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Sic Transit PHL @sictransitphl.bsky.social · 8h

The death penalty should not be an option for use against civilians in peacetime.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 17h

"the ivy league faculty will never understand you" the faculty: SEND ME TO FIGHT THE SLAVE POWER

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 15h

A driver in Pennsylvania went up onto the sidewalk to go around a stopped school bus. Just another day on the streets of the United States where drivers endanger others with impunity. Source: www.kmbc.com/article/driv...

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Sic Transit PHL @sictransitphl.bsky.social · 15h

Subterranean? We're going to be the guys invading the Geofront, with shoot-on-sight orders for all NERV personnel, are we? Remind me how that movie ends for those guys?

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My Password is Louvre @bmceuen.bsky.social · 18h

Lots of folks responding with pics of US Grant but the thing you have to remember is that Hegseth believes the Union forces were enemy invaders against the smol bean US South that was simply trying to “preserve its institutions”

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 22h

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Monorail Maoist @awildschild.bsky.social · 19h

Just under two weeks to the deadline on relegalizing skills games in PA comes a bipartisan cosponsorship memo suggesting to implement a $500 per unit per month fee and to use the money on infrastructure and emergency services funding

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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 22h

If you work at a transit agency also getting hit by tariffs — even as we do the right thing, buy Made in America and support thousands of jobs, hit me up. Every billion taken by this tax on transit is a billion diverted from buying the trains and uses that keep the nation moving.

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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 23h

The presentation and QA also goes to great lengths on how the BLS indices on the materials going into our subway trains are up almost *30%* in the last 19 months (Jan2025-Aug2026) as tariffs bite into the supply chains. **Almost 30%** in 19 months. www.youtube.com/live/0e3tHtO...

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MTA Board Meeting - 9/30/2026

YouTube video by MTA Live

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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

MTA presentation on $1 billion tax on transit that tariffs are taking on our bus and train procurements. We have to pay this tax despite exceeding Buy America requirements and that rolling stock program funds hundreds and hundreds of manufacturing jobs — www.youtube.com/live/0e3tHtO...

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MTA Board Meeting - 9/30/2026

YouTube video by MTA Live

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ira @ira.bsky.social · 19h

The Mayor of New York putting out a video opposing bigotry against any group of people is inherently valid, because it's New York, and he's the Mayor.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 19h

Being mad at the Mamdani announcement is just straightforwardly anti-Semitic. Like there’s not really any excuse left to hide behind there.

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5th Square Advocacy @5thsqadvocacy.org · 30/09/2026

Thank you so much to Ray for coming out to our city, our volunteers who worked hard to host the event, and everyone who joined us and bought a ticket. The money we raised from ticket sales will go directly to funding our advocacy for a better Philadelphia.

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5th Square Advocacy @5thsqadvocacy.org · 30/09/2026

On Monday night, more than 500 of you joined us for the urbanist event of the season: CityNerd Live in Philly: The City’s Scorecard. We hosted @nerd4cities.bsky.social Ray Delahanty for a live show discussing what Philly gets right and wrong when it comes to transit, walkability, and affordability.

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 22h

The MTA—the nation's largest transit agency—wants to spend $23 billion on new trains and buses in the coming years. But the Trump Administration's tariffs could cost the agency $1 billion. That would mean either (a) the agency could buy fewer vehicles; or (b) it would have to spend more money.

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MTA Seeks to End $1 Billion of Tariffs on Subway Cars, Buses

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority wants the Trump administration to exempt New York City’s purchases of new subway cars and buses from tariffs to avoid $1 billion in added fees on the nation’s...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it is important to realize that many reporters for mainstream outlets are enthusiastic cogs in this elite-coordinated propaganda machine. don't print lies in the newspaper

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 29/09/2026

Some professional news: @gavinnewsom.bsky.social just signed all 3 of the bills I worked on this year at @cayimby.bsky.social: AB 956 - 2 detached ADUs at single family homes SB 1116 - Starter Home Revitalization Act expansion SB 1117 - Fee relief for ADUs over 750 square feet

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Governor Newsom signs housing legislation, cementing California’s record progress to reduce unsheltered homelessness and build more homes | Governor of California

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Real lives are being destroyed and snuffed out every day that this policy is allowed to continue and the people who devised it are not in jail. I know we all know this, but I feel like it's important to say it from time to time.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ITS THE LAKE OF AMERICA. ITS THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR. ITS THE GULF OF AMERICA. ITS SUPER INTELLIGENCE. You people sound like fucking North Koreans

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Sic Transit PHL @sictransitphl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ham cheese. ham cracker. cheese cracker. ham and cheese cracker. ham and cheese could even do it like a little big mac so it's like cracker ham cheese cracker ham cheese cracker shit there's nobody says you can't go like ham ham ham ham ham ham ham ham. great big ol hampuck just for me.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Holy shit, this ad! I cannot imagine the impetus for pardoning this guy. But I’m not even sure it matters. Kind of along the lines of that Roger Marshall ad. If you’re explaining you’re losing.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Left-NIMBYs love to pit welfare state expansion against land use reform, but the latter can 1) can achieve significant poverty reductions 2) without means testing or administrative burdens, and 3) at a net gain for the public budget, which can then be used to expand the welfare state.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.

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Mark Pinsley @mpinsley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am so grateful to be endorsed by Governor Josh Shapiro. We need your help to flip District 16. Every dollar, every phone call, and every door knocked gets us closer to a PA for the People, not the powerful. secure.actblue.com/donate/shapi... www.mobilize.us/markpinsleyf...

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Help Mark win SD-16 and flip the PA Senate

Show your support with a contribution.

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Sic Transit PHL @sictransitphl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You know where there's a lot of water that's a constant temperature and that people aren't going to drink? Abandoned mines. I wonder if the datacenter builders know this.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Geometry hates cars

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’d love to hear the completely pointless reason why our crappy building code slows down escalator speeds. People do not realize how arbitrary our code is, written by industry lobbyists.

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Sic Transit PHL @sictransitphl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Unfortunately all too common attitude. If we had a functioning FBI and DOJ, we could establish deterrence by indicting a few city councils in their entirety, but instead, we have Crumb Bum Kash and the Lush Patrol.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 28/09/2026

So-called “inclusionary zoning,” the practice of requiring home builders to rent new apartments at a loss to low-income tenants, is a tax on new housing that worsens the housing shortage and raises rents overall in exchange for a handful of means-tested units. It’s bad policy!

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Greater Boston builders say affordable-unit rules stall housing, but Boston won't budge

Developers and city leaders across Greater Boston are clashing over whether affordable-housing requirements are helping address the region's housing shortage.

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 29/09/2026

It's almost like there's a theory of how this works.

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Nick Andert @nickandert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is, obviously, *insane*, and should be one of the first things that a reconstituted LOSSAN/Metrolink governing body looks at. We'll likely need a tunnel that may look like one of these two options. Blue would be faster, green would be cheaper.

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Nick Andert @nickandert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's wild to me that, while Del Mar alts are fairly far along in study, the best we have for san clemente track relocation is an OC supe saying earlier this month that OCTA will 'soon' embark on a study to relocate the tracks... IN 30 YEARS. They intend to keep the tracks here for 3 MORE DECADES.

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Adam @adamshap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NYC’s congestion pricing program cut ambulance travel times by over a minute

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Paul Spencer @suchprotech.com · 29/09/2026

If you're an urbanist and you're not at the @5thsqadvocacy.org event with @nerd4cities.bsky.social @blvdsubway.bsky.social @mayorjoi.bsky.social and so many others you're missing out. Gives me hope that so many people are here

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Sic Transit PHL @sictransitphl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think electric aviation will rapidly be a category-killer for short-range GA and ≤30 seat airliners on the Cape Air/Widerøe model. The problem is, if you scale up those 19-seaters and 30-seaters, where do those interface with the airplanes flying 150+ seats short-haul or 250+ seats overseas?

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's not something I feel like doing myself, but it would be really cool to break down total water rights in California by partisanship of the owners. It might really shift perspectives to learn that we're turning our state into a desert when 70% of acre-feet are owned by Republicans.

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Sic Transit PHL @sictransitphl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My most idiosyncratic opinion may be that it bothers me when clocks reset themselves to something other than the UNIX Epoch.

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Sic Transit PHL @sictransitphl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If there's a company that manages to burn itself down first from the current AI liability bubble, it's entirely in keeping that it's Meta.

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BARO @baro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's actually insane how many seemingly intractable problems in a capitalist society can actually be solved by "actually charge market rates and stop doing corporate welfare"

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026

Trump fucked up the *American* renewable transition but he might have had the largest positive effect on the global transition of any president ever

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Philadelphia Magazine @phillymag.com · 25/09/2026

Angela McDonald and Tarik Sharif Khan — a mother who knows the unimaginable cost of losing a child, and a nurse and legislator who has seen the consequences of unsafe driving — explain why PA should crack down on technology that tracks innocent people while expanding technology that could save lives

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Crack Down on Flock Cameras. Expand Speed Cameras

Flock cameras raise serious civil liberties concerns. Speed cameras can save lives. Pennsylvania should know the difference.

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Sic Transit PHL @sictransitphl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Well, this was completely predictable.

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Sic Transit PHL @sictransitphl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ender Wiggin is just The Kid in the Hole in Omelas, with extra steps (laudatory and derogatory in both directions).

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Sic Transit PHL @sictransitphl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Colorado is showing us the way, but Illinois (and Pennsylvania!) has the critical distinction that its populations are higher and its distances are shorter, meaning that it can support *far* more service with a similar budget.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026

"china is charging their cars in less time than it takes you to fill up your F-150" is the kind of banal jingoism i always assumed would get us finally kicking it up a notch on serious infrastructure buildout but we were a lot more directly addicted to gasoline in addition to racism than i thought

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

YIMBYism (which codes moderate but which is also just good policy) is extremely helpful for left-wing politicians as a shibboleth that they're not like THOSE leftists.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Send heartfelt *not angry* messages about why the Academy should stay open. She needs help demonstrating wide community support. Send your personal reasons why Academy has been important to you and your family, as well as Philadelphia as a whole.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you care about keeping the Academy of Natural Sciences open to the public in Philadelphia, I need you to read and share this thread. Trish Wellenbach was sent from the mayor's office to oversee the Academy of Natural sciences situation. She needs to hear from us. Here comes the action item:

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 25/09/2026

yeah, it's OK to be wrong, but why on earth is the point of a company that takes ten years to understand the basic realities their users face when there are plenty of perfectly competent semi companies making electric trucks?

On Thursday, Priestly offered a mea culpa. He called the original design “not sufficient” and revealed that the new Semi now has standard roll-down windows.

“We fully admit we were wrong about the windows,” he said. “Turns out there’s a lot of infrastructure in the world, whether it’s a badge reader, or your toll booth, or you’re talking to somebody on a call box. There’s all kinds of stuff right at that height, and it became evident that we needed a roll-down window in order to make that infrastructure easier to interface with.”

“It’s okay to be wrong, Dan,” Moravy added.

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