Sue's Daily Stack, Friday, 25 April, 2025

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

Friday’s Daily Stack

Hour One: Trump: The Chernobyl of American Democracy
Article: "Trump: The Chernobyl of American Democracy" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "COVID: This Month 4 Years Ago Trump & Kushner Put Together a Deadly, Evil Plan" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "'Everybody is on edge': Trump guts Meals on Wheels — a 'godsend' for homebound Americans" by Adam Lynch.

Article: "FBI Arrests Judge: She's Accused Of Helping Immigrant Evade ICE Arrest, Patel Says In Deleted Post" by Ty Roush.
Article: "Hannah Dugan" by Wikipedia.
Article: "World Press Freedom Day" by UNESCO (3 May).
Site: Democracy Watch News.
Site: Mark Taylor-Canfield.
BlueSky: Mark Taylor-Canfield.
BlueSky: Democracy Watch News.
Article: "2024 World Press Freedom Index - journalism under political pressure" (USA 55th) by Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
Article: "A roundup of Donald Trump actions against the press" by John R. Vile.
Article: "Trump's FCC chief opens investigation into NPR and PBS" by David Folkenflik.
Article: "USA: Thousands of journalists at risk of unemployment as USAGM faces" by IFJ.
Law: "First Amendment to the United States Constitution" "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.".
Article: "ABC settles with Trump for $15 million. Now, he wants to sue other news outlets" by David Folkenflik.
Article: "Meta to pay $25m to settle Trump lawsuit over ban" by Peter Hoskins & Natalie Sherman.
Article: "Paramount files to dismiss Trump's 'baseless' $20bn 60 Minutes suit" by Marina Dunbar.
Article: "'60 Minutes' Producer Bill Owens Resigns As Media Figures Quit Due To Trump" by Toni Fitzgerald.

Are we 2 weeks from empty shelves?
Article: "Trump has two weeks to save America from empty shelves" by Matt Oliver.
Article: "Trump was warned of empty shelves and financial turmoil from tariffs and firing Powell. His U-turn pushed stocks higher" by Kevin Liptak, Jeff Zeleny and David Goldman.
Article: "Costco And Target Are Battling It Out Over Conflicting DEI Policies" by TeeJay Small.
Article: "Affirmative action" by Wikipedia.
Site: "Indivisible".
Site: 50501. May 1: May Day Strong
Article: "Donald Trump says Xi Jinping called him, but China denies tariff talks are underway" by Tessa Flemming.

While America is burning - Grifter Trump is making off like a bandit. Are you paying attention yet?
Article: "Trump offers private dinner to top 220 investors of his meme coin" by David Yaffe-Bellany.
Article: "Supreme Court Grants Trump Broad Immunity for Official Acts, Placing Presidents Above the Law" by ACLT.
Article: "What Does "From the River to the Sea" Really Mean? " by Yousef Munayyer.
Article: "'From the river to the sea': where does the slogan come from and what does it mean?" by Daniel Boffey.
Article: "Rope-a-dope" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Hakeem Jeffries" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Top Talk Audiences" by Talkers.
Article: "'An amateur person': GOP Rep. Bacon says Hegseth should go" by Rachael Bade.
Movie: "Out of Africa".
Article: "Lügenpresse: The lying press and German journalists' responses to a stigma." by Karin Assmann.

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Hour Two: Trump is trying to cut off ActBlue. This is what tyrants do instead of govern - they target their enemies.
Article: "Trump targets Democratic fundraising in latest despotic move" by Emily Singer.
Article: "ActBlue" by Wikipedia.
Article: "WinRed" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Crypto Critic Elizabeth Warren Probes Trump's Meme Coin Venture" by Jesse Hamilton.
Quote: "A government of laws, and not of men." - John Adams.

Parents are panicked about their kids being hunted under the new RFK Jr's autism registry plan. Just when you thing it can't get worse....it does.
Article: "'Terrifying': RFK Jr's autism registry plan has parents 'panicked' kids will be 'hunted' " by Matthew Chapman.
Video: HHS Sec. Kennedy News Conference on Autism Rates, April 16 2025.
Article: "Did Einstein have autism?" by Apoorva Mandavilli.
Article: "Elon Musk opens up on how Asperger's has impacted his life" by Hope King.
Article: "Flu-like symptoms in pregnant women could affect baby" by Zen Vuong.

Article: "Fox Reporter Says the Trump White House Is Giving Wall Street Executives Info on Tariff Negotiations" by Zachary Leeman.
Article: "Why Did Martha Stewart Go to Prison? A Look Back at Her 2004 Fraud Case" by Lynsey Eidell.
Video: Sen. Mitch McConnell sounds alarm on Trump's 'America First' policies.

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.
Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978.
Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).
Law: "Tillman Act of 1907".
Site: Move to Amend.
Article: "Carnation Revolution" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Freedom Day in Portugal in 2025" by OfficeHolidays.
Article: "George Santos given seven-year prison term for fraudulent congressional run" by Wikipedia.
Article: "U.S. intelligence contradicts Trump's justification for mass deportations" by John Hudson, Warren P. Strobel.
Article: "Anzac Day" (25 April) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Bakke decision" (affirmative action) by Britannica.
Article: "D910 Post Office Box Service" by USPS.
Article: "Associated Press barred from Oval Office for not using 'Gulf of America'" by Jenna Amatulli.
Article: "Politburo" by Wikipedia.
TV: "Hogan's Heroes".
Article: "Study highlights air pollution as key environmental factor in autism risk" by Vijay Kumar Malesu.
Article: "Trump administration deports gay makeup artist to prison in El Salvador" by Cecilia Vega, Aliza Chasan, Camilo Montoya-Galvez, Andy Court, Annabelle Hanflig.

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Hour Three: Geeky Science. Dimming the Sun? Will scientists tweak the earth's thermostat? Will this plan could shield the planet — or backfire catastrophically?
Article: "Apple aims to source all US iPhones from India in pivot away from China" by Michael Acton, Stephen Morris, John Reed, Kathrin Hille.
Article: "Experiments to dim the sun given green light" by Rhys Blakely.
Article: "Stratospheric Aerosol Injection as a Deep Reinforcement Learning Problem" by Christian Schroeder de Witt, Thomas Hornigold.
Article: "UK scientists to launch outdoor geoengineering experiments" by Damian Carrington .
Article: "Global dimming" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Mount Tambora and the Year Without a Summer" by UCAR.
Article: "Little Ice Age" by Wikipedia.
Documentary: Ice on Fire.
Documentary: Last Hours.
Documentary: Carbon.
Documentary: Restoration.
Documentary: Green World Rising.
Article: "Carbon capture and storage – what you need to know " by Greenpeace UK .

Why is Wall Street getting inside info? Is it because that's what happens under fascism? And oh, by the way - Apple is moving to India? Not bringing our jobs home? Is Apple participating in Trump's trade war and punishing China?
Article: "Rick Scott 'oversaw the largest Medicare fraud' in U.S. history, Florida Democratic Party says " by Amy Sherman.
Article: "Project 2025" by Wikipedia.
Article: "David Hogg" by Wikipedia.
Article: "DNC chair rebukes David Hogg over plan to primary 'out of touch' Democrats" by Lauren Gambino.
Article: "Joe Crowley" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Jonathan Jackson (Illinois politician)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Tammy Duckworth" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Dick Durbin" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Darin LaHood" by Wikipedia.
Article: "FCC Broadcast Ownership Rules" by FCC.
Law: "Telecommunications Act of 1996" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Breathing Is Now a Political Act: The GOP Has Made Clean Air a Partisan Weapon" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Enbridge's Line 5 pipeline tunnel gets fast-track approval from US Army Corps" by Louis Juricic.
Article: "Medicaid Funding Cuts and Associated Lives Lost Mapped by Congressional District" by Natasha Murphy, Andrea Ducas.
Article: "Why US Automakers Make Vehicles and Source Parts in Canada" by Dave Lindorff.
Article: "Guam at decolonisation 'crossroads' with resolution on U.S statehood" by Island Times.
Article: "Puerto Rico statehood movement" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Frederick Trump" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Mary Anne MacLeod Trump" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Benzion Netanyahu" by Wikipedia.
Article: "October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel" by Wikipedia.
Article: "50501 movement" by Wikipedia.