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Former Mayor, Westfield NJ | C-suite Exec | Board Director | Transit & Housing Policy Wonk | Dog rescuer | UVA 🏀 fan. Opinions are my own.
Westfield, NJ 가입일 Şubat 2009
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@JonBramnick Thank you for your support @JonBramnick! This will be a transformative initiative for Westfield!
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I read somewhere that being an American right now is like riding in the backseat of a car with a drunk driver, and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it.
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Bondi was awful, but no worse than Patel. Noem was terrible, but no worse than Hegseth. Funny that it’s only the women who get fired.
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Yes. All of this.
Gandalv@Microinteracti1
Robert Mueller died last night. He was 81 years old. He had a wife who loved him for sixty years. He had two daughters, one of whom he met for the first time in Hawaii, in 1969, on a few hours of military leave, before he got back on the plane and returned to Vietnam. He had grandchildren. He had a faith he practiced quietly, without performance. He had, in the way of men who have seen real things and survived them, a quality that is increasingly rare and increasingly mocked in the country he spent his life serving. He had integrity. And tonight the President of the United States said good! I have been sitting with that word for hours now. Good. One syllable. The thing you say when the coffee is hot or the traffic is moving. The thing a man who has never had to bury anyone, never had to sit in the specific silence of a room where someone is newly absent, reaches for when he wants the world to know he is satisfied. Good. The daughters are crying and the wife is alone in the house and good. I want to speak directly to the Americans reading this. Not the political Americans. Just the human ones. The ones who have lost a father. The ones who know what it is to be in that first hour, when you keep forgetting and then remembering again, when ordinary objects become unbearable, when the world outside the window seems obscene in its indifference. I want to ask you, simply, to hold that feeling for a moment, and then to understand that the man you elected looked at it and typed a single word. Good. This is not a country having a bad day. I need you to understand that. Countries have bad days. Elections go wrong. Leaders disappoint. Institutions bend. But there is a different thing, a rarer and more terrible thing, that happens when the moral center of a place simply gives way. Not dramatically. Not with a single catastrophic event. But quietly, in increments, until one evening a president celebrates the death of an old man whose family is still warm with grief, and enough people find it acceptable that it becomes the weather. Just the weather. That is what is happening. That is what has happened. The world knows. From Tokyo to Oslo, from London to Buenos Aires, people are not angry at America tonight. Anger would mean there was still something to fight for, some remaining faith to be betrayed. What I see, in the reactions from everywhere that is not here, is something older and sadder than anger. It is the look people get when they have waited a long time for someone they love to find their way back, and have finally understood that they are not coming. America is being grieved. Past tense, almost. The idea of it. The thing it represented to people who had nothing else to believe in, who came here with everything they owned in a single bag because they had heard, somehow, across an ocean, that this was the place where decency was written into the walls. That idea is not resting. It is not suspended. It is being buried, in real time, with 7,450 likes before dinner. And the church said nothing. Seventy million people have decided that this man, this specific man who has cheated everyone he has ever made a promise to, who has mocked the disabled and the dead and the grieving, who celebrated tonight while a family wept, is an instrument of God. The pastors who made that bargain did not just trade away their credibility. They traded away the thing that made them worth listening to in the first place. The cross they carry now is a costume. The faith they preach is a loyalty oath with scripture attached. When the history of American Christianity is written, this will be the chapter they skip at seminary. Now I want to talk about the men who stand next to him. Because this is the part that actually breaks my heart. JD Vance is not a bad man. I have to say that, because it is true, and because the truth matters even now, especially now. Marco Rubio is not a bad man. Lindsey Graham is not a bad man. They are idiots, but not bad, as in BAD! These are men with mothers who raised them and children who love them and friends who remember who they were before all of this. They are not monsters. Monsters are simple. Monsters do not cost you anything emotionally because there is nothing in them to mourn. These men are something more painful than monsters. They are men who knew better, and know better still, and will get up tomorrow and do it again. Every small compromise they made had a reason. Every moment they looked the other way had a justification that sounded, at the time, almost reasonable. And now they have arrived here, at a place where a president celebrates the death of an old man and they will find a way, on television, to say nothing that means anything, and they will go home to houses where children who carry their name are waiting, and they will say goodnight, and they will say nothing. Their oldest friends are watching. The ones who knew Rubio when he still believed in something. Who knew Graham when he said, out loud, on the record, that this exact man would destroy the Republican Party and deserve it. Who sat next to Vance and thought here is someone worth knowing. Those friends are not angry tonight. They moved through anger a long time ago. What they feel now is the quiet, irrecoverable sadness of watching someone disappear while still being present. Of watching a person they loved choose, again and again, to become less. That is what cowardice costs. Not the coward. The people who loved him. And in the comments tonight, the followers celebrate. People who ten years ago brought casseroles to grieving neighbours. Who stood in the rain at gravesides and meant the words they said. Who told their children that we do not speak ill of the dead because the dead were someone's beloved. Those people are tonight typing gleeful things about a man whose daughters are not yet done crying. And they feel clean doing it. Righteous. Because somewhere along the way the thing they were given in exchange for their decency was the feeling of belonging to something, and that feeling is very hard to give up even when you can no longer remember what you gave for it. When Trump is gone, they will still be here. Standing in the silence where the noise used to be. Without the permission the crowd gave them. Without the pastor who told them their cruelty was holy. They will be alone with what they said and what they cheered and what they chose to become, and there will be no one left to tell them it was righteous. That morning is coming. Robert Mueller flew across the Pacific on military leave to hold his newborn daughter for a few hours before returning to the war. He came home. He buried his dead with honour. He served presidents of both parties because he understood that the institution was larger than any one man. He told his grandchildren that a lie is the worst thing a person can do, that a reputation once lost cannot be recovered, and he lived that, every day, in the quiet and unglamorous way of people who actually believe what they say. He was the kind of American the world used to point to when it needed to believe the story was true. He died last night. His wife is alone in their house in Georgetown. His daughters are learning what the world is without him in it. And somewhere in the particular hush that falls over a family in the first hours of loss, the most powerful man and the biggest loser on earth sent a message to say he was glad. The world that loved what America was supposed to be is grieving tonight. Not for Robert Mueller only. For the country that produced him and then became this. For the distance between what was promised and what was delivered. For the suspicion, growing quieter and more certain with each passing month, that the America people believed in was always partly a story, and the story is over now, and there is nothing yet to replace it. That is all it needed to be. A man died. His family is broken open with grief. That is all it needed to be. Instead the President said good. And the country that once stood for something looked away 🇺🇸 Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
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James "Jimmy" Gracey
-Only 20 yo
-6'1" Tall
-Alabama student
-Last seen wearing a white T-Shirt, dark pants and usually wore a cross.
-He was on Spring Break in Barcelona.
-Jimmy was out with friends clubbing. Last seen at about 3:00 a.m.
-Someone else was
found in possession of his cell phone that had been reported stolen.
-His friends did not stay with him after a night a clubbing. He stayed back at the club after his friends returned to the Airbnb. Shôko is a nightclub on the Barceloneta boardwalk.
-The club was on the beach near water.
**This reminds me of the Riley Strain case...
Please use your platforms to help find this young man.
#JimmyGracey
#JamesGracey
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One of the Americans killed when a KC-135 went down in Iraq has been identified.
Major Alex Klinner. He is survived by his wife. And three children. A 2-year-old. And 7-month-old twins.
His twins will never know their father.
His 2-year-old will barely remember him.
This is not a statistic. This is not a number in a casualty count the Pentagon refuses to release.
This is a man who had a family.
Trump declared victory 5 times in 13 seconds.
Major Alex Klinner’s children will grow up without him.
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As a gold star child I can relate. Disgusting.
Alison Spann@newsgirlalison
Spend an afternoon with a Gold Star child or an operator who lost 24 friends in combat and watch how fast the war memes stop being funny. Really gross stuff.
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@BetterBlocksNJ Yes! On behalf of @MayorsRvl, thank you for speaking up for improved RVL service!
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Believe it or not, Phillipsburg.
Speaking of, NJ Transit RVL service along the full I-78 Corridor now!
betterblocksnj.org/2025/11/05/tra…
New Jersey@NJGov
let's discuss ⬇️
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Looking forward to joining Via’s Mayor’s Council and working alongside other mayors to drive innovation + support for public transit. As co-founder of @MayorsRvl, I have seen first hand how a bipartisan group of mayors can elevate and influence policy. yhoo.it/4rxIyU9
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This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see.
His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert.
Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.
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@Itsjoeco Hard disagree. Would be so proud if they were my kids. Don’t know why you wouid say they don’t care about their country winning. Didn’t make that connection at all. 🇺🇸
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I think (hope) that most Olympic athletes don't agree with their country's leaders.
But you have to be pretty smug and self-righteous to bring it up DURING THE OPENING PRESS CONFERENCE.
In addition to offending a lot of people, you kinda remove the illusion that you care about your country winning the games and that takes a lot of the fun out of the spectating.
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Stopping work on the Gateway Tunnel Project is catastrophic for commuters, workers, and our economy. The Trump Admin’s political games are illegal and hurt our bottom line. Proud to stand with @govsherrillnj @NewYorkStateAG @GovKathyHochul to fight for you.
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Great interview @StevenFulop. Yes to all of this! 👏👏
Steven Fulop@StevenFulop
Cities that invest in walkability, transit, and thoughtful street design attract talent and companies. A less car-centric, more urbanist approach is where people want to live and work. I lived this in #JerseyCity + this is an area where @ZohranKMamdani is strong, and there’s real opportunity to engage the business community.
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Shutdown will idle thousands of workers, waste $1 billion already spent on Gateway Tunnel project unless Trump restores funding nj.com/news/2026/01/g…
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This would be a great opportunity for Kean to show leadership on this.
Matt Friedman@MattFriedmanNJ
New Jersey's most vulnerable congressman, Republican Tom Kean Jr., represents a district full of commuter towns.
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“Imagine how they lie when there’s no evidence to contradict them”
Marco Foster@MarcoFoster_
Jon Stewart on the ICE murder of Alex Pretti: “They’re lying. We saw it. That’s how brazen they lie when they know we’ve seen the truth. Imagine how they lie when there’s no evidence to contradict them. Maybe that explains why Alex Pretti really was a threat. Because he was brandishing a weapon. A handheld, aluminum, 1080p, 60fps weapon of mass illumination. Because there is nothing more dangerous to a regime predicated on lies than witnesses who capture the truth”
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