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  Yesterdays News 10/9 09.10.2026 23m

  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transformed the office | Public Citizen — The attorneys Dhillon installed | MS NOW — Opinion | The Hill — Title IX rule rescinded | CBS News — Lowest refugee cap, mostly Afrikaners | IRAP — Ceiling expansion for Afrikaners | CS Monitor — Afrikaners settle inNYC shooting: CNN — Man shot by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 31m

  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 1h 31m

  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 20m

  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 22m

  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 17m

  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 23m

  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 1h 29m

  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 24m

  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 1h 15m

  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 2h 13m

  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 1h 5m

  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 1h 44m

  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 1h 19m

  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 1h 54m

  “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 1h 49m

  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 1h 18m

  **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
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  69. UnCULTured with Daniella Mestyanek Young 27.07.2026 1h 39m

  You can go to www.knittinglady.com to see Daniella's work and get her books "Uncultured" and "The Culting of America"Have you ever wondered how people fall into cults? How do otherwise smart, caring, reasonable people end up finding a leader they would do ANYTHING for? Including offering up their children. What is a cult, and how do we get rid of them? Daniella was born a third-generation member of the infamous Children of God religious cult, and grew up being trafficked around the world, before escaping that life and moving to America at age 15. She put herself through high school and graduated as college valedictorian before commissioning into the US Army as an intelligence officer. That’s where she really started to think about group behavior…and seeing it, well, everywhere.Daniella deployed twice to Afghanistan (2011, 2014) and became a member of one of the Army’s first Female Engagement teams (an experiment that put women into deliberate ground combat for the first time in Army history, and eventually led to the repeal of the sexist combat ban and the gender desegregation of the entire US military).She is a proud daughter of the 101st, (that's the unit in Band of Brothers), a recipient of the Presidential Volunteer Service Award (from Obama, y'all), and is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Organizational Psychology at the Harvard Extension School (she focuses her research on group behavior, social norms, culture, extremism, leadership demagoguery and cults).
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  68. The History of Birth Control 21.07.2026 1h 39m

  Birth control has a long history in America. In colonial times, people relied on withdrawal, herbal remedies, and homemade barriers, though few spoke about it openly. During the 1800s, condoms became more practical after Charles Goodyear learned to vulcanize rubber in 1839, and diaphragms and douches came into use as well. This progress met resistance. In 1873, the Comstock Act made it a crime to send contraceptives or information about them through the mail, treating the subject as obscene and pushing it out of public view.The movement took shape through Margaret Sanger. She opened the first birth control clinic in Brooklyn in 1916 and gave the practice its name. Her organization eventually became Planned Parenthood. The legal walls came down slowly. A 1936 court ruling weakened the Comstock restrictions and allowed doctors to prescribe contraceptives.The turning point came in 1960, when the FDA approved the first birth control pill. The Pill gave women far more control over their own lives and became a defining part of the decade that followed. The courts soon caught up. In Griswold v. Connecticut in 1965, the Supreme Court ruled that married couples had a right to use contraception. In 1972, Eisenstadt v. Baird extended that right to unmarried people.The years after brought more options: the IUD, hormonal implants, and emergency contraception such as Plan B, which later became available over the counter. In 2010, the Affordable Care Act required most insurance plans to cover contraception at no cost, a rule that drew legal challenges over religious objections.Contraception is still a subject of political debate. After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, questions returned about the privacy rulings that once secured the right to birth control, and its future remains uncertain.References (full list on patreon)Avery, B. Y. (1991). Empowerment through wellness. Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, 4(1), 147–154.Baker, J. H. (2011). Margaret Sanger: A life of passion. Hill and Wang.Balmer, R. (2021). Bad faith: Race and the rise of the religious right. Eerdmans.Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., 573 U.S. 682 (2014).Center for Constitutional Rights. (2021, February 1). Black liberation archives, week 1: Fannie Lou Hamer taught us. https://ccrjustice.org/home/blog/2021/02/01/black-liberation-archives-week-1-fannie-lou-hamer-taught-usChristianity Knowledge Base. (2005). Contraception. https://christianity.fandom.com/wiki/ContraceptionColorado Department of Public Health and Environment. (2017). Taking the unintended out of pregnancy: Colorado’s success with long-acting reversible contraception.Commonwealth Fund. (2025, December 16). Overview of federally funded contraceptive programs. Issue Briefs. https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2025/dec/overview-federally-funded-contraceptive-programsD’Emilio, J., & Freedman, E. B. (2012). Intimate matters: A history of sexuality in America (3rd ed.). University of Chicago Press.Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, 597 U.S. 215 (2022).Eisenberg, M. L., & Lipshultz, L. I. (2010). Estimating the number of vasectomies performed annually in the United States: Data from the National Survey of Family Growth. Journal of Urology, 184(5), 2068–2072. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.juro.2010.06.117Eisenstadt v. Baird, 405 U.S. 438 (1972).Franks, A. (2020, July 28). Margaret Sanger’s extreme brand of eugenics. America Magazine. https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2020/07/28/margaret-sangers-extreme-brand-eugenics/Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965).Guttmacher Institute. (2023). Contraceptive use in the United States [Fact sheet]. https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/contraceptive-use-united-statesGuttmacher Institute. (2025, September). The right is waging a quiet war on contraception. Jones, R. K., & Dreweke, J. (2011). Countering conventional wisdom: New evidence on religion and contraceptive use.
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  67. Did God Do That or Did Men? Part 2 13.07.2026 1h 14m

  Part 2 of my two part series about how women were written out of authority and a few rungs down the ladder of hierarchy in the church and in Christian Nationalism but also the history of how propaganda was weaponized against faith communities to build the power system we see happening. We have to know it and name it to fight back. And if you are a person of faith you have to be vocal about reclaiming it. In this episode, we continue through the invention of virginity, the need to control reproduction to control wealth. The history of female leadership in the church, how it was intentionally translated out of the Bible in order to justify removing women from leadership and subjugating them. And the 20th century push of the weaponization of wedge issues against feminism, abortion, and gay rights to help people defend racism and school segregation. I hope that you enjoy! Full source list on patreon.com/montemaderSources: Primary Documents and Legal Records • Treaty of Tripoli (1797), Article 11. Ratified unanimously by the U.S. Senate, June 7, 1797. Full text, Avalon Project, Yale Law School.  • Jefferson, Thomas. The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth (the Jefferson Bible), c. 1820. Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Primary source.  • Public Law 84-274, "Under God" added to the Pledge of Allegiance. Signed June 14, 1954.  • Public Law 84-851, "In God We Trust" established as national motto. Signed July 30, 1956.  • Bob Jones University v. United States, 461 U.S. 574 (1983). Supreme Court ruling.  • Reagan, Ronald. "Evil Empire" speech, March 8, 1983, National Association of Evangelicals, Orlando, FL. Reagan Presidential Library.  • Southern Baptist Convention resolutions on abortion, 1971, 1974, 1976. Available through SBC Historical Commission archives.  Patristic and Early Church Sources • Socrates Scholasticus. Historia Ecclesiastica (Church History), Book VII, Chapter 15, c. 439 CE. English translation, NPNF (Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers) Series.  • Damascius. Life of Isidore (fragments), c. early 6th century CE. Names Cyril in connection with Hypatia's death.  • John of Nikiu. Chronicle, Chapter 84, c. 690 CE. Pro-Cyril secondary source.  • Tertullian. De Cultu Feminarum (On the Apparel of Women), c. 204 CE.  • Chrysostom, John. Homilies on Romans, Homily 31 (on Romans 16:1-4).  • Augustine of Hippo. De Genesi ad Litteram (The Literal Meaning of Genesis), c. 401-415 CE.  • Council of Laodicea (363-364 CE), Canon 11.  • Pope Gregory I. Homily 33 on the Gospels, 591 CE. The sermon conflating Mary Magdalene with the sinful woman of Luke 7.  On Biblical Scholarship and the Pastoral Epistles • Ehrman, Bart D. Forged: Writing in the Name of God — Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We — 37 —Flipping Tables — “Divine Protection… For Men” Think They Are. HarperOne, 2011.  • Brown, Raymond E. An Introduction to the New Testament. Doubleday, 1997.  • Johnson, Luke Timothy. The First and Second Letters to Timothy. Anchor Yale Bible, 2001.  • Fee, Gordon D. The First Epistle to the Corinthians. NICNT, Eerdmans, 1987. (Interpolation argument for 1 Corinthians 14:34-35.)  • Epp, Eldon Jay. Junia: The First Woman Apostle. Fortress Press, 2005.  On Women in the Early Church • Gupta, Nijay K. Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church. InterVarsity Press, 2023.