Sophie Nieto-Muñoz
@snietomunoz
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Sophie, not Sophia. statehouse reporter @njmonitor @statesnewsroom • prev: @njdotcom • @rutgersu alum • hablo español 🇦🇷 [email protected]
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NEW: For nearly two decades, Labor commissioners + workers begged the state to do something about the archaic unemployment system before another economic crisis came. Now, it’s crumbling under unprecedented stress. “Everyone knew this was a timebomb.”
nj.com
About 1.1 million unemployment claims have been filed in just two months, and the system can't handle the surge.
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The loss of newspapers, and specifically local newspapers, is terrible for many reasons, but two primarily: 1. It weakens modes of accountability for local politics. Less local papers means less local reporters investigating, asking questions and holding local officials
Newspapers are closing at an emergency-level rate—over the past 20 years, America has lost more than 3,000. For the past six years, the photographer Ann Hermes has been documenting the lives lived in these dying places across the country. See more images: https://t.co/fZqNYFMo1O
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Can someone let me know when Part 2 gets published? I am not afraid to say I am obsessed with this drama but I draw the line at signing up for Ryan Lizza’s Substack
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The biggest revelation in Lizza’s article is that Mark Sanford was running for president in 2020. I genuinely had zero recollection of this.
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Email from author Michael Wolff suggests that Epstein had compromising information on Trump.
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BREAKING: @RepBonnie is retiring from Congress. The 80-year-old congresswoman has been in office since 2015 and is a leading light for NJ progressives. Will be a major Dem primary to replace her.
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NYMag blew up its story about ICE's increased presence at 26 Federal Plaza, and pasted it on a wall a few blocks away on Broadway
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Lots of (rightful) attention is going toward the race for governor, so here’s a quick thread of the Assembly races we deem Toss-ups or Leans. You can read full analyses for these races—and all the others—in our voter’s guide:
newjerseyglobe.com
Click HERE to download a high-resolution version of the New Jersey Globe 2025 Voter’s Guide. Click HERE for a lower-resolution version. Years of planning,
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@snietomunoz photos, including this amazing one of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, by the fab @ReenaRosePhoto
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Don't know if they give out Pulitzers to cable news bookers but whoever did this absolutely deserves one
We have the two de Blasios!!! Long Island de Blasio admits to @ErinBurnett: “I just had a little fun with it,” Brooklyn de Blasio thinks it’s pretty funny, but can’t believe “no one checked!” - @BilldeBlasio
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Jack Ciattarelli can sue Mikie Sherrill for defamation without having to worry about campaign finance rules, the Election Law Enforcement Commission said Monday
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.@NYCMayor is recording an interview with Ziwe today at City Hall (they’re setting up in the governor’s room which has a glass door) The mayor saw Ziwe a few weeks ago at a press conference and he said he’d go on with her
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ICYMI -- Dem candidate @MikieSherrill says she'd support legislation to ban ICE agents from wearing masks during enforcement raids, adding that she would fight for it in court if needed
newjerseymonitor.com
Mikie Sherrill (D) has regularly criticized federal agents wearing masks during raids, calling the practice "unacceptable."
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Sunset in NYC on Saturday is at 6:00pm. This is the last time that the sun will set after 6:00pm in NYC until March 8th, 2026.
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Ciattarelli's executive director for Muslim relations, Dr. Ibrar Nadeem, introduces Ciattarelli, says he wants a ban on same-sex marriage and insists he isn't "taking money from Jews"
#NJ gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli is getting an endorsement so big, it might lead to victory (Lakewood Vaad). He made an appearance with Muslims4Jack too “We want to have a ban on same-sex marriage…I was blamed that somebody said you are taking money from Jews.”
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🧵Hi, I'm the @propublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.
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An (incomplete?) list of Democrats in New Jersey to help Mikie Sherrill in the coming days: - Wes Moore - Gretchen Whitmer - DNC Chair Ken Martin - Jim Clyburn - Jamie Raskin - Rep. Marilyn Strickland - DNC Vice Chair Shasti Conrad Virtually: Reps. Susie Lee and Steven Horsford
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Barack Obama endorses Mikie Sherrill in N.J.’s big governor race
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The former president's backing comes less than three weeks to Election Day.
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"what if I went to grad school" eventually comes for us all
What’s next for @NYCMayor? The new thing this morning is he said he wants to go back to school to get his doctorate.
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I think Curtis Sliwa should be in every debate. Not just in New York. Like every single debate. A political ghost runner. Send him right to second base when we get to extra innings to keep things interesting.
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NEW: NBC News eliminated its teams dedicated to covering issues affecting Black, Asian American, Latino and LGBTQ+ groups as part of its Wednesday layoffs, according to sources. While the layoffs affected the entire newsroom and were budget-driven, the cuts reflect a broader
thewrap.com
The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of...
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