Sue's Daily Stack, Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Wednesday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: The Billionaire Hoarding Plague: How America's Richest Became Its Biggest Threat
Article: "The Billionaire Hoarding Plague: How America's Richest Became Its Biggest Threat" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Student Loan Debt Statistics" by Melanie Hanson.
Article: "Gun Violence in America" by Everytown Research.
Article: "Is Student Debt a Crime Against America's Future?" by Thom Hartmann.
Site: "Daily Take" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "The Top 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90%—And That's Made the U.S. Less Secure" by Nick Hanauer.
Book: "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" by Thom Hartmann.
Book: Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things by Randy Frost & Gail Steketee.
Article: "Most Americans don't earn enough to afford basic costs of living, analysis finds" by Megan Cerullo.
Article: "U.S. Uninsured Rate Dropped 18% During Pandemic" by CDC.
Article: "37.9 million Americans are living in poverty, according to the U.S. Census. But the problem could be far worse." by Juhohn Lee.
Article: "US spends most on health care but has worst health outcomes among high-income countries, new report finds" by Jacqueline Howard.
Article: "Americans, No Matter the State They Live In, Die Younger Than People in Many Other Countries" by David Radley, Reggie Williams, Munira Z. Gunja, Jesse C. Baumgartner, Evan Gumas.
Article: "The State of U.S. Health Insurance in 2022" by Sara R. Collins, Lauren A. Haynes, Relebohile Masitha.
Article: "Mental Health Disorder Statistics" by Johns Hopkins Medicine.
Article: "How Serious Is America's Literacy Problem?" by Amy Rea.
Article: "Profit Pathology and Disposable Planet" by Michael Parenti.
Article: "6 facts about economic inequality in the U.S." by Katherine Schaeffer.
Article: "A Rendezvous With Destiny", Franklin D. Roosevelt, 27 June 1936 speech to the Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. "These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power."
Article: "US Literacy Rate 2025 (Latest Statistics & Data)" by Alvin Parker.
Article: "McGuire's payday is a shame, if not a crime" by Neal St. Anthony.
Article: "We are saying ENOUGH!" by Team ENOUGH.
Article: "Scrooge McDuck" by Wikipedia.
Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978.
Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).
Site: Michael Parenti.
Article: "Jesse Welles" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Jed Bartlet" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Yellow dog Democrat" by Wikipedia.
Am I getting this right? You are allowed to break the law only if you are loyal to Trump...
Article: "Trump's pardon attorney reviews cases of convicted MAGA militiamen" by Matthew Chapman.
Article: "DOJ eyes pardons for plotters of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping" by Ben Solis.
Article: "Trump uses pardon power to build army of devoted MAGA vigilantes: analyst" by Matthew Chapman.
Article: "'What a joke': Backlash erupts online as Trump pardons reality TV stars" by Erik De La Garza.
Article: "Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner" by Kenneth P. Vogel.
Russia is now mocking Trump - How is this going to play?
Article: "Russian State Media Mocks Trump Over Post Warning Putin He's 'Playing With Fire" by Alex Griffing.
Video: Lawrence: Trump, the stupidest and most cowardly president in American history, backed down again ( new phrase: "Trump Always Chickens Out" or "TACO.").
Article: "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe.
Article: "The rise of end times fascism" by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor.
Article: "Anal retentiveness" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Memorial Day" by Wikipedia.
Article: "How Canada voted - in charts" by Phil Leake, Alison Benjamin, Daniel Wainwright and Jess Carr.
Article: "2024 Mexican general election" by Wikipedia.
Article: "2025 Polish presidential election" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Noem urges Poles to elect Trump ally as CPAC holds its first meeting in Poland" by AP.
Article: "Comer: Comey trying to stir up 'some type of coup' against Trump with social post" by Elizabeth Crisp.
Article: "What Does 'Eighty-Six' Mean?" by Merriam-Webster.
Article: "Barack Obama tan suit controversy" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Obama's coffee cup salute draws criticism " by Ashley Killough and Eric Weisbrod.
Substack: Robert Reich.
Site: 50501. June 14: No Kings Day
Hour Two: Is America facing down a new "dark ages?"
Article: "Trump pauses student visa interviews, weighs social media vetting for applicants" by Jason Lalljee.
Article: "The New Dark Age" by Adam Serwer.
Will Democrats pick seniority or a shake up?
Article: "Will House Democrats pick seniority or a shake-up?" by Alex Samuels.
Quote: "Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference." - FDR.
If we are being warned not to travel to Venezuela....then why are we sending prisoners there?
Article: "More U.S. nationals wrongfully detained in Venezuela than anywhere else: State Department" by Avery Lotz.
Article: "Trump is pardoning Todd and Julie Chrisley, the reality TV couple convicted of fraud" by Rachel Treisman.
Article: "All The World's A Stage" by Dennis Weaver.
Article: "Fifty-state strategy" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Milton Friedman" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The Beautiful, Dumb Dream of McDonald's Peace Theory" by Paul Musgrave.
Book: Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis.
Article: "Bloodbath: Joint Chiefs chair, CNO, Air Force vice chief, three top JAGs to be replaced " by Audrey Decker and Bradley Peniston.
Article: "Donald Trump photo op at St. John's Church" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Esper: Trump asked about shooting protesters 'in the legs or something' after George Floyd death" by Kelsey Carolan.
Article: "How Jeb Bush Stole the 2000 Election for His Brother" by Greg Palast.
Article: "Shelby County v. Holder" (Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is unconstitutional.) by Wikipedia.
Case: "Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute" (2018 voter purges).
Article: "Joe Pyne Was America's First Shock Jock" by Kevin Cook.
Article: "William F. Buckley Jr" by National Review.
Article: "GI Bill of Rights: A Profitable Investment for the United States" by Labor Party.
Article: "Caligula" by Wikipedia.
Video: Senator Bennet's Pueblo Town Hall.
Site: "The Thom Hartmann Radio & TV Program".
Site: The Hartmann Report.
Hour Three: Looks like there is a small but 'shocking' likelihood of year 2C hotter than preindustrial era before 2030. Here's what happens at a 2C crossing...
Article: "Global temperatures could break heat record in next five years" by Jonathan Watts.
Article: "Monopoly (game)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "All the President's Men (film)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Elon Musk wants to save Western civilization from empathy" by Zachary B. Wolf.
Article: "Jefferson (proposed Pacific state)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Precinct captain" (precinct committee person) by Wikipedia.
Video: Concord Project GOTV - how you become a precinct committee member.
Video: Concord Project GOTV - the importance of precinct committee members.
Article: "Blueprint for a Progressive Revolution: Lessons From the Far Right" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Neoliberalism" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Friedrich Hayek" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Ludwig von Mises" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Mont Pelerin Society" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump clears legal battles largely unscathed — except for the title 'felon'" by Irie Sentner.
Article: "Judge clarifies: Yes, Trump was found to have raped E. Jean Carroll" by Aaron Blake.
Article: "Trump calls political enemies 'vermin,' echoing dictators Hitler, Mussolini" by Marianne LeVine.
Article: "President Trump Calls Biden Administration 'Scum' in Heated Memorial Day Message" by Meredith Kile.
Article: "Shouting fire in a crowded theater" by Wikipedia.
Case: "Schenck v. United States (Shouting fire in a crowded theater)".
Case: "Brandenburg v. Ohio" (1969).
Article: "Capitol riots: Did Trump's words at rally incite violence?" by BBC.
Article: "Turkish Tufts University student released from immigration facility" by Madeline Halpert.
Article: "Two federal judges may hold Trump in contempt as he defies courts in immigration crackdown" (Xinis, Boasberg).by Breanne Deppisch.
Article: "Attack on Paul Pelosi" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Donald Trump repeats controversial 'You won't have to vote any more' claim" by Anna Betts.
Article: "Tuberville announces Alabama governor run" by Ali Bianco.
Article: "What to know about claim Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' gives president power to delay or cancel elections" by Jack Izzo.
Article: "Price tag for Trump's military festival could reach $45 million" by Olivia George.
Article: "Groundwater is rapidly declining in the Colorado River Basin, satellite data show" by Ian James.
Article: "Ogallala Aquifer" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Get ready for several years of killer heat, top weather forecasters warn" by Seth Borenstein.
Article: "Oklahoma City Breaks All-Time Rain Record in April" by Anna Skinner.
Article: "The hidden costs of burgers" (Amazon deforestation) by WWF.
Article: "Arkansas River" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Verdigris River" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Inola, Oklahoma" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Black Fox Nuclear Power Plant" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump restricts AP access over Gulf of Mexico issue" by Reuters.
Law: "25th Amendment Section 4" (presidential succession). "Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President."
Article: "Trump and Clinton saw higher approval ratings during their impeachments" by Mark Murray and Alexandra Marquez.