Sue's Daily Stack, Thursday, 12 June, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Thursday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: Trump Is Preparing the Military for Political War—And He’s Using a Confederate Traitor to Do It
Article: "Trump Is Preparing the Military for Political War—And He's Using a Confederate Traitor to Do It" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Robert E. Lee" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Wesley Norris" by Sue Eisenfeld.
Article: "Trump says he will 'liberate' Los Angeles in speech to mark the 250th anniversary of the Army" by Chris Megerian, Michelle L. Price.
Article: "When And Why Did America Stop Teaching Civics?" by Sandra Day O'Connor Institute for American Democracy.
Article: "Fact check: Trump makes multiple false claims to the troops at Fort Bragg" by Daniel Dale.
Article: "Rhetoric and Symbolic Politics: President Reagan's School-Reform Agenda" by William Lowe Boyd.
Article: "Directive 1344.10: Political Activities by Members of the Armed Forces" by DoD.
Article: "Bragg Soldiers Who Cheered Trump's Political Attacks While in Uniform Were Checked for Allegiance, Appearance" by Konstantin Toropin and Steve Beynon.
Transcript: "Trump Speaks at Fort Bragg" by REV.
Article: "This MAGA-led California city council just lost its fight on banned books" by Anabel Sosa.
News - Predator drones deployed in LA? ICE brutally ram car & tear gas car with young children - to grab citizen off the street, FL tries to replace farm workers with 14 year old American children. FL says they're not too young to work overnight shifts. I'm not making this up!
Article: "Predator Drone Overwatch in LA Sparks Outrage: Is Trump Testing Martial Law Tactics in Blue America?" by Jose Enrico.
Article: "Alex Padilla says FBI escorted him to Noem press conference before he was wrestled to the ground for interrupting" by Joe Sommerlad.
Article: "ICE agents ram car to take man into custody in Boyle Heights" by KABC.
Article: "US immigration raid of Omaha meat plant cuts staff, fuels food production worries" by Tom Polansek.
Article: "ICE agents chase after farmworkers as they flee fields during latest raid in Ventura County" by Sid Garcia.
Article: "Florida's Plan to Replace Migrant Workers With Children Falls Apart" by Khaleda Rahman.
Video: Legacy Management Demolishes Decommissioned Nuclear Reactor in Piqua, Ohio.
Article: "The 'hydrogen economy' is coming. What does that mean for Ohio? " by Adriana Martinez-Smiley.
Article: "Devin Nunes" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Red Cities, Blue Cities, and Crime" by Michael Lewyn.
Article: "Sisyphus" by Wikipedia.
Site: Progressive Voices (incl. Mike Malloy).
Article: "The Silence of the Generals" by Tom Nichols.
Article: "Trump admin tells immigration judges to dismiss cases in tactic to speed up arrests" by Julia Ainsley.
Article: "New York Times: Daughters of foot doctor say he diagnosed Trump with bone spurs as 'favor' to Fred Trump" by Veronica Stracqualursi.
Article: "Scoop: Esper says Trump wanted to shoot protesters" by Mike Allen.
Article: "Top US general rejected Trump suggestions military should 'crack skulls' during protests last year, new book claims" by Zachary Cohen.
Article: "Trump fires top US military officers - including America's most senior commander" by Sky News.
Hour Two: Ukraine Update
- Phil Ittner, Veteran War Correspondent Kyiv, Ukraine & host of the 'On the Edge' podcast @ittnerphilip.bsky.social Youtube
Article: "Helping Save Kyiv From Drones: Volunteers, Caffeine and Vintage Guns" by Constant Méheut and Daria Mitiuk.
Article: "Ukraine-Russia war latest: Kyiv attacks Russian drone factory while EU calls for tougher sanctions on Moscow" by Alisha Rahaman Sarkar.
Article: "Ukrainian cyberattack cripples major internet provider in Siberia on Russia Day" by TVP World.
Article: "Russia’s military casualties top 1 million in 3-year-old war, Ukraine says" by Illia Novikov.
Article: "Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, June 12, 2025" by Daria Novikov, Grace Mappes, Olivia Gibson, Anna Harvey, Jennie Olmsted, Jessica Sobieski, and Kateryna Stepanenko.
Article: "China unveils a new aircraft capable of deploying hundreds of drones simultaneously" by National Security News.
Article: "Drone Show Sets Guinness Record at Expo 2025" by Kim Bergström.
Article: "Operation Spiderweb: a visual guide to Ukraine's destruction of Russian aircraft" by Artem Mazhulin, Oliver Holmes, Lucy Swan, Laure Boulinier, Arnel Hecimovic.
Video: Brig. General Peter Zwack (ret.) & What "Spiderweb" means for Russia (On the Edge, Episode 50).
Video: Ivan Stupak & Ukrainian Intelligence Agency, the SBU's success in Operation Spiderweb (Episode 51).
Video: McConnell asks Hegseth about support, aid to Ukraine at Senate hearing.
Article: "Ukraine blasts Russia Day well-wishers as Rubio sends greetings to Moscow" by Yurii Stasiuk .
Article: "US to cut military aid to Ukraine, Hegseth says" by Abbey Fenbert.
Article: "Tulsi Gabbard warns of nuclear threat in social media video" by Beatrice Peterson.
Article: "Ukraine Invasion Day 1,205: RU attempting to rhetorically split UKR from its Western partners" by annieli.
Article: "Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,204" by Al Jazeera.
Article: "Sanctuary city" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Texas governor orders national guard to deploy for protests in San Antonio" by Edward Helmore.
Is Trump's brutality causing his approval to tank?
Article: "‘Oof…Just Bad Stuff All Around’: CNN’s Data Guru Shocked by Trump’s Brutally Low New Approval Rating" by Sarah Rumpf.
Article: "Request For 'Seat Fillers' at Trump's Military Parade Comes Under Scrutiny" by Theo Burman.
Post: "This posting has been flagged for removal." by Craig's List.
Welcome to America's new vaccine committee...
Article: "RFK Jr. names some vaccine critics to key CDC committee after ousting entire panel" by Annika Kim Constantino.
Article: "RFK Jr. names new slate of vaccine advisers after purging CDC panel" by Will Stone, Pien Huang.
Article: "Great Barrington Declaration" by Wikipedia.
Article: "2025 Trump–Zelenskyy Oval Office meeting" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The Fort Bragg Fiasco" by David Pepper.
Site: Free Speech TV.
Bible: "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you." - Matthew 7:7.
Movie: "The Seventh Cross".
Article: "Powell Memo".
Article: "Ginni Thomas" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Fox settles Dominion lawsuit for $787.5 million over US election lies" by Reuters.
Article: "1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre" by Wikipedia.
Hour Three: Let's be clear on this. America now has concentration camps - this is how it happens. It slipped right in unannounced - yet have you heard anyone label it concentration camps?
Article: "Families arrested in LA Ice raids held in basements with little food or water, lawyers say" by Maanvi Singh.
Article: "Trump to ramp up transfers to Guantánamo, including citizens of allies" by John Hudson, Alex Horton.
Article: "Army Launches Review Into Trump Merch Being Sold at Military Base" by Isabel van Brugen.
Article: "Guantanamo Bay detention camp" by Wikipedia.
Article: "1990 report: Ivana Trump told her lawyer Donald Trump kept Hitler speeches beside bed" by CNN.
Article: "Kamala Harris won the U.S elections: Bombshell report claims voting machines were tampered with before 2024" by The Economic Times.
Article: "The Economic Bill of Rights" by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Book: Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present by Ruth Ben-Ghiat.
Article: "Vance made a brief trip to Montana to speak to Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, AP sources say" by Michelle L. Price.
Article: "Is it legal to run over protesters in Florida? How to stay safe at 'No Kings' protests" by C. A. Bridges, Samantha Neely.
Article: "Charles Rangel" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The long, dark history of Donald Trump’s pledge to be a ‘law and order’ president " by Chris Cillizza.
Article: "1967 Detroit riot" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Sen. Alex Padilla is forcibly removed from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's news conference in Los Angeles" by Rebecca Shabad, Jacob Soboroff and Zoë Richards.
Article: ""Public Sentiment Is Everything": Abraham Lincoln and the Power of Public Opinion" by Allen C. Guelzo.
Article: "McCain hated Obamacare. He also saved it." by Emmarie Huetteman.
Apologies for the delay.