Sue's Daily Stack, Wednesday, 12 March, 2025

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

Wednesday’s Daily Stack

Hour One: Stock Market Meltdown? The Morbidly Rich Call It "Happy Hour"!
Article: "Stock Market Meltdown? The Morbidly Rich Call It "Happy Hour"!" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Official Melania Meme Markets" ($Melania) by CoinMarketCap.
Article: "Peter Schiff calls Trump's crypto reserve push a 'Pump and Dump', demands congressional probe" by Navdeep Singh.
Article: "Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI)" by Yahoo!Finance.
Article: "This is not a repeat of the 2008 housing bubble" by Ali Wolf.
Article: "U.S. Billionaires Got 62 percent Richer During Pandemic. They're Now Up $1.8 Trillion." by Chuck Collins.
Article: "History Shows How Dangerous 'America First' Really Is" by Cyrus Veeser.
Article: "How billionaires got $637 billion richer during the COVID-19 pandemic" by Hiatt Woods.
Article: "The Greatest Options Trade I Ever Saw" by Jacob Mintz.
Article: "Government of Canada plans to issue US-dollar global bond" by Department of Finance Canada.
Article: "Effects of Illustrative Policies That Would Increase Tariffs" by CBO.
Article: "Billionaires got 54% richer during pandemic, sparking calls for "wealth tax"" by Aimee Picchi.
Article: "With inflation stubbornly high, 58% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck: CNBC survey" by Jessica Dickler.
Article: "OFFICIAL TRUMP Price (TRUMP)" ($Trump) by coinbase.
Article: "Trump will crash the economy, like the last three GOP administrations have done" by DemandSide.
Article: "Mark Carney takes on Trump's America" by FT.
Article: "How Susquehanna's Jeff Yass mastered the options game" by Nicholas Megaw.
Article: "6 People Who Made Big Money During the Great Depression" by Christopher Klein.
Article: "U.S. Economy Performs Better Under Democrats" by Joint Economic Committee Democrats.
Article: "Do the rich pay their fair share?" by Oxfam.
Article: "Trump cannot challenge writer's rape claim at defamation trial, judge rules" by Jonathan Stempel.
Article: "The Stock Market Crash of 2008" by Kimberly Amadeo.
Article: ""Foreclosure King" Steven Mnuchin Doesn't Appreciate His Totally Accurate Nickname" by Bess Levin.
Article: "The Rich Got Richer During COVID-19. Here's How American Billionaires Performed" by Carmen Ang.

Law: "Hatch Act of 1939" (restricts political activity of federal workers).
Article: "Donald Trump's White House Tesla Purchase Was Designed to "Celebrate" Elon Musk" by Joseph Allen.
Article: "What to Know About Leonard Peltier, Activist Released From Prison by Biden" by Isabelle Taft.

Musk's $100 Million Power Play: Buying Influence or Breaking Democracy?
Article: "Musk Seeks to Put $100 Million Directly Into Trump Political Operation" by Theodore Schleifer and Maggie Haberman.
Article: "'Unheard Of': Elon Musk Reportedly Set to Give $100 Million to Trump's Political Operation" by Michael Luciano.

Article: "Only one House Democrat votes for Republican bill to avoid a government shutdown" by Eric Garcia.
Article: "Trump vows to 'lead effort' to unseat Rep. Massie in 2026 GOP primaries for his 'no' vote on CR " by Charlotte Hazard.
Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).

Why is protester Khalil seized by Trump being kept in a notorious violent ICE facility?
Article: "Protester seized by Trump kept in notoriously violent ICE facility" by Alix Breeden.

Article: "'Jews will not replace us': Why white supremacists go after Jews" by Yair Rosenberg.
Article: "Great Replacement" by Wikipedia.
Article: "2020–2021 U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump's transactional approach to diplomacy is a driving force on the world stage" by Aamer Madhani.
Article: "Stolen lives: Inside Russia's abduction of Ukrainian children" by Veronica Neifakh.
Article: "Biden makes surprise visit to Ukraine for first time since full-scale war began" by Kevin Liptak.
Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.
Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978.
Article: "Here Is All the Money AIPAC Spent on the 2024 Elections" by David Moore, Donald Shaw.
Article: "Elon Musk went all-in on Pennsylvania — and helped deliver the White House to Trump" by Alice Tecotzky and Brent D. Griffiths.
Article: "AIPAC Is Secretly Intervening in Portland's Congressional Race to Take Down Susheela Jayapal, Sources Say" by Ryan Grim.
Site: Poor People's Campaign.
Site: Bernie Sanders.
Article: "Analyzing claim Trump confused 'transgenic mice' with 'transgender mice' in address to Congress" by Joey Esposito.

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Hour Two: Jaime Raskin has asked for our help - If enough citizens demand their records, DOGE may be forced into the light—potentially revealing a deeply troubling mass surveillance system involving both the U.S. government and powerful tech figures like Musk.
Article: "Jaime Raskin Asks Us To Help Make A FOIA Tsunami" by Beryl Stone.

Article: "Is your car spying on you? What it means that Tesla shared data in the Las Vegas explosion" by Bernard Condon.
Article: "US Warned of Caribbean Becoming 'Chinese Lake'" by James Bickerton.
Article: "Elon Musk Went To School In Rolls-Royce, Says Father Errol, Dismisses Claims Of "Unhappy Childhood"" by NDTV.
Article: "Fact Check: The Truth Behind Claim Musk Was Once an Undocumented Immigrant in US" by Nikki Dobrin.

Why was the wholesale shredding of Government documents just ordered at USAID? Is it evidence that would prove — or DISPROVE — the Musk accusations of "waste, fraud, and abuse."
Article: "The Wholesale Shredding of Government Documents just ordered at USAID" by jamess.

Article: "Anti-BDS laws" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Boston Tea Party" (1773) by Wikipedia.

Good News Alert! Bernie gets some traction from the GOP on Medicare covering dental, vision and hearing...
Article: "Sanders Gets GOP Leader to Agree to Work On Medicare Covering Dental, Hearing, and Vision" by Jessica Corbett.

Article: "Reid Hoffman" by Wikipedia.
Site: Free Speech TV.
Site: Sirius XM - Progress.
Article: "TV networks MSNBC and CNBC to be spun off by Comcast" by João da Silva.
Site: Bluesky.
Article: "'Do something': Read and watch Michelle Obama's speech to the Democratic National Convention ".
Article: "Rex Tillerson" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Jim Mattis" by Wikipedia.
Article: "H. R. McMaster" by Wikipedia.
Article: "John F. Kelly" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Military leaders who served under Trump sound the alarm about him winning a second presidency" (Mark Milley, Jim Mattis, H. R. McMaster, Bill McRaven, Mike Mullen) by Peter Bergen.
Article: "The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "30 Bonneville Power workers get jobs back amid hundreds of layoffs and buyouts" by Jake Goldstein-Street.
Video: 'I Don't Think That Was The Question I Asked': Merkley Has Tense Questioning Of NATO Rep Nominee.
Article: "Donald Trump Does Not Have a "Mandate" for Any of This" by Mike Mechanic.
Article: "Musk eyes Social Security and benefit programs for cuts while claiming widespread fraud" by Chris Megerian.
Site: "Indivisible".
Site: 50501.
Article: "Joe Madison" by Wikipedia.
Book: "The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America--and What We Can Do to Stop It" by Thom Hartmann.
Video: 'Unbought, unbossed, unafraid:' Rep. Al Green speaks after being censured.

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Hour Three: Will a worldwide boycott of America work? Yes - it is happening...
Article: "'I feel utter anger': From Canada to Europe, a movement to boycott US goods is spreading" by Peter Beaumont.
Article: "EU retaliates against Trump's trade moves and hits beef, whiskey, motorcycles with targeted tariffs" by Lorne Cook, David Mchugh.

Article: "'Came as a surprise to me': Senators 'troubled' by one aspect of government funding bill" by Sarah K. Burris, Matt Laslo.

Greenlanders just let the world know what they think about Trump
Article: "Greenlanders Reject Trump's Overtures at the Ballot Box" by Sune Engel Rasmussen.
Article: "Greenland's independence gradualists win election amid Trump control pledge" by Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen and Tom Little.

Article: "Trump fires top US military officers - including America's most senior commander" by Sky News.
Article: "'Traitor?' Mark Kelly fires back after Elon Musk accuses him of treason" by David Edwards.
Article: "Greenland" by Wikipedia.
Article: "DOGE Pushes Social Security Administration to Cut Off Phone Service: Report" by Sonam Sheth and Gabe Whisnant.
Article: "Donald Trump Was Recruited by the KGB Under Codename 'Krasnov' Claims Former Soviet Spy Chief" by Nafeez Ahmed and Zarina Zabrisky.
Article: "Being Putin's stooge won't win Trump a peace prize. The Order of Lenin, though, is in the bag" by Simon Tisdall.
Book: American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery by Craig Unger.
Article: "The New York Gubernatorial Campaign: A Referendum With National Overtones; The Old Liberalism" by E.j. Dionne Jr.
Article: "Musk spends millions in Wisconsin campaign. It raises questions about Kansas judiciary" by Joel Mathis.
Article: "Jair Bolsonaro" (Brazil) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Rodrigo Duterte" (Philippines) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Arrest of Rodrigo Duterte" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Tesla PE Ratio 2010-2024 | TSLA" by macrotrends.
Article: "BYD Company" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Nixon shock" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Tesla plans nearly $200M battery factory near Houston" by Larry Avila.
Article: "Who is Doug Ford? The Ontario Premier in the middle of US tariff war with Canada" by Fernando Cervantes Jr.
Article: "Rob Ford" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Seattle Has Voted to Build Social Housing" by Tiffani McCoy.
Article: "The F-35 'Kill Switch': Separating Myth from Reality" by David Cenciotti, Stefano D'Urso.
Article: "How Russian Money Helped Save Trump's Business" by Michael Hirsh.
Article: "Cui bono?" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Senate Republicans push Trump for debt ceiling plan" by Jennifer Scholtes, Meredith Lee Hill and Jordain Carney.
Article: "The old F-16s the West is giving Ukraine can't outmatch Russia's best jets, former US general says" by Sinéad Baker.