Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Lauren Vidas @broadandmarket.gobirds.online · 4d

Just a reminder that @denadriscoll.bsky.social and I got matching eagles buddy tattoos and the @philadelphiaeagles.bsky.social won the Super Bowl, so we went and got matching @phillies.com tattoos during spring training to ensure a Phillies World Series.

2 1 19

Lauren Vidas @broadandmarket.gobirds.online · 4d

Dreams and Nightmares came on at Oscar’s. Dodgers are cooked.

4

Lauren Vidas @broadandmarket.gobirds.online · 7d

The entirety of the Gotham FC walked by me in Rittenhouse. I nearly fainted.

1 26

Lauren Vidas @broadandmarket.gobirds.online · 9d

Absolutely stoked to be a part of this awesome event, the State of Young Philadelphia 2025.

Free to attend, registration required.

luma.com/w7x0apq8

4

Lauren Vidas @broadandmarket.gobirds.online · 13d

No live skeeting today as I am somehow back on a plane again. Newsletter will be out by Monday.

1

Lauren Vidas @broadandmarket.gobirds.online · 16d

Is this Apple Watch or phone?

1

Lauren Vidas @broadandmarket.gobirds.online · 16d

Cars ruin cities.

6

Lauren Vidas @broadandmarket.gobirds.online · 18d

Channeling my inner @jobforphilly.bsky.social - “Why can’t us?” Ljubljana, Slovenia is a pedestrian paradise. It limits car traffic through its city center for most hours of the day. They instead have different evs that roam around offering free rides to those who need a lift.

1 1 12

Reposted by Lauren Vidas

Jake Blumgart @jblumgart.bsky.social · 22d

insane story www.inquirer.com/crime/stephe...

A Philly landlord’s scheme to terrorize his tenants into moving out left two people dead

Stephen Wilkins pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in connection with the 2023 killing of Patricia Hall, a tenant he was trying to force out of his East Germantown property.

www.inquirer.com

5 9

Lauren Vidas @broadandmarket.gobirds.online · 27d

Also, no live tweet of council today because I just got to kotor. Newsletter will be out sometime tomorrow once I catch the rebroadcast.

1 1

Lauren Vidas @broadandmarket.gobirds.online · 27d

Just landed in Dubrovnik and we taxied past a Jet 2 Holidays plane and it felt like seeing a celebrity on the street.

5

Reposted by Lauren Vidas

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 29d

Unpopular opinion:

I think what "Phillies Karen" did was bad

But I don't think it's natural or healthy to have so many people focusing so many time and energy on the small-scale actions of one regular person who we will never encounter.

10 4 85

Lauren Vidas @broadandmarket.gobirds.online · Sep 5

Me explaining how Dak Prescott spit first.

1 16

Lauren Vidas @broadandmarket.gobirds.online · Sep 3

10

Reposted by Lauren Vidas

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · Sep 3

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

510 8.6K 29K

Lauren Vidas @broadandmarket.gobirds.online · Sep 3

Ready to be an absolute menace to the city of Miluakee. #ringthebell

1 12

Lauren Vidas @broadandmarket.gobirds.online · Aug 31

I love o’hare. We landed in what I can only assume is Indiana and have been road tripping it for like 30 minutes to the terminal.

1 3

Reposted by Lauren Vidas

Dan McCoy @dankmccoy.bsky.social · Aug 30

You know what? Go ahead and bury me in a pet semetary. Let's roll the dice.

11 27 210

Reposted by Lauren Vidas

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Aug 30

The way that housing co-ops work in Switzerland may seem foreign to many. But the central idea is simple: What if homeownership had no profit motive and no capital gains? Advocates say their model could reshape how the world thinks about affordable housing. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/r...

An apartment complex. A headline reads: "Did Switzerland Solve The Housing Crisis?"

260 1.6K 6.3K

Lauren Vidas @broadandmarket.gobirds.online · Aug 31

They would have been able to roll my corpse into a freshly dug sand hole and made drippy castles over what would be my final resting place.

2 3

Lauren Vidas @broadandmarket.gobirds.online · Aug 31

Cool do Jr next.

Emily Guskin @emgusk.bsky.social · Aug 31

RIP RFK Stadium, lotta great memories there ❤️
@barrysvrlugawp.bsky.social wapo.st/3HBBgx7

Column | Decrepit RFK Stadium had to come down. It still kind of stings.

As the former football, baseball and soccer venue gets torn apart, let’s remember all the times it shook.

wapo.st

4

Lauren Vidas @broadandmarket.gobirds.online · Aug 31

Gonna rival the party on Endor when they blew up the Death Star

1

Reposted by Lauren Vidas

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · Aug 29

The City of Atlanta is opening its first municipal grocery store today.

The city is spending $3.5 million in partnership with a neighborhood grocery chain in an effort to eliminate a downtown food desert.

www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

City of Atlanta opening grocery store to clear up downtown food desert

The Azalea Fresh Market opens on Friday.

www.wsbtv.com

210 1.9K 8.9K

Lauren Vidas @broadandmarket.gobirds.online · Aug 28

Great time to be a drywall repairman in north Texas.

5

Lauren Vidas @broadandmarket.gobirds.online · Aug 23

At some random dive bar in the middle of nowhere Florida and the tv screensaver is just drone shots of Philly.

2 15