“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.” We didn't. #ICYMI, read the story that he wanted dropped:

Found in a Ushuaia grocery: Comunachos, Russian cheese flavor.

Transit in New Orleans never got the chance to recover after Katrina. A stable source of funding to restore frequent bus service would do great for a town that fundamentally still has the land use to support it.

I am concerned about Atlanta, Denver, Pittsburgh, MSP, Chicago, Philly, Boston, Portland, Seattle, and SF. They have failed to meaningfully recover transit ridership since COVID. Atlanta, Chicago, and Pittsburgh are particularly concerning because they were losing riders before COVID too.

Real "oh my god, she admit it" moment here. Trump is treated as an uninteresting figure without agency so we can dump endless criticism on liberals for how they react to his "natural disaster." He "doesn't participate in moral frameworks" lmfao

Imagine if the $10B for a new Port Authority Bus Terminal instead went towards an investment in regional rail in the NYC Metro area.

More recently, the median liberal who doesn't know much about Palestine has gone from "Israel is a democracy and I guess that's good" to "I don't know who is right in the big picture but surely they didn't have to kill so many kids"

Buried deep in the otherwise triumphant election night for Dems in NJ is a concerning backsliding with Jewish voters. And it’s not just the Orthodox, towns like Livingston, Millburn, and Tenafly defied political gravity and slid rightward. Thanks to Nj Globe’s Joey Fox for the map.

*new* Jersey City Citibike station coming online at Danforth and JFK

Progress. But we want more. @hudcostreets.org @safestreetsjerseycity.org

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy scaled back his planned $11-billion widening of the New Jersey Turnpike, but the lame duck executive's so-called "compromise" will still induce thousands more cars and trucks onto Garden State roadways.

I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.

I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:

The turnpike authority released a statement late friday about a compromise with no details, and no outreach to the communities opposing the project. They spun it like a massive change, but we couldn't find the in any of the details, and no one called us back. Here's our statement.

The Turnpike Trap Coalition publishes the following statement in response to NJTA's Friday announcement. The "cancellation" is misleading: ❌ Proceeding with 4 new lanes adding >20K cars and trucks a day to Newark & Jersey City ❌ Tear down and rebuild plans after 14A are murky ❌ No dollars for NJT

Very well done. I could nitpick as I usually do but Elizabeth got all the important stuff right and didn't sensationalize anything. Worth your time to read!

Via @liamjscott.bsky.social at the other site here’s the full email from 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi. She’s putting her career on the line by fighting here. And she’s fighting for all of us.

yikes it’s getting into the weird “heritage American” right wing discourse now

That feeling when you deeply hate trans people, but also, you need to jam the bill through by linking it with other issues, too, and in so doing, you inadvertently invent a new gender. (Yes, this is a real bill.)

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

Computer, enhance

Kathy Hochul looking out for transit riders - it’s crazy how far she’s come since her weird dithering on congestion pricing.

can’t understand why women hate these guys

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

Sarah McBride gets a lot of shit on here but moments like this is exactly what her style of advocacy is for. And she would’ve succeeded in killing this bill if it wasn’t for three turncoat Dems.

Oh my god…

if the mta sold F/M swap merch they'd be funded for the next decade

If NEPA can’t stop this what’s the point of environmental review at all?

The typical Bayonne box achieves this same level of density as these Portland townhomes with much larger yard space. We don’t have to reinvent the wheel here.

Earlier this year, Matt Yglesias and Hakeem Jeffries urged progressives to shut up about immigration and Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Yglesias said "bad groups" were pushing Dems left on immigration and would help Trump's numbers. How did they get this so wrong? www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...

What the Democrats can learn from the UK Labour Party's complete implosion after moving right on immigration www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...

The hill ill die on: You can’t do massive infill without massively advantaging sustainable transpo. Otherwise, you’ll just bring in the too-many-cars the NIMBYs fear. You can’t do massive sustainable transpo without allowing easy infill. Otherwise, you’re building a moat to control access.

One simple way to compare potential transit projects would be dollars invested per net new rider. IBX looks like it'd be an extraordinarily efficient investment. In NJ, the Northern Branch extension of HBLR to Bergen County is too and in the same ballpark. (Caveat: Table is deep research generated)

Hoboken will be removing local preference from its affordable housing lottery and paying restitution to impacted households after a Fair Housing suit brought by @newjerseyoag.bsky.social Matt Platkin identified Hoboken’s lottery as racially discriminatory. wpadmin-prd.njoag.gov/ag-platkin-a...

love these comparisons, though tbf metroexpress is a low-volume busway on its own ROW. some speed comparisons using similar street median north american tramways: minneapolis: 🚊 22 kph, 🚗 27kph portland: 🚊 27, 🚗 29 kitchenloo: 🚊 17, 🚗 18 10.8km houston: 🚊 21, 🚗 27 toronto: 🚊 13 kph, 🚗 21 kph

A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker. This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.

It would be extremely smart if the Democratic Party held trainings and maybe subsidized equipment for members of local Democratic clubs to start making video content. Given the death of local news, there is a tremendous content void to be filled.

Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago. His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship." He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

People will always see this map and shout, "Yeah? Yeah? Well it's just because we drive so much more!" Yes, goofballs! That's the whole flipping problem!

ya can't park there

The immediate success of KC Streetcar’s extension to Country Club Plaza and UMKC shows how even in the most sprawled out US cities there are viable corridors for frequent and reliable surface transit. Build and run transit in the right places and people will use it. kcstreetcar.org/ridershipsoa...

I’m announcing that I’ll be supporting challengers against State Senator James Beach and other elected officials who continue to fuel corrupt machine politics in NJ. (1/3)

Irvington, NJ also used its city's opioid settlement funds to throw a concert DJ'd by a city government official whose only job is just to be a DJ

It could have been easy for Andy Kim to not focus on fighting Democratic machines in Jersey once he won his Senate seat and defeated the Murphy Machine. But the fact he's still doing it shows he's sincere about it.

65-35 loss incoming lmao

i'm going back through the jersey city results, and comparing it with the mayoral topline the biggest underperformance was ephros by 9.4, and the biggest overperformance was zuppa by 4.0 ridley/brooks were pretty even with solomon in comparison, only slightly underperforming

the thing about the Free Press types is that when you push them on their actual ideology, it's NIMBYism

newjerseyglobe.com/legislature/... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We need to get parking under control in JC, with systems in place to properly price parking, actually enforce parking rules, including insanely illegal driveway curb cuts, and offer other alternatives for mobility, etc. The council has ignored this for too long, and should come up with a real plan.

Not only did Senator Jim Beach’s conduct at last week’s hearing embarrass our state, but he also violated the right to free speech enshrined in our federal and state constitutions. Just like President Trump, everyone must follow the law. Read my letter here: