I have no words.

Columbia Journalism Review@columjournreview.bsky.social · 5d 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 · 7d 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 · 7d 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.

Good teens generate revenue. Bad teens want to enjoy public spaces for free.

Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · 2w ago

From the Editorial Board: Sparkly, semiattired Lolla kids are this weekend swarming around such oft-deserted environs as Van Buren Street, Jackson Boulevard and State Street. Welcome. Your presence and youthful energy could not be more timely.

This is honestly maddening, each week the news on this front is progressives posting "oh! The pope quoted Tolkien!" memes while the Catholic Church itself is like "our legal arm just made it even easier to torture queer and trans kids."

David Forbes@davidforbes.bsky.social · 2w ago

"The Michigan case was filed on behalf of Catholic Charities of Jackson, Lenawee and Hillsdale Counties..." But please, keep gushing about how progressive the papacy is. I'm sure the Catholic Church is thankful for the p.r. while they keep attacking every last one of our rights.

August 1st is the 127th anniversary of the end of the Newsboys’ Strike, where newsboys and newsgirls came together to fight against newspaper price hikes. The film and musical adaptation “Newsies” show us the true power of working people coming together to seize the day.

It’s always great to be on Max’s show and it was especially so to be on with Steve Mellon to talk about what we’ve been working on for months! Follow @pittsburghprogress.bsky.social for updates and check out our website (where one of stories is written by me!)

Sarah Lazare@sarahlazare.bsky.social · 3w ago

The former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers who went on strike for 3+ years, only to have the owners sell the paper and fire most of them, have started their own cooperative news org. Important reporting by @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro now says “hell no” to part of a giant data center outside of Philly This comes after I reported emails exposing talks between his administration & the developer, real estate magnate Brian O’Neill, about Amazon being too scared to invest in it

🚨 WE HAVE A DEAL! After three years, in a major step forward for our members, we have ratified our first contract with @propublica.org’s management. We deeply appreciate everyone who supported us along the way. Here are some of our big wins👇

The former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers who went on strike for 3+ years, only to have the owners sell the paper and fire most of them, have started their own cooperative news org. Important reporting by @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social

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...

therealnews.com

“The FBI has signaled that its new effort to brand political opponents of the president as terrorists has only just begun, and that soon the power of large language models will be brought to bear on the effort to flag and tag political dissidents en masse.”

Minority report: FBI seeks AI for political watch list

Documents show the FBI seeking AI tools to flag Americans before they act, as the terror watchlist's focus moves toward domestic dissent.

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Saw The Odyssey. I hate jump scares and gory battle scenes, so my eyes were shut for half of it (the sound was more than enough!) so I was mostly focused on the dialogue. It was pretty with fun spins, and not for me, and that’s OK. I hope the people it was made for can hear what it’s telling them.

Read staff writer @brittanyhailer.bsky.social and computational journalist Ilica Mahajan's investigation via @themarshallproject.org to learn more about what young people say they experienced at Fox Run 👉 www.themarshallproject.org/2026/07/30/f...

It Was Supposed to Be a Haven for Troubled Teens. They Risked Everything to Escape.

At Fox Run, one of Ohio’s largest youth residential treatment centers, kids and former staff detail a litany of trauma.

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A wonderful new review by @pittsburghprogress.bsky.social! “Visible at the core of this collection is the importance of building relationships, trust and shared responsibility with the people in our communities who might experience life differently than we do.” Book info: tinyurl.com/mw99v842

Review: 'American Made: Stories of Work from the WPA' connects U.S. readers to our working-class truth

Plus: Read a Q&A with Belt Publishing founder Anne Trubek

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Yes

The Covid Amnesia Project and the Plot to Erase 2020

It’s up to those of us who experienced the pandemic in the real-world to make sure that what actually happened in 2020 isn’t deliberately erased by sheltered disinformation agents who experienced

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Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3w ago

Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...

I dunno but it should probably be a bigger deal that the White House announced it wants to slap a 100% tariff on drug imports at the same time it is eliminating Medicare drug subsidies. And we’re talking about critical life-saving drugs like insulin, blood thinners, antibiotics, and heart meds.

This! It's creative class work

Alvaro M. Bedoya@bedoyausa.bsky.social · 3w ago

People think "Hollywood" is rich and famous. The reality? Film and TV is a national industry. It's a blue collar industry. And it is an industry free fall. My latest for @newrepublic.com on how the Paramount merger would crush blue collar workers who can not afford it newrepublic.com/article/2136...