Sue's Daily Stack, Thursday, 25 July, 2024
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Thursday's Daily Stack
Hour One: How Authoritarians Like Trump, Orbán, & Putin Take Down a Free Press
Article: "How Authoritarians Like Trump, Orbán, & Putin Take Down a Free Press" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Conservative groups rail against GOP-sponsored defamation bill in Florida" by Jackson Sinnenberg.
Article: "Hungary's nationalist leader visits Trump at Mar-a-Lago following NATO summit" by Justin Spike, Jill Colvin.
Article: "Hungarian PM Orban threatens journalists – if someone hits us, we will respond, he said" by Atlatszo.
Post: "A big win today in high Florida court against ABC fake news, and liddle' George Slopadopolus. a powerful case!Before you know it, the fake news media will be forced by the courts to start telling the truth. This is a great day for our country. maga2024!" by Donald J. Trump.
Article: "Trump wants to make it easier to sue the media, but that almost definitely won't happen" by Christina Wilkie.
Article: "Russia: Criminal Libel Law a Blow to Free Expression" by HRW.
Article: "Trump Again Blasts Libel Laws, Calling Them 'A Sham'" by Brian Naylor.
Article: "Trump's Lawsuit Against ABC and Stephanopoulos Can Move Forward" by Michael M. Grynbaum.
Article: "Donald Trump: We're going to 'open up' libel laws" by Hadas Gold.
Article: "Viktor Orbán tells CPAC the path to power is to 'have your own media'" by Flora Garamvolgyi.
Article: "Judge says E Jean Carroll allegation Trump raped her is 'substantially true' in court dismissal" by Martin Pengelly.
Article: "Judge declines to dismiss Trump defamation lawsuit against ABC News" by Ed Pilkington.
Article: "Mark Kelly" by Wikipedia.
Article: "2011 Tucson shooting" (Gabby Giffords and others) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Josh Shapiro" by Wikipedia.
Article: "What Kamala Harris really thinks about Israel and Gaza" by Nicole Narea.
Article: "FBI Director Says There's 'Some Question' Over What Struck Trump's Ear" by Josephine Harvey.
Video: Hear Biden's full historic address on leaving 2024 race .
Article: "Transcript: Biden's speech explaining why he withdrew from the 2024 presidential race" by AP.
Article: "AP Declares That 'JD Vance Did Not Have Sex With A Couch' In Fact Check" by Ron Dicker.
Article: "No, JD Vance Did Not Say He Had Sex with Couch Cushions" by Jordan Liles.
Article: "The Associated Press removes a fact-check claiming JD Vance has not had sex with a couch" by Mia Sato.
Project 2025 calls for the imprisonment of enemies - and just who is that? Hmmm.....
Article: "J.D. Vance wrote the foreword to the book of Project 2025 architect Kevin Roberts — and proceeds will benefit his organization" by Madeline Peltz.
Article: "A Jewish couple were rejected as foster parents because of their religion. This is the future Project 2025 envisions" by Rebecca McCray.
Article: "Project 2025 calls for the imprisonment of conservatism's enemies—and all of America is their enemy" by Hunter.
Movie: "Brokeback Mountain".
Book: Maus by Art Spiegelman.
Article: "Trump coins 'Laughing Kamala' nickname—but the joke's on him" by Mark Sumner.
Article: "Gabby Giffords" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Inside Ziklag, the Secret Organization of Wealthy Christians Trying to Sway the Election and Change the Country" by Andy Kroll, Nick Surgey.
Tweet: "The Heritage Foundation has just stated that 64% of the Trump Agenda is already done, faster than even Ronald Reagan. "We're blown away," said Thomas Binion of Heritage, President Trump "is very active, very conservative and very effective. Huge volume & spectrum of issues."" by Donald J. Trump.
Article: "Seven Mountain Mandate" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Paula White" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Mike Johnson" by Wikipedia.
Bible: "The End Has Come" - Ezekiel 7.
Article: "Trump zeroes in on a key target of his 'retribution' agenda: Government workers" by Allan Smith.
Article: "Watch Kamala Harris praise power of educators in speech to teachers union" by Walter Einenkel.
Article: "Detention for Facebook Post Shows the "Clear Dangers" of Hungary's New Emergency Act" by PEN America.
Article: "Belarus" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Sturmabteilung" (Brownshirts).
Article: "Schutzstaffel" (SS) by Wikipedia.
Article: "'Periods for Pence' campaign goes viral, urges women to call Gov. Pence's office and discuss their menstrual cycles".
Site: Heritage Foundation.
Article: "Republican National Committee" (RNC) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Federalist Society" by Wikipedia.
Article: "JD Vance's Elegy Grift" by Thom Hartmann.
Hour Two: Ukraine Update
- Phil Ittner, Veteran War Correspondent in Kyiv, Ukraine & host of the 'On the Edge' podcast @IttnerPhilip Youtube
Article: "Russian stuff blowing up: Another prominent Russian falls out of a window" by quaoar.
Article: "Continued Russian attacks on the energy grid have made Ukraine resort to taking massive amounts of power from neighbouring countries" by Euronews with EBU.
Article: "Which nations have F-16 fighters? Many, and soon Ukraine will have them, too." by Janet Loehrke, George Petras.
Article: "Ukraine set to bolster air power: F-16s, Gripens, and Mirages in focus" by Mateusz Tomczak.
Article: "Russian drone crashes in Nato state Romania during attack on Ukraine" by Daniel McLaughlin.
Article: "Russia may start production of new kamikaze drone - Defense Express" by Daryna Vialko.
Article: "FACTBOX Slovakia, Hungary threaten Ukraine with court fight over blocked oil" by Reuters.
Article: "Ukraine Blows Up the Last of the Floating "Kerch Bridge" Ferries ... The "Slaviyanin"" by Decimus.
Article: "Ukraine Invasion Day 883: Policy contrasts ahead" by annieli.
Article: "No Labels" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Marianne Williamson" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Tracking the 2024 presidential candidates" by NBC News.
Article: "2016 United States presidential election" by Wikipedia.
Quote: "I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong." - Leo Rosten.
Article: "Remarks by Vice President Harris at the American Federation of Teachers' 88th National Convention ".
Article: "How Jeb Bush Stole the 2000 Election for His Brother" by Greg Palast.
Bible: "and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you," - 1 Thessalonians 4:11.
Site: Indivisible.
Article: "Update on the Ohio Voter Purge" by David Pepper.
Article: "Signatures certified: Ohio anti-gerrymandering amendment on its way to November ballot" by Susan Tebben.
Article: "Voter Registration Deadlines" by vote.org.
Quote: "If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other." - Ulysses S. Grant.
Quote: "Leave the matter of religion to the family circle, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contribution. Keep the Church and State forever separate." - Ulysses S. Grant.
Quote: "The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries." - James Madison.
Quote: "Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law" (English Common Law) - Thomas Jefferson.
Quote: "The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know." - Harry S. Truman.
Site: Souls to the Polls Wisconsin.
Article: "In his attacks on the 'childless' left, JD Vance once hyped a plan to give parents more votes" by Ja'han Jones.
Article: "JD Vance Dismissed Kamala Harris As A Childless Cat Lady In 2021" by Jennifer Bendery.
Article: "Pete Buttigieg Destroys J.D. Vance's Ugly "Childless Cat Lady" Smear" by Greg Sargent.
Article: "Kamala Harris' 2 Stepchildren: All About Ella and Cole" by Rebecca Aizin.
Article: "Pete Buttigieg's 2 Children: All About Twins Gus and Penelope" by Rebecca Aizin.
Movie: "The Contender".
Article: "JD Vance accuses Kamala Harris of doing nothing but 'collect a check'" by Natalie Chinn.
Hour Three: Economy grows at 2.8 - Thanks Joe!
Article: "U.S. economy grew at a 2.8% pace in the second quarter, much more than expected" by Jeff Cox.
It's being reported that Trump told nephew to let his disabled son die in 2020
Article: "Trump told nephew to let his disabled son die, then move to Florida, book says" by Martin Pengelly.
Substack: "Mary Trump".
Wisdom School Alert! Why Humanity Has a Deep and Ancient Connection to Water
Article: "Why Humanity Has a Deep and Ancient Connection to Water" by Thom Hartmann.
Site: When We All Vote.
X: "mrspanstreppon".
Tweet: "Hey guys!!! Chip's dug up three more photos of a young J. D. Vance. Wearing a CCCP tee in one & posing on the grass w two men in another. [photos]" by mrspanstreppon.
Tweet: "Bit of trivia - Photo of J. D. Vance experiencing his first official blackout from drinking (for real). Couple more pix of J. D below. [photo]" by mrspanstreppon.
Article: "General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Saab JAS 39 Gripen" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant" by Wikipedia.
Quote: "I Know Only Two Tunes: One of Them Is Yankee Doodle, and the Other Isn't" - Ulysses S. Grant (earlier versions anon).
Article: "JD Vance" by Wikipedia.
Site: "Project 2025: A Trump Dictatorship".
Site: "How Project 2025 Will Ruin Your Life".
Site: "Project 2025 Takedown".
Article: "Clean Air Act (United States) (1963)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Clean Water Act" (1972) by Wikipedia.
Law: "Civil Rights Act of 1964".
Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".
Article: "Changing Partisan Coalitions in a Politically Divided Nation" by Pew Research Center.
Article: "Trump underwent a precautionary CT scan after shooting: Sources" by Aaron Katersky.
Article: "What We Do and Don't Know About Trump's Ear Wound" by Simmone Shah.
Article: "Grounding Mats: Your Questions Answered" by Healthline.
Article: "Oklahoma orders schools to teach Bible 'immediately'" by Bernd Debusmann Jr.
Article: "What the Polls Are Saying After the Trump-Biden Debate" by Chas Danner, Benjamin Hart, and Matt Stieb.
Article: "What Netanyahu Didn't Tell Congress" by Mehdi Hasan.
Article: "Alaska Permanent Fund" by Wikipedia.
Article: "House OKs lifting 40-year-old US ban on oil exports" by Matthew Daly.