Sue's Daily Stack, Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Tuesday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: America Chose Wealth Over Well-Being: How Billionaires Rewrote the American Dream
Article: "America Chose Wealth Over Well-Being: How Billionaires Rewrote the American Dream" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Global Inequality" by Institute for Policy Studies.
Article: "The Top 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90%—And That’s Made the U.S. Less Secure" by Nick Hanauer.
Book: The Hidden History of the American Dream: The Demise of the Middle Class-and How to Rescue Our Future by Thom Hartmann.
Article: ""WIN": How Gerald Ford tried to whip inflation with a button" by Mo Rocca.
Article: "X suspends journalist after debunking theory Elon Musk fan account was Musk himself" by Hadas Gold.
Article: "The 3 Richest Americans Hold More Wealth Than Bottom 50% Of The Country, Study Finds" by Noah Kirsch.
Article: "Russia-paid influencers, trolls step up efforts to influence US election" by Joseph Menn.
Video: We Must Stop Outsourcing Jobs | Bernie Sanders.
Video: Why SCOTUS Justices PROTESTED 14th Amendment RULING - Ben Meiselas.
Article: "14th Amendment section 3, July 9, 1868 "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."
Article: "14th Amendment section 5, July 9, 1868 "The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
'Lawyer up buddy': MAGA attorney threatens Trump judge – and tells him to 'go to Hell' We are not entering the new MAGA bully world....
Article: "Lawyer up buddy’: MAGA attorney threatens Trump judge – and tells him to ‘go to Hell’" by Erik De La Garza.
Will Trump be able to suppress Jack Smith's report?
Article: "Trump Lawyers Ask Merrick Garland To Block Jack Smith’s ‘Final Report’ They Claim Contains ‘Discredited Accusations’" by Charlie Nash.
Article: "'What despots do': Liz Cheney hammers Trump's attempt to suppress Jack Smith report" by Brad Reed.
Article: "Trump picks his criminal defense attorneys Todd Blanche and John Sauer for key Justice Department posts " by Tierney Sneed and Jeremy Herb.
Article: "Judge Aileen Cannon blocks release of special counsel Jack Smith’s final report on Trump investigation " by Tierney Sneed and Katelyn Polantz.
Article: "Cannon temporarily blocks report on Trump classified-documents probe" by Perry Stein, Jeremy Roebuck.
Article: "Starr Report" by Wikipedia.
Video: Trump's anti-immigrant agenda ensures confrontation from day one as opponents prepare.
Article: "Pope Francis Appoints Trump Critic as Washington, D.C., Archbishop" by Alyssa Lukpat.
Article: "Pope Names Nun to Head a Vatican Department, a First for a Woman" by Elisabetta Povoledo.
Article: "Meeting with Pope John Paul II" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Congress has the power to block Trump from taking office, but lawmakers must act now" by Evan A. Davis and David M. Schulte.
Article: "Trump International Hotel Las Vegas Tesla Cybertruck explosion" by Wikipedia.
Article: "John Thune Takes Charge in the Senate, Ushering In a New Leadership Era" by Carl Hulse.
Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2019" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].
Bill: "John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act".
Article: "Gas Shortages in 1970s America Sparked Mayhem and Forever Changed the Nation" by Livia Gershon.
Article: "Lean manufacturing" ( just-in-time) by Wikipedia.
Hour Two: The entire internet about to become the wild wild west.....
Article: "'Ending that completely': Facebook gets rid of fact-checkers in wake of Trump's election" by Travis Gettys.
Article: "Trump won't rule out military, economic action as he seeks control of Panama Canal, Greenland" by Steve Holland and Joseph Ax.
Article: "Donald Trump Jr. arrives in Greenland with a message from his dad: 'We’re going to treat you well'" by Jamey Keaten, Vanessa Gera.
Article: "Trump in news conference says 'all hell will break out' if Gaza hostages not released" by Franco Ordoñez, Lexie Schapitl.
Article: "Trudeau says not ‘a snowball’s chance’ Canada would become part of U.S." by Luca Caruso-Moro.
Article: "Trump promises to make 'major pardons' for Jan. 6 rioters who stormed the Capitol" by Sudiksha Kochi.
Article: "Sturmabteilung" (Brownshirts).
Article: "Blackshirts" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump says Mark Zuckerberg is 'probably' responding to his previous threats by changing Meta's direction" by Brent D. Griffiths.
Video: See video Zuckerberg posted about Meta's changes.
Article: "Meta ends fact-checking program as Zuckerberg vows to restore free expression on Facebook, Instagram" by Brooke Singman.
Article: "Trump makes new statement on war in Ukraine" by Kateryna Shkarlat.
Article: "Gulf of Tonkin incident" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Yes, Mark Zuckerberg Did Create Site to Rank Women" by Madison Feller.
Dear MAGA workers, you got played...
Article: "Pro-Trump Pundit Says Elon Musk Is Trying To Distract From Fact He ‘Sided With Foreign Workers Over American Workers’" by Charlie Nash.
Article: "What Does It Mean To 'Prorogue Parliament': Justin Trudeau Resigns 40 Years After His Father" by Sarah Tan.
Article: "US rejection of Nippon Steel's bid for US Steel rankles Washington's key ally in Asia" by Elaine Kurtenbach.
Article: "George Stephen Morrison" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Jim Morrison" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The Bizarre Connection Between John Hinckley Jr And The Bush Family" by Andrew Amelinckx.
Article: "Donald Trump wants Gulf of Mexico renamed to 'Gulf of America' as soon as he retakes White House" by Christopher Bucktin, Chiara Fiorillo.
How Trump plans to get rid of birthright citizenship and deport the children of immigrants
Article: "The Bogus Case Against Birthright Citizenship for the Children of Undocumented Immigrants" by Paul Gowder.
Article: "John Eastman" by Wikipedia.
Article: "We need to plan now in case Trump loses in November — but refuses to leave the White House" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "1876 United States presidential election" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Fani Willis Case Update: Six Trump Allies She Can Still Prosecute" by Katherine Fung.
Case: "United States v. Wong Kim Ark" (1898).
Article: "Robert W. McElroy" (cardinal) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Puerto Rico: Trump paper towel-throwing 'abominable'" by BBC.
Site: STUN (Shift The Unfit Narrative).
Article: "How can BRICS de-dollarize the financial system?" by Radhika Desai, Ben Norton.
Article: "Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF): How to Invest and What It Is" by James Chen.
Article: "Ben Wikler" by Wikipedia.
Article: "2025 Democratic National Committee chairmanship election" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Elon Musk fires off expletive and slur-laden outburst at Finnish grad student" by Matthew Chapman.
Article: "Austria's polarising far-right leader bids to become chancellor" by Francois Murphy.
Article: "Trump said he'd use the military for mass deportations. Here are the industries with the most immigrant workers." by Noah Sheidlower.
Hour Three: Is Trump planning a North American Empire?
- Jim Stewartson, cohost of RADICALIZED Truth Survives podcast and writes the "mind-war" Substack. @jim-Stewartson
Article: "“The Elon”: How a Nazi Rocket Scientist Invented the World’s Richest Man" by Jim Stewartson.
Article: "The Plan To Carve Up the World Is Underway" by Jim Stewartson.
Article: "Operation Paperclip" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Wernher von Braun" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Longtermism" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Effective altruism" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Dark Enlightenment" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Curtis Yarvin" by Wikipedia.
Substack: "Gray Mirror" by Curtis Yarvin.
Article: "Greenland in World War II" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Canada convoy protest" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Saint Pierre and Miquelon" by Wikipedia.
Law: "Chinese Exclusion Act" (1882) by Wikipedia.
Law: "Civil Rights Act of 1964".
Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".
Article: "Aileen Cannon" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Contact the Department" by DoJ.
Article: "Mueller report" by Wikipedia.
Audio: "Just Like Germany Before the War" by Sonny Meadows.
Book: "Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler.
Article: "Adolf Hitler: Key Dates" by Holocaust Encyclopedia.
Article: "Night of the Long Knives" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The Posse Comitatus Act Explained" by Joseph Nunn.
Article: "Duty to Warn Letter - to VP Harris - Re: Election 2024" by Stephen Spoonamore.
Article: "Thanks. Apology. Correction. Tips Update. Old Friends. IT Allies." by Stephen Spoonamore.
Site: Greg Palast.
Article: "Krystal Ball" by Wikipedia.
Book: The Hidden Nazi: The Untold Story of America's Deal with the Devil by Dean Reuter, Colm Lowery, Keith Chester.
Article: "Far-right provocateur Nick Fuentes says a 'would-be assassin' came to kill him at his suburban home" by Matthew Hendrickson, Tom Schuba and Cindy Hernandez.
Article: "Night Wolves" (Russian Motorcycle Club) by Wikipedia.
Article: "The Roma people's Hungarian hell" by Barbora Černušáková.
Article: "FBI–King letter" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Reminder: Real ID deadline is this year. What to know know about the travel requirement." by Amaris Encinas.