The art museum's great. Boat ride on the lake. Go to Ellsworth for cheese curds. Have a meal at an old timey Wisconsin supper club.
Go Birds! Phillies fan. Baseball is best experienced on radio. Francisville resident. Happy to have the PCC Cars in green and cream back on Girard. Studied physics a long time ago. Descendant (sort of) of Robert Musil.
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The art museum's great. Boat ride on the lake. Go to Ellsworth for cheese curds. Have a meal at an old timey Wisconsin supper club.
Crime is literally lower than it has been in the entire life of every single non-senior-citizen American. If you are under age 65 you have never lived at a time with lower property crime rates, lower violent crime rates or lower homicide rates. Never.
I might change a few words here and there, but I completely understand the situation.
That makes sense!
A friend who grew up in the north of England in the 50's once told me that there were lots of men like Andy Capp around when she was a kid.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
New Orleans, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Detroit will end August with the fewest murders since 1970, 1966, 1965, and 1964 respectively. Chicago and Dallas will both end the month with the second fewest murders since 1966.
Philly police don't do chases any more since an entire family of pedestrians (mom, dad, baby in stroller) were run over and killed by one of the cars involved in a police chase, sometime around 1990. Let's hope the Feds change their policy before that happens in DC.
Judge: I got a call at 2:36 a.m. because the govt chose this time on a holiday weekend to execute this plan. I have been up since then. I haven't been able to reach anyone from govt until this morning at 9:30 a.m. So absent this intervention, all children would already have been sent to Guatemala!
Former Greensgrow? (That's how I read it and then realized it said something else)
Go Birds!
It's a movable feast
RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM. They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone. www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
Phillies play on Sunday night baseball this week, video unrelated my finger slipped youtu.be/2nSsBr67BqA?...
Oh, not the Stasi, the VoPos (Volks Polizei).
I heard that one about the Stasi specifically from my high school German teacher, who grew up in East Berlin.
@sarahtaber.bsky.social has been looking at this. Could be the shrimp or the breading.
Kyle Schwarber was the fourth player to have a shot at HR #5 in a game, that is – at least one PA post-HR #4: Bobby Lowe (1894) — first-ever 4-homer game! Lou Gehrig (1932) Mike Cameron (2002) Kyle Schwarber (2025) h/t @EliasSports
Pretty much saying that the recipient is too dull-witted to understand "It would not have occurred to us to communicate our views in this manner."
National Guard soldiers called into service for President Trump's law enforcement surge in D.C. have been assigned to spread mulch at federal monuments. Normally the Park Service does that, but the administration laid off the workers. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
I'm so sorry.
Yeah, now that we have the Utley rule (or whatever it is), it seems reasonable to require touching the base.
Paraphrasing friends of the exiled James II
We've got 35 sets of these posters left. This project came from my evergreen frustration with our important messages getting trapped on social media algorithms. Good stuff for posting on your local community bulletin board, classroom, office door, etc! squidfacts.bigcartel.com/product/scie...
President Miller.
Nowadays, 2 cups in the morning, maybe a third in the afternoon if needed. Less than when I was in an office with a Keurig - probably had 4-5 cups in a typical day.
Ha ha! Chuckling at the memory!
Good movie. Much better than the book.
Not a random Republican. Al Schmidt. Oversaw elections in Philadelphia with integrity for years, including tabulation of votes in the 2020 Presidential election, under intense pressure from Trump and death threats from Trump supporters.
Joe Picozzi: "I think people are sick of political theater ... and most reasonable people recognize I am a freshman senator. I can't bring anything to the floor. I can't force them to vote on anything." Actually he can! If Picozzi and the 2 other SE PA Republicans chose to they can force a vote.
What Danielle said. According to the Yale Budget Lab, the average effective tariff rate in this economy right now is 18.2% Let me put that another way. President Trump has raised taxes on American businesses and consumers by -- on average -- 18.2%
ok so the times witnessed reporters receiving cash from Adams people three times at mayoral events and sat on it for over a month but couldn’t pass up a hot tip from a neonazi about Mamdani’s unsuccessful college application for long enough to check if the neonazi had already been identified
Excellent thread on radioactive shrimp.
Have you had Chickie and Pete's CrabFries? With melted cheese, of course.
I am watching a reality show called What Kind of Idiot Accepts an Invite for a 7:00 AM Zoom in August.
US Government Spends Millions of Taxpayer Dollars and Breaks Laws to Arrest a Few Juvies and Homeless People Americans throughout the country to have less money and fewer rights “Worth it,” said Vice President JD Vance. “I’m scared, angry, and feeling small, so all of you will pay,” he explained.
new Shaker New Shaker NEW SHAKER www.npr.org/2025/08/19/n...
Neue Deutsche Welle was definitely an international phenomenon in music, but that was 40 years ago. In literature, people talk about Jenny Erpenbeck as a future Nobel laureate, but she's not well known in English.
The drawing is missing the center conduit for the trolley tracks. Sloppy!
While this could be interpreted as endorsing restoration of the DC streetcar network, I feel like that's not the point they intended to make.
That makes two of the PhD's I follow on here suffering from yesterday's heat and humidity. Be careful! I'm already making sure I'm hydrated before I go out!
Nola's fastball velocity hits "pitching to his brother" territory
Yup. And that's what Democrats would be saying every day if they had any sense.
Thoughts with Zach Wheeler today. Those of us who remember J.R. Richard know how serious a blood clot can be, even for a young, healthy ballplayer.
As someone who has learned from and reported on families who had loved ones disappeared in Guatemala, Chile, and Uruguay, I can say that countries rarely fully recover from the trauma and harm of disappearances. At the same time I have no idea how to report on this happening here in the US right now
Saw a Waymo twice, or maybe two different Waymos, on my little street in Philly this morning. One definitely had a person in the driver's seat - didn't get a look at the other one. Maybe getting video to familiarize the Waymo with streets in the area?
It also says that yard waste is collected, but they've been refusing to take yard waste.
Sanitation Department website says they can be sealed securely in metal or plastic containers for residential collection. Hmm. Residential trash and recycling rules | Department of Sanitation | City of Philadelphia share.google/w5a9ecpPceyS...
With malice toward none? How would you even get up in the morning?
“Putin would eat you for lunch.” Today, exactly that happened.
Rule of law is critical to a healthy business environment and economic growth. Every minute companies waste trying to appease, or avoid angering, a fickle president is time they don’t spend improving their operations or figuring out how to appeal to customers. www.axios.com/2025/08/15/w...
AirTags should be mandatory equipment in Philly.
Neptune Spear the operation that killed bin Laden, sent 23 Seals, 2 pilots, an interpreter, and a dog on-site to capture and/or kill the most wanted dangerous terrorist in the world amid his armed guards in hostile territory. /1
In West Germany in the early 80's, there were Yugoslavian restaurants everywhere. Nowadays, though...
The 14th Amendment says explicitly that House seats are apportioned by the "whole number of persons." Elsewhere, the Amendment discusses citizens, but here it chooses to use "persons." It was passed in order to overrule the 3/5 clause or any other similar way to avoid counting all people.
I used to live there. People drove way too fast on East West Highway. Scary.
It's a short walk for coffee, groceries, museums, and beautiful views over the river.
One thing I know for sure is that if *I* called the cops and said “some guy just threw a sandwich at me” they would consider me to be a huge baby and think I was wasting their time.
I guess they decided not to torture any of the State Department career Russia experts by making them witness this travesty first hand.
It seems like it would be wise for Congress at some point to pass some type of "Emergency Exceptions Repeal Act," which goes through a decent list of laws where the president can declare an emergency to ignore that law, and repeals each one.
Wait, what?
"We've spent a lot of money on the military and now they have nothing to do so we might as well let the president use it domestically to satisfy his own petty grudges" is precisely why the Founders feared a standing army. I mean, it's pretty much fucking verbatim.
"We have plenty of time to litigate how woke the professoriate is, as long as universities exist as independent entities. But as soon as they don't, there's no question of woke. There's simply the authoritarian determines what you do," says @biblioracle.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/1990...
Washington DC has 702,000 people, is 45% Black and has 0 senators Wyoming has 590,000 people, is 86% white and has 2 senators DC needs a state with proper representation, not a military takeover
Obvious, not-hard Qs would have been: Should the House take up the Senate-passed DC funding fix so the city has $1bn more to spend? Will you nominate more judges in D.C. superior courts, which are understaffed, leading to slower processing of cases and cases dropped altogether?
What do YOU know about eels?! @wowthanks.bsky.social asked some Indy Hall members and also our buddy Clear, who works next door. One thing's for certain: You need more eel facts. Get 'em at EelFacts.Net #EelReels
FBI agents are not trained to patrol streets. And every agent that is assigned to do that is NOT investigating: *foreign spies stealing gov’t and trade secrets *foreign and domestic terrorist threats *crimes like fraud, corruption, trafficking, and violent crimes (among others) Do you feel safer?
Cargo shorts, circa 2012, are just gonna have to do
60 years ago today: Four days after enactment of the Voting Rights Act, federal voter registrars arrive in nine southern counties where Black voters have faced significant difficulties getting on the rolls. Picture below: Black voters registering in Canton, Mississippi, 8/10/1965.
I already know where the Kensington Library is, so maybe that gave me an unfair advantage.
I was not. Something about the poster gave me a clue from which I inferred it was a volunteer event!
Wild guess, but: Mark storm drains?
I have yet to make it to the Mushroom Festival, which really seems mandatory for anyone who's lived in the Philly area for any length of time.
I learned this recently while visiting friends near Peoria. They didn't mention the penicillin cantaloupe, though.
Just a sample of the _good_ that $170 billion in funding could do: • Fund the vital Head Start program for nearly 14 years • Pay for nutritious meals for our nation’s schoolchildren for a full decade Not only is it the right thing to do, full bellies mean better educational outcomes👇🏽
Thread. Sadly, I agree.
No, he’s not giving Putin Alaska, but he is giving Putin a huge gift: the legitimacy of touching down on US soil at the invitation of a US president. A reward for the full-scale invasion of a sovereign, democratic country that the United States and its European allies support.
I knew your father. Your father was someone I covered for Newsday in the 1980s. You, sir, are no Mario Cuomo
When it comes to burglary, the role of the police is to fill out a report that you give to your insurance company.
The U.S. government has fueled decades of world-leading scientific and technical innovation by funding research efforts through grants programs & universities where researchers controlled decisions. In the USSR, no decisions were made by scientists alone. Every decision required political approval.
Hello journalists. If you report this you gotta say that under the Constitution he has no power to do it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
The student newspaper. This fell. To the student. Newspaper.
I actually lent a neighbor a thermal scope (souvenir from an old patent matter) to help them check for another neighbor's cats who went missing after a fire. All cats were found safe, and the scope wasn't needed (but it could've helped).
m-RNA technology made it possible to quickly scale up and provide vaccines to stop the COVID pandemic. Research was moving toward an m-RNA cure for pancreatic cancer. The technology has broad promise for a wide variety of diseases.
Phils powerless against tungsten.
Trying to kill people is popular?
The white supremacist mass shooter’s defense attorney stated that he acted because he believed that “he had to stop the invasion because that’s what his president was telling him … He thought, if he doesn’t do it, then nobody’s going to do it. He’s got to start.”
it's so obvious at this point that the american right wing, despite all their posturing about how they're pro-business, has absolutely not a single clue how actually producing items - be it ag, manufactured goods, etc - at scale is accomplished
Congratulations!
Disaster for tourism, but a new opportunity for the bail bond industry!
having a chat with a friend in neuro today and man, its not appreciated the degree to which funding has fucked a bunch of research. Like a lot multi-million dollar projects in the last run, absolutely dying on the vine
Fun fact: I went through zillions of pages of declassified documents from 1989-95 as a former WWII historian, but few were as earth-shattering as this discovery: Homer Simpson worked on the Manhattan Project. He was present at the creation!!!😱
Came here to say that
I'm usually on the not remembering side and have gotten sufficiently old and sufficiently not caring about being embarrassed in social interactions to just ask their name.
the USA built a system of higher education so good that smart/rich people from across the world came here, spending billions to learn here, subsidizing education for Americans while spending money to live in our cities and towns. our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that
Talking about President Miller sounds like a good angle...
I enjoy a walk to get an espresso or latte around 3 or 4 in the afternoon. The closest place to me is open, but doesn't have an espresso machine. The second closest has espresso, but closes at 3PM. I need to walk all the way over to the third closest place, which is open until 6:00. Suffering!
There are signs for a Decoy Museum on 95 in Maryland. It is, in fact, not a decoy, but a real museum, featuring a lot of decoys, or fake ducks made of painted wood.
I learned long ago not to park in front of that Wawa. Much better chance of having an intact car by parking in the loading zone down the block.