Holy crap, guys. His approval rating is down 300%.

🎂🎁🎉 In celebration of our 5th anniversary, all of us at the New Jersey State Policy Lab are excited to release our 2026 Annual Report, which is available to read and download today: policylab.rutgers.edu/publication/...

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My dad requested my opinion about the Yale Report. Here’s my answer. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

In a recent essay, Dena Adler and Kate Welty of @nyulaw.bsky.social contend that EPA’s rollback of vehicle emissions standards would result in greater costs than benefits. buff.ly/ZUO8jOg

If you like what happened in Virginia, you’re gonna love DC statehood

My redistricting take is that we have an incredibly narrow path back towards something like a constitutional republic, and it runs through Dems fighting pretty dirty in the short term. I think war is a pretty good metaphor. All options are bad, we can't win and keep our hands completely clean.

one of the ways the mid to late 20th century political world has distorted the historical memories of even sophisticated observers is in the idea that you can achieve major transformations of american political life through something like bipartisan consensus

Warsh hearing so far has been kind of frustrating. No one has asked the questions that seem most relevant to me: 1) is Trump's criminal investigation into Powell appropriate? 2) what would you do if Trump threatened retribution against you if he didn't like your actions/Fed policy decisions?

Reminder that analysts thought there was a deal to be struck with North Korea in 2017-2018, not to denuclearize (they won't), but to count/verify nukes, stabilize situation. Trump didn't order any diplomatic work for that and instead did a photo op with Kim. His diplomacy and his deals are fake.

👶🍼 Gov. Sherrill announced that her proposed FY2027 budget includes nearly $49M in funding to expand Family Connects #NJ statewide, which provides free nurse home visits for new parents; 💵⚖️ the Assembly Budget Committee has been holding hearings on #health and #education over the upcoming #budget:

If the second Trump administration consisted of DOGE and nothing else it would still be one of the very worst in American history: www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/04/they...

I get to the airport at the exact right time every time. Anyone arriving any earlier than me is a sap, anyone arriving any later is a reckless nut.

The task of de-Trumpification of science and public health will take a generation and a "Marshall Plan" to rebuild. Without a bold, expansive vision to guide us, there is no coming back. Small-bore, poll-tested versions of the future will not help us. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

This is why Unitary Executive Theory should be dunked on as academic theory. Practically, it depends on the President being a virtuous man. President Trump is craven. Theoretically, a civil system lessens the spoils because the bureaucrat is not subordinate to the will of one man.

🍃 The average property tax bill in #NJ reached about $10,570 in 2025, the highest in the nation, leading some policymakers and residents curious in whether new revenue sources, like #cannabis taxes, could offset high #propertytaxes: @njspotlightnews.org @bflanagannj.bsky.social @newjerseymonitor.com

What are transportation engineering students learning about induced travel? According to new research by Drs. Kelcie Ralph and Ellen Oettinger White, not enough. Their review reveals significant gaps in how textbooks address this concept. doi.org/10.1177/0361... #UrbanPlanning #Research

Theme: Underrated 90s films Lone Star: Need to watch it again but remember loving it when it came out.

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This morning, I posted two important stories based on insider information from the FBI and SCOTUS, published in @theatlantic.com and @nytimes.com respectively. This doesn’t happen by accident. The source(s) have to know they’ll be protected, even if the reporters are threatened with jail.

Overshooting 1.5°C looks likely—but it’s not game over. The key is limiting how far (and how long) we exceed it, then bringing temperatures back down with rapid cuts + carbon removal. Every fraction of a degree still matters. 👉 www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-... #ClimateChange 🌍🌐🧪

Most Americans who don't exist in certain online far-left communities spend relatively little time thinking about Israel-Palestine as an issue and if you're not immersed in this 24/7 it can be surprisingly difficult to say something mundane as "please stop all the killing" without upsetting someone

Someday, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me.

Good Krugman piece paulkrugman.substack.com/p/lies-damne...

I continue to think that, when faced with the existential threats we face, “earn” is a far too self-centered and consumerist way of thinking about one’s vote.

Prof. Soumitra Bhuyan co-authored a study titled "Persistent Financial Burden Among U.S. Cancer Survivors Despite Affordable Care Act Implementation: Implications for Survivorship Financial Education." bloustein.rutgers.edu/bhuyan-co-au... #ACA #healthcare

So, I'm no market expert but have genuinely tried to learn more. Get that today on this news a big shift makes sense for trading so you're not on wrong side. But it doesn't make sense to me to leap to "it's open!" or "markets were right" given Iran's statement and dynamics of situation. 1/

Sometimes, I see this photo of Bob Dylan in a convenience store, checking out box scores, and I think to myself “Damn, I miss Baseball Weekly” 📸: Ken Regan

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Through a partnership with the New Jersey State Policy Lab and SPIA in NJ, the third annual Policy Collaboratory brought together graduate students, faculty, and policy practitioners from across the Garden State to discuss and brainstorm solutions to challenges related to higher education access.

Quote post with something good that lasted longer than the Confederacy (1861-1865) The Yankees World Series streak in the 1950s (1949-53).

hey I'm beginning to think that the dude with the Nazi tattoo doesn't like Jews

Hasan said he wants to be treated like a Never Trumper. But the thing is the Never Trumpers all actually hate Trump, Putin, and Xi because they oppose dictatorships. And they all vote for Democrats now because they know the stakes. I can’t be an ally with someone who wants the USSR back.

Finally reading the Rao opinion issuing a mandamus order blocking Boasberg's contempt proceedings. (opinions here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... ) It drips w contempt (no pun intended) for Judge Boasberg, and indeed for any meaningful efforts to hold the Trump admin. accountable 1/x

Vought responds with his incorrect line that presidents had been impounding for 200 years, until the ICA came along and "wrongly" took away the president's ability to impound. This is completely ahistoric. Will take a few tweets to respond fully.

Holy fucking shit, people. Stop it.

The Soviet Union was mostly an enterprise of death and oppression. It’s good that it’s gone. Lots of people are vastly better off. Just look at the Baltics. Hopefully someday the Russian people get to have a free society under a just government.

American conservative politician Clare Boothe Luce converted to Catholicism in 1946. In a 1953 meeting with Pope Pius XII, she was fiercely lecturing the pontiff on the Church's moral duty to fight communism when the Pope finally interrupted her. "You know, Mrs. Ambassador, I am a Catholic too."

The claim "the fact that the incumbent party was successfully defeated in an election shows that there was never anything to worry about and democracy was fine all along" in the Hungarian case— with explicit or implicit analogy to the US— is maddening to begin with, bc it's a well-known fact 1/

We can't keep looking away from his emotional and cognitive issues. The attack on the Pope was the beginning of a full night of melting down. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

People really gotta internalize that the situation in post-WW2 Europe was not "the traumatized Jews were welcomed back into society & the supportive arms of the Allies" but rather "many traumatized survivors languished in DP camps surrounded by people they no longer trusted & just wanted to leave."

I would - humbly & as a non expert - expound on this. The destruction of a state can become a political goal in itself. A great power can conclude that the enemy state must be wholly broken - but such total war goals also require total war escalation of both casualties and mobilization.

It's so funny to me that right-wingers love to pretend to love the Middle Ages and the Crusades and all that and then complain that the Pope shouldn't get involved in politics.

Dr. Jermaine Toney, James Kelly (MPP '20) and Alex P. Hoffman published an article in the Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy titled, "A History of Local Racial Housing Covenants and Federal Housing Policies," which examined records in El Paso, Texas, from 1900 to 1950. doi.org/10.1007/s419...

🔋 Gov. @mikiesherrill.bsky.social signed a new law removing a key regulatory barrier to developing #nuclear power generation in #NJ; 🎓 a bill has advanced to the Assembly #HigherEd Committee that would require state universities to collect and publicly report #college graduates' employment outcomes:

Six big-picture conclusions from Orbán’s smashing defeat – and what it all means for the transnational struggle against rightwing authoritarianism. I wrote about why Hungary matters – and why nothing about rightwing authoritarianism is inevitable. Some thoughts from my new piece: 🧵

This is facilitated, in part, by a recent MSPB decision that says removal protections for Immigration Judges are unconstitutional. The MSPB's decision is wrong under existing precedent, but it has certainly emboldened the administration.

Obama's JCPOA is looking wiser and wiser each day. Thanks, Obama.