I am from South Western PA and an avid muskie fisherman, Steelers, Penguins, and motorsports fan (dirt racing, sprints, mods, LMs and NASCAR) Heavy tracks
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PROSPERITY, Pa. — Jimmy Brock adjusts a device on his belt that provides oxygen in an emergency. It is the last piece of safety equipment he puts on before our descent into the Enlow Fork Mine for a tour. He silently goes through the hand motions of double-checking the rest: Hard hat is secure; cap lamp is over the top; respirator, mask, hearing protection, protective eye gear are securely in place over flame-resistant overalls and steel-toed boots.
“Are you ready for something amazing?” a smiling Brock asks McCormick, who gives two thumbs up. It marks the first time the freshman senator will go down a mine shaft.
The tour was my idea. I wanted to take you, the reader, down the mine and show you how much safety and technology are part of modern coal mining, how fast the coal goes from the longwall to the market, and how the industry is adapting to changing times.
Mining is embedded in our culture and politics. Washington County has its share of wealthier suburban neighborhoods, but voters have been more resistant to Democrats than they have in other white-collar areas, in part because the people have a profound sense of place. Residents who don’t work in coal often have a deeper connection to the industry’s legacy and work ethic than they do to the college degrees they earned far from here.
Brock, 69, is the first in his family to go into mining, a field where many workers are third- and fourth-generation. He was working as a tennis instructor nearly 50 years ago when a student whose husband worked in the coal business as a human resources supervisor tried to sell him on the pay and benefits. He accepted an offer for a summer job, then nearly quit after just one day of shoveling coal onto conveyor belts.
The ride down takes less than two minutes in a surprisingly pristine steel elevator — more like a hospital freight — and ends at a well-lit mine floor. From there, we jump into the mantrip, a rail vehicle that resembles the trams along the Jersey Shore boardwalk, and travel several miles through what feels like an interstate highway of tunnels, including yield and stop signs. Along the way, we pass miners with headlamps inspecting coal seams using technology that incorporates AI.
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Probably want to pay attention to this — and everything this woman is doing.
So you people on the way far left still championing this no-cash bail nonsense?
Delvin Dobbins has three releases on the rap sheet and a fourth victim waiting on a charge.
December 2023. Juvenile burglary. Shuman was closed. No bed. They let him go.
February 3, 2024. South Side. Store worker shot in the chest taking out the trash. Arrested February 13, charged as an adult. Attempted homicide. MJ-05003-CR-0000801-2024. Common Pleas denied bail September 5, 2024, and denied a modification October 2. Jail that day. Bail denied. He was out again before the next one.
September 4, 2026. New arrest. MJ-05003-CR-0006272-2026. NON-MONETARY. Hearing continued to December 15. Still open.
September 23, 2026. Penn Avenue, Garfield. Stabbed a man in the stomach. Lando said the intestines were out. Tased, taken to the jail. MJ-05003-CR-0006707-2026. Dan Butler, next morning. NON-MONETARY. Commitment cancelled the same day. The September 4 case was still open.
October 1. East Busway, East Liberty station. Man stabbed in the neck. Police tell WPXI Dobbins is the prime suspect. Not charged yet. His Garfield hearing was set for that morning. Continued.
Two open cases. NON-MONETARY both times. Eight days.
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Caitlin Clark did the Iowa Wave with kids from the Children’s Hospital
This is what it’s all about
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JURNE 11 (B-52) epic flyover at Dodgers Stadium this afternoon! 🇺🇸💪😎
Justin
JURNE 11 (B-52) holding north of Pasadena for the Dodgers baseball flyover this afternoon. The callsign is in honor of weapon systems officer Lt. Col. Gabriel “Journee” Estrella who perished in the B-52 crash at Edwards Air Force Base in June of this year. 🙏
Audio via @theATCapp and tracking via @ADSBex
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The original STAR WARS (1977) poster art by the Brothers Hildebrandt.
This is actually a fascinating piece of STAR WARS history. The Hildebrandts created their version of the artwork for early newspaper advertising and retail posters, while Tom Jung’s more famous composition became the official U.S. Style A one-sheet.
The Hildebrandt artwork helped shape the visual identity of STAR WARS before the film had even become the cultural phenomenon it would eventually be.
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An American pilot spent almost 16 months inside a German POW camp.
Then he escaped.
He found a German Fw 190, climbed inside a fighter he had never flown before and stole it.
Then he flew it to freedom.
Somehow, that wasn't even the most remarkable part of his flying career.
This is the story of Bob Hoover..🧵1/6
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Antonio brown bipolar disorder, Le’Veon bell contract, playoff win drought
Mike Tomlin:
NFL Hate Memes
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I’ve never been so infuriated after watching a video. I will post only a screenshot because of how upsetting it is.
Police in Santa Ana, CA need help tracking down a demonic woman who was caught on video purposely running over a puppy & killing it. She poured dog food on the ground to bait the puppy to get in the wheels path, then she ran it over and sat the wheel and the weight of the car on the puppy for over 10 seconds, an agonizing death.
Santa Ana PD says it happened on September 8th near 900 W. Park Lane in Santa Ana and cameras unfortunately didn’t catch a license plate.
Someone will know something. Internet, do your thing.
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Found Kodachrome Slide. Date stamped on the slide August 1958.
A Ford Country Squire. The woodie. Red paint going orange in the sun. Fake mahogany on the flanks with those little chrome rivets pretending the wood is still real.
It is not. Ford had already given up on actual timber. This is DI-NOC and fiberglass framed to look like a boat. Still one of the best-looking family cars America ever parked in a driveway.
Connecticut plate. SC 384. 1957 tags. Somewhere in Connecticut, late 1950s, in front of a white shingled house with a sun porch and bare trees.
August on the slide. Bare trees in the yard. That is how these things go. The stamp is when somebody processed the film. The photograph is some other afternoon. Late fall. Early spring. A Saturday when the light went gold and somebody walked into the street with a camera.
Whitewalls. Bumper guards. Hubcaps you could shave in. The whole Eisenhower dream sitting there like it had nowhere else to be.
And the house. Clapboard. Storm windows. A porch enclosed because New England winters do not care about your architecture. A power line. A neighbor’s white place in the back. Nothing famous. Nothing staged. Just a street.
Somebody owned this wagon. Kids in the wayback. Groceries. A trip to the shore.
We do not know their names. This was America. A quieter one. A more local one. The kind that ran on a wagon and a porch and a Saturday with a camera.
Someday somebody may know this house. The street. Who owned the Ford. Probably not.
In the meantime what we have is a 1956 Country Squire. Connecticut. August 1958 stamped on the cardboard.
The wood is fake. The afternoon is not.
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PetVet365 in the South Hills is looking to identify this woman after they say she stole from a donation case that helps local pets in needs. If you have any information, call 724-252-2880.
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Want a microcosm of how the Democratic Party has left many sane people, they really didn’t leave it?
Here.
Current (especially far left) Dems have gone crazy.
Read this. The Ross Twp Democratic Committee wants to discuss doing away with Pledge of Allegiance at their meetings.
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Surreal day for me today having a childhood hero to me and many @WilliamShatner in studio today for @TrunkNationSXM ! And to talk metal no less! The man is an inspiration at 95 years young! Thx to guitarist Marcus Nand and all who helped make it happen. So much fun! If you missed it now on the @SIRIUSXM app. Full video coming soon. So cool!!
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The most shortsighted plan in history. A bunch of people with nose rings and 22 different color hair who think they are sticking it to “the man” -all the while they did no research, will cripple schools and hospitals and their plan will economically collapse on itself.
Dumbasses.
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Which brings us to the question people across Allegheny County are asking: How did this county come to release a man like this so easily?
Part of the answer is a decade of deliberate policy. Some of it was paid for by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation when it awarded Allegheny County a Safety and Justice Challenge grant. The initiative describes its mission as fighting “the misuse and overuse of jails.” The county’s own first-year report is blunt about what the money was for: “to reduce the population of the Allegheny County Jail by 20%.”
The county beat that goal. It reported a 36% reduction in its jail population during that first two-year grant.
The MacArthur Foundation then renewed: $2 million in 2020, $1.17 million in 2022 over four years, and $334,000 in 2024. In all, $5.5 million since 2018. The county has said it was chosen for the 2021 renewal “based on the promise and progress of work to date.”
In other words, results got rewarded.
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🇺🇸 These women are making .50 BMG ammunition for the war. In dresses.
Allegany Ordnance Plant. Cumberland, MD. 1943. It was the Kelly-Springfield tire factory converted to make ammunition.
The plant’s rounds carried the “KS” headstamp.
LIFE archives, Gordon Coster.
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Salena blowing the absolute top off what was said on @KDKARadio today when I interviewed @KellyRaeReports.
Holy heck.
You have to read this.
It was literally incentivized to have fewer people in jail.
"The problem isn’t that a judge cut him loose early. It’s what happened after the door opened. Nothing in the public record I could find shows anyone kept watching a man a Florida judge had called a likely danger without treatment, or that anyone passed that warning to Pennsylvania.
And “adjudication withheld” matters. Pennsylvania’s online court system doesn’t show out-of-state cases at all. And on a national background check, a Florida felony case involving three counts of battery on officers can show up as something less than a conviction. Either way, a Pittsburgh arraignment could easily see a guy with a few summary offenses.
Which brings us to the question people across Allegheny County are asking, from Facebook comment threads to talk radio: How did this county come to release a man like this so easily?
Part of the answer is a decade of deliberate policy. Some of it was paid for by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation when it awarded Allegheny County a Safety and Justice Challenge grant. The initiative describes its mission as fighting “the misuse and overuse of jails.” The county’s own first-year report is blunt about what the money was for: “to reduce the population of the Allegheny County Jail by 20%.”
The county beat that goal. It reported a 36% reduction in its jail population during that first two-year grant, a stretch that included the COVID-19 shutdowns, when jails nationwide emptied out.
The MacArthur Foundation then renewed: $2 million in 2020, $1.17 million in 2022 over four years, and $334,000 in 2024. In all, $5.5 million since 2018. The county has said it was chosen for the 2021 renewal “based on the promise and progress of work to date.”
In other words, results got rewarded.
What did the money buy? The county’s reports list public defenders at overnight arraignments, hiring staff so every district judge could get a pretrial risk assessment, and faster court processing. The results were measurable. At the overnight arraignments where public defenders began appearing, district judges set money bonds 39% less often than in the same period of 2018. And the county’s pretrial office, in its own words, “never recommends money bail, which is ineffective and unfair to people who are poor.”
That recommendation creates a system built to say yes to release, one that measures success by how many beds sit empty. Keeping a man in jail requires somebody — a judge, a prosecutor, a victim — to push against that current. At Hemingway’s arraignment, by the district attorney’s own account, nobody from his office was there to push."
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Here’s a three-part interview you must hear of a former Allegheny County pretrial worker who said multiple people are dead because of no-cash bail. And she quit her job because she couldn’t take it.
Kelly Rae Robertson -- spent 14.5 years in Allegheny County pre-trial services and grew fed up with it -- joined Colin this afternoon.
One of THE BEST interviews you'll hear.
THREAD TO ALL THREE SEGMENTS HERE:
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