Sue's Daily Stack, Tuesday, 25 February, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Tuesday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: SCOTUS Republicans Legalized Election Rigging—Why Aren't Democrats Playing the Game?
Article: "SCOTUS Republicans Legalized Election Rigging—Why Aren't Democrats Playing the Game?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "What really happened in Florida?" by BBC Newsnight.
Article: "Supreme Court, in a 6-3 Partisan Decision by Justice Alito, Greenlights Racial Gerrymandering, Further Eroding Voting Rights" (Alexander v NAACP) by AFJ.
Article: "Redistricting and Gerrymandering, Explained: Battles Over California's Electoral Map" by Jonathan Vankin.
Article: "The GOP Taliban to Women: Shut Up, Sit Down, and Stay Home on Election Days" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "TRUMP LOST. Vote Suppression Won" by Greg Palast.
Case: "Shelby County v. Holder, 570 U.S. 529 (2013)".
Article: "Trump's Calls for an "Army" of Poll Watchers Are Renewing Fears Of Voter Intimidation" by W.J. Hennigan and Vera Bergengruen.
Article: "Voter Purge Rates Remain High, Analysis Finds" by Kevin Morris.
Case: "Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute".
Article: "Purges: A Growing Threat to the Right to Vote" by Kevin Morris, Myrna Pérez.
Article: "How Gerrymandering Helped Republicans Win the House" by Mac Brower.
Article: "Protecting Voter Registration: An Assessment of Voter Purge Policies in Ten States" by Demos.
Article: "Supreme Court Rules Partisan Gerrymandering Is Beyond The Reach Of Federal Courts" (Rucho v. Common Cause) by Nina Totenberg, Domenico Montanaro, Miles Parks.
Article: "Democrats Worry GOP Efforts To Recruit Poll Watchers May Lead To Voter Intimidation" by Pam Fessler.
Article: "North Carolina's Latest Democratic Governor Is Sworn In" by Gary D. Robertson.
Site: 50501. (Next Day Of Action: March 4th)
Book: The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America-and How to Undo His Legacy by David Gelles.
Article: "Albert J. Dunlap" (Chainsaw Al) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Teapot Dome scandal" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Anne Gorsuch Burford, Neil's Mother: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know" by Chris Bucher.
Are the Democrats bringing a teaspoon to a gunfight?
Article: "Democrats Are MIA—Just When the Country Needs Them to Counter the Trump-Musk Blitzkrieg" by David Corn.
Article: "Not Good Enough" by Liberal Thinking.
Video: Democrats not immune from voter wrath as pressure to impede Trump mounts (Rachel Maddow w/ Rep. Hakeem Jeffries).
Video: Anand Giridharadas: America is living through a hostile takeover by billionaires and bullies.
'Stunning shift': Critics warn US vote signaled its joining of 'Axis of Evil'
Article: "'Stunning shift': Critics warn US vote signaled its joining of 'Axis of Evil'" by David Badash.
Site: "Indivisible".
Site: "nextdoor.com".
Article: "John Cornyn" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Ted Cruz" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Here's how 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump fared in the 2022 primary season" by Caroline Linton, Kathryn Watson.
Article: "7 GOP Senators Voted To Convict Trump. Only 1 Faces Voters Next Year" (2021) by Barbara Sprunt.
Article: "Night of the Long Knives" by Wikipedia.
Hour Two: House Republican budget includes HUGE cuts to Medicaid...likely to be voted on tonight.
- Alex Lawson, President - Social Security Works / Strengthen Social Security @alaw202 @socialsecurityworks.org
Article: "Republicans' plans for Medicaid have a political problem" by Kelly Hooper.
Article: "House advances budget plan for final vote as GOP leaders lean on Trump to wrangle holdouts" by John Parkinson, Lauren Peller.
Article: "Budget vote in jeopardy as Johnson plays Republican whack-a-mole" by ABC News.
Article: "Fact Check: Does Republican Budget Cut Medicaid By $880 Billion?" by Suzanne Blake.
Article: "Potential fraud could have earned insurance companies billions off of Medicare Advantage" by Eric Deggans.
Article: "Exclusive: The Pentagon's Massive Accounting Fraud Exposed" by Dave Lindorff.
Site: Bloomberg.
Article: "Budget reconciliation in U.S. Congress" by Ballotpedia.
Law: "Inflation Reduction Act of 2022".
Post: "Congress is about to vote on a Republican budget that would destroy Medicaid.
These 17 House Republicans won by fewer votes than the number of people they want to steal health care from.
We are sending billboards to their districts to demand they vote NO on the budget. [spreadsheet: Medicaid cuts vs # votes won by]" by Social Security Works.
Trump kills funding for hurricane and wildfire victims
Article: "Trump Stripped All $103 Million of Legal Assistance from Storm and Disaster Victims" by Ryan Grim, Sarah Hay.
Crazy Alert! This is the guy that is shutting down government and routing around in our private information.....
Article: "Elon Musk's flirty text messages to 'mum of 13th child' Ashley St Clair revealed after court order" by Martin Fricker, Antony Clements-Thrower.
Article: "Tesla, Inc. (TSLA)" by yahoo!finance.
Article: "Election Fraud Map" by The Heritage Foundation.
Video: Granny Off the Cliff.
Article: "Huffman fields questions about risks to Social Security, Postal Service" by Justine Frederiksen.
Article: "Jasmine Crockett" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Award of the George Cross to Malta" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Denmark–Iceland relations" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Greenland" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Canadian snowbirds cancel Florida trips over Trump's threats" by Campbell MacDiarmid .
Article: "Winston Churchill" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Ukraine Rejects U.S. Demand for Half of Its Mineral Resources" by Constant Méheut, Andrew E. Kramer, David E. Sanger and Eve Sampson.
Article: ""There is no truth in news and no news in truth" (Russian Izvestia and Pravda adage)" by Barry Popik.
Article: "Putin Maintains Goal to Roll Back NATO, Estonian Report Says" by Ott Tammik.
Hour Three: I did business in Russia and Trump is importing KGB thuggery
- Sabrina Haake, Federal trial attorney (20+ years) specializing in First and 14th Amendment defense / Contributor to numerous law journals & publications including the Chicago Tribune @haake_sabrina
Article: "I did business in Russia. Trump is importing KGB thuggery." by Sabrina Haake.
Law: "Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 (FCPA)".
Article: "Trump halts enforcement of US law banning bribery of foreign officials" by Léonie Chao-Fong.
Article: "Paul Tatum" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Vladimir Putin" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Russians Keep Mysteriously Falling from Windows to Their Deaths" by Khaleda Rahman.
Article: "Trump promised to scrap climate laws if US oil bosses donated $1bn – report" by Ed Pilkington.
Article: "14th Amendment section 3, July 9, 1868 "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."
Case: "Trump v. Anderson" (Only Congress, not the states, can determine eligibility for federal office).
Article: "Kent State shootings" by Wikipedia.
Article: "'People Are Very Scared': Trump Administration Purge of JAG Officers Raises Legal, Ethical Fears" by Thomas Novelly and Konstantin Toropin.
Article: "Esper: Trump asked about shooting protesters 'in the legs or something' after George Floyd death" by Kelsey Carolan.
Article: "Trump Makes MAGA Hat-Wearing 'Killer' Chairman of Joint Chiefs" by William Vaillancourt.
Article: "How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days" by Timothy W. Ryback.
Article: "Judge clarifies: Yes, Trump was found to have raped E. Jean Carroll" by Aaron Blake.
Article: "Hakeem Jeffries" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Chuck Schumer" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Bernie Sanders" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Elizabeth Warren" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Jasmine Crockett" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Maxwell Frost" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Eric Swalwell" by Wikipedia.
Republican prosecutor Ed Martin is refusing to prosecute a Republican congressman so the house doesn't lose a vote
Article: "Covering Up Crimes?" by Jay Kuo.
The nightmare of home ownership is a growing problem - it has to be fixed ASAP
Article: "'I feel trapped': how home ownership has become a nightmare for many Americans" by Jedidajah Otte.
Speech: "Great Society" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Kamala Harris calls Trump a 'fascist' as she argues he's 'dangerous' and unfit for office" by Alex Seitz-Wald and Megan Lebowitz.
Article: "National debt of the United States" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Corporation Income Tax Brackets and Rates, 1909-2002" by Jack Taylor.
Article: "When The U.S. Paid Off The Entire National Debt (And Why It Didn't Last)" by Robert Smith.
Article: "Conyers Holds Unofficial House Judiciary Cmte. Hearing in Basement – Again" by Sabrina I. Pacifici.
Article: "Trump Says He's Going To Check If 'Somebody Stole' Fort Knox $400 Billion Gold Supply. What We Know." by Derek Saul.
Article: "Sopwith Camel" by Peanuts Wiki.
Article: "Removal of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House" by Wikipedia.
Article: "House passes rules package that will raise threshold for motion to vacate speaker — after re-electing Johnson " by Victor Nava.
Article: "Here Are the Top Recipients of AIPAC Money" by Donald Shaw.
Article: "Here Is All the Money AIPAC Spent on the 2024 Elections" by David Moore, Donald Shaw.