Dusting off the 'ol twitter account to share an update and a job opp! I'm now the Lead Producer at @CityCastPgh which means we're hiring a new Audio Producer. Come join our team and share important stories about the 'Burgh: https://t.co/UqB1k4ycCa

Platforms like YouTube often fall well short of protecting content creators. Pittsburgh-based ASMRtist Lilliana Dee, aka Lily Whispers, is explaining how she uses her day job in cyber security to raise red flags on things like fetish mining. 🎧 https://t.co/bmf0cEUokr

Some tastes are just quintessentially Pittsburgh, and today we’re celebrating a summertime staple — the strawberry pretzel jello salad — with contributor @rossilynne who recently shared this classic dish with @SAVEURMAG. 🍓🥨 🎧 https://t.co/bmf0cEUokr

Come join our team! We've got a 3-month contract position for an audio producer starting in Oct. Pittsburgh residence preferred but not required. (Though if you're local, you get to join for fun field trips like a strawberry pretzel salad taste-off 🍓🥨)

Pittsburgh might not have the most bridges in the U.S., but we do have the most public staircases. City Cast takes a field trip with Laura Zurowski aka Mis.Steps on a field trip to Troy Hill as she explains how Pittsburgh became the staircase capitol. 🎧 https://t.co/bmf0cEUokr

"Acrisource? What the heck is that all abaht?" My first day out in the field with @CityCastPgh was a true delight.

🥫The City Cast Pittsburgh team is so proud to welcome our newest contributor @rossilynne on the pod today. She's talking about her piece for @PGHCityPaper celebrating 60 years of Andy Warhol’s soup-er art. 🎧

@_emilyrizzo_ This isn't the first time teachers have been accused of indoctrinating students @Avi_WA brings us the "Untold Stories of Philadelphia’s 1950s Teacher Purge," when the school board suspended 32 teachers with alleged Communist ties https://t.co/Wz5KfWc5X6

Part 2: How Pa's 3rd-largest district is targeting LGBTQ literature & on the verge of stopping books from even getting to shelves "I don’t want to come back to my school next year. But I’m going to b/c I’m not going to let you silence me" https://t.co/E5ssQQ8Mxq @_emilyrizzo_

This season Schooled looks at 2 very different book ban stories Part 1: A community in Central Pa. that defeated a ban & how it changed those involved "It's really universally cosmic how them being so hateful...towards this book actually helped heal me" https://t.co/MwrQxUNC5r

Whatever happened to that racist Stephen Foster statue in Oakland? It came down by unanimous decision in 2018, and we wondered where it’s been since. It turns out, it’s still in a local basement. But there’s a museum director in LA who’s got a plan. 🎙️ https://t.co/bmf0cEUokr

With neighboring states moving to ban or severely restrict abortion access, Pittsburgh could soon become a beacon for abortion care. More on what that means - and how the city’s processing the end of Roe - on today’s @CityCastPgh.

☕️Starbucks unions are picking up steam across the country, including here in Pgh. Newsletter editor Francesca Dabecco is talking with national field director for Workers United @daisypitkin about how queer folks are steering the movement. @pghsbuxunited https://t.co/bmf0cEUokr

I still have one big WHYY story dropping later this summer, so stay tuned. Grateful for everything I learned from my brilliant colleagues at the station, and for @WHYYunion.

Some✨professional✨news: it's my first day as the new audio producer for @CityCastPgh. Very excited to move back to the Burgh to share stories from my hometown, and thrilled to join the @CityCastPods team.

Before this week's massacre, Uvalde schools were part of the Chicano movement's historic student walkouts. Many still live in Uvalde, and @psskow, @fotornelas & me spoke to some. “Most walkouts were one day or one hour. Uvalde’s walkout was six weeks.”

Last night, I talked with 10 yr old Caitlyne Gonzales, who called her mom while a gunman was in a classroom across the hallway. "Mommy, come pick me up now!" she pleaded. Two of Caitlyne's best friends were killed. @keranews https://t.co/loJOsoZ3ag

Listening to powerful @AngelaKBorder piece. Thinking about everyone whose pain & grief have flooded back over the last 11 days, and the communities just beginning to grieve My heart is in my hometown, Pittsburgh. My former home, El Paso. Buffalo & Uvalde https://t.co/WMHq0jUjSy

A 🧵on Central Bucks School District (I never left): Lenape Middle School students and parents are protesting sudden changes that seem to target the LGBTQ+ community. ACLU Pa. says it's hard not to conclude that the pattern in CBSD is a "systemic assault" on LGBTQ+ students.