Brian Zahn 🐳

journalist | he/him

[Brian Zahn 🐳 @brizahn]

@songs_ohio Came back to x the everything app just to check in and see how you were doing, because this is huge. You’re amazing

[Brian Zahn 🐳 @brizahn]

Popping my head in with some news.

[Connecticut News Guild @CTnewsguild]

We recently held a union election at Hearst Connecticut Media, and we learned minutes ago that…

WE WON!!!

By an overwhelming vote of 68-17, our members voted to unionize as part of @newsguild.

It’s a great day for journalism in CT!

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[Brian Zahn 🐳 @brizahn]

@matthewreeves Hello, Matt: I'm a reporter with local media in New Haven and I've been following your story from this weekend. I'd like to get in touch to talk about how you planned this and how you enjoyed your pizza! I can be reached at [email protected].

[Connecticut News Guild @CTnewsguild]

One of our colleagues, @MikeGagneNT, is looking for help. His partner has a serious liver disease and needs a transplant from a living donor.

Read this message from Mike for more info, and please share widely if you can👇

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Pick your starter. (Welcome home Julius and Ethel)

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@Boringstein It’s an amazing melodrama about the angst and longing that accompanies our struggles to communicate on a deeper level and I really don’t see it as sexy and I don’t think it particularly tries to be.

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My top 24 albums for ‘24

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@songs_ohio Even the optimistic take is the continued Gritty the hockey mascotification of history

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@Boringstein With regret, considering everyone associated with it is a horrible person or at least undeserving of success, Teenage Dream is an amazing pop album

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@songs_ohio I feel like there’s a small nugget of truth here that loses its saliency because of the weird conclusion about wrongthink or whatever

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My story here: https://t.co/vqQlWTDDnE

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The mayor of West Haven, where in 2021 a former state representative was arrested for stealing $1.2 million in federal COVID funds, recently fired a city employee for attempting to defraud the city with professional development reimbursements.

[Connecticut News Guild @CTnewsguild]

We’re unionizing to make our workplace better. Lately, management seems intent on making our workplace worse.

Here are a few examples of recent changes that underscore why we need a union:

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@Boringstein Sometimes you know your life is better than at least one other person’s life because you eat vegetables.

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@jajcr0b On vibes and energy alone it was clearly the inferior campaign.

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North Haven State Sen. Paul Cicarella and State Rep. Dave Yaccarino view returns currently showing them ahead of their opponents at the North Haven RTC’s election party.

[John Moritz @JohnMoritz18]

Connecticut's 4th Congressional District — once represented by Rep. Chris Shays — was for decades a bastion of Rockefeller Republicanism.

Its dramatic shift to the left tells a larger story of political realignment in Connecticut over the last 50 years: https://t.co/9C98Vk3BJN

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Stay spooky out there 👻

[Connecticut News Guild @CTnewsguild]

Happy Halloween from the Connecticut News Guild!

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[Brian Zahn 🐳 @brizahn]

@songs_ohio Taking a deep breath and counting to 10 is literally so goated, more people need to try it

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@jajcr0b It was good and funny but I also think its early moments of sincerity turned the show into exactly what weirdo freaks on here want to see in a show by the end: extended scenes of characters looking at the screen and doing therapy talk about why their behavior is bad.