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California goes supersonic.

Thanks in part to California's world-class talent and leadership in advanced manufacturing, Lockheed Martin has created a new supersonic X-59 jet designed to quiet sonic booms and possibly open the door to a new future for commercial air travel.

It's Friday! Have a wonderful day & help someone else have a wonderful day. Spread your smile. That one small act of kindness may be what saves their life! #photo #photography #NaturePhotography #nature #flowerphotography #Flowers #FlowerFriday #FlowersOnFriday #BloomScrolling

A tweet from Joel Montfort reads: “Current situation.” Below it is an edited image of a twenty-dollar bill where the White House on the bill appears to be under demolition, with an excavator tearing into the building.

It fits the bill.

JUST IN: The ENTIRE East Wing of the White House has officially been DEMOLISHED, per AP.

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

Satellite view of the White House showing an image on the left where the East Wing is still standing and an image on the right where it's completely demolished

ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today.

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WOW: The White House says the president's MAIN PRIORITY is his BALLROOM. SNAP is ending. Subsidies for health care are gong to double and in some instances quadruple plan premiums. The government is shut down. The cost of living is through the roof. And his priority is his ballroom.

Air Traffic Controllers are currently working without pay thanks to the Trump administration’s refusal to fix their healthcare crisis and open the government.

Today, @transportdems.bsky.social heard from National Air Traffic Controllers Association about the shutdown’s impacts on its workforce

Next week, air traffic controllers will miss their first full paycheck.

Instead of fixing the Republican healthcare crisis, reopening the government and paying our essential safety workers, Trump is threatening job-creating infrastructure projects and handing out swag bags.

Families are already hanging by a thread, but the sad truth is it’s about to get a lot worse when SNAP benefits don’t go out in November.

It’s time to find our local food banks and help out with donations and volunteer hours if you are able.

🙆🏻‍♀️What’s this?!! American Airlines serving Lavazza coffee in-flight is so next level!! 🤩 🤎✨☕️

American Airlines Will Serve Lavazza Coffee On Flights & In Lounges American Airlines will be partnering with Lavazza to create a consistent coffee experience onboard flights and in lounges.

American Airlines Will Serve Lavazza Coffee On Flights & In Lounges
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CNN talking about the possibility of violence as a guy in a giraffe costume waddles by

Gateway is the largest infrastructure project in the country, terminating funding will limit our whole nation’s potential.

North Carolina Elections Chief Demands Voters’ Full Social Security Numbers From DMV Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: North Carolina’s top elections official is pressing the state’s Division of Motor Vehicles for unprecedented access to voters’ full Social Security numbers — a move that could erode voter privacy protections and lay the groundwork for mass voter purges

Johnson: "Grijalva should be working for her constituents right now. I don't know what she's doing. I keep seeing their political stunt videos. She should be in her office. She should be working or in the district for her constituents" (Grijalva is not in fact a Rep. b/c Johnson refuses to seat her)

California announces coalition of Governors forming new alliance to protect public health from political interference | Governor of California

🔗 Read more: www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/15/c...

The American people deserve a public health system that puts science before politics.

That's why California and 14 other governors are joining forces to launch the Governors Public Health Alliance to protect communities and guarantee decisions are rooted in data and health.

California to become first state to sell cheap insulin through state-backed program California will begin offering its own brand of low-cost insulin in 2026, becoming the first state to contract for and sell an affordable version of the drug to residents, Gov. Gavin Newsom announc…

California to become first state to sell cheap insulin through state-backed program

In California, we didn’t wait for the pharmaceutical companies. We chose to become the first and only state to contract our own supply of insulin so that beginning January 1, insulin will be available for $11 a pen.
 
This is the California that invests in affordable healthcare for families.

83 year old Senator Mitch McConnell just tripped and fell while being asked about ICE

That’s crazy. I wonder what happened in January

American will repaint a 777-300ER in the heritage "flagship" livery that once graced the airline's DC-3s as part of its centennial celebrations. #AvGeek

Rep. Jason Crow is a former Army Ranger who served three combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan as part of the 82nd Airborne Division and the elite 75th Ranger Regiment.

She Found a Link Between Air Pollution and Infertility

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c... 🧪

Chicago Heights priest begins walk for immigrant children from Pope Leo’s childhood home in Dolton Gary Graf, a Chicago Heights Catholic priest, began a 50-day justice walk from Pope Leo’s boyhood home in Dolton to New York.

"A Chicago Heights Catholic priest began a 50-day pilgrimage in support of immigrant children, from Pope Leo’s boyhood home in Dolton, IL to New York ...

'This is not only a physical act of endurance, but a spiritual act of solidarity, a prayer in motion'..."

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/06/c...

Proud to welcome Her Royal Highness Princess Astrid, Princess of Belgium, as part of the nation's largest trade mission to California.

There’s no better place to do business than right here in California — the world’s fourth-largest economy.

Supermoon

She's so beautiful GO LOOK AT HER

California just signed a new trade partnership with Belgium.

We're committed to expanding economic and clean energy innovation — because California will always be a stable, reliable partner on the world stage.