Wildstein is flatly ignoring this story because he's a machine loyalist and he wants to keep his sources happy lol

Very cunning of them! Now nobody in the state Senate is going to hear about what a shitshow this hearing was, right?? 😂😂

jk, they swapped out Turner for South Jersey conservative Democratic Sen. John Burzichelli, a common practice to ensure unanimous committee votes when there's internal opposition to a leadership priority

Beach angrily adjourned the hearing, un-adjourned it, and rammed the bill through 5-0, with retiring Democrat Shirley Turner of Mercer County and not-yet-retiring Democrat John McKeon of Essex County joining Beach and the two open Republicans on the committee in passing it

now throwing a tantrum at the state AG. Comptroller himself has yet to testify still lmao

Even by Trenton standards this is utterly absurd. Usually they do let progressives and groups testify against a bill. What Beach is doing is insane even by the extremely low standards Trenton has

Honestly feel like an IDC would be an upgrade for New Jersey because it at least would draw these assholes out into the open

dawg what the hell is going on with new jersey

New Jersey Update: going great

everyone is trying AND FAILING to yield their time to the US fucking Senator who took the day off to testify against this, because Trenton does not want to hear his testimony (multiple people have tried to yield to Kim and Beach is rejecting each one in turn)

apparently the committee hearing, now ongoing, is such a mess that the committee chair, Camden Dem chair Jim Beach, is actively preventing Andy Kim from testifying against the bill?

Fellow residents of District 22 (North Plainfield, Plainfield, Scotch Plains, Fanwood, Clark, Winfield, Rahway, Linden, Cranford, Roselle Park), contact Senate President Scutari and tell him to back down:

a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit

highly encourage DC residents to donate and take advantage of public matching funds - my $5 is just $5 (still gave though), your $5 gets matched 5:1 and becomes $30

This is our movement. Join the fight: secure.actblue.com/donate/web-m...

The DC I know is worth fighting for. I’m Janeese Lewis George, and I’m running for Mayor. youtu.be/aOBD45c3wVM

Decades of abdominal obesity, eating fast food on airplanes, etc. etc. has left this man’s cardiovascular system *checks notes* perfectly wonderful.

New — White House doctor's memo on Donald Trump’s recent MRI (which White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt just called “preventative"). The memo says Trump's cardiovascular and abdominal imaging is “perfectly normal" and that "he remains in excellent overall health."

Swiss politicians filed a criminal complaint with the country’s top prosecutor over a Rolex table clock and an engraved gold bar presented to US President Donald Trump by business executives shortly before he agreed to cut tariffs on the country’s exports. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A lawsuit previously alleged that David Gentile—just pardoned by Trump— was an associate of Russian organized crime figure and oligarch Michael Cherney. A business news outlet found that Cherney’s daughters benefited from some of Gentile’s earliest dealings.

Let’s not lose sight of the true meaning of Cyber Monday.

Government actors who refuse to be bound by the rule of law are not morally entitled to its protection.

What is Jared Kushner's job in the administration?

Kushner’s literal defense of managing $2 billion of Saudi dollars was that he would no longer again participate in government

Just like it's shocking to have public officials who break the law and commit terrible crimes of violence, it's nearly as shocking to have public officials who treat accusations of lawlessness with such rank contempt. It's like being tried for murder and jeering at the judge and the victim's family.

Also, this tweet should be a scandal in its own right! The Secretary of Defense, currently under bipartisan scrutiny for potentially committing cold-blooded murder of shipwrecked men, is cracking public jokes about what he did - essentially spitting in the face of his victims AND Congress.

there's a difference between this being a bad slogan (it is, stop lying to yourselves) and pretending it matters

Whiskey Pete loves to tweet about war crimes

On no one’s Christmas wishlist

There are brilliant people who aren't curious and dull knives who thirst for knowledge about the world. I'd much rather talk with a dullard who genuinely wants to know stuff than a genius who can't accept that they might be wrong.

You can reason with people who are curious but un- or ill-informed: I gave an A to a student in a medieval history class who asked me on the first day when Game of Thrones took place, because she read the material, worked hard, and produced well-argued essays. You can't work with bull-headed morons.

not unrelatedly watch Montgomery County (Clarksville) to see how both are feeling

even if TN-07 were a bluer district it is sort of the Democratic coalition on hard mode because our base is disproportionately low-income urban minorities and inherently transient servicemembers

Hickenlooper especially. you have a senator who's old, extremely centrist, and not that popular to begin with as evidenced by a weak primary performance in 2020

I continue to maintain that the fact that Graham Platner was on track to win before the Nazi tattoo broke should be all the encouragement someone needs to try primarying Hickenlooper or Reed or Warner

Good. The Article I branch needs to act to stop this killing spree at sea and reassert its constitutional prerogative over the use of military force. abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...

everyone loves to fuck around until they find out that the finding out has a body count.

Pete Hegseth is a monster.

Nobody does "booty had me like" posts anymore. And I think that's really sad.

CHUR-tuhn

As a centrist, I think Donald Trump is bad, but the political and economic conditions that enabled him to become president twice are good

Got what I deserve for logging into Threads

me: this edible ain’t shit me 30 minutes later:

Analog shitpost

As online journalistic gossip continues, the probability of a comparison to Nuzzi approaches 1.

US public transit advocates: Don't just envy Europe. Start by envying Canada. Great piece on Montreal's remarkably cheap new rapid transit system. macleans.ca/society/mont...

Glancing at how transmission and distribution works in America, however, will make you fire a bullet into your fucking skull Example: www.amazon.com/Superpower-Q...

people like the water thing because it’s very simple. very direct. water people from avatar? those are the healer ones, very good, we want that stuff. we all know that when that stuff goes away, real big problems!

the power draw issues of data centers are real but there’s not a simple, satisfying policy lever there. it’s mostly transmission and distribution issues, which is an infinitely tangled process that wanders between state and local regulations. but it is a real problem. just not a fun one

until it turned out that he had a Nazi tattoo it sure looked like the Epic Labor Populist route was on track to succeed...via winning a Democratic primary and then a general election in a light-blue state