Sue's Daily Stack, Tuesday, 22 April, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Tuesday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: Roberts Owns It All: From Citizens United to Trump’s Coup
Article: "Roberts Owns It All: From Citizens United to Trump's Coup" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: “Trump fabricating evidence to imprison Abrego Garcia is bone-chilling--and it's what he would do to you“ by Dean Obeidallah.
Article: "TRUMP LOST. Vote Suppression Won" by Greg Palast.
Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).
Book: The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class by Thom Hartmann.
Article: “Vance Says ‘Judges Aren’t Allowed to Control’ Trump’s ‘Legitimate Power’“ by Charlie Savage and Minho Kim.
Article: “DOJ intervenes for Trump as he fights E Jean Carroll's civil judgment: report“ by Matthew Chapman.
Article: “"A blueprint for a Trump autocracy": Authoritarianism expert on which global dictators Trump models“ by Chauncey DeVega.
Article: "Earth Day" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Vladimir Lenin" by Wikipedia.
Law: "Tillman Act of 1907".
Article: "Shelby County v. Holder" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Murkowski on Trump: "We are all afraid"" by Stef W. Kight.
Article: "Supreme Court rules Trump officials must 'facilitate' release of man deported to El Salvador" by Ali Abbas Ahmadi.
Article: "Donald Trump Is Dismantling America’s Public Parks" by Issie Lapowsky.
Quote: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead.
Trump accuses SCOTUS of caving to the "radical left" in pausing deportations. Is it now "radical left" to not send innocent legal dads to notorious Salvadorian prison?
Article: "‘We Cannot Give Everyone a Trial’: Trump Accuses Supreme Court of Caving to ‘Radical Left’ In Pausing Deportations to Prison" by Kipp Jones.
Article: "Border Patrol agents question Amtrak passengers in Havre about citizenship" by Tim Leeds.
Article: "U.S. Government Illegally Detains Father of Two in Notorious Salvadoran Prison" by Center for Constitutional Rights.
Article: "Westbank mother doesn’t return home after routine ICE check-in" by Amelia Strahan.
Article: "German Tourists Deported From US for Not Booking Hotel" by Billal Rahman.
Article: "A Venezuelan immigrant accidentally entered Canada. He was seized by US authorities — and no one knows where he is" by Alex Woodward.
Article: "Maxine Dexter funds her own trip to El Salvador for detained Maryland resident, KGW confirms" by Sabinna Pierre.
Article: "Federal judge orders US to restore visas of 2 international students in Oregon" by AP.
Article: "'Horrified': Harvard scientist's ICE arrest leaves cancer researchers scrambling" by Matthew Chapman.
Article: "The John Cornyn Houston Office Protest Never Lets Up" by Neil Aquino.
Article: "The Obama Record on Deportations: Deporter in Chief or Not?" by Muzaffar Chishti, Sarah Pierce, and Jessica Bolter.
Article: "Hoovervilles and Homelessness" by James Gregory.
Article: "Bonus Army" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Ali Velshi" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Great Lakes ‘vampire’ fish eradication efforts delayed by DOGE cuts" by Gabe Oatley.
Quote: "What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing" - Oscar Wilde (some sources say 'fool' rather than 'cynic').
Article: "Portland mayor tear-gassed by feds; DOJ inspector general to probe agents' conduct" by Gillian Flaccus.
Quote: "A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give." - Ida B. Wells-Barnett.
Hour Two: Ali Velshi - National Town Hall taking calls for the hour
- Ali Velshi, MSNBC “Velshi” / Author, "Small Acts of Courage". Show: Velshi, 10-noonET Sat/Sun, my Velshi Banned Book Club Podcast, available anywhere you get podcasts @Velshi @MSNBC
Video: Trump’s tariffs could lead to stagflation. That would be a nightmare. Here’s what it means - Velshi.
Article: "Trump ramps up attacks on Powell, demands 'loser' Fed chair lower rates 'NOW'" by Kevin Breuninger.
Article: "Mark Carney" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Early turnout shatters record in Canada polls with 7.3m ballots cast" by Nadine Yousif.
Article: "Populism" by Wikipedia.
Article: "MSNBC's Chris Hayes mourns 'devastating' firing of Joy Reid amid network shake-up" by Asher Notheis.
Article: "Tiffany Cross" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Joy Reid" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump Posts Photoshopped Image of Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s Knuckle Tattoos With Disputed ‘MS-13’ Interpretation" by Josh Dickey.
Article: "The showdown between Harvard and the White House – day by day" by 19 Apr 2025.
Article: "Harvard sues Trump administration over ‘arbitrary and capricious’ freeze of $2 billion in grants" by AP.
Article: "Columbia University agrees to policy changes after Trump administration funding threats" by AP.
Article: "Obama calls Trump's freeze of Harvard funding 'unlawful'" by Ana Faguy.
Article: "NIH bans all future grants to universities with DEI programs or Israel boycotts" by Anil Oza.
Article: "Impact of NIH Research" by NIH.
Article: "Johns Hopkins University" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Johns Hopkins to lose 2,000 jobs after Trump’s $800m cut in USAid funding" by Guardian.
Article: "MSNBC’s New Schedule: All the Major Changes Coming to the News Network" by Meaghan Darwish.
Article: "Lina Khan" (chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)) by Wikipedia.
Video: Trump’s tariff plan is ‘malpractice,’ says former FTC Chair Lina Khan - Velshi.
Article: "Over 30,000 turn out for Bernie Sanders, AOC rally in Denver amid push for progressive change" by Tori Mason.
Article: "De-Dollarization: What Would Happen if the Dollar Lost Reserve Currency Status?" by Wayne Duggan.
Article: "Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat" by Greg Jaffe, Eric Schmitt and Maggie Haberman.
Article: "Jack Bergman" by Wikipedia.
Hour Three: IMF warning of a world-wide Republican Great Depression...
Article: "IMF warns of ‘major negative shock’ from Trump’s tariffs" by Heather Stewart, Kiran Stacey.
'Hurried mess': Questions as Trump-connected firms mysteriously win tariff exemptions
Article: "'Hurried mess': Questions as Trump-connected firms mysteriously win tariff exemptions" by Robert Faturechi.
Article: "Scoop: Apple CEO Tim Cook donates $1 million to Trump inauguration" by Mike Allen.
Article: "Justin Sun pays $30M to buy his way into Trump’s good books" by Steven Stradbrooke.
There is alarm as DOGE "claws deeper" into troves of federal data...
Article: "'Very concerning': Experts alarmed as DOGE 'claws deeper' into 'troves' of federal data" by Matthew Chapman.
Article: "Head of I.R.S. Is Ousted in Treasury’s Power Struggle With Elon Musk" by Jonathan Swan, Andrew Duehren, Alan Rappeport and Maggie Haberman.
Article: "A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data" by Jenna McLaughlin.
Video: MSNBC - The Rachel Maddow Show: Federal Employee Alleges Possible Data Breach by DOGE at NLRB.
Article: "Elon Musk and trade unions" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Who is 'Big Balls'? Teen DOGE Engineer Edward Coristine" by Theo Burman.
Article: "Hungary’s Descent Into Dictatorship" by Paul Hockenos.
Article: "Hungary and NATO" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Turkey in NATO" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Turkey Is Now a Full-Blown Autocracy" by Gonul Tol.
Article: "What we know about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador" by Daniella Silva, Laura Strickler and Gary Grumbach.
Article: "Greedflation" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Fed Chief Sets Monetary Policy By Seat-of-the-Pants Approach" by David Wessel.
Article: "Cryptocurrency" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump’s crypto reserve is a dream come true for his oligarch donors" by Emily DiVito.
Article: "South Sea Bubble" by Britannica.
Article: "Tulip Mania" by Doug Ashburn.
Article: "Subnanosecond flash memory enabled by 2D-enhanced hot-carrier injection" by Yutong Xiang et al.
Article: "Moore's law" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Donald Trump calls Bitcoin 'a scam against the dollar'" by Mary-Ann Russon.
Article: "Microsoft’s Majorana 1 chip carves new path for quantum computing" by Catherine Bolgar.
Article: "Feds raid biggest dairy farm in Vermont, arrest migrant workers" by Paul Bean and Guy Page.
Article: "Federal agents raid Vermont farm, detain 8 workers" by Ike Bendavid.
Article: "Bracero Program" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Operation Wetback" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Triangle Shirtwaist Fire" by AFL-CIO.
Article: "El Salvador Welcomes Donald Trump Jr. for Bukele’s Inauguration Ceremony" by Tico Times.
Article: "'Good luck with that': CNN made FOIA request about DOGE only to learn FOIA staff was fired" by Eloise Goldsmith.
Article: "Oops! Fox News Accidentally Introduces Pete Hegseth As 'Former' Secretary" by Ryan Grenoble.
Why is Randi Rhodes show ending? Who is next?