Pat Fitzgerald
@patfitzgerald.bsky.social
Managing editor at Booz Allen Hamilton. Former
@WSJ reporter and editor. Sour Jazz. Martin's Folly, etc. Not the coach, the punk poet, or the prosecutor.
@WSJ reporter and editor. Sour Jazz. Martin's Folly, etc. Not the coach, the punk poet, or the prosecutor.
Jimmy Kempski deserves a Pulitzer for this - “St. Brown did the ‘Trump dance’ last Sunday against the Commanders. On Sunday night, the Eagles' secondary slapped a tariff on his ass, as he had just 2 catches on 12 targets.”
Handing out 10 awards from the Eagles-Lions game 🥇
www.phillyvoice.com/handing-out-...
www.phillyvoice.com/handing-out-...
Handing out 10 awards from the Eagles-Lions game
The Philadelphia Eagles won another football game on Sunday, this time against the Detroit Lions, but as usual gave their fans plenty to complain about in the process. As always, win, lose, or tie, we...
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November 17, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Jimmy Kempski deserves a Pulitzer for this - “St. Brown did the ‘Trump dance’ last Sunday against the Commanders. On Sunday night, the Eagles' secondary slapped a tariff on his ass, as he had just 2 catches on 12 targets.”
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That was fast:
One week after Trump pardoned Binance founder CZ, & Binance's US subsidiary is promoting trading of a stablecoin issued by Trump's crypto company World Liberty Financial.
One week after Trump pardoned Binance founder CZ, & Binance's US subsidiary is promoting trading of a stablecoin issued by Trump's crypto company World Liberty Financial.
October 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM
That was fast:
One week after Trump pardoned Binance founder CZ, & Binance's US subsidiary is promoting trading of a stablecoin issued by Trump's crypto company World Liberty Financial.
One week after Trump pardoned Binance founder CZ, & Binance's US subsidiary is promoting trading of a stablecoin issued by Trump's crypto company World Liberty Financial.
So last night I clicked a link more or less at random of the JFK document dump. I got a file on Harry Winston, the old CPUSA leader. Kinda interesting, but not what I was looking for.
www.archives.gov/research/jfk...
www.archives.gov/research/jfk...
JFK Assassination Records - 2025 Documents Release
March 18, 2025 Release In accordance with President Donald Trump’s directive of March 17, 2025, all records previously withheld for classification that are part of the President John F. Kennedy Assass...
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March 19, 2025 at 11:42 AM
So last night I clicked a link more or less at random of the JFK document dump. I got a file on Harry Winston, the old CPUSA leader. Kinda interesting, but not what I was looking for.
www.archives.gov/research/jfk...
www.archives.gov/research/jfk...
America Will Lose If the EU and China Become Energy Buddies
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America Will Lose If the EU and China Become Energy Buddies
Fossil exporters’ status will dwindle from the shift to clean power.
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March 19, 2025 at 11:05 AM
America Will Lose If the EU and China Become Energy Buddies
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The warehouse fire in Jenkintown, PA, is still spewing dark smoke. Shot this from my backyard.
February 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The warehouse fire in Jenkintown, PA, is still spewing dark smoke. Shot this from my backyard.
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If, like me, you are confused by how so many people are so invested in the outcome of a football game - a sport that destroys bodies and brains - I would recommend @tmcallister.bsky.social’s “Bury Me In My Jersey: A Memoir of My Father, Football, and Philly.” It’s out of print but not hard to find.
February 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
If, like me, you are confused by how so many people are so invested in the outcome of a football game - a sport that destroys bodies and brains - I would recommend @tmcallister.bsky.social’s “Bury Me In My Jersey: A Memoir of My Father, Football, and Philly.” It’s out of print but not hard to find.
Great read by Ethan Iverson on Slugs, the East Village bar that kept the swing in postbop until the loft era. www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Jazz Off the Record
In the late 1960s, the recording industry lost interest in America’s greatest art form. But in a small, dark club on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, jazz legends were playing the best music you’ve n...
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January 15, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Great read by Ethan Iverson on Slugs, the East Village bar that kept the swing in postbop until the loft era. www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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The best.
Season’s Greetings from CBS in 1966.
Designed by R.O. Blechman and animated by Willis Pyle.
roblechman.com #Christmas
Designed by R.O. Blechman and animated by Willis Pyle.
roblechman.com #Christmas
December 23, 2024 at 3:20 AM
The best.
Klaus-tu barata nikto. Photo: Philly Inquirer
December 20, 2024 at 5:56 PM
Klaus-tu barata nikto. Photo: Philly Inquirer
Baseball knows it has a pitching problem. The question is whether it can solve it. www.inquirer.com/phillies/mlb...
Baseball knows it has a pitching problem. The question is whether it can solve it.
Pitchers are throwing harder than ever. More of them are getting hurt, and the sport is less interesting for all that velocity. Something has to change.
www.inquirer.com
December 19, 2024 at 11:54 AM
Baseball knows it has a pitching problem. The question is whether it can solve it. www.inquirer.com/phillies/mlb...
Great reporting. We wrote about Endo considering bankruptcy in 2019. They said they weren't, but that's hard to square with Project Zed. www.wsj.com/articles/dru...
December 17, 2024 at 12:26 PM
Great reporting. We wrote about Endo considering bankruptcy in 2019. They said they weren't, but that's hard to square with Project Zed. www.wsj.com/articles/dru...
Fantastic story on an underreported, forgotten war. @radiowarnerd.bsky.social
Ethiopia’s Agony: ‘I Have Never Seen This Kind of Cruelty in My Life’
A rare look inside a region still reckoning with the toll of war crimes, even as new conflicts roil the nation.
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December 8, 2024 at 11:46 AM
Fantastic story on an underreported, forgotten war. @radiowarnerd.bsky.social
I’m late to the party on this one, but this is the funniest book review I’ve read in years. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/0...
Review | How to be a man? Josh Hawley has the (incoherent) answers.
In “Manhood,” the senator joins a long tradition of those who bemoan masculinity’s endangerment and offer advice for saving it.
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December 4, 2024 at 12:46 PM
I’m late to the party on this one, but this is the funniest book review I’ve read in years. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/0...
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Specifically it seems Patel’s shirts are made at the CODEVI “free trade zone” on the DR/Haiti border at Ouaniminthe, in a factory that steals and pollutes farmland and keeps firing its exploited workers when they try to unionize.
Kash Patel apparently runs a "America First" clothing line.
"Tired of seeing your money go overseas?" reads a product page. "Support your fellow Americans by purchasing a Protect Our People t-shirt."
Shirt appears to be made on Next Level blanks ... which are made in Central America and Haiti.
"Tired of seeing your money go overseas?" reads a product page. "Support your fellow Americans by purchasing a Protect Our People t-shirt."
Shirt appears to be made on Next Level blanks ... which are made in Central America and Haiti.
December 3, 2024 at 6:50 AM
Specifically it seems Patel’s shirts are made at the CODEVI “free trade zone” on the DR/Haiti border at Ouaniminthe, in a factory that steals and pollutes farmland and keeps firing its exploited workers when they try to unionize.
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Here’s one of the dozens of incidents that happened there in recent years dr1.com/news/2023/06...
Codevi on the border is being sued for compensation for the death of two Haitian Workers
On 15 June, a dozen workers were injured on that Thursday workday and there were many material damages. At the time, Haiti Libre reported gunshots, scenes of looting, the burning of the facilities of a Codevi plastic recycling plant, the destruction of a vehicle sowed panic among Codevi workers.
dr1.com
December 3, 2024 at 6:52 AM
Here’s one of the dozens of incidents that happened there in recent years dr1.com/news/2023/06...
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Trump Picks Key Figure in Project 2025 for Powerful Budget Role
Russ Vought has spent years building plans to rework the US structure of government in ways that would enhance presidential power.
(gift link)
w/ @maggiehaberman.bsky.social & Jonathan Swan
nyti.ms/497Vsjd
Russ Vought has spent years building plans to rework the US structure of government in ways that would enhance presidential power.
(gift link)
w/ @maggiehaberman.bsky.social & Jonathan Swan
nyti.ms/497Vsjd
Trump Picks Russell Vought, Key Figure in Project 2025, to Lead OMB
Russell Vought, who would lead the Office of Management and Budget, has spent years building plans to rework the American structure of government in ways that would enhance presidential power.
nyti.ms
November 23, 2024 at 12:17 AM
Trump Picks Key Figure in Project 2025 for Powerful Budget Role
Russ Vought has spent years building plans to rework the US structure of government in ways that would enhance presidential power.
(gift link)
w/ @maggiehaberman.bsky.social & Jonathan Swan
nyti.ms/497Vsjd
Russ Vought has spent years building plans to rework the US structure of government in ways that would enhance presidential power.
(gift link)
w/ @maggiehaberman.bsky.social & Jonathan Swan
nyti.ms/497Vsjd
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Love this: “Slone, Denning, Dixon, and other boxers…would go running at 5 a.m. North Philadelphia was not the safest place for a group of teenagers to be at that hour, so Frazier would drive behind them in his white Cadillac, with his windows rolled down, as he played Bobby Womack on the stereo.”
Joe Frazier's gym was once a sanctuary. Now, it's in danger of demolition.
Since 2022, it's sat vacant. It's failed multiple city inspections and was recently deemed "unsafe."
If it becomes "imminently dangerous," the city can tear it down — despite landmark status
www.inquirer.com/sports/a/joe...
Since 2022, it's sat vacant. It's failed multiple city inspections and was recently deemed "unsafe."
If it becomes "imminently dangerous," the city can tear it down — despite landmark status
www.inquirer.com/sports/a/joe...
Joe Frazier’s gym, once a historic boxing sanctuary, crumbles with an uncertain fate
If the gym on North Broad Street continues to deteriorate to the point where it is deemed “imminently dangerous,” the City of Philadelphia can step in and tear it down — despite its landmark status.
www.inquirer.com
November 21, 2024 at 12:00 PM
Love this: “Slone, Denning, Dixon, and other boxers…would go running at 5 a.m. North Philadelphia was not the safest place for a group of teenagers to be at that hour, so Frazier would drive behind them in his white Cadillac, with his windows rolled down, as he played Bobby Womack on the stereo.”
Great read on Joe Frazier’s old North Philly gym and the kids he trained who want to save it. www.inquirer.com/sports/a/joe...
Joe Frazier’s gym, once a historic boxing sanctuary, crumbles with an uncertain fate
If the gym on North Broad Street continues to deteriorate to the point where it is deemed “imminently dangerous,” the City of Philadelphia can step in and tear it down — despite its landmark status.
www.inquirer.com
November 20, 2024 at 11:52 AM
Great read on Joe Frazier’s old North Philly gym and the kids he trained who want to save it. www.inquirer.com/sports/a/joe...
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A SpaceX Starship rocket splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico after the company aborted a second attempt to “catch” the returning booster at the launch pad — a disappointing outcome to a test mission observed by Donald Trump, who traveled to Texas to watch.
As Trump, Elon Musk watch, SpaceX aborts Starship booster grab
The Starship program promises to help SpaceX, which has launched an unprecedented number of rockets, remain ahead of its rivals for government business.
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November 19, 2024 at 10:45 PM
A SpaceX Starship rocket splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico after the company aborted a second attempt to “catch” the returning booster at the launch pad — a disappointing outcome to a test mission observed by Donald Trump, who traveled to Texas to watch.
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Also I'm sorry but what the fuck
November 19, 2024 at 3:42 PM
Also I'm sorry but what the fuck
Geno Smith! How can you not root for the guy.
November 18, 2024 at 12:05 AM
Geno Smith! How can you not root for the guy.
Wasn’t this a Ken Loach movie a few years ago?
American brands routinely use staffing agencies to find workers for warehouses and factories. Some of those agencies exploit undocumented migrants, sometimes with impunity, to fuel America’s on-demand economy, a New York Times investigation found.
The Middlemen Linking Migrants in the U.S. to Your Shopping Cart
The incoming Trump administration promises an immigration crackdown. But for years, the on-demand economy has been fueled by unscrupulous staffing agencies exploiting migrant workers.
nyti.ms
November 17, 2024 at 8:24 PM
Wasn’t this a Ken Loach movie a few years ago?
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Everyone has a plan until they’re 58 years old
November 16, 2024 at 12:13 PM
Everyone has a plan until they’re 58 years old
You only get this kind of original reporting by investing in it. Kudos ProPublica. www.propublica.org/article/insi...
Inside Ziklag, the Secret Organization of Wealthy Christians Trying to Sway the Election and Change the Country
The little-known charity is backed by famous conservative donors, including the families behind Hobby Lobby and Uline. It’s spending millions to make a big political push for this election — but it ma...
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July 13, 2024 at 12:48 PM
You only get this kind of original reporting by investing in it. Kudos ProPublica. www.propublica.org/article/insi...