Philly Power Research

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Philly Power Research is a group of volunteer researchers investigating our city's most powerful people, corporations, and organizations.
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We demand a city free from Trump’s deportations, fear & violence. ICE Out bills put our values into law & prioritize immigrant communities' safety. Show up Monday 4/13 for City Council hearing & 1st vote to demand no city $, personnel, data or public space be used to help ICE!
RSVP: https://www.mobilize.us/ndwa-c3/event/919594/
"Garrity’s single biggest donation was $250,000 from University City Housing Co., a real estate firm providing housing near Drexel and the University of Pennsylvania."
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/pennsylvania/governor-election-campaign-donations-shapiro-garrity-20260212.html
Big-money and out-of-state donors helped Josh Shapiro raise $30 million while Stacy Garrity raised $1.5 million from Pa.’s grassroots

The Inquirer analyzed the candidates' latest campaign finance filings to find who — and how much money — is pouring into the Pennsylvania governor's race.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Philadelphians demand a city free from Trump’s deportations, fear and violence. The ICE Out legislation puts our values into law and prioritizes the safety of immigrant communities. Show up Tuesday to launch this legislation and get ICE out of our city!

RSVP here: https://www.mobilize.us/ndwa-c3/event/891092/

NDWA PA - ICE Out of Philly! · National Domestic Workers Alliance C3

This week, ICE Out legislation will be introduced at Philadelphia City Hall, led by Philly immigrant communities and Councilmembers Kendra Brooks and Rue Landau. Join us outside of City Hall, Tuesday January 27 at 10am to demand elected officials support this legislation that will strengthen laws to protect all of us from ICE terror. Let’s show up strong together and demand that ICE gets out of Philly!

Mobilize
Any expressions of concern about ICE from the Parker administration are meaningless if they're allowing Philly police to actively assist ICE.

A quick search on LinkedIn turns up hundreds of people who work for 🧊. People should message them to tell them to quit their jobs. And shame them in front of their communities.

Philly never really defunded its police department, but the public disdain toward policing in the 2020 uprising era contributed to years of police under-staffing.

(Under-reported sidenote that historic lows in murders last year happened at same time that police staffing was lower than it had been in years)

"Defeating Communism" SuperPAC pissing off PA GOP legislators via attack ads criticizing GOP for considering taxes on "skill games" gambling. Sen. Bartolotta: "[Skills game lobby is] acting like criminals. And I don't know what in the world they think this is going to do to engender our support" 🍿
https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2025/11/pennsylvania-skill-games-tax-regulation-gambling-lobby-capitol/
Why gaming changes didn’t make it into PA’s 2025 budget

A dispute over the level of taxation and accusations of retribution derailed another attempt to regulate slot-like skill games in Pennsylvania.

Spotlight PA
A little too on the nose that this cyber charter school CEO complaining about the new cyber charter accountability measures in the PA state budget is converting a 219-year-old public library into his private home.

"AI in Philly govt is a black box: There is no public process for communities to review proposed tech & determine if it’s truly safe for us (let alone beneficial)"

Attend the City Council hearing on AI in Philly: Wed. 10/15 10am-1pm @PhillyCAM!

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/ai-philadelphia-tech-lobbying-surveillance-public-record-20251012.html

AI is watching us. We need city officials watching AI.

Artificial intelligence in Philly government is a black box: There is no public process for communities to review proposed tech and determine if it’s truly safe for us — let alone beneficial.

The Philadelphia Inquirer
"Many of the ideas included in the proposal — and, in some instances, their exact wording — came from a document circulated last winter at the behest of Marc Rowan, the billionaire financier. Mr. Rowan has been keenly interested in higher education and, as the University of Pennsylvania was mired in acrimony over antisemitism and pro-Palestinian activism in 2023, he wielded his wealth and influence to help oust his alma mater’s president."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/us/billionaire-marc-rowan-trump-deal-universities.html
Marc Rowan, a Billionaire Financier, Is Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities

The conservative ideas behind the Trump administration’s “compact” for universities were developed in part by Marc Rowan, a wealthy financier who has sought to shape higher education.

The New York Times
Surely all the people who ~totally genuinely~ made the Union League a campaign issue in 2023 will have something to say about Parker giving a speech there & the Vice Chair of her transition team/one of her top donors Greg Segall being "a lifelong Republican"...surely, right?
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/philadelphia/cherelle-parker-state-of-philadelphia-union-league-20250918.html
Declining homicides, business tax cuts, and not a word on Trump: Mayor Cherelle Parker addresses the Union League

Despite being a Democrat speaking at a major stop on the national GOP fundraising circuit, Parker likely had many genuine allies in the crowd.

The Philadelphia Inquirer