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this is absolutely insane not to mention insanely expensive. the mayor needs to settle a deal with district council 33 today inquirer.com/news/philadelp…

look at my governor dawg i'm getting my bus route cut

🚨 🚨🚨 “Nearly one in three people are going multiple days without eating, according to the United Nations” “In a video filmed Tuesday inside Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, families fretted over babies with distended bellies and tiny fists that they clenched as they cried.”…

the arc of American history is long but it bends, confusingly, towards Donald Trump getting shot and killed for being a pedophile by a guy who voted for him to stop the pedophiles and who is, himself, a pedophile

Pretty women love New Jersey because New Jersey loves pretty women. You can feel it in every interaction

They got in there and decided they absolutely needed to pass the Fucking Kill Yourself If You Make Less Than $200,000 A Year Act, give foreign policy to Miriam Adelson, and then pivot to “look, the president PROBABLY committed sex crimes, but is that the worst thing?”

Changes to student loans in the GOP megabill have been woefully underdiscussed. It will be nearly impossible to get a graduate education in the short term without personal wealth or a private loan. Students are essentially paying for tax cuts for the rich. Here's @rkuttnerwrites:

The idea that Republicans cleverly delayed all the pain in the megabill until after the election is untrue. As @whitneycwimbish shows, 1/3 of the Medicaid cuts are in place today. Several hospitals have closed programs, cut staff, or shut down. Important story (link below):

exactly !!!

if you’re 30 in philly you are basically 30

So just so it gets said... Parker admin is borrowing $800m to build new 'affordable' housing that is mostly targeted at 80%AMI and preserve existing housing targeted at 50% AMI but refuses to pay sanitation workers salaries above 40% AMI

NEW: 47 music entertainment/restaurant workers for World Cafe Live in Philly are unionizing with @unitehere.

I will never forget the way our “pro-union” Democrat mayor used lawfare, intimidation, and a disgustingly cynical PR campaign to bully and break down some of the most essential and underpaid workers in Philadelphia—and nobody else should either.

This sucks:

“The strike is over, and nobody's happy," a dejected Boulware said in an interview as he exited negotiations. "We felt our clock was running out." inquirer.com/politics/phila…

Haven't read or heard anything yet about why they thought this

Wow that’s so weird. I wonder if it’s related to why they went on strike

please donate to the dc 33 member who was hit and seriously injured by a drunk driver when he was on the picket line. any amount helps gofundme.com/f/tyree-ford-p…

Yes there’s a lot of (terrible and important!) national news right now, but compare the amount of ink spilled on a NYC mayoral candidate’s college application versus a strike of over 9,000 predominantly Black union workers struggling to survive in another major East Coast city

the public has no obligation to participate in strikes!