Justin Etheridge
@justinetheridge.bsky.social
Working in and around government my whole life: #EndGunViolence advocate, CJ researcher, public policy specialist. I carry Connecticut in my heart. Warren Democrat. 2 cents! 🏳️🌈
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Government is the art of overcoming obstruction to good ideas because they cost someone money.
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Tell the people, New Haven!
January 19, 2026 at 2:19 AM
Tell the people, New Haven!
Music makes the seconds pass. Writing makes the minutes pass. Politics makes the days pass. My vision makes the years pass. And there’s no one I’d rather pass them with than you.
January 18, 2026 at 7:38 AM
Music makes the seconds pass. Writing makes the minutes pass. Politics makes the days pass. My vision makes the years pass. And there’s no one I’d rather pass them with than you.
Oh, the national debt surpassed $38 trillion. How is this the government of the richest country on earth—the one giving tax breaks to billionaires?
January 16, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Oh, the national debt surpassed $38 trillion. How is this the government of the richest country on earth—the one giving tax breaks to billionaires?
Love isn’t something you have for a lifetime with someone. It’s a feeling you have in a moment with someone—and then over and over and over again.
January 16, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Love isn’t something you have for a lifetime with someone. It’s a feeling you have in a moment with someone—and then over and over and over again.
A working-class Bronx girl with Puerto Rican roots and serious progressive policy chops, plus a former astronaut and Navy vet who flipped Arizona and would bring First or Second Lady Gabrielle Giffords to the national stage? How could you answer this moment of extreme violence better than that?
I think my ticket for 2028 is AOC and Mark Kelly in any order.
January 14, 2026 at 2:50 PM
A working-class Bronx girl with Puerto Rican roots and serious progressive policy chops, plus a former astronaut and Navy vet who flipped Arizona and would bring First or Second Lady Gabrielle Giffords to the national stage? How could you answer this moment of extreme violence better than that?
I think my ticket for 2028 is AOC and Mark Kelly in any order.
January 14, 2026 at 2:40 PM
I think my ticket for 2028 is AOC and Mark Kelly in any order.
Love, like a flower, at first is fresh and dewy, but once picked, always wilts into hate.
January 12, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Love, like a flower, at first is fresh and dewy, but once picked, always wilts into hate.
Monday, Monday
Sometimes it just turns out that way
Sometimes it just turns out that way
January 12, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Monday, Monday
Sometimes it just turns out that way
Sometimes it just turns out that way
Truth has the power not just to reveal, but to redeem.
January 12, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Truth has the power not just to reveal, but to redeem.
Well, I guess it's time to cleave off another part of my heart.
January 10, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Well, I guess it's time to cleave off another part of my heart.
He’s a bandit and a heartbreaker
Oh, but Jesus was a cross maker
Oh, but Jesus was a cross maker
January 9, 2026 at 5:21 PM
He’s a bandit and a heartbreaker
Oh, but Jesus was a cross maker
Oh, but Jesus was a cross maker
We Shall Overcome, Some Day
January 9, 2026 at 4:10 AM
We Shall Overcome, Some Day
We are never going to live to see humankind’s trip to Mars, but we will live to see every landfill in our country overflowing. Soon. American policymakers: get your priorities straight.
January 6, 2026 at 11:30 PM
We are never going to live to see humankind’s trip to Mars, but we will live to see every landfill in our country overflowing. Soon. American policymakers: get your priorities straight.
Teaching my non-PoliSci friends about franking privileges when they get junk mail from their new state legislators.
December 31, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Teaching my non-PoliSci friends about franking privileges when they get junk mail from their new state legislators.
Yes a new world's coming
The one we've had visions of
Coming in peace, coming in joy
Coming in love
The one we've had visions of
Coming in peace, coming in joy
Coming in love
December 30, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Yes a new world's coming
The one we've had visions of
Coming in peace, coming in joy
Coming in love
The one we've had visions of
Coming in peace, coming in joy
Coming in love
You’ll never know the cost of being loved until you’ve felt it turn into being hated.
December 27, 2025 at 11:46 AM
You’ll never know the cost of being loved until you’ve felt it turn into being hated.
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself.”
From the closet of history, a heritage of pride.
From the closet of history, a heritage of pride.
December 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself.”
From the closet of history, a heritage of pride.
From the closet of history, a heritage of pride.
You will never get away from the sound of the woman that loved you.
December 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
You will never get away from the sound of the woman that loved you.
The everlasting post. The only-in-America experience visits Brown University. Where next? Whose school or house of worship? Unless we act. So sickeningly long overdue.
When will we admit to ourselves: this will keep happening until the guns are gone.
December 15, 2025 at 1:57 AM
The everlasting post. The only-in-America experience visits Brown University. Where next? Whose school or house of worship? Unless we act. So sickeningly long overdue.
Roughly six in ten U.S. gun deaths are suicides (27,300 in 2023—58%). 26M Americans age 12+ experience a major depressive episode each year. Suicide in America is a gun-violence crisis as much as it is a mental health or healthcare crisis. That’s our best intervention point: means safety.
December 15, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Roughly six in ten U.S. gun deaths are suicides (27,300 in 2023—58%). 26M Americans age 12+ experience a major depressive episode each year. Suicide in America is a gun-violence crisis as much as it is a mental health or healthcare crisis. That’s our best intervention point: means safety.
Let’s generate some revenue, gentlefolk!
October 31, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Let’s generate some revenue, gentlefolk!
Context for this is I was talking to a femme queer friend about how men treat her, and she said they’re always so kind, attentive, interested — “whatever, whatever” — so she’s able to have lots of sex if she wants. It reminded me of Elaine yada-yada’ing sex on Seinfeld.
Did you just “whatever, whatever” being hot?
October 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Context for this is I was talking to a femme queer friend about how men treat her, and she said they’re always so kind, attentive, interested — “whatever, whatever” — so she’s able to have lots of sex if she wants. It reminded me of Elaine yada-yada’ing sex on Seinfeld.
There are a lot of queer people on the planet, and there are more every day, which is something people need to start realizing and understanding.
October 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
There are a lot of queer people on the planet, and there are more every day, which is something people need to start realizing and understanding.
My closet really reminds me of ex-boyfriends.
October 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
My closet really reminds me of ex-boyfriends.