BREAKING: DOJ investigates the Hungarian electorate for Mortgage Fraud

For good and for ill, resign-to-run keeps City Council ambition in check | Shackamaxon Plus: Councilmember Cindy Bass keeps Germantown down, and Gov. Josh Shapiro is hardly sweating his reelection challenge.

Resign to run is popular with residents, but it may be why City Council struggles to attract transformative thinkers.

Instead, we get members like Cindy Bass, who are more focused on who gets the job than whether it is well done.

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Roosevelt Mall today is little more than acres of surface parking.

With a Roosevelt Boulevard Subway station, it could be transformed into a vibrant mixed-use neighborhood featuring hundreds of new housing units and everyday amenities like grocery stores, parks, and community spaces.

Part of me is uneasy that Donald Trump is President of the United States right now.

The first year of congestion pricing in New York saw straphangers take more than 90 million additional subway rides than in the previous year, a new report from the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the MTA (PCAC) found. According to the rider advocacy group's analysis, which it released on Tuesday, ridership on the city's rails grew from 1.21 billion to 1.3 billion between 2024 and 2025. The bump marked a 7.7% rise - double the increase in ridership between 2023 and 2024.

here’s a crazy fact: under congestion pricing, NYC subway ridership grew by more than the *total* number of riders on BART last year

All Americans should root for the downfall of a wicked regime that tries to dictate religion to its citizens.

And also the one in Iran.

If anyone wasn't of the belief that he's trying to create a state-run media, the fact that he shared this should take care of any hesitation on that front.

James Talarico says it’s time to start flipping tables

"He seems to have had no idea that the Gulf would be a target. … He professed that Iran’s attacks on American allies were 'probably the biggest surprise'—despite the fact that just about every country in the region had warned that Iran would surely attack them in retaliation."

I’m walking here! A new model maps foot traffic in New York City MIT researchers built a complete model of pedestrian activity in New York City, the first such comprehensive effort for any U.S. city. The model could help planners decide where to invest in pedestria...

🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️ “I’m walking here.” MIT researchers, led by DUSP Professor Andres Sevtsuk, have created the first complete model of pedestrian activity in any US city — mapping sidewalks, crosswalks, and footpaths across all five boroughs of New York City.
Published in Nature Cities
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Suburbia is Subsidized: Here's the Math [ST07] YouTube video by Not Just Bikes

WATCH: If you STILL don’t understand how car-dependent suburbia is HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED by downtown and all the urban parts of your city, watch this EXCELLENT video by #NotJustBikes with #Urban3 & @strongtowns.bsky.social. And PLEASE SHARE it as much as possible.

I’ve sent it to a LOT of politicians.

Fewest murders through February since 1962 in Philadelphia, second fewest on record (14 in 1962).

Just War Theory very clearly says you can launch a war if you're pretty sure your opponent intends to maybe do something bad someday

FWIW, this is sec. 2(c) of the War Powers Resolution:

Ad from the Urban Truth Collective with an image of a walkable corner coffee shop in a mixed-use and walkable neighbourhood, with the tagline “Walkable neighbourhoods aren’t scary, they’re convenient.”

You know what’s scary?

Car dependency.

#UrbanTruth

I refuse to get used to our government murdering people on the high seas. If they can do it to these people, they can do it to you.

Think of how bad things must be for a Supreme Court Justice to feel he has to explain why it's a good idea to have laws enacted by legislators instead of decreed by wannabe dictators

“In less than a year, DHS has attacked the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, 10th, 14th amendments to the US Constitution, the writ of habeas corpus, the independent judiciary, and much more,” states David Bier before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee.

Read full testimony: https://ow.ly/z2aT50Yfcri

a woman is sitting at a table with her hands folded in front of her . ALT: a woman is sitting at a table with her hands folded in front of her .

Oh I LOVE that Georgetown Law just issued a gigantic fuck-you to the forces of fascism by naming Liz Magill as their new dean.

A glimpse into what life after cars actually looks like (with @TheWarOnCars) YouTube video by Shifter

So cool to be given a glimpse into life after cars with @thewaroncars.bsky.social in their own neighbourhood!
youtu.be/K9qYiCYGwiE

Democracies are so strong that they allow people to criticize democracy. In fact, the ability to do so is an essential quality of democracy. Authoritarians are so weak they don't allow people to criticize authoritarians. Silencing dissent is an essential quality of authoritarian regimes.

"'This is killing for sport, it's killing for theater and it's utterly lawless,' said Baher Azmy, legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. 'We need a court of law to rein in this administration and provide some accountability to the families.'"

Large brick wall with a tiny white signat the base of the wall that says "Slavery was real"

"Slavery was real"

Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.

Presidents House, Philadelphia.

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

Justice Brett Kavanaugh

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DOJ investigating whether Denmark lied on its Greenland mortgage.

Three generations of law professors making history up is enough.

Scholars spend decades researching and writing history with nuance and care.

American law professors will take a couple of months to relearn all of science to explain why the world is, in fact, flat.

What Are You Going To Do? You know, as soon as I started reading this Paul Campos post about "respectable" conservatives who, in the event that Trump does ( as he ha...

I don't know how hard Donald Trump will try to cancel the 2026 elections, but I do know that whatever steps he takes, Josh Blackman will find a way to rationalize it.

The situation for free speech in Europe is even worse than I thought A look at censorship in the EU and the UK, and why the U.S. must not do the same

@glukianoff: "If the forces arrayed on the left have their way, we will look a lot more like the UK. And if the forces on the right have their way, we will look a lot more like Hungary. Either way, we won’t be recognizably American." eternallyradicalidea.com/p/the-situat...

They are unlawfully detaining people for First Amendment protected activities, as far as I can tell. Dragging people out of their vehicles absent witnessing a crime and without a judicial warrant is repugnant to our constitutional order.