Sue's Daily Stack, Friday, 6 June, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Friday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: Who Owns America? Musk and Trump Are Fighting Over the Deed
Article: "Who Owns America? Musk and Trump Are Fighting Over the Deed" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Can We Survive a New Apartheid Engineered by America's Elites?" by Thom Hartmann.
Book: "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Citizens United Explained" by Daniel Weiner, Tim Lau.
Article: "Billionaires spent record amounts during 2024 federal election – report" by Gabrielle Canon.
Tweet: "Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate." by Elon Musk.
Article: "Today in Politics, Bulletin 145. 6/5/25" by Ron Filipkowski.
Site: Ali Velshi.
Article: "The Election Was Stolen – Here's How…" by Greg Palast.
There's a dark MAGA conspiracy where Musk destroys Trump and democracy - hmmm ...is it closer to the truth than you think? I'll be telling you all about it.
Article: "The Dark MAGA Conspiracy Where Musk Destroys Trump and Democracy" by David Gardner.
Could there be a bigger scandal than Trump being in the Epstein files? Could there be be a larger moral failure? Where's the press?
Article: "'Intense scrutiny': Dems press DOJ on Musk's claim Trump is in Epstein files" by Erik De La Garza.
Article: "the "Dark Enlightenment" philosophers of Silicon Valley" by Thom Hartmann.
Law: "25th Amendment Section 4" (presidential succession). "Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President."
Book: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance.
Letter: "To Kash Patel, Pam Bondi, JUne 5 2025" by Stephen Lynch, Robert Garcia.
Article: "Donald Trump's alleged 'sexual proclivities' graphically detailed in new Epstein documents" by Mike Bedigan.
Article: "Trump cries Wolff… or at least tries to sue him." by Baktosch Gillan.
Article: "'I've seen these pictures': Trump's biographer validates 'nuclear' Musk threat" by Travis Gettys.
Article: "Judge says E Jean Carroll allegation Trump raped her is 'substantially true' in court dismissal" by Martin Pengelly.
Article: "Musk goes nuclear: "Without me, Trump would have lost the election"" by Zachary Basu.
Event: Friday, June 6, 5 – 6:30pm EDT: SCOTUS Action for Andry.
Event: Friday, June 6, 8pm EDT: Lincoln Theater, DC Free Andry.
Article: "30-mile protest against President Trump policies links Aurora to Chicago" by WLS.
Article: "'Half the tree of life': ecologists' horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects" by Tess McClure.
Site: National Audubon Society.
Article: "Schadenfreude" by Wikipedia.
Quote: "With all due respect, sir, I believe this is gonna be our finest hour." - Gene Kranz: Apollo 13.
Article: "Dissolving USAID could lead to an additional 14 million deaths by 2030 " by Beatriz Lecumberri.
Article: "Feds' abrupt cutoff of HIV prevention funds threatens decades of progress, S.F. providers say" by Erin Allday.
Law: "Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency Act (Ryan White CARE Act, 1990)".
Article: "Trump administration cancels $766 million Moderna contract to fight pandemic flu" by AP.
Article: "Cutting-Edge mRNA Vaccine Shows Promise Against H5N1 in Dairy Cattle" by Global Biodefense.
Article: "USDA conditionally approves H5N1 poultry vaccine" by Nat Biotechnol.
Article: "ACT UP" by Wikipedia.
Hour Two: Will the Military be signing a loyalty oath soon? Will the oath be to Trump or We the People?
Article: "Will military officers have to sign a "loyalty oath" to Trump? Senior officer says it's "imminent."" by ChrisRodda.
Site: Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF).
Article: "Michael L. Weinstein" (Mikey Weinstein) by Wikipedia.
Trump says it may be better to let Ukraine and Russia 'fight for a while"
Article: "Trump says it may be better to let Ukraine and Russia 'fight for a while'" by Andrew Roth, Pjotr Sauer.
Article: "Trump scorns Merkel legacy during new German chancellor's White House visit" by Kate Connolly.
Article: "Putin will seek revenge for Ukraine drone attack, warns Trump" by Bernd Debusmann Jr.
Article: "Russia bombards Kyiv after Putin vows revenge for Operation Spiderweb" by Daniel Boffey.
Article: "Russian strike kills five, including toddler, hours after Trump calls Putin" by PA News Agency.
Article: "Xi Jinping warned Vladimir Putin against nuclear attack in Ukraine" by Max Seddon, James Kynge, John Paul Rathbone, Felicia Schwartz.
Article: "Trump Tweets Offer Glimpse of Plans for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac" by CREFC.
Article: "Economists Raise Questions About Quality of U.S. Inflation Data" by Matt Grossman.
Article: "US jobs market slows down as businesses cope with Trump trade war uncertainty" by Lauren Aratani.
Article: "Trump ices out Musk in tax-cut bill feud: 'Not even thinking of him'" by Nandita Bose and Alexandra Ulmer.
Article: "Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model " by CMS.
Article: "Scott Bessent" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The bigotry at the heart of Pete Hegseth's Navy ship renaming" by Michael A. Cohen.
Article: "Scoop: Musk vs. Bessent dispute erupted into West Wing shouting match" by Marc Caputo.
Article: "House passes bill that could make it harder for married women to vote" (SAVE Act) by Barbara Rodriguez.
Article: "Federal Job Applications To Include Essay Question On Trump's Executive Orders" by Antonio Pequeño IV.
Article: "Did staffing cuts at weather service affect Kentucky's tornado response?" by Beth Musgrave.
Article: "After Staff Cuts, the National Weather Service Is Hiring Again" by Judson Jones.
Article: "Great Replacement" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Fluoridated Water" by NIH.
Article: "Toxic Treatment: Fluoride's Transformation from Industrial Waste to Public Health Miracle " by Frank Zelko.
Article: "Sen. Tim Scott: Trump's major policy bill will "protect American recipients of Medicaid"" by Situation Room.
Article: "Can Trump really pay off the US national debt with bitcoin?" by Toby Nangle.
Article: "Musk shares footage of Trump partying with Jeffrey Epstein as feud intensifies" by Holly Bishop.
Article: "June 14 - Call For The Largest March In Us History" by MalcolmNance.
Article: "The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world" by David Robson.
Article: "Subprime mortgage crisis" by Wikipedia.
Hour Three: RFK Jr.'s Deadly War on Science
Article: "RFK Jr.'s Deadly War on Science " by Steven Harper.
Article: "Placebo-controlled study" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Elon Musk spent more than $290 million on the 2024 election, year-end FEC filings show" by David Wright and Alex Leeds-Matthews.
Article: "January 6 United States Capitol attack" by Wikipedia.
Video: MRFF Matters 5/21/25 - Hegseth Invites Pentagon to Christian Prayer & Worship In Uniform on Duty Day.
Article: "Ukraine Hits Military Targets, Russia Bombs Civilians in Response, Says Ukrainian FM Sybiha" by Vlad Litnarovych.
Video: "Canada's old relationship with the US is over", says Carney.
Article: "U.S. Dollar Index" by macrotrends.
Article: "Musk Might Not Be Genuine. Democrats Should Still Take Him Back." by Debra Kahn.
Article: "Trump Makes Odd Remark About Elon Musk's Familiarity With Pennsylvania Voting Machines" by Leigh Kimmins.
Article: "'Intern in charge': Meet the 22-year-old Trump picked to lead terror prevention" by Hannah Allam.
Article: "Thomas C. Fugate" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The Bonfire of the Vanities" by Tom Wolfe.
Quote: "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." - John Kenneth Galbraith.
Course: "Villanova Interdisciplinary Immigration Studies Training For Advocates: VIISTA" by Villanova University.
Article: "The Normalization of Evil: We Thought We Were Free" by Thom Hartmann.
Site: "Problem Solvers".
Article: "Blue Dog Coalition" by Wikipedia.
Site: 50501. June 14: No Kings Day
Article: "Elissa Slotkin" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Upending norms, the Senate votes to undo California's EV rules" by Camila Domonoske.
Article: "CO2 hits 430ppm milestone, raising alarm for ocean health and polar systems" by Elise D. Solberg.
Article: "David Hogg" by Wikipedia.
Tweet: "Appears Fmr. Rep. Michele Bachmann has created the Tea Party Caucus to CarShield commercial pipeline" by Nathaniel Reed.
Video: WATCH Brett's First LIVE Show!.
Youtube: "Full Episodes – Brett Breaks Things".
Article: "Ben McKenzie on His Crypto Doc 'Everyone Is Lying to You for Money': A "Human Story About Trust"" by Georg Szalai.
Article: "Quantum Computing: A New Threat To Bitcoin And Crypto Security?" by Yuval Boger.
Case: "Nixon v. Fitzgerald" (1982) (The President is entitled to absolute immunity from civil liability for damages based on his official acts).