East Hampton Old Home Day parade was—true to tradition—a tremendous tribute to great community spirit & support. Spectacular bands, floats, fire trucks, bells—loud & beautiful. Thanks everyone!

Bristol’s team has worked well to restore power but widespread residential damage still needs to be repaired. I’m urging homeowners to document it, so we can press for insurance coverage they deserve.

Our veterans deserve the best we have to offer—they took care of our nation, & now our nation must take care of them. The UConn Health Neuromodulation Center of Excellence is an investment in our veterans & the cutting-edge treatments & care needed to help them heal.

Met Seyo & his two sons at his restaurant with Rep. Larson. A great family & successful business owner. While Seyo is grateful for our help in getting him home, ICE should never have disrupted this family’s lives just to meet some arbitrary quota. It is cruel & heartless.

Trump’s rolling back gun violence protections will cause needless bloodshed & cost lives. I’ll fight his retreat on regulations. Republicans failing to join us are complicit.

Venezuela flag raising ceremony in Bridgeport honoring the bravery & strength of its people, who have suffered such tragedy. We stand with the Venezuelan-American community in support.

Columbia's July 4th parade—a great community celebrates a great country on its 250th. A deeply patriotic tribute.

Happy Fourth of July! On America’s 250th Birthday we reflect on the promise of our great nation, our hard-won independence & our common commitment to upholding democratic values.

This obscene, sickening self-enrichment should enrage Americans—many struggling to make ends meet as the Trump family makes billions. It’s likely illegal, violating the Constitution’s Emoluments clause & other prohibitions. Republicans are accountable for enabling it.

A 5-alarm fire—under Trump's Big Ugly Bill, over 100,000 CT residents could soon lose their health insurance. The Protecting Health Care & Lowering Costs Act cuts through bureaucratic red tape & guarantees access to quality care through Medicaid.

New details raise serious questions about Trump’s $500M no-bid ballroom contract. From sweetheart contracts to special interest donors, Trump’s ballroom boondoggle is fraught with corruption. I’ll keep demanding answers through PSI.

Americans are already feeling crushed by rising utility costs—we need to protect them from unfair rate increases. The No Bonuses for Utility Executives Act ensures that the c-suite is not lining their pockets while burdening consumers with increased costs.

Today's decision is an incredible relief to the thousands of United States citizens born on American soil, whose citizenship is incontrovertible. In America we follow the language of the Constitution, not the edicts of pretend Kings.  apnews.com/article/supr...

Great conversation with @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social, discussing the Major Richard Star Act & the fight to ensure combat-injured veterans receive the benefits they have rightfully earned. www.youtube.com/live/OjaqAsN...

This case was a Republican-led attack on mail-in voting blessed by President Trump—looking to suppress your voice in our democracy. While today’s verdict is a victory, we must stay vigilant against these continued, unwavering assaults on voting rights.

President Trump fired Commissioners Slaughter & Bedoya because they had the tenacity to fight monopolists & to protect consumers from predatory corporate abuses. 1/

Seyo: you are not alone, CT stands with you, & we will fight for you. ICE: you are not above the law. No more refusing to seek warrants for arrests, abusive use of force, & other brutal, illegal practices.

Naturalization Ceremony at Dunkin’ Park Yard Goats Stadium in Hartford, as more than 25 immigrants become U.S. citizens. A beautiful, inspiring event on the ball field. Congratulations!

AI safety requires Congressional action—as many seem to believe, but avoid supporting specifics. The Hawley-Blumenthal framework provides a good beginning.

Musk must be held accountable for Tesla crashes & misleading pitches about Full Self Driving. NHTSA is often too long & lax in investigating crashes. Musk’s self driving MO: over promise & under deliver.

The Supreme Court has overruled the will of the Hawaiian people & yet again put gun rights above all. Americans shouldn't have to fear for their lives when they enter shops or businesses.

America is a nation of immigrants with a history of giving refuge to those fleeing hardship or crisis. With this decision, SCOTUS is betraying our country's promise.

Today, I led 45 of my Democratic colleagues in opposing Republican’s plan to slash disabled veterans’ benefits. We stand with veterans in the fight against these harmful cuts & call on VA Secretary Collins to join us.

Meta copied slot machines to addict kids to Instagram. Now Zuckerberg is turning his company into a prediction market. Meta’s business model is profiting from addiction—kids, gamblers, & more. Stop it through KOSA & my prediction markets bills.

America is facing a historic, strategic, sustained assault on voting rights.

Wishing a wonderful Father’s Day to all the great dads & father figures in CT & around the country. Thank you for being role models in our lives with unconditional support.

Danbury tributes “Faith, Family, Freedom” for Juneteenth at the Civic Center Green. A beautiful sun-filled afternoon concert.

New Haven’s 13th Annual Juneteenth March & Celebration honoring Lois & Lucy Tritton, among the last two enslaved people sold on the New Haven Green. A solemn, moving ceremony.

Wonderful to be in Bridgeport for Juneteenth festival, with magnificent music, spirit, & people.

Middletown Juneteenth Parade was a rousing celebration of liberty & social justice. Great crowds on a perfect day.

Juneteenth serves as a vital moment of reflection & celebration, honoring the legacy of all who fought for racial justice & equity in our nation. Today, we recommit to building on the promise of freedom for all.

Green is the color—of algae, money & corruption. Millions of taxpayer dollars squandered on a corrupt no-bid boondoggle, with a contractor linked to Trump’s past private golf club projects. Now Trump minions are desperately dumping poisonous chemicals, endangering wildlife & humans.

A bipartisan effort to counter Pentagon concealment—this first step signals steeply rising anger across the aisle. Hegseth’s slow-walking & stonewalling adds insult to injury—an affront to Congress, hiding dangerous & destructive failings.

Trump has claimed his gilded ballroom would cost taxpayers nothing. We now know that's a lie. It will cost $600 million & taxpayers will be on the hook for half. I’m demanding answers from Trump’s hand-picked construction firm after they withheld the true price of this project.

Trump is concealing costs for his corrupt gold-plated ballroom—now ballooning to $600 million—as he tries to hoodwink taxpayers into footing the bill.

Scurrilous low life on the White House lawn—an unimaginable insult to all Americans.

Trump’s MO is to over promise & under deliver. Real recovery will depend on a genuine peace agreement—more than just opening the Strait & more talk. Whether the world is safe from a nuclear armed Iran remains to be seen.

Black Rock Day Parade in Bridgeport with cloudless skies & wonderful crowds. Known as the “Best Little Parade in America.” Thanks to Parade Chair Phil Blagys, in charge since 1994.

Norwalk’s Pride on the Park, an amazing celebration of great people for a vital cause. Wonderful spirit & energy!

No surprise in Trump’s DOJ corruptly approving the Paramount-Warner Bros merger—after their fierce lobbying, threats to DOJ lawyers, & CBS censorship. State AGs must move to block it.

My Republican colleagues need to listen to veterans. We must pass the Major Richard Star Act to ensure combat-injured veterans receive the benefits they have rightfully earned & deserve—a measure that Senate Republicans have blocked 6 times now. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Strategic voter suppression—that’s the blatant purpose & effect of the U.S. Postal Service’s new proposed rule—to compile voter lists & deny mail in ballots to anyone it deems ineligible. Such screening of voter lists would be clearly unconstitutional & reprehensible.

The UFC "Claw" constructed on the south lawn for Trump’s Sunday night fight is a masterclass in marketing & corruption. Sponsor ads line every side, with these payments & others largely undisclosed as to who really benefits & how much. I am looking into it through PSI.

Thank you @msrachelforlittles.bsky.social for sharing letters from children who have been detained at the Dilley Immigration Detention Center. Their stories show the abject cruelty of the Trump Administration's immigration policies—we must put an end to such inhumanity.

“I love the inflation.” Maybe the only true words from Trump about the Iran War. He loves our misery. Stupid & cruel—hallmarks of this administration. Trump is flailing as he sinks deeper into military & political quicksand, causing rising costs & pain.

Correcting this injustice for combat-injured veterans should be done without depriving other veterans of benefits they need & deserve which this Republican package would do. 1/

Too slow, too meager & too dangerous. The CFTC is showing once again that it’s nothing more than a tool of Kalshi & Polymarket, encouraging addictive gambling, fraudulent bets & national security risks rather protecting consumers & public safety.

The brave officers who sprang to action in defense of the Capitol on January 6th are heroes not 'dirty cops.' President Trump's disdain for the law enforcers who defended our democracy is detestable.

Hot cars can become death traps for children & pets. As summer heat descends, please remember to look before you lock. I’m also demanding DOT Sec. Duffy finally implement long-overdue rules to ensure car manufacturers install life-saving tech to prevent hot car deaths.

Blanche is the most disgraceful, corrupt nominee for AG in American history. Instead of enforcing the law, he has championed Trump’s breaking it. Nothing has been too shamefully low, degrading & disgracing the entire DOJ.