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:

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.

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

become ungovernable

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...

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

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

UPMC should take some fucking notes

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

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’

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 ❤️

catch covid at anthrocon and call it kennel cough

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

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.

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

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

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...

i have enough going on right now

This is a bad advice column. People get locked into volatile contracts and end up paying more for power than if they stuck with their default service. Scams are rampant. It’s irresponsible to not acknowledge the downside of switching suppliers, especially when scammers target older adults.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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...

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

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

what happened this weekend barometrically cannot happen again

judges you need to calm down your texts are so thirsty

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

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

all of pittsburgh:

I Do. Not. Trust. This. Man.

oh Chris I have so many thoughts lol

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"…?

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

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.

Pennsylvania Dems need to circle their wagons and get the dude to resign, even if just for his own wellbeing but certainly for the wellbeing of their constituents www.wesa.fm/politics-gov...

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.

theres no better feeling than when your vibes based hating turns into facts based hating

@ duquesne light

I will consider the only appropriate apology from Fetterman to be his resignation

Public apology to the tour guide at the Heinz history center who apparently had a frenzy of queer youths on a field trip calling Fred Rogers a “bisexual icon” because I told my teen about this:

Omg defund the police was never a bad rallying cry and I refuse at my big tired age to react to the people who still say this and clearly have zero understanding about how and why social change works. It’s 2025 and bless whoever wants to still argue with these guys

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 43 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.