“They didn’t just walk in chasing one person, they went into multiple rooms asking and looking for teachers while children were present,” Ramirez said. “This is an agency that has gone rogue and it an agency that believes that as long as they can cover their face, they can get away with anything.”

👀 Scoop: IRS Direct File, the free government-backed program that let you file your taxes for free, is dead. IRS wrote to state tax agencies saying it would not be operational this coming tax season, per records I've obtained. IRS Direct File: 2023-2025. (Story from when the pilot launched.)

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!

FACT CHECK: TRUE

@njpolicy.bsky.social doing its annual report distribution

free "I VOTED" sticker idea @stateofnewjersey.bsky.social

They went pretty seamlessly from demanding we have to effusively honor Charlie Kirk's legacy to mainstreaming Nick Fuentes.

Hours-long wait times. Endless looping music. Useless robot messages. Millions of seniors and disabled people call Social Security every month. What they experience is often maddening.

This is good, but when people talk about this I want to emphasize: we have not run out of money for SNAP. The money is there, it has been allotted and saved specifically for this instance. Trump refuses to release the billions of dollars that Americans have already allotted to continue food stamps!

Sticker shock for ACA recipients: Clint and Cindy Kittrell, Oregon: $305/month --> $2,500/month. Chad and Tara Smith, Idaho: $710/month --> $1,000/month. Jessica Bunger, Florida: New premiums quadruple to $1,100/month. "I’ve never felt so powerless in my life" www.wsj.com/health/healt...

JOHNSON: “.. The pain register is about to hit level 10.” @politico.com #Shutdown www.politico.com/live-updates...

Republicans in Congress are taking an indefinite vacation & relinquishing their power to a wannabe king. Without a Congress, we’re living in a dictatorship—not a democracy.

So, given the SNAP crisis & that stupid DNC memo making the rounds it's important to revisit Reagan's decade long effort to demonize gov't spending on poor people by inventing the welfare queen lie. He's doing this as early as January of 1976. Please note the response from the crowd at the end.

Dear New Jersey Lawmakers, Tax the rich. Sincerely, The For the Many Coalition

famously unpopular policy proposal

While New Jerseyans starve and face skyrocketing costs, the ultrarich are getting new tax shelters thanks to the GOP tax bill The ultrarich are getting even richer at the expense of the rest of us

These kinds of "studies" drive me bonkers Business survival rate in NJ is very high, but the state scores low on some random report card bc of tax environment Maybe judging business environment based on actual business data is more important than marginal tax rates on big corporations

The current work stoppage in the House is really unusual for a non-midterm year. It isn't about the shutdown; the House cast votes in October 2013 despite one. And it started earlier — about when Grijalva won her election. www.pbump.net/o/remember-t...

New Jersey’s window shopping for 2026 ACA marketplace plans is open, with large premium spikes because of expiring premium tax credit enhancements. A typical 60-year-old couple making $85,000 will have to pay an additional $20,600 annually for benchmark coverage. (1/4)

im sorry you cant have food but we gave all our money to one guy who “invented” 2 day shipping and another thats promising robot butlers so you can see how our hands are tied

Wordle bot when you guess wrong: you dumbass, you fucking dumb idiot Wordle bot when you guess right: wow lucky guess, you talentless hack

who knew

Really appreciate you sharing this bit as the journalist who spent hours researching and analyzing the info it would be great if you could link back to the original work: popular.info/p/ice-boosts...

there is a new scandal as bad or worse than what got trump impeached the first time about every 48 hours

YOU DON'T SAY

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

Still appalled at how paltry and terrible the NYT coverage of the protests were and how nobody there feels any responsibility to address the criticism. This was not something that caught them off guard. This was many levels of decisions.

Once again, one reason Trump says & does whatever he wants is bc every societal institution, including the media, has totally normalized & internalized the idea that the laws, the Constitution, & the international treaties we have signed & ratified simply don’t apply to this one guy. It’s maddening.

I'm old enough to remember Obama being deemed disrespectful of the office of president bc he didn't wear a suit jacket

COUNTERPOINT

shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump

A recent survey found that 75% of people said soaring prices are hitting their wallets and hitting them hard. The economy is stuck in neutral - Americans are struggling with higher costs and businesses aren’t hiring, says our @alexsjacquez.bsky.social to @news4jax.com.

Every Sunday morning at 7 am we gather for an ecumenical prayer service outside Delaney Hall the private for profit migrant prison in Newark.

After adding new data to our spreadsheet, our central estimate of turnout for the No Kings Day protests yesterday has risen to 5.5 million, with an upper bound of 8.7 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

Braindead megaphone theory in action

Ashamed of my alma mater. A tragedy visited upon a storied newspaper by a vindictive administration. Despicable behavior

"how remarkable! how swift! how efficient!" Press eagerly cheerleading cruelty

Decades of research have shown that one of the most powerful tools to combat poverty isn't complex—it's direct cash support. New Jersey has two clear pathways: Expand existing family support programs and create new ones!

New euphemism for blatantly violating the law just dropped

started / going

A small group of wealthy towns tried to overturn New Jersey's landmark affordable housing law — and lost. Thanks to the law, many more of NJ's municipalities are creating affordable housing than ever before. Learn more in this informative piece by @njspotlightnews.org's @colleenodea.bsky.social:

starting to think right-wing politicians might not be serious about reducing antisemitism

Exactly why New Jersey needs the Immigrant Trust Act!

Baseball is stupid

Sam must answer for his crimes today #NYTBee

Imagine Watergate and the Saturday night massacre combined but instead the media ran cover for it. That's what this is.