Sue's Daily Stack, Tuesday, 16 September, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Tuesday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: "America's Comeback" Was Nothing but a Con Job
Article: "America's Comeback" Is Nothing but a Con Job by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "state Higher Education Finance (SHEF) report 2004" by State Higher Education Executive Officers.
Article: "Think you're 'middle class' in America? Pew research shows there's a roughly 49% chance you're not actually" by Vishesh Raisinghani.
Article: "Unions By the Numbers: 2025 Edition" by David Pryzbylski.
Site: "The America Comeback Tour".
Article: "Chapter 5: Americans in Depression and War" by Irving Bernstein.
Video: Charlie Kirk Defeats Final Boss of "Tax Americans to Death".
Article: "Bernie Sanders' student loan scheme – Temptation is great for kids but plan is just a bribe" by Charlie Kirk.
Article: "Turning Point USA donations surged during the pandemic" by Brandy Zadrozny.
Article: "Where Charlie Kirk Stood on Key Political Issues" by Ashley Ahn and Maxine Joselow.
Article: "Topic: Gun ownership and regulation" by Pew Research Center.
Article: "Charlie Kirk once said passing the Civil Rights Act was a 'huge mistake'" by Megan Loe.
Article: "Occupational Trends in the United States 1900 to 1950" by David L. Kaplan, M. Claire Casey.
Tweet: "BOOM: Supreme Court delivers death blow to public sector unions The mob bosses and teacher union cartel leaders have just lost hundreds of millions of dollars of political money This is thanks to @realDonaldTrump nominating Gorsuch Free speech win!" by Charlie Kirk.
Law: "The National Labor Relations Act (The Wagner Act)", 1935.
Article: "House Passes Bill Restricting Minimum Wage" (Indiana) by Dan Goldblatt.
Is the "Reign of Terror" beginning??
Article: "Conservative Talkshow Host Blasts Pam Bondi Over 'Free Speech' Claim: 'Our Attorney General Is Apparently a Moron'" by Charlie Nash.
Article: "US Supreme Court backs Colorado baker's gay wedding cake snub" by BBC.
Article: "Pam Bondi Threatens Charges Over Office Depot Employee Who Refused To Print Charlie Kirk Flyers: 'We Can Prosecute You'" by Michael Luciano.
Article: "Clay Higgins calls for lifetime bans on social media users mocking Charlie Kirk's death" by Gray Louisiana.
Article: "Trump news at a glance: president claims people on 'the left' are under investigation after Kirk shooting" by Guardian.
Article: "Pete Hegseth tells Pentagon staff to hunt for negative Charlie Kirk posts by service members" by Courtney Kube and Carol E. Lee.
Article: "US officials plan to punish foreigners 'making light of' Charlie Kirk death" by Lucy Campbell.
Article: "Trump wants to label Dems as "terrorists." Here's what happens next." by Miles Taylor.
Article: "Jeff Bezos' Washington Post fires Black columnist on staff over Charlie Kirk posts" by Nicole Charky-Chami.
Article: "JD Vance backs mass 'doxing' campaign to find and harass Charlie Kirk critics" by Oliver Holmes.
Article: "His Wife Called Charlie Kirk a 'Nazi.' He Was Fired." by River Page.
Article: "'Maybe we should go after you?' Trump threatens ABC reporter asking about free speech" by Holly Bishop.
Article: "Channel 4 to mark Trump's UK visit with 'longest uninterrupted reel of untruths'" by Michael Savage.
Article: "Trump's Phase 2 now begins" by Robert Reich.
Why are so few Democratic governors fighting Trump on his "cancel culture" attacks on the left?
Article: "The Democratic Governors' Resistance Scorecard" by Christopher Armitage.
Site: "The Brainwashing of My Dad".
Article: "Hollywood actor and director Robert Redford dies at 89" by Sky News.
Article: "Covid-19 vaccine lawsuit" by David Lim, Lauren Gardner.
Article: "Trump posts video that shows image of Biden tied up in the back of a truck" by Kate Sullivan and Shania Shelton.
Article: "Bipartisan border bill loses support, fails procedural vote in U.S. Senate" by Ariana Figueroa.
Video: User Clip: Barbara Jordan on Immigration.
Article: "Tax returns of Donald Trump" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump Sues The New York Times for Articles Questioning His Success" by Daisuke Wakabayashi and Michael M. Grynbaum.
Hour Two: The US town that pays every pregnant woman $1,500: 'We're not OK with our babies being born into poverty'
Article: "The US town that pays every pregnant woman $1,500: 'We're not OK with our babies being born into poverty'" by Cecilia Nowell.
The Epstein survivors appeal to the GOP women's caucus - will they listen?
Article: "Epstein survivors ask GOP Women's Caucus to support release of remaining Epstein files" by James Hill.
Article: "Groypers, social media and the continued fracturing of the far-right " by KTLA 5.
What is a Groyper and why do some think that Tyler Robinson was one of them?
Article: "How Charlie Kirk's killing sparked unfounded theories about Groypers" by Marc Caputo.
Article: "FBI claims note from Tyler Robinson revealing his intentions has been destroyed" by Lesley Abravanel.
Article: "MAGA or leftist, don't jump to conclusions on Charlie Kirk's killer" by Robby Soave.
Article: "Massie's Epstein discharge petition inches closer to 218 signatures" by Meredith Lee Hill and Nicholas Wu.
Article: "Kash Patel Says No 'Credible' Info Epstein Trafficked Young Women to Others" by Dan Gooding and Gabe Whisnant.
Video: Always - The Lincoln Project (Trump, Epstein).
Article: "F.B.I. Head Says Note and DNA Link Suspect to Kirk Killing" by Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs.
Article: "Charlie Kirk suspect spoke the language of the far-Right" by Connor Stringer.
Article: "Donald Trump dined with white nationalist, Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes" by Meridith McGraw.
Article: "Nick Fuentes" by Wikipedia.
Trump has now formally and officially abandoned Ukraine to Putin's tender mercies
Article: "Trump's Russia-Ukraine War" by Alexander Vindman.
Article: "Trump will not sanction Russia - Here is why" by Nigel Peacock.
Article: "Melania Trump's nude pics on Russian TV spark outrage as state media broadcasts photos after Donald wins re-election" by Israel Salas-Rodriguez.
Article: "'I had enough of his hatred': Texts reveal motive as charges filed in Charlie Kirk murder" by AFP.
Movie: "The World Will Tremble".
Article: "Aktion T4" by Wikipedia.
Movie: "Mountainhead".
Movie: "Keeper of the Flame".
Article: "Esther Salas" by Wikipedia.
Article: "US judge whose son was murdered voices dismay as threats to jurists rise" by Robert Tait.
Article: "Historical Inflation Rates: 1914-2025" by US Inflation Calculator.
Book: Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America by Christopher Leonard.
Article: "Americans for Prosperity" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Heritage Foundation" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Charlie Kirk deletes tweet saying he sent '80+ buses full of patriots' to D.C." by Mikael Thalen.
Book: Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer.
Book: Democracy in Chains by Nancy MacLean.
Article: "Trump Tower Got Its Start With Undocumented Foreign Workers " by Michelle Melnick, Lisa Riordan Seville and Cynthia McFadden.
Videos: Jason Jay Smart (Ukraine).
Videos: Paul Warburg.
Videos: MeidasTouch.
Hour Three: Democracy Noir
- Connie Field, Filmmaker - Democracy Noir (Clarity Films - Saul Zaentz Media Center - Berkeley) Instagram: connie.field
Movie: "Democracy Noir".
Events: "Democracy Noir screenings".
Article: "Viktor Orbán tells CPAC the path to power is to 'have your own media'" by Flora Garamvolgyi.
Article: "Fall of the Berlin Wall", 9 November 1989 by Wikipedia.
Article: "Viktor Orbán" (Hungary) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Electoral system of Hungary" by Wikipedia.
Article: "CPAC Hungary to Feature White Nationalists, Extremist Party Figures and Far-Right Activists" by GPAHE.
Article: "At last, a figure has emerged who could wrench power from Viktor Orbán in Hungary" by Viktória Serdült.
Article: "Hungarian Pride parade ban" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Budapest Pride draws huge crowds in defiance of Orban legal threats" by Nick Thorpe, Stuart Lau.
TV: "The Twilight Zone: He's Alive".
Bible: "Matthew 25:31-46 The Sheep and the Goats".
Article: "United States Dollar" by Trading Economics.
Article: "Social Security benefits increase could be wiped out by double whammy. Impact in Ohio" by Mariyam Muhammad.
Article: "Witch who put hex on Charlie Kirk for online magazine speaks out" by Katie Boyden.
Article: "TJRS Extras: The right is always angry, but never at the people doing the violence (because it's their own...)" by Joy-Ann Reid.
Article: "Jobs created during U.S. presidential terms" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The U.S. Economy Performs Better Under Democratic Presidents" by JEC.
Article: "Brendan Boyle" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Obamacare Subsidies Could Be Reportedly Extended As Shutdown Looms — Millions At Risk Of Skyrocketing Premiums If Congress Misses Oct 1 Deal" by Benzinga News.
Article: "Horst Wessel" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump mocks Pelosi family as he rallies conservative support in California" by Andrew Zhang.
Article: "What Hunter Biden did on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma" by Polina Ivanova, Maria Tsvetkova, Ilya Zhegulev and Luke Baker.
Article: "5 Takeaways From The Times's Investigation Into 2 Giant Deals Involving Trump" by Eric Lipton, David Yaffe-Bellany, Bradley Hope, Tripp Mickle and Paul Mozur.