Sue's Daily Stack, Wednesday, 22 January, 2025

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

Wednesday’s Daily Stack

Hour One: Presidential Payola: The Evolution of Political Bribery
Article: "Presidential Payola: The Evolution of Political Bribery" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "A new hunt for Jimmy Hoffa" by Christina Pazzanese.
Article: "A new Trump Tower of corruption" by Judd Legum, Rebecca Crosby, Noel Sims.
Article: "Trump 2028?" by Ben Cohen.
Article: "Trump's crypto grifts: billions in paper profits, millions from memecoin trading fees, and new funding from Chinese-born entrepreneur Justin Sun" by Wendy Siegelman.
Book: "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Got Corruption? Nixon's Milk Money" by Ciara Torres-Spelliscy.
Article: "Trump's Business Hauled In $2.4 Billion During Four Years He Served As President" by Dan Alexander.
Article: "Spiro Agnew reports he is a target of a bribery probe, April 10, 1973" by Andrew Glass.
Article: "Trump once figured he'd be the first person to make money running for president. He didn't." by Philip Bump.
Article: "The Federalist Papers : No. 71: The Duration in Office of the Executive." by Alexander Hamilton.
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: "Oklahoma bill could ban almost all cities from offering homeless outreach, shutter shelters" by Josh Kelly.
Article: "Elon Musk bashes the $500 billion AI project Trump announced, claiming
Weirdly, I'll bet Trump didn't expect this from his pardon...Plus - you will be surprised how Trump decided on a blanket pardon.
Article: "'Deeply discouraged': Police groups issue rare rebuke of Trump and Biden over pardons" by Daniel Hampton.
Article: "'F*ck It: Release 'Em All!' White House Insiders Spill On Trump's Blanket Jan. 6 Pardons to Axios" by David Gilmour.

Article: "Rachel Maddow Says Republican 'Shame and Embarrassment' Over Trump Might Be What Saves the Country | Video" by Kayla Cobb.

Trump signs an executive order asserting that all American men are actually, legally women. With these people, the stupid goes all the way down
Article: "By Federal Order, All Men Are Now Women" by RandomLurker.
Article: "A Line By Line Analysis Of Trump's Big Anti-Trans Executive Order" by Erin Reed.

Article: "If I Had a Hammer" by Wikipedia.
Article: "How the Smothers Brothers Embraced the Counterculture, Defeated the Censors and Set the Stage for 'Saturday Night Live'" by Marc Freeman.
Article: "Donald Trump issues grim four-word slam of Bishop who 'lectured' him on LGBT+ 'mercy'" by Ryan Fahey.
Article: "Blackshirts" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Proud Boys" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump demands apology from 'nasty' woke 'so-called Bishop' who torpedoed inauguration prayer service" by Kevin Haggerty.
Video: Trump Pardons January 6 Defendants Who Attacked the US Capitol and Assaulted Police Officers.
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: "US Supreme Court rules Colorado cannot ban Trump from presidential ballot" by Bernd Debusmann Jr.
Article: "14th Amendment section 5, July 9, 1868 "The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
Article: "Why We Fight" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Military–industrial complex" (military–industrial–congressional complex) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Delano grape strike" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Cesar Chavez" by Wikipedia.
Video: Willie Horton 1988 Attack Ad.
Article: "Stewart Rhodes' son: 'How I escaped my father's militia'" by Mike Wendling.
Video: Donald Trump Watch Ad - $100,000 "Trump Watches" Make Their Debut In Commercial.

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Hour Two: Let's talk about the executive orders that Donald Trump signed yesterday and all the good stuff Biden had done that he just repealed
Article: "Breakdown: Trump's Executive Orders" by David Pepper.
Article: "A Line By Line Analysis Of Trump's Big Anti-Trans Executive Order" by Erin Reed.

Article: "Amy Klobuchar" by Wikipedia.

DC bishop takes on Trump to his face in national prayer service - Wow, Could we all be as brave as her?
Article: "Watch: DC bishop takes on Trump to his face in national prayer service" by Sarah K. Burris.

It's being reported that Pete Hegseth's wife feared for her safety - have you heard this in the news?
Article: "Pete Hegseth's Former Sister-in-Law Said in Sworn Affidavit His 'Erratic and Aggressive Behavior' Made Second Wife Fear for Her Safety" by Sarah Rumpf.

Article: "24 Democratic states and cities sue over Trump's bid to end birthright citizenship" by Devan Cole, Kara Scannell, Priscilla Alvarez and Tierney Sneed.
Article: "American Caesar: Trump's Path to Power Mirrors Rome's Darkest Days" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "13 things everyone should know about Pete Hegseth" by Judd Legum, Rebecca Crosby, Noel Sims.
Article: "Annual Budget Message to the Congress: Fiscal Year 1955." by Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Site: Greg Palast.
Article: "Riggs asks North Carolina Supreme Court to reject "unlawful" GOP bid to throw out thousands of votes" by Tatyana Tandanpolie.
Article: "The New Colossus" (Statue of Liberty poem) by Emma Lazarus. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Article: "What was Trump convicted of? Details on the 34 counts and his guilty verdict" by Stefan Becket.

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Hour Three: What to do if you see ICE agents in your neighborhood
Article: "What To Do When You See ICE Agents In Your Neighborhood" by Ossiana Tepfenhart.
Article: "KKK fliers go out after Trump anti-immigrant orders: 'Leave now' and 'avoid deportation'" by David Edwards.

Why isn't the media talking about Trump's lies from inauguration day?
Article: "All the President's Lies" by Dan Froomkin.

Case: "District of Columbia v. Heller", 2008 (2nd Amendment).
Site: Free Speech TV.
Article: "Trump after declaring cartels terrorist organizations: 'Mexico is not going to like it'" by Zedryk Raziel.
Book: The last Cartel by Dirk Cochren.
Site: Indivisible.
Article: "Where the Right-Wing Campaign Against Birthright Citizenship Comes From—and Why It's Wrong" by Philip Jaffa.
Article: "Trump fake electors plot" by Wikipedia.
Book: The Third Reich in Power by Richard J. Evans.
Article: "Night of the Long Knives" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The Sturmabteilung: Hitler's Unofficial Army Of Thugs" (brownshirts) by Gina Dimuro.
Bill: "H.R.7511 - Laken Riley Act" by Rep. Collins, Mike [R-GA-10].
Article: "The Gettysburg Address" by President Abraham Lincoln, November 19, 1863.
Article: "IRS Deletes Requirement That New Agents Be Willing to Use 'Deadly Force'" by Nick Mordowanec.
Quote: "Action is the antidote to despair" - Joan Baez .
Article: "Family of Donald Trump" by Wikipedia.