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The Working Families Party forgot to take this down. I pledge to vote for Michael DiMassa for State Representative in the Democratic primary on Tuesday, August 9th because I believe we can build a Connecticut that works for all of us, not just the wealthy and well-connected. All of us. The wife of a former Connecticut…

What initially started as a gun control debate spiraled into small-town politics, an inept police force, cover-ups, traumatized families, and a search for answers. That’s not new. Something like it happened in Parkland, but the granular details were often overlooked because that school shooting had taken on such a key political role for the gun-control…

Every now and then the media rolls out another hit piece on J.K. Rowling for the unfathomable crime of objecting to the erasure of women. The latest hit piece comes out of Politico, which decided to take a break from breathlessly reporting on J6 and stories planted by the Biden administration to go after the…

You can’t spell California without “can”, but it’s running out of cans because scrap recycling is no basis for a first-world manufacturing program. Cans are in short supply nationally, creating an unforeseen headache for brewers and driving up prices for drinkers. A variety of factors are driving the shortage, including pandemic lockdowns that curtailed manufacturing,…

Republicans in 2020 attacked Biden over his age. Now Democrats are doing it, insisting that he shouldn’t run because he’s “too old”. (Why Biden and not Pelosi and Clyburn to name a few in the House Dem leadership alone?) I’ve had as much fun cracking senility jokes as anyone else, but tracking Biden’s career, he…

The DOJ is supposed to be apolitical. Even when it’s really political. What the DOJ is not supposed to do is go on a rant about a Supreme Court decision like it’s run by MSNBC. Unfortunately, that political norm is out the window to the cheers of the “political norms” and “attack on democracy” commentariat…