Sue's Daily Stack, Wednesday, 6 August, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Wednesday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: The Art of the Coverup: Trump, Epstein & the Secrets Buried Beneath the Sacred Scepter
Article: "The Art of the Coverup: Trump, Epstein & the Secrets Buried Beneath the Sacred Scepter" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Ex-Trump insider warns president about to 'flip': 'Ketchup all over the White House walls'" by David McAfee.
Article: "Top Trump officials will discuss Epstein strategy at Wednesday dinner hosted by Vance" by Alayna Treene, Josh Campbell, Paula Reid, Kristen Holmes, Kaitlan Collins.
Article: "Ex-Trump insider warns president about to 'flip': 'Ketchup all over the White House walls'" by David McAfee.
Event: Houston, TX: Aug 9: Thom Hartmann w/Grant Peeples: A KPFT Soiree.
Article: "Zorro Ranch, New Mexico" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump Moves "Nuclear" Subs: Negotiating Tactic or Escalatory Gamble?" by Mark F. Cancian and Chris H. Park.
Article: "Ex-Russian president warns enemies of 'new reality' as Kremlin ditches nuclear treaty" by Alexander Smith.
Article: "New Polish president begins his term clashing with PM Donald Tusk" by Wojciech Kość.
Article: "Senate Republicans Vote to Allow Trump to Keep Gifted Qatari Jet After Leaving Office" by Ahmad Austin Jr.
Article: "Ivanka's Trademark Requests Were Fast-Tracked In China After Trump Was Elected" by Tommy Beer.
Article: "Rep. Garcia: Why Did Saudi Government Give Kushner $2 Billion?" by Robert Garcia.
So my question for you is: how do we defeat oligarchy without one of these four forces? I'll explain...
Article: "Things are not going to get better as long as oligarchs rule the roost in our democracies" by George Monbiot.
Book: The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Scheidel.
Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2019" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].
Article: "Steve Witkoff" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Donald Trump says 'everyone agrees this war must come to a close' after Witkoff meets Putin – as it happened" by Jakub Krupa.
Article: "Why isn't Fox News covering the Wall Street Journal's bombshell scoop of the Trump-Epstein letter?" by Justin Baragona.
Article: "Operation Barbarossa: why Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union was his greatest mistake" by Antony Beevor.
Article: "Tax Cuts Now, Benefit Cuts Later: The Timeline in the Republican Megabill" by Tony Romm, Andrew Duehren, Margot Sanger-Katz, Brad Plumer and Daniel Wood.
Article: "Examining report Pentagon secretly transferred $934M to renovate Trump's new Air Force One" by Laerke Christensen.
Article: "Four radioactive wasp nests found on South Carolina nuclear facility" by Beth Mole.
Hour Two: This is what dictators do - they turn us against each other...
Article: "Hate crimes hit second largest record in 2024: FBI" by Russell Contreras.
Article: "5 troops injured after soldier opens fire at Georgia military base" by Ana Faguy, Tom Joyner & Max Matza.
Right-wing radio star tells MAGA the brutal list of 7 ways Trump "alienated" them...and does this RI special election show that the GOP is tanking?
Article: "Right-Wing Radio Star Drops Scathing List of 7 Ways Trump Has 'Alienated' His Voters" by Isaac Schorr.
Article: "Talking Back To Talk Radio - Fairness, Democracy, and Profits" by Thom Hartmann, December 03, 2002.
Article: "Air America (radio network)" by Wikipedia.
Book: "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late" by Thom Hartmann.
Book: "The Prophet's Way" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Rush Limbaugh" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Michael Savage" by Wikipedia.
Video: "Donald Trump makes appearance on White House roof and bemuses press below" by Sky News.
Article: "oh look, it's Diddler on the Roof" by Jeff Tiedrich.
Article: "Other special election massive Dem overpermormance, this time in Rhode Island" by Prairiecrat.
Article: "JD Vance to visit Indiana amid push for redistricting. Will Braun call special session?" by Brittany Carloni.
Article: "Pro-democracy groups plan sit-in Thursday at Indiana Statehouse to protest redistricting push by Vance" by Bloomingtonian.
Executive Order: "Suspending Duty-free De Minimis Treatment For All Countries" by Donald J. Trump.
Shockingly, RFK just condemned millions to "death & illness." Why do we have to live in his fringe conspiracy laced world instead of good science?
Article: "RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for vaccine development" by AP.
Article: "'Unforgivable': Shocked experts warn RFK just condemned millions to 'death and illness'" by Daniel Hampton.
Article: "'He's Lying': Conservatives and Liberals Torch RFK Jr. For Baseless Assault on Vaccines" by David Gilmour.
Article: "JD Vance once compared Trump to Hitler. Now, he is Trump's vice president-elect" by Gram Slattery and Helen Coster.
Post: "Trump Tariffs In Full Swing! [video]" by Mercedes Chandler.
Book: The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson.
Video: "Operation Gladio is Alive and Well" NATO"s secret terrorist army EXPOSED.
Article: "Gaza war protests in the United States" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Transcript: Bin Laden determined to strike in US, August 6, 2001.
Article: "Netanyahu Ignored All the Warnings and Looming Threats. He's Primarily Responsible for the Calamity" by Aluf Benn.
Article: "Reichstag fire" by Britannica.
Hour Three: Trump is trying to prevent a free and fair 2026 election! And will Pritzker come to the rescue?
Article: "The Trump Administration's Campaign to Undermine the Next Election" by Jasleen Singh.
Article: "DOJ Seeking Voter And Election Information From At Least 19 States" by Ali Swenson and Gary Fields.
Article: "House passes bill that could make it harder for married women to vote" (SAVE Act) by Barbara Rodriguez.
Article: "National Voter Registration Act of 1993" (Motor Voter Act) by Wikipedia. "The Congress finds that -
(1) the right of citizens of the United States to vote is a fundamental right; ..."
Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".
Article: "It's Pritzker's party: Hell yes, he's messing with Texas, and he's not sorry" by Max Burns.
Article: "Quorum" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Josh Shapiro urges White House to help feed starving Gazans" by Gregory Svirnovskiy.
Article: "Lawyer: Immigrant detained by ICE is undergoing kidney dialysis " by Eleonora Bianchi.
Article: "'Trump has betrayed us': Candace Owens attacks Trump as 'deep state' president" by David Edwards.
Now the fossil fuel billionaires want Trump to destroy the satellites that monitor climate change, and he's going to do it!
Article: "White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite" by Victor Tangermann.
Article: "Trump Increases Utility Bills And Kills Jobs By Ending Solar Program For Working Class Americans" by Jason Easley.
Article: "Anocracy" by Wikipedia.
Article: "'Stop the Steal' campaign has long ties to Roger Stone" by CNN.
Article: "Pritzker family" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Texas Republicans vote to arrest Democrats blocking redistricting plan" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Bomb threat prompts evacuation at Chicago hotel where some Texas Democrats are staying" by Caroline Linton.
Article: "Why Did the League of Nations Fail? Here Are Some Answers" by History on the Net.
Executive Order: "Addressing Threats To The United States By The Government Of The Russian Federation" by Donald Trump - added 25% tariff.