Sue's Daily Stack, Thursday, 17 July, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Thursday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: The Manhood Trap: From Epstein's Island to Musk's Baby Farm — How the Right Redefined Masculinity as Control
Article: "The Manhood Trap: From Epstein's Island to Musk's Baby Farm — How the Right Redefined Masculinity as Control" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Republicans block bill to protect contraception access as Democrats make election-year push" by Mary Clare Jalonick.
Article: "Listen To The Jeffrey Epstein Tapes: 'I Was Donald Trump's Closest Friend'" by Hugh Dougherty.
Article: "The Cold, Dead Hand of Anthony Comstock is about to Fall on America's Women" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "The Dark Side of the Tradwife Movement" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Another Woman Arrested For Her Pregnancy Loss" by Jessica Valenti.
Article: "The History of Women In Real Estate" by MyTallyHome.
Article: "Threats to No-Fault Divorce and its Implications for Violence Against Women" by Kim.
Article: "James Carville blasts Democrats for continuing to alienate men with 'future is female' talk: 'Lecture people too much'" by Alexander Hall.
Article: "Trump Pardons 23 Anti-Abortion Criminals" by NAF.
Article: "The Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988" by Dyana Branchen.
Article: "Women's Rights and the Civil Rights Act of 1964" by Allen Fisher.
Article: "Did the White House help end the Tate brothers travel ban?" by Mike Wendling and Kayla Epstein.
Article: "Republicans' War on Divorce Is Just Christian Nationalism in Disguise" by Patricia Lopez.
Article: "Would God Be So Good" by Barry Friedman.
Article: "JD Vance And Project 2025 Want To Use This 19th Century Law To Ban Abortion—Without Congress" by Alison Durkee.
Article: "Why White Women Won DEI" by Aparna R.
Article: "These Republicans Want More Details Over Handling of Epstein Files" by Sonam Sheth.
Article: "The 199 Most Donald Trump Things Donald Trump Has Ever Said" by Michael Kruse.
Article: "Trump calls Harris 'a beautiful woman.' He didn't mean it as a compliment." by Irie Sentner.
Article: "JD Vance Has a Bunch of Weird Views on Gender" by Laura K. Field.
Article: "A "Striking" Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage" by Kavitha Surana, Lizzie Presser and Andrea Suozzo.
Article: "Could Women Not Do These 9 Things in 1971?" by Dan Evon.
Article: "Judge clarifies: Yes, Trump was found to have raped E. Jean Carroll" by Aaron Blake.
Article: "Did JD Vance say women should stay in abusive marriages?" by Monica Hesse.
Article: "Trump pardons rapper Kodak Black, accused of sexual assault in Florence" by WMBF.
Article: "The Tactics Elon Musk Uses to Manage His 'Legion' of Babies—and Their Mothers" by Dana Mattioli.
Article: "'Get in good trouble, necessary trouble': Rep. John Lewis in his own words" by Joshua Bote.
News... Epstein: How can you call it a hoax? Isn't it always the coverup that nails you? Public broadcasting cuts passed at 2am, and DeSantis diverted hurricane response funds for "Alligator Alcatraz" - what could go wrong?
Article: "'It's a hoax': Trump continues to flail over Epstein files sh-tshow" by Alix Breeden.
Article: "Senate Dems protest committee vote to advance Trump's judicial pick" (Cory Booker) by Hailey Fuchs.
Article: "'Treason': MAGA insider floats 'military tribunal' and execution of Trump foes" by David Edwards.
Article: "Maurene Comey, daughter of James Comey and prosecutor of Jeffrey Epstein, is fired" by Erica Orden.
Article: "US Senate passes aid and public broadcasting cuts in victory for Trump" by Chris Stein.
Article: "Contracts Show Millions of Dollars and Diverted Disaster Resources Were Used to Build DeSantis' 'Alligator Alcatraz'" by Hunter Walker.
Book: "The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger" by Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett.
Site: "The Equality Trust".
Article: "Why Inequality Matters" by My Fair London, Equality Trust.
Article: "Women Now Hold All Top Leadership Positions in Iceland" by Michael Chapman.
Article: "Associated Press barred from Oval Office for not using 'Gulf of America'" by Jenna Amatulli.
Article: "The Florida of Alligator Alcatraz: The state with the most deaths in ICE custody so far this year" by Maye Primera.
Article: "Trump's "Shared Psychosis" Is Destroying the Fabric of Society" (adrenochrome) by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "June Cleaver" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The tea party radio network" by Kenneth P. Vogel and Mackenzie Weinger.
Article: "Well-known right-wing influencers duped to work for covert Russian operation, U.S. prosecutors say" by Alan Suderman, Ali Swenson.
Article: "Gerrymandering" by Wikipedia.
Article: "A Guide to Voter Caging" by Justin Levitt.
Article: "U.S. Debt by President: Dollar and Percentage" by Hiranmayi Srinivasan.
Hour Two: Ukraine Update
- Phil Ittner, Veteran War Correspondent Kyiv, Ukraine & host of the 'On the Edge' podcast @ittnerphilip.bsky.social Youtube
Article: "Russia tightens its stranglehold on Ukraine battlefield as Trump gifts Putin 50-day window" by Nick Paton Walsh, Lauren Kent and Svitlana Vlasova.
Article: "Russia's military casualties top 1 million in 3-year-old war, Ukraine says" by Illia Novikov.
Article: "Russia may face Trump tariffs in 50 days, what does US import from Russia?" by Alex Kozul-Wright.
Article: "Donald Trump asked Volodymyr Zelenskyy if Ukraine could hit Moscow, say people briefed on call" by Christopher Miller, Henry Foy, Max Seddon, Lauren Fedor.
Article: "Trump and the 'Madman Theory'" by Moncrieff.
Article: "Bonus Army" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Hoarding disorder" by Wikipedia.
I told you rich people love recessions and stock market crashes: here's the proof
Article: "Morgan Stanley says wealthy clients 'bought the dip' amid tariff turmoil" by Simon Foy, Joshua Franklin.
Article: "Pump and dump" by Wikipedia.
Crazy Alert! Who is Fox-so-called-News more afraid of? Trump? Or MAGA?
Article: "Newsmax Host Claims Fox News Is 'Terrified' Epstein Reporting Will 'Piss Off' Trump" by David Gilmour.
Article: "Fox News Hosts Pretend the Biggest MAGA Story — The 'Epstein Hoax' — Doesn't Exist" by Colby Hall.
Article: "Newsmax Host Claims Fox News Is 'Terrified' Epstein Reporting Will 'Piss Off' Trump" by David Gilmour.
Article: "In message to colleagues, fired federal prosecutor Maurene Comey says: 'Fear is the tool of a tyrant'" by Alanna Durkin Richer, Eric Tucker.
Article: "Who Are the Richest U.S. Senators?" by Warren Cassell Jr.
Video: Alligator Alcatraz - The Lincoln Project.
Article: "fairness doctrine" by Matt Stefon.
Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).
Book: "Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became "People" - And How You Can Fight Back" by Thom Hartmann.
Case: "Santa Clara County vs. Southern Pacific Railroad", 1886.
Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.
Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978.
Case: "McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission", 2014.
Book: "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" by Thom Hartmann.
Book: "They Thought They Were Free" by Milton Mayer. "First they came for the ... What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise..."
Youtube: "Louise & Thom Hartmann" (songs).
Book: Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump Ph.D.
Hour Three: You will be shocked by the cases dropped the consumer protection watchdog under Trump...or should I rephrase? You should be shocked...
Article: "A look at some cases dropped by the government's consumer protection watchdog under Trump" by AP.
Republicans just destroyed NOAA's ability to predict flash floods! Why are they trying to destroy America? Is it just to pay for tax cuts? Or is there something more nefarious afoot?
Article: "NOAA was developing a tool to help communities prepare for future rainfall. Trump officials stopped it." by Sarah Kaplan.
Article: "Rosie the Riveter" by Wikipedia.
Law: "National Labor Relations Act of 1935" (Wagner Act).
Article: "Quote Origin: When You Are Young, You Have the Face Your Parents Gave You. After You Are Forty, You Have the Face You Deserve" by Quote Investigator.
Article: "Karoline Leavitt Addresses Concerns About Trump's Health After Viral Photo Of His Bruised Hand" by Isaac Schorr.
Article: "Trump, facing MAGA uproar over Epstein files, tries to shift blame elsewhere" by Michelle Stoddart, Alexandra Hutzler, and Lalee Ibssa.
Article: "Why didn't Pam Bondi as Florida AG investigate Jeffrey Epstein?!" by Dean Obeidallah.
Article: "Gorgeous George" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Mark Halperin Reveals That a Blockbuster Trump-Epstein Exposé Is About to Drop" by Isaac Schorr.
Article: "Little Saint James, U.S. Virgin Islands" by Wikipedia.
Article: "A Reminder That Marco Rubio's Brother-in-Law Was a Prolific Cocaine Trafficker" by Naomi Feinstein .
Article: "Book of Esther" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Saul's Attempt to Kill David" by Bible Hub.
Article: "Reinventing Treason: When four illegitimate Republican presidents each abandon democracy" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Preamble to the Constitution of the United States".
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
Article: "Coca-Cola Responds to Trump's Claim It Will Use Cane Sugar" by Jordan King.