Starting TOMORROW, all PATH trains will be running on all lines for the first time in 25 years. Weekend service is doubling, meaning trains every 10 minutes and late-night service every 20 minutes🥳🚈

people say New York City is overrated but it might be our nation’s greatest place to Get Yourself A Little Treat

Mayor Solomon is live at www.youtube.com/live/1n9jlKc... and taking calls on everything Jersey City at 646-901-6999.

Incredibly, Jersey City (pop. ~300,000) essentially did not have any traffic enforcement for years, until last week.

Last week was the Traffic Enforcement Motorcycle Unit's first week patrolling our most dangerous streets — and they issued 652 summonses for reckless driving, speeding, improper parking, and more. The unit’s number one goal: Saving lives and achieving Vision Zero.

Concerning

This graph is the biggest story in public education, and educators, advocates, and policy makers really don’t want to look directly at it. | U.S. Schools Face a Crisis as the Number of Children Drops www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/u...

Jersey City, meet your Directors – and what they’re fighting for every day on behalf of residents like you.

Jersey City has a giant scale that weighs garbage to make sure we’re only paying what we actually owe for trash disposal. The problem? It wasn’t turned on for 12 years.

I really gotta recommend the podcast Sold a Story, which offers another powerful explanation for this nationwide trend. features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/

Everything takes an election cycle to get approved, then another to get enough funding; then two more to get built (one of which is purely doing permitting battles with the one holdout municipality and separate crank lawsuits). You can’t build a political case around 16 year timelines.

“Any moment we spend bullshitting each other,” he says, “is just a sin.”

Only movie to do cross-cultural accents properly:

I agree but also …. Explain Obamacare in accessible terms.

For too long, "Jersey City" and "corruption" were synonymous. We're changing that.

Love the "threshold of restarting major combat operations." It's a phrase manufactured to sound like legalese applying a rational standard, but it's not. It's made-up to pretend we're not currently in a war that we started (what was the "threshold" for that?) and are losing.

Saros: ASMR the Game

Today is free comic book day, btw. Go get yourself a comic book. Maybe get a few for your kids.

We went long on Botstein’s connections to Jeffrey Epstein and the minimization—and even romanticization—of sexual violence that he cultivated at @bardcollege.bsky.social on @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social: pod.link/1696774612/e...

It took longer than it should, but an Epstein friend is stepping down from running Bard College. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/u...

Today, Mayor Solomon announced the appointment of Peter Vincent to be the next Director of Recreation and Youth Development. “Jersey City made me who I am, and this is a real, tangible opportunity to give back in a meaningful way,” said Peter Vincent.

Jeffries says everything is on the table legislatively to deal with the Supreme Court: In the new Congress, we’re going to have to do something about this Supreme Court, and let me be very clear: everything is on the table.

New playlist MILLENNIAL BRIGHTNESS, the immediately identifiable sound of a more optimistic era, 2011-2015. 🔆Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/5VJ... 🌟Apple: music.apple.com/us/playlist/... ☀️YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

You’re not just writing some fake deep nostalgic essay, you’re playing with people’s lives. It’s irresponsible and stupid. And I don’t think writers have to write morally good essays, but writing what amounts to an ad for cigarettes is indefensible.

I’m a fan of Xochitl’s but this is such a childishly nihilist piece that’s less essay and more a cigarette ad that’s too busy trying to be deep to have the proper shame required. Not sure how else you can respond to this than it’s just bad and inconsiderate.

"You hear theyre using chickens as camera gimbals now?" "What?" "Chickens. Strap a camera onto their head. No shake. Chicken camera gimbals"

I wrote up the Comey indictment. www.popehat.com/p/the-comey-...

New York City spends more money per pupil than many public-school districts—and yet its educational outcomes “are average at best,” Marc Novicoff argues. He examines how the city’s education budget became untouchable, and what that means for students:

Great reporting.

Ah, thats what they meant by red lining

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I really think it’s important to underline that there was apparently no security breach. The gunman was confronted and stopped where he should have been according to the design—at the magnetometer perimeter. What this piece argues for is an *expansion* of the security perimeter in time and space.

Is it actually the president's call to reschedule the dinner lol, is that how it works? (I again imagine everyone at the dinner has to go to their jobs now though)

Sorry but like doesn't everyone need to go to work right now

Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers

Terminal B at LGA makes me so happy. My friends thought I was trolling them when I first said this and they saw it for themselves.

New Fox poll is absolutely crushing for Trump: *Approval on economy: 34-66 *Approval on inflation: 28-72 (!) *Dems now lead GOP on economy *55% say Trump mentally unfit for office On the pod, @gelliottmorris.com is so illuminating on all these numbers and much more: newrepublic.com/article/2094...

Tripled up! Quadrupled!

Noodle

A Fire Chief in Japan has been suspended, and nine other firefighters issued reprimands and written warnings, for playing homemade boardgames during working hours, and forcing subordinates to particpate. www.tabletopsentinel.com/news/hobby/f...

Pulling the marijuana lever like Cuomo mid sex scandal.

It also stopped being “just Texas Republicans playing hardball” the second Trump not only endorsed it — but then demanded other Republican states follow. Stakes for the Democrats became existential, if the GOP can blow apart urban and suburban districts with no perceived risk or costs.

On this Earth Day, start protecting nature every day as human life and health depend on it 🌊🌊 🌎🌍🌏

Former US Secretary of State John Kerry on Colbert: “Netanyahu presented the Iran War case to us too. The response was no. The prediction was regime change, that people would rise up. None of that happened. “Obama said no. Bush said no. Biden said no. We were lied to about what that war was about.”

This might be the first move that has made me hopeful Democrats might actually want to win and use power.

My friends make great games and just launched All True Believers: A Cultish Deduction Game by Pillbox Games on @kickstarter.com Ive play tested this approx 700 times. It rocks. www.kickstarter.com/projects/pil...

WARREN: That's not my question. Are you refusing to tell us if you have investments in vehicles set up by Jeffrey Epstein? KEVIN WARSH: Those assets will be sold if I'm confirmed

We have a deal. theonion.com/at-long-last...