Sue's Daily Stack, Thursday, 17 April, 2025

Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show

Thursday’s Daily Stack

Hour One: Trump is the Virus, but the GOP is the Host
Article: "Trump is the Virus, but the GOP is the Host" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Maryland Senator Unable to Secure Meeting With Deported Immigrant in El Salvador" by Robert Jimison.
Case: "Brown v. Board", 1954 (school desegregation).
Article: "Nixon's Southern strategy" by James Boyd.
Article: "US could have averted 40% of Covid deaths, says panel examining Trump's policies" by Amanda Holpuch.
Article: "Protesters arrested, shocked with Tasers at U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's town hall " by Ross Williams.
Article: "Murkowski on Trump: "We are all afraid"" by Stef W. Kight.
Article: "The Nazi Camp System: Terminology" by United States Holocaust Museum.
Article: "John Birch Society" by Wikipedia.
Law: "Patriot Act", 2001.
Article: "Guantanamo Bay detention camp" (Gitmo) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Mitch McConnell greatly damaged US democracy with quiet, chess-like moves" by Gary Gerstle.
Article: "Marco Rubio has gone from calling Donald Trump a dangerous con man to actively campaigning to give him the nuclear codes " by Jeffrey C. Billman.
Article: "Trump hasn't left NATO, instead he's trashed it" by Giles Merritt.

Article: "Trump's "Hitler's Birthday" Gift: The Death of American Democracy" by Thom Hartmann.

The virus continues - The Trump administration's Counterterror Czar proposes terror charges for political opponents - when will the GOP stop being the host?
Article: "Trump's Counterterror Czar Proposes Terror Charges for Political Opponents" by Ken Klippenstein.
Article: "Trump's overflowing grudge list" by Zachary Basu.
Article: "A Criminal Referral Against Letitia James Invented Out of Thin Air" by David in NYC.
Article: "Trump's FCC Commissioner Threatens Comcast's License Over 'News Distortion'" by Michael Luciano.
Article: "MSU joins amicus brief in support of international students amid visa revocations" by Ria Gupta.
Article: "Unions Form Pro Bono Legal Network for Federal Workers Targeted by Trump" by Rebecca Davis O'Brien.

Article: "Why Donald Trump's Companies Went Bankrupt" by Tom Murse.
Article: "How Russian Money Helped Save Trump's Business" by Michael Hirsh.
Article: "Suspicious Russia-related deaths since 2022" by Wikipedia.
Article: "What You Need to Know About the Trump 'Pee Pee' Tape" by VICE.
Article: "'Kissing my a**': Donald Trump mocks countries negotiating trade deals with the US" by CNBCTV18.com .
Tweet: "Trump to Bukele: "Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It's not big enough." [video]" by Aaron Rupar.
Article: "El Salvadoran VP Reveals Trump Is 'Paying' to Keep Abrego Garcia at CECOT, Senator Says" by M.B. Mack.
Site: "Project 2025".
Article: "Smedley Butler" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Auschwitz concentration camp" by .
Article: "Dachau concentration camp" by Wikipedia.
Article: "At least 261 people have died in El Salvador's prisons under anti-gang crackdown, rights group says" by AP.
Video: Ukraine: Children get combat training in military-style boot camps.
Article: "Obama defends 2014 Crimea response: 'We challenged Putin with the tools we had at the time' " by Nick Robertson.

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Hour Two: Veteran War Correspondent Phil Ittner on the ground in Ukraine
- Phil Ittner, Veteran War Correspondent based in Kiev, Ukraine & host of the 'On the Edge' podcast @PhilipIttner Youtube
Article: "Trump Is Helping Putin Kill Ukrainians" by Phillips P. OBrien.
Article: "Zelensky's 'always looking to purchase missiles' — Trump dismisses Ukraine's request to buy Patriots" by Tim Zadorozhnyy.
Book: None Dare Call It Treason by John A. Stormer.
Article: "Trump Aides Close State Dept. Office on Foreign Disinformation" by Edward Wong.
Article: "Russian interference in the 2016 Brexit referendum" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Russia's Palm Sunday Massacre" by Elena Davlikanova.
Article: "'Double-tap' attack. Understanding one of Russia's cruelest tactics in Ukraine" by Dinara Khalilova.
Article: "Russian drone strikes ambulance in Kherson, wounds medic and driver" by Stepan Haftko.
Article: "Trump calls Sumy missile strike a 'mistake.' But Russia's war seems to be raging on exactly to Putin's plan" by Nick Paton Walsh.
Article: "Trump blames Zelensky for starting war after massive Russian attack" by Yang Tian & Ian Aikman.
Article: "Germany willing to send Taurus missiles to Ukraine, says Friedrich Merz" by Laura Pitel.
Article: "Collective defence - Article 5" by NATO.

Article: "Elon Musk" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Peter Thiel" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Hartheim killing centre" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Policy Alert: Rescinding Executive Order on Prescription Drug Pricing" by The Conference Board.

Geeky Science! How Important is one good deed every day? What can you do?
Article: "ADHD: What One Anonymous Good Deed Does Every Day" by Thom Hartmann.

Bible: "But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing," - Matthew 6:3.
Bible: "But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. " - Matthew 6:6.
Article: "Six injured in shooting at Florida State University" by Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu.
Article: "Miles Taylor (security expert)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Chris Krebs" by Wikipedia.
Article: "White House struggles to defend Trump's orders targeting officials who defied him" by Steve Benen.
Article: "Curtis Yarvin" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Dark Enlightenment Rising: The Billionaire Experiment to Kill Democracy " by Thom Hartmann.
Executive Order: "Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections" by Donald J. Trump.
Article: "Republican bill requiring proof of citizenship for voting passes US House" (SAVE Act) by Lisa Mascaro, Christina A. Cassidy, Christine Fernando.
Video: Willie Horton 1988 Attack Ad.
Article: "Willie Horton" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Bondi on Abrego Garcia: 'He's not a Maryland man'" by Tara Suter.
Article: "Murder of Laken Riley" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The rise of end times fascism" by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor.
Book: Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond.
Video: Matthew Desmond - "Poverty, by America" & What It Takes to Close the Poverty Gap | The Daily Show.

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Hour Three: It now appears a Russian propaganda operation that previously took aim at elections in the U.S. and Germany has a new target: France.
Article: "Russian Propaganda Campaign Targets France with AI-Fabricated Scandals, Drawing 55 Million Views on Social Media" by Natalie Huet, McKenzie Sadeghi, and Chine Labbe.
Article: "Internet Research Agency" (IRA) (Yevgeny Prigozhin troll farm) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Exclusive: Paul Manafort admits he passed Trump campaign data to a suspected Russian asset" by Mattathias Schwartz.

Article: "Cliff Cash" by Wikipedia.
Youtube: "Cliff Cash Comedy".
Event: June 6, D.C. w/ Cliff Cash.

Did your miscarriage tissue have a dignified funeral at a state approved facility?
Article: "Nebraska Bill Paves the Way for Criminalization of Miscarriages" by Jessica Valenti.
Article: "Georgia Police Jailed Woman for Miscarriage and Performed Autopsy on Her Miscarried Fetus" by Kylie Cheung.
Article: "Up to 1 in 4 known pregnancies may end in miscarriage" by Linda Searing.

Has Elon sent you a DM on Xitter offering to inseminate you? You'd be one of many, apparently
Article: "But If Elon Sperms All The Babies, All The Babies Will Look Like Elon :(" by Evan Hurst.

Site: 50501. Next National Day of Action: April 19th
Site: "Indivisible".
Site: The Big List of Protests.
Video: Fierce backlash against Trump's agenda seen in sweeping, nationwide protests.
Article: "Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez Electrify Democrats Who Want to Fight Trump" by Kellen Browning.
Article: "Inside Trump's $6mn deportee deal with El Salvador mega-prison" by Nelson Renteria.
Article: "Frozen US Aid Puts Salvadoran Civil Society in a Bind" by Gabriel Labrador.
Article: "Senator Tim Kaine Calls on FBI to Open Khashoggi Investigation" by Erin Banco.
Article: "John Fetterman" by Wikipedia.
Article: "James Carville Fears Trump Will Declare Martial Law and Rig the Elections" by Kenneal Patterson.