Sue's Daily Stack, Monday, 7 April, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Monday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: Trump's "Hitler's Birthday" Gift: The Death of American Democracy
Article: "Trump's "Hitler's Birthday" Gift: The Death of American Democracy" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Annual Elon Musk Day Celebration April 20 (4/20)" by Tesla.
Article: "A Complete History of Elon Musk's Fascination with the Magic Number 420" by Sissi Cao.
Article: "Hitler Birthday Events Feature Former SS Soldier" by ADL.
Article: "Neo-Nazis Plan "Family" Events to Celebrate Hitler's Birthday" by ADL.
Article: "Surviving Koch Brother Moves to Crush Trump and Tariffs" by EricAZ.
Article: "Neo-Nazis Around The World Celebrate Adolf Hitler's Birthday On April 20; Bake Cakes, Share Hitler Quotes, And Commit To 'Carry The Torch Onwards'" by MEMRI.
Article: "Exclusive: German ambassador warns of Trump plan to redefine constitutional order, document shows" by Sabine Siebold and Friederike Heine.
Law: "Texas Democratic Party v. Greg Abbott".
Article: "Declaring A National Emergency At The Southern Border Of The United States" by Donald J. Trump.
Tweet: "Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured." by Elon Musk.
Tweet: "420" by Elon Musk.
Tweet: "I was born 69 days after 4/20" by Elon Musk.
Article: "Trump threatens new 50% tariffs on China if Beijing doesn't remove retaliatory duties: Live updates" by Dan Mangan, Kevin Breuninger, Christina Wilkie, Michael Wayland, April Roach, Erin Doherty.
Article: "Coming Up Today Monday, April 7, 2025" by Louise Hartmann (with pic of dog with 'paws off parks' sign).
Article: "In photos: "Hands Off!" protesters rally against Trump across the U.S." by April Rubin, Lauren Floyd.
Article: "Trump swipes at California's Dems while celebrating Dodgers" by Brett Samuels.
Article: "Trump meets Netanyahu LIVE as US's and Israel's leaders talk Gaza, tariffs and more" by Jeremiah Hassel, Reanna Smith.
Article: "ICC sent Hungary a request to arrest and surrender Netanyahu hours after his arrival" by Jeremy Sharon.
Republicans are backing Trump attacking judges - where will this go? Do judges bend like the lawyers and universities or do they fight?
Article: "Alarm as Republicans in Congress back Trump and Musk's attacks on US judges" by Peter Stone.
Is DOGE deliberately breaking Government? Untested new software installed by DOGE employees is crashing Social Security servers.
Article: "Untested new software installed by DOGE employees crashing Social Security servers: report" by Tom Boggioni.
Article: "Doge's attack on social security causing 'complete, utter chaos', staff says" by Michael Sainato.
Article: "'This is real': Ex-insider describes Elon Musk's 'wrecking ball' schemes" by Brad Reed.
Article: "Social Security's Death Warrant Was Just Signed — Are You Ready?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Trump's Social Security Claims Far Overstate Payments to 150-Year-Olds" by Richard Rubin.
Video: Explaining the Trump Tariff Equation.
Article: "Howard Lutnick says he hopes Trump's tariffs will eliminate China's 'army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little, little screws to make iPhones' so they can be built in America by robots" by Paolo Confino.
Article: "Stock Market Today: Stocks volatile amid $9.5 trillion global wipeout" by Martin Baccardax.
Article: "Bogus report on tariff pause briefly lifted markets before White House denied it" by AP.
Article: "MTG Bought Treasuries Ahead of Market Crash" by Donald Shaw.
Article: "Billionaires for Bush" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Top Democrats protest after National Security Agency chief and deputy director dismissed" by Matthew Lee, Aamer Madhani, Zeke Miller.
Article: "Laura Loomer" by Wikipedia.
Book: The Second World War, Volume 3: The Grand Alliance by Winston S. Churchill.
Quote: "I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.' Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful" - Winston S. Churchill.
Article: "David Gomberg" by Wikipedia.
Hour Two: Here's how Trump could pull off a third term...
Article: "Here's how Trump could pull off an authoritarian third term" by kos.
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: "United States presidential line of succession" by Wikipedia.
Trump wants to be free to send American citizens to El Salvador prison - "disappearing" is a YUGE benefit for tyrants...
Article: "'I'm all for it': Trump would 'love' to send American citizens to El Salvador prison" by Travis Gettys.
Article: "José Padilla" by Wikipedia.
Article: "As deportations ramp up, immigrants increasingly fear Ice check-ins: 'All bets are off'" by Maanvi Singh and Will Craft.
Article: "CHIPS Act Passes: House Approves $280 Billion Bill To Boost Microchip Production And Counter China" by Brian Bushard.
Article: "Trump seeks to undermine CHIPS Act as business leaders, Republicans defend the billions in domestic investments" by Joseph Konig.
Video: Elon Musk & Donald Trump Brag About Firing Workers.
Article: "How Amazon Crushes Unions" by David Streitfeld.
Article: "Lori Chavez-DeRemer" by Wikipedia.
Crazy Alert! Fox-so-called-News claims Trump tariffs make men more manly. Here's what makes more manly - not supporting the "bully" of the world
Article: "'Crisis in masculinity': Fox News pundit claims Trump's tariffs will make men more manly" by David Edwards.
Site: 50501. Next National Day of Action: April 19th
Article: "Print Media to Mass Protests: "Please Turn to Page 18"" by Parker Molloy.
Article: "George Stevens" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Night Wolves" (Russian Motorcycle Club) by Wikipedia.
Article: "News conference between Trump and Netanyahu in Washington DC cancelled" by Sky News.
Article: "Video footage appears to contradict Israeli account of Gaza medic killings" by Dan Johnson.
Article: "World Central Kitchen aid convoy attack" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump closes loophole used by American shoppers to buy Chinese goods tariff-free" by Brian Mann.
Hour Three: Has Trump has silenced campus protests?
Article: "Phone footage appears to contradict Israeli account of killing of Gaza medics" by Bethan McKernan.
Article: "US student journalists go dark fearing Trump crusade against pro-Palestinian speech" by Anvee Bhutani.
Article: "Trump's 50% tariff threat and one-day deadline to China to undo reciprocal move" by India Today.
Article: "What Is BDS?" by BDS.
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.".
Travel is getting dangerous for everyone...
Article: "Travel alert for US citizens to 'delete apps' from law firm amid phone border checks" by Ben Hurst.
Article: "Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March" by Alex Fitzpatrick.
Article: "Tourists are staying away from the US. What does that mean for NYC?" by Hannah Frishberg.
Article: "Canadian travel to U.S. is plummeting: 'There's a lot of anger'" by Ben Brasch, Hannah Sampson.
Article: "ICE Detains Mother & Her Three Children in Farm Raid Near NY Home of Border Czar Tom Homan" by Democracy Now!
Article: "New Yorkers march to home of border czar Tom Homan after family's ICE abduction: "Bring them home"" by Kaitlyn Kennedy.
Article: "Mother and three kids released by Ice after protests from US 'border czar's' hometown" by Marina Dunbar.
Article: "Alarm as Florida Republicans move to fill deported workers' jobs with children: 'It's insane, right?'" by Richard Luscombe.
Geeky Science! Millions of Americans believe they're safe from wildfires in their cities. New research shows they're not...
Article: "Millions of Americans believe they're safe from wildfires in their cities. New research shows they're not" by Gabrielle Canon.
Article: "2020 Oregon wildfires" by Wikipedia.
Article: "With new contracts, SpaceX will become the US military's top launch provider" by Stephen Clark.
Article: "Joe Kent" by Wikipedia.
Article: "House majority rules: When a 'calendar day' isn't what it seems" by Hunter Savery and Daniel Hillburn.
Article: "Next up for markets: A crisis of confidence in the dollar" by Dhara Ranasinghe, Alun John and Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss.
Article: "Robert E Lee statue that sparked Charlottesville riot is melted down: 'Like his face was crying'" by Nora Neus.
Article: "Charlottesville car attack" by Wikipedia.
Article: "'Jews will not replace us': Why white supremacists go after Jews" by Yair Rosenberg.
Article: "Noem's vow to 'eliminate' FEMA raises alarms" by Rachel Frazin.