Sue's Daily Stack, Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Tuesday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: America’s Long Coup: How the GOP Rigged, Lied, and Stole Its Way Into the White House for Over 50 Years
Article: "America’s Long Coup: How the GOP Rigged, Lied, and Stole Its Way Into the White House for Over 50 Years" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: “The 2024 Anti-Democracy Playbook“ by American Oversight.
Book: The Hidden History of the War on Voting: Who Stole Your Vote and How to Get It Back by Thom Hartmann.
Book: "A Charge To Keep" by George W. Bush.
Book: "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "TRUMP LOST. Vote Suppression Won" by Greg Palast.
Article: "Bush v. Gore proves Antonin Scalia's "originalism" doctrine is a fraud, so karma dictates that President Obama should nominate Al Gore to Supreme Court" by Legal Schnauzer.
Article: "Bush Wanted To Invade Iraq If Elected in 2000" by Russ Baker.
Article: "A New Report Adds Evidence That Trump Was a Russian Asset" by William Saletan.
Case: "Bush v. Gore", 2000. "The individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors for the President of the United States"
Article: "George W. Bush Was AWOL, But What's "Truth" Got to Do With It?" by Dan Froomkin.
Article: "The Lyndon Johnson tapes: Richard Nixon's 'treason'" by David Taylor.
Article: "Mueller Asked About Money Flows to Israeli Social-Media Firm, Source Says" by Michael Riley and Lauren Etter.
Article: “Voter Purges“ by Brennan Center.
Article: "'Argo' helps Iran's dictatorship, harms democracy " by Abolhassan Bani-Sadr.
Article: “The Growing Threat of Republican Election Vigilantes“ by Marc Elias.
Article: "Foreign Threats to the 2020 US Federal Elections" by National Intelligence Council.
Article: “Election Administration and Voting Survey (EAVS) Comprehensive Report“ by U.S. Election Assistance Commission.
Article: “Purging Voter Rolls“ by EverythingPolicy.
Article: “Court Approves Vigilante Mass Voter Challenges: Devastating Threat To 2024 Election“ by Greg Palast.
Article: "The Election Was Stolen – Here's How…" by Greg Palast.
Article: "What the Mueller Report Tells Us About Russian Influence Operations" by Alina Polyakova.
Article: “In key battlegrounds, voters of color see ballots marked for rejection at higher rates“ by Jane C. Timm, Rezwana Uddin and Andrew Arenge.
Article: “Despite mail voting changes, ballot rejections remain relatively low in 2022 midterms“ by Ashley Lopez.
Article: "The Pardons; Bush Pardons 6 In Iran Affair, Aborting A Weinberger Trial; Prosecutor Assails 'cover-up'" by David Johnston.
Article: "Contesting The Vote: Challenging A Justice; Job of Thomas's Wife Raises Conflict-of-Interest Questions" by Christopher Marquis.
Article: "EXAMINING THE VOTE: THE OVERVIEW; Study Of Disputed Florida Ballots Finds Justices Did Not Cast The Deciding Vote" by Ford Fessenden and John M. Broder.
Article: "Biden Administration Says Russian Intelligence Obtained Trump Campaign Data" by Mark Mazzetti and Michael S. Schmidt.
Article: "A Four-Decade Secret: One Man's Story of Sabotaging Carter's Re-election" by Peter Baker.
Article: “In North Carolina, Black Voters’ Mail-In Ballots Much More Likely to Be Rejected Than Those From Any Other Race“ by Sophie Chou, Tyler Dukes.
Article: "Florida's flawed "voter-cleansing" program" by Gregory Palast.
Article: “Ballot tracking can improve rejection-rate disparities“ by Pat McCarthy, Steve Hobbs, Lori Augino.
Article: “Voters of color had mail-in ballots rejected at higher rates than white voters in Texas’ March primary“ by Natalia Contreras.
Article: "The Secret Nixon-lbj War" by Daniel Schorr.
Article: “How a Mysterious Tip Led to Trump Conviction“ by Rebecca Ballhaus, Joe Palazzolo.
Video: President Jimmy Carter: Bush Didn't Win in 2000.
Video: "This is Treason!" Lyndon Johnson Everett Dirksen Phone Call November 2 1968.
Video: HOT TAKES! - Refugees Welcome...But Only If They’re White! - Don Lemon.
Article: "White South Africans Granted Refugee Status by Trump: What We Know" by New York Times.
Ice has become Trump’s private militia. It must be abolished
Article: "Ice has become Trump’s private militia. It must be abolished" by Mehdi Hasan.
Article: "Trump Calls for 20,000 Extra Officers to Help With Deportation Efforts" by Hamed Aleaziz.
Trump’s Middle East trip isn’t just about diplomacy. It’s about the family business
Article: "Trump’s Middle East trip isn’t just about diplomacy. It’s about the family business" by Mohamad Bazzi.
Article: "Saudi Crown Prince MBS courts Trump with lavish royal welcome as president pushes for $1 trillion in investments" by Nikki Schwab, Emily Goodin.
Weird Alert! RFK posts photos of him and his grandchildren swimming in sewage-contaminated water - why would he do that?
Article: "Kennedy Swims in Washington Creek That Flows With Sewage and Bacteria" by Chris Cameron.
Article: "RFK Jr. Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His Brain" by Susanne Craig.
Poem: "An Elegy On The Death Of A Mad Dog" by Oliver Goldsmith .
Event: May 17, 11:00 AM: SpaceX, L.A.: Fight for Schools (also Sacremento, San Francisco, Hanford, San Diego).
Video: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (6/10) Movie CLIP - No Stinking Badges (1948) HD.
Site: FIFA World Cup 2025.
Article: "Supreme Court Grants Trump Broad Immunity for Official Acts, Placing Presidents Above the Law" by ACLT.
Article: "The Grift That Keeps on Grifting" by Robert Reich.
Speech: "Great Society" by Wikipedia.
Law: "Civil Rights Act of 1964".
Hour Two: Are most American buying into Trump's immigration hunt?
Article: "'Backlash': Analyst warns even most hardcore supporters stunned by overly 'bold' Trump policy" by Krystina Alarcon Carroll.
Article: "The Terrible Optics of ICE Enforcement Are Fueling a Trump Immigration Backlash" by Nick Miroff.
Can the GOP ever complain about the Debt again? They want to raise it to $4 trillion - just so the morbidly rich can get more fabulously richer...
Article: "House GOP unveils plan to raise debt limit by $4 trillion " by Aris Folley.
Article: "United States debt ceiling" by Wikipedia.
Article: "How the GOP Used a Two Santa Clauses Tactic to Con America for Nearly 40 Years" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "The History of the Debt" by TreasuryDirect.
Article: "When The U.S. Paid Off The Entire National Debt (And Why It Didn't Last)" by Robert Smith.
Article: "Sturmabteilung"(brown shirts) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Schutzstaffel" (SS) by Wikipedia.
Trump's whites only refugee plan just got sicker....
Article: "'Translation — white': Trump official clobbered over claim Afrikaners can 'assimilate'" by Sarah K. Burris.
Article: "Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, ends partnership with US government" by RNS.
Article: "Desmond Tutu" by Wikipedia.
Quote: "When a clown moves into a palace he doesn't become a king, the palace instead becomes a circus." - Turkish proverb.
Article: "Property Taxes by State and County, 2025" by Tax Foundation.
Article: "New Jersey gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2025" by Ballotpedia.
Article: "Philadelphia Beverage Tax (PBT)" (soda tax).
Article: "‘A Good Cause’ — Perspectives on the Soda Tax from Low-Income Parents" by Chris Tachibana.
Article: "A Summary Of The 2024 Annual Reports" by SSA.
Article: "Medicare and Social Security Fair Share Act" by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse.
Article: "South Africa's Land Inequality Persists Despite Decades of Reforms" by Muhamadi Matovu.
Article: "Watergate scandal" by Wikipedia.
Article: "International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking" (June 26) by UN.
Article: "Constitution of the United States", article 2 section 1. "... The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them...."
Article: "Former Sen. Bob Menendez sentenced to 11 years in bribery scheme" by Dana DiFilippo and Sophie Nieto-Munoz.
Article: "The Federalist Papers : No. 73" by Alexander Hamilton.
Hour Three: Is allowing TX moms to drive solo in car pool lanes a "gift" or a secret far-right plan?
Article: "'A gift to mothers': Moms could drive solo in Texas car pool lanes under GOP bill " by Eleanor Klibanoff.
Article: "NPR's Morning Edition Repeats GOP Spin About Cory Gardner's Positions On Reproductive Rights" by Rachel Calvert.
Chuck Schumer says he is placing a hold on Trump DOJ nominees amid questions on Qatar's luxury jet
Article: "Chuck Schumer says he is placing a hold on Trump DOJ nominees amid questions on Qatar's luxury jet gift" by Rebecca Shabad and Frank Thorp V.
Article: "Trojan Horse" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Brown v. Board and "The Doll Test"" by LDF.
Article: "From LBJ to Biden: How the Economy Performed Under Each President" by Bob Haegele.
Article: "Ronald Reagan had Alzheimer's while president, says son" by Ed Pilkington.
Bible: "Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the groun Article: "Trump has declared a 'national energy emergency.' What does that mean?" by Camila Domonoske.
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: "Presentment Clause" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 8 clause 8 (Powers of Congress). "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;"
d and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being." - Genesis 1:7.
Bible: "Count the Levites by their families and clans. Count every male a month old or more." - Numbers 3:15.
Bible: "... for a person between one month and five years..." - Leviticus 27:6.