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

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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

Preempting the asset manager society in Philadelphia... "A third bill would ask voters to approve another charter amendment, this one to ban the city from privatizing or otherwise contracting out the ownership or operation of its water supply and sewage systems."

"AI in Philly govt is a black box: There is no public process for communities to review proposed tech & determine if it’s truly safe for us (let alone beneficial)" Attend the City Council hearing on AI in Philly: Wed. 10/15 10am-1pm @PhillyCAM! www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

During July’s eight-day municipal worker strike, the city spent almost $1.26 million per day on added costs needed to maintain basic services, such as hiring contractors to haul trash from dump sites and paying overtime to some Water Department supervisors, Mayor Cherelle L. Parker announced Friday.

As City Council struggles to confront skill games, fake weed, and kratom stores--which are regulated (or not) rom Harrisburg and D.C.--local legislators are increasingly using broad brush tools that effect other small businesses too: www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...

Dispatch from Pennsylvania on a highly unusual state Supreme Court election—one of the few most consequential matters on the ballot anywhere in the country next month. New from me in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...

We mapped out some of the key oligarchs and billionaire corporations that are profiting from ICE's deportation machine. More: littlesis.org/news/the-bil...

AI is everywhere in Philly. But where does that data go? Who has access? Who decides how it’s used? How else could we spend that $? We have a critical window to demand transparency, accountability, & community control over how tech is used in our city. Join us: phillytechjustice.org/hearing

"Many of the ideas included in the proposal...came from a doc circulated last winter at the behest of Marc Rowan" "as Penn was mired in acrimony over antisemitism & pro-Palestinian activism in 2023, he wielded his wealth & influence to help oust his alma mater’s pres" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

The federal shutdown was entirely foreseeable. The current fascist constitutional crisis and resulting instability are all the more reason that it was absurd for the Parker admin to codify 13 years of local tax cuts earlier this year. www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...

NEWS: Major unions @nationalnurses.bsky.social and @ueunion.org are publicly demanding that the U.S. immediately halt military aid to Israel, recognize Palestinian sovereignty, and intervene “to put an end to the violence, starvation, and injustices being inflicted on the Palestinian people.”

Philadelphia Parks & Rec plans to install 32 acres of toxic turf in FDR Park, has claimed it will be recycled after it wears out (after 8–10 years). That's BS and Parks knows it.

Dear University of Pennsylvania: Do. Not. Comply. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Apparently true "Christian" nationalism means dropping bombs on random fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico

“Much like we saw in Wisconsin, MAGA billionaires are lying and trying to buy this election so they can install a Pennsylvania Supreme Court that will put the needs of the wealthy ahead of the rest of us.” share.inquirer.com/bFRImF