Jake Blumgart
Reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer inquirer.com/author/blumgart_jake/
- Still cold and snowy enough to build disgusting ice palaces in Philadelphia
- The business partnership between Hines and Mark Nicoletti's Philadelphia Suburban Development Corporation fell apart last summer, and now City Council is repealing the zoning laws that enabled their mega project www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...
- Reposted by Jake BlumgartElaborate fake IDs and the influx of underage people using them to crowd into Dirty Franks has led owner Jody Sweitzer to impose a new rule: To enter, customers must be at least 25 years old.
- will we never be set free
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- My story yesterday about neighborhood drama in Fishtown, enflamed by a decades old zoning law that only applies to one side of Frankford Avenue www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...
- Great news! PG County has not been super well served by any local D.C. area outlet in a long time (I would argue from afar): www.thebanner.com/banner-pr/th...
- Reposted by Jake BlumgartI think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
- Reposted by Jake Blumgart“What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?” Mr. Musk asked in a email to Mr. Epstein on Nov. 25, 2012. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
- Reposted by Jake BlumgartThat Jeff Bezos's Amazon gave Brett Ratner, someone photographed with Jeffrey Epstein and in the Epstein Files, $75 million to make a doc about Melania Trump, while he chooses to destroy The Washington Post, says about all you need to know.
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- i can't wait to check this place out! www.inquirer.com/food/restaur...
- Reposted by Jake Blumgart6/ The Post has lost over 375,000 subscribers in just over a year. If 10% of those readers subscribed to The 51st instead, we could hire 10 reporters and five editors, dramatically scaling our coverage of the city at this critical time. 51st.news/signup
- Reposted by Jake Blumgartfunny how the man who cost the Washington Post hundreds of thousands in subscriptions by canceling the paper's presidential endorsement—almost certainly the most destructive decision in the history of the paper, if not journalism itself—still has his job
- Reposted by Jake BlumgartNew from 404 Media: the FBI has been unable to get into the iPhone of raided Washington Post journalist because the phone had Lockdown Mode enabled. Apple markets Lockdown Mode mostly to stop spyware like NSO. Here, a real world example of it stopping access too www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...
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- Reposted by Jake BlumgartGuys like Bezos think that because they made a lot of money doing one specific thing, that makes them brilliant at everything. And then when it turns out they don't know the first thing about, say, newspaper publishing, they get bored and task an underling with stripping the place for parts.
- Bill opposed by everyone got held from going forward at a City Council hearing yesterday www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...
- Reposted by Jake BlumgartA staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
- Baffling: "The Washington Post told employees on Wednesday that it was beginning a widespread round of layoffs that are expected to decimate the organization’s sports, local news and international coverage." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
- Reposted by Jake BlumgartNew: Together with colleagues I’ve been testing Grok. The chatbot still produces sexualized images — even when told the subjects don’t consent. even when told the photos will be used for public humiliation. even when told the subjects are survivors of abuse. www.reuters.com/business/des...
- Shapiro is "expected to pitch a sweeping, $1 billion housing and infrastructure plan to cut red tape and reform zoning rules, as housing costs in the state remain high and availability low, though the details of the plan were unclear Monday afternoon." www.inquirer.com/politics/pen...
- Councilmember Young just held his bill banning housing from the former Hahnemann campus at the Rules Committee hearing www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...
- Really good profile www.inquirer.com/crime/seth-w...
- Reposted by Jake BlumgartAn NFL team can lose. (Trust me, I'm a Jets fan.) But NFL owners are essentially guaranteed success — no matter how bad their team is, no matter how blatantly they disregard their fans, no matter how odious they are personally. My feature for @prospect.org's Sports Issue!
- Who bought Aloysius www.bbc.com/news/article...
- “Epstein and his representatives corresponded with Cosby, invited him to dinner parties, and at one point sought to retain Cosby’s personal chef as his own.” www.inquirer.com/news/jeffrey...
- Reposted by Jake BlumgartTrump paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017 and now wants $10 billion because a leaker pointed that out www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
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- PA planning to address housing shortages with “incentives rather than mandate,” but experts warn such policies haven’t done much to move the needle in other states www.spotlightpa.org/news/2026/01...
- "Trump may fade from view in a few years, but any expectation that the liberal order will snap back flies in the face of the evidence. The old system was one that worked under a particular set of conditions. Those conditions are no longer present." www.ft.com/content/b4d2...
- Our obit: www.inquirer.com/obituaries/d...
- Odd that the admin has just totally shut down in the face of criticism on this issue: "I asked Joe Grace, the mayor’s head of communications, if the city had anyone available to explain any unique challenges [of snow removal] this year, but he did not respond." www.inquirer.com/opinion/snow...
- Seems like everyone was a bit quick to report that the feds were de-escalating in the Twin Cities www.startribune.com/journalists-...
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- sobering to see the last month summed up in one paragraph www.ft.com/content/ed08...
- Reposted by Jake BlumgartI love Dan McQuade dearly and will miss him terribly. No one else like him. defector.com/dan-mcquade-...
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- "Philadelphia’s forecast high on Thursday, 20, would be more than 10 degrees lower than the forecast for Anchorage, Alaska." www.inquirer.com/weather/weat...
- Tech industry inventing new ways to make life insufferable and dull
- Grindcore is the new hustle culture ft.trib.al/Yq5N8YC | opinion
- 273 more office-to-residential conversion apartments coming to Center City! www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...
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- "Analysis of the City of Philadelphia’s PlowPHL data, which tracks the movement of plows via GPS data, showed that about a quarter of streets citywide had received no snow treatment at all — including salting or plowing — after the conclusion of the storm Sunday" www.inquirer.com/news/philade...
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- ICYMI: interesting media history in this building that just sold for a weirdly steep discount! www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...
- Reposted by Jake BlumgartI wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
- As PHA moves forward on plans to finally renovate the former Germantown Settlement properties, at almost $550,000 a unit, a local developer is asking why at least some of the properties can't be given to small developers to redevelop for less than a third of the cost www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...
- Yesterday Brandywine pulled permits for 163 residential units at the Bellet Building in the former Hahnemann University Hospital complex ahead of City Council's housing ban for the area. That makes 824 units permitted since the bill's introduction: www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...
- You should read this! www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...
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- a theory about our great crime decline which, if true, could mean the conditions allowing it might not last much longer www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
- Really interesting quotes from Councilmember Gauthier throughout this profile: www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...
- Mayor Parker says another zoning reform package is coming from the administration, and she has high hopes that Harrisburg will enact new laws to speed construction this year too www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...
- “almost all of those speaking against the bill either work for Reworld, the Chester waste-to-energy plant, or represent labor unions.” www.inquirer.com/news/philade...
- What a lede: "They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but Kendra Brooks isn’t taking kindly to a recent gesture of duplication by one of her colleagues." www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...
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- Reposted by Jake BlumgartPresident Donald Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum ordered content at national parks that “inappropriately disparage” the U.S. to be reviewed and potentially removed.
- the list is here: www.inquirer.com/news/philade...
