phillycheryl
@phillycheryl.bsky.social
Feminist.She/her.
Philadelphian.
I investigate the catastrophic injury & death of working people. How a society values those who do its work is the way to measure its goodness. No one should be permanently injured or killed trying to make a living.
Philadelphian.
I investigate the catastrophic injury & death of working people. How a society values those who do its work is the way to measure its goodness. No one should be permanently injured or killed trying to make a living.
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phillycheryl
@phillycheryl.bsky.social
· Oct 25
We need a government that prioritizes dignified safe work that pays a decent wage.
Everyone should be able to be safe & healthy- regardless of what work they do.We need construction workers, health care workers,people who pick up the trash & who work in restaurants.We should respect their importance
Everyone should be able to be safe & healthy- regardless of what work they do.We need construction workers, health care workers,people who pick up the trash & who work in restaurants.We should respect their importance
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If they are too gross to be released they need to be billboards in red states.
December 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
If they are too gross to be released they need to be billboards in red states.
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So so true! Also:
www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
Time to mute the Rocky myth. We should celebrate the excellence of Philly’s real fighters instead. | Opinion
The fictional hero is stitched together from the blood, sweat, and broken bones of real Black fighters who were born, bled, and fought in this city, only to be forgotten by it.
www.inquirer.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
So so true! Also:
www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
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Hi! Just a reminder that XPN is public radio, and they run on donations. There’s no #XPNCountdown without them. Throw them some ducats if you can.
Donate to WXPN today!
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December 11, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Hi! Just a reminder that XPN is public radio, and they run on donations. There’s no #XPNCountdown without them. Throw them some ducats if you can.
Hallelujah, there it is.
#xpncountdown way too close to the top 🙄
#xpncountdown way too close to the top 🙄
December 11, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Hallelujah, there it is.
#xpncountdown way too close to the top 🙄
#xpncountdown way too close to the top 🙄
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Just a quick note to say I hope Ike Turner is enjoying the warmth of eternal damnation, while Tina is pampered among the clouds. #xpncountdown
December 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Just a quick note to say I hope Ike Turner is enjoying the warmth of eternal damnation, while Tina is pampered among the clouds. #xpncountdown
Can't get no satisfact-chon
#xpncountdown
#xpncountdown
December 11, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Can't get no satisfact-chon
#xpncountdown
#xpncountdown
Someone just tried to call me during the #xpncountdown
...Top 20
...Janis Joplin
Straight to VM, baby!
...Top 20
...Janis Joplin
Straight to VM, baby!
December 11, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Someone just tried to call me during the #xpncountdown
...Top 20
...Janis Joplin
Straight to VM, baby!
...Top 20
...Janis Joplin
Straight to VM, baby!
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Listening to the #XPNcountdown I think you can break it up into 4 chunks: first up "I never heard this version", followed by "Wait! That's a cover?!", then comes "Ooo that should have been on MY list!" and finally, "I can't believe this classic cover placed so low - travesty!" @wxpnfm.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Listening to the #XPNcountdown I think you can break it up into 4 chunks: first up "I never heard this version", followed by "Wait! That's a cover?!", then comes "Ooo that should have been on MY list!" and finally, "I can't believe this classic cover placed so low - travesty!" @wxpnfm.bsky.social
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This whole thing should simply be a commercial. Frankly, if the Democrats have any sense at all, they will take this clip and pay to air it, unedited, across 90 seconds of Superbowl airtime
Magaziner: How many US military veterans have you deported?
Noem: We have not deported military veterans.
Magaziner: We are joined on zoom by a gentleman who is an army combat veteran who was shot twice while serving our country. You deported him to Korea.
Noem: We have not deported military veterans.
Magaziner: We are joined on zoom by a gentleman who is an army combat veteran who was shot twice while serving our country. You deported him to Korea.
December 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
This whole thing should simply be a commercial. Frankly, if the Democrats have any sense at all, they will take this clip and pay to air it, unedited, across 90 seconds of Superbowl airtime
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Historians have discovered there were presidents before Trump who *also* engaged in frequent hand shaking yet they didn't always have bruises and bandages on the backside of their hands.
Even Sleepy Joe Biden, who was perpetually just seconds away from dying of old age, came out unscathed. Really!
Even Sleepy Joe Biden, who was perpetually just seconds away from dying of old age, came out unscathed. Really!
Q: Can you explain what's going on with the bandages on Trump's hand?
LEAVITT: We've given you an explanation. The president is literally constantly shaking hands.
LEAVITT: We've given you an explanation. The president is literally constantly shaking hands.
December 11, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Historians have discovered there were presidents before Trump who *also* engaged in frequent hand shaking yet they didn't always have bruises and bandages on the backside of their hands.
Even Sleepy Joe Biden, who was perpetually just seconds away from dying of old age, came out unscathed. Really!
Even Sleepy Joe Biden, who was perpetually just seconds away from dying of old age, came out unscathed. Really!
Hey. It's an old-timey epidemic.
MAGA.
MAGA.
Hundreds quarantined as South Carolina measles outbreak accelerates - The Washington Post apple.news/APUxe70JxQE-...
Hundreds quarantined as South Carolina measles outbreak accelerates — The Washington Post
A state epidemiologist said the spike in cases came in the wake of Thanksgiving travel and a lack of vaccinations. At least 16 cases were traced to a church.
apple.news
December 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Hey. It's an old-timey epidemic.
MAGA.
MAGA.
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Too old to shake hands without injury is too old to be president.
December 11, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Too old to shake hands without injury is too old to be president.
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Which if true (it’s not) begs the question: why is the president’s skin so thin that shaking hands with another causes his skin to tear apart like tissue paper into open ulcers?
December 11, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Which if true (it’s not) begs the question: why is the president’s skin so thin that shaking hands with another causes his skin to tear apart like tissue paper into open ulcers?
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I am honestly having some trouble following “the health care industry is a huge powerful malevolent machine ripping off America and we want you to negotiate directly with it for your insulin.”
Roger Marshall: "We want patients to become consumers again. We want patients to see what the actual prices are. We believe that if we would add the price tags to this bill, that it would save the country a trillion dollars a year."
December 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I am honestly having some trouble following “the health care industry is a huge powerful malevolent machine ripping off America and we want you to negotiate directly with it for your insulin.”
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I am Antifa ...Pope Leo is the spiritual leader of Antifa. Antifa is Democracy.
December 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I am Antifa ...Pope Leo is the spiritual leader of Antifa. Antifa is Democracy.
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During the Eisenhower administration, 73% of Americans trusted their government. During the Kennedy administration, 75% of Americans trusted their government.
Today, in Trump's second administration, just 17% of Americans trust the government.
Today, in Trump's second administration, just 17% of Americans trust the government.
December 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
During the Eisenhower administration, 73% of Americans trusted their government. During the Kennedy administration, 75% of Americans trusted their government.
Today, in Trump's second administration, just 17% of Americans trust the government.
Today, in Trump's second administration, just 17% of Americans trust the government.
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"Negotiating over territory while Russia is actively committing mass abduction, forced assimilation, and demographic engineering is not diplomacy. It is capitulation.
And any agreement that ignores these crimes — or worse, rewards them — would legitimize forced population transfers."
And any agreement that ignores these crimes — or worse, rewards them — would legitimize forced population transfers."
The most honest analysis I can give you. Pls read, pls share.
Ukraine Is Being Pushed Toward a Deal That Ignores the Core Issue: Russia’s Ongoing Aggression and the Erosion of International Law
www.onestnetwork.com/post/ukraine...
Ukraine Is Being Pushed Toward a Deal That Ignores the Core Issue: Russia’s Ongoing Aggression and the Erosion of International Law
www.onestnetwork.com/post/ukraine...
Ukraine Is Being Pushed Toward a Deal That Ignores the Core Issue: Russia’s Ongoing Aggression and the Erosion of International Law
Ukraine faces pressure to accept territorial concessions as unofficial U.S. envoys and financial interests shape peace talks, risking global norms and legitimizing Russian aggression.
www.onestnetwork.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
"Negotiating over territory while Russia is actively committing mass abduction, forced assimilation, and demographic engineering is not diplomacy. It is capitulation.
And any agreement that ignores these crimes — or worse, rewards them — would legitimize forced population transfers."
And any agreement that ignores these crimes — or worse, rewards them — would legitimize forced population transfers."
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I really wish I lived in a country where the press reported on the current President's delusional bullshit fantasies and scalding racism with as much passion they as they covered the former President's age.
December 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I really wish I lived in a country where the press reported on the current President's delusional bullshit fantasies and scalding racism with as much passion they as they covered the former President's age.
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"I love everybody, so long as they do what I say, kiss my ass thoroughly, and will take the fall for my administration."
December 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
"I love everybody, so long as they do what I say, kiss my ass thoroughly, and will take the fall for my administration."
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The US is now just the drunk crank at the end of the bar waving a gun around
Trump on the president of Colombia: "He's gonna have himself some big problems if he doesn't wise up ... he better wise up or he'll be next. I hope he's listening. He's gonna be next."
December 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The US is now just the drunk crank at the end of the bar waving a gun around
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Imagine, for just a second, Biden saying this about Fox News.
And I bet the absolutely feckless White House press corps won’t cover this like the legit constitutional 1A disaster this is.
And I bet the absolutely feckless White House press corps won’t cover this like the legit constitutional 1A disaster this is.
Trump: "I think the people that have run CNN are a disgrace. I think it's imperative that CNN be sold because you certainly wouldn't want to just leave those people with some money so they can spend even more spending poison. It's lies. I wouldn't want to see the same company end up with CNN."
December 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Imagine, for just a second, Biden saying this about Fox News.
And I bet the absolutely feckless White House press corps won’t cover this like the legit constitutional 1A disaster this is.
And I bet the absolutely feckless White House press corps won’t cover this like the legit constitutional 1A disaster this is.
A little thing bringing me joy today. The comments are 😁
Things you should gift kids this holiday season:
- Age-appropriate toys
Things you should not gift kids:
- Weedwhackers
- Large aquatic animals
- Most of the things Kevin turns into weapons in 'Home Alone'
- Dirt
- Age-appropriate toys
Things you should not gift kids:
- Weedwhackers
- Large aquatic animals
- Most of the things Kevin turns into weapons in 'Home Alone'
- Dirt
December 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
A little thing bringing me joy today. The comments are 😁
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"Being a racist myself, I had no problem understanding the president. I'm sure my constituents agree."
December 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
"Being a racist myself, I had no problem understanding the president. I'm sure my constituents agree."
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You're a billionaire and you can't AFFORD to hire people to do necessary work?!
What a horseshit excuse.
What a horseshit excuse.
In every company there are hundreds of things you can't afford to hire people to do. Tedious, voluminous work that has mistakes that are often expensive. Going forward companies will hire new college grads who can do Agentic AI, which will soon be all of them , to write agents to do these jobs
From Howard Marks’s new piece, “Is It a Bubble?”
December 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
You're a billionaire and you can't AFFORD to hire people to do necessary work?!
What a horseshit excuse.
What a horseshit excuse.
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In spirit, content and intent, this was really no different to a Klan rally.
The exception being the wholesale absence of outrage in mainstream media.
This period of history will be an indictment on those standing silent, as much as the monster himself.
The exception being the wholesale absence of outrage in mainstream media.
This period of history will be an indictment on those standing silent, as much as the monster himself.
Trump: "Ilhan Omar, whatever the hell her name is. With her little turban. I love her. She comes in, does nothing but bitch ... we ought to get her the hell out ... she's here illegally."
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
December 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
In spirit, content and intent, this was really no different to a Klan rally.
The exception being the wholesale absence of outrage in mainstream media.
This period of history will be an indictment on those standing silent, as much as the monster himself.
The exception being the wholesale absence of outrage in mainstream media.
This period of history will be an indictment on those standing silent, as much as the monster himself.