Big train derailment in Mansfield, CT. From CT Department of Energy and Environmental Protection:

I bought a set of pots and pans I didn’t end up liking so I initiated a return on them and bought another set, but then I was given a refund and told to just keep the initial ones, too. So that’s how I now have 24 new pots and pans

Real good curl tonight

GOP lawmakers on Lamont's ICE remarks, via Hearst: "My son is an ICE agent and I am offended by his comments today in front of everybody." "You're putting ICE at-risk. I know people in ICE. They're highly trained professionals." "The violence that's going on is being stoked by people on the left."

You could do some real posting from on there

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont in his State of the State address: “ICE, everywhere you go uninvited, violence follows. Go home! We’re keeping our Connecticut safe without you.” Huge standing ovation from Dems; GOP stays seated, House Minority Leader Vincent Candelora shakes his head.

CT-N is the glue that holds this state together, join me in saluting them 🫡

What does this mean? Am I in trouble? Are you mad at me?

BIRD THAWED www.ctpublic.org/news/2026-02...

Okay I was so focused on watching the Republican leaders I completely missed this GOP lawmaker (Cara Pavalock-D’Amato?) showing off her “ICE IN” jacket

New Quinnipiac poll: 61% Of Voters Think The Trump Administration Has Not Given An Honest Account Of The Fatal Shooting Of Alex Pretti; 58% Of Voters Think DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Should Be Removed poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

Make the Road Connecticut, Connecticut For All, and Connecticut Students for a Dream are not happy with Courtney, DeLauro and Himes. "Connecticut communities did not elect our representatives to bankroll cruelty. ... No more tax dollars for ICE and CBP."

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont in his State of the State address: “ICE, everywhere you go uninvited, violence follows. Go home! We’re keeping our Connecticut safe without you.” Huge standing ovation from Dems; GOP stays seated, House Minority Leader Vincent Candelora shakes his head.

“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Jesus Christ

This legislative session starting on a high note as we've got a whole bunch of dogs in the Connecticut Senate chamber

Happy "Will you remark further" season to all who celebrate the Connecticut General Assembly session

Full-on nostalgia night over here, listening to old stuff -- this version of "Tunguska" that Cymbals Eat Guitars dropped in 2009 is such a cooler version than what ended up on Lenses Alien two years later as "Another Tunguska" (though that record+tune still slap) www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSwq...

This show was on my birthday in 2014 and I was living at Death By Audio at the time. Those were the days, long live Ted Leo www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwbw...

I am fine with people who hate "boneless wings" but when you say they're "just chicken nuggets" I know you're not a serious person. There is little in common between a chicken nugget and your typical "boneless wing." Be for real.

I’m always saying this

Unclear why I always look furious when I’m out doing field reporting (photo: Tyler Russell)

“Surely if I wait by the oven I will get some of the chicken in there when it’s done”

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

Of the Connecticut delegation, only Hayes and Larson voted no today

Blumenthal: "With us in spirit are Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti. In spirit. They should be here in person, but they were murdered. They were murdered by their own government. They were killed in cold blood, and I can only imagine how painful it must be for you [Good's brothers]... to be here."

A car full of young people just drove down my street blasting this classic. Are the kids bringing Tony Hawk Pro Skater back youtu.be/OChjVLHlkVE?...

Connecticut U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal and California U.S. Rep. Robert Garcia are about to gavel in their public forum on ICE/DHS violence. Among the witnesses are Renee Good's brothers and Marimar Martinez, who was shot five times by CBP in Illinois. Watch live: www.c-span.org/event/public...

Connecticut's Courtney, DeLauro and Himes were among just 21 House Dems to vote yes. CT's Larson and Hayes voted no along with the vast majority of House Dems.

Connecticut Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro:

According to Morning Consult's governor approval rating tracker, Connecticut's Ned Lamont is the 4th most popular governor in the country. pro.morningconsult.com/trackers/gov...

A @ctinsider.bsky.social investigation has found out-of-state police are regularly searching Connecticut license plate camera data for immigration enforcement. Records from just a few local departments show thousands of these searches. www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/...

EXCLUSIVE: Out-of-state police searched data collected by Connecticut license-plate cameras thousands of times on behalf of federal immigration officials, records show. My latest w/ @ellanapack.bsky.social, @alexputterman.bsky.social and Eric Bedner. www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/... #nutmegsky

Horrifying and unnerving. DHS sent an administrative subpoena to Google for this retiree's records and even sent armed agents out to his house for the "offense" of writing the following completely anodyne email to a federal prosecutor using an email address he found via Google.

Unclear why I always look furious when I’m out doing field reporting (photo: Tyler Russell)

via Hearst: Out-of-state police are using Connecticut license plate camera data for immigration enforcement "In another instance, police in Johnson County, Texas searched the Connecticut data for a woman it said had an abortion, records from five departments show."

A lot of the people had never been tear gassed before. I talked to someone in the center of the cloud who had never been gassed and had only been to big protests like No Kings. She said the march had felt like the exact same vibe, right up until she was gassed for the first time in her life.

ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...

Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control. “It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.

New — I spoke to eight people who were present at the ICE protest on Saturday in Portland, Oregon when federal agents deployed tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of families, children, elderly and disabled people, and their pets. These are their stories:

Right at the top, Judge Reyes lays out her official findings, after reviewing the evidence. She says it is "substantially likely" that Secretary Noem's decision to end Haitian TPS was "preordained" and based on Secretary Noem's general "hostility to nonwhite immigrants."

An hour-long set of Seu Jorge singing David Bowie covers in Portuguese (from Wes Anderson's Life Aquatic) to mark the 10th anniversary of Bowie's death. "Just an acoustic guitar, a microphone, and the beautiful coastline of São Paulo." [kottke.org]

The funding is there, and every officer operating in our communities should be wearing a body camera. However, this alone won’t be enough for Homeland Security to regain public trust or to ensure full transparency and accountability. Secretary Noem must be removed from office.

Connecticut Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro:

This guy had a frightening episode that may have been a big old panic attack the other day, can we get a “hang in there, Trout” going in the chat

I asked Blumenthal last week about abolishing ICE. He didn't seem interested. bsky.app/profile/chri...

Connecticut U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal: "All across America, people are angry -- I'm angry -- and they are demanding that ICE and DHS be reined in and restrained and reformed."

NEVER forget

University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme. dailyillini.com/news-stories...

My shop is hiring a part-time midday newscaster. Must work out of Fairfield, CT. Good opportunity for anyone looking to get on the air multiple times daily. cpbi.bamboohr.com/careers/35