Jennifer Buchanan Rapach

Politico, educator, musician, nature lover, hockey fan, world traveler, Pittsburgher. Opinions are my own, not my employer's.

[Jennifer Buchanan Rapach @JBRapach]

I've been active in politics for 19 years, and have never seen anyone work harder than Arvind. So incredibly happy to be on Team Venkat.

[Rep. Arvind Venkat, MD @RepVenkat]

The best part of being a State Rep is meeting my constituents, learning about their concerns & offering my office’s help. Today I went legislative door knocking throughout McCandless & met with over 100 of my neighbors. Look forward to continuing this outreach throughout my term.

[Jesus Chrysler @JesusChryslerII]

This TV ad, which was broadcast back in 1971 during the Vietnam War, is weirdly relevant today.
Fight for your slice

[Jennifer Buchanan Rapach @JBRapach]

@campbelIbain No joke, about halfway through the game a woman behind me in 201 yelled, "I paid 70 bucks for this?!"

[Majority Democrats @MajorityDems]

The design is deeply symbolic: each golden lion represents a social program that America could have funded if we hadn’t spent millions of dollars on a monument to ineptitude.

[Jennifer Buchanan Rapach @JBRapach]

@ImAureus @maxtmcc Bitch, please. That's Wizard McKinsey.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

New Yorkers, join us in the first ever Mayor’s Municipal Madness: a competition of city fixes where everyone wins.

City workers fix thousands of tiny annoyances every year, from broken basketball rims to bike path bumps. This year, we’re highlighting 16 of those fixes.

From the exacerbating eight to the frustrating four, every item in each round will be repaired…but you’ll be voting on which fix will be done by me on day 100 of our admin.

Round one of voting starts right now: https://t.co/8iGV460exI

[Jennifer Buchanan Rapach @JBRapach]

@AstorAaron @BillJelavich Nooo! Snyder of Belin makes my all-time favorite chips - Hawaiian Sweet Onion.

[Jennifer Buchanan Rapach @JBRapach]

@CoraCHarrington I wish there was a way to pay 50 cents to read one article. Back in the day you could go to the store and buy one copy of a newspaper or magazine for a few bucks. You didn't have to get a monthly subscription.

[Tim Mak @timkmak]

Amplify the voices living in the shadows of war.

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[Tom Scott 🇺🇦 @Tom___Scott]

65-year-old British woman in the US on the "trip of a lifetime", with a valid tourist visa, was arrested by ICE, shackled, transported & held for weeks on end.

Do NOT travel to the US under any circumstances.
https://t.co/Yj77Gvt6DK

[NBC Olympics & Paralympics @NBCOlympics]

The final 3 skiers waited for each other to catch up to give the fans a show. #WinterOlympics

[Ryan Deto @RyanDeto]

🥇Ava McNaughton (number 30), a goaltender for Team USA, is the first Pittsburgh-area native to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics since the games began in 1924!

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Photojournalist Kostiantyn Liberov writes on his Instagram about yet another evacuation of people affected by Russian aggression - this time from Kostiantynivka:

“Kostiantynivka. All roads into the city are controlled by enemy drones. Every street is a vast graveyard of destroyed equipment, cars, and unmanned ground vehicles carrying supplies. Entering by car is, with a very high probability, suicide - even in bad weather. Logistics have effectively collapsed.

A family: a husband, a wife, and an elderly grandmother. They agreed to evacuate only on the condition that we take their animals - two cats and a dog. The only way into the city was on foot — more than 8 km one way.

When we reached the family’s house, it was already clear that the elderly woman would simply not be able to cover that distance. It was hard even for us, young men. And here was a grandmother. Thankfully, the family had prepared an improvised cart, so we took turns pulling Taisiia Ivanivna, keeping her engaged in conversation and trying to distract her from the heart-shattering ruins of the city where she had lived her whole life.

I don’t know how long the return journey took, with constant stops to evade drones and take cover from glide bombs - but it was so hard that I understand no photo could ever convey the full extent of that tension.”

📸 libkos/Instagram

[Olga Tokariuk @olgatokariuk]

It is shocking how little coverage there is of an unfolding humanitarian catastrophe in Ukraine due to Russia's destruction of its energy grid. It's -20C outside and half of the country experienced a total blackout today. Metro trains stopped operating in Kyiv and Kharkiv today. Rolling blackouts have been ongoing for weeks, often with no heating and running water inside people's houses. People get sick and die because of this. In the meantime, Russians laugh and call for more strikes to punish Ukraine for its unwillingness to surrender. These are strikes affecting millions of civilians amid the harshest winter in decades. These are crimes against humanity that Russia is confident it will get away with. We cannot let that happen

[Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @LuizaJarovsky]

If you look closely, the AI hype makes no sense

[Dr. Bob @CousinSquid]

@shannonrwatts A great retort lost because vampires are incapable of self-reflection

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

After leukemia treatments failed, Alyssa Tapley, at age 13, was told she would die. Then, doctors tried an experimental gene-edited therapy. She became the first human to try the treatment made possible by U.S. federal funding. Now 16, she’s cancer-free and planning her future. https://t.co/392jN0pRdL

[Governor Newsom Press Office (parody) @AwesomeNewsom]

DONALD TRUMP ENDS WOKENESS.

EVERY DAY.

AT NOON.

[PA House Democrats @PaHouseDems]

No shit, @SecDuffy

Maybe you should call the #PASenate Republican leaders and tell them to do their jobs?

https://t.co/ZhG6xLHF3x

[Jennifer Buchanan Rapach @JBRapach]

They're the pee-and-poop caucus.😂

[Acyn @Acyn]

Scott: Her whole race is about policing bathrooms. They’re the pee-and-poop caucus. That’s all they do—they police where kids are going to the bathroom. They’re not worried about where kids are learning or what they’re getting out of school.

[Jennifer Buchanan Rapach @JBRapach]

@JoshLipnik I've lived in Pgh for over 30 yrs. Cleveland is a 2-hr drive and Detroit 4. I think I've been to either city less than 5 times in my life. I go to Philly and NY at least once a year. DC even more.