Sue's Daily Stack, Tuesday, 28 January, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Tuesday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: Crashing the Economy: Trump’s Blueprint for Power and Profit
Article: "Crashing the Economy: Trump's Blueprint for Power and Profit" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "New CBO Analysis Exposes Devastating Impact of Trump's Tariffs" by Brendan F. Boyle.
Article: "Young People Increasingly Trust Social Media as News Sources" by jpitney.
Article: "Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI)" by Yahoo!Finance.
Article: "This is not a repeat of the 2008 housing bubble" by Ali Wolf.
Article: "U.S. Billionaires Got 62 percent Richer During Pandemic. They're Now Up $1.8 Trillion." by Chuck Collins.
Article: "House Republicans retreat to Trump's Miami resort to hash out his agenda" by Emily Brooks.
Article: "History Shows How Dangerous 'America First' Really Is" by Cyrus Veeser.
Article: "Why Young Men Are Turning Against Feminism" by Daniel A. Cox.
Article: "How billionaires got $637 billion richer during the COVID-19 pandemic" by Hiatt Woods.
Article: "Billionaires got 54% richer during pandemic, sparking calls for "wealth tax"" by Aimee Picchi.
Article: "With inflation stubbornly high, 58% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck: CNBC survey" by Jessica Dickler.
Article: "The exact thing that helped Trump win could become a big problem for his presidency" by Matt Egan.
Article: "Trump will crash the economy, like the last three GOP administrations have done" by DemandSide.
Article: "6 People Who Made Big Money During the Great Depression" by Christopher Klein.
Article: "Do the rich pay their fair share?" by Oxfam.
Article: "Obama right that Roosevelt was called a socialist and a communist" by Angie Drobnic Holan.
Article: "Andrew Tate: research has long shown how feminist progress is always followed by a misogynistic backlash" by Dr Lisa Sugiura.
Article: "The Stock Market Crash of 2008" by Kimberly Amadeo.
Article: "Gen Z doubts about democracy laid bare in 'worrying' survey" by Alex Farber.
Article: ""Foreclosure King" Steven Mnuchin Doesn't Appreciate His Totally Accurate Nickname" by Bess Levin.
Article: "The Rich Got Richer During COVID-19. Here's How American Billionaires Performed" by Carmen Ang.
Article: "Jim Jeffords" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Lincoln Chafee" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Arlen Specter" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Jeff Flake’s foolish plea for honor from soulless senators" by EJ Montini.
Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).
Article: "McConnell opposes Hegseth on final confirmation vote" by Alexander Bolton.
Article: "Confirmation Hearings This Week: RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, and Kash Patel" by Nate Ashworth.
Why don't the Dems do a Shadow Government to deal with "Flooding the Zone?"
Article: "sociologist Jennifer Walter on what's happening in the US and what to do about it" by KatK.
Article: "Laken Riley Vote Shows Why Democrats Lost: John Fetterman" by Billal Rahman.
Article: "Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Mark Cuban" by Wikipedia.
Site: Cost Plus Drugs.
Law: "Emergency Banking Act of 1933".
Article: "Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Democrats' Fatal Flaw: The Party That Forgot How to Captivate America" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Adam Schiff" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Eric Swalwell" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Bernie Sanders" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Gavin Newsom" by Wikipedia.
Site: Blue Sky.
Article: "2025 Democratic National Committee chairmanship election" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The People's Cabinet" by Timothy Snyder.
Article: "ICE Barbie: Kristi Noem Gets Dolled Up for Deportation Raid Photo-Op" by Liam Archacki.
Article: "Fractional-reserve banking" by Wikipedia.
Hour Two: The great deportation scam has begun
Article: "Letters from an American: January 27, 2025" by Heather Cox Richardson.
Article: "Trump officials issue quotas to ICE officers to ramp up arrests" by Nick Miroff, Maria Sacchetti.
Article: "Dr. Phil turns immigration raids into yet another Trump fascist spectacle" by Dean Obeidallah.
Article: "Chinese AI threat triggers $1 trillion market crash " by Telegraph.
Article: "Nvidia short bets rake in over $6 billion in profits after DeepSeek panic" by Reuters.
Article: "How an Investor Can Make Money Short Selling Stocks" by Brian Beers.
Article: "Indiana man pardoned for Jan. 6 crimes is killed in traffic stop shooting by deputy" by Doha Madani.
Trump shut down the government today. How much worse is it going to get? When does he actually dismantle it? Like Vladimir Putin told him to
Article: "'Very big deal': Congressional aides reportedly 'bewildered' as all federal grants paused" by Erik De La Garza.
Article: "What is happening inside the Office of Personnel Management?" by aaraujo.
Article: "Trump administration orders sweeping freeze of federal aid" by Jennifer Scholtes and Nicholas Wu.
Article: "Fraud fight in jeopardy" by Merrill Goozner.
Article: "Trump fires inspectors general from more than a dozen federal agencies" by Manu Raju, Alayna Treene, Morgan Rimmer and Annie Grayer.
Republican "big government" want Costco to drop its DEI program..Why? Are they forcing everyone into the MAGA movement?
Article: "Republican attorneys general pressure Costco to drop DEI policies" by Reuters.
Article: "Trump freezes funding under Inflation Reduction Act and infrastructure law" by Jeff St. John.
Article: "Behind Israel’s ‘end game’ for Gaza: Theft of offshore gas reserves" by Betsey Piette.
Article: "TRUMP LOST. Vote Suppression Won" by Greg Palast.
Article: "Shelby County v. Holder" by Wikipedia.
Case: "Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute".
Article: "Facebook at 20: All Grown Up With 3 Billion Users" by Felix Richter.
Article: "X's declining user base: Elon Musk's platform projected to lose millions of users in 2025" by Matt Binder.
Article: "Tesla to report Q4 earnings amid concerns over sales decline, robotaxi rollout, Elon Musk’s time" by Laurence Iliff.
Article: "Bluesky is likely reaching 30 million users this week" by Jonas Mäki.
Law: "Telecommunications Act of 1996" by Wikipedia.
Article: "What you should know about Section 230, the rule that shaped today's internet" by Barbara Ortutay.
Article: "Plan to remove 160,000 Stanley Park trees faces growing criticism" by CBC News.
Site: Stanley Park Preservation Society.
Article: "Trump administration shuts down White House Spanish-language page and social media" by Fernanda Figueroa.
Article: "Trump Firings at Labor Board Paralyze the Agency" by Danielle Kaye and Rebecca Davis O’Brien.
Hour Three: Trump halts funding for Biden's projects. Which will survive?
Article: "Trump halts funds to IRA and Infrastructure Law" by Bill Addis.
Article: "Impoundment of appropriated funds" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump impeachment: White House withheld Ukraine aid just after Zelensky call" by BBC.
In California, Republicans are saying that they want to fix the forests by Clear cutting them. It’s like curing the flu by shooting somebody in the head.
Article: "This Bill to Reduce Wildfires Might Actually Make Them Worse" by Will Peischel.
Trump gives access to Musk to all unclassified data in US government - what could go wrong?
Article: "Trumpf Gives Elon Musk Access to All Unclassified Data in the US Government" by C0ri0lanus.
Article: "Trump White House tries to clarify confusion over abrupt federal assistance freeze" by Alexandra Hutzler.
Article: "Cop City" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Advocates say Nashville’s ‘Cop City’ is an escalation in militarized policing" by Justin Davis.
Article: "Karoline Leavitt faced down the White House press in her first briefing. It was Trump’s voice that followed" by Gustaf Kilander.
Substack: "LookingNWords" by Rohn Kenyatta.
Article: "How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days" by Timothy W. Ryback.
Article: "Trump authorizes ICE to target courthouses, schools and churches" by Luke Barr and Julia Reinstein.
Article: "Public schools try to protect undocumented students from Trump immigration raids " by Adam Edelman and Daniella Silva.
Article: "Forest Service seasonal hiring freeze to result in on-the-ground impacts" by Dennis Webb.
Article: "The 1924 Law That Slammed the Door on Immigrants and the Politicians Who Pushed it Back Open" by Anna Diamond.
Article: "Who Are the Three Republican Senators Who Voted Against Pete Hegseth?" by Maya C. Miller.
Article: "Trump allies coast in special House primary to fill vacant Florida seats" by Bridget Bowman and Scott Bland.
Article: "Space Shuttle Challenger disaster" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Communities Consider Ending Fluoridation, Blood Donation in Central Florida, Stand-Up Comedy Show Controlled by Your Cell " by Cheryn Stone, Richard Copeland.
Plan to put $1K bounty on heads of immigrants sparks fury in Missouri
Article: "Plan to put $1K bounty on heads of immigrants sparks fury in Missouri" by Rudi Keller.