Matt da Silva

One man’s “in town” is another man’s quiet suburb.

My hot take is the NEC should be under the ownership of a standalone agency and answerable to a board with representatives from all of its tenants, of which Amtrak would be just one.

How is this something you can’t do now?

“Today on TMNT, the turtles attempt to take the PATH on a weekend!”

I feel like "objective reality exists and we can experience it" is one of the strongest points of agreement for the left-liberal coalition at this point.

Food carts are a thing still - and don’t require real estate.

I still wonder why Trump hasn’t tried to do this in NY.

I admire the grift.

Opinion | Democrats shouldn’t bail out Trump as the shutdown drags on The best time for the opposition to take a stand, rather than settle for untrustworthy promises, is right now.

So much Democrat and pundit handwringing about the shutdown as if they're in charge of the government.

They're not. The only possibilities are Trump makes things worse with Democratic approval or Trump makes things worse despite Democratic resistance. Don't bail him out.

My latest (on @msnbc.com):

I’m surprised “Motorists for Themselves” haven’t founded a Hudson County branch.

Nj gov will be an interesting test of how much the GOP has locked in gains with Latinos.

continues to be the case that MAGA could have a permanent vice-grip on American politics if they were like 20-30% less racist but, uh, lol.

It’s…bland and suddenly incredibly obvious the median Swift fan is 30 and she’s not on the cutting edge of pop culture anymore. It’ll get loads of playtime on adult contemporary radio stations.

There's a huge dissonance between Rolling Stone's five star review of Taylor Swift and the organic chatter about it, and it means I'm willing to say this - Taylor Swift has entered the zone inhabited by the Rolling Stones and U2. She is Too Big To Fail.

How much of 2022 data is an artifact of different approach to COVID school closures? Would love to see 2025 data.

THE U.S. MILITARY’S SILENT FURY: A TRUMP-HEGSETH DISASTROUS EVENT A SPECIAL REPORT

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Analysis: Fetterman’s Polling Numbers Should Be a Warning For Democrats Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman’s polling numbers highlight the already failed strategy of trying to appeal to the political right

Fetterman's numbers should alarm any pundits or consultants who believe Democrats should shift to the right and meet conservatives in the middle.

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Ed Hardy fascists

Muni runs 24 hrs a day though and the NYC commuter rail stops running at 1 or 2 AM most days - it’s not BART’s fault SF priced their service workers out to the East Bay.

This would be great for JC. Too many mega SUVs and trucks taking up 1.5 parking spaces.

People use "anti-Zionism" to mean everything from "Every Jew needs to go back to Poland" to "One binational state with protections for both communities," which is why I don't find blanket statements of either "Anti-Zionism is antisemitism" or "anti-Zionism is not antisemitism" particularly helpful.

It’s a catch 22 - given you need the ballot measure funds to pay for the engineering.

(This would be solved with in-house planning and engineering in the main agency budget.)

I swear all these German private train operators are just made up names.

Frontrunner already runs 30-60 minute service Provo-SLC-Ogden.

Railrunner meeda more frequency but connects Belen-ABQ-SF.

These corridors are all weaker in potential than similar Eastern corridors like NYC-Poughkeepsie-Albany, Chicago-Racine-Milwaukee, and Boston-Worcester-Springfield.

Wonder what it would take to talk Vermont into replacing/supplementing the Ethan Allen Express with hourly Albany-Burlington DMUs connecting with Empire Service trains.

The distances are too far in the West - New England or the Upper Midwest for the scale better for non-HSR rail.

This would work brilliantly in the New England states and their immediate surroundings - a constellation of trains connecting Boston, Providence, New London, New Haven, Hartford, Springfield, Rutland, Burlington, Manchester, Concord, Portland, Bridgeport, Stamford, NYC, Albany, etc.

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