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Police officer in Vermont who struck and killed a bicyclist with his vehicle had a Matt Walsh anti-trans youtube video playing on his tablet at the time of the crash. vtdigger.org/2025/03/07/s...

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A group of labor unions are asking a federal court for an emergency order to stop Elon Musk ‘s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing the sensitive Social Security data of millions of Americans www.thebaltimorebanner.com/national/elo...

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US DOT Secretary Sean Duffy pens a letter to DC Mayor Bowser apparently asking her to "address" murals within the road right of way, seemingly on the basis of the claim that these murals are causing pedestrian safety problems [there is no evidence for that claim]. ops.fhwa.dot.gov/memorandum/D...

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The stupidity… “photos seemed to be flagged for removal simply because their file included the word ”gay,” including service members with that last name and an image of the B-29 Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II” apnews.com/article/dei-...

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Supporting Putin over Ukraine is a position with single digit support limited to the most fringe of far-right freaks, and it is the official policy of the United States because that's who controls the government.

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So many of these jewishinsider.com/2025/03/pent...

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I spent yesterday afternoon trying to figure out why the Trump administration wants to sell off a bunch of federal buildings in Philly--and then they took the whole list down today without warning. www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...

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Nothing to see here. Just your regular North American monster intersection as presented in a NACTO/APTA BRT design guidebook. nacto.org/wp-content/u...

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This is much too self-congratulatory for an agency that stranded the hundreds of thousands of riders who rely on them to get places that aren't a parade. This level of service reduction is not how they do things elsewhere. www.inquirer.com/transportati...

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Rochelle Bilal's incompetence is going to get people killed. www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

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Mayor Parker will never achieve her goal of 10,000 homes if she has people who oppose market-rate development in the committee drafting the plan. Unless she plans to borrow billions of dollars to build it all herself.

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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Newly minted U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan swore he wouldn’t support gutting government benefits such as Medicaid that residents of his northeastern Pennsylvania district rely on. Then the first-term Republican voted for a bill that could do just that. apnews.com/article/cong...

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The dummies occupying the WH don’t know that the Constitution was also translated into Dutch and German so that everyone involved in the ratification debate could read it.

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No one wants a paper trail because spending funds Congress has not appropriated is colloquially known as “stealing from the US Treasury.”

submitted 7 days ago • 160 comments

If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company. It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create. They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms. I’m happy to invest and/or help

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It is kind of wild that Philadelphia is the only major city to have this, and yet we operate it at only a small fraction of its potential. Some of the obstacles are much easier lifts than building the tunnel was.

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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

submitted 8 days ago • 3344 comments

Last day of Black History Month! 🚀 Guion Bluford (born November 22, 1942, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.) is an astronaut who was the first African American launched into space.

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huh weird!

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It's more than a little bizarre that the press was more vocal and judgmental about Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal than the current unscheduled rapid disassembly of our entire democracy and civil service.

submitted 9 days ago • 108 comments

What a world.

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Philadelphia is finally taking steps towards school zone speed cameras thanks to @cmthomasphl.bsky.social This legislation will undoubtedly prevent crashes and save lives.

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BREAKING The SEC has just halted its fraud prosecution of Justin Sun, a Chinese national who has put more than $50 million in Trump's pocket since November through the purchase of crypto tokens from a Trump-backed company, World Liberty Financial.

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If Congress follows through with plans to dramatically reduce Section 8 housing vouchers, then we will see that eviction tsunami after all. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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People’s reactions to these stories tend to be of the leopards-eating-faces variety but this is a great piece of reporting in part about how voters very disconnected from politics make their choices. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Drivers typically crash into pedestrians who are similar to them in ethnicity and income -- with one big exception: Wealthy drivers often hit low-income pedestrians. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

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This is really funny because after congestion pricing launched and the haters were instantly proved wrong — traffic really did go down, transit use really did go up — they clung to "well let's see the business receipts!" as a last resort. And now we know business receipts are through the roof!

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Taney signs have been replaced with LeCount signs. Taney was the Supreme Court justice that authored the Dred Scott decision which denied the rights of citizenship to people of African descent. Taney’s own family testified in support of the name change. The street now honors Caroline LeCount. 1/

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This man is barely even a formal government employee, let alone elected or Senate-confirmed. A total failure of the Constitutional order, just broadcast & normalized by every major media outlet.

submitted 11 days ago • 175 comments

It is sad that it has come to this. www.inquirer.com/transportati...?

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