One of the best things about having a 17-year-old cat with chronic upper respiratory infections is all the free boogers

Feel free to correct my math because I'm pretty bad at it. But the clerk says candidates for president will automatically get above uncommitted. So the odds of ballot lining up for Dem org-backed candidates in this district are 1/2 x 1/3 x 1/2 x 1/2 = 1/24 ?

I just called Essex County Clerk Chris Durkin about this. He said that in the 8th District's portion of Essex County, party-backed Rob Menendez drew line C. In Bloomfield, the party-backed mayor drew B. But this is definitely interesting in the Sherrill district.

New: Camden Mayor Mayor Vic Carstarphen will host a fundraiser for Ras J. Baraka for Governor campaign in June. Carstarphen is the first Camden County Democrat to step away from the Steve Sweeney campaign.

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I don't think this is a real PAC and I doubt it was really James O'Keefe who registered it.

Looks like Steve Ayscue got a visit from the AG's Office investigators. Not related to the investigation, but awkward: Right around this time he was working for Tammy Murphy's super PAC. inquirer.com/news/new-jerse….

Talk about back rooms. Is that where the Clark council met and decided to pay hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to cover up tapes of Mayor Sal using racial slurs, including the n word? x.com/billspadea/sta…

Important, investigative story coming on this shortly.

My dog Gus’s spirit animal is a manatee

Horrifying example of how AI can ruin lives.

Charges: The school's former athletic director used AI to lead the public to believe the principal 'made racist and antisemitic comments behind closed doors.'
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The lobbying arm for New Jersey’s county governments says they’ve gotten a raw deal state from Comptroller Kevin Walsh, who recently issued three critical reports on county governments, and now they want the Legislature to investigate him. 🔒 subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2024/0…

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I had pretty much stopped using the mastro as a unit of currency but then he got re-relevant with a vengeance

It ain't him, babe. northjersey.com/story/news/pat…