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Dem Senator Wants To Regulate The Internet To Prevent Another Trump From Happening

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) called for government regulation of the internet as part of a broader effort to reduce loneliness and powerlessness among Americans, two conditions he argues push voters toward leaders like President Donald Trump. Murphy made the remarks on September 21 during an appearance on the I’ve Had It podcast, where he discussed his book, Crisis of the Common Good.

Murphy told the podcast hosts that isolation and helplessness define the country right now. “Those are the two things I think Americans are going through right now… They don’t feel powerful at all, and they feel lonely,” he said.

His remedy for loneliness coincidentally becomes an excuse to grow the government even further.

“And so, government should build a set of rules in which people feel more powerful – that’s why the minimum wage is so important – and people feel so more connected,” Murphy said.

He added, “That’s why, you know, rebuilding healthy institutions in your town should be a project that government is involved in.”

Then he got to the internet and revealed his true objective. “Regulating the internet so that you’re spending less time alone on Instagram should be an important government project,” Murphy said. And if Americans feel more powerful and less alone, Murphy argued, “they are going to be less likely to fall for a bullshit demagogue like Donald Trump.”

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Stacey Abrams Tours CT— That Is The Tell Connecticut’s Elections Are Suspect

When Stacey Abrams shows up in your state to lecture you about election integrity, you should ask yourself one question — why her?

Abrams has spent years positioning herself as the national standard-bearer for “voting rights” — a cause she adopted after refusing to concede her 2018 Georgia governor’s race. But The Georgia Record (a CDM outlet) has documented her fingerprints on one of the most troubled election cycles in modern American history: the 2020 Georgia election, where a temp staffing firm called Happy Faces Personnel — tied directly to Abrams — was credibly accused of criminal behavior at polling locations in Fulton County.

Eyewitness accounts published by The Georgia Record described probable criminal behavior by Happy Faces temp employees during the 2020 Georgia election cycle. The firm had been financed with Abrams-linked money and was later the subject of fierce local opposition when Fulton County Commissioners voted to renew its contract. North Fulton County jurisdictions were so alarmed they sought to break away and run their own elections rather than tolerate Happy Faces for another cycle.

None of that history followed Abrams to Hartford last weekend.

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Democrat Gov. Ned Lamont’s Former Budget Boss Flees America by Boat and Plane Hours Before Corruption Sentencing — Accuses Biden’s DOJ of Weaponization

Former Connecticut deputy budget director and Democratic state representative Konstantinos “Kosta” Diamantis reportedly fled the United States for Greece before appearing in federal court for sentencing on corruption convictions.

Konstantinos “Kosta” Diamantis, former deputy budget director under Gov. Ned Lamont, former director of the state’s school-construction grant office, and a former Democrat state representative, skipped Thursday’s federal sentencing in Bridgeport after slipping out of the country on a route prosecutors described as Florida to the Bahamas by boat, then a flight to London, then Greece, CT Insider reported.

Diamantis faced more than a decade in prison. Federal prosecutors asked U.S. District Judge Stefan Underhill for 10 to 12 years after a jury convicted him last October on 21 counts of extortion, bribery, conspiracy, and lying to the FBI. The new sentencing date is September 30, with or without him in the room.

His own lawyer told the court he is not coming back.

The escape the court was warned about.

Diamantis had been free on a $500,000 bond. Prosecutors had already flagged the obvious flight risk: he obtained Greek citizenship and a Greek passport while the case was pending, and he had repeatedly asked the court for permission to travel to Greece, WFSB reported.

The judge still left him out. Lamont later said he was “shocked” the man was not wearing an ankle bracelet. Too late.

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Woodbury Republican Registrar Alleges Democrat Counterpart Altered Election System Results, Leading To “Hostile Workplace” Dispute

Woodbury’s Republican registrar says she will not run another election with her Democrat counterpart after he allegedly altered official returns in the state’s election system right before the window to fix them closed.

Lisa Amatruda, Woodbury’s Republican Registrar of Voters, put the allegations in writing on September 11. Her letter to Republican Town Committee (RTC) Chairman Paul Luchetti and the Woodbury RTC details a chain-of-custody complaint regarding the Democrat Registrar of Voters, Daniel Lonegan.

On August 11, Woodbury ran two primaries. Amatruda wrote that when they left the Senior Community Center that night, candidate totals on both ballots had been counted, reviewed, and verified as correct. Democrat Registrar Daniel Lonegan and the head moderator then entered those results into the Secretary of the State’s Elections Management System (EMS). However, Amatruda spotted one problem: absentee totals were placed in the wrong column. Because the return had already been submitted, the Secretary of the State (SOTS) had to unlock the system before a correction could be made. That did not happen that night.

On August 12, Lonegan and the moderator filed an amendment for each primary and fixed the absentee columns. Amatruda checked the four candidate totals again and confirmed everything was correct. She assumed the rest of the process was just standard housekeeping.

It was not.

On August 27, a friend sent Amatruda a Facebook screenshot indicating that she and the moderator were being sued.

During meetings on August 28 and 29, Amatruda learned for the first time that Lonegan had logged back into the EMS by himself on August 13 and August 20. They discovered at least 13 amendments to the moderator’s returns, affecting both results pages and statistics pages. These statistics cover how ballots were cast—including poll tabulators, early voting, and absentee hand counts—which are kept in fields separate from candidate totals. Amatruda stated that Lonegan admitted to the changes, explaining that he had signed in using the head moderator’s credentials, called it a mistake, and could not explain why the results themselves were touched instead of only completing the statistics fields.

By then, Amatruda wrote, what the EMS showed—and therefore what appeared on the Secretary of the State’s website—was no longer correct. Lonegan asked the SOTS to unlock the return on August 29. On August 31, elections officials stated that they were past the open window, and follow-up communications confirmed the returns could no longer be changed.

Amatruda’s core point is one she believes Hartford will try to bury: she is not claiming the winners flipped. Instead, she is claiming that official, state-facing returns were altered after the fact by a single registrar working alone under another official’s login, and those records were left uncorrected.

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SHOCKER: Democrat-Run Danbury Votes to Put Non-Citizens in Police Uniforms After ICE Raids — Mayor Who Grew Up Illegal Cheers the Move

While federal agents were still rounding up illegal aliens in western Connecticut, the Democrat-dominated Danbury City Council voted 18-2 to let non-citizens pin on a badge and police American citizens.

The ordinance, approved Tuesday night, opens Danbury Police Department hiring to lawful permanent residents and DACA recipients, so-called “Dreamers” who were brought here illegally as children and remain in the country under an Obama-era executive program that Congress never made law.

All 17 Democrats on the council supported the ordinance, along with one Republican. The only two opposing votes came from Republicans, according to Fox News.

Police Chief Patrick Ridenhour similarly argued that applicants will still be required to undergo background checks, psychological evaluations, medical and drug screenings, polygraph examinations, training, and civil-service testing, according to Patch.

But critics say the dispute is not merely about testing standards. It is about whether the extraordinary government power to carry a firearm, detain people, and arrest American citizens should be entrusted to someone who has not obtained American citizenship.

Councilwoman Candace Fay attempted to force separate votes on permanent residents and DACA recipients, but her motion was rejected. Fay reportedly warned that DACA protection is temporary and could be withdrawn, potentially leaving taxpayers responsible for training an officer who later becomes ineligible to remain in the country.

Democrat Councilman Joe Britton said the quiet part out loud. The vote, he declared, “sends a message to our immigrant community at large that you are welcome in Danbury.” He added that once the uniform goes on, background “doesn’t matter.”

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Disgraced New England mayor drags heels repaying $240,000 taxpayer cash

A former Connecticut mayor has repeatedly blown past deadlines to repay the $240,000 in taxpayer money that she allegedly misused while in office. 

Erin Stewart, 39, suspended her gubernatorial campaign in May after an investigation exposed alleged misuse of a New Britain credit card to ‘benefit herself, members of her family and her political campaigns,’ the city said.

The city alleged that Stewart improperly boosted her income in the 12 years she ran city hall.

After missing the first two deadlines, New Britain said that Stewart owes a total of $241,558 in attorneys’ fees, taxpayer funds and tuition reimbursement.

‘I take the allegations that have been made against me very seriously,’ the former mayor said in a public statement. ‘And for that reason, I am suspending my gubernatorial campaign effective immediately so that I can focus on addressing those claims.’

Stewart and her charity, the Mayor’s Trophy Charity Fund, were investigated by the Crumbie Law Group who were hired by Mayor Bobby Sanchez, Stewart’s successor, the CT Mirror reported. 

The Republican allegedly used more than $30,000 of the city funds to pay for her master’s degree program in public administration at the University of New Haven, News 8 reported. 

Another $22,000 of city money was allegedly spent on deliveries to her home including clothes, makeup, an ice maker, diapers and baby formula, documents obtained by the outlet showed. 

The card also funded nearly $20,000 in membership fees as well as food and drink at a private social club, the Hartford Club, the Mirror reported. 

According to a letter addressed to Connecticut Attorney General William Tong on June 5, New Britain also accused Stewart of buying items with the city-issued card between 2016 and 2025 and selling them in a ‘moving-out tag sale.’

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CT SOTS Thomas Flubs Her Way Through A Presser On An Alleged Probe She Won’t Even Call DHS About

Secretary of the State Stephanie Thomas called a noon briefing today on the voter-fraud “surge” CNN reported Monday.

CNN said Connecticut is one of nine states where HSI is supposed to work leads, do interviews, and send cases to prosecutors from now through mid-October — with the focus on noncitizens who registered or voted. Thomas then spent the rest of the time insisting she has no idea if any of that is real.

“Here’s what we don’t know,” she said, shrugging her shoulders. She doesn’t know if the report is true. She doesn’t know why Connecticut would be picked. She doesn’t know who or what might be investigated. She doesn’t know “what specific activity is planned,” or when.

Her office has not heard from DHS. No registrar has reported agents at the door. Asked why she didn’t call DHS herself, she waved it off as “just one report” — not worth her morning. Yet she still had time to book a presser about that one report.

She said Connecticut “believes so strongly” in election integrity that it has the State Election Enforcement Commission (SEEC) to look at this stuff. Illegal votes “should be investigated.” Accountability, if the facts are there. Then came the punchline: DHS has given her no evidence of an ineligible voter in Connecticut — in an investigation she also says may not even exist.

She called it “unusual” so close to an election and quoted the old DOJ line that “overt” steps can “chill” legitimate voting. That, she said, is why she was at the podium. Not to describe the probe. To tell people not to panic. Voters “are already afraid,” she said — especially after the late-August USPS fight — and they stop her everywhere. The Chris Murphys of the world fueled that fear with warnings that there might not be an election. Thomas’s answer: there will be a secure election “on many fronts.” Not all fronts. Many.

She said the office was flooded last week with people “so confused” about mail-in ballots that she spent the week talking them down. The question she hears most: will there even be an election on November 3? She laughed, nervously, that “confusion has no party affiliation.” The Centinal has filed a records request for that flood of communications.

Call her office, she said. In our experience, that office does not call back.

Q&A made it worse. No time to phone DHS. Time to stage a briefing. She’ll wait and see.

She promised registrars keep the voter rolls clean. Unite4Freedom’s analysis of the 2022 midterms alleged more than a hundred thousand apparent voting violations. SEEC “timed out” that complaint. If the goal is the cleanest list in America, those claims deserved more than just a shrug.

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Where are the Environmentalists? Illegals Destroying Connecticut’s Natural Resources

In Westport, Connecticut, residents are facing the devastating environmental impact of illegals refusing to follow local laws to protect marine life.

Although there are laws meant to limit the harvesting of shellfish in the state, to protect the population of clams, steamers, oysters, and mussels, illegals are ignoring the laws and creating what could become devastating for the shellfish population in the area.

The Connecticut Sentinel notes that Connecticut General Statutes § 26-228 “prohibits taking any shells or shellfish from the shores or waters of the state between sunset and sunrise. The penalty is a fine of $100–$500 and/or up to 30 days in jail. Westport’s recreational shellfishing regulations explicitly adopt this rule. Harvesting is allowed only from sunrise to sunset.”

A resource guide from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), notes, “Shellfish are important to Connecticut’s coastal communities and economies, the waters of Long Island Sound and the many species of marine wildlife that rely upon them.”

“The harvest and cultivation of shellfish along our shores provides local food, jobs, contributes to the maritime economy, and shellfisheries are an important part of the state’s history and culture.”

“Connecticut’s aquaculture industry is an important agriculture sector. Aquaculture is the 7th highest valued agriculture product in the state according to the USDA Census of Agriculture. Marine aquaculture is the largest sector.”

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Illegals Raping Natural Resources In Westport, Cops Don’t Care, Town Doesn’t Care, State Doesn’t Care

There are a lot of people in Westport, CT who profess to care for the environment, or is that just a control mechanism to gain political power?

Because, no one cares in Westport when their environment is being destroyed as long as its being done by illegal aliens. By the hundreds. Every Night. Till there is nothing left.

Night harvesting is banned statewide

Connecticut General Statutes § 26-228 prohibits taking any shells or shellfish from the shores or waters of the state between sunset and sunrise. The penalty is a fine of $100–$500 and/or up to 30 days in jail. Westport’s recreational shellfishing regulations explicitly adopt this rule. Harvesting is allowed only from sunrise to sunset.

Limits and permit requirements

  • A Westport recreational shellfish permit is required (annual or one-day). Children under 17 do not need their own permit but must be with a permitted adult. The permit must be displayed while harvesting.
  • Daily limit: ½ bushel of shellfish per person in any 24-hour period. “Unlimited” is not allowed.
  • Size limits apply (examples): hard clams (quahogs) must be at least 1.5 inches or 1 inch thick; oysters at least 3 inches; soft-shell clams 1.5 inches; razor clams 4 inches; mussels 2 inches. Undersized shellfish must be returned immediately.
  • Harvest is for personal/family consumption only, not sale.

But, illegal night harvesting is happening at a massive scale in Westport, and across the state.

“Unbelievable, isn’t it? Take a ride by old Mill and look at the Spanish guys with Minor’s hats on, responded one resident we asked who lives in the Compo Beach area when asked if what was going on nightly is legal.

“There’s no blue crabs left. No steamers. No Clams. No mussels.

“The answer to your question absolutely not especially now it’s been closed down with all the rain.”

Another resident of Old Mill told us, “There’s nothing left, they stripped the place clean.”

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CAIR-CT’s New “Back To School” Guide Offers More Political Activism Than Student Support

As Connecticut families prepare for another school year, the Connecticut chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CT) has released its 2025-26 Back to School Resource Guide.

Framed as a helpful tool for Muslim students facing “challenges to their identity, inclusion, and religious accommodation,” the document is far more than a neutral rights pamphlet.

It is a sophisticated advocacy package that pushes special accommodations, encourages school closures for Islamic holidays, promotes a highly selective 9/11 curriculum, and injects a one-sided narrative on Palestine into classrooms—all while positioning CAIR as the indispensable intermediary between families and public schools. This is particularly relevant now that CAIR-CT has also positioned itself as a “partner” to the Connecticut State Department of Education on the development of K-12 Islamic and Arab Studies curriculum resources.

The guide opens with familiar civil-rights language: Muslim students have the right to a safe environment free from bullying, reasonable religious accommodations (prayer space, excused absences for Eid, alternatives during Ramadan fasting, modest dress including the hijab), and protection from discrimination. These are legitimate concerns under existing federal and state law. No serious observer disputes that students of any faith should be free from harassment or should receive reasonable accommodations for sincerely held beliefs.

But CAIR-CT does not stop at equal treatment.

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