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James Santelli

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Pitt Volleyball, Pittsburgh Pirates, urbanism, transit, the usual. God's away on business. FREE TWICE-WEEKLY PITT VOLLEYBALL NEWSLETTER: https://bandwagoners-guide-to-pitt-volleyball.ghost.io/

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James Santelli @santelli.bsky.social · 8d

NEW BANDWAGONER'S GUIDE: It's not enough for you or me to want the 2027 Volleyball World Championships in Pittsburgh, so I'm writing an open letter to someone who *could* make it happen.

Pittsburgh Should Host the Volleyball World Championships, and I Know Just the Guy to Help

If you want something done around here, send a kindly worded letter to a rich guy with lots of influence.

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James Santelli @santelli.bsky.social · 1m

**saved to Watch Later**

Seth Rosenthal @sethrosenthal.bsky.social · 51m

it's Alex Rubenstein Time www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0BX...

How to dominate the World Series and lose

YouTube video by Secret Base

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 26m

California's governor has signed SB 79, a large-scale upzoning of land near transit throughout the state's largest counties.

Joe Cohen @cohenhouse.bsky.social · 30m

WE DID IT!!!

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Brandon S., aka BrandTran @brandtran.bsky.social · 15m

The facts and rebuttals to claims made by those opposed to the right sizing of Penn Ave project in #Pittsburgh. This is a great, informative blog post from #BikePGH! #bikelane

bikepgh.org/2025/10/02/t...

The discourse around the Penn Ave Rightsizing Project has taken an ugly turn. It shouldn't have. - BikePGH

Let’s have an honest discussion about what’s going on When we launched our Safe Trips in the Strip Campaign, we were under no illusion that it would be easy to push for the safety of all road users. C...

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Streets For All @streetsforall.org · 28m

BREAKING NEWS: SB 79 HAS BEEN SIGNED INTO LAW.

Thank you to @scottwiener.bsky.social @gavinnewsom.bsky.social and cosponsors CA Yimby, Greenbelt Alliance, Inner City Law Center, Bay Area Council, AHLA, and SPUR. for making this bill happen.

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James Santelli @santelli.bsky.social · 1h

Investors yawn at threats to ongoing democracy in the United States, but Trump inflaming tensions with China still make them jittery.

Castanet.net @castanet.net · 1h

Wall Street's calm shatters, and Dow drops 456 after Trump threatens more tariffs on China (United States)

Wall Street's calm shatters, and Dow drops 456 after Trump threatens more tariffs on China - Business News

A monthslong calm on Wall Street is breaking on Friday, and U.S. stocks are tumbling after President Donald Trump threatened to crank tariffs even higher on China.

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 12h

Chat, is it bad when Human Rights Watch refuses to accept your donation on principle?

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 16h

whew

variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Human Rights Watch ‘Cannot Accept’ Donations From Aziz Ansari and Other Comedians Who Performed at Riyadh Comedy Festival

Human Rights Watch says it 'cannot accept' donations from Aziz Ansari and other comedians who performed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

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James Santelli @santelli.bsky.social · 2h

Agreed! I'm often in the situation where I read a good piece that I want to post out, and neither the writer NOR the outlet is posting on here -- missed opportunity

James Santelli @santelli.bsky.social · 2h

Good reporting here from Grant Segall on the state of play for Airbnb's in Pittsburgh -- for the NFL Draft and beyond.

Short-Term Rental Market is Heating Up for Next Year's NFL Draft in Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh Magazine

It’s hard to say who are hotter prospects for next April’s NFL Draft in Pittsburgh: star athletes or short-term rental hosts. Despite raising some prices

www.pittsburghmagazine.com

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James Santelli @santelli.bsky.social · 3h

Sad that he's never had the chance to play a game on his birthday :(

James Santelli @santelli.bsky.social · 3h

Fully prepared for someone to do an AI deepfake of Mark Cuban "announcing" that he's buying the Pirates

Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 17h

For those of you on Sora, my Cameos are open. Have at it. And if you want an invite use MCUBAN

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Morgan @mport25.bsky.social · 14h

The NHL is holding no games on Friday so everyone can stream PITT volleyball.

Rick City @rickcity.bsky.social · 15h

What is going on here, NHL?

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James Santelli @santelli.bsky.social · 17h

She tried, but she was OUT OF TIME

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a blue background and saying `` bye bye '' .

Alt: John McLaughlin in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a blue background and saying `` bye bye '' .

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James Santelli @santelli.bsky.social · 23h

It has been confounding at least one Reddit user www.reddit.com/r/pittsburgh...

From the pittsburgh community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the pittsburgh community

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 23h

Really good interview from @davidzipper.bsky.social.

The keys? Frequency and transit-oriented development.

I would emphasize frequency. Running the bus every 30 minutes isn’t going to cut it if you want to grow ridership. With 30-minute service, if one bus doesn’t show up it’s now 60-minute service. Folks aren’t going to rely on that.

In Vancouver, we have lots of buses run with headways of five minutes or less. The SkyTrain is running every three or four minutes, and because it’s driverless, we have the capacity to run even more. That was extremely helpful when Taylor Swift completed her Eras Tour here last year, and we were able to empty out a 55,000-person stadium in 45 minutes because the SkyTrain came every 90 seconds.

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James Santelli @santelli.bsky.social · 23h

AND he homered again in Game #2 last night. Strong start to the Arizona Fall League for Esmerlyn Valdez.

Baseball America @baseballamerica.com · 2d

Pirates prospect Esmerlyn Valdez hit 26 homers in 123 games this season.

And he brought the power to the AFL 💪

Check out his homer from his fall league debut ⤵️

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 1d

A rare poll of Pennsylvania's supreme court races!

Among likely voters, a new F&M poll finds... a lot of uncertainty, though "yes" to retention is ahead for all 3 Dem justices.

The yes leads the no 39/29, 39/22, and 38/25. But that's a ton of voters who say they don't know for each one.

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Julia Simon @juliaradio.bsky.social · 1d

This story was inspired by a conversation with a fossil fuel exec in Paris a few days after the big outage in Spain. He blamed too much renewable energy as the cause.

Was that really it? Turns out: No.

@npr.org takes you through a new report on what happened + impacts of renewable misinformation.

After Spain's blackout, critics blamed renewable energy. It's part of a bigger attack

When millions lost power in Spain and Portugal this spring, some were quick to blame too much solar and wind power. That wasn't the cause, but the misinformation had an impact.

www.npr.org

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James Santelli @santelli.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly *one* airing between Halloween and Christmas. Yeesh.

James Santelli @santelli.bsky.social · 1d

Nice column from @seancollier.bsky.social on a topic that he probably wanted to gatekeep: Star Lake can be an enjoyable, affordable place to see a concert... on the right evening.

Collier’s Weekly: The Paradox of Star Lake | Pittsburgh Magazine

The drawbacks of the suburban venue have brought down ticket prices ... to exactly what they should’ve been all along.

www.pittsburghmagazine.com

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James Santelli @santelli.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think so. It also probably wouldn't boost that much.

When they introduced Big Data + Panel numbers to the Pitt-Florida volleyball number, it bumped up the viewership total by 14%.

That's good, but it would only move up a 59,000 number to 67,000.

James Santelli @santelli.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Pitt Volleyball's most recent ESPN telecast drew an audience of just 59,000 viewers. That's... a sad number.

With Pitt matches on the network each of the next two Sundays, it's important to spread the word and boost those numbers. #PittBS

Tell Your Friends that Pitt Volleyball is on ESPN

Pitt's most recent ESPN telecast drew a paltry viewership number. It's on us as fans to turn that around.

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Jon Geeting @jongeeting.bsky.social · 1d

PA should build a lot more housing so PA doesn’t lose out in reapportionment again in 2030. The number we need to hit: 130,000 more homes above-baseline. That’s the same number Gov Shapiro says we need to hit to dig out of the statewide housing shortage thephiladelphiacitizen.org/the-key-to-p...

The Key To PA’s Power in D.C.?

Reapportionment will cost PA another Congressional seat in 2030 if we don’t stanch our population drain. Could the solution be … more housing?

thephiladelphiacitizen.org

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D.J. Short @djshort.bsky.social · 1d

Man this is good

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 1d

this is an incredibly evil thing for fetterman to break party ranks on.

like...maybe worse than manchin or sinema?

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1d

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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James Santelli @santelli.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not surprised that someone who grew up well-off in Squirrel Hill and went to Shady Side has found a way to charm rich people.

This interview of her parents is… well, it’s something. jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/despite-poli...

Despite political differences, Jewish values unite Squirrel Hill couple

A 'bleeding heart conservative' and a 'very moderate liberal Democrat' living together in perfect harmony

jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com

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