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Today in history, 1850: The first National Women’s Rights Convention begins in Worcester, Mass. The two-day conference attracted more than 1,000 delegates from 11 states to promote women’s suffrage and greater political, legal, social and economic equality. /1

“If the West Wing is the mind of the nation, then the East Wing is the heart.”

- former First Lady Betty Ford

The East Wing is gone.

Over a century of American history, reduced to rubble.

All to appease the vanity of a corrupt authoritarian.

Another reminder about the importance of fighting instead of folding.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Question: “What about him building a ballroom? Isn’t that going to be nice?”

Great Grandmother: “No! Because they’re not there to dance!”🔥

"cancer patients receiving mRNA COVID vaccines within 100 days of commencing immunotherapy were twice as likely to achieve survival at the three-year mark compared to their unvaccinated counterparts."

bioengineer.org/esmo-2025-mr...

#covid19 #cancer #research

This is such a great callout…

Does your Christian church have a plan to help the community when SNAP benefits don’t go out in November?

If not, you’re at the wrong church.

Pritzker on Fox on ICE agents: "The problem is, who's holding the bad ones accountable? Because the bad ones, frankly, are the ones we're seeing all the time."

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge in Texas dismissed a GOP lawsuit against California’s new congressional redistricting plan ruling that the plaintiff, Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas), had no right to sue over another state’s election laws. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

did a read-aloud of my latest column, set to the backdrop of a drive through central virginia youtu.be/pq8TUlk4BxQ

Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House

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

🚨 oh look! Jack Smith is calling Marsha Blackburn’s bluff. Surely she should want him to testify publicly if she isn’t entirely full of 💩, right? Right??

www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/p...

The East Wing was built in 1902 & rebuilt in 1942, long after asbestos was used as a fire retardant. So, I’m sure the White House took steps to prevent a known carcinogen from entering the air during the current willy-nilly demolition.

Kidding! These irresponsible assholes don’t care who they kill.

Not usually a Politico fan but they do a good job of summarizing a LOT of shit into two paragraphs here.

Colorado Democratic Attorney General Phil Weiser, who's running to be Colorado's next governor in 2026, said Thursday that he is calling on Colorado to join the redistricting battle between red states and blue states.

Can we get rid of Boebert, please?

www.9news.com/article/news...

Alabama plans to execute Anthony Boyd next week with nitrogen gas for a 1993 murder.

No physical evidence linked Boyd to the crime.

He was convicted solely on the testimony of a co-defendant who avoided the death penalty by testifying against him.

boltsmag.org/anthony-boyd...

'We are serious': Auto giant put on notice of massive looming strike vote

"The fact that Trump is adorning his office with gold and doubling his net worth is all the proof you need that he was perfectly content to say whatever he needed to say on the campaign trail to manipulate his fans. But now that he's got what he needs from them, he's done helping them."

Plus the MN origins of 'MST3K,' cold incoming, and Annunciation's Sophia Forchas discharged from Gillette Children’s in today's Flyover news roundup.

1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv.

There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.

Pritzker creates 'accountability' commission in response to Trump's Chicago raids

Re CZ: Binance is sitting on $2B of Trump’s USD1 stsblecoin, allowing Trump to earn interest on the money.

Who could have foreseen that Trump would not be in top of this