Sue's Daily Stack, Friday, 20 June, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Friday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: Fourteen Steps to Tyranny: How Autocratic Breakthrough Happens — And How We Can Stop It
Article: "Fourteen Steps to Tyranny: How Autocratic Breakthrough Happens — And How We Can Stop It" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Pottawatomie Massacre" by Christopher Rein.
Article: "Boulder: Is it Time to End the Second Amendment?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "The Chilling Republican Plan to Slam Shut the Courthouse Doors on Average Americans" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Karoline Leavitt Says Judges Shouldn't Have Power Over Trump" by Edith Olmsted.
Article: "Remembering the War Through the Mails: Postwar Confederate Patriotic Envelopes and the Reconstruction of Civil War Memory" by Steven R. Boyd.
Book: The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class by Thom Hartmann.
Video: "Kristi Noem says the feds are coming to 'liberate' Los Angeles".
Article: "Bleeding Kansas: A Stain on Kansas History" by John Greenleaf Whittier.
Article: "The Crime Against Kansas" by U. S. Senate.
Article: "31c. The Sack of Lawrence" by U. S. History.
Article: "GBU-43/B MOAB" by Wikipedia.
Article: "When is the summer solstice?" by Royal Observatory Greenwich.
News...Will we regret Trump being able to use a nuclear weapon? A court backs Trump National Guard deployment to LA - but be prepared for what comes next when the Guard arrives in other blue cities...
Article: "Alarm as White House Says Trump Has Not Ruled Out Dropping Nuclear Weapon on Iran" by Jake Johnson.
Article: "Trump Declares 'BIG WIN' as Appeals Court Backs His National Guard Deployment In LA" by David Gilmour.
Article: "700 military personnel mobilized to support ICE in 3 states" by Colin Meyn.
Article: "If a U.S. 'bunker buster' hits a nuclear site, what might get released into the air?" by Nell Greenfieldboyce, Geoff Brumfiel.
Article: "'Giant outrage': Reporter makes prediction about Trump's NYC National Guard plan" by Tom Boggioni.
Racist Alert! Did Trump ever complain before about too many holidays? Why just on Juneteenth?
Article: "On Juneteenth, Trump says the US has 'too many' holidays" by Jacob Shamsian.
Article: "June 18, 2025 (Wednesday)" (Juneteenth 19th) by Heather Cox Richardson.
Article: "2025 Virginia gubernatorial election" by Wikipedia.
Article: "2025 New Jersey gubernatorial election" by Wikipedia.
Site: Women's March.
Article: "Kent State shootings", May 4, 1970 by Wikipedia.
Article: "Thousands demonstrate, 1 arrested after 'No Kings' protest in Chicago" by NBC Chicago.
Article: "The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world" by David Robson.
Article: "Fact Check: Alec Lace Post About Democrats 'Life At Stake' If They 'Vote Against Us' Attacked Melissa Hortman's 'Base' -- Not Republican Threat" by Maarten Schenk.
Law: "2nd Amendment". (1791) A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed..
Article: "Tax returns of Donald Trump" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Quantitative Easing (QE)" by Investopedia.
Article: "U.S. Dollar Index" by TradingView.
Article: "Stock Market Performance by President (From Election Date)" by Macrotrends.
Article: "Trump told top US general to 'just shoot' racism protesters, book claims" by Martin Pengelly.
Article: "As Trump weighs bombing Iran, Steve Bannon has his ear" by Linda Feldmann.
Article: "For Trump, 'Two Weeks' Is the Magic Number" by Shawn McCreesh.
Hour Two: Lookout! Retirees being forced in privatized for-profit Medicare Advantage plans. Is this the future of Medicare?
Article: "NY Court Ruling Will Force Retired Workers Into Privatized, For-Profit Medicare Advantage Plans" by Eloise Goldsmith.
Article: "Senate Republicans propose deeper Medicaid cuts. Here's what that means." by Paige Winfield Cunningham.
Will Children born now live in a world where the US can only produce half as much of its key food crops?
Article: "Children born now may live in a world where the US can only produce half as much of its key food crops" by Laura Paddison.
Movie: "Dr. Strangelove".
Article: "Broken windows theory" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Bipartisan border bill loses support, fails procedural vote in U.S. Senate" by Ariana Figueroa.
Article: "Afghan translator for US military arrested by ICE in San Diego courthouse" by David Gotfredson.
Article: "From dread to action: Tracking the Trump-Musk death toll from cuts to USAID" by Tatyana Tandanpolie.
Article: "Impact Metrics Dashboard: All Tracked Programs" by impactcounter.com.
Article: "Trump Blames D.E.I. and Biden for Crash Under His Watch" by David E. Sanger.
Article: "Trump Administration's Mass Layoffs of Federal Workers Are Illegal" by Sam Berger and Jacob Leibenluft.
Article: "Comparing Trump and Obama's Deportation Priorities" by Lazaro Zamora.
Article: "Manifest destiny" by Wikipedia.
Article: "FDA Seeks Input on New Method for Ranking Chemicals in Food for Post-Market Assessments" by Food Safety Magazine.
Article: "Bioaccumulation" by Wikipedia.
Article: "A review of the Make America Healthy Again report on childhood chronic diseases" by ACAAI.
Article: "The Precautionary Principle" by Jose Felix Pinto-Bazurco.
Book: "Threshold: The Progressive Plan to Pull America Back from the Brink" by Thom Hartmann.
Hour Three: Kennedy and his anti-vaccine freaks were just caught lying into Congress again about COVID-19 vaccine - just as a new variant touting a razor-blade sore throat arrives..
Article: "Researchers Say HHS Vaccine Memo Twisted Their Data" by NewsGuard's Reality Check.
Article: "'Razor blade' sore throat may be signature symptom of new COVID variant" by AP.
Article: "Dodgers say immigration agents denied entry to Los Angeles stadium" by Ali Abbas Ahmadi.
Article: "ICE impersonators and other scammers are on the rise: How to protect yourself" by Karen Garcia.
Article: "ICE Bounties? No. But the Fear Is Real." by The Coffman Chronicle.
Article: "'A pig in lipstick': Trump's strategic Bitcoin reserve criticised" by Annabelle Liang & Liv McMahon.
Article: "Tulip Mania" by Doug Ashburn.
Article: "The Mellon Doctrine" by Paul Krugman.
Article: "Israel and the Palestinians: History of the conflict explained" by BBC.
Article: "For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it's blown up in our faces" by Tal Schneider.
Article: "Reichstag fire" by Britannica.
Site: Haaretz.
Site: Jerusalem Post.
Article: "Ben Wikler" by Wikipedia.
Book: "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late" by Thom Hartmann.
Bible: "They have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon." - Revelation 9:11.
Book: Left Behind 25th Anniversary Edition by Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins.
Book: The Late Great Planet Earth by Hal Lindsey with Carole C. Carlson.
Documentary: Last Hours.
Book: Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness and the Future of Life on Earth by John Robbins.
Article: "John Robbins (author)" by Wikipedia.
Article: ""No Kings" protest organizers announce July 17 as next demonstration" by Carrie Shepherd.
Video: Trump appears overwhelmed as opposition grows and support withers.
BlueSky: "Rachel Maddow".
Video: 3717. Die Gedanken Sind Frei [Thoughts Are Free] (Traditional German) Unitarian Church Zoom Service.
Facebook: "$42,000 bonus. More than a MAJORITY of Americans annual wages. [video]" by Ellensburg What's Up!