Sue's Daily Stack, Monday, 3 February, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Monday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: Could the Democrats' Lack of Resistance Be a Green Light for Tyranny?
Article: "Could the Democrats' Lack of Resistance Be a Green Light for Tyranny?" by Thom Hartmann.
Site: "Bernie Sanders".
Post: "All of your most sensitive data and our country's checkbook are in the hands of an unelected billionaire.
This is the most corrupt administration in history and it's putting our economy & government in serious jeopardy.
It's time to speak out and fight back. [link]" by Senator Patty Murray.
Article: "Elon Musk's Team Now Has Access to Treasury's Payments System" by Andrew Duehren, Maggie Haberman, Theodore Schleifer and Alan Rappeport.
Article: "TRUMP LOST. Vote Suppression Won" by Greg Palast.
Article: "The End of North America" by Paul Krugman.
Site: "Problem Solvers".
Article: "Protecting Voter Registration: An Assessment of Voter Purge Policies in Ten States" by Demos.
Article: "Opinion: Trump's order to freeze spending is patently unconstitutional" by Erwin Chemerinsky.
Article: "Trump fires 18 inspectors general overnight in legally murky move" by Yamiche Alcindor, Vaughn Hillyard and Laura Strickler.
Article: "Legal Challenges Likely As DOJ Ousts FBI Executives, Agents" by Crime and Justice News.
Article: "How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days" by Timothy W. Ryback.
Videos: "Guest : Brunch with Bernie Sanders" by the Thom Hartmann Program.
Book: The American Revolution of 1800: How Jefferson Rescued Democracy from Tyranny and Faction - and What This Means Today by Dan Sisson with Thom Hartmann.
Book: "Cracking the Code: How to Win Hearts, Change Minds, and Restore America's Original Vision" by Thom Hartmann.
Book: The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class by Thom Hartmann.
Book: The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich by Thom Hartmann.
Book: "The Hidden History of American Democracy: Rediscovering Humanity's Ancient Way of Living " by Thom Hartmann.
Book: The Hidden History of the American Dream: The Demise of the Middle Class-and How to Rescue Our Future by Thom Hartmann.
Book: The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy by Thom Hartmann.
Book: The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream by Thom Hartmann.
Book: "The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore Its Greatness" by Thom Hartmann.
Book: "The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment" by Thom Hartmann.
Book: The Hidden History of the War on Voting: Who Stole Your Vote and How to Get It Back by Thom Hartmann.
Book: "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" by Thom Hartmann.
Book: "The Last Hours Of Ancient Sunlight" by Thom Hartmann.
Book: "Screwed: The Undeclared War Against The Middle Class" by Thom Hartmann.
Book: "Threshold: The Progressive Plan to Pull America Back from the Brink" by Thom Hartmann.
Book: Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights by Thom Hartmann.
Book: We the People: A Call to Take Back America by Thom Hartmann, illustrated by Neil Cohn.
Book: "What Would Jefferson Do?" by Thom Hartmann.
Video: Last Hours.
Article: "Powell Memo".
Article: "DNC Members Elect New Slate of DNC Officers" by DNC.
Article: "Female Black Hawk helicopter pilot in Washington DC aircrash tragedy named " by Liz Perkins.
Article: "FBI employees questioned about involvement in Jan. 6 cases as Justice Department weighs firings" by Eric Tucker, Alanna Durkin Richer.
Article: "An Open Letter To The Majority Of Congressional Democrats" by Ali Davis.
There were huge anti-Trump protests this weekend in Los Angeles!
Video: Huge anti Trump protests in Los Angeles today.
Article: "Plans for more protests on the 5th" by We the People reject Project 2025.
Article: "Anti-Trump protesters storm LA freeway and face off with police in riot gear during daylong demonstration against mass deportations" by James Gordon.
Europeans on democracy's frontlines offer advice to Americans: never give up & 160,000 rally in Berlin against the far right...could we have some of that please?
Article: "Europeans on democracy's frontlines offer advice to Americans: never give up" by Julian Borger .
Article: "At least 160,000 rally in Berlin against far right" by AFP.
Article: "Trump's 'plans' to shut down USAID will erode American influence in increasingly dangerous world" by John Sparks.
Article: "Dachau concentration camp" by Wikipedia.
Article: "National '50 States' Anti-Trump Protest Planned for Feb 5: What to Know" by Monica Sager.
Article: "How the Muskrat is messing with your social security, your religion, and everything else" by Robert Reich.
Article: "Contact Us" by Congress.
Article: "Common Plastic Additive Linked to Autism And ADHD, Scientists Discover" by David Nield.
Article: "'Day Without Immigrants' shuts down several Tallahassee, Quincy spots in solidarity" by Kyla A Sanford.
Article: "EU leaders hold 'triple first' talks with NATO chief amid uncertainties over Trump's policies" by France 24.
Article: "Mueller report" by Wikipedia.
Article: "$10M cash withdrawal drove secret probe into whether Trump took money from Egypt" by Aaron C. Davis and Carol D. Leonnig.
Article: "Effect of California immigration crackdown on $2B citrus harvest? Here's what experts say" by Robert Rodriguez.
Documentary: Harvest of Shame.
Hour Two: Do Republicans want 89 year olds to have to work at Jimmy John's because their health care was taken away?
- Alex Lawson, President - Social Security Works / Strengthen Social Security @alaw202 @socialsecurityworks.org
Article: "Making Washington Work for Seniors: Fighting to End Inflation and Achieve Fiscal Sanity" by United States Senate Special Committee On Aging.
Post: "Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) wants to force retirees back into the workforce. @alaw202.bsky.social tells him hell no. Let's make billionaires pay their fair share into Social Security instead! [video]" by Social Security Works.
Post: "Alex Lawson: There are proposals from Republican congress members to cut $2.3 trillion from Medicaid. And let me be clear about what that would do: It would destroy Medicaid. It wouldn't do anything to fight inflation. It wouldn't bring anybody's prices down. It would just steal people's health care [video]" by Social Security Works.
Post: ""A Republican representative who is a member of the DOGE Caucus told me personally that there will be cuts to Social Security and Medicare. These cuts are being proposed to offset the cost of tax handouts for billionaires." - Alex Lawson" by Social Security Works.
Post: ""We've heard multiple times from Republicans that the problem is that not enough people are working.This is a hearing about seniors!Do you think that an 89 year old can go get a job at Jimmy John's because their healthcare was taken away?"" by Social Security Works.
Article: "Louis XIV" (Sun King) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Democratic Senator Says He Will Stall Trump Nominees Until USAID Is Back" by Alexander Ward.
Article: "Elon Musk's Business Ties to China—What to Know as MAGA Turns on Trump Ally" by Mandy Taheri.
Article: "Elon Musk is in 'regular contact' with Vladimir Putin, new report alleges" by T. Michelle Murphy and Selina Wang.
Article: "Republican plans to cut Medicaid could cost 22 million Americans their health care" by Russell Payne.
Article: "The Budget Reconciliation Process: The Senate's "Byrd Rule"" by CRS.
Site: Indivisible.
Event: Feb 4, 5PM: protest at the Treasury Department.
Will all 18 to 25 yr olds be automatically signed up for the military & war under Trump/Musk? Does it look like Trump is preparing for his war with Mexico or Canada?
Article: "The GOP's Quiet Draft Plans: How the 2025 NDAA Transforms Military Registration" by Jackie Singh.
Video: Mexican president: Trump agrees to delay tariffs, help stop weapons trafficked into Mexico.
Article: "Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala deploy troops to lower migration" (2021) by Alexandra Jaffe.
Article: "Elon Musk's X sues Lego, Nestlé and more brands, accusing them of advertising boycott" by Juliana Kim, Bobby Allyn.
Did you hear that Pete Hegseth threw the mainstream media out of the Pentagon and replaced them with One America News and Brietbart? I didn't think so
Article: "They Obeyed In Advance, Trump Still Made Them Pay" by Scott Dworkin.
Article: "Trump's FCC chief opens investigation into NPR and PBS" by David Folkenflik.
Article: "Karoline Leavitt" by Wikipedia.
Site: 5 calls.
Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.
Site: Unite Us.
Hour Three: Has the US Government become Elon's Musk's new and best ever Grift? Plus Trump's get's the best ever "flood the zone" strategy stooge..what a combo to help welcome in tyranny.
Article: "The NTSB chooses Elon Musk's X to update the press on plane crashes" by Emma Roth.
Article: "Visa is partnering with X to launch 'X Money,' Elon Musk's rival to Venmo" by Danny Bakst.
Article: "'Master' Donald Trump Will 'Restore Order' in Europe, Putin Says" by Isabel van Brugen.
Article: "Kremlin says it is too early to discuss four-way peace talks format proposed by Zelenskiy" by Reuters.
Article: "Trump Signs Executive Order to Advance U.S. Crypto Policies and Establish Bitcoin Reserve" by Mehab Qureshi.
Why does Trump have a new South African plan?
Article: "'Focus on America!' MAGA fans rebel against Trump over his new South Africa plan " by David McAfee.
Suck up to Trump and your legal troubles go "poof!"
Article: "DOJ Withdraws Investigation Of House Republican After He Introduces Bill To Allow Trump To Run For 3rd Term" by Jason Easley.
Article: "Send a Fax to your Congressional Representative" by Fax Zero.
Article: "CHIPS Act Passes: House Approves $280 Billion Bill To Boost Microchip Production And Counter China" by Brian Bushard.
Article: "Walter Cronkite" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Jane Fonda" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Paramount in Settlement Talks With Trump Over '60 Minutes' Lawsuit" by Lauren HirschJames B. Stewart and Michael M. Grynbaum.
Article: "EPA Shut Down – Employees Directed to Pause External Communications" by Kayla Betulius.
Site: Progressive Democrats of America.
Site: MoveOn.org.
Site: The Dean's Report by Dean Obeidallah. Site: Social Security Administration.
Post: "“This is how the oligarchs, the billionaires, the fascists and people like Trump keep us down.” “Stop looking around for a person to blame and look up.” Thank you again to progressive champion Rep. @maxwellfrost.bsky.social for joining our action call with @moveon.org and @workingfamilies.org." by Indivisible.
Article: "Maxwell Frost" by Wikipedia.
Post: "Raskin: "Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over the financial payments systems of the Treasury, but you don't control the money of the American people. The US Congress does that under Article 1 of the Constitution ... we don't have a fourth branch of government called 'Elon Musk'" [video]" by Aaron Rupar.