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Michael Cunningham

@phillyvaluation.bsky.social
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Business and commercial real estate appraiser. Urbanist. Philadelphian. Se habla español. Quito is my second home.

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Erik Noonan @eriknoonan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Bike/pedestrian networks don't take 30 years to build. Stop accepting those timelines in your community. The best practices have been proven & they already exist. Safety should already be the #1 priority. The ROI is unbeatable. The timeline is a moral document and it shouldn't be generational.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026
plenty of people would try their hands at interesting little businesses if it they did not need to generate a huge profit at the outset and i think this is something governments should encourage. (and lots of little businesses makes a place more livable!)
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ed Sheeran's Philly concert is over but big questions remain What was the role of Eagles' owner Jeff Lurie in the cancellation of Macklemore? How can there be censorship in a stadium owned by the city where American freedom was founded? My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/eagl...
inquirer.com
Eagles’ silence on their role in the Macklemore mess has become deafening | Will Bunch
What’s worse about the Macklemore-Ed Sheeran debacle in Philly? The Eagles’ role, or the team’s refusal to explain it?
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5th Square Advocacy @5thsqadvocacy.org · 19/09/2026
Councilmember Young wants to weaken our lifesaving speed camera program by reducing fines even for reckless drivers going 30+ mph over the speed limit! Tell City Council not to let it happen: www.5thsqadvocacy.org/Speed-camera...
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Speed Cameras Action | 5th Square Advocacy
Tell City Council to stand up for safe streets and protect Philadelphia families: Say NO to Bill 260699!
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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Muppets have to put on a show to save the Kennedy Center. There you go, Disney, that's your premise.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
25 years ago today, George W. Bush signed the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force into law. Barbara Lee was the only member of Congress to vote against it, warning it would be a blank check for forever wars. History has proven her lonely and courageous vote right.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Seeing Ed Sheeran's own band quitting on him is, I have to say, really doing it for me. Restoring one shred of hope for humanity.
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Seems bad to base our entire transportation system on a volatile commodity, but what do we know?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/09/2026
right now, the best hegseth can hope for is to be remembered as a staggeringly incompetent defense secretary who gutted military leadership, tried to reimpose segregation in the highest ranks, and led the military to its worst strategic defeat in at least a generation.
nytimes.com
The Battle to Save General Donahue From Hegseth’s Army Purge
Gen. Christopher T. Donahue’s vision for fighting future wars won him powerful supporters around the world. Could they save his career?
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Jason @jrock08.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Today a preeminent climate scientist said that building a bike lane in Berkeley California is bad because not everyone can bike to get groceries. The US climate movement has a cars blindspot, and it's why we aren't making progress the way other countries are.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If you haven't already, share this with every Philadelphian you know. I want to raise enough hell that Drexel will have no choice but to continue supporting the museum.
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🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A 76-year-old man holding permanent US residency and grappling with stage four prostate cancer is reportedly being held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention in Tacoma, Washington. What the fuck are we doing here? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
ICE holds man with stage 4 cancer in detention despite permanent US residency
ICE spokesperson says Loreto Javar failed to disclose criminal conviction in Philippines when he applied for visa
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The correct Democratic position on every issue is “I will undo everything Donald Trump has done, I will destroy everything he has built, and I will impose consequences on him and everyone who helped him do it.” No negotiation. Rip it all down.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 31/08/2026
We're overhauling 116th Street to make your bus faster: 2.5 miles of new bus lanes. Queue jumps that give buses a green light before other vehicles at intersections. Protected bike lanes. 35,000 square feet of new pedestrian space.
Digital rendering of the redesigned 116th Street corridor.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Goooood morning! The 2026 Snail Facts Calendars are OUT! We've got 24 days of scratchable snail fact goodness, designed by Philly artist Kelly Nichols! Advent calendars are cute as hell, a delightful tradition, and keep @skypeascientist.bsky.social funded! Get one at SquidFacts.net Pls repost ❤️
An 11x14 inch poster featuring snails, slugs, nudibranchs, and other snails! There are 24 yellow-green snail shells that you can scratch off. There's a leaf sheep and sea bunny and sea angel and fire snail and banana slug and mystery snail and ramshorn snail and candy cane snail
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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I am sooooo tired of hearing about how we can’t have bike lanes because sometimes cyclists blow through stop signs. Do you know how many times every pedestrian has nearly been hit by a car? And yet no one is suggesting we stop building car lanes.
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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
You could argue, correctly I think, that the current willingness to tear down the post war order is rooted in the fact the folks who could tell you why it was built are almost all gone.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 16/08/2026
Every conversation about bike lanes is like: "Car crashes kill a huge number of people every day, including pedestrians, cyclists, & car occupants. Good bike infrastructure has been shown to make everyone safer (& doesn't increase congestion)." "But sometimes cyclists break rules & hit people!"
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 03/08/2026
From Corona to Quito, that spirit of self-determination lives on. To every Ecuadorian who has made New York City home: thank you for the culture and civic leadership you bring to our city every day.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph.
A graph showing how the edsel and Cybertruck both performed based on their sales target and actual year one and year two sales. The edsel was expected to sell 200k units in its first year. It sold slightly over 50k, and less than 50k the next year

The Cybertruck had a sales.target of 250k in its first year. They sold around 40k, the next year they sold about half as many.
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Ben S @bensh3.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
PA state house rep Ben Waxman (D) proposes banning the use of AVs for public transit, even rail. Even setting the (faulty) principles of the bill aside why are our reps restricting the ability of SEPTA to provide transit before securing SEPTA dedicated funding? www.palegis.us/house/co-spo...
Restricting the Use of Fully Autonomous Vehicles in Public Transit
July 10, 2026 08:55 AM to All House Members
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Representative Ben Waxman
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5th Square Advocacy @5thsqadvocacy.org · 21/07/2026
Right after the two-year memorial for Dr. Friedes and on the very block where she was killed. This is exactly why we need concrete protection.
Amazon van blocking Spruce Street bike lane with Dr. Barbara Friedes's ghost bike in the foreground
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 22/07/2026
Tomorrow, the House will vote on the NDAA, which includes a provision to merge parts of our military with the IDF. This amendment is an existential threat to American sovereignty and democracy. Every member of Congress must vote NO.
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
BREAKING: Donald Trump has reportedly been screaming at his staff for two days over his universally mocked speech on election fraud, and is accusing them of making him look like an idiot.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
In the end, whether he was right or wrong, the referee that pulled a red card had bigger balls than our current US House and Senate.
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Christina Henderson @chenderson.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Until we address the fact most talented soccer players in the US can’t afford to compete because club and travel teams have snuffed rec/school ball out, this is probably going to keep happening.
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Ben Gretch @bengretch.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Trump killed the vibes just like he did with the Knicks, this is the worst we’ve looked all tournament. What a disaster.
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Bdon @bdon7.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Guys Argentina won a World Cup partly because a dude literally punched the ball into the goal
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
If people don’t come to buy plants tonight my backyard is about to look hilarious
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 26/06/2026
A lot of people assume that the housing market circa 1975-2005, when urban housing was cheap even without new development thanks to rapid sprawl and white flight, is the natural state of the world and not an historically anomalous period shaped by housing and transportation policy choices.
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🇺🇲📎Gigi Alexander 🇺🇦 Democracy Defender! 🌊 ❤️America.🌈 @gigialexander123.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Breaking News from The Halfway Post: BREAKING: Donald Trump is reportedly furious that the annual ranking of US presidents by a committee of 50 top presidential historians was released today, and the committee almost unanimously ranked Trump’s second term as the worst in US history.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
If you watch the Obama Library, the World Cup, and the Knicks parade this afternoon -- and nothing else -- you can actually see the America we're supposed to be at age 250
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 18/06/2026
The top 10 US neighborhoods in terms of added housing supply, 2020–25: 1—Downtown Nashville 2—Central Philly 3—Downtown Brooklyn 4—Downtown Seattle 5—Downtown Salt Lake City 6—Downtown Miami 7—NoMa DC 8—South Bronx 9—Downtown Denver 10—Navy Yard DC Explore: www.urban.org/urban-wire/w...
Top neighborhoods in terms of added housing supply, 2020–25, #1 through #11.Top neighborhoods in terms of added housing supply, 2020–25, #12 through #20.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Trump promised an unconditional surrender in Iran. Today, he delivered on that promise.
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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
These three players from the Ivory Coast's World Cup team walked off the airplane looking like this. I'd say that's grossly unfair to the rest of humanity. (Ivorian designer Ibrahim Fernandez).
Three *extremely* well-dressed futbol players from Ivory Coast.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/06/2026
Mamdani: "We continue to be proud of being a sanctuary city. We continue to be ready to stand up for our immigrant neighbors ... ICE is a rogue agency that should be abolished"
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Job Itzkowitz @jobforphilly.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
68,000 people at the World Cup match. These are the parking lots. It's magic!
Empty parking lotAnother empty parking lot.
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Corey Danks @coreydanks.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Ecuador with the double doinks
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
In a nutshell.
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Ben S @bensh3.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
"The city cannot decide whether AVs operate here, or when, or under what safety conditions. What it can decide is how to tax them...Cities that have not established robust frameworks before that transition will find them very difficult to build afterward"
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/05/2026
this is incredible
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...
time.com
The Forgotten Black History of How Memorial Day Started
Historians like the Pulitzer Prize winner David Blight have tried to raise awareness of freed slaves who decorated soldiers' graves in 1865
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/05/2026
just finished this and i think it is extraordinarily relevant to our political moment. highly recommended. www.newamerica.org/insights/bos...
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Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Anyone who wants a sneak peek before i post to bluesky tomorrow morning can go check out SquidFacts.net right now...👀
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I want to repost this one million times
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Can I sell enough plants that support Philly bugs to fund a mural that educates people about Philly's bugs??? Probably not! but like! Idk! Weirder things have happened!
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Anderson Cooper: “So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?” Answer: “Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing.” #HousingFirst #UrbanTruth
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100,000 Homes: Housing the homeless saves money?
Giving apartments to the chronically homeless can save taxpayer dollars, advocates say
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Ben S @bensh3.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
This is why Philly is not an obvious candidate for full-cordon cong. pricing, as the region's existing job sprawl landscape could see induced reverse commuting instead. Instead, radial highway tolling on 76 and 95 gets the benefit of revenue source while moderating highway as opposed to local VMT
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5th Square Advocacy @5thsqadvocacy.org · 26/01/2026
www.5thsqadvocacy.org/5th-square-a...
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5th Square Advocacy Condemns Philadelphia Parking Authority Contract With ICE
Join 5th Square Advocacy in enhancing land use & transportation in Philly. Get involved in grassroots efforts for a better community!
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