Sue's Daily Stack, Wednesday, 26 February, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Wednesday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: The Anti-Oligarchy Tour (and, what should Democrats do?)
- Senator Bernie Sanders, U.S. Senator (I-VT) / Ranking Member - U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) / Author of several books, his latest is "It's Ok to be Angry About Capitalism" / Longest serving Independent in Congressional history @sanders.senate.gov
Article: "The Notable Attendees – and No-Shows – at Trump's Inauguration" by Aneeta Mathur-Ashton.
Post: "Congress is about to vote on a Republican budget that would destroy Medicaid.
These 17 House Republicans won by fewer votes than the number of people they want to steal health care from.
We are sending billboards to their districts to demand they vote NO on the budget. [spreadsheet: Medicaid cuts vs # votes won by]" by Social Security Works.
Article: "What is in the just-passed House Republican budget bill? What to know" by Sudiksha Kochi, Savannah Kuchar and Riley Beggin.
Article: "Community health centers in the United States" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The funding freeze endangered community health centers. That's bad for all of us." by Michael Curry.
Article: "Medicaid insures 1 in 5 Americans. This is how the GOP budget could impact coverage." by Ken Alltucker.
Article: "House GOP passes budget plan that puts Medicaid on the chopping block" by Alan Condon.
Article: "Living Paycheck To Paycheck Statistics 2024" by Emily Batdorf.
Article: "The Productivity–Pay Gap " by EPI.
Article: "Minimum wage in the United States" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump's Gold Card vs EB-5 visa: Key differences and new privileges explained" by Nitin Kumar.
Article: "Vance questions authority of US judges to challenge Trump" by Brandon Drenon & Anthony Zurcher.
Article: "Judge indefinitely blocks Trump's plan to freeze federal aid" by Ella Lee.
Article: "Billionaires Who Bought Media Publishers" by Daniel Liberto.
Article: "Fact check: Eight ways Elon Musk has misled Americans about government spending" by Daniel Dale.
Article: "Fact-checking Elon Musk's claims in the Oval Office" by Jake Horton & Lucy Gilder.
Article: "Washington Post opinion editor departs as Bezos pushes to promote 'personal liberties and free markets'" by Richard Luscombe.
Video: Saving Private Ryan - Opening Scene HD.
Article: "U.S. votes against U.N. resolution condemning Russia for Ukraine war" by Karen DeYoung, John Hudson, Siobhán O'Grady.
Post: "YES!!! Democratic Congressman Jim McGovern just EVISCERATED Republicans on the House floor right before they voted on their pro-billionaire budget proposal: Here's what he said:
"Democrats offered an amendment to protect Medicaid. Every Republican voted NO.
Democrats offered an amendment to extend tax cuts for people making under $400,000 while ensuring that corporations and billionaires pay their fair share. Every Republican voted NO.
Democrats offered an amendment preventing tax giveaways for people earning over $1 million a year. Every Republican voted NO.
We asked them to vote against tax breaks for people earning over $100 million per year. Every Republican voted NO.
We offered an amendment preventing tax cuts for people with a net worth of over, get this $1 billion. Every Republican voted NO.
They betrayed their constituents. They voted to steal from the American people in order to protect tax breaks for billionaires!" ..." by Occupy Democrats.
House Republicans advance far-right budget....
Article: "House Republicans advance far-right budget, but the drama is just getting started" by Steve Benen.
Article: "NKY's Thomas Massie stands alone among Republicans voting against Trump-backed budget bill" by Scott Wartman and Riley Beggin.
Article: "Democratic lawmaker brought her newborn son to vote against GOP proposal " by CNN.
Article: "Rep. Mullin Votes NO on Republicans' Harmful Budget Proposal" by Kevin Mullin.
Article: "For the First Time, the U.S. Is Spending More on Debt Interest than Defense" by Benn Steil and Elisabeth Harding.
Article: "Tax Cuts Are Primarily Responsible for the Increasing Debt Ratio" by Bobby Kogan.
Article: "The Two Santas Strategy: How the GOP has used an economic scam to manipulate Americans for 40 years" by Thom Hartmann.
The Essence of Tyranny: Trump Is Rapidly Gaining a Monopoly on the Use of Force
Article: "The Essence of Tyranny: Trump Is Rapidly Gaining a Monopoly on the Use of Force" by Robert Reich.
Article: "Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos announces changes to opinion section" by Sky News.
Site: End The Bribe System (bumper stickers, etc.).
Article: "Trump says federal government should 'take over' DC, backing congressional GOP push" by AP.
Article: "Semafor (website)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Elizabeth Warren" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Jamie Raskin" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Pete Buttigieg" by Wikipedia.
Case: "Bivens v. Six Unknown Fed. Narcotics Agents, 403 U.S. 388 (1971)".
Hour Two: How Trump and the GOP Fixed the 2026 Election — Yes, 2026
- Greg Palast, Investigative reporter-Guardian & New York Times / Author - "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" / His latest film about the latest attacks on the right to vote, Vigilantes Inc: America's New Vote Suppression Hitmen, (narrated by Rosario Dawson and produced by Martin Sheen). @Greg_Palast
Article: "How Trump and the GOP Fixed the 2026 Election — Yes, 2026" by Greg Palast.
Article: "TRUMP LOST. Vote Suppression Won." by Greg Palast.
Video: "Vigilantes Inc: America's New Vote Suppression Hitmen".
Article: "Trump Told Crowd 'You Won't Have to Vote Anymore' in 4 Years?" by Anna Rascouët-Paz.
Article: "Operation Eagle Eye (United States)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Cleta Mitchell" by Wikipedia.
Article: "EagleAI NETwork" by Wikipedia.
Article: "True the Vote" by Wikipedia.
Bill: "H.R.22 - SAVE Act" by Rep. Roy, Chip [R-TX-21].
Article: "Jesse Jackson" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Lawrence Lessig" by Wikipedia.
Article: "NAACP" by Wikipedia.
Article: "What are the odds your vote will not count?" by Peter Dizikes.
Article: "DeJoy announces plans to step down as USPS postmaster general" by Jory Heckman.
Article: "Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board, officials say" by Jacob Bogage.
Article: "Trump Reportedly Preparing To Seize Control of the U.S. Postal Service" by Kipp Jones.
Article: "Georgia voter challenged by vigilante tells his story" by Greg Palast.
Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".
Bill: "John Lewis Voting Rights Act".
Article: "Only one-third of Americans have a valid US passport" by Kathy Frankovic.
Article: "Kobach Exposed at Trial" by Amrit Cheng.
Article: "United States Virgin Islands" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Ghana" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Kenya" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Mauritius" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Panama" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Belize" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Thailand" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Bali" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Kompromat" by Wikipedia.
Book: American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery by Craig Unger.
Article: "Donald Trump Was Recruited by the KGB Under Codename 'Krasnov' Claims Former Soviet Spy Chief" by Nafeez Ahmed and Zarina Zabrisky.
Article: "Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories" by .
Article: "Schakowsky, Pocan, Khanna Introduce Bill to Strengthen Medicare, Define Alternative Plans" by Jan Schakowsky.
Article: "Legal scholar: Clarence Thomas "corruption" almost "certainly unlawful and ethically reprehensible"" by Areeba Shah.
Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).
Article: "They don't cry until they see the coffin — phrase of the week" by Andrew Methven.
Article: "Glued together Cybertrucks fall apart in the cold" by Jason Weisberger.
Hour Three: "They are strangling scientific research": The Backdoor NIH Freeze
- David Pepper, Former Chair-Ohio Democratic Party (2015-2021) / lawyer, Author of many books (including "Saving Democracy: A User's Manual For Every American" & previously "Laboratories of Autocracy: A Wake-Up Call from Behind the Lines"), Adjunct professor-University of Cincinnati College of Law / His column Pepperspectives is available on Substack.com @DavidPepper
Article: ""They are strangling scientific research": The Backdoor NIH Freeze" by David Pepper.
Article: "Canceled meetings and confusion: NIH grant funding in limbo despite court injunction" by Anna Rubenstein.
Article: "The Biden Cancer Moonshot: Ending Cancer As We Know It" by Biden White House.
Article: "Hungary broke EU law by forcing out university, says European Court" by Nick Thorpe.
Video: J.D. Vance | The Universities are the Enemy | National Conservatism Conference II.
Quote: "In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions." - Abraham Lincoln.
Article: "Did Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Say 'Jewish Space Lasers' Caused California Wildfires?" by Nur Ibrahim.
Article: "Campaign on Term Limits Taps a Gusher of Money" by Timothy Egan.
Article: "The Posse Comitatus Act Explained" by Joseph Nunn.
Article: "The Blackwater plan for Trump's mass deportations: Military camps and a private army of enforcers" by Nicholas Liu.
Article: "Special elections to the 119th United States Congress (2025-2026)" by Ballotpedia.
Article: "Florida's 1st Congressional District on April 1, 2025" (Gay Valimont) by Ballotpedia.
Article: "Florida's 6th Congressional District on April 1, 2025" (Joshua Weil) by Ballotpedia.
Article: "Invisible Losses: Tens of thousands fighting for Russia are dying unnoticed on the frontline in Ukraine" by Olga Ivshina.
Article: "North Korean troops killed fighting Ukraine, says US" by Christy Cooney.
Article: "Trump hands Russian economy a lifeline after three years of war" by Alexander Marrow and Darya Korsunskaya.
Article: "Map shows how much territory Russia has gained and lost in Ukraine since 2014" by Gergana Krasteva.
Article: "Trump fires EEOC and labor board officials, setting up legal fight" by Andrea Hsu.
Article: "Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service" by Wikipedia.
Article: "USPS removed 711 sorting machines this year, new court documents show" by Kristen Holmes and Paul P. Murphy.
Article: "Trump and USPS pensions: who will claim the $400 billion fund?" by Calum Roche.