Full statement from our coalition partner, Transit for All PA

Trump is closing the CFPB after a bizarre decision to redefine the word “earnings” made it impossible for the agency to even request funding. From @ddayen.bsky.social: trib.al/fKDWHN4

The party of the working class to illegally nullify the CFPB www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/the-...

When identity thieves destroyed our credit rating, it was the CFPB who fixed it, which is why we now own the house that we live in.

A lot worth reading in this shutdown review from @mattglassman312.bsky.social, including lots of "what did you really think was going to happen"? mattglassman.substack.com/p/twenty-eig...

Leadership has to look different than it ever has before. If we want leadership that meets this moment, we need leaders that are responsive to the people and will fight for them.

BREAKING: We won! Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years. pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...

Unure why Schumer has King/Shaheen/Kaine out w weak msg. "The house has passed 1 bill this session, which loads us w debt, takes Medicaid from millions, gives away our taxes to billionaires, & radically raises health care prems. We gave them a chance to walk back the worst of it but they will not."

A Quick Take on Team Cave’s Big Win talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-qui...

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

No health care, no deal.

Axios tried to bust James Talarico for following adult content creators on Instagram and I'm genuinely impressed by his campaign's response

Speaker Johnson is officially keeping the House in recess again next week. This will be the eighth consecutive week the House has been out of session. The chamber hasn't met since Sept. 19. Adelita Grijalva, who was elected on Sept. 23, has not been sworn in.

my latest: i spent weeks investigating how frustrations about data centers were about to swallow american politics… …and then the 2025 election happened, proving the electoral impacts are already here. read and share my deep dive on the bipartisan AI techlash shaping our elections before our eyes!

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

dems swept school boards in North Allegheny & Pine Richland alex rose won the Allegheny county council at large seat! dems flipped erie mayor and erie county exec krasner won 75-25 PA supremes retained dems took the two open GA utility commission seats 62-38! NJ! VA! CA prop 50!

looks like democrats are about to flip two statewide elections with >20-point margins... in georgia

in north allegheny school board news—dems pulled off a sweep 🧹

If you're going to rely on "strong assurances" from Republicans then you're stupid and weak and you should resign. There is only one path to getting Democratic assistance with anything: the House reopens, swears in Adelita Grijalva, then passes an acceptable budget. thehill.com/homenews/sen...

a movie you've seen more than seven times, with a gif:

RFK JR can’t drive for shit!

"twinks only" says hegseth

note well this potentially great gift for the enby in your life www.ebay.com/itm/31742029...

We have Monday’s update, with 8 days to go: 571,064 people have now voted in a Pennsylvania. Little change: The share of Dem voters now sits at 67.23%, and the share of GOP voters at 25.45%. This is nearly all mail ballots, which Dems prefer; but the skew is clearly larger than last year.

[email protected], former member of the Hungarian parliament, warns we have a window of time before damage to our laws and freedoms become irreversible. Inaction now risks lasting harm to democracy. In a new piece, Gábor discusses how we can fight back: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Done

Not simply fascism. Monarchism.

Desperately Seeking Women: My On Our Backs Personals Empire susiebright.ink/p/desperatel...

is there polling out for the GA Governor Dem primary? #gadems Thanks

jam of the day! iguanacondas.bandcamp.com/track/little...

$18 sent

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

Labor standing with Labor! 💪 Thank you, PFT, and SEIU Local 668 for your support and trust! The working class built Allegheny County, literally. I look forward to helping ensure that every person who puts in a fair days work can live and thrive off the fruits of that labor.

…and Santos is small change compared to the other pardons:

the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction

Pittsburgh #NoKings 18-Oct-2025

He’s 100% going to do more crimes and it’s going to be so funny

It's important for prominent Democrats, especially those running for president, to loudly promise they'll throw the full weight of the DOJ into prosecuting illegal acts committed by Trump officials during his administration. If people fear a prison cell, they're more likely to abandon the GOP.

Hakeem Jeffries posted pictures of two Rep. Members posing with “Young Republicans” who were part of a racist text thread (as reported by Politico). In response, Mike Davis (well-connected in Trump World & on the Hill) called Jeffries a “house slave” for George Soros - proving Jeffries’ point.

🧵 This reporting confirms my suspicion on why, based on reporting last week, the CIA's Deputy Director, Michael Ellis, installed himself as the agency's general counsel. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Why is this a matter for the Capitol police, as heinous as it might be? Doesn't a Republican congressman have a First Amendment right to allow (or encourage) his staffers to display Nazi imagery? Isn't it good for voters to know which Republicans have Nazi sympathies?

Trump is saying the quiet part out loud: he sent a $20B taxpayer-financed bailout to help his far-right buddy Milei cling to power. Meanwhile our government is shut down, public servants aren't getting paid & we're barreling toward a Trump-made health care crisis. Sounds like Argentina First to me.

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

Quick, someone poll the 4 things in this scary, scary agenda.

unsolicited Zwick pic

Perfect week for cozying up with a movie: 📸Reel Q wraps up with four more, including a rare screening of Rosa von Praunheim's Transexual Menace (with photographer Mariette Pathy Allen in attendance) 🗺️april april puts Pittsburgh on the map with "An International Video Art Invitational" 1/5

the republican governor of utah spencer cox cites my story about esmeralda 7’s apparent cancelation to criticize the trump administration: “this is how we lose the AI/energy arms race with china”

“we are telling you right now that we do not intend to honor anything we agree to” is certainly a negotiating position one can take

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

We are in the second week of the Republican shutdown. Where are House Republicans? On vacation. Went looking around the Capitol to see if any Republicans had the common sense to come back. Featuring @mcbride.house.gov.