Mr Rogers was talking about YOU 🫵

I really can't stress how important it is for progressive and leftists to contend for school, library, water, etc etc boards. Hyper local involvement in our communities where we can actually influence lives.

iPhone question - New iOS has started offering a list of nearby devices when I hit the speakerphone button. How do I turn this off? I only ever want it to go to speaker and the extra click-thru is really annoying

"A trans aide who works with autistic children in the Springfield Public School District faced calls for her firing from an unidentified group of individuals online, but instead of termination, the aide got validation from her community and the district."

"A trans aide who works with autistic children in the Springfield Public School District faced calls for her firing from an unidentified group of individuals online, but instead of termination, the aide got validation from her community and the district."

FOR WHICH WE HAVE YET TO GIVE A GOOD ANSWER!

“If you're arguing against us while using our language, we're winning." –GW Bush advisor Matt Dowd as the proto-fascist “war on terror” raged

The problem isn't "we gave him money and he wasted it" it's that the job was represent and serve everyone and he only looked out for himself and his buddies

OH MAN DO I HAVE THOUGHTS ON THIS

Emerson, NJ is being sued www.northjersey.com/story/news/b...

@thenewjerseyer.bsky.social has unearthed a crazy nugget here, from an interview with incoming NJ governor Mikie Sherrill. She clearly says that she stopped talking about building new housing, even though she thinks it's a good idea, because most every voter she spoke to hated the idea!! (1/5)

Another FYI for people who have just entered my TL today and are just learning by doing that I have infinite stamina for arguing with strangers on the internet

🙋🏻‍♀️ “We offered special creator access at major events, held briefings and calls with creators, communicated with national creators for amplification, and advised Mikie’s schedule so creators could attend and even participate in press gaggle.”

The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon

we really haven’t talked enough about how the ny post tried to make a major scandal out of Mamdani calling his father’s cousin aunt

It is long past time for New Jersey political reporters to get off Twitter.

People are mad at Democrats over on Threads. Do you understand? THREADS.

MAKING THIS DEAL IS MALPRACTICE ⬅️ my governor-elect 😁

Shame over poverty is such that people reflexively hide it. I had one pair of pants for years, and we lost our house to bankruptcy. But my mother and stepfather in the same town (with whom I didn't live) had no idea. So many people, barely hanging on, keeping it to themselves, now without food.

The GoFundMe platform is doing more to fight hunger in America than Republicans in Congress. Dystopian shit.

I don't need an AI bot to post inaccurate or inappropriate stuff in our local FB group. That's what the real people are for 😜

I think about this quote all the time and I'm so glad I stumbled upon my screenshot so I can attribute it properly to @aireadee.bsky.social

This is just wild - look at the bag of money sitting behind him during the interview!!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9Cm...

There’s a deep question here: the extent to which we weight the reasons voters give for their attitudes. My sense- based on the cognitive political psychology literature- is that we probably should be skeptical of the explanations people give about why they feel as they do.

Did Women Ruin the Workplace

In other words, "Our charity is now supporting our business."

Hold an interesting election and they will vote

how is this guy simultaneously completely fucking insane and a more honorable opponent than any republican in national office

It's been fun making content with Team @mikiesherrill.bsky.social (see everything on my TikTok) - let's go out and make this lady the next Governor of New Jersey!

Damnit. Damnit.

NJ is on the NYC media market, and I just heard a commercial from "National Black Empowerment" warning that the DSA would "not only defund the police, but abolish the police and release all prisoners including rapists and murderers" - not a paraphrase, that's a QUOTE 🤣

Faith leaders — as well as faith-based food banks — have long argued they absolutely cannot independently handle the raw number of people currently served by government food assistance programs. They argued it again last week in Congress, calling the idea a "lie". religionnews.com/2025/10/30/f...

I moved to New Jersey in 2015 and have voted in every single general and Dem primary election since. Getting texts & mail reminding ME to vote just shows how much dang money is flying around in our Gov race, whew.

WTF is actually wrong with Steve Fulop? NYC doesn't deserve him but I'm glad to see him go. Good riddance, cabrón.

okay here's that "one set of footprints" thing

AuntieS??? These better all be the sisters of your parents or you’ll have DOZENS of articles about this one 😤

WTF is actually wrong with Steve Fulop? NYC doesn't deserve him but I'm glad to see him go. Good riddance, cabrón.

This entire "the Dems need to abandon identity and focus on economics!" discourse is being driven by rich assholes who would melt down at the slightest hint of higher taxes on the wealthy or more welfare for the poor. Look how they're treating Mamdani! It's cynical bullshit all the way down.

This is... the most boomer shit I've ever seen

Halloween 2025 on a busy Halloween block is in the books. Started at 4, out of potatoes by 5, out of everything by 6:30.

NEW JERSEY NEEDS THIS cc @mikiesherrill.bsky.social @stateofnewjersey.bsky.social

TikTok just showed me my middle school orchestra director being surprised by his current students 🥹

Fun fact: If you're rude to me when I phone bank you, I mark you as "call back later". TALK TO ME NICE!

WHY DOESN'T NEW JERSEY HAVE SPECIAL STICKERS

"If the Democratic future requires us to exchange our discomfort with casual Nazism to advance a political agenda, I am not interested." 🔥🔥🔥

So far, no sign of a vote surge for Republicans in the early in-person voting numbers after the first weekend. Overall results are still a little more Democratic than they were in last year's Presidential. Data is still consistent with a world in which Sherrill is up by about 5 points.

I'm not saying they're doing this to keep him from coming to New Jersey to campaign for Jack Ciattarelli, but I'm sure NJ Republicans are happy about it

Has Google Maps gotten buggy? I've been having real problems with it lately - it glitches and stops offering the real time directions, stuck on what I already did miles ago

Send everybody involved with this to The Hague 😡

I popped by #NoKings in Paramus and the vibes were immaculate! Wish I could have stayed longer