This is an important story for many reasons:

1) This is outrageous behavior by police, potentially a result of the mayor’s anti-immigrant position on asylum seekers.

It’s particularly shameful that this is the attitude in Edison, one of the most immigrant-heavy towns in the US.

We had to sue to get these videos, which show cops 'joking and fantasizing about sicking a 'drug dog' on the immigrants and escorting the bus out of town at gunpoint' and talking about an 'invasion'
newbrunswicktoday.com/2024/05/nbt-la…

As police brutally expose, arrest, and assault young people across the country, we are visiting ALL 3⃣ NJ campus encampments today to distro KYR info.

Students are exercising their right to assemble & call for divestment.

✊🏾Knowledge is POWER
⚡️It starts with know your rights

Come for the incredible lede:

“It’s not every day that you get to decide the condom a couple will be using, but…”

Stay for the behind the scenes look at what it’s like to be a delivery worker, and why we should regulate apps like Grubhub — not e-bikes.
newjerseymonitor.com/2024/05/01/leg…

The main danger to our community tonight was the huge armed police presence requested on campus by admin - not protesters. A wholly disproportionate response that provoked disruption, fear & frustration across the whole wider community, not just Columbia.
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Not going to bother debunking the whole nonsense op-ed but some notes on this:

1) most corporations paying are out of state and need no physical footprint in state to pay, just sales
2) 600 corps = the top 0.5% of corporate filers
3) they don't necessarily employ NJ residents

Really thankful to Terrence T. McDonald at the New Jersey Monitor for his coverage of our David v. Goliath victory in court to abolish the county line and restore democracy to NJ primary elections. With Flavio Komuves Yael Bromberg יָעֵל يل 🎗☮️🕊 Andy Kim.

newjerseymonitor.com/2024/04/29/the…

'I think there are folks [in elected office in New Jersey] who have genuinely never run a real campaign,” said James Solomon.

“They've never had to raise money, they've never had to do field, they've never had to do comms.'

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I'm deeply alarmed by the violence against & arrests of peaceful protesters. If universities are places to learn and grow, one’s responsibility to be active in civic life must be a part of that education. Otherwise the lessons taught in the classroom are merely theoretical.

The quiet part out loud.

Colleges and universities should be places where viewpoints, expression, debate, and free speech are encouraged, NOT suppressed.

Read our full statement from Amol Sinha➡️aclu-nj.org/en/press-relea…

NJ Transit is nearly $1 billion short. Taxing corporations like Amazon, Tesla could fix that. northjersey.com/story/opinion/… via @NorthJersey

You really can’t make this up.

Yesterday, the big business lobby held a press event and suggested raising the sales tax to fund NJ Transit.

Republicans and progressives alike pushed back.

Now they’re retracting their proposal, saying the $ should come from …somewhere else. 🤷🏻‍♂️

This is how Texas Department of Public Safety troopers dealt with a member of the local media in Austin today. The cameraman works for Fox 7 Austin.

This is how amped up troopers were, in a crowd of students.

This is not a good faith discussion on how to reliably fund NJ Transit.

It’s only about protecting a $1+ billion tax cut for HUGE, mostly out-of-state corporations like Amazon and Walmart.

The existing sales tax is already spoken for in the budget. Raising it is regressive.

Louis Di Paolo Or family leave or banning indoor smoking etc, etc….

Public transit is the backbone of the economy, writes Loretta Weinberg in a new op-ed.

'New Jersey and its commuters deserve a world-class transit system. Asking the world’s biggest corporations to help pay for it is a no-brainer.'
northjersey.com/story/opinion/…

Calling in police enforcement on nonviolent demonstrations of young students on campus is an escalatory, reckless, and dangerous act.

It represents a heinous failure of leadership that puts people’s lives at risk. I condemn it in the strongest possible terms.