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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 05/11/2025

Imagine having a kid in this daycare who watches as their teacher is bodily dragged away by masked goons.

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 19/10/2025

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

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🔩All Hallow’s Joan🐈‍⬛ @screwedjoan.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

everyone who is a living person in a nation should be entitled to a free government apartment and unlimited food stamps with zero qualifiers, feeding and housing people is the absolute bare minimum a government should do to maintain legitimacy

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Chris Belasco @someclevername.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

The shadows are long and there’s a chill in the air. It’s time.

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Renee @jg-pgh.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

fuck that. we’ll search out the name of anyone or any company that leases office space to ICE in Pittsburgh and absolutely decimate their reputation loudly & publicly for _years_. local media peeps, you’re going to be key, here

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Civic Grit @civicgrit.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Presently in Pennsylvania ~25% of the population receives $641 million of free policing annually, funded by other regions. This scheme uses state police for local police work, which may actually be against state law. A new law seeks to make that approach for fiscally responsible:

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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.

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Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

My body is tired, but my spirit is willing! Still walking because transit can’t wait. Still walking for our families. Still walking for a government that works for the US! #walkfortransit #day3

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death. Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

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A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.

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James Santelli @santelli.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Ooooof. And this is coming from a gas consultancy executive!

Those incentives help to explain how Shell ended up stranded in a region that turned out not to make sense for petrochemical buildout in the current market.

Keller said Pennsylvania’s gift to Shell is unprecedented in the industry. “I’ve literally never heard of anything like that. It was just stunning,” she said. “The state got dealt.”

While there was some greater economic advantage to the region during construction, when more than 9,000 workers were needed, once the plant became operational and the workforce shrank to 500, “the state might as well have just put people in an office and written them a check,” Keller said. Essentially, she said, the financial benefit to the company is so large that the state is effectively off-setting the cost of all full-time employees at Monaca with the tax break.

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

As always, Ted Chiang is great in this interview. cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...

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DrSinBin @drsinbin.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

UPMC should take some fucking notes

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blake deadly @rebelloma.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

I feel the way the amish do about photographs about using AI to write anything meant for another human to read

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Erik Strobl @erikstrobl.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

thank you, governor. It’s very important to anticipate bad-faith actors twisting everything you say and do and remain eternally reactive. That’s called ‘courage’

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Virginia Montanez @ginny.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Dearest Pittsburgh, please consider stepping up with me to be there for WQED. This isn’t an ad. I have no relationship with them. They didn’t ask me to ask you. I simply refuse to let Mister Rogers’ TV home fade away, especially not due to a funding cut ❤️

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blake deadly @rebelloma.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

catch covid at anthrocon and call it kennel cough

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

the mayor of Philadelphia makes MORE MONEY than the mayor of NYC (s city of 12+ million) and yet she’s sitting on Twitter negging our city workers instead of hammering out a fair contract

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Imagine being part of a floundering political establishment at historic lows in favorability, seeing this guy's absolutely infectuous energy, and deciding to try to stop it through an array of embarrassing media appearances and editorial blunders.

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blake deadly @rebelloma.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

my husband said he “can tell when a man has family money from the way his ears are pierced” and it was the most haunting and accurate forecasting I’ve ever heard

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

people: mamdani is going to turn NYC into a theocracy!!!! SCOTUS: it's ok if ur religion thinks being gay is evil and don't want ur kids to read about it in school

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Maria Montaño @themariamontano.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Hundreds of patients across the region will have their life saving healthcare stopped by UPMC. Why? All so UPMC can protect its profits. The community has launched a campaign to help these families please spread the word. www.gofundme.com/f/support-tr...

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The Trump Administration’s cruel anti-trans agenda has inflicted a prof… Zane Chancellor needs your support for Urgent Help Needed: Trans Youth Emergency Fund

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blake deadly @rebelloma.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

i have enough going on right now

screenshot of nytimes article that I’m not going to read about whether you shouldn’t pee “just in case”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Really feel like the NYC mayor’s race shows that there is no such thing as a progressive establishment, and there is, in fact, an anti-progressive establishment that runs all the way from Murdoch to Clinton

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blake deadly @rebelloma.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

you should be able to watch and just like that at 1.5 speed like a podcast

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blake deadly @rebelloma.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

every time a middle schooler tells you about a “life hack” they came up with just understand you’re about to hear a significant federal crime described to you breathlessly

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

By the way, this Abundance Agenda crapola is just another way to package the Reagan-lite pro-Wall Street neoliberal agenda that helped exacerbate inequality in the US throughout the Clinton and Obama years. It also plays like East Coast elite mush—because it is.

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Conor Lamb @conorlambpa.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

The 25% tariffs went in just before my special election in 2018 and it’s hard to view them as anything but a failure. They did not create more jobs, they did cost American companies a lot of money and incentivize them to use less steel.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Not the point of the article but every photo of Fetterman doing basically anything now looks like B-roll from a documentary about 3M covering up a spill of Forever Chemicals in a rural town. theintercept.com/2025/05/28/j...

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Maria Montaño @themariamontano.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

In case anyone was wondering - I endorse Mayor Ed Gainey for re-election.

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 18/05/2025

kids literally wanted to grow up and be public servants because of Richard Scarry.

Richard Scarry illustration of a city scene with animals working various jobs. Text reads:

Some workers work indoors and some work outdoors. Some work up in the sky and some work underground.

included in the image is a fox in a hard hat working underground surrounded by cables and pipes and sewers.

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blake deadly @rebelloma.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

what happened this weekend barometrically cannot happen again

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Woy @woy.lol · 17/05/2025

judges you need to calm down your texts are so thirsty

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Abolish ICE is the compromise position. We need to abolish the entire Department of Homeland Security, which was created after 9-11 with the express purpose of terrorizing immigrant communities, activists, and ordinary people in a sickening display of security theater that does not make anyone safer

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

they Bernied the generically liberal white boy who survived a school shooting

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melinda @melwedde.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

all of pittsburgh:

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help I've autumned and I can't get up @daniskitchen.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

I Do. Not. Trust. This. Man.

Corey O’Connor is claiming credit for Pittsburgh’s paid sick leave policy in TV ads and mailers in his campaign against Mayor Ed Gainey. But the truth is, he almost killed it.

I know this because I was there in the negotiating rooms. As executive director of Pittsburgh United, I helped lead the coalition that spent months crafting a strong sick leave bill with unions and faith and community groups like SEIU 32BJ, Pittsburgh Interfaith Impact Network and Action United.

O’Connor initially agreed to sponsor the bill and told us he supported the policy. In early meetings, he said all the right things: praising unions, nodding along and assuring us he was with us. We thought we had a shared commitment. Then, out of nowhere, he reversed course.

After a private meeting with the Restaurant Association, he tried to introduce a massive exemption for businesses with fewer than 14 employees — a change that would have excluded 85% of workers. We were stunned at his cowardice at the cost of workers.

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blake deadly @rebelloma.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

oh Chris I have so many thoughts lol

Screenshot of an automated text from Rep Deluzio asking how the week long power outage could have been handled better

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J. I. Swiderski, MURP @swiderski.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

When Fern Hollow Bridge collapsed, Gainey had been Mayor of PGH for less than a month. O'Connor, however, had been on Pittsburgh Council for 10 yrs, during which there were multiple inspections, reports & restrictions on FHB. Where was *he* in making sure the city wasn't "letting bridges crumble"…?

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Maria Montaño @themariamontano.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

O’Connor citing an NTSB report on the collapse of Fern Hollow bridge as proof that Mayor Gainey is letting our “bridges crumble” is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve seen come out from his campaign. Let’s be clear here - the collapse was the result of a failure of the Peduto admin who ignored

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james 🐎🔫 @buffalocia.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

The first Democratic governor who sends their state troopers into an ICE field office to free someone ICE has kidnapped is going to be president in four years.

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Mark Andrew Price @pricelaborecon.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Reskeet if today would be a good day for John Fetterman to take some personal responsibility for his health and well being and resign from the U.S. Senate.

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