Sue's Daily Stack, Wednesday, 8 January, 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: "Residents flee as wind-fueled wildfires destroy homes in Los Angeles County" by Antoinette Radford, Jessie Yeung, Karina Tsui, Hanna Park, Holly Yan, Andy Rose and Lauren Mascarenhas.
Article: "James Woods Blasts Troll Mocking Him For Losing His Home In Pacific Palisades Fire" by Favour Adegoke.
Article: "Trump outlines plans to take over Greenland and Canada and rename Gulf of Mexico 'Gulf of America'" by Jack Peat.
Article: "The Addams Family" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Lebensraum" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Let's Try Something Different in How We Deal With Trump" by Tom Suozzi.
Article: "Just how small will the House Republican majority be in 2025?" by Steve Benen.
Article: "Biden signs Social Security Fairness Act into law" by Julia Reinstein.
Article: "Virginia elections signal no major shift in voter sentiment in a state watched closely for clues" by Olivia Diaz.
Article: "Special elections to the 119th United States Congress (2025-2026)" by Ballotpedia.
Article: "Will Donald Trump's Truth Social Merge With Elon Musk's X? Rumors Swirl" by Mandy Taheri.
Article: "Trump Inexplicably Claims Hezbollah Took Part in Jan. 6 Riot When Asked If He Plans to Pardon Even 'Violent' Rioters" by Colby Hall.
Article: "The Posse Comitatus Act Explained" by Joseph Nunn.
Article: "Tesla is struggling but it can still count on cash for selling carbon credits" by Owen Bellwood.
Article: "Trump may end the $7,500 EV tax credit. Elon Musk and Tesla would reap the rewards" by Chris Isidore.
Article: "'Missing' GOP Congresswoman Kay Granger found living in Texas assisted living facility for dementia patients" by Stephen M. Lepore.
Article: "Dianne Feinstein" by Wikipedia.
Article: "American Forces Network" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Louis DeJoy" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump backs idea to make the Postal Service — which is included in the Constitution — private" by Alex Woodward.
Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2019" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].
Hour Two: What Will Be the Impact of Social Media Plunging Us Further into a Post-Truth Crisis?
Article: "What Will Be the Impact of Social Media Plunging Us Further into a Post-Truth Crisis?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "More Speech and Fewer Mistakes" by Joel Kaplan.
Article: "2024 Post-Election Survey: A Majority of New Trump Voters Used Social Media as Main News Source" by Maryann Cousens.
Article: "Zuckerberg wears $900,000 watch to announce end of Meta fact checks" by Andy Hoffman and Kurt Wagner.
Article: "Meta is getting rid of fact checkers. Zuckerberg acknowledged more harmful content will appear on the platforms now" by Clare Duffy.
Article: "An Overlooked — and Increasingly Important — Clue to How People Vote" by Steven Waldman.
Article: "Does Zuckerberg hold 2% of all millennial wealth?" by Michael Cheng.
Article: "Trump Gloats Meta Changed Rules Because Zuckerberg Is Scared of Him" by Edith Olmsted.
Article: "Mark Zuckerberg wears rare $900K Swiss watch to reveal major shift on Meta's free speech: report" by Taylor Herzlich.
Article: "Trickle-down economics" (horse-and-sparrow) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Laffer curve" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Treasury yield surge reflects expectations of more long-term debt" by Karen Brettell.
Article: "Inflation down, poverty up as Milei takes chainsaw to Argentina's economy" by Lautaro Grinspan.
How does the average Joe or Jill fight back against fascism and inequality?
Article: "'We Risk Revolution!' Scott Galloway Goes on Epic Tirade Over CEO Murder and 'Out of Control' Wealth Inequality" by Colby Hall.
Article: "Press Conference: Donald Trump Holds a Media Event at Mar-a-Lago - January 7, 2025" "These people are crazy. There's something wrong with them. There's something wrong with them. They also want to go back, and they have already started that, to when you buy a faucet, no water comes out because they want to preserve. Even in areas that have so much water you don't know what to do. It's called rain, comes down from heaven and they want to do -- no water comes out of the shower. It goes drip, drip, drip. So, what happens, you're in the shower 10 times as long. No water comes out of the faucet. You want to wash your hands; they want to go back to even stronger than what they have right now... The blades, they take three ships to ship them. It's crazy. They're dangerous. You see what's happening up in the Massachusetts area with the whales, where they had two whales wash ashore in, I think, a 17-year period, and now they had 14 this season. The windmills are driving the whales crazy, obviously.".
Article: "From whales and windmills in Mass. to annexing the Panama Canal: 5 takeaways from Trump's press conference" by Kendall Wright.
Article: "Biden's exit interview: USA TODAY's Susan Page shares her insights" by Caren Bohan.
Article: "Lebensraum" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Don't panic about Trump's refusal to rule out Greenland invasion, Denmark says" by Seb Starcevic and Jakob Weizman.
France and the EU are warning Trump about threatening EU 'sovereign borders' - welcome to an expansionist fascist and he's not even Prez yet... And Canada is offering to buy a few states in retaliation..
Article: "Germany and France warn Trump against use of force over Greenland" by Patrick Wintour, Kim Willsher, Miranda Bryant and Deborah Cole.
Article: "Canadian politician responds to Trump's takeover threats by offering to buy two U.S. states" by Katelyn Caralle.
Article: "France and Germany reproach Trump over Greenland invasion comments" by Ketrin Jochecová.
Article: "WCPT (AM)" by Wikipedia.
Site: NPR.
Article: "Trump will not rule out force to take Panama Canal, Greenland" by Steve Holland and Joseph Ax.
Article: "Citing China, Trump won't rule out military use to reclaim Panama Canal, acquire Greenland" by South China Morning Post.
Article: "Why Does Trump Want the Panama Canal? Here's What to Know" by Lisa Friedman.
Article: "Trump Organization Accused of Tax Evasion in Panama: What We Know" by Sean O'Driscoll.
Article: "What Panama Papers say - and don't say - about Trump" by Kevin G. Hall, Franco Ordoñez and Vera Bergengruen.
Article: "Yes, US shipped donated personal protective equipment to China in February" (2020) by Bill McCarthy.
Article: "The Path to Economic and Social Ruin" by Party Marty.
Article: "HMPV Fears Spark #Lockdown Trends On Social Media: Here's How The Government Responds!" by Sheetal Prasad.
Article: "Human metapneumovirus (HMPV or hMPV)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Is There an Insanity Premium on Interest Rates?" by Paul Krugman.
Article: "What Is the Net Worth of Trump's New Cabinet?" by Chas Danner.
Article: "The State of U.S. Wealth Inequality" by Ana Hernández Kent , Lowell R. Ricketts.
Quote: "We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." - FDR.
Quote: "The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him." - Niccolo Machiavelli.
Hour Three: Can Trump with help from Clarence Thomas keep Jack Smith's report from ever seeing the light of day?
Post: "If the 11th circuit overturns Cannon on the Jack Smith report, and Trump files for an emergency administrative stay with SCOTUS, guess which justice can issue the administrative stay unilaterally?" by Mueller, She Wrote.
Article: "Merrick Garland plans to release Jack Smith's January 6 report. How Trump is trying to stop him" by Alex Woodward.
Article: "Judge Aileen Cannon blocks release of special counsel Jack Smith's final report on Trump investigation " by Tierney Sneed and Katelyn Polantz.
Article: "Cannon temporarily blocks report on Trump classified-documents probe" by Perry Stein, Jeremy Roebuck.
Article: "Justice Dept. says it won't yet release Trump classified document report" by Jeremy Roebuck and Perry Stein.
Article: "Justice Department Plans Partial Release of Jack Smith's Trump Report" by Jon Jackson.
Article: "Trump plays his last cards to stop his sentencing: Going to the Supreme Court" by Laura Italiano.
Article: "California wildfires latest: Five killed in Los Angeles wildfires - as more than 100,000 people ordered to flee" by Sky News.
Article: "Gallagher (comedian)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Calling women 'household objects' now permitted on Facebook after Meta updated its guidelines" by Clare Duffy.
Article: "Texas had over 26K rape-related pregnancies in 16 months after abortion ban, study shows" by ABC13.
Article: "Trump International Hotel Las Vegas Tesla Cybertruck explosion" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump announces $20 billion foreign investment to build new U.S. data centers" by Eamon Javers, Kevin Breuninger.
Article: "Jimmy Carter funeral updates: Harris delivers eulogy at Capitol ceremony" by Emily Shapiro.
Article: "Ben Wikler" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Fifty-state strategy" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The Fake Burger King 'We Don't Snitch' Post On X, Explained" by Stephanie Gravalese.
Speech: "Crisis of Confidence" by Jimmy Carter.