Sue's Daily Stack, Thursday, 22 May, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Thursday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: When the Tyrant Slips: Why America Should Fear a President Who's Losing the Plot - and the Polls
Article: "When the Tyrant Slips: Why America Should Fear a President Who's Losing the Plot — and the Polls" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "What really happened in Florida?" by BBC.
Article: "Gabbard's sympathetic views toward Russia cause alarm as Trump's pick to lead intelligence services" by David Klepper, Ellen Knickmeyer And Edith M. Lederer.
Article: "DOJ Funding Update: A Deeper Look at the Cuts" by CCJ.
Article: "Understanding Threats to Public Officials" by Peter Simi, Christopher Bader, Seamus Hughes.
Article: "America has Ignored GOP Crimes to Seize the White House Long Enough - It's Time to Put this One in Prison" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Bombing Helps Clinton Approval Rating Rise To 56%" by AP.
Article: "How Russia Blundered into Chechnya" by John B. Dunlop.
Article: "The Perils of Counterinsurgency: Russia's War in Chechnya" by Mark Kramer.
Article: "FBI field offices ordered to shift agents to immigration crackdown" by Ken Dilanian and Ryan J. Reilly.
Article: "F.B.I. Director Walks Back Concerns About Trump Budget Cuts" by Devlin Barrett.
Article: "Killing Grants That Have Saved Lives: Trump's Cuts Signal End to Government Work on Terrorism Prevention" by Hannah Allam.
Article: "Trump administration plans to downsize US spy agencies, Washington Post reports" by Reuters.
Article: "Florida's flawed "voter-cleansing" program" by Gregory Palast.
Article: "Lapid: Netanyahu was briefed on dangers ahead of Oct. 7, ignored 'all red flags,' must go" by Sam Sokol, David Horovitz.
Article: "Trump administration cuts national database tracking domestic terrorism" by Ellie Silverman.
Article: "Trump executive order ends National Law Enforcement Accountability Database, which he proposed creating in 2020." by Elizabeth Dwoskin.
Executive Order: "Strengthening And Unleashing America's Law Enforcement To Pursue Criminals And Protect Innocent Citizens" by Donald J. Trump.
Article: "'Cue The Meltdown': Wall Street Journal Exposes Trump's 'Biggest' Mistake In Decades" by Ed Mazza.
Article: "American Revolutionary War" (1775 – 1783) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Native American genocide in the United States" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Chinese Immigration and the Chinese Exclusion Acts" by Office of the Historian.
Article: "Price tag for Trump's military festival could reach $45 million" by Olivia George.
News...GOP passed their theft from the poor to the rich bill, Trumps gets all racist with South African prez, and Trump took to Qatari jet bribe.
Article: "'Madam Chair, I brought the data': Dem shames GOP colleagues' 'trash bill' to their faces" by Daniel Hampton.
Article: "'Call This What It Is—Theft': Republicans Approve Largest Medicaid, SNAP Cuts in US History " by Jake Johnson.
Article: "The GOP's Chaotic Bid to Defang the Courts" by Jacob Knutson.
Article: "UK calls for investigation after IDF fired warning shots as British diplomats travelled through West Bank" by Sky News.
Article: "Joint statement from the leaders of the United Kingdom, France and Canada on the situation in Gaza and the West Bank".
Article: "CBO Report Shows Trump-GOP Bill Would Spur Unparalleled Wealth Transfer From Poor to Rich" by Jake Johnson.
Article: "Trump gets real racist and awkward with South African president" by Oliver Willis.
Article: "Musk's AI Grok bot rants about 'white genocide' in South Africa in unrelated chats" by Dara Kerr.
Article: "Trump took the Qatari jet bribe. Most voters have a problem with that" by Alex Samuels.
Article: "Man accused of killing Israeli Embassy staffers in DC charged with murder" by Alex Marquardt, Gabe Cohen, Holmes Lybrand, Jessie Yeung, Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, Kaanita Iyer, Lex Harvey, Teele Rebane, Lauren Kent, Shania Shelton, Elise Hammond, Aditi Sangal and Tori B. Powell.
Article: "Killing of Brian Thompson" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Murder of David Dorn" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Students for a Democratic Society" (SDS) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Weather Underground" by Laura Lambert.
Article: "Minneapolis Police Reportedly Identify Viral 'Umbrella Man' As White Supremacist" by Rachel Treisman.
Article: "Kyle Rittenhouse" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Reagan tax cuts" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Turning Qatari 747 into Air Force One could cost $1 billion and take years, experts say" by Dan De Luce, Tom Winter, Laura Strickler, Courtney Kube and Gordon Lubold.
Article: "Judge imposes $364 million penalty in Trump's New York civil fraud case" by Michael R. Sisak, Jake Offenhartz, Jennifer Peltz.
Substack: "Greg Palast".
Video: User Clip: Trump Talking About Elon Musk Knowing About Voting Computers.
Site: Election Truth Alliance (Youtube).
Hour Two: Ukraine Update
- Phil Ittner, Veteran War Correspondent Kyiv, Ukraine & host of the 'On the Edge' podcast @PhilipIttner Youtube
Article: "Russia massing troops on Ukraine border—again, Kyiv warns" by Yevheniia Martyniuk.
Article: "Russian forces strike Kramatorsk in Donetsk region with drone: Damage reported" by Kateryna Shkarlat.
Article: "Casualties of the Russo-Ukrainian War" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Ukraine-Russia war latest: Trump says 'Putin not ready to end war' while Zelensky vows Kursk fight continues" by Arpan Rai, Tom Watling.
Article: "Former Ukrainian politician shot dead outside his children's school in Madrid" by Ashifa Kassam.
Article: "Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal" by Wikipedia .
Article: "The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement" (Heritage Foundation - Project Esther) by Katie J.M. Baker.
Article: "Kent State shootings", May 4, 1970 by Wikipedia.
Wyden is exposing which phone carriers don't notify you about government surveillance - Say what?!
Article: "Wyden Exposes Which Phone Carriers Don't Notify Customers About Government Surveillance " by Jessica Corbett.
Article: "Pete Hegseth Leads Christian Prayer Service in the Pentagon" by John Ismay.
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: "Trump's 'big, beautiful' spending bill, from tax cuts to mass deportations" by Chris Stein.
Article: "Trump Giving Golden Visas To El Chapo's Ex Wife And 16 Of Their Family Members Now" by Marcie Jones.
Article: "Son of former Mexican Drug Lord 'El Chapo' reaches plea deal" by Ethan Illers.
Article: "US Marines descend on the border in bid to secure crossing with Mexico as Trump's deportations ramp up with plane full of handcuffed migrants landing in Brazil (and there's not a woman or child among them)" by Natasha Anderson.
Article: "Litio 2040: Sustainably Developing Mexico's Lithium from Ground to Grid" by Keith Lema.
Article: "Chilean nationalization of copper" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Nationalization of the Iranian oil industry" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The Nationalization of the Iraqi Petroleum Company" by Michael E. Brown.
Article: "Trump fires top US military officers - including America's most senior commander" by Sky News.
Article: "Qatar crisis: What you need to know" by BBC.
Article: "The Fiscal and Economic Effects of the Revised April 9 Tariffs " by The Budget Lab at Yale.
Article: "Global trade forecast drops; Section 232 tariffs set to intensify" by Inga Fechner.
Article: "Fact-checking Trump's Oval Office confrontation with Ramaphosa" by Peter Mwai, Matt Murphy, Jake Horton & Joshua Cheetham.
Video: 'I Don't Have Plane To Give': South Africa's Ramaphosa Mocks Qatar's Jet Gift On Trump's Face.
Article: "South Africa's president is praised for staying calm during Trump's Oval Office ambush" by Kate Bartlett.
Article: "Elon Musk Wins Exception to Black Ownership Rule in South Africa" by Malcolm Ferguson.
Hour Three: How the Trump administration is deceiving us
Article: "Official Pushed to Rewrite Intelligence So It Could Not Be 'Used Against' Trump" by Charlie SavageJulian E. Barnes and Maggie Haberman.
Article: "What are 34 felony charges against Trump, and what do they reveal?" by Anthony Zurcher.
Article: "Donald Trump/Billy Bush leaked video: Full transcript - read the full sexist exchange here" (access hollywood tape) by Melanie Ehrenkranz.
Law: "Alien Enemies Act" (1798).
Article: "US 'illegally deported' Vietnamese and Burmese migrants to South Sudan" by Guardian.
Article: "Busted: Trump admin eyed fabricating MS-13 'leader' label to justify wrongful deportation" by Matthew Chapman.
Article: "Justice Department fires immigration lawyer who argued case of mistakenly deported man" by Evan Perez.
Article: "Hungary considering law to ban groups seen as threat to national sovereignty" by Ashifa Kassam.
Article: "Judge warns US deportations to South Sudan may breach court order" by Ali Abbas Ahmadi.
Article: "ADL H.E.A.T. Map" (Hate, Extremism, Antisemitism, Terrorism) by ADL.
Article: "Southern Poverty Law Center" (SPLC) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Gun Silencers, Tanning Beds And Other Weird Stuff Tucked Into The GOP's Tax Bill" by Jennifer Bendery.
Article: "Proposed Federal Budget Could Affect Student Loan Borrowers—What To Know" by Elizabeth Guevara.
Article: "Syria offered to build Trump Tower in Damascus before presidents' meeting" by Timour Azhari, Humeyra Pamuk.
Audio: The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell - May 20 | Audio Only.
Book: The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout.
Book: Narcissism Explained: Discover the hidden signs and how to break free from toxic relationships, even if you still feel attachment! by Dr Onix.
Substack: "The Good in Us" by Mary L. Trump.
Article: "New Deal" by Wikipedia.
Speech: "Great Society" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Powell Memo".
Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.
Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978.
Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).
Case: "McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission", 2014.
Article: "Lincoln Rejects the King of Siam's Offer of Elephants" by Abraham Lincoln.
Article: "Washington's Swords" by Mount Vernon.
Article: "Hoping to get Trump's attention, small business buys millions in cryptocurrency: "We thought it was worth it"" by Nancy Cordes, Madeleine May, Kerry Breen.
Article: "Alarm as Florida Republicans move to fill deported workers' jobs with children: 'It's insane, right?'" by Richard Luscombe.
Article: "Business jet with 6 on board hit power lines before fatal crash in San Diego neighborhood" by Chelsea Bailey, Aaron Cooper, Pete Muntean, Alaa Elassar, Stephanie Elam, Matthew J. Friedman.