Council President Kenyatta Johnson told me that he is interested in opting all of the South Broad Street subway stops into the super charged transit-oriented development overlay that City Council approved today: https://t.co/DezpeNI7dH
@DPearsonPHL@jongeeting@AnneDornPhilly@JohnnyWalsh__@CaralhoPhilly might be bc whoever you consider your “side” has less types of guys
if I had to guesstimate the networks we’re (only) gesturing towards, I figure you’re “siding” with a qualitatively + quantitatively less populated group than I am
lefties + their silly “movementism,” I guess 🤷🏿♂️
@DPearsonPHL@jongeeting@AnneDornPhilly@JohnnyWalsh__@CaralhoPhilly I don’t think that’s what’s happening here at all guys … we can chit chat 🤣
I rarely pipe up, but am predisposed to when I feel like people are playing up the idea that the left (pretty narrowly defined) is just skipping by on easy street.
@jongeeting@AnneDornPhilly@DPearsonPHL@JohnnyWalsh__@CaralhoPhilly if that’s your take that’s your take! I understand you have a different focus.
but re: accountability, you know ward-level stuff enough to know that without #thegroups winning 100s of races, the recent reprimanding of a certain ward leader wouldn’t have happened. 🤷🏿♂️
@jongeeting@AnneDornPhilly@DPearsonPHL@JohnnyWalsh__@CaralhoPhilly do you think the clearly more effective civic engagement infrastructure that this “faction” has built and exercised time and again over other “serious groups” has *anything* to do with success in garnering dollars for civic engagement?
or just a factional program manager?
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Unbelievable that Mamdani has gotten flak for skipping a parade that Smotrich—who is proudly overseeing the West Bank’s ethnic cleansing and annexation—and Eliyahu—who suggested nuking Gaza and bombing humanitarian aid—are marching in.
@n_hold As bad as NJ Dems are, we forced them to pass a law against contracts with ICE five years ago--and then Biden/Harris admin sent a lawyer who literally sat with CoreCivic in federal court to overturn it, thus enabling Delaney Hall's existence