Attention UPMC: maybe next time be brave and do the right thing. Reinstate gender affirming care now!

Today is Non-Binary Parents Day, and in honor of it, we’re re-listening to our TLP episode, “Families: Parenting as a Non-Binary Person”. @Imarajones.bsky.social and artist/educator Johnny Blazes discuss the origin of Non-Binary Parents Day—and how it has grown over time.

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Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court Reins in Life Sentences for Felony Murder The court’s ruling could create a pathway out of prison for more than 1,000 people who were automatically sentenced to life without parole for murders they themselves didn

Pennsylvania has the nation’s third-highest number of people serving life without parole sentences. A recent state supreme court ruling could lead to a pathway out of prison for more than 1,000 of these people.

I Hired Hollywood Stuntmen To Lose To Me In A Fight YouTube video by Max Fosh

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I love that you do! May I encourage even further expansion than dependence on a job? Some depend on others for free labor (thinking caretaking, primarily) in order to afford their lifestyle, too. And I see them as a part of it, as well!

I have a loved one who says he was self-made and then he talks about his family getting food assistance when he was young and taking advantage of public school vocational programming to learn job skills and it’s like… You’re not self-made. We made you. And it was worth every fucking penny.

When your representatives throw your community under the bus, your work has just begun.

The silver lining of Flock's influence over police and lawmakers is that it points out exactly who needs to be replaced.

ICE continues to detain people who live and work in our state. And as we saw in the recent deportation of two Durham elementary school students, these detention have targeted people who were "doing things the right way."

Honestly I think it’s fine to call ICE detention concentration camps. Also this country had thousands of them already. This is the reality of a country that depends on police, prosecutions, and prison to solve every problem.

Overcrowding, bad (no) medical care, not enough food, filth — these are average and expected in this country’s jails and prisons everywhere.
ICE detention conditions aren’t below the norm — that’s the norm. That’s what 2 million ppl and their families experience every day.

Black copy on a white background from a Post-Gazette article published today reads: The Post-Gazette newsroom currently stands around 100. The new iteration of the PG going forward might need to start out smaller, Mr. Bainum said. “The Post-Gazette’s current business model does not support the size of the current newsroom,” he said. “We’re going to have to thoughtfully address that. “We’re learning as we go, so we certainly don’t have all the answers,” he said.

We are very, very glad that the PG is surviving! We’re eager to turn over a new leaf with new owners who value journalism, and respect Pittsburgh.

We’re also concerned by the new ownership's public statements regarding job cuts.

In Pittsburgh, found that Costco sold some thin panels of bright led lights that work well for basement lighting (when you have it!), that paired with large carpet remnants makes our basement quite usable (even with the periodic mouse poop we find at the edges)

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announces it has found a buyer to keep the newspaper open Owners of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said they have found a buyer who had agreed to keep the newspaper open, less than a month before it was due to shut down.

The nonprofit that runs the successful, Pulitzer-winning Baltimore Banner is going to take over the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Of all the possible outcomes here, this is likely the best we could have hoped for.

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Pittsburgh advocates want additional feedback on PPS school closures ahead of expected vote City Council members are cosponsoring several virtual meetings to discuss the planned closure of five of the elementary schools, organized by the grassroots advocacy group 412 Justice.

Three additional town halls will be held online in the coming days:

Arsenal Elementary on April 14
Miller Elementary on April 21
Manchester Elementary on April 28

People who work for Zohran should talk to child care workers. You cannot build a system based off of a parent survey, or by talking to a handful of program owners and big nonprofit administrators. Child care teachers and providers are workers and they make less than almost every job in NYC.

What do you mean JD Vance failed to mediate a dispute and bring people together with his winning personality and charm???

was once New Amsterdam.

Oh my! I frequently profess the greatest benefit of a city education for my kids is what I can’t give by way of having neighbors with different ways of living and believing and speaking than we do at home. Homogeneity seems so boring to me.

Congrats! I remember that milestone for my dad being pretty important.

Doesn’t the implementation and means testing required for discount programs or ensuring proper qualifications take more resources to implement than no fares at all? Wouldn’t we be better served by taxing people according to their means?

I'm a WNBA player. Don't use athletes like me to exclude trans women. IOC's policy invites unequal scrutiny. We cannot choose our genes or chromosomes, but we can choose whether we protect the dignity of every athlete.

Brianna Turner is a leader on and off the court. It was her speech that made the WNBA include housing after leaving it off the initial CBA agreement. She makes another great argument again, but this time in defense of trans and intersex athletes in sport.

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The announcers on this Wolves game have been talking about how great trains are and how far behind the US is and I did not know American sportscasters were allowed to say things like that 😂

“Tell the world... to keep this energy going. Let's invest in togetherness.” ~Victor Glover, Artemis II crew member

all of the absolute worst people you don't know are practically foaming at the mouth to call victims of sexual assault opportunistic liars and whores out to ruin a promising young man's career

The specific allegations against Swalwell aside….this response reflects a very pervasive (but wrong) belief. Most sexual violence is relational and survivors keeping contact w/ their assailants is very common and not necessarily discrediting (esp when there’s a power imbalance)

Majority of Perpetrators Will Not Go to Jail or Prison 98% of perpetrators walk free. For every 1000 sexual assaults, 50 reports lead to arrests, 28 cases lead to a felony convictions, and only 25 perpetrators are sentenced to incarceration. 1

Unreported SA is a much, MUCH bigger problem than the very small amount of false allegations. Why don’t more women report? Check out the replies about Swalwell.

Photo of Aurin Chowdhury speaking at the planning commission meeting as the photo that is used for the KSTP article titled: Minneapolis Planning Commission advances overnight parking plan for people living in cars Renée Cooper KSTP April 6, 2026 - 11:04 PM EYEWITNESS NEWS Minneapolis leaders are moving ahead with a plan to allow overnight parking lots for people living in their cars

BIG News! I serve on the planning commission, and we unanimously passed the zoning code text amendment that would allow for safe parking zones for those facing homelessness living in their cars.

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Screenshot of the first three paragraphs of Amina's dispatch: I would guess that a couple hundred Somali families have been sheltering at home since November. Everyone’s taking a financial hit from all these people — translators, drivers, shopkeepers — staying home. Because it’s Ramadan right now, we’ve seen a dwindling attendance at our mosque, including at our Friday prayers, which is sad. But our mosque broadcasts live on social media, so people can get their faith and engagement at home. Our culture is so private but also deeply connected, even before this chaos. We’ve always been a community that responded to one another, so every time there’s a need, it brings us back to rejecting individualism and using our cultural connections. The first care question is always Do you have enough food in the fridge? We do a weekly check-in with many families who haven’t left their homes since the beginning of November. We make sure every week that they have food. Neighbors, family, and friends have been able to donate food or funding to help. We have rental assistance, mental support, and health care support, too. Somali medical providers are able to go to people's houses.

"The first care question is always, Do you have enough food in the fridge? We do a weekly check-in with many families who haven’t left their homes since the beginning of November. We make sure every week that they have food."

Read the rest of Amina Adan's dispatch here: tinyurl.com/y866b5sd