I wrote about the time that I helped uncover a former Congressman's hare brained voter fraud scheme...and why the SAVE Act would do absolutely nothing to stop it. www.inquirer.com/opinion/elec...

I’ve caught real voter fraud. Trump’s claims about New Jersey don’t come close. | Daniel Pearson

Before joining The Inquirer, I worked at the Philadelphia City Commissioners investigating voting irregularities. Mistakes happen — but they’re usually found and fixed, despite the president’s claims.

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Minding my business on the Broad-Erie platform recently with daughter (10) on the way to the Phillies, and old head looked me right in the eyes and gave me a half smile while puffing on a dutchie. Thanks @dpearsonphl.bsky.social for calling this shit out. www.inquirer.com/opinion/adam...

Despite good intentions from the city, Philly’s streets remain deadlier than those in New York and Chicago | Shackamaxon

Plus: The mayor loses two key staffers, smoking on SEPTA is ubiquitous, and the Sixers welcome the King.

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"Our traffic fatality rate of 9.04 deaths per 100,000 residents is triple New York’s 2.86 and roughly double Washington’s 4.73. The next closest city, Chicago, came in at 7.15." www.inquirer.com/opinion/adam...

Despite good intentions from the city, Philly’s streets remain deadlier than those in New York and Chicago | Shackamaxon

Plus: The mayor loses two key staffers, smoking on SEPTA is ubiquitous, and the Sixers welcome the King.

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It is easy to complain about the PPA, but the city's motorists have brought the recent surge in camera-enforcement upon themselves. The city's roads are simply too dangerous to consider reversing course. www.inquirer.com/opinion/adam...

Despite good intentions from the city, Philly’s streets remain deadlier than those in New York and Chicago | Shackamaxon

Plus: The mayor loses two key staffers, smoking on SEPTA is ubiquitous, and the Sixers welcome the King.

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@iancoss.bsky.social's Highway Teardown Tour came to Philadelphia for an episode on I-95 with @ingasaffron.bsky.social, @dpearsonphl.bsky.social, and Leslie Richards--it's a great listen: www.wgbh.org/podcasts/big...

Highway Teardown Tour | 9. Philadelphia, PA

Even as cities try to heal the damage of the interstate era, we are also continuing to expand our urban highways, continuing to turn parks and neighborhoods into new lanes and new off-ramps. So why is...

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I think what most people miss is that transit safety is a function of how well your city handles first-order safety & behavior. The lazy ones will push the problem onto transit property to make it not their problem anymore!

ex-Lethality Jane@lethalityjane.bsky.social · 3w ago

I think you're going to have a difficult time convincing families with young children to give up car culture and take more public transit if you also refuse to police behavior on the public transit and in the transit centers. Yes, people doing drugs in those places is a turn-off.

It is good that see challengers to the city's incumbents. But what, exactly, do these folks plan to do with power once they get it? And why are they trying to get rid of Mark Squilla, one of the best members of City Council? www.inquirer.com/opinion/chri...

Progressive candidates line up to challenge Council incumbents | Shackamaxon

Plus: Self-driving cars come to Philly, and the city shines as a host during America’s 250th birthday year.

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Here's a New York city councilmember threatening to get a bunch of grad students in trouble with the university administration because he doesn't like the recommendations in their research project. Wildly inappropriate IMO and CUNY should tell him to pound sand.

Out on a run and came across a couple having a break up. The woman yelled that the guy cared more about “his YouTube videos” than her. Fully expected it to be some Andrew Tate shit until he sheepishly said “trains mean so much to me but you’ve never understood that”

68,000 people at the World Cup match. These are the parking lots. It's magic!

I do not agree with this AT ALL! American wages are extremely high. It’s a lot more realistic to bring the price of transportation down from $12,000/year to $5,000/year and rent down from $2,000/mo. to $1,500/mo. than it is to bring a medical assistant’s salary up from $55,000 to $75,000

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The dirty secret of modern progressive politics is that the abandoned viewpoint of “workers should be paid generously for their labor” is the true progressive position, while “affordability” is a slopulist slogan that promises more consumer consumption to the most consumerist society in history

Public transit funding is a statewide need. In all 67 counties people depend on it to get to work, the doctor and so much more. www.goerie.com/story/news/p...

How does the Pa. budget serve public transit outside big-city hubs?

Most Pennsylvania transit systems aren’t in the state's two biggest cities. This is how the state budget touches them.

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Graham Platner is an abusive weirdo who knowingly kept a Nazi tattoo for years and has never succeeded at anything in his life. What if that's what voters want right now?

Please do not say the sentence "kids don't want to feel the adult behind the book" but also yes they fucking do. One of the best parts of being a kid is reading a book that is just out of your grasp of maturity. Feeling like you're getting an early preview of the world.

Luke O'Neil@lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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This should be a warning for the Spanish left: build more housing or the right will rise and shut down immigration for you too www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It's funny how we can prop up transit and make quick investments when it involves sports on a world stage... I wish we cared enough about regular people in this country to make transit this good for communities all the time. www.npr.org/2026/05/20/n...

To host the World Cup, Kansas City built a whole new transit system

Kansas City, the smallest World Cup host city, is preparing for residents to be outnumbered by visitors this June. Efforts to actually get fans to the stadium outside the city meant existing public tr...

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I have an exciting Friday afternoon announcement: @willskud.bsky.social has joined the Center for Building in North America has a policy analyst! Among other things, he'll be staying on top of the reform tracker better than I ever did, and has already added a ton to it centerforbuilding.org/trackers

Reform Trackers — Center for Building in North America

Track building code reform progress across North America with our interactive map and list views.

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JLG's social housing plan — a mandate for 1/3 extremely low income, 1/3 very low income and 1/3 market-rate, with ground-floor retail going to progressive-aligned options like daycare — would likely mean zero housing being built. My understanding is this couldn't pencil anywhere in the DMV.

Why can a normal car even reach 137 mph? I'm not a car guy, so maybe there's a mechanical reason I don't understand. But I feel like car speeds should be capped for safety similar to how water heating systems cap temperatures for safety.

NFL Daily News@insidenflnews.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Eagles EDGE Nolan Smith arrested last Friday for allegedly driving 137 mph in a 70 mph zone. He was charged with speeding and reckless driving.

Question for transit operations nerds Septa is running 30 minutes headways for their overnight service during the summer. They are also shrinking the footprint. Wouldn't this combination lead to a bunch of wasted time at each terminal?

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Gov. Josh Shapiro’s energy proposal may just make data centers popular | Shackamaxon

Plus: Parents push to ditch digital and go cursive, and City Councilmember Jamie Gauthier's change of heart on councilmanic prerogative.

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this is like the slopulist avengers, never seen the most annoying posters all unite behind a single candidate like this before. and completely unsurprising that it’s a doomed spoiler bid for a fellow think tank guy

The NYPD will double the number of officers on foot posts this summer — 3,800 car-free beat cops across 40 precincts — evidence that NYPD leadership increasingly sees that putting cops on the beat is more effective than having them driving around.

Can't 'Beat' This: Thousands of Cops Will Be Out Of Cars And On Foot Patrol This Summer - Streetsblog New York City

The NYPD will double the number of officers on foot posts this summer — evidence that the NYPD is starting to see the benefit of cops on the beat and not just driving around.

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“Targeting fossil fuel companies” by…. Giving them yet another subsidy

Lindsay Beyerstein@beyerstein.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Braindead populism:

Telling people, "we're going to have a green energy transition and cheap gas" is the equivalent of posting the "no take, only throw" dog-and-frisbee meme directly into your platform

Lindsay Beyerstein@beyerstein.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Braindead populism:

Cenk doesn't give a fuck about dead Iranians if the Iranian government killed them. He's always been a real piece of shit but it's become even more evident in recent years.

AdotSad@adotsad.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Fuck this guy

People love to say we need a Philly Mamdani, but what we really need is someone like Baltimore's Brandon Scott. Scott skillfully balances accountability for past missteps with a data and research driven vision for Baltimore's future. Must be nice! www.inquirer.com/opinion/city...

Philadelphia City Council could learn a lot from Baltimore and its mayor | Shackamaxon

While some may look to New York, Charm City has much more in common with Philadelphia than the Big Apple.

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If you loved the clip of the Marblehead town meeting guy, here's a great story identifying him and providing some more context. With quotes from @berkie1.bsky.social!

‘Are we kind of being pricks?’: Resident’s question goes viral as Marblehead passes MBTA zoning

Officials advanced a plan centered on a private golf course, shifting density away from neighborhoods after earlier proposals failed at the ballot box.

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Beautiful piece www.inquirer.com/news/street-...

A new dad, a new mom, and a young guy from Southwest Philly picked up brooms in 1991. They never put them down.

A trio of Center City sidewalk sweepers, on the trash beat for 35 years, received a tribute last week.

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in philly, we have literally witnessed the mastery system - once the beacon of charter school success - destroy its own reputation at the behest of this exact set of people in this exact timeframe.