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...

I mean look at this dork I don't use Yinzer as an insult but come on a Steelers jacket AND a Pirates hat??

Woke up to discover that Chase has reversed its reversal of the $300 the wallet thief spent at the vape store because "the card was present at the transaction" Yes Chase that is because the man stole my wallet I went to the store and got the surveillance video myself This is hell and I am in it

So the "they radioed for backup" part was being repeated by other news outlets this afternoon, leading to the question of where that apparent lie originated. www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...

BREAKING: The FBI makes an arrest in the investigation into pipe bombs placed in D.C. on the eve of the Jan. 6 riot, an AP source says.

In 5th grade I described a fantastical planetary ring in a creative writing story as an ouroboros and my teacher failed me and called my parents to ask which of them had written my assignment for me and they were like "no that was definitely all her" and then my mom got mad at me for writing sci-fi.

DOJ: ChatGPT encouraged Pittsburgh man to continue his podcast used to stalk and harass women he met at gyms, because "it was creating ‘haters,’ which meant monetization." Suspect is now facing a multiple-count indictment for violent stalking.

this just dredged up a memory from my years in NYC when some of my professional dominatrix friends told me about a frequent flyer client they'd nicknamed "Mental Dental" anyway don't know why I thought of that

Trying to track down a source from a story I did back in 2022 and it turns out the reason I haven't heard from them in a couple years is they've been in federal prison for drug trafficking Welp

Let's try something. Give Big Pittsburgh has a $1K prize for getting the most donors from now until 6 PM ET. I would *love* for that $$ to go to Casa San Jose, and I think #PittBS & Co. can make it happen. Can you chip in $20 to help our Latino community? www.givebigpittsburgh.com/organization...

The first snow of the year in Pittsburgh and everyone is driving like panicked weasels. I saw more people sliding backward than driving forward this morning. The City DID pre-treat the roads but the snow is very wet and heavy so it didn't matter much.

"Why don't you investigate [lunatic local/national/entirely-inside-their-own-mind conspiracy theory]?"

We are looking at 2-4 inches across pretty much the entire Southwestern PA area, with some places possibly getting 5. And it's going to be happening from 4am - 7am, right during the morning rush. Schools will likely have delays. Unless you absolutely have to drive somewhere tomorrow morning, don't.

@profanity.accountant let's do the numbers

Hanging out on Dad's farm with all the critters.

I am thankful for my dad's dog and my dad's dog is thankful for leftovers Happy Thanksgiving!

What a shambles: Governor Patrick Morrisey: “We are now receiving conflicting reports about the condition of our two Guard members and will provide additional updates once we receive more complete information.”

I ain't paying for this, but I am a sicko so if you have the hookup DM me.