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Senior Policy Analyst, NJPP. Deranged Cubs fan.

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This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

07.03.2026 00:30 👍 1816 🔁 359 💬 15 📌 22

RICH GUYS: we are looking HARD and doing RESEARCH on how to END INEQUALITY. but one thing we are SURE of -- that solution is not taxing us. We're sure that is the worst thing.

06.03.2026 17:04 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Where things stand with the Department of War A statement from Dario Amodei

I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?”

www.anthropic.com/news/where-s...

06.03.2026 03:06 👍 1526 🔁 467 💬 36 📌 48

GOP: it's not a war. How dare you call it a war! Calling it a war is an insult to the brave troops.

TRUMP: so this war I'm doing, a lotta people are gonna die in a war. You might call it the greatest war in history

06.03.2026 01:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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She quit her job to fight for her father’s freedom—and for everyone else inside Alligator Alcatraz Inside the weekly vigils that refuse to let Florida's most notorious detention camp and the immigrants detained there be forgotten.

She quit her job to fight for her father’s freedom—and for everyone else inside Alligator Alcatraz www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

06.03.2026 01:15 👍 19 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1

Hmmmm

05.03.2026 15:04 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The U.S. spends $100 million PER HOUR on its military budget, and it's running out of bombs so fast that they are about to ask for billions more.

Next time they tell you there's no money for programs that help people instead of kill them, remember that.

$100 million PER HOUR.

05.03.2026 15:02 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Hollow Opposition On Iran, top Democrats only have procedural concerns

I wrote about how Democratic leadership has abandoned the moral high ground on Iran, and how it has left them toothless when opposing Trump.

03.03.2026 22:55 👍 1988 🔁 277 💬 52 📌 25
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New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

04.03.2026 19:27 👍 2270 🔁 365 💬 199 📌 497
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Trump Has Been Sued 198 Times for Withholding Funding. It Hasn’t Stopped Him. (Gift Article) Immigration demands for highway dollars, D.E.I. rules for homeless grants: how Trump has tried to wield spending to get his way.

We've been tracking nearly 200 lawsuits against the Trump administration over its attempts to leverage federal funding to impose the president's agenda.

The most startling pattern: The administration seems entirely undeterred when it loses in court.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

04.03.2026 13:50 👍 547 🔁 264 💬 22 📌 28

Mom, come pick me up, the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity.

02.03.2026 16:46 👍 2416 🔁 512 💬 29 📌 14
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What to Look for in the New Jersey Budget for Fiscal Year 2027 - New Jersey Policy Perspective Ahead of Governor Sherrill's first budget address, here are key benchmarks to evaluate whether the budget sufficiently addresses fiscal challenges while aligning with the values of expanding opportuni...

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As Governor Sherrill prepares to deliver her first budget address, the NJPP research team laid out the benchmarks for how they'll evaluate the FY 2027 budget.

Read the full report:
www.njpp.org/publications...

03.03.2026 15:53 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

03.03.2026 12:16 👍 6986 🔁 3158 💬 71 📌 48

A disturbing and hypocritical ruling on so many levels. Especially the due process holding.

The court JUST said there’s no deeply rooted right for women to control their own bodies. But there is a deeply rooted right for parents to know if their kids question their gender at school? Come on.

03.03.2026 00:30 👍 1738 🔁 520 💬 44 📌 28
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Sound State Revenue Choices Essential to Counteract Harmful Policies and Build Forward Last summer’s harmful Republican megabill paired enormous tax breaks for wealthy households and corporations with historically deep cuts that will take away people’s vital health care and food assista...

Whatever the right mix of policies in which case, the bottom-line is clear. With ambitious yet thoughtful revenue choices, states hold real potential to do a lot of good: to mitigate harm for millions & help lay the foundation for a more prosperous future. www.cbpp.org/research/sta...

02.03.2026 18:49 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Sound State Revenue Choices Essential to Counteract Harmful Policies and Build Forward Last summer’s harmful Republican megabill paired enormous tax breaks for wealthy households and corporations with historically deep cuts that will take away people’s vital health care and food assista...

New report: States & localities in '26 are facing a one-two punch—fallout from harmful federal actions on one hand & regressive state policies on the other. The path forward? Protecting & raising revenues to mitigate harm & build forward. Here’s how: www.cbpp.org/research/sta...

02.03.2026 18:49 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

It's genuinely insane that many of the newspaper columnists who cheered us into the war in Iraq are still employed at big legacy outlets cheering us into a new war with Iran.

02.03.2026 15:24 👍 4678 🔁 799 💬 65 📌 44

the war is unpopular but it's also illegal but it also doesn't serve any purpose but it also undermines diplomacy but it also is set to produce the opposite outcome as intended but it also already has hundreds dead and threatens more but it also will not make anything better for anyone but it also

01.03.2026 06:19 👍 4044 🔁 935 💬 12 📌 0

They don't even bother to manufacturer the consent at this point

28.02.2026 22:21 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The idea of a legislative body representing the population having the ability to check the ultimate power of a country’s leader sounds really neat. Someone should write that down.

28.02.2026 19:42 👍 3143 🔁 647 💬 48 📌 22

The President has launched an unlawful regime change war with Iran, putting American troops at risk.

Congress must return now to vote on the bipartisan War Powers Resolution.

Every member of Congress and candidate must take action to uphold the Constitution.

28.02.2026 19:01 👍 143 🔁 51 💬 9 📌 4

"why didn't the leader give us a briefing on his illegal war that no one wants????"

28.02.2026 19:48 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

In any healthy constitutional order, Congress would impeach and remove the president for an illegal unconstitutional war that usurps their own authority to make war.

Instead we'll be lucky if they don't order him a parade instead

28.02.2026 11:20 👍 30 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 0
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Gov. Sherrill provides grim outlook on state finances ahead of budget speech • New Jersey Monitor As Gov. Sherrill prepares for a budget speech expected to focus on reducing spending, she warned that state reserves won't last without cuts.

Instead of focusing on expenditures, lawmakers should look at the revenue side of the ledger to balance New Jersey's budget and help fix the structural deficit.

"There are more revenues that can and should be raised,” said NJPP's @ptrchn1.bsky.social.

newjerseymonitor.com/2026/02/26/g...

27.02.2026 16:28 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 3
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Op-Ed: Boosting tax credits for working families helps us all | NJ Spotlight News As New Jersey's population growth booms, so do the ranks of residents who are one crisis from financial ruin

The Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Tax Credit are effective programs proven to lift families out of poverty and help them make ends meet.

New Jersey can build on this success and expand these programs to help make the state more affordable.
www.njspotlightnews.org/2026/02/op-e...

26.02.2026 19:32 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

*preparing my worst food takes*

26.02.2026 17:33 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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This small New Jersey newsroom treated its voter guide like a service product The voter guide is a classic local news product — and one of the hardest to get people to use.

"A lot of newsrooms create voter guides as static pages and figure out promotion later. The Jersey Bee started with how people would use the thing and designed the experience around that." medium.com/centerforcoo...

20.02.2026 17:22 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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Supreme Court ruling against Trump tariffs will offer relief, business owners say Businesses could be owed nearly $150 billion in refunds after the Supreme Court struck down tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

“Any consumer looking for relief from tariff-driven price hikes did not find it at the Supreme Court today.”

That's our @alexsjacquez.bsky.social in @cbsnews.com ⤵️

20.02.2026 21:16 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
20.02.2026 20:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

H.R. 1’s SNAP cuts have already resulted in hundreds of thousands of low-income people losing the food assistance they need to afford groceries. This farm bill proposal would make further misguided policy changes while ignoring the urgent need to address this harm.

20.02.2026 15:52 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0