A LETTER FOR PEOPLE WHO LIVE HERE
MON · NOV 9 · 2026
Decisions are being made about your block. You should know.
The Eagles lost their seventh straight, the boycott ride met a wall of counterprotest, and a bridge that swings finally connects Grays Ferry to Bartram's Garden.
AROUND
The Joe Milton era started the way the season has gone. Milton, signed off the Cowboys' practice squad three weeks ago after Jalen Hurts' blood clots, went 18 of 34 for 169 yards with no touchdowns and was sacked seven times, and the Giants left the Linc with a 19-11 win Sunday. That is seven straight losses, the worst skid since eight in a row to close 2012, and a 2-7 record with the bye week here. Saquon Barkley ran 13 times for 1.7 yards a carry, and the afternoon's longest play belonged to punter Braden Mann, whose 86-yarder got its own highlight thread. Halftime belonged to 50 seasons of Merrill Reese. The top thread after the game is addressed directly to Jeffrey Lurie.
The trade deadline is Tuesday at 4 p.m., and CBS has the Eagles expected to sell: Moro Ojomo, Riq Woolen, Dallas Goedert, Landon Dickerson, Nolan Smith Jr. and Marquise Brown are the names in play, with the injuries and Lane Johnson's surprise retirement having changed the math. The people are thanking Goedert in advance and reading his Loyal hat as a direct message to Howie Roseman.
Sunday's boycott ride happened, and so did the answer to it. About 300 pro-Palestinian demonstrators rolled through Rittenhouse Square targeting businesses whose owners they claimed support Israel, including Schlesinger's and Huda, and around 200 counter-protesters met them. Police made three arrests and reported two officers hurt. The governor, the mayor and the attorney general all condemned the ride, which fell on the eve of the Kristallnacht anniversary; Mayor Parker's line was that singling out businesses because their owners are Jewish is unacceptable. The line outside Schlesinger's got its own thread before it got locked, and the Mac Mart explainer ran more skeptical about the whole exercise.
Harrisburg's to-do list is taking shape. It is the first full Democratic trifecta since 1993, and the early priorities are a $15 minimum wage, codifying reproductive health access and paid family leave. Sen. Jay Costa calls mass transit funding a conversation for early in the session, and over on r/SEPTA a thousand people have piled onto the thread demanding the money be made permanent.
The city has a new pothole answer: a 22-person Road Warriors squad promising fixes within 48 hours, with reports running through roadwarriorspotholesquad.org and a live repair map. Last year the city hit 79 percent of its three-day goal.
The city's first rat abatement manager is taking the fight door to door in Oxford Circle and Castor Gardens, with a public complaint dashboard planned. The Health Department fields about 4,000 suspected rat complaints a year, and Council declared the problem a public health emergency by resolution last month.
A 420-unit proposal on Lancaster Avenue was denied at the zoning board, and the thread ran 138 upvotes deep on the split between density-hungry YIMBYs and neighbors worried about the corridor.
Rich Temple, 66, of Society Hill starts Tuesday: all 13 Regional Rail lines, all 158 stations, in two days, to make the case for sustainable SEPTA funding.
UP
The Sixers split the weekend and are 9-2. Friday was a 119-95 mess in Cleveland, but Sunday they beat the Bulls 127-121 in Chicago. The people blaming Cleveland's in-season tournament court for Friday would like a word.
Friday the Schuylkill Crossing finally opens. The 1,000-foot swing bridge links the Grays Ferry Crescent to Bartram's Garden, closing the last gap on that stretch of the Schuylkill River Trail, and the whole span pivots out of the way of boats in about three minutes. The ribbon-cutting thread reads like pure relief.
The woman who stands in front of food delivery robots is a semi-retired professor named Carolyn Marvin, and she has become a folk hero. It is her first amendment right to protest, she says in the 241-comment thread, and the people have concluded no jury would convict.
Hot stove time. Alec Bohm is a free agent and third base is the open question this offseason. Cristopher Sanchez is a Cy Young finalist again, Jhoan Duran and Don Mattingly are up for their own awards, and Kyle Schwarber is a Silver Slugger finalist after leading baseball in home runs in back-to-back seasons. Andrew Painter, meanwhile, has a new changeup. The people's favorite stat of the week: the Phillies have won a game more recently than the Eagles.
ON
MON 9 Sunny and 61 with a gusty wind (National Weather Service). The Flyers open a road trip in Vancouver at 9:30 (click here for the schedule).
TUE 10 The Sixers host the Celtics at 8 (click here for the schedule), and Tun Tavern throws its Marine Corps 251st birthday block party at Second and Chestnut, free, cake cutting at noon.
WED 11 Veterans Day, sunny and 64. A ceremony at the Constitution Center at 11 a.m. with free admission for veterans, and the Museum of the American Revolution is free through the 11th. The Flyers are at Edmonton at 9.
THU 12 Rain likely after 1 p.m. and into Friday (CBS Philly). The Sixers host Toronto at 7.
FRI 13 The Schuylkill Crossing opens to the public. More rain, high 52.
SAT 14 The Big Dill runs at Stateside Live! on the sports complex, where they will attempt a Guinness record with 1,200 people in pickle costumes. The Flyers are at Columbus at 7.
SUN 15 The Sixers host Indiana at 1 and the Flyers host Edmonton at 7:30. The Eagles are on bye until they visit Pittsburgh Nov 22 at 4:25 on CBS (click here for the schedule).
WENT ON
On November 10, 1775, the Second Continental Congress commissioned Samuel Nicholas to raise two battalions of Marines, and Tun Tavern has been the birthplace the Corps toasts every November 10 since. The Corps turns 251 Tuesday, and the block party is at the corner where the tavern stood. Historians will note the Conestoga Waggon tavern may have been the real first recruiting post. The Corps will note nobody toasts a wagon.
See you Thursday.
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