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You know prolly more than anyone that I’ve not always been the biggest Andy Kim fan (lol) but his passion when it came to the comptroller bill and now calling out AIPAC fuckery is really making me come around

“But the increasing irrelevance of the local endorsements that used to be New Jersey politics’ bread and butter still feels like a downstream effect of the county line’s abolition”

A bunch of machine Senators and Assemblymembers are gonna learn this lesson the hard way next year

Finally a place where Keir Starmers vision for the Labour Party can succeed

Crying. 4% of people in Mississippi want to join the UK.

CONGRESSWOMAN ANALILIA MEJIA

Albo really has the Mandate of Heaven

1. Do you believe that Doug Ford is the antichrist, the son of perdition sent to destroy the province of Ontario:

Yes: 99.9%
No: 0.1%

2. Ontario Provincial Polling:

🟦 PCPO: 44% (+1)
🟥 OLP: 30% (-)
🟧 ONDP: 16% (-3)
🟩 GPO: 6% (+1)
Others: 4%

Two thirds in Alberta????

Perfect time to remember Piscataway has council elections this year and if progressives beat at least 2 incumbents they’ll win a majority which will allow them to block these regressive policies

4 for you, 4 for me, problem solved!

Tonight I will face a difficult choice: between watching the Olympics including figure skating, or watching Daytona 500 pole qualifying.

In short: a choice between being masc or not being masc

What exactly are they waiting for to call? What do they think that they see or know that Gill or LeRoy doesn’t?

Alternatively institute a different system of leadership, be it a collective body or an outside person. But this system of changing chairs constantly is definitely detrimental

I do wonder whether that system needs to change. Insofar as if a Senator is gonna be the one to run the DSCC, make it possible for one actually good at doing so to stay on for longer.

Mills and Poochie are just so catastrophically bad. Luckily McMorrow is catching fire and will probably save us from that, but Maine is just too far gone, and that comes down to a refusal by the Baileys third to recognize reality

Please god, that would be so funny

Send JJ to the carney version of a gulag

They’re actually staying together???

It was still reintroduced for this session as I note, with Bagolie still proudly listing herself as a co-sponsor. So as she ponders a run for Congress remember that she put together something so bad that even machine legislators couldn’t vote for it

It did get heard in a committee in the Assembly but the meeting was so contentious and featured the sole Palestinian Assemblyman publicly coming out against the bill. This plus the fact that plenty of members still were opposed led to the bill stalking out last fall.

Even machine people were uncomfortable with what the IHRA bill does. She claimed she wrote the amendments to address those concerns, but they did not do that. The crux of the amendments were a list of examples where IHRA could be applied, and members were left with more questions than answers.

I wanted to circle back to this because if she does indeed run it will be relevant: she volunteered to do this, no one in leadership asked her to write those amendments she chose to. All while IHRA is probably one of the most controversial issues before the Legislature at the moment.

2026 and 2027 are incredible opportunities for progressives because eventually the NJ machine is going to realize that Gill's style of campaign, which is how basically all machine campaigns for state/local office are run, does not work with fair ballots in the 21st century. until then, give here:

One machine candidate who I will not name doesn’t canvass, doesn’t do much campaigning themselves, they just spam mailers, digital ads and maybe chips in cash with their municipal or county party to run an event. These people are LAZY and can be beaten, don’t let anyone say otherwise.

I cannot emphasize for outside observers that 99.9% of machine campaigns are either run exactly how Gill did or worse. Every cent given to progressive candidates willing to do the work and go out and win is money well spent. NJ is in a unique moment where one donation could potentially win a race.

They do have a Chancellor but he has no powers and is just kinda there

Japanese politics never lets you down

Holy Father, excommunicate Ripperger

I want the phrase “laser focused” banned from democratic comms

I also fail to see how he can save the party when he’s from the same lane as Starmer who has proven wrapping yourself in the flag and trying to have no principles isn’t a good strategy long term