Filings show top conservative donor Jeff Yass gave $800K to PAC attacking Summer Lee. The PAC is the major player this cycle going after Lee and boosting her opponent Bhavini Patel. triblive.com/news/politics-…

Newsroom workers, @pghguild members, are standing strong on strike. This strike has always been about securing the future of strong union journalism in Pittsburgh and that doesn't change today.

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WRITING PROMPT- National Poetry Month - Day 11 - #NPM #ohiopoetlaureate GO!

I need to find someone to take my shift. This looks great!

Here we go, Chuck Schumer is actually introducing LEGISLATION to stop judge shopping, after the 5th Circuit just ignored John Roberts.

There's no good reason for this bill not to pass, but I'm sure Republicans will come up with some bad ones.

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On April 20th, I'll be talking to Dorian Hairston about his tremendous poetry collection at Bottom Feeder Books. If you love the Negro Leagues & Josh Gibson, or if you want to know more about Gibson, this is a great chance to hear some great work & engage w/cool people.

This is one of my favorite novels ever. It is a towering work. If you haven't read #ThePrettiestStar , go read it now. Beautiful, empathic, devastating.

I saw a lot of gross Caitlin Clark hate on the socials yesterday and you don't have to pick between Clark & Angel Reese or Kamilla Cardozzo. You can appreciate & uplift them all. I'm a fan of all three players and the sport in general. Coach Staley gets it.

Following program cuts, new West Virginia University student union says fight is not over apnews.com/article/west-v…

Rebecca Solnit wants a joyous, inviting left — not an angry, Puritanical one, by The.Ink, from Anand Giridharadas the.ink/p/rebecca-soln…

I knew this story but it's great to hear Dawn Staley tell it again. Huge fan over here.

Getting a college degree is hard. Getting a college degree from Northwestern is very hard. And getting a college degree from Northwestern University while you’re incarcerated at a place like Stateville Correctional Center is nothing short of heroic

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The Purpose of Memory: An interview with Jonathan Corcoran on his new memoir, 'No Son of Mine' (University Press of Kentucky)

by Ian MacAllen

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The Magic City Book Bash is in full swing!! We’ve got authors on Archer Street and authors in store until 3pm. Come join the party!!

The number of times that I have re-arranged the 3 1/2 bins full of books that I have for research is ... it's a lot. So many times. #AppalachianLit #WritingDownTheMountains

This man makes 13 cents an hour as a prison janitor.

After working 136 hours, he donated $17.74 to relief efforts in Gaza.

Such a beautiful interview-essay by Aala Abdullahi:

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'It’s never been clearer that faculty reject the neoliberal educational model that WVU now exemplifies, its restructuring serving the needs of private equity rather than the underserved students of our state.'
Thanks Rose Casey

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People are always like 'Why aren't there any movies with golden hour shots of southern Pennsylvania zinc plants' and then when you mention Unstoppable (2010) they just stare at you