Sue's Daily Stack, Friday, 31 January, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Friday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: The GOP's 60-Year Conspiracy to Kill Our Democracy: None Dare Call It Treason—But I Will
Article: "The GOP's 60-Year Conspiracy to Kill Our Democracy: None Dare Call It Treason—But I Will" by Thom Hartmann.
Site: The Hartmann Report.
Article: "Crashing the Economy: Trump's Blueprint for Power and Profit" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Dear Republicans: We Tried Your Way and It Does Not Work" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)" by Edmund Burke.
Article: "This Chart Shows How Reaganomics Has Destroyed The Middle Class" by Wes Williams (click past the "Daily Banter has moved" message).
Article: "The Top 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90%—And That's Made the U.S. Less Secure" by Nick Hanauer and David M. Rolf.
Book: "The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot" by Russell Kirk.
Book: The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Correction: This is What Minimum Wage Would Be If It Kept Pace with Productivity" by Dean Baker.
Article: "The tea party radio network" by Kenneth P. Vogel and Mackenzie Weinger.
Case: "Brown v. Board", 1954 (school desegregation).
Quote: "The occupation of an hairdresser, or of a working tallow-chandler, cannot be a matter of honour to any person - to say nothing of a number of other more servile employments. Such descriptions of men ought not to suffer oppression from the state; but the state suffers oppression, if such as they, either individually or collectively, are permitted to rule. In this you think you are combating prejudice, but you are at war with nature" - Edmund Burke.
Article: "Reagan vs. Air Traffic Controllers" by Bryan Craig.
Article: "On This Day: Reagan and the Air Traffic Controllers" by Reagan Library.
Article: "Trump Blames D.E.I. and Biden for Crash Under His Watch" by David E. Sanger.
Article: "Winging It: The Battle Between Reagan and PATCO" by Chris Lehmann.
Article: "American Airlines Pilots in DC Plane Crash Identified" by Gabe Whisnant AND Joshua Rhett Miller.
Article: "Conservative Anglican Priest Mirrors Musk & Pays the Price" by wesmorgan1.
This plane crisis shows Trump can't handle a crisis- we're going to have to hold our breath for the next 4 years....
Article: "'This happened under his watch': White House reporter says Trump 'couldn't handle' crisis" by Tom Boggioni.
Article: "House Republicans' 2025 Budget Proposal Slashes Funding For FSA Administration, Campus-Based Aid Programs" by Maria Carrasco.
Article: "Fact Sheet: Republicans' Extreme Continuing Resolution" by Appropriations Committee Democrats.
Post: "A TIMELINE OF RECENT EVENTS:
January 20: Trump FIRES the FAA director
January 21: Trump FREEZES all Air Traffic Controller hiring
January 22: Trump DISBANDS the Aviation Safety Advisory Committee
January 28: Trump sends a buyout/retirement ransom letter to existing FAA employees
January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years,
67 fatalities.
WE ARE ONCE AGAIN RULED BY AN INCOMPETENT FOOL WHO IS GONNA GET US ALL KILLED!" by papigrossy.
The FAA report on crash is out - and it's an indictment of Trump...
Article: "FAA Report on D.C. Plane Crash Is Out—and It's an Indictment of Trump" by Hafiz Rashid.
Article: "TRUMP LOST. Vote Suppression Won" by Greg Palast.
Article: "Democrats' Fatal Flaw: The Party That Forgot How to Captivate America" by Thom Hartmann.
Video: Emergency Video (Extreme Emergency) Jan 2025 - Adam Kinzinger.
Article: "The Supreme Court ruled in the Trump ballot eligibility case. Here's the full text of the opinion." by Melissa Quinn.
Article: "Selena Gomez faces backlash for sobbing over ICE arrests in now-deleted video: 'You are welcome to leave' " by Eric Todisco.
Book: The State Boys Rebellion by Michael D'Antonio.
Hour Two: We have another "hair in fire" moment on with Musl being involved in our Government
Article: "'Hair-on-fire moment': Critics react with horror to Elon Musk's latest scheme" by Brad Reed.
Article: "Senior U.S. official to exit after rift with Musk allies over payment system" by Jeff Stein, Isaac Arnsdorf, Jacqueline Alemany.
Article: "Classical conditioning" ("Pavlov's dog") by Wikipedia.
Article: "Malcolm Kenyatta" by Wikipedia.
Site: "Project 2025".
People are trying to simplify the message
Article: "people are trying to simplify the message" by BlueWaveNeverEnd.
Article: "Trump administration rescinds order attempting to freeze federal aid spending" by Sahil Kapur, Peter Alexander and Kate Santaliz.
Site: Indivisible.
Site: Democratic National Committee.
Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).
Article: "Tulsi Gabbard" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Tulsi Gabbard Denies Being in a Cult, but Some Former Members Allege It Was an Abusive Environment" by Jennifer Tisdale.
Article: "Tulsi Gabbard's history with Russia is even more concerning than you think" by Richard Hall and Andrew Feinberg.
Book: "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" by Thom Hartmann.
Case: "Santa Clara County vs. Southern Pacific Railroad", 1886.
Case: "Dartmouth College v. Woodward", 1819.
Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.
Law: "Tillman Act of 1907".
Article: "Powell Memo".
Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978.
Case: "McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission", 2014.
Article: "'Jews will not replace us': Why white supremacists go after Jews" by Yair Rosenberg.
Article: "The Shock Doctrine" by Naomi Klein.
Article: "Michigan Sen. Gary Peters won't run again. What we know about the 2-term senator" by Jalen Williams.
Article: "In a chaotic Senate hearing, RFK Jr. insists that some of his best friends are vaccines" by Richard Hall.
Article: "RFK Jr. Shamed by Law School Pal at Senate Hearing: 'You Frighten People'" by David Gardner, Mary Ann Akers.
Article: "Trump's floated idea to shutter FDIC would be political heavy lift, say analysts" by Arasu Kannagi Basil, Pete Schroeder and Lananh Nguyen.
Article: "Pink triangle" by Wikipedia.
Hour Three: Is using AI facial recognition to identify, arrest, and deport anti-Netanyahu protestors here in the US, coming up next?
Article: ""Operation Wrath of Zion" Aims to Dox and Deport Pro-Palestinian Protestors in New York City" by Jack Poulson.
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.".
'They're both dangerous': Senators worried Patel and Gabbard refused constitutional pledge..shouldn't everyone be worried about this?
Article: "'They're both dangerous': Senators worried Patel and Gabbard refused constitutional pledge" by Sarah K. Burris, Matt Laslo.
Article: "If Obama Had Sent a Mob to Kill a Cop, Republicans Would Never Let You Forget It" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Stephanie Kelton" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Modern Monetary Theory" by Wikipedia.
Documentary: Finding The Money.
Article: "Wealth of Elon Musk" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Federal employees are told to name colleagues who work in DEI roles or risk 'adverse consequences'" by Megan Lebowitz.
Article: "Sturmabteilung"(brown shirts) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Do Turkey's Grey Wolves Deserve Terrorist Designation?" by Michael Rubin.
Article: "'Trying to rewrite history': Boise woman guilty in Capitol riot rejects Trump pardon" by Sally Krutzig.
Article: "Superdelegate" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Donald Trump didn't put his hand on the Bible during his oath of office. He's still the president." by Samantha Putterman.
Article: "Kelly Loeffler" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Watch: DC bishop takes on Trump to his face in national prayer service" by Sarah K. Burris.