Yikes! Who needs DJT as NJ GOVERNOR? Not me, not my young grandchild, or my neighbors. How ‘bout you? Quality of life under DJT is already in the shitter.

With unabashed authoritarianism on full display, public may have also reached an inflection point. Politically disengaged Americans may not follow details of court fights but maneuvers like firing a comedian at behest of the president just might rouse ordinary folks who know this is un-American.

I still have an image in the mirror.

Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe. And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.

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Former counselor to RFK Jr’s predecessor:

Jack has voted to raise your taxes at every level of government.

I have a problem with it — and New Jersey students, parents, and teachers do too.

This Carr creep is a Christofascist Project 2025 tool who is seeking to advance the interests of the secret cabal of extreme-right-wing theocrats who are working to destroy the free nation our Founders envisioned. They are the Cracker Barrel version of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard in Iran.

Funding Fascism has not “always been done” Chuck.

Good morning! Start with a smile.

Elizabeth Clark was denied freedom of speech and forced to resign as a teacher in #NJ.

this weekend: #XPNfest. if you can't be there, you can listen/watch it live at xpn.org

Difficult few weeks but my husband is home from the hospital. Shout out to all at the #XPNFEST in Philly. We’ve be with you in our hearts.

yeah no one prominent on the right wanted this. now to take a sip of coffee and look at the post on the screen

A lot is being written about Charlie Kirk's racism, but one thing to remember. He wasn't a garden variety "I hate Black people" racist. He was explicitly a "white people are superior and I hate Black people for disagreeing" racist. He was an avowed white supremacist and he didn't even pretend.

Here are the flaws in the study, according to Henry Ford Health

The spokesperson said the institution was not given the opportunity by Congress to weigh in or testify. "In the end, this report was not published because it did not even come close to meeting the rigorous scientific standards we demand—not because of the results."

A spokesperson told me that "an initial peer review of the draft revealed immediate and significant concerns due to serious data flaws" and that the institution "was unaware this long-rejected and unvalidated draft was being talked about or had somehow been shared."

On Tuesday on the hill, Sen. Ron Johnson touted results from an unpublished study commissioned by an anti-vaccine group as showing the risk of childhood vaccines. I asked why the study hadn't been published of Henry Ford Health, where the author who did not testify worked.

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"My family was just kind of a normal middle class family," says Rep. Sherrill, former naval officer & candidate for NJ Governor. Watching the harms now being inflicted on families like hers, Sherrill wants more for her kids & yours! "This country, of all countries, can do so much better!" #VoteNJ

When someone shows you who they are, believe them. Jack backs Trump’s Court, defunds Planned Parenthood, and bankrolls extremists. Mikie Sherrill won’t waver, she’ll fight to enshrine abortion rights in NJ’s constitution and protect freedom for every woman. #VoteNJ

Forgiveness is taking the knife out of your own back and not using it to hurt anyone else no matter how they hurt you. Hana Malik

This is the same guy.

Hunterdon Bridge Club stood against violence and hate in all their forms on this lively afternoon in NJ7. Overpass across I-78. @visibilitybrigade.bsky.social

Van Hollen increasingly seems like the kind of traditional Democrat who should be leading the party.

So "cancel culture" based on speech is now a right wing initiative? Got it. Tough to keep up with such a rapidly shifting ideology.

“If we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective.” Martin Luther King Jr. Georgia 1962

More #postcardstovoters! This is a group of 45 for a campaign to get Californians to vote YES on Prop 50, the state's counter to Texas's gerrymandering.

2/2 I wonder how many of these “major givers” to the Republican Party who the vice-president urged yesterday in Washington to “spend a lot of money” to “honor” Kirk know and are willing to defend the agenda they’d be honoring. Here’s another snippet of it. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/u...

This by @jamelkebouie.net is very good. He gives “just a snippet of Kirk’s rhetoric and advocacy” — not including, for instance, his 2023 statement that then-President Biden “should honestly be…given the death penalty for his crimes against America.” 1/2 Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

How many @thebulwark.com listeners hear “Nutlick” in Tim’s voice when watching Lutnick?

If you need a smile. My 3yo grandson, Gus, started pre-K at a local church. His love for garbage trucks has made it into print.

Proud to stand in solemn remembrance of the historic 9/11 losses in NY, PA, and VA with the Hunterdon Bridge Club Visibility Brigade, NJ7. Flag waving Democrats all. CD7 is full of us. 🇺🇸

Proud to stand in solemn remembrance of the historic 9/11 losses in NY, PA, and VA with the Hunterdon Bridge Club Visibility Brigade, NJ7. Flag waving Democrats all. CD7 is full of us. 🇺🇸

“Whatever you do! DONT QUOTE HIM!”

How do they sleep at night?

8. That's just one example. @seanfaywolfe.bsky.social has more. bsky.app/profile/did:...

This

If you need a smile. My 3yo grandson, Gus, started pre-K at a local church. His love for garbage trucks has made it into print.

Charlie Kirk talking about mass shootings at the time he was shot is the sort of detail they make you take out of the story because it's too over the top

trump refused to lower the American flag at the WH when Senator McCain died. He immediately lowered it when Charlie Kirk was killed.

And the most pathetic part of all is that none of it is necessary. Violent crime is down. Everywhere. This is all INVENTED.

Twenty-four years ago our country changed forever. For New Jersey, the scars of that day run deep. Today we honor the lives lost in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the heroes who selflessly rushed toward danger, and the families who carry the memory of lost loved ones everyday.

There are violent extremists on the left but they are not in charge of the party. You can find them on social media, not in the halls of power. The violent extremists on the right are in congress, on courts, and sitting in the Oval Office.

I feel like I am taking crazy pills. Charlie Kirk’s ultimate goal, which he said time and time again, would have been the suppression, through threat of violence and the use of state power, of the rights of those he disagreed with, including freedom of expression. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

I had great respect for @ezraklein.bsky.social but this morning I’m thinking he drank the Kool Aid.

Also, sorry, too worked up and my first cup of coffee just hit… Kirk was part of the effort to overthrow the elected government of the United States on January 6th! In what sense was that “practicing politics the right way”????