#njpol #NewJersey #DelaneyHall #FuckICE #AbolishICE

Context: We don't even have to link to stuff because you know, you've seen it. NJSP was wilding outside #DelaneyHall and Governor Sherrill owns all of it. Gave Trump the win while eating all the blow back. The police sent a message loud and clear, the Governor doesn't control them. They are outlaws.

#njpol #NewJersey #DelaneyHall #FuckICE #AbolishICE

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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.

Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New Cook Political Report ratings for Virginia #VAPol: #VA01: Solid D #VA02: Lean D #VA03: Solid D #VA04: Solid D #VA05: Solid D #VA06: Likley D #VA07: Solid D #VA08: Solid D #VA09: Solid R #VA10: Solid D #VA11: Solid D www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/hou...

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: 🤡

We don't normally link sources but since this is about unsourced "facts" here it is en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jer...

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.