Donald Trump’s approval rating has tanked and Republican suffered heavy losses in last week’s elections. There’s never been a better time for Senate Democrats to cave on the ACA extension.

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

It's official, GameDay is coming to Pittsburgh

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Oh Iowa needs the pylon umbrella for that camera

Lower bowl for Pitt-Notre Dame sold out

Walk Ride Northside is having their annual tailgate next Sunday, November 16! You're invited!

Erin Koper running on a “Pittsburgh is a violent hellhole” platform, losing her city council race by 49 points in a district Trump lost by 33 points and then immediately declaring she is selling her house and leaving Pittsburgh has got me cackling in some kind of way this morning. Girl, bye.

This breaks some people’s brains. In most cities, Costco stores fuel sprawl & car dependency. In Vancouver, our full-sized downtown Costco has residential towers above & a skytrain station next door. LOTS of customers don’t drive to it. We live a block from it. We call it “the convenience store.”

I hate that this is now a regularly scheduled announcement, but SNAP is 9X the size of the charitable food system. Food banks and pantries need help helping folks right now. If you can donate or volunteer, please do. If you need help, it's out there. Find your Feeding America food bank here:

"The University of Pittsburgh has confirmed that it will maintain its current federal funding for indirect research costs after cuts announced earlier this year threatened to push one of the region’s major research institutions off a financial cliff." www.wesa.fm/health-scien...

BREAKING: Pennsylvania is now driving out November SNAP benefits. After we won in court yesterday, we moved quickly to start getting benefits loaded on EBT cards and out the door — and we're working to get every Pennsylvanian currently waiting for federal food assistance benefits what they're owed.

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

Get it together Pens

Topping our most tracked flights list now are a pair of US Air Force B-52s orbiting off the coast of Venezuela. www.flightradar24.com/multiview/3c...

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

South Shore. Liberty Bridge. Caller is asking for the police to be on the lookout for a driver of a pickup truck who is speeding, swerving in and out of traffic, and is braking suddenly. 75% of Pittsburgh drivers officially on notice.

oooof. Pittsburgh-based Duolingo plummeted 22% after-hours. how’s that “AI-first” approach working out, Luis?

What a crybaby loser

Pittsburghers are waiting in more traffic than ever, 53 hours sitting in congestion in 2024, the most since recording began. It's bad, but still below national averages. www.axios.com/local/pittsb...

When you’re riding public transit you realize that what’s good for everybody is also good for you. If the bus runs faster, if the train is cleaner, if the AC works, we all benefit when you’re driving a car, every other car on the road is your personal enemy

Ok, one last race call for the night from a bellwether county... The Democrats have FLIPPED the Erie County, PA (Trump+1) County Executive position by 24 POINTS!

Incredible stuff tonight in Allegheny County District 1: Harris +4 Dem +21 District 3: Harris +4 Dem +20 District 4: Trump +1 Dem +21 District 9: Trump +1 Dem +27(!!) And Alex Rose will win by double digits.

Sweet ride to the polls @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social welcome to the Bunch fam!!!!! #bunchfam #cargobike #omg #nyc

78% in. Lead shrank slightly, but there's not too many more votes left to count

Everyone please point and laugh at the RNC speaker who truly thought she could flip Pittsburgh’s West End

results.enr.clarityelections.com/PA/Allegheny... 67% report, and Alex Rose is still winning 57-42. Looking good at flipping the county council seat!

gambit’s working! Allegheny County absolutely hates Republicans rn

We probably won't know the results of the judge retentions tonight (rural PA is historically slow at reporting results). But locally, the county council positions are pretty important. Especially the at-large results.enr.clarityelections.com/PA/Allegheny...

Breaking: Abigail Spanberger wins Virginia Governor race, flipping the seat from red to blue. (Source: @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social)

The vast majority of mail-in ballots have now been scanned and data has been uploaded for tabulation. Results will post shortly after 8 pm.

BREAKING: UPS cargo plane, a McDonnell Douglas MD-11, crashes near Louisville International Airport in Kentucky

It was free. People loved it. And Republicans killed it. To make your life worse and reward their donors and lobbyists. But both parties something something.

Senate Republicans blocked a resolution demanding full funding for SNAP benefits. This, as Trump still refuses to fully restore SNAP to 42 million Americans. As we head into the midterms, don't forget: GOP lawmakers are fully complicit with Trump's weaponization of hunger.

BREAKING: Trump has just posted on Truth Social indicating he doesn't intend to release SNAP funds until the government reopens, which would defy both a court order and his own administration's comments yesterday.

Incredibly evil.

Cuomo parking his OJ-mobile in the bike lane says pretty much everything about his campaign

Carrick. Brownsville Road at Stewart Ave. While attending to vehicle accident and an elderly male down, a fire fighter was struck by a driver of black BMW who then took off toward Brentwood. Cops have the plate and are saturating the area.

Make sure you have your plan to vote tomorrow! I'll be going after work.

Finally! H2P

Acc refs suck

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I JUST WANT IT TO GO OVER THE TIME CHANGE

Ok leave Mason in, but like, don't make him run.

Shit

Pitt!

So ESPN+ or whatever they're trying to rebrand as is a decidedly worse experience than YouTube TV. Disney, stop fucking around.

Dook

Safety first 🙃