Mass migration is fundamental to who and what America is. These Nazis spit in the face of my ancestors and yours too.

New Jersey, it is the honor of my life to earn your trust to become this great state’s 57th Governor. I promise to listen, lead with courage, and never forget who I serve.

With the cost of living spiraling out of control and a fascist White House imposing authoritarian rule on the country, the top priority of the New Jersey Senate President is...nitpicking ebike regulations? www.tapinto.net/towns/scotch...

Microcosm of how Dems approach comms in general. @sky.skymarchini.net was talking about initiative party-wide the other day, and one element of this is that we crack down on anyone showing individual initiative. It puts us 3 weeks behind the news cycle 100% of the time

Gonna be another one of those days being really thankful for the smart, rational leadership of Chuck Schumer, who warned us back in March that it was necessary to immediately acquiesce to Trump on funding the government to make sure literally none of what he’s doing right now would happen, isn’t it

Correct. The default Dem position has to be, "I will fire everyone Trump appointed, and everyone hired by anyone Trump appointed, regardless of what any statute or court says." Anything less is a ratification of Trump's actions that leaves the government broken and filled with saboteurs.

An outrage. We must chase these cowards out of the community we love, and we deserve a city, county, and state government that's willing to have that fight.

Delays at six times the rate of what New Yorkers ride into the city. Our leaders should be embarrassed. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

NJ Transit's official data makes it difficult to tell just how bad it is. So @suryamattu.com and I spent three months collecting the raw location data for more than 190,000 trains on NJT, Metro-North, and LIRR. Then @mariepastora.bsky.social made the graphics to show you. The answer: Very bad.

Nobody has been at my assemblyman's office since at least Friday, if these FedEx slips are any indication. lmao.

Horrific allegations against the now-closed Union County Juvenile Detention Center that demand a full investigation by the state.

An outrageous betrayal by my state senator. Is there anyone or anything Trenton wouldn't sell out for power and self-enrichment?

Glad to see a driver has been charged for the death of a cyclist on North Avenue in Westfield. Pedestrians and cyclists in Union County shouldn't be at risk every time we travel anywhere.

I don't know about everyone else, but my bill *already* went up by *more* than 20%. What's with the victory lap?

a society that would like to keep functioning must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

As a former UAW-unionized legal services staff attorney at a similarly underpaying organization, solidarity to NYC's striking UAW legal services workers. This kind of support staff pay in particular is unsustainable and makes everyone's working lives miserable (and my old employer had it worse.)

Battered and rusted but still standing—happy to see that my Eagle Scout project, the American flag drop box at the Scotch Plains American Legion post, survived Monday's floods! Ten years old now.

Democratic-controlled states need to explore the possibility of regulating crypto ourselves by updating and strengthening our own blue sky laws, before New Jersey workers lose their retirement savings to a Trumpist shitcoin pump-and-dump.

Scoop: The Wall Street Journal is working on a story highlighting Donald Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein—but is said to be facing pressure from the White House, with Trump himself calling Editor-In-Chief Emma Tucker to object. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/wall-stree...

in under 6 months, day time prime time tv for the largest news network (by viewers) has transitioned to openly embracing the term Nazi

The Plainfield Area Humane Society lost everything in last night's floods (but their animals are safe!) Help them get back on their feet:

Assemblyman Danielsen is right—which is why it would be nice to have a chair of the Assembly Environment and Natural Resources Committee who takes his job seriously and is ready to get to work funding and mandating the adaptive infrastructure and green energy buildout we need.

Heartbroken to hear that two of our neighbors in Plainfield were killed in the floods last night, especially after the previous deaths in Plainfield earlier this month. We need to act on climate now—instead, Trenton is weakening our flood rules and exempting affordable homes from flood standards.

Boy, if only someone would have told Epstein everything was fake and a creation of Obama and the CIA and deep state, he wouldn’t have had to take his own life or have it taken by imaginary people

Most of town was flooding as they did this. Four out of nine councilmembers (Miles, Montesdeoca, Newbury, Parsons) couldn't even make it!

Rhetorical question: why is the Rahway City Council passing its annual budget in the middle of a flash flood?

As the Big Bullshit Bill slashes Medicaid and the ACA to jack up everyone's healthcare costs, the Democratic-controlled state of New Jersey is ramming through double-digit price increases for state+local employee healthcare. Why are Nick Scutari, Craig Coughlin, and Donald Trump on the same page?

As mass deportation ramps up further, we'll get more stories like this. And folks will need to decide whether they want to laugh at or cheer for these types of deportations bc the deportee had conservative views (FAFO! Leopards!), or adopt a solidaristic approach that nobody deserves this treatment.

and the Union County Commission voted 6-3 to approve the sale of the Union County Jail to an unnamed buyer who is most certainly a private prison operator looking to open an ICE detention center

this should be THE priority for Democratic state trifectas right now, and it's not: New Jersey Democrats just passed a budget slashing some of the very same essential social services and public benefits as Trump

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Got to be a better way.

Three things @rasjbaraka.bsky.social and @bradlander.bsky.social have in common: 1) Both are suing Kristi Noem 2) Her goons conducted premeditated arrest of them 3) Before an election www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/18/r...

So after Mike Lee spread conspiracy theories about the Minnesota shooting and Bernie Moreno blamed the "extreme left," we learn that Vance Boelter voted in the 2024 Republican presidential primary. minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/17/v...

good to see that with steep cuts to necessary programs likely in the state budget, we've still got room for even more corporate tax giveaways

like everyone in the state I'm bracing for sticker shock on my electric bill this summer, and I'm thinking about how my assemblyman who's the vice-chair of the telecom and utilities committee doesn't bother showing up to work most of the time

"Between Katie Brennan and Ravi Bhalla in the 32nd district, Kenyatta Stewart in the 35th district, and potentially Ed Rodriguez in the 20th district [...] there’s going to be a new cohort of legislators come 2026 who will arrive in the Legislature having beaten the party organization.

would be nice if New Jersey was racing to regulate the chemical industry in the absence of the federal government, but the chair of our environmental committee is too busy cashing their checks

this is, if you can prove it, one of those old fashioned Big Time Fraud Crimes. Like years *per* odometer

I'm the executive at Subway who gives notes on the ads demanding "more splashing on the Italian dressing" and "drop the meatball from a much greater height." I don't have any kind of degree or expertise, I just like watching sandwiches bounce in weird ways and the founder hired me in 1983.

in 2025 how about we stop electing Democrats who are tripping over themselves to lend Trump a hand