#connecticut 2024

[1-800-fantasy]

i need to be sedated.

[de0xidearts]

i think she would be a new haven pizza enthusiast

[ralfmaximus]

Do you live in Connecticut? Do you have a lot of medical debt?

Do you make less than $59K per year?

Well, good news!

The state is partnering with a nonprofit organization that buys debt at the same discount price at which debt collectors buy it, and will be leveraging $6.5 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds to get rid of $1 billion in medical debt. Who is eligible? Residents whose income is less than 400% of the federal poverty line (so $58,320 for individuals, $124,800 for a family of four, etc.) and anyone whose medical debt is more than 5 percent of their annual income.

What a superb use of funds earmarked by Biden for COVID assistance. Every state should do this.

[tvckerwash]

you know, an interpretation of ct that I don't see that I personally really love is that she's a fuck up. like yes she's cool and she has some good fight scenes, but a huge part of her character is that she makes mistakes. the mistakes that she makes are ones that on their own aren't the end of the world, but she keeps making these little mistakes, and they eventually add up until she's out of room to make any more.

a really good example of this phenomenon in action is the actions she took leading up to her final confrontation with carolina and tex.

strike one, she thought she saw something in the water, but when asked by the leader what it was, she brushed it off as nothing when even if it had been nothing, it would've been smart to tell him what she thought she saw.

strike two, she didn't sense or notice florida's presence when the leader did, and she looks at the leader twice, once as she pulled out her magnums, and again after she did a scan of the room, almost like she was looking at him for guidance before he finds florida and takes him out with one good axe throw.

strike three, she couldn't convince the leader to leave when they had the chance to get away, and her cheap tricks were not enough to hold off either tex or carolina in a fight. they were only good for incapacitating her opponents enough for her to get away, which doesn't work when she has no escape.

ct is not tex, or carolina, or south. she is not a one woman army who can get herself out of trouble when she's stuck in tough situations. she needs people who can watch her back, she need a team who can cover her when she does mess up, and the leader and his team were not those people. she couldn't bring herself to trust them, and they couldn't bring themselves to trust her, and that cost all of them their lives.

[bethelctpride]

Join us on Saturday, June 1, 2024, from 12-5 PM at the Bethel Municipal Center, 1 school street. Bethel, CT.

12 PM - Parade Check-In & Line Up (across from Bethel Train Station- MetroNorth)

12:30 PM - Sidewalk Parade Starts

1:00 PM- Flag Raising and Drum Circle

1:30 PM – 5 PM - Live Music

2:00 PM Talk on native plant gardening for pollinators

3:00 PM Narcan Training

Experience a sidewalk parade led by followed by flag raising, drum circle, music, food, artists, 90+ queer vendors, kids activities, lawn games, and more in downtown Bethel, CT!

No alcohol is served at this event, but you are within one block walk of a brewery and several restaurants who will happily serve you if you are of age.

Rain or shine

FREE! Family friendly!

Live music by four queer bands

Untold Joys

Girlsona

Gender Mutiny

Isabella Gueck

Accessibility info: Wheelchair accessible. Venue close to bus and train lines. Indoor bathroom on site. Opt-in Interaction badging system (see below), quiet spaces, ear plugs, masks, and more available to support those with sensory needs.

New this year: chairs that will support up to 600lbs. They will be labeled so you don't have to guess if this will hold you!

This is an inclusive Pride celebration and we mean that. Some of you need an explicit invitation to attend so this means you!

Straight T4T couples

asexual cis straight folks

bisexuals & pansexuals

demisexuals

agender folks

aromantic folks

intersex folks

questioning folks or those who aren't officially out as anything

And you should bring whoever you want with you. Your straight cis partner, your parents, your grandparents, your kids, your bestie, whoever you want.

You should be able to share your joy, not just your sorrow.

[riderkaitlyn5]

Merry Christmas @r4spb3rry-t4rt ! I was delighted to be your Secret Santa ^^ This fic fought me every step of the way, but I managed to wrangle it into something coherent and hopefully enjoyable. Enjoy the freelancers getting into shenanigans ^^

And a huge thank you to @redvsbluesecretsanta for hosting the event!

Summary:

Poor Wash gets bullied by York and a dead shark

Fandom: Red vs. Blue

Relationship: Agent North Dakota & Agent Washington & Agent York (Red vs. Blue)

Characters: Agent York (Red vs. Blue), Agent Washington (Red vs. Blue), Agent North Dakota (Red vs. Blue), Agent South Dakota (Red vs. Blue), Agent Carolina (Red vs. Blue), Agent Connecticut (Red vs. Blue), The Meta | Agent Maine, Butch Flowers | Agent Florida, Agent Wyoming | Reginald

Additional Tags: Crack, Fluff, york does NOT have good ideas, this is so silly, you've seen all the insane crap they get up to in the show, of course they're gonna get up to some wild shit on shore leave and in MY fic

[thethirdman8]

Now for your moment of zen..

[swiftiesusa]

OUR GOLDEN GIRLS!!

[reasonsforhope]

"Two years ago, the biggest battles in state legislatures were over voting rights. Democrats loudly — and sometimes literally — protested as Republicans passed new voting restrictions in states like Georgia, Florida and Texas. This year, attention has shifted to other hot-button issues, but the fight over the franchise has continued. Republicans have enacted dozens of laws this year that will make it harder for some people to vote in future elections. 

But this year, voting-rights advocates got some significant wins too: States — controlled by Democrats and Republicans — have enacted more than twice as many laws expanding voting rights as restricting them, although the most comprehensive voter-protection laws passed in blue states. In all, 39 states and Washington, D.C., have changed their election laws in some way this year...

Where voting rights were expanded in 2023 (so far)

Unlike two years ago, though, we’d argue that the bigger story of this year’s legislative sessions was all the ways states made it easier to vote. As of July 21, according to the Voting Rights Lab, [which runs an excellent and completely comprehensive tracker of election-related bills], 834 bills had been introduced so far this year expanding voting rights, and 64 had been enacted. What’s more, these laws are passing in states of all hues.

Democratic-controlled jurisdictions (Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Rhode Island and Washington) enacted 33 of these new laws containing voting-rights expansions, but Republican-controlled states (Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming) were responsible for 23 of them. The remaining eight became law in states where the two parties share power (Nevada, Pennsylvania and Virginia).

That said, not all election laws are created equal, and the most comprehensive expansive laws passed in blue states. For example: 

New Mexico adopted a major voting-rights package that will automatically register New Mexicans to vote when they interact with the state’s Motor Vehicle Division, allow voters to request absentee ballots for all future elections without the need to reapply each time and restore the right to vote to felons who are on probation or parole. The law also allows Native Americans to register to vote and receive ballots at official tribal buildings and makes it easier for Native American officials to get polling places set up in pueblos and on tribal land.

Minnesota followed suit with a law also establishing automatic voter registration and a permanent absentee-voting list. The act allows 16- and 17-year-olds to preregister to vote too. Meanwhile, a separate new law also reenfranchises felons on probation or parole.

Michigan enacted eight laws implementing a constitutional amendment expanding voting rights that voters approved last year. Most notably, the laws guarantee at least nine days of in-person early voting and allow counties to offer as many as 29. The bills also allow voters to fix mistakes on their absentee-ballot envelopes so that their ballot can still count, track the status of their ballot online, and use student, military and tribal IDs as proof of identification. 

Connecticut became the sixth state to enact a state-level voting-rights act, which bars municipalities from discriminating against minority groups in voting, requires them to provide language assistance to certain language minority groups and requires municipalities with a record of voter discrimination to get preclearance before changing their election laws. The Nutmeg State also approved 14 days of early voting and put a constitutional amendment on the 2024 ballot that would legalize no-excuse absentee voting.

No matter its specific provisions, each of these election-law changes could impact how voters cast their ballots in future elections, including next year’s closely watched presidential race. There’s a good chance your state amended its election laws in some way this year, so make sure you double-check the latest rules in your state before the next time you vote."

-via FiveThirtyEight (via FutureCrunch), July 24, 2023

[doublescribble]

Dijonai Carrington, Caitlin Clark, and Erica Wheeler 2024 WNBA Playoffs, First Round

[d-criss-news]

Via Southern Connecticut State University's Instagram Story (May 13th, 2024)

[1-800-fantasy]

she knows exactly what she’s doing…

[aci25]

The Irony is that the next president now lies in the hands of those Puerto Rican voters

[allurlsaregone-blog]

Nightlights.

[tvckerwash]

I think saying that wash should've been more involved in ct's arc in s10 is possibly a controversial take, but I stand by it. like it would've slapped so hard to have wash and ct have a scene together that paralleled york and carolina's scene at the end of s10 (because I'm so mad the wash/lina parallels never went anywhere despite them clearly being set up to do so).

york and carolina fell apart because they didn't communicate, and they both assumed the other would always be by their side and stand by them. it was messy and emotional and neither of them ever got over the other.

wash and ct did communicate, and they didn't have a sudden falling out. they slowly drifted apart and they both had an understanding of the others' motives and what was driving the choices they made. neither of them were happy about the outcome, but they both understood that it wasn't personal.

ct's speech to lina and tex in s10 would've hit so much harder if it had been said to the person she had been trying to convince to see the truth all of s9, not the person who told her to "watch her mouth" at the mere suggestion of the director doing something questionable. a last ditch attempt to get the one person she knows would join her if she just had a little more time—

unfortunately for ct, her gamble on tex had yet to come to fruition, and wash, while willing to listen and planning on apprehending her so they could talk, couldn't stop tex from using lethal force.

also yall know a wash and ct knife fight would've been sick to watch.

[pumpkin-patch]

Trellis pumpkin about ten days old, so I think this will be about it in terms of size.

The heat wave is starting to taper off finally but it's still about all the patch can handle. It really needed the relief of October and instead we got another August. That means no more new pumpkins and the ones left on the vine aren't putting on much size. It's not impossible I could get another couple of straggler Thanksgiving pumpkins, but it's looking like this is pretty much it.