Sue's Daily Stack, Tuesday, 5 August, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Tuesday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: We Watched Others Fall: Now the Edge Is Beneath Our Feet
Article: "We Watched Others Fall: Now the Edge Is Beneath Our Feet" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Did Trump Let 500,000 Americans Die Purely for Political Purposes?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "The GOP Taliban to Women: Shut Up, Sit Down, and Stay Home on Election Days" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: “Authorities launch probe into former Trump prosecutor Jack Smith for alleged illegal political activity“ by Kierra Frazier, Zak Hudak.
Article: “The F.S.B. has long faced suspicions that, rather than solving crimes, it stages or hides them.“ by Andrew Higgins.
Article: “Hungary’s Viktor Orbán wins vote to rule by decree“ by Lili Bayer.
Article: “EU warns Hungary not to flout democracy with coronavirus laws“ by Reuters.
Article: “Trump accuses Obama of treason in escalating attacks over 2016 Russia probe“ by Steve Holland, Matt Spetalnick and Jonathan Landay.
Article: “Viktor Orbán tells CPAC the path to power is to ‘have your own media’“ by Flora Garamvolgyi.
Article: "Trump's Policies Resulted In The Unnecessary Deaths Of Hundreds Of Thousands Of Americans: Lancet Report" by Tommy Beer.
Article: "Confirmations of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Commercial and Backyard Flocks" by USDA.
Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).
Are Republicans cooked for the midterms if they can't gerrymander the vote?
Article: "'Republicans are cooked': MAGA lawmaker buried in mockery after town hall devolves" by Daniel Hampton.
Article: "Republican Town Hall ERUPTS After Audience Asks, 'Why Are You Covering Up the Epstein Files?'" by Charlie Nash.
Moody's says we're "on precipice of recession."
Article: "US economy on 'precipice of recession,' Moody's chief economist warns" by Damita Menezes.
Article: "The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world" by David Robson.
Law: "22nd Amendment section 1" "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once...".
Article: "Video, Audio, Photos & Rush Transcript: Governor Hochul Stands With Texas Legislators to Combat Trump-Backed Redistricting Power Grab" by Kathy Hochul.
Article: "Gerrymandering" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Boycott" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Tesla Takedown" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Luigi Mangione" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Killing of George Floyd" by Wikipedia.
Substack: "LookingNWords" by Rohn Kenyatta.
Article: "Epstein confidante Ghislaine Maxwell transferred to lower-security prison in Texas" by Anna Betts.
Article: "Durbin Demands Tapes of Ghislaine Maxwell Interviews" by Annie Karni.
Article: "Canada shouldn't 'bend the knee' to Trump after tariffs: Windsor, Ont., mayor" by Bob Becken.
Article: "'I will do anything sir': Trump brags world leaders 'kissing my a**' to negotiate tariffs . Watch video" by ET.
Article: "Trump firing of labor statistics chief ‘undermines credibility’, ex-leaders say" by Michael Sainato.
Hour Two: Will some travelers to face a $15,000 bond enter America?
Article: "Some tourists and business travelers may face up to $15,000 bond to enter US" by Michael Sainato and Sam Levin.
Article: "Supreme Court will let Trump administration end program protecting 500K Cubans, Nicaraguans, Haitians and Venezuelans" by Melissa Quinn.
Article: "President Trump's New Travel Ban: What You Need to Know" (June 2025) by Aaron Reichlin-Melnick.
US citizens jailed in LA Ice raids speak out: 'They came ready to attack'
Article: "US citizens jailed in LA Ice raids speak out: 'They came ready to attack'" by Sam Levin.
Article: "ICE detention funding now 5 times higher than federal prison system budget" by Carl Samson.
Article: "Labor camp" (work camp) by Wikipedia.
Law: "13th Amendment", December 6, 1865. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
Voters of color make up over 60% of Texas, but under this map, they'd only have meaningful power in 13 of 38 congressional districts. That's not democracy. That's apartheid by ballot.
Article: "'Political hijinks!' Ruby red state eyes copying Texas' election-rigging scheme" by Daniel Hampton.
Article: "Scopes trial" by Wikipedia.
Case: "Santa Clara County vs. Southern Pacific Railroad", 1886.
Case: "Dodge v. Ford Motor Co.", 1919.
Article: "Milton Friedman" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Neoliberalism" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Friedrich Hayek" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Ludwig von Mises" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Mont Pelerin Society" by Wikipedia.
Video: Haves and Have Mores. George W. Bush" This is an impressive crowd. The haves and the have mores. Some people call you the elite. I call you my base".
Article: "The Kristi Noem puppy-killing scandal, explained" by Li Zhou.
Article: "Calls grow for Kristi Noem to resign in the wake of Padilla incident" by Joe Sommerlad.
Article: "California Bill Would Bar Officers From Wearing Masks" by Jonathan Wolfe.
Article: "Christopher Steele" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Associated Press barred from Oval Office for not using 'Gulf of America'" by Jenna Amatulli.
Article: "New York judge allows Trump to sue his own niece while in office" by Erik Uebelacker.
Article: "Trump can't be bothered to be deposed in his own lawsuit" by Lisa Needham.
Article: "Trump has spent almost a third of his presidency in properties he owns, new report shows" by Mike Bedigan.
Article: "Norway on track to be first to go all-electric" by Adrienne Murray.
Hour Three: How Authoritarians "Cook the Books"
Article: "How Authoritarians "Cook the Books"" by Ruth Ben-Ghiat.
Article: "Russia vows 'no limits' on nuke missiles in chilling warning to West as Putin throws down gauntlet for Cold War showdown" by Juliana Cruz Lima.
Article: "Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Attorney General Bondi orders prosecutors to start grand jury probe into Obama officials over Russia investigation" by Hannah Rabinowitz.
Article: "Russian Speakers Explain What Putin Actually Said About Trump" by Uri Friedman.
How right-wingers change a state from blue to red by investing in media...
Article: "The New York Post Goes Hollywood: Plans Launch of California Post Daily Newspaper" by Alex Weprin.
Article: "Red-state Republican gets mercilessly jeered at town hall" by Emily Singer.
Article: "Illinois governor escalates redistricting showdown with Trump and Texas" by Justin Kaufmann.
Article: "Tom Steyer — you want Trump out? Buy Clear Channel" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Congress rolls back $9 billion in public media funding and foreign aid" by Scott Neuman, Lexie Schapitl.
Article: "COVID-19 Vaccines (2025-2026 Formula) for Use in the United States Beginning in Fall 2025" by FDA.
Article: "CNBC Transcript: President of the United States Donald Trump Speaks with CNBC's "Squawk Box" Toda ".
Quote: "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." - attributed to Benito Mussolini.
Article: "Nuremberg trials" by Wikipedia.
Site: Dr. Joe's Covid and Science Newsletter.
Article: "What are mRNA vaccines and how do they work?" by NIH.
Article: "Federalist society" by Wikipedia.
Article: "John N. Mitchell" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand.
Book: "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand.