Sue's Daily Stack, Tuesday, 6 May, 2025

Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show

Tuesday’s Daily Stack

Hour One: A Nation Without Empathy Is Just a Crime Syndicate With a Flag
Article: "A Nation Without Empathy Is Just a Crime Syndicate With a Flag" by Thom Hartmann.
Book: "Walking Your Blues Away: How to Heal the Mind and Create Emotional Well-Being" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Trump once again wants to cut energy assistance to the poor" by David Sharp.
Article: "The Trump Horror Show through Nietzschean Perspectives" (downloads a pdf) by Douglas Kellner.
Article: "The Connection Between a Child-Murderer, Reaganism and Today's GOP" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "The criminal system is full of people with psychopathy. It fails to help them. (The Appeal)" by Arielle Baskin-Sommers, Jorge Camacho.
Article: "Prevalence of Psychopathy in the General Adult Population: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis" by Ana Sanz-García, Clara Gesteira, Jesús Sanz, María Paz García-Vera.
Article: "So, are most CEOs sociopaths?" by Ted Bauer.
Book: "The Hidden History of American Democracy: Rediscovering Humanity's Ancient Way of Living" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "What we know about CECOT, El Salvador's mega-prison taking Trump's deportees" by Rhiannon Stevens.
Article: ""Stephen Actually Enjoys Seeing Those Pictures at the Border": The West Wing Is Fracturing Over Trump's Callous Migrant-Family Policy" by Gabriel Sherman.
Article: "Trump wants to reopen Alcatraz as a prison - could it happen?" by Bernd Debusmann Jr.

Article: "Canada's PM Carney arrives at White House after vowing to 'stand up' to Trump " by BBC.
Post: "I look forward to meeting the new Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney. I very much want to work with him, but cannot understand one simple TRUTH — Why is America subsidizing Canada by $200 Billion Dollars a year, in addition to giving them FREE Military Protection, and many other things? We don't need their Cars, we don't need their Energy, we don't need their Lumber, we don't need ANYTHING they have, other than their friendship, which hopefully we will always maintain. They, on the other hand, need EVERYTHING from us! The Prime Minister will be arriving shortly and that will be, most likely, my only question of consequence." by Donald J. Trump.
Article: "Pete Seeger" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Woody Guthrie" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Arlo Guthrie" by Wikipedia.
Article: "John Oliver Memorial Sewer Plant" by Wikipedia.

Holy Trump! Seriously. Some of his followers and some of the Maga movement's most prominent leaders are arguing that Donald Trump is literally chosen by God
Article: "Is Trump Divinely Chosen? Yes, According to a Growing Number of Christian Nationalists" by Michael D. Sellers.
Article: "Seven Mountain Mandate" by Wikipedia.
Book: God's Chaos Candidate: Donald J. Trump and the American Unraveling by Lance Wallnau.
Article: "The Beast (Revelation)" by Wikipedia.

Five Democrats who are working to criminalize free speech need to hear from you...
Article: "House Attempts to Pass Bill to Criminalize Criticism of Israel" by Qasim Rashid, Esq.
Article: "Antichrist" by Wikipedia.
Bill: "H.R.867 - IGO Anti-Boycott Act" by Rep. Lawler, Michael [R-NY-17].
Article: "Boston Tea Party" (1773) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Montgomery bus boycott" by Wikipedia.

Article: "A memoir of a worker's experience in the American gulag" by Ethan Osborne.
Documentary: Where to Invade Next - Michael Moore.
Article: "Sermon on the Mount" (Matthew 5-7) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Golden Rule" by Wikipedia.
Song: Joan Baez - There But For Fortune.
Song: Phil Ochs - There But For Fortune.
Book: The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.
Book: The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith.
Quote: "I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such: because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no Form of Government but what may be a Blessing to the People if well-administred; and I believe farther that this is likely to be well administred for a Course of Years and can only end in Despotism as other Forms have done before it, when the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other." - Benjamin Franklin.
Article: "Sanford Meisner" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Stella Adler" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Emotional intelligence" (emotional quotient) (EQ) by Wikipedia.
Movie: "Ordinary People".
Article: "20 police raided a gay bar for a "compliance check." Then the patrons did something surprising." by Molly Sprayregen.

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Hour Two: Trump's budget makes Americans sicker while making billionaires richer. When will they have stolen enough from us?
Article: "Making America Sick Again" by Pari & Eve, MPH.

Medicare Advantage insurers are dumping people when they get sick and Wall Street loves them for it...
Article: "Medicare Scramble: Wall Street Wants Insurers to Dump Costly Seniors" by Wendell Potter.

Article: "Margaret Mead" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Did Margaret Mead Think a Healed Femur Was the Earliest Sign of Civilization?" by Gideon Lasco.
Article: "Moonraker (novel)" by Ian Fleming.
Article: "Moonraker (film)" by Wikipedia.

3.5% and the Hopeful Math for Saving Democracy
Article: "3.5% and the Hopeful Math for Saving Democracy" by Rob Okun.
Article: "The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world" by David Robson.
Article: "Murkowski on Trump: "We are all afraid"" by Stef W. Kight.

Article: "Rush Limbaugh" by Wikipedia.
Bible: Revelation 17: Babylon, the Prostitute on the Beast.
Article: "Shooting of Michael Brown" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Ferguson unrest" by Wikipedia.
Site: 50501. June 14: No Kings
Article: "Neoliberalism" by Wikipedia.
Article: "General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade" (GATT) by Wikipedia.
Article: "North American Free Trade Agreement" (NAFTA) by Wikipedia.
Site: World Trade Organization (WTO).
Article: "Milton Friedman" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Friedrich Hayek" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Ludwig von Mises" by Wikipedia.
Law: "Motor Carrier Act of 1980".
Article: "Maga's era of 'soft eugenics': let the weak get sick, help the clever breed" by Derek Beres.
Article: "Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) " by RHI Hub.
Article: "Status of State Medicaid Expansion Decisions" by KFF.
Article: "Budget sequestration" by Wikipedia.
Law: "Endangered Species Act of 1973".
Article: "Trump administration moves to narrow protections for endangered species" by Gabrielle Canon.
Article: "Australian conservative opposition leader loses seat in 'Trump factor' backlash" by Angus Thompson.
Article: "Gina Rinehart" by Wikipedia.

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Hour Three: Dear Media, Call It What It Is: Corruption
Article: "Dear Media, Call It What It Is: Corruption" by Robert Reich.
Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 9. "No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state." (foreign emoluments clause).
Article: "Teapot Dome scandal" by Wikipedia.

Trump rages "communist persecution" as he orders DOJ to help free a MAGA hostage...or what most of us would call a convicted criminal.
Article: "'Communist persecution!' Trump rages as he orders DOJ to help free MAGA 'hostage'" by Erik De La Garza.

Article: "Trump administration to garnish wages of 5.3 million defaulted student loan borrowers this summer" by Annie Nova.
Video: Bruce Cockburn - Night Train.
Article: "Night Train - lyrics" by Bruce Cockburn.
Video: The Party's Over: Zionism Must Be Dismantled - Ghada Karmi - Palestine Deep Dive.
Article: "Baal" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Golden calf" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Cape Girardeau, Missouri" by Wikipedia.
Site: "Indivisible".
Site: The Big List of Protests.
Article: "Carney played nice — then Trump delivered the insult he'd been planning all along" by Holly Baxter.
Article: "Pope Francis hailed as 'unflinching global champion' on climate crisis" by Fiona Harvey.
Bible: Matthew 25:31-46: The Sheep and the Goats.
Article: "Trump's Law Firm Deals Aren't Working Out How He Hoped" by Edith Olmsted.
Article: "Targeting of law firms and lawyers under the second Trump administration" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Law firms pledge almost $1 billion in free work to Trump" by Sam Baker.
Article: "Trump's Order Targeting Law Firm Perkins Coie Is Unconstitutional, Judge Rules" by Zach Montague.
Article: "The NRA is a (mostly) changed organization, but the American public must not look away" by Mara Richards Bim.
Article: "Supreme Court to decide if Oklahoma Catholic school can be publicly funded" by Ian Stark.
Article: "John N. Mitchell" by Wikipedia.