Sue's Daily Stack, Tuesday, 26 August, 2025

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

Tuesday’s Daily Stack

Hour One: Permanent Chains: When Surveillance Becomes Guilt
Article: "Permanent Chains: When Surveillance Becomes Guilt" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest" by Mikael Thalen, Simone Del Rosario.
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: "Immigration Officials Used Shadowy Pro-Israel Group to Target Student Activists" by Zach Montague.
Article: "Abrego Garcia Detained Again After Government Signaled It Would Re-Deport Him" by Alan Feue, Jazmine Ulloa, Chris Cameron.

Article: "Trump says Cracker Barrel should return to old logo" by Joey Garrison.

Trump announces major Federal Reserve firing: 'You are hereby removed' - But, she's not leaving. What's next?
Article: "Trump announces major Federal Reserve firing: 'You are hereby removed'" by Daniel Hampton.
Article: "'I Will Not Resign': Federal Reserve Official Trump Is Attempting to Fire Says She's Not Going Anywhere" by Michael Luciano.

I just want to get this straight. Trump thanks TX for Gerrymandering - but - tells CA that he is sending the DOJ after them for Gerrymandering. Say What?!
Article: "'Bring it!' Newsom dares Trump to follow through on new threat" by David Badash.
Article: "The senate race in Iowa that could signal a blue wave for the 2026 midterms" by David Smith.
Article: "'Justice will find you': Trump and his allies get a potent threat from Democratic governor" by Sarah K. Burris.

Law: "Preamble to the Constitution of the United States".
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
Law: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 8 clause 8 (Powers of Congress). "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;"
Law: "Constitution of the United States" Article 2 section 4 (impeachment). "The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."
Article: "John N. Mitchell" by Wikipedia.
Article: "John Dean" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Nazism" (National Socialism) by Britannica.
Article: "Trump Repeatedly Praises North Korea's Dictator in Meeting With South's President" by Maggie Haberman.
Article: "The Magnequench Betrayal: How America Lost Control of Its Military Magnet Supply" by Rare Earth Exchanges.
Article: "Canada" by Wikipedia.
Article: "War of 1812" by Wikipedia.
Site: "Problem Solvers".
Article: "'Chicago will not waver': Johnson, Pritzker respond to reports Pentagon plans military deployment to Chicago" by Lauren Westphal.

Are Trump & RFK Jr planning on banning COVID vaccines within months? Our science now is all built on conspiracy....
Article: "Trump and RFK Jr. to Ban COVID-19 Vaccine 'Within Months'" by Tom Latchem.

Article: "Trump's casino was a money laundering concern shortly after it opened" by Jose Pagliery.
Article: "The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City, formerly Trump Taj Mahal" by Wikipedia.
Article: "John Foster Dulles" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Sullivan & Cromwell" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Dozens of white South Africans arrive in US under Trump refugee plan" by Nomia Iqbal, Cecilia Macaulay & Brandon Drenon.
Article: "'I didn't come here for fun' - Afrikaner defends refugee status in US" by Nomia Iqbal and Cai Pigliucci.

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Hour Two: While the Trump administration is throwing out healthcare - beware the GOP junk plans creeping in. The GOP doesn't want you healthy - they want you ripped off...
Article: "Beware the Trump-GOP Junk Health Insurance Plans " by F. Douglas Stephenson.

More news...Trump's new backtrack on MAGA, Trump threatens tariffs on countries that try to regulate Crypto, like $Trump, and here's the mayhem troops are causing in DC.
Article: "Trump's new backtrack enrages MAGA: 'I don't know a single Trump voter in favor of this' " by Matthew Chapman.
Article: "Laura Loomer Breaks With Trump in Rare Public Split Over China Student Visas" by David Gilmour.
Article: "Trump Threatens 'Substantial' Tariffs on Countries With 'Digital Taxes' That Could Affect His Crypto Business" by Charlie Nash.
Article: "Trump's troops detain a Black lawyer in D.C.--swarmed by 20 officers just ...." by riversedge .

Article: "Ayn Rand" by Wikipedia.
Book: "The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot" by Russell Kirk.
Article: "Elon Musk wants to save Western civilization from empathy" by Zachary B. Wolf.
Article: "The senate race in Iowa that could signal a blue wave for the 2026 midterms" by David Smith.
Article: "Charlie Munger" by Wikipedia.
Article: "California's first Latina GOP chair takes a victory lap" by Melanie Mason.
Article: "CAGOP Board Members" by California Republican Party.
Article: "Watergate scandal" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Spiro Agnew" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Allen Dulles" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Friedrich Hayek" by Wikipedia.
Book: "The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore Its Greatness" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Biography" by Greg Palast.
Book: The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power by Jeff Sharlet.

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Hour Three: When Did We Stop Being Afraid of Polio and what happens when COVID vaccines are banned...
- Dr. Arthur Lavin, MD/FAAP, Founder and Leader of Grandparents for Vaccines - Cleveland, OH
Article: "Trump and RFK Jr. to Ban COVID-19 Vaccine 'Within Months'" by Tom Latchem.
Article: "Why Polio Is Making a Comeback" by Howard P. Forman.
Article: "Measles cases in the US reach 33-year high" by Nadine Yousif.
Article: "Cases of Meningococcal Disease Are Increasing in the United States" by CDC.
Event: September 7 2025Grandparents' day.
Article: ""A calculated risk": the Salk polio vaccine field trials of 1954" by Marcia Meldrum.

Article: "Labor Day" (Sep 1.) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Rupert Murdoch" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Keith Murdoch" by Wikipedia.
Events: Sep 1: "Workers over Billionaires".
Article: "'Nothing will stop me': Watch Pritzker's full response to Trump's National Guard threat" by NBC Chicago.
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: "Welcome to the "Chilling Stage" of Tyranny—Where the Tyrant Tightens His Grip" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "South Korean leader visits White House after Trump questions nation's stability" by Brandon Livesay.
Article: "Trump Rants About "Comfort Women" While Meeting with Foreign President" by Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling.
Article: "Lancet retracts 12-year-old article linking autism to MMR vaccines" by Laura Eggertson.
Article: "Budget office says GOP's 'big, beautiful bill' will make rich richer, poor poorer" by Mike Lillis.
Article: "Trump is crowing about his tariffs reducing the debt by $4 trillion. But there are some caveats" by Tami Luhby.
Article: "Stephanie Kelton" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Modern Monetary Theory" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Update: Here's what is known about Trump's COVID-19 treatment" by Jon Cohen.
Article: "Lawrence Washington (1718–1752)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "AIPAC and Republican Donors Raising Big Money for Maxine Dexter Against Susheela Jayapal in Oregon" by Ryan Grim.