Do it.

There’s been a lot of great reporting about resources in Connecticut (largely from @chrispolansky.bsky.social for @ctpublic.bsky.social) after the cut off of SNAP, but I kept thinking of the person clicking around these guides who was looking for a hot meal for their family right NOW. A list:

Good! 👏👏👏 Now it’s time to call a special session, protect our residents from the MAGA cuts, and welcome people looking to move here by making it legal to build more homes! 🏠 💪 ctmirror.org/2025/11/05/c...

Volts gets results. ⚡

The election news everyone has been waiting for…meet your next town councilors for Trumbull’s District 5! Ready to keep this a place where everyone is welcome and build a more walkable, just Trumbull! 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈

Sign holding at District 5’s polling place in Trumbull. If you’re in Connecticut, make sure you get out and vote before 8pm! 🗳️🗳️🗳️🗳️🗳️

The federal government may be cutting aid, but here in Connecticut, we’re stepping up. The Connecticut General Assembly and Governor Lamont are using up to $500 million in surplus funds to protect SNAP and other critical programs that families rely on.

Drivers have killed 50 pedestrians/cyclists, so far, this year in Connecticut. This number increased because of a fatality in East Hartford in August that the news media never reported . www.realhartford.org/pedestrian-m...

This should be legal to build on every lot in Connecticut

In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.

lol these people. “Supporting” property rights by imposing 400 page zoning codes that micromanage every last thing you can do to your property You can’t even decide how close to the street your home is! Absolute charlatans

No insurrectionists in power anywhere in CT Not on a town council, not as an appointed golf commissioner, and ABSOLUTELY NOT as an elections official

Would love to hear what the governor makes of the last few weeks of the most disastrous disgusting racist AI slop imaginable coming from Cuomo This endorsement should be disqualifying imo

Drivers have killed 49 pedestrians/cyclists, so far, this year in Connecticut. This number increased because of a preventable collision on Rt 69 in Waterbury on Oct 22 that proved fatal. In the last 10 years, 4 other pedestrians have been killed nearby. www.realhartford.org/pedestrian-m...

The costs of car dependency are way, way too high and we shouldn’t just accept that we have to live like this www.fox61.com/article/news...

LFG! Pre-order arrived a week ago but finally able to dig in!

Your vote matter! Vote in the municipal elections! Today or Tuesday! #vote #yourvoice

Reminder to CT folks: you can still vote early today! 🗳️🗳️🗳️ portal.ct.gov/-/media/sots...

Fairfield County, the land of by-right mansion construction but HOW DARE YOU EVEN SUGGEST AS FEW AS TWO FAMILIES LIVE IN A HOME THIS SIZE THAT MUST BE ILLEGAL AT ALL COSTS

The solar future is here, but Connecticut is woefully behind. Solar is better for the climate AND our state/town budgets. Thrilled to see the state start investing in it!!! ☀️☀️☀️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️

If removing zoning will only increase housing by “.8 of 1%” (lmao the dumbest crap) then why do you dedicate your spare to desperately blocking any and all zoning reform? No CT politician—including our governor—should take these bad faith charlatans seriously

Busy day as campaign season wraps up: food drive for our affordable housing homes (all SNAP recipients), then 3 turfs throughout district 5 This can’t fix national politics, but it’s better than doing nothing. Don’t give into doomerism—go out and help!

I love to see outlets like @ctmirror.org doing beautiful reporting on our state’s capitol. The racist, classist views most CT suburbanites have of Hartford is wrong, harms it citizens, and damages state policy writ large! ctmirror.org/2025/10/31/h...

watching all the drivers just blatantly run red lights and stop signs and fail to yield for people in crosswalks on halloween really hits home why we need to drastically reduce the number of cars in the city. jfc.

Incredible how every NIMBY in Connecticut is also an expert in wetlands! Also incredible how it works. Their homes with steams in the backyard? They’re stewards of the wetlands. Apartments? No matter where, they’ll destroy it.

Also, maybe we come up with, like, two more holidays, say in the early and late spring, that involve walking around the neighborhood and talking to your neighbors?

You’re opposed to arbitrary rules, yes? Wait until these segregationist NIMBYs find out about zoning and building codes!

Listen, Zohran, it takes real governing chops to ineffectually introduce then fail on highway tolls, publicly flail on a housing bill and backstab your caucus, and randomly suggest regionalization with no plan at all, and oversee corrupt school construction officials ctmirror.org/2025/10/30/n...

Out grabbing some beer in town and man car bloat is just wild. The truck next to me is 3 times my Honda fit and he was in the store grabbing a couple bottles of wine. Not sure you need the truck for those trips, my guy!

I would jump off of this excellent thread to add one thing, based on my time in and proximate to the labor movement: Vance has the relationship between common culture and unions exactly backward. He says diversity frustrates organizing because people can't make common cause across cultural lines...

Love that someone was so angered by the toxic dry cleaners giving way to homes that left the “😡” emoji People have lost their minds re: housing!

Don't do it. Bridgeport has enough "if we only attract the suburbanites for a limited number of events things would be better" Seed a Bridgeport specific fund with the same funds within CMDA and let it rip. Would do immensely more good

Drivers have killed 47 pedestrians/cyclists, so far, this year in Connecticut. The most recent preventable death happened on Route 2 in Preston. Speed Limit: 50 MPH Sidewalks: None Streetlights: None Marked crosswalks: None Car lanes: three www.realhartford.org/pedestrian-m...

Out for a run and had an Escalade fly by me at 50mph and it’s still wild that we’ve had this statewide panic about kids on e-bikes while it remains totally legal and accepted for kids to drive the equivalent of Sherman tanks!

This is what happens when cities have a coherent vision and empower good people like Adam to enact it Between infill housing, bike/walk infrastructure, traffic cameras, and the push to reimagine I-91, New Haven is on 🔥🔥🔥

two former vehicle lanes are now taking shape as a new sidewalk, bike lane, greenspace, and pedestrian lighting

I really wish these headlines would translate this data for readers: THERE IS SO MUCH RAMPANT ROUTINE SPEEDING ON OUR ROADS www.ctpost.com/middletown/a...

Love to be back to a PURA that will routinely rubber stamp $150/a year rate increases 🫠 ctmirror.org/2025/10/28/p...

Attention: for all you housing lovers along the Northeast Corridor - Baltimore’s City Council just passed single-stair reform AND repealed residential parking minimums AND reduced setback requirements one-after-another this evening

“Too many young people don’t see a future for them in Connecticut.” This from @pschousing.bsky.social’s Sean Ghio is outstanding. Not only do we lose too many young folks, but what about all the people that never even consider moving here because of housing costs? ctmirror.org/2025/10/27/o...

WOAH! Willimantic advancing 100+ homes along its walkable main street to meet the moment as it struggles with an acute college driven housing shortage. Rehab/conversion and New Build www.facebook.com/theconnectic...

Another commercial -> resi project. This time adjacent to the Merritt 7 Train Station in Norwalk CT hartfordbusiness.com/article/new-...

Speed Cameras work! “There has been a 94% reduction in high-speed driving from July to September,” Costa said. “We are seeing a change in driving culture on Route 66, and we are excited with the data.” www.courant.com/2025/10/27/m...

Over 10 miles of door knocking this week, including a neighborhood w/a live affordable housing proposal. Really fascinating to go from policy advocacy to elected office and door knocking. Talking housing in the real world is great experience. To all online YIMBY poasters—run for something!!!

Watching the opening scene in Ghostbusters II and it’s impossible to unsee all the cars…because they’re actually sedans! There’s one normal-sized truck (right in front) and that’s it. Car bloat is so insane

"Cities should remain museum pieces for incumbents and any newcomer is strictly a burden" is the most loser mindset that powers the most loser politics in America today.

Cheers from the best downtown brewery in the state of Connecticut, Berlinetta Brewing!

Well I’m sure this quote headline is totally reliable and from some expert and **wait checks notes** it’s from ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE STATE’S #1 NIMBY ORGS Like cmon headline writers, surely you know this! www.ctinsider.com/news/article...

YOU LIVE IN A CITY OF OVER 135,000 PEOPLE A 45 MINUTE TRAIN RIDE FROM GCT, 20 TOWNHOMES ARE NOT TOO BIG YOU INSANE PEOPLE www.stamfordadvocate.com/local/articl...