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Monte Mader

Monte, a former alt. right evangelical takes deep dive discussions on evangelical deconstruction, current events and American history, and what the Bible actually said. Follow her journey from fundamentalist conservativism to progressive ideals, the words of Christ and how to stay active during this moment in history

  1. 11h ago

    Yesterdays News 10/30

    Sources: On This Day: History.com — Welles scares nation | Smithsonian — The infamous War of the Worlds broadcast was a magnificent flukeRallies / health: NBC News — Trump cancels weekend rallies for tele-rallies | CNBC — Trump, Vance scrap appearances | CBS — “I feel perfect” | AP via WENY — Trump to hold rallies after canceling them | CNN live — Trump revives two red state rallies | IBTimes — Georgia rally “sound” remarkPolls / Cook: The Hill — Cook shifts more races toward Democrats | Washington Post — Democrats could win up to 240 seats | The Hill — Democrats hold 10-point lead | Silver Bulletin — Generic ballot average | The Hill — Democrats leading in Texas, MichiganAlaska: ABC News — New wave of subpoenas | CNN — Sullivan criminal probe accelerates | NBC News — Dunleavy orders separate investigation | Election Law Blog — SubpoenasPope: NBC News — Requested absentee ballot in Illinois | Chicago Sun-Times — Will vote from the Vatican by mail | EWTN — First pope to vote in an American election | Forbes — Requests Illinois mail-in ballotMass graves: Yahoo/Army Times — Army practicing digging mass battlefield graves | AOL — Rapid burial training not seen since Korea | Baller Alert — 2,400 soldiers a dayIran / Murphy: Democracy Now — Murphy calls plans “insane” | Fox 17 — Resume Iran war after midterms is “insane” | CNBC — Iran claims tankers struck mines, strike fears | Fox News live — Pentagon offering options as deadline approaches | Fox News — “Anything’s possible”G20: CBS Atlanta — U.S. cancels group photo | HuffPost — Scraps photo after allies object | PBS — UK foreign secretary questions Russia’s “appetite” for peace | RFE/RL — Divisions over Russia, UkraineVance: Mediaite — Mocked for opener to affordability question | New Republic — Inappropriate answer on housing costs | Raw Story — Housing question into crude jokeComey: CBS News — DOJ and Comey’s lawyers face off | AP via ClickOrlando — Lawyers will ask judge to block prosecutionCornell: UPI — State Police to investigate future cases | CBS6 Albany — Cornell, State Police partnership | CNN — Judge questions request to remove James | ABC7 — James appointed special prosecutorMissouri: KOMU — Provider group supports Amendment 3 despite most doctors opposing | KCUR — Would allow some abortions; whether women could get them is unclear | Springfield Daily Citizen — Doctors share differing views | Yahoo — First state to overturn voter-approved protectionsBinance: Al Jazeera — $6.3bn stolen, what we know | CNN — North Korea suspected | Engadget — Record crypto theft | Axios — Trump pardons Binance founder (Oct 2025)Israel: Times of Israel — All votes counted, 53-48-19 | NBC News — Neither can immediately form a government | Al Jazeera — No overall majority | Ynet — Netanyahu bloc 53, Eisenkot 48Pike / Morley: RTE — “Pain in my mind and soul” | Mediaite — Pike speaks out | CNN — Truck sat in Illinois for a day | Newsweek — Morley sightings map | KFVS — Possible link to Wisconsin bank robberyGood news: Chicago Sun-Times — Illinois medical debt relief | Good Good Good — Good news this week, Oct. 24

  2. 2d ago

    Yesterdays News 10/28

    Sources: On This Day: History.com — Statue of Liberty dedicated | Women’s eNews — The Statue of Liberty and early feminism | EBSCO — Statue of Liberty is dedicated Bolsonaro: CNN — Defies travel ban with flight to US | NBC News — Flees to U.S. | U.S. News/Reuters — Leaves Brazil for US | The Hill — Trump calls Brazil election “rigged” | Euronews — “Rigged” without evidence | SCMP — Bolsonaro’s party acknowledges Lula win Israel: CNN — Record turnout live blog | Jerusalem Post — Election 2026 coverage | Times of Israel — Final polls | Al Jazeera — When will we know who won Supreme Court / immigration: ABC News — Court declines to restore closure policy | U.S. News/Reuters — Denies judges power to shelve cases | Detroit News — Same Phillip James: AP via U.S. News — Documents support citizen’s claim | WTOP — Same Methane: The Hill — Loosening rules for low-producing wells | Center for Western Priorities — Rollback for all wells | Colorado Public Radio — Weeks after Colorado adopted stricter rules | Bloomberg — EPA readies bid to weaken controls WMO: WMO — Greenhouse gas levels once again reach record high | UPI — CO2, other emissions record high in 2025 | SCMP — Impact will last centuries El Niño: Raw Story/Guardian — Monster El Niño bears down on storm watchers Trump gutted | inkl/Guardian — “Cascade” of El Niño dangers | Rep. Amo — 41 lawmakers call for NOAA to prepare | Weather.com — Historic super El Niño ahead AI term: The Hill — Trump says he will ban term | Forbes — Latest push for “Super Intelligence” | Mediaite — “In all relevant documents, and everything else” Malfoid: Just the News — Education Department joins Malfoid trend | Know Your Meme — Malfoid / female Draco Malfoy | Yahoo — What is Malfoid Heckler: CNN — Protester interrupts Trump rally | Mediaite — “Shove that ballroom” | IBTimes — Protester removed at Mississippi rally Trump Jr.: Forbes — Hunted in Mongolia with oligarch who bankrolled his wedding | New Republic — Closer to Putin ally than we knew | Daily Beast — Hunting trip with Umar Kremlev | UNITED24 — Counterintelligence warning Pretti: CNN — Family says feds stonewalling | MPR News — Parents speak on his killing | Star Tribune — Family news conference | WVTM/CNN — No answers nine months later Tennessee escape: CNN — Escaped through fence, fled in stolen truck | NBC News — Manhunt for convicted killer | Washington Post — Search underway | WREG — Stole truck after escape Bundy: KSTP/AP — Linked to another Utah teen’s 1974 murder | Fox 8 — Connected to another 1970s homicide | PBS — April Laura Aime DNA match Swalwell: Yahoo/CNN — FBI raids billionaire’s mansion | Newsweek — Mansion raided | NewsNation — Investigation update | Signal — Swalwell ends bid, resigns (April) Brand: NBC News — Appears in court for trial | Variety — Trial begins | ABC7 — Six women testify UN Gaza report: CBC — Commission says genocide continued since truce | ABC Australia — Continued after truce | Al Jazeera — “Extermination” in West Bank Good news: Good Good Good — Nurses secure first countywide 12-week paid parental leave | PublicSource — Compromise amendments | WPXI — Supporters rally at courthouse

  3. 3d ago

    Yesterdays News 10/27

    Sources: On This Day: History.com — New York City subway opens | Design World — Today in engineering history | Goldman Sachs — 1904 subwaySerbia: Al Jazeera — Vucic concedes to student movement | CBS News — Putin-endorsed leader concedes | Axios — Students topple Vucic | Al Jazeera — The leader brought down by students | Time — Orban loses Hungary (April)Brazil: NPR — Lula wins fourth term | CNN — Bolsonaro rejects result | CNBC — Historic fourth term, markets fall | Time — Bolsonaro refuses to concede, Trump reaction | Rio Times — Washington reactionIsrael: Times of Israel — Election day guide | Times of Israel — Final polls, both blocs short | UPI — Liberman seeks treason probe | Jerusalem Post — Liberman: treason probe over Iran plot | Fortune — Netanyahu denies attack plan | Haaretz — Eisenkot final rallyEpstein report: House Judiciary Democrats — Report release | NBC News — Democrats call for special counsel | HuffPost — Keul allegation | MS NOW — 50-page reportJames Comey: Axios — Comey charged again | CBS News — DOJ takes steps to charge Comey | CNBC — New case against Comey | The Hill — Charged a third timeMaurene Comey: CNBC — DOJ unlawfully fired Comey | ABC News — Judge reinstates Comey | Mediaite — Ruling textKennedy Center: 1News/AP — Judge urged to order release | La Voce di New York — Withheld messages | Nebraska.tv — Beatty motion to compelObservers / election: AP via Click2Houston — Thousands of observers | NBC News — Same | NPR — Civil rights groups’ observers | CNN — DOJ sues to block Alaska results | PBS — Trump says he ordered Alaska suit | Fox News live blog — Port Huron rallyMinaj: Billboard — Trump praises Minaj at rally | Consequence — White House floats Minaj as press secretary | Mixmag — Minaj respondsICE / Phillip James: AP via U.S. News — Documents support claim ICE detained mentally ill citizen | WTOP — Same | Yahoo — SameIran: CNN — US has plans for major strikes | The Hill — Post-midterm strike options | Al Jazeera — CENTCOM plans, will Trump approveKetamine: AP via Yahoo — Pentagon wants ketamine wafers | Washington Times — Ketamine wafers for wounded troops | SSBCrack — Emergency authorization pursuitFORTRESS: Fox News — Inside the Pentagon’s FORTRESS plan | Newsweek — What is FORTRESS | DefenseScoop — FORTRESS program office memo | Anadolu — 90 days without supportAnthropic: U.S. News/Reuters — Opens books on growth and costs | Al Jazeera — $80bn loss, WSJ | TNW — $518bn compute commitments | Fox Business — Claude accessed Georgia voter dataGolf tax shelter: Forbes — Golf empire as billion-dollar tax shelter | Raw Story — IRS deal could bulletproof write-off | Unusual Whales — Forbes findings summarizedSoccer: EURweb — 3-year-old phenom, police called | BlackSportsOnline — Police called on 3-year-old | Fashion Times — Banned from Florida leagueCentral Park: CBS New York — Assault at knifepoint | ABC7 NY — Same | PIX11 — Calls for safety measuresGood news: Euronews — Bleached corals recover after touching healthy clones | KQED — Stanford’s new way to revive coral | CP24 — Healthy corals help bleached neighbours

  4. Oct 23

    81. Deep Red: Meaningful Political Change with Tom Periello

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  5. Oct 19

    Yesterdays News 10/19

    Sources: On This Day: Federal Reserve History — Stock Market Crash of 1987 | Library of Congress — Black MondaySanctions waiver: CNBC — Trump waives broad new Russia sanctions | ABC News — Order waiving Graham Act sanctions | France 24 — Rubio: 60 days to analyze | RFE/RL — Ukrainian officials slam waiver | The Hill — Zelensky denounces waiver | White House — Implementing the Graham Act | Debevoise — Graham Act explainerStarshield: Kyiv Post — Rubio: Ukraine lacks access to Starshield | Newsweek — Rubio denies ordered slowdown | CBS News — Ukraine still unable to intercept drones | CNBC — Musk: “ultimately POTUS”Dmitriev: TASS — UK, EU “sabotage” peace efforts | TASS — “Checkmate” | Gazeta do Povo — AI image of U.S. and Russia facing Europe | CNN — Dmitriev praises waiverBend: CBS News — 3 children, teacher killed | PBS — Shooter attacked special-education classroom | NBC News — Bystander identified | Central Oregon Daily — Teacher threw phone, fought shooter | OPB — Survivors remain hospitalizedWichita: CBS News — Boy among 2 killed, 11 injured | ABC News — Truck drives through soccer gameMeasles: Al Jazeera — 4,410 cases | CDC — Cases and outbreaks | Contagion Live — October 16 updateOmar: The Hill — Obama: probe is a political attack | Yahoo/Fox — Obama’s statement | Fox News — Homan on denaturalization | Arolsen Archives — The expatriation card file | JTA — Thomas Mann’s citizenship cancelled (1936) | Jewish Museum Berlin — 1933 revocation of naturalizationUTSA: ESPN — Service member died from fall | TPR — Airman dies in rappelling accident | KSAT — Air Force statementVance: Daily Beast — Blindsided by grieving husband | Yahoo — Minnesota widower demands answers | IBTimes — Vance: “huge mistake”BBC suit: Forbes — Judge threatens sanctions | Bloomberg — Judge threatens Trump with sanctions | TheWrap — Bailing on depositionZacharia / East Potomac: CNN — Why Trump fired Zacharia after five days | NPR — Zacharia out | Washington Post — Photos obscuring what appears to be map of East Potomac | CNN — Administration seeks to remove judge | CNN — Work to start mid-November | Washington Post — Satellite images of tree removalFrance: Al Jazeera — Hundreds of thousands protest | CBS News — 1,800 arrested | France 24 — “Like we had a war”Meta / No Kings: TheWrap — Instagram account disappears | Common Dreams — Censorship fears | Raw Story — “We demand answers” | TPR — No Kings draws crowds with early-voting focus | Arizona Mirror — Crowds channel anger into early votesNorte Fire: ABC News/AP — Blaze burned 6 homes, 16,000 evacuated | FOX Weather — First Santa Ana eventGood news: Physics World — Optogenetic therapy shows promise | Technology Networks — Gene therapy helps patients detect objects | NPR — Nobel for optogenetics

  6. Oct 17

    Yesterdays News 10/16

    Reminder: I will be in Scotland for my birthday next week! Libras UNITE! Yesterday's news will still be coming out leading into midterms, but the time of day may change slightly, I will have a few days that I take off completely from being online, but I will announce those. SOURCES On This Day: JFK Library — October 16, 1962 | Office of the Historian — Cuban Missile Crisis UChicago: Chicago Sun-Times — Group cheered as woman was assaulted | Block Club Chicago — Person of interest identified, banned | The Week — Echoes of Cornell Cornell: CNN — 16 found responsible, two expelled | Chronicle of Higher Education — Why the Cornell men wrote essays | NBC News — Records on one accused student Execution: CNN — Trump calls off livestream | NBC News — No livestream | Al Jazeera — Trump’s post, Obama reference | The Hill — Trump cancels Hegseth’s plan | Mediaite — Patel’s “From Russia, with Love” Press access: Axios — Judge orders access reinstated until litigation concludes | ABC News — Preliminary injunction | Washington Post — Another blow to media bans Ukraine: KRDO/CNN — Ukraine runs out of Patriot missiles | Al Jazeera — “Massive” attack kills at least nine | Kyiv Post — Strikes after Trump’s truce | Kyiv Independent — Moscow says scope unclear | Ukrinform — Supermarket logistics center destroyed | RNZ — Trump admin silent as Russia hits U.S. businesses | CBS News — U.S. may have withheld warnings | RFE/RL — Uncertainty over U.S. intelligence | CNBC — Musk: Trump “ultimately” responsible for Starshield curbs | Forbes — Ukraine says SpaceX restricting Starlink | CNN — Starlink restriction, early warning Refugees: Boston Globe/AP — Deadline cut to contest status termination | Latin Times — 10 days to challenge Omar: Al Jazeera — Administration seeks to strip citizenship, WSJ | Newsweek — Phone seized, citizenship targeted | CBS News — Home searched Salazar v. Paramount: SCOTUSblog — Court appears likely to allow suit | ABC News/AP — Blockbuster-era law gets fresh look | The Record — Facebook pixel case Blackburn: Billboard — “Not Like Us” AI video slammed | The National Desk — Blasted over AI video Harris: Mediaite — “You are rude!” | Newsweek — Scolds crowd for laughing | New Republic — Tried to get journalist arrested | The Banner — What led to the press conference Data centers: Texas Tribune — Crackdown exposes limits of state law | Axios — Abbott: data centers “dug their own grave” | CNBC — Texas turning blue may hinge on data center opposition | CNN — Death threats over data centers | Texas Politics Project — Poll Marshall: MS NOW/AP — Sought funding; project could benefit his ranch | Yahoo/Independent — Railed against waste, sought $4.2M Guilfoyle: CNBC — Resigns at White House’s request | Axios — Forced out | NBC News — Resigns amid misconduct allegations | Daily Beast — “Burn book” report Zacharia: NBC News — Watchdog seeks investigation of legal résumé | SF Chronicle — Not licensed to practice law in U.S. | The Hill — Complaint filed with California bar White powder: NBC News — Letters sent to election offices in 3 states | CP24/CNN — Multiple states | Forbes — Letters to Capitol Hill, election offices Pope: CNBC — Diagnosed with cancer, lobe removed | CBS News — Recovering “as expected” | U.S. News/AP — Chicago Catholics rally for prayer | CNN — Pope’s first message Cameroon: KDH News/AP — Killings spur protests, demands for laws | Human Rights Watch — Cameroon grapples with femicides | IBTimes — Teacher’s death, planned law Israeli prisons: Washington Post/AP — Surge in inmates shot with rubber bullets | a href="https://wtop.com/world/2026/10/israeli-rights-groups-report-a-surge-of-palestinian-inmates-bein

  7. Oct 13

    Yesterdays News 10/13

    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

  8. Oct 12

    Yesterdays News 10/12

    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 ever Gates / 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 plummets Diesel / 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 deal Omar: CBS News — Home searched by HSI | Axios — Search in immigration probe | CNN — Federal officers carry out search | ABC News — DOJ statement Ads ruling: CNBC — Judge orders ads stopped immediately | CNN — Order with hours left | NBC News — Ads off air immediately East Potomac: Washington Post — Judge halts tree removal after 500 trees fall | FOX 5 — 500 trees cut | WUSA9 — 150 trees, administration defends work Allentown radio: Post-Gazette/AP — Spanish-language radio show overflows with frustration | Local10/AP — Same Early 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 allegation Execution: 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 Shekari Guilfoyle: Washington Post/AP — Trump, Rubio weigh firing envoy | The Hill — Job uncertainty | HuffPost — Mounting reports Measles: Stateline — 4,080 cases, highest in decades | ABC News — Surpasses 4,000 in 45 states | The Hill — A quarter from Pennsylvania | CDC — Cases and outbreaks SNAP: WISN — Enrollment sinks to 19.8 million households | PBS — 1.2 million children lost SNAP | UPI — Fewer Americans getting help | WWNO — Louisiana enrollment nosedives FDA: Yahoo — Proposal widens exemption for chemicals added to food | The Hill — Kennedy looks to close loophole | Sen. Markey — Ensuring Safe and Toxic-Free Foods Act Zacharia: 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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Monte, a former alt. right evangelical takes deep dive discussions on evangelical deconstruction, current events and American history, and what the Bible actually said. Follow her journey from fundamentalist conservativism to progressive ideals, the words of Christ and how to stay active during this moment in history

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    Monte Mader
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
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