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  Yesterdays News 10/13 13.10.2026 15Min.

  Sources:On This Day: History.com — Shot in the chest, Roosevelt kept talking | WPR — Shot in Milwaukee, 1912Youngstown rally: CNN — Trump holds raucous Ohio rally | NBC News — Live blog | AOL — Protester punched in face as Trump calls her "fat guy" | Raw Story — "They're scum" | WFMJ — Live notes | The Vindicator — Trump stumps for Husted, RamaswamyMusk: CNBC — $276 million, biggest known donor | CNN — Top booster for Republicans | MPR/AP — Quietly becomes biggest donor | The Hill — $366 million cycle totalGrassley: BizPac Review — Files for reelection; would be 101 | Townhall — Files for 2028 bidVoting rules: Washington Times/AP — GOP states impose new voting rules | Mississippi Today/AP — Same | CNN — Ohio early voting shiftBankruptcies: Newsweek — Bankruptcies surge | Epoch Times — Filings up 11 percent | Time News — Small trucking fleets fileTariffs: Globe and Mail/AP — Trump sticks with tariffs despite disapproval | CP24/AP — Voters turn against tariffs | CNN — Author of tariff statute says tariffs are illegal | GBQ — Section 301 tariffs on 60 economiesUkraine: CNBC — Zelenskyy accuses Russia of violating ceasefire | Euronews — Russia ignored ceasefire | PBS — Strikes continue despite claim | Axios — Trump announces ceasefireHouston: CNN — Man struck by ICE vehicle broke both legs | Click2Houston — Parra undergoes surgery, family allegations | Houston Chronicle — ICE vehicle hits manPike: CNN — Emergency help delayed by confusion | CBS News — 911 calls | NBC News — Calls highlight confusionMamdani: NY1 — Review after teen's death | Yahoo/CNN — Department-wide review | CNN — Marble Hill ICE shootingAI center: U.S. News/Reuters — Officials to move to White House | Crypto Briefing — CAISI under White House oversightGood news: Billboard — Musgraves fires back at Noem | Hollywood Reporter — Dig about killing her dog | TheWrap — Snarky clapback
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  Yesterdays News 10/12 12.10.2026 21Min.

  Misspoke: There is a podcast episode this week, not next week.Sources:On This Day: History.com — Chilean miners rescued after 69 days | TechCrunch — Most-watched Ustream event everGates / Yandex: France 24/AFP — Gates warns cyberattacks most imminent AI threat | Euronews — Did strikes on Yandex cause bot activity to plummet? | Yahoo — Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated | TVP World — Bot traffic plummetsDiesel / ceasefire: The Hill — Backlash grows against Russia diesel deal | The Hill — Fitzpatrick bill | NBC News — Trump claims “energy ceasefire”; Ukraine says strikes continue | RFE/RL — House Republicans move to block dealOmar: CBS News — Home searched by HSI | Axios — Search in immigration probe | CNN — Federal officers carry out search | ABC News — DOJ statementAds ruling: CNBC — Judge orders ads stopped immediately | CNN — Order with hours left | NBC News — Ads off air immediatelyEast Potomac: Washington Post — Judge halts tree removal after 500 trees fall | FOX 5 — 500 trees cut | WUSA9 — 150 trees, administration defends workAllentown radio: Post-Gazette/AP — Spanish-language radio show overflows with frustration | Local10/AP — SameEarly voting: CNN — Democratic gains in Ohio’s most Trump-friendly counties | NBC News — Early vote analysis | Santa Fe New Mexican — New Mexico early voting | MS NOW — “Red undertow”Talarico: The Bulwark — Conspiracy implodes | Baptist News — Republicans falsely claim | Daily Wire — Campaign and hospital deny | Primetimer — Suspended account allegationExecution: The Hill — Mullin: “restoring American values” | Al Jazeera — Mullin sees no “risk” | CBS News — Only 2 countries held public executions last year | CBS News — Livestream plan sparks backlash | CNN — Hegseth gets backlash | Wikipedia — Execution of Mohsen ShekariGuilfoyle: Washington Post/AP — Trump, Rubio weigh firing envoy | The Hill — Job uncertainty | HuffPost — Mounting reportsMeasles: Stateline — 4,080 cases, highest in decades | ABC News — Surpasses 4,000 in 45 states | The Hill — A quarter from Pennsylvania | CDC — Cases and outbreaksSNAP: WISN — Enrollment sinks to 19.8 million households | PBS — 1.2 million children lost SNAP | UPI — Fewer Americans getting help | WWNO — Louisiana enrollment nosedivesFDA: Yahoo — Proposal widens exemption for chemicals added to food | The Hill — Kennedy looks to close loophole | Sen. Markey — Ensuring Safe and Toxic-Free Foods ActZacharia: NBC News — Zacharia will be next press secretary | CNBC — Trump Media adviser named | Newsweek — Who is Katie Zacharia | Wikipedia — Tricia McLaughlin (DHS succession)Isaias: FOX 10 — Nearly 396,000 without power | NPR — At least 4 deaths | CBS News — Cleanup continues
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  80. Gather Your Gossips! 12.10.2026 1Std. 3Min.

  The word “gossip” started out as something sacred. In Old English it was godsibb, literally “God-sibling,” the name for a godparent or anyone who stood with you at a baptism and became spiritual kin. By the Middle Ages the meaning had loosened to cover any close friend or companion, and in particular the circle of women who gathered in the birthing room to help a mother through labor. Those long hours of waiting were filled with talk, and the “gossips” became known as much for their conversation as for their support.Men, fearful and suspicious of women in community without men supervising began to demonize women gathering publicly or speaking to each other. Male writers of the 1500s and 1600s sneered at “gossips” as idle, chattering women, and by the 1800s the verb “to gossip” meant exactly what it does today. It was uniquely WOMAN sin and was built to isolate a woman from network. Then... they added it to the Bible. Sources Wulfstan, Sermo Lupi ad Anglos, c. 1014 (CCCC MS 419). The Fox and the Wolf, c. 1275 (Bodleian Digby 86). Chaucer, Wife of Bath's Prologue, lines 243–45, 525–51 (Riverside). Shakespeare: Comedy of Errors 5.1; Midsummer Night's Dream 2.1; Romeo and Juliet 3.5; Titus Andronicus 4.2; Henry VIII 5.5. Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, 1755, s.v. "gossip." Etymonline and wordorigins.org for sense dates (c. 1300 friend; 1560s idle talker; 1620s verb; 1791–1811 the talk). Adrian Wilson, "The Ceremony of Childbirth and its Interpretation," in Valerie Fildes, ed., Women as Mothers in Pre-Industrial England, Routledge, 1990; The Making of Man-Midwifery, UCL/Harvard, 1995. Bernard Capp, When Gossips Meet, Oxford, 2003; David Turner's review, H-Albion, January 2004. Laura Gowing, Domestic Dangers, Oxford, 1996. Heinrich Kramer, Malleus Maleficarum, 1486, Part I, Questions 6 and 11 (Summers translation, 1928). Edward Hall, The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families, 1548 (1809 ed., p. 590); Holinshed, Chronicles, 1587, vol. 3, p. 842. Second Book of Homilies, 1563, "Of the State of Matrimony." David Underdown, "The Taming of the Scold," in Fletcher and Stevenson, eds., Order and Disorder in Early Modern England, Cambridge, 1985, pp. 116–36. Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch, Autonomedia, 2004, chs. 2 and 4; Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women, PM Press, 2018, ch. 5. Lynda Boose, "Scolding Brides and Bridling Scolds," Shakespeare Quarterly 42.2, 1991, pp. 179–213. Blackstone, Commentaries, Book IV, ch. 13, 1769. Ralph Gardiner, England's Grievance Discovered, 1655. Samuel Rowlands, 'Tis Merrie when Gossips meete, 1602; A Crew of kind Gossips, 1613. "Tittle-Tattle; Or, the several Branches of Gossipping," British Museum 1973,U.216. Hans Medick, "Village Spinning Bees," in Medick and Sabean, eds., Interest and Emotion, Cambridge, 1984. State v. Palendrano, 120 N.J. Super. 336 (Law Div. 1972). James v. Commonwealth, 12 Serg. & Rawle 220 (Pa. 1825). Verse comparisons across Wycliffe, Geneva 1599, KJV, Douay-Rheims, Darby 1890, YLT 1898, ASV 1901, Weymouth 1903/1913, RSV 1946/1952, NASB 1971/1995/2020, TLB 1971, NIV 1978/2011, ESV 2001, NRSVue 2021, via Bible Gateway. Lexicon: Strong's H7400 rakil, H5372 nirgan, G5588 psithyristēs, G5587 psithyrismos, G5397 phlyaros, G5396 phlyareō, G1228 diabolos. Raymond E. Brown, An Introduction to the New Testament, Doubleday, 1997. Bart D. Ehrman, Forged, HarperOne, 2011. Dolores Hayden, The Grand Domestic Revolution, MIT Press, 1981; "What Would a Non-Sexist City Be Like?", Signs 5.3, 1980; Redesigning the American Dream, Norton, 1984. Christine Frederick, The New Housekeeping, 1913; Household Engineering, 1919. FHA Underwriting Manual, 1938, pars. 937, 980. Eric Larrabee, "The Six Thousand Houses That Levitt Built," Harper's, September 1948. John Keats,
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  Yesterdays News 10/9 09.10.2026 23Min.

  Sources:On This Day: History.com — Vice President Agnew resigns | Britannica — October 10, 1973Swatting: Yahoo — Jane Doe targeted in swatting incident | CNN — Death threats as pressure builds | CNN — Inside the swatting incident | NBC — Wichita swatting caseCivil Rights Division: Rolling Stone — DOJ stocking Civil Rights Division | CBS News — “Reverse discrimination” upends division | Bloomberg Law — Civil rights recast | NOTUS — How Trump transformed the office | Public Citizen — The attorneys Dhillon installed | MS NOW — Opinion | The Hill — Title IX rule rescinded | CBS News — Lowest refugee cap, mostly Afrikaners | IRAP — Ceiling expansion for Afrikaners | CS Monitor — Afrikaners settle inNYC shooting: CNN — Man shot by ICE with 5-year-old in car | The Intercept — Agent posing as construction worker | Yahoo — Mamdani statement | SAN — Protesters clash with policeCalifornia: New Republic — “Go after anybody” | Yahoo — Newsom: “campaign of fear” | NBC San Diego — Surge starts in San Diego | LA Public Press — Arrests surgeUSS Lincoln: Stars and Stripes — Returns after 322 days | CBS News — Docks in San Diego | The Hill — Ends deploymentHasan: NBC News — Livestream of execution | PBS/AP — Pentagon confirms livestream | NPR — First firing squad since WWII | DPIC — First military execution in 65 years“Super intelligence”: Forbes — Anyone who says “AI” is an “enemy” | Yahoo — White House still uses “AI”Medals / Nobel Peace: Al Jazeera — Trump gives science awards to Musk, others | Euronews — “Modern-day Thomas Edison” | Al Jazeera — Peace Prize to Navi Pillay | CNN — Pillay wins | France 24 — Pillay wins | Euronews — Trump: “I settled eight wars”Johnson: The Hill — Floats return to Louisiana | Benzinga — Lawn business “with fervor”Mifepristone: NBC News — Review complete in March | STAT — Review continues into 2027 | CNN — SameHuckabee aide: The Hill — Aide suppressed embassy reports | Times of Israel — NYT report | GV Wire/NYT — How a diplomat altered reportsIsaias: CNN — Gulf Coast evacuations, Category 3 | ABC News — Takes aim at Panhandle | Weather.com — Intensifies before landfallGood news: NobelPrize.org — Literature 2026 press release | NPR — Anne Carson wins | CNN — Genre-bending Canadian writer
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  Yesterdays News 10/8 08.10.2026 31Min.

  Sources:On This Day: History.com — Office of Homeland Security founded | Bush White House archive — Executive Order 13228Skydance: BNN Bloomberg/AFP — Paramount wraps up merger | CNN — Combined company named Skydance | CNBC — Leadership team | Adweek — Thompson, Weiss report to Ellison | CJR — The CEOs of everything | Yahoo/Fortune — Ellison's $45 million | Yahoo — Trump received $16 million | TechTimes — CNN independence board | The Conversation — Seven Mountains MandateIran remark / ads: CNN — Backlash after "take out" LA or San Diego | ABC7 — Nebraska remarks | Yahoo/AP — Super PAC to pay for ads"Bad things": Yahoo/The Hill — Trump: I could have done "bad things" | The National Desk — "I can do whatever I want"Paxton rally: U.S. News/AP — Trump interrupted by protesters | CNN — Third Texas trip despite Paxton audio leaks | Washington Examiner — Heckled, blames "paid protesters"Vote by mail / press: MS NOW — Trump urging vote by mail | The Hill — Media should be "arrested" | The Hill — Politico blocked from Air Force OneGuilfoyle: Mediaite — "Honey please" | Election Law Blog — WSJ report | Dana Mattioli (WSJ) on X | Billboard — Freedom Fest canceled, DetersHormuz: The Star/Reuters — Attacks hit highest of any week | Maritime Executive — Attack on new LR2 tanker | Malay Mail/AFP — Araghchi: no military solutionAlito: Inquirer/AP — Alito on emergency appeals and rhetoricClimate case: CNN — Conservative justices sharp with Boulder | NBC News — Term opens with climate caseHarvard: Boston.com/AP — Appeals court weighs judge's authority | Courthouse News — First Circuit argumentAbrego Garcia: ClickOnDetroit/AP — Back in court | Al Jazeera — Liberia planJarquín: ABC News/AP — Imprisoned again after deportationMartinez: KSAT/AP — Citizen shot by agent sues | The Hill — Shot five timesShock gloves: Boston Globe — Army study found gloves cause pain, compliance, fear | Mother Jones — Shock gloves traumatized Army volunteers | AOL — ICE and CBP weapons surgeMethane: The Hill — Trump to propose relaxing methane rules | CPR — Loosening standards weeks after Colorado tightened | Albuquerque Journal — Zeldin in Santa FeWater: CBS News — 62% more for water | Food & Water Watch — Report | Gizmodo — Where Americans pay the mostPike: NPR — Judge orders evidence preserved | CNN — Attorneys believed she was brain-dead | MS NOW — First words | U.S. News/AP — Republicans consider more execution options | Tennessee Comptroller — Death penalty costs (2004)Lansing: ABC News — Police suggest possible serial killer | Detroit News — "Do we have a serial killer?" | FOX 2 — Five deaths along river trailGreene-Placentia: 12News — Candidate says she was raped fixing signs | Newsweek — Same | Phoenix New Times — Politicians respondLincoln University: Washington Post — Alumni sue Missouri over funding | TheGrio — $550M suit | Investing.com/Reuters — Missouri sued | Wikipedia — Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. CanadaCornell: CNN — Death threats, seven-hour sit-in | Cornell Daily Sun — "Zero Day" | NBC News — Yates to lead review | CNN — Swatting incidentBoise: Yahoo — Timberline forfeits homecoming game | Idaho News — What's known so far | KIVI — Community demands consequencesCrime messaging: ABC News/AP — Republicans return to tough-on-crimeMeasles: Governor's office — Executive Order 65 | Al Jazeera — New York declares measles disasterBakker: 
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  79. The Book You Didn't Know You Know- The Book (s) of Enoch 04.10.2026 1Std. 31Min.

  In April a congresswoman pinned "Read the book of Enoch" to the top of her feed, and a cable host told America the government made a deal with demons for the bomb. They're pointing at a real book. First Enoch is older than every document in the New Testament, quoted as prophecy by the letter of Jude, and read as scripture by the people who wrote the Gospels. It's where the Christian ideas of demons, a hell of fire, the archangel Michael with his chain, the seven archangels, Lucifer's fall from pride, and the Nephilim actually come from, and almost none of that is in the Bible you were handed in Sunday school. SOURCES — The Books of EnochPRIMARY TEXTS AND EDITIONSNickelsburg, George W. E. 1 Enoch 1: A Commentary on the Book of 1 Enoch, Chapters 1–36; 81–108. Hermeneia. Fortress Press, 2001.Nickelsburg, George W. E., and James C. VanderKam. 1 Enoch 2: A Commentary on the Book of 1 Enoch, Chapters 37–82. Hermeneia. Fortress Press, 2012.Nickelsburg, George W. E., and James C. VanderKam. 1 Enoch: A New Translation. Fortress Press, 2004; 2nd ed. 2012.Charles, R. H. The Book of Enoch. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1893; 2nd ed. 1912. (Public domain; quotations in the script follow Charles.)Charles, R. H. The Ethiopic Version of the Book of Enoch. Oxford, 1906.Knibb, Michael A. The Ethiopic Book of Enoch. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978.Milik, J. T. The Books of Enoch: Aramaic Fragments of Qumrân Cave 4. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976.Stuckenbruck, Loren T. The Book of Giants from Qumran. Mohr Siebeck, 1997.Stuckenbruck, Loren T. 1 Enoch 91–108. Commentaries on Early Jewish Literature. De Gruyter, 2007.Laurence, Richard. The Book of Enoch the Prophet. Oxford, 1821.Dillmann, August. Liber Henoch Aethiopice. Leipzig, 1851; Das Buch Henoch, 1853.Bouriant, Urbain. "Fragments du texte grec du livre d'Énoch." Mémoires de la Mission archéologique française au Caire 9.1 (1892). (Codex Panopolitanus / Akhmim codex.)Bonner, Campbell. The Last Chapters of Enoch in Greek. Studies and Documents 8. London, 1937. (Chester Beatty–Michigan papyrus.)Andersen, F. I. "2 (Slavonic Apocalypse of) Enoch." In Charlesworth, ed., The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, vol. 1. Doubleday, 1983.Alexander, Philip. "3 (Hebrew Apocalypse of) Enoch." In Charlesworth, ed., The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, vol. 1. Doubleday, 1983.Odeberg, Hugo. 3 Enoch, or The Hebrew Book of Enoch. Cambridge, 1928.Hagen, Joost L. "No Longer 'Slavonic' Only: 2 Enoch Attested in Coptic from Nubia." In Orlov and Boccaccini, eds., New Perspectives on 2 Enoch. Brill, 2012.VanderKam, James C. The Book of Jubilees. 2 vols. CSCO 510–511. Peeters, 1989.Fitzmyer, Joseph A. The Genesis Apocryphon of Qumran Cave 1 (1Q20). 3rd ed. Biblical Institute Press, 2004.Wise, Michael, Martin Abegg, and Edward Cook. The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation. HarperOne, 1996; rev. 2005.Syncellus, George. The Chronography of George Synkellos. Trans. William Adler and Paul Tuffin. Oxford, 2002.Scaliger, Joseph. Thesaurus Temporum. Leiden, 1606.Fabricius, Johann Albert. Codex Pseudepigraphus Veteris Testamenti. Hamburg, 1713.Bruce, James. Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile. 5 vols. Edinburgh, 1790.VanderKam, James C. Enoch and the Growth of an Apocalyptic Tradition. CBQ Monograph 16. Catholic Biblical Association, 1984.VanderKam, James C. Enoch: A Man for All Generations. University of South Carolina Press, 1995.Reed, Annette Yoshiko. Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2005.Nickelsburg, George W. E. "Enoch, Levi, and Peter: Recipients of Revelation in Upper Galilee." Journal of Biblical Literature 100.4 (1981): 575–600.Suter, David. "Fallen Angel, Fallen Priest: The Problem of Family Purity in 1 Enoch 6–16." Hebrew Union College Annual 50 (1979): 115–135.Boccaccini, Gabriele, ed. Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man:
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  Yesterdays News 10/4 04.10.2026 20Min.

  Sources:On This Day: Wikipedia — "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy" | The Conversation — Quayle never recovered2028: NBC — Kennedy: "Why not me on a rainy day?" | Louisiana Illuminator — "A bunch of goobers" | Mediaite — Cruz tells "insecure" Vance to chill out | Newsweek — 2028 frontrunnersOhio rally: CNBC — Trump says he may not help if Democrats win | Dayton Daily News — "Pretend I'm on the ballot" | Newsweek — Crude remarkHealth: Daily Beast — Photo "slumped over" | IBTimes — Daily medication remarks | Raw Story — AspirinTriage: Mediaite — CNN: House Republicans in "triage mode" | MS NOW — Mace: "bloodbath" | Yahoo — Triage modeObama/Nixon: The Hill — Trump shares meme | Political Wire — DOJ reviews if Nixon got a raw deal | CNBC — Hearn case dismissedMaryland: The Hill — DOJ sues Maryland over mask ban | WMAR — Mask ban, ID requirements | Yahoo/Reuters — Judge rejects California mask law | PBS/AP — Renee Good family suesDHS planes: Inquirer/NYT — $464M for planes, then parked | New Republic — Noem, Mullin trade blame | Joe.My.God/NYT — Noem donor profited | Axios — Luxury jetsHegseth: The Hill — Troops could be redeployed from Europe | Washington Times — Teases removal of troops | Snopes — Office of Religious Affairs | Forbes — Hegseth mocks Nazi comparisonIran: Malay Mail/AFP — No military solution | The Hill — Rubio orders delegation out | Fox News — More bombing "possible"Pike: PBS/AP — Has not regained consciousness | FOX 13 — Still on ventilatorChicago: ABC News — 7-year-old dies after stabbing | NewsNation — Woman in custody | ABC7 Chicago — Chatham stabbingVienna, Ga.: AJC — 2 dead, 35 hurt at homecoming party | WALB — Coroner identifies victims | WTOL — 25 hospitalizedAI sentencing video: NBC News — Sentence vacated | Fortune — Court tosses sentence | Global News — SameCornell: NBC News — DA did not review evidence Cornell police collected | CNYCentral — Hochul removes DA; James takes over | NewsNation — DA questions reports | OPB — "I was raped" | Yahoo/NYT — How Cornell punished each of the 7 | The Hill — Attorney alleges more involvedAndriesz: Daily Beast — Whistleblower found dead | IBTimes — Dies by suicide | Raw Story — Death ruled suicide | Rep. Massie on XHinson: PolitiFact — Hinson voted for release; Democrats' messaging | The Gazette — Pressed by callers | The Gazette — Opposed discharge petitionChild marriage: LA Mag — Newsom signs ban | Yahoo — Ban takes effect 2027 | Law Commentary — AB 1267Red Lobster: WSB — Man calls 911 to avoid bill | WUSA9 — SameBrazil: CNBC — Headed to runoff | CNN — Runoff after campaign dominated by crime, corruption and Trump | NPR — Right gains groundGood news: Good Good Good — UN sea level rise declaration | UN News — Nepal PM's address
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  Yesterday's News 10/1-10/2 02.10.2026 22Min.

  Sources:On This Day: AANS — Woodrow Wilson's Hidden Stroke of 1919 | Deseret News — President Wilson suffers a strokeGrok: TechCrunch — Grok reportedly encouraged Trump to capture Maduro | MS NOW — Trump sought chatbot input on military strikes | Raw Story — Insiders: "hard to convince him to do anything" | CNBC — America.gov uses Gemini, GrokMemecoin dinner: CNN — Another Trump meme coin dinner | CoinDesk — Dinner advertised for top investors | Mediaite — "Most exclusive dinner in the world" | Rolling Stone — Dinner for crypto investors | ABC News/AP — U.S. withdraws from GRECOGovernment ads: Yahoo/Reuters — Democrats seek probe | CNBC — $20 million in DHS funds | Public Citizen — FCC and FTC complaint | Deadline — Carr sees nothing out of the ordinaryCNN pool: NewsNation — White House blocks CNN from pool duty | NBC News — CNN removed for Texas, Oklahoma trip | NPR — Outlets ask court to bar enforcementHispanic Heritage remark: Washington Post — "Only Hispanic" could survive fall | The Hill — SameHearn: CNBC — Judge cites risk Trump will force new charges | PBS — Case permanently dismissed | Fox News — SameWatergate: Yahoo — DOJ to review whether Nixon was mistreated | Political Wire — DOJ reviews if Nixon got a raw deal | Mediaite — Riley Moore: Nixon "framed"Epstein 302: Yahoo — Wyden accuses DOJ, FBI of withholding interview | IBTimes — Wyden demands release | Axios — Judge warns Blanche of contemptFTC: CNBC — FTC investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and others | Axios — FTC probe over AI safety risks | PBS — Self-policing accordChinese hackers: CNN — China-linked hackers impersonated U.S. AI insiders | Yahoo/Reuters — Hackers impersonated ex-U.S. officialHegseth: NPR — Hegseth says he has transformed the military | Time — Sweeping cuts to top ranks | Boston Globe — 20% cut confirmed | Department of War — Address and initiativesIraq: PBS/AP — Withdrawal complete | ABC News — Last troops depart | Democracy Now — Headlines, Oct. 1Iran delegation: The Hill — Rubio orders Iranian delegation out | CTV — Delegation ordered to leave early | Fox News — Trump: more bombing "possible" | Fox News — Troop deployments, oil pricesEgypt: WRAL/AP — Rubio waives restrictions on $320 million | Al-Monitor/Reuters — Waiver letter | Sen. Murphy — Democrats urged Biden to withhold the same aidRenee Good: PBS/AP — Family sues U.S. government and officials | ABC News — Family sues over fatal ICE shootingMandatory detention: WTOP/AP — Supreme Court grants review | Marshall Project — ICE says it can detain as long as it wants | NPR — Third-country rulingAfghan files: Yahoo — 40% error rate | Epoch Times — IG findings | U.S. News/Reuters — SAVE error ratesPike: NBC News — "It was a mess" | NPR — Governor halts executions | The Hill — Lee halts executionsClancy: CBS Boston — Judge denies bid for not-guilty finding | Boston 25 — Motion denied | ABC News — SameRick Ross: CBS Miami — Arrested on battery, strangulation charges | Rolling Stone — Domestic violence chargesVictor Marx: Mediaite — Clip shows candidate describing "slamming" wife into door | Daily Beast — Candidate's past revealed | IBTimes — "She bent over and started crying" | CNN KFile — Bo FrenchLSU: NBC News — Student says she was raped by player still on team | The Advocate — Punishment reduced | LSU Reveille — Criminal investigation openedGood news: Kathmandu Post — Tiger population rises to 429 | WWF — Nepal's wild tigers triple
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  Yesterday's News 9/30 29.09.2026 17Min.

  Sources:On This Day: Britannica — September 30 | History.com — September 30AI accord: PBS — Trump announces accord signed by AI companies | Anchorage Daily News/AP — Firms sign accord to "self-police" | HuffPost — Same | Axios — Companies probing tens of thousands of incidents | Axios — Gates: a billion deaths | CNN — Bailey resignsThird-country deportations: NPR — Supreme Court sides with administration | Washington Post — Court allows deportations to resume | CNN — Deportations to countries migrants have no connection to | CBS News — SameKennedy Center: The Hill — Lee blocks Kennedy Center protection bill | NBC4 — GOP senator blocks moveNoem: Washington Post — Noem files for divorce | KELOLAND — Same | The Hill — Court docsJack Smith: CNN — Schmitt's basketball mixup and other takeaways | CNN live — Smith: proof beyond reasonable doubt | NBC News — Smith defends probes in hearing filled with insults | MS NOW — Schmitt's blunder | Senate Judiciary — Hearing page | CNN — Curtis subpoena requestPenny: ABC News/AP — Congress votes to end penny after 234 years | KSLA — Senate votes; what happens next | CNN — Last penny minted, Nov. 2025GRECO: ABC News/AP — U.S. withdraws from European anti-corruption panel | U.S. News — Same | ProPublica — Trump Jr. weddingCornell: CNN — AG to review Cornell's response | FOX 5 NY — Hochul calls for independent investigation | Yahoo — Ithaca mayor moves to suspend Greek life, events | LocalSYR — Mayor pauses event permits | U.S. News/AP — Renewed scrutiny of intoxication and consent laws | NBC New York — Reform has Assembly support; Heastie blocks itFlynn: CNN — Guilty of murdering his wife | CNN — Affair, missing gun, 100,000 messages: Day 1 | CNN — Defense rests without witnesses | CBS News — Verdict | NBC News — Verdict | Dayton Daily News — "I didn't touch my wife" | Court TV — In-laws on motiveClancy: NBC News — Defense argues no evidence she killed her children | CNN — Status hearing concludes | CBS Boston — Motions to dismiss | ABC7 — Double jeopardy, holdout juror | GBH — Lawyer questions whether there's proofPediatric Brain Tumor Consortium: CNBC — NIH cuts delayed a childhood brain cancer trial | STAT — Disbanding of the PBTC | PBS — Cuts "taking away hope" | Gillibrand — Demand for reversal | CNN — "Final Battle" ad costGood news: Al Jazeera — Morocco's king names first woman PM | France 24 — El Mansouri appointed | The Hill — Trump: Obama's idea "ridiculous"
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  Yesterdays News 9/29 29.09.2026 23Min.

  For bonus content, early access and to support the show subscribe to patreon.com/montemaderSources:On This Day: PBS News — How the Tylenol murders changed the way we consume medication | Chicago History Museum — The Chicago Tylenol MurdersBailey: CNN — One of Patel’s deputies resigns | CBS News — Bailey, once seen as Patel successor, resigns | ABC News — Bailey resigns | Washington Examiner — SameSanctuary surge: NewsNation — DHS announces nationwide surge | IBTimes — DHS denies pullback, announces surge | Daily Wire — Officers say they were told to stop arresting non-criminalsICE at polls: Democracy Docket — Democrats mobilize against agents at polls | PolitiFact — What could stop Trump from sending ICE to polls | The Intercept — ICE watchers prep to defend midterms | Brennan Center — Preventing voter intimidation by federal agents | Yahoo — White House: “can’t guarantee an ICE agent won’t be around”Paxton: New Republic — Paxton defends one-day plea | IBTimes — Records show 29 days | Texas Tribune — Inside the plea deal | PolitiFact — Paxton’s Uvalde remarks in contextBo French: CNN KFile — History of calling for public executions | Houston Public Media — Top Texas Republicans knew, supported him anyway | New Republic — Long history of execution callsObama remarks: The Hill — Trump blasts Obama’s “ridiculous” take | HuffPost — Trump on women in leadershipLeavitt: Daily Beast — Leavitt shops book | Yahoo — Reportedly shopping book with White House detailsTitle IX: The Hill — Department formally rescinds protections | Education Week — Department kills Biden rule | The 74 — Same | Washington Blade — SameStudent loans: New Republic — Trump moves to cut off loans for degrees | WPR — Cutting loans for low-paying degrees | BestColleges — Professional degree definition narrowed | Mass.gov — Healey calls for reversalMedicaid: The Hill — Lawsuit targets medically frail exemption | Fortune — Too frail to work, can’t afford a doctor to prove it | CBPP — Last-minute restrictions worsen impact | Common Dreams — Administration argues terminally ill not exemptHospital AI billing: Fierce Healthcare — AI coding cost BCBSA plans $942M | BCBSA — AI shaping hospital billing trends | HR Dive — Insurers vs. billing companiesGates: Axios — Gates: AI powerful enough to cause a billion deaths | Business Standard — “Not a hoax” | Deadline — Gates urges safeguards | Axios — Companies probing tens of thousands of incidents | WORLD — Trump, Johnson host AI executivesNational Rally: France 24 — RN forms Senate group for first time | Euronews — Same | Al Jazeera — SameArgentina: Al Jazeera — Poverty rises to 32 percent under Milei | MercoPress — 32.3%, ending two years of decline | France 24 — Nearly one in three | CNBC — The U.S. bailout explained | NBC News — Support could hit $40 billion | Axios — Bessent’s second $20B facility | Epoch Times — Argentina repays swap drawdown | CFR — Will Trump’s $20 billion help MileiEl Niño: Governor’s office — Emergency proclamation | CNN — Newsom declares emergency ahead of super El Niño | Time — What to knowCornell: CNN — Prosecutors reopen investigation | ABC News — DA reopens case | Cornell Daily Sun — DA reopens investigation | Cornell Daily Sun — Lawsuit filedGood news: Positive News — What went right this week | Squirrel News — Kosovo concludes 27 years of clearance | HALO Trust — Kosovo
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  78. The Delta- How Can Men Actually Heal and How Can Women Be Safe? with Jeff Zacharski and Adam Pearce 28.09.2026 1Std. 29Min.

  More of Jeff and Adams work on thedelta.menWe all see how the manosphere profits off the loneliness, rage and misogyny of young men. There are 100 coaches a day you can scroll past telling a man how he can be a true "alpha dude bro". ICK. Profiting off pain and rage with no intention of actually helping. But there are men who are actually trying to help men heal, help them learn to build community and develop connection- what does that look like? What are those coaches seeing in men that needs to change? I brought in the coaches from the Delta to talk about exactly that. I have personal experience with them cause I've watched them transform my brothers life. Everybody in our world is hurting, we live in such an unnatural disconnected society. Can men heal enough that women can feel safe? Can there be common ground But what about the men who haven't gone to the manosphere but don't know where to go? Who actually want to do better and realize that something is missing? The world doesn't change until we do.
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  Yesterdays News 9/28 28.09.2026 24Min.

  Trying out posting yesterday's news here- if a morning recap helps you stay informed but also gives you a break from the social media cycle, here to help Please like and subscribe to the show!!!!
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  77. Hope for the South with Representative Justin Pearson 21.09.2026 1Std. 15Min.

  I firmly believe that the United States will only be as progressive as the south is. Tennessee is not as red as you think. The history of gerrymandering, the exploitation of the south, the control of super red majorities would have you believe that these "super red states" are a lost cause, they aren't. In this episode we will cover some of the suprising history of Tennesee as a state of change, and the hope for a better future with the candidate for congress in Tennessee district 9- Justin Pearson.Find out more about his campaign: https://www.votejustinj.com/
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  76. The Theology of Submission and the Death of a Pastors Wife 14.09.2026 2Std. 13Min.

  TW: SuicideFirst ever true crossover episode! Flippers meet the Hellions, Hellions meet the Flippers. This case included so much of our mutual subject matter we decided to post it on both shows. Mica Francis Miller, 30, died on April 27, 2024, at Lumber River State Park in North Carolina, roughly an hour from her home in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. She had bought a handgun that afternoon and called 911 minutes before shooting herself; the Robeson County Sheriff's Office and North Carolina medical examiners ruled her death a suicide. Days earlier she had filed for divorce from her husband, John-Paul Miller, pastor of Solid Rock Church in Market Common, and police records show she contacted law enforcement at least 14 times between February and mid-April 2024.Court filings and family statements alleged years of abuse, surveillance, financial control, and nonconsensual distribution of intimate images; a December 2024 filing added strangulation allegations. Miller denied wrongdoing.On December 17, 2025, a federal grand jury in South Carolina indicted Miller on two counts, cyberstalking and making false statements to investigators, alleging he used tracking devices and unwanted communications to harass Mica from November 2022 until her death. Netflix's documentary series "Death of a Pastor's Wife" premiered August 27, 2026, renewing attention on the case and on South Carolina's protective-order law.Sources: Full list on patreonABC News 4 (WCIV). (2026, January 12). JP Miller pleads not guilty to federal charges of cyberstalking, false statements. https://abcnews4.com/news/local/dozens-show-up-outside-florence-federal-courthouse-for-arraignment-of-jp-miller-mica-cyberstalking-lying-authorities-fbi-solid-rock-church-pastorBurroughs Funeral Home & Cremation Services. (2024). Obituary for Mica Acacia Miller. https://www.burroughsfh.com/obituary/Mica-MillerChristianity Today. (2022, September). What happens when you ask thousands of evangelical women about sex. https://www.christianitytoday.com/2022/09/sheila-gregoire-great-sex-rescue-survey-evangelical-women/Condo-World. (n.d.). History of the Sea Captain's House Myrtle Beach. https://blog.condo-world.com/history-of-the-sea-captains-house/Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. (1987). The Danvers Statement.Creepy Catalog. (2026). Death of the Pastor's Wife: John-Paul Miller's first wife says Mica's account matched her own. https://creepycatalog.com/death-of-the-pastors-wife-john-paul-millers-first-wife-says-micas-account-matched-her-own/Crime and Cask News Network. (2026, August). Father of former Solid Rock pastor John Paul Miller pleads guilty. https://crimeandcask.com/father-of-pastor-john-paul-miller-pleads-guilty/FITSNews. (2024, December 20). Mica Miller saga: Police reports fill in blanks, raise more questions. https://www.fitsnews.com/2024/12/20/mica-miller-saga-police-reports-fill-in-blanks-raise-more-questions/FITSNews. (2025, June 2). Embattled South Carolina pastor John-Paul Miller marries girlfriend. https://www.fitsnews.com/2025/06/02/embattled-south-carolina-pastor-john-paul-miller-marries-girlfriend/Gregoire, S. W. (2023, September). 10 things to know about obligation sex. Bare Marriage. https://baremarriage.com/2023/09/10-things-obligation-sex/Gregoire, S. W., Lindenbach, R. G., & Sawatsky, J. (2021). The great sex rescue: The lies you've been taught and how to recover what God intended. Baker Books.Guidepost Solutions. (2022, May 15). Report of the independent investigation: The Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee's response to sexual abuse allegations and an audit of the procedures and actions of the Credentials Committee.Jane Doe v. John-Paul Miller, Reginald Wayne Miller, et al. (2025). Complaint, Horry County Court of Common Pleas. https://www.wbtw.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2025/03/JP-lawsuit-2.pdf
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  75. Life After 9/11 with Christina Stanton 06.09.2026 1Std. 5Min.

  Check out Christina Ray Stantons Book at https://christinaraystanton.com/product/out-of-the-shadow-of-9-11A licensed New York City tour guide since 1995, Christina Stanton has led more than 50,000 visitors and is one of the city’s longest-serving guides. A 9/11 survivor who lived a few blocks from the World Trade Center, she now conducts weekly tours of the 9/11 Memorial and has written more than 40 articles about the attacks and their ongoing aftermath. She is the author of Out of the Shadow of 9/11, which received both the 2020 IPPY Award and the Benjamin Franklin Award.Stanton’s journalism spans the history and culture of New York City as well as stories of social justice and inspiring individuals around the world. She writes regularly for the NY Daily News, and her work has appeared in publications including The Daily Beast, National Geographic, Smithsonian, and Time magazine.She is a member of the 9/11 Visionary Network, sponsored by the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, and The Newswomen’s Club of New York.Stanton speaks frequently about 9/11 and has addressed live audiences worldwide from Tokyo to Mozambique. In 2016, she and her husband co-founded the nonprofit organization Loving All Nations, which supports vulnerable communities in countries such as Madagascar and South Africa. Christina and her husband Brian have lived for a quarter century in the same home in Manhattan's Financial District, where they love taking their rescue dog, Nala, on long walks through the historical streets.
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  74. Just Because I'm a Woman: The Life and Legacy of Dolly Parton 31.08.2026 1Std. 44Min.

  I cried a lot of tears when we lost Dolly and also writing this script. WHAT A LEGACY!This week on Flipping Tables, we celebrate the life, love, and legacy of Dolly Rebecca Parton. We will cover her childhood of growing up in poverty, her iconic music career, movies, books and most of all- her generosity. Dolly could have been a billionaire and chose to help people instead giving upwards of $600 million dollars throughout the course of her life. Dolly was an example of how to be superstar who was known most of all by her love. Sources: Full source list on patreon.com/montemaderAnderson, E. J., et al. (2020, December 17). Safety and immunogenicity of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA-1273 vaccine in older adults. New England Journal of Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa2028436ABC News. (2026, March 13). Dolly Parton shares health update at 2026 Dollywood park opening. https://abcnews.com/GMA/Culture/dolly-parton-shares-health-update-2026-dollywood-park/story?id=131063621ABC News. (2026, August 25). Dolly Parton's family shares her final message amid news of her death. https://abcnews.com/GMA/Family/dolly-partons-family-shares-final-message-amid-news/story?id=135948668ABC News. (2026, August 26). Dolly Parton's legacy of giving: Inside her decades of philanthropy. https://abcnews.com/GMA/Culture/dolly-partons-legacy-giving-inside-decades-philanthropy/story?id=135947174Afar. (2020). New Nashville mural highlights Dolly Parton's Black Lives Matter quote. https://www.afar.com/magazine/nashville-mural-highlights-dolly-partons-black-lives-matter-quoteAmerican Eagle Foundation. (n.d.). Dollywood. https://eagles.org/dollywood/American Songwriter. (n.d.). Behind the major financial risk Porter Wagoner took when RCA signed Dolly Parton. https://americansongwriter.com/behind-the-major-financial-risk-porter-wagoner-took-when-rca-signed-dolly-parton/American Songwriter. (n.d.). The first song Dolly Parton wrote at age 5 with the help of her mother, "Little Tiny Tassel Top." https://americansongwriter.com/the-first-song-dolly-parton-wrote-at-age-5-wrote-with-the-help-of-her-mother-little-tiny-tassel-top/American Songwriter. (n.d.). On this day in 1975, Dolly Parton released one of her most underrated (and controversial) career hits—banned by radio over one single lyric. https://americansongwriter.com/on-this-day-in-1975-dolly-parton-released-one-of-her-most-underrated-and-controversial-career-hits-banned-by-radio-over-one-single-lyric/Appalachian Regional Commission. (n.d.). Education in Appalachia. https://www.arc.gov/about-the-appalachian-region/the-chartbook/education-in-appalachia/Appalachian Regional Commission. (n.d.). High-poverty counties in Appalachia, 1960 and 2019–2023. https://arc.gov/map/high-poverty-counties-in-appalachia-1960-and-2019-2023/Appalachian Regional Commission. (n.d.). Income and poverty in Appalachia. https://www.arc.gov/about-the-appalachian-region/the-chartbook/income-and-poverty-in-appalachia/Appalachian Regional Development Act. (n.d.). In Wikipedia. Retrieved August 29, 2026, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_Regional_Development_ActAxios Nashville. (2026, August 27). Dolly Parton's philanthropy extended far beyond books. https://www.axios.com/local/nashville/2026/08/27/dolly-parton-philanthropy-donationsThe Bargain Store (song). (n.d.). In Wikipedia. Retrieved August 29, 2026, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bargain_Store_(song)Billboard. (n.d.). A timeline of Dolly Parton's good deeds. https://www.billboard.com/lists/dolly-parton-good-deeds-timeline/Billboard. (2024, November 15). Dolly Parton's brother David Parton dies. https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/dolly-parton-brother-david-parton-dies-obituary-1235831296Billboard. (2026, July 27). Dolly Parton's older brother Coy "Denver" Parton dies at 82. https://www.billboard.com/music/country/dolly-parton-brother-coy-denver-parton-dies-1236304122/
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  73. Evangelical Manosphere with Tim Whitaker 24.08.2026 1Std. 19Min.

  check out Tim on substack! https://substack.com/@timwhitakerspeaks/p-209161563Tim and I share similar stories about leaving evangelicalism around a lot of the same reasons- but how do we get to the young men? Men, especially at a young age, are being pulled into the manosphere, extreme conservatism, and Christian fundamentalism. Today we talk about how the movement pulls them in, weaponizes their loneliness and anger, and keep them trapped. Learn more about our stories, how we got out and how to reach young men in the movement.
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  72. Nelson Mandela Part 2 17.08.2026 1Std. 54Min.

  “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”- Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to FreedomNelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born July 18th, 1918 in Mvezo, Transkei, into the Madiba clan of the Thembu royal house. His father, a chief, was stripped of office by a colonial magistrate for refusing to answer to colonial authority. Raised after his father's death as ward of the Thembu regent, he underwent Xhosa initiation at sixteen and took the name Dalibunga. He was expelled from Fort Hare in 1940 for a student boycott, fled an arranged marriage to Johannesburg, and qualified in law.He joined the ANC in 1943 and co-founded its Youth League, pushing the organization from petitions toward mass action. He served as Volunteer-in-Chief of the 1952 Defiance Campaign and opened South Africa's first Black law firm with Oliver Tambo. After the 1960 Sharpeville massacre and the banning of the ANC foreclosed legal protest, he went underground and co-founded Umkhonto we Sizwe, the movement's armed wing.Arrested in 1962 and tried at Rivonia, he opened his defense from the dock in 1964, calling a free and democratic society an ideal he was prepared to die for. He received life imprisonment and served 27 years — most of it on Robben Island as prisoner 466/64, breaking limestone in a quarry that permanently damaged his eyes, denied leave to bury his mother and his eldest son. He refused conditional release in 1985, answering that a prisoner cannot negotiate.Freed in 1990, he steered negotiations through near-civil war, shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with F.W. de Klerk, and became president in May 1994 after the first non-racial election. His single term produced the 1996 Constitution and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He stepped down in 1999, in a region where liberation leaders rarely did.The unfinished business was economic: the Freedom Charter's redistributive commitments were traded away, land reform stalled, inequality endured. He admitted his government moved too slowly on HIV/AIDS, then spent his last years campaigning on it. He died 5 December 2013, aged 95.References Boehmer, E. (2008). Nelson Mandela: A very short introduction. Oxford University Press. Chikane, F. (1988). No life of my own: An autobiography. Skotaville. Frankel, P. (2001). An ordinary atrocity: Sharpeville and its massacre. Yale University Press. Gevisser, M. (2007). Thabo Mbeki: The dream deferred. Jonathan Ball. Gordimer, N. (1990). My son's story. Bloomsbury. Kathrada, A. (2004). Memoirs. Zebra Press. Lodge, T. (2006). Mandela: A critical life. Oxford University Press. Madikizela-Mandela, W. (1985). Part of my soul went with him (A. Benjamin & M. Benson, Eds.). W. W. Norton. Madikizela-Mandela, W. (2013). 491 days: Prisoner number 1323/69. Ohio University Press. Mandela, N. (1964). Statement from the dock at the opening of the defence case in the Rivonia Trial, Pretoria Supreme Court, 20 April 1964. Mandela, N. (1994). Long walk to freedom: The autobiography of Nelson Mandela. Mandela, N. (2010). Conversations with myself. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Mandela, N. (2018). The prison letters of Nelson Mandela (S. Venter, Ed.). Liveright. Meredith, M. (2010). Mandela: A biography (rev. ed.). PublicAffairs. Sampson, A. (1999). Mandela: The authorised biography. HarperCollins. Steinberg, J. (2023). Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a marriage. Alfred A. Knopf. Suttner, R. (2008). The ANC underground in South Africa, 1950-1976. Jacana. Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa. (1998). Report (Vols. 1-5). Juta. Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa. (1997). Special hearing: Mandela United Football Club, Johannesburg, 24 November - 4 December 1997. Umkhonto we Sizwe. (1961). Manifesto, 16 December 1961. 
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  71. Nelson Mandela Part 1- The History of Apartheid 10.08.2026 1Std. 49Min.

  Trigger warning: extreme racial violence and discriminationThank you to patreon supporters for making this episode possible: patreon.com/montemaderThe Dutch arrived at the Cape in 1652, dispossessing the Khoikhoi and San and building a slave economy racially ordered from the start. Britain took over in 1806; abolition in 1834 helped drive the Boer Great Trek inland. Diamonds (1867) and Witwatersrand gold (1886) demanded cheap Black labor, producing pass laws, migrant labor, and compounds — apartheid's machinery in embryo. The 1910 Union unified white rule and excluded Black voters; the 1913 Natives Land Act confined the African majority to 7% of the land. The ANC formed in 1912.The National Party won in 1948 and codified segregation into a total system: race classification for every citizen, forced removals from Sophiatown and District Six, an education policy designed to train Black children for subordination, and Bantustans that stripped millions of citizenship.Sharpeville (1960) ended nonviolent strategy; Mandela was imprisoned in 1964. Soweto (1976) and the 1980s township revolts made the country ungovernable. Sanctions forced De Klerk to unban the ANC in 1990. Apartheid law was repealed in 1991, and the first nonracial election came in April 1994.Sources:Beinart, W. (2001). Twentieth-century South Africa (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. Bundy, C. (1979). The rise and fall of the South African peasantry. University of California Press. Callinicos, L. (1980). Gold and workers, 1886-1924. Ravan Press. Crais, C., & Scully, P. (2009). Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus: A ghost story and a biography. Princeton University Press. Davenport, T. R. H., & Saunders, C. (2000). South Africa: A modern history (5th ed.). Macmillan. De Gruchy, J. W., & De Gruchy, S. (2005). The church struggle in South Africa (3rd ed.). Fortress Press. Dubow, S. (2014). Apartheid, 1948-1994. Oxford University Press. Elphick, R., & Giliomee, H. (Eds.). (1989). The shaping of South African society, 1652-1840 (2nd ed.). Wesleyan University Press. Giliomee, H. (2003). The Afrikaners: Biography of a people. University of Virginia Press. Hobhouse, E. (1901). Report of a visit to the camps of women and children in the Cape and Orange River Colonies. Legassick, M., & Wolpe, H. (1976). The bantustans and capital accumulation in South Africa. Review of African Political Economy, 3(7), 87-107. Lodge, T. (1983). Black politics in South Africa since 1945. Ravan Press. Lodge, T. (2011). Sharpeville: An apartheid massacre and its consequences. Oxford University Press. Mager, A., & Mulaudzi, M. (2011). Popular responses to apartheid, 1948-c.1975. In R. Ross, A. Mager, & B. Nasson (Eds.), The Cambridge history of South Africa (Vol. 2). Cambridge University Press. Marks, S., & Rathbone, R. (Eds.). (1982). Industrialisation and social change in South Africa. Longman. Peires, J. B. (1989). The dead will arise: Nongqawuse and the great Xhosa cattle-killing movement of 1856-7. Ravan Press. Plaatje, S. T. (1916). Native life in South Africa. P. S. King & Son. Platzky, L., & Walker, C. (1985). The surplus people: Forced removals in South Africa. Ravan Press. Ross, R. (2008). A concise history of South Africa (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. Sanders, J. (2006). Apartheid's friends: The rise and fall of South Africa's secret service.South Africa. (1913). Natives Land Act, No. 27 of 1913. South Africa. (1950). Population Registration Act, No. 30 of 1950. South Africa. (1950). Suppression of Communism Act, No. 44 of 1950. South Africa. (1953). Bantu Education Act, No. 47 of 1953. South Africa. (1967). Terrorism Act, No. 83 of 1967. Thompson, L. (1985). The political mythology of apartheid. Yale University Press. Thompson, L. (2014). A history of South Africa (4th ed.). Yale University Press. Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa. (1998). Wolpe, H. (1972). Economy and Society, 1(4), 425-456. 
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  70. The Opium Wars 03.08.2026 1Std. 18Min.

  **Get episodes ad free and support the show at patreon.com/montemader**We've been hearing a LOT of red scare language lately, this time- directed at China. Tennessee gubernatorial hopeful Marsha Blackburn, released a campaign ad smashing fortune cookies so that we could know she would be tough on China (ok Marsha). So WHY does China have beef? It turns out, China has a very good reason to resent and distrust the UK and its rogue stepchild, the United States. In the 19th century, Britain needed Chinese silk, porcelain, and tea and China needed nothing Britain made. The trade deficit was embarrassing. And while Britain kept spending money, China kept getting richer. So the British East India Company found a solution: flood China with opium grown in colonized India (using forced labor and leaving people in abject poverty of course). As China fell to addiction the silver that purchased the opium funneled through the East India Trading Company and into the British governments coffers. By the 1830s, an estimated 12 million Chinese people were addicted. Silver was flowing out of China to pay for the drug, destabilizing the entire economy. When the Chinese government saw the population hollowing out in real time, they seized and destroyed 1,400 tons of British opium in 1839. Britain declared war under the guise of free trade, national honor and to protect it citizens and property. It was actually to protect its drug trade and poison China. The military mismatch was obscene. British gunships dismantled Chinese coastal defenses built for a different era. China had no answer for industrial-age firepower. The 1842 Treaty of Nanking forced China to pay Britain the equivalent of billions in reparations (for the drugs Britain had illegally smuggled into their country), hand over Hong Kong, and open five ports to foreign control. Britain had gone to war for the right to keep selling heroin to a country that was begging it to stop.A second war followed in 1856 had the same results but added granting legal immunity from Chinese law on Chinese soil. For breaking laws like, smuggling drugs. The Chinese call this the beginning of the "Century of Humiliation." A sovereign civilization was militarily forced to accept mass addiction as a trade term. China was flooded with drugs intentionally, brutalized with war, robbed and told they were in the wrong. They have a DAMN good reason to distrust the west, and most of us, never hear this story. Sources: (full list on patreon) CDC/National Center for Health Statistics. (2026). Drug overdose death statistics https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/drug-overdose-data.htmDikotter, F., Laamann, L., & Zhou, X. (2004). Narcotic culture: A history of drugs in China. University of Chicago Press.Fay, P. W. (1975). The Opium War, 1840-1842: Barbarians in the Celestial Empire University of North Carolina PressGladstone, W. E. (1840). The Gladstone diaries (M. R. D. Foot & H. C. G. Matthew, Eds., Vol. 3). Oxford University Press.Gordon, C. G. (1860). Letters from China [Primary source correspondence]. In D. C. Boulger, The Life of Gordon (1896). T. Fisher Unwin.Hanes, W. T., III, & Sanello, F. (2002). The Opium Wars: The addiction of one empire and the corruption of another. Sourcebooks.Hansard. (1840, April 8). War with China: Adjourned debate. Hansard Parliamentary Debates, 3rd ser., vol. 53, cc. 818-920.Hansard. (1870, May 10). East India (opium revenue). Hansard Parliamentary Debates, 3rd ser., vol. 201, cc. 489-512.Lin, Z. (1839). Letter to Queen Victoria [Primary source document]. In S. Y. Teng & J. K. Fairbank (Eds.), Lovell, J. (2011). The Opium War: Drugs, dreams and the making of China. Picador.Platt, S. R. (2018). Imperial twilight: The Opium War and the end of China's last golden age. Alfred A. Knopf.Porter, J., & Jick, H. (1980). Addiction rare in patients treated with narcotics. New England Journal of Medicine, 302(2), 123. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJM198001103020221