Jacob Fuller
cobblog.bsky.social
Jacob Fuller
@cobblog.bsky.social
Writer. Public Speaker. Culture Critic?
Trying my best. Bylines at the WaPo, Inquirer and the Citizen.
Also Political Director for PA Young Dems
Pinned
for the record, the last thing i said i dont believe. i just said it to say it
Oh btw I wrote this!
"Now, only months into the second Trump administration, what was already a crisis shows signs of developing into a total calamity," @cobblog.bsky.social writes. wapo.st/4oIvPwM
Opinion | The White House is making the homeless crisis worse
Cuts to vital programs threaten to put even more people on the street.
wapo.st
August 22, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Finally finished my piece for Substack. It's an essay on the rise in addiction and homelessness related crackdowns, and how an attempt to better understand these issues may have had unintended consequences for how we approach treating it. Check it out!
The War on Visible Poverty, and Addiction as Metaphor
Contemporary crackdowns on America's poorest may be informed by our better understanding of addiction- but that may be making them worse.
philadelphiastandard.substack.com
March 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
🚨PA POLITICAL PEOPLE🚨
If you worked on or adjacent to the 2024 Democratic campaign, please reach out to us! We’re digging into voter shifts, campaign strategy, and factors that led to the loss. If you worked on the election in the state, we want to hear from you.
March 12, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I don’t want to hear shit about my milk consumption from ppl who’s bones are 50% these
March 10, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Anyone who has ever been described as a “wonk” needs to be launched into space. For people who self-describe themselves as that we cannot risk failure, and need to ship them immediately to the closest volcano. It’s the only way
March 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
RIP Bernie Madoff, you would’ve loved the criminal press tour
March 6, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Inverse world where the Democratic Party is paralyzed by socialists who keep winning all the time and force all the centrist dems in line
March 6, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Dems: We need the person who responds to the address to represent the new Democratic Party.
Sen Slotkin: before we start, I just want you all to know I probably knew about Abu Ghraib
March 5, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Shout out Al Green for literally standing up to this
March 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Yum! brands the owner of Taco Bell was one of the only stocks that rallied today based on expectations of increased sales revenue for this quarter. Screw everything else that happened in the market today, this is the biggest recession indicator.
March 4, 2025 at 9:06 PM
For people wondering why every Republican is acting like they live in the deepest red district in Kentucky rn- worth noting is that the GOP consensus machine is stronger than its maybe ever been. Republicans face an immediate primary challenger bankrolled by Musk but also-
March 4, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I love going on Reels cause half the time it’s just a video of someone getting murdered followed by a Peter Griffin account explaining Scientology. Im not sure how they’re gonna include that in the upcoming The Social Network sequel but it’s gotta be somewhere.
March 4, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Now I know everyone is very scared about everything going on right now, but I’ve been speaking to a group of democratic consultants and they’ve assured me that if we simply toss a few hundred trans people and student protesters into a volcano, we might have a chance at squeaking out the midterms
March 4, 2025 at 1:16 AM
March 4, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Rereading Sontag for a piece I’m writing, and came across this incredible section. Denying access to ideas is as much about group/identity formation as it is an attempt to punish others. A lot of parallels here in the harm reduction/food assistance space.
March 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Least favorite journalistic tic is when we get 100 articles saying, "Trump is threatening to break things- but some Democrats think some things should be broken sometimes."

Like yeah, ideology exists.
March 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Twitter beef with Lew Blum towing rn. Might be fucked.
March 3, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Good reading day
March 2, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Unbelievably proud of this piece I wrote reconceptualizing the crackdowns on open-air drug use and homelessness through the lens of Sontag’s work on disease and metaphor. Spent 2 years researching and speaking to people in Philly/US at large for it. Will be on my substack of not accepted anywhere
March 2, 2025 at 2:59 AM
On the note of talking about the Philly music scene, been compiling some of my favorite flyers from past events. Here are some from the last few months
March 2, 2025 at 2:22 AM
The Philly DIY/Underground music is criminally undercovered. Arrest the culture writers.
March 1, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Using the fact that Bluesky doesn't throttle posts with links to plug my best article.
Guest Commentary: Is Our Homeless Population Count Correct?
The Point in Time (PIT) count of people living on the streets or in shelters helps determine federal funding. So why isn’t it more accurate?
thephiladelphiacitizen.org
March 1, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Reposted by Jacob Fuller
It's a real catastrophe for the Western left that so many people let themselves be convinced the Maidan was a CIA ruse.

people were melting police tanks to the street with Molotov catapults built into their Ice Fortress. you call yourself an anarchist and don't find that hot as fuck?
March 1, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Very much not looking forward to the right wing Lysenko
said this before and i wasn't exaggerating: RFK has the exact personality type of the kind of person that, in a different sort of regime, oversees mass starvation.
“We have measles outbreaks every year," Trump's health secretary said when asked about the death, which is the nation's first in a decade.
February 27, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Wrote this piece on social media and political discussion last year for the Inquirer and never imagined that platforms like Bluesky would be the solution. Pretty happy about it.
February 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM