Cabo Verde was heroic. Never to be forgotten

The satirical site is fighting to officially take over “Infowars.” In the meantime, CEO Ben Collins says the new show will mock “how fucking stupid” conspiratorial brainrot has become.

I am finally reading about Neil the seal and none of you warned me 🥺 Without those other young males, Neil is probably quite lonely. “Unfortunately, poor old Neil, he’s probably looking for some of those things and is not really finding them..." www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

“…Shapiro initially signaled the intention for the state to participate in Trump's 16-day fair on the National Mall. But this week, he said state officials could not find a Pennsylvania business to sponsor the state's booth” www.inquirer.com/news/nation-...

the idea of doing regular vertical video content is giving me hives but it's starting to feel like I can't avoid it ... sigh

All of the states bordering Pennsylvania have higher minimum wages than the federal minimum, ranging from $8.75 an hour in West Virginia to $16 an hour in New York. penncapital-star.com/government-p...

According to Kroger, the purchase price for Giant Eagle was $1.65 billion. Giant Eagle owns 197 supermarkets and 11 pharmacies across western Pennsylvania, northern Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland and Indiana.

the link to NPR's Alito story now goes here: www.npr.org/2026/06/30/n...

is that Alito news for real?

Particularly to every trans kid growing up in a world seemingly intent on attacking you. Know this: You are loved. These adults who get off on trying to bully you are the problem, not you.

this is so lovely, what an amazing run. And brava Maggie Prosser share.inquirer.com/Ew8DBg

more news: Mark Zuckerberg is telling lieutenants to pursue partnerships with Polymarket and Kalshi with Meta's new prediction market app called Arena, per sources Meta is targeting 18-34 year old users with a goal of 100 million regular "predictors" www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/t...

I’m gonna be a homer and say it was a miss not having @fallonroth.bsky.social at this event. Fallon is a political reporter who has been covering the removal of slavery exhibits from George Washington’s Philadelphia home since months *before* National Park Service took down anything. Follow her.

so tech companies are jamming AI into all their devices, driving up the cost of memory/storage chips, which causes the tech companies to raise prices on products that use the chips, so we can't afford them, so how are we supposed to use all the fancy AI tech.yahoo.com/ai/gemini/ar... my head hurts

so far no price hikes on iPhones 🤔 tech.yahoo.com/computing/br...

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine vetoed a bill late Wednesday that would have required absentee voters to provide a copy of their driver’s license or state ID starting with the November 2027 election. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/06/25/o...

I was a little cub student reporter at the Globe the summer this awful murder happened but I remember it like it was yesterday

"And Trump lashed out at Sen. Dave McCormick (R-Pa.) for missing yesterday’s war powers vote — in spite of the fact that McCormick was absent because he was in Pennsylvania with Trump." www.politico.com/newsletters/...

I apologize "mother of Hubble," I was not familiar with your game tech.yahoo.com/science/arti...

as of this morning he's no longer a trillionaire (for the moment anyway) www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/

Ohio GOP candidate for governor has put $500,000 on the campaign credit card. But there’s no way to tell what he spent it on ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/06/24/o...

Ghana!!! 🇬🇭

the name of the firm is greenwater services it was right there, guys www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

Some players on York's minor league baseball team would apparently rather forfeit a game than wear Pride flags on their jerseys. So the team held its Pride night without a game: share.inquirer.com/vwG9XB

I don’t love this headline bc these aren’t just remnants or click farms they’re great sites with stellar coverage that’s really needed right now (obvs partial to The Verge, my alma mater). Hoping for the best here 😕 Penske Media is buying what’s left of Vox Media www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/b...

the one year I had Goodbye Earl as my most listened to song on my Spotify Wrapped probably my husband (who is alive and well and in no danger) would give that a 👎 tech.yahoo.com/streaming/ar...

at first I thought I needed new glasses but no, the font sizes on ads in my Gmail promotions folder were unusually large. tech.yahoo.com/general/arti...

AND IT IS NOT IN APPALACHIA.

cable 🤝 streaming tech.yahoo.com/streaming/ar...

PLAY THE SONG. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJti...

Yay Jordan Staal

My friend @bobbycherry.bsky.social has been volunteering for the American Cancer Society for a long time maybe you could support him & Relay for Life with a lil donation secure.acsevents.org/site/TR?fr_i...

Apropos of nothing: Scaffolding by Seamus Heaney

A drunk South Philly guy would've shimmied up there and crowbarred it off in like 10 minutes

I am not an expert but this seems like a lot of scaffolding?

I've reported on Musk for around 8 years. I've co-authored a book on him. I don't think folks understand the rate of his wealth accumulation. Shortly after he helped elect Donald Trump in Nov 2024, his net worth was around $350 billion. That net worth has nearly tripled in less than two years.

I wonder what is going on I love trying to figure out clues

As soon as I see Jeremy Strong I hear the Succession theme song sorry it will be this way forever (although he does a good Zuckerberg impression here tbh) www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM4L...

I read the tradwife novel that is already optioned with a big star attached and think this review comes closest to getting at how confused I am about the hype over this book www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

Gonna be bold here and say that the proper response to seeing a person speak in hostile and condescending tones to a journalist who’s a woman is to criticize the source and not the journalist’s approach.

We went to a World Cup “friendly” yesterday (Brazil v Egypt) and the atmosphere was great, got to see Mo Salah play… it made me sad that the US hosting has kinda sucked the joy out of the tournament for so many people

Agree with Karen 100%. I’m just glad Pelley didn’t wait for a book deal to speak out (which, that’s likely coming tbh) bc the industry needs *more* guys like him speaking up on behalf of colleagues who are not able to or aren’t listened to

"If it's guilt you're looking for, Buffy, I'm not your man. All you will get from me is my support... and my respect."

The biggest most emphatic fuck yes to this www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/o...

My crankiest old man take is that referring to all art/entertainment/journalism/criticism/comedy/advertising as “content” helped pave the way for broad-ish acceptance of AI slop.

"i'm not saying yes, i'm not saying no" is just an iconic thing to tell a reporter. nice scoop @bobbyallyn.bsky.social www.npr.org/2026/06/02/n...

Oliver Darcy got the audio of the heated 60 Minutes meeting where Scott Pelley dressed Nick Bilton down! "You know what was rude? Black Thursday. That was the absolute definition of rudeness. Telling Tanya Simon she had to be out of here at five o'clock." www.status.news/p/scott-pell...

A lovely remembrance of Pittsburgh legend Joe Negri by my friend @bobbycherry.bsky.social (also kind of a Pittsburgh legend tbh) bobbycherry.com/2026/05/31/r...

“I will never regret going on strike.” After the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette strike, @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social reports former staffers are building PAPER, the Pittsburgh Alliance for People-Empowered Reporting, to preserve local journalism in the city.