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Carly Goodman
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Author, editor, professor of history, Philadelphian.

Nobody should be deported.

https://uncpress.org/book/9781469673042/dreamland/
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My mom used to love chocolate covered cherries, so I associate them with grown up sophistication. One time I bit into one and there was a worm in it! I never had them again
Grocery store shelf with boxes of cordial cherries
November 19, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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AI is the endpoint of cheap - cheap words, cheap work, cheap lives, cheap govt. per Bryant Simon:
Beginning in the middle of the 1970s, politicians, business leaders, and everyday people across the United States embraced the notion of cheap. They shared a collective belief in the power and virtue of cheap goods, cheap foodstuffs, cheap government, and cheap labor as the surest and fairest way to solve the most vexing problems that plagued the nation, from inflation to the loss of manufacturing jobs to government inefficiency to the need for greater personal responsibility to the push for less welfare spending. The wholesale acceptance of the social gospel of cheap, of getting more by paying less and worrying about the consequences later, shaped the decision making of economists, policy makers, consumers, and the Roes themselves. Cheap led food writers and chefs to herald the coming of cheap chickens without looking too closely at how these animals got so incredibly inexpensive in the first place. Cheap convinced policy makers that regulations cost too much and weren't worth the trouble. And cheap made some people more valuable than others were and some places harder to see than others.
November 19, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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This makes me feel ways 👵
• This article is more than 17 years old. See today's top stories here. Larry Summers' True Record on Women
November 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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it brings me joy that I put these three great books (that go so well) together for the grad readings seminar this week
3 great books: Capital Moves by Jefferson Cowie The Hamlet Fire by Bryant Simon Scratching out a living by Angela Stuesse
November 17, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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This can’t be right
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November 13, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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I do feel like I am likely to try to form an intentional community on the site of a dead mall, with telnet terminals for email and these phones
Classic 90s clear landline phone with neon interior parts
November 12, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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the worst person you know just made three points
a bald man glaring at the camera, from the worst person you know just made a great point meme
November 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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I don’t want to start the week feeling angry and powerless.

I invite you to take action to support immigrants in Philadelphia, by supporting the work of Juntos. In the weeks/years ahead we will need it very much.

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Juntos for humanity graphic in autumn colors
November 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Mary Gross’s excellent performance seems a clear inspiration for the Abby character in Deadloch
Woman in a Girl Scout outfit from Troop Beverly Hills Woman in a police outfit in the awesome show Deadloch
November 9, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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It’s a choice to say moms and not families or parents, right, and makes me think about how the anti Tylenol campaign is all about hurting women specifically
Children's TYLENOL Pediatricians recommend TYLENOL® for pain and fever Relied on by moms for over 60 years DIRECTIONS: STEP 1. Shake well before using STEP 2. Remove child protective cap STEP 3. Squeeze your child's dose into the dosing cup IMPORTANT: Please see dosing chart or ask a doctor for your child's correct dose
November 8, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Called it with 0% reporting LOL
CALIFORNIA PROP 50: CONGRESSIONAL REDISTRICTING ✅YES 0 NO 0
November 5, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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The Onion with Headline: "De Blasio: "Well, well, well, [redacted] Easy to Find A Mayor That Doesn't Suck Shit, Huh?"
November 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Sweet Philly I voted sticker with the sweetest white ford bronco I’ve ever seen
I voted! Sticker with city hall graphic; in the background is a white ford bronco with cool red orange and yellow stripes
November 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Maybe in this sense
USA: characters welcome
November 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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You bet
Law schools t was no longer accepting applica tions for a scholarship in honor of ing law students with an interest in civil rights work. Penn Law Dean Sophia Lee also informed the law school commu. nicy that the Office of Equal Oppor tunity and uneasement woul close at the end of the summer. Penn's approach stands in con inst to that o! Georketown Univel sity Law Center when faced with a similar situation. In February Georgetown Law Dean William M. Treanor received a letter from the interim D.C. U.S. Altorney Ed Martin, demanding that the scbool no lonserteach of promoe Del If Georgetown Law did not comply. Martin threatened that the would not be considered for legal positions with the U.S. Altorney's Office. Treanor rejected the threats and political pressure. Treanor's reply, specifically noted that Martin's letter violated the school's academic freedom. First Amendment rights, and guiding principles of Georgetown University as a Jesuit and Catholic institution to support diversity and It does not require much analy-sis, legal or otherwise, to discern the stark and unfortunate distinc tion between Georgetown Law's response to a direct threat and Penn Law's response to political pressure from the current administration to end all programs or activities that may remotely be considered DEI initiatives. More than any other corner of higher education, law schools should reject any attempt to compromise academic freedom and the important social values emanating from our nation's historic struggles. To do otherwise and capitulate is pernicious to our nation's progress. Penn Law strategically opted to be risk-averse and "protect the school and the university from any potentially negative financial ram-ilications. But what was the larger The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jn and Sadie T.M. Alexander during a march from Selma, Ala., to the state's capital, Montgomery, in March 1965. Jack T. Franklin Georgetown Law weighed the options and decided to stand of the Alexander Scho…
November 2, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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I don’t know any paper meeting the moment like @inquirer.com and I feel lucky to be a Philadelphian. You should subscribe!
Front page of the Sunday opinion section: ICE shake-up bodes a Chicago-level terror here The quiet terror in American classrooms It's time for law schools, of all places, to stand up
November 2, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Excited for this UNC press/Proia/carceral double header in my course today
Prison capital by Lydia Pelot-Hobbs and DARE to say No by Max Felker-Kantor
October 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Perennially me now
Will Riker screaming through the circular window of a door in the TNG episode Frame of Mind
October 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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The bakery where I worked in high school had these great mini fruit tarts, just like a perfect 2-bites. Mix in some mini eclairs and mini napoleons, great stuff
Platter with mini fruit tarts, eclairs, napoleons, and cream puffs that look like little swans
October 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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The worst people alive are having a great time
= WSJ The Good Vibes Are Back on Wall Street Earnings, deals and trade talks helped send all three major U.S. stock indexes to records, marking a significant pickup in momentum after a bumpy stretch. U.S. stock indexes, past three days Nasdaq Dow industrials • S&P 500 4% 3 2 1 0 Oct. 24 Oct. 27 As of Oct. 27,4 p.m. ET
October 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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It could happen to you
Check your kids Halloween candy carefully. Someone tried to hide Some bullshit ai Image of a snickers bar with text “NOBODY WANTS THIS” inside
October 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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This, in 2018, was pretty good
A toddler has an orange mask as Gritty; the adults behind her are together dressed as Philadelphia’s LOVE sculpture (letters in red foam sewed onto green aprons)
October 27, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Everybody is exhibiting signs of brain damage and shameful immorality and an impoverished imagination and also is telling lies
"If you don't have any borders, you don't have a nation," Sanders, a Vermont independent who caucuses with the Democratic Party, said on The Tim Dillon Show on Wednesday. "Trump did a better job. I don't like Trump, but we should have a secure border. It ain't that hard to do. Biden didn't do it."
October 24, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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computer guys are coded evil
John Ritter as "Ted" Buffy's mom's date in Season 2 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a character who is a computer sales guy who turns out to be a homicidal robot, as it seems all tech people are?
October 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Ok sounds like a real show that seems fake, but this is a fake show screaming to be real:
Caption “without them there is no justice” and then it says “Philly Justice” and it’s the cast of parks and rec dressed as lawyers
October 21, 2025 at 1:51 AM