it’s important to me that everyone watches my favorite christmas commercial today

My colleagues and I dug into new data on ICE detentions in Pittsburgh. Since Trump entered office, at least 810 people have been sent to the South Side ICE office — an 8x increase from the same period in 2024. www.post-gazette.com/news/politic...

'Night scene, Pittsburgh.' In contrast to some of his contemporaries, George Sotter documented what he called 'the industrial bellows of Pittsburgh,' then a major hub for steel production in America. This work is from around 1900.

Why?

Pittsburgh refs hit different

My husband just said this is the shortest daylight day of the year, Pittsburgh let's get this shit over with. I hate it.

Alan Jones shares how, during the AIDS crisis, Brewers Hotel rented rooms for $45/week. But the real story? The intense camaraderie. Bar patrons carried clients down flights of stairs in office chairs so they could make doctor's appointments. Proof there are good people in the world. #WorldAIDSDay

And fuck this bullshit too:

Fuck these corporate ass kissers, no matter what their party. Vote them all out.

"From 2013 to 2021, State College police reported a total of 67 rapes in crime submissions to Pennsylvania State Police, when in fact there had been 321 — a 254-case difference — according to a 10-month Spotlight PA investigation." www.statecollege.com/articles/loc....

South Texans tried primarying Henry Cuellar but Nancy Pelosi and the entire Democratic establishment put their weight behind him against young progressive Jessica Cisneros. He won by 3 points We’re fighting two party establishments at once here

Normalize public art making. People posting others online while calling their behavior “performative” have prevented many from doing their hobbies in third spaces. Extroverts like to work around others but tend to dislike being posted on strangers’ socials without permission.

The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes. I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.

Checking up on the incident, detectives found her around 1:15am.

Mike Johnson sent Congress home until January 5 without extending the ACA premium tax credits. That means millions are about to see their health insurance costs spike overnight. No vote. No fix. No excuse. When your premiums skyrocket, remember who walked away.

Stephen Fry launches campaign to boost reading for pleasure

there's just something so bleak about the fact that the seemingly apolitical murder of two elderly people by their profoundly ill son becomes a political football before the bodies are even cold

#DavidsMonthOfMusic Day 14: A song with a type of weather in the title Leon de Graaff - Pittsburgh In The Rain not the b-side, but the a-side of this 1971 single by a guy, who worked in one of our local record stores in my hometown of Haarlem [NL]. Made us proud... www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VFD...

Two days after the House of Representatives voted to restore collective bargaining rights to federal employees, Trump moves to illegally end collective bargaining for TSA workers. Trump may be the most anti-union president in American history.

We need more publicly owned 3rd places.

Price manipulation isn’t innovation. It’s exploitation and workers are the ones paying for it.

In a 65-page complaint filed Friday, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, a nonprofit organization working to save America’s historic places, argued that Trump did not have the constitutional authority to fast-track construction for a project of this scale. trib.al/6FvdSsf

Extending the Affordable Care Act tax credits for the next year will cost $23 billion. Donald Trump was happy to round up $20 billion to bail out Argentina, but Republicans won’t lift a finger to help American families who are struggling to pay for health care.

Greater Pittsburgh is spiritually Eastern Europe

Pittsburgh is like if someone installed a chaos weather mod on City Skylines

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

“To put it frankly, old white people have a lot of time, and they’re really angry,” Stauss said. “Having somebody that looks like your grandmother out there, shouting ‘shame’ or out there blowing her whistle, is really important.”

It's always: “We can’t afford to pay our workers a living wage.” And never: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.” Funny how that works.

If you’re taking some satisfaction from the MAGA crackup, don’t let your guard down. It’s when Trump feels he’s in trouble that he does the biggest and craziest things to deflect attention. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-really-truly-the-end

Just learned that Pittsburgh invented the nickelodeon and by extension more or less created the modern movie theater. Not sure how I missed that one that feels like something I would have known

this event looks cool, and might be of interest to some of you? www.pcwp.chatham.edu/ready-to-run

Looking for #Pittsburgh crocheters/knitters to meet up for a #StichAndBitch , I wanna get my projects done an enjoy some people’s company!

73% of ICE detainees have no criminal convictions, according to govt data. Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about targeting the “worst of the worst.” As ICE terrorizes cities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of Trump's major donors are private prison corporations.

#FACT: In states with high union density, the median annual incomes are $6,000 higher than the national average. Unions are key in fighting income inequality. #UnionsForAll

It’s probably just a coincidence that Trump is decorating the Oval Office just like a parlor at Jeffrey Epstein’s house.

Downtown. 11th at Liberty Ave. One of the cops was on the air saying they were out fighting with one, a seconds later we hear over the radio "fucccckkkk youuuuuu" from assumably the guy getting arrested then a very calm "one detained".

I’m pretty sure delivering pizza in Pittsburgh without GPS qualifies you for Starfleet navigation.

be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world

While unionized Starbucks workers are on strike for a fair contract, don’t cross the picket line! Show solidarity — like Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders. Listen to what they had to say.

the Trump/GOP healthcare plan: Die. #ThanksRepublicans

A reminder that the largest demographic of Americans on food aid are white MAGA voters. By far. No other demographic is even a close second. This is the Trump regime’s cruelty to distract from its own failures by punishing those who didn’t vote for him.

This World AIDS Day, we remember the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers lost to HIV and AIDS, and those living with HIV today. We must remind ourselves and each other that the fight isn’t over until the epidemic is over for everyone.

Today is World AIDS Day. The White House ignored the AIDS crisis when it began because a Republican (Reagan) was president. The United States is no longer observing World AIDS Day because another Republican (Trump) is president. #Bigots