A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...

Hope you can cover this @talkingpointsmemo.com

Trump’s long-rumored crime bill is coming, and it’s shaping up to be a sweeping rollback of criminal justice reform and a dramatic expansion of presidential power. From bail rollbacks to harsher sentencing, here’s what to expect from the bill:

84% of New Jerseyans think their elected officials are corrupt, and we’ve seen that some of them are. A new generation of leaders is stepping up to change that. By knowing our power and having difficult conversations, we can change the culture of corruption in New Jersey and across the country.

Interesting. Many already look like people. My mother used to say it was a failure of our imagination that we made transmission towers look like ourselves.

The fight against corruption in our NJ politics is a fight between an entitled machine and leaders who care about their accountability to voters. The future is not with the machine.

Who *are* we? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/n...

I want to see and hear more opposition to a needless Trump war

Whiplash news cycles over the past two weeks: Mamdani Mamdani Mamdani --> Democrats crush GOP at polls --> Democrats cave --> Epstein Epstein Epstein

Great leaders prepare new leaders.

Bye, Felicia

A promised vote on the ACA? See, they can’t include the ACA without having to bring the House back into session - and they’d have to swear in Grijalva. That’s what this is all about. Protecting the Epstein files.

Democrats didn’t cave. They boxed republicans in and made them own the shutdown. Watch.

It's a good day to repeat my opinion the ACA should really be called Pelosicare

Last summer, on a road trip to Nova Scotia, my kid was asked where he was from. When he said New Jersey, he was met with a blank expression. The inquirer had no concept of U.S. states. He followed up "near New York City," and got a nod of understanding. →

Would be good to contrast with Trump's directives for US government taking stakes in Intel, US Steel, and forcing Tik Tok into a takeover by his allies and cronies

Hello NYT art director! This person does not look like they are walking.

unsung factor in Mikie Sherrill’s 13-point margin outpacing the 7-point spread in the polls could be her campaign’s apparent investment in GOTV. Our household and street got canvassed FOUR times in the past month.

Lesson to learn: Cuomo and Sliwa ran against New York City; Mamdani ran *for* New York City.

Wondering how Republicans are feeling about Trump and the effect it could have on the midterms? Look at these giant shifts in Sherill's trouncing of Ciattarelli: Flipping Morris County in North Jersey and Burlington, Cumberland and Atlantic in South Jersey. apnews.com/projects/ele...

Just like AI, humans hallucinate completely invented BS. We call those hallucinations conspiracy theories.

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

Totally, @aoc.bsky.social. I used to believe we NYers were exceptional, more informed, more enlightened. But after Giuliani, Bloomberg and now the apparent popularity of Andrew Cuomo, I have to recognize we live in the same haze of cheap simpleness and smallness as the rest of our country.

I know a lot of us are wondering how to respond to the craziness of the moment. We need to look to art and creativity to unlock the way out of this, to unlock the future we dream of. Dance to protest. Twirl your umbrellas. Make balloon animals. Put a daisy in the barrel of the soldier's gun.

Seen today on our pond in New Hampshire. Female and male loons share nest-building and nesting duties. We are rooting for their chicks to survive this year.

If AI is so brilliant and capable at repetitive tasks humans find dull and cumbersome, it can automate the job of asking artists, writers, creators and rights-holders for consent before using their work as training material.

DOGE staffers tried to assign a team to the independent Corporation for Public Broadcasting after President Trump's purported firing of three board members last month.

Wrote about the masked, plainclothes immigration goon squads. Gift link: wapo.st/438r062

I'm glad to get the work out in the world, with three poems in the spring Innisfree Poetry Journal alongside that of these fine folks www.innisfreepoetry.org

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

BREAKING: A woman who had been in ICE custody since February died on Friday at the Broward Transitional Center in Deerfield Beach.

Most of the world's wealth was held in Europe until World War I. The U.S. became the richest nation around 1920.

It's not just David Brooks at the barricades. Seems to me the tech press is getting more stirred up about politics than usual. A sign of a bigger resistance?

Gizmodo authors a re-usable lede: "the Trump regime has turned what used to be a dry, informative, fact-based website into a hype page for Trump’s personal grievances against perceived political enemies."

How much of this country's money is Trump paying to illegally hold Kilmar Abrego Garcia in an El Salvadoran detention camp? And the hundreds of others sent there without due process? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

Yesterday, Elon' Musk's DOGE tried to initiate a takeover of The Vera Institute of Justice, where I worked in the early 2000s. The work Vera is doing to end mass incarceration and make our justice system fairer and safer is critical our nation's greatness.

Believe me: next week he'll be putting tariffs on U.S. states.

Love my senior senator, Cory Booker. How is he still going, you ask? We need to ask ourselves, Are we still going? We must not let up.

Every day this timeline provokes bravery and cowardice. So far I am deeply disappointed at how many people who have materially less to lose are choosing cowardice. Choose bravery, people! Choose bravery!

“I hand it to them, and I say ‘This is a juicy one for you,’” [the mailman] said. “They were just like, ‘Yeah, I have no interest in that. This is garbage. This is literally going to go in the garbage,’”

“Distressing to some members”?! Disappearing people in this country because of their speech and beliefs is outrageous and more than distressing to everyone in our country.

Wow.

Actual question: Which has generated more real $: Trump’s tariffs or congestion pricing?

Staffer in your office confirms you are also a NO on cloture. Thank you Sen. Kim! Proud to be represented by you.

Hi @andykimnj.bsky.social - Essex County constituent here - I'm on hold with your DC office to find out we can count on you to vote NO on cloture. Please let us know. Illegal impoundments, firings and sales of fed property must stop & be reversed before any deal on funding govt has real meaning

A staffperson answering the phone in your DC office just confirmed to me this means you are also VOTING NO ON CLOTURE. Thank you, Sen. Booker for standing up to the CR charade! Illegal impoundments, firings and sales of federal property must *be reversed* before any deal should be made.

I'm glad to get the work out in the world, with three poems in the spring Innisfree Poetry Journal alongside that of these fine folks www.innisfreepoetry.org

Hardly any eggs left at Whole Foods, West Orange, NJ.

"They wrote songs that were trying to help us understand where we are and what we gotta do." —Pete Seeger on how Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Buffy St. Marie, Joni Mitchell, and Malvina Reynolds "are the greatest songwriters of the 20th Century."