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Justin Etheridge

@justinetheridge.bsky.social

Working in and around government my whole life: #EndGunViolence advocate, CJ researcher, public policy specialist. I carry Connecticut in my heart. Warren Democrat. 2 cents! πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

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Let’s generate some revenue, gentlefolk!

31.10.2025 23:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Context for this is I was talking to a femme queer friend about how men treat her, and she said they’re always so kind, attentive, interested β€” β€œwhatever, whatever” β€” so she’s able to have lots of sex if she wants. It reminded me of Elaine yada-yada’ing sex on Seinfeld.

12.10.2025 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There are a lot of queer people on the planet, and there are more every day, which is something people need to start realizing and understanding.

12.10.2025 14:14 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My closet really reminds me of ex-boyfriends.

10.10.2025 19:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Did you just β€œwhatever, whatever” being hot?

08.10.2025 22:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
A round wooden table with an open laptop and three booksβ€”Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (two volumes) and Looking for a Few Good Moms by Donna Dees-Thomases. A Progress Pride flag stands in an open bottle of Saratoga water next to an unopened bottle of Empress Indigo Gin, a salt canister, a pepper shaker, and assorted domestic objects. A cluttered workspace is visible in the background.

A round wooden table with an open laptop and three booksβ€”Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (two volumes) and Looking for a Few Good Moms by Donna Dees-Thomases. A Progress Pride flag stands in an open bottle of Saratoga water next to an unopened bottle of Empress Indigo Gin, a salt canister, a pepper shaker, and assorted domestic objects. A cluttered workspace is visible in the background.

My table earlier tonight. Headed to bed now, but I love nights when the good things in life have me feeling inspired.

06.10.2025 04:31 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Reading Allen Ginsberg in a park two blocks from the White House this morning. They can never kill our revolution.

03.10.2025 12:51 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Connecticut needs more progressive revenue streams to fund our social service infrastructure β€” which includes, among other things, paying social service workers more so that they can afford housing, healthcare, higher education, and childcare in their communities.

01.10.2025 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Loving queer people changes the people who love them.

29.09.2025 01:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Idk why this is speaking to me so much right now, but it is.

27.09.2025 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Ironic being a criminal justice system researcher and an abolitionist.

26.09.2025 13:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œBabe” is my favorite word.

25.09.2025 18:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t want that twink’s problems.

25.09.2025 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Getting excited about a new video game with a cute boy? Dreams do come true, just not always in the way you’d expect.

25.09.2025 16:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Raising consciousness, raising voices in New Haven, CT @ Spruce Coffee. β˜•οΈ 🌲

25.09.2025 00:00 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Josh Elliott is doing the damn thing here in Connecticut. Might have to get behind him & send in a donation to help him qualify for the Citizens' Election Program. A candidate fighting for progressive taxation and public investment earning public funding to runβ€”that’s the spirit of democratic access

23.09.2025 19:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My third or fourth failed attempt at a relationship collapsed this weekend, and the photo memories on my phone are still of my ex-boyfriend. Yay for me. We keep going.

21.09.2025 15:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I always think about Heidi Heitkamp and Mark Pryor voting no and Joe Manchin and John Tester voting yes on the 2013 Background check bill. Being "moderate" didn't help Pryor and Heitkamp, they immediately got smoked, while Tester and Manchin stayed in office another decade.

20.09.2025 19:46 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Let your hole heal, babe.

20.09.2025 05:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you for bringing music into my life again.

19.09.2025 20:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

People will really have opinions on professional athletes’ compensation and not care that the healthcare workers’ unions caring for the sick, elderly, and disabled in their communities are fighting for pennies.

19.09.2025 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When will we admit to ourselves: this will keep happening until the guns are gone.

19.09.2025 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I guess I like boys who fall in love easy. That’s why they’re all takenβ€”by the men they fell for when they were 18.

19.09.2025 16:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Someone should make an art piece with dead spotted lantern flies.

19.09.2025 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Good to be me.

19.09.2025 15:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The best thing that ever happened to me is someone I never talk to.

19.09.2025 13:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Violent love, feel my embrace

18.09.2025 06:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is you is or is you ain’t my baby?

18.09.2025 02:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If only we could solve collective action problems like that when they involve preventing killings as opposed to encouraging them!

17.09.2025 13:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Most of the spotted lanternflies I see in New Haven are already deadβ€”collective action works!

17.09.2025 12:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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