Sue's Daily Stack, Wednesday, 20 August, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Wednesday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: Welcome to MAGAstan: Trump's GOP is Building an American Taliban of Racism & Authoritarianism
Article: "Welcome to MAGAstan: Trump's GOP is Building an American Taliban of Racism & Authoritarianism" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Trump administration fires senior Navy female officer at NATO. She appeared on a 'woke' list" by Lolita C. Baldor.
Book: The Last American President: A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party, and a World on the Brink by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Black Woman In Charge Of US Military Health Agency Forced To Resign: Report" by Reuters.
Article: "Pro-Trump group wages campaign to purge "subversive" federal workers" by Linda So, Peter Eisler and Ned Parker.
Article: "Masked ICE agents detain former Afghan interpreter who helped US military" by Patricia Zengerle.
Article: "Trump targets the Smithsonian again, says it focuses too much on how bad slavery was" by Kanishka Singh.
Article: "Trump administration cancels annual employee survey amid civil service tumult" by Meryl Kornfield.
Book: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.
Trump's new mission for immigration is to keep out anti-Americanism. And just what qualifies you to be anti-American? We'll review.....
Article: "US to 'root out anti-Americanism' in reviewing immigration applications" by AFP and Anna Betts.
Article: "Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme" by Carrington Walker.
Law: "Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952".
Article: "US State Department revokes 6,000 student visas" by Ana Faguy.
Post: "I've always been a big 2nd Amendment guy because I fear government tyranny. I fear masked & armed government agents taking to our streets against the people. I fear the very government tyranny we're seeing right now. So how come nearly all of my fellow 2nd Amendment guys, who always said they feared government tyranny as well, are now happily on the side of the government tyranny?" by Joe Walsh.
Article: "Nazi gun control argument" by Wikipedia.
Is Putin Trump's new mentor and best friend? And what is he mentoring him in? Dictatorship? Ruthlessness?
Article: "Russia launches missile attacks on central Ukraine hours after Trump-Zelensky meeting concludes" by Volodymyr Ivanyshyn, Dmytro Basmat.
Tweet: "Do you think Putin will be going to The Miss Universe Pageant in November in Moscow - if so, will he become my new best friend?" by Donald J. Trump.
Article: "Trump broke off his meetings with Europe's leaders to call his friend in the Kremlin... why?" by Sam Kiley.
Article: "How Russian Money Helped Save Trump's Business" by Michael Hirsh.
Book: "The Authoritarians" by Robert Altemeyer.
Book: "Conservatives Without Conscience" by John W. Dean.
Article: "John N. Mitchell" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump Rolled Out the Red Carpet for Putin. He Got Little in Return." by Lara Seligman, Thomas Grove, Meridith McGraw.
Article: "Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops, Intelligence Says" by Charlie Savage, Eric Schmitt and Michael Schwirtz.
Article: "2023 visit by Joe Biden to Ukraine" by Wikipedia.
Article: "On Harriet Tubman Day, a new effort to place the abolitionist on the $20 bill launches" by Chandelis Duster.
Article: "How the GI Bill's Promise Was Denied to a Million Black WWII Veterans" by Erin Blakemore.
Article: "Forty acres and a mule" by Wikipedia.
Substack: "LookingNWords" by Rohn Kenyatta.
Article: "WTF Does "Finish The Job" Actually Mean?" by Rohn Kenyatta.
Article: "The new 3000km Flamingo ready to drop one tonne warheads into Putin's core support" by Lewis Page.
Article: "'Nearly two million more casualties': The numbers that show Russia is years from victory" by Chief Foreign Analyst Roland Oliphant.
Article: "Collective defence - Article 5" by NATO.
Article: "EU defence in numbers" by Council of the EU and the European Council.
Video: Sweden, Finland urge residents to be ready for war • FRANCE 24 English.
Article: "Winter War" by Wikipedia.
Hour Two: Why DOES the Supreme Court keep ruling in Trump's Favor?
- Stephen Spaulding, Managing Director, Democracy - Brennan Center's Kohlberg Center @stevespaulding.bsky.social
Article: "Supreme Court Must Explain Why It Keeps Ruling in Trump's Favor" by Alicia Bannon.
Article: "Shadow docket" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Has Humphrey's Executor Been Effectively Overruled on the Supreme Court's Emergency Docket with Impact on the FTC?" by Charles M. Honart.
Case: "Humphrey's Executor v. United States".
Article: "Blumenthal Leads Group of Thirteen Senators Introducing New Legislation to Shine Light on the Supreme Court's Shadow Docket" by Richard Blumenthal.
Article: "Governor Stein Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Hurricane Erin" by Josh Stein.
Article: "Trump pressed oil executives to give $1 billion for his campaign, people in industry say" by Ben Lefebvre.
Article: "Trump eyes U.S. government stakes in other chip makers that received CHIPS Act funds: Reuters" by Reuters.
Law: "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act" (HIPAA).
Law: "Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990".
Veterans are fearing to new Kent State massacre....Can it be prevented with military boots on American soil?
Article: "'Keeps me up at night': Veterans fear Trump is gunning for another 'Kent State' massacre" by Adam Lynch.
Article: "Kent State shootings", May 4, 1970 by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump suggested shooting DC protestors in the legs according to ex-Sec. of Defense Mark Esper in new book" by Dave Goldiner.
Article: "John Kelly is out as White House chief of staff, Trump announces" by Andrew Prokop.
Article: "Trump fires Milley, Andrés from council positions in overnight social media posts" by Andrew Howard.
Article: "Trump is 'fascist to the core,' Milley says in Woodward book" by Ruby Cramer.
Article: "Stephen Miller (political advisor)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Pete Hegseth" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Texas Democrat sleeps in chambers after refusing GOP law enforcement escort mandate".
Article: "No taxation without representation" by Wikipedia.
Article: "January 6 United States Capitol attack" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Criminal records of Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by Trump include rape, domestic violence" by Tom Dreisbach.
Article: "'This is going to end us': Florida growers warn Trump he's 'killing farming'" by Tom Boggioni.
Article: "White Lion (privateer)" by Wikipedia.
Book: The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Volunteers of America" (VOA) by Wikipedia.
Site: "Project 2025".
Article: "The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement" (Heritage Foundation - Project Esther) by Katie J.M. Baker.
Article: "Project 2025's Other Project" by The Daily.
Hour Three: Trump's new "emergency" could be his downfall - If Democrats fight back....
Article: "Trump's new 'emergency' could be his downfall — if Democrats exploit it" by Bill McKibben.
Article: "The Trump administration has decided coal is female. Here's why" by Arwa Mahdawi.
Article: "Will a 3-minute battery swap beat a 5-minute charge for China's EV drivers?" by Edward White, Gloria Li .
Article: "Electricity prices outpace inflation by more than double: CPI" by Markie Martin.
Article: "Electoral College" by Wikipedia.
Audio: "Republican Town Halls Turned Ugly. One Congressman Kept Doing Them Anyway" by NYT.
Law: "National Emergencies Act" (NEA), 1976.
Article: "Judge says E Jean Carroll allegation Trump raped her is 'substantially true' in court dismissal" by Martin Pengelly.
Article: "Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Here's the Truth - If You're Anti-Woke, You're Pro-Bigot" by Thom Hartmann.
Tweet: "Endangered eagles are being killed at enormous rates. A study estimates that in 2012, nearly: 600,000 birds were killed by wind turbines, 900,000 bats were killed by wind turbines. Who is responsible? The wind industry. So why are climate change activists silent?" [video] by PragerU.
Article: "Do wind turbines kill birds?" by MIT.
Article: "Billionaires for Bush" by Wikipedia.
Site: "Batteries News" by Science Daily.
Article: "Scientists discover salt that makes batteries last 10x longer" by KAUST.
Article: "AI just found 5 powerful materials that could replace lithium batteries" by New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Site: Nature.