US Rep. Ryan Mackenzie likes to boast his pro-worker credentials but didn't sign onto a discharge petition to reinstating collective bargaining rights for federal workers. #Allentown #LehighValley #1u keystonenewsroom.com/2025/11/19/d...

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Centrist Democrats like Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are going to doom the Democratic Party with these type of disapproval ratings.

Would love to see someone from the moderate, Majority Dem faction really address and wrestle with the political effects of what Labour has been up to.

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NEW: Pennsylvania Working Families Party is calling for a primary challenge against US Sen. John Fetterman and is looking to recruit potential 2028 primary candidates. keystonenewsroom.com/2025/11/18/f...

Working Pennsylvanians are going to get a tax credit when they file their taxes. Here's what it means keystonenewsroom.com/2025/11/17/w...

has mamdani gone full fetterman yet

HACC professors and faculty members have faced 5 years of union-busting tactics from their administration. Today, they went on strike. My story below 👇 keystonenewsroom.com/2025/11/03/h...

Health care costs will significantly increase for close to 500,000 Pennsylvanians at the start of open enrollment this Saturday as insurers prepare for the expiration of the ACA tax credits at the end of the year. #ACA #Healthcare #Openenrollment keystonenewsroom.com/2025/10/30/h...

Outside the administrative building, chanting FAIR CONTRACT NOW Have never seen this many security guards on campus as there are now.

Harrisburg Area Community College Education Association rally for a fair contract

What's instructive about #2 in this new report is the admission that Dems see their job as representing a snapshot of public opinion (thermometer) rather than fighting on principle to persuade the public (thermostat). www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...

Tim Walz: "People are gonna be lined up out here to get food, and we're talking about a damn ballroom. Don't lose the plot."

Philadelphia International Airport launched a food pantry on Monday to help federal airport workers affected by the government shutdown. keystonenewsroom.com/2025/10/22/p...

Fetterman is who he always has been. We don't know what Platner is, but no reports thus far that he's a narcissist asshole who is in politics primarily because he was bored and daddy made him get a job after wasting his money at Harvard.

Go Birds, Fuck ICE chants at Philly #nokings rally.

If the government carries out Trump’s orders targeting antifa as a “domestic terrorist organization,” it would violate free speech rights. Here’s why: bit.ly/4330Su2

Jeffries: “ And then you got Karoline Leavitt, who's sick. She's out of control. And I'm not sure whether she's just demented, ignorant, a stone-cold liar, or all of the above"

Rob Bresnahan is set to personally benefit after voting for President Donald Trump’s tax cuts for the country’s wealthiest Americans keystonenewsroom.com/2025/10/16/b...

Just received from a colleague: looks like Penn is going to join the universities refusing the extortionary Trump "compact". I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Rob Bresnahan has over 21,000 constituents who'll lose their Medicaid coverage and 11,000 constituents who'll lose their SNAP benefits. They're the ones who'll be paying for his tax cuts. keystonenewsroom.com/2025/10/16/b...

I asked Janelle Stelson about health care premiums for Pennie customers going up by 170% and Scott Perry calling the extension of the ACA credits a colossal mistake at an event in Harrisburg today. You can read my question and her response below. #pa10

How much influence does Jeff Yass have on Pennsylvania politics? www.campaignfinanceonline.pa.gov/pages/CFAnnu...

This is one of the more brazen lies being sent out there by Commonwealth Partners; this is quite literally what the state supreme court helped fix and what Commonwealth Partners and Matt Brouillette opposed fixing Via @penncapital-star.com penncapital-star.com/government-p...

Fox Propaganda is desperately spinning the "No Kings" events in fearful anticipation of their success.

80% of Americans want Congress to extend the ACA tax credits but that's not stopping the three most vulnerable Pa Republicans from lying about the government shutdown. keystonenewsroom.com/2025/10/08/r...

The most vital services will be the first to go in counties they refuse to take out loans because PA Senate Republicans don't want a state budget. keystonenewsroom.com/2025/10/07/p...

I am once again calling on state governors to mobilize their National Guards to escort congressmembers into ICE facilities so they can DO THEIR LAWFULLY ASSIGNED FEDERAL DUTIES

use take two

“ I did a lot of work to get this man elected and put into this office, and I feel if he doesn’t stand with us now,” she said. “Fetterman,it’s time you stand with us. We got you here, and every working constituent in Pennsylvania, we deserve you to do your job" keystonenewsroom.com/2025/09/19/f...

Pittsburgh Steelers co-owner to benefit from Trump’s bailout of Argentina’s right-wing regime keystonenewsroom.com/2025/10/02/s...

This has flown under the radar this past week, but Steelers minority owner Rob Citrone is about to benefit from Trump's right-wing bailout of Argentina. The Pittsburgh Steelers declined to comment for this story. keystonenewsroom.com/2025/10/02/s...

UAW leaders are worried that Mack Trucks' Mexico plant will lead to hundreds of job losses in the Lehigh Valley. keystonenewsroom.com/2025/09/30/m...

Scott Perry recently called the ACA tax credit extension a "colossal mistake." 28,000 of his constituents who purchase their healthcare through Pennie face a 170% increase in premiums when these tax credits expire at the end of the year.

Tom Brady has a catering gig after the game

On the left is Ezra Klein saying that Dems must start "taking political positions that’ll make it more likely to win Senate seats in Kansas & Ohio & Missouri" including "running pro-life Dems." On the right is how those states voted. Why do media outlets depict this person as an election expert?

Millionaire Sen. Dave McCormick leans heavily into Pa. "muni" bonds — funding public projects while slashing his own tax bill www.witf.org/2025/09/27/m...

The mainstream media continues to fail the American people. Make sure you find alternative sources and keep people informed. @seankitchen.bsky.social @keystonenewsroom.bsky.social

Not all journalists lie, so pay attention to the ones who tell the truth. @seankitchen.bsky.social @keystonenewsroom.bsky.social

The mainstream media continues to drop the ball, so pay attention to your local news outlets. @seankitchen.bsky.social @keystonenewsroom.bsky.social

So Fetterman got elected with smart aides who connected him to the voters and got to DC and hired not one, but two sets of DC insiders pushing centrist BS politics he embraced making his voters see him as a traitor They move on to attempt to sink the party @senategabe.bsky.social

These union members helped get John Fetterman elected. Now they want him to return the favor and fight for them. Spoiler, they're not happy with his decision to squander leverage in extending the ACA tax credits. keystonenewsroom.com/2025/09/19/f...

SCOOP: Congressman Chris Deluzio releases his endorsements for the 2026 midterm elections. Pennsylvania will be a key state with aggressive GOP gerrymandering happening across the country. keystonenewsroom.com/2025/09/18/c...

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

Love this labor story from my fellow labor reporter colleague Sean Kitchen in Pennsylvania: keystonenewsroom.com/2025/09/09/r...

Rob Bresnahan claims that Medicaid will grow by $200 billion despite voting to cut Medicaid. His math ain't mathing. keystonenewsroom.com/2025/09/16/r...