Matt da Silva
@mdasilva.bsky.social
City planner. Reconstruction Democrat. Housing is good and fascism is bad.
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Matt da Silva
@mdasilva.bsky.social
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@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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Governor Murphy’s legacy will be as a singular villain in the story of the ongoing national and global climate and transportation crises. Bike JC will fight to repeal and replace this law. Bike JC will fight to repeal and replace this law,
January 21, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Governor Murphy’s legacy will be as a singular villain in the story of the ongoing national and global climate and transportation crises. Bike JC will fight to repeal and replace this law. Bike JC will fight to repeal and replace this law,
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2 weeks til primary in NJ CD11. A likely Dem seat, the primary is the big election. With 11 Dems still in it, someone could win with less than 10% of vote. Find where they stand on key issues - and who didn't respond - in @njspotlightnews.org voter guide www.njspotlightnews.org/special-repo...
Special Primary Election: 11th Congressional District - NJ Spotlight News
11th Congressional District Special Primary Election Profile The 11th Congressional District covers parts of Essex, Morris and Passaic counties. The Essex
www.njspotlightnews.org
January 22, 2026 at 8:12 PM
2 weeks til primary in NJ CD11. A likely Dem seat, the primary is the big election. With 11 Dems still in it, someone could win with less than 10% of vote. Find where they stand on key issues - and who didn't respond - in @njspotlightnews.org voter guide www.njspotlightnews.org/special-repo...
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I will repeat: It is not obvious, based on the data, that campaigning on the economy in Nov would be significantly more effective than campaigning on immigration. Gov. policy is dramatically out of step with the public on immigration/deportations, and executive overreach is a potent motivator
January 22, 2026 at 6:31 PM
I will repeat: It is not obvious, based on the data, that campaigning on the economy in Nov would be significantly more effective than campaigning on immigration. Gov. policy is dramatically out of step with the public on immigration/deportations, and executive overreach is a potent motivator
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@eaconner and @3underscores have been working on a series of articles to explain housing affordability and Affordable housing policy.
You can read Part I, explaining the role of supply and demand in creating broad-based affordability, here:
betterblocksnj.org/2025/12/15/w...
You can read Part I, explaining the role of supply and demand in creating broad-based affordability, here:
betterblocksnj.org/2025/12/15/w...
betterblocksnj.org
January 22, 2026 at 2:38 PM
@eaconner and @3underscores have been working on a series of articles to explain housing affordability and Affordable housing policy.
You can read Part I, explaining the role of supply and demand in creating broad-based affordability, here:
betterblocksnj.org/2025/12/15/w...
You can read Part I, explaining the role of supply and demand in creating broad-based affordability, here:
betterblocksnj.org/2025/12/15/w...
Can someone from the South explain to me why Tennessee, despite having two major cities, continues to look more like Kentucky and West Virginia than North Carolina and Texas on these maps?
Today I am publishing what I believe to be the most detailed available map of Trump's job approval rating. Powered by over 12,000 interviews for our Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll. I hope this generates many stories, and hours wasted exploring data!
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-very-det...
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-very-det...
A very detailed map of Trump's job approval
Explore our new interactive map of Trump's job approval, powered by 12,000 survey interviews conducted in 2025 and 2026
www.gelliottmorris.com
January 22, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Can someone from the South explain to me why Tennessee, despite having two major cities, continues to look more like Kentucky and West Virginia than North Carolina and Texas on these maps?
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Street safety champion Phil Murphy.
January 21, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Street safety champion Phil Murphy.
Good. Trump needs to learn actions have consequences. I wish congressional Dems understood the need to discipline him too.
BREAKING: The European Parliament suspended work on a trade deal between the 27-member bloc and the US following Trump's repeated requests to take control over Greenland, a semi-autonomous Danish territory reut.rs/4bbpqGm
January 21, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Good. Trump needs to learn actions have consequences. I wish congressional Dems understood the need to discipline him too.
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Watching the Greenland thing unfold really does feel like a psychotic break except instead of me breaking away from reality it's reality breaking away from me
January 21, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Watching the Greenland thing unfold really does feel like a psychotic break except instead of me breaking away from reality it's reality breaking away from me
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Without America, "right now, you'd all be speaking German" Trump tells an audience in Switzerland.
January 21, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Without America, "right now, you'd all be speaking German" Trump tells an audience in Switzerland.
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Donald Trump, truly the greatest 🇨🇦 Liberal since Wilfrid Laurier 🧐
December 31, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Donald Trump, truly the greatest 🇨🇦 Liberal since Wilfrid Laurier 🧐
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this is so real.
this is 10x worse if you're korean or (in my case) indian diaspora
this is 10x worse if you're korean or (in my case) indian diaspora
My dad is down the vietnamese diaspora crank youtube rabbit hole and I can't pull him out. For a time, voice of america had a vietnamese news broadcast that was decent but, welp. Now it's all guys ranting from their houses with truth social handles
January 20, 2026 at 9:31 PM
this is so real.
this is 10x worse if you're korean or (in my case) indian diaspora
this is 10x worse if you're korean or (in my case) indian diaspora
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Feel like this is the moment Europe is experiencing right now.
January 20, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Feel like this is the moment Europe is experiencing right now.
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this is the closest we're ever going to get to "I can't believe the leopards ate my face" in the wild
Incredible quote here from a Somali small business owner in Minneapolis who voted for Trump. minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/19/a...
January 20, 2026 at 9:01 PM
this is the closest we're ever going to get to "I can't believe the leopards ate my face" in the wild
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If I'm being honest, the collapse of the post-Cold War international order and the violent occupation of an American city are making it difficult for me to concentrate on housing policy.
January 20, 2026 at 6:15 PM
If I'm being honest, the collapse of the post-Cold War international order and the violent occupation of an American city are making it difficult for me to concentrate on housing policy.
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In 1990, of the 20 largest metro networks globally, 4 were in US & 8 in Europe.
Today, 13 are in China, 1 in US & 1 in Europe.
New York City's metro network (Subway/PATH) fell in the ranking from #3 to #15. Delhi's system will be longer than NYC's soon!
www.thetransportpolitic.com/2026/01/20/t...
Today, 13 are in China, 1 in US & 1 in Europe.
New York City's metro network (Subway/PATH) fell in the ranking from #3 to #15. Delhi's system will be longer than NYC's soon!
www.thetransportpolitic.com/2026/01/20/t...
January 20, 2026 at 3:06 PM
In 1990, of the 20 largest metro networks globally, 4 were in US & 8 in Europe.
Today, 13 are in China, 1 in US & 1 in Europe.
New York City's metro network (Subway/PATH) fell in the ranking from #3 to #15. Delhi's system will be longer than NYC's soon!
www.thetransportpolitic.com/2026/01/20/t...
Today, 13 are in China, 1 in US & 1 in Europe.
New York City's metro network (Subway/PATH) fell in the ranking from #3 to #15. Delhi's system will be longer than NYC's soon!
www.thetransportpolitic.com/2026/01/20/t...
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The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:
January 20, 2026 at 12:47 PM
The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:
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New Jersey now has one of the worst, if not THE worst, e-bike laws in the country, requiring even people with pedal-assist bikes that top out at 18 mph to get the equivalent of motorcycle licenses.
Governor Murphy Signs Senate President Scutari’s E-Bike Safety Legislation - Insider NJ
Governor Murphy Signs Senate President Scutari’s E-Bike Safety Legislation Posted on – 01/19/2026 Legislation Enacts Some of the Nation’s Toughest Regulations on E-Bikes TRENTON – Governor Phil Murphy...
www.insidernj.com
January 19, 2026 at 6:00 PM
New Jersey now has one of the worst, if not THE worst, e-bike laws in the country, requiring even people with pedal-assist bikes that top out at 18 mph to get the equivalent of motorcycle licenses.
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I’ve always felt this way, but this last week, watching the federal government invade my city, watching my neighbors resist it, watching congressional Dems essentially pretend it’s not happening - I have never so keenly felt that Democrats in Congress are profoundly useless and irrelevant
All I want to do is fight this insanity, there are so many people like me, and it feels like most of the actual elected leaders who are supposed to be channeling this desire to resist are sitting on my head scolding me. PUT US IN THE GAME
January 19, 2026 at 2:14 PM
I’ve always felt this way, but this last week, watching the federal government invade my city, watching my neighbors resist it, watching congressional Dems essentially pretend it’s not happening - I have never so keenly felt that Democrats in Congress are profoundly useless and irrelevant
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It was an incredible honor to be sworn in as your Jersey City councilperson for Ward E! I’m ready to get to work for the people of Jersey City.
I’m looking forward to working closely with the rest of this City Council & Mayor to deliver a better & more affordable Jersey City for you.
I’m looking forward to working closely with the rest of this City Council & Mayor to deliver a better & more affordable Jersey City for you.
January 18, 2026 at 7:09 PM
It was an incredible honor to be sworn in as your Jersey City councilperson for Ward E! I’m ready to get to work for the people of Jersey City.
I’m looking forward to working closely with the rest of this City Council & Mayor to deliver a better & more affordable Jersey City for you.
I’m looking forward to working closely with the rest of this City Council & Mayor to deliver a better & more affordable Jersey City for you.
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You can build a 'conservative university' that's still a totally respectable university but the thing is that means you're getting a place like BYU, not the Epic Center For Lib Owning.
January 16, 2026 at 6:01 PM
You can build a 'conservative university' that's still a totally respectable university but the thing is that means you're getting a place like BYU, not the Epic Center For Lib Owning.
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this is a rollicking great read
it's a story of a bunch of tenured idealists who believed that they were building a university dedicated to free speech and free inquiry, but then lost control of their project to... the right-wing megadonors who funded the university
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
it's a story of a bunch of tenured idealists who believed that they were building a university dedicated to free speech and free inquiry, but then lost control of their project to... the right-wing megadonors who funded the university
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
They Wanted a University Without Cancel Culture. Then Dissenters Were Ousted.
Inside the civil war at the anti-woke university backed by Bari Weiss.
www.politico.com
January 16, 2026 at 5:28 PM
this is a rollicking great read
it's a story of a bunch of tenured idealists who believed that they were building a university dedicated to free speech and free inquiry, but then lost control of their project to... the right-wing megadonors who funded the university
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
it's a story of a bunch of tenured idealists who believed that they were building a university dedicated to free speech and free inquiry, but then lost control of their project to... the right-wing megadonors who funded the university
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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"And yet, if you examine the facts on the ground in these debates, NIMBYs are more often right than wrong. After all, who knows better what is right for a community than the people who live there?" lol. lmao.
Pic unrelated.
Pic unrelated.
January 16, 2026 at 2:20 PM
"And yet, if you examine the facts on the ground in these debates, NIMBYs are more often right than wrong. After all, who knows better what is right for a community than the people who live there?" lol. lmao.
Pic unrelated.
Pic unrelated.
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The Boston Globe Test:
This satirical front page imagined a Trump presidency in 2016. Critics (including Trump himself) dismissed it as "alarmist" and "propaganda" at the time.
Do these headlines feel normal today? Even...quaint?
If so: we have grown more accepting of what was once unthinkable.
This satirical front page imagined a Trump presidency in 2016. Critics (including Trump himself) dismissed it as "alarmist" and "propaganda" at the time.
Do these headlines feel normal today? Even...quaint?
If so: we have grown more accepting of what was once unthinkable.
January 16, 2026 at 1:42 PM
The Boston Globe Test:
This satirical front page imagined a Trump presidency in 2016. Critics (including Trump himself) dismissed it as "alarmist" and "propaganda" at the time.
Do these headlines feel normal today? Even...quaint?
If so: we have grown more accepting of what was once unthinkable.
This satirical front page imagined a Trump presidency in 2016. Critics (including Trump himself) dismissed it as "alarmist" and "propaganda" at the time.
Do these headlines feel normal today? Even...quaint?
If so: we have grown more accepting of what was once unthinkable.
Huge congrats to my friend and @eleanalittle.bsky.social who just got sworn in for her first term as Ward E Councilperson on the Jersey City Municipal Council.
And thanks to Assemblywoman @katiebrennan.bsky.social for swearing her in!
And thanks to Assemblywoman @katiebrennan.bsky.social for swearing her in!
January 16, 2026 at 12:34 AM
Huge congrats to my friend and @eleanalittle.bsky.social who just got sworn in for her first term as Ward E Councilperson on the Jersey City Municipal Council.
And thanks to Assemblywoman @katiebrennan.bsky.social for swearing her in!
And thanks to Assemblywoman @katiebrennan.bsky.social for swearing her in!
This could be an Onion article except for the fact that it’s not - the folks at ICE are that stupid and cruel.
Mind-boggling stuff: ICE has detained 4 Oglala men and is apparently demanding the Lakota--a nation of the continent's original inhabitants--“enter into an immigration agreement with ICE." www.twincities.com/2026/01/13/i...
Oglala Sioux Tribe says three tribal members arrested in Minneapolis are in ICE detention
The detained tribal members are experiencing homelessness and living under a bridge in Minneapolis.
www.twincities.com
January 14, 2026 at 11:45 PM
This could be an Onion article except for the fact that it’s not - the folks at ICE are that stupid and cruel.