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.
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.
Did you just “whatever, whatever” being hot?
October 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Did you just “whatever, whatever” being hot?
My table earlier tonight. Headed to bed now, but I love nights when the good things in life have me feeling inspired.
October 6, 2025 at 4:31 AM
My table earlier tonight. Headed to bed now, but I love nights when the good things in life have me feeling inspired.
Reading Allen Ginsberg in a park two blocks from the White House this morning. They can never kill our revolution.
October 3, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Reading Allen Ginsberg in a park two blocks from the White House this morning. They can never kill our revolution.
Connecticut needs more progressive revenue streams to fund our social service infrastructure — which includes, among other things, paying social service workers more so that they can afford housing, healthcare, higher education, and childcare in their communities.
October 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Connecticut needs more progressive revenue streams to fund our social service infrastructure — which includes, among other things, paying social service workers more so that they can afford housing, healthcare, higher education, and childcare in their communities.
Loving queer people changes the people who love them.
September 29, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Loving queer people changes the people who love them.
Idk why this is speaking to me so much right now, but it is.
September 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Idk why this is speaking to me so much right now, but it is.
Ironic being a criminal justice system researcher and an abolitionist.
September 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Ironic being a criminal justice system researcher and an abolitionist.
“Babe” is my favorite word.
September 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
“Babe” is my favorite word.
I don’t want that twink’s problems.
September 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I don’t want that twink’s problems.
Getting excited about a new video game with a cute boy? Dreams do come true, just not always in the way you’d expect.
September 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Getting excited about a new video game with a cute boy? Dreams do come true, just not always in the way you’d expect.
Raising consciousness, raising voices in New Haven, CT @ Spruce Coffee. ☕️ 🌲
September 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Raising consciousness, raising voices in New Haven, CT @ Spruce Coffee. ☕️ 🌲
Josh Elliott is doing the damn thing here in Connecticut. Might have to get behind him & send in a donation to help him qualify for the Citizens' Election Program. A candidate fighting for progressive taxation and public investment earning public funding to run—that’s the spirit of democratic access
September 23, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Josh Elliott is doing the damn thing here in Connecticut. Might have to get behind him & send in a donation to help him qualify for the Citizens' Election Program. A candidate fighting for progressive taxation and public investment earning public funding to run—that’s the spirit of democratic access
My third or fourth failed attempt at a relationship collapsed this weekend, and the photo memories on my phone are still of my ex-boyfriend. Yay for me. We keep going.
September 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
My third or fourth failed attempt at a relationship collapsed this weekend, and the photo memories on my phone are still of my ex-boyfriend. Yay for me. We keep going.
Reposted by Justin Etheridge
I always think about Heidi Heitkamp and Mark Pryor voting no and Joe Manchin and John Tester voting yes on the 2013 Background check bill. Being "moderate" didn't help Pryor and Heitkamp, they immediately got smoked, while Tester and Manchin stayed in office another decade.
Ezra’s claim here runs into the challenging fact that abortion rights are more popular than Democrats in red states
September 20, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I always think about Heidi Heitkamp and Mark Pryor voting no and Joe Manchin and John Tester voting yes on the 2013 Background check bill. Being "moderate" didn't help Pryor and Heitkamp, they immediately got smoked, while Tester and Manchin stayed in office another decade.
Let your hole heal, babe.
September 20, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Let your hole heal, babe.
Thank you for bringing music into my life again.
September 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Thank you for bringing music into my life again.
People will really have opinions on professional athletes’ compensation and not care that the healthcare workers’ unions caring for the sick, elderly, and disabled in their communities are fighting for pennies.
September 19, 2025 at 4:55 PM
People will really have opinions on professional athletes’ compensation and not care that the healthcare workers’ unions caring for the sick, elderly, and disabled in their communities are fighting for pennies.
When will we admit to ourselves: this will keep happening until the guns are gone.
September 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
When will we admit to ourselves: this will keep happening until the guns are gone.
I guess I like boys who fall in love easy. That’s why they’re all taken—by the men they fell for when they were 18.
September 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I guess I like boys who fall in love easy. That’s why they’re all taken—by the men they fell for when they were 18.
Someone should make an art piece with dead spotted lantern flies.
September 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Someone should make an art piece with dead spotted lantern flies.
Good to be me.
September 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Good to be me.