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👻👻👻boonoteat👻👻👻 @donoteat.bsky.social · 2d

really want to hear the PA GOP explain how this problem could be fixed with additional efficiency measures, futzing around with management, and austerity

NBC10 Philadelphia @nbcphiladelphia.com · 2d

SEPTA is warning riders of possible delays and cancellations on Regional Rail Monday night as they begin to inspect their Silverliner IV railcars following an NTSB report on train fires and an emergency order from the FRA: on.nbc10.com/O1qiSkA

SEPTA warns of Regional Rail delays amid inspections after NTSB train fire report

Regional Rail passengers should expect possible delays and cancellations Monday night as SEPTA inspects their Silverliner IV railcars.

on.nbc10.com

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Spooky Monorail Maoist @awildschild.bsky.social · 2d

Apparently, SEPTA has started receiving the microtransit buses

youtu.be/SxehsnnFQPA?si…

What is SEPTA GO? - How to Transit with DashTransit

YouTube video by DashTransit

https://youtu.be/SxehsnnFQPA?si…

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Jon Geeting @jongeeting.bsky.social · 2d

SEPTA released some info about their Reimagining Regional Rail reform proposal on a TRB webinar. Some details on the Build Philly Now Substack buildphillynow.substack.com/p/sneak-peek...

Sneak Peek: SEPTA's Reimagining Regional Rail Agenda

SEPTA's proposal could increase service by more than 100%, while doubling regional rail ridership

buildphillynow.substack.com

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 4d

Dem state AGs need to be keeping track of illegal acts of brutality committed by federal agents and be ready to launch prosecutions accordingly ASAP

Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 4d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 5d

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows

The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

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damned teapot 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️👻 @ellenteapot.ca · 4d

Mr. Mamdani, I hope you and your staff will find inspiration from Seoul’s effort to prevent rapid transit deaths with Platform Scree Doors

sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · Sep 6

new S(ubstack)-Bahn post: 20 years ago, Seoul was haggling over whether to install platform screen doors at its Metro stations. many called it a waste and an impossibility.

now it’s at all Metro stations across South Korea. how did this transformation happen?

www.substack-bahn.net/p/how-seoul-...

How Seoul Metro Installed Platform Screen Doors Everywhere

The political history of a safety equipment

www.substack-bahn.net

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 6d

I watched a video of a Ukrainian woman with catgirl ears on her helmet along with a trans pride flag patch drop an artillery strike on an ruf position and blow up a dozen guys

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Rep. Andy Harris: "I guarantee you China and Russia do not have woke policies in their military."

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6d

There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil.

The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage.
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 6d

This raid is disgusting, abominable behavior, traumatizing children and families in their homes.
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'"

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 6d

You might think that the mayor of Yellowknife, the capital of Canada's vast Northwest Territories, would be a fan of giant pickups.

Nope. He's disgusted by car bloat.

www.linkedin.com/posts/benjam...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 8d

There's a strange tendency in center-left discourse to treat Zohran's focus on cost-of-living as the *only* reason he's succeeding. Yes, it's critical. But that overlooks the other big thing he's doing: Relentlessly highlighting Trump's authoritarian abuses.

newrepublic.com/article/2011...

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 8d

Justices Donohue, Dougherty, and Wecht are on the air in Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania Democratic Party @padems.org · 8d

🗳 Vote ✅ YES on Tuesday, November 4 to protect Pennsylvania's:

✅ Right to abortion
✅ Right to vote
✅ Right to stand up to abusive corporations

The election this fall is too important to stand by. 🗳 Vote ✅ YES on NOVEMBER 4 ‼️

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Sic Transit PHL @sictransitphl.bsky.social · 7d

And a lot of the loudest of the former are chirping on r/philly (formerly, the comments sections on inquirer dot com) from their homes in Moorestown or Boca Raton.

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Sic Transit PHL @sictransitphl.bsky.social · 7d

I don't know if it's a difference between DC and Philadelphia, or our personal circles of friends and acquaintances, but I see a lot more dedication to living our values around me than Yglesias seems to around him.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 8d

I wish people who think a lot about politics would try harder to reconcile their actual lifestyle choices with their stated views.

www.slowboring.com/p/live-your-...

Live your values

Ride the train, send your kids to public school. It’s the only way we get public services that work for everyone.

www.slowboring.com

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👻👻👻boonoteat👻👻👻 @donoteat.bsky.social · 8d

here in PA we have an UNLIMITED FUCKING MONEY CHEAT FOR ROADS THAT AREN'T EVEN CONGESTED and we're still starving SEPTA and if i said what i really thought about this i'd be arrested

they're widening the PA turnpike to six lanes because of ???

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Ouranocracy @ouranocracy.bsky.social · 8d

Every USN vs PLAN encounter after 2032 is like the USS Masculine Warfighter, Glorious Defender of the Cracker Barrel versus six identical copies of the CNS 我们昨天建了这个 supplied by a ship that does nothing but make birthday cakes for the other ships

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Sic Transit PHL @sictransitphl.bsky.social · 10d

There are things community can do, and then there are things society must do, and while you want both, you also want a Great Wall in between them.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 11d

One funny thing about this is the United States already has it: compared to any peer democracy, a massive proliferation of hyper-local governments including an absurd number of micro-municipalities in major metros, and a ludicrously large number of local elected offices. It mostly sucks.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 11d

there's a tendency in parts of the left to believe that 'community' is the answer to everything but communities are often horrendous!

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 11d

did not realize that prisonculture's "abolitionism" consists of believing that lynchings would be better if they were conducted at lilith fair

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 10d

In these narratives, the agency always only goes one way.

🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 10d

New at Tusk: According to Ben Shapiro and other conservatives, they were promised a post-racial nation, and Barack Obama broke the deal.

When the right broke, according to the right

"That's what radicalized you all?"

open.substack.com

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Sic Transit PHL @sictransitphl.bsky.social · 10d

a man wearing a sombrero sits in a classroom with his feet up and says i 'll allow it .

ALT: a man wearing a sombrero sits in a classroom with his feet up and says i 'll allow it .

media.tenor.com

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Sic Transit PHL @sictransitphl.bsky.social · 10d

The replies have now loaded and show half a dozen identical or near-identical versions of this same question. I am not sorry.

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Sic Transit PHL @sictransitphl.bsky.social · 10d

Where is the Dave Matthews Band tour bus, now that we need it?

aaron adair @aaroninchicago.bsky.social · 11d

ICE boats trawling the Chicago River. This is the DUMBEST thing I've seen in my entire life. No exaggeration. What's next? Humvees loaded with armed, masked agents patrolling Disney's Main Street U.S.A.?

#Chicago

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Transportation Alternatives @transalt.org · 10d

Everyone deserves to get home safe in New York City. But 156 people have been killed in traffic crashes so far this year.

We went on @cbsnewyork.bsky.social to talk about how to save lives.

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 11d

just saw a French-language ad for the existence of Philadelphia, just in case anyone was wondering how desperate American businesses are for Canadian tourists to come back

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 11d

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

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