Sue's Daily Stack, Thursday, 20 February 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Thursday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: National Progressive Townhall taking your calls
- Representative Pramila Jayapal, U.S. Congressmember (D-WA, 7th District) & Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus / Senior Whip-Democratic Caucus & serves on multiple committees including the House Budget Committee & the House Judiciary Committee @pramilajayapal.bsky.social
Article: "Approval of Republicans in Congress Hits All-Time High as Approval of Democrats Sinks to All-Time Low: Poll" by Morgan Music.
Article: "Pramila Jayapal Stokes the Seattle Audience at Town Hall" by Joel Connelly.
Article: "Trump Backs $4.5 Trillion Tax Cut in House GOP Budget Plan" by Erik Wasson.
Article: "TRUMP LOST. Vote Suppression Won" by Greg Palast.
Article: "Wisconsin Supreme Court rejects GOP challenge to mobile voting van" by Kaelan Deese.
Article: "Chinese purchases favoring Brazil" by Doug Tenney, Leist Mercantile.
Article: "Why electricity will be hard to weaponize in trade war with Trump" by Gabriel Friedman.
Quote: "In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions." - Abraham Lincoln.
Article: "Roy Cohn" by Wikipedia.
Event: 6PM: Tele-Town Hall - Rep. Summer Lee, PA-12.
Article: "BAE Systems makes record £3bn profit as 'growing threats' drive global arms race" by Lawrence Matheson, Alex Daniel.
Article: "Hegseth directs Pentagon to find $50 billion in cuts this year to fund Trump military priorities" by Tara Copp.
Article: "USAID could slash staff to hundreds after placing most on leave" by Max Matza and James FitzGerald.
Article: "Pentagon fails 7th audit, can’t fully account for $824 billion" by American Military News.
Hour Two: Ukraine Update
- Phil Ittner, Veteran War Correspondent based in Kiev, Ukraine & host of the 'On the Edge' podcast @PhilipIttner Youtube
Article: "Ukraine Rejects U.S. Demand for Half of Its Mineral Resources" by Constant MéheutAndrew E. Kramer, David E. Sanger and Eve Sampson.
Article: "Zelensky's trust rating increases to 57%, survey shows, contradicting Trump's claims" by Martin Fornusek.
Article: "Petro Poroshenko" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Viktor Yushchenko" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Doomsday Clock moves CLOSER to midnight in chilling warning that world is on brink of apocalypse amid WW3 & AI threats" by Elizabeta Ranxburgaj.
Article: "Elections in Ukraine — a guide for beginners (and US Presidents)" by Kateryna Denisova, Chris York.
Article: "Valerii Zaluzhnyi" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Senate narrowly confirms Trump nominee Kash Patel for FBI director" by Mark Berman, Jeremy Roebuck.
Article: "Collective defence - Article 5" by NATO.
Article: "Macron says France won't send troops to Ukraine 'tomorrow' but may give security guarantees" by France 24.
Article: "Keir Starmer says British troops will 'play their full part' in Ukraine" by Sky News.
Article: "US launches nuclear missile to show 'readiness' amid fears of WWIII" by Stacy Liberatore.
Article: "Trump accuses Zelensky of treating U.S. envoy 'rudely' " by AFP.
Article: "Russia rejoices as Trump goes full Kremlin" by Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing .
Article: "Pressured By Putin And Trump, Walls Close In On Zelensky" by Jonathan Brown.
Article: "'Land-grabbers' Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin 'send Europe back to 1938'" by Susie Beever, Ryan Fahey.
Article: "PGA Tour, Saudi PIF meet with President Trump at White House over professional golf unification" by Joel Beall.
Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 9. "No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state." (foreign emoluments clause).
Article: "Rep. Garcia: Why Did Saudi Government Give Kushner $2 Billion?" by Robert Garcia.
Article: "Ben Wikler" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Fact check: Jimmy Carter put his peanut farm into a blind trust during presidency" by BrieAnna J. Frank.
Quote: "Only the Little People Pay Taxes" - Leona Helmsley.
Post: "...Amidst another flurry of news, an official adds at the end that Trump has signed an Executive Order saying that “only the President or Attorney General can speak for the US...as to what the law is.”... [video]" by News Eye.
Article: "Trump-Putin meeting not imminent, as first US-Russia talks on Ukraine finish in Riyadh" by Csongor Körömi.
DEI Exposes the Myth of White Male Superiority — And That’s Why They Hate It
Article: "DEI Exposes the Myth of White Male Superiority — And That's Why They Hate It" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Delta Air Lines reaffirmed its commitment to DEI initiatives before Toronto crash: ‘Part of our focus’" by Chris Nesi.
Book: "The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore Its Greatness" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Army Cuts Outreach at Girls School After Dropping Recruiting at Black Engineering Event" by Steve Beynon.
Article: "Who is 'Big Balls'? Teen DOGE Engineer Edward Coristine" by Theo Burman.
Article: "Alarmed, Employers Ask: What Is ‘Illegal D.E.I.’?" by Emma Goldberg.
Article: "'Maybe there is a DEI situation': Right-wing media hosts speculate on upside-down plane" by David Edwards.
Article: "Collins to vote against Patel nomination" by Rebecca Beitsch.
Article: "Kash Patel confirmed to lead the FBI, an agency he has vowed to purge of Trump's "deep state" foes" by Nicholas Liu.
This guy is a hero! - 'I will never obey': Lawyer targeted by Elon Musk hits back
Article: "'I will never obey': Lawyer targeted by Elon Musk hits back" by Brad Reed.
Newsletter: "Democracy Docket" by Marc Elias.
Book: A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell.
Article: "Oath of office of the president of the United States" by Wikipedia.
Article: "2021 Brazilian military crisis" by Wikipedia.
Article: "ChatGPT" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Grok (chatbot)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "I.R.S. Fires 6,700 Employees Amid Tax Filing Season" by Alan Rappeport and Andrew Duehren.
Video: Maddow: To block Trump's agenda, help Republican politicians find their spines.
Article: "Dear Republicans: Will You Salute the Tyrant or Save the Republic?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Diversity, equity, and inclusion" (DEI) by Wikipedia.
Hour Three: Musk trash-talks "DEI Hires" in LA Fire Department; Female captain found stabbed to death
Article: "Cal Fire captain found stabbed to death inside of her San Diego County home" by Dean Fioresi.
Post: "14 million views -- president musk spreading hate [image of Musk retweet: "They prioritzed DEI over saving lives and homes"]" by TheFullerReport.
Is RFK planning concentration camps for people who have mental health conditions? Lordy....
Article: "RFK 's plan to make America healthy again? Round up people with mental health conditions in camps" by Amanda Marcotte.
So many Americans died from COVID, it’s boosting Social Security to the tune of $205 billion
Article: "So many Americans died from COVID, it’s boosting Social Security to the tune of $205 billion" by Alicia Adamczyk.
Article: "Once COVID Vaccines Were Introduced, More Republicans Died Than Democrats " by Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham.
Article: "America Must Never Forget what Trump & the GOP Did On April 7th, 2020" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Pramila Jayapal" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Mark Pocan" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Ro Khanna" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The Trump-Vance-Musk-Putin plan" by Robert Reich.
Article: "Jasmine Crockett" by Wikipedia.
Site: "Indivisible".
Site: 50501.
Article: "Federal Employees' Retirement System" (FERS) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Republicans Who Voted Against Confirming Kash Patel as FBI Director" by Sonam Sheth.
Site: Gay Valimont for Congress.
Article: "Florida's 1st Congressional District special election, 2025" by .
Article: "Northwest Florida Primary Election: Jimmy Patronis’ residency" by Peter Albrecht.
Article: "Patronis to Advocate for Veterans, Bring VA Hospital to Northwest Florida" by Javier Manjarres.
Article: "Trump calls himself 'king' after DOT strikes down NYC's controversial congestion pricing program" by ABC7.
Article: "MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell Rages at ‘Utterly Insane’ Image of Trump as King" by William Vaillancourt.
Article: "The Notable Attendees – and No-Shows – at Trump's Inauguration" by Aneeta Mathur-Ashton.
Substack: "Troy N. Miller".
Article: "Judge Blocks Trump’s Funding Freeze as Nursing Homes Remain Unclear of Impact" by Zahida Siddiqi.