With the world on fire, a cowardly, timid news media is a threat to U.S. democracy (www.inquirer.com)
News organizations are using cowardly words to describe killing abroad, fascism at home — downplaying the danger to democracy....
America needs to talk about the right’s ‘Red Caesar’ plan for U.S. dictatorship (www.inquirer.com)
New video shows Philadelphia Police officer shot Eddie Irizarry within seconds of getting out of patrol car (www.inquirer.com)
The video shows that Officer Mark Dial shot and killed Irizarry within five seconds of getting out of his cruiser.
From a Kansas newsroom to a soccer pitch, why the right hates America and democracy (www.inquirer.com)
The right's hatred of young, multicultural America — epitomized by U.S. soccer women — is driving its push to end democracy.
Journalism fails miserably at explaining what is really happening to America (www.inquirer.com)
Will Bunch expresses what I’ve been thinking since Trump was elected. American democracy is under attack from within. The fascists who yearn for an authoritarian government in the media are promoting it, and the media who supposedly don’t support it fail to recognize it. They are busy trying to follow the political playbook...
Dan McCaffery’s triumph in the Pa. Supreme Court race extends Democrats’ majority (www.inquirer.com)
America needs to talk about the right’s ‘Red Caesar’ plan for U.S. dictatorship (www.inquirer.com)
The incredible scenes this week on Capitol Hill — leaving the U.S. House without a speaker and promising an autumn of sheer chaos in Congress — marked a rapid escalation of the downward spiral of American democracy. And most of the folks who get paid big bucks to understand politics could not make any sense of it....
A group of Philadelphians erased $1.6 million in local medical debt. They celebrated with an unofficial debt burning. (www.inquirer.com)
Two regular residents got their friends to raise more than $17,000 to buy medical debt worth $1.6 million. Instead of cashing in on the debt, they forgave it, helping more than 1,700 Philadelphians.
Cherelle Parker is elected as Philly’s 100th mayor, will be first woman to hold position (www.inquirer.com)
Philly thief steals a shop-vac filled with hundreds of giant hornets (www.inquirer.com)
The young Honduran drowned in Greg Abbott’s Texas had a name: Norlan Bayardo Herrera (www.inquirer.com)
We need to name the refugees needlessly killed by Texas' cruel border demagoguery.
The ‘faith-based’ leader for Philly’s Moms for Liberty chapter is a registered sex offender (www.inquirer.com)
Phillip Fisher Jr. is a pastor and Republican ward leader who coordinates faith-based outreach for Philadelphia’s Moms for Liberty chapter....
A Philly teen saw a murder, called 911 — and did 15 years in prison. Now, he’s exonerated. (www.inquirer.com)
When teenager Gary Hall was gunned down on a Nicetown street in 2006, his friends all seemed to know who did it....
America needs to talk about the right’s ‘Red Caesar’ plan for U.S. dictatorship (www.inquirer.com)
A MAGA gunman in New Mexico and ‘the end of politics’ in America (www.inquirer.com)
Donald Trump's increasingly violent vision is coming through loud and clear to supporters like the MAGA gunman in New Mexico.
The Satanic Temple gets $200,000 and free access from PA district that tried to bar its After School Satan Club (www.inquirer.com)
Satanic Temple after school club wins $200k settlement from Hellertown school district (www.inquirer.com)
The Lehigh Valley school district that tried to ban an after-school Satan Club from meeting on its property earlier this year has agreed to pay $200,000 to cover attorney fees. The school will also give the club the same access to school facilities as “comparable groups.”...
South Jersey pickup artist and ‘relationship strategist’ gets four years in Capitol riot case (www.inquirer.com)
A self-styled dating coach and influencer from South Jersey blamed his pursuit of social media fame for the role he played in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol as he was sentenced to four years in federal prison Friday....
Disturbing new photos inside Philly’s juvenile jail show kids sleeping on floors in crowded, filthy cells (www.inquirer.com)
Philadelphia has asked a judge to hold the state in contempt of court for failing to address a crisis of overcrowding inside the city’s juvenile jail — escalating a blame game that has continued for more than a year....
Meet the Lehigh Valley millionaire who tried to help Donald Trump overturn the 2020 election (www.inquirer.com)
Gender-affirming care for transgender individuals protected under new Philadelphia order (www.inquirer.com)
Highlights: Philadelphia joined a growing number of Democratic-led cities calling themselves places of refuge for transgender people when Mayor Jim Kenney signed Tuesday an executive order protecting those who come here for gender-affirming care....
Feds seek 30 years in prison for Philly Proud Boys president Zach Rehl’s role in Jan. 6 attack (www.inquirer.com)
Zach Rehl, head of the Philadelphia chapter of the Proud Boys, could spend three decades in federal prison if prosecutors get their way later this month at his sentencing hearing....
House GOP voted to slash federal funding for LGBTQ organizations, including Philly’s William Way Community Center (www.inquirer.com)
All three of John Fetterman’s top communications staffers have resigned in the last month (www.inquirer.com)
Clout learns there’s been some serious turnover in Sen. John Fetterman’s office. In the last month, all three of Fetterman’s top communications staffers have left Capitol Hill.
The ‘faith-based’ leader for Philly’s Moms for Liberty chapter is a registered sex offender (www.inquirer.com)
Phillip Fisher Jr. is a pastor and Republican ward leader who coordinates faith-based outreach for Philadelphia’s Moms for Liberty chapter....