🚨NEW: The key reason @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is likely to win is the factor nobody in media mentions because it's too threatening to power: Public financing that gave Mamdani enough cash to compete. This system can be replicated everywhere, which is why oligarchs dont want you to know about it

Politics only speaks one language

George Springer, Mayor of New Britain

The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.

hierarchy me babby

Connecticut State Capitol Police tell my colleague @racheliacovone.bsky.social they estimate today's Hartford No Kings rally size at 12,000 people. They estimated the No Kings rally in June at 7,000.

No kings except UConn Football, kings of New England.

Hartford No Kings in bumping. 3x the size of 10 weeks ago.

Do people even WANT to sleep indoors??

imagine going on the news and admitting to being such a soft little baby

we really crossed over the line in this country when the pure freaks united with people who became freaks because they got too rich — who all got empowered by internet freaks. we urgently need to get them away from each other.

The plan from @jilchrest.bsky.social : 1. Weaken the influence of money in politics (until it can be fully eliminated) 2. Open the door for more working people to run for office 3. Let Congresspeople do their jobs instead of fundraising all day and sending so many fucking texts and emails

Three texts from Janet Mills today. I don’t even have the energy to send three mean replies.

people > donors

"We have an economy where a handful of modern-day robber barons wield extraordinary power. They hold enormous control over our paychecks, our bills, our time, and our futures. ...But the good news is that nothing about any of this is inevitable." - Lina Khan

Pre-Obama Democrats have pinpointed the real change this nation needs is the change from term #18 to term #19 — and in extreme cases, one person in their 70s to a different person in their 70s.

The obsession with money in politics is a cancer — corrupting every part of how laws get made. We don’t have to accept the rules of a rigged game. I wrote about how I’m doing things differently, and what real change looks like. Read the op-ed via @ctinsider.bsky.social

Ayyyyy

When we moved out of this building in 2019, there was an office upstairs where someone had a cactus for so long that it had grown tall enough to displace the drop ceiling tiles above it. I hope the cactus is honored with a plaque or something.

extremely not my bday fyi

I encourage my fellow Yankees fans to not focus on yet another postseason disappointment and instead celebrate all the surplus value created for the right-wing freaks in senior management and the nepo baby owner whose daddy died and gave him the team as a treat because he's a special little guy.

The New York Yankees, like me, have had enough of the New York Yankees.

@mikeaxisa.bsky.social send the email

Agreed! Congress must fix the healthcare crisis and put people first.

Editor in chief, city editor, features editor

Your periodic reminder that we’re living through a solar ☀️☀️☀️ energy (and battery storage) revolution, but most Connecticut residents probably don’t know it because of our terrible policies at the utility and state level

Hard to listen to the new tswift when my brain keeps saying “don’t you want to listen to clipse? you should put on clipse.”

Anti-union behavior by the Sox bench.

Start spreading the news (non-literal)

Cam Schlittler

Cam Schlittler heal this nation

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I hate the baseball team I root for 👍

Total loser shit.

October comes early for Aaron Boone

truly one of the worst basketball coaches to ever walk the earth

Help us send a message! #peoplepower #moneyoutofpolitics #politics #yourvoicematters #congress voteforjillian.com

If you're wondering why they don't go to court with their high paid lawyers for an easy win, it's because this allows Google to bribe Trump. All the big players are way over their skis on AI investment and are sure they will need a bailout at some point. It's 2009 but for tech instead of housing

The year is 2004

“Corruption is fine” is truly the bipartisan issue that unites our Congress.

Part of what’s so funny about this is—protect it from whom, Hakeem? You’re imploring republicans to protect it from…themselves?

RIP Kaleb Horton kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

In Connecticut

Gonna have to teach everyone from scratch that the president isn't your boss, he's your employee

[guy who frequently relies on customer reviews voice] Me? Leave a customer review?

Check out another edition of Kitchen Table Issues… this week #healthcare #health #universalhealthcare #insurance

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