A Decade Later, Supreme Court Is Asked to Revisit Same-Sex Marriage Decision Kim Davis 👹, a Kentucky county clerk once jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses, has asked the court to reconsider its landmark 2015 opinion. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

There will be so many things to say about the legendary Nancy Pelosi's transformational tenure in Congress—but for now, let's start with "Thank you, Madam Speaker."

“The apex of Republicans’ plan to turn over our government to their wealthy cronies is a giant tax cut for billionaires and corporations…they plan to pay for it with cuts to…Medicaid, Medicare, and SNAP…This is a five-alarm fire. I don’t think we have two years to plan…we have months.” -Chris Murphy

While the US president is an unrepentant groper, the Mexican president fights back. Groping, btw, is sexual assault. “We need to make this visible and say no — a firm no….Women’s personal space must not be violated.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/w...

Canada's MAPLE MAGA collapses. Nova Scotia MP Chris d’Entremont left the right-wing caucus "crossed the floor and made it painfully clear he prefers roads, hospitals, water systems, transit, and actual jobs over the permanent online fight club.” ca.news.yahoo.com/nova-scotia-...

Dozens of leaders in medicine, criminal justice and more issued an urgent call for collective action to tackle the gun violence crisis in the U.S.

As ballots are cast across the country, Ms. editors are keeping a close eye on the 2025 elections. Here's what we're watching:

Author and journalist Dominick Dunne (1925-2009) was born 100 years ago today in Hartford, Connecticut. He was best known for his coverage of high-profile court cases, beginning with the 1983 trial for the murder of his daughter, Dominique Dunne. He was with Vanity Fair magazine for 25 years.

“JPMorgan…identified transactions with Leon Black, the co-founder of private equity firm Apollo Global Management; Glenn Dubin, a well-known hedge fund manager; the lawyer Alan Dershowitz; and trusts controlled by Leslie Wexner, the retail tycoon.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/b...

“They were careless people. They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.

Trump has pursued gov’t cuts, shrinking domestic spending to its lowest level in modern history, by targeting federal climate, education, health, housing and research programs, and aid to the poor. The admin is pumping money into the military and mass deportations. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/u...

November 1, All Saints Day, Portland, CT, Rosebud.

"A majority of SNAP recipients who are capable of working do work. They are the working poor. "Their jobs just don't pay enough, or offer sufficiently stable employment, to make ends meet without aid." -- @pkrugman.bsky.social

This new Trump rule, which will override state laws that protect people from having medical debt reported, will most affect red states where medical debt is highest because the states rejected Medicaid enhancements. People in red states thus have the most medical debt. apnews.com/article/medi...

In our latest GTN, we uncover the story of Dr. Alan L. Hart, a transgender medical doctor working on the forefront of an urgent public health crisis, tuberculosis, in Connecticut. Our guest is Dr. Susan Stryker. #Listen: ctexplored.org/thstryhartpod/ & all apps 🎧 #ct #history #pride #podcast

Please join the Connecticut Supreme Court Historical Society for a fascinating look at the Declaration of Independence, with Dr. Matt Warshauer, Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University. Wednesday, November 12 – 6:30-8:30 – CT’s Old State House

Fairfield University’s Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts presents a performance that fuses Indigenous tradition, contemporary sound, & powerful storytelling, live on Tues. Nov 11 at 7 p.m. He is a groundbreaking Indigenous artist whose performances blend hip-hop, traditional dance, flute, & drum.

Join Connecticut Explored and lots of other vendors and funseekers at the Saukiog Festival today in Windsor, CT.

Saukog 6th Annual Harvest Festival on October 25th! Join us for a day of culture, music, and tradition. The event will feature delicious roasted corn and good medicine. It will be held at Keney Park Sustainability Project 183 Windsor Ave, Windsor, CT, from 10:30 AM to 4:30 PM.

WESU recorded these interviews with Princeton University Professor Kehaulani Kauanui and Gary Red Oak-O’Neill. Here’s a link to the soundcloud page soundcloud.com/wesufm/engag...

Today, the White House Press Secretary told the country that this ridiculous damn ballroom is “the president’s main priority”…not reopening the government, not lowering the cost of groceries, not lowering the cost of housing, not lowering the cost of healthcare….building a ballroom

Fri, Oct 24 & Sat. Oct. 25, Wesleyan's Center for the Humanities is hosting a symposium that will focus on the Wangunk people of central CT. Open to the public, & held during Homecoming and Family Weekend For info www.wesleyan.edu/humanities. #history #nativeamerican #highereducation #conference

Trump posted a video showing him as president forever: m.economictimes.com/news/interna... He’ll claim we can’t take a joke, but he’s absolutely channeling the 1000 year Reich. Apparently his followers don’t like it when Trump is compared to Hitler, but he seems to invite it.

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We’re delighted with the coverage of our Connecticut Explored story on Agosto Rodriquez, the first Puertoo Rican known to have served in the US military. @shenck.bsky.social brought us a great story. Thank you WTNH News 8! www.wtnh.com/hidden-histo...

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Connecticut Explored is at the CT Council for Social Studies conference at Central CT State University. Stop by if you’re there!

New Grating the Nutmeg Podcast! ctexplored.org/thstryhartpod/ explore trans history over the last 100 years w/ Dr. Susan Stryker & the life of Dr. Alan L. Hart a trans medical doctor working on tuberculosis. Our guest is Dr. Susan Stryker author of Transgender History, the Root of Today’s Revolution

Show your love of Connecticut history - our second annual #GTN online benefit auction is the largest fundraiser of the year for our award-winning CT history podcast. Auction ends this Saturday, Oct. 18! See all the amazing deals: secure.qgiv.com/event/connecticutexploredincauction/

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Button production in #Cheshire was part of CT’s pioneering role in the precision manufacturing revolution of the nineteenth century. We find out more with our guests Elizabeth Fox and Agnes Wnuk of Ball & Socket Arts. Listen: ctexplored.org/buttonsincheshirepod/

A virtual program on Zoom Start Date/Time Wed, Oct 29, 2025 7:00 PM EDT Email us [email protected] Call us at 8608680518 Please join our virtual book club, "As They Speak: Native Voices in Today’s Literature." This is a free event, but donations are appreciated. This event will NOT be recorded.

Remembering Sowheag, Wawarme, Sequasson, Turramuggus, Towhishke, Seppunamo, Wesumpsha, Sawoppin, Asquasuttock, Pampenum, Hannah & Sarah Onepenny, Scipio Twoshoes, Massacup, Coiquos, Cushoy, Nanamaroos, Seanna, Seacott, Mamoosen, Peter Sanchuse, Long Simon, Montowese, & Jonathan Palmer & descendants

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Well, here's the official Oxford University workshop schedule. It’s my last academic hurrah. I examine Native legal ideas and practices in pre-1815 northeast North America. www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

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Wangunk History Film Screening, Talk & Symposium: Fri, Oct 24, 2025 (4:30 pm); Sat, Oct 25 (8:30 am - 5:30 pm): Film Screening w/ Reception (Fri, 10/24) & Symposium (Sat, 10/25) "Emerging From Erasure: Indigenous & Settler Colonial Histories Of The Wangunk People" Wesleyan Univ Free & Open To Public

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Support Grating the Nutmeg in our 2nd annual auction, a fundraiser for our award-winning CT history podcast. Win 4 passes to Mark Twain House & Museum, autographed copy of Ron Chernow’s Twain bio, a book on ghosts of the home + copy of the Hog River Journal. Bid now: secure.qgiv.com/event/connec...

Wesleyan University is hosting the symposium, free & open to the public. The event includes new research presented by: Paul Grant-Costa, Sarah Sportman, Alice King, Thomas Wickman, Vicki Welch, Lucianne Lavin, Jim Sarbaugh, Katherine Hermes, and Alexandra Maravel. events.wesleyan.edu/event/wangun...

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The Institute for American Indian Studies (IAIS), a museum and research center located in Washington, CT, seeks an Executive Director to lead the organization. Founded in 1975 as the American Indian Archaeological Institute. networks.h-net.org/jobs/69099/i...