From @colleenodea.bsky.social: Immigrant-protection bills head to Sherrill after fierce debate www.njspotlightnews.org/2026/03/immi...

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Happy St. Pat's

Open door policy

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DOJ sues five more states—Utah, Oklahoma, Kentucky, West Virginia, and New Jersey—for failure to surrender their full voter registration lists upon request. That totals 29 states and DC so far, whose voter rolls DOJ says legally “can be cross-checked effectively for improper registrations.”

Armed with billions of dollars, ICE expands footprint with Roxbury warehouse. "Kean voted for the federal law that made the Roxbury purchase possible." From @bhulac.bsky.social www.njspotlightnews.org/2026/02/arme...

"With the possibility of peace now at least on the table, it is a moment of some hope for Ukraine — but less so for the roughly 190,000 people, including 12,000 children, who live in the area that would change hands if Ukraine were to surrender it in a settlement." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/w...

Four years... x.com/Archer83Able...

Listen to his testimony: x.com/cspan/status...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. RIP, Jesse Jackson www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...

Tom Malinowski concedes, congratulates Analilia Mejia in CD11 special primary election: x.com/Malinowski/s...

TRO granted in Gateway tunnel funding lawsuit: US District Judge Jeannette Vargas agrees w NJ & NY Attys Genl that Trump Adm exceeded its authority and was “arbitrary and capricious” when it froze fed funding for the $16B Gateway tunnel project...

" I have also been laid off by the Post. I was one of the few journalists still working inside Russia. " x.com/FrancescaEbe...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

This is just devastating. All of the layoffs are brutal. Words cannot describe the value of the work done by WaPo’s climate desk

A plethora of Dem candidates crowd the special 11CD primary field in NJ....and one Republican. Read @colleenodea.bsky.social's rundown: Last day to choose 11th District contenders for Sherrill's seat www.njspotlightnews.org/2026/02/last...

"I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone." x.com/lizziejohnso...

WaPo guts 1/3 of its staff--300 souls--eliminating its sports section, several foreign bureaus and its books coverage, among other positions. Read their goodbyes, and this reaction from former editor-in-chief Marty Baron, via @benmullin.bsky.social: x.com/BenMullin/st...

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After plowing the driveway. For reference, I’m 5’1”

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So much snow! So little dog!

First pass. He’ll be back. It’s still snowing hard. No sleet in Sussex County.

Shoveled a path from the front door and cleared a few feet more so there’ll be less to wrangle later. It’s fluffy stuff. Maybe a foot, so far. Cleared a potty spot in the yard for Shih Tzu Ming, too. Snowing hard in northern Sussex County.

Ming the Merciless reports the snow’s a full Shih Tzu high and still falling hard up by Wawayanda Mtn.

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Final action by @govmurphy.bsky.social: he signed one of the 3 so-called immigrant protection bills—the “Safe Communities Act” to safeguard public spaces like schools, churches, hospitals and courthouses. He cited concerns over bill language as reasons to pocket veto the others.

Heavy snow … and a surprise visitor who stays for just a moment. (My guess…his name starts with a Jerz “J”) I often wonder how they make it through storms...

@govmurphy.bsky.social: deciding whether to sign these bills pits "standing up for our values, our communities under attack, our individuals under attack" versus "you're trying like heck not to start WW3 with these guys in Washington. And getting that right is really hard." youtu.be/IqxWTICthcA?...

The venue needs a makeover, the organization says and urged the Legislature to help it score $300 million in tax breaks, in a lame duck legislative power play. www.njspotlightnews.org/2026/01/nj-l...

All three immigrants rights bills now sit on the gov's desk.

The Senate adopts the gov’s recommendations to amend the Privacy Protection Act, as lame duck session of 221st NJ Legislature gavels to a close amidst a flurry of amendments spurred by last-minute CVs.

.@GovMurphy issues conditional veto of Privacy Protection Act (A6309/S5037)—one of three immigrant protection bills just passed by NJ Legislature in lame duck session—requesting amendments to impose liabilities on govt & healthcare agencies that violate the Act, among other changes.

Cheers erupt from the gallery as Senate passes bill to codify the Immigrant Trust Act, one of three designed to strengthen privacy & policies in the face of federal ICE actions. Bills already passed the Assembly-the pkg now heads to @govmurphy.bsky.social @njspotlightnews.org

Lawmakers approved a $300M tax break pkg for a NJ sports arena makeover... youtu.be/NHxJVbs-L7w?...

RIP, Gov. Codey: www.nj.com/politics/202...

"We're not at the peak yet. I don't think we'll be at the peak for another few weeks. And I think that we're seeing both the number of cases as well as hospitalizations increase." youtu.be/1oYndzkWJpU?...

This year’s nasty version of the flu virus is hitting New Jersey especially hard, public health experts say, and the already high numbers are likely to keep rising: youtu.be/FOW6Fu5qep0?...

Response from NJ DOH to CDC’s childhood vaccine protocol revisions: “…minimum requirements for school and child care attendance…remain unchanged by federal actions to date.”

Statement coming from NJ Dept. of Health More at @njspotlightnews.org

Kennedy Scales Back the Number of Vaccines Recommended for Children--recommending routine shots against 11 diseases, not 17, citing standards in other wealthy nations. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/h...

Good morning, Jerz. Whole new day.

US has taken Maduro to US for trial on drug charges, acc to Trump Adm: www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...

To those who are still awake—Happy New Year!

And away we go……

Merry Christmas, Jerz!

Hours before 60 Minutes was set to air a story on deportees who were sent by the Trump administration to prison in El Salvador, describing “brutal and torturous conditions,” 60 Minutes announced that it has pulled the segment and will air it in the future.