Sue's Daily Stack, Wednesday, 1 October, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Wednesday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: National Progressive Townhall Meeting taking your calls
- Representative Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District) / Current Member & Chair Emeritus-Congressional Progressive Caucus / (Committees: Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Labor Caucus, and Chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus.) @pocan.house.gov @repmarkpocan
Article: “Cortez Masto, Fetterman and King vote for GOP funding plan“ by Politico.
Article: “Trump Posts New AI Video in Unhinged Truth Social Spree Before Shutdown“ by Erkki Forster.
Site: “Project 2025“.
Article: “Affordable Care Act premiums will rise 114% if enhanced subsidies expire, health policy researcher finds“ by Greg Iacurci.
Article: “How an ACA Premium Spike Will Affect Family Budgets, and Voters“ by Drew Altman.
Article: “How much and why ACA Marketplace premiums are going up in 2026“ by Jared Ortaliza, Matt McGough, Kaitlyn Vu, Imani Telesford, Shameek Rakshit, Emma Wager Twitter, Lynne Cotter, and Cynthia Cox.
Quote: “I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub“ by Grover Norquist.
Article: “National Security Directive Declares War on Those Who Don’t Support Trump Agenda“ by Ken Klippenstein.
Article: “BREAKING: Trump & Hegseth Tried to Turn the U.S. Military on America And The Feedback From Those In Attendance Will Renew Your Faith In America“ by Dean Blundell.
Videos: “Mark Pocan“.
Article: “Reps. Lee, Pocan Announce Defense Spending Reduction Caucus“ by Barbara Lee.
Article: “How Trump Is Seizing Credit For Biden’s Infrastructure Wins: Fact Check“ by Yuvraj Tyagi.
Article: “Sen. Duckworth on Hegseth’s Quantico speech“ by Scott Detrow, Lauren Hodges, Patrick Jarenwattananon.
Article: “Medicare To Test Prior Authorizations In 6 States As Part Of A Pilot Program“ by KFF Health News.
Article: “National Parks To Furlough Nearly 9,300 Staff But Stay Partially Open During Shutdown—Here’s What To Know“ by Suzanne Rowan Kelleher.
Article: “A Guide to Some of the Key Movers and Influencers in Trump’s Orbit“ by Chris Lehmann.
Article: “Republicans refuse to swear in newly elected Democrat, delaying success of Epstein petition“ by Emily Brooks and Mike Lillis.
Book: “The Last American President“ by Thom Hartmann.
Event: Wed Oct. 15 at 7:00 p.m., Northbrook, Ill.: Thom Hartmann at Max & Benny’s.
Event: Oct 18 5pm: L.A. : A Conversation with Thom Hartmann: Democracy, Justice, and the American Dream.
Event: Oct 17, 5-9pm: San Diego: Thom Hartmann In San Diego Book Tour And Knsj Fundraiser.
Hour Two: Is America Sleepwalking Into The Dictator’s Playbook?
Article: “Is America Sleepwalking Into The Dictator’s Playbook?“ by Thom Hartmann.
Song: “TRUMP LOST. Vote Suppression Won“ by Louise Hartmann.
Article: “Trump suggests using ‘dangerous’ US cities as ‘training grounds’ for military“ by Brett Samuels.
Article: “Trump Signals Greater Use of Military in U.S. Cities, Warning of ‘War From Within’“ by Brian Bennett, Rebecca Schneid and Richard Hall.
Book: The Last American President: A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party, and a World on the Brink by Thom Hartmann.
Article: “Trump, Hegseth rally troops at rare meeting, rail against “woke” standards“ by Melissa Quinn.
Article: “New crypto token boosts Trump family’s wealth by $5 billion“ by Aimee Picchi.
Article: “Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators”“ by Ken Klippenstein.
Article: “Rachel Maddow warns America: We now live in an authoritarian dictatorship“ by Daniel Villarreal.
Article: “ADP National Employment Report“ by ADP.
Article: “‘The worst in quite some time’: Trump hit by bad news as latest job numbers shock“ by Alexander Willis.
Article: “Right-wing media’s dystopian Portland coverage feeds into Trump’s threats to deploy National Guard“ by John Knefel, Reed McMaster & Ben Van Bloem.
Article: “Grandpa Trump watches too much Fox News“ by Will Bunch.
Article: “Trump is ‘fascist to the core,’ Milley says in Woodward book“ by Ruby Cramer.
Article: “Miles Taylor (security expert)“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Why Corporate America Is Caving to Trump“ by Noam Scheiber.
Article: “YouTube agrees to pay Trump $24 million to settle lawsuit over Jan. 6 suspension“ by Bobby Allyn.
Article: “Social Security payments to go electronic starting next week as agency moves away from paper checks“ by Mary Cunningham.
Trump screwed our farmers and got played by Millie in Argentina
Article: “Leaked texts on Scott Bessent’s phone suggest the White House got played bailing out Argentina—and U.S. soybean farmers are the casualties“ by Sasha Rogelberg.
Article: “Javier Milei“ (Argentina) by Wikipedia.
Crazy Alert! The guy threatening to release Speaker Mike Johnson’s GRINDR profile says a reputable reporter now has Johnson’s profile - to be widely released should ANYTHING happen to him
Site: End The Bribe System (bumper stickers, etc.).
Video: PATTON Introduction Speech Intro ( English ).
Article: “Pete Hegseth“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “‘SIM Farms’ Are a Spam Plague. A Giant One in New York Threatened US Infrastructure, Feds Say“ by Andy Greenberg, Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess.
Article: “‘It’s a f-ing lie!’: Democratic leader rages at Trump Republicans over shutdown fight“ by Lauren Sforza.
Article: “See latest spaghetti models for Hurricane Imelda. Impacts to continue in South Carolina“ by Brandi D. Addison.
Hour Three: Apparently only Democrats are getting laid off and HUD website now says “radical left” hurts America.
Article: “Washington pivots from dodging shutdown to blaming rivals for it“ by Rachel Siegel, Emily Davies, Hannah Natanson and Mariana Alfaro.
Article: “Investigating claims HUD website’s ‘radical left’ pop-ups violated Hatch Act“ by Laerke Christensen.
Article: “Trump Continues War on Veterans, Poised to Fire 80,000 Additional VA Workers“ by AFGE.
ICE violently attacks Chicago protestors...
- Jordan Chariton, CEO/Reporter, Status Coup News / Author, “We the Poisoned: Exposing the Flint Water Crisis Cover Up“ @JordanChariton
Article: “VIDEO: The Guy Threatening To Release Speaker Mike Johnson’s GRINDR Profile Says A Reputable Reporter Now Has Johnson’s Profile - To Be Widely Released Should ANYTHING Happen to Him“ by Dean Blundell.
Video: Veteran ASSAULTED by ICE, Then He’s Charged - Status Coup News.
Video: ICE TERRORIZES Chicago, Brutalizes Protesters in GRUESOME Scene - Status Coup News.
Article: “Journalist Injured in NYC After ICE Officer Threw Him Out of An Elevator Onto the Floor“ by riversedge.
Article: “‘We’re being invaded by our own military’“ by Sarah Jones.
Article: “‘I couldn’t breathe’: ICE agents fire tear gas at peaceful protesters in Chicago suburb“ by France 24.
Article: “Congressional candidate thrown to ground, protesters tear-gassed in clashes at Broadview ICE facility“ by Cindy Hernandez, Chip Mitchell.
Article: “ICE report finds 60 violations in 50 days at Fort Bliss migrant facility in El Paso, Texas“ by Kristian Jaime.
Article: “Standing Rock Sioux Reservation“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Dakota Access Pipeline protests“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “List of United States cities by crime rate“ by Wikipedia.
Videos: Status Coup News.
Article: “GOP pushes claim that Democrats shut down to give health care to ‘illegal immigrants’“ by Sahil Kapur.
Racist Alert! Trump Doubles Down With Another Bizarre AI Attack on Hakeem Jeffries
Article: “Trump Doubles Down With Another Bizarre AI Attack on Hakeem Jeffries“ by David Gilmour.
Article: “Jared Kushner, Saudi Arabia, more backers to buy EA in $55B deal. What this means for gamers.“ by Greta Cross.
Article: “Jeffries: Trump AI video ‘designed to be a malignant distraction’“ by Tara Suter.
Article: “Trump backs Milei with $20 billion, China buys Argentine soy beans and U.S. farmers are left behind“ by Andy Hall.
Article: “Will Medicare Be Cut Under PAYGO? | 2025-2026 Medicare Funding Explained“ by Medicare Planning.
Article: “United Healthcare Medicare Advantage 2026: 600,000 Dropped!“ by Mark Prip.
Article: “Read Trump’s Jan. 6 Speech, A Key Part Of Impeachment Trial“ by Brian Naylor.
Article: “Pres. Trump’s full remarks to military officials [FULL]“ by KMSP.
Video: Hegseth addresses senior military at rare meeting.
Post: ““Careful, buddy. That foreigner wants your cookie.” [cartoons for 1982 & 2025]” by Mike Okuda.
Book: I Paid Hitler by Fritz Thyssen.
Article: “Fritz Thyssen“ by Wikipedia.