“It’s just getting harder and harder now to live,” said Steve Van Kuiken, a Columbus pastor who is part of a community group opposing utility rate increases. “The working class is really getting squeezed, and everything’s going up.”
New from Dan Gearino and Marianne Lavelle of Inside Climate News.
A reminder that we've partnered with Cringe to maintain a robust live events calendar, which was updated today with events through March 15.
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“Tosca’s Boy Sessions is really just a way for me to tell the story of how I’m doing, what’s going right, what’s going wrong, and then how I’m moving forward.”
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Did a cool interview with @andydowning33.bsky.social of @matternews.bsky.social about 15 years of Nix and the upcoming party/title reveal
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“There’s just the improbability of 15 years, and all of the things that have to happen for me to end up where I am now, doing what I’ve done, and doing what I continue to do. It’s a tapestry, you know, and it’s pretty crazy,” Ken Eppstein said.
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“Whether it is or isn’t popular in whatever kind of specific way, I don’t care as much now. … It’s almost like, why would a painter keep painting if nobody buys their paintings? And I’ve just gotten to the point where the answer can be because I like painting.”
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Explaining the Board’s decision in a recorded call, Walker cited the potential that students could be physically harmed or even killed if allowed to exit the building, proposing a scenario in which “some psycho lays down in the field across the street with a shotgun and kills one of our students.”
24.02.2026 17:37 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Legit was talking about how much I miss TNV in the office last week.
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Explaining the Board’s decision in the recorded call, Walker cited the potential that students could be physically harmed or even killed if allowed to exit the building, proposing a scenario in which “some psycho lays down in the field across the street with a shotgun and kills one of our students.”
24.02.2026 17:40 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0never thought I would read "Times New Viking" and "return" in the same sentence, but here we are!
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Times New Viking are back, starting this Friday with a stacked hometown show in Columbus. I went into Columbus Alive mode and talked to Adam Elliott about it for the esteemed @matternews.bsky.social:
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When Times New Viking returns to the stage Friday, it will be the Columbus indie trio’s first time performing together in nearly a decade. The reunion could have happened sooner, though.
“People think we’re a standoffish band. But they just never ask, you know?”
New from @chrisdeville.bsky.social.
In the newly released ‘How to Defend Books and Why,’ the Columbus writer offers practical advice on the best ways to fight against the book bans currently being championed by the right – with increasingly damning consequences.
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“I think part of what you are obligated to do if ICE agents come to your city is to make it as difficult as possible for them to be here. By denying them access to things like coffee shops ... you’re making it actively difficult for them to be in the city.”
New from Jules Roscoe.
This week @matternews.bsky.social: A Columbus coffee chain has been under fire for saying it would not refuse to serve ICE agents; but the people who work there say that’s not the full story. Raises interesting questions about how businesses should handle ICE visits:
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“I think part of what you are obligated to do if ICE agents come to your city is to make it as difficult as possible for them to be here. By denying them access to things like coffee shops ... you’re making it actively difficult for them to be in the city.”
New from Jules Roscoe.
“I think part of what you are obligated to do if ICE agents come to your city is to make it as difficult as possible for them to be here. By denying them access to things like coffee shops ... you’re making it actively difficult for them to be in the city.”
New from Jules Roscoe.
“It’s like conservative Christians have never thought about Jesus as an immigrant before, and as a Brown child that lived in Palestine. … Even some of the people I was raised with, I’ve had to block them on Facebook. I almost can’t believe we grew up reading the same Bible, taught by the same nuns.”
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Aileen Day and cohost Maia Warner-Langenbahn launched the "People of Agency" podcast out of a belief that it’s easier to advocate for our institutions once you know their history.
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“There are so many people who don’t think teenagers care about what’s going on, and maybe those people seeing us do this will spark a whole different movement,” D’Nice said. “Maybe because we started something, the adults will want to take action, too.”
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One of the most dangerous things about America’s relationship with drug use is the co-occurring social stigma associated with addiction and recovery – deeply held beliefs rooted in moralizations that are often used as cudgels and as frameworks for bad policies.
New from @jackshuler.bsky.social.
“I mean, what else am I going to do? If it fails, it fails.. … And I knew it was a massive gamble. But I’d rather have gambled on the culture that exists here, and that can exist and thrive here, than have not.”
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columbus!
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Collective bargaining can protect journalists from arbitrary firings, stagnating wages, and unsafe or exploitative working conditions. But a union contract cannot fix a broken funding model argues Will Klatt.
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“I did not provide any clinical care for Jeffrey Epstein or any of his victims,” Landon wrote in a statement issued in response to an interview request sent by Matter News to the Wexner Medical Center, which declined further comment.
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Collective bargaining can protect journalists from arbitrary firings, stagnating wages, and unsafe or exploitative working conditions. But a union contract cannot fix a broken funding model argues Will Klatt.
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“Having a job is horrible. Not having a job is horrible. … And that sort of thing used to bog me down, where now I’m like, this is actually kind of fucking hilarious. We’re just these horrible little meat puppets that drive to work and pay taxes to pay for terrible wars all over the world.”
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“Some of these more simplified [paintings], they’re cool, but they’re more focused on formalist aspects: tone, perspective, weight – that kind of thing. And I wanted to focus more on plants as characters, thinking about them as going through the same strife and struggles that we do.”
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