@ronanfarrow.bsky.social and Andrew Marantz asked Sam Altman whether running an A.I. company was a job that came with “an elevated requirement of integrity.” This was supposed to be an easy question.

The “Sinners” cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw has made Oscar history as the first woman, and first woman of color, to win best cinematography. “I really want all the women in the room to stand up,” she said in her acceptance speech. nyti.ms/4s6532K

In his last piece for the @post-gazette.com, @benkail.bsky.social covers Pennsylvania’s role in the battle over voting reforms and the Trump administration’s efforts to “nationalize” elections ahead of the midterms. www.post-gazette.com/news/politic...

Shapiro, Garrity divided over spending in spotlight amid renewed Pa. budget battle www.post-gazette.com/news/politic... by @benkail.bsky.social

Jason Richey, Allegheny County GOP chair, running for lieutenant governor www.post-gazette.com/news/politic... by @benkail.bsky.social

It always amuses me how boilerplate Trump's endorsements are, as witness his backing last night of gubernatorial candidates Stacy Garrity of PA and Tom Tiffany of WI. Some biographical details and phrasing change, but oddly much of the idiosyncratic capitalization remains the same.

Jason Richey, a Pittsburgh attorney who ran for governor in 2022 & has chaired the Allegheny County GOP for about a year, is running for Lt. governor. Stacy Garrity, the Republican state treasurer running to oust Gov. Josh Shapiro, will endorse Richey today. www.post-gazette.com/news/politic...

“Had I been a double agent for Israel?” Gov. Shapiro found Harris team’s focus on Israel during 2024 vetting ‘offensive’ www.post-gazette.com/news/politic... by @benkail.bsky.social

Instead of a link to the announcement of our paper's demise, here's a feature I wrote in 2024 ... about my old man's favorite roller coaster, the century-old Thunderbolt, at Kennywood Park. Like my 12 years in the news business, it's still a hell of a ride. www.linkedin.com/posts/benjam...

Lest we forget what the great Megan Harris is up to: pittsburgh.citycast.fm

“.. What happened to Rob and Michele is an obscenity, an abyss in lived reality. .. I have to be allowed to imagine .. that one day, I’ll be at a dinner or a party and find myself seated next to Rob .. and feel lucky all over again to have him as a friend.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/o...

#TwinPeaks #CharlieBrown #Snoopy artwork by @schumisnoopy.bsky.social

Many reporters went to Albany, Georgia, when it became one of America's first COVID hotspots. But @propublica.org's Ginger Thompson kept returning, kept reporting. What she uncovered reveals some ugly truths about American healthcare. Read her new 5-part series, Sick in a Hospital Town:

I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.

“A democratic republic is only as good as the information the citizens have,” Lew Irwin, a political scientist at Duquesne University, told me. “We’ve immersed Americans in this new technology with all these adverse consequences, and no one has a user’s manual.” www.post-gazette.com/news/politic...

This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.

this is just gutter racism

Territory they hold? You mean Ukraine?

Trump and his administration have targeted at least 470 people, organizations and institutions for retribution since he took office, according to a @reuters.com tally – an average of more than one a day. www.reuters.com/investigates...

There is beauty everywhere but especially in autumn in Philadelphia! 😻

Shapiro says Trump administration not 'minding the shop' as DHS targets immigrant truckers www.post-gazette.com/news/politic... by @benkail.bsky.social

JUST IN: A federal judge says one of the Venezuelan men — illegally deported to El Salvador in March before he was swapped back to Venezuela in a prisoner exchange — is now missing, possibly a victim of the violence he was seeking asylum from. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Let’s not get confused about science. Many studies have looked for a link between vaccines and autism — none has found one. “We haven’t ruled it out” is a logic loop; by that logic we also haven’t ruled out peanut butter, bedtime stories, or blue socks. 1/

i’m sure someone else has already put this together but fucking wild he called for members of congress to be hanged the same day the coast guard said a noose is no longer a hate symbol

Crow: "It just tells us everything that we need to know that reminding people to obey the law, reminding people to obey the Constitution, is somehow criminal in Trumpworld and should be responded to with death threats. It's very, very telling."

The arrest of an alleged terrorist who obtained a Pennsylvania commercial driver’s license this summer has stirred calls for investigations by Republican policymakers & pushback from the Shapiro administration aimed at potential flaws in a federal database. www.post-gazette.com/news/politic...

EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.

Breaking: The House voted unanimously, 426-0, to strip a provision in the funding bill that allowed senators to sue the government for $500K if their phone data was searched without their knowledge. The provision was designed for GOP senators to sue over the Jack Smith investigation.

RFK Jr. says other nations should follow the US lead & bar thimerosal in #vaccines. The preservative safeguards multi-dose vials, a key tool for vaccination drives in many countries. Experts don't think it will happen, but worry that disinformation could take root. www.statnews.com/2025/11/19/r...

BREAKING: Prosecutors in the Comey case just told the judge that they’re under orders from the Deputy Attorney Generals’s office not to disclose whether career prosecutors wrote a memo recommending *against* indicting Comey prior to Halligan going to the grand jury.

Source: this wonderful remembrance of Bennet by Nick Paumgarten www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Recycling Lead for U.S. Car Batteries Is Poisoning People www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro

Massie: "The president has been saying this is a hoax. Well, he's just now decided to investigate a hoax, if it's a hoax. And I have another concern about these investigations he's announced. If they have ongoing investigations, those documents can't be released. So this might be a big smokescreen."

Ms. Wilson, a self-described socialist, joined the race after Mayor Bruce Harrell opposed taxing high-income residents to finance construction of new housing. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

Count the ways they’re corrupting DOJ: Presidents don’t direct AG’s to open criminal cases, especially ones designating only Dems for investigation when POTUS himself is involved. DOJ doesn’t publicize criminal investigations & the AG definitely doesn’t assign them on Twitter.

Unanimous MVP awards: Michael Jordan 0 LeBron James 0 Shohei Ohtani 4

In Matt Gaetz Scandal, Circumstances Left Teen Vulnerable to Exploitation www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.

To every veteran who raised their right hand and answered the call — thank you. Today, and every day, we honor you. We are free because of you.

Whenever some sanctimonious Dem announces that America needs a functioning Republican Party, I always think “I’d settle for a functioning Democratic Party.”

Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.

Mamdani cracks 1M votes, the first NYC mayor to do so since John Lindsay in 1969

MAMDANI: "I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life, but let tonight be the last time I utter his name ...."

Mamdani: "We believe in standing up for those we love. Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many Black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job ... your struggle is ours too."

Fall colors 🍁🍂 #eastcoastkin #bloomscrolling #photography #leaves #autumn