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Dave Breingan

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With love, peace, and persuasion

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DC loves its historic neighborhoods. Its permitting system wouldn’t allow them today One need only look at the history of Dupont Circle to see how painfully difficult it would be to repeat its success under today’s rules. Those rules don’t protect neighborhoods. Instead, they protect ...

Think sales tax: "A single curbside parking space, roughly 20 feet long, can support 2 dining tables seating about 8 people total. If each diner spends a modest $30 and tables turn twice per evening, that space generates roughly $480 per night, or about $144,000 per year in gross restaurant revenue"

04.03.2026 01:54 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Working Families Party Response to the State of the Union
YouTube video by Working Families Party Working Families Party Response to the State of the Union

Watch live: The @workingfamilies.org State of the Union Response, delivered by @summerlee.bsky.social:

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Students at Pittsburgh's Allderdice High School walk out in protest of ICE More than 200 Allderdice students joined the protest Wednesday afternoon, chanting β€œabolish ICE” and other slogans. Meanwhile, across the city line in Wilkinsburg, parents and observers kept watch for...

More than 200 Allderdice students joined the protest Wednesday afternoon, walking from the Squirrel Hill high school to a parking lot at the corner of Murray and Forward Avenues while chanting β€œabolish ICE” and other slogans using more colorful language.

18.02.2026 23:49 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 4

Go birds

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No, ICE isn’t β€˜retreating.’ It’s loading up to invade your town. | Will Bunch A much-hyped ICE pullback from Minneapolis is a blip in a looming nationwide surge of arrests, concentration camps.

While MLPS was a victory, moral and tangibly, for ICE resisters, don't call it 'a retreat.' The dystopia is just getting started

Thousands of new agents. 150 new offices in every state. And the nationwide gulag archipelago. The fight has just begun

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

15.02.2026 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1060    πŸ” 501    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 38
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ICE's Masks Are All a Lie Working for ICE is actually less dangerous than being an elementary school student in America.

"Which is to say: Being an elementary school student in the United States is more deadly than being an ICE officer.

The leading cause of β€œon-duty death” of ICE officers? Covid." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-mask...

10.02.2026 18:13 β€” πŸ‘ 169    πŸ” 71    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

There just aren’t any words for this level of cruelty

10.02.2026 05:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The U.S. Has Killed More than 100 People in Boat Strikes. We’re Tracking Them All. The Intercept is keeping count of all publicly declared U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean and the number of civilians killed.

The U.S. conducted more extrajudicial killings in the Eastern Pacific today

We’re tracking the civilian toll @theintercept.com

theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...

10.02.2026 01:33 β€” πŸ‘ 195    πŸ” 104    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 7

The ICE and CBP behavior that has outraged everyone is happening **before** DHS has even deployed tens of billions of extra dollars Democrats voted for last year. Unless something changes, they have enough money to do this on steroids with hundreds of thousands more agents.

09.02.2026 15:17 β€” πŸ‘ 111    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

crickets from the free speech crowd, of course

08.02.2026 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 8496    πŸ” 2115    πŸ’¬ 140    πŸ“Œ 37
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Innamorato executive order aims to study Allegheny County housing needs, increase supply Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato signed an executive order relating to everything from gathering more housing data to expanding supply.

Citing rising housing costs, limited supply, corporate pressures on prices, and declining aid from the federal govt, Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato signed a sweeping executive order, relating to everything from gathering more housing data to expanding housing supply locally.

05.02.2026 21:23 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The depths your soul must sink to in order to utter the phrase β€œhistoric parking lot” unironically…

07.02.2026 06:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œYou cannot pray for the poor on a Sunday and then lobby against their housing on a Monday,” says Shanequa Charles of Miss Abbie’s Kids.

β€œWhat side of history do you want your grandchildren to know you’re on? Do you want them to know you fought for parking spots, or for the people?”

04.02.2026 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was β€œinvolved” in a gang shooting.

Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.

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Man who led police on hours-long chase up frozen Allegheny River remains jailed Police say a Pittsburgh man who shouted to them that he wasn’t “going back to jail” as he led officers on a slow, 5-mile foot pursuit on the frozen Allegheny River on Wednesday is, i...

triblive.com/local/valley...

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β€œThe secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone.”

28.01.2026 03:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

it's amazing to watch the We Are The Storm guys paralyzed in terror of the density and sophistication of spontaneous neighborhood watches put together by pissed-off baristas and suburban moms

26.01.2026 19:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1321    πŸ” 214    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 9

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

24.01.2026 23:29 β€” πŸ‘ 26023    πŸ” 6860    πŸ’¬ 318    πŸ“Œ 133

Pure evil

22.01.2026 01:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program

Holy hell, what an obituary

15.01.2026 16:57 β€” πŸ‘ 4921    πŸ” 1661    πŸ’¬ 178    πŸ“Œ 504

Mike Johnson compellingly making the case for abolishing ICE ...

14.01.2026 19:26 β€” πŸ‘ 5223    πŸ” 1072    πŸ’¬ 55    πŸ“Œ 10

You do not hate Congress enough

14.01.2026 02:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1890    πŸ” 409    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 14

cannot stress enough that they are abducting legal observers left and right and people are hearing about this happening to other people and still immediately going β€œalright where can i go to help now”

11.01.2026 19:56 β€” πŸ‘ 5196    πŸ” 1186    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 35

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

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Pledging to support Pittsburgh journalism beyond the Blocks I think workers should be treated with dignity and respect. I know Pittsburgh deserves quality journalism. That's why I'm joining members of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh and signing this pledge t...

actionnetwork.org/forms/pledgi...

08.01.2026 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What ICE was up to in Minnesota before they murdered a woman

07.01.2026 22:04 β€” πŸ‘ 5243    πŸ” 2060    πŸ’¬ 81    πŸ“Œ 91

The Trump administration is inflaming rhetoric about a community and commissioning the endangerment of its citizensβ€”and now ICE just killed a woman.

They are increasingly out of control. Call this what it is: a police state.

It’s past time to abolish ICE once and for all.

07.01.2026 20:34 β€” πŸ‘ 156    πŸ” 58    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 3

Zohran is going to kill the β€œYIMBYs and leftists are mortal enemies” idea and that alone will make the internet 23% less annoying to me personally. Big accomplishment.

02.01.2026 20:34 β€” πŸ‘ 509    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 5

Well folks, some news. Ownership is folding @pghcitypaper.com. I wish I could say this was more surprising. I'll be on the lookout for new roles while I continue to teach and hopefully find places to publish some stories I haven't finished. In the meantime, I'm all ears for opportunities.

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