Trying to spend more time offline while I rest and recover from some health issues / burnout, but wanted to pop on here to plug my blog again: www.lecoeurafaim.com/roses-for-se... At the end of this post, you can read the story of two people I care about who need financial help right now:

Roses for September: What I'm reading, watching, hearing, and loving this month

We've got to make our bread to survive, but we can't forget to stop and gather our flowers whenever possible. For September, here are some of mine.

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When I see a conservative claim that people on the left make up disabilities to get attention or accommodations, I think about the Republican LSU sorority girl I knew freshman year who bragged to me that she used her family connections and ADHD diagnosis to get a disability parking permit on campus

Since the 1980s, the Mon Valley Unemployed Committee has helped workers with unemployment claims. To boost cash flow and sustain full-time staff, it will hold a fundraiser from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Sept. 17 at Spirit in Lawrenceville. Learn more about its work: pittsburghprogress.com/the-mon-vall...

The Pittsburgh Progress is now offering online advertising opportunities. If you’re looking to amplify your work or an event this fall, reserve your spot today. Contact advertising [at] pittsburghprogress.com to inquire about rates and special offers.

Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month in a country where immigrants and Latinos are increasingly vilified is an act of resistance, according to Jessica Rios Viner. She explains in this essay why celebrating their contributions matters so much right now: pittsburghprogress.com/stand-up-for...

Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...

This is the man who taught me DARE classes, telling a Louisiana journalist why the residents of my home parish didn't deserve a say in whether a SpaceX rocket site — planned to launch 30 times per DAY — should be built next to their homes and a wildlife refuge. www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/...

People are FURIOUS at the people hanging around outside the Second Ave shelter, when anyone with even half a brain should recognize "gee that shelter is so popular and full all the time maybe we need MORE shelters and places for unhoused folks. Maybe providing housing and support actually WORKS"

kristy yummy coochie 🇯🇲@adrierising.bsky.social · 3w ago

everyone wants a blue city with a liberal mayor until they see a homeless person existing in public

“We don’t need permission from a rich person to do this work.” @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social speaks with former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette strikers who are now worker-owners of @pittsburghprogress.bsky.social, a cooperative newsroom covering the communities corporate media leaves behind.

Former Strikers Start Cooperative News Organization

Following firings from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, workers and community members came together to create the Pittsburgh Progress.

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With Labor Day around the corner, we're highlighting important moments and figures in the city’s union history – people like union organizer Fannie Sellins. Founding Worker Member Steve Mellon recounts the great price she paid for her tenacity and courage: pittsburghprogress.com/what-on-eart...

The cruelty is the point. Shame on this administration and shame on the people who voted for this. www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/spring...

Springfield Haitian student takes his own life after being fitted with ICE ankle monitor, advocates say

A 20-year-old Wright State student took his own life on Interstate 70 out of anguish over a required ICE ankle monitor, according to local community advocates.

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My Grandma Mary passed two years ago tomorrow, but I have never felt closer to her, or to any of the people I have loved. These words came to me in a flash, after I'd been struggling to decide what to share first on my new blog. I think this was the right choice. www.lecoeurafaim.com/on-grief-fai...

On grief, faith, and healing in blue houses

In my 33 years on Earth, I have experienced truth, reconciliation, and life-altering love through my relationships with the people around me and the things they create through inspiration, action, and...

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I have no words.

Columbia Journalism Review@columjournreview.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Axios Wants to Save Local News with AI. “At the end of the day, if someone’s going to pay you for content, you say: Well, how much are you going to pay me?” Jim VandeHei, the chief executive, said of his company’s deal with OpenAI. www.cjr.org/feature/axio...

Who says community has to center around alcohol? The Nightshade Lounge in Dormont is the newest queer-owned sober establishment, part of a growing wave of alcohol-free gathering spaces across Pittsburgh. LEARN MORE: pittsburghprogress.com/queer-owned-...

The founders of the Pittsburgh Progress want to inject their community-centric publication with a spirit of labor solidarity, writes @riddhisetty.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/on_the_job/s...

Striking out.

The founders of the Pittsburgh Progress want to inject their community-centric publication with a spirit of labor solidarity.

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The Pittsburgh Progress is in the news! Thanks @pghcitypaper.com for the coverage of our local news cooperative.

Pittsburgh City Paper@pghcitypaper.com · 2mo ago

The group of former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers who led a historic three-year strike has waded through a lot of adversity and uncertainty over the past few years. Almost four years since the start of the now-finished strike, the group has officially started a new publication...

Where is Donta Green? The revered Westinghouse football coach is hard at work with his athletes gearing up for their season-opening scrimmage against Erie at 8 p.m. Aug. 22. Steve Rotstein shares how in his team preview: pittsburghprogress.com/westinghouse...

Please don’t write in the newspaper 700 years from now that I got absolutely smoked.

Andrew Curry@andrewcurry.com · 2mo ago

The man's skeletal injuries looked like a train hit him, but he died in 1304 CE. At #ppa26Berlin last week, @uniofbradford.bsky.social scientist Jo Buckberry concluded he was likely whacked by a flying boulder, making him the first confirmed trebuchet death in the archaeological record. @science.org

Spotted some orange leaves on trees today in Pittsburgh. In early August. Seems bad!

This is awful, and I know so many people who went to Interlochen! People trust settings like these to care for their children and this is such a betrayal.

An arts school where Epstein allegedly preyed on students reveals decades of abuse

In a new report, former Interlochen students detail some 70 allegations of sexual abuse by nearly 50 adults employed or affiliated with the school. One of the former students tells his story to NPR.

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Former @post-gazette.com workers went on strike for 3+ years and won. Then, the owners sold the paper and most strikers lost their jobs. Now, they’ve launched @pittsburghprogress.bsky.social “owned and democratically run by its workers and members.” therealnews.com/worker-owned...

Corporate profiteers destroyed journalism. Worker-owned media can save it.

Former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers went on strike for over three years and won. Then, the owners sold the paper and most strikers lost their jobs. Now, they’ve launched “a cooperative news organiz...

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UPMC Magee-Women’s Hospital nurses are demanding that UPMC follow staffing standards by the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses. Read more to learn how their contract battle not only impacts staff but also the families they support: pittsburghprogress.com/union-nurses...

Union nurses, lactation consultants at Magee struggle with staffing shortages amid contract battle with UPMC

Delivering a baby can go as well as possible, said Liana Montes, and yet it can still be traumatic for someone giving birth. That’s why the labor and delivery nurse at UPMC Magee-Women’s Hospital sai...

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Local news works best when it's accountable to the people it serves. That's why the Pittsburgh Progress is proud to be Pittsburgh's first modern-era daily news cooperative. Readers can become members, too. Learn more & sign up today: actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...

Iron City FC is on a mission to make a positive impact – in Pittsburgh and beyond. Learn more about what’s new for the soccer club and its founder in this story from Founding Worker Member Rob Joesbury: pittsburghprogress.com/iron-city-fo...

What are the struggles that unite the working class, then and now? Find out in "American Made: Stories of Work from the WPA,” a curated selection of Federal Writers’ Project interviews. Check out the review by @merylscreech.bsky.social & editor Q&A: pittsburghprogress.com/review-ameri...

We’re starting the rollout for this book of bangers (about bangers) so heads up music journalists, vinyl collectors, and dads:

Midwest Calling: From First Avenue to the American Football House

Edited by Jeff Leven December 8, 2026Pre-orders now open! A collection of original essays by artists, label owners, and booking agents—from DEVO to The Smashing Pumpkins to Michigander—on how Midweste...

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Gifted kid discourse is exhausting — your mileage may vary! — but I gotta say: my weekly gifted class was the ONLY space as a post-9/11 child where I heard anything to counter the raging Islamophobia. Just recalled it's how I first found "The New Colossus." I was 8 and it knocked my socks off.

This is deadass every republican campaign ad here in the south. I'm not even REMOTELY JOKING.