While we thoroughly anticipate victory and the restoration of the contract terms that were stolen from us, we need your support more than ever to hold the picket line against these very bad bosses.

In this exact same moment, Post-Gazette management continues its lawless union-busting campaign. It fights striking union journalists who are simply demanding a restoration of the basic workplace rights that allow us to serve our communities and beyond.

Since the start of our strike, this fight isn't just about us. It's becoming increasingly obvious that the potential for a democratic society depends on access to reliable, independently reported information that we can use to make decisions about our lives and our communities.

Tomorrow, our unfair labor practice strike against @post-gazette.com marks it's third full year. Three years of fighting the most lawless union-busting campaign can be tiring, but we're never going to quit fighting. Last night, we were uplifted to see a new sign adorning the Pittsburgh skyline...

Here we go! If I’m missing any, lmk.

Spoiler alert- it was a Catholic hospital. I’ve been reading stories about people being denied miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy care at Catholic hospitals for well over a decade now, and people have definitely died because of these policies, but maternal mortality data is imperfect.

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What do you mean that Diane Keaton is dead and Woody Allen is still alive? What? What is this cosmic joke?

The Block family could fully fund the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette if they wanted to. Indeed, meeting the demands of the striking workers would be cheaper than replacing them and retaining a union-busting firm.

ill keep saying it and theyll keep doing it: podcaster occupied government

As our strike approaches three years, we still need your support to keep fighting for union journalism in Pittsburgh. You can support striking workers who are struggling to pay their bills while facing the most lawless union-busting operation in the country by ordering one of our newshound shirts!

"The potential for a democratic society depends on us all having access to reliable, independently reported information in order to make decisions about our lives, and @post-gazette.com leadership is actively working to undermine that possibility."

In addition to detailing the struggles strikers have faced, including local law enforcement physically breaking picket lines and executive editor Stan Wischnowski attempting to criminally prosecute one of his own reporters, Tuesday night’s proclamation stressed the importance of local journalism.

Just a week and half short of the third anniversary of our unfair labor practice strike against @post-gazette.com, Allegheny County Council member at-large @bethanyhallam.bsky.social brought forward a proclamation acknowledging the fight of the union journalists holding down the picket line.

Today I'm thinking about the fact that the first Black person elected to Congress, John Willis Menard in 1868, was never sworn in and seated. He won a special election for the US House in Louisiana after the previous rep died, but his white opponent (a Democrat, of course) contested the election.

using compassion fatigue, a term used to describe the very real burnout experienced by frontline social service and health care workers, to explain why you as a "liberal" feel icky seeing homeless people in public is absolutely depraved

Randomly ran into Joe Manganiello in downtown Pittsburgh today, where he was sitting with his tiny white old lady chihuahua named Bubbles in his lap. My friend and I were so distracted by how cute she was we didn’t even realize it was him at first 😭

The second autopsy on the body of Delta State University student Trey Reed has not been released, despite uncorroborated social media rumors currently circulating claiming it uncovered evidence of foul play. Reed, who was Black, was found hanging from a tree on the campus in Cleveland last month.

Picked up the absolute coolest Tarot deck I've ever seen today #tarot #pittsburgh

with Portland there's the depressing addendum that 90% of why this is happening is the right wing media grifter ecosystem got badly addicted to viral Portland content during the Trump years and they've been fiending for another hit ever since

We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

I asked a Christian baker to write Charlie Kirk on a gay wedding cake and we've been staring at each other for 39 straight hours now

Liberals exist to massage fascism into genteel normality holy shit

"Oh my god, it’s like… WHOA, you know? Ugh, where is all the DICK! I’m so horny I’d fuck Fred—what’s his name? The pink-faced one? He’s like, ugly hot, you know? Like, you hate yourself, but that’s part of it."

Working your trauma recovery will not make you less intense. Working your trauma recovery will support you in channeling your intensity, from post traumatic stress to what I call "post traumatic passion"-- passion which you choose, which you value, which invests you w/ purpose.

We are losing something by having newsrooms where everyone who has more than a few years’ experience has gotten fired. I don’t fault a young writer for not knowing about things that happened before she was born. But now there are no editors to help give context to these stories, either.

"Please mess with Texas, sir. Please, tell us what to think."

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current status: either doing the Lord's work or actively self-harming (asking my mom's childhood best friend follow-up questions and for sources to back up every insane claim she's making about "illegals" on my Liz Warren-progressive social worker mother's Facebook post)

j.k. rowling should be understood, first and foremost, as a misogynist. she just sometimes cloaks her misogyny by accusing others of sexism. see how she denigrates emma watson as an ungrateful, spoiled, bratty princess. this is solely because watson refuses to be a transphobe

I have not coveted an object like this in a long time www.etsy.com/listing/1145...

It's a small thing, but very typical that we would build a new $1.7-billion airport terminal (which I support!) in which every piece of the passenger experience is carefully designed and thought out... ...except for the people arriving by bus. Then it's "huh... yeah, they can come too."

Astrology/PTSD tweets incoming

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Just a reminder that in addition to canceling Disney, you should also cancel Paramount. Hiring racist transphobe Bari Weiss as head of CBS News and actively denying that Israel is committing genocide are both really harmful.

Had a weird interaction with a local alt mean girl recently that truly rattled me and reminded me that a lot of people we are in community with are just not interested in trying to be nice or kind to others if there’s nothing in it for them and that makes me sad

Condé Nast / Pitchfork are absolute idiots for letting @lrearick.bsky.social slip away from them — two women left working at one of the most influential music publications in the country is a travesty. Hire her!!!

It's sobering, in its way, to realize that there was truly nobody (save, perhaps, his children) who knew him that loved him as a man. He made himself into content, and he died as content, and his funeral is the most content of all. Soundbites to soundbites, bits to bits

There's no more fitting tribute to Charlie Kirk than the one they're giving him right now: nominally Christian survivors on the same grift clambering over one another for more publicity, capped by the shambling, lurching embodiment of everything they long to be. You couldn't write anything meaner

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

coates is genuinely a generational writer

On the other hand after all of this Trump's approval rating keeps fucking tanking because everyone fucking hates them and we're going to drive these malignant freaks back into their fucking caves for a generation Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

This towel is one of my most prized possessions (and yes, I do bring it to the bar to watch the Steelers) Buy one and support good people doing good shit in my city.

WHAT THE HELL

Charlie Kirk's very public death and the online reaction to it stirred up a lot of feelings within me, and I wrote something very close to home and to my soul as a result. I hope you'll read, and if it resonates with you in any way, please let me know. starvinghearts.substack.com/p/on-authori...

11 PARAGRAPHS until @rachelleingang.bsky.social says there’s no established connection between Kirk’s death & leftists, much less an organized leftist cabal that these conspiracy minded freaks are mobilizing to justify authoritarianism. It’s completely made up! But readers wouldn’t know it.