Sue's Daily Stack, Tuesday, 25 March, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Tuesday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: Dictatorship for Dummies: A Masterclass by the Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
Article: "Dictatorship for Dummies: A Masterclass by the Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Nazi Camps" by US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Law: "18 U.S. Code § 793 - Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information".
Article: "If Pete Hegseth Had Any Honor, He Would Resign" by David French.
Article: "The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans" by Jeffrey Goldberg.
Video: The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1971) Official Trailer .
Brutal cuts of their own words on security leaks....
Article: "CNN's Kaitlan Collins Destroys Trump Admin Over Bombshell Leak — With Brutal Cuts of Their Own Words" by Tommy Christopher.
Article: "Trump May Owe $100 Million From Double-Dip Tax Breaks, Audit Shows" by Russ Buettner and Paul Kiel.
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight Alert! Fox's Peter Doocy weighs in with the perfect response on the cabinet group chat...stay tuned
Article: "Fox's Peter Doocy Mocks Trump Admin Over Cabinet Group Chat: 'Well, They Did Promise to Be the Most Transparent White House Ever'" by Tom Durante.
Article: "Jeffrey Goldberg Says He's Considering Releasing More of Signal Chat — As Trump Officials Deny Under Oath That It Was Classified" by David Gilmour.
Article: "If Not Atlantic Editor Jeff Goldberg, Who Did Pete Hegseth's Group Chat Think "JG" Was?" by Kase Wickman.
Article: "NSA warned of vulnerabilities in Signal app a month before Houthi strike chat" by James LaPorta.
Article: "Timeline of US Flight to El Salvador and Judge's Order to Turn Around Planes" by Ryan Goodman.
Article: "Trump Has More Than One Way Out of NATO" by Ellie Cook.
Law: "5th Amendment" "No person ..." (double jeopardy, witness against self, due process, taking clause, due compensation).
Article: "Appeals court judge says Nazis were treated better than Venezuelans under Alien Enemies Act" by Jacob Rosen, Scott MacFarlane.
Article: "Michael Cohen says Trump may have already given away top-secret information from documents he brought around the world" by Matthew Loh.
Article: "Here's where Donald Trump allegedly kept classified documents at Mar-a-Lago " by Hannah Rabinowitz and Dan Berman.
Article: "New York Times: Daughters of foot doctor say he diagnosed Trump with bone spurs as 'favor' to Fred Trump" by Veronica Stracqualursi.
Article: "Georgia is planning one of the largest cancellations of voter registrations in U.S. history" by Mark Niesse.
Hour Two: They are actively destroying Social Security as we speak - here's how they are doing it...
Article: "Long waits, waves of calls, web crashes: Social Security is breaking down" by progree.
Article: "Social Security rushing service cuts at White House request, sources say" by Emily Peck.
Article: "Social Security's Death Warrant Was Just Signed — Are You Ready?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "The Ratio of Workers to Social Security Beneficiaries Is at a Low and Projected to Decline Further" by Peter G. Peterson Foundation.
Article: "Applying and Appealing: Procedural Steps Explained" (social security disability) by Michael Bloom.
Article: "Leland Dudek" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The Social Security Administration is slashing its workforce — a looming 12% staff cut sparks fears of massive benefit delays for retirees" by Vawn Himmelsbach.
Law: "Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act", 2003.
Article: "Over 80% of prior auth appeals succeed. Why aren't there more?" by Tanya Albert Henry.
Article: "Impeachment Announced by Congressman Al Green: Injustice Anywhere is a Threat to Justice Everywhere (MLK). Injustice in Gaza is a Threat to Justice in America" by Al Green.
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: "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: "Rep. Sylvester Turner, a Texas Democrat, dies at 70" by Scott Wong and Syedah Asghar.
The head of the Postal Service resigns as fears of privatization take hold....
Article: "Head of US Postal Service resigns amid fears of privatization: report " by Sarah K. Burris.
Susan Collins is about as good as Republicans get this day these days, and here's what that means - The unbearable lightness of being concerned
Article: "The Unbearable Lightness of Being Concerned" by Mike Brock.
Picture: "With friends and some security near the Darfur border in South Sudan" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Jackie Robinson Day" by Wikipedia.
Book: The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong by Dr Laurence J. Peter & Raymond Hull.
Video: "Impeach Trump Again": John Bonifaz on Fighting Trump's Lawlessness, Corruption & Attacks on Judges.
Site: Impeach Trump. Again.
Hour Three: What the toppling of US Institute for Peace means for the future...
Article: "DOGE toppled US Institute for Peace. Here's why that means war" by Lisa Needham.
Article: "Elon Musk Went To School In Rolls-Royce, Says Father Errol, Dismisses Claims Of "Unhappy Childhood"" by NDTV.
Article: "Elon Musk" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The Truth About RFK Jr.'s History of Heroin Addiction" by Nur Ibrahim.
Article: "Happiest Countries in the World 2025" by World Population Review.
As the Carolinas burn Kristie Noem announces the end of FEMA
Article: "As the Carolinas burn, Homeland Security head Kristie Noem says Trump administration is going to 'eliminate' FEMA" by Josh Marcus.
Article: "American Civil War" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Battle of Shiloh" by Wikipedia.
Article: "An Interview with Michael Hutchison" by Thom Hartmann.
Site: "Indivisible".
Article: "Jack Bergman" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Michigan Republicans turn to tele-town halls as Trump critics demand answers" by Simon D. Schuster.
Article: "Columbia must 'comply' to regain $400M, education secretary says — after university watered down anti-Israel crackdown" by Steven Nelson.
Article: "Media Giants Settling With Donald Trump Are Setting a "Dangerous" Precedent" by Paul Farhi.
Article: "Legal community shaken by a powerful law firm's decision to give in to Trump's demands" (Paul Weiss) by Ryan J. Reilly and Lawrence Hurley.
Article: "How is Social Security financed?" by SSA.
Article: "How is the U.S. Postal Service governed and funded?" by Tyler Powell and David Wessel.
Article: "War of 1812" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Battle of New Orleans" by Wikipedia.
Article: "'Startup Nation' Groups Say They're Meeting Trump Officials to Push for Deregulated 'Freedom Cities'" by Caroline Haskins and Vittoria Elliott.
Article: "Why The Caribbean Needs Charter Cities" by Akil Walton.
Article: "Trump proposes building 10 'freedom cities' and flying cars" by Eric Bradner, Kristen Holmes and Alicia Wallace.
Article: "Graphs in the Presidential Campaign: Why Weren't They Used by More Than One Candidate?" by Howard Wainer.
Event: 5 April: Hands off! day of action.