Sue's Daily Stack, Tuesday, 3 June, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Tuesday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: Why Do America's Workers Need Welfare? The Scandal Nobody Talks About
Article: "Why Do America's Workers Need Welfare? The Scandal Nobody Talks About" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "McDonald's Workers in Denmark Won Good Pay and Benefits Through Striking" by Matt Bruenig.
Article: "State Minimum Wage and Food Insecurity Among US Households With Children" by Megan R Winkler, Rachel Clohan, Kelli A Komro, Melvin D Livingston, Sara Markowitz .
Article: "Balancing paychecks and public assistance" by David Cooper.
Site: "IAM: Machinists Union".
Article: "Republican Senator Says 'Best Health Care Is a Job' in Response to Cuts" by Jasmine Laws.
Article: "Trump Leadership: If You Want Welfare and Can Work, You Must" by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mehmet Oz, Brooke Rollins and Scott Turner.
Quote: "We stand for a living wage. Wages are subnormal if they fail to provide a living for those who devote their time and energy to industrial occupations. The monetary equivalent of a living wage varies according to local conditions, but must include enough to secure the elements of a normal standard of living--a standard high enough to make morality possible, to provide for education and recreation, to care for immature members of the family, to maintain the family during periods of sickness, and to permit of reasonable saving for old age." - Theodore Roosevelt.
Video: Sen. Ernst issues sarcastic apology to 'we're all going to die' comment.
Article: "More Frequent Medicaid Renewals Would Increase Errors and Lead Eligible People to Lose Health Coverage" by Jennifer Wagner.
Article: "Nearly two-thirds of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, study finds" by Chris Morris.
The Supreme Court's Trump-supporting swipes have nation at edge of crisis
Article: "Supreme Court's Trump-supporting swipes have nation at edge of crisis: experts" by Travis Gettys.
Whistleblower Miles Taylor is filing a formal complaint with the inspectors general of the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security, alleging that President Donald Trump's memorandum declaring him a "traitor" and suspending his security clearance is unconstitutional retaliation against a political critic...
Article: "Whistleblower aide Miles Taylor files formal complaint over Trump's retaliation" by Matthew Chapman.
You know you're in trouble when the head of FEMA is unaware of hurricane season...
Article: "FEMA Chief Reportedly Told Staff He Was Unaware There's a Hurricane Season" by Michael Luciano.
Article: "Strict father model" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Nurturant parent model" by Wikipedia.
Book: Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate--The Essential Guide for Progressives by George Lakoff.
The GOP's never-ending effort to repeal Obamacare continues
Article: "The GOP is trying to repeal Obamacare again—and hopes you won't notice" by Emily Singer.
Article: "Parents sue over son's asthma death days after inhaler price soared without warning" by Jason Kane, Anne Thompson and Linda Carroll.
Article: "Protests erupt after Massachusetts high school student detained by ICE" by Meredith Deliso.
Article: "High School Student Arrested by ICE Day Before Graduation" by Khaleda Rahman.
Article: "An immigration raid at a San Diego restaurant leads to a chaotic scene" by Alina Selyukh.
Article: "Reichstag fire" by Britannica.
Hour Two: The "end game" of the US postal service has been exposed
Article: "Exclusive: Memo exposes DOGE's potential 'end game' for U.S. Postal Service" by Alexandria Jacobson.
The Trump official who shut down the propaganda unit has links to Putin...Surprised?
Article: "Trump official who shut down counter-Russia agency has links to Kremlin" by Benedict Smith.
Article: "What to know about claim Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' gives president power to delay or cancel elections" by Jack Izzo.
Article: "The Posse Comitatus Act Explained" by Joseph Nunn.
Article: "When the Tyrant Slips: Why America Should Fear a President Who's Losing the Plot — and the Polls" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Veteran-led coalition urges veterans to turn out June 6 for national rally" by Linda F. Hersey.
Article: "Ukraine carries out underwater strike using 1,100kg of TNT on Crimea's Kerch Bridge" by Sarah Hooper and Luke Alsford.
Article: "Operation Spiderweb: a visual guide to Ukraine's destruction of Russian aircraft" by Artem Mazhulin, Oliver Holmes, Lucy Swan, Laure Boulinier, Arnel Hecimovic.
Trump is still trying to claim Greenland - this time with the Pentagon...
Article: "Pentagon to redraw command map to more closely align Greenland with the US" by Paul McLeary and Phelim Kine.
Article: "Medicaid" by Wikipedia.
Law: "Declaration of Independence".
Article: "Child labor laws in the United States" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Before minimum wage hike is unveiled, Senate Republicans vote it down " by Press Associates.
Tweet: "Trump's FEMA chief is incompetent. People will die." by Ed Markey.
Article: "Louis DeJoy" by Wikipedia.
Article: "USPS backs away from plan to send local Reno mail to California first" by Mark Robison.
Article: "USPS removed 711 sorting machines this year, new court documents show" by Kristen Holmes and Paul P. Murphy.
Article: "Federal Job Applications To Include Essay Question On Trump's Executive Orders" by Antonio Pequeño IV.
Law: "Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act" (1883).
Article: "Spoils system" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Assassination of James A. Garfield" by Wikipedia.
Hour Three: ICE thugs grabbed a teen driving to volleyball practice and the town is outraged...
Article: "City outraged after ICE thugs nab teen driving to volleyball practice" by DowneastDem.
Article: "Hundreds protest ICE, other federal law enforcement action in Minneapolis" by Madison McVan.
The GOP's never-ending effort to repeal Obamacare continues
Article: "The GOP is trying to repeal Obamacare again—and hopes you won't notice" by Emily Singer.
Law: "13th Amendment", December 6, 1865. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.".
Article: "Dachau concentration camp" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Auschwitz concentration camp" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Arbeit macht frei" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Hurricane Katrina" (2005) by Wikipedia.
Book: "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" by Naomi Klein.
Article: "Climate change" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Canada, US warn of air quality hazards as Canadian fire smoke reaches Europe" by AFP.
Article: "Elon Musk's black eye fuels rumors: Did Scott Bessent or Stephen Miller throw a punch?" by Vaishnavi Vaidyanathan.
Book: The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age by Tim Wu.
Book: How To Hide An Empire by Daniel Immerwahr.
Article: "Toyota, Moving Northward" by Paul Krugman.
Book: The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Frederick Ludwig Hoffman" by Wikipedia.
Book: Race traits and tendencies of the American Negro by Hoffman, Frederick L.
Article: "Did Trump Say, 'I Love the Poorly Educated'?" by David Mikkelson.
Article: "Caligula" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Curtis Yarvin's Plot Against America" by Ava Kofman.
Article: "the "Dark Enlightenment" philosophers of Silicon Valley" by Thom Hartmann.