Stuart Shapiro

🎖️ The #NJ Assembly introduced legislation to appropriate $2M to expand mental health services for veterans; 🤖 Another bill was introduced that would prohibit defendants from claiming an #AI tool or system "autonomously" harmed their alleged victim. Read more today:

🤖💻 In PA, when Gov. Josh Shapiro's administration set out to train 175 state employees on how to use #ChatGPT responsibly, the state reported saving an average of 95 minutes when they utilized it for drafting and summarizing lengthy documents:

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

We live in an age of weaponized interdependence. The world's authoritarians are aware of it, they're organized around it, and they're cooperating. (Like it or not, the United States is mostly on their team for now.) The world's liberals need to understand that the conflict is global.

Tomorrow is the 33rd Sports Equinox—a day when MLB, NBA, NFL, and NHL all have games on the same day. ⚾🏀🏈🏒 Here's your schedule for a very busy Monday. 👀 See every Sports Equinox, with stats and more: https://www.sports-reference.com/friv/sports-equinox.html

This is a good primer on Israel's political situation going into tomorrow's election. But I'd like to go deeper on something he only touches on, which is that part of the reason for Israel's electoral doldrums (and resulting geopolitical chaos) is its broken political system bsky.app/profile/avis...

In about 24 hours, poles will open here in Israel. In what is a strong contender for Israel’s most critical elections. The election pits Netanyahu’s extremely unpopular coalition against a non-coherent, but moderately more liberal, opposition. Here are some thoughts as we head into it.

Lula is to my left. Magyar is to my right. And I don’t care in the slightest, because they are the candidates of democracy against autocracy.

Whatever drove the change from last round to this round, it is such a relief that the Brazilian government/court effort to punish Jair Bolsonaro for fomenting a J6-event did not go to waste.

Liberal democracy remains a towering achievement of humanity and it is worth fighting for.

i've been meaning for some time now to write a "what is western civilization" essay, because i tend to think both the left and the right are incredibly wrong here. the right wants it to be a matter of deep, thick, unbroken culture aka a kind of *nationalist imaginary*

My team beat the 2015-16 Warriors 62.53% of the time. Think you can build a squad that does better? @hoopshypeofficial.bsky.social hoopsmatic.com/73-9-game?sq...

"We're sorry to bother you at a time like this, Mrs. Twice. We would have come earlier, but your husband wasn't dead then."

That it'll fail because they lack sufficient consolidation and centralized control does not make it trivial that the president of the United States is trying to steal elections and produce an illegitimate sham Congress. It is open rebellion against the Constitution and morally tantamount to treason.

Amen Thompson is the only NBA player in the last 25 seasons to have a game-winning block (block on game-tying or go-ahead shot) in the final five seconds of a game against a player at least nine inches taller than them. 🐦 https://x.com/OptaSTATS/status/2113861617083638144

JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

"Self-assessment forms at the Federal Emergency Management Agency ask employees to evaluate how well they’ve carried out the 'administration’s priorities' – which include 'executive orders, governmentwide directives [and] efficiency efforts.'" Yikes. www.govexec.com/management/2...

"The rise in Schedule G appointments comes amid a broader surge in political leadership under the Trump administration, currently at a 40-year high.... [T]he career Senior Executive Service has shrunk by 30%, now at its smallest size in at least 25 years." federalnewsnetwork.com/management/2...

we gotta bring back shame, man society doesn’t work real well without consequences for being an enormous piece of shit in public

New from Aaron Pressman with the @bostonglobe.com: AI tech is quickly infiltrating the workplace—unless you work for the government. The article discussed findings from a new report from researchers including NJSPL's co-principal investigator, Gregory Porumbescu:

This is remarkably dangerous. Polls are one way we understand the integrity of election results. They are a tool of democracy. Here is a vengeful regime official implying that networks can be punished for polls they don't like.

🍴 The #NJ Assembly introduced a bill to establish a free breakfast program for all public-school students in the state; ⚖️ Gov. Sherrill announced nominations to serve on the New Jersey Superior Court and Tax Court; read these stories and more today:

where did the phrase "trending towards significance" come from? i hate it so much

I wrote angry today. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-op-eds...

I would argue that it is the third year in a row that the two best teams (or at least the best team in each league) are meeting in the World Series. Kind of old school.

1/ Here are thoughts on the outrageous threats by the Trump administration to prosecute CA election officials if they count ballots the administration doesn’t want them to count. Although these threats are baseless and going nowhere, it’s important to understand why it's a dangerous abuse of power

I get the impulse but try not to make judgments based on early vote numbers

A $400M plan would add a third lane to 12 miles of the Atlantic City Expressway. Rutgers’ Robert Noland of @vtc.rutgers.edu says “induced demand” means added capacity can draw more drivers, though widening can make sense to move more people. https://bit.ly/4iv6vcs #RutgersVTC

ah we are going to get some nice reverse disparate impact where having too many black people is evidence of anti-white discrimination

I’ve been rereading Slaughter this morning — it’s perfectly illustrates the way the Court has enabled this presidential power grab and undermined the law in the process. Leave aside the many factual errors and misleading characterizations in the opinion. It fails to simple expound the law.

when authoritarian dictators tell us that they see western ideas--not western militaries, not western economies, but western *ideas*--as the most existential threat to their regimes, we should see this not as paranoid rantings but cold, accurate analysis. because it's true!

I actually think it’s bad and unhelpful to fetishize rioters in other countries.

Barack Obama just delivered a blistering rebuke of Trump's actions against Ilhan Omar. This is worth reading in full.

I know the NYT gets a lot of criticism for its headlines but you have to admit that this one is amazing www.nytimes.com/2026/10/17/u...

I think it is extremely cool that this year’s World Series winner will either be a franchise that has never won a World Series or one that hasn’t won one since 1948.

A New Jersey family recreated OG Anunoby's iconic NBA Finals tip-in with their Halloween decorations

When Harry met Sally for Tax Purposes

🩺🚑 #NJ has the 10th-highest #healthcare per resident but ranks 46th in the nation for the number of primary care providers per 100K residents. In 24 other states, they have instituted All-Payer Claims Databases, which combine detailed data about #insurance enrollment from public and private insurers

ain’t nobody safe

Bro, if your doctor is doing a cognitive test every time you get a physical, there’s a reason for that, and it’s not because you keep acing them.

Trump’s ex-chief of staff John Kelly said this to me, six years ago: “I don't know how he’s not in an institution somewhere, whether it’s jail or a nuthouse. He’s a seriously sick guy. I never heard him saying anything that wasn’t a lie.” Trump has only gotten worse since.

🎙️New EJB Talks: @stuartshapiroblou.bsky.social talks with alum Courtenay Mercer about her path from political science to planning & a career across government, nonprofits, & consulting. To aspiring planners: gain experience, do the work well, and get good at Excel. Listen at https://bit.ly/4zvfksK

🏘️ A bill was introduced to establish a pre-approved designs for accessory dwelling units for #housing; Gov. Sherrill announced updated findings from the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission #voter registration system error. Read more:

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wrote on saturday that trump was not going to let democrats avoid the question of impeachment and here we are with an offense that would have had a president impeached, removed and *at least* exiled if it had happened at any point prior to now.