The Planning Board in town [redacted] denied a conforming application for 7 apartments and a restaurant in a neighborhood commercial zone because of a mid hearing reinterpretation of the zoning map and I think I may scream.

I thought the weird Trump shoe thing was a joke but it’s not and it’s insane.

I think it’s quite telling that the no voters in the Montclair referendum rallied at the baseball field they’re upset by rather than somewhere they’d actually see people.

What I want to know, is if the answer is yes for Elon and what the fuck it was?

Nothing held up as poorly as “soft baked” chocolate chip cookies.

Bringing dogs into establishments where they aren’t allowed is a violation of the social compact just as significant as blasting music on a train without headphones.

If you get into a “who can cut taxes more” battle with the GOP, you’re going to lose because they are far more shameless and antagonistic to the idea of living in a functioning society. Don’t concede to their framing that taxes are nothing but a problem to be solved.

what we desperately need most of all a confiscatory tax on billionaires. after that taxes on everyone else are going to need to go up, not down

Real Estate Guys are complicated but… binje.com/stay-nj-note...

Cory. I really truly need you to focus on raising my taxes. My effective federal tax rate is like 15% and it’s too low. FAR TOO LOW.

Why do we never talk about the nearly 5 acres of parking at Linden Station… that’s a NEC station!! In dense Union county!!!

The Trenton Toilet Cartel!!!!

I’ve posted this many times before, but NJ is the most de-industrialized state in the union by an order of magnitude

Nick Scutari, not good for street safety!

This isn’t different than the US feeding incredibly detailed intelligence to the Ukrainians. It’s not good for us, but also not surprising.

Australia: It's really far away.

He if you’re going to be at the New Jersey Bike and Walk Coalition summit tomorrow let me know.

you really thought the guy who thought it was cooler when called the Department of War was the pro-peace guy??

it's the subtext of all of these moves but every single US Action since the Iraq war has made nonproliferation increasingly unsustainable and frankly, for nations without Nuclear Weapons, hard to abide by.

She’s a menace. www.nj.com/middlesex/20...

Anyone know if NJTransit and the Turnpike share a similar structure? newjerseymonitor.com/briefs/nj-tr...

We volunteered to demonstrate for basically everyone all the gaps in our defenses for *reasons*.

Kinda remarkable to me that American Policy towards Iran and Cuba is primarily driven by the fact that they wouldn’t ignore or forgive our massive intervention in their internal affairs.

Embrace Harry Truman thought

Glad to see the Republican Party has tied itself to the politically genius move of massively increasing gas prices before the mid terms.

10% of American troops

The efforts of local governments down the shore to functionally close the beaches has evidently expanded from Deal to Allenhurst. www.nj.com/news/2026/03...

<watching a Roy Cooper stump speech> You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

🚨🚨 🚨 The New Jersey Turnpike Authority is scaling back the controversial Newark Bay Bridge project (loved by labor; hated by environmentalists/locals). A single-span two-lane bridge with shoulders will begin construction this year. Story coming at NorthJersey.com

Huge win. www.northjersey.com/story/news/t...

this is what awaits us if we fail to crush Platner in the primary, "oh the party of Nazi Tattoos has something to say?" every time forever

Whatever their governments have been doing for however long, the Iranian people are the ones who suffer. A tragedy.

on the one hand you don’t get credit for going this hard once you’ve decided to retire and are no longer in thrall to your primary voters on the other hand it is still extremely funny

Part 3: bsky.app/profile/aedw... Part 4: 201. Monmouth poll of New Jersey diner patrons, 2007: "Many diner waitresses in New Jersey call their customers 'Hun'. Do you like when this happens to you, dislike it, don't care much either way, or doesn't this happen to you?" (Bonus: fav diner order?)

There’s a guy who did a whole art series on Montclair history, and they’ve got such heart.

Imagine being a Texas Republican and sitting idly by as Trump destroys Big Bend for an insane wall.

UPDATE: Kuwaiti air defenses mistakenly shot down three US F15 fighter jets flying in Iran-related operations, the US military said. All six aircrew ejected safely, have been safely recovered, and are in stable condition reut.rs/3MRajYO

It is good policy for housing to be a mediocre-to-bad investment.

I’m increasingly convinced large share of americas problems are that we are all just too wealthy.

relatedly you should all turn off all push notifications on your phone for anything that's not urgent work/personal stuff. News push notifications are (at best) a distraction and nuisance

Love that the end result here will likely be Samuel Alito telling the Pope he doesn't understand Catholicism.

Fight authoritarianism: *meet interesting and idealistic people *have intense shared emotional experiences *nature takes care of the rest *commit to building a better society for your offspring

Man, really want Red to make a comeback as a semi arbitrary nickname for guys.

Love that school populations are collapsing statewide and yet still everyone assumes every apartment is going to be home to 7 children.

he wrapped this one up in about 30 seconds. you figure there are about one million kids enrolled in new york city schools. if he spends ten hours a day on the phone, seven days a week, he will have personally informed every child of tomorrow's snow day by the spring of 2028

v early in Mamdani’s term in office but hard to escape conclusion that he’s causing a lot of snowfall

If we had Medicare for all, Montclair would be able to cut the municipal property tax levy by over 10%.

It brings me zero pleasure to inform you that we absolutely have to raise taxes. My effective tax rate is like 10%. That’s criminal.

I appreciate all of these detailed analysis of what’s wrong with the policy, but the crucial thing to keep in mind here is that Donald Trump sincerely, literally does not understand what a tariff is and when that is your starting point, nothing beyond it really matters.