A brisk walk in Lebo this afternoon to let people know about the special election next month for HD42! 🥶 ✊🏻 If you’re in Baldwin, Dormont, Lebo, Castle Shannon, or Upper St. Clair, please let your neighbors know to get out there on 2/24 to send @jenforpa.bsky.social to Harrisburg!

This is especially true in Pittsburgh, where we have some of the shortest bus stop spacing in the country. PRT has tried to tackle this, but the initial efforts were delayed when the pandemic hit.

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Last month observed well above average sea surface temperatures in areas surrounding the Arctic Ocean. This was especially notable in the Labrador Sea near Greenland and Baltic Sea. Data from NOAA OISSTv2.1 at www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/opt... 🌊

We have a childcare crisis in this country. In my home state of PA, the system is so broken that childcare workers would spend nearly half their salary to get care for their own kids. If Republicans were serious about affordability, they should consider the Child Care for Working Families Act.

City of Pittsburgh Mayor Corey O’Connor just claimed that the lights on the Smithfield Bridge have been off for 3 years and that he fixed them. Such a weird thing to lie about. Anyways…receipts.

Comal County hasn’t voted for a Democrat in 50 years. But they showed up for Talarico 🔥

I'm running for PA House of Representatives in the 40th District because affordability, accessibility, and accountability matter to the residents of this district. I'm committed to fighting at the state level for the things that truly matter.

Members of Congress have a clear, spelled out legal right under the existing DHS funding bill to be allowed into these facilities without this notice. So if Congress is going to keep funding DHS, there must be meaningful restraints to rein in this brazen lawlessness.

Very noticeable at this vigil outside the ICE office in Pittsburgh how many new people came out, with a church or just following their own conscience.

26,000,000 interviews / 365 days / 45 employees = 1622 interviews a day per person

At this point, Trump is like, "It's the end of the fireworks show. Set everything off."

I was told that the US is running Venezuela now and it would be easy and there'd be lots of money... and now the US govt is telling Americans to get the hell out. These guys don't even know what a plan is. It's all just wish casting. It's incredible that they currently run the world.

I had to go through a more extensive background check to adopt my new cat than people go through to become ICE agents

I can’t count the number of times that Trump has said something batshit crazy and people said he’s not serious and then he ended up doing the batshit thing. The Greenland war is inevitable unless he’s removed.

This is the quote before that: “‘The guy, I’m telling him like, ‘Please step off the school grounds,’ and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he’s trying to push me, and he knocked me down,’ a school official, who spoke to MPR News[.]”

Whether it’s Democrats putting their pronouns in email signatures or Republicans shooting and killing unarmed drivers, both sides have taken actions that the other side finds threatening.

when you remember AOC tended bar in NYC for years, it makes sense why she has more cojones than most men in politics.

Luigi Mangione, Diddy, and Maduro are all in the same prison. The final season of America is wild. Gotta hand it to the writers.

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

it's a real symptom of widespread anti-progressive media bias that an explicitly progressive candidate is expected to feel a need to be apologetic about being progressive.

This.

We spoke to five Democratic messaging gurus on how to win big against Trump on affordability. They seemed exasperated – not with voters, but with the party. Four things they’re *desperate* for us to internalize 🧵 (feat. @anatosaurus.bsky.social, @admcrlsn.bsky.social and @celindalake.bsky.social)

In my county Dems and the GOP have been losing voter registration as people are increasingly registering independent. These folks are not centrists or moderates! They are angry at a political system that doesn't care about them, and they are insulted when we try to serve them centrist pablum.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani

Before the celebrations on November 4, there were hours of anxious waiting as we watched the numbers come in. Here's a glimpse of the stress and joy alike. Thank you to every New Yorker who believed in this fight for working people. I am so proud to be sworn in as your Mayor. youtu.be/s_hR4A1_sew

The 255-page document, released on the last day of 2025, accounts for some eight hours of testimony. https://to.pbs.org/44LvaCE

Zohran’s inauguration brimmed w/the energy that NYC is “a shining beacon of possibility” per @jumaane.bsky.social. Amidst the darkness of authoritarianism, inequality & hate, we have a chance to show what’s possible. That’s always been our mission as New Yorkers—it was profoundly renewed today.

Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.

Magee nurses: "We would like better staffing so we can provide more personal care for patients." UPMC: "No. Also we're going to give a bunch of money to the same union-busting firm that represented the Norma Rae cotton mill."

SEIU, who are organizing the Penn State faculty into a union, are holding a rally in the rotunda.

A municipality in Allegheny County approved a data center that'll have 100 diesel generators on its roof. triblive.com/local/valley...

Making daddy proud 😘

I wrote about things going from bad to worse for the people who actually make movies. alt headline: The Dream Factory Turns Nightmare

NY is having a bad flu season. More hospitalizations last week than any week on record. Health authorities are encouraging everyone aged 6mo+ to get the flu vax (it's not too late). Find a provider here: on.nyc.gov/getvaccinated. You can filter for sites where there's no cost for the uninsured.

Pennsylvania could address the gaps in our intercity bus system for a mere $14.8 million per year, a third of what PennDOT is spending to improve a single interchange in Wexford. via: @alexdavistransit.bsky.social

The government failed at actually redacting the Epstein files because DOGE cancelled the feds adobe acrobat premium subscription is the funniest shit.

There has long been enough evidence to indict and the slow release is intended to 1) further torment Epstein victims 2) get Americans used to child rape by elites 3) flaunt impunity, since there have been no meaningful consequences for perpetrators 4) arrive right when AI casts everything in doubt.

This quote is from a piece that’s 8 years old now.

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All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.

Golly gosh, it's too bad nobody told Bari Weiss about the Barbara Streisand effect.

Omigosh, tariffs cause retaliation from other countries and hurt your exports? Who could have guessed? JUST EVERYONE WHO’S EVER LOOKED AT TRADE HISTORY OR THOUGHT FOR 3 MINUTES.

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