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Mike Elk
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Emmy-nominated labor reporter @PaydayReport often in 🇧🇷. Alum: @Guardian! Yinzer @UEunion fam. Autistic⚾️ Jew. Falo Português in Pittsburgh. Melk@PaydayReport.com
Weiss has also begun to attack the union at CBS News & is going after pro-DEI staffers

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November 8, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Weiss has always exploited her childhood connections to Tree of Life massacre, where 11 Jews were killed, to argue for genocide in Gaza.

However, leaders of one of congregation targeted have spoken out for Palestinian rights

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November 8, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Weiss, who has spent more than 20 years living in New York City, has attempted to present as a scrappy "Pittsburgh girl".

However, he family inherited a high-end furniture store & large flooring company

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November 8, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Black men voted most heavily for Mandami!
November 7, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Bari Weiss crossing the picket line at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
November 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Lina Khan to be Mamdani’s Transition Co-Chair
November 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Zeteo doing incredible live stream coverage from Mamdani headquarters tonite w/ @premthakker.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Labor Party candidate continues to lead in Pittsburgh-based Allegheny County Council race w/ 60% in!
November 5, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Labor third party candidate continues to lead in crucial Allegheny County Council election w/ approx 25% of the vote in!
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 AM
UPSET Alert:

Labor Party candidate leading 2 to 1 in Allegheny County Council race
November 5, 2025 at 2:13 AM
UPSET ALERT:

Labor Party candidate leading in Pittsburgh-based Allegheny County Council election
November 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I couldn’t vote for Corey O’Connor following his racist dog whistle campaign!
November 5, 2025 at 1:46 AM
For Halloween, I dressed as the Trump vs. US Supreme Court decision that gave Trump pardons on all official acts as President - scary shit!
October 31, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I beat MLB in court & won some big bucks
October 31, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Finally, a purge of black and brown staffers at CBS News.

All this and more in today's Payday Report newsletter

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October 30, 2025 at 1:32 AM
AFGE members are resisting the call of their union leaders for Democrats to surrender & agree to Republican demands on a clean continuing resolution.

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October 30, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Also in today's newsletter, a long look at a police massacre in Rio where 132 were killed.

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October 30, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Jewish survivors from the congregation targeted in the massacre are working hard to fight for immigrants' rights to honor the dead.
October 28, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Love that the Guardian describes me both as "baseball writer and labor reporter"
October 23, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Planter said that women considered about being raped should not get drunk.

Fuck this Nazi tattoo-wearing asshole

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October 21, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Over 5,000 at No Kings protest at Pittsburgh city hall
October 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I just saw the Battleship Potemkin w/ experimental jazz trio accompanying it at this 1892 historic labor site in Homestead.
It was so powerful and roaring in a rustic site like that where 7 striking steelworkers were killed.
October 3, 2025 at 12:58 AM
As a reporter, I find her courage inspiring and on Rosh Hashanah, I found myself praying for her during the Yizkor Memorial prayer to those we lost in the past year. May her memory always be a blessing to reporters everywhere.
September 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
On Rosh Hashanah at synagogue yesterday, I found myself praying for Mariam Abu Dagga, a 33 year old AP reporter killed in August while working in Gaza. Dagga, a mother of a 12 year old boy, has evacuated her son to the UAE, but Dagga stayed behind in Gaza doing her job as a reporter for AP.
September 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Jazzmeia Horn at Pittsburgh Jazz Festival
September 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM