On the Code Switch podcast, 40 years ago, the Philadelphia Police Department carried out a bombing that destroyed a black neighborhood on live TV.

And yet the deadly events of that day have been largely forgotten.

There is now a historic marker because a group of middle school children were assigned to look at police brutality in their community.

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This is Jessica from Southwestern Washington.

I'm currently up north in Bellingham at my child's tattoo studio,

where they are giving me a tattoo of their baby footprint,

right in the spot where 27 years ago, they frequently kicked me from the inside.

We're almost done.

This podcast was recorded at 1.21 p.m. on Tuesday, May 20th, 2025.

Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but hopefully my first tattoo will be healed.

Oh my gosh. I was listening to that thinking, what is that sound? Is it like a movie theater with an old

real? What is it? And then, bam, tattoo. That's a fun little bonding moment.

I feel like I've never heard a tattoo timestamp. I feel like it's amazing that we still are

finding new things to have on the top of this podcast. Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.

I'm Miles Parks. I cover voting. I'm Barbara Sprint. I cover Congress. And I'm Tamara Keith.

I cover the White House.

House Republicans are working to advance a massive bill that pairs tax cut extensions with increased

border funding and deep spending cuts across the federal government. It's essentially all of

President Trump's legislative priorities wrapped into one bill. And stop me if you heard this one

before, just a few Republican

defectors in the House could derail the whole thing. So Trump stopped by Capitol Hill today to make

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