Glassbro
@glassbro.bsky.social
Posting Czar for the State of NJ, Small Business Owner (you're welcome for my service), Homeowner (yw4ms), Parent (yw4ms).
I write about local news: https://glassborogaffer.substack.com/
I write about local news: https://glassborogaffer.substack.com/
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Glassbro
@glassbro.bsky.social
· Oct 21
Almost 10 times per day!
After Election Day, contact your reps about A1432/S1469. www.njleg.state.nj.us/bill-search/...
After Election Day, contact your reps about A1432/S1469. www.njleg.state.nj.us/bill-search/...
On a related note, send me all the NJ state leg bills you want passed.
I'm making a spreadsheet of bill numbers, whether they're stuck in committee or need a floor vote, which committees they're stuck in and who is on them, news articles explaining why they matter, etc.
I'm making a spreadsheet of bill numbers, whether they're stuck in committee or need a floor vote, which committees they're stuck in and who is on them, news articles explaining why they matter, etc.
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Just discovered this NBER paper examining the safety dangers of car bloat:
"Being hit by a vehicle that is 1,000 pounds heavier results in a 47% increase in the baseline fatality probability."
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
"Being hit by a vehicle that is 1,000 pounds heavier results in a 47% increase in the baseline fatality probability."
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
December 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Just discovered this NBER paper examining the safety dangers of car bloat:
"Being hit by a vehicle that is 1,000 pounds heavier results in a 47% increase in the baseline fatality probability."
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
"Being hit by a vehicle that is 1,000 pounds heavier results in a 47% increase in the baseline fatality probability."
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
I visit Thailand every year for a month & despite the good trains, it actually makes me miss American cities & streets. At least >0 US drivers yield to pedestrians in crosswalks.
I miss sidewalks, too.
I miss sidewalks, too.
Bangkok's Sukhumvit (light green) & Silom (kinda dark blue green i guess) lines have The PATH Problem, super packed weekend trains. Time to run weekday headways on the weekends, fellas.
Pink line rules.
Pink line rules.
December 9, 2025 at 10:33 AM
I visit Thailand every year for a month & despite the good trains, it actually makes me miss American cities & streets. At least >0 US drivers yield to pedestrians in crosswalks.
I miss sidewalks, too.
I miss sidewalks, too.
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In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)"
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs | Cornell Chronicle
Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s fiv...
news.cornell.edu
December 9, 2025 at 2:19 AM
In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)"
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
The bright side of the Trump admin treating X like an extension of the US state (EU fining X is "an attack on the American ppl") is that nationalizing X one day won't seem so radical. It was already a SOE in all but name. apnews.com/article/x-el...
EU hits Elon Musk's X with 120 million euro fine for breaching bloc's social media law
European Union regulators have fined Elon Musk’s social media platform X 120 million euros for failing to comply with digital regulations.
apnews.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:55 AM
The bright side of the Trump admin treating X like an extension of the US state (EU fining X is "an attack on the American ppl") is that nationalizing X one day won't seem so radical. It was already a SOE in all but name. apnews.com/article/x-el...
My household of 3 makes $135k per year in NJ so i can say right now, having even $1k leftover per month after all major expenses is a pretty sweet life. Not poverty at all.
I spend it all on magazines & donations to ISIS.
I spend it all on magazines & donations to ISIS.
2/ Going to the bottom line: w. different scenarios for childcare, a parsimonious family would have from $1,000 to $2750 per month after taxes, rent, health insurance, car ownership, childcare, and food.
Deets below, but the ISTM the takeaway is that the original poster is basically right...
Deets below, but the ISTM the takeaway is that the original poster is basically right...
December 5, 2025 at 10:33 AM
My household of 3 makes $135k per year in NJ so i can say right now, having even $1k leftover per month after all major expenses is a pretty sweet life. Not poverty at all.
I spend it all on magazines & donations to ISIS.
I spend it all on magazines & donations to ISIS.
I seem to recall some liberal saber-rattling re: the Houthis. "Teens piloting drones could sink their entire Fisher Price navy." Etc.
Turns out that Fisher Price ass navy gave our troops terminal Imposter Syndrome.
apnews.com/article/navy...
Turns out that Fisher Price ass navy gave our troops terminal Imposter Syndrome.
apnews.com/article/navy...
Stress of Houthi combat was a key factor in series of costly Navy mishaps, investigations show
Investigative reports into a series of high-profile Navy mishaps during a U.S.-led campaign against Yemen’s Houthi rebels reveal the operation's toll on ships and personnel.
apnews.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I seem to recall some liberal saber-rattling re: the Houthis. "Teens piloting drones could sink their entire Fisher Price navy." Etc.
Turns out that Fisher Price ass navy gave our troops terminal Imposter Syndrome.
apnews.com/article/navy...
Turns out that Fisher Price ass navy gave our troops terminal Imposter Syndrome.
apnews.com/article/navy...
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Big housing news in San Francisco today: the Board of Supervisors (their equivalent of City Council) votes to upzone the entire western half of the city. Currently much of the westside is houses. Commercial streets get a height boost.
Diagrams & maps below from sfplanning.org/sites/defaul...
Diagrams & maps below from sfplanning.org/sites/defaul...
December 3, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Big housing news in San Francisco today: the Board of Supervisors (their equivalent of City Council) votes to upzone the entire western half of the city. Currently much of the westside is houses. Commercial streets get a height boost.
Diagrams & maps below from sfplanning.org/sites/defaul...
Diagrams & maps below from sfplanning.org/sites/defaul...
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We did it! After years of work, our Downtown for All zoning reform plan has passed the New Haven Board of Alders!
Our legislation significantly expands how much housing can be built in our city's core, and it will make a real difference for New Haven families.
🧵More details:
Our legislation significantly expands how much housing can be built in our city's core, and it will make a real difference for New Haven families.
🧵More details:
December 3, 2025 at 9:48 PM
We did it! After years of work, our Downtown for All zoning reform plan has passed the New Haven Board of Alders!
Our legislation significantly expands how much housing can be built in our city's core, and it will make a real difference for New Haven families.
🧵More details:
Our legislation significantly expands how much housing can be built in our city's core, and it will make a real difference for New Haven families.
🧵More details:
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Over chorus of complaints, NJ Senate panel advances bill to limit comptroller’s powers newjerseymonitor.com/2025/12/01/n...
Over chorus of complaints, NJ Senate panel advances bill to limit comptroller's powers • New Jersey Monitor
The bill would strip the comptroller of subpoena and investigatory powers, a move critics say is retaliation for the comptroller's probes.
newjerseymonitor.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Over chorus of complaints, NJ Senate panel advances bill to limit comptroller’s powers newjerseymonitor.com/2025/12/01/n...
December 3, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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this is wild. In her final act in office, Adrienne Adams has gone full NIMBY and now is putting parking over pedestrian safety.
call her office and your local councilmember to express support for Intro 1138!
call her office and your local councilmember to express support for Intro 1138!
Have you called Speaker Adams yet today? Tell her why we need universal daylighting, and urge her to bring Intro 1138 to a vote: 212-482-6731
We have just three weeks left to pass universal daylighting — and the biggest thing standing in the way? Daylighting obstructors.
Universal daylighting is simple: clear intersections so drivers, pedestrians, and people on bikes can actually see each other. It saves lives.
Universal daylighting is simple: clear intersections so drivers, pedestrians, and people on bikes can actually see each other. It saves lives.
November 26, 2025 at 2:46 PM
this is wild. In her final act in office, Adrienne Adams has gone full NIMBY and now is putting parking over pedestrian safety.
call her office and your local councilmember to express support for Intro 1138!
call her office and your local councilmember to express support for Intro 1138!
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The country deserves a better, more principled publication that has the place in our media industry that 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘵𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘤 does. 𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 could one day occupy that role, if our growth continues as it has. Help us take our first real steps down that long road: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
November 24, 2025 at 11:55 PM
The country deserves a better, more principled publication that has the place in our media industry that 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘵𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘤 does. 𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 could one day occupy that role, if our growth continues as it has. Help us take our first real steps down that long road: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
Bangkok's Sukhumvit (light green) & Silom (kinda dark blue green i guess) lines have The PATH Problem, super packed weekend trains. Time to run weekday headways on the weekends, fellas.
Pink line rules.
Pink line rules.
November 22, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Bangkok's Sukhumvit (light green) & Silom (kinda dark blue green i guess) lines have The PATH Problem, super packed weekend trains. Time to run weekday headways on the weekends, fellas.
Pink line rules.
Pink line rules.
Gottheimer
These 20 House Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to fully repeal DC's police reform laws.
Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.
They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.
They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
November 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Gottheimer
Bitte Orca
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
November 17, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Bitte Orca
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
Local Dems have learned from national Republicans: ALWAYS be campaigning'
GlouCo Dems are already promoting their incumbents up for reelection next year.
GlouCo Dems are already promoting their incumbents up for reelection next year.
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Local Dems have learned from national Republicans: ALWAYS be campaigning'
GlouCo Dems are already promoting their incumbents up for reelection next year.
GlouCo Dems are already promoting their incumbents up for reelection next year.
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you've got to click around on this map, and the graphics here ... it's astounding. @haidee.bsky.social did such a great job with this:
Explore How Different New Yorkers Voted for Mayor
See how voters turned out for Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa in every neighborhood in the city — and by income, housing and transit preference.
www.thecity.nyc
November 5, 2025 at 4:59 AM
you've got to click around on this map, and the graphics here ... it's astounding. @haidee.bsky.social did such a great job with this:
He didn't endorse in the JC mayor race (would that have mattered, though?) and took a single poll too seriously.
For shame.
For shame.
November 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
He didn't endorse in the JC mayor race (would that have mattered, though?) and took a single poll too seriously.
For shame.
For shame.
It's kind of bad that my county reports results slower than a private org like AP. Why have a "live" reporting site at all, then?
November 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
It's kind of bad that my county reports results slower than a private org like AP. Why have a "live" reporting site at all, then?
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Dem state senate target list in 2027 needs to include Polistina, Tiver, Bramnick, Bucco, and Schepisi with eyes on Steinhardt, Pennacchio, and Corrado in a real wave year. also if Bob Singer retires I guess Avi Schnall may seek a promotion to the Senate or something like that.
Schlepisi or whatever her name is vulnerable in 2027 too? One of the worst
state senators
state senators
November 5, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Dem state senate target list in 2027 needs to include Polistina, Tiver, Bramnick, Bucco, and Schepisi with eyes on Steinhardt, Pennacchio, and Corrado in a real wave year. also if Bob Singer retires I guess Avi Schnall may seek a promotion to the Senate or something like that.
LD-03 is a squeaker. If Dems win by <1 point in a cycle like this we are screwed next time. Durr's ghost will ride again.
November 5, 2025 at 11:40 AM
LD-03 is a squeaker. If Dems win by <1 point in a cycle like this we are screwed next time. Durr's ghost will ride again.
Middlesex swinging 17 points Dem is insane.
November 5, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Middlesex swinging 17 points Dem is insane.