Sue's Daily Stack, The Thom Hartmann Program 10/29/25
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Wednesday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: What If Trump Is Weaker Than We Think—and America’s Finally Figuring It Out?
Article: “What If Trump Is Weaker Than We Think—and America’s Finally Figuring It Out?“ by Thom Hartmann.
Article: “Trump’s Economic Promises Timeline“ by Lloyd Doggett.
Article: “TRUMP LOST. Vote Suppression Won“ by Greg Palast.
Article: “Fox News’ Laura Ingraham, Who Scrutinized Hunter Biden’s Business Dealings, Just Quietly Went into Business with Donald Trump Jr.“ by Meredith Kile.
Article: “22 States Are in Recession or Heading Toward One. The Shutdown Could Worsen It.“ by Jake Johnson.
Article: “GOP support erodes for Epstein files petition“ by Kate Santaliz.
Article: “Teapot Dome Scandal“ by Britannica.
Article: “Are we in an AI bubble? Here’s what analysts and experts are saying“ by Jaures Yip.
Article: “$MELANIA Under Fire: First Lady’s Memecoin Was Part Of Fraudulent Scheme, Lawsuit Alleges—What To Know“ by Alison Durkee.
Article: “Trump’s MAGA spell is broken. Even his base knows he is a lame duck“ by Matt K. Lewis.
Article: “How popular is Donald Trump?“ by Nate Silver and Eli McKown-Dawson.
Article: “Senate Republicans deal Trump a rare rebuke on trade with vote against Brazil tariffs“ by Claudia Grisales, Sam Gringlas.
Article: “UFC star turns on the president: ‘Donald Trump is that beast of Revelation 13.3’“ by Brian Linder.
Article: “Trump nominee says MLK Jr. holiday belongs in ‘hell’ and that he has ‘Nazi streak,’ according to texts“ by Daniel Lippman.
Site: “Salem International“.
Event: Sat Dec 6, 2025 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM: Town Hall Seattle: KBCS Presents Thom Hartmann w/ special guest Katie Wilson.
Article: “Jamaicans start to reveal devastation as hurricane causes floods, power cuts and splits city in two“ by Nick Davis, Rachel Hagan.
Article: “Maddow Blog | Trump approves disaster declarations for red states, as blue states go without“ by Steve Benen.
Red states are now suing Brook Rollins and USDA to get them to spend the $5 billion they’re sitting on for food stamps - will it work?
Article: “Red states join in lawsuit against Trump government for killing SNAP funds“ by Sarah K. Burris.
Law: “Hatch Act“ by U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC).
Article: “The Iraq Invasion 20 Years Later: It Was Indeed a Big Lie That Launched the Catastrophic War“ by David Corn.
Trump’s been taking lessons from Kim Jong Un: Do Fed workers have to praise him to keep their jobs? But wait...there’s more.
Article: “Federal workers must now ‘clearly’ show support for Trump on year-end reviews: report“ by Robert Davis.
Article: “Hegseth orders Pentagon to oust disloyal civilian workers he likened to ‘debris’“ by Nicole Charky-Chami.
Post: “Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving:
$100 billion
Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:
$100 billion
One is decried as “welfare.” One is not. Why?“ by Robert Reich.
Article: “Ranked Choice Voting / Instant Runoff“ (RCV) by FairVote.
Article: “Thanksgiving turkey shortage fears grow as avian flu spreads“ by Kelly Tyko.
Article: “Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips. The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches.“ by Eric Lipton, David Yaffe-Bellany, Bradley Hope, Tripp Mickle and Paul Mozur.
Video: Medicare Advantage #lastweektonight.
Article: “Social Security & Medicare“ by Joinfortmill.
Site: End The Bribe System (bumper stickers, etc.).
Article: “Behind Mitch McConnell’s Supreme Court engineering“ by Brit McCandless Farmer.
Article: “Debbie Wasserman Schultz Resigns in Disgrace, Only to Be Elevated by Clinton to Key Campaign Role“ by Steven Rosenfeld.
Article: “Tom Steyer“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Tom Steyer — you want Trump out? Buy Clear Channel“ by Thom Hartmann.
Hour Two: Liberals are getting really mad and the Democratic establishment - Do we need new leadership that Kicks ass and take name? And embraces genuine progressives?
Article: “Liberal Podcaster Goes Off On ‘P*ssies’ Schumer and Jeffries and Offers ‘Kudos’ to ‘No Kings’ Protester Celebrating Charlie Kirk Death“ by Zachary Leeman.
Article: “Democratic Candidate Opens Up to MSNBC About Getting ‘Nazi Symbol’ Tattoo Removed: ‘I Don’t Want Something Like That On My Body’“ by Charlie Nash.
Article: “The Undoing of George W. Bush“ by Kenneth T. Walsh.
Article: “Graham Platner“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Psaki presses Platner on blaming Democrats: Sounds like shirking ‘responsibility’ “ by Ashleigh Fields.
Article: “Franklin D. Roosevelt“ (FDR) by Wikipedia.
Article: “Lyndon B. Johnson“ (LBJ) by Wikipedia.
Article: “John F. Kennedy“ (JFK) by Wikipedia.
Article: “Karine Jean-Pierre leaves Democratic Party after serving in Biden’s ‘broken White House’“ by Brittany Shepherd.
Site: I’ve had it podcast.
Article: “‘Outraged’ billionaires open up checkbooks in desperate bid to thwart surging Dem“ by Jessica Corbett.
Article: “Totenkopf“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Pegasus (spyware)“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Stingray phone tracker“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “‘This is the Caribbean, peace and love’: Trinidadians on US boat strikes“ by AFP.
Article: “Presidential Emergency Operations Center“ (White House bunker) by Wikipedia.
MTG is having a meltdown on the Johnson and the GOP, “My party won’t tell me the healthcare plan. That’s because they don’t have one. Never did and never will. Wise up!
Article: “Greene says Johnson refused to share health care plans on GOP conference call“ by Ryan Mancini.
Article: “Report: Scalise’s Pitch 20 Years Ago: I’m ‘David Duke Without The Baggage’“ by Matthew Boyle.
Article: ““A lot of the ideas in terms of the (health insurance) exchange, just being able to pool and improve the purchasing power of individuals in the insurance market, that originated from the Heritage Foundation.”“ by Louis Jacobson.
Video: Lawrence: Trump and GOP effectively taking food from Americans as shutdown cuts to food stamps loom.
Article: “What’s in Sanders’ ‘bold’ plan for health care“ by Bernie Sanders.
Article: “Donald Trump Jr.’s Expanding Business: After Joining 2nd New Board, U.S. Contracts Followed(Unusual Machines) by Zach Everson.
Article: “AcreTrader“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “JD Vance Funded AcreTrader. Here’s Why That Matters.“ by Grey Moran.
Article: “JD Vance Owns Company That Sells American Real Estate to Foreign Investors?“ by Alex Kasprak.
Article: “The Hunger Games Begin“ by Paul Krugman.
Article: “Johnson sets record refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva for 36 days after she won election“ by Caitlin Sievers.
Book: “Screwed: The Undeclared War Against The Middle Class“ by Thom Hartmann.
Article: “Thom Hartmann in Hustler Magazine on GOP Double Speak“ (not the issue Thom mentioned) by Thom Hartmann.
Book: The Nazi Mind: Twelve Warnings from History by Laurence Rees.
Article: “Hurricane Melissa leaves trail of devastation in Jamaica as ‘storm of the century’ barrels into Cuba“ by ABC.
Article: “Exclusive: Trump’s demolition of the White House East Wing is nearly complete“ by Chris Geidner.
Article: “The East Wing is gone. Here’s why it’s been called ‘the heart’ of the nation.“ by Roxanne Roberts.
Article: “David Hogg“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “How the audiences of 30 major news sources differ by age“ by Mary Randolph and Elisa Shearer.
Hour Three: Federal Reserve cuts US interest rates by quarter point and halts QT
Article: “Federal Reserve trims US interest rates by quarter point but casts doubt on December cut“ by Claire Jone, Myles McCormick, George Steer and Kate Duguid. (Formerly titled “Fed signals it will halt QT as it cuts rates by a quarter point”).
Article: “Fed cuts rates again as shutdown clouds view of economy“ by Andrew Ackerman.
Article: “Quantitative Tightening (QT)“ by Investopedia.
Article: “Quantitative Easing (QE)“ by Investopedia.
Article: “History of Quantitative Easing in the U.S.“ by ADM.
Fascist Alert. ICE agent pointed gun at America and said, “You’re dead, liberal.”
Article: “ICE Agent Pointed Gun at US Citizen, Said, ‘You’re Dead, Liberal’—Filing“ by Robert Alexander.
Law: “10th Amendment“ “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people“.
Article: “US strikes on ‘Venezuela drug boats’: What do we know, and are they legal?“ by Matt Murphy & Joshua Cheetham.
Article: “Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips. The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches.“ by Eric Lipton, David Yaffe-Bellany, Bradley Hope, Tripp Mickle and Paul Mozur.
Article: “China, UAE hold air force drills in Xinjiang as defense relations grow“ by Adam Lucente.
Article: “Rep. Garcia: Why Did Saudi Government Give Kushner $2 Billion?“ by Robert Garcia.
Article: “Alexei Navalny“ by Wikipedia.
Book: Patriot: A Memoir by Alexei Navalny.
Trump is axing the entire Biden appointed commission to build (or should we say destroy?) new building projects.
Article: “Trump Axes Entire Biden-Appointed Design Commission in Push to Clear Way for Construction Projects“ by David Gilmour.
Article: “What we know about White House plans for an ‘Arc de Trump’“ by Nardine Saad and Kwasi Gyamfi Asied.
Article: “What was Trump convicted of? Details on the 34 counts and his guilty verdict“ by Stefan Becket.
Article: “Trump: “My whole life I’ve been greedy … Now I want to be greedy for the United States”“ by Ezra Klein.
Article: “Unite the Right rally“ (Charlottesville, 2017) by Wikipedia.
Article: “Trump and Biden Debate Trump’s ‘Fine People on Both Sides’ Response to Charlottesville“ by Chad de Guzman.
Article: “Transcript: Jamie Raskin’s Harsh New Takedown of Trump Lays MAGA Bare“ by Greg Sargent.
Article: “Susie Wiles“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Stephen Miller (political advisor)“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Russell Vought“ by Wikipedia.
Video: The Nazi Mind with Laurence Rees.
Video: Campaign 2016: Presidential Candidate Donald Trump at the Family Leadership Summit. “I like people that weren’t captured.”
Article: “Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’“ by Jeffrey Goldberg.
Article: “Donald Trump under fire for mocking disabled reporter“ by BBC.
Article: “List of nicknames used by Donald Trump“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations“ by Wikipedia.
Speech: “Great Society“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “New Deal“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “What Is a Faraday Bag, and Should You Use One?“ by Sydney Butler.
Article: “Airplane mode“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Skull and crossbones (military)“ by Wikipedia.
Quote: “You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.“ - attributed to Abraham Lincoln.
Article: “Koch Brothers’ Political Activism Protects Their 50-Year Stake in Canadian Heavy Oils“ by David Sassoon.
Article: “Tea Party Koch brothers sue Venezuela over $400 million expropriation“ by Latin America Herald Tribune.
Article: “At least 2 historic magnolia trees, Kennedy Garden appear to have been removed to make way for Trump’s White House ballroom“ by Peter Charalambous, Kerem Inal, and Chris Looft.
Law: “Height of Buildings Act of 1910“.