Sue's Daily Stack, Thursday, 18 September, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Thursday’s Daily Stack
Guest host for Thom today:
- Alex Lawson, President - Social Security Works / Strengthen Social Security @alaw202 @socialsecurityworks.org
Hour One: Free Speech Under Attack: first, Stephen Colbert loses his CBS late night show and now Jimmy Kimmel is "indefinitely suspended" by ABC
Article: "ABC takes Jimmy Kimmel off air over Charlie Kirk comments" by Nardine Saad and Regan Morris.
Article: "Colbert says The Late Show will end after 33 years" by Max Matza.
Article: ""Two Total Losers": After Kimmel, Trump Targets Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers" by Anwesha Singh.
Article: "Nexstar Seals Merger With Tegna in $6.2 Billion TV Mega Deal" by Etan Vlessing.
Article: "Who Is Brendan Carr of the F.C.C.?" by Cecilia Kang.
Article: "Rural hospitals brace for financial hits or even closure under Republicans' $1 trillion Medicaid cut" by Margery A. Beck, Susan Haigh.
Article: "Massie's Epstein discharge petition inches closer to 218 signatures" by Meredith Lee Hill and Nicholas Wu.
Article: "Joe Rogan Slams Kash Patel Over Epstein Files: 'Everyone Knows It Doesn't Make Any Sense' | Video" by Jacob Bryant.
Video: Joe Rogan Experience #2334 - Kash Patel.
Article: "The View" by Wikipedia.
Event: 18 Oct. No Kings Day.
Site: No Kings Day.
Site: The Beat with Ari Melber.
Site: "Indivisible".
Article: "McCarthyism / The "Red Scare"" by Eisenhower Presidential Library.
Article: "Now the UN says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, too. How can western governments still refuse to act?" by Steve Crawshaw.
Article: "United States support for Israel in the Gaza war" by Wikipedia.
Article: "'Got a mission': National Guard continues patrolling DC streets after emergency" by Mark Segraves.
Article: "Viktor Orbán" (Hungary) by Wikipedia.
Article: "South Korea's president removed from office over ill-fated declaration of martial law" by Se Eun Gong.
Site: American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Article: "Brazil's Bolsonaro gets 27-year jail sentence for coup plot" by Rebecca Falconer.
Article: "Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva" by Wikipedia.
Hour Two: the genocide in Gaza and why have so many journalists lost their lives?
- Ryan Grim, Reporter at @DropSiteNews - Author of "We've Got People", "The Squad" and "This Is Your Country On Drugs" @ryangrim.bsky.social
Article: "Drop Site News" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump wraps up UK state visit with remarks on Putin, Gaza and Kimmel" by Christian Edwards, Lauren Said-Moorhouse, Maureen Chowdhury, Elise Hammond and Char Reck.
Article: "October 7 attacks" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Aid driver kills 2 Israelis at Jordan border crossing, authorities say" by Thomson Reuters.
Article: "Gaza Journalist Fund: Support evacuation from Gaza City" by Drop Site News.
Article: "Israel's killing of journalists follows a pattern of silencing Palestinian media that stretches back to 1967" by Maha Nassar.
Article: "Hossam Shabat" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Shireen Abu Akleh" by Wikipedia.
Article: "List of journalists killed in the Gaza war" by Wikipedia.
Article: "ABC agrees to give $15 million to Donald Trump's presidential library to settle defamation lawsuit" by Michael R. Sisak.
Article: "CBS shifts to appease the right under new owner" by David Folkenflik.
Article: "Trump Brokering Deal to Hand TikTok Over to Right-Wing Billionaires Andreessen and Ellison" by Stephen Prager.
Site: Rumble.
Quote: "The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters." - Antonio Gramsci.
Article: "Working Families Party" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Maurice Mitchell (activist)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Saudi Arabia and Pakistan sign mutual defence pact as regional tensions escalate" by Reuters.
Article: "Great Depression" (1930s) by Wikipedia.
Article: "4 of Illinois' past 10 governors went to prison" by Hannah Schmid.
Article: "List of fallacies" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Tu quoque" (fallacy) by Wikipedia.
Hour Three: Finding Joy in a World Going to Hell...
- Brock Butler, singer/songwriter Facebook Youtube, Youtube - band
Article: "Perpetual Groove" by Wikipedia.
Site: Perpetual Groove. Facebook.
Article: "FTC sues Ticketmaster, saying it forces fans to pay more for concerts and events" by Dee-Ann Durbin.
Article: "Protesters arrested for blocking Border Patrol vehicle in Whitefish" by Hailey Smalley.
Article: "US election: Anger over Donald Trump gun rights remarks" by BBC.
Article: "'Everybody on edge': Republicans in Congress want more funding for member security " by Charlotte Scott.
Article: "Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman, husband killed in attack" by Minnesota House of Representatives.
Article: "'I'm Not a Cheap Date': Democrats Make Counteroffer as Shutdown Looms" by Nik Popli.
Article: "Charlie Kirk talks Epstein, urges Trump administration to act" by Avery Lotz, Marc Caputo.