Sue's Daily Stack, Tuesday, 24 June, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Tuesday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: Trump's Empire of Lies and Loot
Article: "Trump's Empire of Lies and Loot" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Mike Johnson downplays Musk's influence and says Republicans will pass Trump's tax and budget bill" by Bill Barrow.
Article: "Vance blames California Dems for violent immigration protests and calls Sen. Alex Padilla 'Jose'" by Michael R. Blood.
Article: "Ilham Aliyev" (president of Azerbaijan) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo" (president of Equatorial Guinea) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Border Agents or Thought Police? When Did Words become a Crime?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "June 20, 2025" (ICE, Trump) by Heather Cox Richardson.
Article: "Snapshot – Follow the Money to the Truth about Al-Sisi's Egypt" by Robert Springborg.
Article: "Padilla denies claims he lunged at Noem during LA press conference" by Ashleigh Fields.
Article: "The Top 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90%—And That's Made the U.S. Less Secure" by Nick Hanauer.
Article: "How Democracies Defend Themselves Against Authoritarianism" by CAP.
Article: "Tulsi Gabbard now says Iran could produce nuclear weapon 'within weeks'" by Sofia Ferreira Santos.
Article: "Now DHS is lying about scary immigrants with weed whackers" by Erika Chavez.
Article: "This Is How Much Trump Has Made From Crypto—So Far" by Dan Alexander.
Article: "Tracking Illicit Russian Financial Flows" by Joshua Kirschenbaum.
Article: "Orban cronies control more than a quarter of Hungarian economy, says Transparency International" by Tamas Csonka.
Article: "Chairs' Report: Authoritarian States' Illicit Finance and Kleptocracy: Threats to Democracy, Peace and Security" by Summit for Democracy.
Article: "Barron Trump's Crypto Investor Nears Cash Bonanza" by Theo Burman.
Article: "Trump Sons' Deals on Three Continents Directly Benefit the President" by Eric Lipton and David Yaffe-Bellany.
Article: "Stephen Miller's Wife Angrily Ordered Social Security Boss to Go Along With Musk's BS" by Ewan Palmer.
Article: "GOP Congressman Falsely Claims Trump's Tax Bill Won't Cut Medicaid, Food Benefits" by Jennifer Bendery.
Letter: "Observations on Jefferson's Draft of a Constitution for Virginia, [ca. 15 October] 1788" by James Madison. "If all power be suffered to slide into hands [of rich property owners]," he warned, the American citizenry would "become the dupes and instruments of ambition..."
Letter: "Extract to "Henry Tompkinson" (Samuel Kercheval) " by Thomas Jefferson. "I am not among those who fear the people..."
Letter: "to Edward Carrington, 16 January 1787" by Thomas Jefferson. "It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions; and experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind..."
Article: "Rep. Al Green files impeachment article against Trump over Iran: 'Threat to democracy'" by Matt Keeley.
News. Trump & ceasefire meltdown, A socialist mayor for NYC?, Trump goes homophobes and Will Murkowski switch parties?
Article: "Live updates: Trump claims Israel-Iran ceasefire is 'in effect' despite initial violations" by AP.
Article: "Ivanka's Trademark Requests Were Fast-Tracked In China After Trump Was Elected" by Tommy Beer.
Article: "Trump Goes Absolutely Berserk on Iran and Israel as Ceasefire Deal Crumbles: 'They Don't Know What the F*ck They're Doing'" by David Gilmour.
Article: "Trump to attend NATO summit after US strikes on Iran and a ceasefire in question" by Fritz Farrow and Michelle Stoddart.
Article: "Is the Financial Capital of the World About to Elect a Socialist Mayor?" by Jesus Mesa.
Article: "'Pathetic': Trump slammed for 'indefensible' homophobic jab at Anderson Cooper" by Matthew Chapman.
Article: "Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski said it's possible she will switch parties and become a Democrat" by LetMyPeopleVote.
Article: "Murkowski on Trump: "We are all afraid"" by Stef W. Kight.
Article: "Florida to detain migrants in new Everglades facility dubbed 'Alligator Alcatraz'" by Karina Tsui.
Crazy Alert! CNN host answers questions on Trump violating international law, "Who is going to stop us?" Us? Is hi a CNN host or a Trump spokesperson?
Article: "'We Do It All the Time, Who's Gonna Stop Us?' Boasts CNN's Scott Jennings in Debate About U.S. Violating International Law" by Charlie Nash.
Article: "1953 Iranian coup d'état" by Wikipedia.
Book: Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran by Shahrnush Parsipur.
Painting: "Guernica" by Picasso.
Article: "Bombing of Guernica" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump tells Christians they won't have to vote after this election" by Tim Reid.
Article: "Oregon National Guard trains for Horn of Africa mission" by Maj. Wayne Clyne.
Article: "Are Jordan and Saudi Arabia defending Israel?" by Kersten Knipp.
Book: All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror by Stephen Kinzer.
Article: "7 highlights from Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski's interview with "CBS Sunday Morning"" by Callie Teitelbaum.
Video: 'Decisive decision': Senator Murkowski reacts to strikes in Iran.
Article: "Lincoln Battalion" by Wikipedia.
Book: For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway.
Article: "Sam Walters" by Harry Fisher.
Book: "They Thought They Were Free" by Milton Mayer. "First they came for the ... What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise..."
Hour Three: Is stochastic terrorism on the rise? Man 'obsessed' with cable news and 'pissed' about illegal immigration pleads guilty to shooting 2 Latinos...
Article: "Man 'Obsessed' With Cable News and 'Pissed' About Illegal Immigration Pleads Guilty to Shooting Two Latinos" by Charlie Nash.
Article: "Stochastic terrorism" (Stochastic violence) by Wikipedia.
Is hate the fuel behind the DHS "propaganda" for lying about this man's brutal beating and the beating itself?
Article: "DHS slammed as 'propagandist' by expert for 'spinning' man's 'brutal beating'" by Sarah K. Burris.
Article: "Attack on Paul Pelosi" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Judge Esther Salas Was the Target of an Anti-Feminist Lawyer, but Her Son Was Killed Instead" by Jennifer Tisdale.
Article: "2025 shootings of Minnesota legislators" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Immigrant father of three Marines is violently detained, injured by federal agents, son says" by Kaitlyn Huamani.
Book: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.
Article: "Transgender references removed from Stonewall monument website" by Brajesh Upadhyay.
Article: "Iran Accused of Printing Fake U.S. Bills : Counterfeiting: Report by House Republicans says billions in bogus money is circulating with Syria's help." by Sara Fritz.
Article: "Milton Friedman" by Wikipedia.
Article: "John Kenneth Galbraith" by Wikipedia.
Article: "California Bill Would Bar Officers From Wearing Masks" by Jonathan Wolfe.
Article: "Nuremberg trials" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 8 (Powers of Congress). "The Congress shall have Power To ... declare War ..."
Law: "War Powers Resolution" (War Powers Act, 1973).
Article: "Authorization for Use of Military Force of 2001" (AUMF) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump told top US general to 'just shoot' racism protesters, book claims" by Martin Pengelly.
Article: "Scoop: Esper says Trump wanted to shoot protesters" by Mike Allen.
Article: "Trump fires top US military officers - including America's most senior commander" by Sky News.
Site: League of Women Voters.
Article: "Fox settles Dominion lawsuit for $787.5 million over US election lies" by Reuters.
Article: "Rupert Murdoch's lie machine: How right-wing media turned racism into a political weapon for profit" by Thom Hartmann.
Site: Haaretz.
Site: Guardian.
Site: Election Truth Alliance (Youtube).
Site: SMART Elections.
Article: "Due process" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Supreme Court Ruling Made Indefinite Immigrant Detention the Law of the Land" by National Immigration Forum.
Article: "LA supervisor warns of ICE impersonators after masked men profile staffer's godson" by Josh Marcus.