Trump administration pushes back on NJ
town moving to seize 175-year-old family
farm via eminent domain
Posted By: mc squared, 6/27/2025 10:23:04 AM
A longtime family farm in Cranbury, New Jersey, is at risk of being seized by the town through eminent domain. The situation with the farm owned by brothers Christopher and Andy Henry, which has been in their family for 175 years, recently drew notice from US Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins. Rollins said on X last week that she was “looking into this situation immediately,” adding, “We must protect family farms at all costs. [snip] Cranbury Township is looking at possibly building state-mandated affordable housing
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One of my recent experiences with the system reinforced those two simple and unsurprising lessons. I feel obligated to share the story of how I stumbled upon a possible Covid testing scam (with names and details omitted for legal purposes), to demonstrate how easy it remains for scammers to manipulate our health care system in ways that raise costs for all of us.
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Classroom Activities 25 replies
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A longtime family farm in Cranbury, New Jersey, is at risk of being seized by the town through eminent domain.
The situation with the farm owned by brothers Christopher and Andy Henry, which has been in their family for 175 years, recently drew notice from US Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins.
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Help New York City Kill Itself
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If you haven’t been to New York City before, you missed it. It’s not destroyed, it’s just a mess and not worth visiting. You still could – it’s great place to take the family if you love the smell of fresh urine on hot concrete coupled with potent marijuana, because you smell that combination pretty much everywhere.
The city is dying, and we should let it. Progressives are all in favor of assisted suicide, we should join them in the case of New York and help the city kill itself. Only a complete embrace of socialist/fascist/communist policies (and there isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between the three)
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The backstory:
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sources say 27 replies
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sources say 27 replies
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Dissenting, as per usual, was liberal justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, [snip]
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to Opt Their Kids Out of LGBTQ-Themed
Classroom Activities 25 replies
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The Zohran Mamdani Revolution
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They did it. They finally did it. Those maniacs. They blew it up.
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Eminent domain is getting out of control. Note the town has said "possibly building affordable housing.." Possibly - or not? Developers are salivating regardless.