Sue's Daily Stack, Friday, 21 March, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Friday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: Dark Enlightenment Rising: The Billionaire Experiment to Kill Democracy
Article: "Dark Enlightenment Rising: The Billionaire Experiment to Kill Democracy " by Thom Hartmann.
Book: I Paid Hitler by Fritz Thyssen.
Article: "Many Now Recognize that 'Destruction is the Point'…" by Bandy X. Lee.
Article: "TIME Magazine July 18, 1994 | Vol. 144 No. 3".
Article: "NRx: The (underground) movement that wants to destroy democracy" by Sergio C. Fanjul.
Article: "Does the "Great Man Theory of History" Tell Us Why Trump Should be Removed from the Ballot?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "The Connection Between a Child-Murderer, Reaganism and Today's GOP" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Unequal Wealth" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Trump's attack on the American mind" by Robert Reich.
Article: "Late Singapore Leader Lee Kuan Yew Had Opinions on Everything" by Time.
Article: "BEHAVIOR: Hail to The Hyperactive Hunter" by Time.
Article: "ADHD: A Hunter in a Farmer's World 3rd Edition" by Thom Hartmann.
Book: "The Hidden History of American Democracy: Rediscovering Humanity's Ancient Way of Living" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "'This Is Just the Traceable Money': $2 Billion Pumped Into 2024 Election by Billionaire Families" by Julia Conley.
Article: "The strange political philosophy motivating Musk" by Rana Foroohar.
Site: "HunterInAFarmersWorld.com".
Article: "Culture Is Destiny: A Conversation with Lee Kuan Yew" by Fareed Zakaria.
Article: "A fascist commitment: How Trump's violent rhetoric echoes a destructive and bloody shift of society" by Mark R. Reiff.
Article: "Techno-Fascism Comes to America" by Kyle Chayka.
Article: "'Is the Destruction the Point?': Three Opinion Writers on Trump's First 50 Days" by Frank Bruni, Michelle Goldberg and Patrick Healy.
Article: "Powerful A.I. Is Coming. We're Not Ready." by Kevin Roose.
Article: "Dark Enlightenment" by ECPS.
Site: Project 2025 Tracker.
Article: "Rachel Maddow sounds alarm on JD Vance's pro-dictatorship influences/A>" by Gabriella Ferrigine.
Video: Curtis Yarvin on Britain's demise, Putin's red line & Churchill-bashing.
Article: "Dark tetrad" by Wikipedia.
Article: "John Gartner (psychologist)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Malignant narcissism" by Wikipedia.
Article: "I'm the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped" by Jasmine Mooney.
Article: "Germany updates US travel advice after citizens detained" by Natalie Muller.
Article: "Flypast and concert for VE Day 80th commemorations" by Sean Coughlan.
Article: "Philippines' Duterte in The Hague after ICC arrest over drug war" by Joel Guinto.
Is Musk now getting military secrets?
Article: "Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Suggests White House May Have Stretched Deportation Law Too Far" by NYT.
Article: "Elon Musk threatens Pentagon leakers after NYT report on secret China war briefing" by Csongor Körömi.
Article: "Elon Musk suggests Taiwan becomes a special administrative zone" by Sky News.
Article: "Taiwan" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Hong Kong" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Elon Musk's US Department of Defense contracts" by Reuters.
Article: "Feds Lend Tesla $465 Million to Build Model S" by Chuck Squatriglia.
Trump floats sending 'thug' Tesla vandals to infamous El Salvador prison
Article: "Trump floats sending 'thug' Tesla vandals to infamous El Salvador prison" by Brad Reed.
Article: "Magna Carta" by Wikipedia.
'Shameful is too kind': Prominent law firm dragged after latest "bending the knee" to Trump
Article: "'Shameful is too kind': Prominent law firm dragged after latest 'capitulation' to Trump" by Daniel Hampton.
Article: "Ranked Choice Voting / Instant Runoff" (RCV) by FairVote.
Article: "What is so Special about Balanced Approval Voting?" by Paul Cohen.
Site: Means for Democracy (Tools for Better Self-Governance).
Article: "Joseph Stalin" (Russia) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trofim Lysenko" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Dick Durbin Votes to Allow Vote on Continuing Resolution" by Cal Skinner.
Article: "Adam Kinzinger" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Facial Recognition Technology" by TSA.
Article: "A Defining Presidential Moment: 9/11 and the Rally Effect" by James N. Schubert, Patrick A. Stewart and Margaret Ann Curran.
Bill: "Ohio Senate Joint Resolution 3: Application to the Congress of the United States for a Convention of the States under Article V of the Constitution...".
Article: "Rick Perry Forgets Which Three Agencies He Would Eliminate As President (VIDEO)" by Amanda Terkel.
Hour Two: is Trump going to declare Martial law?
Article: "Should I Stay or Should I Go Now? 30 Days Until Martial Law...?" by Jessica Wildfire.
Article: "The Posse Comitatus Act Explained" by Joseph Nunn.
Crazy Alert! 'We're against it': Fox host says the quiet part out loud in segment about disabled kids
Article: "'We're against it': Fox host says the quiet part out loud in segment about disabled kids" by Carl Gibson.
Post: "CALL and ask why these 10 Democrats sided with the GOP to censure Rep. Al Green—when he was standing up for us? Make it clear, they're on the WRONG side. Rep. Al Green stood up to the lies and did what was right! ALL Democrats need to STAND with Al Green! This is a fight against tyranny!" by KellyK.
Article: "Alice Rivlin" by Wikipedia.
Book: Systematic Thinking for Social Action by Alice M. Rivlin.
America has always been a bastion of freedom, holding the line against tyranny at home and abroad. No longer. Trump has placed us on the other side of that wall.
Video: Wall - The Lincoln Project.
Article: "George Fitzhugh and the Theory of American Conservatism" by Arnaud B. Leavelle and Thomas I. Cook.
Article: "Forts Bragg and Benning revert to old names, sparking controversy" by Jim Axelrod.
Article: "1876 United States presidential election" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Remembering President Wilson's Purge of Black Federal Workers" by Josh Marshall.
Article: "The Birth of a Nation" by Wikipedia.
Movie: "The Birth of a Nation (1915)".
Article: "100 years ago, the first White House film screening sparked nationwide protests" by Dick Lehr.
Article: "Quantitative Easing (QE)" by Investopedia.
Article: "Quantitative Tightening (QT)" by Investopedia.
Article: "Fed says it will slow balance sheet runoff process" by Michael S. Derby.
Article: "Grover Cleveland's Fourth State of the Union Address" (1888).
Article: "Franklin Roosevelt's Re-Nomination Acceptance Speech (1936)".
Article: "Elon Musk takes major step in replacing your bank account with "X Money"" by David Uzondu.
Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.
Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978.
Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).
Case: "McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission", 2014.
Article: "Firing Line (TV program)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Joe Pyne Was America's First Shock Jock" by Kevin Cook.
Article: "Rapture" by Wikipedia.
Book: The Late Great Planet Earth by Hal Lindsey with Carole C. Carlson.
Book: Left Behind 25th Anniversary Edition by Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins.
Article: "Special elections to the 119th United States Congress (2025-2026)" by Ballotpedia.
Article: "Florida's 1st Congressional District on April 1, 2025" (Gay Valimont) by Ballotpedia.
Article: "Florida's 6th Congressional District on April 1, 2025" (Joshua Weil) by Ballotpedia.
Article: "2025 New York's 21st congressional district special election" by Wikipedia.
Article: "An election for a single state Supreme Court seat becomes the 'blockbuster' political fight of 2025" (April 1) by Fredreka Schouten and Arlette Saenz.
Article: "Inside Jim Clyburn's Biden election endorsement — and how Biden almost blew it" by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes.
Article: "Putin's 'words of gratitude': Russian leader thanks Trump, Modi for efforts to stop Ukraine war" by Firstpost.
Article: "Delano grape strike" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Tesla Takedown" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Washington Attorney General sues Adams County, alleges illegal cooperation with federal immigration officials" by Mitchell Roland.
Article: "Sanctuary city" by Wikipedia.
Hour Three: New analysis says Trump budget plan will take from poorest 40 percent to give to wealthy
Article: "New analysis says Trump budget plan will take from poorest 40 percent to give to wealthy" by Graig Graziosi.
Article: "The House Passed a Budget Bill. This Is What Comes Next" by Aneeta Mathur-Ashton.
Musk's PAC offers $100 to Wisconsin voters in pitch against "activist judges" - Say what?!
Article: "Scoop: Musk's PAC offers $100 to Wisconsin voters in pitch against "activist judges"" by Alex Isenstadt.
Furry alert: Republicans are coming for the furrys...Please protect your furries form the GOP!
Article: "Texas proposes law to stamp out the 'furries' problem exploding in the schools" by TheCriticalMind.
Article: "Pizzagate conspiracy theory" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Litter boxes in schools hoax" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Eight-mile stretch of Amazon forest is felled... to build COP30 road" by Taryn Pedler.
Article: "Reichstag fire" by Britannica.
Article: "Three Percenters" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world" by David Robson.
Article: "Red states create their own DOGE efforts to cut state government" by Kevin Hardy.
Article: "Trump Voters Love Him More Than Before. Four Conservative Columnists Pinpoint Why." by David Brooks, Ross Douthat, David French and Bret Stephens.
Article: "Who could be impacted if GOP makes cuts to Medicaid funding?" by Mary Kekatos.
Bible: "Matthew 25:31-46 The Sheep and the Goats".
Article: "Trump and USPS pensions: who will claim the $400 billion fund?" by Calum Roche.
Article: "In latest blow to Tesla, regulators recall nearly all Cybertrucks" by Matt Ott.
Article: "What is Conscious Consumerism & 7 Ways to be a More Conscious Consumer" by Cory Ames.
Article: "Social Security reverses decision that led to confusion over registration for newborns in several states" by Rick Yarborough.
Book: The Soviet Art of Brain-Washing: Communist Psychopolitics and the Slaughter of Western Culture by Kenneth Goff.
Article: "'Not sure there's ever been anything like this': Rachel Maddow stunned by Trump 'oddity'" by Erik De La Garza.
Article: "Trump wants to 'abolish' the IRS and replace it with tariffs. Can it work?" by David Goldman.
Site: 50501.
Site: "Indivisible".
Event: 5 April: Hands off! day of action.