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Caleb | fund SEPTA! 🚎 🔔🗽 @cfoss.bsky.social · 22h

At this point any Dem that doesn’t endorse him just wants to lose

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Mamdani: "I just want to speak directly to the president. I will not be a mayor like Mayor Adams who will call you to stay out of jail. I won't be a disgraced governor like Andrew Cuomo who will call you to ask how to win this election. I can do those things on my own."

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

#4 👍

Zohran sitting in the corner seat on a subway.

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 2d

D’Angelo, the neo-soul trailblazer and modern visionary whose three albums were all heralded as classic works of art, has died at age 51.

Access the free article here: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 2d

Seattle's transit agency is pivoting away from battery electric buses, and looking to reinvest in a well-tested technology: trolleybuses. www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/13/m...

Metro Plans Trolleybus Investments, with Long Implementation Timelines » The Urbanist

# After pivoting away from an aggressive schedule for battery-bus adoption, King County Metro plans to focus attention on the tried-and-true trolley network. But limited staff, delays obtaining materi...

www.theurbanist.org

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Caleb | fund SEPTA! 🚎 🔔🗽 @cfoss.bsky.social · 2d

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Alex Coffey @byalexcoffey.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: The Sixers are bringing Hip Hop back for a few games this season, to celebrate the 2001 team.

Bill Roth, who played the mascot from 1998-2011, will come out of rabbit retirement, too.

(He'll try not to tear an ACL or achilles this time).

More here:
www.inquirer.com/sixers/hip-h...

The Sixers’ mascot, Hip Hop, was retired in 2011. Now, for the 25th anniversary of the 2001 team, they’re bringing him back.

And that's not all. Bill Roth, the original mascot, is coming out of retirement as well.

www.inquirer.com

Caleb | fund SEPTA! 🚎 🔔🗽 @cfoss.bsky.social · 3d

and some of the rest of the fleet on display today

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Caleb | fund SEPTA! 🚎 🔔🗽 @cfoss.bsky.social · 3d

4208 (Conrail)

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Caleb | fund SEPTA! 🚎 🔔🗽 @cfoss.bsky.social · 3d

NJ Transit's latest heritage unit 4202 (Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines) at Hoboken Terminal for the Meet The Fleet event today

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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 5d

What you have to realize is that people like Connie are just absolutely anti-social and insane. She cooked her brain on Twitter during the pandemic and can't interact with people in real life.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 5d

TIL that making the buses faster is “ruining the city”

fuelgrannie @fuelgrannie
Blocked
sam is the east coast version of armand domalewski: he's well connected and wealthy; he's desperate to align with power, marketing himself as "just a smol bean guy;" and he's hellbent on ruining the city in which he *currently* lives for other, long term residents
Sam
@sam_d 1995
just a couple of guys talking about how we can speed up our buses

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 5d

Baseball’s rule book has been around for 783 years and somehow manages to let the game fall straight into the phantom zone at the worst possible moments

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Caleb | fund SEPTA! 🚎 🔔🗽 @cfoss.bsky.social · 5d

Inside you’ll find the new subway and rail *diagrams*

The subway side of the September 2025 printing

The railroads side of the September 2025 printing

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Caleb | fund SEPTA! 🚎 🔔🗽 @cfoss.bsky.social · 5d

I haven’t had to go on a wild goose chase for a new paper subway map in a while
Forgot what the thrill felt like 😅

The cover of the new September 2025 “New York City Subway and Combined Metro-North Railroad and Long Island Rail Road Maps” shown in front of an older subway map at the Bay Ridge Av station

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Geoff Marshall @geofftech.bsky.social · 7d

New VIDEO! The new Bakerloop BL1 bus has started! So we took a ride ...

youtu.be/Fncf6EuZh_E

The New BL1 Bakerloop Bus Has Started!

YouTube video by Geoff Marshall

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Caleb | fund SEPTA! 🚎 🔔🗽 @cfoss.bsky.social · 6d

I see we’ve arrived at the yearly “Eagles implode on national television” game

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Caleb | fund SEPTA! 🚎 🔔🗽 @cfoss.bsky.social · 6d

Uhhhhh

aaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social · 7d

the background on zohran's colbert appearance is jaw-droppingly disgusting

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 7d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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DFAntastic @phillytradesman.bsky.social · 7d

Taijuan Walker is 100x the man of Kershaw, btw.

screenshot of Taijuan Walker pitching on Pride Night at CBP, in front of a rainbow Liberty Bell. He tagged it “Love Wins 🌈 Phillies Win🔔 “

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Jawn Gonzalez @johngonzalez.bsky.social · 7d

And the Philadelphia Phillies

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Caleb | fund SEPTA! 🚎 🔔🗽 @cfoss.bsky.social · 7d

NYT: here’s how this is bad for Joe Biden

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 7d

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 9d

go birds

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Jon Geeting @jongeeting.bsky.social · 9d

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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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 10d

HAPPENING NOW: Judge Karin Immergut hears emergency arguments as California and Oregon seek to block President Trump's deployment of federalized California National Guard troops to Portland. 🧵

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 10d

NEW: Judge Immergut schedules a hearing TONIGHT, in 45 min, to hear arguments on SECOND TRO to block federalized California National Guard from deploying in Portland, Oregon. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71481...

SCHEDULING ORDER: This Court, having received Plaintiffs' Second Motion for Temporary Restraining Order and request for Expedited Hearing, ECF 59, sets a hearing by Telephonic Conference at 7:00 p.m. tonight, October 5, 2025, before Judge Karin J. Immergut. Access information for "LISTEN ONLY" phone number for the Hearing. Telephone Number: 1-571-353-2301 (toll-free 1-833-990-9400); Guest Meeting ID:
812-980-324#. Note: If dropped from the conference, please rejoin the conference. For complete conference connection instructions and etiquette guidelines, refer to ord.uscourts.gov/cms. Ordered on 10/5/25
by Judge Karin J. Immergut. (iy) (Entered: 10/05/2025)

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Caleb | fund SEPTA! 🚎 🔔🗽 @cfoss.bsky.social · 10d

Oh they really do have a victimization fetish

jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 11d

mencius moldbug is thinking of fleeing the country because he thinks the trump administration's chaotic half-assing of dismantling liberal democracy is going to bite them all in the ass

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 11d

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

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