Kevin
@reginageorgebush.bsky.social
some New Jersey homo on the internet you're probably tired of. consumer protection lawyer. left-wing politics. Rahway.
Pinned
with $15,000(!) raised a bunch of you have taken this to heart, and of course I am curious to see how much farther we can go
And it's true in the context of the Climate Superfund Act too! New Jersey is particularly flood-prone and is warming especially rapidly. We need more climate mitigation per capita than the average state does.
I hear Tom Kean’s voice, “New Jersey and Superfunds synonymous with each other”
January 13, 2026 at 12:51 PM
And it's true in the context of the Climate Superfund Act too! New Jersey is particularly flood-prone and is warming especially rapidly. We need more climate mitigation per capita than the average state does.
And this, too, is the corruption tax: fossil fuel companies buy off Trenton so that you and I have to pay the ever-increasing costs of flooding, erosion, and heat waves.
the New Jersey lame duck gets worse: the Climate Superfund Act, a bill sponsored by most of the Democratic caucus which would force certain fossil fuel companies to pay for climate mitigation, got killed at the last minute by Speaker Craig Coughlin
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POLITICO Pro: The Climate Superfund Act is doomed (for now)
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January 13, 2026 at 12:49 PM
And this, too, is the corruption tax: fossil fuel companies buy off Trenton so that you and I have to pay the ever-increasing costs of flooding, erosion, and heat waves.
Things like the Climate Superfund Act getting killed by leadership with hours left in the legislative term are going to keep happening without a fundamental change in how the Legislature operates. It's entirely top-down and mostly hidden from the public. Trenton needs to become a legislature again!
and all those cosponsors will probably say little if anything about this, and they'll certainly do nothing about it the public can see
January 13, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Things like the Climate Superfund Act getting killed by leadership with hours left in the legislative term are going to keep happening without a fundamental change in how the Legislature operates. It's entirely top-down and mostly hidden from the public. Trenton needs to become a legislature again!
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An issue with “abolish ICE” is the work of ICE can still get dispersed elsewhere. But as a specific agency with a specific culture and recruitment history, it’s indefensible. Trump’s regime is doing brownshirt recruitment campaigns for it. You gotta nuke that.
January 13, 2026 at 12:04 PM
An issue with “abolish ICE” is the work of ICE can still get dispersed elsewhere. But as a specific agency with a specific culture and recruitment history, it’s indefensible. Trump’s regime is doing brownshirt recruitment campaigns for it. You gotta nuke that.
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this is the funniest thing i’ve ever read. isaac chotiner interviews a resident of the town from the lottery.
archiveofourown.org/works/73396436
archiveofourown.org/works/73396436
Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death - Charlotte_Stant - The Lottery - Shirley Jackson [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
archiveofourown.org
January 11, 2026 at 3:05 AM
this is the funniest thing i’ve ever read. isaac chotiner interviews a resident of the town from the lottery.
archiveofourown.org/works/73396436
archiveofourown.org/works/73396436
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rip nicky tags
twink death is fate's cruelest barb
who the hell is kevin
twink death is fate's cruelest barb
who the hell is kevin
January 13, 2026 at 12:28 PM
rip nicky tags
twink death is fate's cruelest barb
who the hell is kevin
twink death is fate's cruelest barb
who the hell is kevin
the New Jersey lame duck gets worse: the Climate Superfund Act, a bill sponsored by most of the Democratic caucus which would force certain fossil fuel companies to pay for climate mitigation, got killed at the last minute by Speaker Craig Coughlin
subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...
subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...
POLITICO Pro: The Climate Superfund Act is doomed (for now)
subscriber.politicopro.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:21 PM
the New Jersey lame duck gets worse: the Climate Superfund Act, a bill sponsored by most of the Democratic caucus which would force certain fossil fuel companies to pay for climate mitigation, got killed at the last minute by Speaker Craig Coughlin
subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...
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These aren't normal times for politics, but even if they were, it's so clear that Democrats either don't know how to do politics or don't want to. Their position on the board is "the president is hated and his goon forces are despised" and they seem at wit's end how to message from that position.
January 13, 2026 at 11:04 AM
These aren't normal times for politics, but even if they were, it's so clear that Democrats either don't know how to do politics or don't want to. Their position on the board is "the president is hated and his goon forces are despised" and they seem at wit's end how to message from that position.
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in retrospect, it was amazing how much power people like Steven Pinker and Malcolm Gladwell had at their fingertips in the pre-social media era. They could write an airport book claiming potato chips killed more people than all historical wars combined and it would become universal received wisdom
January 13, 2026 at 11:47 AM
in retrospect, it was amazing how much power people like Steven Pinker and Malcolm Gladwell had at their fingertips in the pre-social media era. They could write an airport book claiming potato chips killed more people than all historical wars combined and it would become universal received wisdom
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Even in DC speak I’d take: “This agency is hopelessly politicized and has a broken culture of violence and unquestioning loyalty to Trump. Its duties will be reorganized and reassigned to other law enforcement agencies. ICE was an experiment started in 2003 and it has failed.”
January 13, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Even in DC speak I’d take: “This agency is hopelessly politicized and has a broken culture of violence and unquestioning loyalty to Trump. Its duties will be reorganized and reassigned to other law enforcement agencies. ICE was an experiment started in 2003 and it has failed.”
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The body camera plug here is so dark. He was filming when he shot her! It’s an unreformable agency. Nuke it from orbit.
I am calling for the arrest and prosecution of the ICE agent that shot and killed Renee Good.
I am also calling on Congress to support my bill with @jasmineforus.bsky.social to force ICE agents to wear body cameras, not wear masks, have visible identification & ensure ICE has independent oversight.
I am also calling on Congress to support my bill with @jasmineforus.bsky.social to force ICE agents to wear body cameras, not wear masks, have visible identification & ensure ICE has independent oversight.
January 13, 2026 at 11:57 AM
The body camera plug here is so dark. He was filming when he shot her! It’s an unreformable agency. Nuke it from orbit.
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I added captions to this video of people heckling Greg Bovino leaving a Target in Minneapolis, and there's so many people yelling things at him it's like a comedy skit
January 13, 2026 at 3:16 AM
I added captions to this video of people heckling Greg Bovino leaving a Target in Minneapolis, and there's so many people yelling things at him it's like a comedy skit
went to an ICE observer training this weekend and the room was almost all white+I was one of the youngest people there
I think this is probably something they think will chill dissent but the number of people in Minneapolis that have basically responded to DHS occupation by saying “I’m willing to die for my cause, are you?” makes me think this will not work
January 13, 2026 at 4:50 AM
went to an ICE observer training this weekend and the room was almost all white+I was one of the youngest people there
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The national media, the ADL, corporate leaders, etc. are not revisiting their decisions about Musk now afaict. Musk is just allowed to be a very public Nazi accelerationist as well as a CSAM publisher without any mainstream scrutiny.
Every week is overwhelming evidence of what we saw with our own eyes, but which our credulous media was afraid to print: the Nazi salute was a Nazi salute
Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
January 12, 2026 at 2:24 PM
The national media, the ADL, corporate leaders, etc. are not revisiting their decisions about Musk now afaict. Musk is just allowed to be a very public Nazi accelerationist as well as a CSAM publisher without any mainstream scrutiny.
what can you even say but lol
Democrats should not be giving smooth-sailing to anything Trump or Congressional Republicans want, but Senate Democrats allowed a spending bill to advance 80-13 today.
Voting NO:
Bennet
Booker
Hickenlooper
Kim
Markey
Murphy
Padilla
Sanders
Schiff
Warren
Voting NO:
Bennet
Booker
Hickenlooper
Kim
Markey
Murphy
Padilla
Sanders
Schiff
Warren
January 13, 2026 at 4:26 AM
what can you even say but lol
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repeal the Homeland Security Act of 2002
Dismantling DHS is an entirely achievable goal for Democrats at this point.
You can have Fox yell at you for being a radical leftist or whatever, but you're going to have endless images of paramilitary goons assaulting people on TV, and voters will associate you with wanting to end that.
You can have Fox yell at you for being a radical leftist or whatever, but you're going to have endless images of paramilitary goons assaulting people on TV, and voters will associate you with wanting to end that.
January 13, 2026 at 4:01 AM
repeal the Homeland Security Act of 2002
ICE raided a Morristown laundromat and kidnapped ten people including a high school senior. get these thugs the fuck out of our communities and then get them the fuck out of federal employment. then, ideally, get them the fuck in front of a court.
ICE detains up to 10 in laundromat raid, including N.J. high school student
The mayor said the town was not notified in advance and did not assist in ICE's operation.
www.nj.com
January 13, 2026 at 4:07 AM
ICE raided a Morristown laundromat and kidnapped ten people including a high school senior. get these thugs the fuck out of our communities and then get them the fuck out of federal employment. then, ideally, get them the fuck in front of a court.
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Congresswoman in question is Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, whose district's population is mainly part of the Portland metro, and is the same woman who's basically formed her entire congressional career around changing the Marine Mammal Protection Act to allow and facilitate the extermination of sea lions
January 13, 2026 at 2:50 AM
Congresswoman in question is Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, whose district's population is mainly part of the Portland metro, and is the same woman who's basically formed her entire congressional career around changing the Marine Mammal Protection Act to allow and facilitate the extermination of sea lions
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or you know, a slight increase in our prison population
It’s worth considering that an overnight dismantling of ICE in 2029 would release into the wild a whole herd of specialists in violence with scant other marketable skills.
January 13, 2026 at 3:57 AM
or you know, a slight increase in our prison population
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I do not want to enable location services. I do not want to create an account. I do not want to sign up for special offers and news about your product. I would like to engage in a simple transaction where I give you money in exchange for a good.
January 10, 2026 at 8:46 PM
I do not want to enable location services. I do not want to create an account. I do not want to sign up for special offers and news about your product. I would like to engage in a simple transaction where I give you money in exchange for a good.
I will give the Legislature credit for very little but they deserve credit for this, even if they took way too long to pass it.
“I became convinced, candidly, that too many people were living in fear and that it was denying them the dignity of a normal life,” the Assembly speaker, Craig Coughlin, said.
“We wanted to stand up for people who were afraid."
“We wanted to stand up for people who were afraid."
A Push to Expand the Rights of Immigrants in Defiance of Trump
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 3:39 AM
I will give the Legislature credit for very little but they deserve credit for this, even if they took way too long to pass it.
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no. The answer is no.
.@PabloReports: Would you vote for any funding increases for ICE?
Warren: Not without more restrictions. This is an agency that is out of control. If we don’t get some restrictions in place, they’re going to put more American citizens at risk.
Warren: Not without more restrictions. This is an agency that is out of control. If we don’t get some restrictions in place, they’re going to put more American citizens at risk.
January 13, 2026 at 3:10 AM
no. The answer is no.
this scam is funny enough I think he should get to keep the money
January 13, 2026 at 3:15 AM
this scam is funny enough I think he should get to keep the money
you know, I will keep the same energy for this unnamed House member as I do for the centrists who tattle to Axios, even though this member is right. say it with your chest and under your government name if you want what you're saying to actually be heard by your colleagues!
"'The Democratic party is not going to be any braver in the majority than it is in the minority,' one House member told The Bulwark. 'The whole point becomes maintaining the majority so you never take courageous and sometimes necessary positions.'"
ICE Becomes Central to 2026
Democrats debate how best to push back against the rogue agency and its leaders.
lnk.thebulwark.com
January 13, 2026 at 3:01 AM
you know, I will keep the same energy for this unnamed House member as I do for the centrists who tattle to Axios, even though this member is right. say it with your chest and under your government name if you want what you're saying to actually be heard by your colleagues!
another sign that Sherrill could turn out to be way better than her campaign promised is that government in New Jersey is very intentionally broken, *especially* the DMV (less than 20% of drivers have Real ID!) and an out-of-state pro is a hire you make if you actually want to revamp the DMV
In a state where getting a Real ID drivers license remains challenging, Gov.-elect Sherrill's nominee to run the state DMV got those licenses for 97% of drivers.
Sherrill taps DMV expert to fix REAL ID appointment backlog
In a state where getting a Real ID drivers license remains challenging, Gov.-elect Sherrill's nominee to run the state DMV got those licenses for 97% of drivers.
www.nj.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:18 AM
another sign that Sherrill could turn out to be way better than her campaign promised is that government in New Jersey is very intentionally broken, *especially* the DMV (less than 20% of drivers have Real ID!) and an out-of-state pro is a hire you make if you actually want to revamp the DMV