I'm not gonna say out loud that if folks with felony records in PA would just quit carrying guns, then the AUSAs at Western District of Pennsylvania would have nothing to do but they would at least have to get creative with criminal charges other than Felon In Possession.

How quickly will someone reaching into their coat to pull out their phone be "mistaken" by an ICE officer as someone reaching for a gun?

“I don’t feel as though fate looks upon you often, and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity,” said TJ Sabula, the UAW worker who heckled President Trump and who Trump flipped off and cursed at. “And today I think I did that.” Gift link: wapo.st/4sG38CD

Just hit the world's deepest pothole on the Parkway East exit ramp into Squirrel Hill and the tire pressure light IMMEDIATELY came on Bent the hell out of my rim too PennDOT you are my sworn enemy

This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan. A citizen. Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold. "We're from the United States bro!' he screamed. Agents took and sold his phone And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.

Pittsburgh Steelers Head Coach Mike Tomlin is done, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter.

Six-byline alert: 🚨 “.. laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status to fool adversaries into dropping their guard, then attacking and killing them. That is a war crime called ‘perfidy.’” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...

Earlier today someone posted pics of unmarked law enforcement vehicles massed up at a local public transit up, warning that they could be ICE agents. I contacted Pittsburgh Regional Transit, who tells us they're FBI & local & state police participating in a multi-agency exercise for the 2026 draft.

Q: "Do you believe that deadly force was necessary?" Trump: "It was highly disrespectful of law enforcement. The woman and her friend were highly disrespectful of law enforcement…Law enforcement should not be in a position where they have to put up with this stuff."

Powell, showing more guts than almost any GOP legislators: "The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Fed setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President." www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

One more round of pictures from the Pittsburgh "ICE Out for Good" protest march on the South Side today. I am not good at crowd numbers: lots of people, families with kids, young people with dogs, older folks; it was unbelievably cold & windy & snow got very heavy at points. Somber but energetic.

This protester had incredible trash talk game, I'm sad I only got my phone out for the tail end of her hilariously berating a plainclothes officer

A rather jaunty band brings up the rear of Pittsburgh anti-ICE march

Snow is nuts

It is VERY cold and VERY windy, and it is snowing pretty hard here at the march, but that hasn't deterred several hundred Pittsburghers

A somber protest march against ICE in the South Side in Pittsburgh heads toward the DHS offices

POV: Edward R. Purrow wants you to have a lovely evening.

DOOCY: Vance yesterday suggested Renee Good was part of a broad left-wing network. What has your team told you about this? Who is in charge of it? TRUMP: I haven't seen the vice president's statement but he's generally very accurate. She was an agitator. Probably a paid agitator. She was not normal

These ICE officers keep yelling "18 USC 111" at the person taking the video. 18 USC 111 requires a "forcible act," verbal or gestured threats, or for the officer to anticipate bodily harm. www.justice.gov/archives/jm/... It is your right to record law enforcement.

Someone posted this picture in the /r/Pittsburgh subreddit: a Palantir billboard up in Swissvale. It looks like when you walk onto a street in your city that's been set-dressed for shooting a movie, like a fake ad you'd see for world-building. "AMERICA'S FUTURE / software that dominates."

Did the thing I rarely let myself indulge in: argued with a viewer over email I'm sorry, I'm not going to let you call my reporters names because they're accurately reporting on the ICE shooting. I don't need your eyeballs that badly.

The U.S. attorney’s office has barred Minnesota's state agency from taking part in the investigation of ICE's murder of Renee Nicole Good. The FBI is refusing to cooperate.

Anti-ICE Protests are beginning not just in Minnesota, but across the country. More than 100 Pittsburgh protesters condemn ICE after fatal Minneapolis shooting. Via @ChrissySuttles www.axios.com/local/pittsb...

NOW: Crowd continues to grow in Minneapolis at a vigil where a federal agent shot and killed Renee Good this morning. “SAY HER NAME!” “RENEE GOOD!”

NEW: Publishers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announce they are shutting down the newspaper on May 3, 2026. Hours ago, the Supreme Court of the US declined to extend a stay on a court order for the paper to pay its journalists following the end of a 3-year strike.

Ongoing MPR News coverage of the ongoing tragic situation in Minneapolis. Heed only trusted news sources: www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times." Bovino was there. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

I would love to hear from other journalists if you're having this experience: nobody wants to talk on the record or on camera anymore. I'm not just talking about officials, law enforcement, etc.; I mean the "man on the street" refusing to talk even about a mundane story. Is this happening elsewhere?

"Undercovered" elsewhere. But if you watch KDKA, you've seen our coverage about the significant decrease in homicides and shootings in Allegheny County, and how cops and community leaders plan to continue the trend. We did stories in September & December. And here: www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...

Pittsburgh Police apparently figured out who this guy is, which means I no longer need to side-eye every white man in a Steelers jacket (there are so many white men in Steelers jackets)

New favorite athlete just dropped, I am an Alessandra Fumagalli stan for life

This is devastating news. The Blocks have been the capitalistic nightmare scenario for stewardship over journalism in Pittsburgh: the Post-Gazette strike broke apart one of the best newsrooms in the business, and now they're shuttering our alt-weekly just a few years after buying it. Awful people.

Start pole dancing: lift heavy things (yourself) while getting your heart rate up It's always fun to be spinning upside down eight feet off the ground thinking "ok hearts can't actually explode right"

Merry Christmas; please enjoy this :03 clip of Edward R. Purrow.

Officially Christmas because we're finally watching the greatest Christmas movie of them all

Federal court documents have now been filed on this arrest; the man is facing a single charge of assaulting or resisting an officer. ICE agents say they initially went to detain him because he tried to buy a gun from a licensed dealer and claimed on his background check to be a U.S. citizen.

In my opinion strictly as a journalist: I would include the WH response as an anchor tag outside of the package. It doesn't have a place in the story itself b/c it's not responsive to the story itself. But it does demonstrate the WH's position overall.

Multiple social media users noticed on Monday that the 60 Minutes episode was available via the Global TV app. To view the episode, viewers need to connect to the app from a Canadian IP address. People then uploaded copies of the episode to a variety of file sharing sites and services.

WCPO in Cincinnati had a betamax tape archive of newscasts. For the 40th commemoration of the Easter Sunday Massacre, I went to pull the newscast from 1975 and in the box found Al Schottelkotte's typewritten script on onionskin with his handwritten pencil edits. Maybe not "crazy," but very cool.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Hell yeah Sidney Crosby!!!

Time to start digging.

No YOU are flopping around your house on surgical pain meds taking pictures of your cat

Video editor friend now markets his business as AI-free. All choices and decisions made by a human brain and hand. He's absolutely slammed with work -- especially from wealthy parents hiring him to edit family videos b/c they don't want their kids used in AI data. People hate AI.

This is really incredible. The government's battle to deport Abrego Garcia has apparently been based on a lie from the start. Not even the "gang affiliation" lie or the "human smuggling" lie, but the more basic assertion that he was ordered to be deported in the first place.

I'm not allowed to lift anything heavier than 10 pounds for the next week and both Edward R. Purrow and Samwise are over that limit. Right now they are snuggling each other and looking at me like "haha, bitch, you're not invited."

I am still so pissed about Chase deciding the money wasn't stolen because the thief used my actual card. $317 for Christmas presents, stolen and spent at a vape shop, and Chase won't reimburse me. I feel like I got robbed twice.

Coming out of anesthesia yesterday from abdominal surgery, I apparently demanded to see pictures of all the nurses' pets. So it's nice to know I'm exactly the same person on drugs as I am sober.

"Can you do investigative journalism from a position of neutrality?" Still a tricky subject because if you're not neutral that suggests bias. But if you go where the facts go it doesn't. From: "Laura Poitras Investigates Seymour Hersh," in Columbia Journalism Preview: www.cjr.org/the-intervie...