“Without Dan’s voice, Philly Mag wouldn’t be Philly Mag. And, I’d argue, Philadelphia wouldn’t quite be Philadelphia.” Dan’s editor here, Brian Howard, on what our friend meant to this magazine and, more importantly, this city.

The Wildwood Boardwalk t-shirts of 1978: defector.com/the-wildwood...

Dan was a friend and a legend, and it’s been extremely touching to read everyone’s remembrances of him; Dan forever. defector.com/dan-mcquade-...

Abolish Ice? No! This fantastic essay details a pragmatic, workable and very conservative training program for current agents that will solve all its problems and address civilian concerns. Bravo!

The great thing about this idea is that DHS already operates, via third party contractors, excellent re-training facilities to accommodate their entire force. It's perfect, really.

I have a piece today in Defector making the case for "more training" for ICE agents. A *lot* more training. defector.com/i-have-a-gre...

well well WELL well WELL well well, look who it is on defector dot com defector.com/i-have-a-gre...

only one author in the history of English language literature had a cooler real name than the guys he made up: Rex Stout.

What do we call it when a politician holds a public rally calling for the expulsion of homeless people from public space?

number one thing that makes me feel like I'm living in an RPG is the messianic cult depositing Lore everywhere

There's their idealized version of Eric Adams, where a black moderate, socially tolerant former cop can assemble a politically viable, diverse coalition to address serious systemic problems. Then there's the actual, real-life Eric Adams, who is a corrupt moron and quite possibly insane.

When I met Jim Starlin, he told me “There’s only one difference between writing for Marvel and and writing for DC. The editors at Marvel are tyrants, and the editors at DC are idiots.”

Don't Call Him Deacon Blues

yet again I must give it up for trees their cooling effect is so obvious in this newly mapped data on the heat island effect in nyc https://projects.thecity.nyc/2023_07_heat-island-nyc/index.html

"There are more than 10 million private swimming pools in the United States, according to a C.D.C. estimate, compared with just 309,000 public ones."

Hey it's me, Sonic the Hedgehog! BIG NEWS: AEGIS-CWA won its union election - SEGA of America has Unionized! Remember, unionizing your workplace is way past cool! Just like the Chaos Emeralds, workers are stronger when we're together.

proposal: on the signup page for this website there should be a jpeg of fentanyl used as talisman to ward away any police officers

YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO VISIT THE ZOO, NOT BUY IT

I went to an $8 matinee of The Flash and I would've loved the hell out of that movie when I was 11. It's very funny that it flopped and the star went on a crime spree but it's also somehow the best/most comic booky Big Two movie in years.

I was reading some silver age comics to my kid and it led me to wiki an obscure character and so many of these begin like "Solovar was the smartest ape in Gorilla City and an ally of The Flash" and then in the 2000s become this

I never owned a Wii but I'm getting into emulation (cool/sexy activity) and it's truly remarkable how annoying the original controls of New Super Mario Bros Wii are. I don't even hate motion controls this is just a stupid way to control a platformer. Why do I shake to pick up a thing.

Asteroid City. Very good. Will probably be the most visually impressive film involving nuclear bomb tests that I see this year.

2:12 am... going back for more Steely Dan - Second Arrangement | Remastered Nichols cassette

Hey it's me, Sonic the Hedgehog! Fuck the Supreme Court!

Horrific case in Chicago, in which prosecutors sat on evidence that someone arrested at age 28 hadn't committed the murder ... and then made him spend the next 12 years rotting away in PRETRIAL DETENTION in Cook County. Nearly half his life he'll never get back.

a car with obviously fake plates has been blocking the hydrant in front of my building for four days and I am literally begging the NYPD to tow it and they're just closing out my 311 tickets. great way to run a city.

New FOREVER WARS: As the Atlanta City Council votes on Cop City, Cat Brooks of the Anti-Police Terror Project warns that last week’s charges against the Atlanta Solidarity Fund could be a template against protest infrastructure nationwide.

someone should edit in "Flagpole Sitta" over the Succession ending montage

I had a fun time talking about cattle mutilations (aka, “mutes”) with @pareene.bsky.social & @lauramarsh.bsky.social for TNR’s The Politics of Everything podcast, if you want to learn about that stuff: https://t.co/LRw9H1PmVS

I just went to a WGAE-hosted screening of "Matewan" and I'm ready to run through a wall for the union

“In dozens of documented cases involving severe injuries of prisoners, including three deaths, the agency did not even try to discipline officers, state records show.”

since I mostly stepped away from Twitter I have had more time to focus on what is really important and work on emotional and intellectual development (learned how to do cryptic crosswords)