Police Officers Use Google Translate to Help Woman Deliver Baby in Backseat of a Car
#Philadelphia
Good news, everyone. t's the Philadelphia Museum of Art again. And we get to keep the griffon!
@dtm There are a few possible models. One is that of the #Philadelphia #Inquirer, which is now run by the nonprofit Lenfest Institute for #Journalism (thanks Gerry Lenfest). Nothing is perfect, but at least the Inky won't be poached by a hedge fund.
HT @bob
#DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old #USCitizen Who Criticized Them in Email
The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.
Hafiz Rashid/ February 3, 2026
"The #Trump administration is targeting #FreeSpeech with a little-known legal tool: #AdministrativeSubpoenas.
"The #WashingtonPost reports that a retired #Philadelphia man, Jon, 67, found himself in the government’s crosshairs after he emailed a lead prosecutor at the Department of Homeland Security, #JosephDernbach, who was handling the deportation case of an #AfghanRefugee, identified as H, asking him to consider that the man’s life was in danger from the #Taliban.
" 'Mr. Dernbach, don’t play Russian roulette with H’s life,' Jon wrote from his #GMail account. 'Err on the side of caution. There’s a reason the US government along with many other governments don’t recognise the Taliban. Apply principles of common sense and decency.'
"Later that day, Jon received an email from #Google notifying him that an administrative subpoena had been sent to them from the Department of Homeland Security 'compelling the release of information related to your Google Account.' Federal agencies can issue such subpoenas without an order from a judge or grand jury, and Google gave Jon, who withheld his last name to protect his family from the government, one week to challenge it.
"Laws are supposed to restrict the use of administrative subpoenas, but DHS has used the tool against dissent protected under the #FirstAmendment to the #Constitution. Jon could not find who in the agency issued the #subpoena, let alone a record of it to show an attorney.
"Days later, DHS agents showed up at Jon’s door. A naturalized U.S. citizen originally from the #UK, Jon was worried about potential violence. The agents showed him a copy of the email and asked to see his side of the story. They didn’t know about the administrative subpoena but said they received orders to interview Jon by #DHS headquarters in Washington, D.C.
"Eventually, the agents agreed that Jon had committed no crimes after he told them he found Dernbach’s email address through a simple Google search. Jon secured pro bono representation by #ACLU attorneys, who argue that the government is violating a statute that limits how administrative subpoenas can be used for '#ImmigrationEnforcement' and that the government targeted Jon for #ProtectedSpeech.
" 'It doesn’t take that much to make people look over their shoulder, to think twice before they speak again,' said Nathan Freed Wessler, one of Jon’s attorneys. 'That’s why these kinds of subpoenas and other actions—the visits—are so pernicious. You don’t have to lock somebody up to make them reticent to make their voice heard. It really doesn’t take much, because the power of the federal government is so overwhelming.'
"Both #Google and #Meta received a record number of subpoenas in the United States during the first half of 2025 as Trump’s second term began, with Google receiving 28,622, a 15 percent increase over the previous six months. Jon was fortunate to have his case picked up by the ACLU and later reported on by a national media outlet. How many others in the U.S. haven’t been so lucky and face legal challenges for exercising their right to free speech?"
Source / listen:
https://newrepublic.com/post/206088/homeland-security-67-year-old-us-citizen-criticized-email
#USPol #GoogleSucks #BigTech #Fascism #DefundDHS #ThoughtPolice #Orwellian #NineteenEightyFour #Authoritarianism #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity
"'These are agents of the federal government to count the vote. If they can’t count the vote legally and honestly, then somebody else should take over.'
Trump offered no evidence, just pure racist invective."
"President Trump’s call for nationalizing voting in America is fundamentally racist, and in case you missed the dog whistle from two days ago, he said it loud and clear yesterday:
Take a look at Detroit…take a look at Philadelphia, take a look at Atlanta. The federal government should not allow that. The federal government should get involved.'"
~ David Kurtz
#Trump #elections #racism #Detroit #Philadelphia #Atlanta
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https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/the-trump-doj-has-utterly-collapsed
In honor of Black History Month, a short biography of Ben Fletcher (April 13, 1890 – 1949), Wobbly and revolutionary. Fletcher joined the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in 1912 and became secretary of the IWW District Council in 1913. He also co-founded the interracial Local 8 in 1913. Also in 1913, he led a successful strike of over 10,000 dockers. At that time, roughly one-third of the dockers on the Philadelphia waterfront were black. Another 33% were Irish. And about 33% were Polish and Lithuanian. Prior to the IWW organizing drive, the employers routinely pitted black workers against white, and Polish against Irish. The IWW was one of the only unions of the era that organized workers into the same locals, regardless of race or ethnicity. And its main leader in Philadelphia was an African American, Ben Fletcher.
By 1916, thanks in large part to Fletcher’s organizing skill, all but two of Philadelphia’s docks were controlled by the IWW. And the IWW maintained control of the Philly waterfront for about a decade. After the 1913 strike, Fletcher travelled up and down the east coast organizing dockers. However, he was nearly lynched in Norfolk, Virginia in 1917. At that time, roughly 10% of the IWW’s 1 million members were African American. Most had been rejected from other unions because of their skin color. In 1918, the state arrested him for treason, sentencing him to ten years, for the crime of organizing workers during wartime. He served three years. Fletcher supposedly said to Big Bill Haywood after the trial that the judge had been using “very ungrammatical language. . . His sentences are much too long.”
#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #benfletcher #union #strike #philadelphia #longshore #docker #waterfront #worldwarone #prison #antiwar #freespeech #racism #blackhistorymonth #BlackMastodon
THIS WEEK’S WEATHER — #Philadelphia #weather #PAwx #PhillyWx
A Changing Forecast
A series of cold fronts will affect us over the next few days. First is a front that moves through tonight. As mentioned yesterday, the low pressure system and its snow will stay to our south. ... https://theweatherguy.net/blog/?p=26034
Successful World First: Baby Treated with Personalized CRISPR Gene Therapy for Rare Disease is Now ‘Thriving’
Successful World First: Baby Treated with Personalized CRISPR Gene Therapy for Rare Disease is Now ‘Thriving’
Majority of Philadelphia City Councilmembers Back New “ICE Out” Legislation
A package of bills aims to combat federal immigration operations, including codifying the city’s sanctuary protections.
#Philadelphia Considers (considers?) #ICEOut Legislation
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/2/3/philadelphia_city_council_ice_out
How’s your snowventure? Indoor outdoor thermometer finally reads 32 in the snow packed yard. I feel lighter already and also await the ice that will form when it melts then hits a cold surface.
How a Philadelphia cheesemonger became the first American to win a world championship
Emilia D’Albero lives in what she calls a “heavily cheese-themed home.” The walls of her Point Breeze place are lined with po…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Frenchcheese #Cheese #cheesemongers #competitions #Food&Drink #francais #france #French #frenchcheese #philadelphia #pointbreeze
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2497399/how-a-philadelphia-cheesemonger-became-the-first-american-to-win-a-world-championship/
Witness all the fallout from the #RoyalRumble next when #WWERaw streams live worldwide on #Netflix from the #XFinityMobileArena in #Philadelphia, #Pennsylvania!
#RawonNetflix
https://youtu.be/VKPBrk8KrLk?si=8wYx_JyaMfjr79v0
🎨🏛️ Dr. Denise M. Murrell leads a tour of the #Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism exhibition at #TheMet. The interdisciplinary movement redefined modern #art by shaping new portrayals of Black life through #painting, #sculpture, and #photography during the Great Migration.
#history #museums #chicago #culture #documentary #europe #jazz #music #nyc #philadelphia #photos #poetry #washingtondc #writing #tksst #video
THIS WEEK’S WEATHER — #Philadelphia #weather #PAwx #PhillyWx
Another Quick Update
Updated Monday 02/02/26 @ 3:52 PM — The models have retur ... https://theweatherguy.net/blog/?p=26034
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