Sue's Daily Stack, Tuesday, 11 February, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Monday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: They Think They Are Free — But For How Long?
Article: "They Think They Are Free — But For How Long?" by Thom Hartmann.
Site: "Indivisible".
Article: "Adolf Hitler: Man of the Year, 1938" by Time.
Book: "They Thought They Were Free" by Milton Mayer.
Article: "CBS News poll — Trump has positive approval amid "energetic" opening weeks; seen as doing what he promised" by Anthony Salvanto, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus, Kabir Khanna.
Article: "U.S. intelligence, law enforcement candidates face Trump loyalty test" by Ellen Nakashima, Warren P. Strobel.
Site: KBCS.
Article: "More than 100 people gather in Everett to protest recent Trump actions" by Will Geschke.
Video: "Network - Mad as Hell Scene".
Is anyone surprised Trump "pauses" the law banning the bribing of foreign officials - Who will stand up to this? And who benefits?
Article: "Trump signs order pausing enforcement of foreign bribery ban" by Eamon Javers, Dan Mangan.
Article: "Trump pardoned Blagojevich amid Serbian ambassadorship rumors" by Nikki Schwab.
Article: "NYC Mayor Eric Adams will now be beholden to President Trump, critics say" by Jeff Capellini.
Site: "Salem International".
Federal workers that protected the security of our elections have been put on leave...
Article: "US cyber agency puts election security staffers who worked with the states on leave" by Christina A. Cassidy.
Book: The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy by Thom Hartmann.
Senate Democrats launch new whistleblower portal to expose Trump lawlessness - will it help?
Article: "Senate Democrats Launch New Whistleblower Portal To Expose Trump Lawlessness" by Jason Easley.
Site: Whistleblowers.
Article: "New jobs report comes in cooler than expected, unemployment rate down to 4%" by CBS News.
Article: "New 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum to start March 12 as Trump reworks the US trade landscape" by Ben Werschkul.
Article: "U.S. economic performance by presidential party" by Wikipedia.
Article: "First Altadena property with home destroyed by Eaton Fire hits market, sells within days" by Nicole Comstock.
Event: Seattle, Saturdays, noon: gathering at Bergen Place.
Article: "Rep. Cori Bush Ousted By AIPAC-Backed Primary Challenger" by Daniel Marans.
Article: "AIPAC Unleashes a Record $14.5 Million Bid to Defeat a Critic of Israel" by Nicholas Fandos.
Article: "Elon Musk faces criticism for encouraging Germans to move beyond 'past guilt'" by Rachel Treisman.
Article: "Greenland to block Donald Trump land grab by banning foreign cash" by Rebecca Robinson.
Hour Two: PBS caves to Trump and closes their DEI program
Article: "PBS Caves To Trump, Ousts Staffers: 'We Have Closed Our DEI Office'" by Kipp Jones.
Article: "Trump's FCC chief opens investigation into NPR and PBS" by David Folkenflik.
Article: "ABC agrees to give $15 million to Trump's presidential library to settle lawsuit" by AP.
Article: "FCC reinstates complaints against ABC, CBS and NBC for 2024 election coverage" by Reuters.
Article: "Trump sues Des Moines Register and top pollster over final Iowa survey" by Brian Stelter, Katelyn Polantz, Hadas Gold and Paula Reid.
Morgan J Freeman: "Anthem Blue Shield Blue Cross -- just denied cancer follow-up MRI to check spread was deemed "not a medical necessity" and therefore not authorized.
Post: "My insurance -- Anthem Blue Shield Blue Cross -- just informed me that my cancer follow-up MRI to check spread was deemed "not a medical necessity" and therefore not authorized." by Morgan J Freeman.
Article: "How a second Trump term could destroy Medicare as we know it" by Helaine Olen.
Article: "Musk's DOGE Gains Access to Medicare, Medicaid Data Systems" by Amanda Castro.
Article: "Elon Musk Issues Major Social Security Warning" by Aliss Higham.
Google removes Pride month, Black history month and the Holocaust Remembrance Day
Article: "Google Removes Pride Month From Calendar: What to Know" by Marni Rose McFall.
Article: "Google Maps updates Gulf of Mexico name for US users" by Alys Davies.
Reality Check Alert! The lies just keep coming...we're debunking a few
Article: "Bogus Claims that USAID Funded Politico and Epstein" by NewsGuard's Reality Check.
Article: "Vietnam-Era Hero Falls Victim to Cuts In Social Security" by Spencer Rich.
Article: "How Ronald Reagan Tried to Shrink Government Spending" by Christopher Klein.
Site: 5 calls.
Article: "Nostradamus Quatrains Chapter 2" (Mabus is quatrain 62) by Edward Oliver.
Article: "DOGE now has access to NOAA's IT systems; reviewing DEI program, sources say" by ABC News.
Article: "High egg prices weren't Biden's fault. They're not Trump's either, but they're his problem now" by Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN.
Hour Three: A call for protecting the integrity of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid following reports that DOGE has accessed the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and intends to access SSA next...
- Alex Lawson, President - Social Security Works / Strengthen Social Security @alaw202 @socialsecurityworks.org
Post: "THREAD: Highlights from today's rally at the Social Security Administration.
Elon Musk, hands off Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid!" (10 Feb) by Social Security Works.
Article: "The Social Security Administration's new boss is an unmatched operator—and now the second biggest business figure in Trump-land" by Shawn Tully.
Article: ""Unprecedented" Medicaid Cuts Could Cripple Health Program, BU Experts Warn" by Rich Barlow.
Article: "Jeff Van Drew" by Wikipedia.
Tweet: "At this point, I am 100% certain that the magnitude of the fraud in federal entitlements (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare, Disability, etc) exceeds the combined sum of every private scam you've ever heard by FAR. It's not even close." by Elon Musk.
Site: "Project 2025".
Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2019" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].
Article: "Manchin, Sinema join Senate GOP in rejecting filibuster rule change, dooming voting bills" by Sahil Kapur, Frank Thorp V, Julie Tsirkin and Rebecca Shabad.
Trump to IRS: stop investigating Rich tax cheats and instead go catch some brown people who are here without authorization.
Article: "US homeland chief seeks to deputize IRS agents for immigration enforcement" by Ted Hesson.
Article: "The John Cornyn Houston Office Protest Never Lets Up " by Neil Aquino.
Article: "Danville, Virginia" by Wikipedia.
Site: Progressive Democrats of America.
Article: "Democrat Bob Menendez Says 'President Trump Is Right' After Being Sentenced to 11 Years for Corruption" by Michael Luciano.
Article: "Loyalty tests and MAGA checks: Inside the Trump White House's intense screening of job-seekers" by Matthew Lee, Aamer Madhani, Jill Colvin.
Article: "Joint Chiefs of Staff" by Wikipedia.
Bill: "H.R.22 - SAVE Act" by Rep. Roy, Chip [R-TX-21].
Article: "SAVE Act Would Undermine Voter Registration for All Americans" by Wendy R. Weiser, Andrew Garber.