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Ok, now that we got that out of the way. Gottheimer, one of many Zionists who decry tortured connections between anti-Zionism and antisemitism, has absolutely no problem trying to paint all Arabs, all Muslims, all dissent as terrorists. This language from these leaders makes everyone less safe.

It's also completely false. Tlaib's resolution calls for an end to the violent Israeli invasion and occupation, an end to the crimes against humanity, war crimes, ethnic cleansing. Hundreds of the thousands of Lebanese are being threatened, displaced, and killed. That's not Hezbollah.

It's also ahistorical. Hezbollah formed to resist the Israeli invasion & occupation of Lebanon in 1982. B/c history doesn't start the first time someone responds to Israeli aggression. The South of Lebanon has been an area for Palestinian refugees as well, from a century of Israeli ethnic cleansing.

Unlike the many online trolls who push these ignorant narratives, Gottheimer knows better and has instant access to experts, including Jewish and Israeli historians and foreign relations experts, if he was interested in the truth. Instead he spreads disinformation, encouraging violent response.

Context: Murphy, on his way out of office, appointed two of his children to a new public board charged with overseeing technological innovation in the state. His children do not have the expertise in technology necessary to hold the position. All after failing to coronate his wife Senator.

Really was hoping we weren't going to have to reuse this, even though it was a banger.

Hello #vapol it is I, #njpol, from the past with a warning for future you. Don't fall for the same bad takes that led NJ to run "Dems" like Josh Gottheimer to "purple" districts. Run radical candidates, take brave policy stands. Be Analilia Mejias in a House of Josh Gottheimers. Keep the takes good.

Context: One of NJs many political problems is that there's very little critical journalism focused on the state. Some of the coverage we do get like the NJ Globe and the Star Ledger Editorial Board, is just laundering rumors and vendettas, giving them an incredibly corrosive gloss of journalism.

Tom Moran, now Substacker, formerly Star Ledger Editorial lead, is a prime example. Opinion writers obviously have opinions. But by incorporating unsourced interviews, and statistics the writing (when not printed on a page with a huge "Opinion" at the top) appears to be well sources and fact-checked

In reality it's anything but. For example here Moran calls NJ11 a D+5 district. There's no source & it's utterly divorced from electoral history. Obama carried the district by 5 in 2008! That was almost 20 years and 2 redistrictings ago. Last year, Harris was +8 & Sherrill won this House seat by 14.

So why is Moran so down on Mejia? B/c his BFF Julie Roginsky, per her own public statements, is running Malinowski's super PAC and consulting on his campaign. Funny how that's not mentioned in his "reporting." Moran wouldn't be questioning if Mejia should primary Malinowski if he had won. Thereby: 🤡

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Context: Outgoing Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop hid an extra $150M budget shortfall, while running for Governor. But maybe worse, his response to the new Mayor calling it out is to double down saying if he was still Mayor he would have refused to raise taxes for the 5th straight budget.

A large factor in municipal finance woes is that Mayors & Councils remain laser focused on attracting business & development via tax gimmicks rather than investment. Municipal housing wouldn't pay taxes, sure, but it would capture rents directly, without the profit motive.

Municipal land sales fix this year's budget, but public ownership allows for ongoing revenue and more control over how land is used. This is highlighted by ICE concentration camps now having to be fought against.

Municipal/County ownership requires investment, which is why Gov Murphy's failure to follow through on his campaign promise of creating a public bank will continue to haunt our state as interest flows out to corporations at higher rates to tax payers and not back into other projects and lower taxes.

Fulop has long been known for 2 things. Catering to real estate/business & being a poster. This episode perfectly captures both as he has a new job shilling for businesses against Mamdani's extremely popular policies in NYC & saying "and I'd do the stupid thing again" is peak posting through it.

Folks on the Partnership for NYC Board should probably keep a close eye on their financials. And Mayors and Councils need to accept that they can't provide for their residents while also continuing to starve themselves of tax revenue and income by catering to business and the ultra wealthy.

Kudos to @traceytully.bsky.social for covering this

Context: So does this mean he's planning to bring just the apartheid to NJ or the genocide too? A rare tag b/c it's life & death: @mikiesherrill.bsky.social please don't do this. Your Jewish constituents don't support this man, this government, nor racial superiority plans & genocide.

This nails it. 10/10. No notes.

Context: 1st, the quick 1. The bombs the US violated international law to drop on Iran, w/o justification or provocation, are 30k lbs. That means it weighs about the same as the US supplied/funded F35 that is used for genocide in Gaza daily. The F35 could carry half a bunker buster while taking off.

So, sure Josh, give them as many bombs they can't drop as you want. Only giving Israel weapons they can't use to murder Palestinians? Welcome to the resistance. 2nd: It's obviously bananas to find new, additional weapons to give to Israel during decades of ongoing crimes against humanity & genocide.

3rd: Iran hates America more than Israel? Does that mean more than Jewish people too? But we've been told their anti-Semitic blood lust could never be satiated & their only reason for hating Israel was it being a Jewish state? We can't believe you'd say something so anti-Semitic, & self-hating Josh.

4th: Anything anyone one does with this asshat is stupid. He's cosplaying IDF in the Capitol, a military already known for crimes against humanity when he chose to volunteer with it, while trying to justify an ongoing genocide with Rashida Tlaib's Palestinian flag celebration her heritage.

West vs. East

Context: If I had a dollar for every time a centrist Dem told me to vote Blue No Matter Who to elect some shitty nepobaby with no platform & no plan to help voters I could have bought out Venice to block Bezos' wedding plans. But when a left candidate overwhelmingly wins, in a deep blue electorate:

We may have never had such a strong contrast across the Hudson River than Sherrill vs Mamdani. Cuomo got Sherrill level support, conceded within hours, & yet he's running in the general, b/c his voters buy the Islamophobic propaganda his PAC was running, which Fox News gleefully picked up.

Progressives got slightly less support in NY than in NYC, but it was also split across 3 candidates, whereas in NYC, ranked choice allowed for cross-endorsement & a campaign to not rank Cuomo, regardless of who else you supported. In NJ it would be don't rank Gotthiemer (for policy not sex creep)

Centrist Dems vs. the Hudson River West: If we lose its the left 40%+ who voted progressive's fault for not getting on board East: *running past ,hair on fire, screaming* Anti-Semitic Communist Sharia Law is here! Daddy Cuomo running against the Dem candidate in the General is all that can save us!