Sue's Daily Stack, Thursday, 23 January, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Thursday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: The Great Revenge: Trump's Orwellian America Takes Shape
Article: "The Great Revenge: Trump's Orwellian America Takes Shape" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Records rebut claims of unequal treatment of Jan. 6 rioters" by Alanna Durkin Richer, Michael Kunzelman, Jacques Billeaud.
Case: "United States v. Mackey".
Article: "The Durham investigation is Exhibit A for actual weaponized justice" by Kristy Parker.
Article: "Conservatives push to declare fetuses as people, with far-reaching consequences" by Anna Claire Vollers.
Article: "Trump revokes LBJ-era civil rights protections in federal government contracting " by Christopher Wiggins.
Article: "Attorney General's Guidelines on General Crimes, Racketeering Enterprise and Domestic Security/Terrorism Investigations" by Office of the Attorney General.
Article: "The Justice Department is Prosecuting an American for Election Interference—in 2016" by Quinta Jurecic.
Article: "Trump reverses Biden policies on drug pricing and Obamacare" by Berkeley Lovelace Jr.
Article: "Sexual Differentiation" by Rodolfo Rey, Nathalie Josso, Chrystèle Racine.
Article: "Trump's Trans Ban Defines Everyone as Female — But That's Not the Problem" by Elizabeth Yuko.
Article: "Mar-a-Lago a magnet for spies, officials warn after nuclear file reportedly found" by Julian Borger.
Executive Order: "Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government" by DOnald J. Trump.
Is the Trump FCC is going all in on punishing television networks for coverage that Trump doesn't like?
Article: "FCC reinstates complaints against ABC, CBS and NBC for 2024 election coverage" by Reuters.
Instagram is starting to resemble X and Google erased Biden briefly yesterday...
Article: "Before Shutdown, Meta's Fact-Checking Program Only Labeled 14 Percent of Russian, Chinese, and Iranian Disinformation Posts" by NewsGuard.
Article: "'Totally f-cked': Instagram users are upset about platform's shift right" by Alix Breeden.
Article: "Instagram Is Censoring Abortion Pill Info" by Jessica Valenti.
Article: "Joe Biden Briefly Erased From History In Google 'US Presidents' Search Glitch" by David Gilmour.
Article: "Hitler Pardoned His Goons Too" by Harry Litman.
Quote: "History Does Not Repeat Itself, But It Rhymes" - attributed to Mark Twain.
Law: "14th Amendment, July 9, 1868 (citizenship, representatives, public debt, Equal Protection Clause).
Article: "Trump revoked an anti-discrimination hiring rule. Here's what it means." by Vivian Ho.
Bible: "Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows." - Galatians 6:7.
Article: "Europe mulls seizing Russia's billions to aid Ukraine" by Henry Ridgwell.
Article: "Zelensky clarifies comment on 200,000 peacekeepers, says figure depends on Ukrainian army size" by Martin Fornusek.
Article: "Davos 2025: Special address by Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America" by WEF.
Article: "Leonard Peltier" by Wikipedia.
Article: "How Finland Is Teaching a Generation to Spot Misinformation" by Jenny Gross.
Article: "Victims 'shocked' after Biden grants clemency to 'kids-for-cash' judge and $54 million embezzler" by Marshall Cohen.
Article: "Bill Clinton's pardon of fugitive Marc Rich continues to pay big" by Peter Schweizer.
Hour Two: Ukraine Update
- Phil Ittner, Veteran War Correspondent in Kyiv, Ukraine & host of the 'On the Edge' podcast @IttnerPhilip Youtube
Article: "Trump says 'the Russia-Ukraine war would end immediately' if Saudi Arabia and OPEC lowered the price of oil" by Alena Botros.
Article: "Davos 2025: Special Address by Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine" by WEF.
Article: "Secretary Rubio's Call with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte".
Article: "Reykjavík Summit"(Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev) by Wikipedia.
Article: "What and where are Russia's $300 billion in reserves frozen in the West?" by Elena Fabrichnaya and Guy Faulconbridge.
Article: "Trump unveils 'plan' to end Russia's war on Ukraine—and it's dumb as hell" by Emily Singer.
Article: "Bondi hearing live updates: Bondi suggests Jack Smith's conduct is 'horrible'" by Ivan Pereira, Alexander Mallin, Peter Charalambous, and Julia Reinstein.
Article: "Trump launches savage attack on bishop who asked for 'mercy' for minorities " by Seb Starcevic.
Article: "California fires live updates: New LA County fire explodes to over 10,000 acres" by Kevin Shalvey, David Brennan, Emily Shapiro, Meredith Deliso, Riley Hoffman, and Julia Reinstein.
Pentagon to send 1500 troops to the border -What could go wrong? At the same time Trump is pardoning a major drug trafficker...
Article: "Pentagon to send up to 1,500 troops to help secure US-Mexico border" by AP.
Video: Ranking Member Jamie Raskin's Opening Statement at Subcommittee Hearing on Immigration Enforcement.
Article: "Trump pardons notorious drug trafficker—wait, what?" by Emily Singer.
Article: "Trump wants the death penalty for drug dealers. Here's why that probably won't happen" by Dustin Jones, Devin Speak.
Article: "Soft On Crime: Donald Trump Gives Silk Road Drug Dealer Ross Ulbricht A Pardon, X Is Not Surprised" by Bernard "Beanz" Smalls.
Article: "Pam Bondi Once Rescheduled an Execution to Attend Fundraiser" by Monica Sager.
Article: "Lawyer cries foul against Attorney General Pam Bondi as execution date looms for client" by Dara Kam.
Article: "Pam Bondi's Extensive Lobbying For Wealthy Special Interest And Foreign Governments Poses Serious Conflicts Of Interest" by Dick Durbin.
Article: "National Organization for Women" by Wikipedia.
Article: "JD Vance's first big VP moment on the horizon with possible cabinet tiebreaker vote" by Emma Colton.
Site: American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Site: PushBlack.
Site: Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ).
Site: Rainbow PUSH Coalition (RPC).
Site: NAACP.
Article: "Southern Poverty Law Center" (SPLC) by Wikipedia.
Site: Indivisible.
Site: Democratic National Committee.
Article: "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez" (AOC) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Bernie Sanders" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Jasmine Crockett" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Mallory McMorrow" by Wikipedia.
Quote: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety" - Benjamin Franklin.
Site: Free Speech TV.
Article: "Full List of January 6 Prisoners Released by Trump" by Khaleda Rahman.
Article: "Just like sex offenders, Jan. 6 terrorists should be required to register with local police" by Dean Obeidallah.
Article: "Court strikes down US net neutrality rules" by Natalie Sherman.
Is Trump planning to invite J6ers to a White House bash...Who wants to seethe at the White House again?
Article: "Trump may invite J6 pardoned convicts to the White House: CNN " by David Badash.
Hour Three: The Rule of Law No Longer Applies in America...
- Jim Stewartson, cohost of RADICALIZED Truth Survives podcast and writes the "mind-war" Substack. @jim-Stewartson
Article: "Soft On Crime: The Rule of QAnon" by Jim Stewartson.
Article: "Pro-Trump prosecutor refuses to drop case against violent Jan. 6 rioters for fleeing court" by David Edwards.
Article: "Eagle Forum" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Phyllis Schlafly" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Michael Flynn" by Wikipedia.
Site: America's Future.
Article: "John K. Singlaub" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The Big History Behind January 6th, Part 1: Anti-Communism, Domestic Surveillance, and the Russian Alliance" by Dave Troy.
Article: "Trump's FBI Pick Kash Patel Has a History of Suing Perceived Adversaries" by Zoe Tillman.
Article: "The tattooed Secretary of Defense: Here is all of Pete Hegseth's ink, and what it means" by Olivia Land.
Article: "Hundreds of QAnon supporters gather in Dallas expecting return of JFK Jr." by Olafimihan Oshin.
Article: "Judge temporarily blocks Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship, calling it 'blatantly unconstitutional'" by Peter Charalambous, Laura Romero, and Soo Rin Kim.
The Illegal Trans Woman...
- Ellie Krug, Human Inspiration Works, LLC / Author, "Getting to Ellen: A Memoir about Love, Honesty and Gender Change". Podcast: "The Illegal Trans Woman". Substack @elliekrug.bsky.social
Article: "Ed Martin, advocate for Jan. 6 defendants, named D.C.'s interim U.S. attorney, overseeing Capitol riot cases" by Ryan J. Reilly.
Executive Order: "Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism And Restoring Biological Truth To The Federal Government" by Donald J. Trump.
Article: "Project 2025 Exposed" by GLAAD.
Site: Democracy Docket (Marc Elias).
Video: "GOP senator criticizes Trump's Jan. 6 pardons " by CNN.
Article: "Pat Harrigan" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The Epoch Times" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump Makes Odd Remark About Elon Musk's Familiarity With Pennsylvania Voting Machines" by Leigh Kimmins.
Article: "Instagram hides search results for 'Democrats'" by Tom Gerken.