Mary Donegan

I mean, I kind of hate hosting at a winery for anyone -- even if it were for more typical employees. This is unbelievably dumb but on brand for AI.

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:

“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.

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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.

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

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.

Bucky Fullers done over Manhattan

Cartoon dome over Springfield from the Simpsons movie

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.

Hey hey checking in from across town with a 13yo trumpet player in the jazz band! Your side's high school band director is known in town as the best for trumpet.

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.

Do you know what this former tarheel current husky really likes?

Any time my current students beat my former rivals.

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

Take note, Governor Lamont.

My spouse still talks about what a perfect phone that was & I'm honestly shocked we're not the only people on this earth who remember it.

I love taking trains. And at the YIMBYtown conference, when a woman from AR said I was living the dream taking the train every day, I thought yes. I am. Connecticut is a great place to live.

But it could be a bit better if the boards were right & folks didn't have to guess/go on vibes.

Being an urban planning researcher, I of course approached folks on the platform to chat. 😂 They confirmed yes, the boards do this. Yes, they just go on vibes -- "you get a feeling for when they'll be late" (FTR: you can go to the Hartford Line website and see updates and sign up for text alerts).

There are signs in Meriden telling you to listen to announcements for track assignments -- but the announcements don't list tracks, and because the north and southbound trains came at the same time the southbound never got an announcement.

Picture of CT rail app with HL service alerts

Picture of ctrail Hartford line alerts page on Twitter saying "this account is no longer active"

The trains came! On time! But you have to dig to find alerts. The app's link for service alerts leads to a dead Twitter page -- not the buried page on the Hartford Line website.

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.

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.

a close up of a man with a beard and long hair saying they are coming Alt: a close up of gandalf from lotr saying they are coming

I saw some in Bushnell Park in Hartford so yes, on their way. TOH seem to be everywhere in highway and rail right of ways.

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.

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.

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. 🫠

My kids are at camp with a family from Houston that thought they would come up north for a week to get away from the heat and he was like wtf is this nonsense.

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.

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Thrilled that this is how you chose to celebrate my birthday, good job.

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

The incompetence might be the renovation contractors about a decade ago. HVAC was installed with water collection pans -- but the sensors were installed incorrectly so they don't ever empty/alert anyone that they need emptying.

Sadly I'm not on campus enough in the summer (the only time this happens) to empty it. The office next to me has one -- and just leaving it for a week grew an extraordinary amount of mold.

Mold growth on top of book

Mold growth on side of book

Mold growth on front of book

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.

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

We just put it on the house. Eversource is allowed to take roughly forever to upgrade your transformer and then roughly forever to turn it on -- and no credit until it's on. Hopefully it gets turned on this year. 🫠