Sue's Daily Stack, Thursday, 31 July, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Thursday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: The Cruelty Machine: Inside Trump's America, Where Pain is Policy & Fear is the Fuel
Article: "The Cruelty Machine: Inside Trump's America, Where Pain is Policy & Fear is the Fuel" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: ""We'll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out"" by Nicole Foy and McKenzie Funk.
Article: "Georgia detainee with prosthetic legs who objected to flooded cell sent to solitary" by Timothy Pratt.
Article: ""Cried every night": ICE detains child with leukemia" by Russell Payne.
Article: "Gestapo" by Wikipedia.
Video: Trump's Cruelty Machine - Where Pain is Policy & Fear is the Fuel.
Article: "The Economic Bill of Rights" by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Site: End The Bribe System (bumper stickers, etc.).
Article: "One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism" by Mobilize.us.
Article: "Lawmakers want to stop hedge funds from buying up houses" by Joe St. George.
The word Gestapo literally means "state secret police". That's what we have now with ice. And the guys who are deported to El Salvador are starting to speak out about the horrors of what they experienced
Article: "'God, why am I here?' Flight attendants cried as Trump deportees beaten on planes" by ProPublica.
Article: "Trump's "big, beautiful bill" gives ICE unprecedented funds to ramp up mass deportation campaign" by Camilo Montoya-Galvez.
Article: "Scientist detained at SFO for over a week, left sleeping in chair" by Lester Black.
Grifter Trump strikes again - this time with the G20
Article: "Trump privately discussing plans to host G20 at his Doral resort, White House official says" by Alayna Treene.
New evidence...Was Epstein's jail video manipulated?
Article: "CBS News investigation of Jeffrey Epstein jail video reveals new discrepancies" by Dan Ruetenik.
Article: "Mystery orange shape spotted near Jeffrey Epstein's jail cell the night before his death: report " by Anna Young.
Article: "Immigration and Customs Enforcement" by USA Jobs.
Article: "Jen Psaki: Loyalty above all else: Trump stacks DOJ with former personal attorneys" by Jen Psaki.
Article: "Democratic senators introduce bill to prohibit Ice agents from wearing masks" by George Chidi.
Article: "Trump Administration Fires More Immigration Court Judges: Union" by Fed Agent.
Article: "Magnitude 4.3 earthquake rattles Southern California with shaking reported in Los Angeles" by Brian Donegan.
Substack: "LookingNWords" by Rohn Kenyatta.
Hour Two: Ukraine Update
- Phil Ittner, Veteran War Correspondent based in Kyiv, Ukraine & host of the 'On the Edge' podcast @PhilipIttner Youtube
Article: "Kyiv toll rises to 16 as wave of Russian strikes defies Trump ceasefire demand" by Jonathan Beale, Paul Kirby.
Article: "Russia says it has captured two villages in Ukraine, Kyiv reports heavy fighting " by The Straits Times.
Article: "One million and counting: Russian casualties hit milestone in Ukraine war" by Pjotr Sauer.
Article: "Trump sets new deadline of 10 or 12 days for Russia to act on Ukraine" by Andrew Macaskill and Andrea Shalal.
Article: "Rage as Putin ally turns Trump's own insult against him: Tell him 'to watch his words!'" by Adam Nichols.
Article: "How India Became One of the Biggest Buyers of Russian Oil" by Alex Travelli.
Article: "Trump promised Patriots for Ukraine. Now Europe has to provide them" by Gram Slattery, Mike Stone, Jonathan Landay and Steve Holland.
Article: "Ukraine war briefing: Kremlin says it has 'immunity' to US sanctions as Trump deadline looms" by Guardian.
Article: "Russian stuff blowing up: Earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes, oh my!" by quaoar.
Article: "Democracy's Hidden Guardians: The Shadow Cabinet That Could Save America from Billionaire Rule" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Dale Bredesen, MD" by Pacific Neuroscience Institute.
Are you seeing the price increase as the tariffs hit home?
Article: "Price increases arrive from P&G, Adidas, others as tariffs hit home" by Nathan Bomey.
There's a new Social Security threat...
Article: "'Whoa!' MSNBC panel pounces on Trump administration's new Social Security threat" by Tom Boggioni.
Book: Agrarian Justice by Thomas Paine.
Site: "The Big List of Protests".
Site: Indivisible.
Site: 50501.
Event: August 2: Rage against the Machine.
Article: "Pelosi: Texas's proposed House lines 'undermining the diversity that we need' in Congress" by Tara Suter.
Article: "Newsom ramps up California redistricting threat as Texas weighs new Republican maps" by Alexei Koseff.
Article: "Third Way" by Wikipedia.
Site: Progressive Caucus.
Site: "Problem Solvers".
Executive Order: "Ending Crime And Disorder On America's Streets" by Donald J. Trump.
Book: Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder: Savage Solutions by Michael Savage.
Article: "Homelessness Rises Faster Where Rent Exceeds a Third of Income" by Zillow Research.
Article: "U.S. Has World's Highest Incarceration Rate" by Paola Scommegna.
Article: "Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: 'You've got no rights.' He secretly recorded his brutal arrest" by Clare Considine.
Site: ProPublica.
Article: "Wholesale Prices Stayed Steady in June" by NAM.
Hour Three: The tower that tells the truth...There was a time—imperfect, often hypocritical, but real—when American foreign policy tried to be about more than the flag, the dollar, or the deal. It was the era of what we called "democracy promotion."
- Jason Egenberg, Movie & TV Producer/Writer.
Article: "The Tower That Tells The Truth" by Jason Egenberg.
Article: "Dachau concentration camp" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Auschwitz concentration camp" by Wikipedia.
Article: "1989 Tiananmen Square protests" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Peace Corps" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Kari Lake" by Wikipedia.
Article: "United States Agency for International Development" by Wikipedia.
Site: "Project 2025".
Video: Ana Makes Eye-Opening Appearance On Tucker Carlson's Show.
Events: WV, NC: Aug 9-10Bernie's Fighting Oligarchy Tour.
Climate Change Alert! Severe turbulence forces Delta plane to make emergency landing after 25 passengers injured - are you ready for the doubling or tripling in the amount of severe turbulence?
Article: "Severe turbulence forces Delta plane to make emergency landing after 25 passengers injured" by Guardian.
Article: "Why plane turbulence is becoming more frequent - and more severe" by Simon King.
Article: "United States congressional delegations from California" by Wikipedia.
Article: "California Proposition 12, Daylight Saving Time Initiative (1949)" by Ballotpedia.
Article: "How much do states spend on prisoners?" by USAFacts.
Article: "Florida is fronting the $450M cost of Alligator Alcatraz – a legal scholar explains what we still don't know about the detainees" by Mark Schlakman.
Article: "Joe Madison" by Wikipedia.