Sue's Daily Stack, Thursday, 26 June, 2025

Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show

Thursday’s Daily Stack

Hour One: News...Dear Leader was proud of Hegseth in Iran news briefing or should be call it a media berating briefing? Trump is now limiting intelligence sharing - can we still call it "intelligence?" Surprise - US is ending all overseas democracy programs. Britain's migrant crisis is fueled by Moscow and Guess what!? GOP suddenly realizes voter hate the health care cuts.
Article: "Watch: Hegseth berates news media during briefing on U.S. strikes against Iran" by AP.
Article: "White House to limit intelligence sharing, skip Gabbard at Senate Iran briefing" by Emily Davies, Theodoric Meyer, Dan Lamothe.
Article: "US state department told to terminate nearly all its overseas pro-democracy programs" by Andrew Roth.
Article: "Britain's migrant crisis being fuelled by Putin's Russia and other hostile states in secret plot to destabilise UK" by Martina Bet.
Article: "Republicans suddenly realize voters hate their health care cuts" by Oliver Willis.

Article: "Stagflation" by Wikipedia.

Is Zohran Mamdani Too Extreme? Or Just What NYC Needs?
Article: "Is Zohran Mamdani Too Extreme? Or Just What NYC Needs?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "How Car-Free is New York City?" by Tri-State.
Article: "Were Bankers Jailed In Past Financial Crises?" by Jason M. Breslow.

Video: Royal Guardsmen - Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron.
Article: "Supreme court paves way for South Carolina and other states to defund Planned Parenthood" by Carter Sherman.
Article: "Durbin Statement On Successfully Removing Harmful Judiciary Provisions From Republicans' Reconciliation Bill" by Emily Hampsten.
Article: "They were very nice: Trump hails Iran for giving 'warning' before missile attack on US base" by Economic Times. "Trump recounted that Iran even notified the US about the timing of the attack. "They said, 'We're going to shoot them. Is 1 pm okay?'" he said. "Everybody was emptied off the base so they couldn't get hurt except for the gunners."
Article: "Republican representative's ectopic pregnancy clashes with Florida abortion law" by Edward Helmore.
Book: The Last American President: A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party, and a World on the Brink by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Impeachment" by Wikipedia.
Law: "25th Amendment Section 4" (presidential succession). "Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President."
Article: "Ron DeSantis points to upside for Florida if Zohran Mamdani becomes NYC mayor" by Erin Keller.
Article: "Florida rocked by home insurance crisis: 'I may have to sell up and move'" by Jedidajah Otte.
Article: "DeSantis Signs Bill Banning Rent Control, Preempting Local Zoning Restrictions" by Christian Britschgi.
Quote: "We will take America without firing a shot. We do not have to invade the U.S. We will destroy you from within." - Nikita Khrushchev.
Article: "Billie Sol Estes" by Wikipedia.

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Hour Two: Ukraine Update
- Phil Ittner, Veteran War Correspondent Kyiv, Ukraine & host of the 'On the Edge' podcast @ittnerphilip.bsky.social Youtube
Video: 'Massive' Russian air assault kills at least 6 in Ukraine's capital Kyiv.
Article: "Russian Banks Fear Debt Crisis Is Coming as War Strains Economy" by Bloomberg News.
Article: "How a growing "shadow fleet" poses risks to the economy — and the environment" by Daniel Ackerman.
Article: "Inside an Intricate Shadow Fleet Crossing Russian, Iranian and Venezuelan Sanctions" by Kharon Staff.
Article: "Russian naval ship 'disguised' itself while passing through English Channel" by Ned Davies, Joshua Cheetham & Matt Murphy.
Article: "Blumenthal & Graham's Hard-Hitting Sanctions Bill has Over 80 Cosponsors" by Richard Blumenthal.
Article: "Russian stuff blowing up: Trump says he might send more Patriots to Ukraine" by quaoar.
Article: "There were toe-curling displays of affection towards 'Daddy' Trump at the NATO summit - but like it or not, it worked" by Deborah Haynes.
Article: "'I can see it's upsetting' - Trump asks BBC Ukrainian reporter about her family" by BBC.
Article: "HESA Shahed 136" (drone) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Ukraine war briefing: Russian drone factory attacked, 1,000km away in Tatarstan" by Warren Murray.
Article: "Ukraine Invasion Day 1,219: RU has launched 28,000+ Shahed drones since 2022" by annieli.
Article: "Operation Spiderweb: a visual guide to Ukraine's destruction of Russian aircraft" by Artem Mazhulin, Oliver Holmes, Lucy Swan, Laure Boulinier, Arnel Hecimovic.

Case: "Obergefell v Hodges" (2015) (same sex marriage).

This is what happens - when cops look like criminals...
Article: "ICE impersonations lead to arrests in at least 3 states: Police" by Ashleigh Fields.

Article: "Food desert" by Wikipedia.
Article: "City-Owned Grocery Stores: A Bold Fix for Food Insecurity" by Alicia Esquivel.
Site: Haaretz.
Article: "City of Philadelphia Approves $6.8 Billion 'One Philly 2.0' FY26 Budget" by Mayor Cherelle L. Parker.
Site: Navy Federal Credit Union.
Article: "Army gives shady offer to tech bros so they can play soldier" by Lisa Needham.
Article: "Oliver North" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Citizen Action Holds Congressional Town Hall in Paul Ryan's District (without Paul Ryan)" (with Mark Pocan, 2017) by Citizen Action of Wisconsin.
Site: Fighting Oligarchy Tour.
Article: "Proud Boys" by Wikipedia.
Article: "A Democratic Socialist Smashes Wall Street in New York: What Zohran Mamdani Means for the Anti-Monopoly Movement" by Matt Stoller.
Substack: BIG by Matt Stoller.

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Hour Three: Crazy Alert! Bob Kennedy wants to know what you're doing, what your heart rate is, whether you're warm, having fun? What did you eat? And MAHAs are going crazy....
Article: "RFK Jr's bonkers plan to fit every American with a tracking device as he hunts for causes of cancer, autism" by Luke Andrews.
Article: "John Birch Society" by Wikipedia.
Article: "McCarthyism" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Kennedy's vaccine panel to review childhood immunization schedule " by Sophie Gardner and David Lim.

Law: "2nd Amendment". A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed..
Article: "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Endorses Zohran Mamdani as Top Choice for Mayor" by Nicholas Fandos.
Article: "Bill Ackman pledges to bankroll any NYC mayoral candidate capable of defeating Zohran Mamdani" by Christiaan Hetzner.
Article: "Mayoral election in New York, New York (2025)" by Ballotpedia.

Economic News...Investors on edge about potential shadow fed chair, dollar goes down, "housing" is the worst in decades but not everyone is doomed - the world's richest 1% increased wealth by $33.9 trillion over the last decade....
Article: "Investors on Edge About a Potential Shadow Fed Chair" by Andrew Ross Sorkin, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Danielle Kaye and Vivienne Walt.
Article: "No love for the dollar as markets fret about Fed independence" by Dhara Ranasinghe and Linda Pasquini.
Article: "Housing market set for the 'worst year in decades,' says Meredith Whitney" by Nora Redmond.
Article: "World's richest 1% increased wealth by $33.9 trillion since 2015, Oxfam says" by Kelsey Ables.

Article: "Ice frees mother and three kids after protests in US 'border czar's' home town" by Marina Dunbar.
Article: "Trump's 51st state vision—what it would mean for Canada and the U.S." by Jason Clemens and Niels Veldhuis.
Article: "Vermont Governor Phil Scott addresses recent immigrant detentions " by WAMC.
Article: "David Hogg" by Wikipedia.
Article: "ICE Bounties? No. But the Fear Is Real." by The Coffman Chronicle.
Site: Dr. Joe's Covid and Science Newsletter.
Article: "Why are measles and other "eradicated" infectious diseases coming back?" by Anthony L. Komaroff, MD.
Article: "Common cold" by Wikipedia.
Article: "2025 shootings of Minnesota legislators" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Minnesota's slain Democratic leader lived the political divisions in the US every day" by Steve Karnowski And John Hanna.