“I have disabled #students participating in the peaceful encampment/protests #UConn. When cops arrived they put hands on one of my disabled students & dislocated their shoulder. This student is still there, but injured. If UConn says there are no injuries, that is a lie …. this student wants this known and I am sharing with permission”
Good Saturday/Straturday/Caturday/4/20 day to you all from a rainy/drizzly #Connecticut - wishing all of you fine citizens of the Fediverse a great day.
Good Monday to all you beautiful Fediversians - I hope you all had a nice weekend with some fun involved too! It's gorgeous here today - maybe @Skepticat and @Waitnwallflower and @AweThatSparkle sent some of that mid-west weather our way here in #Connecticut - either way I'm gonna enjoy it.
Good Morning!
Here's to a smooth Monday with plenty of sunshine for everyone.
It's overcast here with storms on the way.
Mark, it's a Hallmark coffee cup!
Have a good day, everyone. 🌞🌷🌞 @CoachMark@Waitnwallflower@AweThatSparkle
Study: Connecticut ranks 2nd in nation for fighting climate change
Braley Dodson
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — When it comes to helping avoid climate change, Connecticut is almost the best in the nation, according to a WalletHub study published on Thursday
Good Sunday to all you spectacularly fabulous living beings. It's a sunny morning in #Connecticut and I've got good coffee in my mug, Irish music streaming via wfuv.org and some two ingredient ice cream bread baking in the oven. Not a bad start to the day.
Wishing you all a good start and a happy ending😅 to your Sunday.
There are Primary Elections today in Connecticut, New York, and Rhode Island. Wisconsin also has primaries today along with ballot measures to vote on.
Arkansas and Mississippi voters have runoff elections today to decide a handful of legislative seats that were sent to runoffs after primaries held in March.
#JosephLieberman, the doggedly independent 4-term #US#senator from #Connecticut who was the Democratic nominee for VP in 2000, becoming the first Jewish candidate on the national ticket of a major party, died March 27 in NYC. He was 82.
The cause was complications from a fall, his family said in a statement.
#JoeLieberman generally voted w/his party (#Democrats), but he sided w/ #Republicans on cutting the capital gains tax, vouchers for parents to send their children to private schools, & placing restrictions on consumer lawsuits against corps, the latter of special interest to #Connecticut’s large #insurance companies.
His willingness to buck his party put him at odds w/teachers, trial lawyers & other powerful Dem constituencies. But it gave him influence w/in the increasingly #polarized#Senate….
…in #JoeLieberman’s 2012 farewell #Senate speech. “The greatest obstacle I see standing between us & the brighter American future we all want is right here in Washington,” he told colleagues. “It is the #partisan#polarization of our #politics which prevents us from making the principled compromises on which #progress in a #democracy depends.”
[just take a look at the House of Representatives for confirmation. Not that I’d go along w/any of House Republicans inane performative policies.]
People of the Northeast and especially #Connecticut - if you are outside walking dogs, hiking, biking - please do a regular tick check. They are out already. How do I know? I found one on my upper left leg tonight and had to pull it out with a tick removal tool after a decent fight to get that fucker out of my leg!
Cleaned thoroughly, antibiotic cream applied with bandaid over the bite wound. 9:30 Urgent care appointment scheduled for tomorrow morning.
@CoachMark I was already thinking of them here too, but I haven't gone far, our semi-daily walks are often on paved surfaces, but pass through treed areas. I'm like a friggin' tick magnet, every gravel pathway in the park, I pick up two, I think they pickup dogs there.
I'm always petrified of what you CAN'T find. My first three got to my chest, the size of pepper, could have hidden in that single chest hair LOL all night, but I got them off. we pick mushrooms in hooded white paper coveralls
Wishing all of you amazing beings of the Fediverse a good Sunday morning, afternoon, or evening. I hope you are doing well and if you aren't awake yet, well, I hope you wake up in a good mood and ready to go.
It's cold AF here in #Connecticut, but no wind and sunshine, so it's actually kind of nice as long as you wear layers outdoors. We had a most excellent walk down to Lake Garda this morning. We did upset a few Canadian Geese, but hey, tough nougies Geese - you can be annoying too quite often.
Well, that's enough blathering on for now. Be well, Take Care and Stay Alive!
Urbanists and cyclists 🚴♂️ in Naugatuck Valley #Connecticut are encouraged to complete an online survey examining habits, preferences, and challenges to walking/rolling and cycling in the community.
"The #Speaker said he wouldn't pass #Ukraine funding without a #border deal and we got a deal and then he killed the deal because he said we didn't need a deal and now he says he won't pass our #UkraineFunding bill because it doesn't include a border deal
Safe Streets Connecticut: Lessons from mapping pedestrian and cyclist deaths
"A heat map showing where pedestrians and cyclists were killed since 2020...from the process reconfirmed some obvious known facts, and came upon a few other trends. I’m sharing these observations to add context to the heat map"
(The author titled the piece "Lessons From Mapping Death"...catchy, but a bit clickbaity for my taste)
"After a new assessment found lead in almost all of the apartments tested at the Lofts at Cargill Falls Mill in Putnam, more than a dozen tenant union members have started a rent strike until management makes improvements."
Tenants in #Putnam, #Connecticut have launched a rent strike against their landlords after finding toxic levels of lead.
Saturday Greetings from a cold but sunny #Connecticut. We had a beautiful walk down to Lake Garda this morning and I snapped this photo. Thought I'd share and wish you all a good day.
Good Thursday to all of you out there in the Fediverse - I hope your morning, mid-day, or night is going well so far. It's sunny and pretty effin cold here in #Connecticut this morning, but not too windy so I'll take it!
If you’re in #Hartford :whalers: #Connecticut :ct: area and want your photo with Santa, come down to Winterfest in Bushnell Park! Today and next weekend, noon to 3 pm!
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Rein's Deli for dinner later tonight with my oldest son, Liam
Potato Pancakes, a Reuben (either Pastrami or Turkey with extra dressing for sandwich dipping) and a Dr. Brown's Cream Soda (my one soda exception I make) - oh yeah!
It's cold, grey, and rainy here in #Connecticut for the second day in a row, but there is sunshine in the forecast for Tuesday. So we've got that goin for us. ;)
