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Gary Winfield

@iamgarywinfield.bsky.social

State Senator CT-10, Activist, Public Speaker(http://senatedems.ct.gov/winfield)

389 Followers  |  349 Following  |  51 Posts  |  Joined: 13.11.2024  |  1.8865

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This coming session has me making songs like breathing. It’s the escape that let’s me think. This one is ‘Daydreamin’ (Make It Come True)’#writtenbyme #sungbyai #fyp #music #daydreamin TikTok video by Gary Winfield152
09.11.2025 12:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Writing these songs is letting me stop focusing on the other stuff I’m working on and the space is allowing me to do a better job when I return to those things. Here’s the latest ‘Anniversary’ a song ... TikTok video by Gary Winfield152
08.11.2025 21:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Will Lamont replace all vanishing CT SNAP benefits? He won't say The Connecticut General Assembly could give the governor a lot of flexibility in deciding when to release funds for SNAP and how much.
04.11.2025 22:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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When I hear songs I also hear responses in my head. @Kehlani has Out the Indow that I automatically imagined a response to and with AI I can take the lyrics and have them sung. Here is that version. #... TikTok video by Gary Winfield152

Songs rattling around in my head. AI lets me get them out

26.10.2025 23:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Newark’s Mayor Arrested at Protest Outside ICE Detention Center

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/n...

09.05.2025 22:03 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Push back.

10.04.2025 11:36 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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As the Judiciary Committee worked to pass the updated Trust Action Act responded to contentions by the Republicans that the work is UnAmerican, in support of criminals, and against the law itself #Imm... TikTok video by Gary Winfield152

The issue of immigration was at play in the debate on the Trust Act today. This is my response to the Republican framing of our work as unAmerican, pro crime and illegal

08.04.2025 20:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mass layoffs are underway at the nation's public health agencies Employees across the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have begun receiving notices of dismissal in a major overhaul expected to ultimately lay off up to 10,000 people.

apnews.com/article/heal... layoffs are underway at the nation's public health agencies

02.04.2025 00:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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An ‘administrative error’ sent a Maryland man to an El Salvador prison, ICE says President Donald Trump's administration has acknowledged mistakenly deporting a Maryland man with protected legal status to a notorious El Salvador prison.

apnews.com/article/el-s... ‘administrative error’ sent a Maryland man to an El Salvador prison, ICE says

01.04.2025 22:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
Senator Cory Booker (@senbooker) is LIVE - TikTok LIVE Speaking on Trump, Musk, and Ame | Watch Senator Cory Booker (@senbooker)'s LIVE on TikTok and interact with others in real time.
01.04.2025 21:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Political Science Support the Southern community on our Day of Caring

Last year I used my network to help students at Southern Connecticut State University afford to participate in political science internships. We have another shot at it. Please do what you can to help these young people.

01.04.2025 16:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Chuck Schumer is going to do what?!

14.03.2025 01:07 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Bridgeport, CT is already facing a massive fiscal cliff and needs the state or the city to find $23 million to just flat fund the budget. Add in that the 20% of their budget (about $60 million) that comes from the feds is also threatened?

I don't know how they will keep the schools open.

12.03.2025 00:27 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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Today in the GAE while discussing SJ 35 one my colleagues made statements that ingnore history and the knowledge we have developed in discussions over the years. Words have power and I could not let t... TikTok video by Gary Winfield152

Standing up to the nonsense in GAE today

28.02.2025 23:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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State Senate is taking up the legislation passed by the House last evening.

25.02.2025 18:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Acting archivist, inspector general for National Archives forced out The agency, regarded as nonpolitical, has been the target of President Donald Trump’s ire since its attempts recover documents from Mar-a-Lago.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

17.02.2025 00:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The controversy over Lift Every Voice and Sing is nonsense #Super Bowl #BlackNationalAnthem #History #BlackHistoryMonth TikTok video by Gary Winfield152

The controversy over the Black National Anthem is nonsense

10.02.2025 00:24 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Imagine being so upset about Lift Every Voice and Sing being coined the Negro (Black) National Anthem and stating as much publicly showing you know nothing about the things you puport to care about.

09.02.2025 23:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The governor delivers his budget speech tomorrow. What he says and what the legislature says in response is critical to the future of CT. #Connecticut #Budget #WorkingClass #MiddleClass #OurFuture #Le... TikTok video by Gary Winfield152

The CT budget drops tomorrow. Time to tune in folks.

04.02.2025 17:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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History matters and affects everything we do. Ignorance is dangerous.#History #BlackHistoryMonth #America #DEI #Connecticut #Slavery #Education TikTok video by Gary Winfield152

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8YLUxpo/

01.02.2025 18:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Helping the candidate for State Senate in Stratford

01.02.2025 15:40 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

www.newhavenindependent.org/article/iris...

01.02.2025 12:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The ACLU of CT collaborated with advocates and challenged elected leaders today at the Fair Haven Community Health Center at a roundtable talk with IRIS CT, Sen. Gary Winfield, Rep. Rosa DeLauro, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz, and Commissioner Andrea Barton Reeves.

31.01.2025 23:34 — 👍 23    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

Train wreck of a press conference by the president

30.01.2025 16:41 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

People are dead and he is on this diversity bs of his?!

30.01.2025 16:30 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Administration Defends Federal Grants Freeze as Lawsuit Takes Shape: Live Updates

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

28.01.2025 20:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Judge Blocks Trump’s Plan to End Birthright Citizenship A federal judge in Seattle has issued a temporary order halting the president’s plan.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/u...

23.01.2025 19:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It is not nasty or hateful to ask any of us to remember the impact we have on others. It is not nasty or hateful to remind those of us with political power to remember that mercy matters. The Christian nationalists who are troubled by the message to the president have lost the message of their Jesus

23.01.2025 10:17 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Still think folks are overreacting?

23.01.2025 00:28 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And how do those better days arrive? By magic? wishful thinking? it is worse than an oversimplification. It is, along with much else that is said by folks with a following the fomenting of inaction among their followers. it is wrapping ourselves in a blanket of 'it's ok...it will be alright'.

21.01.2025 14:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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