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Have you seen this petition yet? Urge Governor DeWine to Veto Partisan School Board Races - Line SOSCD14

Ohio peeps, plz sign petition to veto public school board item.
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Because someone shares your name or DNA doesn't mean you are anything like them-- or that you owe them interaction or access to you that compromises your safety, stability, or recovery.

"Okay, but..."

Nope. "But" nothing. Your recovery comes first-- full stop.

Yes, we noticed. You're still here.

Ohio House budget puts public education at risk As the Ohio Senate crafts its budget, my state senator, Tom Patton, could be a deciding vote on school funding. If lawmakers implement the Fair School Funding Plan as promised, schools in Patton’s dis...

Ohio has decided to steal taxpayer funds from public education to fund wealthy families who were already paying for charter schools, there has been no uptick in admissions since vouchers were introduced, just wealthy families now being subsidized.

www.cleveland.com/letters/2025...

Ohio House budget puts public education at risk As the Ohio Senate crafts its budget, my state senator, Tom Patton, could be a deciding vote on school funding. If lawmakers implement the Fair School Funding Plan as promised, schools in Patton’s dis...

Ohio has decided to steal taxpayer funds from public education to fund wealthy families who were already paying for charter schools, there has been no uptick in admissions since vouchers were introduced, just wealthy families now being subsidized.

www.cleveland.com/letters/2025...

60% of American households can’t afford a minimal quality of life.

Meanwhile, the 19 richest households saw their wealth increase by $1 trillion in 2024 — the biggest one-year increase ever.

Our problem isn't a lack of resources.

Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.

Columbus, Ohio.

Right now: we're gathered where our Senators, Husted and Moreno, are speaking at a Gala... From an organization that's been designated as a hate group.

More people are showing up.

#USProtests #Resist

"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people."
- Commander William Adama, Battlestar Galactica

Unprecedented corruption

Aren’t they supposed to say allegedly like they do in all the family annihilation cases or SA…

NEW — I’ve obtained audio of new acting FEMA head David Richardson threatening staff in an all hands meeting this morning.

As first reported by Reuters, he told those who resisted change in the agency, “Don’t get in my way…I will run right over you.”

Listen to the clip here:

Hegseth’s Use of Passwords Raises New Security Concerns

Replace DUI hires with DEI hires, please.

Hegseth’s Use of Passwords Raises New Security Concerns www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/u...

By the way, it is actually quite possible to write about Trump’s unspeakably insulting and narcissistic behavior towards the late Pope and all Catholics without sharing his infuriating picture millions of times.

“Musk said no one has died since USAID was cut. That isn’t true. What does it look like when some of the world’s richest men withdraw assistance for the world’s poorest women and children? Nicholas Kristof traveled to South Sudan to see the impact… Millions of people now face death and starvation.”

You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.
The children were not “deported” they were trafficked, stop muddying the waters with a term that normalizes these criminal acts.

One Hundred Days of Republican Complicity Read more here.

While it is understandable to focus attention on Trump’s attacks on democracy and the rule of law, we must not lose sight of the fact that it is the Republican Congress enabling his authoritarianism. Ignoring their complicity in Trump’s actions is a mistake—both legally and strategically.

America is not a Christian nation.

America is a nation where the rich and powerful have reduced Christianity to just another tool to exploit for their own interests at the expense of the very people Jesus called us to serve: the poor, the hungry, the sick, the stranger, and the oppressed.

Pritzker: It’s time for us to be done with optimism about their motives. Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research… Autistic kids and adults who are loving contributors to our society don’t deserve to be stigmatized by a weird nepo baby who once stashed a dead bear in his car. Our military service members don’t deserve to be told by a washed-up Fox TV commentator, who drank too much before being appointed Secretary of Defense, that they can’t serve their country simply because they are Black, gay, or a woman.

Dear god let this man cook.

I’ve been in or around politics for over a half-century now. I’ve watched as corporations ransacked our system. In 1952, The Big Picture: How We Got Into This Mess, And How We Get Out of It | Robert Reich

I’ve been in or around politics for over a half-century now.

I’ve watched as corporations and the super-rich flooded D.C. with campaign cash and ransacked our system.

It won't be easy, but here’s how we break the corporate oligarchy and return power to the people.

At this juncture I’d like to point out:
* we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing
* there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world
* a united approach could stop the climate crisis
But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.

Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan arrested, charged with 2 felonies in ICE case Brady McCarron, spokesman for U.S. Marshals Service in Washington, D.C., confirmed Dugan was arrested at about 8 a.m. at the Milwaukee County Courthouse and is in federal custody.

OFFS!
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Have you made your voice known, now encourage others to do the same.
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Friendly reminder to support your local independent bookstore this weekend!

A slightly less friendly reminder to just not buy books from Am*zon at all.

Abrego Garcia Family Flees to Safe House After Trump DHS Posts Home Address on Social Media | Common Dreams The Trump administration not only sent Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a Salvadoran prison by "administrative error" but also shared his family's address on social media, forcing them to relocate.

This is reckless endangerment.
www.commondreams.org/news/el-salv...

A clam on a wooden railing with a stormy grey sea in the background

There it is. The clam before the storm.