Sue's Daily Stack, Monday, 9 June, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Monday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: Trump Is Normalizing the Unthinkable: Federal Troops in American Streets, Breaking the Law — and Getting Away With It
Article: "Trump Is Normalizing the Unthinkable: Federal Troops in American Streets, Breaking the Law — and Getting Away With It" by Thom Hartmann.
Law: "10 U.S. Code § 12406 - National Guard in Federal service: call".
Article: "Unpacking DHS's Troubling Explanation of the Portland Van Video" by Andrew Crespo.
Article: "Federal Officers Use Unmarked Vehicles To Grab People In Portland, DHS Confirms" by Jonathan Levinson, Conrad Wilson, James Doubek, Suzanne Nuyen.
Videos: "Raw Story".
Article: "'Don't shoot!' Maxine Waters begs National Guard not to use guns at protest" by David Edwards.
Article: "'Something much much bigger': Ex-Trump insider warns of 'chilling' new plan" by David McAfee.
Article: "'It was like being preyed upon': Portland protesters say federal officers in unmarked vans are detaining them" by Katie Shepherd and Mark Berman.
Tweet: "I have formally requested the Trump Administration rescind their unlawful deployment of troops in Los Angeles county and return them to my command. We didn't have a problem until Trump got involved. This is a serious breach of state sovereignty — inflaming tensions while pulling resources from where they're actually needed. Rescind the order. Return control to California. [document]" by Gavin Newsom.
Article: "'Tom, arrest me. Let's go.': Gov. Gavin Newsom responds to Trump border czar's threat" by msnbc.
Article: "House passes bill that could make it harder for married women to vote" (SAVE Act) by Barbara Rodriguez.
Article: "Esper: Trump asked about shooting protesters 'in the legs or something' after George Floyd death" by Kelsey Carolan.
Article: "Labor unions around US demand release of union leader arrested in LA protest" by Michael Sainato.
Video: Trump says 'they spit, we hit' to LA protestors.
Book: The Science of Revenge: Understanding the World's Deadliest Addiction--and How to Overcome It by James Kimmel Jr. JD.
Video: 'The Science of Revenge: Understanding the World's Deadliest Addiction--and How to Overcome It'.
Is LA Trump's dictator's moment and will Americans choose the republic or the tyrant?
Article: "Video review confirms ICE is the aggressor, not protesters says GUARDIAN and WPost" by IrishBubbaLiberal.
Article: "Newsom is warned of 'criminal tax evasion' if he withholds federal taxes" by Edward Helmore.
Article: "'Don't shoot!' Maxine Waters begs National Guard not to use guns at protest" by David Edwards.
Article: "Hegseth accused of 'straining at the leash' with threat to send Marines to LA " by Tom Boggioni.
Article: "Trump Deploys National Guard As Los Angeles Protests Against Immigration Agents Continue" by Sandra Stojanovic and Omar Younis.
Article: "British photographer injured by 'plastic bullet' in LA protests" by James Gregory.
Article: "The Posse Comitatus Act Explained" by Joseph Nunn.
Elon's guys put a transmitter on top of the White House; what were they transmitting?
Article: "Musk's DOGE Goons Surreptitiously Transmitted Reams of White House Data" by Liam Archacki.
Article: "William F. Buckley Jr" by Wikipedia.
Article: "why the South Must Prevail" by William F. Buckley Jr.
Article: "Great Replacement" by Wikipedia.
Book: Permanent Revolution: Authoritarianism Fascism & Totalitarianism In The 20th Century by Sigmund Neumann, Nathaniel R Fridman.
Book: I Paid Hitler by Fritz Thyssen.
Book: "They Thought They Were Free" by Milton Mayer.
Book: "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany" by William L. Shirer.
Article: "Students for a Democratic Society" (SDS) by Wikipedia.
Article: "American Revolutionary War" (1775 – 1783) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Australian reporter shot with rubber bullet while covering anti-Ice protests in Los Angeles" by Natasha May.
Article: "Edison Chiloquin (1923-2003)" by Oregon Historical Society.
Article: "Even Mice Have More Humanity than Trump, Musk, and the GOP" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Reviving-like prosocial behavior in response to unconscious or dead conspecifics in rodents" by Wenjian Sun et al.
Article: "How LA erupted over rumours of immigration raid at a hardware store" by Christal Hayes.
Article: "What really happened outside the Paramount Home Depot? The reality on the ground vs. the rhetoric" by Rachel Uranga and Ruben Vives.
Hour Two: Elon Musk's own AI warns his platform's policies are inciting anti-black violence—with a 50% risk of targeted attacks and 30% risk of mob violence
- Ben Dixon, Host-The Benjamin Dixon Show @BenjaminPDixo @benjaminpdixon.bsky.social
Article: "Conversation with Grok" by Ben Dixon.
Article: "Tulsa race massacre" (1921) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Charleston church shooting" (June 17, 2015) by Wikipedia.
MAGA Influencers Revel in Terry Moran's Suspension for Calling Stephen Miller a 'World Class Hater' — after the White House complains. Can news networks stop bending their knee to Trump and stand up like Gavin Newsom?
Article: "MAGA Influencers Revel in Terry Moran's Suspension for Calling Stephen Miller a 'World Class Hater' — While the Left Fumes" by Joe DePaolo.
Are you hearing this America? The GOP is lining up with excuses to cut Social Security.
Article: "GOP lines up 'excuses' to cut Social Security after Medicaid slash: analyst" by Matthew Chapman.
Substack: "LookingNWords" by Rohn Kenyatta.
Article: "Trump Is Calling Up National Guard Troops Under a Rarely Used Law" (2025) by Shawn Hubler and Laurel Rosenhall.
Article: "National Guard civil unrest update: More than 17,000 troops in 23 states and DC activated " (2020) by Howard Altman.
Article: "700 Marines from Twentynine Palms given greenlight to deploy to support National Guard in L.A." by Erika I. Ritchie.
Article: "1992 Los Angeles riots" (Rodney King) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Who is Trump's new South Africa envoy Leo Brent Bozell III?" by Carien du Plessis.
Article: "Killing of Jordan Neely" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Daniel Penny is guest of Trump and Vance at football game" by Alys Davies.
Article: "Stephen Miller (political advisor)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Russell Vought" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Carl Schmitt" by Wikipedia.
Video: Black hawk helicopter in LA: Officials unload gear during immigration protests in Los Angeles.
Article: "Glendale ends 'divisive' Ice detention contract amid California protests" by Edward Helmore.
Article: "Exclusive: US aid cuts leave food for millions mouldering in storage" by Jessica Donati, Emma Farge, Ammu Kannampilly and Jonathan Landay.
Article: "Reichstag fire" by Britannica.
Hour Three: Looks like Bird Flu is now capable of airborne transmission at the same time that Trump ending funding for the bird flu vaccine effort - what could go wrong?
Article: "Bird Flu Capable of Airborne Transmission" by Jessica Wildfire.
Article: "Trump administration cancels $766 million Moderna contract to fight pandemic flu" by AP.
Article: "RFK Jr. removes every member of CDC vaccine advisory committee" by Alexander Tin, Caitlin Yilek.
Article: "In axing mRNA contract, Trump delivers another blow to US biosecurity, former officials say" by Amy Maxmen.
Qatar may find Kennedy Center renovation project as part of a "MAGA makeover." Really?! I guess if you're loyal to Trump - you're in...
Article: "Qatar may fund Kennedy Center renovation project as part of 'MAGA makeover'" by David McAfee.
Article: "Antisemitism" by Wikipedia.
Article: "A Superstitious View Of Reagan's Victory" by Dorothy Gilliam.
Article: "2016 Alaska Democratic presidential caucuses" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Medicare Advantage" (Medicare Part C) by Wikipedia.
Site: 50501. June 14: No Kings Day
Article: "French Revolution" by Britannica.
Article: "Maximilien Robespierre" by Wikipedia.
TV Series: "The Americans" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The Budget Reconciliation Process: The Senate's "Byrd Rule"" by CRS.
Law: "Sherman Antitrust Act", 1890.
Site: "Problem Solvers".
Article: "Agent provocateur" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump Makes Odd Remark About Elon Musk's Familiarity With Pennsylvania Voting Machines" by Leigh Kimmins.
Article: "Sanders, Grassley and Colleagues Make Bipartisan Push to Audit the Pentagon and End Wasteful Spending" by Bernie Sanders.