Sue's Daily Stack, Friday, 22 August, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Friday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: The Authoritarian's Secret Weapon: They Never, Ever Leave Voluntarily
Article: "The Authoritarian's Secret Weapon: They Never, Ever Leave Voluntarily" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "I researched every attempt to stop fascism in history. The success rate is 0%." by Chris Armitage.
Book: The Last American President: A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party, and a World on the Brink by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Euromaidan" (Maidan Uprising, Ukraine protests 2013-2014) by Wikipedia.
Article: "US Fed Reserve Chair Powell opens door to September rate cut" by Al Jazeera.
Article: "Obama breaks silence on Trump's 'outrageous' call to prosecute him" by Robert Tait.
Article: "Trump says he'll fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook 'if she doesn't resign'" by Kevin Breuninger.
Article: "Amid Threats From Trump, Adam Schiff Forms Legal Defense Fund" by Shane Goldmacher.
Retribution: FBI raids John Bolton's house
Article: "DEVELOPING: FBI Raids John Bolton's House" by Jonathan V. Last.
Article: ""Trump's Enemy's List Is Now the Docket"" by Michael Cohen.
Article: "Ex-Trump official John Bolton criticizes president while FBI raids his home" by Travis Gettys.
Quote: "When the president does it, that means it is not illegal. Actions which otherwise would be unconstitutional could become lawful if undertaken for the purpose of preserving the Constitution and the nation." - Richard Nixon.
Article: "Trump says lawyers are drafting executive order to end mail-in voting" by Joseph Gedeon.
Post: ""If you want to have a coup against the constitutional order, you want to control the capital city. And if he has control of the policing in the city of Washington...Who's gonna tell him to leave the White House?" @gtconway.bsky.social joins @jvl.bsky.social: [video]" by The Bulwark.
Article: "JD Vance" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Dan Quayle" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Bondi, Patel tap Missouri AG as additional FBI co-deputy director alongside Bongino" by Brooke Singman.
Article: "Stephen Miller blasts 'stupid white hippies' protesting DC crackdown" by Brett Samuels.
Article: "U.S. Unauthorized Immigrant Population Reached a Record 14 Million in 2023" by Jeffrey S. Passel and Jens Manuel Krogstad.
Article: "US judge orders shutdown of Trump's 'Alligator Alcatraz' detention centre" by Yang Tian.
Article: "Texas Dems return from Illinois, face police oversight after walkout" by Fox 32.
Article: "'The nation's finances have deteriorated' since Trump took office, CRFB says, gaming out the scenarios up to a $28.5 trillion deficit" by Nick Lichtenberg.
Article: "Culture Is Where Democracy Lives or Dies, Because Politics Always Follows the Story a Nation Tells Itself" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Ken Martin" by Wikipedia.
Video: California's Newsom Trolls Trump, Vance With Memes, Nicknames, Online Jabs | Firstpost America.
Case: "New York v. Trump".
Hour Two: Say what?! Trump Admin Reviewing ALL 55 Million People With Visas For Possible Deportation
Article: "Trump Admin Reviewing ALL 55 Million People With Visas For Possible Deportation" by Alex Griffing.
Article: "Pentagon asks civilian employees to join 'volunteer force' to aid Ice deportations" by Joseph Gedeon and Kira Lerner.
Article: "Bipartisan border bill loses support, fails procedural vote in U.S. Senate" by Ariana Figueroa.
Article: "Dozens of FEMA staffers involuntarily reassigned to support deportations" by Brianna Sacks.
Is a 100-seat majority Trump's redistricting endgame?
v Article: "Trump lays out his redistricting endgame: A 100-seat Republican majority" by April Rubin.
Article: "In 1974, Goldwater and Rhodes told Nixon he was doomed" by Dan Nowicki.
Article: "Nixon created the EPA in 1970. Today, it's a much different agency." by A. Chris Gajilan.
Article: "Killing of journalists in the Gaza war" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Here Is All the Money AIPAC Spent on the 2024 Elections" by David Moore, Donald Shaw.
Article: "Reinhard Heydrich" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Execution of the conspirators of July 20, 1944" by Sjoerd de Boer.
Movie: "2073".
Article: "FBI Agents Exit John Bolton's Office With Boxes in Raid" by Amanda Castro , Hannah Parry , Khaleda Rahman and Shane Croucher.
Book: Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis.
Article: "Excess Death Rates for Republican and Democratic Registered Voters in Florida and Ohio During the COVID-19 Pandemic" by Jacob Wallace, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Jason L. Schwartz .
Site: End The Bribe System (bumper stickers, etc.).
Article: "Trump derangement syndrome" by Wikipedia.
Site: 50501.
Events: Sep 1: "Workers over Billionaires".
Site: Free Speech TV.
Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.
Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978.
Article: "Doris Duke" by Wikipedia.
Article: "H-2A: Temporary Agricultural Employment of Foreign Workers" by Department of Labor.
Article: "Immigration raids leave crops unharvested, California farms at risk" by Tim Reid, Sebastian Rocandio, Pilar Olivares and Leah Douglas.
Article: "U.S. deportation tracker: Counting arrests, deportations" by Jiachuan Wu, Laura Strickler, Joe Murphy, Nigel Chiwaya and Julia Ainsley.
Article: "Wholesale veggie prices just spiked shocking 38% — and could hit US consumers soon. Tariffs not only to blame" by Mike Crisolago.
Hour Three: A New York appellate court says Trump's Organization committed fraud
Article: "New York Appellate Court Finds Trump Committed Pervasive Fraud" by KeithDB.
Article: "Patel Ordered Bolton FBI 'Distraction' Raid on Epstein Files Release Day" by Sarah Ewall-Wice.
Article: "BREAKING: Trump Just Sent the FBI to SWAT John Bolton's Home" by Dean Blundell.
Article: "Carney and Trump speak for the first time since blowing past trade deal deadline" by John Paul Tasker .
Article: "Alberta separatism" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump lobs new threat at Colorado authorities: 'I am going to take harsh measures!!!'" by Tom Boggioni.
Article: "Ex-county clerk jailed for tampering with voting machines" by BBC.
Article: "Reagan Embraced Free Trade and Immigration" by Daniel Griswold.
Events: "An Evening with President Lech Walesa - Nobel Peace Prize Winner".
Article: "Solidarity (Polish trade union)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Lech Walesa" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Pa. Democrat, Republican talk efforts to secure funding for SEPTA " by NBCphiladelphia.
Article: "Kristi Noem is pushing for ICE to buy and operate a fleet of deportation planes, sources say" by Julia Ainsley.
Article: "ICE aims to spend millions on decked-out vehicles for D.C. operation" by Brittany Shammas, Aaron Schaffer, Olivia George.
Article: "How to Recognize and Respond to Energy Vampires at Home, Work, and More" by Kimberly Holland.
Site: "Velshi".
Article: "Fox settles Dominion lawsuit for $787.5 million over US election lies" by Reuters.
Article: "Trump told top US general to 'just shoot' racism protesters, book claims" by Martin Pengelly.
Article: "When Do the One Big Beautiful Bill Act's Health Care Provisions Go Into Effect?" by Natasha Murphy, Brian Keyser.
Article: "Jeffrey Epstein" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Inmate Who Criticized Ghislaine Maxwell Punished With Move to Higher-Security Prison" by Jack Silvers.
Quote: "Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them." - Barry Goldwater.