Sue's Daily Stack, Wednesday, 2 April, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Wednesday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: National Progressive Townhall Meeting taking your calls
- Representative Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District) / Current Member & Chair Emeritus-Congressional Progressive Caucus / (Committees: Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Labor Caucus, and Chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus.) @pocan.house.gov @repmarkpocan
Article: "Democratic-backed Susan Crawford wins Wisconsin Supreme Court seat, cementing liberal majority" by AP.
Article: "Senator Booker Made History" by notksanymore.
Article: "Florida Special Election Results" by NYT.
Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2019" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].
Article: "Democrats ramp up town halls in GOP districts " by Mike Lillis.
Site: Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
Article: "The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA): A Legal Overview" by Congress.
Article: "Franking" by Wikipedia.
Site: Congress in Your Pocket.
Article: "The clock is ticking to fix Social Security as retirees face automatic cut in 9 years" by Scott Horsley.
Article: "The Social Security 2100 Act" by John Larson.
Article: "President Biden's $400,000 tax pledge has a 'magic asterisk'" by Glenn Kessler.
Article: "Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions" by Just Security.
Article: "Clearinghouse is tracking Trump Administration litigation" by Clearinghouse.
Article: "Is Social Security a Ponzi scheme? Fact-checking Elon Musk" by Louis Jacobson.
Article: "Trump's Social Security Claims Far Overstate Payments to 150-Year-Olds" by Richard Rubin.
Article: "Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says his mother-in-law wouldn't complain if her Social Security check didn't arrive this month" by Katherine Li.
Quote: "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub" by Grover Norquist.
Site: "Project 2025".
Article: "U.S. Economy Performs Better Under Democrats" by Joint Economic Committee Democrats.
Article: "Just the Facts: Republicans Create Huge Deficits" by Democratic Policy & Communications Committee.
Article: "Jack Bergman" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Republican leadership tells party to stop holding public events – what impact will that have?" by Adam Gabbatt.
Video: President Trump shows off new "Trump was right about everything" hats in the Oval Office.
Article: "In latest string of endorsements, Obama backs Crawford for Wisconsin Supreme Court" by Rachel Ryan.
Article: "Wisconsin Question 1 Election Results" (voter ID) by NYT.
Post: "We're leading in 48 of 49 partisan races and only down in one Addison trustee race by 35 votes. Several of our townships have never had an elected Dem, and it's sweep after sweep tonight." by Democratic Party of DuPage County.
Hour Two: Elon Musk's Wisconsin Invasion: Democracy's Turning Point or the Next Step Toward Autocracy?
Article: "Elon Musk's Wisconsin Invasion: Democracy's Turning Point or the Next Step Toward Autocracy?" by Thom Hartmann.
Law: "Tillman Act".
Book: "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" by Thom Hartmann.
Post: "Scoop: Ekaterina Diestler, one of the "winners" of Elon Musk's $1 million handout in Wisconsin, works for a company founded and headed by Republican mega donors. Bruce Bell, the founder of Belmark, has donated thousands to Brad Schimel's campaign & other GOP causes. [link]" by Mia Sato.
Article: "The absent legacy of Montana's most successful Copper King" by Darrell Ehrlick.
Law: "The Publicity Act".
Article: "Republican Candidates Call for Repeal of Seventeenth Amendment" by WSJ.
Article: "The people vs Elon Musk: billionaire transforms Wisconsin court contest" by Joe Miller.
Article: "Notes on the State of Virginia" by Thomas Jefferson.
Article: "Elon Musk worked in US illegally in 1995 after quitting school – report" by Edward Helmore.
Article: "Tesla sales plunge after Elon Musk backlash" by Lily Jamali.
Book: Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever by Rick Wilson.
Book: Unredacted: Russia, Trump, and the Fight for Democracy by Christopher Steele.
Substack: "Rick Wilson".
Article: "Murphy Joins Booker's Overnight Marathon Speech On The Senate Floor" by Chris Murphy.
This is how full-on authoritarian fascism starts. Particularly if people don't demand a stop
Article: "The Trump Regime Is Sending A Message By Refusing To Bring Abrego Garcia Home: "We Can Do This To Anyone, Including You"" by The Opinionated Ogre.
Article: "José Padilla" by Wikipedia.
Article: "'We were lied to': Women sent to El Salvador spill about chaotic deportation process" by Travis Gettys.
Article: "Democrats have a new boogeyman in Elon Musk: Takeaways from Tuesday's elections" by Adam Edelman, Ben Kamisar, Bridget Bowman and Faith Wardwell.
Article: "Head of US Postal Service resigns amid fears of privatization: report " by Sarah K. Burris.
Article: "Secession in the United States" by Wikipedia.
Event: 5 April: Hands off! day of action.
Event: DC: April 10th, noon ET Fair Share America & Members of Congress To Hold Rally at U.S. Capitol: Say NO to Tax Breaks for Billionaires & Corporations.
Site: STUN (Shift The Unfit Narrative).
Article: "List of protests and demonstrations in the United States by size" by Wikipedia.
Hour Three: In Trump's autocracy - you are loyal or disloyal - there is nothing else. Welcome to Liberation Day!
Article: "'Get on the bandwagon': Trump slams 'unbelievably disloyal' GOP senators in overnight rant" by Travis Gettys.
Article: "Trump warned: 'The MAGA majority may have a shorter run than advertised'" by Tom Boggioni.
Article: "The MAGA Backlash Arrives" by WSJ.
Article: "Elon Musk's Companies Were Under Investigation by Five Inspectors General When the Trump Administration Fired Them and Made Musk the Investigator" by Pam Martens and Russ Martens.
Article: "Tesla Wouldn't Be Tesla Without Stimulus Spending" by Brian Eckhouse.
Article: "American People's Foreign Policy: USAID's Role in Apartheid South Africa" by ADST.
Article: "United States Armed Forces oath of enlistment" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Bloodbath: Joint Chiefs chair, CNO, Air Force vice chief, three top JAGs to be replaced " by Audrey Decker and Bradley Peniston.
Article: "Billionaires for Bush" by Wikipedia.
Crazy Alert! Freezing Fountain of Youth - are you going to take the plunge?
Article: "Freezing Fountain of Youth? Just 1 Week of Cold Plunges Could 'Slow Down Aging at Cellular Level'" by StudyFinds.
Article: "Republican Calls ICE on GOP Rival's Farm" by Billal Rahman.
Article: "David Attenborough" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Schedule of Social Security Benefit Payments 2025" by SSA.
Article: "Top US general rejected Trump suggestions military should 'crack skulls' during protests last year, new book claims" by Zachary Cohen.
Book: Pawns in the Game by William Guy Carr.
Article: "North American Free Trade Agreement" (NAFTA) by Wikipedia.
Article: "General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade" (GATT) by Wikipedia.
Article: "MSNBC's Ed Schultz: Trade deals closed 50,000 factories" by Jon Greenberg.
Article: "Yosemite Sam" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Liz Cheney" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Adam Kinzinger" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Mass layoffs hit workers at HHS; sweeping cuts extend to CDC, NIH, FDA: Recap" by Sarah D. Wire, Josh Meyer, Bart Jansen, Ken Alltucker, Cybele Mayes-Osterman, Eduardo Cuevas, Sudiksha Kochi, Adrianna Rodriguez, Terry Collins.
Article: "Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson's Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH" by Dell Cameron, Emily Mullin.
Article: "Now We Know Why Elon Musk's DOGE Seized That Independent Nonprofit" by Hafiz Rashid.