Here's a tip if you meet a candidate for allegheny county council in the wild who's platform is trashing the county executive & claiming they would not have supported the tax increase last year: Ask which $80 million in county spending the would have cut instead. Request specifics.

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

In honor of Eric Adams dropping out, I'm now resharing my all-time favorite bit of Eric Adams content for years, this thing was like my video from The Ring, where I had to get other people to watch it in order for me to stay alive enjoy www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk2W...

New Epstein drop from the Oversight Dems has some interesting names in it 👀 👀 👀

If they had a right-wing, “tough-on-crime” coded mayor there would be endless national profiles about him and how he finally brought sanity back to Chicago.

The entire drama at UVA board seemed to centered around these kinds of men, nostalgic for a time when they were untouchable masters of the universe

ME, AFTER A LONG DAY, NORMALLY: hello how was your day DARLING WIFE: have you seen Eric Adams' Rosh Hashanah outfit?

Big news in the "wipes are not flushable community" we have @kykelce.bsky.social! She said she has strong feelings on niche issues like wipes not being flushable on her last podcast. Thats 1 step away from a Taylor Swift endorsement. Cc @neorsd.org

They’re only going after Tylenol because the president of the United States can’t say acetaminophen. 🤦‍♂️

New: U.S. Rep. Summer Lee said the federal gov't "may be barreling toward a shutdown" at an event this morning as Allegheny County budget director said Trump's budget proposal would be "catastrophic" to county operations www.publicsource.org/summer-lee-i...

I'm not even an Eagles fan but this is fun

Get in losers, we’re grieving

this charlie kirk deification is some of the weirdest shit i have ever seen

The one surefire way to get people to stop saying mean things about you is to send out a press release, insisting that they stop saying mean things about you. www.dhs.gov/news/2025/09...

ALSOBROOKS: Did you receive a call from the secretary upon reports an active shooter at CDC HQ had shot at employees? MONAREZ: I did not speak to the secretary on the 8th or any successive day A: So are you telling me the HHS secretary failed to even give you a courtesy call? M: He didnt call me

To be fair, you know they tried 20 different takes and this was the BEST one

Meant to post these last week! On Friday I had the opportunity to tour the new terminal at @pitairport.bsky.social and it was such an amazing experience. It’s so close to being complete, and I loved seeing how open it was. The ceiling is a work of art, and I can’t wait to travel when it’s all done.

Construction on Arts Landing is coming along beautifully! 🚧 @culturaltrust.bsky.social

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

a question I often find myself asking these days: "are these the moves of a movement that feels that it's winning or one desperately afraid that it's about to lose everything?"

Billionaire Trump donor Elon Musk owns X. Billionaire Trump ally Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post. With this acquisition, both CNN and CBS News would be owned by billionaire Trump donor Larry Ellison. Oligarchs’ monopoly over our media is spiraling out of control.

Wrote about the week. How the shooter's ID didn't appear to matter to ppl. How the discourse takes place in very same spaces that incubate/perpetuate hate & violence. How shooters now know that their acts will be flattened, analyzed, argued over & amplified. How all of this feels so dark & poisonous

I dont have a take but 24 years ago the media basically scrubbed all images of people jumping from the twin towers and did not show bodies on the ground, but now Elon will run video of an assassination for a billion views.

In June, a Democratic state rep in Minnesota was murdered, and a state senator was shot. And a couple of days later, Trump said he wouldn't phone Gov. Walz, calling him "whacked out" and "a mess"

the people who mocked and made up shit about the attack on paul pelosi have thoughts about decorum and we should definitely take them very very seriously

Firmly in the "no comment when something is none of my business" camp

I took a lot of bible courses decades ago — really — and I don’t remember there being a grand prize for making the most pious social media post being on the list of “get you into heaven” items.

My main observation from the last few hours of monitoring US social media is that Democrats are universally denouncing political violence and calling for calm while MAGA are escalating language and openly lusting for retribution against broad categories of people they identity as their enemies.

there simply isn't enough coverage of the fact that, as a matter of ideology and public policy, trump and his administration think domestic violence is good

We could win the super bowl, I am still not rooting for the anti vaxxer

Bluesky to Nate Silver:

On a basic sentence level, the first sentence voids every sentence after it.

i can guarantee you the question wording will be shit

Soybeans are collapsing because China isn’t buying them. The farm economy is in deep trouble. Because of our needless trade war that we are clearly losing. Maybe farmers will wake up

Look, yes, sure, Bari Weiss is a sociopath and an incompetent writer, and she lacks the basic mental equipment to know what an idea or a principle might be, but set that aside and focus on the question of whether she has any idea of what news journalism is or how it works (the answer is no)

“shit-kicking, anti-establishment disposition” she’s literally an extremely wealthy Republican who married an heiress

Sort of feels like Fetterman is running out of things that he can "break with party critics" on.

Say what now

Can someone drop a mobilize link so people know how to help?

There is a total jagoff (R) running for County Council in Hampton but instead of platforming his BS I'll just encourage everyone to vote for Lissa Geiger Shulman (D) for County Council.

Last summer Friday of the season. *weeps in autumn*

It’s pretty striking to me that by scrolling Bluesky’s “Popular With Friends” tab for a few minutes I can get up to speed quickly with the breaking news of the day but if I were to just scroll X’s “For You” page for the same amount of time (or more) I wouldn’t even know there was a school shooting

if i were on this deployment i would be pissed. these people have actual jobs! and here they are, walking around picking upt rash.