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in case anyone’s wondering how the NYC mayoral race is going, Curtis Sliwa just said on WABC right now that he’d rather be tortured and murdered than work for Andrew Cuomo
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I was skeptical that Trump demolishing part of the White House to build a ballroom would be of interest to anyone outside of like Rachel Maddow viewers, but a very conservative NJ Republican told me this week it’s come up when he talks to independent voters. They hate it.
It’s actually so funny, and so grim, that it seems like the east wing/ballroom stuff really did it lmao
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NJ Transit trains may stop running in a week, Newark airport should probably be shut down, the Newark mayor is in jail. Utter chaos in NJ.
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Insane story. Woman spent 10 days in Essex County jail because no one would check her fingerprints to make sure they had arrested the right person (they hadn’t). And no one will be punished because of qualified immunity.
Judges toss false-arrest claims against federal marshals in mistaken-identity case newjerseymonitor.com/2024/08… via @DanaDiFilippo
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final jeopardy category tonight was WOMEN AUTHORS and the two men couldn’t even think of one
Community note
The question they were answering was 'In "A Room of One's Own", the "four famous names" are Austen, 2 Brontës, & this author who died closest to Virginia Woolf's Own time'
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finally catching up on video from last night and I didn’t realize Gov. Murphy was drunk drunk
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Remember that NJ judge who asked a rape victim if she kept her legs closed? A decision from the NJ Supreme Court today removes him from office and bars him from ever being a NJ judge again njcourts.gov/attorneys/asset…
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“The fastest AM travel time was Friday at 7:30am, taking just 37 minutes to travel from Summit to NYC”
Our governor is spending almost all his time — and a lot of our money — trying to stop this.
Congestion pricing update:
As we continue to track travel times, we will keep you informed. Please note, these are travel times for cars. Our buses save even more time with bus lanes at the Lincoln Tunnel and throughout Manhattan.
From Summit to NYC last week, excluding Martin Luther King Day, morning commutes were down 8.5 minutes and evening commutes were down 10 minutes, on average.
The fastest AM travel time was Friday at 7:30am, taking just 37 minutes to travel from Summit to NYC, which is 24 minutes faster than the average. For the evening commute to Summit, 4:45pm on Tuesday was down 21 minutes from the average, taking just 53 minutes to get home from Bryant Park.
Check back next week for more commuter news!
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wow, the yellow brick road as a metaphor for the journey to self-discovery, what a great idea no one else has thought of, certainly not the writer of The Wizard of Oz
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✨ I have news. ✨
Today is my last day at The Record. @statesnewsroom is opening a NJ bureau and they’ve asked me to run it. I start Monday and we’ll launch the site soon.
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This Tariq Zehawi photo from today's funeral for Jersey City Det. Joseph Seals -- that's one of his sons saluting him -- is devastating
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getting a lot of blowback for declaring Route 440 is NJ’s ugliest highway but I stand by it. 495 is a close 2nd. 46 between the McDonald’s & Willowbrook is 3rd.
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he's right, a gay New Jersey governor would definitely get away with using his position to help his partner, absolutely zero evidence that he'd face blowback like being forced to resign
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“sorry, kids, daddy can’t visit today, it would cost him $9”
CONGESTION PRICING: Upper East Side resident Andrew lives on 61st street and 5th Avenue, in Congestion "Relief" zone, the second he moves his car, he’s hit with a toll.
His kids live on 79th street and he will have to pay congestion price every time he goes to see them.
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New Jersey’s county chairs waiting outside Newark airport for the Murphys to return home so they can all … have a chat
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"I see black people trying to write a 10,000-word cover story can you send someone down here"
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NJ Transit’s new motto should be “yeah we suck but what are you going to do, drive on New Jersey roads lol”
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Hi, Hudson County. Friday is my last day at The Jersey Journal. On Monday I'm joining the great team over at @northjersey. Covering Hudson has been wild and I'll miss it!
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me, stuck underground on a NJ Transit train for three hours on Labor Day: well at least this trip was free
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here's a shot of Andrzej Pitynski working on the Katyn monument in 1990 (found at @JCFPL_NJ)
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"listen we need a few dozen peacocks for today's St. Peter's parade"
"I got one rooster"
"fine"
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we riot at dawn
Update on this, FIFA has replaced one of its controversial New York New Jersey Fun Facts with an even wronger one: defector.com/let-us-discuss-…
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stolen valor
BREAKING: An earthquake shakes the New York City area with a preliminary magnitude of 4.8, officials say. apnews.com/article/east-coas…
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NJ Gov. @PhilMurphy on the Irish Americans for Harris-Walz call starts off by saying he was born in Boston and remains a "member of Red Sox nation"
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if you're laid off by Gannett today and live in/know New Jersey, DM me. we can chat about freelance opportunities to get some $ in your pocket for the holidays.
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Gov. Murphy’s name recognition must be rising. My 7yo niece entered a drawing contest and she picked Murphy holding "the hammer of justice.”
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NJ Transit should start alerting people when there aren’t massive delays, they’d send fewer alerts
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Have to be a white president to be a neutral observer on race. nitter.app/KimBrownTalks/status/6…
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excuse me
"'The Sack' is the new nickname for downtown Hackensack ..."
northjersey.com/story/news/b…
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I’m officially furloughed until 4/13 so my tweets are about to become extremely unprofessional fyi
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exchanging cash for favors, wow sounds so unlike him
NEW: Bob Menendez might have found a way to keep leverage over Dems with his independent senate campaign.
New Jersey sources tell me they think he will ultimately demand some type of support from the party (legal fees, etc.) in exchange for getting out of the race.
National Democrats tell me they aren’t worried about how Menendez factors into general election.
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so you're telling me there are parts of the country where that happens frequently and people just keep living there?
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you're either the kind of white person who says that word or you're not. if you're not, it doesn't slip out when you're tired.
In a statement, @billmaher says the word he used "was offensive and I regret saying it and am very sorry."
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in New Jersey, you take a victory lap when the US Supreme Court says the thing you did may have been corrupt, deceitful and an abuse of power but it wasn’t criminal
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are you guys that high already it's only 4:30 there
When Reagan was shot, country rallied around, but he hadn't spent months downplaying assassins latimes.com/politics/story/2…
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Murphy says Ciattarelli should concede because it's mathematically impossible for him to win, says Sweeney shouldn't because Sweeney thinks he has a chance
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Talula's in Asbury Park is selling this antipasto “grazing box” and it’s the only thing I can think about
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Gov. Phil Murphy, asked about congestion pricing on WNYC just now, said when he was in London last week “we almost walked on several occasions and/or took the Tube on several occasions, it hasn’t done a thing to traffic."
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Gov. Raj Mukherji III, appearing at site of American Dream project, says, "Voters elected me in 2077 to get this thing done and we're just about there."
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#JerseyCity applied to the @BikeLeague to be recognized as a Bicycle Friendly Community. To help gain a better understanding of local bicyclists’ experiences from those who live & work here, please take this survey & help spread the word!
Open now - 11/6.
surveymonkey.com/r/BFC_Fall2…
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brutal day
After 157 years of keeping Hudson County informed, The Jersey Journal to close in 2025 - nj.com nj.com/hudson/2024/10/after-…
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New Jersey federal judge says Mahmoud Khalil cannot be removed from the U.S. until he rules otherwise
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my sister Amy is visiting us for a bit and she’s hilarious so I’m collecting all the funny things she says here 🧵
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she did it
N.J. town to drop lawsuit against woman, 82, who it claimed filed ‘voluminous’ public records requests nj-ne.ws/Wvwy476
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there’s your regular kind of monster and then there’s the kind who sees there’s a baby food shortage so buys a bunch of it and sells it online at triple the price nytimes.com/2022/05/10/us/ba…
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there was a first-time voter at my polling place today and all the workers cheered for her when she cast her ballot
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well @opd_nj found out, we’re just helping uncover what’s going on!
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Hudson Dem chair: our voters are too dumb to figure out a ballot used everywhere but in New Jersey
Hudson County Dems Chair Anthony Vaineiri says he "strongly disagree[s]" with judge's ruling to eliminate the county line in June primary.
Worth noting his sister @valerie_huttle filed an amicus brief in support @AndyKimNJ's lawsuit eliminating the line.
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Fulop’s Twitter beefs ranked:
1. Martha Stewart
2. That electrocuted raccoon who shut down the PATH
3. the people of Poland
4. David Wildstein (ongoing)
5. Bayonne
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“New Jersey tried to buy $500,000 worth of digital anti-congestion pricing ads near local bridges, tunnels and in the new Manhattan toll zone — but the MTA rejected the campaign as too political.”
someone take the Murphy admin’s credit card away
MTA rejects NJ ads trolling NYC’s congestion toll as too political: ‘Aren’t you tired of this?’ trib.al/dZJk0CQ
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