Sue's Daily Stack, The Thom Hartmann Program 08/11/26

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Tuesday’s Daily Stack

Hour One: How Democrats Can Turn Trump’s Corruption Into a Political Revolution
Article: “How Democrats Can Turn Trump’s Corruption Into a Political Revolution“ by Thom Hartmann.
Book: “The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream“ by Thom Hartmann.
Book: “The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America“ by Thom Hartmann.
Post: “It’s so weird how everyone just kind of accepts Trumps a criminal and just go about their day“ by Miaganga.
Article: “A Weakened IRS Has Substantial Consequences“ by The Budget Lab.
Article: “New Report Exposes the Trump Family’s Multi-Billion-Dollar Crypto Empire, Fueled by Self-Dealing and Corrupt Foreign Interests“ by House Judiciary Committee Democrats.
Article: “Cory Aquino – A New Kind of Leader“ by Donella Meadows.
Article: “Israel lobby billionaire praises Kushner for collusion with Netanyahu“ by Ali Abunimah.
Article: “EuroMaidan Revolution“ by Alisa Sobolieva.
Article: “Privatization of Public Education: The Real Weapons of Mass Destruction“ by Gary L Dunbar.
Article: “Summary Report of Evaluation: and Results Car Wash Operation Task Force“ (Brazil) by Federal Public Ministry.
Article: “You elected them to write new laws. They’re letting corporations do it instead.“ by Rob O’Dell and Nick Penzenstadler.
Book: “The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America“ by Thom Hartmann.
Book: “The Prophet’s Way“ by Thom Hartmann.
Article: “Tax Cuts Are Primarily Responsible for the Increasing Debt Ratio“ by Bobby Kogan.
Article: “Russia: Move to label Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation a “terrorist organization” puts thousands in danger“ by Amnesty International.
Article: “Polymarket Iran Bets Draw Fresh Dispute and Insider“ by Emily Nicolle.
Article: “The Federal Elections Commission Is Deadlocked and Needs Reform“ by Daniel I. Weiner.
Article: “Thomas Nast“ (cartoonist) by Britannica.
Article: “FCC chair threatens broadcast licenses amid Trump’s criticism of Iran war coverage“ by Kerry Breen.
Article: “Insider trading? Why well-timed market plays are raising alarms in Washington.“ by Linda Feldmann.
Article: “Red States Target Voters in New Stealth Attacks“ by Jen Rice, Yunior Rivas.
Article: “Conservatives Have Been Packing the Courts for Years“ by Rakim Brooks.
Article: “Dogged by Scandal, Desperate DeSantis Uses DOGE List to Distract From $83 Million Crony Deal, $10 Million Charity Scandal, and $300 Million Detention Crisis“ by Brittany.
Article: “The Square Deal: Theodore Roosevelt and the Themes of Progressive Reform“ by Kirsten Swinth.
Article: “Donald Trump declares the Republican Party the pro-pollution party“ by Gavin Newsom.
Article: “Understanding Regulatory Capture: Definition, Impact, and Examples“ by Will Kenton.
Article: “FCC faces backlash over push to lift media ownership limits amid threats to local journalism“ by Alexis Sterling.
Article: “Giuliani accused of offering to sell Trump pardons for $2 million each in new lawsuit“ by Zoë Richards.
Article: “Capital One says it closed Trump Organization accounts over money-laundering concerns“ by Willem Marx.
Article: “With Trump’s Deal, a Possible $100 Million I.R.S. Penalty Melts Away“ by Russ Buettner.
Article: “Order Shielding Trump Family From I.R.S. Audits Will Remain, Blanche Says“ by Andrew Duehren and Alan Feuer.

Article: “Democrats win back George Santos seat in hotly contested election“ by Emily Ngo and Jeff Coltin.
Article: “How Trump Has Exploited Pardons and Clemency to Reward Allies and Supporters“ by Jeremy Kohler.
Article: “The Biden-Harris Administration Delivers Lower Costs and Better Care For Americans Through the Inflation Reduction Act“ by Protect Our Care.
Article: “Justice Department declined to prosecute Ken Paxton in final weeks of Biden’s term, AP sources say“ by Alanna Durkin Richer, Eric Tucker.
Article: “How Democrats Fight Waste, Fraud, and Abuse“ by Annie Shuppy & Zach Moller.
Article: “Republicans say the EPA’s slow approval of new chemicals is holding back economic growth.“ by Jake Spring, Amudalat Ajasa.
Article: “ICYMI: Whitehouse Spotlights Provision in Trump’s Beautiful-for-Billionaires Bill that Will Ship American Jobs Overseas“ by Sheldon Whitehouse.
Article: “Anna Hazare Biography“ by Who2.
Case: “Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission“ (2010).
Article: “What are your top 5 priorities in order of importance“ by MurielVieuxThePoet.

Article: “1994 Northridge earthquake“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Scores dead in Colombia after powerful earthquake strikes west of country“ by Tom Phillips, and Thomas Graham.
Article: “Abelardo de la Espriella“ (President of Colombia) by Wikipedia.
Article: “Colombia: Trump ally De la Espriella takes office“ by Nik Martin.
Article: “US offers $1bn to Colombia on new right-wing president’s first day of office“ by Ian Aikman and Mimi Swaby.
Article: “Javier Milei“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “2026 Colombian presidential election“ by Wikipedia.

Why Are We Arguing About Socialism Instead Of Fixing Capitalism?
Article: “Memo to Those Who Fear Socialism: Why Don’t You Try Fix Capitalism?“ by Michael Tomasky.

Article: “New Deal“ (1933 - 1939, FDR) by Wikipedia.
Article: “The Economic Bill of Rights“ by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Trump signs Executive Order interfering with childhood vaccine recommendations
Article: “Delivering Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations For Americans“ by Donald J. Trump.
Article: “What effect will Donald Trump’s childhood vaccine recommendations have in the US and beyond?“ by Kat Lay.
Article: “Fact Focus: Trump makes false claims as he signs order urging revisions around childhood vaccines“ by AP.

Geeky Science. 5 Words That Can Cool Down Any Political Argument
Article: “Psychologist Shares 5-Word Phrase for Respectful Disagreements“ by Alani Vargas.

Article: “US suspends avocado inspections in Mexican state of Michoacan due to threat“ by AP.
Article: “List of national parks of the United States“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Trump turns national parks into piggybank“ by Scott MacFarlane.
Article: “Trump dramatically cuts size of two national monuments held sacred by tribes“ by Coral Murphy Marcos.
Article: “Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante signal a new strategy to dismantle public lands, experts say“ by Frederick Dreier.
Article: “Bulldozers roll into Big Bend National Park to build Trump border wall“ by Trevor Hughes.
Movie: “The Wolf of Wall Street (2013 film)“.
Article: “Stockholm syndrome“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Donald Trump’s 4,000+ Lawsuits: A Legal History in Perspective“ by C.Sparks.
Article: “Trump Brags About Groping Women in Vulgar Remarks Caught on Tape, Chalks It Up to ‘Locker Room Banter’“ by Meghan Keneally.
Law: “Taft-Hartley Labor Act“, 1947 (right to work).
Article: “It’s Worse Than You Think for the Middle Class“ by Thom Hartmann.
Event: August 11: Amy Goodman at the Edinburgh Ideas Festival Global Ideas Stage.
Article: “The latest: Evacuation levels scaled back for Spokane area fires as containment levels increase“ by Lexi Herda, Katy Wade.
Article: “Tom Foley“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Project 2025“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Tom Arnold Claims Donald Trump Snorted Adderall on ‘The Apprentice’ Set“ by Daniel Moritz-Rabson.
Article: “Twitter Has Field Day with Don Jr’s Unprompted Insistence That Sniffing Cocaine is ‘Not My Thing’“ by Ken Meyer.

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Hour Two: I Didn’t Realize How Sick America Was Making Me Until I Left It
- John Pavlovitz, writer, pastor, and activist / latest book is “Worth Fighting For: Finding Courage & Compassion When Cruelty is Trending“ / PLUS, John’s new children’s book is “HERE and NOW and SMALL and CLOSE“ / Substack: “The Beautiful Mess by John Pavlovitz“ @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social
Article: “I Didn’t Realize How Sick America Was Making Me Until I Left It“ by John Pavlovitz.
Case: “First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti“, 1978.
Article: “Trump and Putin’s phone calls last for hours because of Russian president’s ‘monologues,’ report says“ by Joe Sommerlad.
Article: “Farewell Radio and Television Address to the American People, January 17th, 1961“ by Dwight Eisenhower. “We pray that peoples of all faiths, all races, all nations, may have their great human needs satisfied; that those now denied opportunity shall come to enjoy it to the full; that all who yearn for freedom may experience its spiritual blessings; that those who have freedom will understand, also, its heavy responsibilities; that all who are insensitive to the needs of others will learn charity; that the scourges of poverty, disease and ignorance will be made to disappear from the earth, and that, in the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love.“
Speech: “Address “The Chance for Peace” Delivered Before the American Society of Newspaper Editors.“ (cross of iron) by Dwight D. Eisenhower. “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.“

Article: “How Democrats Can Turn Trump’s Corruption Into a Political Revolution“ by Thom Hartmann.
Article: “Statecraft“ (statesmanship) by Wikipedia.
Quote: “A politician, for example, is a man who thinks of the next election; while the statesman thinks of the next generation. The politician thinks of the success of his party, the statesman of the good of his country... The difficulty about a politician, no matter how honest and well-intentioned he may be, is always this: that the matter of absolute importance in his mind, to which every thing else must yield, is to carry the next election for his party.“ - James Freeman Clarke.

GOP senator humiliated with clip that will haunt him: ‘Everything you just said is wrong’
Article: “GOP senator humiliated with clip that will haunt him: ‘Everything you just said is wrong’“ by Tom Boggioni.

Is Trump Ending The Arctic Report To Stop The Bad News?
Article: “‘Truly Devastating’: Trump Ends Federal Funding for Key Arctic Climate Report“ by Jake Johnson.

Book: Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt.
Article: “Walter Benjamin“ by Wikipedia.
Quote: “It wasn’t Hitler or Himmler who deported me, beat me, and shot my family. It was the shoemaker, the milkman, the neighbor, who were given a uniform and then believed they were the master race.“ - Karl Stojka.
Article: “2024 United States presidential election“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “August 11, 2026 election results“ by AP.
Article: “6 States to Pilot Prior Authorizations for Original Medicare“ by Elder Law Answers.
Article: “Will democratic socialist Francesca Hong shake up the establishment – or help Republicans win Wisconsin?“ by Rachel Leingang.
Article: “Number of data centers worldwide as of June 2026, by country or territory“ by Statista.
Article: “Nvidia and AMD to pay Trump administration 15% of chip revenue for export licences to China“ by Sky News.
Article: “Top 15 Powerful Offline AI Tools You Can Install Directly on Your System (Open Source)“ by Firethering Team.
Article: “From the Archives: The 1942 Battle of L.A.“ by Scott Harrison.
Article: “Battle of Los Angeles“ by Wikipedia.

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Hour Three: How Many Recalls Does One Trump-Linked Farm Get?
Article: “Taylor Farms Recalls More Vegetables, This Time Over Salmonella“ by Hafiz Rashid.

RFK Jr. Aims At The Food Loophole He Can’t Actually Close
Article: “RFK Jr. is targeting a decades-old loophole allowing chemicals in food supply“ by Rachel Roubein.

Article: “Anger as ICE dances around judge’s demand to reveal polling place plans“ by Jordan Green.

Book: The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy by Gil Durán.
Substack: “The Nerd Reich“ by Gil Durán.
Article: “Biden takes aim at ‘tech industrial complex’ in farewell speech“.
Article: “14th Amendment section 4, July 9, 1868 “The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned.“
Article: “Sharia“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Riba“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “DOJ legal office says Trump’s outside advisers can be shielded by executive privilege“ by Jake Rosen.
Article: “Executive privilege“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Bill Maher“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Politically Incorrect“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Trump says original Gordie Howe bridge deal is dead, contradicting Carney“ by Sean Boynton.
Article: “Sputnik 1“ by Wikipedia.
Law: “National Defense Education Act“ (NDEA, 1965).
Book: Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi.
Quote: “The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit. There it’s they’re exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response.“ - Elon Musk.
Article: “A trumpian oil company wildcats in Greenland with Dr. Phil.“.