Philadelphia has a lot more deadly shootings than expected for a big city − and NYC is much safer, new study says Philadelphia has a high rate of gun homicides despite having relatively few gun owners and gun stores compared with other US cities. 04/26/2024 - 1:27 am | View Link
Pro-Palestinian protesters set up encampment at University of Pennsylvania after march across Philadelphia The student-led demonstration is part of protests against the Israel-Hamas war being held on college campuses across the United States. 04/25/2024 - 5:06 pm | View Link
Here’s what to know about the student protests over Gaza on campuses in Philly and across the U.S. Early Thursday, nearly 110 Emory University students protesting the war in Gaza were taken into custody, with some unconfirmed reports saying police used gas and pinned a person to the ground. At ... 04/25/2024 - 12:39 pm | View Link
Student taken into custody after live round found in backpack at South Philadelphia High School PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- South Philadelphia High School was on lockdown Thursday morning after a live round was found in a backpack. The school, located at 2102 S. Broad Street, went on lockdown at 9:30 ... 04/25/2024 - 4:18 am | View Link
Pedestrian dies after being struck near Philadelphia hospital, college campus The hit-and-run took place around 36th and Spruce streets -- that's right by the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Penn campus -- around 5:30 a.m., police accident investigators said. 04/24/2024 - 12:05 pm | View Link
Trump’s political operatives are putting together a plan that would give him input into the Federal Reserve, including making him an “acting” central bank board member, according to the Wall Street Journal. Via CNBC:
The plans, which the Journal report described as highly secretive, are part of a 10-page document that suggests Trump — if elected — would be consulted on interest rate decisions.
Jamie Raskin hilariously suggested that the RNC headquarters could host the Supreme Court after wingnut justices appeared open to recognizing some form of presidential immunity yesterday. Via HuffPost:
Host Joy Reid, who noted that Trump’s federal election interference case could be remanded back to the D. C. Circuit Court of Appeals and thus further delay the trial past Election Day, called the Supreme Court majority “so clearly politicians” before looping in Raskin.
“Well, they’re politicians who are not even subject to popular election unlike me.
Politico's magazine did a cover story on the New York Times and their feud with the Biden White House, and boy, was it enlightening. Well, maybe not. There wasn't much we didn't already guess, it was just weird to hear them say it out loud.
I find it so puzzling when the people who work there don't understand how much bad faith coverage it took to lose the support of liberal Democrats.
During the Supreme Court hearing that will likely determine whether or not Donald Trump is tried before the next presidential election over his attempt to steal the last one, Justice Brett Kavanaugh asked a question that should alarm everybody.
Speaking of President Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon, Kavanaugh correctly noted that it was “very controversial in the moment” and probably why Ford lost the 1976 presidential election.
The Just Waiting For Another Kent State Shooting Edition
A. L. Katz makes some interesting claims. What is w/ Melania Trump?
Dispatches From A Collapsing State has another long one, against the neo-liberal order. Good luck w/ that, optimist.
Public Notice also goes on at length about Don Snorleone.
And someone not in love w/ the sound of his own typing, the mercifully short Politicalprof.
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After 15 months of trying to pull a Biden family crime spree out of thin air, lead impeachment zealot James Comer has watched his dreams of MAGA glory crumble into dust. Comer, the House Oversight Committee chair, told a Republican colleague that he’s ready to be “done with” the whole fiasco, according to CNN.