Sue's Daily Stack, Monday, 31 March, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Monday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: If Putin Designed a Plan to Collapse America, What Would It Look Like?
Article: "If Putin Designed a Plan to Collapse America, What Would It Look Like?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "From Constitutional Democracy to "Commercialized Sovereignty"" by Daniel Pinchbeck.
Article: "Dark Enlightenment Rising: The Billionaire Experiment to Kill Democracy " by Thom Hartmann.
Book: "The Hidden History of American Democracy: Rediscovering Humanity's Ancient Way of Living" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "The Trump administration has stopped work at the CFPB. Here's what the agency does" by Joe Hernandez.
Article: "The Left Desperately Needs Knowledge Management to Retain Closed Agency and Org Info and Knowledge" by Rob Kall.
Article: "HHS braces for a reorganization " by Ruth Reader, Chelsea Cirruzzo and Adam Cancryn.
Article: "An 'Apple Store' government and other takeaways from Musk's interview on Fox News" by Ali Bianco.
Article: "Elon Musk's mass government cuts could make private companies millions" by Nick Robins-Early.
Article: "Trump's counter-terror cuts will harm fight against far right, experts warn" by Ben Makuch.
Article: ""This man is not our boss" — EPA workers rally against DOGE cuts" by Justine Calma.
Article: "Elon Musk's Mission to Take Over NASA—and Mars" by Emily Glazer, Micah Maidenberg.
Law: "14th Amendment"
Law: "4th Amendment". "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.".
Law: "5th Amendment" (double jeopardy, witness against self, due process, taking clause, due compensation).
Law: "6th Amendment" (speedy trial, witnesses, defense).
Law: "7th Amendment" "In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved...".
Law: "8th Amendment" "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.".
Case: "Marbury v Madison" (Judicial review).
Article: "xAI (company)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Musk's xAI buys his social media platform X" by Lily Jamali.
Article: "Musk Says X Will Be Financial Service Hub by 2024 " by PYMNTS.
Article: "WeChat" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Stock Market Today: Dow, S&P 500 shake off tariff jitters to close higher, snapping 3-day losing streak; Nasdaq closes lower" by MarketWatch.
Trump says 'there are methods' for seeking third term - lordy....
Article: "Trump says 'not joking' about seeking 3rd term" by Kurt Hofmann.
Article: "Trump says 'there are methods' for seeking third term in White House" by Maya Yang.
Article: "Elon Musk Vows DOGE Probe Into These 'Strangely Wealthy' Dems: 'How Do They Get $20M?'" by David Gilmour.
Article: "12th Amendment". "But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States. "
Law: "22nd Amendment section 1" "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once...".
Article: "Rep. Ogles Proposes Amending the 22nd Amendment to Allow Trump to Serve a Third Term" by Andy Ogles.
Elon Musk gave out $1m checks on Sunday to two Wisconsin voters - will he be arrested and convicted for this crime?
Article: "Just arrest him already" by Darkpoole.
Article: "Elon Musk hands out $1m checks to voters amid Wisconsin supreme court election race" by AP.
Article: "Le Pen attacks ban from running for public office as 'political decision'" by Laura Gozzi, Gabriela Pomeroy.
Article: "Florida's 6th Congressional District on April 1, 2025" (Joshua Weil) by Ballotpedia.
Article: "Florida's 1st Congressional District on April 1, 2025" (Gay Valimont) by Ballotpedia.
Article: "'Jews will not replace us': Why white supremacists go after Jews" by Yair Rosenberg.
Event: 5 April: Hands off! day of action.
Article: "Benjamin Franklin" by Britannica.
Article: "Ken Wilber" by Wikipedia.
Book: The Jefferson Bible, Smithsonian Edition: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth by Thomas Jefferson.
Article: "Prooftext" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump deporting people at a slower rate than Biden's last year in office" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Habeas corpus" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Right-wing influencers were duped to work for covert Russian operation, US says" by Alan Suderman, Ali Swenson.
Article: "Federal Government Detains International Student at Tufts" by Jenna Russell, Safak Timur, Anemona Hartocollis and Eduardo Medina.
Article: "revolution" by Merriam-Webster.
Article: "insurrection" by Merriam-Webster.
Quote: "In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions." - Abraham Lincoln.
Hour Two: America: How's that Trump presidency working out for you so far?
Article: "Failing Bigly" by Richard Hine.
Article: "Steep fall in price of eggs prompts questions for US producers" by Taylor Nicole Rogers.
Article: "The Biden Administration Handed Over a Strong Economy" by Christian E. Weller, Natalie Baker.
Article: "When the physicists need burner phones, that's when you know America's changed" by John Naughton.
Article: "Outspoken Fascism Scholars Leave Yale for Canada" by Ryan Quinn.
Book: How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley.
Article: "Protesters rebel against Elon Musk's US government purge during Tesla Takedown" by Gavin Blackburn.
Article: "A five-minute charge to go 250 miles? This Chinese EV giant claims it can offer just that" by John Liu.
Article: "What is BYD? How a battery maker beat Tesla to become the world's largest EV company" by James Purtill.
Article: "Chinese EV maker BYD beats rival Tesla with $100bn revenue" by Vishwam Sankaran.
Article: "Pentagon Set Up Briefing for Musk on Potential War With China" by Eric SchmittEric LiptonJulian E. BarnesRyan Mac and Maggie Haberman.
Article: "International Transgender Day of Visibility" by Wikipedia.
Event: 5 April: Hands off! day of action.
Article: "Republican congressman from Michigan won't meet with voters—so Dems are doing it for him " by Kyle Kaminski.
Article: "Louisiana voters reject constitutional amendments championed by Republican governor" by Jack Brook.
Article: "Yes, Pete Hegseth Should Be Fired for What He Texted — and for Lying About It" by Mark Antonio Wright.
Article: "Minnie Fisher Cunningham" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Texas Legislature pays tribute to Texas suffragist icon Minnie Fisher Cunningham" by Jeremy Wallace.
Article: "The John Cornyn Houston Office Protest Never Lets Up" by Neil Aquino.
Article: "Biden pauses LNG export approvals after pressure from climate activists" by Timothy Gardner.
Article: "Trump Revokes Biden's Pause On Gas Exports" by Alexander C. Kaufman.
Trump Accidentally Wrecks His Own Tariff Spin in Leaked Call - This is just per corruption Stunner
Article: "Trump Accidentally Wrecks His Own Tariff Spin in Leaked Call Stunner" by Greg Sargent.
Article: "Elon Musk Vows DOGE Probe Into These 'Strangely Wealthy' Dems: 'How Do They Get $20M?'" by David Gilmour.
Book: The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class by Joel Kotkin.
Site: Democracy Now!
Site: Free Speech TV.
Site: Guardian.
Article: "Elon Musk's Family History in South Africa Reveals Ties to Apartheid & Neo-Nazi Movements" by Democracy Now!
Article: "How the roots of the 'PayPal mafia' extend to apartheid South Africa" by Chris McGreal.
Article: "German American Bund" by Wikipedia.
Video: A Night at the Garden (nazi rally Madison Square Gardens).
Article: "Charles Lindbergh" by Wikipedia.
Article: "How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power" by Ben Aris, Duncan Campbell.
Talk: "Supreme Oligarchy at the Gates " by Thom Hartmann.
Hour Three: JFK docs
- Lamar Waldron, Political Commentator / JFK Historian & Author of numerous books, The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination (& w/Thom Hartmann Ultimate Sacrifice & Legacy of Secrecy).
DVD: Conspiracy Files: The JFK Assassination by Discovery Channel .
Article: "Four key takeaways from release of JFK files" by Jake Horton, Shayan Sardarizadeh, Mike Wendling.
Article: "The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection" by National Archives.
Article: "Lee Harvey Oswald" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Cuban missile crisis" (1962) by Wikipedia.
Article: "60 years ago, JFK visited Tampa just days before his assassination" by Rachel Tucker.
Article: "Warren Commission Hearings and Exhibits" by Wikipedia.
Movie: "The French Connection".
Article: "Carlos Marcello" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Santo Trafficante Jr." by Wikipedia.
Article: "John Roselli" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr." by Wikipedia.