"The deal is an extraordinary transfer of taxpayer dollars to a foreign company for the purposes of boosting the production of fossil fuels, a main driver of climate change, while throttling offshore wind power."

Confirming my scoop from last week, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced this deal with TotalEnergies today. Story w/ @bradplumer.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/c...

this is an old Vox article I wrote about air pollution data currently listed no. 3 of the most popular stories. It's been permanently on this list for the three(!) years since I wrote this, and linked to directly in Apple's weather app. lesson from this: stop laying off climate/enviro reporters!

"German utilities expressed many of the same concerns nearly a decade ago when plug-in solar started to become popular in Germany. But with more than a million systems installed, no safety incidents have been reported for customers who used the panels as instructed"

this is completely insane: since when is it acceptable for a tech company to rewrite news outlets' headlines without their consent? especially at a time when audiences are sensitive to how stories are framed in headlines? (ie Israel/Palestine, the Trump admin, ICE) www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

🚨Scoop by me: 🚨

Toms River politics just keeps getting lower and lower. From Riley Yates at @nj.com www.nj.com/news/2026/03...

NJ’s transitional aid program for cities with distressed finances has never handed out more than $70M in a single award. No city has ever even asked for $100M. Now, Jersey City wants $150M to help with a budget mess city leaders compare to Atlantic City and Detroit. gothamist.com/news/jersey-...

The crew of the USS Ford have been deployed for 9 months. It's about to be the longest such deployment since Vietnam, b/c of Trump's adventures in Venezuela & Iran. 600 of them are sleeping on floors & tables after a fire broke out. It took 30 hours to put it out. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/u...

ICYMI, @michaelsolwarren.com on Gov. Sherrill's budget proposals and what they would mean for taxes, property tax rebates & education funding: www.wnyc.org/story/gov-sh...

When an ICE agent showed up at Elmhurst last January looking for a patient, administrators said he couldn't enter without a judicial warrant. But after a call from his supervisor, they relented... my latest for @gothamist.com / @wnyc.org gothamist.com/news/what-ha...

The former Christ Hospital in Jersey City closed yesterday evening, despite weeks of fierce pushback from local leaders and its nurses union. The legal fight is likely just beginning gothamist.com/news/jersey-...

NEW: A fundraising email from Donald Trump for his PAC features a photo of a flag-draped transfer case carrying a soldier’s remains from last Saturday’s dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base, while promising donors access to the president’s “private national security briefings.”

“The memo also bars reporters from requesting public records through the Freedom of Information Act…”

Breaking NYT: The Trump admin just lifted sanctions on Russian oil currently at sea — allowing it to be shipped to buyers around the world as Trump scrambles to contain soaring energy prices because of his war with Iran. The admin claims the move is temporary.

Today, NYT celebrates their successes from the past year, but we are witnessing a major failure of leadership: @nytimes.com mgmt is denying one of our members, Rich Quan, permission to continue working remote, even as a certified caregiver for his 96-year-old father, who suffers from Alzheimer's.

NJ's child care assistance program quietly restarted enrollments last month, after a sudden, months-long pause last year. It's still unclear if the program will expand to reach its full potential: Sherrill wants that, but lawmakers haven't shown much urgency yet. gothamist.com/news/nj-chil...

new from Gov. @mikiesherrill.bsky.social’s budget for @starledger.bsky.social, the $60.7 billion plan includes over $1B in subsidies for NJ Transit. About $140M was re-directed from fund meant to build clean energy. @alexfromnj.bsky.social: #NewJersey is “hampering” its ability to lower costs 1/3

ExxonMobil’s board of directors has recommended that the company move its corporate registration from New Jersey to Texas. That would align the oil and gas giant's domicile with the location of its physical headquarters in the Houston area.

Gov. Sherrill today proposed the first budget of her term — a $60.7B plan for NJ that tries to balance spending cuts and the affordability crisis. “This is the budget we can afford. If there are things you think we need to add — come to me with places we can cut.” gothamist.com/news/sherril...

Good stuff here from @mehayes.bsky.social

NY, NJ keep pushing lawsuit to break up Ticketmaster owner Live Nation gothamist.com/news/ny-nj-k...

Federal judge disqualifies trio leading New Jersey U.S. attorney’s office gothamist.com/news/federal...

Long-delayed Jan. 6 plaque honoring police quietly erected overnight at Capitol

new for @starledger.bsky.social, I wrote 2,000 words about #NewJersey’s new rule which will require homes built in flood-risk areas to be 4 feet above the standard set by FEMA. #JerseyShore builders and realtors are worried, environmentalists are happy but cautious. www.nj.com/ocean/2026/0...

The Turnpike Authority is moving the plan along, this morning they approved the first two construction contracts for the new bridge

Took a look at what will happen to people in the Heights and other hospitals in Hudson County when the hospital formerly known as Christ closes its ER next week.

Federal judge says Trump administration can't kill NYC's congestion pricing tolls gothamist.com/news/federal...

Inside the efforts to block, implement or negotiate the expansion of NYC’s crucial rental assistance program @wnyc.org @gothamist.com gothamist.com/news/mamdani...

A win for community groups, climate activists and local leaders in Newark and Jersey City: Gov. Sherrill announces her administration recommends the Turnpike Authority replace the Newark Bay Bridge only at its existing capacity, not an expansion www.nj.gov/governor/new...

Au revoir, Pompidou: Jersey City eyes affordable housing at scrapped museum project site gothamist.com/news/au-revo...

Jersey City says it will work with developers to build affordable housing, community space at a site previously held for the scrapped Pompidou plan gothamist.com/news/au-revo...

Even after all this snow. www.northjersey.com/story/news/e...

The Highlands Act has restricted development in much of North Jersey for 20 +years, to protect reservoirs, rivers and streams that provide water for 70% of the state. The restrictions — long derided locally — now may be a tool for blocking an ICE detention center gothamist.com/news/ice-cou...

ER at troubled hospital in Jersey City's Heights gets a lifeline, for two weeks gothamist.com/news/er-at-t...

More good stuff from @mehayes.bsky.social today

Troubled Jersey City hospital to close Saturday, drawing outcry from nurses, city leaders gothamist.com/news/trouble...

Good stuff from @mehayes.bsky.social here

🚨NJ ICE SCOOP🚨 Trump admin paid nearly $130M for NJ warehouse it plans to turn into detention centers That’s DOUBLE what the property is worth, according to the latest tax assessment. gothamist.com/news/trump-a...

imo the threat posed by CBS News and CNN getting absorbed by pro-regime billionaires isn't that they're going to produce right-wing slop that convinces people to be right-wing, it's the dismantling of newsrooms capable of doing investigative reporting on the administration. Fewer eyes on the street.

Newark Mayor @rasjbaraka.bsky.social has signed an executive order barring ICE from city property. www.newarknj.gov/m/newsflash/...

The emergency department of Heights University Hospital in Jersey City — formerly Christ Hospital — is closing for good this weekend. Mayor James Solomon, a trio of city council members and the nurses union are calling for a state investigation gothamist.com/news/trouble...

Breaking: A blind Burmese refugee named Nurul Shah Alam has been missing since Thurs. after Border Patrol agents dropped him off at a Tim Hortons, leaving him to find his own way home. His family & lawyers weren't notified. They're seeking help to find him. www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/24/b...

Hey, Internet, I cover Congress and the U.S. government for NJ Spotlight News, a non-profit newsroom. Tonight I'm in the House of Representatives, watching Pres. Trump give his State of the Union remarks. After a big wind-up, he is finally talking policy...🧵 @njspotlightnews.org

SCOTUS has denied a last ditch appeal by about 30 NJ towns to block the implementation of the state’s affordable housing mandate. Here’s the Montvale mayor, which was the lead town

Breaking WaPo: A federal judge in Virginia rejected the Justice Department's request to search through a Washington Post reporter's electronic devices as part of a national security leak investigation, ruling that the court would instead be responsible for conducting the search.

USDOJ has sued New Jersey over Gov. Sherrill's recent executive order barring ICE operations on state property. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...

Lost a bit in the snow yesterday, but a coalition of groups advocating for more affordable and accessible child care in New Jersey is launching a new effort, with hopes that Gov. Sherrill's affordability messaging will translate to real policy reform

Just in time for the latest snowstorm on the east coast (not that FEMA is really doing anything anyway these days) subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

Oh boy