Wow. US Marshall shot by an ICE agent.

NBC News finds that: -- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six. -- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam. -- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

The CDC Diaspora Fights Back How America’s scientific army is trying to stand up for public health—and stand up for itself. www.thebulwark.com/p/cdc-diaspo...

The only thing that strikes fear into our hearts! #SpookySeason

Kada Scott case: DA Larry Krasner to give update after human remains found amid search for missing Philadelphia woman https://www.newsbeep.com/us-pa/8831/ PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — Two weeks after 23-year-old Kada Scott disappeared while working her overnight shift at a senior…

Rob Thomson’s Gamble Pays Off: #Phillies Crush #Dodgers to Stay Alive

come on out www.ticketweb.com/event/super-...

The rapture? On Rosh Hashanah? A Rosh Hashanah Rapture? Nisht geshtoygn un nisht gefloygn!

I often go to NYC for Rosh Hashanah with family. Never had so much trouble getting a hotel room. Why is this year different? The opening of the UN General Assembly is on the same days.

Artist Isaiah Zagar before one of his South Street murals.

Anti wind energy fossil fuel coalition pressures professor: Washington-based firm, Marzulla Law, who for decades now, have been representing extractive firms, lumbering firms, mining firms, oil and gas companies, including some of the largest ones. www.ripbs.org/news-and-cul...

rent assistance > rent freeze

AND NOW THE SENIOR CDC LEADERS HAVE JOINED THE WALK OUT! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...

Some remarkable quotes from these CDC resignation letters:

Ousted CDC chief told to break the law: Colleague www.rawstory.com/cdc-firing-i...

Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.

Philadelphia to throw "once-in-a-generation" monthslong celebration for U.S. Navy and Marines' 250th birthday https://tinyurl.com/2bvkcd79 #philly #philadelphia #jawnphilly

ICYMI Alarming levels of Pfas in blood of those living near US air force base, study finds Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ were found at a level 10 times higher than people who did not work in contaminated zone www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Gallery / Fashion District / Market East Forever™️ Needs a more inviting entrance -- and seating. Suburban malls have non-shopper chaperone seating everywhere!

🧵1/6 Hours before a gunman fired nearly 500 rounds 🔫 into CDC HQ — killing Officer David Rose 🚔 and forcing hundreds of us into lockdown — RFK Jr.’s hand-picked vaccine advisor posted a gun photo with this caption: “Five out of six scientists have proven that Russian roulette is harmless.” 🎯

As a bass player, I will never understand why I should care about what tuning or capos the guitarists use. Two measures in, I hear and land in the key we're in. And we're off. The shapes are the same. A five string helps, but you can always hit an octave higher if not. Why is this an issue?

It's a little more complicated. Jewish settlers in Judea & Samaria retain full lsraeli citizenship while living there, are governed by lsraeli civil law. Most of the existing Arab population there do not enjoy citizenship, are subject to lsraeli military courts. www.instagram.com/reel/DNRMg6r...

There's legalization and regulation (great!) -- and then there's the status quo of toxic synthetic laced garbage neatly packaged and sold to kids. These findings are completely unsurprising to me.

I truly believe we are not doing enough on both the front end (psych evals, some college) to ensure better candidates, nor throughout their tenure in being able to disqualify candidates for reasons most other employers typically would, and this is a disservice to the force as a whole.

It's time to end what has been a devastating military campaign that is turning into an abject humanitarian disaster; this is the liberal Zionist position and one shared by many diaspora philanthropists. www.jewishexponent.com/major-diaspo...

ICE detentions have risen sharply in PA, NJ during the Trump administration. That rise is being driven almost exclusively by people categorized by the agency as non-criminal via @joeyerardi.bsky.social Story: www.inquirer.com/news/ice-cus...

Initially, analysts wanted to add armor where they saw the most bullet holes, but statistician Abraham Wald realized they should armor the areas with NO holes, because planes hit in those critical spots never made it home to be counted. The planes they could examine were only the 'survivors.'

Same - and same.

Officer David Rose died protecting us. A true hero. Thank you. 🔗 Link to Officer Rose’s speech: m.facebook.com/watch/?v=109...

you can always still text 911 by the way www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...

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#CSIS | Center for Strategic & International Studies | #NatSec RFA and VOA Shutdown: The Erosion of U.S. Soft Power in Southeast Asia ~ @csis.org, Mar 31, 2025 "The loss of VOA and RFA provides an opportunity for China and Russia to gain ground unchecked." www.csis.org/analysis/rfa...

Breaking news from my @inquirer.com colleague Ximena Conde: The new soccer fields being built at FDR Park will no longer be used as a World Cup practice site next year. Penn's Rhodes Field and the Eagles' NovaCare Complex will now be the primary sites. www.inquirer.com/news/fifa-pr...

Y'all: Let's not get distracted by blame games that target foreign aid or other minor budget items. The U.S. has more than enough resources to fund Medicare for All and would actually save money doing it. Let's focus on the real entrenched interests that are the obstacles here.

Blaming foreign aid— to Israel or any other country—for the absence of universal healthcare is not a serious policy argument. It's illiberal; it makes zero strides in advancing m4a; it just tells us what's to blame for it. We have the money. Actually, studies show it would cut healthcare costs

the reason we don't have free health care is not lack of money. we have plenty of money, and the insistence that the problem is scarcity just adopts right wing frames and makes health care harder.

These AI note tools (many brands) are getting quite aggressive at growing market share. If anyone in a meeting had the transcription tool enabled -- it emails a preview to everyone because it has access to emails. To see it in full, you must activate the tool and give it access to your calendar. 🔁

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

like, we were spending money to provide health care for people abroad, then Musk shuttered it; 300,000 people have died and there's good reason to think it'll kill up to 25 million. has this led to better or free health care in the US? hm.

US historically has taken turns playing one side or the other in ME, we supported the Ba'ath Party and thus saddam hussein, until we didnt we supported the mujahadeen which evolved into the taliban we're either the ultimate double crossing transactional opportunists or we cant learn from history.

This is the first time that a president has activated a state’s National Guard without a request from that state’s governor since 1965. And back then, it to *protect* civil rights demonstrators.

It's remarkable how much of this administration's agenda has been laser focused on simply making life worse for ordinary Americans.

Russia Fielding New Nuclear-Armed Air-To-Air Missiles: U.S. Intel A nuclear-tipped air-to-air missile sounds like a Cold War relic, but the Pentagon assesses that Russia is introducing a new weapon of this type. Story: www.twz.com/air/russia-f...

I might believe the concern about environmental toxins more if they weren’t terminating EPA research grants, proposing to roll back the Mercury and Air Toxics rule, promoting coal and killing renewables, etc. Watch what they do, not what they say. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

As a Soviet refugee, I was not "indoctrinated" or raised in a particular Jewish religious tradition to be a Zionist. Rather, my connection to the land is a very practical one. I would not have gotten out without an lsraeli "vyzov" (invite). Most of my extended family found refuge in lsrael.

We want these facades to endure as part of the built environment and to tell their story. And we need the revenue to ensure they are well maintained -- revenue from overbuilds, co-builds (new structure beside old one on same parcel), new use by rebuilding the rear, to be allowed and not shot down.

I support historic preservation. Which is why we SHOULD encourage flex and "lite" designations that do not overly restrict materials, esp culturally (not architecturally) significant designations. We WANT it easier to mod the rear add new structures on the parcel. www.linkedin.com/pulse/common...