Sue's Daily Stack, Monday, 10 February, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Monday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: The Supreme Court is Corrupt, Congress is a Rubber Stamp, & the President is Lawless—What Happens Next?
Article: "The Supreme Court is Corrupt, Congress is a Rubber Stamp, & the President is Lawless - What Happens Next?" by Thom Hartmann.
Book: "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "ENOUGH, DAMMIT!" by D. Earl Stephens.
Article: "Elon Musk's Enemy, USAID, Was Investigating Starlink's Contracts in Ukraine" by Lucas Ropek.
Article: "Musk's Illegal Power Grab: Blumenthal Demands Answers from Billionaire's Companies on Glaring Conflicts of Interest and Data Heist" by Richard Blumenthal.
Article: "The DoJ is reportedly investigating if Tesla committed securities or wire fraud in Autopilot probe" by Grace Kay.
Article: "Elon Musk spends $277 million to back Trump and Republican candidates" by Julia Ingram, Steve Reilly.
Article: "Trump Purges Inspectors General Investigating Musk's Businesses" by Katya Schwenk, Lucy Dean Stockton, Veronica Riccobene.
Article: "U.S. Agencies Fund, and Fight With, Elon Musk. A Trump Presidency Could Give Him Power Over Them" by Eric Lipton, David A. Fahrenthold, Aaron Krolik, Kirsten Grind.
Article: "Elon Musk and SpaceX Face Federal Reviews After Violations of Security Reporting Rules" by Kirsten Grind, Eric Lipton and Sheera Frenkel.
Article: "Vance Says 'Judges Aren't Allowed to Control' Trump's 'Legitimate Power'" by Charlie Savage and Minho Kim.
Article: "Adam Schiff: Trump 'broke the law' in firing inspectors general" by Liset Cruz.
Article: "'Mark my words': George Conway predicts alarming showdown that could 'end' U.S. democracy" by Travis Gettys.
Post: "Yes, shut them down.
1. Europe is free now (not counting stifling bureaucracy). Hello??
2. Nobody listens to them anymore.
3. It's just radical left crazy people talking to themselves while torching $1B/year of US taxpayer money." by Elon Musk (about Radio Free Europe and Voice of America).
Post: "If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal.
If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that's also illegal.
Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power." by JD Vance.
Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).
Article: "Special elections to the 119th United States Congress (2025-2026)" by Ballotpedia.
Article: "Special Election set to fill deceased Iowa Representative's seat" by Kelly Maricle.
Article: "At Hochul's urging, legislative leaders delay passage of special elections bill" by Rebecca C. Lewis.
Article: "USAID – Somalia" by U.S. Embassy in Somalia.
Article: "USAID/Honduras Country Fact Sheet" by USAID.
Article: "China Steps In to Replace USAID" by Matthew Tostevin.
'Our Democracy Is Under Siege' Former Treasury Secretaries Write Scathing NY Times Op-Ed Warning Against DOGE's 'Threat to America'
Article: "'Our Democracy Is Under Siege' Former Treasury Secretaries Write Scathing NY Times Op-Ed Warning Against DOGE's 'Threat to America'" by David Gilmour.
Sen. Andy Kim says he's open to shutting down the government if Trump continues dismantling agencies
Article: "Sen. Andy Kim says he's open to shutting down the government if Trump continues dismantling agencies" by Alexandra Marquez.
Article: "U.S. economic performance by presidential party" by Wikipedia.
Emboldened racists and now impersonating ICE throughout America...Lookout.
Article: "Emboldened racists are now impersonating ICE agents" by Alix Breeden.
Article: "Karl Rove" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Leonard Leo" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Abe Fortas" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Collective defence - Article 5" by NATO.
Article: "Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Iran" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Judge blocks Musk team access to Treasury Department records" by Mallory Moench.
Article: "Supremacy Clause" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Takeaways from the Supreme Court's historic decision granting Donald Trump immunity" by John Fritze, Tierney Sneed and Devan Cole.
Post: "I think we might know where all the missing Dem ballots went
This is Ethan Shaotran. He's one of Musk's DOGE takeover hackers
2 yrs ago he won the Berkeley AI Hackathon
But in 2000 won the HackGT7 with a ballot altering program called BallotProof
Here's the deep dive that he couldn't scrub...." by Denise Wheeler.
Article: "Pope Francis announces the preparation of a text dedicated to children" by I.Media.
Site: End The Bribe System (bumper stickers, etc.).
Article: "Anti-Trump, Elon Musk protesters swarm N.Y. state Capitol" by Raga Justin.
Article: "Protests against Elon Musk continue for second day in Binghamton" by Kyle Spisak.
Hour Two: Trump is making the U.S. less safe from terrorist attacks—the question is why?!
- Dean Obeidallah, Host of Dean Obeidallah show weekdays 6-9PM ET @SXMProgress Radio Ch127 / His substack is The Dean's Report @DeanObeidallah @SXMProgress
Article: "Trump is making the U.S. less safe from terrorist attacks—the question is why?!" by Dean Obeidallah.
Article: "More Profiles of Courage, Patriotism and Resistance in standing up to Trump" by Dean Obeidallah.
Article: "U.S. intelligence, law enforcement candidates face Trump loyalty test" by Ellen Nakashima and Warren P. Strobel.
Article: "Full text: bin Laden's 'letter to America'".
Article: "US committed to 'buying and owning' Gaza, Trump says" by Al Jazeera.
Article: "Reichstag Fire" by Holocaust Encyclopedia.
Article: "Enabling Act of 1933" by Wikipedia.
Law: "Patriot Act", 2001.
Article: "Guantanamo Bay detention camp" (Gitmo) by Wikipedia.
Article: "'It Was Torture': An Abu Ghraib Interrogator Acknowledges 'Horrible Mistakes'" by Fresh Air.
Article: "Judicial Supremacy" by encyclopedia.com.
Case: "Marbury v Madison" (Judicial review).
Quote: "John Marshall has made his decision: now let him enforce it!" -- Andrew Jackson.
Article: "Trump's Actions Have Created a Constitutional Crisis, Scholars Say" by Adam Liptak.
Article: "Modern Monetary Theory" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump says he is revoking Biden's security clearance" by Alys Davies.
Site: ICE OPR Integrity Coordination Center.
Video: "President Trump Joint News Conference with Japanese Prime Minister", February 7, 2025.
Article: "Andrew Jackson" (Old Hickory).
Article: "Dred Scott Case" by History.com.
Video: Jon Stewart To Congress: "After 18 Years, Do Your Job" | All In | MSNBC.
Hour Three: 'Congress has collapsed': Ex-GOP insider says Republicans have no fix for next big problem
Article: "'Congress has collapsed': Ex-GOP insider says Republicans have no fix for next big problem" by David McAfee.
Why would Musk go after an agency that works for consumers?
Article: "The 'More Sinister' Reason Behind Musk's Attack on Consumer Agency" by Jon Queally.
Article: "White House Failed to Comply With Court Order, Judge Rules" by Mattathias Schwartz.
Article: "Russell Vought" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump picks Chiefs for Super Bowl win, praising Mahomes" by Alex Gangitano.
Case: "Trump v. United States (2024)".
If, like many Republicans, you liked to seeing LA burn down, you'll love what's coming this summer
Article: "'Really bad, really quick': Firefighters said to be panicked as Trump policy kneecaps them" by David McAfee.
Article: "Department of Government Extinction (DOGE) Tracker" by Lukium.
Article: "Karoline Leavitt Responds to Democrat's 'Fake Christian' Insult with the Perfect Reply" by RVM.
Article: "Sermon on the Mount" by Wikipedia.
Bible: "And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you." - Matthew 6:5-6.
Bible: Matthew 25:31-46: The Sheep and the Goats.
Article: "E pluribus unum" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Fifteen cases of measles reported in small West Texas county with high rate of vaccine exemptions" by Sean Murphy, Devi Shastri.
Article: "Impeachment of Yoon Suk Yeol" (president of South Korea) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump's FCC is investigating NPR and PBS stations over sponsorships" by Liam Reilly.
Article: "How Trump Tariffs Could Hit Hospitality Supply Chains" by Tom Chapman.
Article: "Trump Hits Foreign Steel and Aluminum With Tariffs, Restarting an Old Fight" by Ana Swanson.
Article: "Seattle social housing: Prop. 1A is the better choice" by Sharon H. Lee, Alexis Mercedes.
Article: "Aurora, Colorado" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Killing of Elijah McClain" by Wikipedia.
Article: "ICE carries out raid in Colorado, 100 members of Venezuelan gang targeted for arrest: Officials" by Nadine El-Bawab, Jeffrey Cook, and Luke Barr.