The most protected tenant is an organized tenant. Yesterday, we welcomed the 8609 Bay 16th St. Tenant Association as the 100th tenant union to organize with the City's support.
ONCE AGAIN TAPPING THE SIGN www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/dont-take-...
Don't Take Advice From Your Enemies
The most useless genre on earth.
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The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 2w agoThe vibes may be exciting, but if Democrats are going to win this year and in 2028, they must reject the DSA. If you’re tempted by a democratic socialist this year, think of what use Republicans will make of these victories, and ask whether you want to do favors for fascists.
Factoid of the day: Foreign-Born Population in the Pittsburgh region, 1870-2024
“Platner’s candidacy was an unforced error…an approach to electoral politics built around the idea that progressives will come to power once they’ve caught enough lightning in a bottle. They won’t. Instead, the left is going to have to build power in America brick by carefully laid brick.”
This is footage of ICE handcuffing a 26 year old father after murdering him in broad daylight. We cannot look away. Abolish ICE. Abolish qualified immunity. Hold these murderous thugs accountable.
“The human right to revolution was among the self-evident truths the declaration professed and the one that made it effectual as a document. It is also the self-evident truth politicians today are likeliest to omit from their accounts of the declaration’s significance...”
KARL: Rs are gonna make you the poster child for the D Party MAMDANI: Let them. We don't have to ask ourselves what life looks like if a socialist wins. I won last year & over the course of the last 6 months what we've delivered for working people are the very things we were told were impossible.
Tell your friends about jury nullification.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2mo agoA couple of courthouse clerks in Utah are accused of helping immigrants evade ICE officers. After allegedly doing this, they "were spotted on a surveillance camera waving and smiling at it," with one using "her middle finger in an obscene gesture at the camera.” www.sltrib.com/news/2026/06...
Whether you rent or own, you deserve the chance to stay in the city you call home. This week, we cut the ribbon on dozens of apartments in Morningside Heights that have been transformed into permanently affordable co-ops.
Proud to announce that I'm joining the House Judiciary Committee, where some of the biggest fights of our time are happening. Protecting rights. Defending democracy. Fighting for survivors. Taking on Trump, his admin & every abuser of power. Accountability just got a new seat.
A new @pewresearch.org study finds that infill housing near jobs, stores, and transit costs governments ~$21,000 less per home to serve, cuts long term infrastructure maintenance costs in half, and generates 13% more in annual property tax revenue per acre than sprawl.
Mow your elderly widowed neighbor’s lawns my fellow broskis
Sherrilyn Ifill@sifill.bsky.social · 2mo agoPeriod.
Great video about how moving chains work, with a real example youtu.be/QQYMUMTI7fk?...
Building More Housing Creates 'Moving Chains' of Affordability
YouTube video by Pew
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Hell of a week for the opposition: 8 Senate Dems voted to confirm a Trump judge who wouldn’t admit Biden won. A Dem governor pardoned an election denier who orchestrated a breach of her county’s election system. 8 House Dems voted for a bill attacking trans rights in schools. Feel represented?
Voters sent a clear message tonight about protecting trans kids and rejecting the politics of hate. Congrats Brittany.
QBurgh@qburgh.com · 3mo agoBrittany Bloam defeated Pat Catena in the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House District 45 after weeks of backlash over Catena’s anti-trans campaign mailers.
“More than 10,000 times, judges have said those detentions, typically carried out with no opportunity for detainees to plead their case, were illegal. That’s roughly 90 percent of all cases — a staggering rejection of a core piece of Trump’s immigration agenda.” www.politico.com/news/2026/05...
10,000 rulings: The courts’ overwhelming rebuke of Trump’s ICE policies
A POLITICO analysis reveals judges have ruled against ICE detention practices in roughly 90 percent of cases since the agency mandated that millions of immigrants must be locked up while they face dep...
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“This American republic, however you want to define it, has fallen. A revolutionary moment is here, and the future belongs to those who are willing to seize it and set the course of the nation.”
Alan Elrod@aselrod.bsky.social · 3mo agoDemocrats need to understand we’re already in a revolutionary moment. The American republic built in the 60s and 70s is being swept away by Republicans and the Supreme Court. It’s up to us to fight for a liberal democratic future. My latest: www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...
It should come as no surprise that Fetterman was the sole Democrat to vote against the measure, as he’s expressed outspoken support for acting against Iran, which he called “the real enemy, the real threat, the real danger.” trib.al/fVezSs3
Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.
How different is Pittsburgh (Housing version)? Year structure built, City of Pittsburgh and the United States (2024)
I had this same thought passing this building after lunch today, and then I thought how many land use and property decisions are utterly detached from rational planning, then I thought of my mortality
Chris Briem (www.briem.com)@chrisbriem.bsky.social · 3mo agoJust a different angle, but again, how has this property directly across the street from the main entrance of Children’s Hospital remained in this state, boarded up, unused and un-redeveloped, for decades?
New from @pamherd.bsky.social and I: Trump has added work requirements to Medicaid, expanded them in SNAP. Now he is going after public housing. You can do something about it: take 5 mins to write a public comment opposing this change. Instructions enclosed.🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
The Trump plan to add work requirements to public housing
Here is something you can do about it
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Clairton woman accused of fatally shooting man outside Airbnb party in Lawrenceville
Clairton woman accused of fatally shooting man outside Airbnb party in Lawrenceville
A Clairton woman is accused of fatally shooting a man in Pittsburgh’s Lawrenceville neighborhood last week. Pittsburgh police charged Nykia Pearl Ann Edwards, 21, with criminal homicide and other charges Friday in connection with the death of 47-year-old Neill Yackovich. According to a criminal complaint, Yackovich was reported shot in
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How do upzonings impact housing supply? In brand-new research published today @urbaninstitute.bsky.social, we show that big upzonings in New York City & Philadelphia had large, statistically significant effects on supply & permitting with several years of reforms. www.urban.org/research/pub...
don't ever let anyone tell you upper lawrenceville can't hustle
James Santelli@santelli.bsky.social · 3mo agoSpotted at Butler Street & McCandless Ave in Lawrenceville, approximately 6 miles from the NFL Draft Campus. Yeah, sure, good luck with that.
