Tom Broderick
@trumbullbrod.bsky.social
Educator. Trumbull Town Council D5. CT Parking Reform Co-founder. UConn alum. Personal account.
Pro: homes, safe streets, utility regulation, hiking, local beer
Anti: parking mandates, snob zoning, authoritarians.
CT’s a beautiful place: let’s share it.
Pro: homes, safe streets, utility regulation, hiking, local beer
Anti: parking mandates, snob zoning, authoritarians.
CT’s a beautiful place: let’s share it.
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The election news everyone has been waiting for…meet your next town councilors for Trumbull’s District 5!
Ready to keep this a place where everyone is welcome and build a more walkable, just Trumbull! 🇺🇸🏳️🌈
Ready to keep this a place where everyone is welcome and build a more walkable, just Trumbull! 🇺🇸🏳️🌈
Violating suburban man rules and…leaving the leaves for the winter
The suburban obsession with leaf pickup is truly insane. Mow your leaves or keep them for insects and critters over the winter!
The suburban obsession with leaf pickup is truly insane. Mow your leaves or keep them for insects and critters over the winter!
November 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Violating suburban man rules and…leaving the leaves for the winter
The suburban obsession with leaf pickup is truly insane. Mow your leaves or keep them for insects and critters over the winter!
The suburban obsession with leaf pickup is truly insane. Mow your leaves or keep them for insects and critters over the winter!
The NIMBY-Newsmax chud alliance continues with some more 🥊-off disgusting comments.
I don’t want to shock you, but it turns out she’s lying! Not sure turning to the ever-crazier people will help their cause.
I don’t want to shock you, but it turns out she’s lying! Not sure turning to the ever-crazier people will help their cause.
November 29, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The NIMBY-Newsmax chud alliance continues with some more 🥊-off disgusting comments.
I don’t want to shock you, but it turns out she’s lying! Not sure turning to the ever-crazier people will help their cause.
I don’t want to shock you, but it turns out she’s lying! Not sure turning to the ever-crazier people will help their cause.
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More housing = lower rents for everyone
The only way out of the #CThousingcrisis is to build our ass off. The goal should be to 5x our current building rate, we are short 250,000 homes in Connecticut alone
Building at present 5k homes per year = a perpetual simmering crisis
The only way out of the #CThousingcrisis is to build our ass off. The goal should be to 5x our current building rate, we are short 250,000 homes in Connecticut alone
Building at present 5k homes per year = a perpetual simmering crisis
Interesting new working paper that studies chains of movers after the construction of a new apartment building in Honolulu.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
uhero.hawaii.edu
November 29, 2025 at 12:31 PM
More housing = lower rents for everyone
The only way out of the #CThousingcrisis is to build our ass off. The goal should be to 5x our current building rate, we are short 250,000 homes in Connecticut alone
Building at present 5k homes per year = a perpetual simmering crisis
The only way out of the #CThousingcrisis is to build our ass off. The goal should be to 5x our current building rate, we are short 250,000 homes in Connecticut alone
Building at present 5k homes per year = a perpetual simmering crisis
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The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime is underway and it's not AI:
Official data is in this week, and US solar continues to grow rapidly, with generation up 30% compared to last year!
November 29, 2025 at 12:21 AM
The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime is underway and it's not AI:
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Imagine getting ready for your daughter to come home from her freshman year of college for Thanksgiving, and the day of departure she goes MIA, and then 48 nightmarish hours later she calls you to tell her that ICE goons kidnapped her and shipped her to Honduras www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/25/m...
November 29, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Imagine getting ready for your daughter to come home from her freshman year of college for Thanksgiving, and the day of departure she goes MIA, and then 48 nightmarish hours later she calls you to tell her that ICE goons kidnapped her and shipped her to Honduras www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/25/m...
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From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
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The unifying aim of all Trump pronouncements and actions is to trash the constitution and impose a white supremacist militarized autocracy by EO and truth social decree - the latest attack on naturalization and birthright citizenship is an ugly new escalation of that barbaric aim.
November 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The unifying aim of all Trump pronouncements and actions is to trash the constitution and impose a white supremacist militarized autocracy by EO and truth social decree - the latest attack on naturalization and birthright citizenship is an ugly new escalation of that barbaric aim.
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One of the biggest barriers to implementing pro-housing policy is the folk wisdom that building new market rate/mixed-income housing increases rents even though study after study shows that the opposite is the case:
building more housing lowers rents
building more housing lowers rents
Interesting new working paper that studies chains of movers after the construction of a new apartment building in Honolulu.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
uhero.hawaii.edu
November 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
One of the biggest barriers to implementing pro-housing policy is the folk wisdom that building new market rate/mixed-income housing increases rents even though study after study shows that the opposite is the case:
building more housing lowers rents
building more housing lowers rents
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It’s #BlackFridayParking day, so we took a visit to the Danbury Fair Mall in Danbury, CT.
Even on the busiest day of the year—a day where the front side of the mall is packed—the back side and parking garage has more than enough space!
Even on the busiest day of the year—a day where the front side of the mall is packed—the back side and parking garage has more than enough space!
November 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
It’s #BlackFridayParking day, so we took a visit to the Danbury Fair Mall in Danbury, CT.
Even on the busiest day of the year—a day where the front side of the mall is packed—the back side and parking garage has more than enough space!
Even on the busiest day of the year—a day where the front side of the mall is packed—the back side and parking garage has more than enough space!
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The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
It’s really kind of wild how many people—including how many suburban democrats—equate “I can see patches of green grass and shrubbery” with “environmentally friendly.”
Not sure how to break them of that mindset, but it seems pretty important!
Not sure how to break them of that mindset, but it seems pretty important!
November 28, 2025 at 2:11 AM
It’s really kind of wild how many people—including how many suburban democrats—equate “I can see patches of green grass and shrubbery” with “environmentally friendly.”
Not sure how to break them of that mindset, but it seems pretty important!
Not sure how to break them of that mindset, but it seems pretty important!
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UConn taking the train into NYC for a top 10 matchup tomorrow at MSG. Loving seeing two of the most important CT institutions coming together!
November 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
UConn taking the train into NYC for a top 10 matchup tomorrow at MSG. Loving seeing two of the most important CT institutions coming together!
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Happy Thanksgiving to all the advocates, planners, electeds, and everyone else who helped get 8002 passed!!! 🦃🦃🦃🙏💪
ctmirror.org/2025/11/26/h...
ctmirror.org/2025/11/26/h...
Lamont signs H.B. 8002 into law, finalizing controversial housing bill
Gov. Ned Lamont ended months of controversy and speculation Wednesday when he signed a new version of a bill he vetoed this past summer.
ctmirror.org
November 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Happy Thanksgiving to all the advocates, planners, electeds, and everyone else who helped get 8002 passed!!! 🦃🦃🦃🙏💪
ctmirror.org/2025/11/26/h...
ctmirror.org/2025/11/26/h...
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This was at least the 9th pedestrian killed on Connecticut roads this month; he was the 6th pedestrian, that we know of, to be killed in New Haven this year.
November 27, 2025 at 12:59 PM
This was at least the 9th pedestrian killed on Connecticut roads this month; he was the 6th pedestrian, that we know of, to be killed in New Haven this year.
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With no thanks to the CT DOT, drivers have killed 60 pedestrians/cyclists, so far, this year in Connecticut.
The most recent preventable death happened last night in New Haven on Route 1 near Route 10.
www.realhartford.org/pedestrian-m...
The most recent preventable death happened last night in New Haven on Route 1 near Route 10.
www.realhartford.org/pedestrian-m...
November 27, 2025 at 12:59 PM
With no thanks to the CT DOT, drivers have killed 60 pedestrians/cyclists, so far, this year in Connecticut.
The most recent preventable death happened last night in New Haven on Route 1 near Route 10.
www.realhartford.org/pedestrian-m...
The most recent preventable death happened last night in New Haven on Route 1 near Route 10.
www.realhartford.org/pedestrian-m...
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Ladies and Gentlemen, we did it! Parking Mandates for new homes have been abolished in Connecticut.
We're, piece by piece, relegalizing the traditional Connecticut town center. The momentum is real
We're, piece by piece, relegalizing the traditional Connecticut town center. The momentum is real
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Ladies and Gentlemen, we did it! Parking Mandates for new homes have been abolished in Connecticut.
We're, piece by piece, relegalizing the traditional Connecticut town center. The momentum is real
We're, piece by piece, relegalizing the traditional Connecticut town center. The momentum is real
Now onto commercial parking mandates 🫡🫡🫡💪💪💪
Great news! Connecticut governor Ned Lamont, a noted coward, has finally located his big-boy pants and signed the legislature's amazing, ambitious housing bill. Among other things, it nukes parking mandates!
Gov. Lamont signs much-debated CT affordable housing bill after vetoing previous version
The bill is Connecticut's most significant housing legislation in decades.
www.ctinsider.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Now onto commercial parking mandates 🫡🫡🫡💪💪💪
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Great news! Connecticut governor Ned Lamont, a noted coward, has finally located his big-boy pants and signed the legislature's amazing, ambitious housing bill. Among other things, it nukes parking mandates!
Gov. Lamont signs much-debated CT affordable housing bill after vetoing previous version
The bill is Connecticut's most significant housing legislation in decades.
www.ctinsider.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Great news! Connecticut governor Ned Lamont, a noted coward, has finally located his big-boy pants and signed the legislature's amazing, ambitious housing bill. Among other things, it nukes parking mandates!
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As of July 1, 2026 Connecticut will be henceforth known as the land without residential Parking Mandates!!!
A huge thank you to everyone who pitched in, testimony, emails, calls, op-eds, this was truly a statewide grassroots groundswell. What started as a silly idea is now reality
A victory 🏆🧵
A huge thank you to everyone who pitched in, testimony, emails, calls, op-eds, this was truly a statewide grassroots groundswell. What started as a silly idea is now reality
A victory 🏆🧵
Gov. Lamont signs much-debated CT affordable housing bill after vetoing previous version
The bill is Connecticut's most significant housing legislation in decades.
www.ctinsider.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
As of July 1, 2026 Connecticut will be henceforth known as the land without residential Parking Mandates!!!
A huge thank you to everyone who pitched in, testimony, emails, calls, op-eds, this was truly a statewide grassroots groundswell. What started as a silly idea is now reality
A victory 🏆🧵
A huge thank you to everyone who pitched in, testimony, emails, calls, op-eds, this was truly a statewide grassroots groundswell. What started as a silly idea is now reality
A victory 🏆🧵
The NIMBY-chuds at 169 strong posting unhinged, insane shit
The idea that allowing more homes for people to build lives in is akin to suicide is so totally f**cked and horrifying
These people should not be taken seriously by a single political actor in the state
The idea that allowing more homes for people to build lives in is akin to suicide is so totally f**cked and horrifying
These people should not be taken seriously by a single political actor in the state
November 26, 2025 at 12:01 AM
The NIMBY-chuds at 169 strong posting unhinged, insane shit
The idea that allowing more homes for people to build lives in is akin to suicide is so totally f**cked and horrifying
These people should not be taken seriously by a single political actor in the state
The idea that allowing more homes for people to build lives in is akin to suicide is so totally f**cked and horrifying
These people should not be taken seriously by a single political actor in the state
Every one of these I see in my neighborhood makes me more determined than ever to slow down the damn cars
We can’t beg or shame drivers into changing behavior, but we can change the built environment to force them to
We can’t beg or shame drivers into changing behavior, but we can change the built environment to force them to
November 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Every one of these I see in my neighborhood makes me more determined than ever to slow down the damn cars
We can’t beg or shame drivers into changing behavior, but we can change the built environment to force them to
We can’t beg or shame drivers into changing behavior, but we can change the built environment to force them to
In the wake of 8002 being being passed by the CT House/Senate, I’d love to see the legislature move to legalize “missing middle” homes like the ones in this post.
The synergy with 8002’s parking reform provisions would be dynamite for infill housing.
The synergy with 8002’s parking reform provisions would be dynamite for infill housing.
November 24, 2025 at 11:25 PM
In the wake of 8002 being being passed by the CT House/Senate, I’d love to see the legislature move to legalize “missing middle” homes like the ones in this post.
The synergy with 8002’s parking reform provisions would be dynamite for infill housing.
The synergy with 8002’s parking reform provisions would be dynamite for infill housing.
Just a totally thriving region with only 566 homes available for sale under $600k
The American Dream 🇺🇸 is truly dead in Fairfield County, but we can revive it if we try
The American Dream 🇺🇸 is truly dead in Fairfield County, but we can revive it if we try
November 24, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Just a totally thriving region with only 566 homes available for sale under $600k
The American Dream 🇺🇸 is truly dead in Fairfield County, but we can revive it if we try
The American Dream 🇺🇸 is truly dead in Fairfield County, but we can revive it if we try
Apparently parking reform will both reduce parking but also add an arbitrary number of cars?? And something something pedestrian safety?
It’s a shame that our opponents are both totally bad faith and dumb as rocks!
It’s a shame that our opponents are both totally bad faith and dumb as rocks!
November 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Apparently parking reform will both reduce parking but also add an arbitrary number of cars?? And something something pedestrian safety?
It’s a shame that our opponents are both totally bad faith and dumb as rocks!
It’s a shame that our opponents are both totally bad faith and dumb as rocks!