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Delaware Valley expat in DC. Philly sports, DC politics, the weather, and other general insanity. Basically your 11pm newscast if it was insane. https://linktr.ee/greggadren Planning as if the future mattered.
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it is illegal to wear the wrong gender trump scent

An important correction in the NYT, to a chart that was shared a lot in recent days & that I shared myself, shows they'd made a mistake with the 18-24 year old turnout, and so it's not the case that age group outvoted all others. Still: nothing to sneeze at here, still a huge surge in youth vote.

Why is the dog not part of the HR celebration?!

it is extremely funny that Bill Kristol is to the left of Fetterman not just on, e.g., trans issues, but also Iran

correction by the nyt, their widely circulated graph about 18-24 being the age range with most voters in the nyc primary is wrong major fuck-up

I feel like this is a massive fuckup even by NYT standards

Arendt says you know you're in a police state if facing criminal charges makes you safer. "Only as an offender against the law can he gain protection from it. As long as his trial and his sentence last, he will be safe from that arbitrary police rule against which there are no lawyers & no appeals."

A warm welcome for the newest member of our clubhouse ❤️

TIRED: “learn to code!” WIRED:

The Trump admin in a nutshell; in order to justify their own mistake, they’re going to release a violent felon with five deportations so he can testify against the guy with no criminal record they mistakenly deported. In other words, the story is always more important than the principle.

Lightning sparked wildfires in the Northwest Territories: "…including one wildfire – named EV014 – some 40 km north of Inuvik, about as far north on the territorial mainland as such a fire has ever been recorded." #ntwx #Canada #Wildfire2025 cabinradio.ca/245848/news/...

Mr. Mamdani do you condemn that U2 album they downloaded onto everyone's iPhone back in 2014

Pretty hilarious that the Trump White House chose to confirm this story.

There's a reason that Cascadia is one of the scenarios most often cited as the thing that keeps emergency managers up at night. We know it is going to happen and we know that we are not nearly as prepared as we could be because elected officials haven't directed enough resources to doing so.

If you have a mortgage, and you are making a household budget for the next few years, you can’t pretend you don’t have to make more mortgage payments just because it’s your current policy to make mortgage payments.

The Mets are 3-13 in their last 16 games:

series win

My hot take on Jeff Bezos' wedding: That $50 million price tag is double what the US government was spending annually on food and medicine for 5 million AIDS orphans before the Trump administration canceled it. We are literally letting orphans die rather than make this guy pay taxes.

Phillies don't deserve Ranger.

Uh, the timing on this is intriguing. Is he going to buck the One Big Jonestown Bill?

The US is becoming to akin to apartheid-era South Africa, where racialized groups needed a "passbook" to travel from one part of the country to the other. Who brings a passsport with them when they are traveling domestically?

How was Joe Biden forced out of a presidential race for a disastrous debate and for looking frail and for confusing names, but this man, one of the most ignorant men to ever be elected to any office, allowed to continue on as president and treated as a normal, serious leader??

Exactly, once due process and habeas corpus are out the window, citizenship doesn't matter. All they have to do now is ACCUSE you of being here illegally, and they can arrest and disappear you for good. If proof of citizenship emerges retroactively, well. They can't tell El Salvador what to do

“ICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is

I have literally never seen a graph like this once in all my years of being an election sicko 18-24 always lags, always, it’s just a natural law of politics and this is the guy they want to throw out of the party?!

If you’re waiting for a republican to do the right thing you’ve already lost

It’s been nearly two hours, and the vote remains open.

He looks like Paul Shaffer getting ready to do a special episode of The Late Show

It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

We need an opt-out because his existence violates my child's religious beliefs. See how quickly untenable this gets?

Every single picture of Peter Thiel makes him look like the guy in a zombie film who's hiding that he was bitten.

I feel like I'm losing my mind. Here is the transcript of what Zohran Mamdani actually said about the phrase "globalize the intifada." This is his "refusal to disavow it." This is what has people terrified. Just fucking read it. Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...

In the past month, I've used the transit systems of Boston, New York and Toronto. The experience has made me upset and angry almost to the point of tears because Philadelphia deserves so much better than it has. But we are suffering under the boot of evil hicks and indifferent ghouls in Harrisburg.

You can't make this up.

If you have communists and fascists opposing, you cant be that bad!

On the bright side, how about that Phillies pitching? Cristopher Sánchez today: 6 IP, 5 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 11 K.

i went to high school next to an air force base and for people who hate government-run stuff, every future coal-rolling ding-dong i knew who wasn't in the service wheedled a trip to the commissary or the bx from someone who was every time they needed a lotta meat for the barbecue or got a new tv

80-90% of polled voters say Direct File is a good thing. It is quite literally one of the most popular government programs in America. If Democrats cared more about winning than making their donors happy, they could win 8-10 House seats next year just with ads showing off this tweet.

This is really it. It's got to kill Ritchie Torres that people like him - who rushed behind Cuomo despite his weaknesses - created the conditions for Zohran to win.

Becoming apparent every day how the elites in DC/NY's media/political bubble - drunk on right-wing media fed rhetoric - are completely out of touch with rest of the country on its nuanced perspective on immigration.

Phillies score a run challenge.

the rest of the country will never understand the enduring spirit of philadelphia

Some people think this is an exaggeration but I will say that if I were HHS Secretary and my goal were to kill as many children as possible, it would be difficult to distinguish the actions I would take from those that Kennedy has taken.

Free parking=Abundance Free buses=insanity

After ICE agents enter 2 Diocesan churches, San Bernardino’s Bishop Rojas adamantly speaks out: “Cease these tactics immediately, in favor of an approach that respects human rights.” www.sbsun.com/2025/06/24/a...