Flipping Tables

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.
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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 |

Misspoke: There is a podcast episode this week, not next week.
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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

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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On This Day: History.com — Vice President Agnew resigns | Britannica — October 10, 1973
Swatting: Yahoo — Jane Doe targeted in swatting incident | CNN — Death threats as pressure builds | CNN — Inside the swatting incident | NBC — Wichita swatting case
Civil 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 in
NYC 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 police
California: New Republic — “Go after anybody” | Yahoo — Newsom: “campaign of fear” | NBC San Diego — Surge starts in San Diego | LA Public Press — Arrests surge
USS Lincoln: Stars and Stripes — Returns after 322 days | CBS News — Docks in San Diego | The Hill — Ends deployment
Hasan: 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 — Same
Huckabee aide: The Hill — Aide suppressed embassy reports | Times of Israel — NYT report | GV Wire/NYT — How a diplomat altered reports
Isaias: CNN — Gulf Coast evacuations, Category 3 | ABC News — Takes aim at Panhandle | Weather.com — Intensifies before landfall
Good news: NobelPrize.org — Literature 2026 press release | NPR — Anne Carson wins | CNN — Genre-bending Canadian writer