“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Months ago at a local event a CT Dem insider stood up to say that (1) he learned more relevant skills for his job in his ivy humanities & soc sciences classes than in any other but (2) the problem with UConn is that we aren't giving students enough STEM skills. The double standard idiocy is real.

This elitist view that only rich/Ivy/private school kids should study/have access the liberal arts is so deeply ingrained in so many highly educated Democrats’ views (including tons who majored in the lib arts themselves) that they don’t even realize they hold it, let alone how ugly & elitist it is

This is courage. Looking a masked, government fascist dead in the eye, face to face, knowing full well that your life is on the line. If elected officials had 1/10th of Alex Pretti's resolve, we would have far fewer troubles.

In the stage of life when I mention a ~20 year old movie that's tangentially related to class and no one has seen it and they all just stare blankly at me. Anyways, it was Buckminster Fuller Day! And Biosphere 2 but none of them knew that either.

Also because lord knows I complain about this governor every chance I get, credit where credit is due: Thank you, Governor Lamont, for using state funds to ensure CT SNAP recipients receive their benefits this month.

Do you know what this former tarheel current husky really likes? Any time my current students beat my former rivals.

The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout: Humanities majors killed on the job market 1) Mamdani- Africana Studies 2) Spanberger -French 3) Sherill - Global History

Take note, Governor Lamont.

Hey @ct-ptc.bsky.social could you look into the issue that the Hartford Line stops of Berlin and Meriden remove train info at least 15-30 minutes before scheduled departure time? Pics taken at 9:24 and 7:42 aren't showing 9:40 and 7:58 departures.

Reupping this message after seeing about 30 spotted lantern flies on a short stretch of Chapel in New Haven today 😬 felt good to stomp on them but geesh, awful.

Nothing helped me understand how much energy a car uses like having solar on my roof. On a good day my house generates enough for my house + a comparable house -- or my house + my car going 200 miles. 200 miles in an EV = an entire hot summer day of AC, hot water, dishwasher, dryer, etc.

Hello to everyone else who turns into an irrational fire breathing dragon when the heat index hits 100+, I highly recommend hiding in a dark room for an hour in the afternoon to self regulate. 🫠

Elections matter and public policy can make a difference. Work we did in 2020 to remove non-medical exemptions in Connecticut has made our state safer for children and hopefully a continued place of good health for all. ctnewsjunkie.com/2025/07/24/d...

Choosing 2025 as the moment to change your registration from Democrat to Republican says a lot about some West Hartford folks.

This is the third year in a row that my office has grown mold (I caught it early -- trust, it would have been worse in a week). Every year, EHS comes and cleans it. And every year, university/college/state declines to do anything about the building. Because who cares about books at a university.

This is the real reason we need density -- and the real reason fascists hate it.

AI is deskilling our young people to the extent that they no longer have the ability, or at least resolve, to craft their own *texts.* The widespread adoption of these technologies is actually a form of child abuse. We are systematically destroying human potential www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Mike Kennedy (R-UT) talking about how his children benefited from Medicaid and he himself grew up on SNAP and is now explaining why fewer people should have access to these benefits that helped him so much. Perfect Republican.

Waiting for the fare hikes for the money losing highways.

#PedBike people!!! The amazing @pedbikeinfo.bsky.social is building a national database on the monetary costs of different kinds of #pedestrian & #bicycle #infrastructure, and needs data from professionals across the US. More info & how to contribute ⤵️ #BikeSky #RoadSafety #ActiveTransport

Cuomo using chatGPT to write housing policy & CT Gov Lamont endorsing Cuomo after vetoing housing policy (that was passed by both houses of the CT general assembly, and backed by advocates and academics) helps understand the endorsement: neither cares about affordable housing.

The "I used AI for brainstorming and research but not for writing so it's not cheating" argument is painfully familiar.

Reading summer course paper proposals and feeling old: "In recent years, many old residential areas in [CITY], built in the 1990s or earlier.... "

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When Connecticut loses a congressional seat in 2030 I would like everyone to call it the "Lamont Loss."

This, right here, is the problem. We need men in positions of power who will not tolerate the sexual harassment & abuse of women. Hard stop. Not men who discount the treatment of women because it doesn’t suit them politically.

Oh wait so in addition to crapping on (by veto) anyone hoping for affordable housing or looking to stand up to shareholders by striking, Lamont also endorsed a sex pest? For the love of all things that aren't sexual harassing out of touch old rich dudes, please Democrats, primary this man.

The following Hartford Public Library @hplct.bsky.social branches will act as cooling centers during this week's heat wave:

Really did not think I would have to join Round 3 of "don't start a pointless, unprovoked war in the middle east" protests but here we are. Every damn Republican president I've lived through, since Bush 1, has done this. We're 3 for 3 since 1988.

Below is the High Injury Network from the West Hartford Vision Zero Action Plan. Both pedestrians killed in recent weeks were on this network. A plan is only as good as the level and pace of action (and funding) dedicated to it. The plan is a good one, IMO -- the town just isn't doing enough.

To the person wearing the taco costume & orange fascist man face mask at today's Hartford CT rally: good job and thanks, I haven't laughed at politics in a long, long time and it felt damn good.

it's giving

🏆 to whoever came up with and coordinated the No Kings protest at Ocean Beach, San Francisco. Don’t miss it…absolute fire.

Incredible turnout for the #NoKings protest in Los Angeles!

This is everywhere. Every academic institution I know is held together by some exhausted woman in her early 40's who waits until the old white male professors have finished their vague rants and says, "alright, so concretely can I propose the following next steps..." She makes half their salary.

At the end of a week with crappy news, here’s a chance to just do some pure good. The Hartford mayor and I are starting a summer basketball league for kids in the city. We need to raise about $20K more to fund it. $ link here. More info in this 🧵 secure.actblue.com/donate/csm-a...

I hate sports bars because what do you mean all 50 TVs are showing the same 5 men's games and even in the women's bathroom we can't feature a woman (as I'm here with an entire girls hockey team).

I need a lot less focus on "illegals" and a lot more focus on invasives.

Remember: underfunding public higher education so that you can keep taxes on the wealthy low is regressive policy.

Appalling how the State of Connecticut claims UConn as its flagship university but only provides 15% of the budget. What else are we supposed to do but raise tuition? I haven't seen this for UConn but this is Michigan. Anyone over the age of 50 went to college in a radically different time.

"I think in year one, we've provided comfort, but year two could be a challenge," Ritter had said this week. In year one UConn will lose $72M in state funding. I am so sick of people praising CT Dem leadership. In what universe does a $72M budget cut provide comfort??

On a totally unrelated note: much of today's crash out began when I stumbled across the conspiracy theory that Harriet Tubman didn't exist.

Saw a post saying the majority of Rep pols actively hate the poor & middle class, and majority of Dem pols don't care about poor & middle class. And times like these it feels true. And it sucks that our choices are hate and indifference.

Absolutely bananas that we're about to see wealthy Americans get massive tax cuts at the federal level, paid for by spending cuts that will hurt poor & middle class in CT, and a party that purports to represent those interests here brags about not trying to capture that revenue. Tax the rich!

Once more, with feeling.

"I wasn't taught this in school" is nails on a chalkboard. (1) You probably were but forgot, and that's ok, I've forgotten a lot too. (2) School is supposed to teach you how to gather, evaluate, and synthesize information so that you can learn what you forgot/weren't taught.

In one of my classes I ask students to redesign a stretch of road they've encountered that they consider dangerous -- and two students have picked this one. That a driver struck and killed a pedestrian last night is utterly, tragically, enragingly, predictable.