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we are going to win
NEW: Dems easily flipped the sheriff's office in Pennsylvania's Bucks County, a big swing county in the Philly suburbs.
So? The incumbent GOP sheriff had contracted with ICE. His Dem challenger promised to end the contract.
Now he wants other swing-state Dems to look at his victory as a lesson:
So? The incumbent GOP sheriff had contracted with ICE. His Dem challenger promised to end the contract.
Now he wants other swing-state Dems to look at his victory as a lesson:
Voters Ousted This Pennsylvania Sheriff After He Signed Up to Collaborate With ICE - Bolts
A populous, swing county replaced its GOP sheriff on Tuesday after months of controversy over his joining ICE’s 287(g) program. The Democratic winner promises he’ll end the contract.
boltsmag.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:18 AM
we are going to win
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November 10, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Hell yeah www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAY7...
MJ Lenderman: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
www.youtube.com
January 31, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hell yeah www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAY7...
this is really fucking enraging. i worked with one of the victims of the crash on an anti-bigotry (“DEI”) campaign at our law school. she was brilliant and thoughtful and kind and she doesn’t deserve for her avoidable death to be turned into fodder for a stupid racist rant!!!!!
REPORTER: I'm trying to figure out how you can come to the conclusion right now that diversity had something to do with this crash.
TRUMP: Because I have common sense, ok? And unfortunately a lot of people don't
TRUMP: Because I have common sense, ok? And unfortunately a lot of people don't
January 30, 2025 at 10:14 PM
this is really fucking enraging. i worked with one of the victims of the crash on an anti-bigotry (“DEI”) campaign at our law school. she was brilliant and thoughtful and kind and she doesn’t deserve for her avoidable death to be turned into fodder for a stupid racist rant!!!!!
failed state
BREAKING: Staffing was “not normal” in the air traffic control tower at the time of a midair collision near D.C., an FAA report obtained by AP says.
Follow AP for live updates.
Follow AP for live updates.
Live updates: Collision between helicopter and plane kills 67 in nation's worst air disaster in a generation
All 64 people aboard an American Airlines jet that collided with an Army helicopter at Reagan National Airport on Wednesday are dead in what is the worst U.S. aviation disaster in almost a quarter cen...
apnews.com
January 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
failed state
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until things get sorted out, all law school constitutional law classes should be replaced with a psychoanalyst lecture about the death drive
January 29, 2025 at 9:58 PM
until things get sorted out, all law school constitutional law classes should be replaced with a psychoanalyst lecture about the death drive
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What he's announcing is a concentration camp. A deeply illegal, unconstitutional, anti-human rights atrocity. Anyone who supports this is complicit. Anyone in any federal service, military or otherwise, is morally obligated to refuse to carry out any orders related to this deeply criminal act.
Trump announces an executive order authorizing a 30,000 capacity migrant detention center in Guantanamo.
"Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back, so we're going to send them out to Guatanamo Bay."
"Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back, so we're going to send them out to Guatanamo Bay."
January 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
What he's announcing is a concentration camp. A deeply illegal, unconstitutional, anti-human rights atrocity. Anyone who supports this is complicit. Anyone in any federal service, military or otherwise, is morally obligated to refuse to carry out any orders related to this deeply criminal act.
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updated story with comment from Gov Shapiro: www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...
January 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
updated story with comment from Gov Shapiro: www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...
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NEW: My staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following last night's federal funding freeze. This is a blatant attempt to rip away health care from millions of Americans overnight and will get people killed.
Illinois shut out of Medicaid after Trump administration halts federal grants and loans chicago.suntimes.com/politics/don...
Illinois shut out of Medicaid after Trump administration halts federal grants and loans
The Trump administration's federal freeze has shut Illinois out of Medicaid, according to Gov. JB. Pritzker's office. The government-funded health insurance program covered about 3.9 million people in...
chicago.suntimes.com
January 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
NEW: My staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following last night's federal funding freeze. This is a blatant attempt to rip away health care from millions of Americans overnight and will get people killed.
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Workers at a Whole Foods in Philadelphia just voted to become the first unionized store in Amazon’s grocery chain
Whole Foods Workers in Philadelphia Vote to Form Chain’s First Union (Gift Article)
The union win comes as Amazon, which owns the grocery chain, is also fighting labor organizing in its warehouse and delivery businesses.
www.nytimes.com
January 28, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Workers at a Whole Foods in Philadelphia just voted to become the first unionized store in Amazon’s grocery chain
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Workers at a Philly Whole Foods have just released the results of their union election—AND THEY WON!!!! 130-100, baby! 🦅
Philadelphia is now home to the first unionized Whole Foods Market in the U.S. One down, 500 more to go!
Philadelphia is now home to the first unionized Whole Foods Market in the U.S. One down, 500 more to go!
January 28, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Workers at a Philly Whole Foods have just released the results of their union election—AND THEY WON!!!! 130-100, baby! 🦅
Philadelphia is now home to the first unionized Whole Foods Market in the U.S. One down, 500 more to go!
Philadelphia is now home to the first unionized Whole Foods Market in the U.S. One down, 500 more to go!
i’m so sorry for anyone who doesn’t live in philadelphia
January 27, 2025 at 1:27 AM
i’m so sorry for anyone who doesn’t live in philadelphia
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yeah let’s maybe not give tiktok to this guy
January 26, 2025 at 12:36 AM
yeah let’s maybe not give tiktok to this guy
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The death of a 2-year-old in a Section 8 housing complex in Pittsburgh has called attention to the owner: Vitus, a private equity firm with over 130 properties. Private equity's role in affordable housing subsidized by the government has been underrreported. @mikeelk.bsky.social has the story:
Child Death Sparks Reconsideration of Private Equity–Owned Affordable Housing
A two-year-old died in Section 8 housing in Pittsburgh, in one of over 130 federally subsidized properties owned by private equity firm Vitus.
prospect.org
January 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The death of a 2-year-old in a Section 8 housing complex in Pittsburgh has called attention to the owner: Vitus, a private equity firm with over 130 properties. Private equity's role in affordable housing subsidized by the government has been underrreported. @mikeelk.bsky.social has the story:
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CBP slow-walking and insubordinately undermining Biden vs snapping into action to reverse policy the moment Trump is inaugurated is a good demonstration of how power works in practice and an argument for why DHS needs to be abolished root and stem
The CBP One app, which allows asylum seekers to schedule an appointment at a port of entry, seems to have been shut down, per CBP website.
Migrants waiting in Mexico were worried this was going to happen: www.npr.org/2024/12/19/n...
Migrants waiting in Mexico were worried this was going to happen: www.npr.org/2024/12/19/n...
January 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
CBP slow-walking and insubordinately undermining Biden vs snapping into action to reverse policy the moment Trump is inaugurated is a good demonstration of how power works in practice and an argument for why DHS needs to be abolished root and stem
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The ceasefire being signed on the same day a new YouGov poll shows the number one reason Democrats stayed home in 2024 was Palestine - and that that margin was more than enough to win Harris the election - is a perfect little synecdoche for the last 2 years of this admin.
Epistemically evil.
Epistemically evil.
January 15, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The ceasefire being signed on the same day a new YouGov poll shows the number one reason Democrats stayed home in 2024 was Palestine - and that that margin was more than enough to win Harris the election - is a perfect little synecdoche for the last 2 years of this admin.
Epistemically evil.
Epistemically evil.
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The LA Tenants Union (LATU)'s response to the wildfires shows us the huge value of tenant organizing in the face of climate disasters.
Networks of organized tenants are helping their neighbors, doing mutual aid, enforcing tenant protections, and demanding the policies tenants need to stay safe 🧵
Networks of organized tenants are helping their neighbors, doing mutual aid, enforcing tenant protections, and demanding the policies tenants need to stay safe 🧵
January 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The LA Tenants Union (LATU)'s response to the wildfires shows us the huge value of tenant organizing in the face of climate disasters.
Networks of organized tenants are helping their neighbors, doing mutual aid, enforcing tenant protections, and demanding the policies tenants need to stay safe 🧵
Networks of organized tenants are helping their neighbors, doing mutual aid, enforcing tenant protections, and demanding the policies tenants need to stay safe 🧵
bummed to hear that residents will be displaced from the building they fought to save. it’s incumbent upon PHA to engage in regular communication with tenants so that tenants’ voices can be heard throughout this transition period & so this disruption can be as short & painless as possible
PHA informed residents of Brith Sholom House, who organized to save the building and get the authority to acquire it, that damages are so extensive gut rehab is required. They have to move out.
PHA anticipated repairs of $30-$40 mil. Their new assessment is $112.
www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...
PHA anticipated repairs of $30-$40 mil. Their new assessment is $112.
www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...
PHA will have to relocate residents to repair Brith Sholom House
Tenants at the catastrophically neglected West Philly apartment building will have to move out as PHA repairs the structure, which will require more extensive work than previously thought.
www.inquirer.com
November 26, 2024 at 11:29 PM
bummed to hear that residents will be displaced from the building they fought to save. it’s incumbent upon PHA to engage in regular communication with tenants so that tenants’ voices can be heard throughout this transition period & so this disruption can be as short & painless as possible
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The biggest union of Philadelphia city workers have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike.
Workers in the sanitation, water, housing, and more could now go on strike.
87% of the voting members approved the authorization.
Workers in the sanitation, water, housing, and more could now go on strike.
87% of the voting members approved the authorization.
November 15, 2024 at 3:43 PM
The biggest union of Philadelphia city workers have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike.
Workers in the sanitation, water, housing, and more could now go on strike.
87% of the voting members approved the authorization.
Workers in the sanitation, water, housing, and more could now go on strike.
87% of the voting members approved the authorization.
there’s still too many furries in my feed. is there a way to de-furry my feed
November 14, 2024 at 2:02 PM
there’s still too many furries in my feed. is there a way to de-furry my feed
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Now that folks are finally moving over here, I'm going to start a Philly Bluesky starter pack for folks here who want to find their fav shitposters, local electeds, academics, etc. from the center of the universe on here.
Share and let me know if you'd like to be added!
go.bsky.app/GV68WJR
Share and let me know if you'd like to be added!
go.bsky.app/GV68WJR
November 13, 2024 at 5:08 PM
Now that folks are finally moving over here, I'm going to start a Philly Bluesky starter pack for folks here who want to find their fav shitposters, local electeds, academics, etc. from the center of the universe on here.
Share and let me know if you'd like to be added!
go.bsky.app/GV68WJR
Share and let me know if you'd like to be added!
go.bsky.app/GV68WJR
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ok this time…the 6th time…I’m using it for real
November 14, 2024 at 4:06 AM
ok this time…the 6th time…I’m using it for real