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Muskingum Township trustee presents injection well resolution to commissioners Concerns about injection wells in Washington County were raised again during the public segment of the weekly Washington County Commission meeting Thursday. These concerns ranged from the potential im...

Muskingum Township trustee concerned gas and oil waste threatens drinking water near Marietta. bit.ly/47UjFL4

Commissioner insists injection wells pose no risk to drinking water when "properly permitted."

There's the rub...

@maxfilby.dispatch.com @signalohio.bsky.social @kmkowalski.bsky.social

oh man.

These men are once again espousing a culture of death: Patients who are sick don’t have the luxury of shopping around for cancer care or their heart procedures.
#ACA

“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas. Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.

NEW:

In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.

She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.

Then she died.

www.propublica.org/article/texa...

This Ohio county banned wind and solar. Now, residents are pushing… Richland County forbade large-scale renewable energy in most townships. Next May, voters will have a chance to reject the rules in a first-of-its-kind…

As restrictions on renewable energy proliferate across the country, residents in one Ohio county are pushing back.
@canarymedia.com @ejtodaynews.bsky.social @ohiocitizen.org
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After white students displayed Confederate flag at school, Black students suspended for planning protest Black students were suspended from their high school for planning a protest after another group of students came to school waving a Confederate flag. Last week, a group of students at Coosa Hi…

White students shouted racial slurs and carried a confederate flag leading up to Homecoming at a Georgia school

They faced no repercussions

Their Black classmates-along with white allies-planned to protest the following day

The Black students-alone-were suspended

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#ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue #DV1
No one plans to be sick, but it happens.

Many hard-working people are a sickness away from financial ruin.

That’s why healthcare cannot be just a source of profit.

That’s where the ACA comes in. It’s worth defending!

Chris’s whole post is amazing, including this, from E.B. White:

I’m still struggling with the fact that ICE “brown shirts” went to a taco shop and thought they would get served.

F that!

Let’s just be honest. Trump wouldn’t be acting this way - using all the power he has to suppress the Epstein files - if this wasn’t the biggest scandal in presidential history.

Child care can be free and universal • Ohio Capital Journal New Mexico is now expanding its free, high-quality child care program so that all families can access it. Families will save an average of $12,000 per year with this program. It’s the first of its…

Commentary: Child care can be free and universal. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/13/r...

University of California Faculty Win Block on Trump Defunding The Trump administration was ordered by a judge to stop freezing or threatening to withhold federal grant funds to the University of California as part of a nationwide pressure campaign to impose a raft of policy changes on elite colleges.

The Trump administration was ordered by a judge to stop freezing or threatening to withhold federal grant funds to schools in the University of California system as part of a campaign to impose policy changes on elite colleges

How to Watch the Leonids Meteor Shower Reach Its Peak The moon is far from full this weekend, which could mean good fireball viewing for night sky watchers.

The Leonids produces some of the fastest meteors each year, at 44 miles per second, with bright, long tails. The shower reaches its peaks Sunday night into Monday morning, or Nov. 16 to 17.

The moon is far from full this weekend, which could mean good fireball viewing for night sky watchers.

🤣🤣🤣

A state public lands commissioner grapples with shifting federal policies • Ohio Capital Journal The Trump administration has proposed significantly shifting management of the nation’s public lands toward producing more revenue.

The Trump administration has proposed significantly shifting management of the nation’s public lands toward producing more revenue. President Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum have pushed for increased oil and gas extraction, logging, and mining ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/10/r...

Former Chair of the Republican House Freedom Caucus.

Trump‘s brilliant plan of 50 year mortgages means that after your first 20 years making huge interest payments to a bank you will have paid down almost none of the principal and they will still own the house you are living in with 30 years to go. A scam from a career con man.

I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police.

It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.

Sadly, this is true.

During 47’s first term, he tried to take away my daughter’s right to healthcare insurance without discrimination while she had cancer. McCain’s no note stopped that.
But few of 47’s followers in Congress will stand up for others now.

A comma might help, but it’s not an Oxford comma.

Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.

He has now erased fully 10% of the term to which Grijalva was elected.

In Ohio, hydrogen industry presses on despite federal uncertainty Trump has pulled billions in funding for hydrogen, a sector that was already on shaky ground. Projects in Ohio are chugging along anyway.

Hydrogen and fuel cell industry leaders expressed optimism last week about moving ahead despite uncertainty looming over the remaining DOE hydrogen hubs. Yet big challenges remain. @canarymedia.com @ejtodaynews.bsky.social www.canarymedia.com/articles/hyd...

In Ohio, hydrogen industry presses on despite federal uncertainty Trump has pulled billions in funding for hydrogen, a sector that was already on shaky ground. Projects in Ohio are chugging along anyway.

Hydrogen and fuel cell industry leaders expressed optimism last week about moving ahead despite uncertainty looming over the remaining DOE hydrogen hubs. Yet big challenges remain. @canarymedia.com @ejtodaynews.bsky.social www.canarymedia.com/articles/hyd...

Relative engagement with sources of climate misinformation is growing across social media platforms - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Relative engagement with sources of climate misinformation is growing across social media platforms

If you think mis- and disinformation is no big deal , read this: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column

Mr Measured just ran in here to tell me he saw a video that said all the little girls dressed as Rumi, Mira, and Zoey on Halloween last week sealed the honmoon so things can get better now so if you need me I’ll be sobbing in a corner 😭

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.

@wired.com #ICE
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Ohio scrapped a key tool to fight air pollution. Advocates want it… The air nuisance rule has helped advocates rein in pollution from coal-burning plants and other facilities. Without it, air quality could worsen.

For decades, Ohio's air nuisance rule has helped people push back against pollution that endangers health or harms property. Now, after lawmakers axed it, groups are suing to restore that right. @canarymedia.com @ejtodaynews.bsky.social www.canarymedia.com/articles/pol...

At least one can still uses paper and a pen—at least for now.