@mikiesherrill.bsky.social can NJ be next please?

No Chuck, we want to ABOLISH ICE and prosecute the ICE criminals who have committed crimes!

real soul of the nation stuff do you want a state made up of masked guys doing murder in the street or civil servants researching cancer at the va

Yup. On my needles right now!

Screenshot of a data visualization titled “The Cost of American Exceptionalism,” subtitled “What would change if the U.S. matched the OECD average?” The page explains that each card shows how outcomes would change if the U.S. matched the average of 31 peer democracies. Below, a section labeled “Economy & Inequality” displays eight cards comparing U.S. figures to OECD averages. Highlights include: +$19K per household per year in redistributed income and +$96K in redistributed wealth if the top 1% matched OECD shares; a 71% lower CEO-to-worker pay ratio (from 354× to 101×); 50 million more workers with union coverage; 26 million more people with health insurance; $2.1 trillion saved annually in healthcare spending; $691 less per person per year in prescription drug costs; and intergenerational economic mobility being twice as high. Each card shows the U.S. value alongside the OECD average.

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:

America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.

What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

Any one of us could be detained for hours by ICE despite being a U.S. citizen.

Any one of us could be in the next apartment building that ICE raids in the middle of the night.

Any one of us could be the next to be brutalized by ICE for speaking out.

Authoritarianism hurts all of us.

School vouchers are a scam that further divides children between the haves and have nots, and in so doing, miseducate us all to be more selfish against each other and ignorant about each other.

Data centers and PJM have driven electricity prices up. Please pass 100% clean energy legislation to protect ratepayers and your legacy!

I can’t understand why more educators don’t see AI this way!

When the Wampanoag first fed the Pilgrims
they didn't realize
they'd just invented Socialism
for undocumented refugee immigrants.

Happy Thanksgiving.

I have a complicated relationship with the Catholic church, but Popes Leo and Francis give me hope for what we could be.

Video: Opinion | Did Women Ruin the Workplace? And can conservative feminism fix it?

Did Women Ruin the Workplace? www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

No, but guys like this did.
For real @nytimes.com ?

Hell yeah!

Tonight should be a good reminder to Senate Democrats they better not cave.

If you’re ok with vouchers being used for ski trips or piano lessons but not ok with SNAP benefits being used for pizza or cupcakes, it’s not the use of public money you have a problem with.

It’s that you think wealthy people deserve perks and poor people deserve to be poor.

Dear NJ Teachers and Their Families: You MUST Not Vote For Jack Ciattarelli To all NJ public school staff and their families: You must not vote for Jack Ciattarelli. He will do serious, lasting damages to you person...

New post: Dear NJ Teachers and Their Families: You MUST Not Vote For Jack Ciattarelli jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com/2025/11/dear... If you do, YOU will feel the damage to your salary, your pension, and your health care. What issue could possibly be more important than that?

I’ve been using KnitPick interchangeable needles for several years. They’re great! Reasonably priced with smooth connections. I often use them for magic loop knitting and have abandoned straight needles.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but:

A vote is not a love letter for the perfect candidate. A vote is a chess move to win a world you want to live in.

I can't find her on here but Mary Mack from the band Kissing Practice has just pulled my brain into focus like a dolly zoom.

"AI is a thneed"
#TheLorax #AI #LazyBabies

No Kings protesters in NJ & VA get to take all that energy to the polls now in very important elections in their states 2 weeks from now. Make your voices heard in the streets & at the ballot box. Vote against all Trump allies/enablers & send a message to the rest of them for us.

Image of peaceful protesters holding signs in the shadow of George Washington and the Princeton Battle Monument

Thousands of people who love America at the #NoKings rally in #Princeton this afternoon

If you’re too afraid to do your job, you should quit your job. If you’re too afraid to report on what’s going on because you’re afraid of MAGA death threats, you should stop being a reporter.

if you’re too afraid to vote against honoring a white nationalist due to death threats, you should resign.

Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs.

A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which is about to get cut.

If Bezos can spend $50M on a wedding, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.

Ten Vital Services Provided by NOAA (Beyond the National Weather Service) Far too much of the media coverage supporting NOAA only mentions one of many things they do: here are 10 more.

You guys are doing it again.

Yes, NOAA is important because of the National Weather Service, but that is not all they do and you should stop saying it is.

I wrote this for the Union of Concerned Scientists. Read it and adjust your messaging accordingly. 🧪🦑🌎🐟

blog.ucs.org/science-blog...

Rob Sand, Dem candidate running for Governor in Iowa on school choice.

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.

Sound familiar?

Why are ICE agents such cowardly wusses? | Will Bunch Newsletter Plus, how the Trump-Leo divide was born in the ‘80s.

If there's a masculinity crisis in America, Ground Zero is the cowardly wusses who work for ICE and HSI, covering their faces with masks, fearful of an 80-year-old congresswoman, and reeking of panic

What are the consequences for a U.S. secret police? My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

73% of mothers with kids under 18 are in the workforce. More than flowers or brunch, working moms need:

-Paid family leave
-Equal pay
-Universal childcare

(But get your mom flowers, too)