Reposted by Zack TannerBob Batz Jr. @bobbatzjr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Really feeling for my fallen comrades at USA Today Co. and McClatchy this week. These cuts may save those companies money but they continue journalism's death spiral. 021
Zack Tanner @zacktanner.com · 05/08/2026As nice as it is to not have to watch Ozuna anymore, Ronny Simon is truly talentless. In all my years of watching this lousy baseball team I’ve rarely seen more of an empty jersey than 2025 Ronny Simon. 100
Zack Tanner @zacktanner.com · 07/07/2026World Cup announcers talking about how heartbreaking soccer can be. They wouldn’t last four innings on any random Tuesday at PNC Park. 072
Reposted by Zack TannerLauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I wrote about the new ads on MLB TV promoting the owners' demand for a salary cap as the next lockout draws nearer: defector.com/mlb-is-now-p...defector.comMLB Is Now Promoting A Salary Cap Between Innings | DefectorYou weren’t watching MLB.TV on Sunday, because NBC bought out all of the day’s games and locked most of them behind their billions-losing streaming service. But if you were tuned in for out-of-market ... 75411
Zack Tanner @zacktanner.com · 28/05/2026Every now and then you’re told something that is true but so unbelievably hilarious that it’s just actually hard to believe. 000
Reposted by Zack Tannerjen ramos-eisen @jenramose.online · 27/05/2026this is an incredibly good read that highlights what exactly the owners' M.O. has been the entire time!! it breaks down a lot of private equity's involvement is in MLB, too, which has been rising steadily in its presence in sports. it was never about competitive balance. this story says why!! 2268
Zack Tanner @zacktanner.com · 14/05/2026I don’t think I’ve ever seen a 7 unassisted double play until today and I’ve watched *a lot* of baseball in my life. 110
Reposted by Zack Tannerjae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 29/04/2026EXCLUSIVE My big behind-the-scenes look into how Gov. Josh Shapiro has courted Amazon amid the mounting backlash to data centers Complete with internal emails, memos, an “exclusive” offer for help with faster permitting and a NDA no one would explain to me. My latest for @heatmap.news 😌heatmap.newsInside Josh Shapiro’s Attempt to Navigate the Data Center BacklashEmails between the Pennsylvania governor’s office and Amazon illustrate the difficulty of courting big business as anti-AI fervor explodes. 40793330
Reposted by Zack TannerZack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · 24/04/2026If anyone wants to donate to a good (DIY / music / punk) cause 17858
Reposted by Zack TannerZack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Anyone who can search the web should be able to realize that every institution with a faculty union creates better conditions for faculty, and by extension, better conditions for their students. Compare the before union & after union contracts yourselves - it couldn’t be clearer. 131
Reposted by Zack TannerZack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · 22/04/2026If there’s one thing I’ve learned from 26 years in higher ed, it’s that having faculty governance and tenure is basically having a fake union. They are exploitable systems based on squishy policies that favor the admin, rather than legally-binding rules that represent the many & favor the workers. 13614
Zack Tanner @zacktanner.com · 17/04/2026My two-cents: It feels like the new PG owners are going to hire 40-50 of the people least likely to have issue with whatever bullshit management feels like pulling and then figure it out from there. 010
Zack Tanner @zacktanner.com · 04/04/2026I attended a Pittsburgh Pirates baseball game and left not feeling any dread, despair, or anxiety. What is this feeling? 081
Reposted by Zack TannerKim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Every so often, one of the most infamously abusive men in the American labor movement gets one of his shitty blog posts picked up and the whisper network gets called back into service. Do not engage with Payday Report. 929468
Reposted by Zack Tannerhelp I've autumned and I can't get up @daniskitchen.bsky.social · 26/03/2026tremendous news! life sentences are death sentences by another name, nobody should die in prison 1283
Reposted by Zack Tannermolly taft @mollytaft.com · 25/03/2026NEW: i took a look at legislation @sanders.senate.gov is intro'ing today to impose a data center moratorium “until legislation is enacted that safeguards the public from the dangers of AI" it's a major line in the sand for progressives looking to tie data center opposition w AI safetywired.comNew Bernie Sanders AI Safety Bill Would Halt Data Center ConstructionThe US senator said on Tuesday that a moratorium would give lawmakers time to "ensure that AI is safe." Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will introduce a similar bill in the House in the weeks ahead. 13697175
Zack Tanner @zacktanner.com · 20/03/2026Remember the bit "millennials get the big screen out to make important purchases?" I did that this morning with the Pirates ballpark pass. ⚾️ 031
Reposted by Zack Tannerjen ramos-eisen @jenramose.online · 06/03/2026"I’m all for players’ rights but wonder if we’ve gone too far." same energy 2316
Reposted by Zack Tannerjae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 05/03/2026one google data center in virginia two million gallons of water per day information only released under court order & risk of contemptwsls.comGoogle data center water estimates go public, residents in Roanoke and Botetourt reactA proposed Google data center campus in Botetourt County could use between 2 million and 8 million gallons of drinking water per day, according to an executed agreement between the developer and the W... 181471936
Reposted by Zack TannerWill Li @williamlidc.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Dear union stewards. Don’t you fucking dare. Don’t do it. 940093
Zack Tanner @zacktanner.com · 17/02/2026It's hard for me to think of two more unlikable sports teams than the 2026 US men's hockey and curling teams. Just two groups of 100% losers. 140
Reposted by Zack TannerDrew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 04/02/2026We at the @postguild.bsky.social are raising money for the hundreds of journalists the Post just laid off. This goes to the people who are hurting, not the Post. Or if you'd rather, go subscribe to an independent journalist. Support is hugely appreciated. www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...gofundme.comDonate to Washington Post 2026 layoff fund, organized by Rachel SiegelOn Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, The Washington Post laid off hundreds of journalists. We ar… Rachel Siegel needs your support for Washington Post 2026 layoff fund 13532284
Reposted by Zack TannerWashington-Baltimore News Guild @wbng.org · 04/02/2026The Washington-Baltimore News Guild strongly condemns the layoffs announced today at The Washington Post. These cuts represent yet another blow to a newsroom that has already been pushed to its limits and a disservice to the readers who rely on The Post for rigorous, independent journalism. 29752
Reposted by Zack TannerZack Tanner @zacktanner.com · 21/01/2026Fuck scabs. Yesterday, today, and forever, fuck scabs. 071
Reposted by Zack TannerEmergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) @organizeworkers.bsky.social · 30/01/2026organizing.png 1657
Zack Tanner @zacktanner.com · 30/01/2026I liked Pittsburgh better when it wasn’t run by a Baby Boy mayor who will sell the municipal naming rights to any corporation looking to dodge taxes. 390
Zack Tanner @zacktanner.com · 22/01/2026Some days you read something so bootlickingly hilarious that you actually laugh out loud at the thought of their raw tongues. Today is one of those days. 120
Zack Tanner @zacktanner.com · 21/01/2026It doesn't get talked about much but we offered at least three separate times, most recently in August 2025, that we'd accept the BCI corporate health insurance plan as long as costs were capped at the court-ordered 2017 CBA rates. They never bothered countering our offers, they just said "no". 190
Zack Tanner @zacktanner.com · 09/01/2026Shoutout to a yinzer neighbor, whom I’ve never met, stopping in the middle of the street to tell my dog and I, “Big fire over there, lotta black smoke.” “Oh damn, where?” “Over there.” 020
Reposted by Zack TannerThe Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 07/01/2026Here's a fantastic list of journalists to never ever hire postgazettescabs.compostgazettescabs.comPittsburgh Post-Gazette Newsroom Scab ListThe scabs who have crossed the picket line while their colleagues have fought for a better workplace. 065
Reposted by Zack TannerThe NewsGuild-CWA @newsguild.org · 07/01/2026NEW: Post-Gazette to shut down 240-year-old paper after SCOTUS slaps down company’s bid to evade court order “Instead of simply following the law, the owners chose to punish local journalists and the city of Pittsburgh,” said Goldstein, president of @pghguild.com newsguild.org/pittsburgh-p...newsguild.orgPittsburgh Post-Gazette owners couldn’t bust the union, so they shut down the paper | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWAPost-Gazette to Shut Down 240-Year-Old Paper After SCOTUS Slaps Down Company’s Bid to Evade Court Order. 2292157
Reposted by Zack TannerPhillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 07/01/2026The newspaper of record of my entire childhood would literally rather die than pay its unionized workers the wages and benefits that the actual Supreme Court of the United States of America decided were owed to them. 10991350
Reposted by Zack TannerNeil but ready for fall (the season or “of the regime”) @burghpunk.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck Put Bob Nutting and the Block family on a barge and shove them down the Ohio river 1265
Reposted by Zack Tannermike d. @mikeydangelo.bsky.social · 07/01/2026RIP Pittsburgh Post Gazette, you'd rather close than pay your union employees, I guess! 0102
Reposted by Zack TannerTory Wegerski @producertory.bsky.social · 07/01/2026NEW: Publishers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announce they are shutting down the newspaper on May 3, 2026. Hours ago, the Supreme Court of the US declined to extend a stay on a court order for the paper to pay its journalists following the end of a 3-year strike. 20469210
Zack Tanner @zacktanner.com · 07/01/2026BCI just announced to the staff the closure of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette as of May. Unbelievable. 253
Zack Tanner @zacktanner.com · 07/01/2026This company wasted who knows how much money to pay a lawyer who clerked for Alito to try and vacate our victory and even that didn’t get it done. Shocking that the workers are right again. Shocking! 0111
Zack Tanner @zacktanner.com · 07/01/2026Post-Gazette, when you can’t even get Alito and this Supreme Court on your side, it’s over. Give us our health insurance back and just hand that CBA back at the same time. 🫳🎤 1143
Zack Tanner @zacktanner.com · 05/01/2026Seeing Corey O’Conner take over as Pittsburgh mayor is so incredibly depressing. Who is excited for this other than private capital and people who will use his admin to further their own careers? 1110
Reposted by Zack TannerDave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 02/01/2026A real news outlet publishing the phrase "Grok apologized" should result in like a week-long timeout. Think about what you've done. 7084991220
