Kari

"CLEVELAND CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT will lose $10,345,392 in federal funding."

(...and despite the last levy, is an estimated $4m in the hole as we start the year, thanks to federal and state cuts. It's looking bad out here, y'all.)

Oh em gee congratulations!!!

Sometimes I have to remember that whatever ideas I have for *how* I have to show up are likely less important to any of the folks involved than the critical act of *actually* showing up even though it feels hard.

University Hospitals doctors continue union organizing efforts after 2 leaders are fired After being terminated from their jobs at University Hospitals, two doctors' resolves to improve conditions there haven't dampened.

UH is union-busting…and our beloved pediatrician, Dr. Beene, was removed from her practice as a result. Workers have the right to organize…and we sure miss Dr. Beene.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Lesson Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Lesson

the latest @smbccomics.bsky.social went straight to the Kindergarten and Pre-K teacher group chat this morning. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/lesson

STRS Board was a victim of a hostile takeover. Teachers like me are at risk | Opinion A hostile takeover has gives partisan politicians control over $100 billion in STRS assets.

Opinion
When politicians rewrite the rules to sideline elected representatives, it sends a chilling message: your voice doesn’t matter if it contradicts our agenda.
by Bill Boone
www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...

oh my gosh, best good girl! She's so precious.

anyway. things are hard and awful and beautiful and being human is a hell of a thing.

I have to wait 6 months to see the neurologist, but my kids come back from their grandparents house and they smell like dirt and chlorine and sunscreen and sweat, and it's like inhaling summer each time they snuggle me.

Our king size mattress died and so we had to swap it for a spare queen we had in one of the attic guest rooms and it is a lot smaller but it means when I am fundamentally exhausted at the end of the day I can feel the weight of my partner next to me in bed and hear him breathing.

I am anxious and a mess and struggling? And also there has been the kind of breeze this week that makes summer in Ohio so lovely. Last week, I got to be with friends at the beach and watch a new generation of friends form amongst our kids.

We got fresh peaches in our market share last week and I bit one and the juice literally ran down my chin into the sink and the whole stupid world is on FIRE and also oh my god I am alive right now and eating this peach !!!

I have had some health things this year (I am okay, the world has continued to move) and a thing I am both embarrassed by and grateful for is the ways in which the uncertainty and waiting have made me feel more aware. I dunno how, but I feel both more distracted and more present in wild turns.

How EVs and electric water heaters are turning cities into giant batteries Electrification means more demand on the grid. Smart charging of EVs and electric hot water systems could be the solution.

“In fact, our new research shows that with the right coordination, cities can transform from energy consumers into flexible energy hubs able to store energy and release it as necessary. This would make it possible to avoid billions of dollars worth of grid upgrades.”

The never-before-seen photographs of The House at Pooh Corner when A. A. Milne and his son Christopher Robin called it home | Country Life buff.ly/dwQs22p

this sounds so good!!

Caprese chicken with fresh basil, mozzarella, and heirloom tomatoes drizzled with balsamic on a blue plate, beside a big blue salad bowl with spinach, cucumbers, peaches, blackberries, pecans, and fresh mozzarella.

It’s the time of year when so many delicious things are in season in Ohio and I am in heaven because it makes making tasty food SO easy

Stacey Sobelman staceysobelman ICE is offering a $45,000 SIGNING BONUS plus $100,000 starting salary. I make $55,000 as a teacher in my 8th year with a Masters. It was never true that wE dOn'T hAvE eNoUgH mOnEy to pay teachers more. It was always intentional. Education has been INTENTIONALLY defunded for decades because an educated populous is a threat to power. Read the books. Do the work. They are TERRIFIED of education.

Oh, love this one!!

A man and a woman smile for the camera at House of Blues in Downtown Disney, 2008(?)

A woman and man dressed as Ramona Flowers and Scott Pilgrim at Dragon Con in Atlanta, GA. 2010?

A woman and a man on a Route 66 road trip. Meteor Crater, Two Guns, Arizona. 2013.

A woman and a man on the grass at an outdoor amphitheater. 2023.

I have been married to @newertkrocker.bsky.social for 14 years today. Spending my life with him is the greatest joy. I am so grateful we get to keep choosing each other.

in the heat of the night, too. I feel like there are probably several southern thrillers that fit here

heatwave gets you some interesting old ones: cat on a hot tin roof, rear window, some like it hot, 12 angry men

Heat, heatwave, eco-pocalypse? This covers like...mad max and also waterworld but also wet hot american summer, so maybe too broad.

He has more than one song??

From my friend who cooks, if anyone in Cleveland needs a free hot meal check this out!

“July 2nd free community meal at Denison UCC at 99th and Denison 10AM-1PM is gonna be turkey and gravy, stuffing, mashed potatoes, corn on the cob, buttered snow peas, zucchini bread and watermelon.”

Ohio schools sound alarm with the governor over what they're calling a destructive budget Ohio public schools are asking Gov. Mike DeWine to veto provisions in the GOP-passed state budget that they say would "destroy" them.

Public schools are facing hundreds of millions of cuts to expected school funding. Plus, the state wants to take away some of their savings, capping the carryover revenue at 40% and refunding to taxpayers anything above that.
by Morgan Trau
www.news5cleveland.com/news/politic...

this one's an actual Tactics quote, btw

Oh, and because teachers matter, too, they are taking our ability to vote on members who help control what happens with our pensions…https://www.nbc4i.com/news/politics/ohio-lawmakers-make-last-minute-teachers-pension-change-to-state-budget/

That stadium money is a million dollars that could be in the budget of every school district in the state of Ohio—and further if you spread it amongst the most impoverished districts. It is money that could have expanded Medicare rather than cutting it.