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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Mia Valentina Paz Faria
A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas
Detained for 70 days

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by
@micarosenberg
et al for ProPublica:

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Months ago at a local event a CT Dem insider stood up to say that (1) he learned more relevant skills for his job in his ivy humanities & soc sciences classes than in any other but (2) the problem with UConn is that we aren't giving students enough STEM skills. The double standard idiocy is real.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

This elitist view that only rich/Ivy/private school kids should study/have access the liberal arts is so deeply ingrained in so many highly educated Democrats’ views (including tons who majored in the lib arts themselves) that they don’t even realize they hold it, let alone how ugly & elitist it is

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

This is courage. Looking a masked, government fascist dead in the eye, face to face, knowing full well that your life is on the line. If elected officials had 1/10th of Alex Pretti's resolve, we would have far fewer troubles.

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

In the stage of life when I mention a ~20 year old movie that's tangentially related to class and no one has seen it and they all just stare blankly at me. Anyways, it was Buckminster Fuller Day! And Biosphere 2 but none of them knew that either.

Cartoon dome over Springfield from the Simpsons movie

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Also because lord knows I complain about this governor every chance I get, credit where credit is due: Thank you, Governor Lamont, for using state funds to ensure CT SNAP recipients receive their benefits this month.

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Do you know what this former tarheel current husky really likes? Any time my current students beat my former rivals.

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Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout: Humanities majors killed on the job market 1) Mamdani- Africana Studies 2) Spanberger -French 3) Sherill - Global History

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Hey @ct-ptc.bsky.social could you look into the issue that the Hartford Line stops of Berlin and Meriden remove train info at least 15-30 minutes before scheduled departure time? Pics taken at 9:24 and 7:42 aren't showing 9:40 and 7:58 departures.

Picture of rail departure board. Earliest train departure is listed as 11:35.

Picture of rail departure board. Earliest New Haven train departure listed as 9:03.

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Reupping this message after seeing about 30 spotted lantern flies on a short stretch of Chapel in New Haven today 😬 felt good to stomp on them but geesh, awful.

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Nothing helped me understand how much energy a car uses like having solar on my roof. On a good day my house generates enough for my house + a comparable house -- or my house + my car going 200 miles. 200 miles in an EV = an entire hot summer day of AC, hot water, dishwasher, dryer, etc.

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Hello to everyone else who turns into an irrational fire breathing dragon when the heat index hits 100+, I highly recommend hiding in a dark room for an hour in the afternoon to self regulate. 🫠

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Bob Duff @bobduffct.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Elections matter and public policy can make a difference. Work we did in 2020 to remove non-medical exemptions in Connecticut has made our state safer for children and hopefully a continued place of good health for all. ctnewsjunkie.com/2025/07/24/d...

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Choosing 2025 as the moment to change your registration from Democrat to Republican says a lot about some West Hartford folks.

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

This is the third year in a row that my office has grown mold (I caught it early -- trust, it would have been worse in a week). Every year, EHS comes and cleans it. And every year, university/college/state declines to do anything about the building. Because who cares about books at a university.

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

This is the real reason we need density -- and the real reason fascists hate it.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

AI is deskilling our young people to the extent that they no longer have the ability, or at least resolve, to craft their own *texts.* The widespread adoption of these technologies is actually a form of child abuse. We are systematically destroying human potential www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Weeks earlier, when I’d messaged Alex, he had said that everyone he knew used ChatGPT in some fashion, but that he used it only for organizing his notes. In person, he admitted that this wasn’t remotely accurate. “Any type of writing in life, I use A.I.,” he said. He relied on Claude for research, DeepSeek for reasoning and explanation, and Gemini for image generation. ChatGPT served more general needs. “I need A.I. to text girls,” he joked, imagining an A.I.-enhanced version of Hinge. I asked if he had used A.I. when setting up our meeting. He laughed, and then replied, “Honestly, yeah. I’m not tryin’ to type all that. Could you tell?”

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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Mike Kennedy (R-UT) talking about how his children benefited from Medicaid and he himself grew up on SNAP and is now explaining why fewer people should have access to these benefits that helped him so much. Perfect Republican.

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Waiting for the fare hikes for the money losing highways.

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Tab C @drtcombs.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

#PedBike people!!! The amazing @pedbikeinfo.bsky.social is building a national database on the monetary costs of different kinds of #pedestrian & #bicycle #infrastructure, and needs data from professionals across the US. More info & how to contribute ⤵️ #BikeSky #RoadSafety #ActiveTransport

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Cuomo using chatGPT to write housing policy & CT Gov Lamont endorsing Cuomo after vetoing housing policy (that was passed by both houses of the CT general assembly, and backed by advocates and academics) helps understand the endorsement: neither cares about affordable housing.

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

The "I used AI for brainstorming and research but not for writing so it's not cheating" argument is painfully familiar.

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Reading summer course paper proposals and feeling old: "In recent years, many old residential areas in [CITY], built in the 1990s or earlier.... "

Dorothy from the Golden Girls giving side eye.

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Urban Dispatch @urbandispatch.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

🔥 860-566-4840

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

When Connecticut loses a congressional seat in 2030 I would like everyone to call it the "Lamont Loss."

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Jillian Gilchrest @jilchrest.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

This, right here, is the problem. We need men in positions of power who will not tolerate the sexual harassment & abuse of women. Hard stop. Not men who discount the treatment of women because it doesn’t suit them politically.

ctmirror.org

It wasn't the plan, but Lamont endorsed Cuomo

Gov. Ned Lamont made an unplanned endorsement of Andrew Cuomo for mayor of New York on Monday, saying he'd rank Cuomo first on a ballot.

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Oh wait so in addition to crapping on (by veto) anyone hoping for affordable housing or looking to stand up to shareholders by striking, Lamont also endorsed a sex pest? For the love of all things that aren't sexual harassing out of touch old rich dudes, please Democrats, primary this man.

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Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

The following Hartford Public Library @hplct.bsky.social branches will act as cooling centers during this week's heat wave:

Downtown Library

500 Main Street

860-695-6300

Monday - Thursday: 9:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Fridays: 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Saturdays: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Albany Library

1250 Albany Avenue

860-695-7380

Monday - Thursday: 9:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Fridays: 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Saturdays: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Barbour Library

261 Barbour Street

860-695-7400

Monday - Thursday: 9:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Fridays: 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

(On the second and fourth Thursdays of the month, the Library will only be open from 3:00 – 6:00 p.m. to accommodate our Connecticut Foodshare distribution)

Camp Field Library

30 Campfield Avenue

860-695-7440

Monday - Thursday: 9:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Fridays: 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Dwight Library

7 New Park Avenue

860-695-7460

Monday - Thursday: 9:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Fridays: 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Park Street Library @ the Lyric

603 Park Street

860-695-7500

Monday - Thursday: 9:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Fridays: 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Saturdays: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Ropkins Library

1750 Main Street

860-695-7520

Monday - Thursday: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Really did not think I would have to join Round 3 of "don't start a pointless, unprovoked war in the middle east" protests but here we are. Every damn Republican president I've lived through, since Bush 1, has done this. We're 3 for 3 since 1988.

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Below is the High Injury Network from the West Hartford Vision Zero Action Plan. Both pedestrians killed in recent weeks were on this network. A plan is only as good as the level and pace of action (and funding) dedicated to it. The plan is a good one, IMO -- the town just isn't doing enough.

Map of West Hartford. Blue lines of the High Injury Network overlay many streets in town, including the two sites of recent deaths on South Main Street.

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

To the person wearing the taco costume & orange fascist man face mask at today's Hartford CT rally: good job and thanks, I haven't laughed at politics in a long, long time and it felt damn good.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

it's giving

a photo from dashcon with a small ball pit in a large convention ballroom

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15/06/2025

🏆 to whoever came up with and coordinated the No Kings protest at Ocean Beach, San Francisco. Don’t miss it…absolute fire.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 14/06/2025

Incredible turnout for the #NoKings protest in Los Angeles!

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 14/06/2025

This is everywhere. Every academic institution I know is held together by some exhausted woman in her early 40's who waits until the old white male professors have finished their vague rants and says, "alright, so concretely can I propose the following next steps..." She makes half their salary.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

At the end of a week with crappy news, here’s a chance to just do some pure good. The Hartford mayor and I are starting a summer basketball league for kids in the city. We need to raise about $20K more to fund it. $ link here. More info in this 🧵 secure.actblue.com/donate/csm-a...

secure.actblue.com

Please make a charitable donation to Active City

Contribute to bring a summer basketball league to Hartford

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

I hate sports bars because what do you mean all 50 TVs are showing the same 5 men's games and even in the women's bathroom we can't feature a woman (as I'm here with an entire girls hockey team).

Pictures of men on the wall of a women's bathroom

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

I need a lot less focus on "illegals" and a lot more focus on invasives.

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Remember: underfunding public higher education so that you can keep taxes on the wealthy low is regressive policy.

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Appalling how the State of Connecticut claims UConn as its flagship university but only provides 15% of the budget. What else are we supposed to do but raise tuition? I haven't seen this for UConn but this is Michigan. Anyone over the age of 50 went to college in a radically different time.

Image showing state appropriations vs tuition and fees at University of Michigan. high for appropriations was 64% in 1970. Low is 2022 at 13%. Tuition and fees now cover 75%, not 26% like they used to.

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S. Sommers @printculture.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

"I think in year one, we've provided comfort, but year two could be a challenge," Ritter had said this week. In year one UConn will lose $72M in state funding. I am so sick of people praising CT Dem leadership. In what universe does a $72M budget cut provide comfort??

ctinsider.com

UConn, CSCU brace for cuts in new Connecticut budget: 'A real disaster'

The state's new two-year, $55.8 billion budget includes funding cuts to the University of Connecticut and CSCU system.

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

On a totally unrelated note: much of today's crash out began when I stumbled across the conspiracy theory that Harriet Tubman didn't exist.

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Saw a post saying the majority of Rep pols actively hate the poor & middle class, and majority of Dem pols don't care about poor & middle class. And times like these it feels true. And it sucks that our choices are hate and indifference.

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Absolutely bananas that we're about to see wealthy Americans get massive tax cuts at the federal level, paid for by spending cuts that will hurt poor & middle class in CT, and a party that purports to represent those interests here brags about not trying to capture that revenue. Tax the rich!

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

"I wasn't taught this in school" is nails on a chalkboard. (1) You probably were but forgot, and that's ok, I've forgotten a lot too. (2) School is supposed to teach you how to gather, evaluate, and synthesize information so that you can learn what you forgot/weren't taught.

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

In one of my classes I ask students to redesign a stretch of road they've encountered that they consider dangerous -- and two students have picked this one. That a driver struck and killed a pedestrian last night is utterly, tragically, enragingly, predictable.

Picture of South Main & New Britain Ave intersection in West Hartford

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