Kathy Hermes
@ctexplored.bsky.social
Publisher, Connecticut Explored magazine, and Grating the Nutmeg, podcast, all about Connecticut history. Emerita, CCSU. AB, UCI 85; JD, Duke 92; PhD, Yale 95.
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...
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...
A Decade Later, Supreme Court Is Asked to Revisit Same-Sex Marriage Decision
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November 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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...
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...
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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."
November 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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
November 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
“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.”
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“We need to make this visible and say no — a firm no….Women’s personal space must not be violated.”
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Mexico’s President Presses Charges Against Man Who Groped Her on the Street
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November 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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...
“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.”
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Nova Scotia MP Chris d’Entremont crosses floor to join Liberals
Nova Scotia has lost its only sitting Conservative MP and today we learned why. Chris d’Entremont announced late yesterday he was crossing the floor to join the federal Liberals. As Skye Bryden-Blom r...
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November 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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.”
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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.
A gun violence 'action plan' calls for a new emphasis on prevention
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.
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November 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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.
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As ballots are cast across the country, Ms. editors are keeping a close eye on the 2025 elections. Here's what we're watching:
2025 Elections Ms. Magazine Is Watching: What’s at Stake for Women, Democracy and Equality
2025 Election Results: Ballot Measures, Governor and Legislatures in Virginia, Texas, New Jersey, Maine, California, Pennsylvania, Maine
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November 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
As ballots are cast across the country, Ms. editors are keeping a close eye on the 2025 elections. Here's what we're watching:
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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.
October 29, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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.”
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JPMorgan Alerted U.S. to Epstein Transfers Involving Wall St. Figures
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November 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
“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...
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“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.
November 3, 2025 at 3:57 PM
“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.
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Food Stamp Cuts Expose Trump’s Strategy to Use Shutdown to Advance Agenda
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November 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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...
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November 1, All Saints Day, Portland, CT, Rosebud.
November 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
November 1, All Saints Day, Portland, CT, Rosebud.
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"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
"Their jobs just don't pay enough, or offer sufficiently stable employment, to make ends meet without aid."
-- @pkrugman.bsky.social
The Hunger Games Begin
40 million Americans are about to lose food stamps
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October 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
"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
"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.
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Trump administration moves to overrule state laws protecting credit reports from medical debt
The Trump administration is moving to overrule state laws that protect consumers’ credit reports from medical debt.
apnews.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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.
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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
#Listen: ctexplored.org/thstryhartpod/ & all apps 🎧 #ct #history #pride #podcast
October 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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
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
October 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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
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.
October 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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.
October 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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.
October 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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...
Here’s a link to the soundcloud page soundcloud.com/wesufm/engag...
Engage Radio S2-E2 Wangunk erasure & reflections on Trans Day Of Rembrance-10-24-25
This episode features Clifton Watson in conversation with Professor Kehaulani Kauanui and Gary Red Oak-O’Neill, inviting us to reflect on the ongoing histories of Middletown's first residents, the Wan
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October 24, 2025 at 5:20 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...
Here’s a link to the soundcloud page soundcloud.com/wesufm/engag...
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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
October 23, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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
#history #nativeamerican #highereducation #conference
October 22, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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
#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.
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.
‘President for 90,000 years’: Trump shares AI-generated video hinting at never-ending presidency - The Economic Times
President Trump's Truth Social posts, including a video depicting his tenure extending to
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October 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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.
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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