Sue's Daily Stack, Tuesday, 18 March, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Tuesday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: Welcome to Trump's America: Where Immigrants Vanish, Courts Are Ignored, and No One Is Safe
Article: "Welcome to Trump's America: Where Immigrants Vanish, Courts Are Ignored, and No One Is Safe" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Trump's border czar: "I don't care what the judges think"" by Ivana Saric.
Article: "Trump's further descent into dictatorship" by Robert Reich.
Law: "Alien Enemies Act" (1798).
Article: "The Alien Enemies Act, Explained" by Katherine Yon Ebright.
Article: "Relatives of missing Venezuelan migrants desperate for answers after US deportations to El Salvador" by Sarah Kinosian and Kristina Cooke.
Article: "Putin puts Trump call on hold as he talks to Russian oligarchs 'instead': report" by David Edwards.
Article: "What we know about a Rhode Island doctor and professor who was deported to Lebanon" by Andy Rose.
Article: "German Tattoo Artist Released After Six Weeks in US Detention" by The Munich Eye.
Article: "Canadian woman put in chains, detained by ICE after entering San Diego border" by Austin Grabish.
Who broke into the US Institute of Peace? And why?
Article: "Trump administration guts board of Institute of Peace" by AP.
Musk has been integrating his Starlink satellite system into the White House - Say What?!
Article: "'Extremely bad': Tech expert issues major warning about new Elon Musk scheme" by Brad Reed.
Article: "CNN Compares AOC's Rise to Post-Obama Republican Party: 'Best Represents Democratic Voters' | Video" by Stephanie Kaloi.
Article: "CNN Poll: Democratic Party's favorability drops to a record low" by Ariel Edwards-Levy.
Article: "AOC to Join Western Stops of Sanders 'Fighting Oligarchy' Tour" by Jessica Corbett.
Substack: "Greg Palast".
Substack: "Stephen Spoonamore".
Article: "Mike Johnson Admits He and His Son Monitor Each Other's Porn Intake in Resurfaced Video" by Daniel Kreps.
Article: "Legality of child pornography" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia is war crime - UN" by Laura Gozzi.
Article: "Shaved Heads And Rough Treatment: El Salvador's Bukele Posts Video Showing Reception of Alleged Gang Members Deported From U.S." by Demian Bio.
Article: "'Oopsie': Marco Rubio blasted as he joins El Salvador president in mocking U.S. judge" by Sarah K. Burris.
Article: "Trump's Mob-Boss Offer to Us Jews: Accept "Protection"—or Else" by Dave Zirin.
Article: ""Antisemitism" and Antisemitism" by Timothy Snyder.
Article: "The Delicate Dance Between Kamala Harris And Pro-Palestinian Activists" by Kevin Robillard, Daniel Marans, Akbar Shahid Ahmed.
Quote: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - John F. Kennedy.
Book: It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis.
Article: "Amy Coney Barrett Reaction to Donald Trump Walking By Goes Viral" by Jenna Sundel.
Article: "Federalist 78: The Judiciary Department" by Alexander Hamilton.
Quote: "A Constitution is not intended to embody a particular economic theory... It is made for people of fundamentally differing views" - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Article: "Bush creates Homeland Security Department, Nov. 26, 2002 " by Andrew Glass.
Article: "Heimat" by Wikipedia.
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.
Hour Two: Trump's plan for Social Security: Let's make it as hard to get a check as it is to vote in a Red state!
Article: "Memo Reveals Plans to Sabotage Social Security" by Sean Craig.
Article: "Social Security's Death Warrant Was Just Signed — Are You Ready?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Rule of three (writing)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "How many jobs have US agencies lost over DOGE layoffs?" by Reuters .
Article: "Why the 2005 Social Security Initiative Failed, and What it Means for the Future" by William A. Galston.
Article: "Exclusive: Memo details Trump plan to sabotage the Social Security Administration" by Judd Legum.
Article: "USPS removed 711 sorting machines this year, new court documents show" by Kristen Holmes and Paul P. Murphy.
Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).
Article: "Elon Musk takes major step in replacing your bank account with "X Money"" by David Uzondu.
Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.
Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978.
Case: "McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission", 2014.
Article: "Elon Musk's Starlink Expands Across White House Complex" by Maggie Haberman, Kate Conger, Eileen Sullivan, Ryan Mac.
Article: "Where Trump's FCC chair nominee Brendan Carr stands on net neutrality" by Chase DiBenedetto.
Article: "Satellites Are Becoming the New Cellphone Towers" by Lucas Laursen.
Trump nixes Biden's $17.75 minimum wage for federal contractors - No live-able wage for you!
Article: "Trump nixes $17.75 minimum wage for federal contractors adopted by Biden" by BumRushDaShow.
Article: "The Federal Reserve's Two-Day Policy Meeting Started Tuesday—Here's What You Need to Know" by Taylor Tompkins.
Conservative groups, in a repeat of the Kyle Rittenhouse worship, are inviting people who tried to kill police officers as honored guests and speakers at their events - Why?
Article: "Conservative Groups Welcome Pardon Capitol Rioters, Including Proud Boys and Oath Keepers" by Teddy Wilson.
Article: "Trump moves to close down Voice of America" by Thomas Mackintosh, Merlyn Thomas.
Article: "They're Cheering for Trump in Moscow—Again" by Tom Nichols.
Article: "Czech minister urges EU response in wake of Trump cuts to Radio Free Europe" by Aneta Zachová and Charles Szumski.
Article: "FCC Officially Opens Door to Mass Broadcast Deregulation" by Cameron Coats.
Article: "Secession in the United States" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Visualizing the Sizes of the Red and Blue State Economies" by Politics That Work.
Article: "Red States, Blue States: Two Economies, One Nation" by Joachim Klement.
Site: The Big List of Protests.
Site: 5 calls.
Article: "Ranked Choice Voting / Instant Runoff" (RCV) by FairVote.
Article: "Approval voting" by Wikipedia.
Article: "White House Weighs Folding FDIC Into Other Agencies " by PYMNTS.
Site: "Project 2025".
Article: "Unitary executive theory" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Banking Crisis of 1933" by Encyclopedia.com.
Event: 5 April: Hands off! day of action.
Video: Diverse groups opposing Trump-Musk agenda coalesce around date for nationwide protest.
Article: "This Chart Could Explain Why Warren Buffett Is Holding $325 Billion in Cash" by Peter Gratton.
Hour Three: The Echo Machine
- David Pakman, Host - The David Pakman Show / Author of the new book "The Echo Machine: How Right-Wing Extremism Created a Post-Truth" (Pub date: March 25, 2025) @davidpakman
Book: Waves of Rancor: Tuning into the Radical Right by Robert L. Hilliard, Michael C. Keith.
Article: "Who are the Koch brothers?" by BBC.
Article: "The Hunt Brothers: How Two Billionaires Broke the Silver Market" by Scottsdale Mint.
Letter: "to Edgar Newton Eisenhower" by Dwight D. Eisenhower, November 8, 1954. "Should any political party attempt to abolish social security ... Their number is negligible and they are stupid"
Article: "Saudis 'second largest investors' in Twitter after Musk takeover" by Aljazeera.
Article: "Turning Point USA" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The Daily Wire" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Morris Pearl" by Patriotic Millionaires.
Law: "Tillman Act of 1907".
Article: "How Finland Is Teaching a Generation to Spot Misinformation" by Jenny Gross.
Video: Man votes for Trump, wife gets deported .
Article: "Trump voter shocked after immigrant wife detained: 'I didn't know how it was going down'" by David Edwards.
Event: Seattle: Fridays 11:30 am–1:30 pm: Federal Building Fridays - Solidarity with Federal Workers.
Article: "The Interview: Chuck Schumer on Democrats, Antisemitism and His Shutdown Retreat" by Lulu Garcia-Navarro.
Article: "Paul Pelosi" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Federal Government Layoffs Tracker 2025: Latest DOGE Cuts So Far" by Kate Nalepinski.
Article: "Democrats Plan Nationwide Blitz of Town Halls in Republican Districts" by Shane Goldmacher.
Quote: "Our democracy is sick." - Maxine Dexter.
Article: "Over 1K people from Colorado's 7th congressional district voice concerns at town hall meeting" by Adria Iraheta.
Article: "Tea Party movement" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The Politics of Medicare and Drug-Price Negotiation" by Theodore T. Lee, Abbe R. Gluck, Gregory D. Curfman.
Article: "Trump rolls back Biden directive to study methods of lowering prescription costs" by Joseph Choi.
Article: "Donald Trump Fired Veterans Suicide Prevention Hotline Workers? Fact-Checking Claims" by Times Now Digital.
Video: Trump suffers backlash as Musk's crew attacks services for veterans - Rachel Maddow.
Article: "Where are the Social Security offices that close after DOGE closures?" by Diego Pérez Morales.
Article: "Chief Justice Roberts says impeaching judges "not an appropriate response" to disagreement, rebuking Trump" by Melissa Quinn.
Article: "Special elections to the 119th United States Congress (2025-2026)" by Ballotpedia.
Article: "Florida's 1st Congressional District on April 1, 2025" (Gay Valimont) by Ballotpedia.
Article: "Florida's 6th Congressional District on April 1, 2025" (Joshua Weil) by Ballotpedia.
Article: "2025 New York's 21st congressional district special election" by Wikipedia.
Article: "An election for a single state Supreme Court seat becomes the 'blockbuster' political fight of 2025" (April 1) by Fredreka Schouten and Arlette Saenz.
Article: "Trump rejects reports of US military base closure in Greece" by The Greek Herald.
Article: "Lionel, LLC" (toy trains) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Augusto Pinochet" (Chile) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Francisco Franco" (Spain) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Yoon Suk Yeol" (South Korea) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Jair Bolsonaro" (Brazil) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Rodrigo Duterte" (Philippines) by Wikipedia.
Bill: "H.R.22 - SAVE Act" by Rep. Roy, Chip [R-TX-21].
Article: "New Hampshire Already Making It Real Hard For Some Married Women To Vote" by Robyn Pennacchia.