Sue's Daily Stack, Monday, 12 May, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Monday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: The Machines Are Learning — and They're Learning to Be Fascists
Article: "The Machines Are Learning — and They're Learning to Be Fascists" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Pope Leo XIV lays out vision of papacy and identifies AI as a main challenge for humanity" by Nicole Winfield.
Article: "Trump's post of fake Taylor Swift endorsement is his latest embrace of AI-generated images" by Dan Merica, Ali Swenson.
Article: "Can Democracy Survive the Disruptive Power of AI?" by Raluca Csernatoni.
Article: "No evidence that audio clip of Keir Starmer supposedly swearing at his staff is genuine" by Full Fact.
Article: "Is Argentina the First A.I. Election?" by Jack Nicas and Lucía Cholakian Herrera.
Article: "How memes got weaponized: A short history" by Joan Donovan.
Article: "Turkish presidential candidate quits race after release of alleged sex tape" by Ruth Michaelson.
Article: "How Disinformation From a Russian AI Spam Farm Ended up on Top of Google Search Results" by David Gilbert.
Article: "Slovakia's Election Deepfakes Show AI Is a Danger to Democracy" by Morgan Meaker.
Video: Peter, Paul and Mary - Where Have All the Flowers Gone (25th Anniversary Concert).
Site: Jesse Welles.
Site: Northwest Folklife (Festival May 23, 2025 - Monday, May 26, 2025).
Event: Seattle: May 23-26, 2025: Northwest Folklife Festival.
What is habeas corpus and why might Donald Trump want to suspend it?
Article: "What is habeas corpus and why might Donald Trump want to suspend it?" by Robin Levinson King.
Article: "Habeas corpus" (1166) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Magna Carta" (1215) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Dred Scott Case" by History.com.
Article: "Internment of Japanese Americans" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Roger Taney" by Matthew Pinsker.
Republicans have unveiled their plan to cut millions of Americans from their healthcare to pay for their tax cuts for billionaires
Article: "'Under Cover of Night,' GOP Unveils Plan to Kick Over 8 Million Off Medicaid" by Jake Johnson.
Article: "Staunch MAGA senator turns on GOP colleagues as he slams 'cover of night' Medicaid deal" by Travis Gettys.
Article: "Trump health cuts create 'real danger' around disease outbreaks, workers war" by Michael Sainato.
Article: "Trump signs executive order seeking to lower US drug costs by challenging prices in other countries" by Tami Luhby.
Article: "Virginia Giuffre, Voice in Epstein Sex-Trafficking Scandal, Dies at 41" by Sam Roberts.
Article: "What Does Liberal Arts Mean?" by Princeton University.
Article: "Scopes trial" by Wikipedia.
Site: Portland's Folk Festival (Jan 30-31 2026).
Book: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.
Book: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
Book: Animal Farm by George Orwell.
Article: "Value-added tax" (VAT) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Goods and services tax (Canada)" (GST) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Zelensky challenges Putin to meet him after Trump demands Ukraine-Russia talks" by Alex Kleiderman.
Article: "European Leaders Pressure Russia for a Cease-Fire, but Putin Refuses" by Marc Santora and Anton Troianovski.
Article: "Deal or No Deal Island" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Deal or No Deal Island winner David Genat still hasn't gotten his $5.8 million" by Dalton Ross.
Article: "Ibrahim Traoré" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Burkina Faso bans "homosexuality and associated practices" as Africa's coup belt lurches away from the West" by Sarah Carter.
Hour Two: Looks like Trump caved on tariffs...
Article: "Markets rise as US and China agree to slash tariffs" by Nick Edser & Jonathan Josephs.
Article: "Trump caves 115% on China tariffs temporarily, and leaves the door open for more market manipulation" by Lincoln green.
Law: "Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act".
Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 8. "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;;..."
Article: "Pump and dump" by Wikipedia.
What to know about Delaney Hall, where Newark's mayor was arrested - Critics say the erection of the immigrant detention facility in a contaminated area violates state and local laws.
Article: "What to know about Delaney Hall, where Newark's mayor was arrested" by Tobi Raji.
Apparently America is unloved worldwide now...
Article: "US popularity collapses worldwide in wake of Trump's return" by Giovanna Coi.
Book: Negroes with Guns by Robert F. Williams.
Article: "Burkina Faso" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Mali" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Niger" by Wikipedia.
Article: "World's largest aircraft owner lost 113 planes to Russia due to sanctions" by Chris Isidore.
Article: "Health in Burkina Faso" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Who is Michael Langley; US General Who Sparked Uproar After Criticizing Ibrahim Traore" by The Kenya Times.
Post: "MEEKS: Do trade deficits constitute a national emergency?
BESSENT: Yes
MEEKS: Do you know that for the last four decades we have trade deficits and nobody said it was a national emergency?" by Aaron Rupar.
Article: "The Fox News To White House Pipeline: TV Personalities Who Joined The Trump Administration" by Tom Tapp.
Article: "Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts" by Brooke Nichols.
Article: "Bondi Becomes Trump's Attorney General Amid DOJ Shake-Up" by Chris Strohm.
Article: "Justice Dept. Says It Will Not Bring Charges in Investigation of Project Veritas" by Michael S. Schmidt and Adam Goldman.
Article: "How Pam Bondi Will Get Round Constitution to Give Trump a Free Flying Palace" by Emell Derra Adolphus.
Article: "Pam Bondi's Qatar Links Under Scrutiny Over Trump's Luxury Plane Gift" by Sophie Clark .
Article: "House passes bill that could make it harder for married women to vote" (SAVE Act) by Barbara Rodriguez.
Article: "Shelby County v. Holder" by Wikipedia.
Case: "Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute".
Quote: "To be prepared for war is the most effectual means to preserve peace." - George Washington.
Article: "Tariffs could cost them. They're still standing by Trump." by Hannah Knowles.
Law: "Patriot Act", 2001.
Article: "Viktor Orbán tells CPAC the path to power is to 'have your own media'" by Flora Garamvolgyi.
Site: Free Speech TV.
Site: "Project 2025".
Article: "Why are judges in US getting pizzas that they didn't even order?" by TOI.
Article: "NJ Judge: My murdered son's name was on pizzas sent to intimidate other judges" by Alex Witt.
Article: "Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico" by NOAA.
Article: "A Conclave of Sea Gulls Concludes Its Business" by Alisha Haridasani Gupta.
Article: "House approves Marjorie Taylor Greene's bill renaming Gulf of Mexico as "Gulf of America"" by Caitlin Yilek, Kaia Hubbard.
Article: "Laws, textbooks in Florida set to rename Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America by July" by Ana Goñi-Lessan.
Article: "Trump's dramatic weight loss at 78: Did he take Ozempic? This is what White House is saying" by ToI.
Hour Three: Will trump accept $400 million "flying palace?" And did you know the Trump family is striking business deals there?
Article: "Trump to accept $400 million 'flying palace' jet as gift from Qatar: report" by David Edwards.
Article: "Trump Goes Nuclear on Critics of Qatar Jet 'Gift': 'World Class Losers'" by David Gilmour.
Article: "Trump's Family Is Rapidly Striking Business Deals in the Mideast" by Eliot Brown, Stephen Kalin.
Post: "This is President Trump's corruption tour of the Middle East. He is giving favors to nations, and in exchange he is asking not for security concessions for the United States, but cash payments for himself. This isn't a normal moment and we shouldn't act like it. [video]" by Chris Murphy.
Article: "Loomer: Qatari jet gift a 'stain' on Trump presidency" by Elizabeth Crisp.
Article: "Trump company strikes Qatari golf resort deal in a sign it's not holding back from foreign business" by Bernard Condon.
Article: "The Illusion of American Generosity" by George D. O'Neill Jr.
Article: "In the Wake of Trump Tariffs, Whitehouse & Doggett Reintroduce Bill to Eliminate Trump's Outsourcing Tax Breaks That Are Up for Renewal" by Lloyd Doggett.
Book: "The Prophet's Way" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Trump Heads to the Middle East Focused on Business Deals, Not Diplomacy" by Jonathan Swan, Vivian Nereim, Ismaeel Naar, David E. Sanger, Luke Broadwater.
Article: "Great Depression" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Charted: U.S. Median House Prices vs. Income" by Omri Wallach.
Article: "CHIPS Act Passes: House Approves $280 Billion Bill To Boost Microchip Production And Counter China" by Brian Bushard.
Law: "Inflation Reduction Act of 2022".
Poem: "On a Sundial" by Hilaire Belloc.
Article: "ICE agents wear masks so they can't be held accountable—that must end!" by Dean Obeidallah.
Video: On the Hook - The Lincoln Project.
Article: "Nuremberg trials" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Students for a Democratic Society" (SDS) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Putin is Still Stealing Ukrainian Children" by Karolina Hird.
Article: "Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation" (2014) by Wikipedia.
Article: "RFK Jr.'s autism study to amass medical records of many Americans" by Alexander Tin.
Article: "Elon Musk opens up on how Asperger's has impacted his life" by Hope King.
Article: "Walmart to lay off or relocate more than 800 workers" by Sandra Levy.
Article: "ICYMI: Trump Makes Plans to Gut Housing Assistance for Millions" by Accountable.US.
Video: Willie Horton 1988 Attack Ad.
Article: "Willie Horton" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Is Stephen Miller trying to take away Congress' watchdog?" by Lauren Harper.
Article: "Judicial Conference of the United States" by Wikipedia.