Sue's Daily Stack, Friday, 28 March, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Friday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: Even Mice Have More Humanity than Trump, Musk, and the GOP
Article: "Even Mice Have More Humanity than Trump, Musk, and the GOP" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "The Journals of Ayn Rand: page 115" by Ayn Rand. "One puts oneself above all and crushes everything in one's way to get the best for oneself."
Article: "The Journals of Ayn Rand: page 134" by Ayn Rand. "has learned long ago, with his first consciousness".
Quote: "The brutality of the murder prompted the Los Angeles Times to declare it "the most horrible crime of the 1929s"." - R. Barri Flowers.
Article: "Can We Stop MAGA Mike & the GOP from Inflicting Their Crusades on America?" by Thom Hartmann.
Video: Marc Andreessen on Atlas Shrugged.
Article: "Wealthcare" by Jonathan Chait.
Article: "Slayer is taken from train while mobs are waiting".
Article: "How Ayn Rand Became a Big Admirer of Serial Killer" by Mark Ames.
Book: "The Prophet's Way" by Thom Hartmann.
Book: "Walking Your Blues Away: How to Heal the Mind and Create Emotional Well-Being" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "The rape scene in The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand is dead.
Article: "USDA cancels $1 billion in funding for schools and food banks to buy food from local suppliers" by Aimee Picchi.
Article: "Scaramucci says Trump will turn on everyone 'eventually,' then 'entire country'" by Devan Cole.
Article: "Musk May Open A Third Front in Coming Republican Civil War" by Dan K.
Video: Donald Trump is a narcissist and sociopath says Sachs.
Article: "Ayn Rand in Space" by Tim Murphy.
Article: "Trump Administration Embraces Ayn Rand's Disdain for the Masses" by Firmin DeBrabander.
Article: "Followers Of Ayn Rand Provide A Final Tribute" by Susan Chira.
Article: "Social Security Employees Warn of Damage From DOGE" by Tara Siegel Bernard.
Article: "Affordable housing threatened as Trump halts $1 billion program to extend life of aging buildings" by Jesse Bedayn.
Article: "The sanctification of Donald Trump" by Andrew Restuccia.
Article: "What would have happened to Howard Roark in a real court?" by Keili Torborough.
Article: "Reviving-like prosocial behavior in response to unconscious or dead conspecifics in rodents" by Wenjian Sun et al.
Article: "What Elon Musk Really Wants" by Franklin Foer.
Article: "Elon Musk Thinks He's an Ayn Rand Hero. Nope: He's One of Her Villains." by Paul Crider.
Article: "The new age of Ayn Rand: how she won over Trump and Silicon Valley" by Jonathan Freedland.
Article: "Have You Ever Seen Donald Trump Laugh?" by Leslie Savan.
Article: "Donald Trump's 'kinder, gentler' version: Kirsten Powers" by Kirsten Powers.
Article: "Silicon Valley's Most Disturbing Obsession" by Nick Bilton.
Article: "Trump: "My whole life I've been greedy … Now I want to be greedy for the United States"" by Ezra Klein.
Article: "Paul Ryan and Ayn Rand" by Rachel Weiner.
Video: Elon Musk Exposes Empathy as Western Civilization's Fatal Flaw on Joe Rogan!.
Video: The 2021 Atlas Society Gala: Peter Thiel's Speech.
Law: "Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 (FCPA)".
Article: "Trump halts enforcement of US law banning bribery of foreign officials" by Léonie Chao-Fong.
Article: "Big Tech is Donating Millions to Trump’s Inauguration" by Common Cause.
Article: "Trump Forcing Law Firms to Give Millions to His Political Organization" by Brad Sherman.
Site: Democracy Watch News.
Article: "Turkish student at Tufts University detained, video shows masked people handcuffing her" by Jake Offenhartz, Kathy Mccormack, Michael Casey.
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.".
Video: Executive director for the Center for Constitutional Rights, Vincent Warren, speaking to CNN, says the arrest of Turkish student Rumeysa Ozturk by masked and plainclothes ICE agents as resembling tactics used in authoritarian regimes..
Article: "Vincent Warren" by CCR.
Law: "Alien Enemies Act" (1798).
Article: "The Alien Enemies Act, Explained" by Katherine Yon Ebright.
Law: "Insurrection Act of 1807".
Article: "Is Trump preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act? Signs are pointing that way" by Brett Wagner.
Event: 5 April: Hands off! day of action.
Putin is vowing to finish off Ukraine...Is Trump helping him and was this always the plan?
Article: "Putin declares he can 'finish off' Ukraine in brazen defiance of Trump – as he boards nuke sub and unleashes new strikes" by Georgie English, Sayan Bose.
Article: "Russian medical researcher at Harvard, who protested the Ukraine war, detained by ICE" by Marlene Lenthang and Sophie Comeau.
Article: "UN Security Council To Discuss 'Massive' Russian Attack That Killed Dozens In Ukraine " by RFE/RL.
Trump is now saying America will go as far as we have to to acquire Greenland, As Canada says they are breaking off relations with the US.
Article: "Trump Says The U.S. Will 'Go As Far As We Have To Go' To Acquire Greenland" by Marita Vlachou.
Article: "Canada Announces Bombshell Break With U.S. Over Trump" by Bernardo de La Paz.
Article: "U.S. officials went door-to-door in Greenland to find anyone who wanted to be visited by the Vances. They found no one" by Graig Graziosi.
Article: "Trump says Greenland takeover needed for ‘world peace’" by Al Jazeera.
Article: "Canada PM Mark Carney says old relationship with US 'is over'" by Jessica Murphy,Ali Abbas Ahmadi, Bernd Debusmann.
Article: "The One-Word Reason Paul Weiss Caved to Trump" by Steven Harper.
Article: "Fallout from Columbia capitulation fuels fears about academic freedom" by Martine Powers and Cate Brown.
Article: "Vance scolds Denmark during Greenland trip as Trump says US must have island" by BBC.
Article: "Usha Vance Photo Op Effort In Greenland Took Embarrassing Turn: Report" by Ron Dicker.
Article: "UVA Center for Politics hosts panel on President Donald Trump’s first 100 days" by Pimm Dyar.
Article: "President Bystander: Trump appears out of the loop in his own White House" by Steve Benen.
Article: "Trump asks Supreme Court to allow deportations under Alien Enemies Act" by Sergio Martínez-Beltrán.
Article: "Vances pare back Greenland trip amid threat of protests" by Alexander C. Kaufman.
Article: "USPS removed 711 sorting machines this year, new court documents show" by Kristen Holmes and Paul P. Murphy.
Article: "Manhattan march sees thousands enraged by Medicaid cuts and federal layoffs: ‘They’re killing people’" by Gabriele Holtermann.
Article: "Roy Cohn" by Wikipedia.
Video: The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1971) Official Trailer.
Article: "Treason Under the Constitution" by Samuel Strom.
Hour Two: At Least 1,400 academics call to boycott Columbia University for its free speech crackdown
Article: "At Least 1,400 Academics Call To Boycott Columbia For Free Speech Crackdown" by Sanjana Karanth.
Outspoken Fascism Scholars Leave Yale for Canada
Article: "Outspoken Fascism Scholars Leave Yale for Canada" by Ryan Quinn.
Book: How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley.
Georgia police jailed woman for miscarriage and performed autopsy on her miscarried fetus
Article: "Georgia Police Jailed Woman for Miscarriage and Performed Autopsy on Her Miscarried Fetus" by Kylie Cheung.
Article: "Trump-Musk Order Will Cost 21 Million Their Vote" by Greg Palast.
According to fresh reports - The resistance here in America is alive and doing well......stay engaged.
Article: "The resistance is alive and well – and our research shows it" by Erica Chenoweth, Jeremy Pressman and Soha Hammam.
Article: "Boston Tea Party" (1773) by Wikipedia.
Article: "JD Vance" by Wikipedia.
Article: "PayPal Mafia" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Peter Thiel" by Wikipedia.
Article: "DOGE says fraudsters targeting Social Security's call-in lines to bilk benefits" by Eric Revell.
Site: "Indivisible".
Site: 50501.
Site: Free Speech TV.
Article: "Briefing: Turkish officials, media carefully criticise student's detention in US" by BBC.
Article: "Stock Market on March 28, 2025: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq see worst day in almost three weeks after inflation, consumer-sentiment reports; stocks post weekly drop to deepen March losses ahead of reciprocal tariffs" by MarketWatch.
Law: "5th Amendment" (double jeopardy, witness against self, due process, taking clause, due compensation).
Article: "Shares of GM and other automakers slump following Trump tariffs, with Tesla the exception" by Damian J. Troise.
Article: "Trump Gambles on Outside Groups to Finance Voter Outreach Efforts" by Theodore Schleifer.
Hour Three: Meet your new EPA. Fossil fuel companies get direct email line to Trump for exemption requests - EPA sets up email address where 'regulated community' can request exemption to evade air pollution rules...
Article: "Fossil fuel companies get direct email line to Trump for exemption requests" by Oliver Milman and Dharna Noor.
Is there anything wrong with allowing child labor, 14 year olds, to work day and night, with no meal or rest breaks in America?
Article: "'What's wrong?' Analyst warns DeSantis aims to use children to replace migrant workers" by Matthew Chapman.
Article: "Dear GOP: You'll Never Wash the Stench of Trump Off You or Your Party. Never. " by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Assessing Elon Musk’s Misleading Claims About Fraud in Government Spending" by Linda Qiu.
Article: "Donald Trump is seeking to erase the United States as we know it" by Laurence H Tribe.
Video: Diverse groups opposing Trump-Musk agenda coalesce around date for nationwide protest.
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: "Eugene Vindman" by Wikipedia.
Event: March 29: Tesla Takedown global day of action (also protests on other dates).
Article: "Schumer's Legacy: Rolling Over for Trump While Democracy Burns" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Tammy Duckworth" by Wikipedia.
Article: "US Sen. Tammy Duckworth calls Pete Hegseth a 'f------ liar'" by Tom Ackerman.
Article: "Chris Murphy" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Jeff Merkley" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Raphael Warnock" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Elizabeth Warren" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Visiting Greenland, Vance Finds the Weather and the Reception Chilly" by David E. Sanger.
Article: "Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says his mother-in-law wouldn't complain if her Social Security check didn't arrive this month" by Katherine Li.
Article: "Social Security's overpayments policy takes effect today. Experts say it could hurt seniors." by Aimee Picchi.
Article: "Trump says he's planning more tariffs on April 2, calling it "liberation day." Here's what it means." by Megan Cerullo.
Article: "Videos show cars submerged by floodwaters in Texas" by CNN.
Article: "High crimes and misdemeanors" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Inside Trump's shock decision to pull the plug on Elise Stefanik's nomination" by Garrett Haake, Melanie Zanona and Bridget Bowman.
Video: Schumer on if he thinks democracy is at stake: 'We're not there yet'.
Quote: "When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross" - attributed to Sinclair Lewis.
Article: "Rich less empathetic than poor, study says" by Deseret News.
Article: "The Rich Drive Differently, a Study Suggests" by Benjamin Preston.
Quote: "Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule." - the Buddha.
Article: "Presidential Records Act" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal" by Jeffrey Goldberg and Shane Harris.
Article: "If Not Atlantic Editor Jeff Goldberg, Who Did Pete Hegseth's Group Chat Think "JG" Was?" by Kase Wickman.