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Matt da Silva

@mdasilva.bsky.social

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City planner. Reconstruction Democrat. Housing is good and fascism is bad.

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Matt da Silva @mdasilva.bsky.social · Jul 26

@idothethinking.bsky.social I put this walk together for an approximate quick circuit of the Jersey City Experience. maps.app.goo.gl/wGgG8NYhySq9...

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Matt da Silva @mdasilva.bsky.social · 2m

The tunnel is also needed regardless. Gateway does not preclude through-running, and is a prerequisite to expanding it past just a few lines.

Matt da Silva @mdasilva.bsky.social · 4m

Realistically I think all three leading candidates would support developing this lot in particular - they’d expect an affordable housing set-aside but they wouldn’t shut it down.

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Matt da Silva @mdasilva.bsky.social · 9m

Ok this might be better/sadder.

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Matt da Silva @mdasilva.bsky.social · 15m

LOL of course

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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 58m

NJ Transit's "LAND" plan (Leverage Assets for Non-farebox Dollars) envisions up to 2,000 new homes on acres owned by the agency adjacent to Secaucus Junction station. This example is raised as one possible 'collaborative opportunity'. Full report here: content.njtransit.com/sites/defaul...

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Matt da Silva @mdasilva.bsky.social · 52m

Secaucus has a massive Mount Laurel 4th round obligation - this is a smart way to meet it.

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 1h

We did it.

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Matt da Silva @mdasilva.bsky.social · 1h

Waterloo students are going to use this in droves.

Matt da Silva @mdasilva.bsky.social · 1h

Fulop was providing a better policy template but in retrospect comes off as less sincere.

Matt da Silva @mdasilva.bsky.social · 13h

Can’t a bunch of Northern states redistrict too if Section 2 falls in a way that helps Dems? NY, NJ, etc

Matt da Silva @mdasilva.bsky.social · 13h

I was legit worried he wasn’t going to rev up his machine for Mikie. Phew…

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Matt da Silva @mdasilva.bsky.social · 20h

This is not going to land the way it thinks it will with anyone who was a fresh college grad during the recession…

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 20h

Fossilized Northeast Democratic machines running sclerotic candidates is going to be the death of America

City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 20h

"NJ Governor's Race: Sherrill 50%, Ciattarelli 44%, Quinnipiac University New Jersey Poll Finds; Ciattarelli Holds Edge On Enthusiasm" -- poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

NJ Governor's Race: Sherrill 50%, Ciattarelli 44%, Quinnipiac University New Jersey Poll Finds; Ciattarelli Holds Edge On Enthusiasm | Quinnipiac University Poll

"While Jack Ciattarelli holds a fairly solid eleven percentage point lead among male voters, Mikie Sherrill has nearly double that lead with female voters," said Quinnipiac University Polling Analys...

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Matt da Silva @mdasilva.bsky.social · 21h

Listen I’m still voting for her and encouraging everyone I know to vote for her, but i also don’t want her to think she has a mandate to run the state as Governor Helicopter Mom.

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Matt da Silva @mdasilva.bsky.social · 21h

So we can’t hold Democrats accountable ever lest they lose to a Republican?

Matt da Silva @mdasilva.bsky.social · 21h

Not everyone is a partisan. This is t sports.

Matt da Silva @mdasilva.bsky.social · 21h

I think there’s also a push for tech firms to be vertically integrated and less reliant on AWS/Azure for cloud computing.

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 1d

You love to see it, folks

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Matt da Silva @mdasilva.bsky.social · 22h

She seems to think because she didn’t get some prestige gig at the NYT or WaPo five years ago like some of her elite j-school friends did she’s entitled to fully sell out and shill for Bari Weiss without judgment instead of working for a regional paper or specialty site like most journalists do.

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Matt da Silva @mdasilva.bsky.social · 22h

Most new ICE cars are push button though! That’s not an EV thing.

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Matt da Silva @mdasilva.bsky.social · 23h

Ras Baraka would come to mind.

Matt da Silva @mdasilva.bsky.social · 23h

Ok time to recruit a top-notch primary opponent for Booker. Ras Baraka is the obvious answer, but who else could resonate and connect? Sayegh?

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

You really have to watch the whole thing. Booker clearly had no idea he was going to be asked real questions.

The Anti-Cult Club

YouTube video by I've Had It

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"

Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 1d

briefly worried earlier today that Platner's campaign was too online because it was using AIPAC as a boogeyman in fundraising appeals, then I saw a no-nonsense PTA mom filleting Cory Booker over AIPAC and changed my mind

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"Look, I'm one of a handful of people that don't take corporate PAC money."

"What about AIPAC money? You take AIPAC money, don't you?"

"A minuscule percentage of my resources come from..."

"I read it's like $800,000...."

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