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Josh Michtom

@rsgat.bsky.social

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Dad, husband, lawyer for marginalized kids, former veteran public defender, Hartford City Councilman (one of six WFP-only electeds nationwide!), musician, artist, professor; opinions my own; "CT Dems aren't socialist enough for this clown."

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Josh Michtom @rsgat.bsky.social · 3d

Don't talk to cops. I wrote a song about it. Wanna hear it? Here it goes:

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Josh Michtom @rsgat.bsky.social · 20m

I still fight myself to not say "I was taping it."

Josh Michtom @rsgat.bsky.social · 42m

Is this about the way that I assume certain people are Mets fans like me?

Josh Michtom @rsgat.bsky.social · 1h

Me, looking up cost of getting a copy of a Jamaican birth certificate: Damn! 1500 dollars?!
Me, googling conversion rate: Oh. Actually nine dollars.
Me, scrolling down to find the cost for requests from the US: Damn! 85 dollars?!

Josh Michtom @rsgat.bsky.social · 1h

Someone said to me yesterday that it is inapposite for legal aid attorneys to be Yankees fans, and that was exactly right.

Josh Michtom @rsgat.bsky.social · 11h

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Josh Michtom @rsgat.bsky.social · 19h

Cool that they put a protected bike lane in the middle of Route 8. Didn't see anyone riding it, but I'm sure it will catch on.

Picture from inside a vehicle on a highway, showing a space between north- and southbound traffic that is walled off by jersey barriers, probably for some construction.

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Josh Michtom @rsgat.bsky.social · 19h

wasn't actually familiar with the term, looked it up, saw that it meant "sneakers," and ran with that. But maybe I just randomly misunderstood this bit of slang every time? I don't know, man.

Josh Michtom @rsgat.bsky.social · 19h

I used this word in my youth and this is how I understand it. Google backs me up: mostly sneakers, but broadly shoes. So in "that chick that's wearing kicks," it seems like the alternative would not be "shoes," but going barefoot. All of which makes it seem like Cyrus, or whoever wrote this song,

Josh Michtom @rsgat.bsky.social · 19h

I gather that her intention here is to use "kicks" to mean "sneakers," to emphasize that she is at a club where most people are wearing more formal shoes. But my understanding of "kicks" is that it *principally* means "sneakers," but can be more broadly used to refer to any shoes...

Josh Michtom @rsgat.bsky.social · 19h

Here's the issue I have with the lyrics of "Party in the USA": at one point, seeking to emphasize her humble origins and the way she stands out in New York's high-fashion world, Cyrus says that people look at her and ask, "Who's that chick that's rocking kicks?"...

Josh Michtom @rsgat.bsky.social · 21h

Imagine if Jim Caviezel had planned shoot a live movie of the rapture but then it turned out the date was predicted wrong because of a scholarly mistranslation of Aramaic grammar:

Scripture Structure Strictures Rupture Actor's Rapture Capture

Josh Michtom @rsgat.bsky.social · 22h

That's a whole different building.

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Josh Michtom @rsgat.bsky.social · 22h

Juvenile

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Josh Michtom @rsgat.bsky.social · 23h

This is so real. I handle cases in Hartford, where I live and where my office is, and in Bridgeport, 60 miles away, mostly without a car, because I can get from home to the train station in ten minutes and get to clients' houses all over both cities on my folding bike.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

i recently got a great deal on a barely used folding ebike and i have to say it has revolutionized my train travel. i can get from my front door to the amtrak station in a little less than 5 minutes!!!

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Josh Michtom @rsgat.bsky.social · 23h

Flock Jocks Cock-Blocked

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Josh Michtom @rsgat.bsky.social · 23h

I don't think the revelations about Flock's complicity in illegal police surveillance will harm the company, but if the world were just and this led to a proper scandal, which then led to infighting and erratic behavior by Flock executives, we could get the headline WACKY FLOCK AFLAME.

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 1d

To put it another way, I have represented thousands of people. I cannot think of a single instance in which the initial police report was entirely correct. Not one.

Journalists, please stop copying them down as if they were. Or at least give context re credibility!

Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 1d

Whether you're a casual news reader or a breaking news reporter at the NYTimes, I implore you--please, please, please--do not believe or report DHS/ICE/CBP's side of events uncritically. End the state's monopoly on legitimate storytelling. They are not the objective arbiter of what really happened.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Josh Michtom @rsgat.bsky.social · 23h

Extremely opposite from my exercise thinking: on long bike rides, I am usually arranging music in my head, following my route by muscle memory, and being periodically surprised when I notice where I am.

Josh Michtom @rsgat.bsky.social · 1d

Treyf is trife, is what you're saying.

Josh Michtom @rsgat.bsky.social · 1d

...Except for Argentina. It's worth it to keep Argentinians from migrating to the US."

Trump set to bail out Argentina, irking some in ‘America First’ camp

The Trump administration is set to provide a $20 billion financial lifeline to Argentina, a move that has sparked controversy among some of his supporters.

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Josh Michtom @rsgat.bsky.social · 1d

If the goal is to keep people from immigrating to the US, the sensible solution would be to improve material and political conditions in the countries from which people are migrating. "But that will cost too much. Better to spend $30 billion to hire 10,000 deportation cops...

ICE airs ads stirring up local frustration to recruit police for mass deportation efforts

An Associated Press tally shows U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is spending millions of dollars on TV recruitment ads targeting officers frustrated by local restrictions on immigration enforc...

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Josh Michtom @rsgat.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like I really synthesized some disparate threads to pull this joke together, but you uncultured yokels mostly missed it, and I'm disappointed in you. It's alluding to this:

Josh Michtom @rsgat.bsky.social · 1d

My timeline, FTW

Josh Michtom @rsgat.bsky.social · 1d

Making calls to figure out why DCF didn't inform me that my child client was assaulted in a foster home and then moved to a different foster home, I find out, in passing, that in the 33 days my client was in care before being moved, they failed to get her enrolled in school.

Josh Michtom @rsgat.bsky.social · 1d

"We can't verify that you own the account you're transferring to." Man, what do you care if I own it? Maybe I want to transfer money to my dealer, OK? JUST BE A BANK AND LET ME HANDLE MY BUSINESS, PLEASE.