Sue's Daily Stack, Thursday, 15 May, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Thursday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: Red State Hell: The GOP Plan to Keep You Desperate, Sick, and Too Damn Tired to Fight Back
Article: "Red State Hell: The GOP Plan to Keep You Desperate, Sick, and Too Damn Tired to Fight Back" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "8 Economic Indicators — Are Red or Blue States Better?" by Paul Chiariello.
Article: "The Medicare Advantage Ripoff that Every American Should Know About" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Covid Deaths Skew Higher Than Ever In Red States" by KFF.
Article: "Religion in the Civil War: The Southern Perspective" by Harry S. Stout.
Article: "Red States See Highest Rates of Covid Deaths" by Taegan Goddard.
Article: "Red States Have Higher Crime Rates Than Blue States" by Dr. Eric Ostermeier.
Article: "In the 10 states that didn't expand Medicaid, 1.6M can't afford health insurance" by Shalina Chatlani.
Article: "The Top 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90%—And That's Made the U.S. Less Secure" by Nick Hanauer.
Bible: "According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:" - Ephesians 1:4.
Article: "Biden-voting counties equal 70% of America's economy. What does this mean for the nation's political-economic divide?" by Mark Muro, Eli Byerly-Duke, Yang You, and Robert Maxim.
Article: "There's a fascinating difference between income inequality in red states and blue states" by Barbara Tasch.
Article: "Red States Are Welfare Queens" by Benzinga.
Article: "America's 10 Most Polluted States" by Jen Alic.
Article: "Survey: 79 Million Americans Have Problems with Medical Bills or Debt" by The Commonwealth Fund.
Article: "Decades of Republican Mismanagement Have Left Red States Mired in the Past & at the Bottom" by Quaid.
Article: "Red States Have Higher Gun Death Rates Than Blue States. Here's Why" by Arianna Johnson.
Article: "US: Louisiana's 'Cancer Alley'" by HRW.
Article: "The States Where Women Are Most Likely To Be Murdered By Men" by Melissa Jeltsen.
Article: "Red States, Blue States, and Divorce: Understanding the Impact of Conservative Protestantism on Regional Variation in Divorce Rates" by Jennifer Glass and Philip Levchak.
Article: "Red states have higher traffic death rates than blue states" by Jerry Hirsch.
Article: "Teen Pregnancy Is Higher in Red States Than in Blue States" by Kevin Drum.
Article: "House Republican budget calls for raising the retirement age for Social Security" by Sahil Kapur.
Article: "How Life Expectancy in Republican States Compares to Democratic Ones" by James Bickerton.
Article: "Moochers Against Welfare" by Paul Krugman.
Article: "Minimum Wage by State and 2024 Increases" by Paycor.
Article: "How a Worm Gave the South a Bad Name" by Rachel Nuwer.
Article: "STDs higher in Red States?" by Glenn Thrush.
Article: "Violence and Abuse in Rural America " by Rural Health Information Hub.
Article: "The States With the Highest Poverty Rates" by Chris Gilligan.
Tweet: "So, what are the ties between JD Vance and the Opus Dei network that has penetrated Washington, DC over the past few years? A thread" by Gareth Gore.
Article: "The Medicare Advantage Trap: What They Don't Tell You" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Congressman Shri Thanedar Introduces Articles of Impeachment Against President Donald J. Trump for High Crimes and Misdemeanors" by Shri Thanedar.
Article: "Dems privately rage over "utterly selfish" Trump impeachment vote" by Andrew Solender.
Why it's a bad idea to offer $5 million "golden visas" to live in the US?
Article: "Trump Giving Golden Visas To El Chapo's Ex Wife And 16 Of Their Family Members Now" by Marcie Jones.
Article: "Trump administration ends protections from deportation for Afghans" by Rebecca Beitsch.
Article: "Trump May Cut Crime Unit That Helped Capture El Chapo: Report" by Jenna Sundel.
Last week I warned about the dangers of AI being manipulated. It appears we are there, with one particular AI responding to random questions with rants about "white genocide" in South South Africa.
Article: "The Machines Are Learning — and They're Learning to Be Fascists" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Exclusive: Musk's DOGE using AI to snoop on U.S. federal workers, sources say" by Alexandra Ulmer, Marisa Taylor, Jeffrey Dastin and Alexandra Alper.
Book: It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis.
Article: "Sinclair Lewis and the Challenge to Democracy" by Penguin Random House.
Article: "Kristi Noem Confronted in House Hearing: Glad You Found Time to Testify 'Among Your Many Photo Ops and Costume Changes'" by Joe DePaolo.
Article: "US supreme court live: justices appear divided on federal court powers in birthright citizenship case" by Lucy Campbell, Maya Yang and Tom Ambrose.
Article: "Sotomayor Challenges Trump On Universal Injunctions: So If A President Seized Everyone's Guns, One Court Ruling Couldn't Stop It?" by Tim Hains.
Article: "ICE has broad power to detain and arrest noncitizens – but is still bound by constitutional limits" by Rose Cuison-Villazor.
Article: "What to know about Delaney Hall, where Newark's mayor was arrested" by Tobi Raji.
Article: "Wisconsin Judge Indicted on Charges That She Helped Immigrant Evade Agents" by Mitch Smith and Dan Simmons.
Article: "Schutzstaffel" (SS) by Wikipedia.
Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.
Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978.
Article: "'A chain reaction': how one endorsement set Joe Biden's surge in motion" by Daniel Strauss.
Article: "Why Pressurization Cycles Matter In An Aircraft's Lifespan" by Pranjal Pande.
Hour Two: Arrested judge turns the table on Trump...
Article: "Arrested judge turns tables on Trump with bold claim citing president's case" by Matthew Chapman.
Article: "Supreme Court Grants Trump Broad Immunity for Official Acts, Placing Presidents Above the Law" by ACLT.
Case: "Trump v. United States (2024)".
White South African just embraced by Trump tied to antisemitic social media rants...
Article: "White refugee just embraced by Trump admin tied to slew of antisemitic social media posts" by Daniel Hampton.
Law: "§1701. Obstruction of mails generally".
Article: "Homestead strike" by Wikipedia.
Article: "What is habeas corpus and why might Donald Trump want to suspend it?" by Robin Levinson King.
Article: "Habeas corpus" (1166) by Wikipedia.
Article: "US Supreme Court hears arguments on Trump's order to end birthright citizenship" by .
Article: "Birthright citizenship case at Supreme Court reveals deeper questions about judicial authority to halt unlawful policies" by Cassandra Burke Robertson.
Law: "Alien Enemies Act" (1798).
Article: "Elon Musk Went To School In Rolls-Royce, Says Father Errol, Dismisses Claims Of "Unhappy Childhood"" by NDTV.
Article: "Women's Army Corps" (Women's Army Auxiliary Corps) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Deborah Sampson" (Robert Shirtliff) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Grok" by Wikipedia.
Book: Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein.
Book: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.
Book: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
Book: Animal Farm by George Orwell.
Article: "Fahrenheit 451" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Bill Gates accuses Elon Musk of killing poor children by cutting foreign aid and says he's giving away his wealth" by Matt Lavietes.
Article: "Tom Steyer — you want Trump out? Buy Clear Channel" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Birthright citizenship in the United States" by Wikipedia.
Law: "14th Amendment"
Article: "Anchor baby" by Wikipedia.
Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).
Case: "Kennedy v. Braidwood Management, Inc.", 2024 (RFK).
Article: "Pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention (PrEP)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "150 Bible Verses on Lying" by Adda Frick.
Article: "Jubilee (biblical)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Golan Heights" by Wikipedia.
Article: "West Bank" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Murder of Laken Riley" by Wikipedia.
Hour Three: Trump went from banning Muslims to raking in billions from Muslims
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Article: "Trump is Transactional even when it comes to his Bigotry" by Dean Obeidallah.
Article: "Rep. Garcia: Why Did Saudi Government Give Kushner $2 Billion?" by Robert Garcia.
Article: "Before Giving Billions to Jared Kushner, Saudi Investment Fund Had Big Doubts" by David D. Kirkpatrick and Kate Kelly.
Article: "LIV Golf's $50 million season-ending championship moved from Saudi Arabia to Trump National Doral" by Jack Bantock.
Article: "How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy?" by Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way and Daniel Ziblatt.
Article: "Anocracy" by Wikipedia.
Article: "ICE agents wear masks so they can't be held accountable—that must end!" by Dean Obeidallah.
Article: "Trump's border intimidation is coming for US citizens too – ask streamer Hasan Piker" by Owen Jones.
Article: "Former aide who refuted Trump's false 2020 election claims is under federal investigation" by Dan De Luce and Julia Ainsley.
Article: "Trump targets Democratic fundraising in latest despotic move" by Emily Singer.
Article: "Trump White House Reportedly Threatens Politico-Business Insider Over Critical Report About Don Jr." by Kipp Jones.
Article: "British boss of US healthcare giant UnitedHealth quits for 'personal reasons'" by PA News Agency.
Article: "William W. McGuire" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Stephen J. Hemsley" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump signs executive order to dismantle US Department of Education" by Hugo Lowell and Rachel Leingang.
Article: "William Bennett" by Wikipedia.
Trump administration threatens groups that distributed federal aid for legal migrants - does Trump think that anyone brown can be a legal immigrant?
Article: "Trump administration threatens groups that distributed federal aid for migrants" by Alexandra Villarreal.
Article: "Tech billionaire who spends $2 million a year to look young is now swapping blood with his 17-year-old son and 70-year-old father" by Orianna Rosa Royle.
Article: "Less than Half of Nearly 200 Arrested in Nashville ICE Operation had Criminal History" by Steven Hale.
Crazy Alert! Anyone want a Rump watch for $640? Yes - you heard me right - RUMP...
Article: "'RUMP': Customers upset with missing 'T' in Trump-branded watch that cost $640" by Brian Crandall.
Article: "Liz Cheney is the leader of the anti-Trump Republican resistance – where does it go now?" by David Smith.
Article: "CBP One" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Sanctuary city" by Wikipedia.
Book: The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich by Thom Hartmann.
Book: "The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore Its Greatness" by Thom Hartmann.
Quote: "Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." - Albert Einstein.
Article: "Karoline Leavitt said the Library of Congress had 'inappropriate books for children' and was schooled into next year" by John Plunkett.
Article: "Texas has spent more than $148 million busing migrants to other parts of the country" by Sergio Martínez-Beltrán.
Article: "Conservative States' Migrant Transportation Programs" by American Oversight.
Article: "When Will America End "Slave Patrol" Policing? " by Thom Hartmann.