Aaron
@aaronznj.bsky.social
Official home of the dork who decided to use my Urban Planning Master's Degree for the primary purpose of "make an alternate-history N Scale NJ Transit layout."
All opinions are mine (and you can't have them!), and they’re all wrong or your money back!
All opinions are mine (and you can't have them!), and they’re all wrong or your money back!
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
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
NJ Wish List
Mega/Improbable: Kennedy Blvd Subway
Mega/Possible: 7 train extension
Moderate/Achievable: HBLR Northern Branch
Simple/Affordable: Kennedy Blvd BRT
Mega/Improbable: Kennedy Blvd Subway
Mega/Possible: 7 train extension
Moderate/Achievable: HBLR Northern Branch
Simple/Affordable: Kennedy Blvd BRT
November 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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
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.
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.
Rep. Pete Sessions: "Would I love to see Ted Cruz being our presidential nominee for the Republican Party? Yes I would."
November 17, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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.
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.”
Rep. Keith Self on Newsmax: "If you saw Fox News just recently, groceries, gas, inflation in general is down under President Trump. Now, the mainstream media won't tell you that. But those are the actual numbers. We just have to get the American people understanding."
November 17, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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.
Ah well.
BESSENT: “THE $2,000 DIVIDEND COULD COME IN LOTS OF FORMS… IT COULD BE JUST THE TAX DECREASES. IT COULD BE NO TAX ON TIPS.”
November 17, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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.
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.
Trump admin Is attempting to massive cut federal transit funds, seeking to:
1–Eliminate transit account, which funds billions of $ in capital expenses for transit agencies
2–Prevent state DOTs from “flexing” funds for transit
These changes, if they occurred, would be devastating for US transit.
1–Eliminate transit account, which funds billions of $ in capital expenses for transit agencies
2–Prevent state DOTs from “flexing” funds for transit
These changes, if they occurred, would be devastating for US transit.
POLITICO Pro: Trump administration proposals seek to eliminate transit funding
DOT recently sent two proposals to the White House budget office seeking to pare back transit money.
subscriber.politicopro.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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.
“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.
I think a reasonable political compromise is that the entire subway goes driverless and the TWU workers get partial pensions pro-rated to years of service instead of being laid off before the pension cliff with nothing, but I talk to people who actually vote with their feet, not machine politicians.
November 14, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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.
“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.
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.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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.
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.
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.
idk which possibility is more damning for Schumer
either
A) he helped orchestrate the fold
OR
B) he genuinely opposed the fold but was so incompetent that he was unable to stop the splinter group from folding
either
A) he helped orchestrate the fold
OR
B) he genuinely opposed the fold but was so incompetent that he was unable to stop the splinter group from folding
November 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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.
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.
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Republican senate leadership rn
November 10, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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.
November 10, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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.
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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.
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.
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
Target is now requiring its employees to smile more
As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.
www.wilx.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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.
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.
Oh good. the 50-year mortgage. That should solve everything.
November 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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.
Nobody is sitting around thinking about the "injustice" of rich people in jail for doing fraud/cheating on taxes.
November 7, 2025 at 11:28 PM
"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.
Nobody is sitting around thinking about the "injustice" of rich people in jail for doing fraud/cheating on taxes.
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Tell your waiters “see you laters” when you cater your charter flight of success
ADAMS: Now “I don't have to deal with you guys, man. I can fly private now, I can go on a cruise, I can hang out in St. Bart.”
(via @nypost.com)
(via @nypost.com)
November 6, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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."
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."
case in point
November 6, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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."
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.
We got told over and over that Trump had made all these permanent gains with Latino voters that would Bergen and Passaic in play.
On a call with reporters, DNC chair Ken Martin responds to JD Vance claiming Dems only won big last night because races were in blue states.
"Well that's bullshit. We won in red counties, blue counties, purple counties," Martin says. And it was all "a rejection of Trump."
"Well that's bullshit. We won in red counties, blue counties, purple counties," Martin says. And it was all "a rejection of Trump."
November 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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.
We got told over and over that Trump had made all these permanent gains with Latino voters that would Bergen and Passaic in play.
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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.
Mike Johnson: "What happened last night is blue states and blue cities voted blue. We all saw that coming. And no one should read too much into last night's election results."
November 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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***
Mikie is looking to win between 9-12 rn
November 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
plot twist with only a handful of votes left to count this morning (and any late arriving mail ballots) she's winning by ***13***
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he called for full patriot activation and they still lost in a landslide? what gives
November 5, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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.
Fun times.
Bergen County: Sherrill +10
6 point shift left from 2024
4 point shift left from 2021
6 point shift left from 2024
4 point shift left from 2021
November 5, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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.
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.
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.
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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.
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:
November 5, 2025 at 2:32 AM
ABC and NBC have called it for Sherrill. Currently up by 15, somehow winning by a bigger margin than Spanberger. Doubters right now:
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Any election in the Trump era with Trump not on the ballot has been a thumper for the opposition.
November 5, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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.”
the media: “nj is gonna be a nailbiter”
New Jersey voters: “guess again, fuckers.”
November 5, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Well that was anti-climactic as fuck.
the media: “nj is gonna be a nailbiter”
New Jersey voters: “guess again, fuckers.”
the media: “nj is gonna be a nailbiter”
New Jersey voters: “guess again, fuckers.”