Sue's Daily Stack, Friday, 25 July, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Friday’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: "US House calls early summer recess to block voting on release of Epstein files" by Chris Stein.
Article: "2025 United States federal budget" by Wikipedia.
Article: "House Republicans back Epstein subpoena" by Hailey Fuchs.
Article: "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" by Wikipedia.
Article: "DOJ meeting with longtime Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell" by Aaron Katersky, James Hill, Brandon Baur, and Katherine Faulders.
Article: "Justice Department Told Trump in May That His Name Is Among Many in the Epstein Files" by Sadie Gurman, Annie Linskey, Josh Dawsey, Alex Leary.
Article: "Trump administration pulls $4bn in funds for high-speed rail in California" by Al Jazeera.
Article: "Personal rapid transit" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Atlanta reporter detained by Ice 'punished for his journalism', rights groups say" by George Chidi.
Article: "Trump sues Wall Street Journal over Epstein report, seeks $10 billion" by Nandita Bose and Jonathan Stempel.
Article: "Voting in primaries at 17 years old" by Ballotpedia.
Article: "Ken Martin" by Wikipedia.
Article: "A Guide to Voter Caging" by Justin Levitt.
Article: "Operation Eagle Eye (United States)" by Wikipedia.
Case: "Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute" (2018 voter purges).
Article: "TRUMP LOST. Vote Suppression Won" by Greg Palast.
Law: "Laken Riley Act".
Article: "Five Things to Know about the Laken Riley Act" by Heidi Altman.
Article: "Dow Jones Industrial Average" by Google Finance.
Article: "Lina Khan" (chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)) by Wikipedia.
Article: "One person killed every 12 minutes: July now Gaza's deadliest month since early 2024" by Islamic Relief.
Article: "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Gaza: 875 people confirmed dead trying to source food in recent weeks" by UN.
Site: Vice News.
Article: "Opportunity Wisconsin: Next Week: Town halls with Rep. Mark Pocan, Rep. Gwen Moore, and Secretary of State Sarah Godlewski" by Opportunity Wisconsin.
Hour Two: From Epstein's Island to Obama's Inbox: Trump's Dark Diversion Strategy
Article: "From Epstein's Island to Obama's Inbox: Trump's Dark Diversion Strategy" by Thom Hartmann.
Book: "The Last American President: A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party, and a World on the Brink" by Thom Hartmann.
Site: "The Journal of Research in Personality".
Article: "Malevolent vs. Benevolent Dispositions and Conservative Political Ideology in the Trump Era" by Craig S. Neumann, Darlene A. Ngo.
Article: "Bongino still in limbo as Trump fumes and JD Vance seeks to play mediator, sources say" by Kaitlan Collins, Kristen Holmes, Evan Perez and Paula Reid.
Article: "FBI Deputy Director Bongino Reports Massive Gains In National Security, Public Safety" by Danielle Shockey.
Article: "Pam Bondi Cancels Speech Over Medical Issue: What We Know" by Martha McHardy.
Post: "Tomorrow's front page: "Convicted US felon to arrive in Scotland"" by The National Newspaper.
Will the world look away as Gazans are being starved to death and driven out of Gaza? Is the plan for Gaza to become part of Israel?
Article: "As Starvation Rises, Israeli Minister Says Israel Is 'Driving Out' Gazans" by Patrick Kingsley and Johnatan Reiss.
Article: "The Starvation Spreading in Gaza" by Lauren Jackson.
LA Grand Juries Are Refusing to Indict ICE Protestors
Article: "LA Grand Juries Are Refusing to Indict ICE Protestors" by David Kurtz.
Article: "Deportation flights from 'Alligator Alcatraz' begin as Florida vows a 'surge' of immigration arrests" by Devon Sayers, Isabel Rosales.
Article: "Baby delivered prematurely from brain-dead woman on life support in Georgia" by AP.
Article: "List of Jeffrey Epstein's associates named in lawsuit can be unsealed, judge rules. Here are details on the document release." by Cara Tabachnick.
Book: Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI by Karen Hao.
Video: "Empire of AI": Karen Hao on How AI Is Threatening Democracy & Creating a New Colonial World.
Video: Journalist Karen Hao on Sam Altman, OpenAI & the "Quasi-Religious" Push for Artificial Intelligence.
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.
Article: "Epstein, Trump, and the Fashion Front for Trafficking" by Lilith Grover.
Article: "John Casablancas" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Pilot detained by Chile after unauthorized flight to Antarctica" by Ian Petchenik.
Video: Putin's Speech In English: Russia Vows Submarine Supremacy With Next-Gen Nuclear, Hypersonic Arsenal.
Hour Three: The shocking Epstein/Dershowitz timeline and... why is DOJ talking to "a convicted pedophile" instead of the victims?
Article: "A Dershowitz-Epstein Timeline" by Unprecedented.
Article: "Epstein survivor slams MAGA over Ghislaine Maxwell scheme: 'She's a convicted pedophile!'" by Matthew Chapman.
Event: August 9: Houston, TX: KPFT's Soirée with Thom Hartmann and Grant Peeples, including Q&A and a book signing session.
Article: "ICE detention funding now 5 times higher than federal prison system budget" by Carl Samson.
The Trump FCC's approval of Paramount/Skydance "reeks of the worst form of corruption." Surprised
Article: "Trump FCC's Approval of Paramount-Skydance Merger 'Reeks of the Worst Form of Corruption'" by Jake Johnson.
Article: "Viktor Orbán tells CPAC the path to power is to 'have your own media'" by Flora Garamvolgyi.
Article: "Six Questions About Where All the TikTok Drama Is Heading" by Stephen Zeitchik.
Book: The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Jobs created during U.S. presidential terms" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Quantitative Easing (QE)" by Investopedia.
Article: "Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: Purchasing Power of the Consumer Dollar in U.S. City Average" by FRED.
Article: "Gerrymandering" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Musk spent over a quarter of a billion dollars to help elect Trump" by Tim Reid and Jason Lange.
Article: "Elon Musk hands out $1m checks to voters amid Wisconsin supreme court election race" by AP.
Article: "Standing strong: WMNF and our incredible community" by WMNF.
Article: "'Alligator Alcatraz': What to know about Florida's new controversial migrant detention facility " by Chelsea Bailey, Isabel Rosales, Alaa Elassar.
Article: "JD Vance's "Intellectual" Spin on the Racist Great Replacement Theory" by Katherine Stewart.
Article: "Meet Usha Vance, the second lady of the United States" by Jude Sheerin.
Site: +972 Magazine.