In a year when Philly's hospitality sector is surely going to see great profits from World Cup, Semiquincentennial, etc., City Council chose to axe $20 million for homeless services that Parker proposed funding through increased taxes on hotels & short-term rentals. www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...

PHILLY (anywhere from 41 to 33% of Bluesky): Are you curious why the school district budget continues to be in crisis? Want to know how to avoid laying off reading teachers in the middle of a literacy crisis? Wednesday at 5pm, a smarter person than me will explain. RSVP here: luma.com/e7cgfzb8

Have you noticed a deluge of ads bashing or venerating candidates running for state legislature? If so, you are witness to a slugfest between gambling interests with big implications for who calls the shots in Harrisburg. www.spotlightpa.org/news/2026/05...

A Pa. grassroots activist and a flurry of right-to-know requests has the receipts on Josh Shapiro's cozy relationship with Amazon as its $20B push for energy-guzzling data centers angers locals Did Amazon deliver a blow to Shapiro's White House dreams? My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/tech...

New @mapthepower.bsky.social and ACRE report found that "the largest beneficiary of the [EITC and OSTC] school voucher tax credit programs is a company led by the state’s richest man and prolific school privatization advocate, billionaire Jeff Yass" littlesis.org/reports/comp...

The sadly ironic part of this circus is that a major cause of the School District facilities dilemma is the exodus of students to charter schools. Some of the loudest Council critics of the school board like Isaiah Thomas have also been supporters of charterization. www.inquirer.com/education/li...

Latest filing by 314 Action Fund, the Super PAC supporting Ala Stanford, shows a $500k contribution from a mysterious "Kimbark Foundation" on 3/9/26. The "foundation" just filed its incorporation on 12/19/25. Seems highly sus as possible AIPAC pass-through. 1/ docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/form...

Here in Philadelphia, Uber, your friendly neighborhood monopolist, is blanketing the city with ads to stop a rideshare tax that would prevent cuts to 340 School District of Philadelphia teachers, reading and math specialists, counselors, and more.

A budget is a moral document! In an op-ed for @inquirer.com, Amistad's Co-ED, Nikki Grant, and Vivian Chang of Asian Americans United call on Mayor Cherelle Parker to show up for Philadelphians with the financial investments our communities need to survive. www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

The PA Governor's money race: Garrity's top donor to date is University City Housing Co., a real estate firm owned by Michael Karp, who is also the founder of a West Philadelphia charter school www.spotlightpa.org/news/2026/04... via @SpotlightPA

We demand a city free from Trump’s deportations, fear & violence. ICE Out bills put our values into law & prioritize immigrant communities' safety. Show up Mon. 4/13 for Council hearing & 1st vote to demand no city $, personnel, data or space be used to help ICE! RSVP www.mobilize.us/ndwa-c3/even...

From airlines to telecommunications to construction and engineering, a host of private, for-profit businesses are cashing in on the Trump administration’s violent crackdown on immigrants. Join us for this training on the 26th to learn how to research ICE contracts. littlesis.org/training/res...

"Garrity’s single biggest donation was $250,000 from University City Housing Co., a real estate firm providing housing near Drexel and the University of Pennsylvania." www.inquirer.com/politics/pen...

What does collaboration with ICE look like in PA? ICE can access state data without a warrant. Troopers cannot ask about immigration status, but can and do tell ICE if they otherwise discover someone is undocumented. And prisons honor some ICE detainers. www.spotlightpa.org/news/2026/02...

The Parker administration is failing so many of our most vulnerable neighbors while hanging our overworked, underpaid library workers out to dry www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

Reminder that the Parker admin chose to allow this tax hike for small businesses rather than trying to defend against a lawsuit challenging the BIRT exemption. But the people most to blame for rising taxes for Philly small businesses are the PA Republicans who refuse to change the uniformity clause.

Two Philadelphia City Council members will introduce legislation this week to restrict cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The push comes as ICE faces mounting national scrutiny over its tactics in Minneapolis.

Despite several attempts to export the idea, Seattle remains the only U.S. city with a democracy vouchers program, which provides money to residents to donate to the local candidates of their choice.

Pretty consistent with the last round of disparate school closings in Philadelphia

Level up your data analysis skills at our new mini-training series! We’ll feature a few intro-level tips and tricks to get you started cleaning, combining and understanding data. Register: littlesis.org/trainings/

Philadelphians demand a city free from Trump’s deportations, fear and violence. The ICE Out legislation puts our values into law and prioritizes the safety of immigrant communities. Show up Tuesday to launch this legislation and get ICE out of our city! RSVP here: www.mobilize.us/ndwa-c3/even...

TikTok has been under new leadership for like a day and I made a slideshow with posts from the ICE rally today and it immediately got out under review and is not being published. Incredible.

"The group of investors that officially bought TikTok’s US assets includes an affiliate of Susquehanna International Group, the Pennsylvania investment giant owned by billionaire Jeff Yass, which will gain a spot on the spinoff venture’s board." technical.ly/entrepreneur...

"The American version of the Nuremberg Trials are coming for ICE, and ICE should be afraid. And until they happen, the poets, the helpers, the nurses, the educators, the mothers will be sharing, recording, and watching." thank you @spfelocal28.bsky.social

The firm owned by Jeff Yass, Pennsylvania’s richest man, is now co-leading US TikTok Financial powerhouse Susquehanna International Group, an early ByteDance investor, is now central to the app’s new US leadership. technical.ly/entrepreneur...

20 #PHLed schools would close, 6 would co-locate, and 159 get upgrades under the long-awaited facilities master plan proposed by Supt. Watlington today. More: www.inquirer.com/education/ph...

Check out our latest post: Six Steps for Researching the Corporate Enablers of ICE We briefly highlight a few campaigns that are targeting ICE’s corporate collaborators and provide a guide on how you can research these corporations. littlesis.org/news/six-ste...

The Philly Transit Riders Union used DocumentCloud’s annotation feature to highlight public documents with their members and share them with local reporters and the public. Join us on Friday to learn more during our Building with MuckRock event. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Any expressions of concern about ICE from the @mayorparker.bsky.social administration are meaningless if they're allowing Philly police to actively assist ICE.

Demand that the Philadelphia Parking Authority (PPA) cut its ties to ICE

Please understand this is happening in literally dozens of locations around the city simultaneously. If an ICE vehicle stops, community members materialize in seconds and do everything they can to stop the kidnappings. We are under siege and using every tool to fight back.

A quick search on LinkedIn turns up hundreds of people who work for 🧊. People should message them to tell them to quit their jobs. And shame them in front of their communities.

Perhaps do a little background research before turning someone into a resistance icon. www.inquirer.com/topic/rochel...

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This Philly charter awarded a big contract to a board member’s friend, then punished the official who reported it, a lawsuit says www.inquirer.com/education/al... via @phillyinquirer

Pennsylvania’s libertarian billionaire lands a big profile in the WaPo. wapo.st/4iOU6Ph

👀 "The lawsuit is applying the Commonwealth Court’s 2023 decision that students have a constitutional right to an adequate education.... If successful, some of the arguments in this new lawsuit could be used against other cyber charter schools in the future." www.pennlive.com/education/20...

Philly could be doing this too, but instead we have cyber charters running ads on SEPTA buses

"Defeating Communism" SuperPAC pissing off PA GOP legislators via attack ads criticizing GOP for considering taxes on "skill games" gambling. Sen. Bartolotta: "[Skills game lobby is] acting like criminals. And I don't know what in the world they think this is going to do to engender our support" 🍿

We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans. washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

A little too on the nose that this cyber charter school CEO complaining about the new cyber charter accountability measures in the PA state budget is converting a 219-year-old public library into his private home.

NEW: The Philadelphia Housing Authority is planning sweeping layoffs that will affect more than 300 of the agency’s 1,200 employees. Instead of directly employing union electricians, carpenters and other workers, beginning next year, the agency will contract out for those jobs as needed.

Peter Greene on Forbes: Pennsylvania Budget Cuts Cyber Charter Funding, Adds Accountability www.forbes.com/sites/peterg...

Nashid Akil, 46, the former captain in North Philadelphia’s 22nd Police District, turned himself in at police headquarters, along with the others, according to a well-placed source familiar with the case.

Billionaire Marc Rowan wrote Trump's "Academic Compact" loyalty oath in order to, in his words, destroy universities the way seen in Europe in the 30's and 40's. His private equity firm Apollo also owns the University of Phoenix, the country's biggest creator of student debt.

Billionaire Jeffrey Yass named as donor to Trump’s $250 million White House ballroom keystonenewsroom.com/2025/10/27/b...

After Local Judge Greenlights Bucks County Sheriff-ICE Pact, Voters May Be the Last Hope to Derail It | Democratic candidate for sheriff Danny Ceisler said if elected he vows to “end this deportation partnership once and for all.”

Councilmember Landau asks about whether the City is using AI for public safety. CIO says no, they aren't. Councilmember Landau says that it's a matter of public record that the City is using Shotspotter and facial recognition. #PhillyAIHearing