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Justin Etheridge

@justinetheridge.bsky.social

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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! 🏳️‍🌈

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Justin Etheridge @justinetheridge.bsky.social · Jan 23

Government is the art of overcoming obstruction to good ideas because they cost someone money.

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Justin Etheridge @justinetheridge.bsky.social · 3d

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 — “whatever, whatever” — so she’s able to have lots of sex if she wants. It reminded me of Elaine yada-yada’ing sex on Seinfeld.

Justin Etheridge @justinetheridge.bsky.social · 7d

Did you just “whatever, whatever” being hot?

Justin Etheridge @justinetheridge.bsky.social · 3d

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.

Justin Etheridge @justinetheridge.bsky.social · 5d

My closet really reminds me of ex-boyfriends.

Justin Etheridge @justinetheridge.bsky.social · 7d

Did you just “whatever, whatever” being hot?

Justin Etheridge @justinetheridge.bsky.social · 9d

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

A round wooden table with an open laptop and three books—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.

Justin Etheridge @justinetheridge.bsky.social · 12d

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

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Justin Etheridge @justinetheridge.bsky.social · 14d

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

Justin Etheridge @justinetheridge.bsky.social · 16d

Loving queer people changes the people who love them.

Justin Etheridge @justinetheridge.bsky.social · 18d

Idk why this is speaking to me so much right now, but it is.

Justin Etheridge @justinetheridge.bsky.social · 19d

Ironic being a criminal justice system researcher and an abolitionist.

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Justin Etheridge @justinetheridge.bsky.social · 20d

“Babe” is my favorite word.

Justin Etheridge @justinetheridge.bsky.social · 20d

I don’t want that twink’s problems.

Justin Etheridge @justinetheridge.bsky.social · 20d

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

Justin Etheridge @justinetheridge.bsky.social · 20d

Raising consciousness, raising voices in New Haven, CT @ Spruce Coffee. ☕️ 🌲

Justin Etheridge @justinetheridge.bsky.social · 22d

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 run—that’s the spirit of democratic access

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Justin Etheridge @justinetheridge.bsky.social · 24d

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.

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Mark Anthony Frassetto @mark-frassetto.bsky.social · 25d

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.

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 25d

Ezra’s claim here runs into the challenging fact that abortion rights are more popular than Democrats in red states

Klein: And the stakes of politics are almost always incredibly high. I think they happen to be higher now. And I do think a lot of what is happening in terms of the structure of the system itself is dangerous. I think that the hour is late in many ways. My view is that a lot of people who embrace alarm don't embrace what I think obviously follows from that alarm, which is the willingness to make strategic and political decisions you find personally discomfiting, even though they are obviously more likely to help you win.
Taking political positions that'll make it more likely to win Senate seats in Kansas and Ohio and Missouri. Trying to open your coalition to people you didn't want it open to before. Running pro-life Democrats.

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Justin Etheridge @justinetheridge.bsky.social · 25d

Let your hole heal, babe.

Justin Etheridge @justinetheridge.bsky.social · 26d

Thank you for bringing music into my life again.

Justin Etheridge @justinetheridge.bsky.social · 26d

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.

Justin Etheridge @justinetheridge.bsky.social · 26d

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

Justin Etheridge @justinetheridge.bsky.social · 26d

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

Justin Etheridge @justinetheridge.bsky.social · 26d

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

Justin Etheridge @justinetheridge.bsky.social · 26d

Good to be me.

Justin Etheridge @justinetheridge.bsky.social · 26d

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