Kevin K. Gartland
@kevinkgartland.bsky.social
"Brilliant, disturbing." Consumer protection attorney, anti-corruption Democrat. Rahway, NJ.
Mass migration is fundamental to who and what America is. These Nazis spit in the face of my ancestors and yours too.
November 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Mass migration is fundamental to who and what America is. These Nazis spit in the face of my ancestors and yours too.
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New Jersey, it is the honor of my life to earn your trust to become this great state’s 57th Governor.
I promise to listen, lead with courage, and never forget who I serve.
I promise to listen, lead with courage, and never forget who I serve.
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 AM
New Jersey, it is the honor of my life to earn your trust to become this great state’s 57th Governor.
I promise to listen, lead with courage, and never forget who I serve.
I promise to listen, lead with courage, and never forget who I serve.
With the cost of living spiraling out of control and a fascist White House imposing authoritarian rule on the country, the top priority of the New Jersey Senate President is...nitpicking ebike regulations? www.tapinto.net/towns/scotch...
NJ Senate President Scutari to Hold News Conference in Scotch Plains on E-Bike Safety on Weds, Oct. 1
SCOTCH PLAINS, NJ – NJ Senate President Nick Scutari will hold a news conference in Scotch Plains on Wednesday to announce a legislative initiative to improve the safe use of electric bikes in New...
www.tapinto.net
October 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
With the cost of living spiraling out of control and a fascist White House imposing authoritarian rule on the country, the top priority of the New Jersey Senate President is...nitpicking ebike regulations? www.tapinto.net/towns/scotch...
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Microcosm of how Dems approach comms in general. @sky.skymarchini.net was talking about initiative party-wide the other day, and one element of this is that we crack down on anyone showing individual initiative. It puts us 3 weeks behind the news cycle 100% of the time
like for all the TL paranoia about dark money influencer ops and restrictive contracts and whatever else, they had a dogshit plan that focused on control rather than success.
August 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Microcosm of how Dems approach comms in general. @sky.skymarchini.net was talking about initiative party-wide the other day, and one element of this is that we crack down on anyone showing individual initiative. It puts us 3 weeks behind the news cycle 100% of the time
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Gonna be another one of those days being really thankful for the smart, rational leadership of Chuck Schumer, who warned us back in March that it was necessary to immediately acquiesce to Trump on funding the government to make sure literally none of what he’s doing right now would happen, isn’t it
August 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Gonna be another one of those days being really thankful for the smart, rational leadership of Chuck Schumer, who warned us back in March that it was necessary to immediately acquiesce to Trump on funding the government to make sure literally none of what he’s doing right now would happen, isn’t it
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Correct. The default Dem position has to be, "I will fire everyone Trump appointed, and everyone hired by anyone Trump appointed, regardless of what any statute or court says."
Anything less is a ratification of Trump's actions that leaves the government broken and filled with saboteurs.
Anything less is a ratification of Trump's actions that leaves the government broken and filled with saboteurs.
To make the stakes clear, potential Dem Presidential candidates should say that if SCOTUS allows this they will fire any Trump Fed appointees in 2028. Because that is the logical endpoint.
To be clear, this is the ball game for Federal Reserve independence. If Trump can decide what constitutes "for cause" basis for firing, then every Fed board member can be fired until he has a Board that is completely acquiescent to his every demand.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-uses...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-uses...
August 26, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Correct. The default Dem position has to be, "I will fire everyone Trump appointed, and everyone hired by anyone Trump appointed, regardless of what any statute or court says."
Anything less is a ratification of Trump's actions that leaves the government broken and filled with saboteurs.
Anything less is a ratification of Trump's actions that leaves the government broken and filled with saboteurs.
An outrage. We must chase these cowards out of the community we love, and we deserve a city, county, and state government that's willing to have that fight.
August 26, 2025 at 3:03 AM
An outrage. We must chase these cowards out of the community we love, and we deserve a city, county, and state government that's willing to have that fight.
Delays at six times the rate of what New Yorkers ride into the city. Our leaders should be embarrassed. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
August 19, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Delays at six times the rate of what New Yorkers ride into the city. Our leaders should be embarrassed. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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NJ Transit's official data makes it difficult to tell just how bad it is. So @suryamattu.com and I spent three months collecting the raw location data for more than 190,000 trains on NJT, Metro-North, and LIRR. Then @mariepastora.bsky.social made the graphics to show you. The answer: Very bad.
NJ Transit Is NYC’s Least Reliable Commuter Rail — By a Long Shot
An analysis of real-time train data shows its passengers face major service disruptions at six times the rate of riders on other NYC commuter railways.
www.bloomberg.com
August 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
NJ Transit's official data makes it difficult to tell just how bad it is. So @suryamattu.com and I spent three months collecting the raw location data for more than 190,000 trains on NJT, Metro-North, and LIRR. Then @mariepastora.bsky.social made the graphics to show you. The answer: Very bad.
Nobody has been at my assemblyman's office since at least Friday, if these FedEx slips are any indication. lmao.
August 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Nobody has been at my assemblyman's office since at least Friday, if these FedEx slips are any indication. lmao.
Horrific allegations against the now-closed Union County Juvenile Detention Center that demand a full investigation by the state.
Lawsuit Claims Union County Allowed Sexual Assaults at Former Juvenile Detention Center
Union County sued by former detainees at the closed Union County Juvenile Detention Center.
www.tapinto.net
August 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Horrific allegations against the now-closed Union County Juvenile Detention Center that demand a full investigation by the state.
An outrageous betrayal by my state senator. Is there anyone or anything Trenton wouldn't sell out for power and self-enrichment?
August 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
An outrageous betrayal by my state senator. Is there anyone or anything Trenton wouldn't sell out for power and self-enrichment?
Glad to see a driver has been charged for the death of a cyclist on North Avenue in Westfield. Pedestrians and cyclists in Union County shouldn't be at risk every time we travel anywhere.
Update: Bicyclist Killed in Crash on North Avenue in Westfield Monday; Driver Charged
A bicyclist was killed in a crash at North Avenue West and Crossway Place Monday morning, according to Westfield Police Chief Christopher Battiloro.
www.tapinto.net
August 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Glad to see a driver has been charged for the death of a cyclist on North Avenue in Westfield. Pedestrians and cyclists in Union County shouldn't be at risk every time we travel anywhere.
I don't know about everyone else, but my bill *already* went up by *more* than 20%. What's with the victory lap?
July 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I don't know about everyone else, but my bill *already* went up by *more* than 20%. What's with the victory lap?
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a society that would like to keep functioning must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
Mike Johnson on Trump: "His approval ratings are skyrocketing. CNN had a story a day or two ago -- he was at a 90 percent approval rating! There's never been a president that high."
July 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
a society that would like to keep functioning must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
As a former UAW-unionized legal services staff attorney at a similarly underpaying organization, solidarity to NYC's striking UAW legal services workers. This kind of support staff pay in particular is unsustainable and makes everyone's working lives miserable (and my old employer had it worse.)
It’s the first strike by attorneys representing indigent criminal defendants anywhere in the city since 1994, when then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani cancelled the city’s contract with the Legal Aid Society and new organizations formed to provide the services — including Bronx Defenders.
Bronx Defenders Join Growing Legal Services Worker Strike
Attorneys and legal staff at three groups walked out of negotiations on Thursday, marking the first time since 1994 that criminal defense lawyers for the poor have halted work.
buff.ly
July 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
As a former UAW-unionized legal services staff attorney at a similarly underpaying organization, solidarity to NYC's striking UAW legal services workers. This kind of support staff pay in particular is unsustainable and makes everyone's working lives miserable (and my old employer had it worse.)
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Battered and rusted but still standing—happy to see that my Eagle Scout project, the American flag drop box at the Scotch Plains American Legion post, survived Monday's floods! Ten years old now.
July 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Battered and rusted but still standing—happy to see that my Eagle Scout project, the American flag drop box at the Scotch Plains American Legion post, survived Monday's floods! Ten years old now.
Democratic-controlled states need to explore the possibility of regulating crypto ourselves by updating and strengthening our own blue sky laws, before New Jersey workers lose their retirement savings to a Trumpist shitcoin pump-and-dump.
FT: "Donald Trump is preparing to open the $9tn US retirement market to cryptocurrency investments ..."
Trump is seeking to direct Americans' retirement funds to a sector in which he and his family are heavily invested.
www.ft.com/content/0790...
Trump is seeking to direct Americans' retirement funds to a sector in which he and his family are heavily invested.
www.ft.com/content/0790...
Donald Trump set to open US retirement market to crypto investments
President preparing executive order to allow 401k plans to tap broad pool of alternative assets
www.ft.com
July 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Democratic-controlled states need to explore the possibility of regulating crypto ourselves by updating and strengthening our own blue sky laws, before New Jersey workers lose their retirement savings to a Trumpist shitcoin pump-and-dump.
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Scoop: The Wall Street Journal is working on a story highlighting Donald Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein—but is said to be facing pressure from the White House, with Trump himself calling Editor-In-Chief Emma Tucker to object.
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/wall-stree...
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/wall-stree...
Trump's WSJ Epstein Fury
The Wall Street Journal is said to be working on a story highlighting Donald Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, prompting protest from the White House.
www.status.news
July 17, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Scoop: The Wall Street Journal is working on a story highlighting Donald Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein—but is said to be facing pressure from the White House, with Trump himself calling Editor-In-Chief Emma Tucker to object.
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/wall-stree...
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/wall-stree...
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in under 6 months, day time prime time tv for the largest news network (by viewers) has transitioned to openly embracing the term Nazi
Gutfeld: “We need to learn from the blacks. The way they were able to remove the power from the n-word word by using it. So from now on it’s: What up, my Nazi? Hey, what up, my Nazi? Hey, what's hanging, my Nazi?”
Kennedy: “Nazi, please!”
Gutfeld: “Thank God you did a hard ‘i’ there.”
Kennedy: “Nazi, please!”
Gutfeld: “Thank God you did a hard ‘i’ there.”
July 15, 2025 at 9:58 PM
in under 6 months, day time prime time tv for the largest news network (by viewers) has transitioned to openly embracing the term Nazi
The Plainfield Area Humane Society lost everything in last night's floods (but their animals are safe!) Help them get back on their feet:
Donation Form
pahs.harnessgiving.org
July 15, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The Plainfield Area Humane Society lost everything in last night's floods (but their animals are safe!) Help them get back on their feet:
Assemblyman Danielsen is right—which is why it would be nice to have a chair of the Assembly Environment and Natural Resources Committee who takes his job seriously and is ready to get to work funding and mandating the adaptive infrastructure and green energy buildout we need.
Assemblyman Joe Danielsen issued the following statement following yesterday's rainstorm in New Jersey that led to flooding throughout the state: www.assemblydems.com/CivicAlerts....
July 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Assemblyman Danielsen is right—which is why it would be nice to have a chair of the Assembly Environment and Natural Resources Committee who takes his job seriously and is ready to get to work funding and mandating the adaptive infrastructure and green energy buildout we need.
Heartbroken to hear that two of our neighbors in Plainfield were killed in the floods last night, especially after the previous deaths in Plainfield earlier this month. We need to act on climate now—instead, Trenton is weakening our flood rules and exempting affordable homes from flood standards.
Amended NJ flood rules plan leaves environmentalists, business groups unsatisfied • New Jersey Monitor
The new proposal features a laxer elevation standard and language allowing affordable housing in hazard areas under some circumstances.
newjerseymonitor.com
July 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Heartbroken to hear that two of our neighbors in Plainfield were killed in the floods last night, especially after the previous deaths in Plainfield earlier this month. We need to act on climate now—instead, Trenton is weakening our flood rules and exempting affordable homes from flood standards.