Sue's Daily Stack, Tuesday, 27 May, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Tuesday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: National Progressive Townhall taking your calls
- Representative Pramila Jayapal, U.S. Congressmember (D-WA, 7th District) (Committees: House Judiciary / House Foreign Affairs / House Budget / Former Chair Congressional Progressive Caucus) @pramilajayapal.bsky.social
Article: "Shadow cabinet" by Wikipedia.
Article: "'Call This What It Is—Theft': Republicans Approve Largest Medicaid, SNAP Cuts in US History" by Jake Johnson.
Article: "Ranking member" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump team pauses new student visa interviews as it weighs expanding social media vetting" by Nahal Toosi.
Video: I Demanded Answers From Marco Rubio on the Kidnapping of Rümeysa Öztürk and Why He Revoked Her Visa - Representative Pramila Jayapal.
Article: "The CFPB wanted medical debt to be left off credit reports. That's changed under Trump" by Vanessa Romo.
Bill: "H.R.3421 - To establish an improved Medicare for All national health insurance program" by Rep. Jayapal, Pramila [D-WA-7].
Article: "Trump peppers Memorial Day speech with personal boasting and partisan attacks" by Edward Helmore, Léonie Chao-Fong.
Article: "Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are 'Losers' and 'Suckers'" by Jeffrey Goldberg.
Article: "Price tag for Trump's military festival could reach $45 million" by Olivia George.
Article: "Harry Dunn (police officer)" by Wikipedia.
Bill: "John Lewis Voting Rights Act".
Article: "U.S. Citizen Forcibly Detained by ICE After Agents Claimed His Proof of Citizenship Was Fake" by Elizabeth Urban.
Article: "Three US citizen children, one with cancer, deported to Honduras, lawyers say " by Madeline Halpert.
Site: Pramila's Resistance Lab.
Event: June 1: virtual: Pramila Jayapal's Resistance Lab: Virtual Organizing Training 1.0.
Article: "Trump Administration's Mass Layoffs of Federal Workers Are Illegal" by Sam Berger and Jacob Leibenluft.
Article: "Tracking the lawsuits against Donald Trump's executive actions" by AP.
Article: "Trump keeps losing in court. But the relief isn't always what it seems and might not last." by Lisa Rubin.
Article: "Trump administration closes regional HHS office in downtown Seattle" by Elise Takahama.
Article: "29 times Donald Trump did what Putin wanted" by Tim Ross.
Article: "Trump considers new sanctions on Russia as he grows more furious with Putin" by Kylie Atwood, Kristen Holmes, Kevin Liptak and Matthew Chance.
Article: "Sen. Chris Murphy: 'The White House has become an arm of the Kremlin'" by CNN.
Quote: "An educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people" - attributed to Thomas Jefferson.
Video: 3 bad things and 3 good things you need to know!! - Pramila Jayapal.
Video: Democratic Daily Download ft. Rep. Andrea Salinas.
Video: The Beatles - Back In The U.S.S.R..
Article: "Electoral fusion in the United States" (fusion voting) by Wikipedia.
Site: 50501. June 14: No Kings
Site: "Indivisible".
Hour Two: When a President Spits on Unity: The 'Scum' Speech That Should Warn Us All"
Article: "When a President Spits on Unity: The 'Scum' Speech That Should Warn Us All" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "President Trump Calls Biden Administration 'Scum' in Heated Memorial Day Message" by Meredith Kile.
It's looking more and more like Trump is abandoning Ukraine...
Article: "Trump suffering 'emotional overload', says Russia " by Jörg Luyken.
Article: "Russia declares 'Trump's peace deal is dead' as Kremlin threatens to seize all of Ukraine" by Richard Ashmore.
Article: "Russia Defies Trump With Largest-Ever Drone-and-Missile Attack on Ukraine" by Matthew Luxmoore.
Article: "Russia hits Ukraine with the largest drone-and-missile attack of the war so far, killing at least 12 " by Jerry Fisayo-Bambi & AP.
Article: "Putin Ally Shares Map Of 'Buffer Zone' Covering All Of Ukraine" by Brendan Cole.
Article: "Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner" by Kenneth P. Vogel.
Article: "Trump admits to protecting Russia from 'really bad things'" by Tim Zadorozhnyy.
Video: Naomi Klein on Trump, Musk, Far Right & "End Times Fascism" - Democracy Now!
Article: "Peter Thiel" by Wikipedia.
Video: This Is How the American Economy Ends: And It's Already Happening.
Did Trump just create another pump-and-dump opportunity for the billionaires in his cabinet and people close to him (including his kids)?
Article: "Trump pauses threatened EU tariffs until July" by Ben Berkowitz.
Article: "Pump and dump" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Q&A: the Patriot Air Defense System in Ukraine – a briefing note" by AOAV.
Article: "Germany's Merz lifts range limit on weapons donated to Ukraine" by Linus Höller.
Article: "Cruise missile" by Wikipedia.
Article: "How Far Is Moscow from Kiev?" by airmilescalculator.com.
Article: "Hybrid warfare" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Drastic cuts under way bending US national security council to Trump's will" by Hugo Lowell.
Book: The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong by Dr Laurence J. Peter & Raymond Hull.
Article: "The Budget Reconciliation Process: The Senate's "Byrd Rule"" by CRS.
Article: "Speaker Johnson: 'We Are Not Cutting Medicaid', trying to Fix Enrollment Misuse by Undocumented Immigrants" by Sara Carter Staff.
Article: "Democrats introduce bill to transfer Marshals Service from executive branch to judicial" by TNND.
Hour Three: Why Corruption Always Breeds Tyranny: Lessons from Trump's Second-Term Playbook
Article: "Why Corruption Always Breeds Tyranny: Lessons from Trump's Second-Term Playbook" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Doug Burgum's federal rise highlights weaknesses in North Dakota ethics rules" by Amy Dalrymple.
Article: "Marco Rubio Can't Quite Label Putin With 2 Words In Testy Exchange" by David Moye.
Article: "Meet Alina Habba, the New Jersey parking garage lawyer now handling Donald Trump's most personal lawsuits" by Jacob Shamsian.
Article: "Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem struggles to define habeas corpus at Senate hearing" by Dareh Gregorian and Didi Martinez.
Article: "What Happens When the Watchdogs Are Fired? America Is About to Find Out" by Aneeta Mathur-Ashton.
Article: "Trump's businesses are full of dirty Russian money. The scandal is that it's legal." by Craig Unger.
Article: "Alexei Navalny" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Qatar crisis: What you need to know" by BBC.
Article: "Trump admin allows devices that let some weapons shoot as fast as machine guns" by Nate Raymond.
Article: "US Republican budget proposal has removal of gun silencer tax in its sights" by Bo Erickson.
Article: "The Sturmabteilung: Hitler's Unofficial Army Of Thugs" (brownshirts) by Gina Dimuro.
Article: "Memorial Day" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump's Assault on Veterans Is Already Taking a Toll" by Michael Embrich.
Article: "Trump Says He'll Be a Dictator on 'Day One'" by David A. Graham.
Article: "Luigi Mangione" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant drone strike" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Merz hints at Taurus missiles for Zelenskyy on ZDF interview" by Boyko Nikolov.
Article: "'The True North is indeed strong and free': King applauded as he opens Canada's parliament" by BBC.
Article: "Catherine the Great" by Britannica.
Post: "Today, I was denied access to seeing my constituent, Mr. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If there is nothing to hide, cut the crap. Let his lawyer and I check on him. [video]" by Congressman Glenn Ivey (MD-04).
Article: "NPR Hits Trump With Major Lawsuit That Goes Beyond First Amendment" by Malcolm Ferguson.
Article: "Kristi Noem Turns Cruelty Into Content for Her DHS Deportation Ads" by Schuyler Mitchell.
Article: "Everyone Now Has an Opinion on Jake Tapper" by John Koblin.
Article: "Ukraine accuses China of supplying Russian arms industry" by Aljazeera.
Article: "TRUMP LOST. Vote Suppression Won" by Greg Palast.