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Dennis Hastert, ex-House speaker whose sex abuse admission upended legacy, dies at 84

The Illinois Republican helped spearhead President George W. Bush’s legislative agenda before his career ended in disgrace
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Dennis Hastert, ex-House speaker whose sex abuse admission upended legacy, dies at 84
The Illinois Republican helped spearhead President George W. Bush’s legislative agenda before his career ended in disgrace.

Mela is listening to a podcast: The History of Bad Ideas: Utilitarianism – Past Present Future – David Runciman - https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1682047968

Cowboys Offense Reaching Historic Numbers That Could End NFC Championship Drought https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/cowboys-offense-reaching-historic-numbers-could-end-nfc-championship-drought

Falcons sign Bijan Robinson to historic three-year extension, making him NFL's highest-paid running back

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/falcons-sign-bijan-robinson-…

'In 1933 one of the Bund leaders, Henryk Erlich, argued with Cassandra-like prescience that “if an appropriate opportunity arose, Jewish nationalism would show its sharp teeth and nails no less than the nationalisms of other nations…no, we are not a chosen people. Our nationalism is just as ugly, just as harmful…and has the same inclination to fascist debauchery as the nationalisms of all the other nations.”'
A History of the Jewish Labour Bund

A History of the Jewish Labour Bund
Molly Crabapple’s book “Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund”, tells of a Jewish, Socialist, Anti-Zionist Party

Mela is listening to a podcast: The History of Bad Ideas: Utilitarianism – Past Present Future – David Runciman - https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1682047968

Cowboys Offense Reaching Historic Numbers That Could End NFC Championship Drought https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/cowboys-offense-reaching-historic-numbers-could-end-nfc-championship-drought

In “53 Days,”
the historian Timothy W. Ryback
shows how the Nazis used democratic means to destroy German democracy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/books/review/53-days-timothy-ryback.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Book Review: ‘53 Days,’ by Timothy W. Ryback
In “53 Days,” the historian Timothy W. Ryback shows how the Nazis used democratic means to destroy German democracy.

In the inevitable taking of sides
which comes from selection and emphasis in history,
I prefer to try to tell the story of the discovery of America from the viewpoint of the Arawaks,
of the Constitution from the standpoint of the slaves,
of the rise of industrialism as seen by the young women in the Lowell textile mills,
the conquest of the Philippines as seen by black soldiers on Luzon,
the postwar American empire as seen by peons in Latin America. …

Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians,... book by Howard Zinn
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How the midterm elections could go, one month away

Democrats have polls and history on their side.
Republicans have money.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/10/05/four-ways-midterm-elections-could-go-one-month-a…

Four ways the midterm elections could go, one month away
Democrats have polls and history on their side. Republicans have money.