Michael Vogel
@michaelvogel.bsky.social
Member, Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee
Could Jeffries be more useless?
For some reason Democratic leaders seem to prefer telling voters what they won’t be able to do, rather than what they’d like to do.
If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
Jeffries says not to expect Democrats to pursue Hegseth impeachment over boat strikes
"Republicans will never allow articles of impeachment to be brought to the floor," he said.
www.axios.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Could Jeffries be more useless?
Are there people who still give money when James Carville spam texts them?
September 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Are there people who still give money when James Carville spam texts them?
Chills seeing this. We are committing national suicide.
The CDC’s Sencer Museum has an iron lung – a pressurized breathing chamber to keep kids paralyzed by polio alive. So many sweet, vivacious kids spent the rest of their lives in these.
Vaccine-preventable illnesses were devastating horrors that belong firmly in our rearview. RFK must go.
Vaccine-preventable illnesses were devastating horrors that belong firmly in our rearview. RFK must go.
I shot this video at a history of polio museum in Joburg, South Africa
This is how dreadful things were before mass vaccination made this disease disappear
If quacks like RFK Jr had their way, we could see the return of polio!!
This is how dreadful things were before mass vaccination made this disease disappear
If quacks like RFK Jr had their way, we could see the return of polio!!
September 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Chills seeing this. We are committing national suicide.
So, the @nytimes.com decided that the Mayor’s campaign trying to bribe reporters was not newsworthy. Uh, OK. Good thing @thecity.nyc was on it. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/n...
Red Envelopes With Cash Are Changing Hands at Adams Campaign Rallies
www.nytimes.com
August 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
So, the @nytimes.com decided that the Mayor’s campaign trying to bribe reporters was not newsworthy. Uh, OK. Good thing @thecity.nyc was on it. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/n...
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After decades of Northern congressmen sitting back & shutting up when Southernors bullied them into silence, in the mid 1850s, a new kind of northern man was elected to Congress
They fought back
They advertised it
& they were wildly popular
Ironically, this was the birth of the Republican Party
They fought back
They advertised it
& they were wildly popular
Ironically, this was the birth of the Republican Party
August 18, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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The Democratic Party is not its leadership. It is its voters. And its voters overwhelmingly endorsed @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.
Q: I don't understand what the holdup is on endorsing Zohran Mandani in the mayor's race. Could you explain?
HAKEEM JEFFRIES: Yeah. So, I didn't know Zohran at all ...
HAKEEM JEFFRIES: Yeah. So, I didn't know Zohran at all ...
August 16, 2025 at 11:28 AM
The Democratic Party is not its leadership. It is its voters. And its voters overwhelmingly endorsed @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.
He has turned the most powerful nation in the history of the world into a client state.
August 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
He has turned the most powerful nation in the history of the world into a client state.
“The majority of antisemitic violence in this country comes from the far right, not from student activists or faculty critics of Israeli policy. Fighting it requires building broad, multiracial coalitions against hate, not turning a tool of censorship into state law.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/o...
Opinion | California Democrats Are Fighting Trump’s Battle for Him
www.nytimes.com
August 15, 2025 at 11:46 AM
“The majority of antisemitic violence in this country comes from the far right, not from student activists or faculty critics of Israeli policy. Fighting it requires building broad, multiracial coalitions against hate, not turning a tool of censorship into state law.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/o...
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social sees the big picture: www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Chris Murphy goes all in on funding bill boycott as Dems seek bipartisanship
The politically ambitious Connecticut Democrat is walking away from bipartisan government funding negotiations as his party clamors for a seat at the table.
www.politico.com
August 13, 2025 at 11:26 PM
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social sees the big picture: www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
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As an historian, I think it's bad when "blood libel" goes from denoting a very specific part of anti-Jewish history rooted in particular forms of medieval Christian anti-Judaism, to just meaning any criticism of Israel. A whole generation won't understand just how bad the actual blood libel was!
At 38 minutes, Jonathan Greenblatt says, "it's like a blood libel every single day on the pages of the [New York] Times." www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkN6...
August 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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So, not to put too fine a point on it, but 3 of the 4 mayoral candidates in a strongly Democratic city are aligned to some degree with Trump. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
August 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
So, not to put too fine a point on it, but 3 of the 4 mayoral candidates in a strongly Democratic city are aligned to some degree with Trump. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
As always, Trump is at war with the truth. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Trump fires BLS commissioner after weak jobs report
The president implied that the BLS commissioner, longtime federal employee Erika McEntarfer, manipulated the data "for political purposes."
www.nbcnews.com
August 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
As always, Trump is at war with the truth. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Biden’s strong economy has mostly held up despite the tariffs, but eventually gravity will reassert itself.
August 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Biden’s strong economy has mostly held up despite the tariffs, but eventually gravity will reassert itself.
If I’m counting correctly, that’s every D or I from New England except @blumenthal.senate.gov. Do better, Senator Blumenthal.
More than half of the Senate Democratic caucus voted for a resolution to block arms sales to Israel. Things really are changing.
July 31, 2025 at 2:27 AM
If I’m counting correctly, that’s every D or I from New England except @blumenthal.senate.gov. Do better, Senator Blumenthal.
We need new leadership in both Houses.
When Hakeem Jeffries became the leader in House, I told the @financialtimes.com, “It really remains to be seen whether Jeffries is capable of leading a coalition that includes a rising progressive wing of the party."
He has had two years to prove that he wants the left in the party. He's failed.
He has had two years to prove that he wants the left in the party. He's failed.
July 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM
We need new leadership in both Houses.
Worth the long read: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
www.nytimes.com
July 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Worth the long read: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
Guy’s got game!
Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.
July 8, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Guy’s got game!
“At the end of the day, he really is just the Governor of Greenwich and Associated Lands.” — @rolandlemar.bsky.social (D-New Haven) www.newhavenindependent.org/article/veto...
Veto Prompts Intra-Party Fury
One sentence. Seventeen words.That's all Roland Lemar needed to express his outrage at Gov. Ned Lamont. …
www.newhavenindependent.org
July 2, 2025 at 10:38 PM
“At the end of the day, he really is just the Governor of Greenwich and Associated Lands.” — @rolandlemar.bsky.social (D-New Haven) www.newhavenindependent.org/article/veto...
What an embarrassment. www.forbes.com/sites/adammi...
Texas Delivers On Housing Reforms, Connecticut Stumbles
Texas just passed several laws that will make it easier to build housing in the Lonestar state. In Connecticut, a similar bundle of reforms was vetoed by the governor.
www.forbes.com
July 2, 2025 at 1:52 PM
What an embarrassment. www.forbes.com/sites/adammi...
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social gets it.
“I know that this feels like a shock to a folks but it doesn’t seem like rocket science. He’s focused on reordering economic power, he’s dynamic, and he’s a new voice. Check, check, check,” Sen. Chris Murphy said of Mamdani.
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https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/25/politics/zohran-mamdani-reaction-national-democrats
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July 1, 2025 at 1:18 AM
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social gets it.
Couldn’t be clearer: “I was very frank with him,” Hawthorne said in an interview Tuesday. “The state elected Democrats, and Democrats put two bills on his desk that would have made a difference to working people. And he sided with Republicans.” ctmirror.org/2025/06/24/l...
After vetoes on housing and labor, Lamont tries to make amends
Gov. Ned Lamont has turned to repairing relationships frayed by his vetoes of priorities of Democrats and party legislative leaders.
ctmirror.org
June 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Couldn’t be clearer: “I was very frank with him,” Hawthorne said in an interview Tuesday. “The state elected Democrats, and Democrats put two bills on his desk that would have made a difference to working people. And he sided with Republicans.” ctmirror.org/2025/06/24/l...
Governor Lamont can’t possibly believe this. If most towns were “taking the lead,” we wouldn’t need HB5002.
“My biggest concern is I want this led by the towns," Lamont said. "Most of the towns are doing the right thing and taking the lead."
www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/...
“My biggest concern is I want this led by the towns," Lamont said. "Most of the towns are doing the right thing and taking the lead."
www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/...
Back from trip, Gov. Ned Lamont 'skeptical' about CT housing bill as he weighs options
Both sides have flooded the governor's office with input as Lamont has wavered on the proposal.
www.ctinsider.com
June 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Governor Lamont can’t possibly believe this. If most towns were “taking the lead,” we wouldn’t need HB5002.
“My biggest concern is I want this led by the towns," Lamont said. "Most of the towns are doing the right thing and taking the lead."
www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/...
“My biggest concern is I want this led by the towns," Lamont said. "Most of the towns are doing the right thing and taking the lead."
www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/...
Folks, this is important. Please contact Governor Lamont and urge him to sign HB5002!
Ways to contact the governor to support HB5002!
1. Call his office! 860-566-4840 - This took 1 minute and 47 seconds for me earlier today
2. Email directly governor.lamont@ct.gov
3. Online form (below)
As always, be polite but direct with your support for the bill + ask him to sign the bill asap
1. Call his office! 860-566-4840 - This took 1 minute and 47 seconds for me earlier today
2. Email directly governor.lamont@ct.gov
3. Online form (below)
As always, be polite but direct with your support for the bill + ask him to sign the bill asap
CT Friends! Can you take 3 minutes of you evening to send our governor a note telling him to sign 5002, that you support ending the housing crisis and this bill will make progress? (Bonus points for plugging parking reform)
Help combat the NIMBYs if you can
portal.ct.gov/governor/con...
Help combat the NIMBYs if you can
portal.ct.gov/governor/con...
June 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Folks, this is important. Please contact Governor Lamont and urge him to sign HB5002!
The short-sightedness of turning away young, intelligent, ambitious people who want to study in America is breathtaking. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
Opinion | The U.S. Deported This Chinese Scientist, in a Decision That Changed World History
www.nytimes.com
May 31, 2025 at 11:12 AM
The short-sightedness of turning away young, intelligent, ambitious people who want to study in America is breathtaking. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...