I know amtrak prices are famously fickle, but I think this is the funniest disparity I’ve ever seen
Joey Fox
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Joey Fox
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- NJ Democratic Party platform now includes occupation of Staten IslandNew York and New Jersey are two different places. Common mistake!
Readers added contextAlthough this map indicates otherwise, Staten Island is not part of New Jersey. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staten_Is… - Breaking: former Navy helicopter pilot Rebecca Bennett will run to unseat Rep. Tom Kean Jr. in 2026, giving Democrats their first candidate – a potentially very formidable one – in NJ’s competitive 7th congressional district.
- Every Democrat in New Jersey’s congressional delegation is calling for an official investigation into the improper release of @MikieSherrill’s unredacted military records: “This is a dangerous and corrupt attempt to weaponize the federal government.”
- 🚨ANDY KIM WINS THE MONMOUTH DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION🚨 Will have numbers soon. Huge, huge news.
- BREAKING: Judge Quraishi GRANTS Kim's request for a preliminary injunction. The county line has been overturned. (This is an extremely quick reaction on my part; have not read the decision beyond this yet.)
- 🚨Breaking: The gold-standard Monmouth University Polling Institute will soon be shuttered by its university, the NJ Globe has learned – a huge loss for the polling scene in New Jersey and the nation as a whole.
- Senator @ghelmy, the only Arab American in the Senate, issues a plea for Gaza: “It should not matter what one’s politics are, what one’s religion is, what one’s nationality is, or one’s ethnicity. [This war] should shock our conscience to the very core.”
- Andy Kim wins the Atlantic Democratic convention! 156-54, a margin of 74%-26%. A huge margin, and a really striking rebuke of Norcross and the broader pro-Murphy South Jersey Democratic machine.
- Big: Hoboken Mayor @RaviBhalla is considering a Democratic primary campaign in NJ's 8th congressional district against Rep. @RobMenendez4NJ, Bob Menendez's son. The younger Menendez has stood by his father despite the federal charges against him
- I’d never realized this before: Rep. Chris Smith’s 4th congressional district has changed so much during his 44 years in Congress that he no longer represents any town that was in the district when he first won it in 1980.
- Was walking out of the Capitol and a gadflyish protester told a House Dem (not from NJ), “Trump’s gonna be president.” The Dem’s response: “Wish I could argue with you.”
- BREAKING: Gov-elect @MikieSherrill intends to submit her letter of resignation from the House next week, teeing up an accelerated special election schedule. Sherrill set to deliver her final floor speech as a member of the House later today:
