Absolutely need more trains. It continues to frustrate me that so many capital investments are made and then when it comes to meeting operating needs, "no money left"

Next thing it needs are more frequent trains to Hartford and New London. Then proper terminal has proper rail service. #shorelineeast

Muting Will Stancil has made my feed so much more bearable.

Good news from Pittsburgh!

Depressing thoughts here.

Amen!

Enjoying emergent Spring

How many days until Pete Hegseth gets fired for making the little tyrant look bad?

Tom Epton (@tom_epton_) on Threads If Hitler were alive today JD Vance would go and visit Germany and make a speech about what a great job he’s doing.

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What is truly wearying is that 25-30 percent of our fellow citizens, braced with the attention span of sedated goldfish, are going to listen to today's soundbites from Trump and Hegseth about this astonishing debacle in Iran and say, "Welp, we won that war."

Simply because they say so.

A great human.

This is why I try to protect words for when they are needed to convey the immediacy and threat they represent.

What Trump is threatening in Iran is *genocide*, pure and simple.

Of course, that word doesn't land the way it used to.

Beautiful spring day here in New England. I went for a lovely walk. In DC the Winds of War are blowing because no one who can act is standing up to the addled madman. If he acts, millions of Iranians will die & our world will be changed for the worse. Cuban Missile Crisis looks like a cakewalk.

April 6, 2026 (Monday) “It’s really difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is,” journalist Aaron Rupar of Public Notice told George Grylls of The Times about President Donald J.

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“Today was an exhausting day as Americans seem to have little choice but to pay attention to a man who is bizarrely threatening what appear to be war crimes against Iranians while spinning wild tales.”

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15 Ways the Trump Administration is harming U.S. farmers and threatening food security While using MAHA as a moral alibi

MAHA is another Trump scam and it continues to be borne out in how the Trump administration is damaging our food supply system. Robyn O'Brien gives focus to the damage to Organic & Regenerative Farming, two critical ways we can make our people & planet more healthy. open.substack.com/pub/robynobr...

Pathological

Agree

The End of Immigration Americans despise ICE, but it’s “succeeding” nonetheless

The End of Immigration open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug... "they are managing to scare away millions of people who wanted to live and work in the United States, contributing to our society. And this “success” will leave us poorer and weaker."

No surprises at all.

Donald Trump, Petropresident Follow the Gulf oil money

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“Again, it’s a mistake to look for monocausal explanations of this debacle. But if you want to understand Operation Epic FUBAR, don’t forget to follow the oil money.”

How many minutes before the negatives roll in? BTW, yesterday, 80% of Texas’ electricity was created by wind and solar.

If a legislative committee sets time limits on a hearing, it is a time limit. No citizen’s 1A rights are being taken. The CT Senate Minority Leader needs to take a civics class.

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Congratulations to the CT Legislature for putting time limits on the length of public hearings. Hearings that go into the wee hours of the morning are simply not productive. Kudos to Cristin McCarthy Vahey and Senator Saud Anwar for making the process saner. Stand tall and know many support you.

Spare us the performative nonsense. Twelve plus hours devoted to a public hearing is plenty of time, especially since nothing new was said. Let the Legislature legislate!

Is anyone else following the Public Health Committee hearing on vaccine requirements?

Ditto