There is a better way of addressing an unjust prosecution based on thin charges. It’s called a jury trial.

Bill to strip New Jersey comptroller’s powers advances after chaotic, unanimous committee vote Opponents of the bill were frequently silenced, while supporters were allowed to speak as long as they wanted.

Poor Dan Cassino filled out the entire survey for Gov-elect Mikie Sherrill, including 7 open-ended questions on how to improve operation of state govt…and then the page reset when he tried to submit the survey. Any other public-spirited NJ residents have the same snafu?

BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university Full statement from NU below:

Fact check: True. ✅

The best rebuttal to neo-nazi propagandists like Miller is to lift up the stories of immigrants as individuals. These are living breathing human beings, not cardboard exemplars of their home countries' worst qualities.

And now, late at night before the holiday, the bill to gut the comptroller has dropped. Sponsored by Sen. Nick Scutari, whose buddies who run Union County were investigated by the comptroller. jerseyvindicator.org/2025/11/17/n...

I hear the Trump admin will have the new health coverage proposal ready in about two weeks.

Checks out.

Important corrective to narratives about rapidly rising college costs. Couple of caveats: Private four-year tuition/fees grew rapidly thru 2015-16; and cuts to Medicaid & SNAP are likely to lead states to cut higher ed funding, leading to tuition increases in the near future.

This should be all anyone has to say about Nuzzi.

The political science literature shows that authoritarian governments are often stocked with incompetent policymakers, and this does not prevent them from achieving their goals. But I submit this question: At what level would profound stupidity genuinely interfere with consolidating the regime?

EdTrust along with over 60+ Civil rights and education organizations denounce the unlawful transfer of critical U.S. Department of Education offices and responsibilities to other federal agencies. Read the full statement: https://bit.ly/4i9V6xf

Yes, let’s celebrate a disastrous self-own that makes America weaker and poorer, and whose impact will continue to resonate for years after Trump’s departure.

1/ Today the Department of Education said that it’s transferring a variety of programs to other agencies, making good on Trump’s promise to dismantle ED. The most important thing to understand is that this is a Potemkin reorganization. It’s fugazi, it’s fairy dust. It’s not real.

Stories like this make me angry for the people whose rights are trampled, and also curious as to how the ICE occupation of Charlotte will impact a key swing state that Republicans desperately want to control. Guessing it will be bad for Rs & wondering why Trump would risk that.

Before ACA, I regularly had patients who bought insurance they thought was "best for them". I've seen $50k annual max, $500k lifetime max, plans w/ no Rx coverage, plans *carving out* cancer treatment, plans that denied leukemia treatment because prior iron deficiency anemia was a pre-existing. /1

I am as exasperated with Chuck Schumer as anyone, but the coverage I’m seeing suggests that he is not the reason the Cave Caucus caved. There’s a whole clique of fainting flowers that desperately wanted to cut a deal, and Schumer held them back as long as he could.

So President Trump has the ability to deprive Sen. Tim Kaine of sleep by cutting off SNAP benefits or laying off government workers, thereby destroying Kaine's willingness to fight for his constituents? I'm sure Trump is quite pleased to know that and will take note for future confrontations.

A reminder - last March, republicans promised to restore $1.1B in funding to DC in exchange for funding the government, and Mike Johnson never took it up in the House.

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Puzzling to hear Kaine describe a Senate vote on ACA tax credits as something “Republicans weren’t willing to do” when Senate Majority Leader Thune publicly proposed it in a Sunday interview three weeks ago.

My understanding is that people in these states really need to start dialing and sending angry emails: Georgia, Nevada, Michigan, and New Hampshire. These are the home grounds of the emerging Surrender Caucus.

Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.

Congrats to New York voters for not electing this vapid airhead governor.

Exactly. And not just USDA’s own guidance, but the guidance of the USDA official, Patrick Penn, who is now threatening to punish states for following his earlier guidance.

This is what happens when you hate the people you serve, and also when you replace competent staff with disorganized bunglers. The states that released full benefits acted under the authority of a valid court order and without any guidance from USDA warning otherwise.

Now I have to rewatch all of Mamdani’s videos looking for the Liquid Sky influences.

President Trump delivers his takeaway lesson from last night: fair elections are dangerous and we should squash them as quickly as possible.

Graceful concession from Cuomo, who still calls his opponent Mandami. Maybe it wasn't a tactic and he’s literally unable to correctly pronounce Mamdani’s name? 🤔

Some crazy results in South Jersey tonight. 70% of the vote being reported in Ocean County, and Ciattarelli is up by 30 percent. Which seems good. Except that he needed to win Ocean County by *50* points.

Hmm, pretty sure this is the coffee shop where @nj11thforchange.bsky.social started. Can anybody confirm?

This article captures a zeitgeist that will probably be hard to remember a year from now.

Come on Garden Staters. You know what to do. You have six hours left to do it.

Josh is right here. In addition, Sen. John Thune publicly offered Dems this deal three weeks ago. People will reasonably want to know why Dems allowed federal workers to suffer for a deal they could have had back in mid-October. abcnews.go.com/Politics/thu...

Head Start closures will have far-reaching and long-lasting consequences. Because the million kids who rely on the program don't have other options. And so, we're likely to see: ⬇️maternal employment ⬆️child poverty, hunger, and homelessness ⬇️school readiness and achievement long-term

Reminds me that I once joined a block list to screen out MAGA shills. Then one day I couldn’t check out Ezra Klein’s account because the admin had added him in a fit of pique over the Kirk op-ed. I realized I couldn’t safely trust someone else to decide who to block and unsubbed.

Why should you 🫵🏿 care about SNAP? SNAP recipients saw: - Improved life expectancy - Lower chance of incarceration - Lowers chance of poverty - Lived in better neighborhoods - Higher human capital SNAP keeps our neighbors fed, communities safer, and kids educated. Also people are HUNGRY. DUH!

Question for SNAP experts: is this evil policy even correctly interpreting the regs? I suspect the policy pertains to participants paying with SNAP cards.

This could be an enduring image of Trump. In 2016, Trump said "My whole life I take money. Now I'm going to be greedy for the United States." That satisfied many Americans until now, when everyone can see that he never stopped being greedy for himself. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016...

Seems like a big deal.

Good to remind everyone that residents of rural communities are more likely to live in poverty and self-report food insecurity. One in seven rural Americans receive SNAP benefits, compared to one in eight residents of urban communities. Courtesy of FRAC. frac.org/blog/snaps-c...

Sen. Tuberville sounds so hopeful at the prospect of shifting pain to people he doesn't care about. Sorry coach! 15% of Alabama residents, 752,000 people, receive SNAP food subsidies, and more than half are in households earning less than the poverty threshold. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

New Jersey! Early voting has started! We love early voting. It’s convenient! It’s nearby! Weekend hours! The same exact machines as Election Day voting! Love to bring your kids with you to vote? Take them with you! And did we mention you get an I VOTED sticker? www.nj.gov/state/electi...

SNAP is one of those remarkable accomplishments of modern society — keeping 42 million (!!) people out of extreme hunger for less than 2% of the federal budget — that is so successful it largely becomes invisible

Despite having no military experience beyond playing “Call of Duty” once, I feel personally attacked by this weirdo. taskandpurpose.com/news/militar...

I cannot express how cool this is. Imagine the Bayeux Tapestry, which celebrated William the Bastard's barbaric invasion of England, repurposed to depict Hereward the Wake's rebellion against William. It's quite wonderful. norwichcastle.wordpress.com/2023/04/06/a...

Here's a new way for lawyers to get rid of race-based scholarships. “I think the law was intended to kind of fulfill the promise of the Declaration of Independence, that all Americans are created equal,” said one of the lawyers involved. www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

Fun fact. Trump destruction of soybean exports (rightfully) gets lots of attention. But you know what we sell even more of to China? Education. 2024 soybean exports to China: $13B. Higher Ed: $14B. Yes, all those internat’l students count as *exports.* Trump is STILL actively destroying that market.