Sue's Daily Stack, Tuesday, 17 June, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Tuesday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: Border Agents or Thought Police? When Did Words become a Crime?
Article: "Border Agents or Thought Police? When Did Words become a Crime?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Weakening the First Amendment: Testimony of Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell Before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary June 3, 2014".
Article: "Leader Rodgers: "Free Speech is Foundational to America"" by House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Article: "On the deportation of dissent" by Alistair Kitchen.
Article: "Attorney representing a student protester detained by federal immigration agents" by Juana Summers, Tyler Bartlam, Patrick Jarenwattananon.
Article: "Hasan Piker, Popular Left-Wing Streamer, Says He Was Detained at Airport" by Alexandra E. Petri.
Article: "Farewell Address to the Nation" by Ronald Reagan.
Article: "Australian deported from US says he was 'targeted' due to writing on pro-Palestine student protests" by Catie McLeod.
Article: "Charleston church shooting" by Wikipedia.
Article: "1953 Iranian coup d'état" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Tulsi Gabbard warns of nuclear threat in social media video" by Beatrice Peterson.
Article: "Trump warns Tehran residents to 'evacuate immediately'. But can they?" by Nils Adler.
Article: "Bernie Sanders leads Democratic effort in Congress to ward off war with Iran" by MEE.
Article: "Democratic senator proposes curbing Trump's war powers amid Israel-Iran conflict" by Lauren Gambino.
Article: "Pentagon expands Middle East response as Israel, Iran trade strikes" by Dan Lamothe, Abigail Hauslohner.
Article: "'All About The Benjamins': Ilhan Omar's Tweet Criticized By Republicans, Dems As Anti-Semitic" by WCCO.
Article: "'Insensitive, to say the least': Mike Lee deletes Minnesota posts amid GOP criticism" by Calen Razor, Connor O'Brien.
Article: "Jewish Voice for Peace" by Wikipedia.
Video: Jon Stewart on Israel's "Urgent" Iran Strike, Minnesota Murders & MAGA's Blame Game | The Daily Show.
Article: ""No Kings" protest organizers announce July 17 as next demonstration" by Carrie Shepherd.
Article: "700 military personnel mobilized to support ICE in 3 states" by Colin Meyn.
Article: "The Posse Comitatus Act Explained" by Joseph Nunn.
Article: "Iran nuclear deal framework" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Killing the Iran nuclear deal was one of Trump's biggest failures" by Tom Collina.
Article: "'Not our war': bipartisan US lawmakers back resolution to block involvement in Iran" by Chris Stein.
We now know what "America First" means - Trump has confirmed he is a cult leader...Does anyone realize that a war in Iran will not go well for Israel or America. How quickly we forget.
Article: "Battle to define 'America First' intensifies as Israel strikes Iran "by Emily Brooks.
Raging Trump blames Hegseth over parade - here's why....
Article: "Raging Trump 'reamed out' Hegseth over 'good time' military parade: biographer" by Adam Nichols.
Article: "Why Standing Up Against Trump is Good for Business" by Robert Reich.
Site: Paradisos del Sol Winery and Organic Vineyard.
Site: The Organic Wine Company.
Article: "No Kings protests" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Here's What Would Happen if the US Listened to Sheldon Adelson and Bombed the Iranian Desert" by Molly Redden.
Book: The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Iran's Cyber Attack on Billionaire Adelson Provides Lesson on Strategy" by Alyza Sebenius, Kartikay Mehrotra and William Turton.
Article: "Anti-abortion violence" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Ukraine war: Iran 'sends hundreds of missiles to Russia' in 'dramatic escalation'" by Sky News.
Article: "15 dead in massive overnight Russian attack on Kyiv, Ukraine says" by Kevin Shalvey, David Brennan, Patrick Reevell, and Yulia Drozd.
Article: "Ex-senator Bob Menendez arrives at prison to begin serving 11-year sentence" by AP.
Article: "Calls grow for Kristi Noem to resign in the wake of Padilla incident" by Joe Sommerlad.
Article: "Kilmar Ábrego García pleads not guilty to human smuggling charges" by Guardian.
Article: "An Encounter with ICE — It can happen to anyone" by FosterMomInCA.
Article: "Mike Lee brings back proposal to sell public land in Western states" by Kyle Dunphey.
Substack: "LookingNWords" by Rohn Kenyatta.
Hour Two: Is anyone surprised that the Senate wants to cut Medicaid even more?
Article: "'Buffoonery': 'Mean-spirited' Senate GOP cuts Medicaid even more than House" by David Badash.
Article: "State and local tax deduction" (SALT tax) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Weak US retail sales, manufacturing output point to softening economy" by Lucia Mutikani.
Article: "Dow closes nearly 300 points lower Tuesday as Israel-Iran conflict intensifies: Live updates" by Sean Conlon, Brian Evans.
Article: "World Bank Forecast Underscores Cost of U.S. Trade War" by Alan Rappeport.
California bill proposes misdemeanor for officers who cover their face on duty - Law enforcement officials would also be required to be identifiable by uniform carrying their name - that should be true everywhere!
Article: "California bill proposes misdemeanor for officers who cover their face on duty" by AP.
Article: "New York City mayoral candidate Brad Lander arrested at immigration court" by Jenna Amatulli.
Law: "Insurrection Act of 1807".
Article: "Trump fires top US military officers - including America's most senior commander" by Sky News.
Article: "The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world" by David Robson.
Here's the real story behind Mike Lee's outrageous tweet, and it was all because of the cops...
Article: "How Minnesota Police Fueled Insane Conspiracy Theory About Assassin" by Ken Klippenstein.
Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).
Article: "Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC)" by OECD.
Article: "Survey of Adults Skills 2023: United States" by OECD.
Speech: "Great Society" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Cuts In U.S. Aid To Education To Have Wide Impact; The Budget Targets First of a series on key programs; that President Reagan wants to cut." by Marjorie Hunter.
Article: "Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are 'Losers' and 'Suckers'" by Jeffrey Goldberg.
Article: "Democrats who have been arrested, detained or charged under Trump" by Natalie Daher.
Article: "A Thomist's guide to lying" (St Thomas Aquinas) by Joe Egerton.
Article: "Thomas Massie: US congressman condemned for Christmas guns photo" by BBC.
Article: "Son of Iran's Last Shah Says Regime Nearing Collapse" by David Wainer.
Hour Three: On the Christian education of Vance Boelter
- Jeff Sharlet, Journalist / Author of multiple books including most recently, the bestseller, Undertow: Scenes From A Slow Civil War (he also wrote The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power and executive produced the Netflix miniseries based on the book) @jeffsharlet.bsky.social @JeffSharlet
Article: "On the Christian Education of Dr. Vance Boelter" by Jeff Sharlet.
Article: "On the 'Violent-Prayer-a-Day' Christian Education of Dr. Vance Boelter, Alleged Killer of Minnesota Democrats" by Jeff Sharlet.
Article: "Watch: Alleged MN Shooter Performs Unhinged Dance As He Gets 'Excited About Jesus'" by David Edwards.
Article: "Christ for the Nations Institute" by Wikipedia.
LinkedIn: "Dr. Vance Boelter E.d.D.".
Article: "Who Is Vance Boelter? What to Know About the Man Accused of Shooting Minnesota Lawmakers" by Caroline Blair.
Article: "Army of God (terrorist organization)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump: I could 'shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters'" by Jeremy Diamond.
Article: "American Political Violence" by CPOST.
Article: "Assemblies of God" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Jihad" by Wikipedia.
Bible: "And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire." - Matthew 18:9.
Article: "Wife of Minnesota politician shielded daughter from bullets, says relative" by Ana Faguy.
Article: "Meloni caught giving 'eye roll of the century' while Macron whispered in her ear during high-stakes G7 meeting" by Emma Colton.
Article: "Iran" by Wikipedia.
Article: "What to Know About China's Halt of Rare Earth Exports" by Keith Bradsher.
Article: "Trump officials lift short-lived pause on ICE arrests at farms, hotels and restaurants" by Camilo Montoya-Galvez, Nicole Sganga.
Article: "Israel-Iran live updates: Trump says 'we now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran'" by NBC News.
Tweet: "This is the latest example of the extreme thuggery of Trump's ICE out of control -- one can only imagine the fear families across our country feel when confronted with ICE. Fear of separation, fear of being taken from their schools, fear of being detained without just cause. This is not who we are. This must stop, and it must stop now." (re ICE detaining NYC comptroller) by Andrew Cuomo.
Article: "Mitt Romney's Secret Weapon: Clear Channel Radio" by jpeterson2012.
Video: Senate Hearing on Privacy and National Security Implications of the 23andMe Bankruptcy.
Video: Sen. Padilla: Trump should be turning down the temperature across the country.
Quote: "I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government." - Martin Luther King, Jr..
Book: Subliminal seduction: Ad media's manipulation of a not so innocent America by Wilson Bryan Key.
Book: The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard.