Sue's Daily Stack, Tuesday, 4 February, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Tuesday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: We Fought a Revolution to Stop This — Now the Oligarchs Want Their Throne Back
Article: "We Fought a Revolution to Stop This — Now the Oligarchs Want Their Throne Back" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Democratic Backsliding and the Rule of Law" by Tom Ginsburg.
Article: "Democratic backsliding by country" by Wikipedia.
Site: The Hartmann Report.
Article: "TRUMP LOST. Vote Suppression Won" by Greg Palast.
Site: The Lincoln Project.
Article: "The Swelling Ranks of Influential Men Knuckling Under to Trump" by Timothy Noah.
Book: What Would Jefferson Do?: A Return to Democracy by Thom Hartmann by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Tipping Point: Democratic Erosion and the Assault on Press Freedom" by Kate Musgrave.
Article: "Putin says Europe will 'stand at the feet of the master' as Trump's tariffs alarm allies" by Holly Ellyatt.
Article: "President Kennedy's Commemorative Message on Roosevelt Day, January 29, 1961".
Article: "Dumpling Soup, Dried Radish and Cabbage Kimchi: South Korean Leader's Life in Jail" by Choe Sang-Hun.
Article: "Acceptance Speech for the Renomination for the Presidency, Philadelphia, Pa." by Franklin D. Roosevelt, June 27, 1936.
Article: "'Afraid': Morning Joe reveals threats he claims are forcing GOP senators to cave to Trump" by Travis Gettys.
Article: "Europeans on democracy's frontlines offer advice to Americans: never give up" by Julian Borger.
Article: "Talk Radio: Democrats Can't Win if They Don't Play" by Thom Hartmann.
Site: Goods Unite Us.
Site: 5 calls.
Article: "Lawrence O'Donnell Calls For Impeachment Of Trump Treasury Secretary" by Jason Easley.
El Salvador's millennial dictator offers to hold American criminals in mega prisons
Article: "El Salvador's millennial dictator offers to hold American criminals in mega prisons " by the Telegraph.
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.".
Looks like...No one can control Musk...
Article: "Trump Official Warns NY Times 'Almost No One Can Control' Elon Musk" by Colby Hall.
Article: "'Go haywire': Onlookers freak out as 25-year-old set loose on Treasury computer system" by Travis Gettys.
Article: "Musk says he 'deleted' IRS easy filing team that let Americans file taxes for free online " by Sarah K. Burris.
Article: "Elon Musk Suggests Getting Rid Of All Regulations In Midnight Call" by Matt Shuham.
Article: "Who Is Bill Cassidy, the Republican Whose Support Is Crucial for Kennedy?" by Sheryl Gay Stolberg.
Article: "The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover" by Vittoria Elliott.
Article: "Has Elon Musk Shut Down a Free Online Tax Tool?" by Adam Marshall.
Article: "A 25-Year-Old With Elon Musk Ties Has Direct Access to the Federal Payment System" by Vittoria Elliott, Dhruv Mehrotra, Leah Feiger, Tim Marchman.
Article: "The Dumbest Trade War Fallout Begins" by WSJ.
Article: "nihilist" by Cambridge University Press.
Article: "Nero Decree" by Wikipedia.
Site: Indivisible.
Site: We Choose To Fight: U.S. Senate In-state Office Visit Toolkit.
Site: End The Bribe System (bumper stickers, etc.).
Article: "2.2 billion gallons of water flowed out of California reservoirs because of Trump's order to open dams" by Ella Nilsen.
Article: "Pa. counties clean voter rolls, election skeptics praise routine process" by Jordan Wilkie.
Article: "Waffle House adds egg surcharge in light of high prices, bird flu killing US chickens" by Bonnie Bolden.
Article: "Trump Makes Odd Remark About Elon Musk's Familiarity With Pennsylvania Voting Machines" by Leigh Kimmins.
Article: "Does SSDI Affect Section 8 Housing? " by Disability Help Center.
Hour Two: The ongoing dismantling of America is underway...
Article: "Trump Advisers Weigh Plan to Dismantle Education Department" by Matt Barnum, Liz Essley Whyte, Ken Thomas.
Article: "Trump wants to extend his 2017 tax cuts — and more. Here's what that could mean for you." by Aimee Picchi.
Article: "CDC webpages go dark as Trump targets public health information" by Carter Sherman and Jessica Glenza.
Article: "Scientists brace 'for the worst' as Trump purges climate mentions from websites" by Oliver Milman.
Article: "Last month was the world's warmest January on record" by Jeff Masters.
Article: "All Aboard The Orphan Train: How One Man's Idea Saved Thousands Of Children" by Megan Hamilton.
Article: "State Lawmakers Are Quietly Rolling Back Child Labor Protections" by Lisa Kwon.
60% of the USA ID agencies budget is for Ukraine. Now we know why musk and Trump are going after it.
Article: "Ukraine aid groups cut services, scramble for cash after US funding shock" by Olena Harmash.
RFK Jr.'s Anti-Vaxx Group Paid Nearly $1 Million to Woman Who Accused Him of Sexual Misconduct
Article: "Exclusive: RFK Jr.'s Anti-Vaxx Group Paid Nearly $1 Million to Woman Who Accused Him of Sexual Misconduct" by Diana Falzone.
Article: "RFK Jr, Tulsi Gabbard clear first vote towards Senate confirmation" by Mike Wendling and Nadine Yousif.
Article: "Vaccines and autism" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The Newest, Biggest Investment Fund: The United States Government?" by Maureen Farrell.
Article: "Putin says Europe will 'stand at the feet of the master' as Trump's tariffs alarm allies" by Holly Ellyatt.
Article: "Migrant flight heads to Guantanamo Bay as legal questions swirl around Trump plans" by Priscilla Alvarez, Natasha Bertrand and Haley Britzky.
Article: "Dachau concentration camp" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Doomsday Clock" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Doomsday Clock ticks forwards to 89 seconds to midnight - the closest humans have ever been to annihilation" by Ellyn Lapointe, Jonathan Chadwick.
Article: "Cuban missile crisis" (1962) by Wikipedia.
Substack: "LookingNWords" by Rohn Kenyatta.
Article: "Recall election" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Special elections to the 119th United States Congress (2025-2026)" by Ballotpedia.
Article: "What It Really Costs When Walmart Comes to Town" by Brandi Calero-Holmes.
Article: "Trump wants to cut the federal workforce. Who they are and what that means" by Scott Neuman.
Article: "Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "E pluribus unum" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump wants to cut the federal workforce. Who they are and what that means" by Scott Neuman.
Article: "Libertarian Party National Platform 1980".
Article: "Socialists file complaint against Orbán for nationalising private pension funds" by Zsóka Kovács.
Article: "Dem AGs warn federal workers about 'misleading' Trump buyout offers" by Ella Lee.
Article: "Selma to Montgomery marches" by Wikipedia.
Hour Three: Trump's Trade War, Authoritarian Power, and the Oligarchs - Yes, the president is a malignant narcissist and sadist with an insatiable lust for power who gets pleasure out of making others squirm. But there's something else.
Article: "Trump's Trade War, Authoritarian Power, and the Oligarchs" by Robert Reich.
Article: "Jon Stewart lambasts Trump's trade war with Canada: 'We used to fight Nazis'" by Greg Evans.
Article: "Trump signs US Mexico Canada Agreement" (2020) by BBC.
Article: "Andrew Jackson" (Old Hickory).
Article: "Who Is Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal: What To Know About The Billionaire Who Helped Elon Musk Buy X" by Vinay Patel.
Article: "The Stock Market Crash of 2008" by Kimberly Amadeo.
Trump's guy at treasury just shut down the consumer finance protection bureau
Article: "Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Ordered To Stop Work After Trump Says Treasury's Bessent Now In Charge" by Sara Dorn.
State Farm seeks emergency 22% rate hike in California after LA wildfires
Article: "State Farm seeks emergency 22% rate hike in California after LA wildfires" by Marina Dunbar.
Quote: "We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately." - Benjamin Franklin.
Video: Proof Trump RIGGED the Election Using Voter Suppression Tactics! w/ Greg Palast.
Article: "Executive Order 9981: Desegregation of the Armed Forces (1948)" by Harry S. Truman.
Article: "Ken Martin (politician)" by Wikipedia.
Video: New DNC Chair Ken Martin lays out plan for opposing Trump.
Article: "Paul Wellstone" by Wikipedia.
Site: U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Article: "FBI turns over details of 5,000 employees who worked on January 6 cases to Trump Justice Department, as agents sue" by Josh Campbell, Evan Perez and Hannah Rabinowitz.
Series: "Finding your roots" by PBS.
Site: U.S. Census.
Article: "Schatz Presses Commerce Secretary Nominee Howard Lutnick on Census, NOAA Protection, Pacific Fisheries Consultation, AI Safety" by Brian Schatz. Howard Lutnick: "I promise you we will count each whole person. That's what the Constitution says, and we will stick right to it rigorously."
Article: "How Non-Citizens Impact Political Representation and the Partisan Makeup of the U.S. House of Representatives" by Steven A. Camarota and Karen Zeigler.
Post: "Raskin: "Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over the financial payments systems of the Treasury, but you don't control the money of the American people. The US Congress does that under Article 1 of the Constitution ... we don't have a fourth branch of government called 'Elon Musk'" [video]" by Aaron Rupar.
Article: "Wetback (slur)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "All The World's A Stage" by Dennis Weaver.
Video: Hearing on Permanently Classifying Fentanyl As Schedule 1 Drug, February 4, 2025.