Friday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: A school hotting hit my backyard in Oregon - ‘A Devastating Day for Oregon’: Suspect Dead, Kids Among Victims in Elementary School Shooting - “No words can adequately express the grief our community is experiencing,” said the Bend-La Pine Schools superintendent.
Article: “‘A Devastating Day for Oregon’: Suspect Dead, Kids Among Victims in Elementary School Shooting“ by Jessica Corbett.
Article: “Why US is only country where there are more guns than people“ by TBS Report.
Article: “Gun Ownership in America: 1973 to 2021“ by Violence Policy Center.
Case: “District of Columbia v. Heller“, 2008 (2nd Amendment).
Who is the traitor in the White House that limited Starshield on Ukraine? And why is Trump calling Ukraine’s renewed strikes on Russian oil refineries “a disgrace?”
Article: “Exclusive-Order to limit Starshield for Ukraine came from inside White House, sources say“ by mahatmakanejeeves.
Article: “Trump calls Ukraine’s renewed strikes on Russian oil refineries ‘a disgrace’“ by Jennifer Rankin.
Article: “Estimated number of civilian guns per capita by country“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “What to know about Starshield and why its disruption rattled Ukraine’s forces“ by Samya Kullab.
Article: “Trump announces deal for Russian diesel as Zelensky calls it a gift to Putin“ by Rachel Clun, Anthony Zurcher (October 9, 2026).
Video: Did Trump & Musk Betray Zelenskyy Over Starlink? w/ Phil Ittner.
Article: “Musk blames Trump admin for cutting off Ukraine from Starshield intel leaving them wide open to Putin’s deadly blitzes “ by Bethan Moss, Harvey Geh.
Article: “What is Starshield, SpaceX’s military version of Starlink?“ by Reuters.
Article: “NATO country that pays for Kyiv’s Starlink warns Musk as his cap breaks Ukraine’s drone missions: “As your European customers, we are watching you”“ (Poland) by Olena Mukhina.
Article: “U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies“ by Anton Troianovski and Eric Lipton.
Article: “Volodymyr Zelensky openly defies Trump’s ban on Russian oil refinery strikes, Ukraine will resume attacks: ‘We’re done’“ by Steven Nelson, Josh Christenson and Ronny Reyes.
Article: “Trump to Newsmax: Not Fan of Zelenskyy as Kyiv Resumes Refinery Strikes“ by Newsmax Wires.
Article: “Trump calls Ukraine’s renewed strikes on Russian oil refineries ‘a disgrace’“ by Jennifer Rankin.
Event: Seattle, 17 Oct: No Kings Seattle – Vote Early Oct 17 2026. Plus Voting Fair.
Article: “Seattle Police Estimate 75,000 to 100,000 Marched in Third No Kings Rally“ by Seattle Sun.
Article: “Uncounted late ballots jump in Washington as fears of Postal Service delays intensify“ by Jake Goldstein-Street.
Article: “Latest ‘No Kings’ events scheduled for this weekend in WA“ by Zachary Fletcher.
Video: Battle In Seattle - “The Ballad of N30” Music Video by Mark Taylor-Canfield.
Site: Democracy Watch News.
Youtube: Mark Taylor-Canfield.
Site: NPR Music.
Article: “Seattle’s gaffe-prone mayor Katie Wilson safe in her job for now after recall organizers made silly mistake in bid to unseat her“ by Adriana Tardugno.
Trump’s MAGA allies openly discuss martial law. Why?!
Article: “Trump’s MAGA allies openly discuss martial law” by Brittany Gibson.
Article: “Elon Musk becomes biggest donor of US midterms cycle with $366m spent“ by Nick Robins-Early.
Article: “Tina Peters (politician)“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Trump hosts election denier Tina Peters for strategy summit: insider“ by Brendan Rascius.
Law: “National Emergencies Act“ (NEA), 1976.
What If America Could Break the Power of Big Oil and Escape the Wars It Helps Fuel? What if we could break the grip of oil and gas companies, slash electricity bills, and unleash an American energy revolution that starts on our own rooftops?
Article: “What If America Could Break the Power of Big Oil and Escape the Wars It Helps Fuel?“ by Thom Hartmann.
Article: “What If Every American’s Home Was a Power Plant?“ by Thom Hartmann.
Article: “German Law Gave Ordinary Citizens a Stake in Switch to Clean Energy“ by Osha Gray Davidson.
Article: “A Constitutional Right For The Fossil Fuel Industry? Defeat Colorado’s Amendment 82!“ by Maya K. Van Rossum.
Article: “Germany Could Be a Model for How We’ll Get Power in the Future“ by Robert Kunzig.
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: “Vance calls end of Ukraine aid ‘one of the proudest’ achievements of Trump administration“ by Martin Fornusek.
Site: Sue’s Stack.
Article: “US federal agencies targeted by DOGE“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Grok and ChatGPT Join Pentagon’s GenAI.mil Platform“ by Samantha Alexa.
Article: “Curtis Yarvin“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Putin preparing to escalate war“ by Tom Cotterill.
Article: “US sends third aircraft carrier to Middle East amid stalemate in Iran war“ by AP.
Substack: “The Existentialist Republic“ by Chris Armitage.
Article: “‘No Blame?’ ABC News finds 54 cases invoking ‘Trump’ in connection with violence, threats, alleged assaults.“ by Mike Levine.
Article: “Trump to police: ‘Please don’t be too nice’ to suspects“ by Meghan Keneally.
Article: “Trump gave pardons to hundreds of violent Jan. 6 rioters. Here’s what they did“ by Carrie Johnson, Tom Dreisbach, Barbara Van Woerkom, Ari Shapiro.
Article: “Military leaders consider recruiting campaign centered on Charlie Kirk“ by Courtney Kube.
Article: “List of deaths in ICE detention“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “List of shootings by U.S. immigration agents in the second Trump administration“ by Wikipedia.
Video: ICE Director CAUGHT LYING on LIVE TV About BODY CAM COVER-UP .
Site: “National Popular Vote Interstate Compact“.
Article: “List of United States presidential elections by popular vote margin“ by Wikipedia.
Hour Two: ‘Performative’: CNN Reporter Details Trump Looking at Dropping ‘Mother of All Bombs’ On Iran
Article: “‘Performative’: CNN Reporter Details Trump Looking at Dropping ‘Mother of All Bombs’ On Iran“ by Alex Griffing.
Article: “GBU-43/B MOAB“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Van Hollen mocks Trump, says Netanyahu waited for president ‘stupid enough’ to start Iran war“ by Piyush Arora.
Article: “Pride before a fall: Trump says he knows ‘everything’“ by Divya Murthy.
Article: “1983 Beirut barracks bombings“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “United States invasion of Grenada“ by Wikipedia.
How Russia Won: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Fight for America”
- David Corn, Journalist - Washington D.C. Bureau Chief-Mother Jones Magazine / Author of several books, most recently “How Russia Won: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Fight for America“ @davidcorn.bsky.social
Article: “Reclaiming Russia’s ‘historical lands’: How far do Putin’s imperial ambitions extend?“ by Peter Dickinson.
Article: “Hybrid warfare“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Collusion: how Russia helped Trump win the White House“ by Luke Harding.
Article: “American expansionism under Donald Trump“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Greenland crisis“ by Wikipedia.
Substack: “Craig Unger“.
Article: “Trump’s oldest son said a decade ago that a lot of the family’s assets came from Russia“ by Brennan Weiss.
Article: “Eric Trump reportedly bragged about Russian funding streams“ by Laurel Raymond.
Book: American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery by Craig Unger.
Article: “What You Need to Know About the Trump ‘Pee Pee’ Tape“ by VICE.
Article: “The Hidden History of Trump’s First Trip to Moscow“ by Luke Harding.
Article: “Donald Trump’s Tweet About “Best Friend” Putin Is Most Retweeted From Final Debate“ by Natalie Jarvey.
Article: “Trump Tower Moscow“ by Wikipedia.
Video: LIVE | UNPRECEDENTED Trump Welcomes Putin To Alaska With B-2 Bomber, Fighter Jet Escort, Red Carpet .
Tweet: “Trump had our BRAVE AMERICAN SOLDIERS ON THEIR KNEES to roll out the RED CARPET for his best friend VLAD! DISGUSTING. [photo]” by Governor Newsom Press Office.
Article: “ What Does Trump See in Putin? A Conversation With Fiona Hill“ by Foreign Affairs.
Article: “It was sold in 1867, but some Russians want Alaska back from the US“ by Dan Morrison.
Article: “Kash Patel Took $25,000 From Russia-Linked Firm to Appear on an Anti-FBI TV Series“ by David Corn, Dan Friedman.
Book: Convergence: Poetry on Environmental Impacts of War by Anne Coray, J C Todd, Teresa Mei Chuc.
Site: “No Kings“ (next, October 17).
Article: “Kakistocracy“ by Wikipedia.
Movie: “Idiocracy“.
Article: “Gatewood Galbraith“ (KY) by Wikipedia.
Article: “ICE’s Delayed Detention Data is Out, Two Record Highs: 70,000 People Detained, 40,000 on Ankle Monitors“ by Austin Kocher.
Article: “Abdul El-Sayed, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez campaign in U.P. to mobilize Senate voters “ by Russ McNamara.
Article: “Obama to campaign for Abdul El-Sayed in Detroit for final stretch before midterms“ by AP.
Article: “Mail mystery: Astoria businesses, City Hall report spotty delivery, missing packages“ by Katie Frankowicz.
Book: “Who Killed the American Dream? The Greatest Political Crime Ever Told“ by Thom Hartmann.
Article: “Red states are big winners of Biden’s landmark laws“ by Matt Egan.
Article: “Trump rejected $227m in disaster relief to blue states after FEMA OK’d the money“ by Josh Marcus.
Article: “Nuclear Weapons by Country 2026“ by World Population Review.
Book: Democracy in Chains by Nancy MacLean.
Video: Nancy MacLean on why the right is ‘laying siege’ to US institutions .
Article: “Laying Siege to the Institutions“ by Christopher F. Rufo.
Article: “Atlas Network“ by Wikipedia.
Why Ronald Reagan’s budget chief is saying Donald Trump is cooked
Article: “The Donald’s Great Big Not Very Beautiful FAFO“ by David Stockman.
Hour Three: Trump Starts Blame Game For Ken Paxton Losing, Points Finger at John Cornyn and Karl Rove - “If Ken Paxton loses, it will be because of WEAK and INEFFECTIVE Political Hacks like John Cornyn and Karl Rove,” Trump fumed on social media
Article: “Trump Starts Blame Game For Ken Paxton Losing, Points Finger at John Cornyn and Karl Rove“ by Alex Griffing.
Article: “G.O.P. Nominee in Texas Privately Said Trump’s Convention Hurt Him“ (Ken Paxton) by Theodore Schleifer.
Article: “Media World Floored By WSJ’s Ken Paxton Dubai Party Bombshell: ‘Whoa Wow Oy!’“ by David Gilmour.
Article: “Texas’ Ken Paxton Was Impeached By His Own Party for Corruption: Trump Endorsed Him for the Senate“ by Héctor Ríos Morales.
Article: “CNN Now Has a New Owner. What Will the Future of the Network Be Under Skydance?“ by AP.
A Shadow Over the World: Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Rise of Fascism and the Making of America’s World War II
- Prof. William I. Hitchcock, James Madison Professor of History at the University of Virginia / Author of numerous books on WWII & the Cold War...his latest book is “A Shadow Over the World: Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Rise of Fascism and the Making of America’s World War II“.
Article: “Charles Lindbergh“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Neutrality Acts of the 1930s“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Dorothy Thompson“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Martha Gellhorn“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Robert E. Sherwood“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “World War I“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “World War II“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “NATO“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Treaty of Versailles“ by Wikipedia (28 June 1919, at the end of World War I).
Article: “John Maynard Keynes predicts economic chaos“ by history.com.
Article: “Germany from 1918 to 1945“ by Patrick J. Geary.
Article: “History of Germany (1945–1990)“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “History of fascism (1922–1945)“ by Wikipedia.
Video: A Night at the Garden (nazi rally Madison Square Gardens).
Article: “New Deal“ (1933 - 1939, FDR) by Wikipedia.
Site: The Hippie Dictionary.
Case: “Trump v. US“ “Under our constitutional structure of separated powers, the nature of Presidential power entitles a former President to absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority. And he is entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts. There is no immunity for unofficial acts“.
Article: “Angie Nixon“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Hallie Shoffner“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “N’Kiyla Thomas“ (Jasmine Thomas) by Ballotpedia.
Article: “Peggy Flanagan“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Great Tribulation“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “In Minneapolis, clergy mobilize to manage ICE raids targeting Somali immigrants“ by RNS.
Article: “Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Fusion voting, explained“ by Protect Democracy.
Article: “Physicians’ group calls for ban on raw milk – as it’s becoming increasingly popular in the U“ by Eric Berger.
Case: “Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission“ (2010).
Substack: “Robert Reich“.
Article: “Could the Next Election Be Decided Before a Single American Casts a Ballot?“ by Thom Hartmann.
Article: “Beware Republicans Purging Their Way to Midterm Victory “ by Thom Hartmann.
Article: “Mitt Romney“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Martin Luther King Jr. Day“ (January 19, 2026) by Wikipedia.
Video: “Willie Horton ad“.
Article: “Feds Seized Ilhan Omar’s Passport, Phone, and Computers in Raid: WSJ“ by David Gilmour.
Quote: “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.“ - Thomas Jefferson.
Substack: “LookingNWords“ by Rohn Kenyatta.
TGIF Sue 😄 I took some time off to catch up on chores around the house and cleaned up my backyard. Hope all is well with you,my friend. Thank you for all your hard work here for Thom and Louise. Have a great weekend 🤗