Family to sue after woman released from ICE custody froze to death

Exclusive: Daphy Michel, from Haiti, was dropped off in Pittsburgh in 20F temperatures wearing summer clothes…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/02/ice-death-pittsburgh-daphy-michel-haiti

 

Republican donors trying to unseat Pittsburgh’s progressive Black mayor

Those Republican donors include J Clifford Forrest, the founder of Rosebud Mining Company, who gave $1m to the Trump 2017 inaugural committee, and Kent McElhattan, who contributed more than $200,000 to Senate Republicans' campaign arm during the 2024 election cycle. Herb Shear, who donated more than $675,000 to the Pac and Super Pac affiliated with the Republican Jewish Coalition during the 2024 cycle, also contributed the maximum allowable amount to O'Connor's campaign...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/03/pittsburgh-primary-republican-donors

 

Matthew Michanowicz sentenced to probation for planting bombs at Pittsburgh protest - The Washington Post

"Michanowicz brought a backpack full of homemade Molotov cocktails to downtown Pittsburgh," Brady said. "He wasn't there to protest; he was there to engage in violent attacks."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/12/07/black-lives-matter-protest-bombs-pittsburgh/

Pittsburgh study finds 1 in 10 teens identify as gender diverse | TheHill

… Over 9 percent of the survey participants reported identifying differently than with their sexes that were assigned at birth. Nearly 30 percent of those students surveyed reported transmasculine identities and nearly 39 percent reported transfeminine identities. Nearly 31 percent identified as nonbinary, according to the survey...

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/555880-pittsburgh-study-finds-1-in-10-teens-identify-as-gender-diverse

Users of alt-right social media site Gab celebrate the Pittsburgh mass shooting - Daily Kos

If you were hoping that the users of Gab, the breeding ground social network for the alt-right where Pittsburgh shooter Robert Bowers posted a stream of anti-Semitic content until just hours before he killed 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue, were just posturing and would be horrified to see how the platform's words translated into action, then congratulations: You've survived two years of the Trump era without becoming nearly cynical enough.....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1808237

Here’s the ‘small protest’ Trump says he didn’t see in Pittsburgh - The Washington Post

Thousands assembled at nearly the last minute to march against Trump's visit after a hate-fueled gunman killed 11 people in a synagogue....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/31/heres-small-protest-trump-says-he-didnt-see-pittsburgh/

Robert Bowers' synagogue attack is only one of 16 cases of white-supremacist killings since Trump was inaugurated - Raw Story

Far-right terrorism is a feature, not a bug, of Trump's presidency ...
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/10/robert-bowers-synagogue-attack-one-16-cases-white-supremacist-killings-since-trump-inaugurated/

The slaughter in Pittsburgh was not ‘unimaginable.’ It was inevitable - The Washington Post: Opinion

The cause is a climate in which the sentiments of white nationalists and other hate groups are no longer suppressed.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/10/27/the-slaughter-in-pittsburgh-was-not-unimaginable-it-was-inevitable/