Sue's Daily Stack, The Thom Hartmann Program 12/02/25
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Tuesday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: How Many Times Will the Morbidly Rich Crash America Before We Learn?
Article: “How Many Times Will the Morbidly Rich Crash America Before We Learn?“ by Thom Hartmann.
Article: “The Great Secession of the Morbidly Rich Marks a Breaking Point for Democracy’s Survival“ by Thom Hartmann.
Article: “Final Polls, Predictions For Winner of Tennessee Special Election“ by Kate Plummer.
Book: Ages of Discord: A Structural-Demographic Analysis of American History by Peter Turchin.
Article: “The End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites and the Path of Political Disintegration“ by Peter Turchin.
Is This What the Oval Office Has Become, a Conspiracy Content Farm?
Article: “Trump Fires Off Over 160 Truth Social Posts in Frenetic, Late-Night Blitz“ by David Gilmour.
The shocking reason of why Trump pardoned the former Honduran president...
Article: “Krugman’s explanation for Trump’s pardon of the former Honduran president needs prime time attention“ by RETIII.
Article: “Trump to pardon ex-Honduras president convicted of drug trafficking“ by Nadine Yousif.
Article: “Próspera“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Trump calls reporter a ‘stupid person’ during tense exchange about National Guardsmen murder suspect“ by Gabriel Hays.
Article: “Jocelyn Benson“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “NATO considers ‘pre-emptive strikes’ on Russia in the wake of cyber attacks and drone incursions - prompting fury in Moscow“ by Taryn Kaur Pedler.
Polls: “2028 Democratic Presidential Nomination“ by 270towin.
Article: “Trump pardons drug kingpins even as he escalates U.S. drug war rhetoric“ by Brian Mann.
Article: “Trump pardons crypto billionaire Changpeng Zhao“ by Declan Harty.
Article: “List of people granted executive clemency in the second Trump presidency“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Trump pardons Silk Road dark web market creator Ross Ulbricht“ by Christal Hayes.
Article: “Ukraine stuns Russia with strike on THIRD tanker using ‘new weapon’ as WW3 fears erupt“ by John Varga.
Article: “Wag the dog“ by Wikipedia.
Movie: “Wag the dog“.
Article: “Eleven killed as US missile sinks alleged drug boat“ by Holly Bishop.
Hour Two: Venezuela, Russia and Ukraine, Oh My...
- Malcolm Nance, U.S. Intelligence experts / Author or several books including, They Want to Kill Americans (previous: The Plot to Destroy Democracy) @MalcolmNance Substack
Article: “Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all“ by Alex Horton, Ellen Nakashima.
Article: “NOW HEAR THIS: Surprise! SEAL Team Six on Ground in Venezuela“ by Black Man Spy - Malcolm Nance.
Article: “‘Taking the gloves off’: Trump just held the Cabinet meeting from Hell“ by Holly Baxter.
Article: “A timeline of US strikes on boats that have killed 83“ by Michael Rios, Avery Schmitz, Matt Stiles.
Article: “Mark Kelly Claims DoD ‘Didn’t’ Mention Second Strike on Boat During ‘Evasive’ Congressional Brief“ by David Gilmour.
Article: “Pete Hegseth told US soldiers in Iraq to ignore legal advice on rules of engagement“ by Jason Wilson.
Article: “Video of Hegseth ranting about defying ‘stupid rules of engagement’ resurfaced by MS NOW“ by Tom Boggioni.
Article: “‘Oh boy’: Hegseth stuns as he hurls admiral under the bus on bombshell kill order“ by Daniel Hampton.
Article: “Fox’s Brit Hume Says Trump Administration Will Have ‘A Big Problem’ if It Ordered Boat Survivors to Be Killed“ by Michael Luciano.
Article: “White House Claims Trump ‘Has the Authority to Kill’ Survivors of Boat Strikes“ by Jessica Corbett.
Article: “Tren de Aragua“ by Wikipedia.
Site: “Geneva Conventions and their additional protocols“.
Article: “United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Unlawful Orders and Killing Shipwrecked Boat Strike Survivors: An Expert Backgrounder“ by Michael Schmitt, Ryan Goodman and Tess Bridgeman.
Article: “Trump Indicates Intent to Escalate Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza“ by HRW.
Article: “Ukraine Invasion Day 1,382: darn ‘moral clarity’ - citizen Kushner involved in Moscow ‘peace’ talks?“ by annieli.
Article: “Top admiral steps down abruptly amid drug boat strikes“ by Connor O’Brien and Joe Gould.
Article: “Where Mideast Envoy Pitched Peace, His Son Pitched Investors“ by Debra Kamin and Bradley Hope.
Article: “US would control Gaza, displace all its people under new plan: report“ by AFP.
Article: “Collateral Damage: The Frozen Foreign Assets of Middle-Class Russians“ by Yulia Starostina.
Article: “Edward R. Murrow“ by Wikipedia.
Substack: “Katie Couric“.
Substack: “Joy-Ann Reid“.
Article: “Trump wants the death penalty for drug dealers. Here’s why that probably won’t happen“ by Dustin Jones, Devin Speak.
Article: “‘I’d Like to See Them Bleed Out’: Megyn Kelly Gives Violent Response Over Drug Traffickers Being Killed in America’s Boat Strikes“ by Stephanie Kaplan.
The absolute freak show of Trump’s fundraising from his average suckers...er...donors
Article: “Heaven, Tacos, and Tariff Checks: Inside Trump’s 2025 Fundraising Freak Show“ by Dean Blundell.
Article: “Ivanka Trump and Don Jr. ‘knew they were lying’ when hawking condos for Trump’s SoHo building, dramatically increasing figures to lure in more buyers, new book claims“ by Cheyenne Roundtree.
Article: “Trump Tower is actually 10 floors shorter than Donald Trump says it is“ by Dennis Green.
Site: Indivisible.
Site: Progressive Democrats of America.
Article: “Rep. Adam Smith shares his concerns about the U.S. boat strikes near Venezuela“ by Leila Fadel.
Article: “Twitter Has Completed Its Transformation Into a Russian Information Warfare Outlet“ by Heidi Siegmund Cuda.
Article: “Rudy Giuliani said he and Trump were selling pardons for $2m apiece, ex-aide claims“ by Andrew Feinberg.
Post: “Capitalism Sucks“ [cartoon] by Forward USA.
Site: Huck/Konopacki cartoons.
Article: “Good News and Bad News Come with Huck-Konopacki Labor Cartoons’ Latest Book“ by Kathy Wilkes.
Hour Three: The War always comes home, and that’s what happened in DC the day before Thanksgiving
Article: “Locals Say National Guard Shooter Was Imprisoned in Afghanistan After “Zero Unit” Killings“ by Drop Site News.
Article: “National guard shooting suspect spent ‘weeks on end’ in isolation, emails show“ by Lucy Campbell.
Article: “Fact check: Trump delivers long list of false claims at Cabinet meeting “ by Daniel Dale.
Quote: “As a matter of fact, in interviews in 1999 with respected journalist, and long time Bush family friend, David Herskowitz, then Governor George Bush stated: ‘One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander-in-chief. My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it. If I have a chance to invade... if I had that much capital, I’m not going to waste it. I’m going to get everything passed that I want to get passed and I’m going to have a successful presidency.” - My Testimony for the Downing Street Memo Hearings“ by Cindy Sheehan, June 16 2005.
Article: “East Coast visitor wanted to check out Portland ICE protest, leaves in handcuffs“ by Sami Edge.
Article: “Kent State Shooting - Causes, Facts & Aftermath“ by History Channel.
Did Trump fantasize about maiming and killing unarmed civilians years ago
- Miles Taylor, Former DHS Chief of Staff / Tech & Security Expert / Author, “A Warning“ by Anonymous and “Blowback“ / Newsletter. Site: defiance.org @MilesTaylor.bsky.social
Article: “NEWS: Trump officials discussed illegal “boat strikes” years ago“ by Miles Taylor.
Article: ““Every damn country” — Trump plots sweeping new travel ban to the U.S.“ by Miles Taylor.
Article: “Trump’s campaign of retribution: At least 470 targets and counting“ by Peter Eisler, Ned Parker, Linda So, Joseph Tanfani.
Article: “In 1974, Goldwater and Rhodes told Nixon he was doomed“ by Dan Nowicki.
Article: “January 6 United States Capitol attack“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “‘Dozy Don’ accused of falling ASLEEP as he closes his eyes during Cabinet meeting“ by Nikki Schwab.
Article: “Drug Entrepreneur Tells His Story From Jail“ (King of Pot, Bruce Perlowin) by Eric Malnic.
Article: “Police killings in U.S. not stopping and Blacks still most victimized“ by Charlene Muhammad.