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The only thing that could have made it worse is if #CSU President Laura Bloomberg and #Ideastream CEO Kevin Martin gleefully followed the announcement by throwing puppies & kittens from atop Fenn Tower. Neither are from Cleveland and neither seem to have use for the community or goodwill.

The answer is YES. They need to have a transparent process about site selection tied to safety and not make it seem like a cash grab (like some of the sites chosen last time.)

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Let me try that again, mistyped.

#Cleveland Councilperson Kris Harsh denouncing the local "public" radio conglomerate #Ideastream for destroying a 50 year old cultural treasure with no comment. #WCSB

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#Cleveland Councilperson Kris Harsh denouncing #Ideastream and it's destruction of cultural treasure of local media #WCPN.

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Cleveland State University abruptly ends student-run WCSB radio, replaces with smooth jazz run by Ideastream Cleveland State University's student-run alternative radio station WCSB was abruptly shut down Friday and replaced with a jazz station operated by Ideastream Public Media.

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#Ideastream murdered college radio station #WCSB yesterday without public discussion, just press releases about "opportunities" and "not taking over" as police lead students out of the station. That's it for my future support.

Wild that Gary Oldman finally got his Oscar for like his 10th best role - parlayed that into a TV series where he plays Smiley turned inside out (he always wanted to play Smiley again) - into self-producing & directing himself in Beckett, apparently quite well - into finally getting his knighthood

Take the good news seriously too

But it doesn't turn into fascism magically at the end in the burial pits. It's fascism all along, even if it is COMPARATIVELY mild, even if it gsts stopped.

Albania's AI minister makes first address to parliament | AFP

Meanwhile, in #Albania... someone got a little too carried away with #AI hype.

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my pet theory is that the cubs winning the 2016 world series has plunged the world into an alternate timeline of pure chaos and the only way to restore things is for the cleveland baseball team to win a world series as the Guardians

generally speaking, and with the glaring exception of november 2024, the more directly democratic an institution has been, the better it has checked Trump (eg grand and petit juries); the more elite and insular, the less effective (the Senate, the Supreme Court, big business)

also entirely possible that Vance demands a fast-tracked Charlie sainthood or else 300% tariffs on the Vatican

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Today trans/antifi are the Others to hate and anybody not towing that line will be silenced. Stunningly, FCC Chair Carr, relishes punishing all who who won't. This is the moment.

Maybe I am being too obscure. Seeing NYTimes archive headline re: Goebbels shutting down comic commentators rhymes with what we're seeing with news media and comedy in the US.

Wessel was murdered in 1930 and used as a youthful martyr by Goebbels et al.

Sep. 19, 2025: Propaganda Minister Brendan Carr Seizes His Horst Wessel Moment

the more americans turn on each other, the greater the win for washington’s adversaries.

Ezra Klein Accidentally Shows How the Media Brought Us Trump The prominent liberal pundit made up a fake version of Charlie Kirk to praise, laundering his reputation the way a lot of mainstream media launders MAGA

Ezra Klein went beyond opposing political violence to extol Charlie Kirk for doing politics "exactly the right way," making up a fictional version of Kirk to praise.

That distortion, with its indulgence of bad faith, is a perfect illustration of the larger media failure that helps Trump.

My latest

I've long said that Cavett is a nice, well-read, prepared guy, good broadcaster, but his brilliance is that he's such an unassuming Midwestern guy that in a sense his subjects forgot they were on TV. Nobody like that would get a show in a million years.

Show me the memo!

My dream self was frustrated with him, so I was shouting his full name.

I dreamt last night that I had willful pet terrier named Judas Iscariot.

About 47,000 people are killed in the US by gunfire every year. Mostly due to policies and laws that barely exist to please the death cult worshipping at the altar of gun manufacturers.

These are their sacrifices and it is shameful and deranged.

5 Highlights From a Model Maestro’s Recording Career

"Christoph von Dohnanyi, who died on Saturday, was a conductor of clarity and poise, as evidenced especially in his output with the Cleveland Orchestra." Via @nytimes.com.
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Not surprising, but still very important to document.

It’s been a month since I wrote this and I want to reiterate that as bad as things look now, Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.

The Political Economy of Incompetence How Hannah Arendt predicted Stephen Moore

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The myths that made Putin’s war The Alaska summit exposed the flawed history and personal vanity that fuel the conflict with Ukraine, argues Timothy Snyder

"Nothing that happened in medieval eastern Europe bound future states to make war against each other a thousand years later"
My latest essay: "The myths that made Putin’s war"
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62% of Americans now support arming Ukraine — the highest in nearly 2 years.

The surge comes largely from increased backing among Republicans and Independents.

In today’s divided America, helping Ukraine might be one of the few things most people can actually agree on.