VOTE THE RIDGE proudly endorses Chris Rabb-Dem for US Congress PA-03-in the 5/19 primary. @chrisrabb.com has proven time and again that he will stand up for working families on healthcare, workers’ rights, education, transit, immigrant rights, racial justice, the environment & reproductive rights.

This is what solidarity looks like. Together, we will win.

Sometimes it sounds as if #PHLed authorities think there was no community process in 2012-13, but in fact there were countless meetings ... just very little actionable information or opportunity for meaningful community input - and a rush to judgment.

It is still unclear to me what lessons have been learned from the 2012-13 #PHLed school closings fiasco. (A thread based on my recollections of that experience). www.inquirer.com/education/ph...

Today, I formally announced I’m running for Congress! Looking forward to helping grow this people-powered movement on behalf of Philly’s working families in PA’s CD-03! archive.ph/2025.07.08-1...

Days like these, I’m thankful @willbunch.bsky.social is around to tell it like it is. How do we impeach a mad king enabled by mad courtiers? www.inquirer.com/opinion/dona...

Philly #NoKings

Philly, this is your last chance. Polls are open RIGHT NOW, and we need you to go VOTE YES on BALLOT QUESTION #2 to fully fund affordable housing for Philly families! Polls are open until 8 PM tonight. You can vote on ballot questions regardless of your party affiliation.

Red Lion Station will attract 2,370 daily riders. It would provide critical access for students attending Swenson Arts & Technology High School and Archbishop Ryan High School, while serving the many businesses surrounding Northeast Philadelphia Airport.

What meanspirited jerk would steal Philly’s Beardmobile from the Allens Lane Art Center? 😡 www.axios.com/local/philad...

Finally, A MOTHERFUCKING PROTECTED BIKE LANE.

"If you destroy higher education in this country, you harm the ability of every day kids to build a better life, you kill innovation, & you undermine democracy because higher ed gives us the skills to create a critical, thriving democracy...I think that's part of the intention." — Todd Wolfson, AAUP

Another strong York Dispatch editorial calling out AG Dave Sunday for withholding information from a woman whose two young girls were kidnapped & murdered by their abusive cop father in 2021 www.yorkdispatch.com/story/opinio...

ICE is now asserting it's a federal crime for bystanders to request that masked people in plain clothes show identification as they're handcuffing folks and stuffing them into unmarked vans.

The Philadelphia Dem City Committee doesn’t have a problem with endorsing a candidate who was reprimanded by the PA Judicial Disciplinary Board and is clearly unqualified to be judge. Philadelphia deserves better. share.inquirer.com/mRCeYI

This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story. @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...

Purported ICE agents raid a courthouse in Charlottesville in plain clothes without badges, ID or warrants, cart off two men without explanation. One of the three men was masked and the detainees were ushered into unmarked van. Video in the article. dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...

ICYMI: Our statement on interference in our Philly judicial forum: #PAPolitics #PHLElections www.votetheridge.org/2025-statement

Vote the Ridge is proud to endorse Larry Krasner for DA, and Brian Kisielewski and Mike Huff for judge in the 2025 Primary. These candidates met our high standards and we recommend them wholeheartedly! Read more here: www.votetheridge.org

NEW: Yesterday, the Justice Department sent armed marshals to warn former U.S. pardon attorney Liz Oyer not to disclose internal DOJ information during her Senate testimony. Today, Oyer is speaking out to condemn the DOJ’s actions and defend the rule of law.

JUST IN: Saying the Trump administration’s “grievous error” “shocks the conscience,” a federal judge has rejected their call to lift her order demanding the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Estimates are now over 10,000 in the place where our Democracy was Founded! Our Democracy was Started here and IT WILL NOT DIE HERE. #HandsOffPhilly #HandsOff2025 @indivisible.org @maddow.msnbc.com @maddowblog.msnbc.com @50501philadelphia.bsky.social @newpennsylvania.bsky.social

Philly #HandsOff rally fills Independence Plaza. Speaker says Philly has a great record of defeating as@hole kings!

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

Eric Adams yesterday morning: "I’m a Democrat. I’m going to be a Democrat. I’m going to run as a Democrat and I’ve said that over and over again." Today...

A picture tells 1000 words

March saw the third-highest number of layoffs in U.S. history, and 80% of them were caused by DOGE This was before the tariffs It's just...unbelievable

Notably missing: Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Columbia. Kind of mindblowing to me given what the substance of this letter is: "government should not retaliate against law firms"

All I keep thinking about is how Pete Hegseth raised questions of the competency of a Black four-star general and Air Force fighter pilot who was the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Hegseth asked did he get the job “because of his skin color? Or his skill? We’ll never know, but always doubt.”

NEW DATES: Join @votetheridge.bsky.social and @mtairydems.bsky.social for a virtual judicial candidate forum on 4/3 & 4/7 from 7-9PM. Learn about the candidates running to be judge in Philadelphia before voting in the primary on May 20th. Register here: bit.ly/phillycandid...

The Social Security Administration is engulfed in crisis — further undermining its ability to provide reliable and quick service to vulnerable customers, according to internal documents and more than two dozen current and former agency employees and officials, customers and others.

The Shame of Columbia: violating academic freedom “Not even during the communist witch hunts of the early 1950s did a university agree to put an entire academic department under special oversight because of what its faculty researched or taught.” open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

We shall postpone fighting on the beaches, we shall keep an eye on the landing grounds, we encourage everyone else, should the right circumstances come, to fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall eventually retreat to the hills; we shall never explicitly surrender.

Penn employees and students marching the petition, signed by over 1,000 of our coworkers, to College Hall. This beauty is 30 feet long!

Democrats are really going to regret not standing up to Trump, not just because they’ll lose voters, but because they’ll lose a democratic system where having more voters is the way you gain power.

Thanks to @jmitchellnews.bsky.social for giving me the chance today to comment on the removal of webpages devoted to Medgar Evers at Arlington National Cemetery. 🗃️ mississippitoday.org/2025/03/17/w...

For those folks who have been waiting to climb the pole and ring the “constitutional crisis” bell, it would appear we have arrived. Neither Judge Sorokin nor Judge Boasberg believed that he was signing a meaningless order, and both judges demanded compliance that never came.

Profound opinion piece by a Penn Alum share.inquirer.com/LWuFt8

This isn't the canary in the coal mine, it's a mine shaft full of dead miners.

Why not just reinstate coverture?

🚨BREAKING: Columbia students stage a protest to demand the release of grad Mahmoud Khalil, who was detained by ICE Saturday night. The school has not yet issued a statement about Khalil’s case.

This Is the Greatest Threat to Free Speech Since the Red Scare. @michellegoldberg.bsky.social on Mahmoud Khalil’s detention and the US’ descent into authoritarianism. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/o...

Can Americans be prosecuted for refusing to buy Teslas? This Federalist Society lawyer thinks so.

NEW: Mahmoud Khalil's motion to force ICE to return him to New York: "His very arrest and detention were in retaliation for Mr. Khalil’s constitutionally protected advocacy on behalf of Palestinian human rights." www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Do mass firings create jobs? Or do they just make billionaires richer at the expense of the less fortunate Americans?

Saleemah McNeil of the Oshun Family Center speaking now about disparities in maternal health care. Asks crowd to show up for all women’s health and self determination.

Physicist asked the crowd, “tell me, did you become scientists to get rich quick?” Crowd: no! Did you become scientists out of curiosity, wanting to understand the world and help others? Crowd: yes!