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safe streets, public transit, clean air, sustainable cities. he/him in west philly
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Harrisburg has, once again, failed to fund public transit. Agencies like SEPTA are forced to raid their capital funds to run daily service.
This is akin to burning pieces of your house in the fireplace to keep warm.
This is akin to burning pieces of your house in the fireplace to keep warm.
Pa. lawmakers and Gov. Josh Shapiro have approved a $50.1 billion state budget, officially ending monthslong impasse
Pennsylvania lawmakers formally approved the 2025-26 fiscal year budget, ending the impasse that had for months stalled payments to counties, schools, and nonprofits.
www.inquirer.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Harrisburg has, once again, failed to fund public transit. Agencies like SEPTA are forced to raid their capital funds to run daily service.
This is akin to burning pieces of your house in the fireplace to keep warm.
This is akin to burning pieces of your house in the fireplace to keep warm.
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Boy howdy, if Mamdani believes that natural resources should be for the benefit of all -- and I agree with him! -- then he ought to also believe that the value of land, a natural resource, should be redistributed to all New Yorkers via a Land Value Tax!
November 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Boy howdy, if Mamdani believes that natural resources should be for the benefit of all -- and I agree with him! -- then he ought to also believe that the value of land, a natural resource, should be redistributed to all New Yorkers via a Land Value Tax!
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The Jimmy Kimmel firing, Colbert's show, what's happening at WaPo, CBS... legacy journalism is slowly but surely coming under state control.
It is more important now than ever before that we support the independent journalists out there doing the work not beholden to a fascist's bidding.
It is more important now than ever before that we support the independent journalists out there doing the work not beholden to a fascist's bidding.
September 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
The Jimmy Kimmel firing, Colbert's show, what's happening at WaPo, CBS... legacy journalism is slowly but surely coming under state control.
It is more important now than ever before that we support the independent journalists out there doing the work not beholden to a fascist's bidding.
It is more important now than ever before that we support the independent journalists out there doing the work not beholden to a fascist's bidding.
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These people run the government. The McCarthy era is back.
September 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
These people run the government. The McCarthy era is back.
Prime weather tonight for open windows and a warm blanket ☺️
September 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Prime weather tonight for open windows and a warm blanket ☺️
Latest addition to a very nice protected bike lane in West Philly. Planters!
August 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Latest addition to a very nice protected bike lane in West Philly. Planters!
I saw two parents teaching their little kid to ride a bike in new protected bike lane on 47th street in West Philly. Big thank you to @councilmemberjg.bsky.social for making the project possible!
August 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I saw two parents teaching their little kid to ride a bike in new protected bike lane on 47th street in West Philly. Big thank you to @councilmemberjg.bsky.social for making the project possible!
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You know what other 19th century (sort of) socialist also ran for mayor in New York City?
August 25, 2025 at 1:54 AM
You know what other 19th century (sort of) socialist also ran for mayor in New York City?
It’s a good day. My neighbor landlord finally turned off the bright ass daylight white security lights that were pointed up into people’s windows.
August 24, 2025 at 1:19 AM
It’s a good day. My neighbor landlord finally turned off the bright ass daylight white security lights that were pointed up into people’s windows.
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One of the arguments I often see conservatives make is that public transit should be privatized.
That might work, but only if roads, highways, and parking were privatized as well!
In Japan many transit companies are private but so are expressways and so is parking.
That might work, but only if roads, highways, and parking were privatized as well!
In Japan many transit companies are private but so are expressways and so is parking.
August 21, 2025 at 12:52 AM
One of the arguments I often see conservatives make is that public transit should be privatized.
That might work, but only if roads, highways, and parking were privatized as well!
In Japan many transit companies are private but so are expressways and so is parking.
That might work, but only if roads, highways, and parking were privatized as well!
In Japan many transit companies are private but so are expressways and so is parking.
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Joe Picozzi published an Op-Ed that makes it very difficult to believe he's operating in good faith about transit funding.
He pretends Democrats have not proposed new revenue, but it was Republicans who shot down a 'skill games' tax and marijuana legalization.
southphillyreview.com/2025/08/19/o...
He pretends Democrats have not proposed new revenue, but it was Republicans who shot down a 'skill games' tax and marijuana legalization.
southphillyreview.com/2025/08/19/o...
Op-Ed: We want to fund SEPTA -- the question is how
By State Sen. Joe Picozzi (R-5th dist.)
southphillyreview.com
August 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Joe Picozzi published an Op-Ed that makes it very difficult to believe he's operating in good faith about transit funding.
He pretends Democrats have not proposed new revenue, but it was Republicans who shot down a 'skill games' tax and marijuana legalization.
southphillyreview.com/2025/08/19/o...
He pretends Democrats have not proposed new revenue, but it was Republicans who shot down a 'skill games' tax and marijuana legalization.
southphillyreview.com/2025/08/19/o...
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The NIMBY three step: “I participated in the public process and did not get my way” becomes “I was left out of the decision making process” and then turns into “I deserve the power to overturn the result of the public process and impose my will on the majority by lawsuit.”
August 18, 2025 at 11:43 PM
The NIMBY three step: “I participated in the public process and did not get my way” becomes “I was left out of the decision making process” and then turns into “I deserve the power to overturn the result of the public process and impose my will on the majority by lawsuit.”
Republicans love to complain about public transit in the US but when you ask them to fund improvements that agencies and riders have demanded for years they're like nah.
Their complaints have little to do with the problems created by decades underfunding and are just about who uses transit systems
Their complaints have little to do with the problems created by decades underfunding and are just about who uses transit systems
August 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Republicans love to complain about public transit in the US but when you ask them to fund improvements that agencies and riders have demanded for years they're like nah.
Their complaints have little to do with the problems created by decades underfunding and are just about who uses transit systems
Their complaints have little to do with the problems created by decades underfunding and are just about who uses transit systems
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this fuckin rocks my congressman is doing a Good
August 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
this fuckin rocks my congressman is doing a Good
This latest video from @climatetown.bsky.social has me wondering how anyone can take Joe Rogan seriously. His belief system is like an amalgamation of Facebook replies from people who haven't read anything since 11th grade.
youtu.be/r1bMJekCiBw
youtu.be/r1bMJekCiBw
Joe Rogan Doesn't Understand Graphs
YouTube video by Climate Town
youtu.be
August 12, 2025 at 6:33 PM
This latest video from @climatetown.bsky.social has me wondering how anyone can take Joe Rogan seriously. His belief system is like an amalgamation of Facebook replies from people who haven't read anything since 11th grade.
youtu.be/r1bMJekCiBw
youtu.be/r1bMJekCiBw
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No, blame government. We figured out why grade crossings were bad for busy RR lines more than a century ago. We’ve eliminated the vast majority of them along busy passenger lines.
Yet, FL and the Feds don’t think investment is warranted here.
Yet, FL and the Feds don’t think investment is warranted here.
August 11, 2025 at 2:06 AM
No, blame government. We figured out why grade crossings were bad for busy RR lines more than a century ago. We’ve eliminated the vast majority of them along busy passenger lines.
Yet, FL and the Feds don’t think investment is warranted here.
Yet, FL and the Feds don’t think investment is warranted here.
2028 US presidential race guesses. Reply with yours
D (win)
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
Pete Buttigieg, VP
R (lose)
Ted Cruz
Melania Trump (widowed), VP
D (win)
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
Pete Buttigieg, VP
R (lose)
Ted Cruz
Melania Trump (widowed), VP
August 11, 2025 at 1:36 AM
2028 US presidential race guesses. Reply with yours
D (win)
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
Pete Buttigieg, VP
R (lose)
Ted Cruz
Melania Trump (widowed), VP
D (win)
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
Pete Buttigieg, VP
R (lose)
Ted Cruz
Melania Trump (widowed), VP
Sliver of good news in a world of bad:
Starting Monday in Philly a driving lane becomes a protected bike lane. Good things happen in Philadelphia!
Thank you @councilmemberjg.bsky.social for supporting safe streets!
www.phila.gov/2025-08-08-i...
Starting Monday in Philly a driving lane becomes a protected bike lane. Good things happen in Philadelphia!
Thank you @councilmemberjg.bsky.social for supporting safe streets!
www.phila.gov/2025-08-08-i...
City of Philadelphia Announces Implementation of New Traffic Pattern on 47th Street to Begin Monday, August 11 | Department of Streets
Temporary day time road closures and the new traffic pattern will be in effect immediately as blocks are completed and reopened.
www.phila.gov
August 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Sliver of good news in a world of bad:
Starting Monday in Philly a driving lane becomes a protected bike lane. Good things happen in Philadelphia!
Thank you @councilmemberjg.bsky.social for supporting safe streets!
www.phila.gov/2025-08-08-i...
Starting Monday in Philly a driving lane becomes a protected bike lane. Good things happen in Philadelphia!
Thank you @councilmemberjg.bsky.social for supporting safe streets!
www.phila.gov/2025-08-08-i...
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Sorry to add to the ~transplant discourse~ but this is all ultimately about the housing shortage
Young, well-educated, mostly well-off people are aware they’re beating somebody at Housing Musical Chairs and feel bad. But we could just build enough housing that it’s not zero-sum!
Young, well-educated, mostly well-off people are aware they’re beating somebody at Housing Musical Chairs and feel bad. But we could just build enough housing that it’s not zero-sum!
anti-transplant rhetoric is basically just fancy xenophobia for self-hating gentrifiers
August 8, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Sorry to add to the ~transplant discourse~ but this is all ultimately about the housing shortage
Young, well-educated, mostly well-off people are aware they’re beating somebody at Housing Musical Chairs and feel bad. But we could just build enough housing that it’s not zero-sum!
Young, well-educated, mostly well-off people are aware they’re beating somebody at Housing Musical Chairs and feel bad. But we could just build enough housing that it’s not zero-sum!
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It’s a golden age for Cassandras.
My prediction is that in that scenario, he blames the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which puts out employment data. Calls them corrupt, run by Democrats, out to get him. Fires people there, insists their numbers cannot be trusted, White House puts out its own fictitious data to make Trump look good
August 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
It’s a golden age for Cassandras.
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a sarcastic Bernie Sanders: "Why not? When you get bad news, fire the guy who delivered the news. I think that's sensible policy."
August 2, 2025 at 12:38 AM
a sarcastic Bernie Sanders: "Why not? When you get bad news, fire the guy who delivered the news. I think that's sensible policy."
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so if we're keeping track. last week a drive recklessly sped down spruce, flipped their car. earlier this week a driver drove their SUV into an Indego station. and, just today, a driver flipped their car over in a bike lane on 22nd.
July 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
so if we're keeping track. last week a drive recklessly sped down spruce, flipped their car. earlier this week a driver drove their SUV into an Indego station. and, just today, a driver flipped their car over in a bike lane on 22nd.