Yankee Fans welcome Ted Cruz to New York. Proud of my homies!

i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet

Where my man Chris Childs at?!?! #LGK #KnicksInSix

Our big social media platforms have been *intentionally designed* to make it near impossible to find (and post) useful, timely information about disasters, as this article points out - this has been angering me for years. We need “most recent” and functional search! Which Bluesky provides.

American media: What could Elon Musk's hand gesture have meant? German media: We know exactly what the fuck that meant

Sure feels like there's a potential trade/macro policy shock on Jan 20. Maybe bark more than bite but we're getting some kind of major announcement

This is pretty satisfying after all those years of "everyone's leaving NJ!" hysteria that was mostly anti-tax/govt nonsense. "New Jersey is kicking off 2025 with record-levels of growth including the largest number of jobs and employers to date." www.insidernj.com/new-jersey-l...

You can report price gouging landlords from anywhere!

How China is Erasing Tibetan Culture, One Child at a Time "Hundreds of thousands of Tibetan children are being separated from their families and placed in boarding schools by the Chinese government, where they are indoctrinated." It can (and has) happen(ed) here too www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

RFK jr has been one of the US’s foremost campaigners against vaccines for two decades. Dating the onset of his potential impact to his presidential campaign is … stupid??? Evil??? Both??? Why are you alibiing the guy for his life’s work?

Truly my favorite thing to read every year. @drewmagary.bsky.social just don't miss. defector.com/the-2024-hat...

Really illuminating and important piece here by @starledger.bsky.social on extremists in New Jersey and their takeover of Sussex County, resulting in chaos, bigotry, and militia groups. #MustRead www.nj.com/politics/202...

The news media have us looking in the wrong direction when they show you the clowns in Washington. This is where the battles are taking place, right now. In the local courts and the state houses. We must pay attention and act to send the message that this is not ok. boltsmag.org/north-caroli...

"Trump won 91 percent of “news desert” counties—where there is no local coverage of any kind—by an average of 54 percentage points. Notably, several of these are heavily Latino counties on the southern Texas border, which saw enormous swings toward Trump." prospect.org/politics/202...

Mass deportations will "start right here in Chicago," Trump's border czar says https://buff.ly/4g674WD

As NYPD officials boasted of the resources expended finding the killer of a corporate CEO, another sidewalk murder the same week, of a migrant teen, has not received the same treatment. hellgatenyc.com/two-manhatta...

Rest in power and peace to the great, great Nikki Giovanni. She accomplished and gave so much. Here's a noteworthy conversation between her and James Baldwin, displaying just a bit of her wonder, which will forever stand the test of time... youtu.be/y4OPYp4s0tc

"[Musk has] said $42.45bn spent by the US for rural internet isn’t efficient. His Starlink company stands to benefit if he reduces that investment"

I'm curious. During the campaign, fact-checkers routinely dinged the Harris campaign for calling Project 2025 Trump's playbook, saying "Trump has denied this." Have any of them admitted how badly they got rolled in the most obvious of ways?

Back in 2019, I wrote about the Catholic nuns who bought and sold human beings. It turns out that they were far from the only women actively engaged in the American slave trade.

Even Ja Rule didn't sue 50... #charmin apnews.com/article/drak...

Grambling band practicing TV Off right now to play at halftime tomorrow #MUUUSTAAAAAAAAARRRDDD

MUSTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARDDDDD!!!!!! #GNX #Kendrick

this rules

Sigh. May wind up fighting Christians before I die. Eh. There are worse ways to go.

The last 7 minutes of this Knicks game has been slower than a Saturday morning showing of PMQs on PBS

this chrome extension goes through your following (and blocked) lists on twitter and identifies bluesky accounts for those people so you can follow/block them here chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f...

Do I remember ordering this mug? Not at all. But it arrived and it is accurate. Therefore, it's in the rotation... #MathIsReal P.S. if you sent me this as a gift please identify yourself via text so I can say thanks!

So...what's up with hashtags here? They seem to work (ie #MathIsReal) but I don't see anyone using them.

Textbook autocratic intimidation.

the DOGE agency will not have the authority to reallocate funds (nor would that be constitutional), it is a PR tool to create the impression that government spending is inherently wasteful and build political momentum for spending cuts

The speed with which my eyes rolled out of my head, down the block, and into the river when I spelled out the acronym for Dept Of Government Efficiency...

One thing I don’t think is super well known is that the original Andrew Wakefield paper in 1998 that basically started the modern anti-vax movement and has since been super-duper-retracted because it’s fraudulent and full of shit was a descriptive “study” of a grand total of just *12* children.

Oh, that's the thing. It's MASSIVE. ProPublica reported a few years ago that an additional tax break added to the Trump tax cut bill made by Ron Johnson netted the Uihleins (his biggest backers) more than $200 million in 2018 alone. www.propublica.org/article/secr...

Is it just me or do multiple cabinet nominees have credible sexual assault allegations against them? A banana republic with a heavy dose of gamergate...

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? Nearly every country on the face of the planet guarantees some form of paid leave. The United States, virtually alone, does not nationally guarantee any paid leave--not one day, not one dollar.

In the meantime between time, say watup to Juno! It really was too quiet around the house lately, even with a 2-month old.

So, we actually here now or what? I can't be posting the same thing on 4 different platforms I don't got that kind of stamina anymore.

#ICYMI, @fundfornj.bsky.social President @brandonmckoy.bsky.social was part of the panel on @njspotlightnews.bsky.social The Change Talks: State Budget & Taxes. An enlightening conversation about New Jersey's unique budget process and tax challenges. youtu.be/4kvtMG67kdQ?...

NJ's place in Black America will be hampered as long as we continue to abide our short sighted & immature approach to public investments & budgeting. The question isn't how much do we have & how do we disburse it, but what do our communities need to thrive & how do we secure it.

"The authors assess the potential costs and likelihood of four threats: attacks on financial trading models, bond dumping by foreign holders of U.S. debt, deepfakes used to spread misinformation, and memetic engineering used to manipulate beliefs and behaviors."

Do I remember ordering this mug? Not at all. But it arrived and it is accurate. Therefore, it's in the rotation... #MathIsReal P.S. if you sent me this as a gift please identify yourself via text so I can say thanks!

Looking forward to this next week at Princeton! NJ has many great qualities & opportunities, but we must be clear-eyed about the structures & practices that undermine our shared prosperity as a state by harming & marginalizing Black families & residents. Register now to attend! #BlackHistoryMonth

Can't thank Dean Shapiro enough for the conversation on EJB Talks. Always fun discussing policy, and appreciate the chance to share what we're up to at The Fund for New Jersey!

Very difficult to square this reality with exhortations that the priority is to make the state more affordable. As always, the real question is “affordable for who?”…given unyielding commitments to tax cuts for wealthy homeowners and corporations, the answer seems quite clear.

Wholly and frustratingly unnecessary. Realizing a $1 billion annual tax cut for corporations while letting NJ Transit continue to struggle due to lack of dedicated funding is a gross dereliction of duty & responsibility by public officials. As always, don't tell me your values, show me your budget.

As with David Card's famous study of Mariel boatlift, this finds no effect of even very large increases in immigration on wages.

As the one and only Dick Gregory was known to say, "if democracy is such a good thing, let's have more of it." ICYMI, excellent convo with Julia Sass Rubin on how we can do more to boost healthy democratic principles in NJ.

lmao