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Two signs on inside glass of first floor window of a home, one says “protect your neighbors, abolish ICE,” other is a 8 by 14 poster that says “ICE out of South Philly.”

One signs on inside glass of first floor window of a second home, handmade, says “Melt ICE”

Third house, behind a flower box says “fuck ICE forever,” repeated over and over.

Three adjoining rowhouses of South Philadelphia.

Interesting. From an outsider’s perspective, that article seemed planted by some in the organization with an agenda. But you know how the kelly green sausage is made better than anyone.

On DeSean, cutting him doesn’t even fully describe how nuts that was.

For an organization that seems to generally care about its players, it’d be great to hear them say “we probably shouldn’t have suggested that our WR is a crip.”

Here’s the situation in the Twin Cities:

Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down

Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged

Thuggish violence against observers: Way up

I told my crying son that it’s cool his boy is gone and his overpriced bday present of a jersey is ruined, because we are all in this for the ultimate reward, him included: a little scratch for our friends at Apollo.

While Vic Fangio did seriously entertain retiring as recently as last week, my understanding that is no longer the case and that the #Eagles are confident in his return at this point after much persuasion.

He's expected to be back as defensive coordinator next season.

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If you have a middle grade kid in your life who is trying to understand/process what they see about deportation, I read this with mine and it’s incredibly moving. No happy ending, but people figuring out how to keep going 🧡

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept."

Astonishing thing for a judge to do.

Same.

So, what's next? Dunno, I got a little time to figure it out.

I do have one idea, though: What if I kept doing the same newsletter independently? Who knows, it might even be better.

If that's something you might be interested in, drop your email here 👇

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Joe DiMaggio, you mean.

Dan McQuade Got Philly Like No One Else The writer, who died Wednesday, was one of the most gifted chroniclers of the Philadelphia experience.

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—playing on the beach, swimming in the ocean, bullshitting with your friends in a pizza parlor, nervously waiting in line for a roller coaster, trying to convince a girl to go home with you.”

A true Philly guy, forever. RIP.

But the best times down the shore are the ones you don’t overanalyze, the ones when your whole mind and body are consumed with the task at hand—“

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I was trying to remember the blog with live updates that he did when Milton Street did his casket stunt in 2007. It was this: Philadelphia Will Do. I remember laughing all afternoon refreshing for updates.

Everyone knew and seemingly no one important cared, til Dan worked his particular magic and it all changed.

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“'The 10 O'Clock News' is a narc”

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Also chatting with the Governor about the Eagles. web.archive.org/web/20060329...

Dan McQuade came out of college twenty years ago with a Philadelphia-facing blog and started firing. web.archive.org/web/20060329...

Beyond fucking unfair for him to be robbed of so much life and us to be robbed of him

and while I’m grateful for so much he gave us, all that particular irreverent genius, above it all we owe him for robbing Bill Cosby of his impunity, just like that.

May angels speed him on.

As @jenniferkates.bsky.social reminds me, it was Dan McQuade who was at Hannibal Burress's October 2014 show at the Troc when he said “You rape women, Bill Cosby,” happened to be recording it, made it go viral, and from then on no one ever could forget or deny who Bill Cosby was.

Dan McQuade was the lifeblood of Philly writers, a mensch whose gift for writing was only surpassed by his love of his country, Philadelphia. The city will never be the same without him.

How Far Did Rocky Go in His Training Run in 'Rocky II'? Rocky wasn't just a boxer. He was a marathoner.

I know I’m a homer but this was the most quintessentially McQuade story. Perfect idea, perfect execution. Dan was the only person on Earth who could’ve written this.

Dan McQuade, 1983–2026 | Defector Dan McQuade, our friend and colleague, died this week at the age of 43. He is survived by his wife and young son. At the end of 2024, Dan was diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer. The news of his diag...

I knew Dan for 20 years. We shared our library cards, our stupid Jersey Shore stories and always always about how much we loved what we did for a living, I am absolutely devastated defector.com/dan-mcquade-...

It builds off other odd Streets Dept. stuff, like when two days before the storm the recycling truck took every other house's trash, while the trash truck never came.

What I find bizarre is that all the east-west side streets by us are plowed, and virtually none of the north-south ones are.

Already too many neighbors are being picked up 😩 it might not be breaking news every hour, but it’s quietly terrorizing a lot of people

Anyone from Philadelphia actually impacted by these raids (or anyone with a soul) feels this way.

Ha ha ha, let’s try to stop families from being destroyed. Snowballs! Ha ha ha, and also let’s update our wills. Hitchbot!

I recognize these are just twitter rumors and I know there is power in humor, but at least for this Philadelphian, I just want you all to STFU.

If they come here our communities will be in terror, just like Chicago, just like MSP.

It’s not funny, it’s a living nightmare.