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Matt Boggie

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Tech and Product @ Philadelphia Inquirer. Hockey fan, trivia buff, pinball nerd, lapsed pizza chef.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 15h
The MTA on Wednesday said President Donald Trump’s tariffs on foreign imports are on track to add $1 billion to the price of New York’s new train cars and buses. gothamist.com/news/mta-say...
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MTA says Trump's tariffs added $1B to cost of NYC's new train cars, buses
New York's train cars and buses are manufactured in the United States, but they rely on loads of components manufactured all over the world.
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Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
JOIN JEFF
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Matt Boggie @mattboggie.com · 29/09/2026
"Had the parents known sooner, 'they would have helped the child get the counseling she needed to be comfortable with her natal sex'" That's why he didn't tell them. I'll never understand how a parent can hate their kids like this. Gift: share.inquirer.com/MfpRJ8
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The Pennsbury School District hid a student’s gender identity from parents, a Christian legal group alleges
The complaint filed by Liberty Counsel with the U.S. Department of Education comes as President Donald Trump's administration has escalated pressure on schools over transgender student policies.
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Kate Dailey @katedailey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Big news from Peter Dobrin and Sue Snyder and the @inquirer.com : William Penn Foundation offers to fund Academy of Natural Science for a year. Drexel did not say whether the had declined the offer. www.inquirer.com/arts/drexel-...
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William Penn Foundation offers funding to keep Academy of Natural Sciences museum open
A Drexel spokesperson did not say whether the school had declined the offer, but said, “No proposal has been presented that would provide a permanent, sustainable path forward" for the museum.
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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026
Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng
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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 22/09/2026
The construction industry is facing a mental health crisis. In Philadelphia, workers can find more help than ever, but layoffs, long hours, injury, and instability still push many toward the brink.
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The people building Philadelphia are breaking down
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“With the emergence of AI, tech companies decided they could stop directing traffic to news sites and supplant them altogether by stealing and regurgitating their journalism.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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AI Can’t Hold City Hall Accountable
If AI hasn’t finished off your local newspaper yet, just wait. It will. OpenAI, the company that built ChatGPT, has called itself an “existential threat” to news publishers.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026
They are trying to blame AI for these kinds of mistakes in the way that you put googly eyes on a rock and then pretend it's a scapegoat.
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Jay Hightman @jay.hightman.org · 18/09/2026
The Kennedy Center is made of irreplaceable marble gifted by Italy. Matisse tapestries found throughout were gifted by France. The massive starburst chandelier in the opera hall and the lights along the walkways were gifts from Sweden. The record-breaking stage curtains were a gift from Japan.
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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...
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One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’
Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Kara Swisher: “I think this idea that AI is going to kill us, it’s not AI, it’s the people making AI who are killing us. Let’s stop blaming the machines. Let’s blame the people who are making these things and the administration that refuses to put any guardrails”
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Spectrum News NY1 @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father to the attacks.
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Steve Flack @vitaminsteve.com · 11/09/2026
that’s it, we’ve peaked. Call it a day, go start your weekends.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
How is ICE making record arrests? I found the answer in Pa. coal country, where cops lured by a promise of federal $$$ have embraced ICE's 287(g) and are throwing up checkpoints, raiding job sites, arresting 100s, and terrorizing their communities My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/penn...
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In Pa. coal country, local police join with ICE to bring arrests, fear | Will Bunch
Pa.'s Schuylkill County is the new face of Trump's mass deportation, as local cops lured by federal cash bust scores of migrants.
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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 08/09/2026
You have to make making culture a priority. mattdpearce.substack.com/p/how-should...
What do we lose when software is our greatest cultural export? Doesn't it bother you that Al has made the signs in your neighborhood uglier and removed the quirks of human idiosyncrasy in the handwritten note stuck in the storefront window? Wasn't it better that people could choose whether to see the silly Wile E. Coyote movie instead of leaving a finished project in the vault to die in tax write-off purgatory?
Weren't you amazed to learn that the Circe scene in Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey" was shot completely in-camera, with prosthetics and no CGI? Aren't there different, more difficult stories out there that also deserve to get told, and to also get told well?
Don't people work hard enough and suffer too much not to deserve, in their short lives, to encounter beautiful and well made things?
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Matt Boggie @mattboggie.com · 09/09/2026
I drove into Philly today and passed Wawas showing $4.29, which I thought was high. It was up to $4.45 by the time I drove home.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026
ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:
Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"Six-Week-Old Infant Died From Measles, Lancaster Coroner Says: The ruling casts doubt on statements from the federal health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who speculated that measles deaths reported by the state may have been “fabricated.'" -- www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/w...
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Six-Week-Old Infant Died From Measles, Lancaster Coroner Says
The ruling casts doubt on statements from the federal health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who speculated that measles deaths reported by the state may have been “fabricated.”
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/09/2026
Customs and Border Protection claimed that construction on a border security project in Texas was limited to “survey and design” work. The New York Times tracked the activity and found evidence of patrol roads and vehicle barriers already being built. Watch our visual investigation. nyti.ms/46JAhUc
An image of a road along the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas. A white square box is on the image with the word "excavator" above it.
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Matt Boggie @mattboggie.com · 04/09/2026
Critics aren’t raising questions. Critics are pointing to the letter of the law, which clearly states that US currency cannot feature living people. Say that.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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The Onion @theonion.com · 01/09/2026
Jets Hope To Sell More Merchandise With New ‘Philadelphia Eagles’–Themed Jerseys theonion.com/jets-hope-to-sell-more…
Jets Hope To Sell More Merchandise With New ‘Philadelphia Eagles’–Themed Jerseys
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Death by intentional neglect is the characteristic method of murder in concentration camps
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John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
In these discussions there's so, so much riding on This Time Being Different. And I'd like to be able to think/talk a little more clearly today about how we live in a world where everyone's individual iPhone can manage more arithmetic throughput than the combined brains of the entire world
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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 25/08/2026
The deaths occurred in Lancaster County, the center of a major measles outbreak that has sickened nearly 400 people this year, state officials said. Both people were unvaccinated.
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Pennsylvania reports two measles deaths in Lancaster County, state’s first in three decades
The deaths are the first associated with the highly contagious disease in Pennsylvania in 35 years and occurred amid a major measles outbreak that has sickened nearly 400 people this year.
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Matt Boggie @mattboggie.com · 20/08/2026
Having a Treasury Secretary get on the news and basically say "eh, growth isn't so important" is unexpected
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Ian Johnson @mrianjohnson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
DEI - good for people and good for business
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US firms that kept DEI policies despite ‘go woke, go broke’ threats thrived
Exclusive: Companies that kept policies did just as well financially, even after Trump’s executive order, as those that didn’t
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inthefade @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 08/08/2026
this is blatantly racist
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 31/07/2026
"Is this process annoying? Maybe. But if asking the owner of a $5 million property to submit some forms over the internet is 'harassment,' how should we describe the process of obtaining SNAP benefits, or unemployment checks, or health insurance on the exchange?" hellgatenyc.com/second-home-...
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Ameaka Fatima Nkempu, a Johns Hopkins University researcher in public health, was detained by ICE while boarding a domestic flight. She says she is Cameroonian in a Medium article that she authored. As of Thursday morning, the ICE Online Detainee Locator did not list where she was being held.
Studio photo of a Black African women wearing a beautiful dress in a printed fabric.

Caption:
Ameaka Fatima Nkempu, Johns Hopkins public health
researcher, was detained by immigration agents while
boarding a domestic flight this week. (Johns Hopkins
University)
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Joe Germuska @joe.germuska.com · 31/07/2026
This approach to a data commons could extend to so many typically shared things. For businesses to easily and authoritatively publish things like open hours or product catalogs, discographies, every kind of -ography... creative appmakers could do so much with all that
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Ignacio Gallup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
“A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.” “West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.”
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A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.
West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
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Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The city just needs to take over the service municipally when the contract is up, it's a massive boon to our transit infrastructure and counted on by residents and visitors alike.
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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Are you a journalist? Have you worked as one for 5 years and have leadership experience? Do you want to earn 6 figures and have health insurance? Do you have good political acumen? Do you want to be my boss? If so, I have the job for you heartlandsignal.com/jobs/editor-...
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Heartland Signal - Job Opening - Editor in Chief Job | Heartland Signal
Heartland Signal is hiring a remote editor in chief to lead a growing state-politics newsroom. Edit daily, set the agenda, build the team. Apply by Aug. 6.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...
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Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest
America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/07/2026
This summer, we kept the lights on all night, every night, at five soccer fields across New York City.

This was the scene at Calvert Vaux Park in Gravesend, Brooklyn Tuesday night.
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Abraham Gutman @abgutman.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Park rangers fined Sandra Shachar for vandalism this morning at the President’s House, hours after the Trump admin installed its version of history. The 72 year old has been posting news articles on the site’s walls since the slavery exhibit was removed. If she does it again, she’ll be arrested.
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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 15/07/2026
Jonathan Zimmerman, a teacher of history and education at the University of Pennsylvania, shares his thoughts on the controversy over slavery exhibits at the President’s House at Independence Mall. 🔗 www.inquirer.com/opinion/hist...
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
"The change happened overnight Tuesday into Wednesday, hours after the city hosted MLB All-Star game events near the site, allowing the government to switch out the displays and shutdown the television screens while avoiding public scrutiny during the takedown." -- www.inquirer.com/news/philade...
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Slavery exhibits at the President’s House have been swapped for the Trump administration’s version
The change at the President's House happened overnight, allowing the government to switch out the displays and shutdown the television screens while avoiding public scrutiny during the takedown.
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Ian, in the Year of the Bean🫛🫘 @mplsnightmayor.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
My parents are about to throw away an Apple II Plus in the DFW area that was working when last booted in the early 90s. Anyone into retro computers have an idea of how I would match it with an interested hobbyist?
Apple II keyboard and main computerInside showing MICROCHIPS and presumably ELECTRONS
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Never a clearer case of cutting off the nose to spite the face: Publishers hide from readers in suicide pact. They're dying anyway; now sooner. Once Unimaginable, Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search www.adweek.com/media/publis...
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Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search
The nuclear option is gaining traction as web traffic collapses and Google refuses to negotiate with content creators
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Abraham Gutman @abgutman.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
An iPad inside Independence Hall tells visitors that a second floor room was used in the 1850s to hold individuals “accused of crimes of the period.” Originally, the screen read “accused fugitives of slavery.” @fallonroth.bsky.social and I discover more retelling of history by Trump’s admin. 🎁 🔗
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Trump administration quietly removed mentions of slavery from Independence Hall, Thomas Jefferson portrait
The Inquirer's discovery of these changes come as Philadelphians are grappling with the Trump administration's attacks on the President's House Site.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It's easier for media to portray the election as an attack on American Jews than to delve into what NY-10 really was: The second most Jewish Congressional district in the US having a referendum between two Jewish candidates on what it means to do Jewish politics in the age of Trump and Netanyahu.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 21/06/2026
And thus South Carolina begins its descent into licentiousness and anarchy scdailygazette.com/2026/06/17/s...
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SC law legalizes pinball for youth, ending decades-old prohibition • SC Daily Gazette
The law was never enforced, but supporters said it caused anxiety for otherwise rule-abiding business owners.
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Matt Boggie @mattboggie.com · 18/06/2026
Last I checked Congress ratifies treaties, so…
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Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 16/06/2026
Free showing of MANNEQUIN (1987) on 35mm at the Philadelphia Film Center on Friday. Blocks from where it was filmed! Tickets here: filmadelphia.org/movies/manne...
Andrew McCarthy with the mannequin from MANNEQUIN.
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Mark E. Poasts @lolphillies.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
“Scots discovering tailgating” could be a real Prometheus stealing fire moment
Facebook post from Scottish soccer fan - The busses have stopped at some park thing near the ground and there's American guys making food and giving people free beers and stuff
Some Haiti fans here as well, what a bunch of good guys
wtf is going on man, what an experience this is man holy shit

With photos of people boozing in a parking lot
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Matt Boggie @mattboggie.com · 11/06/2026
This is astounding, purely from a licensing perspective. The sheer number of lawyers!
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