Elon Musk is govt-funded.
USAID spent $3 million on Elon’s Starlink terminals. And the federal govt gave him $5 billion in Tesla subsidies.
In total, Elon’s companies receive over $15 billion in government contracts.
Elon Musk: government welfare queen.
www.thebulwark.com/p/elon-musk-...
Roger Senserrich explains why Governor Lamont's budget, despite a few good ideas, falls short and does not respond at all to the fiscal disaster President Musk and the GOP are about to create: ctexaminer.com/2025/02/12/n...
A day one promise to bring down the price of eggs and groceries goes unfilled.
If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall.
tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.
I just attended my first @ctwfp.bsky.social meeting. If you're interested in attending a Legislative Testimony Workshop, they are offering two this month: www.mobilize.us/ct-wfp/event.... They will guide us through how to write a powerful story. Thank you, Jackie and Eimy!
Hmm, wonder why CT housing costs keep going up and what we could do about it.
Your daily reminder than by "DEI" they mean "we blame black and brown people".
Yet another completely unconstitutional executive order from the Trump administration, this time regarding transportation funds.
We cannot sue them often enough. ctmirror.org/2025/01/30/t...
"Why do high-cost cities have more homelessness? It’s not just about rents — it’s also about the rooms friends and family can’t afford to share." worksinprogress.co/issue/why-ho...
Connecticut policy makes have the legal and moral authority to resist Trump's deportation campaign. Our column: ctexaminer.com/2025/01/29/c...
i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there
Good news!
(Nerd corner: the added stops will make travel times longer with these slow diesel locomotives. Electrification should be seriously considered).
Senator Osten sounds like she wants to make some changes to the fiscal guardrails.
And this is a good thing! Right now, they are too restrictive and forcing program cuts, even when we have a surplus.
Look, we are not air traffic experts, but I can guarantee that being nice to women and brown people had NOTHING to do with this tragedy.
Appointing a MTV reality star to head the Transportation Department won't help fix this either.
Karoline Leavitt @PressSec This is NOT a rescission of the federal funding freeze. It is simply a rescission of the OMB memo. Why? To end any confusion created by the court's injunction. The President's EO's on federal funding remain in full force and effect, and will be rigorously implemented.
WH Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt just clarified on X that the rescission of the OMB memo was simply to get the federal court case to go away, not lifting the funding freeze on anything that goes against Trump's EOs
translation: "please stop yelling at me for the thing i want to keep doing"
Connecticut policy makes have the legal and moral authority to resist Trump's deportation campaign. Our column: ctexaminer.com/2025/01/29/c...
This is only of many. The Trump budget freeze is ilegal, against the constitution, and would hurt hundreds of thousands of families across the state.
This is a full assault on Connecticut families-- an unprecedented and blatantly lawless and unconstitutional attack on every corner and level of our government and economy. Attorneys general across the country are preparing imminent legal action to protect our states.
Yes. More on this. Trump has decided that he is the sole decider, and will block and deny funding at whim. The order is lawless, and needs to be challenged.
This Executive order is blatantly against our values and the plain text of the constitution. Good to see CT join this lawsuit. AG
@agwilliamtong.bsky.social doing the right thing.
ctmirror.org/2025/01/21/c...
(Taps)
Is this thing on? They said this place was nice.
(/Exits stage)