Sue's Daily Stack, Tuesday, 1 April, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Tuesday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: One Party's Selling a Big Lie; the Other Can't Sell the Truth
Article: "One Party's Selling a Big Lie; the Other Can't Sell the Truth" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Lost in Translation: Swing Voters' Misperceptions of Harris And Late Turn To Trump" by Blueprint.
Article: "America Chose Wealth Over Well-Being: How Billionaires Rewrote the American Dream" by Thom Hartmann.
Book: "The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore Its Greatness" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Republican Men and Women Are Changing Their Minds About How Women Should Behave" by Michael Tesler, John Sides and Colette Marcellin.
Article: "Comeback Retreat" by Third Way.
Article: "Elon Musk's Newest Baby Mama Sells Her Tesla to Help With 'Child Support'" by Nandika Chatterjee.
Article: "California Gov. Gavin Newsom calls Democratic brand 'toxic' in defense of his podcast" by Savannah Kuchar.
Tweet: "The fundamental error in how immigration is being discussed in the courts and media is pretending that what happened to us over the last four years is a routine civil enforcement matter. NO..." by Stephen Miller.
Article: "Cory Booker holds marathon Senate speech to warn of Trump's 'harmful' policies" by Oliver Milman.
Article: "Mike Lindell" by Wikipedia.
Site: "Project 2025".
Article: "Albert J. Dunlap" (Chainsaw Al) by Wikipedia.
Quote: "Ideally, you'd have every plant you own on a barge to move with currencies and changes in the economy." - Jack Welch.
News - Elections today, layoffs in safety begin, Trump's FCC threatens ABC's license on Fox and GOP reps are quitting MAGA...
Article: "Layoffs begin at US health agencies responsible for research, tracking disease and regulating food" by Carla K. Johnson.
Article: "A $90m litmus test - Wisconsin court vote becomes referendum on Musk" by Nomia Iqbal and Cai Pigliucci.
Article: "Elon Musk hands out $1m checks to voters amid Wisconsin supreme court election race" by AP.
Article: "Florida's 6th Congressional District on April 1, 2025" (Joshua Weil) by Ballotpedia.
Article: "Florida's 1st Congressional District on April 1, 2025" (Gay Valimont) by Ballotpedia.
Article: "Widespread firings start at federal health agencies including many in leadership" by Rob Stein, Sydney Lupkin, Selena Simmons-Duffin, Joseph Shapiro, Carmel Wroth, Yuki Noguchi.
Video: Watch: I Joined Senator Booker On The Senate Floor - Chuck Schumer.
Article: "Trump-Backed Head of the FCC Threatens ABC's Broadcast License In Fox News Interview" by Alex Griffing.
Article: "'Respect was shattered': MAGA Republican abruptly quits House Freedom caucus" by Sarah K. Burris.
Article: "Patrick Crusius believed he was fulfilling Trump's wishes in El Paso attack, his attorney says" by Robert Moore.
Site: Oregon Statewide Health Insurance Benefits Advisors (SHIBA).
Article: "Randy Fine, Josh Weil in tight race to replace Mike Waltz's seat" by Ashlyn Webb.
Hour Two: Al Gore did what Elon Musk says he's doing, and did it right
Article: "A Better DOGE: Downsize Optimally/Gore's Example" by Tom Rogers.
Americans are beginning to fear dissent. That's exactly what Trump wants
Article: "Americans are beginning to fear dissent. That's exactly what Trump wants" by Robert Reich.
Trump is now threatening to invade Greenland - do I remember Trump representing himself as anti-war?
Article: "Greenland's new PM rejects Trump's latest threat: 'We do not belong to anyone else'" by Guardian.
Video: On GPS: Russian philosopher: 'Putinism has won in the US' .
Article: "Valery Gerasimov" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Hybrid warfare" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact" by Wikipedia.
Site: Daily Song.
Video: The Real Reason Trump Wants Greenland & The Panama Canal: Thom Hartmann - The Mark Thompson Show.
Video: Trump's Mercantilist Mess, Prof. David Cay Johnston at RIT, Investigative Journalist - The Mark Thompson Show.
Article: "Nelson Rockefeller" by Wikipedia.
Article: "William McKinley - Administration" by Miller Center.
Article: "Andrew Mellon" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Lamar Waldron" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Daniel Sheehan (attorney)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump's 'liberation day' tariffs: what to expect and will the UK be spared?" by Lisa O'Carroll.
Article: "Report: Trump Only Paid $750 In Taxes For 2016 And 2017" by Nicholas Reimann.
Article: "Carnation Revolution" by Wikipedia.
Law: "Patriot Act", 2001.
Article: "António de Oliveira Salazar" by Wikipedia.
Article: "JB Pritzker" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Internment of Japanese Americans" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Gavin Newsom" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump revokes legal status of 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)" by Woody Guthrie.
Article: "Cindy Sheehan" by Wikipedia.
Hour Three: Day of action April 10th...
- Kristin Crowell, Executive Director - Fair Share America & a long time organizer @fairshareamerica.bsky.social
Event: DC: April 10th, noon ET Fair Share America & Members of Congress To Hold Rally at U.S. Capitol: Say NO to Tax Breaks for Billionaires & Corporations.
Article: "America can't afford Trump's tax cuts. So the GOP is playing pretend." by Richard E. Neal.
Article: "OP-ED: Americans know a bad deal when they see it. Now's the time to offer an alternative vision" by Kristen Crowell.
Article: "About Us" by Fair Share America.
Article: "Massachusetts' millionaire tax" by Walter Wuthmann.
Crazy Alert: AntiVaxxers claim that Texans getting vaccinated for measles because of the outbreak is really the cause of the outbreak. Seriously, you can't make this stuff up:
Article: "Texas's Higher Vaccination Rate Blamed for Measles Outbreak" by NewsGuard's Reality Check.
Article: "How did Putin become a classic petro-state autocrat?" by Ruchir Sharma.
Article: "Houston's Oldest Refinery Is Shutting. It Won't Be the Last." by Barbara J. Powell and Nathan Risser.
Quote: "We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred." - Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Article: "Rope-a-dope" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The One-Word Reason Paul Weiss Caved to Trump" by Steven Harper.
Article: "Law Firm Skadden Arps Agrees to Provide $100M in Pro Bono Work to Avoid Trump Sanctions" by Democracy Now!
Article: "Budget Reconciliation: Tracking the 2025 Trump Tax Cuts" by Erica York, Garrett Watson, William McBride, Alex Muresianu.
Article: "U.S. Debt by President: Dollar and Percentage" by Hiranmayi Srinivasan.
Article: "How the GOP Used a Two Santa Clauses Tactic to Con America for Nearly 40 Years" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "China has a bigger middle class than America" by Sophia Yan.
Article: "White House correspondents' dinner cancels anti-Trump comedian's appearance" by Edward Helmore.
Article: "Amber Ruffin" by Wikipedia.
Video: C-SPAN: President Obama at the 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner.
Article: "The Time Obama Edited a White House Correspondents' Dinner Joke" by Kia Makarechi.
Article: "Woman, 3 children among those detained by ICE in Jefferson County, immigration coalition says" by Brian Dwyer.
Article: "New York fires more than 2,000 prison guards for failing to return to work after a weekslong wildcat strike " by AP.
Quote: " If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. " - Federalist Papers : No. 51.
Video: When Does the Greed Stop?