connecticut-based civil rights, personal injury and criminal defense attorney • call or text (203) 909-0048 or write [email protected] • he/him

New Haven, Conn.
Joined November 2008
Attorney Alex Taubes retweeted
there is a fine line between enthusiastic marketing and government propaganda... and New Haven is doing everything it can to explore that line
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Attorney Alex Taubes retweeted
New Haven decided property taxes were too low and there was too much money lying around so why not schedule a special election for November 10, one week after the general election... cuz #YOLO
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This clever move will certainly turn Slavemaster University benevolent
at first glance I thought a new phallus-worship religion just dropped
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They’re trying to quell demands for the English Station PizzaSino
pizza lottery ticket? just stop the madness already
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Attorney Alex Taubes retweeted
couldn't resist
NY Times gives more scrutiny to the Yale golf course than it did to Iraq WMD claims in 2003
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I would apply similar scrutiny
NY Times gives more scrutiny to the Yale golf course than it did to Iraq WMD claims in 2003
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Attorney Alex Taubes retweeted
never ceases to me amaze me that you can generate bipartisan hysteria about a permit application for drone delivery but a permit for a 200% increase in volatile organic compound pollution for an oil tank farm in New Haven harbor (literal war on children's lungs) gets... crickets
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Bring back the strip club
The New Haven Housing Authority approved another $500,000 pre-development loan (on top of $1 million already approved) for redevelopment of the old Clock Factory building. The cost per unit here is going to be astronomical.
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Finally, a mayor for the 40,000 people who don’t live here yet
Elicker: we need to make upgrades to Union Station because we are going to be a city of 150,000 residents again, as we were when the station was built 110 years ago
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Attorney Alex Taubes retweeted
.@thenation: Yale's President has become a shameful collaborator with Trump and Linda McMahon
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Attorney Alex Taubes retweeted
New Haven has entered a retro moment harking back to the late 1990s and early 2000s with the reboot of the New Haven Advocate and the great performance art political campaigns of Bill Saunders a.k.a. Little Miss Mess-Up... thanks for coming to my TEDx New Haven talk...
Very entertaining interview @newhavenindy @wnhhlp with "bad mayor" hopeful @alextt, who filed to run for New Haven mayor today. One of his key campaign proposals is for a casino to be developed at English Station. #nhvpoli
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Day one shit
Short answer to this age-old question: theoretically yes but it would take 20 years of litigation to resolve, cost tens of millions of dollars in legal fees and would have manifold unintended consequences... which is not at all to say it shouldn't be done!
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Replying to @tylerevansokay
@alextt put out his "bad mayors" on fb. It's his take on New Haven's mayor Justin Elicker job performance. facebook.com/share/p/1EDNCqz…
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Attorney Alex Taubes retweeted
Very entertaining interview @newhavenindy @wnhhlp with "bad mayor" hopeful @alextt, who filed to run for New Haven mayor today. One of his key campaign proposals is for a casino to be developed at English Station. #nhvpoli
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Attorney Alex Taubes retweeted
It remains to be seen whether this is a genuine rebirth or a one-off art project driven by a temporary burst of nostalgia... but either way it's cool
New Haven Advocate reboot is out in the wild
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The Casket in the Crown It was dusk — it was ash — and a boy walked alone Through the hush of a fire-shorn wood, Where the trunks wore a velvet the night might have sown And a warm snow fell where he stood. For a score of her rings, in the vault of her crown, The pine had been holding her hoard — Every seed in a casket of amber sealed down Past the pry of the crossbill's crossed sword; And the sun came a-courting each summer at noon, And the rain tried the seams with its hands, But she gave them her shade and her turpentine tune, And she kept what she kept under bands. For she was betrothed, from the first of her rings, To a bridegroom of cinder and air, And nothing undoes what the wax-fastening brings But the heat of his mouth in her hair: At threescore degrees — at threescore, no more — The amber lets go of its care. Then a night came of wind, and the valley was bells, And the ridge ran a mane of gold; And in from the dark, over leagues of the fells, Came the beetle whose breast can behold — Who sees with her breast! — and she flew to the pyre To carve out her cradles in coffins of fire. And at dawn — it was grey — came a sound like small clocks: The tick... and the tick... of the crown; Every casket unclasping its scale-lidded locks And the seed coming spirally down — One wing to a child — to the mineral bed That the burning had swept of its green, Where never a rival may lift up a head And the sun is the whole of the scene. And the boy, with the ash going sweet on his tongue, Hears the tick — and the tick — of the crown, Till the caskets are empty, the last seed is flung, And the vault of the wood is laid down; And the fireweed bides with its wick in the black — A cool second fire for the gown. And the green that will rise will be even of age — Every tree with one birthday: the burn — And they'll seal their first seed in its resinous cage And wait for the bridegroom's return: For the flame — for the flame — they were born of the flame, And they keep their whole hearts for the flame.
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Attorney Alex Taubes retweeted
Two correction officers used the cell-door controls at York CI to let my client out of her cell in the middle of the night and sexually assault her. One was criminally convicted. The other took her to a mop closet the DOC knew had no cameras — and never fixed. This wasn’t a lapse. It happened against a documented, years-long pattern of correctional staff sexually abusing women at York. A pattern the State knew about, investigated, and failed to correct. Connecticut had total control over Lashanda Gregory’s safety. The State’s job was to prevent this. It didn’t. This lawsuit is about accountability — and about making sure the next woman in state custody is safer. 🔗 bit.ly/justice4lashanda
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Attorney Alex Taubes retweeted
I guess the New Haven Advocate really is coming back in September... #exciting
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Where is Ned Coll when you need him...? Cc: @andrewkahrl
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It literally doesn’t matter who is the actor in an advertisement
Replying to @Matt_Blumenthal
This sophistic, lawyerly defense honestly makes it worse — it admits conscious intent to deceive. Was it really that hard to find 4 Dem supporters in this state of 3.7 million people?
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