#@river

[autisticadvocacy]

Autism acceptance month: Raising awareness or manufacturing a market? l Opinion

Who benefits from autism awareness? A Montclair University education professor examines the role of booming autism industries.

"But here’s what you’re less likely to see or hear about this month, and it’s one of the most important things about which we need to be raising critical awareness: the industrial-scale commodification of autistic people." 

[sataniccapitalist]

Black businesses feel shafted as N.J. gets set to choose who can grow and sell weed legally

Ownership among people of color is missing from state-issued permits in the state's burgeoning cannabis market.

[bighermie]

N.J. Senate President Sweeney concedes in his stunning election loss

Longtime Democratic Senate President Stephen Sweeney has lost his seat after two decades in the Legislature.

[yemme]

Protest reaches fever pitch as cops arrest N.J. man charged in racist rant

Mount Laurel police said 45-year-old Edward Cagney Mathews is charged with harassment and bias intimidation.

Racism is expensive....

[bvar]

Kids need desks for remote learning, so he built 40 and gave them away

'Just a few pieces of plywood and some pine boards. It’s nothing. But it means so much to people that don’t have them,' Justin Foley said.

Love these stories.

[pern-dragon]

Newark cops, with reform, didn’t fire a single shot in 2020 | Moran

It's not about de-funding police. The task is to teach cops to do better, and watch them to make sure.

[sakiye]

is this the bf