Speaking/Email Points: 1. Express support for LGBTQ+ students, especially transgender and nonbinary students. They are extremely vulnerable in the current political environment. Based on NJ law, NJ Department of Education guidelines, and NH-V policy (5145.7), they have the right to be addre
As a member of Garden State Equality, I am writing to you today to share that I affirmatively and fully support a bill that your committee will vote on on Monday, May 11: S2260. This bill will secure additional protections for clients and providers accessing and providing reproductive health care i
RARITAN BAY — A natural gas pipeline that will run for 23 miles under Raritan Bay just got a key final approval this week: On Wednesday, the Tidelands Resource Council (part of the NJ Department of Environmental Protection) granted the pipeline final approval for a utility license. The company need
The United States of America is no longer free. Make sure NJ is!
Attorney General Jennifer Davenport stated that mifepristone remains legal in New Jersey, despite a recent Fifth Circuit decision that could limit access elsewhere. She affirmed that the state will continue to protect patients’ access to essential reproductive health care. WE THE PEOPLE urge you to
Demand enforcement of ICE mask ban, and protect NJ!
On the morning of April 15 in Asbury Park, Michelle Mendoza, a U.S. citizen, was driving her daughter to school when she received a call from her husband, Alejandro Rios, a Mexican-national who has lived and worked in NJ for over a decade. Rios was distressed because he believed immigration agents w
Demand Rutgers provide safety for ALL students- not just white ones!
Good morning! I am writing today regarding some concerning issues at Rutgers University- a New Jersey state school over which you have some discretionary control. New Jersey has a long and outstanding reputation for an excellent state university. Rutgers is one of the oldest schools in the country
The Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP) improves and increases the physical/cybersecurity and facility/target hardening of nonprofit organizations’ facilities at risk of a terrorist of other extremist attack, ultimately safeguarding the lives and property of the American pe
The Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP) provides funding for target hardening and other physical security enhancements and activities to nonprofit organizations at high risk of terrorist attack. The intent is to integrate nonprofit preparedness activities with broader state and local preparednes
On August 1 and 2nd, the world renowned group BTS will be appearing in East Rutherford at the MetLife Stadium. These concerts will bring in hundreds of thousands of dollars if not millions to the area because the fans have been waiting for them to get done their mandatory military service. Every oth
Get The Facilities Out!
Suggestion to help get ICE out of NJ. Go to GTFOICE.com for a robust website that can help us.
1. "Roxbury/NJ doesn’t have a reason to sue yet." DHS argues the town is jumping the gun. Since the facility isn't actually open or running yet, any problems like traffic or water shortages are just guesses about the future, not real problems happening right now. NINJA’s Response: DHS's response
'm writing to you today as a constituent and a member of Garden State Equality. In the face of nationwide attacks on medically necessary healthcare, both from the federal government and from state governments, I urge you to strengthen New Jersey's status as a safe haven for reproductive and trans h
'm writing to you today as a constituent and a member of Garden State Equality. In the face of nationwide attacks on medically necessary healthcare, both from the federal government and from state governments, I urge you to strengthen New Jersey's status as a safe haven for reproductive and trans h
Kissing the ring is political death. Prevent Trump’s access to NJ voter info!
Donald Trump is focusing on New Jersey voter registration rolls again. He’s already attempted these actions against other states and has thankfully been legally thwarted thus far. Having access to our voter information gives him access to our voting histories, party affiliations, and currency of reg
Constituent Complaint: NJ Transit Inaction on Chronic Overcrowding
I am a constituent writing to raise an ongoing, unresolved service failure with NJ Transit that has persisted for over a year with no corrective action and no meaningful response. The 5:32pm train from Secaucus Junction to Glen Rock Boro Hall operates at standing-room-only capacity on a near-daily b
Last week, Governor Murphy and six other Governors sent a petition to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) demanding that the agency include microplastics in the next Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR) issued pursuant to the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). If the EPA grants the peti
A legal petition was submitted to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today, calling on the agency to monitor for microplastics in drinking water under specific provisions of the Safe Drinking Water Act. The petition was filed by the national advocacy organization Food & Water Watch and co-sig
Dear HUD, The families I serve have fought hard to reach stability. This rule threatens all of it. The families I serve have fought hard to reach stability. They deserve to keep it. A person with a severe cognitive disability cannot navigate a documentation process designed for people without those
Existing law requires that specified actions for recovery of damages suffered as a result of childhood sexual assault, as defined, be commenced within 22 years of the date the plaintiff attains the age of majority or within 5 years of the date the plaintiff discovers or reasonably should have discov
In 2019, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, the first openly gay governor elected in the U.S., signed a bill banning conversion therapy in the state. Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that ban may be unconstitutional. (https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/supreme-court-opinion-conversion-therapy) Conver
Enforcing bans on LGBTQ+ “conversion” practices against talk therapy may be unconstitutional after the Supreme Court ruled that such therapy is robustly protected under the First Amendment. The Supreme Court held on March 31, 2026, in Chiles v. Salazar that, as applied to licensed therapists engage
He was beaten, threatened, shamed for who he was, forced to watch violent pornographic imagery, and subjected to electroshock treatment at the age of 13. Maplewood Township Committeeman Dean Dafis lived through gay conversion therapy and now is sharing his story in the hopes of ending what he calls
An Act concerning the protection of minors from attempts to change sexual orientation and supplementing Title 45 of the Revised Statutes. Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. Being le
out 36,000 Connecticut residents are at risk of losing access to food stamp benefits due to new eligibility requirements outlined in a recent federal bill. The cuts to food assistance in H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, will directly affect thousands of immigrants, young adults, veterans and
I am writing to share an important update on the EPA's early this month announcement about microplastics that I think PSR might be interested in. Earlier this month, Administrator Lee Zeldin announced that the EPA is including microplastics on the draft Sixth Contaminant Candidate List (CCL 6). Here
The EPA is currently deciding which contaminants to monitor in our nation’s drinking water. As health professionals, we know that microplastics are no longer just an environmental issue—they are a matter of public health. Research shows these particles accumulate in human organs, cross the placenta
Senator Mark Kelly's PEACE ACT: S4278—please sponsor it, please vote for it. Trump's ongoing usurpation of congressional powers is an abomination. Congress needs to reassert those powers, item by item and issue by issue if necessary. "Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) introduced the Prohibiting Expenditur
DoorDash inserted itself into politics yesterday by participating in a PR stunt involving Trump and a DoorDash driver (who may or may not have been a paid plant) in a photo op. I personally deleted the app this morning. They had a choice about participating in anything related to this administration
. First, please ask the Congressmember to oppose a clean reauthorization of Section 702 of FISA. Section 702’s numerous loopholes allow for unwarranted government surveillance and can be easily manipulated at the expense of Americans’ civil liberties. The Congressmember should only support its exte
mericans have defended one core principle: the government does not get to decide what we are allowed to read. H.R. 7661 threatens that principle. By tying federal education funding to restrictions on certain books and educational materials, this bill pressures schools to remove titles that discuss
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