love 2 co-byline with Max M. Marin inquirer.com/politics/phila…

I’ve enjoyed writing for @slate so much lately that we decided to make it official. Starting today, I’ll be writing a regular column, in addition to my work with Carnegie Endowment. It’s all very exciting, and I hope you’ll read along!

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Federal prosecutors seek 20 months in prison for former Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby
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Very interesting piece from Spotlight PA.

'For the first time in at least 16 years, the Democratic and Republican parties in Pennsylvania are within half a million registered voters of one another.'

This comes as independent and 3rd party voters grow->
spotlightpa.org/news/2024/05/p…

New from WaPo: Trump told oil executives to give his presidential campaign $1 billion. He vowed in return to lower regulations and taxes on big oil.

Expect more 'deals' like this.
Many CEOs are frustrated by Biden's regulatory and anti-trust push. They're willing to turn back to…

for Hunterbrook, I worked with Sam Koppelman on a story about the drink Safety Shot, a very, very sus product that claims to reduce blood alcohol content by up to 50% in 30 minutes. hntrbrk.com/safety-shot/

Ondria Glaze was 'the best person I've ever known,' one of her #PHLed Olney HS colleagues said - a teacher and administrator with endless patience and love for her students, a friend to everyone she met, a bright light lost to tragedy. inquirer.com/education/ondr…

La Colombe workers got raises and perks after Chobani bought the company. But will the iconic Philly coffee brand stay the same? with Ariana Perez-Castells inquirer.com/business/retai… via @phillyinquirer

The president of Camden’s School Advisory Board has six wives and 17 children. He’s on trial for grooming and sexually abusing one of his wives, a former student, when she was just 13. She’s one of four wives who he said were just 18 when they met. inquirer.com/education/wasi…

I wrote about Steve Albini, aging gracefully, and the beauty of a drum kit in an empty room. slate.com/culture/2024/0…

For the last decade, I've been making a mental note every time someone in Texas politics mentions Azerbaijan. Was this a good use of brain cells? No. Anyway, texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…

MARCH: Political reporters marked Jeff Yass' SIG's trading position in Trump Media. NOW: $DJT is trading way above its business value. So WHY: is Devin Nunes, ex-US Rep turned Trump CEO, demanding Congress investigate SIG + other traders? My latest: inquirer.com/business/jeff-…

Officials said the clearing would be led by city outreach teams, but they weren't on scene when police arrived and told people to leave Wednesday. People scattered, leaving outreach workers to search for those displaced inquirer.com/politics/phila… w/ Aubrey Whelan and Max M. Marin

Three members of the Habsburg family, a handful of right-wing American Catholics, and a Benedictine Abbott from Clear Creek, Oklahoma recently came to Plano, Texas. Shit got weird: thebaffler.com/latest/feeling…

As Mayor Cherelle L. Parker works to make good on a campaign promise to clean up Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood and clear out homeless encampments, the The Philadelphia Inquirer takes a look at other similar clearings since 2017.

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'Less than 17 percent of the $1.1 trillion those laws provided for direct investments on climate, energy and infrastructure has been spent as of April, nearly two years after Biden signed the last of the statutes.' Amazing POLITICO project politico.com/interactives/2…

Congrats Dylan Purcell — well deserved!!

Interesting read on how Russia's oil & gas industry has a major deficit of workers due to the recruitment of soldiers for the war in Ukraine bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

A river otter took a selfie in Ridley Creek, ending a 100-year absence for ‘the most elusive aquatic animal in Pa.’ inquirer.com/science/river-… via @phillyinquirer

The dismantling of the Kensington encampments was done an hour earlier than was announced and was led by police and sanitation workers and not by outreach workers, as the city said it would be.

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