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Philadelphia Inquirer

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LL Cool J, the hip-hop legend who was scheduled to co-headline the Wawa Welcome America concert Friday on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, announced Thursday night that he would not perform while the municipal workers’ strike was ongoing.

LL Cool J pulls out of Wawa Welcome America

“I’m not gonna cross a picket line and perform for money when people are hurting,” the rapper said on Instagram and X.

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July 4, 2025 at 2:40 AM

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Brady Klopfer

@bradyklopfer.bsky.social

11/10 social media work by the Durham Bulls

Tweet from the Durham Bulls that reads "Y'all means all. #PrideNight"

Tweet from a user saying "Please delete," and Durham Bulls responding "No."

Tweet from a user saying, "Actually, no it does not! Stop dividing people." with a response from the Durham Bulls saying, "Inclusion's actually the exact opposite of division"

Tweet from someone saying "Maybe don't promote gay sex to children?" with the Durham Bulls responding, "Okay, sexyman159861581242902587231848675309"

June 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM

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Joshua J. Friedman

@joshuajfriedman.com

AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”

The President's disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers.
He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations.
It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.

June 22, 2025 at 2:03 AM

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Cristian Farias

@cristianfarias.com

Truly striking here how the Biden appointees, concurring in one page, assail the Trump judges' 37-page dissent, which does things judges aren't supposed to do in civil cases like this:

Concurrence: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Dissent: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Highlighted portion of concurring opinion by Judge Myrna Perez:

"The dissenting opinion would have us stray far from our proper role as a court of review. Without acknowledging the deferential standard we are duty-bound to apply, the dissenting opinion offers several arguments, many of which were not raised by Defendant to the panel or in his petition for rehearing."

June 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM

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Aaron Parnas

@aaronparnas.bsky.social

BREAKING: Kamala Harris issues statement on Los Angeles.

June 8, 2025 at 11:33 PM

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Prem Thakker ツ

@premthakker.bsky.social

Plainclothes agents. Trying to question elementary-aged kids. And lying that they had parents permission to do so.

April 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM

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Lindsey Boylan

@lindseyboylan.bsky.social

Good morning. Monday morning. In a rank choice voting system you need to rank five good apples for mayor in addition to NOT ranking Cuomo and NOT ranking Adams.

Please help spread the word! Share share share!!!! Copy and redo in your own words if you prefer!

March 31, 2025 at 11:11 AM

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Adam Weinstein

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Was just reading John Quincy Adams' oral arguments before SCOTUS in the Amistad case and this part seems, uh, pretty relevant

A portion of John Quincy Adams' Amistad argument before SCOTUS: "I will not recur to the Declaration of Independence--your Honors have it implanted in your hearts--but one of the grievous charges brought against George III. was, that he had made laws for sending men beyond seas for trial. That was one of the most odious of those acts of tyranny which occasioned the American revolution. The whole of the reasoning is not applicable to this case, but I submit to your Honors that, if the President has the power to do it in the case of Africans, and send them beyond seas for trial, he could do it by the same authority in the case of American citizens. By a simple order to the marshal of the district, he could just as well seize forty citizens of the United States, on the demand of a foreign minister, and send them beyond seas for trial before a foreign court."

March 26, 2025 at 3:29 AM

Neo’s Ghost

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I can’t tell if they just never read 1984 or misunderstood it as a blueprint as to how to run a government.

Radio Free America @radiofreeameri.ca · Mar 16

Kellyanne Conway: 'Consumer Confidence Is Going Up. Everything Is Turning Up Trump.'

Sorry ConJob, but consumer confidence is at its lowest point since November of 2022.

crooksandliars.com

March 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM

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American Library Association

@amlibraryassoc.bsky.social

🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.

Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.

Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Show Up For Our Libraries! By eliminating the only federal agency dedicated to funding library services, the Trump administration's Executive Order is cutting off at the knees the most beloved and trusted of American institutions and the staff and services they offer. ALA American Library Association. #ForOurLibraries

March 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM

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Michael Li (李之樸)

@mcpli.bsky.social

On X, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says he will host town halls in the districts of Republican members who refuse to do so.

Post on X by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

Text:

“That’s a shame. If your Republican representative won’t meet with you because their agenda is so unpopular, maybe a Democrat will.

Hell, maybe I will. If your congressman refuses to meet, I’ll come host an event in their district to help local Democrats beat ‘em.”

March 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM

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Larry Glickman

@larryglickman.bsky.social

Looks like the Trump administration and the GOP is attempting a real-world test of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's prediction in his November 8, 1954 letter to his brother, Edwin.

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you could not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group of course that believe you can do these tings...Their number is neglible and they are stupid.

March 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM

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Jen Bendery

@jbendery.bsky.social

If you are a federal Education Dept employee and have details to share about DOGE folks apparently being on the 6th floor, canceling programs + contracts, my line is open to you.

On Signal: jbendery.41

Email: jbendery@proton.me

Don't use a govt phone or computer for this. 🙏

February 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM

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Ezra Levin ❌👑

@ezralevin.bsky.social

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

February 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM

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Jessica Valenti

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The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.

I'm trying to save them.

You can find the deleted docs at cdcguidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.