Sue's Daily Stack, Thursday, 21 August, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Thursday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: Culture Is Where Democracy Lives or Dies, Because Politics Always Follows the Story a Nation Tells Itself
Article: "Culture Is Where Democracy Lives or Dies, Because Politics Always Follows the Story a Nation Tells Itself" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Guns, Militarism, and the War on Drugs: The Hidden History of Guns and the 2nd Amendment" by Thom Hartmann.
Book: "Cracking the Code: How to Win Hearts, Change Minds, and Restore America's Original Vision" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Fox News host gets caught in head-scratching 'double standard' against Trump nemesis" by Rachel Cohen.
Video: Why SCOTUS Will Always Side with Trump & the GOP w/ Stephen Spaulding.
Article: "'Shadow Docket' Looms Large at the Supreme Court This Term" by Mark Wolf.
Article: "Shadow docket" by Wikipedia.
Video: Texas House passes GOP redistricting plan; new map heads to State Senate.
Article: "Trump says lawyers are drafting executive order to end mail-in voting" by Joseph Gedeon.
Did you see that Trump's new executive order on voting gives him the power to direct states on which votes to count and which to throw away? Why isn't anybody else talking about this?
Article: "Trump says lawyers are drafting executive order to end mail-in voting" by Joseph Gedeon.
Why I love JB Pritzker but what Newsom is doing is awesome and Joe Scarborough is wrong...
Article: "9 Reasons Why Scarborough Is Wrong About Newsom's Trolling" by Ron Filipkowski.
Article: "The Left Should Consider Pritzker 28" by Noah Berlatsky.
Article: "Read the never-issued Trump order that would have seized voting machines" by Betsy Woodruff Swan.
Movie: "2073".
Article: "This week's Joseph Welch Award" (Smithsonian) by Robert Reich.
Article: "Corrie ten Boom" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Court throws out $500m civil fraud penalty against Donald Trump" by Marina Dunbar.
Hour Two: Ukraine Update
- Phil Ittner, Veteran War Correspondent based in Kyiv, Ukraine & host of the 'On the Edge' podcast @PhilipIttner Youtube
Video: Ukraine Hit By One of Russia's Largest Air Assaults of the Year.
Article: "Editorial: That meeting was sickening. Putin loved it" by The Kyiv Independent.
Article: "European leaders scrambled to shield Ukraine in high-stakes Trump talks – but did they?" by Ashifa Kassam.
Article: "How Paul Manafort Helped Elect Russia's Man in Ukraine" by Simon Shuster.
Article: "Euromaidan" (Maidan Uprising, Ukraine protests 2013-2014) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Zelensky backtracks on law over anti-corruption bodies after protests" by Laura Gozzi.
Article: "A Nobel peace prize for Donald Trump would be ludicrous" by Dr Peter van den Dungen.
Article: "How Russian Money Helped Save Trump's Business" by Michael Hirsh.
Article: "Russia warns 'there will be no peace' and threatens to seize more of Ukraine" by James Knuckey.
Article: "Maginot Line" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Russia says it must be part of international talks on Ukraine's security" by Pjotr Sauer.
Article: "Russia's foreign minister derides 'clumsy' Western efforts on Ukraine war as NATO meets" by Thomson Reuters.
Site: Greg Palast.
Article: "The Founders of This New Development Say You Must Be White to Live There" by Debra Kamin.
Article: "National Guard troops from GOP-led states begin arriving in DC as part of Trump's crime crackdown " by Haley Britzky, Brian Todd.
Did you know Trump just sent three US warships to Venezuela? Can anybody spell "false flag" distraction from Epstein or his fascist takeover of America?
Article: "Why Did Trump Deploy Warships to Venezuela?" by Jim Stewartson.
Article: "Military Preparing Attacks on Mexican Cartels" by Ken Klippenstein.
Article: "Tulsi Gabbard axes nearly HALF of spy agency staff in earthquake 'Deep State' shake-up" by Jon Michael Raasch.
Article: "'Acolyte of an elderly man': Stephen Miller bashed after attacking 'elderly' protesters " by Sarah K. Burris.
Article: "US: Lasting Harm from Family Separation at the Border" by HRW.
Article: "'What a circus': eligible US voters on why they didn't vote in the 2024 presidential election" by Jedidajah Otte.
Article: "Night of the Long Knives" by Britannica.
Article: "Pentagon asks civilian employees to join 'volunteer force' to aid Ice deportations" by Joseph Gedeon and Kira Lerner.
Article: "Rockbridge Network" by Wikipedia.
Article: "PragerU" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump vows to purge 'woke' content from Smithsonian museums" by Elaine Mallon.
Article: "Robert E. Lee" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump to restore Confederate generals like Robert E. Lee to military bases after Biden changed them" by Andrew Feinberg.
Article: "'The perfect target': Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy" by David Smith.
Article: "Child abductions in the Russo-Ukrainian War" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Jeffrey Epstein" by Wikipedia.
Hour Three: What are the most substantive revelations from those tapes regarding Trump—beyond the "closest friend" claim?
- Michael Wolff, Renowned journalist w/columns in Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, USA Today, The Hollywood Reporter & more / best selling author of multiple books including, "Fire and Fury", "Siege", "Landslide", "The Fall" and most recently "All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America". michaelwolffnyc.bsky.social
Article: ""You Can't Make This S— Up": My Year Inside Trump's Insane White House" by Michael Wolff.
Article: "Jeffrey Epstein details close relationship with Trump in newly released tapes" by Edward Helmore.
Article: "Labor secretary Acosta defends Epstein plea deal amid calls for resignation" by Tom McCarthy.
Trump threatens CO over jailing ex-county clerk Tina Peters who tampered with voting machines to prove Trump's "big lie"
Article: "Trump lobs new threat at Colorado authorities: 'I am going to take harsh measures!!!'" by Tom Boggioni.
Article: "Ex-county clerk jailed for tampering with voting machines" by BBC.
Article: "'The perfect target': Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy" by David Smith.
Article: "Child abductions in the Russo-Ukrainian War" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Epstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims Author" by Hugh Dougherty.
Article: "As Trump Seeks Better Ties With Putin, He's Also Calling Lukashenko" by Merhat Sharipzhan, Anna Sous and RFE/RL's Belarus Service.
Article: "2020–2021 Belarusian protests" by Wikipedia.
Video: E. Jean Carroll, the Only Woman to Beat Trump. Why?.
Article: "The Democratic Party Faces a Voter Registration Crisis" by Shane Goldmacher With Jonah Smith.
Article: "Elon Musk hands out $1m checks to voters amid Wisconsin supreme court election race" by AP.
Article: "Was Jeffrey Epstein, superconnector of the rich and powerful, a spy?" by Jacob Shamsian.
Law: "First Amendment to the United States Constitution" "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.".
Article: "Influential US evangelical leader James Dobson dies aged 89" by Bernd Debusmann Jr.
Article: "Democrats Getting Clobbered by GOP in Voter Registration Nationwide, 'Cratering' with New Voters" by Sarah Rumpf.
Site: The Propaganda Professor.