Mary Donegan
@drdonegan.bsky.social
Planning/policy research and teaching. All the yarn things, always tired, interested in making places better. Parent to kids in too many activities. She/her in nutmeggerland by way of NH MA & NC. Not my employer's views.
“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-...
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.
Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 7mo agoThis 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 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
Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · 7mo ago(3) But the Democrat view is also bad: while it's fine for people at Princeton and Harvard to study Latin and Sanskrit, public higher education is about job training and $ ROI. There is no room for the idea that curiosity-driven inquiry is a good that should be supported by the public.
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.
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.
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.
Rep Jahana Hayes@repjahanahayes.bsky.social · 10mo agoCT SNAP recipients should check their accounts as benefits are being loaded onto cards.
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
Elisabeth R. Anker@libankerdc.bsky.social · 11mo agoHumanities where the cool jobs at
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.
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.
Mary Donegan@drdonegan.bsky.social · last yr.I need a lot less focus on "illegals" and a lot more focus on invasives.
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. 🫠
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...
Choosing 2025 as the moment to change your registration from Democrat to Republican says a lot about some West Hartford folks.
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.
Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · last yr.ICE got turned away in Carpinteria. ✊🏽
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...
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.
Waiting for the fare hikes for the money losing highways.
Connecticut Public@ctpublic.bsky.social · last yr.The state Department of Transportation is proposing a fare hike for Metro-North services in Connecticut, as well as CTrail’s Hartford Line and Shore Line East. Under the proposal, fares would increase by 5% in September of this year and another 5% next July. www.ctpublic.org/news/2025-06...
#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
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.
mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · last yr.Andrew Cuomo was the US Secretary of Housing and is now running for mayor, where one of the largest agencies they manage is NYC's Housing Authority. And yet Cuomo literally had ChatGPT write his campaign housing policy. This is who the media and establishment want you to think is "serious"
The "I used AI for brainstorming and research but not for writing so it's not cheating" argument is painfully familiar.
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · last yr.Ruiz: Why did the report include citations that don’t exist? RFK JR: All of the foundational assertions in that report are accurate Ruiz: How can they be accurate if they did not exist?
Reading summer course paper proposals and feeling old: "In recent years, many old residential areas in [CITY], built in the 1990s or earlier.... "
When Connecticut loses a congressional seat in 2030 I would like everyone to call it the "Lamont Loss."
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.
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.
ctmirror.org
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.
The following Hartford Public Library @hplct.bsky.social branches will act as cooling centers during this week's heat wave:
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.
