Sue's Daily Stack, The Thom Hartmann Program 12/09/25
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Tuesday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: America’s New Political Reality: Trump Decides Which Beliefs Are “Safe”
Article: “America’s New Political Reality: Trump Decides Which Beliefs Are “Legal”“ by Thom Hartmann.
Law: “Fourth Amendment“.
Law: “First Amendment’s“.
Article: “America’s Fourth Amendment Is on Life Support — What Do You Do When Your Government Becomes the Criminal?“ by Thom Hartmann.
Article: “Saturday Report 10/25/25 — Welcome to Trump’s Orwellian Ministry of Mayhem, where truth is optional, chaos is policy & resistance is the only sane response...“ by Thom Hartmann.
Article: “ICE is now the largest federal law enforcement agency in the country. And it has the fewest checks on its power.“ by represent.us.
Article: “ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants“ by Faiza Patel, Matthew Ruppert.
Article: “FBI Making List of American “Extremists,” Leaked Memo Reveals“ by Ken Klippenstein.
Article: “Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators”“ by Ken Klippenstein.
Article: “National Security Presidential Memorandum-7“ by Donald J. Trump.
Is the Supreme Court set to hand more power to Trump?
Article: “US supreme court appears set to back Trump on FTC firing in major expansion of power“ by Shrai Popat, Lucy Campbell.
Article: “‘Grave Danger’: Warnings as Supreme Court Looks Ready to Hand Trump Even More Unchecked Power “ by Julia Conley.
Case: “Humphrey’s Executor v. United States“ (1935).
Case: “Trump v. Slaughter“ (2025).
Fox-so-called-news freaks out over Mamdani telling immigrants their rights - right after Border Agents broke into the fence and entered the yard of the father of the dreamer (in US since a child). He locked his door and waited 2 hours of them to leave.
Article: “Fox News freaks out over Mamdani telling immigrants their rights“ by Oliver Willis.
Article: “Immigration Agents Target Family of Deported College Student“ by Annie Correal.
Article: “Watergate scandal“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Mitt Romney Reveals Most Republicans Didn’t Impeach Trump Because They Feared Violent Attacks from His Supporters“ by Colby Hall.
Article: “Violent Threats Against Members of Congress Spiked as Senate Considered Trump’s Nominees“ by Pema Levy.
Article: “10 Famous Companies That Collaborated With Nazi Germany “ (Hugo Boss, Volkswagen, Fanta, BMW, Kodak, Siemens, IBM, Bayer, Associated Press, Ford) by Khalid Elhassan.
Article: “Nazi book burnings“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Institut für Sexualwissenschaft“ (Institute for Sexual Science) by Wikipedia.
Article: “Transatlantic (TV series)“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “List of countries by life expectancy“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “List of U.S. states and territories by life expectancy“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “How Billionaires Are Future-Proofing Their Homes With Ultra-Luxe Private Bunkers“ by Abby Montanez.
Article: “Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907“ by Wikipedia.
Site: Daily Song.
Article: “Here Are All the Times Trump Attacked Female Reporters in the Last 30 Days“ by Corbin Bolies.
Article: ““Have You No Sense of Decency?”“ by Joseph Welch.
Article: “Trump rips into female reporter as ‘most obnoxious’ and insists he never said he’d release double-tap boat strike video“ (Rachel Scott) by Kelly Rissman.
Article: “Rachel Scott parries by posting video of Donald Trump’s promise to release second strike footage after he called her “the most obnoxious reporter”“ by Natalie Oganesyan.
Article: “Fact check: Trump denies saying something he said on camera five days ago“ by Daniel Dale.
Article: “Associated Press barred from Oval Office for not using ‘Gulf of America’“ by Jenna Amatulli.
Hour Two: Why Are Republicans Calling Control Over Women a Family Value? Misogyny is coming back like it’s fashionable again...
Article: “Republican Women Suddenly Realize They’re Surrounded by Misogynists“ by Michelle Goldberg.
Zelensky is refusing to bow to Trump and Putin
Article: “Zelensky rules out ceding land to Russia, refusing to bow to Putin or Trump“ by Steve Hendrix, Lizzie Johnson and Kostiantyn Khudov.
Video: Thom Hartmann and Phyllis Schlafly on the War on Women’s Paychecks.
Video: Phyllis Schlafly Agrees with Thom Hartmann on Supreme Court!.
Law: “19th Amendment, August 18, 1920. “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.“
Article: “Furious Karoline Leavitt berates Republicans for not praising Trump enough “ by Alexander Willis.
Article: “Critical moment to ramp up support for Ukraine, European allies say“ by Fiona Nimoni.
Article: “European leaders meet Zelensky amid Trump pressure on plan to halt war“ by Steve Hendrix, Lizzie Johnson, Kostiantyn Khudov.
Article: “Social Security Payments Outside the United States“ by SSA.
Bill: “H.R.3069 - Medicare for All Act“ by Pramila Jayapal.
Article: “Sovereign citizen movement“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Republicans push high deductible plans and health savings accounts“ by Noam Levey.
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: “Wag the dog“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Croatian War of Independence“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Strong atmospheric river bringing major flood threat to Oregon, Washington state, Northwest“ by Rob Shackelford.
Article: “How AI is changing warfare“ by Economist.
Article: “How drones have transformed the nature of war“ by Gillian Tett.
Article: “The United States is Falling Behind in Drone Technology“ by William Lawson.
Hour Three: Wyden exposes the folly of the Farmer bailout and tariffs
Article: “Wyden Says Trump’s $12 Billion Farmer Bailout Exposes Folly of ‘Destructive Tariff Spree’“ by Jake Johnson.
Article: ““Gold bar diplomacy”: Swiss politicians call Trump gifts a possible bribe“ by CK Smith.
Article: “Trump hands Milei $20bn lifeline in Argentine currency crisis “ by Melissa Lawford.
Article: “Why US soya bean farmers are upset with Trump’s $20bn Argentina bailout“ by Louis Jacobson.
A dementia vaccine could be real, and some of us have taken it without knowing...SHHH...don’t let RFK Jr know...you might distract him from doing pull-ups at the airport
Article: “A dementia vaccine could be real, and some of us have taken it without knowing“ by Hatty Willmoth.
Article: “RFK Jr and Trump official do pull-ups in bizarre airport press conference“ by Io Dodds.
Article: “Middle-Class Decline Mirrors The Fall Of Unions In One Chart“ by Caroline Fairchild.
Article: “Driver’s licenses in the United States“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Gilded Age“ by Wikipedia.
Law: “Radio Act of 1927“.
Case: “Buckley v. Valeo“, 1976.
Case: “First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti“, 1978.
Case: “Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission“ (2010).
Article: “Marjorie Taylor Greene and 60 Minutes host get heated in tense interview: ‘I am accusing you!’“ by Kelly Rissman.
Article: “Oregon lawmakers voice concern over reports of possible ICE detention facility in Newport, Coast Guard helicopter move“ by KTVZ.
Article: “ICE contractor seeks 200 hotel rooms on Oregon coast for secretive federal plans, Newport mayor says“ by Jonathan Bach.
Article: “Rumor Control: ICE is NOT coming to Waldport resort“ by Waldport, Oregon.
Event: Waldport, Or.: 4pm: Waldport City Council meeting.
Article: “Shingles“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Anencephaly“ (absence of a major portion of the brain, skull, and scalp) by Wikipedia.
Article: “How Hedging Can Help Farmers Reduce Loss From Low Prices“ by Jenny Carleo.
Article: “US farmers face ‘financial calamity’ without extra aid soon, Republican lawmakers say“ by Bo Erickson and Leah Douglas.
Article: “Biden-Harris Administration Makes up to $7.7 Billion Available for Climate-Smart Practices on Agricultural Lands as Part of Investing in America Agenda “ by USDA.
Article: “Industrial Workers of the World“ (IWW, Wobblies) by Wikipedia.
Article: “Pyramid of Capitalist System“ by Wikipedia.