Alex Armstrong

@alexarmstrong.bsky.social

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Candidate for CT State House - 119 | VP of External Affairs at @mightyearth.org | Oceana, TNC alum | Opinions here — politics, history, Arsenal, Hoyas, Star Wars, Dune, Patriots, etc. — are mine alone (and largely indefensible). I have friends everywhere.

Store called “nothing Bundt cakes”
Ezra Klein show: Platner’s top campaign strategist on what went wrong
Claire bear (wedding crashers)
Stray observations: [Walton] Goggins, by the way, is very good in what could be a largely thankless role. I’m glad he got to cut loose in the tag. I hope that when Justified ends next year, he gets work in some sort of comedy. I think he could be very winning in a romcom. From: https://www.avclub.com/community-cooperative-polygraphy-1798179187
Alex Armstrong for State Representative
Obama, Joe and Hunter Biden watched Georgetown dismantle Duke in 2010
My daughter and me in Arsenal jerseys celebrating our first premier league title since 2004!
127 BPM 61 6 minutes ago
Michelle, 45, Md., Latina, Republican, construction administration I feel foolish. In a family full of Democrats, I really stood my ground twice to defend my stance. I feel like time and time again, all of the things that they pointed out would happen have ended up happening. And I looked dumb as hell believing in fairy tales and wishy-washy promises. I feel like if Trump would have approached the country and the problems that the nation has been having as passionately as he had his personal vendettas against Biden and those before and after him, he would have been an amazing president. I really did believe at one point that he was also a frustrated American who was so fed up he was going to make a world of difference.
Jake Lacy
Me in front of the Millennium Falcon
Bottle of Ranch Dressing Soda “Y’all get yer fixins!” appears on the label
My daughter clutching Gunnersaurus watching the Carabao Cup final with me, both of us in Arsenal jerseys
bluesky threat that starts with an article: Dems are too cozy with Hasan Piker: No excuse for failing to call out antisemitism on the left ...indeterminate number of posts later... "So the only folks allowed universal health care in the US us the US military?"
Trump polling average is at 56% disapproval, 40% approval
It is a significant tragedy that whatever survives of the mainstream news business will have to make do on a readership and viewership that was halved by sabotage, then eroded further by the profusion of social media and cheap media production tools. But an industry that recognizes and accepts what has happened will be better positioned than ever to do journalism as idealists wish it to be done.
BBC headline: Amazon confirms 16,000 job cuts after accidental email
Man shot by federal agents has died, police chief says The man shot by federal agents this morning has died, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told the Minnesota Star Tribune. Several witnesses have already been transported to the Whipple building. ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but O’Hara refused, sources said. O’Hara instructed his officers to preserve the scene. The BCA was enroute to the scene. All available MPD officers have been called into work, except dogwatch (overnight shift), and days off cancelled.
E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution By Maxine Joselow For decades, the Environmental Protection Agency has calculated the health benefits of reducing air pollution, using the cost estimates of avoided asthma attacks and premature deaths to justify clean-air rules. Not anymore. Under President Trump, the E.P.A. plans to stop tallying gains from the health benefits caused by curbing two of the most widespread deadly air pollutants, fine particulate matter and ozone, when regulating industry, according to internal agency emails and documents reviewed by The New York Times.
High heart rate alert on Apple Watch
Snowy woods
Star Wars 2000 ‘Coruscant guard’ action figure
Bottle of Dr. Enuf zero sugar
Sequential posts in my timeline “Not even wasting time watching City / West Ham we know how that will go” 2 minutes later GOAL - Haaland
Arsenal baseball cap with gold stitched cannon logo
Reggie Wayne in a Patriots uniform
Stephen Colbert quadruple face palm
xG Philosophy tweet: This was Tottenham’s lowest xG since records began. Arsenal (2.14) 4-1 (0.06) Tottenham
FOX NEWS TRENDING: Government Shutdown | Charlie Kirk | Campus Radicals
Screenshot of Fox News homepage from 10:30am, no Epstein!
T-shirt with arrows through a computer. Text says “Butlerian Jihad Now”
"Can I share with you my worldview? All of humankind has one thing in common: the sandwich. I believe that all anyone really wants in this life is to sit in peace and eat a sandwich"
Political yard signs lining the road to the polling place
Two Roads Halloween beer called Roadsmary’s Baby
I voted early sticker
Georgetown University Healy Hall
whales swimming through sunlight
Book cover: Maurice and Maralyn: A whale, a shipwreck, a love story
Two old tweets: @AlexJArmstrong - Aug 24, 2022 "From the depths of the mighty Danube River, the hulking wrecks of more than a dozen German World War II ships have risen once again, exposed by a drought that has starved Europe’s rivers and led to some of the lowest water levels of the past century." https://nytimes.com/2022/08/23/world/europe/danube-river-shipwrecks-drought.html Other interesting places that have re-emerged: * foundations of a 2,000-year-old bridge in Rome * the Dolmen of Guadalperal, a four- to five-millennium-old megalithic monument near Madrid. * a Spanish village that was abandoned & submerged in artificial reservoirs in the 1960s
Look upward into the stretching branches of a large tree, lit from below against a night sky
our expectations for you were low but HOLY FUCK
Hugo the poodle lying on the cool wooden floor
White poodle with a fresh haircut
Dark woods with occasional flickers of fireflies
Coopers Hawk (I think) on its prey in the yard
My daughter practicing soccer in her Saka jersey
Baby groundhog eating grass
Partagaz raising an eyebrow
Diego Luna at a lectern
white poodle sprinting towards turkeys and running - BANG - headfirst into a fence. He's okay though.
a white poodle, released into a fenced in backyard, initially hesitates before bounding happily around
Me, rain-soaked, in front of rocks and the ocean
Grey hat that has Ahsoka markings and “Star Wars” in Aurebesh; blue hat with rebel alliance logo
Sprawling grey tree
Declan Rice celebrating UECL win with West Ham
A coyote looking rather wolfish
NYT homepage now: 5 top stories on Signal chat scandal
Hardcover book: The Possibility of Life by Jaime Green
White poodle relaxing on a blue couch