Sue's Daily Stack, Wednesday, 4 June, 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: "'Saying Trump is dangerous is not enough': Bernie Sanders on Biden, billionaires – and why the Democrats failed" by Zoe Williams.
Article: "Musk calls Trump's "big beautiful bill" a "disgusting abomination"" by BNN.
Video: House Speaker Johnson: No cuts to Medicaid.
Article: "CBO: Nearly 11 million people will be uninsured if GOP megabill becomes law" by Nathaniel Weixel.
Article: "CBO Analysis Shows Medicaid Cuts Would Terminate Coverage for Millions, Including People with Medicare" by Casey Schwarz .
Article: "The One, Big, Beautiful Bill" by Ways & Means.
Article: "'Saying Trump is dangerous is not enough': Bernie Sanders on Biden, billionaires – and why the Democrats failed" by Zoe Williams.
Article: "In Court, Trump Is Losing More Than He's Winning" by Zoe Tillman and Christopher Cannon.
Article: "RFK Jr's 'Maha' report found to contain citations to nonexistent studies" by Joseph Gedeon.
Video: Sen. Ernst issues sarcastic apology to 'we're all going to die' comment.
Article: "TRUMP LOST. Vote Suppression Won" by Greg Palast.
Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2019" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].
Article: "Kyle Rittenhouse" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Charlottesville car attack" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The Economic Bill of Rights" by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Article: "Remarks by the First Lady at the Democratic National Convention" by Michele Obama.
Article: "Democracy's Hidden Guardians: The Shadow Cabinet That Could Save America from Billionaire Rule" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Tammany Hall" by Wikipedia.
Article: "FEMA Chief Reportedly Told Staff He Was Unaware There's a Hurricane Season" by Michael Luciano.
Article: "'Roadmap for corruption': Trump dive into cryptocurrency raises ethics alarm" by Peter Stone.
Article: "Trump took the Qatari jet bribe. Most voters have a problem with that" by Alex Samuels.
Article: "Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene bought stocks hit hard by Trump tariffs during market meltdown" by CBS/AP.
Article: "Greene admits she didn't read part of Trump's bill, missing AI section " by Local 3 News.
Article: "A Terrible Idea" by Erwin Chemerinsky.
Hour Two: Was DOGE all about "a truly unprecedented transfer of governmental power to a private entity in real time?"
- 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 @davidpepperoh.bsky.social
Article: "DOGE Reality Check: It Was Always About the Data" by David Pepper.
Movie: "The Lives of Others".
Article: "Elon Musk hands out $1m checks to voters amid Wisconsin supreme court election race" by AP.
Article: "Kompromat" by Wikipedia.
Substack: "Letters from an American - Heather Cox Richardson".
Article: "Illinois Governor JB Pritzker's commencement speech at Northwestern University" by Lee Cruz.
The Normalization of Evil: We Thought We Were Free
Article: "The Normalization of Evil: We Thought We Were Free" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "The Shocking GOP Plan to Dismantle the American Government Revealed" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Groundbreaking Judge Turned Tragedy into Change" by Jason Nark.
Book: Defying Hitler: A Memoir by Sebastian Haffner.
Book: "They Thought They Were Free" by Milton Mayer.
Book: I Will Bear Witness 1942-1945: A Diary of the Nazi Years by Victor Klemperer.
Article: "Federal Officers Use Unmarked Vehicles To Grab People In Portland, DHS Confirms" by Jonathan Levinson, Conrad Wilson, James Doubek, Suzanne Nuyen.
Article: "Draft List for New Travel Ban Proposes Trump Target 43 Countries" by Charlie Savage and Ken Bensinger.
Article: "Beware: We Are Entering a New Phase of the Trump Era" by M. Gessen.
Article: "Sharp spike in threats to judges prompts calls for more security" by Derek Hawkins.
Article: "The Two Santas Strategy: How the GOP has used an economic scam to manipulate Americans for 40 years" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Trump family" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Frederick Trump" by Wikipedia.
Article: "In 1927, Donald Trump's father was arrested after a Klan riot in N.Y." by Philip Bump.
Article: "'No Vacancies' for Blacks: How Donald Trump Got His Start, and Was First Accused of Bias" by Jonathan Mahler and Steve Eder.
Article: "Tesla activates facial recognition cameras in its cars for safety" by Gary Gastelu.
Hour Three: Chaos every where: Is this the beginning of the unraveling of Taco Trump?
Article: "Democrat Sweeps to Stunning Victory in South Carolina Special Election" by Tori Otten.
Article: "Vance knocks Democrats over taco truck outside GOP building" by Elizabeth Crisp.
Article: "A sweeping new ICE operation shows how Trump's focus on immigration is reshaping federal law enforcement" by Julia Ainsley, Ryan J. Reilly, Allan Smith, Ken Dilanian and Sarah Fitzpatrick.
Article: "Turkish Tufts University student released from immigration facility" by Madeline Halpert.
Article: "Judge says Trump's bid to deport Mahmoud Khalil is unconstitutional" by Reuters.
Article: "'FEMA didn't get the memo': Chaos reported in White House response to disasters" by Travis Gettys.
Article: "US immigration officers ordered to arrest more people even without warrants" by José Olivares.
Article: "Stephen Miller facing revolt from Trump's DOJ over his demands: NBC News" by Tom Boggioni.
Article: "RFK Jr.leaves CDC in turmoil after "unilaterally" changing COVID vaccine guidance " by Caroline Orr Bueno.
Article: "Great Barrington Declaration" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Meteorologist Calls Out Trump On-Air Over 'Sledge Hammer Attack' on Weather Research Funding | Video" by Raquel 'Rocky' Harris.
Article: "Watergate scandal" by Wikipedia.
Geeky Science - Insects: "Half the tree of life" is disappearing...
Article: "'Half the tree of life': ecologists' horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects" by Tess McClure.
Article: "Trump is 'obsessed' about having a call with China's Xi this week to hammer out trade deal, insiders reveal" by Gustaf Kilander.
Article: "Trump Bemoans How 'HARD' It Is to Strike a China Deal" by Andrew Ross Sorkin, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced and Danielle Kaye.
Article: "Can China use US debt in its tariff war against Trump?" by Andy Hirschfeld.
Article: "Trump rocked as China launches its latest economic weapon" by Hans van Leeuwen.
Article: "Quantum Computing: The Demise of Traditional Cryptography" by Udara Pathum.
Article: "Quantum Computing: A New Threat To Bitcoin And Crypto Security?" by Yuval Boger.
Article: "Tulip Mania" by Doug Ashburn.
Article: "'A pig in lipstick': Trump's strategic Bitcoin reserve criticised" by Annabelle Liang & Liv McMahon.
Article: "Trump family's bitcoin mining venture to go public — as Trump crypto interests grow" by Joe Walsh.
Article: "Trump's sons distance themselves from new Trump-branded crypto venture" by Lucien Bruggeman.
Article: "Tornadoes spotted, multiple tornado warnings issued as storms push across Oklahoma: Recap" by Cheyenne Derksen.
Substack: "Senator John Hickenlooper".
Post: "ICE dressed up like utility workers who offer "free estimates" if invited inside. Neighbor recorded the ICE goons and intervened, just before a young boy let them into his home. Tucson Electric Power was not told ICE agents would be impersonating their utility workers as part of the ICE raid." by StrictlyChristo.
Article: "Alabama Power Threatened With Lawsuit for Contaminating Groundwater With Coal Ash" by Dennis Pillion, Lee Hedgepeth.
Article: "Fight over Alabama electricity fuel costs heads to court" by Dennis Pillion.
Article: "Twinkle Cavanaugh leaves Public Service Commission for Trump administration job" by Alander Rocha.
Article: "Holy smoke: Who will be Alabama Power's new public service commissioner? " by JD Crowe.