Sue's Daily Stack, Wednesday, 14 May, 2025

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

Wednesday’s Daily Stack

Hour One: Are We Still a Nation That Takes Care of Its Own—Or Just a Playground for Billionaires?
Article: "Are We Still a Nation That Takes Care of Its Own—Or Just a Playground for Billionaires?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Does Medicaid Pay for Nursing Homes? A Comprehensive Guide" by National Council on Aging.

Article: "GOP sneaks 10-year halt to State-driven AI regulation into budget bill" by Jowi Morales.
Article: "The Machines Are Learning — and They're Learning to Be Fascists" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Franklin D. Roosevelt" by Wikipedia.

News...Chief justice is concerned about the rule of law - but - he gave Trump immunity, Texas wants to shut down news they don't like, Could Judge arrested go to prison? Plus more...
Article: "A strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Rule of law is 'endangered,' chief justice says" by Josh Gerstein.
Article: "Exclusive: The inside story of John Roberts and Trump's immunity win at the Supreme Court" by Joan Biskupic.
Article: "The Texas-Sized Plan To Shut You Up" by Luke Goldstein.
Article: "Wisconsin Judge Indicted on Charges That She Helped Immigrant Evade Agents" by Mitch Smith and Dan Simmons.
Article: "Trump's border intimidation is coming for US citizens too – ask streamer Hasan Piker" by Owen Jones.

Article: "Butterfly effect" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The Potential Impacts of Cuts to Medicaid" by Public Health On Call.
Article: "Omaha Republican Mayor Loses Reelection Bid After Running Anti-Trans Ads" by Erin Reed.
Site: 5 calls.
Article: "The House Republicans' Budget Bill Guts Basic Needs Programs for the Most Vulnerable Americans to Give Tax Breaks to the Rich" by Bobby Kogan.
Article: "Melanie Stansbury" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Tell Congress to oppose cuts to letter carrier retirement benefits" by NALC.
Facebook: "Save Our Post Office" (U.S. & U.K.).
Article: "Most common undergraduate fields of study" by IES.
Law: "Children's Health Act".
Article: "Interior secretary blasted for 'really troubling' scheme to mine Utah" by Alix Breeden.
Article: "A Book Points to Biden's Decline and Democrats' Cowardice: 6 Takeaways" by Reid J. Epstein.

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Hour Two: Trump orders FBI to layoff white collar crime in favor of hunting immigrants...Plus - Apparently the are looking for American Journalists too....
Article: "Trump Admin Orders FBI to Deprioritize White Collar Crime, Shift Focus to Immigration: Report" by Sarah Rumpf.
Article: "Popular Turkish American online political commentator detained, questioned at Chicago airport" by Sophia Tareen.
Article: "Turkish Tufts University student released from immigration facility" by Madeline Halpert.
Law: "First Amendment to the United States Constitution" "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.".
Article: "Health & Human Services Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Testifies on 2026 Budget Request" by C-SPAN.
Article: "Elon Musk shows he still has the White House's ear on Trump's Middle East trip" by Nick Robins-Early.

GOP wants to reclassify 7-year-olds to strip food aid from millions...say what?!
Article: "GOP wants to reclassify 7-year-olds to strip food aid from millions" by David Badash.

Quote: "Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana.
Article: "Study of Disputed Florida Ballots Finds Justices Did Not Cast the Deciding Vote" (Al Gore won) by Ford Fessenden and John M. Broder, November 12, 2001.
Article: "Federal Assault Weapons Ban" (1994-2004) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Gloria Allred" by Wikipedia.

They're now bragging about bribing Trump...
Article: "Tiny Company With China Ties Announces Big Purchase of Trump Cryptocurrency" by David Yaffe-Bellany and Eric Lipton.
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: "Police Eject Medicaid Protesters in Wheelchairs From House Committee" by Dan Gooding and Hannah Parry.
Article: "Medicare (United States)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins.
Article: "Trump pulls sanctions on Syria, extends olive branch to Iran" by Matt Viser and Michael Birnbaum.
Article: "2009 Nobel Peace Prize" (Obama) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Converting luxury jet gifted to Trump into Air Force One could cost hundreds of millions" by CNN.
Article: "Luxury plane Trump is considering accepting from Qatar is in San Antonio" by Katharine Finnerty.
Article: "Boeing has a contract to replace Air Force One. What's the delay?" by Hannah Ziegler.

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Hour Three: JB Printzker is the first governor to block Bob Kennedy from access to autism records
Article: "Illinois governor is first in US to block federal access to personal data on autism" by AP.
Article: "19 GOP Attorneys General Seek Private Medical Records of Patients Who Obtain Out-of-State Abortions" by Democracy Now!

Cruelty Alert! ICE left a 12 year old alone on the sidewalk after a raid.
Article: "12-year-old boy left alone on sidewalk after ICE raid in Massachusetts" by Mike Sullivan.

Good news - there's a political earthquake in Omaha
Article: "Political Earthquake in Omaha!" by NebraskaDemocrat.

Article: "U.S. bans $1-billion Libyan gift".
Article: "Barack Obama tan suit controversy" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Obama's coffee cup salute draws criticism " by Ashley Killough and Eric Weisbrod.
Article: "Idaho Voter Guide - What's on the May 20 ballot" by Dan Ryder.
Article: "Here's what we know about Trump's June 14 D.C. military parade" by Cuneyt Dil.
Article: "1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Hitler's First 100 Days — And Trump's" by Werner Lange.
Article: "Trump wants to sell off land that all Americans own. It should make you furious." by Chris D'Angelo.
Article: "Water-Stressed Arizona Says State Will End Leases to Saudi-Owned Farm" by Hiroko Tabuchi.
Article: "New Georgia Law Spurs Bogus Challenges to Voter Eligibility" by Andrew Garber.
Site: "Indivisible".
Article: "In America, we don't do kings" by Indivisible.
Video: What's the Plan? A Weekly Discussion with Leah and Ezra.
Event: Sat. April 12: Stop the SAVE Act District Office Rally - Lansing CD-7 (Barrett).
Events: June 14: No Kings.
Site: The Big List of Protests.
Video: Kentucky joins multiple states in being denied FEMA disaster relief.
Article: "Police Use of Face Recognition Continues to Wrack Up Real-World Harms" by Matthew Guariglia.
Book: The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy by Thom Hartmann.
Site: Convention of States.