chris

ashes be scattered

sunset on lake michigan

how much power do we think the rta community advisory committee has? i'd wager NOT MUCH!

just had a fun conversation with a professor who made me feel not insane for despising the cleveland nonprofit sector and then have him casually mention his consulting with the mamdani campaign

Dismal voter turnout results in predictable outcome by Bruce Checefsky    (Plain Press October 2025) Cleveland city-wide voter turnout was 7.1% among registered voters in the wards holding elections, but despite low numbers, incumbents wer…

one set of quotes is about as anodyne as possible. the other has some fire and some life. plainpress.blog/2025/10/01/d...

very happy to announce my mother has decided we do not need to playn "cleanin' out my closet" by eminem during my dad's memorial service

something i've been thinking about lately re: Randy Cunningham's 'Democratizing Cleveland' is how most of the organizing during that time was funded by the Catholic Church. today, on the other hand, its mostly foundation funded

neoliberalism includes substituting elite advocacy in place of mass politics. nonprofits thrive in this environment

A new Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission audit compliance report found FirstEnergy spent nearly $310 million on legal expenses and other costs related to corruption investigations and litigation between 2020 + 2024 www.puc.pa.gov/pcdocs/18962...

wait, can anyone remind me if any city council candidates worked for the law firm behind hb6?

Congrats to all those endorsed Democrats!

must be hard to be so virtuous and elite

maybe you are part of the problem?

asking this once again. has it helped?

working in the public sector does not, per se, make you a good person. working in the private sector does not, per se, make you a bad person. also, the nonprofit sector is a part of the private sector

Black Women PAC endorses Mohammad Faraj for City Council

hey cleveland ward 7 progressives, it's time to trust black women

the problem of elites is not that they aren’t of our generation (increasingly they are in any case)

getting the Bibb endorsement is very funny for someone who told me he considered himself the token progressive in the administration. i guess that's what progressive elitism is all about. pleasing elites is valued above all else

having the best ideas is worthless if you can’t win them

Sign the Petition Save Iowa History 2025 Redux

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how can you begin to think you have the power to champion the cause of the poor nationally when you rely on their oppressors locally?

Funny. In a city council in my city, there’s a candidate running with funding from a local grocery store owner who I dislike because I view him as elitist. While the candidate I favor has the support of the nearby gas station where I buy my cigarettes

lol. if you want a good laugh, read the bios of the cleveland foundation board of trustees and then think about whether they have the best interest of cleveland's poor in mind

YouTube video by Angela Oster Sherrod Brown in Oberlin, Ohio - October 4, 2009

been bird-dogging for a long time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDGK...

YouTube video by Solidarity Research Center Direct Democracy and Popular Assemblies

good to watch on building power in place. youtu.be/Bji3FYQTJzU?...

any tool can be misused. in the case of policy tools, the ideology behind the policy's implementation will determine whether it useful or misuseful

i condemn all political violence, which is why i think the usa should still be a british colony and why slavery should never have been abolished (did we try asking nicely?)

how can you promise all the good municipal spending without mentioning mentioning police budgets?

Direct democracy is only as liberating as the values that animate it. Without liberatory politics, a popular assembly will be reduced to merely a decision-making structure. That said, if we as organizers center our ideology at the expense of mass participation by a broad section of ordinary people, then the assembly will be little more than an echo-chamber for activists, rather than a vehicle for collective transformation and governance. This tension is inescapable, but far from

decided to copy and paste this upon reading the phrase “echo chamber of activists”

@mgmcquarrie.bsky.social you watching these cleveland municipal elections by chance? in my ward, we've got an elite advocate with the momentum to win an open seat. makes me sad to think that we're set to continue reproducing neoliberalism