, Jeremy Roebuck.
Case: "New York Times Co. v. United States (1971, Pentagon Papers, Daniel Ellsberg)".
Article: "Trump Announces Victory Day For WWII But Gets The Date Wrong: 'A Complete Moron'" by Marco Margaritoff.
News.... Dictators love war parades, Canada cutting flights to America for good - they told us goodbye - remember?, Trump threatens Harvard again & Kennedy is screwing up an updated Covid vaccine...
Article: "Army plans for a potential parade on Trump's birthday call for 6,600 soldiers, AP learns" by Lolita C. Baldor.
Article: "Another major airline just cut US flights due to low demand" by Veronika Bondarenko.
Article: "'It's what they deserve!' Trump issues new threat against Harvard" by Travis Gettys.
Article: "Updated Covid vaccines for the fall may be in jeopardy under Kennedy's new rules" by Berkeley Lovelace Jr.
Article: "Money creation in the modern economy" by Michael McLeay, Amar Radia and Ryland Thomas.
Article: "What Is Fractional Reserve Banking?" by Scott Nevil.
Article: "Loanable funds" by Wikipedia.
Site: Alliance For Just Money.
Law: "National Emergency Employment Defense Act" (NEED Act).
Article: "Greenback (1860s money)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Eaton fire victims call for investigation into State Farm for delays, violations" by Malia Mendez.
Article: "You'll own nothing and be happy" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Musk Targeted FEMA. Storm-Battered Communities Are Paying a Price." by Christopher Flavelle, Eduardo Medina and Luis Ferré-Sadurní.
Article: "The World Bank and IMF Await Elon Musk" by Walden Bello.
Article: "US and Ukraine sign minerals deal that solidifies investment in Kyiv's defense against Russia" by Andrew Roth.
Article: "Gerrymandering" by Wikipedia.
Tweet: "Let me be clear, we're in a perilous moment in this country.
Donald Trump is taking away our economic and civil rights — and Americans are feeling helpless and powerless.
It's time to step out of your comfort zone, into the streets, and make your voice heard." by Governor JB Pritzker.
Article: "REDMAP" (Republican gerrymandering tool) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Kent State shootings", May 4, 1970 by Wikipedia.
Article: "Ohio (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Kyle Rittenhouse" by Wikipedia.
Article: "For What It's Worth" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Burkina Faso" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Ibrahim Traoré" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Alliance of Sahel States" (Alliance des États du Sahel, AES) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Economic Community of West African States" (ECOWAS) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Organisation of African States (OAS)" by Bodleian Libraries.
Article: "Julius Malema" by Wikipedia.
Hour Two: Trump loyalist eyes new "enemy list?"
Article: "'This should be a scandal': Columnist alarmed as Trump loyalist eyes new 'enemies list'" by Adam Lynch.
Hegseth basically declared war on Iran last night with an unhinged X post:
Article: "Thomas Massie slams Pete Hegseth over viral threat to Iran" by Jackson Walker.
Tweet: "Message to IRAN:
We see your LETHAL support to The Houthis. We know exactly what you are doing. You know very well what the U.S. Military is capable of — and you were warned. You will pay the CONSEQUENCE at the time and place of our choosing." by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
Collapsing bird numbers in North America prompt fears of ecological crisis – research
Article: "Collapsing bird numbers in North America prompt fears of ecological crisis – research" by Patrick Greenfield.
Article: "China Imports from United States" by Trading Economics.
Article: "Forget tariffs — Beijing is already choking off US exports on the sly" by Phelim Kine, Ben Lefebvre and Marcia Brown.
Article: "Collections for defaulted student loans will restart May 5; what you need to know" by Demetrios Sanders.
Article: "US jobs market better than expected even as hiring slowed in April" by Michael Sainato.
Article: "U.S. Rep. Don Bacon proposes taking back Congress's tariff power from Trump" by April 9, 2025.
Article: "Trump's VA strands thousands of veterans by ending a key mortgage program" by Chris Arnold, Quil Lawrence.
Article: "The last boats without crippling tariffs from China are arriving. The countdown to shortages and higher prices has begun" by Vanessa Yurkevich.
Article: "Hakeem Jeffries and Cory Booker hold 12-hour sit-in against GOP funding plan" by Edward Helmore.
Article: "Senator Booker Made History" by notksanymore.
Video: SOS (Save Our Ship) (lyrics & music by Vanilla Fudge guitarist Vince Martell & PBS artist Peg Pearl).
Article: "Haymarket affair" (May 4, 1886) by Wikipedia.
Hour Three: The Kremlin is making a new and absurd claim against Ukraine; how long will it be before Laura Loomer or Trump or Rubio repeats it?
Article: "How the Kremlin Seeded a Black-Market Ukrainian Weapons Hoax" by NewsGuard's Reality Check.
Courts - including one run by a judge Trump appointed - are standing firm against his unlawful and unconstitutional behavior:
Article: "Federal judge appointed by Trump rules that Trump's AEA proclamation is "unlawful"" by Chris Geidner.
Article: "Benjamin Franklin Bache" by Wikipedia.
Geeky Science. Now that we know gut microbiomes can regulate everything from obesity to depression, here's some good news: you don't need a fecal transplant, just a high-fiber, low-fat diet!
Article: "How to fix a gut microbiome ravaged by antibiotics" by Heidi Ledford.
Article: "African Union (AU) " by Wikipedia.
Article: "United States Agency for International Development (USAID)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "United States President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) " by Wikipedia.
Article: "'Stop the Steal' campaign has long ties to Roger Stone" by CNN.
Article: "DOGE's mass federal workforce cuts may cost taxpayers $135 billion this fiscal year alone" by Sasha Rogelberg.
Article: "Elon Musk looks back on 100 days of DOGE, previews future of the 'long-term enterprise'" by Madeline Coggins.
Article: "Trump signs executive order to cut funding for public broadcasters" by Rachel Leingang.
Article: "Lev Parnas" by Wikipedia.
Substack: "Lev Parnas".
Substack: "Olga Lautman".
Article: "The Godfather meets the Apprentice meets the Kremlin" (A Bonkers Conversation with Lev Parnas) by Julie Roginsky, Olga Lautman.