Nate File

I asked a bunch of Philly teenagers about the public places where they like to hang out - they struggled to name them. We talked about that, plus some of the changes they’d like to see. inquirer.com/news/teenagers…

My mom died when I was 17. I only have a handful of pictures and zero videos of her. A couple years ago, on my birthday, I got a text from a number I didn’t recognize. It simply said “happy birthday” with a YouTube link. I clicked it and my heart stopped. It was my mom. I had to pull over immediately. She was telling me how proud she was of me and how she wondered what I’d become. Maybe a policeman, a preacher, or even a clown. I couldn’t believe it. Well, it turns out the random phone number was my friend Jon’s dad, who had found this video on an old VHS tape they made before a 1999 school event. I was 16. This experience got me thinking... what if we could have one last conversation with someone we lost? 🚛 The Crossing Over Express is now on @X 👻

Run clubs are really popular right now. I talked to some people in this one, which is meant for people who are in recovery: inquirer.com/news/philadelp…

@ValerieRussDN @Haver_Lisa @PhillyInquirer Thanks Valerie!

“That’s when I first appreciated how brilliant so many of these kids are. How they think outside the box. Their ideas aren’t constrained,” she said about the previous work. inquirer.com/education/mit-… via @phillyinquirer @nate_file #PhlEd

It's a horrible day. @PhillyInquirer leaders once again resorted to layoffs - part of what the @PhillyNewsGuild aptly calls an "inhumane, callous, lazy, uncreative playbook." A twisted joke after we were just told to return to office more frequently in the spirit of collegiality

Truancy is about so much more than students just not wanting to go to school. We’ve spent months talking to students, families and case managers across the city about the real reasons why it happens: inquirer.com/news/inq2/phil…

New Interview: I talked to Tareq Baconi, an expert on Hamas, about what the group hoped to accomplish, why Israeli government policy toward Hamas has changed over the years, & how to understand the sheer scale of the violence & cruelty of recent days. newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/w…

Hamas committed abominable war crimes for which there can be no forgiveness. But the laws of war weren’t meant only for situations in which our blood is cool, or when there is no justified anger or understandable desire for revenge. My new oped >> haaretz.com/opinion/2023-1…

Nobody does Media Day like Jimmy Butler does Media Day

MENENDEZ: i'm gonna do that $99 million international arms deal you wanted :) EGYPTIAN OFFICIAL:👍

WHAT A DREAM COME TRUE FOR COCO GAUFF! 🥹🏆

Our schedule is here! Meet us in the gym 👀 @ATT | #BullsNation

Grab your tissue 🤧 🥹 — we know she’ll never forget this @Kelseyplum10 ♥️🔥 👟: UA Curry 1 Retro ‘Black History Month’ #MadefortheW

@frozen_margs Shuddered reading this

Working on a new strategy standby

as expected, the court has inverted the 14th. an amendment written explicitly to directly ameliorate the conditions of race hierarchy becomes in conservative hands an amendment that says it’s illegal to try to directly ameliorate the conditions of race hierarchy

“When we hear other folks share their stories, and then we see that we are not alone in our struggles, that ultimately chips away at that feeling of shame and ‘Why did this happen to me?’” Read more about how support groups are being used for newcomers: inquirer.com/news/philadelp…

Really excellent article from @nate_file that does so much justice to our film about life without parole No Way Home. We’ll be premiering it tonight in Chester and then on June 30th in Philly at @FreeLibrary. inquirer.com/news/life-with…

am absolutely losing my mind at Bill de Blasio FINALLY speaking out about dropping that groundhog (which died several days later) in 2014. "I put on these gloves, and they’re like, 'Here’s a groundhog,' I’m like, 'What the fuck?'"