Sue's Daily Stack, Wednesday, 11 June, 2025

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

Wednesday’s Daily Stack

Hour One: Germans, Hungarians, Russians, Italians all Waited Until it was Too Late: Are Americans About to Join that Tragic Club?
Article: "Germans, Hungarians, Russians, Italians all Waited Until it was Too Late: Are Americans About to Join that Tragic Club?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Comparing Trump and Obama's Deportation Priorities" by Lazaro Zamora.
Article: "Operation Cross Check" by Wikipedia.
Article: "In Praise Of Progressive Bravery & Not Looking Away" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "ICE Charges Criminal Activity in Fewer Deportation Proceedings" by TRAC Reports.
Book: IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation by Edwin Black.
Book: The Third Reich of Dreams: The Nightmares of a Nation by Charlotte Beradt.
Article: "Hungary: 'Critics silenced' in social media arrests as EU debates Orban's powers" by Alasdair Sandford.
Article: "ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Statistics" by ICE.
Article: "'Boo!' Trump prompts Army troops to jeer news media and cheer Robert E. Lee" by David Edwards.
Article: "IBM 'dealt directly with Holocaust organisers'" by Oliver Burkeman.
Article: "What Will Trump's Executive Order on Private Prisons Really Do?" by Shannon Heffernan.
Article: "Trump to ramp up transfers to Guantánamo, including citizens of allies" by John Hudson, Alex Horton.
Article: "Trump preparing to send thousands of immigrants including Europeans to Guantanamo military prison: reports" by Alex Woodward.

Video: Humpback whale swallows kayaker whole - then spits him out.
Article: "Jonah" by Wikipedia.
Audio: Velshi: The Big, Beautiful Breakup. Ali Velshi is joined by host of 'The Thom Hartmann Program' Thom Hartmann, co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Contrarian Jennifer Rubin, Immigration Attorney Allen Orr, spokesperson for UNICEF James Elder, author Téa Obreht.
Article: "Pentagon estimates sending Marines, National Guard to LA will cost $134M" by Ellen Mitchell.

News...Trump goads troops to cheer Robert E Lee, Gavin says, "the moment we have feared has arrived," ICE has been deployed to 5 more BLUE! states to incite riots & unrest, National guard to be deployed to Texas for protests? Trump ramps up transfers to Guantanamo and it's to be an international concentration camp....
Article: "'Boo!' Trump prompts Army troops to jeer news media and cheer Robert E. Lee " by David Edwards.
Article: "'This moment we have feared has arrived': Newsom rips Trump's 'military dragnet'" by Erik De La Garza.
Article: "Texas governor orders national guard to deploy for protests in San Antonio" by Edward Helmore.
Article: "ICE prepares full assault on five Democrat cities as LA goes into lockdown amid immigration riots" by Stephen M. Lepore, David Thompson.
Article: "Trump to ramp up transfers to Guantánamo, including citizens of allies" by John Hudson, Alex Horton.

Article: "Organizing for Homeland Security" by Lynn E. Davis.
Article: "Heimat" by Wikipedia.
Quote: "Dank Ihrer Führung wird Deutschland sein Ziel erreichen, Heimat zu sein. Heimat zu sein für alle Deutschen der Welt." by Rudolph Hess, 1934 Nuremburg rally.
Article: "Time for the U.S. to Dump the Word "Homeland"" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "FEMA camps conspiracy theory" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Virginia elections, 2025" by Ballotpedia.
Article: "Terry McAuliffe" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Project for the New American Century (PNAC)" by Wikipedia. "Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor."
Article: "Hitler's First 100 Days — And Trump's" by Werner Lange.

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Hour Two: Climate change is becoming a "ticking time bomb" and getting costly...5% of GDP? Wow.
- Dr. Michael Mann, Distinguished Professor & Director of the Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media, University of Pennsylvania / Author of numerous books, most recently, "Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons From Earth's Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis" @michaelemann.bsky.social
Article: "The MAGA War on Science Is Deadly—and It's Just Getting Started" by Katherine Stewart.
Article: "Climate change: World likely to breach 1.5°C limit in next five years" by UN.
Article: "Climate change could cost Italy over 5% of GDP in 2050, budget watchdog says" by Reuters.
Article: "The World's Oceans Are a 'Ticking Time Bomb,' Reaching Dangerous Acidification Levels Earlier Than Scientists Thought" by Georgina Gustin.
Article: "Scientists mapped what happens if a crucial system of ocean currents collapses. The weather impact would be extreme" by Laura Paddison.
Article: "El Niño–Southern Oscillation" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Staggering 84% of world's reefs impacted by coral bleaching" by Rob Hutchins.
Article: "Climate Change: Ocean Heat Content" by Rebecca Lindsey, LuAnn Dahlman.
Article: "Seafood could account for 25% of animal protein needed to meet projected increases in demand" by Steve Lundeberg.
Book: "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson.

Article: "The Precautionary Principle" by Jose Felix Pinto-Bazurco.

Trump is winding down FEMA as Climate changer ramps up - what could go wrong?
Article: "Trump says FEMA to be wound down after hurricane season" by Nathan Layne.

Musk crawls back to Trump on bended knee...Can he grovel enough for Trump?
Article: "Musk Crawls Back to Trump by Saying He Regrets His Scathing Attacks: 'Went Too Far'" by Ewan Palmer.

Article: "Steve Bannon" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Price tag for Trump's military festival could reach $45 million" by Olivia George.
Quote: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." - attributed to Theodore Roosevelt.
Speech: "Address at a Union Dinner. Washington, D.C. September 23, 1944 " by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Article: "The US supreme court just basically legalized bribery" by Moira Donegan.
Article: "Guilty: Trump becomes first former US president convicted of felony crimes" by Michael R. Sisak, Jennifer Peltz, Eric Tucker, Michelle L. Price, Jill Colvin.
Article: "1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Anti-Trump protests planned in D.C.-area on day of military parade" by Cuneyt Dil, April Rubin.
Article: "Edmund Pettus Bridge" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Selma to Montgomery marches" by Wikipedia.
Law: "Inflation Reduction Act of 2022".
Article: "Brian Wilson, visionary creative spirit for the Beach Boys, dies aged 82" by Ben Beaumont-Thomas.
Video: Car set on fire during anti-ICE protests in California.
Book: "Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler.
Article: "Minneapolis Police Reportedly Identify Viral 'Umbrella Man' As White Supremacist" by Rachel Treisman.

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Hour Three: More news... Smithsonian to purge 'anti-American ideology' as MAGA revamp gets underway, criminals are imitating ICE to rob people and surprise, Trump is restoring the confederacy.
Article: "Smithsonian to purge 'anti-American ideology' as MAGA revamp gets underway" by Erik De La Garza.
Article: "Thanks, Trump! Criminals are now impersonating ICE agents" by Oliver Willis.
Article: "British photographer injured by 'plastic bullet' in LA protests" by James Gregory.
Article: "Trump to restore names of military bases honoring Confederates" by Jennifer Bowers Bahney.

Article: "2024 Election Results Under Scrutiny as Lawsuit Advances" by Khaleda Rahman.
Article: "2024 US Presidential election is under scrutiny as lawsuit claims discrepancies in Rockland County, New York" by Economic Times.
Article: "Flag protest aims to get US thinking" by Duncan Campbell.
Article: "Contact" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Graveyard of empires" (Afghanistan) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump is found guilty on 34 felony counts. Read the counts here" by Ximena Bustillo, Hilary Fung.
Article: "Trump expressed support for hanging Pence during Capitol riot, Jan. 6 panel told" by Betsy Woodruff Swan and Kyle Cheney.
Article: "Trump warns 'any' protesters at military parade will be 'met with heavy force'" by Stacey Dec.
Article: "Dachau concentration camp" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Democide" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump deported fewer people than Obama, Clinton or Bush, but more indiscriminately" by Patricia Caro.
Article: "Priority Enforcement Program" (incl. Morton memos) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Title 32 of the United States Code" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Top US general rejected Trump suggestions military should 'crack skulls' during protests last year, new book claims" by Zachary Cohen.
Article: "Tax Payments by Undocumented Immigrants " by Carl Davis, Marco Guzman, Emma Sifre.
Article: "Supreme Court Grants Trump Broad Immunity for Official Acts, Placing Presidents Above the Law" by ACLU.