Atomic Spaceman
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It’s me - the dog in the photo. All opinions expressed herein are those of a Husky living his goofiest life in Connecticut.
If you build more housing, you increase the tax base, solving the top two problems at once. Surely you have the time to get this done now that you’re done endorsing sex pests for NYC mayor, Gov. Lamont. www.courant.com/2025/11/07/h...
Housing and taxes are top issues facing CT, poll says. What’s being done
CT lawmakers passed the housing bill despite opposition and Gov. Lamont vetoed it. They’re poised to revisit it in a special session
www.courant.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
If you build more housing, you increase the tax base, solving the top two problems at once. Surely you have the time to get this done now that you’re done endorsing sex pests for NYC mayor, Gov. Lamont. www.courant.com/2025/11/07/h...
Does Ned Lamont *want* to lose the Dem primary?
October 10, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Does Ned Lamont *want* to lose the Dem primary?
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We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
August 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
Someone should tell Ned Lamont that the theory that taxing the wealthy will cause them to flee the state is bullshit.
"But nearly three years later, it’s becoming clearer and clearer — the Massachusetts millionaires tax has been a total success, and an incredible benefit for our state’s businesses. " #mapoli
commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/the-...
commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/the-...
The Fair Share Amendment is delivering - CommonWealth Beacon
Nearly three years after its passage, it’s becoming clear that the millionaires tax has been a total success, and an incredible benefit for our state’s businesses.
commonwealthbeacon.org
August 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Someone should tell Ned Lamont that the theory that taxing the wealthy will cause them to flee the state is bullshit.
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when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet
July 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet
ctmirror.org/2025/07/22/c... CT’s wage inequality could be slowing job growth, report finds
July 24, 2025 at 11:04 AM
ctmirror.org/2025/07/22/c... CT’s wage inequality could be slowing job growth, report finds
It would not be possible for the Democratic Party to lunge any further toward the center. At least not in three-dimensional space.
Let me get this straight. You want to do a total rebuild of the Democratic party a year before the most important midterms in history?
Are you OK?
Are you high?
Are you OK?
Are you high?
June 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
It would not be possible for the Democratic Party to lunge any further toward the center. At least not in three-dimensional space.
My best friends are the people I see when I’m out walking my dogs trying as hard as I am to look too busy to make eye contact.
June 28, 2025 at 3:21 AM
My best friends are the people I see when I’m out walking my dogs trying as hard as I am to look too busy to make eye contact.
I like my Blizzard a little melty. Flipping is for cowards. Embrace the drip.
Only flipping 1 blizzard?! We used to be a proper country
June 28, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I like my Blizzard a little melty. Flipping is for cowards. Embrace the drip.
In all seriousness, progressives should wholeheartedly embrace “vibe warfare.” We can win with that shit.
Our vibe: you should be able to afford rent and groceries.
Their vibe: we’re gonna kidnap your immigrant neighbors and friends, and we’re gonna inspect the genitals of children.
Our vibe: you should be able to afford rent and groceries.
Their vibe: we’re gonna kidnap your immigrant neighbors and friends, and we’re gonna inspect the genitals of children.
There's been so many Islamophobic posts on X over the past 24+ hours. But what do you even call this dumb ass shit?
June 26, 2025 at 11:05 AM
In all seriousness, progressives should wholeheartedly embrace “vibe warfare.” We can win with that shit.
Our vibe: you should be able to afford rent and groceries.
Their vibe: we’re gonna kidnap your immigrant neighbors and friends, and we’re gonna inspect the genitals of children.
Our vibe: you should be able to afford rent and groceries.
Their vibe: we’re gonna kidnap your immigrant neighbors and friends, and we’re gonna inspect the genitals of children.
I guess it’s not surprising that a Greenwich millionaire is standing in the way of addressing our housing crisis, but it’s still disappointing.
Connecticut Gov Ned Lamont just announced that he will veto HB5002 because he wants local governments to take the lead.
Expecting the local governments that have created the housing shortage by reserving 80% of their land for McMansions on one-acre lots to lead on zoning reform is a fool’s errand.
Expecting the local governments that have created the housing shortage by reserving 80% of their land for McMansions on one-acre lots to lead on zoning reform is a fool’s errand.
The veto of HB5002 a 🧵1/ a lot
If only we gathered a group of municipal leaders and both sides of the aisle, and advocates and listened to experts . . . Spent six months on the Majority Leader’s Round Table learning how best to move forward in the 2nd most constrained housing market in the country.
If only we gathered a group of municipal leaders and both sides of the aisle, and advocates and listened to experts . . . Spent six months on the Majority Leader’s Round Table learning how best to move forward in the 2nd most constrained housing market in the country.
June 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I guess it’s not surprising that a Greenwich millionaire is standing in the way of addressing our housing crisis, but it’s still disappointing.
Maybe the NYT won’t carry water for the imperialists this ti - never mind.
June 19, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Maybe the NYT won’t carry water for the imperialists this ti - never mind.
Bluesky has a really robust rudeness filter apparently.
June 16, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Bluesky has a really robust rudeness filter apparently.
Sounds like it’s time for a primary challenge.
Lamont weighing veto or seeking revisions to controversial housing bill he might call a special session ctmirror.org/2025/06/09/c...
CT HB 5002: Lamont wants revisions to controversial housing bill
Gov. Ned Lamont is weighing whether to call CT lawmakers into special session to revise the housing bill before he must sign or veto it.
ctmirror.org
June 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Sounds like it’s time for a primary challenge.
In the wake of the 2016 Electoral College shitshow (and with the scar of 2000 still festering in my mind), I naively thought that all we needed was a massive electoral overhaul. And we do need that! But none of it would make a difference in this disinformation-heavy media environment.
This is the crucial revelation of authoritarian movements in the 21st C: you don't have to hide what you're doing. If you create an information ecosystem dysfunctional enough, mistrustful enough, fragmented enough, you can act in the open, confident that the truth will never be clearly conveyed.
May 15, 2025 at 11:56 AM
In the wake of the 2016 Electoral College shitshow (and with the scar of 2000 still festering in my mind), I naively thought that all we needed was a massive electoral overhaul. And we do need that! But none of it would make a difference in this disinformation-heavy media environment.
More bad faith bullshit from small-town Connecticut. One of the residents complained that they moved to East Windsor for the views, which amuses me because the thing I most associate EW with is the biggest, ugliest parking lot I’ve ever seen. www.courant.com/2025/05/15/p...
May 15, 2025 at 11:43 AM
More bad faith bullshit from small-town Connecticut. One of the residents complained that they moved to East Windsor for the views, which amuses me because the thing I most associate EW with is the biggest, ugliest parking lot I’ve ever seen. www.courant.com/2025/05/15/p...
It’s not news that Hartford Courant continues to publish this utility propaganda as if it has any substance (spoiler: it’s a But Her Emails story), but today’s is different because @volts.wtf makes a cameo!
CT utility wants PURA chief disqualified. New email surfaces they say shows ‘bias.’
The regulatory filings show no sign of deescalating what has become more than a year of contention and mistrust between PURA and major Connecticut utilities.
www.courant.com
May 15, 2025 at 11:29 AM
It’s not news that Hartford Courant continues to publish this utility propaganda as if it has any substance (spoiler: it’s a But Her Emails story), but today’s is different because @volts.wtf makes a cameo!
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May 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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There are high numbers of autistic people in the sciences. So one could argue that autism causes vaccines.
May 1, 2025 at 9:38 AM
There are high numbers of autistic people in the sciences. So one could argue that autism causes vaccines.
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Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s election… Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s election… Thou shalt not ***sobs***
April 29, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s election… Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s election… Thou shalt not ***sobs***
Most autistic people will never hit a bear cub with their car, will never bring a dead bear cub home with the intent to eat it, will never dump the body of a dead bear cub in Central Park.
April 18, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Most autistic people will never hit a bear cub with their car, will never bring a dead bear cub home with the intent to eat it, will never dump the body of a dead bear cub in Central Park.
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sprawl is an unmitigated environmental, social, and economic disaster
it is no longer affordable (especially when you add in transportation and time)
sprawl is driving climate change. literally.
and it is a ponzi scheme - unable to fund maintenance and replacement costs
it is no longer affordable (especially when you add in transportation and time)
sprawl is driving climate change. literally.
and it is a ponzi scheme - unable to fund maintenance and replacement costs
Not a single time in this article glorifying the need for sprawl to address the US's affordable housing crisis is there a mention of the vast transportation costs of sprawling living patterns. Nor is there mention of the fact that sprawl is directly linked to disinvestment in urban cores.
America Needs More Sprawl to Fix Its Housing Crisis
The word has become an epithet for garish, reckless growth — but to fix the housing crisis, the country needs more of it.
www.nytimes.com
April 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
sprawl is an unmitigated environmental, social, and economic disaster
it is no longer affordable (especially when you add in transportation and time)
sprawl is driving climate change. literally.
and it is a ponzi scheme - unable to fund maintenance and replacement costs
it is no longer affordable (especially when you add in transportation and time)
sprawl is driving climate change. literally.
and it is a ponzi scheme - unable to fund maintenance and replacement costs