Sue's Daily Stack, Thursday, 13 March, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Thursday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: Come on....It's Time to Impeach Trump
Article: "Trump Ignoring Court Orders Is New Grounds for Impeachment, Says Pro-Democracy Group" by Jessica Corbett.
Article: "DOGE proposes cutting IRS workforce by a total of nearly 20% " by Rene Marsh and Marshall Cohen.
Article: "Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil will remain in ICE detention in Louisiana after first court hearing" by Michelle Watson, Lauren Mascarenhas, Lauren del Valle and Gloria Pazmino.
Article: "Bernie's Powerful New Ad in the Fight against the Oligarchy." by sharecare.
Song: "Bernie's Anti-Oligarchy Tour" by Louise Hartmann.
Article: "Tim Walz to launch national tour of town halls in Republican House districts" by Edward-Isaac Dovere.
Article: "With friends like Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk, Newsom may talk himself to political death" by Mark Z. Barabak.
Does Musk now have the "God's view" and is scooping up private data for "spying power?
Article: "'God's view': Elon Musk reportedly scooping up private data to give himself 'spying' power" by Travis Gettys.
Article: "This Ad Moves Public Opinion Away from Trump. Please Share It." by DemCast USA, Nick Knudsen.
Article: "Head of Social Security admits he doesn't know what 'DOGE kids' have been doing with Americans' data, bombshell audio reveals" by Rhian Lubin.
Article: ""The President Wanted It and I Did It": Recording Reveals Head of Social Security's Thoughts on DOGE and Trump " by Eli Hager.
Article: "'Not above the law': Fist-pounding Dem explodes and demands to know 'where's Elon Musk?'" by David Badash.
Video: Rep. Larson BLASTS The GOP For Blocking Elon Musk From Testifying.
Article: "Social Security Administration will have 'significant' cuts. What does this mean for you?" by Medora Lee.
Article: "Elon Musk backs off reported plan to cut Social Security phone service after furious pushback" by Mary Papenfuss.
Article: "Trump White House has asked U.S. military to develop options for the Panama Canal, officials say" by Courtney Kube, Gordon Lubold and Carol E. Lee.
Is Trump insane? He's calling the EU "nasty" and threatening "200 percent" tariffs...
Article: "'This is insane': Trump goes nuclear on 'nasty' E.U. with new '200 percent' tariff threats " by Brad Reed.
Article: "FDR's "Court-Packing" Plan" by FJC.
Article: "Dow Jones Tumbles 537 Points On Trump Tariff Threats; S&P 500 Enters Correction" by Scott Lehtonen.
Article: "Judge orders 6 agencies to rehire fired federal probationary workers after "unlawful" terminations" by Melissa Quinn, Jacob Rosen, Kathleen Seccombe.
Article: "McConnell says Trump was "practically and morally responsible" for riot after voting not guilty" by Grace Segers, Cassidy McDonald.
Article: "Hurricane Dorian–Alabama controversy" (sharpiegate) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump's NOAA cuts put American lives at risk — just to 'own the libs'" by Jarvis DeBerry.
Article: "Trump Claims FBI Director Christopher Wray 'Invaded My Home,' Vows to Get Revenge" by Grace Hall.
Article: "Trump Gets His Final Revenge Against Jack Smith's Prosecutors" by Zachary Folk.
Article: "Tuberville considering run for Alabama governor in 2026" by Alex Angle.
Article: "Kay Ivey" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Ivey dismisses head of Department of Veterans Affairs after agency board refuses" by AP.
Book: Freckleface Strawberry by Julianne Moore.
Article: "Julianne Moore's children's book 'Freckleface Strawberry' included on Trump's ban list" by Theresa Braine.
Article: "Democrat Bob Menendez Says 'President Trump Is Right' After Being Sentenced to 11 Years for Corruption" by Michael Luciano.
Law: "Tillman Act of 1907".
Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).
Article: "Peter Thiel" by Wikipedia.
Article: "1989 Tiananmen Square protests" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Hegseth has a history of supporting controversial policies involving the military" by Em Steck and Andrew Kaczynski.
Article: "Bloodbath: Joint Chiefs chair, CNO, Air Force vice chief, three top JAGs to be replaced " by Audrey Decker and Bradley Peniston.
Article: "Charles Q. Brown Jr." by Wikipedia.
Article: "Dan Caine" by Wikipedia.
Article: "How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days" by Timothy W. Ryback.
Article: "Trump 100 - Day 53: Irish PM visits the White House and have EU leaders worked out how to play Trump?" by Sky News.
Article: "Ides of March" by Wikipedia.
Hour Two: Ukraine Update
- Phil Ittner, Veteran War Correspondent based in Kiev, Ukraine & host of the 'On the Edge' podcast @PhilipIttner Youtube
Article: "Ceasefire 'in Moscow's hands,' Ukraine says after US meeting in Saudi Arabia" by David Brennan.
Article: "Russian elite invested nearly $100 million in Trump buildings" by Nathan Layne, Ned Parker, Svetlana Reiter, Stephen Grey and Ryan McNeill.
Article: "How Russian Money Helped Save Trump's Business" by Michael Hirsh.
Article: "Donald Trump Jr. admitted a decade ago that many family assets come from Russia" by Brennan Weiss.
Article: "Rasputitsa" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Russia claims more gains in Kursk as Ukraine hints at pullback/A>" by Al Jazeera.
Article: "Russian Forces Depleted and Stalling on Eastern Front, Ukraine Says" by Marc Santora.
Article: "US resumes sending aid, intel to Ukraine; seeks 'yes' from Russia on ceasefire" by Patrick Tucker.
Article: "US long-range bombs headed to Ukraine as ATACMS supply dwindles" by Mike Stone.
Article: "'Traitor?' Mark Kelly fires back after Elon Musk accuses him of treason" by David Edwards.
Article: "Mark Kelly" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Eutelsat in talks to increase satellite terminals in Ukraine amid Starlink service concern" by Anna Desmarais.
Article: "Elon Musk claims Ukraine front line will 'collapse' if Starlink is turned off" by Harriet Barber.
Article: "Musk and Rubio spar with Polish minister over Starlink in Ukraine" by Rachel Looker, Abdujalil Abdurasulov.
Article: "The Russian economy is on the brink of collapse and Putin knows it" by Owen Matthews.
Article: "1999 Russian apartment bombings" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Irwin Redlener" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Russian stuff blowing up: Russia has yet to reply to ceasefire proposal" by quaoar.
Article: "Adaptive Indomitable Ukraine: Army Now NATO-Style Corps Units Led by Young Battle-Tested Commanders" by Decimus.
Article: "Jaime Raskin Asks Us To Help Make A FOIA Tsunami" by Beryl Stone.
Site: Ukraine Children's Action Project.
Trump's war on DEI is really saying if you are not a straight white man - you don't matter....
Article: "'Guess what? You don't matter': what Trump's war on DEI means for every American who's not a straight white man" by Arwa Mahdawi.
Article: "2025 Potomac River mid-air collision" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Republican attorneys general pressure Costco to drop DEI policies" by Reuters.
Article: "Oklahoma GOP Senator sports cowboy hat in protest of dress code used to target Fetterman" by Sarah K. Burris.
Article: "Elon Musk's Chatbot Says There's a Strong Chance Trump Is 'Russian Asset'" by Aila Slisco.
Article: "Senior House Republican pushes senators on debt ceiling increase" by Eleanor Mueller.
Article: "U.S. Budget Deficit by President" by Kimberly Amadeo.
Article: "How the GOP Used a Two Santa Clauses Tactic to Con America for Nearly 40 Years" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Elon Musk and DOGE promised up to $2 trillion in government savings. How much have they actually saved so far?" by Andrew Romano.
Article: "Can You Recall a Member of Congress?" by Tom Murse.
Article: "Fifty-state strategy" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Republican Snatches Dem Rep's 'This is Not Normal' Sign and Throws It As Trump Walks in" by Madison Summers.
Article: "Contact Us" by Congress.
Article: "Find Your Members" by Congress.
Event: 14 March: DC: Veterans to March on Washington to 'Defend the Constitution': What to Know.
Article: "Mitch McConnell made our country worse " by Juan Williams.
Article: "Nuremberg trials" by Wikipedia.
Article: "What Is a Military 'Duty to Disobey'?" by Richard Dahl.
Article: "Ehren Watada" by Wikipedia.
Article: "'People Are Very Scared': Trump Administration Purge of JAG Officers Raises Legal, Ethical Fears" by Thomas Novelly and Konstantin Toropin.
Article: "What Was Bernie Madoff's Actual Net Worth?" by Frances Dean.
Book: The Big Cheat: How Donald Trump Fleeced America and Enriched Himself and His Family by David Cay Johnston.
Article: "Rep. Garcia: Why Did Saudi Government Give Kushner $2 Billion?" by Robert Garcia.
Article: "Tesla PE Ratio 2010-2024 | TSLA" by macrotrends.
Article: "Trump Purges Inspectors General Investigating Musk's Businesses" by Katya Schwenk, Lucy Dean Stockton, Veronica Riccobene.
Article: "Trump Meets NATO Sec Gen Mark Rutte At White House: Here's What They Discussed" by Times Now Digital.
Hour Three: The Five-Year Cover-Up: How Trump's Racist Covid Strategy Got Buried
Article: "The Five-Year Cover-Up: How Trump's Racist Covid Strategy Got Buried" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Trump called 'demented' after blaming 'blue states' for coronavirus death toll" by Elizabeth Thomas, Allison Pecorin.
Book: The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Reopen Illinois rally draws hundreds to Loop, Springfield" by Sam Charles and Neal Earley.
Article: "Timeline of Trump's Coronavirus Responses" by Lloyd Doggett.
Article: "Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States (2020)" by Wikipedia.
Tweet: "For the purpose of creating conflict and confusion, some in the Fake News Media are saying that it is the Governors decision to open up the states, not that of the President of the United States & the Federal Government. Let it be fully understood that this is incorrect." by Donald J. Trump.
Article: "Black Americans Bear The Brunt As Deaths Climb." by John Eligon, Audra D. S. Burch, Dionne Searcey and Richard A. Oppel Jr.
Article: "Proclamation on Declaring a National Emergency Concerning the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Outbreak" by Donald J. Trump.
Tweet: "Virologist and sexy vixen vinyl expert @brithume hypothesizes that the lethality of COVID–19 could be exaggerated and "the disease turned out not to be quite as dangerous as we thought"" by Bad Fox Graphics.
Book: Silent Invasion: The Untold Story of the Trump Administration, Covid-19, and Preventing the Next Pandemic Before It's Too Late by Deborah Birx.
Article: "Rally to 're-open' Arizona planned in defiance of COVID-19 stay-at-home order" by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy.
Article: "The US has 4% of the world's population but 25% of its coronavirus cases" by Scottie Andrew.
Article: "Nazi Slogans At Coronavirus Lockdown Protest Draws Rebuke From Auschwitz Museum" by Carlie Porterfield.
Article: "Trump's Policies Resulted In The Unnecessary Deaths Of Hundreds Of Thousands Of Americans: Lancet Report" by Tommy Beer.
Article: "Oregonians demand state's reopening at Salem rally" by Jennifer Dowling.
Article: "Rush Limbaugh slams news coverage of coronavirus racial disparity: "This is how they stop criticism"" by Media Matters.
Article: "Tucker Carlson: Coronavirus crisis "may have passed. We'll see but it looks like it may have"" by Media Matters.
Article: "Rally to reopen Virginia planned for Wednesday" by Adrianna Hargrove .
Article: "Trump administration scrapped plan to send every American a mask in April, email shows" by Laura Strickler and Geoff Bennett.
Article: "Trump says 'bailouts' unfair to GOP since states needing aid 'run by Democrats in every case'" by Rebecca Shabad.
Article: "The Disproportional Impact of COVID-19 on African Americans" by Maritza Vasquez Reyes.
Article: "The countries that handled COVID-19 pandemic the worst revealed" by Samantha Maiden.
Article: "A Young Kennedy, in Kushnerland, Turned Whistle-Blower" by Jane Mayer.
Article: "Trump Tells Woodward He Deliberately Downplayed Coronavirus Threat" by NPR.
Article: "Black Americans Face Alarming Rates of Coronavirus Infection in Some States" by John, Audra D. S. Burch, Dionne Searcey and Richard A. Oppel Jr.
Article: "U.S. Has Far Higher Covid Death Rate Than Other Wealthy Countries" by Benjamin Mueller and Eleanor Lutz.
Article: "Wisconsin GOP judge: COVID-19 is spreading due to meat-packing workers and not 'regular folks'" by Brad Reed.
Article: "U.S. COVID response could have avoided hundreds of thousands of deaths: research" by Howard Schneider.
Article: "Leadership" by U.S. Chamber.
Article: "Implementing a National Return to Work Plan" by Suzanne Clark.
Article: "How Jared Kushner's Secret Testing Plan "Went Poof Into Thin Air"" by Katherine Eban.
Article: "White House denies Trump is considering firing Fauci despite his retweet of a hashtag calling for his ouster" by Katie Shepherd, John Wagner, Felicia Sonmez.
Article: "@NCCapitol ReOpenNC rally planned for Tuesday in downtown Raleigh" by Travis Fain.
Article: "The tragedy of avoidable COVID deaths" by Faye Flam.
Article: "Democrats are heading to GOP districts for town halls: 'We're filling a void'" by Mike Lillis.
Article: "Conservatism" by Wikipedia.
Song: "Trump's Deadly COVID Betrayal" by Louise.
Book: Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer.
Article: "How Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley funded the sudden rise of JD Vance" by Tabby Kinder, George Hammond, Alex Rogers.
Article: "Harlan Crow" by Wikipedia.
Site: "Indivisible".
Article: "Nearly 100 protesters arrested after sit-in at Trump Tower in NYC to demand release of Mahmoud Khalil" by Minyvonne Burke and Matt Lavietes.
Item: "Tesla Bumper Sticker - I Bought This Before We Knew Elon was Crazy!".
Article: "New Yorkers Urged to Use Cybertrucks as Dog Poop Bins in Viral Anti-Musk Protest" by Morgan Music.
Quote: "We have the best government that money can buy." - Mark Twain.
Quote: "I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat." - Will Rogers.
Article: "Joe Lieberman" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Rule of three (writing)" by Wikipedia.
Bill: "H.J.Res.48 - Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing that the rights extended by the Constitution are the rights of natural persons only." by Rep. Jayapal, Pramila [D-WA-7].
Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2019" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].
Article: "Manchin, Sinema join Senate GOP in rejecting filibuster rule change, dooming voting bills" by Sahil Kapur, Frank Thorp V, Julie Tsirkin and Rebecca Shabad.
Bill: "John Lewis Voting Rights Act".
Article: "Mark Cuban" by Wikipedia.
Article: "George Soros" by Wikipedia.
Article: "AOC Rips Chuck Schumer's 'Tremendous Mistake,' Says It's 'Unthinkable' for Senate Dems to Back GOP Bill" by Michael Luciano.
Article: "14 words" by ADL.
Article: "88" by ADL.
Article: "Does He Have to Burn a Cross? Musk Is Screaming It." by Jim Stewartson.
Article: "Republican Medicaid cuts could shutter rural hospitals, maternity care" by Lauren Weber.
Trump's FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups
Article: "Trump's FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups" by Malcolm Ferguson.
