Aaron Rodgers wins, clinching a playoff berth for the Chicago Bears is a real sentence I just typed and which is factually accurate.

Germany needs to learn International Best Practices from a railroad with better on time performance: Amtrak. Especially its overnight and LD services. chuuchuu.com/2025wrapped

The fundamental problem is that the Star Wars fans destroyed Star Wars under the weight of a literally impossible set of expectations. "Be original and new but also old and familiar and we will hyperbolically say any actual movie is the worst thing ever made if it deviates from that even slightly."

yup, going online to complain publicly about how your kids are shitty will totally get them back! These people are completely fucking delusional in every meaning of the word. I can't even type it out because every time I try, I have about 20 different thoughts at once on how nuts these people are.

The National Park thing is incredibly emblematic of how much the far right is dooming themselves. It does not consolidate power or accomplish anything material. It just loudly and symbolically lets everyone know "just to be clear, we hate minorities and we are explicitly racist."

Nascent conservative media murdered the station wagon in the 1980's and 1990's as being "weak" and "effeminate" unlike the (at the time) new big tough burly manly man SUV's.

it sure looks like the last-second GOP pants-shitting and subsequent firehose of resources and national support into TN-07 might've been what carried them over the line and uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh that is not something you can replicate across every seat in Nov. 2026!

The one argument for this approach would be that it’d best to economize effort for situations where change is doable, but congressional democrats’ answer EVERY FUCKING TIME is “gotta save that effort for next time!”

NJ Mainline rail-only List: Mega/Improbable: Full system NJT electrification Mega/Possible: (Mostly) systemwide NJT level boarding and Universal Access station design Moderate/Achievable: Hunter Flyover Simple/Affordable: Fix/expand Suffern Yard

idk maybe we should be worried about this. By 2028 Ted Cruz will have had over a decade since his last run to assimilate into human culture and I suspect he might be capable of convincing a majority of the population that he is not just an actual human being but actually from this continent.

The problem for Trump’s GOP is they are categorically incapable of admitting that there are things they have not already fixed. Thus the insane intellectual gymnastics of “no actually prices are down, your receipt from the grocery store is filled with lies.”

The tariff dividend was really all the friends we made along the way. Except we didn't make any friends just a bunch of enemies. So I guess it was the enemies we made along the way. Ah well.

Remember though, the pre-eminent transit authority Alon Levy said that Project 2025 isn’t anti-transit, so obviously, no e of this stuff Yonah Freemark is saying is possibly true at all it’s just a shadow on the wall of a cave.

Not even touching the underlying idea (“compromise” is firing everyone?) but the idea that people are voting “with their feet“ over 2PTO is beyond stupid. “Yeah I’m moving from NYC to Chicago because there’s too many people driving the trains in New York.” Ok sure, I’d love to meet that guy.

You know, I remember when I got a mortgage they asked for my ID, social security #, and a bunch of other stuff along those lines. Long story short I am pretty sure it'd be difficult at best to get a mortgage if you weren't in the country legally.

B. B is the one that’s worse. Without question. caving as an actual strategy - including picking out who has to be the “sin eating” yea votes - is beyond his skill level. This was just him not being capable of leading his own senate caucus.

Republican senate leadership rn

In the span of three weeks (and including two games that ended within minutes of each other), 44-22 has gone from being an eternal scorigami to one that's happened 4 times, with Washington losing half of all games ending in that score.

I wear earbuds when I am in a store. A lot of the times they're not even plugged in to anything I just don't want people to talk to me. Anyways this policy seems miserable for everyone. Miserable for shoppers that don't want to be bothered, and miserable for workers now required to bother everyone.

A 50% mortgage is such an aggressively bad idea in every possible way that like, it has to be some bad faith troll job because no sane person would actually proposed it as a real policy.

"White collar crime is legal now" is an incredibly popular position to stake out and I fully encourage the GOP to continue planting their flag on it. Nobody is sitting around thinking about the "injustice" of rich people in jail for doing fraud/cheating on taxes.

Tell your waiters “see you laters” when you cater your charter flight of success

We should all be happy that this time around the libs have realize that nope, no putting this toothpaste back in the tube. We're gonna hear of so many mild-mannered suburban dads and moms whose policy platform is "sensible moderate reform and also we need to every Republican over with a lawnmower."

It’s also absurd retconning on the part of the GOP! They spent ***months*** hyping up how losing by 3% in 2021 and 6% in 2024 meant New Jersey is the next swing state. We got told over and over that Trump had made all these permanent gains with Latino voters that would Bergen and Passaic in play.

Folks - let them think this. I’ve spent 25 years doing campaigns - when you think like this after a loss like last night, you are doomed to lose again.

plot twist with only a handful of votes left to count this morning (and any late arriving mail ballots) she's winning by ***13***

he called for full patriot activation and they still lost in a landslide? what gives

Remember when the GOP made a huge thing about that Sacco endorsement and how Ciattarelli was gonna run the tables in Bergen and Passaic? Fun times.

Ciattarelli is +6 in Warren, +0.9 in Hunterdon, ***-16*** in Somerset. I'm pretty sure if I was Tom Kean I'd just not even bother running next year. Like the suburbs have fully decided that you know what the sensible kitchen table issue right now is Republicans should be mulched.

ABC and NBC have called it for Sherrill. Currently up by 15, somehow winning by a bigger margin than Spanberger. Doubters right now:

Any election in the Trump era with Trump not on the ballot has been a thumper for the opposition.

Well that was anti-climactic as fuck. the media: “nj is gonna be a nailbiter” New Jersey voters: “guess again, fuckers.”

Fancy way of saying the GOP is losing. If democratic turnout is high, it’s not because they’re all lining up to vote GOP. If the GOP isn’t even turning out in droves for their own guy, why should we entertain that democrats are coming to their rescue?

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“We should all piss ourselves with terror at the idea of a guy that NOBODY in the Democratic Party likes and who is being cheered by Republicans will come out of nowhere and do a hostile takeover of the democratic party.” Sure buddy. ok.

For a guy supposedly trying to put Passaic and Bergen in play, Ciattarelli sure hasn't, you know, actually campaigned there on the tail end of his campaign. This weekend was mostly spent in Monmouth and Ocean. He briefly showed up in Totowa this morning but like, it's Totowa.

A multi-day freakout about Mamdani's chances apparently happened because Millennials were waiting to vote until they could get the special Halloween-themed "I voted" stickers

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The whole point is ragebait. They know who actually reads the NY Times these days, and they do everything possible to make sure every headline has ragebait-y, credulous framing. Then every so often they throw out something like this because they know it's the payoff and it'll get "engagement".

let's be real here if you don't know who you're gonna vote for 5 days before the election actually occurs, you're gonna flip a coin to decide how you vote, aren't you. Y'all can be honest I'm not here to judge you. Flipping a coin is a perfectly fine way to make a lot of decisions.

If anyone wants one of the silliest portions from the EIS.

The point is to starve transit of resources by turning transit agencies into police departments with a vestigial operations department. "We have to cut service on five bus routes in order to pay for an increase in transit police headcount, sorry."

Really looking forward to when Trump without a single ounce of irony says he should get the Nobel peace prize for ending the war in Gaza twice. “I got two ceasefires done for the same conflict, nobody ever did that before it was my 6th and 10th war that I ended.”

Would be so funny if the actual outcome ended up being Sherrill winning by like exactly 9% but there's exactly enough third party votes that she still is under 49% of the total vote.

Imagine how stupid someone’s gotta be to contemplate a presidential run when they are literally not even the most popular potential candidate from their own state. Like who the fuck even wants Rahm Emanuel?

Whipped this up in Excel from the Wikipedia page on giant pumpkins. So yeah, looks like it's exponential to me. Seems like by 2050 we're gonna have a single pumpkin the size of a pumpkin patch.

I mean, it is extremely normal at this point. Let’s not forget that a bunch of big money donors wanted Biden dropping out to be an excuse to install their preferred candidate and this was only fended off by the party instantly consolidating around Kamala Harris Once Biden did drop out.