Transit advocate, bicycle commuter, vinyl collector, tree hugger, thinker and doer. *Burgh Verified*
Pittsburgh
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Any #GreenNewDeal in Pittsburgh must include total restoration of all cut and not-implemented transit routes & trips from 2011/2007/2002, 24-hr service, a 5th bus garage and free fares.
New acronym: PINOT NOIR. President In Name Only That Nobody Of Importance Respects.
#potus
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Now that PA is entirely blue, figure out how to fund public transit in PA. Put all the service back that's been cut in the last 25 years. Put the systems back that have been run out of business altogether. Make it work.
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High-speed rail can spend decades stuck in planning and approval, yet data centers seem to spring up almost overnight, often with communities and ecosystems left to deal with the consequences. It’s wild how quickly we can build infrastructure for corporate profit compared to infrastructure that serves the public.
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Here's how Week Without Driving PGH brought us together to walk, bike, roll, ride transit, and amplify why safe and accessible transportation choices matter for everyone in our region.
bikepgh.org/2026/10/12/recap…
@NWSPittsburgh Rain in McCandless overnight, 1.11" through 6:00, then 1.44" between 6 and 9:00, for 2.55" so far. #CoCoRaHS station PA-AL-64.
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Stuart Strickland retweeted
NEW: Amtrak announces second daily train schedule between PGH-Pilly-NYC. Service will start Nov. 18. Here are the schedules, by departure times. Philly has both arrival and departure since they change engines there and there is always a delay.
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I wish more Americans could wrap their heads around this. Amsterdam is easier to drive in than Atlanta -- despite far, far less road capacity -- because so FEW people have reason to drive cars there.
Give people choices, and the whole city works better.
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64 bike racks are full. Someone wanted to get on with a bike. They’ll have to wait 40 minutes for the next bus. FORTY. Sunday schedules on the new 64 route post redesign is still going to be 40 at best on Sunday. Travesty.
Every single seat on the 64 is full. 30 minutes frequencies are not enough for the new redesigned 64 route. @PGHtransit @PghTransitCare #pghtransit
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Ranked Choice Voting is an extremely fair voting system that is better than the plurality system most states use.
Nothing is hidden. There is no "backstage". You rank the candidates you want to vote for in order.
If, in the first round of counting, no candidate has over 50% of the vote, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated. Anyone who had that candidate as their first choice has their vote applied to their second choice, and the votes are counted again.
That continues until one candidate passes 50%.
RCV ensures the candidate with the majority of support wins without requiring a runoff, unlike plurality. It can even eliminate primaries, meaning people can vote just once and the candidate with the most support wins.
It is a strong voting system and should be adopted nationwide.
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Imagine growing up in absolute dirt poverty in east Tennessee, daughter of a tobacco farmer, going to school wearing rags your mother stitched into a coat, and when you die the British royal family has its military band play your up-the-workers country-pop anthem in tribute.
My only real gripe with #PedalPgh is that it's an opportunity missed to query 30,000 cyclists why they cannot use a bicycle for basic transportation the other 364 days of the year and what would it take for them to do so? Then take that set of reasons and raise bloody hell. – at McCandless, PA
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If we want to flip seats in November, we need to make sure all our young people, especially out-of-town college students, vote and probably vote by mail. Call them, have them check their voter registrations, or register in the first place! 1/2
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Stuart Strickland retweeted
When I heard about Senator Graham’s death last night, the first thing I thought about was not all the things he said and did in service of Donald Trump. I thought of the time before Donald Trump when he was a brother to Senator John McCain.
A time when senators from different parties could fight about politics and still be friends. A time when a conservative Republican from South Carolina could say of my father: “If you can’t admire Joe Biden as a person, you’ve got a problem. He’s the nicest person I’ve ever met in politics. As good a man as God ever created.”
That is the Senator Graham I will remember today. Not because I have forgotten what came after. Because in that memory there is hope. Hope for a country where brothers can fight like hell over policy and still share a meal, and a laugh, and the loss of the people they love.
I will choose to remember the time before Trump. Because I believe in an America after Trump.
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🚨BREAKING: (Chicago suburb, St. Charles) ICE agents smashed a handcuffed man’s face into a stone wall, then assaulted a U.S. citizen, multiple times, once they realized they were filming.
In the video, multiple ICE agents have a man in handcuffs. While he is completely under their control, and not resisting, they smash his face into a stone wall.
A U.S. citizen begins asking for the man’s name, while filming... note that he is not interfering, blocking the agents, or preventing the arrest in any way…. But that doesn’t stop the ICE agent from chases after him, while another agent threatens him with a taser.
As the citizen is actively backing away, the agent continues walking toward him, and aggressively shoves him backwards.
Even after the detained man is being escorted to the vehicle… and the legal observer is nowhere near the agents, or their cars… that same ICE agent continues shoving the U.S. citizen for no apparent reason.
And while he is standing on the public sidewalk, another agent walks over and points a taser inches from him, and then turns around and points his taser at other innocent people, who are just standing and watching.
Americans have a First Amendment right to record government officials performing their duties in public. Threatening, intimidating, or assaulting someone because they are documenting law enforcement, violates that right.
And slamming a person face, who is handcuffed and not resisting, into a stone wall is excessive force.
This is exactly why it’s important to always record anytime you see ICE agents.
Because when there isn’t video evidence, we’re told to trust the government’s version of events. And more often than not, their version is filled with lies.
But when there is video, the people filming often become the next target… just for documenting what is happening.
And that’s what makes this so alarming.
This is happening across the country, almost every single day. Americans are watching videos of people being thrown to the ground, beaten, threatened, shoved, tased, and intimidated by federal agents… while never seeing anyone held accountable.
When a government refuses to investigate or discipline agents who violate people’s constitutional rights, it sends a message that they can keep doing it.
And that’s exactly what we’re seeing.
The Constitution means nothing if the people sworn to uphold it can violate it without consequence.
And as long as this administration refuses to hold ICE agents accountable, Americans should expect to keep seeing videos like this… because impunity breeds abuse.