Sue's Daily Stack, Friday, 12 September, 2025

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Friday’s Daily Stack

Hour One: The "Both Sides" Scam: How False Balance Fuels Extremism
Article: "The "Both Sides" Scam: How False Balance Fuels Extremism" by Thom Hartmann.
Post: "Jesse Watters goes full bloodlust in response to Charlie Kirk's death: "Whether we want to accept it or not, they are at war with us. And what are we going to do about it? How much political violence are we going to tolerate? ... This is a turning point. And we know which direction we are going." [video]" by Justin Baragona.
Article: "Killer Democracy: How a Corrupt Supreme Court Turned Debate Into Death" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Let's Talk About Political Violence" by Jessica Valenti and Kylie Cheung.
Article: "Gosar censured, stripped from committees over threatening video" by Chris Marquette.
Article: "Kyle Rittenhouse met with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago after acquittal" by Kenneth Garger.
Article: "Trump praises Montana congressman who assaulted reporter: 'He's my guy'" by Jonathan Allen.
Article: "2024 Heavy Hundred – 1-25" by Talkers.
Article: "Top Talk Audiences" by Talkers.
Article: "We Didn't Start The Fire" by Rachel Bitecofer.
Article: "Language: A Key Mechanism of Control" by GOPAC.
Article: "Culture War Speech: Address To The Republican National Convention" (17 August 1992) by Patrick Joseph Buchanan.
Article: "Racism, Rhetoric, and Charlie Kirk: A Reality We Can't Ignore" by Graylan Scott Hagler.
Article: "Trump now tells far right to 'stand down' amid white supremacy row" by BBC.
Article: "Trump claims grounds for "termination" of U.S. Constitution" by CBS News.
Article: "EO 13957 with some amendments and rescinded ..." by Congress.
Book: It's Even Worse Than It Looks by Thomas E. Mann, Norman J. Ornstein.
Article: "New Report: Anti-LGBTQ+ Grooming Narrative Surged More Than 400% on Social Media Following Florida's 'Don't Say Gay or Trans' Law, As Social Platforms Enabled Extremist Politicians and their Allies to Peddle Inflamatory, Discriminatory Rhetoric " by Henry Berg-Brousseau.
Article: "Sharron Angle Floated '2nd Amendment Remedies' As 'Cure' For 'The Harry Reid Problems'" by Sam Stein.
Video: "Willie Horton ad".
Article: "Crowd Goes WILD as Kyle Rittenhouse Gets Rockstar Intro at Turning Point USA Event: 'Get Loud'" by Michael Luciano.
Article: "Charlie Kirk on slavery: "There's a lot more to that story than people would ever want to acknowledge and admit"" by Media Matters.
Article: ""God-Given Signal": Charlie Kirk's Murder as American Reichstag" by Jim Stewartson.
Article: ""This Is War": Some Right-Wing Figures Call for Retribution Following Kirk Killing" by "Anna Merlan, Julianne McShane, Kiera Butler.
Article: "Rep. Paul Gosar shared an anime video of himself killing AOC. This was her response" by Rachel Treisman.
Article: "Donald Trump Suggests 'Second Amendment People' Could Act Against Hillary Clinton" by Nick Corasaniti and Maggie Haberman.
Article: "Biden Confronts Trump on Safety: 'He Can't Stop the Violence'" by Katie Glueck.
Article: "G.O.P. Declares Jan. 6 Attack 'Legitimate Political Discourse'" by Jonathan Weisman and Reid J. Epstein.
Article: "Where Charlie Kirk Stood on Key Political Issues" by Ashley Ahn and Maxine Joselow.
Article: "Judge says DeSantis spread false information while pushing trans health care restrictions" by Brendan Farrington.
Article: "Retread scare: Trump and other Republicans evoke another era by calling Democrats 'communists'" by Ali Swenson.
Article: "Trump, newly charged, urges defunding Justice Department and FBI" by Rami Ayyub.
Article: "Charlie Kirk in his own words: 'prowling Blacks' and 'the great replacement strategy'" by Chris Stein.
Article: "Exclusive: Lee Atwater's Infamous 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy" by Rick Perlstein.
Article: "Bush Resigns From NRA, Citing Broadside' On Agents" by John Mintz.
Article: "Let's just say it: The Republicans are the problem." by Thomas E. Mann, Norman J. Ornstein.
Article: "Charlie Kirk's Views On Women And Childbearing Makes Me Sick" by Heather Edwards.
Tweet: "They may not want to hear it, and it may incense them, but the parallels between what the Nazis did then, and what Trump and MAGA are doing today, are striking, chilling—and as any expert on authoritarianism will tell you, straight out of the same toxic, but dog-eared, playbook. [link]" by George Conway.
Article: "'Sick F*ck': George Conway Put on Blast for Making Nazi Comparison to Charlie Kirk Assassination" by Isaac Schorr.
Tweet: "When Democrats lose elections they couldn't steal, they murder the people they were unable to defeat." by Sean Davis.

Article: "MSNBC fires analyst Matthew Dowd over Charlie Kirk shooting remarks" by Joseph Gedeon.
Article: "Horst Wessel" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Reichstag fire" by Britannica.
Article: "Shooting Suspect Is Dead After Attack at Colorado High School, Authorities Say" by Johnny Diaz, Alexandra E. Petri and Francesca Regalado.
Article: "Charlie Kirk in his own words: 'prowling Blacks' and 'the great replacement strategy'" by Chris Stein.
Article: "Gavin Newsom criticized for saying that people should "continue" Charlie Kirk's "work"" by Alex Bollinger.

Stop Asking America to Mourn the Makers of Hate
Article: "Don't Ask Me to Mourn My Oppressors. Don't!" by sepiasiren.
Article: "'Why are yall sad?' Teachers, firefighters, officials on leave or fired over Charlie Kirk posts " by Alix Martichoux and Jeremy Tanner.
Article: "'Civil War' Mentions Surge Online After Kirk Assassination" by Sheera Frenkel and Stuart A. Thompson.
Article: "'Stephen King is a bitter man': Horror icon faces lawsuit threat over Charlie Kirk comment" by David McAfee.
Article: "State Department warns immigrants not to mock Kirk's death" by Andrew Childers.
Article: "'Govern yourselves accordingly': Florida threatens teachers who criticize Charlie Kirk " by Carl Gibson.
Article: "The whitewashing of Charlie Kirk's toxic legacy is underway" by Oliver Willis.

Article: "Great Depression" (1930s) by Wikipedia.
Article: "New Deal" by Wikipedia.
Speech: "Great Society" by Wikipedia.
Article: "From Smuggling to Provocation: The Story Behind the Polish Drone Scandal" by Lyuba Lulko.
Article: "Poland says it shot down Russian drones after airspace violation" by Adam Easton, Jaroslav Lukiv.
Quote: "You probe with bayonets: if you find mush, you push. If you find steel, you withdraw" - Vladimir Lenin.
Article: "'Next time in Moscow?': Five takeaways after Trump and Putin's Alaska summit" by Laura Gozzi.
Article: "Remembering the auction that pitted Trump against Jeffrey Epstein for a Palm Beach estate" by Darrell Hofheinz.
Article: "Maulana Karenga" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Molefi Kete Asante" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Deep state" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Dennis Hastert" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Charlie Kirk once faced question about gun violence in Idaho" by Carolyn Komatsoulis.

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Hour Two: Bolsonaro Behind Bars: What Brazil's Democracy Got Right and America Still Won't
Article: "Brazil's Bolsonaro gets 27-year jail sentence for coup plot" by Rebecca Falconer.

Article: "US officials plan to punish foreigners 'making light of' Charlie Kirk death" by Lucy Campbell.
Article: "'Why are yall sad?' Teachers, firefighters, officials on leave or fired over Charlie Kirk posts" by Alix Martichoux and Jeremy Tanner.
Article: "Florida teachers told they could lose jobs, certifications over social media posts about Charlie Kirk" by Danielle Prieur.

Trump Admits 'I Couldn't Care Less' When Pressed on 'How Do We Fix This Country?' Say What?!
Article: "'I Couldn't Care Less': Trump Defends 'Radical Right' When Pressed on Fixing the Country" by Colby Hall.

Article: "How Latinos Voted in the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election" by Gladys Gerbaud, Chase Harrison and Khalea Robertson.
Article: "Democrats Narrow Gap in House After Victory in Virginia Special Election" by Reid J. Epstein.
Article: "Eileen Laubacher" by Wikipedia.
Facebook: "David Dugle" (Rhyming News).
Article: "Joseph Goebbels" by Wikipedia.
Youtube: "Jesse Welles".
Article: "Beware! Congress Is Driving Backward Down a Wrong Way Street" by Jim Hightower.
Article: "1999 Martha's Vineyard plane crash" by Wikipedia.
Article: " (term)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way" by Ezra Klein.
Article: "Schoolteacher to challenge Neal for Congress" (Jeromie Whalen, 1st District Massachusetts) by Alexander MacDougall.
Video: Charlie - Jesse Welles.
Article: "Charlie Kirk talks Epstein, urges Trump administration to act" by Avery Lotz, Marc Caputo.
Article: "Trump ally Laura Loomer ridiculed for swinging from Charlie Kirk attacks to leading backlash against detractors" by Ramon Antonio Vargas.

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Hour Three: Trump lets Putin off the hook for the Poland attack but Poland says it wasn't a mistake. Who will stop Putin?
Article: "Trump Lets Putin Off The Hook After Russian Attack On NATO Ally Poland: 'Could Have Been a Mistake'" by Alex Griffing.
Article: "Rutte calls Russian drones incursion into Poland 'largest concentration of violations into Nato airspace' – Europe live" by Jane Clinton. Jakub Krupa.

Article: "US created 911,000 fewer jobs through March 2025 than initially reported" by Michael Sainato.
Article: "Stock market booms despite worrying signals on jobs and consumer prices" by Scott Horsley, Michel Martin.
Article: "Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages" (QCEW, aka ES-202) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages" by BLS.
Article: "Trump admin to claim link between Covid shots and child deaths" by Chris Jansing.
Article: "Horst-Wessel-Lied" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Reservist Differential" by OPM.
Article: "Trump cancels Kamala Harris' Secret Service detail that was extended by undisclosed Biden order " by Edward-Isaac Dovere.
Article: "Drug policy of Oregon" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Hemp" by Wikipedia.
Law: "18 U.S. Code § 227 - Wrongfully influencing a private entity's employment decisions by a Member of Congress or an officer or employee of the legislative or executive branch".
Law: "Hatch Act".
Article: "January 6 United States Capitol attack" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Attack on Paul Pelosi" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The Productivity–Pay Gap " by EPI.
Law: "Honoring our PACT Act of 2022" (Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics).
Article: "Agent Orange" by Wikipedia.
Article: "U.S. Veterans Say They Were Ordered To Bury 250 Barrels Of Toxic Agent Orange On A Korean Base In 1978" by Robert Johnson.
Article: "Serious Contamination Found at Frm. US Base in Chuncheon" by KBS World.
Article: "Exposed to Agent Orange at US Bases, Veterans Face Cancer Without VA Compensation" by Hannah Norman and Patricia Kime.