Sue's Daily Stack, Monday, 14 July, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Monday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: Louise and I saw a Superman; you should too! But don't tell your Maga friends…Here's why MAGA was triggered with the release of the new Superman?
Article: "Superman just Punched Trump and MAGA in the face!" by Dean Obeidallah.
Movie: "Superman (2025 film)".
As much as I'd rather not discuss Epstein, this needs to be told. Apparently, Epstein had hidden cameras in all his properties, and his private island was completely wired for recording and viewing. He had the material for entertainment, insurance and blackmail....and where are they? Does Bondi have them?
Article: "That Jeffrey Epstein evidence isn't missing - there's more than you can imagine" by Bill Addis.
Article: "Put a double prison guard on Ghislaine Maxwell. She knows more than anyone about Epstein and Trump, and he knows it." by Lucian K. Truscott IV.
Article: "Epstein Files: Some Democrats Are Stepping Up. Fox Is Even Reporting On MAGA Mutiny Over Epstein." by Merlin196360.
Article: "Disabled veteran who is a US citizen was taken during SoCal immigration raid, family says" by Josh Haskell.
Article: "ICE Disappears American Citizen Disabled Veteran (Edit: Recent Updates)" by KeithDB.
Article: "Contact Us" by Congress.
Is Rosie O'Donnell another dictator test?
Article: "Rosie O'Donnell dismisses Trump's threat to revoke her US citizenship" by Rory Carroll.
Book: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder.
Article: "Three prominent Yale professors depart for Canadian university, citing Trump fears" by Ariela Lopez & Yolanda Wang.
Book: How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley.
Book: "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany" by William L. Shirer.
Event: "On July 17th, March in Peace. Act in Power: Good Trouble Lives On".
Article: "FEMA's response to Texas flood slowed by Noem's cost controls" by Gabe Cohen and Michael Williams.
Article: "A Dedicated FEMA Fund Will Pay for 'Alligator Alcatraz'" by Alan Jaffe.
Article: "Five States in Talks for Detention Centers Like 'Alligator Alcatraz'—Noem" by Mandy Taheri.
Article: "Trump's immigration enforcement record so far: High arrests, low deportations" by Julia Ainsley and Laura Strickler.
Article: "FEMA camps conspiracy theory" by Wikipedia.
Article: "What is the Einstein visa? And how did Melania Trump get one?" by Joel Gunter.
Article: "John N. Mitchell" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Watergate scandal" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump threatens 'very severe' tariffs against Russia if no Ukraine deal within 50 days" by BBC.
Article: "Power of the Purse" by Office of the Historian.
Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 8 (Powers of Congress). "The Congress shall have Power To ..."
Article: "Trump Rescission Proposal Builds on Illegal Impoundments, Would Undermine Future Funding Deals" by Devin O'Connor, Sam Berger and Jacob Leibenluft.
Article: "Trump threatens GOP senators: Vote to defund NPR and PBS, or I'll withhold my endorsement" by Justin Baragona.
Article: "What Would Funding Cuts Do to NPR and PBS?" by Benjamin Mullin.
Article: "Saturday Report 7/12/25 — Plow Fields or Lose Benefits? Trump Admin Says Medicaid Recipients Should Become Farm Laborers... by Thom Hartmann.
Video: Alligator Alcatraz - The Lincoln Project.
Hour Two: America on the Brink: Trump's Roadmap to Recession, Fascism, and World War III
Article: "America on the Brink: Trump's Roadmap to Recession, Fascism, and World War III" by Thom Hartmann.
Book: "The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore Its Greatness" by Thom Hartmann.
Event: "On July 17th, March in Peace. Act in Power: Good Trouble Lives On".
Article: "Boeing Crisis Ignites Call for Strict U.S. Stock Buyback Laws" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "The Medicare Advantage Trap: What They Don't Tell You" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "What is the "Wealth of a Nation"?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "US demands to know what allies would do in event of war over Taiwan" by Demetri Sevastopulo.
Article: "The new age of geoeconomics" by Gillian Tett.
Article: "Trump, Musk are looting the government, rifling through personal information" by William Fine.
Article: "The courts will not save us from Donald Trump" by Austin Sarat.
Article: "US defence demands complicate Albanese's China visit" by Patricia Karvelas.
Book: The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "The Trump Administration's Trade Wars Are Crushing U.S. Small Businesses" by Ryan Mulholland, Mike Williams, Doug Molof.
Article: "Does the US have Dutch disease?" by Brendan Greeley.
Article: "Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?" by Graham Allison.
Article: "The U.S. Economy Performs Better Under Democratic Presidents" by Senate Joint Economic Committee Democrats.
Article: "The Voracity Effect" by Aaron Tornell and Philip R. Lane.
Article: "Rubio's Cuts at State Department Demote Longtime U.S. Values" by Michael Crowley.
Article: "Trump intensifies trade war with threat of 30% tariffs on EU, Mexico" by Jarrett Renshaw, Bhargav Acharya and Cassandra Garrison.
Video: China Welcomes New Year with Stunning Drone Show.
Article: "Pentagon Lifts Drone Restrictions, Sending Shares of Defense Stocks Higher" by Connor Hart.
Article: "Operation Spiderweb: a visual guide to Ukraine's destruction of Russian aircraft" by Artem Mazhulin, Oliver Holmes, Lucy Swan, Laure Boulinier, Arnel Hecimovic.
Video: How Superman Fought the KKK... FOR REAL!.
Movie: "The Deer Hunter".
Movie: "Casablanca".
Article: "Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell is ready to reveal 'truth' of the pedophile client list, say insiders. So, why are Republicans blocking her?" by Caroline Graham.
Article: "There's far more to Trump and Epstein's relationship: Trump biographer" by Joe Conason.
Post: "A thought that may be crazy or may answer a lot of questions and I'd love some feedback. What if Trump realized this year that there are Epstein tapes of him w/ underage girls and is creating a police state and purging the FBI in anticipation of it coming out? He's also bending Congress to his will." by Thom Hartmann.
Is the forecast calling for extinction? What if this is the last generation that gets to ask "what if"?
Article: "STAT(S) of the Day: The Big Ugly Cuts to Climate Science" by Rachel "The Doc" Bitecofer.
Article: "What If This is the Last Generation that Gets to Ask "What If"?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "TRUMP LOST. Vote Suppression Won" by Greg Palast.
Article: "Letters from an American July 6, 2025" by Heather Cox Richardson "Project 2025 called for breaking up and downsizing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration".
Article: "History of Native Americans in the Southwest: 3.4 Theories on the decline of major centers and population shifts" by Fiveable.
Article: "What Big Oil knew about climate change in 1959" by Benjamin Franta.
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: "Trump says NWS staffing levels didn't affect Texas storm preparedness" by Rebecca Falconer.
Article: "Trump Admin Quietly Approves Massive Crude Oil Expansion Project" by Brad Reed.
Article: "'It's too late': David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost" by Davis Legree.
Article: "Cahokia's emergence and decline coincided with shifts of flood frequency on the Mississippi River" by Samuel E. Munoz, Kristine E. Gruley, Ashtin Massie, John W. Williams.
Article: "Salt Pollution – Learning from Our Past" by Puroserve.
Documentary: Last Hours.
Article: "Texas officials say at least 28 children killed by floods as death toll climbs" by BBC.
Substack: "LookingNWords" by Rohn Kenyatta.
Article: "Uncrewed Platforms Have Been Critical to Ukraine's Success in the Black Sea" by H I Sutton.
Article: "Atmospheric river" by Wikipedia.
Article: "One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism" by No Kings.
Event: General Strike August 9 2025 .
Article: "Here's How Superman's Iconic Motto of 'Truth, Justice and the American Way' Evolved Over Time" by Samantha Baskind.
Article: "Stephen Miller's Order Likely Sparked Immigration Arrests And Protests" by Stuart Anderson.
Hour Three: America on the Brink: continued
Site: Daily Kos.
Site: Raw Story.
Site: Democratic Underground.
Site: Blue Sky.
Site: Common Dreams.
Site: Drudge.
Site: The New Republic.
Site: Guardian.
Site: New York Times.
Site: Financial Times.
Article: "Rip-off America? From car rentals to coffee, inflation is rampant by Keiran Southern.
Article: "Food Banks Are Running Out of Food Exactly When More Americans Will Need Them by Dan Frosch.
Article: "The Number Of Americans Dealing With Food Insecurity Has Almost Doubled Since 2021, And US Store Closings Are On Pace For New Record by Tyler Durden.
Article: "Trump's 'big beautiful bill' slashes CFPB funding: What it means for you" by Greg Iacurci.
Now Trump wants to destroy real Medicare! and they're coming for Medicare advantage too…what's left?
Article: "CMS is Trying to Expand Prior Authorization in Traditional Medicare Even Though All Data Points Say That's a Bad Idea" by Rachel Madley.
Article: "H.R. 3467 Stinks" by Wendell Potter.
Article: "Alex Acosta defends handling of 2008 Epstein plea deal " by Gregory Wallace.
Book: The Book of Virtues by William Bennett.
Article: "Abort all black babies and cut crime, says Republican" by Dan Glaister.
Law: "4th Amendment". "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.".
Article: "Are Trump's tariffs making money? Watch this chart." by Politico.
Article: "DOGE's big illusion: the heavy costs of the Trump administration's so-called efficiency" by Jason Powell and Sasha Frank-Stempel.
Article: "What has Elon Musk's Doge actually achieved?" by Joe Miller, Chris Cook.
Site: The Old Farmer's Almanac.
Article: "Norway deploys F-35 fighters to Poland to guard NATO airspace and support Ukraine" by Defence Industry Europe.
Article: "After years of funding, Indigenous women still missing and murdered at alarming rates" by Gabrielle Wallace.
Article: "Trump's answer to questions in Texas? 'Only a very evil person would ask'" by Bill Goodykoontz.
Article: "Associated Press barred from Oval Office for not using 'Gulf of America'" by Jenna Amatulli.