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Elise__Mae

@elisemae.bsky.social
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📍 #Pittsburgh #PGH via Boston and NYC metros 🚌 transit, urbanism, complete streets, solar, climate n'at 🎹 chronic musician | 📬 #USPS #NALC fam | 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ ally | she/her

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help I've autumned and I can't get up @daniskitchen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"don't be sad," said big panda "autumn is nature's way of showing us how beautiful letting go can be"
big panda and tiny dragon are having tea under a tree whose leaves are falling
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Elise__Mae @elisemae.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A productive and timely intro to any email one might send over the next few weeks ...
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Elise__Mae @elisemae.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
CNN will be going the way of CBS? It's been decades since I've watch much network TV news. But many middle-aged and retired Americans do (i.e., those who vote in the highest percentages). It's beyond troubling that employees equate the takeover of CNN with Musk's acquisition + remake of Twitter.
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Elise__Mae @elisemae.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
" ... we don't have to wonder if AI might try to destroy the world. With its huge fossil fuel consumption for data centers ... AI-invested corporations are doing their damnedest to destroy the earth right now ... " - Rebecca Solnit www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-worshipp...
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Yes They Want to Kill Us: The Worshippers of Machines Versus Human Beings
This is the week that someone pulled the fire alarm on AI. It began with industry employee Jacob Coxon issuing a dire warning: "I resigned from Anthropic today," he wrote on Twitter/X. "I spent the la...
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Elise__Mae @elisemae.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I always found #DuncanSheik's harmonic sensibility + shifting sonic textures so engaging, from the 90s onward. But I rationed my listening, trying to avoid forming calluses. Now the dam has burst: it's all in heavy rotation. RIP to an utterly singular musical voice. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0oG...
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Duncan Sheik - Reasons For Living
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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Listen, i may not be a football girlie but game theory-wise i will say this: the way Robert Kraft collaborated with other NFL owners to get Macklemore kicked off of Ed Sheeran's tour speaks to why Colin Kaepernick was never given another shot after taking a knee for racial justice.
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Elise__Mae @elisemae.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Vote-By-Mail lives to fight another day. Surprising pretty much nobody other than the Trump regime, our nation's most constitutionally protected form of communication is more than capable of safely handling our ballots. But for 2028? Don't get too comfortable. www.scotusblog.com/2026/09/supr...
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Supreme Court denies Trump administration’s request to implement parts of rule on mail-in voting
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Elise__Mae @elisemae.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Barely Breathing" got all of the press in terms of Duncan Sheik's pre-Broadway pop career. But this 2nd single, from its insistent guitar hook to the outro's delicate string arrangement, is hauntingly gorgeous chamber pop. RIP and grateful thanks to a true original. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTZU...
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She Runs Away
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Elise__Mae @elisemae.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Just heard the word "crassening" used on Today Explained, a @vox.com podcast. The focus of this episode was the media's treatment of women in midlife (pop culture overall, but mostly TV). I think the intended word was "coarsening," but ... it communicated. Will it catch on?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Reminder: voter fraud is not a thing. Voter suppression is.
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Elise__Mae @elisemae.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The rule promoted by Postmaster General Steiner + the USPS Board of Govs, fortunately blocked by SCOTUS, has damaged USPS' reputation. The Board can protect vote-by-mail, but isn't doing its job. Join @usmailnotforsale.bsky.social + tell them to Deliver Our Ballots: actionnetwork.org/letters/deli...
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Deliver Our Ballots - Tell Postal Service Leadership We Demand to Vote-by-Mail
The USPS Board of Governors has the power the protect vote-by-mail, but they are not doing their job. Will you send them a message?
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Elise__Mae @elisemae.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
As the spouse of a USPS city letter carrier w/ 30 years of service, I ask you to consider: The USPS Board of Governors has the power to protect vote-by-mail, but they are not doing their job. Join @usmailnotforsale.bsky.social and tell them to Deliver Our Ballots: actionnetwork.org/letters/deli...
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Deliver Our Ballots - Tell Postal Service Leadership We Demand to Vote-by-Mail
The USPS Board of Governors has the power the protect vote-by-mail, but they are not doing their job. Will you send them a message?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Perfect description of what's going on.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I’m not willing to regard Trump slaughtering wild horses at the same time he’s offering Americans cheap “ground beef” as simply a coincidence . . .
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Elise__Mae @elisemae.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Yet more grants cut: "The National Institutes of Health (NIH) terminates two Pitt research grants studying how race and socioeconomic status impact brain health." Scientists are moving out of town to new well-funded research jobs in Canada, Europe, China, etc. www.publicsource.org/trump-admini...
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Timeline: First half of 2026 brings more research cuts to Pitt
CMU releases 10% of Software Engineering Institute staff, citing reliance on federal funding.
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Elise__Mae @elisemae.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
No Bill Maher fan, not least because he was once moderately funny in addition to just being grumpy. But this was the first time I ever saw Milo Y called out for his weaselry right to his face (2017); bravo to intel expert @malcolmnance.bsky.social for providing a true public service. bit.ly/45QGe1r
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MILO Confronts the Panel | Overtime with Bill Maher (HBO)
Subscribe to the Real Time YouTube: http://itsh.bo/10r5A1B Bill and his Overtime panelists – Milo Yiannopoulos, Larry Wilmore, Malcolm Nance and Fmr. Rep. Jack Kingston – answer viewer questions after the show. Connect with Real Time Online: Find Real Time on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Maher Find Real Time on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RealTimers Find Real Time with Bill Maher Official Site: http://itsh.bo/HttKcM. Find Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO GO® http://itsh.bo/iioY87. Find Real Time with Bill Maher on Connect: http://connect.hbo.com/real-time-bill-maher Find Real Time on Instagram: http://instagram.com/realtimers The Real Time blog: http://www.real-time-with-bill-maher-blog.com/ It's HBO. Connect with HBO Online Find HBO on Facebook: http://Facebook.com/HBO Follow @HBO on Twitter: http://Twitter.com/HBO Find HBO on Youtube: http://Youtube.com/HBO Find HBO Official Site: http://HBO.com Find HBO Connect: http://Connect.hbo.com Find HBO GO: http://HBOGO.com Find HBO on Instagram: http://Instagram.com/hbo Find HBO on Foursquare: http://Foursquare.com/hbo Check out other HBO Channels HBO: http://www.youtube.com/hbo Game of Thrones: http://www.youtube.com/GameofThrones True Blood: http://www.youtube.com/trueblood HBO Sports: http://www.youtube.com/HBOsports HBO Documentary Films: http://www.youtube.com/HBODocs Cinemax: http://www.youtube.com/Cinemax HBO Latino: http://www.youtube.com/HBOLatino
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/08/2026
the “op” is that vance is the most visibly sweaty, pathetic and juiceless national politician in recent memory
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Elise__Mae @elisemae.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Pittsburgh's post-COVID transit numbers: finally starting to noticeably improve? www.wesanews.org/development-...
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Pittsburgh Regional Transit ridership at highest point since 2020
PRT said three-quarters of its routes saw an increase in ridership over the last fiscal year.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We’ve reached the “salting the earth” part of the regime’s demise
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Elise__Mae @elisemae.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"... the USPS will generally not accept Outbound Federal Ballot mailings unless compliance with the rule’s new standards has been verified.” Setting aside (as if!) the fact that federal election admin is unlawful, my question to the USPS re: addressing this new mandate is: you and what army?
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026
Dan Sullivans only pile up like this when something’s really wrong
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Elise__Mae @elisemae.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Happy to be elected to the Board of Pittsburghers for Public Transit after being a member for a several years. PPT is a grassroots union of transit riders, workers, and neighbors here in PGH and Allegheny County. A great group to organize, work, and celebrate with! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Fn4...
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2025 Year-End Recap Pittsburghers for Public Transit
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Elise__Mae @elisemae.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
How about this headline instead? "2026 NFL Draft attendees shifted to public transit, speeding commutes to Draft events." Attendees wisely heeded official warnings about limited parking, PRT provided expanded service, and thousands of cars were taken off the road. www.wesanews.org/politics-gov...
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Parking revenue shortfall during NFL draft complicates Pittsburgh’s fiscal picture, report shows
A new look at Pittsburgh’s mid-year finances suggests the city’s fiscal picture is getting worse — a trend which stems partly from parking tax revenues coming in well below estimates due to the NFL dr...
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Elise__Mae @elisemae.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
A decade ago, I worked in career ed via a Department of Labor program. Part of my job was helping recently unemployed/displaced workers access training. Helping unemployed industrial workers and miners get trained in coding was a big part of it. Now ... this? www.kiplinger.com/personal-fin...
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We Can’t Weld Our Way Out of This: Retraining Alone Won’t Fix AI job Loss
When AI replaces white-collar jobs, workers will be told to "learn a trade." But where's the support for the financial and emotional challenges that causes?
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Elise__Mae @elisemae.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
My sweetie was at this afternoon's amazing game ... I had to work! Pesky employment. 🤬😀 #RaiseIt
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
January 6 was only 5 and a half years ago, and we’ve already cycled through investigation, indictment, conviction, pardon, and now gleeful promises to do it again only with actual hanging rather than just chants about it. Nice job GOP.
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They're still doing it because we didn't hang them
last time.
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Elise__Mae @elisemae.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Seems like just about everyone now uses the word "socialization" when they mean "socializing." (The second/alternate meaning for both words points somewhat to the other word ... so I guess it's understandable. But can't we have both?)
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This story is a bit wild. After Elon Musk's DOGE erased decades of USAID data, it was assumed to be lost. But a Canadian college student had previously downloaded much of it in high school for a project. 4,000 PDFs. Thanks again, Canada. Yet again. www.aiddata.org/blog/before-...
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Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned
Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.
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Bike Pittsburgh @bikepgh.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
:: LAST CALL to share your experiences :: The City’s State of Mobility & Safety Perception Survey closes this week (Aug. 7) -- Take the survey now for a chance to win a gift card! bikepgh.org/2026/05/19/take-the-cit…
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Take the City's State of Mobility & Safety Perception Survey - BikePGH
Take the City's State of Mobility & Safety Perception Survey, help planners understand mobility needs, and win a gift card
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Elise__Mae @elisemae.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
"PennDOT's 2023 deal w/ Norfolk Southern, which operates tracks between Pittsburgh + Harrisburg, upgrades tracks + stations along the route. Those upgrades are nearly complete + will allow freight trains to more easily pass passngr trains, increasing reliability." 🛤️ 🎉 www.axios.com/local/pittsb...
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More daily trains for Pittsburgh riders
A second Pennsylvanian trip aims to improve travel and reliability.
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Elise__Mae @elisemae.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
On today’s npr.org “Up First,” reporter Ryan Lucas began his sentences with a curt “Well, look…” during his brief chat w/ the anchor…FOUR TIMES. I appreciate the thorough coverage and sure, the DOJ is grim AF. But he sounded like an angry divorced dad arguing w/ his ex about custody scheduling.
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Grumpy Pomeranian Dog with Angry Expression
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
With the midterms just over 90 days away, the Republican Party is focused today on Anthony Fauci and 2020-21.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
a bad thing is running a phd program with brilliant international students who must reckon with a volatile xenophobic saboteur government in fresh ways every day, no thank you, 0/10
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Elise__Mae @elisemae.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Every PA county -- rural, urban, and in between -- depends on transit. But this budget once again ignores PA's acute need for sustainable transit funding. The string of over-deadline budgets, now extended to six years, only adds insult to injury.
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 13/07/2026
GREAT NEWS: A judge just voided President Trump's settlement with the IRS granting him immunity from audits and referred a ​Trump lawyer and DOJ officials who signed off on the settlement ‌to ⁠state bar authorities to determine if their actions violated legal ethics rules.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I wrote about the Supreme Court's latest disgusting anti-trans ruling. I wrote about it because I refuse to act like taking away constitutional rights and allowing legal discrimination is okay just because it's happening to people who don't poll well in a diner in Ohio. In @thenation.com
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The Supreme Court’s Anti-Trans Ruling Goes Well Beyond Sports
The ruling is about whether trans people have the same rights as everybody else—and the Court said they don’t.
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Elise__Mae @elisemae.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Though he's likely never going to pay up, he's now an adjudicated sexual abuser and can't seem to dislodge that finding, despite much effort. A rare win in the fight against the weaponized misogyny that is central to his very core. Thank you @ejeancarroll.bsky.social! www.cnn.com/2026/06/29/p...
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Trump must pay E. Jean Carroll $5 million after Supreme Court denies his appeal of sexual abuse verdict | CNN Politics
The Supreme Court Monday declined to take up an appeal from President Donald Trump over a $5 million verdict and finding that he sexually abused and defamed E. Jean Carroll, a decision that means the ...
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Elise__Mae @elisemae.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Please keep a good thought for the good people of Ouray County and the rest of SW Colorado's San Juan Mountains today. The last I heard from my friend who lives in Ridgway (near Ouray), she and her five dogs were ready to evacuate at any second last night. www.montrosepress.com/free_access/...
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Fire pushes evacuations in Ouray County, closes part of Hwy 550
Evacuations have been ordered for parts of Ouray County because of a fast-moving fire that broke out Saturday, June 27, and as of 9:30 p.m., U.S. 550 was closed between
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Elise__Mae @elisemae.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Thanks to the @aclu.org for promoting this opportunity for public comment on preserving our best practices regarding voting procedures. Please add your comment via PCFederalRegister@usps.gov. Deadline is July 2.
Email re: preserving voting practices, including vote-by-mail, promoted by the ACLU.
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Elise__Mae @elisemae.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Thoughts/prayers
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Full statement of Scott Pelley after he's fired from CBS 60 Minutes, detailing the sort of corruption of journalism Bari Weiss has brought to CBS News:
New statement from Scott Pelley:
 
There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.
 
The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS. 
 
“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.
 
The waste is heartbreaking.
 
Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all. 
 
At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.
 
I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.
 
Scott Pelley
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I'm fine with this response to Budget Goebbels Stephen Miller. Pearl clutchers should go live inside a cave and write an essay about civility.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Tech oligarchs have spent 3 years screaming that their plan is to win the race to AGI, which they define as the point when machines replace the vast majority of human economic activity. They just figured out that we could hear them. Bit late, Jensen Huang. www.channelnewsasia.com/business/ceo...
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'Lazy' narrative to connect AI to job cuts, says Nvidia boss Jensen Huang
"If you don't engage the technology of your time, you'll just simply be left behind," Mr Huang told CNA's Victoria Jen in a wide-ranging interview.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/05/2026
Sen. Dave McCormick: "President Trump's regime-- uhm, his administration"
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Elise__Mae @elisemae.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I adore my PGH neighborhood of Brookline's scramble crossing (Pioneer + Brookline Blvd). The only cue that it exists, though, is audio from the pedestrian crossing lights mentions "ALL crossings." It's a measure of safety against PGH lefts + right-on-reds. Thanks, @pghcitypaper.com! bit.ly/4f5XB44
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Transit Talk: Pittsburgh’s all-way crossings enhance safety but scramble some people’s brains
Pedestrian crosswalk scrambles are known by other fun monikers including Barnes Dance and pedestrian jubilee.
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Ray @raymolson22.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
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Elise__Mae @elisemae.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
As a pedestrian and transit rider, there's a huge overlap in safety issues for all vulnerable road users. I live half a block from the ghost bike at Brookline Blvd. and Pioneer Ave. in honor of cyclist Austin Fike, killed by a drunk driver in 2019. RIP Austin. www.pghcitypaper.com/news-2/infra...
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The annual Ride of Silence is an expression of grief and hope for Pittsburgh cyclists
Riders paused by cyclists' memorials on Stanton Avenue and Rosedale Street, respectively, and they observed moments of silence and laid flowers on the “ghost bikes” placed in the late cyclists’ names.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
One way to think of this is that WE ALL FAILED miserably to hang Jan6 on Trump in 2024. Trump has given us a 2nd chance to do that, made all the easier bc 1) This is fucking corrupt as hell 2) GOP is already underwater 3) Voters already recognize Trump is corrupt. Here's our chance for a redo.
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