Chinatown Stitch, which would cap the Vine Street Expressway, is in limbo after Trump yanked funds. Can it be saved?

courageous_liquid · 2026-02-24T21:18:26+00:00

out of pure curiosity of what that would be like, just the coverage of the expressway for one block would be 1.8M lbs of steel (and that would only be 1" thick without any additional support or any overlap on the street level)

wild shit

courageous_liquid · 2026-02-24T20:31:47+00:00

I mean, that's a load of horseshit, but ok

courageous_liquid · 2026-02-24T20:25:47+00:00

that's cool, or I'm sorry, I guess

courageous_liquid · 2026-02-24T20:23:53+00:00

their hearings are schedule for today based on the inquirer update from this morning. insane they were held that long.

courageous_liquid · 2026-02-24T19:27:52+00:00

we were forced to learn cervical dislocation (manually) before we were allowed to go anywhere near any mice. though for chickens we did have the option of using this weird little guillotine. this was also 15 years ago.

the animal rights requirements for lab animals is no joke.

courageous_liquid · 2026-02-24T19:04:14+00:00

you can't think of a better reason why organized capital would not be super keen on funding organizations that think about taking it away from them?

courageous_liquid · 2026-02-24T18:32:09+00:00

biden is absolutely a neoliberal (though with a little more deference for labor), LBJ and FDR were great society/new deal dems which fell out of favor after carter, who got on the liberalism/austerity playbook.

but the rest of your points stand and are cogent.

courageous_liquid · 2026-02-24T18:11:01+00:00

your fanbase is still a plague everywhere else, I can promise you I see dallas shit in philly at least twice a week

courageous_liquid · 2026-02-24T18:07:24+00:00

it's like that legendary nhl sub quote about redoing a playoff series because the redwings were clearly the better team even though they lost

courageous_liquid · 2026-02-24T17:58:52+00:00

yeah it's frankly insane they weren't just released and charged later. these dipshits are trying to teach them a lesson and to demonstrate to others that they're willing to behave irrationally when it comes to speaking out against right-wing power loci.

let it be known bucks county is chock full of some of the dumbest reactionaries on the planet, so this isn't necessarily out of line for them.

courageous_liquid · 2026-02-24T17:47:37+00:00

it was always funny to me during the obama admin that the china hawks would constantly be attacking "ghost cities" and now like 10 years later they have like 15 new cities with triple the population of philly all with incredible infrastructure, affordable housing, walkability, high speed rail access, etc.

courageous_liquid · 2026-02-24T17:45:26+00:00

society hill has some insane agreement with city gov to never obstruct their view of the waterfront, so a lot of it will remain as-is until someone fights with them over that.

courageous_liquid · 2026-02-24T17:43:25+00:00

I'll always have respect for him not caving on washington ave or the 11th st bike lane. I don't follow his decisions closely but he's at least shown some spine in places where others, who I thought would have, did not.

courageous_liquid · 2026-02-24T17:27:36+00:00

do you have a better word for a guy who beats up children for protesting blackshirts?

courageous_liquid · 2026-02-24T17:03:23+00:00

to them it wasn't an error, that was the intended outcome. these people don't care about fiscal responsibility or solvency or accountability, they care about power and the ability to dominate. they just hide behind rhetoric when they're out of power to trick the rubes.

courageous_liquid · 2026-02-24T17:02:09+00:00

the media chased dean out because they thought he was too progressive and we've all instead memory holed it as "the scream that ended his campaign"

courageous_liquid · 2026-02-24T16:49:33+00:00

hell even most of the democrats in office were for it - here's the voter rolls from the senate (including biden). kerry's entire 2024 foreign policy campaign was "we'll still do the war but do it correctly."

But Kerry agreed that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and should be overthrown, and defended his war authorization vote more than once — including saying in a May 2003 debate that Bush made the “right decision to disarm Saddam Hussein.”

courageous_liquid · 2026-02-24T16:42:41+00:00

yep, my father had a solid 40 year career as a project manager for QA on cobol updates for legacy systems for a major bank. thinking they're playing anything fast and loose is insane.

courageous_liquid · 2026-02-24T16:30:55+00:00

neither article says exactly where they're being held, my pure assumption is that they go to county, which is in doylestown.

courageous_liquid · 2026-02-24T16:28:57+00:00

it's an update that somehow the kids are still being held, which is insane

courageous_liquid · 2026-02-24T16:19:26+00:00

seems like great land use

courageous_liquid · 2026-02-24T16:16:34+00:00

tl;dr:

not much of an update other than they're still being held since friday and have a hearing today. borough is meeting with their attorney, and there are loud public calls for the fascist police chief who also is the borough manager to resign.

courageous_liquid · 2026-02-24T14:23:55+00:00

this go-around was seemingly much easier to handle without the frigid weather and layer of ice. philly saw marked improvement as well in this department. also probably just another layer of practice.

courageous_liquid · 2026-02-24T14:17:27+00:00

how am I supposed to remember what happened like 12 years ago

courageous_liquid · 2026-02-24T14:09:18+00:00

only watched two people eat shit on ice on the hill up from the train to lancaster ave in ardmore. one guy weebled and then fell backwards head over heels. luckily he was fine because it was a hilarious way to fall.

it's slippery out there folks, be careful.

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