Twelve years ago tonight, Buctober rocked the city.

There is someone in Pittsburgh designing contractor/small business vehicle wraps in a formulaic way with big thick typography, bright colors, and anthropomorphized animal mascots. Who is this person? Is it you? I’d like to have a word about your dogshit 90s cereal box designs.

We, the staff of @CVJCguild, are forming a union! A strong local news ecosystem needs strong workers. We’re asking our leadership to formally recognize us so we can shape the future of local media together. ▶️Read our mission statement ▶️ Sign our petition ▶️ Following @CVCJGuild here and on IG

we animated jk rowling and dave chappelle hooking up in a bathroom and, predictably, it’s absolutely horrifying watch the final visual chapter of the ekko astral “pink balloons” era, “sticks and stones”

Happy Labor Day. Today, we marked 1,049 days on strike against @post-gazette.com management who have been running the most lawless union-busting campaign in America. The longest active strikers in the country marched in Pittsburgh's Labor Day parade wearing our new Union Progress newshound shirts.

CONGRATS to our @susandecarava who was named to City and State’s 2025 Labor Power 100 … (1 of 2) www.cityandstateny.com/power-lists/...

surely private equity has nothing to do with this

If you think Stan has acted like a coward, tell him! Go to pghguild.com/mgmt/ and see how you can call Stan and tell him to use his power as a PG VP to settle our strike!

Tomorrow, the striking workers sit down with @post-gazette.com management in court ordered mediation to attempt to resolve our issues and settle the strike. PG executive editor Stan Wischnowski has the power to end the strike and choose to hide instead. Today we’re telling him again how we feel.

“Malort tastes like liver failure.” #cookquotes

Emily and her fellow @post-gazette.com decision-makers have the power to end our strike. Head to pghguild.com/mgmt/ and see how you can call or write to PG management to tell them to settle the strike and cease wasting money in the most lawless union-busting campaign in the county.

Emily Escalante is a resident of Pittsburgh's Mexican War Streets neighborhood and a member of the Block Communications, Inc. board of directors. Emily sits in her gentrified home and hides her true identity as a union-buster. Today, we hung flyers in her neighborhood to reveal who she really is.

Seconds after this was posted, Noah filed a reverse fun-ism lawsuit. www.constangy.com/sharpen-your...

In our 34th month on strike, we know we are stronger than the Blocks. We have stronger family in our union than any of the BCI board members will find among themselves. We say that when we fight, we win. We’re fighting, and we are going to win. Tell them:

We raised tens of thousands of dollars for our strike fund at the @cwaunion.bsky.social Convention this week. AND as a union we voted to raise strike pay. At the exact moments when the @post-gazette.com hopes we’ll give up, our union siblings sent a very clear message: We Don’t Play At CWA!

The PG has hired cops, scabs, “security,” and lawyers all in search of weaknesses and waiting us out. But @cwaunion.bsky.social president Claude Cummings Jr., CWA District 2-13 VP Mike Davis, @newsguild.org president Jon Schleuss and everyone who rallied showed why it can’t be done.

We went to @post-gazette.com publisher John Block’s house yesterday and we were NOT alone. The Block Communications Inc. co-owner, who’s on the record wanting to fire his own lawyers, however, chose to hide from his workers, Pittsburgh & our @cwaunion.bsky.social family.

🔥 After The NewsGuild Sector Conference, we took the fight to the doorstep of the @post-gazette.com owners. Guild members from across North America stood shoulder-to-shoulder with PG strikers going 1,000+ days strong. 📷 & full story: www.unionprogress.com/2025/08/13/f...

We have an army of @newsguild.org and @cwaunion.bsky.social convention delegates heading straight to the bosses home tonight. Let's all stand together and tell the Blocks that they can't hide from us anymore.

The trades are whatever, but the Pirates are currently two players short on their active roster today with more trades certainly coming. If they aren’t paying 26 active players during their off day tomorrow, MLBPA should file another grievance against these cheapskate bastards.

THIS IS HOW ALL LABOR SHOULD TREAT MANAGEMENT

BREAKING: Israeli military attacks humanitarian aid vessel Handala in international waters 30 miles from Gaza — in violation of maritime law — and has abducted 21 people on board, including U.S. citizens. The ship was carrying life-saving aid, which Israel has seized.

Dick Allen was an elite hitter who clashed with a world that was often far too slow to embrace him as either a player or a person. We’re more than ready to celebrate both now, says @jayjaffe.bsky.social.

Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza. Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza. Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza. Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza. Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza. Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza.

They’re saying this so that they can continue to keep thousands of aid trucks locked out of the country, as they’ve been doing for months

Unite Here Local 26 is going on strike at Fenway Park www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/25/b...

We wanted to welcome @post-gazette.com editor Stan Wischnowski to work today, but unfortunately Stan can’t be bothered to come up with a plan to settle our strike. (The company did accuse of us “graffitiing” the parking lot though…) See you next time, Stan!

🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency. They are out of energy and they are starving to death. I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it. 🧵

Striking page designer @johnnysantapup.bsky.social joins the @aflcio.org “It’s Better in a Union” bus tour to talk about what union solidarity means after over 1000 days on strike against @post-gazette.com.

WNBA players get 9.3 percent of league revenue, compared to 48 to 50 percent for players in the NBA, 48 percent for players in the NFL, and 50 percent for players in the NHL www.marketwatch.com/story/wnba-p...

Well, the Bucs weren’t going to pay Oneil Cruz before that and they certainly aren’t going to pay him now.

Today we hit an unfathomable milestone as @pghguild.com members have been on strike against @post-gazette.com for 1000 days. That's 1000 days of fighting against a company that claimed last week in federal court that being shitty business owners legally allows them to strip away our union rights.

@moarhops.bsky.social can this guy be on my team in the Burger King bathroom fight?

Any sane society would’ve banned crypto, face swapping apps, ChatGPT & most AI ‘art’ apps w/in weeks of their development. It’s all irredeemable, anti-artist, anti-worker, anti-human dogshit that destroys the earth & only benefits like 157 tech bros & investors whose needs & desires are irrelevant.

As striking journalists, we have no plans to quit holding our employer accountable. To help us do just that, will you donate to our strike fund today? It helps to pay for essential needs like groceries and our utility bills while we continue to strike for the full restoration of our contract.

Instead, the PG chose to keep denying its workers, even the ones crossing the picket line, better coverage. As the company made clear at our recent bargaining session, however, the Post-Gazette has no plans to quit violating federal labor law until we, and the circuit court, make them.

This afternoon, @nlrbgov.bsky.social requested that the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court hold @post-gazette.com in contempt for refusing to restore the health insurance plan that the court ordered be restored in March.

Will you support striking workers who have fought more than 900 days for a fair deal? Your donations help strikers feed and house their families and keep fighting. unionprogress.com/donate 📸 Matt Freed

On Saturday, @pghguild.com striking worker Natalie Duleba spoke the truth at PGH's #NoKingsDay rally: When journalists are targeted, it's working people who suffer most. Rich owners like the Blocks will do anything but provide fair wages and worker protections. We won't let them win. 📽️ Jason Cohn

You’re at a protest and saw someone do something that you don’t approve of, that might get them in trouble with the cops? No you didn’t. Mind your business.

Jason Delay died for this 💔

If you use Signal for privacy reasons your notifications should be set to not show the senders name or message preview for exactly this reason.

Thank fucking god. All of those bright white LED streetlights that were installed previously are so horrific for literally every living being. It’s supposed to be dark at night, not glaring like a suburban McMansion kitchen.

A brag about the @pghguild.com strike paper wins at the Golden Quills -- three plus a best-of-show for @stevemellon412.bsky.social and one for Ed Blazina, plus finalists Ed, Helen Fallon (2), @johnnysantapup.bsky.social, Brad Everett, and @thathakas.bsky.social: www.unionprogress.com/2025/05/28/p...

bro it’s okay that you need ai to help you write an email. anubis has weighed your soul against the feather of fate and found you unworthy. prepare to be devoured

It's official: the ballots have been counted and we have officially been recognized as the Washington Post Tech Guild by the NLRB! In a 171-38 BLOWOUT vote, we voiced loudly that our union is important to us. That's 81%!

We recently held a union election at Hearst Connecticut Media, and we learned minutes ago that… WE WON!!! By an overwhelming vote of 68-17, our members voted to unionize as part of @newsguild.org. It’s a great day for journalism in CT! 🐳🐳🐳

Low-key one of the worst things the @pirates.com have done recently is force the high pitcher camera angle to be very zoomed out so that they can fit all of the backstop ads into the broadcast frame. 🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️

Right thumb inflammation for Holderman might be the most “phantom IL trip because we don’t want to DFA you yet” ass injury that I’ve ever seen.

Sesame Street is officially UNION! Workers at Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, have voted 55-19 to join @opeiulocal153.bsky.social Huge congrats to @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social! “We can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!”