Over chorus of complaints, NJ Senate panel advances bill to limit comptroller’s powers newjerseymonitor.com/2025/12/01/n...

The bill: www.njleg.state.nj.us/bill-search/... Contact your people.

this is wild. In her final act in office, Adrienne Adams has gone full NIMBY and now is putting parking over pedestrian safety. call her office and your local councilmember to express support for Intro 1138!

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Bangkok's Sukhumvit (light green) & Silom (kinda dark blue green i guess) lines have The PATH Problem, super packed weekend trains. Time to run weekday headways on the weekends, fellas. Pink line rules.

Gottheimer

Bitte Orca

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Local Dems have learned from national Republicans: ALWAYS be campaigning' GlouCo Dems are already promoting their incumbents up for reelection next year.

you've got to click around on this map, and the graphics here ... it's astounding. @haidee.bsky.social did such a great job with this:

He didn't endorse in the JC mayor race (would that have mattered, though?) and took a single poll too seriously. For shame.

It's kind of bad that my county reports results slower than a private org like AP. Why have a "live" reporting site at all, then?

Dem state senate target list in 2027 needs to include Polistina, Tiver, Bramnick, Bucco, and Schepisi with eyes on Steinhardt, Pennacchio, and Corrado in a real wave year. also if Bob Singer retires I guess Avi Schnall may seek a promotion to the Senate or something like that.

LD-03 is a squeaker. If Dems win by <1 point in a cycle like this we are screwed next time. Durr's ghost will ride again.

Middlesex swinging 17 points Dem is insane.

Democrats have successfully defended all of their New Jersey Assembly seats other than maybe LD-03, which they are favored to hold

Unleash the drones, Mikie.

One disappointing piece of news amid all the excitement: West Windsor NJ Mayor Hemant Marathe and his slate of hardline NIMBYs look set to win the election there.

WHAT AM I FUCKING LOOKING AT MAN

New Jersey, Mikie Sherrill is your next governor, according to the Associated Press, calling the race at 9:24 p.m. For ongoing analysis and results, including NJ’s 80 Assembly races, head to NJSpotlightNews.org

Felt inspired

Once again, high quality empirical studies show that, all else equal: 1) more school funding causes better student outcomes 2) charter schools cause better student outcomes mostly bcs of the extra tutoring they provide, not Market Magic. This is easily replicated in TPS. So do it.

Republicans obscure correlation & causation. You can't just look at funding go up & test scores not go up, & just decide that funding not cause test scores go up. Correlation is not causation, & lack of correlation is not lack of causation! E.g., the fucking global pandemic might've had an impact.

NJ Republicans want to destroy our progressive school funding formula, replace it w/ a flat amount of state aid per pupil. Rich suburbs win. The poor lose. Great article that emphasizes why S1 is good: districts that got richer &/or smaller since the 90s should get less state aid. EZ.

Books Behind Bars, based in Wildwood, isn't doing a holiday card drive this year bcs the NJ DOC now requires all mail to inmates must be b&w photocopies, not original cards. Instead, donate money to send books to inmates.

Since the mid-1980s historians have known that the Home Insurance Building in Chicago was not the first skyscraper. Yet the public didn't get the message. Why is there such a big disconnect? The answer is revealed my latest pub. in the J. of Urban History. doi.org/10.1177/0096... @sasn.rutgers.edu

As of 2023, the latest year available, Glassboro's crime rates are near historic lows. This includes crimes reported on Rowan's campus. glassborogaffer.substack.com/p/glassboro-...

NJ early voting numbers keep rising. Now near 1.2M. Approaching 1/2M more than in last gov elect in 2021. 267K more Dems voting that GOP. @njspotlightnews.org www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/10/nj-e... Today is last day to vote early in person, VBMs can be postmarked or put in drop box up to 8 pm Tues

State officials said they needed to halt new admissions to the program because of a projected $30 million shortfall.

I need to keep a list of programs NJ cut this summer. Add childcare subsidies to it. IIRR it needed an extra $30M to accept new families this year. Legislators promised that amount, then settled on $2M. In this case, I don't mind the article pointing out that we spent $X00M on district projects.

Trenton's a bit of a ghost town.

Today.

Best Trenton-style pizza where? I'm in Trenton tomorrow.

This guy's evil but the lessons we should learn: - state Supreme Court races are v important - if u don't like their rules, change them I can't blame GOP for using their majority to pursue their agenda. That's their job. The norm of doing so kinda slowly in the past is an anomaly of US history.

I wonder if my town could save money by ending leaf collection. Leaves belong on the ground. Don't subsidize neurotic lawn guys.

cool cool cool cool cool

Gutting.

Would it kill Fulop to endorse someone? It's not like he's running for office soon. newjerseymonitor.com/2025/10/30/s...

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On a related note, send me all the NJ state leg bills you want passed. I'm making a spreadsheet of bill numbers, whether they're stuck in committee or need a floor vote, which committees they're stuck in and who is on them, news articles explaining why they matter, etc.

Reminder that we have a state library, and they're running this cool event next week. I'll "see" you there (on zoom, so not at all but in spirit). www.njstatelib.org/event/virtua... If you can't make it, check out the book:

Oof.

It should go without saying that these mass internment camps will be much, much more expensive to operate than just giving the homeless free or subsidized housing would be.

“These Council Districts Produced Zero Affordable Homes This Year: Voters are deciding on a proposal to bypass the City Council on planned developments in the neighborhoods that have built the least. They include swaths of eastern Queens and southern Brooklyn” Zero! www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/29/a...

Oh no. (Hopefully just placating from Sherrill, but Dems have lurched right on crime before, & NJ Dems recently.)

Happening today.

This is the good shit.

OK but really it's dumb that we outlaw pumping your own gas.