Matt da Silva

Yeah an actual local with community ties doing her playbook would be doing amazing things.

Wait Iran has kamakaze water drones? What’s our plan to counter those?

It’s almost poetic irony - the stability of the Israeli state depends on giving peace, detente, and Arab outreach a chance.

From a NYTimes interview with Zohran Mamdani in June 2025: What’s one issue in politics that you’ve changed your mind about? The role of the private market in housing construction. How so? I clearly recognize now that there is a very important role to be played, and one that city government must facilitate through the increasing of density around mass transit hubs, the ending of the requirement to build parking lots, as well as the need to up-zone neighborhoods that have historically not contributed to affordable housing production — namely, wealthier neighborhoods. I think all these things, in tandem with a muscular role for the public sector. But that is a changing opinion over time that I’ve been in office.

NYT: What’s one issue in politics that you’ve changed your mind about?
Mamdani: "The role of the private market in housing construction." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/n...

Plenty of this happening in Jersey City and Newark as well.

On the flipside it’s our patriotic duty to take our country back and fix it.

The U.S.: wants good TV and wants to bring Iran under its wing as a client state to profit off of.

Israel: wants to destroy Iran’s economy and collapse its ability to function as a state.

Israel doesn’t care about regime change - they care about collapsing the ability for anyone to retaliate on behalf of the horrible shit they do to Palestinians.

Is this the only modern light rail line in the US that closed?

The Montclair School Referenda, held on March 10 2026, the controversial proposals saw Montclair raise taxes for one year to fix a structural deficit existing in the school system under Q1, while voting against permanent tax raises to fix that deficit under q2.

5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open.

Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.

nuts that Mikie in her inaugural budget address actually did push major cuts to StayNJ. it was the only way to get the math to math but legislative leadership CANNOT be happy, property tax cuts for seniors are the only policy they care about lmfao

Canneries! The Delaware Bay was an important fishery.

I was taught in the face of uncertainty you err on the side of approval. An objector lawsuit is far less of a threat to the board and the governing body than an applicant lawsuit.

It’s not just zoning though. Chains will scoff at rent psf not understanding they can get more sales psf.

They will also overlook locations that would be slam dunks because the “vehicle count is too low” ignoring the pedestrian flows and population density within walking distance.

Did the board attorney just stand by and let them do this or did they try to intervene and advise?

Most of our roads pre-date a lot of traffic engineering standards!

Honestly roads are way worse in Pennsylvania than they are in NJ. The worst roads I’ve driven on in the U.S. are those of Louisiana though.

On the one-year anniversary of his detention by federal authorities, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and First Lady Rama Duwaji welcomed Mahmoud Khalil, his wife Noor, and their baby boy, Deen, to Gracie Mansion to break the fast together.

Nintendo better sue their ass.

Yes. "They're not scared that Mamdani will be a bad major, they're scared he's gonna be a good mayor"

Utopia deferred days walking into a random bar with open mic night and drinking a cold beer Full thread collapsed. Kevin @reginageorgebush replying “they call it the safety shuttle” with three question marks and the B Jesus Christ where Christ is in all caps as though exclaimed with incredulity

Godwin’s Law but instead of the forums it’s my blue sky timeline and instead of Hitler it’s New Jersey Transit

Guess What Moderate Democratic Voters Aren’t Anymore? Moderate. Two new polls suggest that moderate Democrats, too, want higher taxes on the rich and some measure of economic populism. Moderate isn’t what it was in 1992.

Third Way and other "moderate" Democratic groups and elites constantly bash progressive politicians and ideas. But moderate Democratic VOTERS really like raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations, Medicare-for-all, and Bernie Sanders. newrepublic.com/article/2074...

Alina Habba is Iraqi Christian!

I think San Francisco, Boston, and Miami are in the same ballpark as NYC in terms of homeownership rate. So it’s not strictly a uniquely NYC thing.

Newark and Paterson are just really poor. Jersey City is expensive. Not sure what’s going on with Elizabeth.

An hour apart. Perhaps we should stop treating the mindless weathervane spinning in the breeze as if it has a clear strategic direction we can ascertain.

If it’s the government they can just cut the money (and IDF protection) off and see what happens.

Who subsidizes rent etc. to make certain settlements so attractive for middle of the road middle-class Israelis? Is it the government or is it private money raised in the diaspora?

Why is it “not really a settlement” merely because the inhabitants are secular and not really ideological? It’s still a city built by and inhabited by Israelis built on occupied land.