NJ-12 update: after an unexpectedly serious set of petition challenges, former WFP state chair and 2024 NJ-07 Dem nominee Sue Altman will remain on the ballot, but with hundreds of her signatures thrown out

it really is as simple as basic human decency. my somewhat conservative parents don't "get" trans issues but the joyful, exuberant, confident person my friend has become has my parents correcting each other on they/them pronouns in private conversation and shit because my parents want to support

this trans day of visibility I would like to say that I love my trans friends and I hate the people who seek to hurt you with every fiber of my being

This is why after "punish the villains" we are doing "toddler new deal." National policies like treat people the way you want to be treated, clean up after yourself, share your toys

I’ve watched this four times and will not be stopping anytime soon

Donate you bastards.

after watching THE NICE GUYS (2016) I've decided that one of my favorite subgenres of movie is "the dirtbag protagonist's teen-or-younger child is the actual protagonist of this movie"

give ye, give ye, if you complain about congressional Democrats this is where you pay the tax to progressive campaigns

those links are why I want to kill the fossil fuel industry dead, I think I understand it better than you

I just find DSA discourse so funny when the actually existing DSA politicians in my state are uniformly focused on things like road repair, code enforcement, and hospital closures

okay, progressives I am giving to before the end of q1, let's figure this out together

I'm not sure what I expected from someone who came at me with "read my pinned thread" but I'm also not sure what they expected from my reading it.

extra amusingly because at this point Irish Americans do kind of run the banks, who do you think makes up the professional class in the basically WASP-free regions of the country that do most of the finance?

one thing that I think we need to realize is that not all political persuasion needs to be in the "convince a person to vote for a candidate" form — finding ways to demoralize and de-energize your opposition who would never vote for you is very valuable too

in Trenton there's a renewed push for the Polluters Pay Act, previously called the Climate Superfund Act, which would impose hefty penalties on fossil fuel companies and bring in billions in revenue for the state

magical what a good challenge can do: with local community activist Andrew Garcia Phillips challenging the at-large councilors in the primary and Hope Moran challenging the mayor as an independent in November, suddenly 3/4 of the Rahway Democratic Committee's 2026 slate appeared at our No Kings

Sophisticates: it‘s slopulism to say we can’t have healthcare because of war spending Republicans: you can’t have healthcare because of war spending

for the record this remains my favorite dog ever

I just find DSA discourse so funny when the actually existing DSA politicians in my state are uniformly focused on things like road repair, code enforcement, and hospital closures

Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball

"J-pilled" means "skeptical of Israeli influence" the same way that "arbeit macht frei" means "a preference for including work requirements in certain types of housing programs."

A lot of SCOTUS decisions are dumb, badly reasoned, even dangerous, but merit compliance out of respect for the rule of law and the Court's position under Article III. A decision denying birthright citizenship is a challenge to the constitutional order and should be understood as such.

the thing about yglesias style popularism is that anyone who has his political preferences and is still a democrat has worse aesthetics than 2016 hillary clinton

These state specific demands for marginal races would come into conflict sometimes too. If everyone has to support ethanol on account of Ashley Hinson, it hurts Pelota and Talarico, and confuses supporters of Ossoff or Cooper.

The difference between centrists and reactionary centrists is: Pelota is not actually demanding that members from Rhode Island or w/e embrace drilling, while Matty, Slotkin, and MGP demand just that.

per the NJ Globe's Zach Blackburn on X, attorney Tiffany Burress, the wife of Plaxico Burress, will likely stay on the ballot in the Republican primary for the right to challenge Rep. Nellie Pou in the Paterson-based 9th district, a formerly solid blue seat that flipped narrowly to Trump in 2024

Man no one wants this shit. You don't have to listen to some broke ass consultant trying to sell Republicans Lite. Do it at your own peril, Andy. Disengaged voters might not watch the news, but the base Dems who do disagree with this. I don't know whom you're pitching here

Justice Dems endorse Dr. Adam Hamawy, a former Army doctor who saved Tammy Duckworth's life in Iraq and who would be the first Muslim to represent New Jersey in Congress, for the open 12th CD being vacated by retiring Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman

this is a extremely real phenomenon and i'm genuinely completely and utterly baffled by it

In a healthy democracy the government would have collapsed by now and instead we've got at best just over 7 months to know if there will be electoral consequences and until january for them to start to take effect

at this point in their mayoralty like 75-90% of even seemingly okay big-city mayors have at least taken popularity hits and shown signs of the flaws that will be their downfall so Zohran is already doing pretty well

Goddamn but does he have a good publicist though. I wonder if its the same publicist as those weird natalist people

13-year Senator who has run for President before thinks running for President again will be the new perspective the party needs

that he thinks he’s new shows he’s old and out of touch

You could try to reform the geriatric Senate leadership instead if doing another DOA presidential campaign. You literally voted to confirm Jared Kushner’s father as ambassador

In February she dropped her Epstein-connected agent, Casey Wasserman. And immediately a whole well-coordinated PR campaign against her spun up. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_W...

taking advantage of a long train ride to lay out my Unified Theory of Big Centrist PACs

You’ll survive but you’ll be funnier in ways that worries people

this came to me in a dream

Calling it the “Trump regime” is just accurate in the sense that the constitution is not in effect. The minute they seized the power of the purse from Congress was the moment it stopped being a mere “administration.”

Lower the voting age to the working age. No labor or taxation without the ballot.

I MADE THIS IN DECEMBER. I'M YELLING. I FUCKING CALLED IT LMAOOOOO

"Charlie Brown had hoes." No he didn't. That's not true. He kidnapped people in his van; that doesn't count

It is extremely wrong how Dems talking point on this is that paying TSA by EO is totally legal and he should have done it sooner. It is not legal, that $10B is only for border security and TSA is not border security. He's stealing the power of the purse, stop saying he should have done it sooner!

it’s on jooble dude just log in to bebee

if you've known me or followed me long enough you've heard me rant about the abysmal state of New Jersey's infrastructure, which is why I love this project by DSA's Plainfield Ward 1 council candidate Meg Anandarangam, tracking every pothole she can find in Ward 1 www.google.com/maps/d/viewe...

counting down the days to FEC q1 reporting. like a normal person,