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Billy-in-Philly

@billy-in-philly.bsky.social
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PhD in computational neuro-linguistics. Hoya. Science, Literature, Art, Travel. 30+ years Wing Chun. Finally finished Ulysses.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/10/2026
This isn't real
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Flingjore @flingjore.com · 02/10/2026
Judge rules PresidentTrump lacks constitutional authority to fire court-appointed U.S. attorneys. The decision reinstates Seattle prosecutor Roger Rogoff and halts administration efforts to bypass the Senate confirmation process with political loyalists.
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Judge rules Trump can’t fire court-appointed prosecutors
The ruling is a major loss for Trump’s effort to install loyalists in key positions.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The former head of Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee alleged that Vladimir Putin possesses a comprehensive kompromat file on Donald J. Trump. He didn’t suggest it. He stated it. The file, he said, is extensive, meticulously documented, and designed not to destroy Trump — but to control him.
According to Mussayev, the kompromat includes financial records showing illicit transactions connected to accounts either owned by Trump or clearly affiliated with his name. It also contains statements from operatives who were directly involved in kompromat operations — individuals who could, if necessary, provide witness testimony confirming the authenticity and intent behind the material. Most damning of all, he claims, are the recordings: audio and video documentation of sexual crimes against minors and acts of violence against women.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In other words, the stuff’s about to hit the fan. They have no idea. MAGA Cult Slayer 😎
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René Bugner @renebugner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ex-NFL Spieler Levi Wallace in seinem Brief an seinen Körper. __________________ PS: Ihr könnt den kompletten Text (kostenlos) bei The Athletic lesen: www.nytimes.com/athletic/764...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Stephanie Farr @farfarraway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I've always been captivated by the "Freedom" sculpture on Vine St., of a figure breaking free of a wall in 4 stages, with the final figure on the sidewalk, arms outstretched and faced lifted. I think it makes our city more interesting, which is the most any of us who love Philly can hope to do. 🧵1/3
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 28/09/2026
@susanrinkunas.com and I have been working on this story for months. It was supposed to publish later this week, but that's news! Despite Bailey's resignation, it's still very relevant. Read to learn about how the Trump admin could use criminal investigations to attack abortion access:
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER caught a career break when LUCILLE BALL gave him a part in ‘Happy Anniversary And Goodbye’ (1974). This led to Bob Rafelson offering him the part that got his Movie career going in ‘Stay Hungry’ (1976) - which earnt him a Golden Globe Award and put him on the Hollywood map.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A constant drip
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Billy-in-Philly @billy-in-philly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
@kevingandrade.bsky.social “Despite dangerous conditions, surfers still paddled out at Green Hill Beach in South Kingstown, R.I.”. As a lifelong surfer, my first thought was “of course they did“. :-)  www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09...
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Update from Kevin G. Andrade
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens — the latest snafu in the department’s attempts to uncover illegal voters across the country. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DHS noncitizen voter claims unravel in Nevada as state confirms flagged voters are citizens
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Remember this? Who’s the stupid one now?
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Billy-in-Philly @billy-in-philly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@devonivie.bsky.social Absolutely a wizard. A true star. Thank you for this piece. apple.news/AtQKnT2jGR6-...
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The Wizard of Rock Would Like a Word — New York Magazine
“The biggest artists in the world are female artists at this point,” Todd Rundgren observes, “and that’s because of video games.”
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Resistenza @resistenza.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
More corruption.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Holy crap. Susan Collins is finished. What a corrupt POS. I hope she goes to prison for this. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
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Kate @gaylekate.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🤔🤔🤔 "THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE I'M BEING AFFECTED BY SOMETHING..." THE AVATAR OF A TEXAS CONSERVATIVE: YEAH, THAT GUY youtube.com/shorts/o2Mdq...
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Republicans are having their FAFO moment. #shorts
YouTube video by Jess Craven 101
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Around 1600 BC, the horse-drawn chariot was introduced to Egypt, from where it spread southward to the kingdom of Kerma (Kush in Sudan) and westward across the Sahara, reaching as far as modern Mauritania www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-wheel-...
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The Wheel in the Ancient Sahara: Africa’s Forgotten Chariots
The Sahara is one of the most dynamic zones of interaction in human history.
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Rita McRedLight @ritamcredlight.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Racisim and White supremacy are the driver of this backlash for Obama which mirrors previous backlashes like segregation, the KKK and Jim Crow laws after the Civil War. The Southern Strategy and War on Drugs after the Civil Rights Act. This time they picked the dumbest m*f* on the planet.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The press ban is real and it's illegal and three newsrooms have lawyers on it already. The story that will actually cost votes ran on the AP wire this morning and vanished by lunch. www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/09/2026
Former special counsel Robert Mueller was asked if Russia is still interfering in our elections. He responded “They’re doing it as we sit here” during his 2019 congressional testimony.
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David Folkenflik @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Rose was a gem We miss her already www.npr.org/2026/09/18/n...
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Editor Rose Friedman, who helped shape NPR's cultural coverage, dies at 38
Friedman was in her early 20s when she landed her first position as an editorial assistant at NPR. She became an editor and reporter, and a co-creator of the annual Books We Love reading guide.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 19/09/2026
LIVE from the Kennedy Center! We’re just getting started. Join our live coverage so you don’t miss a thing: open.substack.com/live-stream/...
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Andy “voice of Brak” Merrill. 🎅🏻🤡🐒💩 @amerrill2.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
@svengoolieofficial.bsky.social did a lovely tribute back in the day. youtu.be/oE1WczlyQus?...
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Svengoolie's tribute to C. Martin Croker
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Look at the community notes on this one. 👇
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Shefali Luthra @shefali.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Big news: The family of Tierra Walker, who died after she couldn't get an abortion, is suing a slate of Texas actors in state court, including AG Ken Paxton. They say the state ban is unconstitutional. This is the first suit of its kind. 19thnews.org/2026/09/texa...
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Tierra Walker died after she couldn’t get an abortion. Her family is suing Ken Paxton
The case, filed Tuesday, argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. Constitutions, which “prohibit state actors from killing their citizens.”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Imagine a Vice President of the United States getting a fact-check Community Note that the heckler was right and you are lying. These people just can’t stop lying.
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Count Avi Henriques 🩸 @legalizegoblins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In honor of Macklemore being a mensch, let's revisit Thrift Shop. Not only is this song hilarious, it has the most banging sax hook in modern history. And it captures Seattle culture in a nutshell. We are thrift store FIENDS. I wore 90% of my wardrobe from thrift stores in HS and looked amazing.
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MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS - THRIFT SHOP FEAT. WANZ (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
YouTube video by Macklemore
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Exceptional journalism from @newyorker.com on Jared Kushner's catastrophic diplomacy, conflicts of interest, arrogance. He represents "a new kind of Washington figure, for whom public office serves as a means to extraordinary wealth" www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Jared Kushner’s Dollar Diplomacy
Jared Kushner represents the kind of Washington figure for whom public office serves as a means to extraordinary wealth.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
😂 🤣 😂
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Agents of the Department of Homeland Security have been ordered to unlawfully access state voting records to carry out the department’s escalating elections-related probes, an anonymous federal whistleblower recently disclosed to Sen. Alex Padilla. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Homeland Security officers are illegally accessing state voter data, new whistleblower alleges
The searches likely resulted in "thousands of violations of state laws," Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In a recent declaration, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) told a federal judge that, during the week of Sept. 6, it expected to launch an online portal that’s crucial to enforcing and complying with its new mail voting restrictions. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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In ominous sign, USPS initially rejected Florida county’s mail ballot over spacing issue
Read more here.
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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A very informative post by Brian Curtice digging into the Academy of Natural Sciences’ financials. Mostly confirms what we’ve been assuming, but backed up with actual numbers: www.fossilcrates.com/blogs/news/a...
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The Academy of Natural Sciences - A Financial Peek
The Financials Behind Why It Could Not Be SavedThe death spiral and the arithmetic of resurrection of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia  Quick Background I study sauropod dinosaurs, most...
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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Lawyers for a witness to the killing of Alex Pretti confirmed she has given an interview to the feds. She witnessed Pretti murdered. Negotiations for the interview were in the works for weeks as she secured immunity so she could testify freely & without retribution as the probe is underway.
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She Watched Agents Kill Alex Pretti From The Backseat Of An ICE Vehicle. Now She Can Share What She Saw.
She’s been experiencing some trauma,” James Cook, an attorney for Wynnie Savageford, told HuffPost.
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Paul Scarpelli @paulscarpelli.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I don't know ANYONE on the Right who fact checks.
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CherylOnTheTrails @cherylonthetrails.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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CCC @triplecalltheway.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Every Word Is True.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 11/09/2026
Rachel Scott is the journalist Trump lunged at tonight, growling and insulting her for asking questions.
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Jess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
9/11 was a day that united us. Don't let Islamophobia divide us 25 years later. Follow @sander_jennings and @Jesscraven101 for weekly Facts Over Fear. #FactsOverFear #Mamdani #911Anniversary #Unity
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 10/09/2026
Every year Idiocracy gets a little less funny and a lot more accurate.
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The Govan Stones @govanstones.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Want to see stunning early medieval narrative art featuring mounted warriors, but can't get a ticket to the British Museum? We have just the thing at the Govan Stones, and it's free to see every day, 11am-4pm! 📷 @hornesupremacy.bsky.social
One side of the late 9th century carved stone Govan Sarcophagus, which features a mounted warrior on a hunt and a Lamb of God scene.
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
#ResistanceRoots Mary Hunter Austin was born on this day in 1868 in Carlinville, Ill. She was a writer, feminist, environmental conservationist and champion of Indigenous rights. Her life was shaped by the high desert landscapes she loved and battles over our most precious resource: water. /1
Mary Hunter Austin, by Charles F. Lummis, ca. 1900. Austin’s early writing is celebrated for its rich, mystical prose documenting the flora, fauna and Indigenous people of the high desert. Her environmental activism and Indigenous rights advocacy were driven by a mix of personal isolation, a lifelong rebellion against social conformity, and deep immersion in the landscapes and cultures of the American West. Rather than viewing issues in isolation, she developed a unified philosophy that rejected human dominance over both nature and women. Today, she is recognized as a pioneer of ecofeminism, nearly a century ahead of her time. Her later work explores how the exploitation of nature and the marginalization of women are rooted in the same societal power structures.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Sen. @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social understands the stakes. Mike Rogers moved to Florida and got rich off the corporations he was supposed to be regulating while in Congress. Now he expects us to let him take another turn through the revolving door.
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
In a major Texas Senate race endorsement, Hall of Fame former Texas Ranger David Maxwell spoke out against Ken Paxton. After blowing the whistle on Paxton's corruption in 2020 and being fired, Maxwell is endorsing James Talarico for US Senate. "Texans deserve a Senator who serves the people."
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/09/2026
NEW: Mayor Mamdani has released 170,000 documents that suggest New Yorkers were misled about the safety of the air quality following the 9/11 attacks. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/n...
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After 9/11, Documents Suggest, New Yorkers Were Misled About Air Quality
The Mamdani administration released more than 170,000 pages of documents related to the air quality around the World Trade Center site in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Adam Roy @adnroy.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Ultralight gear guru Nate Pipenberg updated our Liz Thomas-authored packing lists for the Appalachian and Pacific Crest Trails. This is a bulletproof place to start if you're planning on hiking part or all of either of those: www.backpacker.com/skills/backp... www.backpacker.com/skills/backp...
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The Ultimate Pacific Crest Trail Packing List
Headed out on the Pacific Crest Trail? Expert thru-hikers Liz “Snorkel” Thomas and Nathan Pipenberg break down the gear you’ll need.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Leela Gray describes her opponent, Anna Paulina Luna, as a MAGA sycophant who is more focused on self-promotion than on serving her constituents.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 04/09/2026
We identified the top 100 sprayers of the controversial weedkiller Roundup in California—a state that produces more than three-quarters of the nation’s fruits and nuts and nearly half of its vegetables. Check out our new searchable database to find out who’s at the top of the list. bit.ly/3SqKXDZ
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
David Byrne wrote a song for a documentary about the world’s richest man and it’s set to rip him apart using his own words. /
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Billy-in-Philly @billy-in-philly.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
@kristyclueless.bsky.social I knew it!! apple.news/AzEcbJCJhQZ-...
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Raccoons will solve puzzles just for fun — Scientific American
Raccoons might want to break into your trash can even without delicious leftovers inside A raccoon taking part in the experiment solves one of the easy levels of the multiaccess puzzle box researchers...
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