Benjamin McKean

New Ohio Bill Would Create Registry of Employers Who Will Try to Remove Medicaid from Job Applicants

Ok, I will check it out - big Statham fan

Trump Im hearing this for the first time meme

The New Hork Times GIVE THE TIMES OPINION GUEST ESSAY When Everybody Has Airport Lounge Access, Nobody Does Aug. 3, 2025 With a photo of a silhouette of travelers at an airport

While Chase has built a handful of fancy clubs (with plans for more), most of those my card gives me access to are decidedly less glamorous. In some of them, with their ubed cheese and powdered eggs, I've felt less like Bond and more like Melissa McCarthy's frumpy cat lady in the 2015 action comedy "Spy."|

In an article that is inexplicable in many ways, I found this line the most inexplicable - do even the people who made this movie remember that it exists?

The next time someone calls me unamerican because of my political views, I will point out that I spent this afternoon assembling a charcoal grill with my father-in-law while listening to Boston and Cheap Trick

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The highlight of every kids’ visit to the Ohio State Fair

House with gray clapboard siding with miniature USA flags in front of a lawn and shrubs 3 windows with signs that read DIRTY BOYS : DON JR ERIC QANON COMMON MAN 1381 2.0 EPSTEIN DON JR ERIC

I wasn’t entirely sure if the Epstein stuff was doing real damage to Trump with his base but I’ve been tracking the QAnon signs at this house in a small town of 3,000 people in Michigan over the years and, well, I don’t think they’re buying Trump’s attempts at self-exoneration

This Tisha B'Av, some Jews are mourning another destruction (RNS) — On a day when Jews mourn the destruction of the first and second temples, some Jews believe the destruction of Gaza should also be mourned.

“For the sake of our souls and the soul of Judaism, we must now also search within ourselves to atone for the most profound Jewish moral failing of our time.” religionnews.com/2025/08/01/t...

Because I’m a glutton for punishment, I was looking through the ADL’s materials on “ethnic cleansing” and I found some stuff that’s, well, out of date

Right, the idea that protesting Sherrod Brown is inherently inappropriate is nuts. Sometimes elected officials do bad things and need to be held accountable. She doesn’t even think it’s relevant to mention what he was protesting!

Reckless Vogel has disrespected Democratic leaders. He hasn't earned council spot | Opinion Columbus City Council candidate Jesse Vogel criticizes Democrats in office rather than boosting them.

This oped profoundly misunderstands politics. It criticizes Vogel for not supporting incumbents in Democratic primaries, but why even have primaries if you can’t do that? And it says criticizing Democratic leadership is disqualifying at a time when polls show record high disapproval of the party.

If you have to be an economist, be a Larry Katz and not a Larry Summers

There’s locations of both chains near OSU’s campus so I am sometimes forced to rely on them when I fail to bring lunch with me

Oh I’m not recommending Qdoba and certainly not recommending it as Mexican food. But as fast food, I think it’s better than Chipotle

Yeah, for real - OP brought to you by a road trip that involved a Hobson’s choice of dinner options in Marion, Ohio

I warned you it was a controversial view

I think my most controversial food opinion is that Qdoba is better than Chipotle and it’s not especially close

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The eight-year old’s verdict: "It’s a 4 star chocolate chip cookie dough deviled egg, but 2 and a half stars as food"

“I think we’re looking at 10-15% of stations — that’s a speculative number — might fall out of FCC compliance, meaning they can not afford to maintain their license. So we’ll see shutdowns. It will disproportionately affect Indigenous communities…”

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Trump administration cuts $300M in UCLA research funding over antisemitism claims These sweeping cuts, the most severe in UCLA’s history, threaten critical medical and scientific work, escalating President Trump’s crackdown on elite universities.

1. This move has nothing to do with antisemitism & everything to do with control & using Jews as shields to gain that control. Antisemitism is real, but Trump has no interest in fighting it, given that he hires antisemites, spreads antisemitic tropes & tried to elect a Nazi-aligned party in Germany.

Buried in this leaked DHS memo is the suggestion of using the military against protestors “for years to come,” anticipating & eliminating public backlash against this fascist regime.

What a trip to hear Bill Fox sing this live tonight - didn’t feel dated in the slightest, unfortunately (except for a 60-something Bill Fox addressing “Dad” as an authority figure)

Life in Columbus: it is 8:30pm on Friday night. I am trying to travel up High Street, the city’s major artery, to go from the city’s major nightlife area to a music venue just north of campus. I have been waiting for the bus for 15 minutes. Why do you make this so hard, COTA?

In case there was still any question that the Republican Party is trying to repeal whatever progress the country has made in the past 150 years

…why did he put his own name in quotes?

Doing this by rescission is really rubbing salt in the wound - Congress had already approved two more years of funding! And then they took back money that had already been appropriated just because Trump asked them too. Shameful.

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Here’s a petition for Harvard alumni to sign against the school making a deal with the Trump administration - i think its language is clearer and stronger than the letter from social science faculty fwiw crimsoncourage.fillout.com/t/1gov4CysGyus

“Bringing Our Small, Imperfect Stones to the Pile”: The Everyday Work of Building a More Just World - Brittany Pearl Battle, Tamara K Nopper, Antonia Randolph, 2023 In this conversation between Brittany Pearl Battle and Tamara K. Nopper (facilitated by Antonia Randolph), two sociologists who have been involved in a variety ...

I discuss how being a professor is a job, not inherently activism.

“A lot of workers who are not academics challenge their work conditions as activists. They don’t have the luxury of saying, ‘Me showing up and doing this work is activism.’”

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