Sue's Daily Stack, Wednesday, 9 April, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Wednesday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: Trump's Factory Fantasy: The Middle Class Won't Rise Without Unions. Full stop.
Article: "Trump's Factory Fantasy: The Middle Class Won't Rise Without Unions. Full stop." by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Union Density Continues to Decline" by Hayley Brown, Emma Curchin.
Article: "Bonus chapter to The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" by Thom Hartmann.
Book: "The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore Its Greatness" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Trump Keeps Declaring Fake Emergencies That Make Our Real Emergency Worse" by Bill Mckibben.
Post: "The tariffs don't make sense as economic policy because they aren't economic policy. They are a tool to undermine our democracy. A means to force every major company and industry in America to pledge loyalty to Trump in return for tariff relief. [video]" by Senator Chris Murphy.
Article: "The Tipping Point: Most Americans No Longer Are Middle Class" by Marilyn Geewax.
Article: "Labor Secretary nominee Chavez-DeRemer attacks worker rights, kowtows to Trump" by Mark Gruenberg.
Article: "Fact Check: Hourly Pay of McDonald's Workers in Denmark Really Is This Much" by Anna Rascouët-Paz.
Article: "Trump's "Hitler's Birthday" Gift: The Death of American Democracy" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "A Complete History of Elon Musk's Fascination with the Magic Number 420" by Sissi Cao.
Site: 50501. Next National Day of Action: April 19th
Article: "Habeas corpus" by Wikipedia.
Are MAGA cult members not willing to sacrifice their 401K's for Trump? Has the cord been cut? And, what about taxes being voluntary for Billionaires?
Article: "Dramatic sell-off of US government bonds as tariff war panic deepens" by Phillip Inman and Jasper Jolly.
Article: "GOP strategist warns Trump that his voters 'can only feel the pain for so long'" by Brad Reed.
Article: "'They're waking up': MAGA fans reportedly starting to wonder if they 'bet on wrong pony'" by David McAfee.
Article: "Is the United States heading for a liquidity crisis?" by tomocean.
Article: "'Shrivel and die': DOGE cut reportedly means taxes may become 'voluntary' for billionaires" by Adam Lynch.
Article: "'Be cool!': Trump says it's a 'great time to buy' as markets fall" by Krystina Alarcon Carroll.
Article: "How the GOP Used a Two Santa Clauses Tactic to Con America for Nearly 40 Years" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Treasuries at Risk of Foreign Buyer Strike in Tariff Retaliation" by Ruth Carson, Liz Capo McCormick, and Masaki Kondo.
Article: "DOGE to Shutter DOJ Tax Division" by Josh Marshall.
Article: "China, EU launch massive U.S. tariff retaliation" by Ben Berkowitz.
Crazy Alert! Trump is claiming coal miners would be unhappy with lavish lifestyle- "they want to coal mine." Seriously?!
Article: "Trump Claims Coal Miners Would Be 'Unhappy' With Lavish Lifestyles Because 'They Want to Mine Coal'" by Michael Luciano.
Article: "Chicago Boys" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Milton Friedman" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Friedrich Hayek" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Ludwig von Mises" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Neoliberalism" by Wikipedia.
Video: 'The stock market matters': Republican senator says it's no time to celebrate trade turmoil - Morning Joe (Sen. John Kennedy, R-La.).
Video: Thom Tillis Grills Trade Rep On Blanket Tariffs, Asks Him If He Was The 'Tip Of The Spear'.
Article: "Republicans rattled by tariff troubles begin to push back on Trump" by Al Weaver and Emily Brooks.
Article: "Ronald Reagan" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Malcolm X" by Wikipedia.
Video: Virtual Protest HANDS OFF By Calling Up Justice and One Free Community.
Event: April 5: Virtual Protest.
Site: Calling Up Justice.
Site: One Free Community (a BIPOC led collaborative project working toward building communities and providing disability & neuro-affirming spaces online through Discord).
Article: "Texas AG Ken Paxton officially joins U.S. Senate race challenging John Cornyn" by Jasper Scherer.
Article: "Donald Trump Jr accused of killing protected bird in Venice lagoon" by Ajit Niranjan.
Article: "Jasmine Crockett" by Wikipedia.
Hour Two: It Is Happening Here...
- Dr. Bandy Lee, Medical doctor / Forensic psychiatrist & violence expert / President-World Mental Health Coalition / Dr. Lee's latest book is "The Psychology of Trump Contagion: An Existential Threat to American Democracy and All Humankind" @bandylee.bsky.social @BandyXLee1
Article: "It is Happening Here…" by Bandy X. Lee.
Quote: "Indeed, it is becoming ever more obvious that it is not famine, not earthquakes, not microbes, not cancer but man himself who is man's greatest danger to man, for the simple reason that there is no adequate protection against psychic epidemics, which are infinitely more devastating than the worst of natural catastrophes." - C.G. Jung.
Article: "US attorneys general sue to challenge Elon Musk and DOGE's authority" by Al Jazeera.
Article: "Democratic attorneys general sue Trump over 'illegal' voting order" by Lauren Gambino.
Article: "Trump administration sued by 21 states' attorneys general for trying to eliminate Institute of Museum and Library Services" by Torey Akers.
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: "War of words heats up as Donald Trump's trade adviser Peter Navarro calls Elon Musk just a car assembler after tariffs comments" by Economic Times.
The hits to Social Security begin next week - Is coverage threatened for 20 million? Surprised? Plus - Health insurers' get big win - not you - but big business does...
Article: "House Republican Attacks On Medicaid Expansion Would Threaten Coverage For 20 Million People" by Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Article: "Abruptly Eliminating Social Security Phone Services Threatens Access to Benefits" by Kathleen Romig.
Article: "Stocks surge as Trump announces 90-day tariff pause — as it happened" by Samuel Lovett, Peter Chappell, Mehreen Khan, Jack Barnett, Bruno Waterfield, David Charter, Mark Ludlow.
Article: "Full list of Trump's tariffs: a country by country look after the 90-day pause" by Andrew Witherspoon.
Article: "Bogus report on tariff pause briefly lifted markets before White House denied it" by AP.
Article: "Marjorie Taylor Greene makes stock market play days before tariffs" by Sonya Gugliara.
Article: "Pump and dump" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Why Did Martha Stewart Go to Prison? A Look Back at Her 2004 Fraud Case" by Lynsey Eidell.
Article: "Health insurers' big win" by Merrill Goozner.
Article: "Mehmet Oz wins Senate confirmation to lead Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services" by Riley Beggin, Ken Alltucker and Sarah D. Wire.
Article: "Humana and CVS stock pop on Medicare payout and Dr. Oz news" by Catherine Baab.
Article: "Demographic history of the United States" by Wikipedia.
Quote: "History Does Not Repeat Itself, But It Rhymes" - attributed to Mark Twain.
Article: "2.2 billion gallons of water flowed out of California reservoirs because of Trump's order to open dams" by Ella Nilsen.
Quote: "God gave us these things to use. After the last tree is felled, Christ will come back" - James Watt.
Article: "Four of Rep. Lauren Boebert's Amendments to the 'Fix Our Forests Act' Included in Final House Passage" by Lauren Boebert.
Article: "Trump orders for increased logging in national forests" by Victoria Heath.
Book: The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder by Vincent Bugliosi.
Article: "Andy Beshear" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Josh Shapiro" by Wikipedia.
Article: "California Gov. Gavin Newsom calls Democratic brand 'toxic' in defense of his podcast" by Savannah Kuchar.
Site: The Farm Aid Festival (Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Mellencamp).
Site: Free Speech TV.
Law: "Sherman Antitrust Act", 1890.
Site: 50501. Next National Day of Action: April 19th
Hour Three: Are we going to see the AP sitting at White House events again after the courts says they can't be barred? Hmmm.....
Article: "AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can't bar its journalists" by David Bauder.
Trump wants to spend more on concentration camps than USAID ever spent
Article: "Trump To Spend Remaining Federal Budget On ICE Concentration Camps" by Doktor Zoom.
Article: "Dearborn attorney representing pro-Palestinian protester says he was detained, questioned at airport" by Jack Springgate.
Dictator Alert! Trump Boasts About His 'War on the World' Before Backtracking – But Adds, 'It's Our Turn' to Rip Off Other Countries
Article: "Trump Boasts About His 'War on the World' Before Backtracking – But Adds, 'It's Our Turn' to Rip Off Other Countries" by Michael Luciano.
Article: "NOAA halts upkeep of critical weather satellites" by Scott Waldman.
Article: "NOAA abandons plan to defer upkeep of key weather satellites" by Scott Waldman.
Article: "James Carville Fears Trump Will Declare Martial Law and Rig the Elections" by Kenneal Patterson.
Article: "Senate Republicans release budget blueprint with new tax cuts and a $5 trillion debt limit hike" by Sahil Kapur.
Article: "China's Xinjiang province an 'open-air prison', US official says" by Al Jazeera.
Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.
Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978.
Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).
Article: "Taxes and a Two-Santa Theory" by Jude Wanniski.
Article: "How the GOP Used a Two Santa Clauses Tactic to Con America for Nearly 40 Years" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Tax Cuts Are Primarily Responsible for the Increasing Debt Ratio" by Bobby Kogan.
Article: "Joe Biden Must Drop Out" by Raw Story.
Article: "Trump's false or misleading claims total 30,573 over 4 years" by Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly.
Article: "Trump signs orders to allow coal-fired power plants to remain open" by Oliver Milman.
Quote: "Patriotism is the Last Refuge of a Scoundrel. But let it be considered, that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak for self-interest." - Samuel Johnson.
Video: The People's Town Hall with Minnesota Governor Tim Walz 4/8/2025.
Article: "What Project 2025 tells us about what will happen with tariffs on 2 April" by Inga Fechner.
Book: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.
Article: "Comparison of United States incarceration rate with other countries" by Wikipedia.
Article: "DEI: Trump's MAG-Lib " by Rohn Kenyatta.
Substack: "LookingNWords" by Rohn Kenyatta.
Article: "Trump says coal miners 'would be unhappy living in penthouse' in 'ignorant' rant" by Yelena Mandenberg, Steve Frank.