Sue's Daily Stack, Wednesday, 12 February, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Monday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: Dear Republicans: Will You Salute the Tyrant or Save the Republic?
Article: "Dear Republicans: Will You Salute the Tyrant or Save the Republic?" by Thom Hartmann.
Book: The Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater.
Article: "Ukraine 'may be Russian someday,' Trump says ahead of Vance-Zelensky meeting" by Christian Edwards, Anna Chernova and Edward Szekeres.
Article: "ALEC" by Common Cause.
Article: "Donald Trump to halt enforcement of law banning bribery of foreign officials" by Steff Chávez, Stefania Palma.
Article: "'Clearly a need for more adults in the room': Danish official blasts Trump's GOP" by Erik De La Garza.
Article: "Senate confirms Tulsi Gabbard as national intelligence director" by Rachel Looker.
The Trump economy is here...
Article: "Consumer prices rise 0.5% in January, higher than expected as annual rate rises to 3%" by Jeff Cox.
Article: "Gas Prices Are Soaring Again Under Trump" by Giulia Carbonaro.
Article: "US inflation worsened last month with prices for groceries and gasoline heading higher" by Christopher Rugaber.
Republicans are besides themselves that Starbucks is "too female and less shite." So they are suing them.....
Article: "'Discriminatory!' Republican AG sues Starbucks for becoming 'more female and less white'" by Erik De La Garza.
Article: "Did Elon Musk's son X instruct Trump to 'Shut Your Mouth'? Tesla CEO apologises as netizens say 'this is too much'" by Shweta Kukreti.
Article: "Hundreds in San Jose protest ICE, Trump immigration policies" by LaMonica Peters.
Article: "Mitch McConnell casts only Republican vote against new intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard" by Killian Baarlaer.
Article: "Do Americans have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of Donald Trump?" by 538.
Article: "Romney: Republicans Didn't Vote To Impeach 'Whack Job' Trump Because They Were Afraid Of His Supporters" by Rusty Weiss.
Article: "Who Are the Three Republican Senators Who Voted Against Pete Hegseth?" by Maya C. Miller.
Article: "Jim Jeffords" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Vance questions authority of US judges to challenge Trump" by Brandon Drenon & Anthony Zurcher.
Article: "2024 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary" by John Roberts.
Site: Supreme Court of the United States.
Article: "Russia Releases U.S. Prisoner After Talks With Trump Envoy" by Jonathan Swan, Maggie Haberman, Julian E. Barnes and Anton Troianovski.
Article: "Russia to get back jailed cybercrime boss from US after freeing teacher Marc Fogel" by Steve Holland, Jeff Mason and Dmitry Antonov.
Hour Two: Musk awarded millions in new gov contracts even as DOGE torches others: leaked filing
Article: "Musk awarded millions in new gov contracts even as DOGE torches others: leaked filing" by Carl Gibson.
Trump State Department official has repeatedly called for mass sterilization of 'low-IQ trash'
Article: "Trump State Department official has repeatedly called for mass sterilization of 'low-IQ trash'" by Gustaf Kilander.
Best Trolling Alert! Are DFW bathrooms sending photos of you genitals to the authorities?
Article: "No, DFW Airport Is Not Sending Dan Patrick Photos of Your Genitals" by Emma Ruby.
Article: "Musk to replace sacked government workers with machines" by Harriet Barber. Connor Stringer.
Article: "Technocracy" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Elon Musk: We're Processing Federal Bureaucracy On Paper Inside A Mineshaft, How About Anything But That?" by Tim Hains.
Substack: "Malcolm Nance".
Executive Order: "Implementing The President's "Department of Government Efficiency" Workforce Optimization Initiative" by Donald Trump.
Article: "'Attack Trump': Why grassroot Democrats are frustrated with Dems on the Hill" by ToI.
Article: "Create Your Personalized Stamped Envelopes and Cards" by USPS.
Article: "White feather" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Equal Rights Amendment" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump Says 'I Always Abide By The Courts'—As Allies Suggest He Should Defy Orders" by Sara Dorn.
Article: "Vance Says 'Judges Aren't Allowed to Control' Trump's 'Legitimate Power'" by Charlie Savage and Minho Kim.
Events: February 17, various locations "Presidents Day protest" by 50501 (also events on other dates).
Hour Three: Sotomayor has faith in court orders - we'll see....
Article: "Sonia Sotomayor Has Faith Court Orders Won't Be Ignored Amid Fears About Trump's Views" by Marita Vlachou.
Article: "NIH funding cuts: Restraining order the latest move against Trump administration" by Carson Swick.
Article: "Shelby County v. Holder" by Wikipedia.
Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).
Case: "McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission", 2014.
Case: "Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization" (2022) (abortion).
US cedes soft power to China after US cuts aid
Article: "Gutting aid, U.S. cedes soft power game to China" by David McBrayer.
Article: "Musk calls for shutting down US-funded outlets Radio Free Europe, Voice of America" by Olena Goncharova.
Article: "Ukraine latest: Trump invites Putin to US after 90-minute call about 'ending war'" by Sky News.
Article: "Voters Were Right About the Economy. The Data Was Wrong." by Eugene Ludwig.
Video: Book TV: The Hidden History of the American Dream.
Bill: "H.R.22 - SAVE Act" by Rep. Roy, Chip [R-TX-21].
Article: "SAVE Act Would Undermine Voter Registration for All Americans" by Wendy R. Weiser, Andrew Garber.
Article: "Jamie Margolin" by Wikipedia.
Site: "Problem Solvers".
Article: "Josh Gottheimer" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Charlottesville and the Bigotocracy" by Michael Eric Dyson.
Site: Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Site: National Museum of Nuclear Science & History.
Article: "Remarks at the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Army of the Tennessee in Des Moines, Iowa" by Ulysses S. Grant.
Article: "Special elections to the 119th United States Congress (2025-2026)" by Ballotpedia.
Article: "Special Election set to fill deceased Iowa Representative's seat" by Kelly Maricle.
Article: "At Hochul's urging, legislative leaders delay passage of special elections bill" by Rebecca C. Lewis.