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The challenges we now face must be met by a bold progressive populist movement that strengthens democracy and shakes up the system.

We can’t simply return to the path we were on before Trump.

We cannot accept the status quo of Big Money dominating our politics and economy.

arts organization admins are in a pitched battle over who can wear the weirdest and least flattering glasses

Odd, how South Park is covering Kristi Noem and her ICE hooligans more accurately than The New York Times.

When Carnegie, Frick and Mellon were building their fortunes, Pittsburgh workers lives in ghastly tenements. The city had the highest rate of death from typhoid in the nation.

One of the things I remind our community of during Coffee With Texas Paul regarding the impending economic crash is to look for the red flags to get a sense of timing and severity. On that note, animal shelter populations are exploding. A very sad red flag indeed. Happens every crash.

Yinzers: is there a fun/cool/tolerable thing that a visitor to Pittsburgh should do on a Sunday afternoon/evening in mid August?

Coming soon: “All I Wanted To Do Is Watch Children Cry As I Handcuffed Their Mothers And Threw Them Into Unmarked Vans To Be Sent To Torture Camps. Now Hollywood Won’t HIre Me For More Straight-To-Streaming B-Movies. This Is My Story.”

As a reminder, employees from the Post Gazette are still on strike against the paper and it’s owners, the Blocks, as the strike is now over 1,000 days long, making it the longest ongoing strike in the country.

I’m excited to announced that our Alternate Histories Gives Back charity for August is the @pghguild.com Striker Fund, which goes to support employees who are still on strike against the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 10% of our sales in the Studio for August will be donated to the Striker Fund.

"There is no longer a Democratic Party as such. There is a big financial machine called the Democratic Party."

@mehdirhasan.bsky.social speaks with Robert Reich on the Democrat’s refusal to endorse Zohran Mamdani and the corporate backing of the Democratic Party.

Watch: zeteo.com/p/ridiculous....

US states to get $608 million from FEMA to build migrant detention centers The Federal Emergency Management Agency is preparing to send $608 million to states to construct immigrant detention centers as part of the Trump administration's push to expand capacity to hold migrants.

While the Trump administration is denying emergency funds for weather-rated disasters, they're simultaneously taking $608M from FEMA to divvy out via state grants for the construction of internment camps.

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Trump’s favorability is lowest of his second term—just 37%

What’s sad is that Democratic Party favorability is yet lower—28%

Gloat all you want at Trump’s collapse, but Dem leadership better start listening to its voter base instead of to corporate donors and foreign lobbies, or they’ll lose again

RELIGION DOES NOT BELONG IN POLITICS OR PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

RELIGION DOES NOT BELONG IN POLITICS OR PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

RELIGION DOES NOT BELONG IN POLITICS OR PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

RELIGION DOES NOT BELONG IN POLITICS OR PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

RELIGION DOES NOT BELONG IN POLITICS OR PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

Trump sent officials to see Ghislaine Maxwell quicker than he sent FEMA to Texas

And one final thought: Ozzy going out after giving an emotional final performance that raised a ton of money for charity is more spiritually uplifting and did more genuine good than anything any televangelist and religious grifter who railed against him ever did combined.

Anybody near Pittsburgh want a portrait done on black and white film? Strictly experimental, results not guaranteed. Possibly on very old cameras.

Trump’s Name Is on Contributor List for Epstein Birthday Book

Where the f**k was all this reporting from the Times & the Journal on Trump & the world’s most famous child rapist in 2016, 2020, & 2020? Where were the effing Dems & their oppo research? How on earth has it taken this long for this stuff to come out?

I’m still processing mentally that weeks ago trump bombed Iran, got really mad the Israel and Iran weren’t immediately listening to him, basically said he thought it should be borderline illegal for the News to not agree that the bombing was cool and Epic, and now acting like it all never happened

Nashville Banner: Pregnant Mother in Tennessee Denied Care for Being Unmarried

Forget about what year it is. What century is it?

nashvillebanner.com/2025/07/20/d...

Why This Pennsylvania City Put Its Streetlights on a Dimmer

A "pennsylvania city" www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...

Squirrel Hill. Shady Ave at Bartlet Street. Caller said that two kids are selling lemonade on the corner. Caller is concerned that there are no adults around. It would be a shame if someone bought lemonade from the kids at Shady Ave at Bartlet Street to spite the caller.

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As companies scale back their #DEI efforts in response to economic and political pressure, this analysis from the Pittsburgh American Marketing Association reveals a looming storm: public backlash, social media boycotts, eroding trust, and revenue loss. buff.ly/nCOuEMp

#aJuxtMedia #BrandStrategy

Also: a huge percentage of this is just "It turns out that teen pregnancies were load-bearing for birthrates" and no one has a way to deal with that.

OMG:

What I've seen in Democratic politics, both in Pittsburgh and across the country, is the manufacturing of an image among candidates and incumbents that they're progressive champions. However, I haven't seen the achievements to back that up. It seems merely a case of constructing a perception of it.

Yinz, word on the street is it’s chilly dahntahn today. Be careful out there.

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