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Kensington’s Càphê Roasters is planning a major expansion, adding evening dining, a brewery, and a lot more seating share.inquirer.com/p67Lbp

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UPDATE: Cody Balmer, 38, of Harrisburg, turned himself in to State Police on Sunday afternoon and admitted to “harboring a hatred” toward Gov. Shapiro, according to the criminal complaint filed Sunday. 🔗 inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...

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I wrote about Chicago's mass transit fiscal cliff and the plans to avoid it. Who should be in charge of a metropolitan transit system, anyway? slate.com/business/202...

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photos of the fire damage: www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...

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The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if other people worked in a factory. www.ft.com/content/8459...

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In case you were wondering

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Russia just killed dozens of Ukrainians in a missile strike on Palm Sunday, a day after Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff met Putin, shook hands and posed for cameras. Witkoff visited an Orthodox Christian cathedral. Today church-goers were targeted. Report w/ @maxseddon.bsky.social on.ft.com/42k2tuc

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Fascinating article with great sourcing from within Tesla about why Musk’s purge of the traffic safety regulator could hurt the company www.ft.com/content/ede5...

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Trump delayed a Biden-era plan to restrict Medicare’s coverage of skin substitutes, which cost $10 billion in 2024. Trump had received a large campaign donation from a leading bandage seller and skewered the plan on social media. By Sarah Kliff and Katie Thomas www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/h...

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Landlords feel they have been taking a LOT of hits in City Council these past few years share.inquirer.com/Er7A9I

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Landlords feel they have been taking a LOT of hits in City Council these past few years share.inquirer.com/Er7A9I

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Nobody likes us. Not even the rats. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipSL...

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I talked with a bunch of real estate industry leaders about how Trump's tariffs, and the erratic nature of his second term in office, are effecting an industry that was already facing immense challenges: share.inquirer.com/fUT70l

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👍 www.ft.com/content/ede5...

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I talked with a bunch of real estate industry leaders about how Trump's tariffs, and the erratic nature of his second term in office, are effecting an industry that was already facing immense challenges: share.inquirer.com/fUT70l

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a delightful Gabfest with @thehighsign.bsky.social & Stephen Metcalf, talking Dying for Sex, Secret Mall Apartment, and Lucy Dacus. Plus: I endorse a Broadway tour de force and a TikTok obsession

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"SEPTA also warns that further cuts — including the elimination of five Regional Rail routes and a 9 p.m. curfew on the El and Broad Street Lines — could happen on Jan. 1 if funding is not secured." www.inquirer.com/transportati...

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“Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative, only learned of Mr. Trump’s decision while defending the original tariffs before a House committee, a person familiar with the situation said.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...

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There's a lot going on the world right now, but here in Philly we never lose sight of what's truly important www.inquirer.com/food/restaur...

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The great Ann Hornaday is back from book leave -- here, reviewing the jarring "Warfare" www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

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“We need to get better at treating this like a business.”

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Trump is playing a game of calendar chicken with New York's congestion pricing program, @emilypont.bsky.social reports:

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👍 www.nytimes.com

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This is a superb, fact-filled FT article on China’s trading profile, its $1 trillion trade surplus, the fact it makes almost 1/3rd of the world’s manufactured goods…more than the US, Japan, Germany and South Korea combined. ig.ft.com/china-trade-...

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Asian grocery stores are a lifeline to the communities they serve. But store owners say the prospect of sweeping tariffs are threatening their ability to stock up on goods and keep prices affordable.

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It's comforting to believe there's grand strategy behind the chaos--that's why people love conspiracy theories!--but it's safer to assume that Trump just is what he looks like: www.ft.com/content/0f3e...

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“I don’t know how to stress this enough,” Katz said. “But we’ve been in business for 100 years. I’ve been involved in running this business for over 45 years, and I’ve never seen anything that affected my business as much as these tariffs.” www.inquirer.com/business/kat...

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thinking about her today www.inquirer.com/business/inq...

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"The federal government is the largest employer in Maryland, and more than 65,000 federal workers live in Prince George’s County, making up 17.4 percent of the county’s total workforce..." www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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After pushback from City Council members and advocates for the cash-strapped transit agency, Managing Director Adam K. Thiel said Wednesday that Parker was reversing course.

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Ace reporting on what “deport all the criminals!!!!” frequently looks like www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...

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The live ticker on WSJ is just wild right now

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Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after US aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said reut.rs/3E9kB27

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Since tariffs, I noticed a surprising trend: elite Trump supporters saying they might have made a mistake. So I asked them what they were thinking, both in November and today. One big takeaway: they thought Elon was actually competent. That error proved catastrophic. www.vox.com/on-the-right...

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this interview with Ryan Coogler is terrific, and love that he shouts out Green Room, a movie i only just saw a couple months back and still haven't gotten over deadline.com/2025/04/ryan...

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a guy walking between train cars while the subway was in motion fell to his death www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

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BREAKING: Supreme Court allows Trump administration to lay off thousands of probationary employees while lower courts consider whether firings are legal. cnn.it/3YnzQLv

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“It’s difficult to overstate how existential the tariffs are for the bicycle industry. Imports account for 97% of the bikes purchased in the United States, of which 87% come from China, making it ‘one of the most import-dependent industries in the U.S.’” heatmap.news/economy/trum...

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“The department is down about 1,200 officers from its full complement of 6,380 — about a 19% vacancy rate department- wide” www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...

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"The last thing the Fed wants to do is to cut rates now, only to see the tariffs watered down or potentially negotiated away, some economists say." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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SCOOP: Jeff Bezos funded a secretive EV startup called Slate Auto based in Michigan, and I've got all the details. It's working on a low-cost EV pickup truck and has attracted investment from the owner of the LA Dodgers. The result of a year-long investigation. techcrunch.com/2025/04/08/i...

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“While in the interrogation room, Makled said, a man in plain clothes entered and began speaking to him. He said he recalls the man telling him: ‘We know you're a lawyer. We know you take on big cases.’”

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! www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

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Sure, the stock market is melting down after the US declared a global trade war. But have you considered that crypto is also melting down? Read more: www.theverge.com/cryptocurren...

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I'm of the mindset that if you reply "paywall" in response to an article, you should be fired into the sun.

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