Mike Zickar

You made it halfway through the week *and* we still have free shipping? Sounds like the perfect time to treat yourself to a new book and support indie bookstores in the process. 📚

Ohio GOP gave billions in taxes to the rich but refuse to admit that caused our tax crisis How unexpected property value increases and declining state education funding created a perfect storm of homeowner anger

"Ohio used to cover 47% of the base cost of education. Now it’s 38% and it’s projected to drop 32% by 2027." www.cleveland.com/news/2025/10...

Senator Kim makes me proud to be a Democrat.

The President talking to our service members about the opposition party in this way. And every conservative campus center committed to civil discourse that claims it's not a conservative campus center will stay absolutely silent on this because they are indeed conservative campus centers.

Can't wait!

What lawmakers aren’t telling you about how they’re forcing school districts to the ballot: Thomas Suddes Statehouse flim-flam, coupled with huge legislative subsidies for “vouchers,” which help pay private school tuition for K-12 pupils, leave school boards no choice but to repeatedly ask voters for levi...

Opinion by Thomas Suddes
Ohio homeowners are staggering under ever-higher property taxes not because of runaway school boards but because the General Assembly has slashed the state’s share of public school costs.
www.cleveland.com/opinion/2025...

Important article for Ohioans

Anyone: Why are there suddenly so many AHDH diagnoses? Dr. Jen: Same reason there are suddenly more stars after we built telescopes.

The mystery of medical diagnosis!

Your younger self is proud of you. Chalked at BGSU

Sidewalk chalking is alive and well at BGSU. Sadly, Ohio State has banned the practice.

Neuroscientists are starting to unravel the amygdala’s complexity, shedding new light on PTSD Often labeled the brain’s fear center, the amygdala is much more complex than that. A study in Translational Psychiatry suggests that PTSD is linked to altered connectivity in one of its subregions, with potential implications for emotion and body awareness.

Neuroscientists are starting to unravel the amygdala’s complexity, shedding new light on PTSD

Republicans continue to assault public education

Love this idea and am excited to read the paper. Thanks for sharing!

Federal workers are about to have their livelihoods upended because of this shutdown. We'll hear talk about "sacrifices" that the American people need to make. Meanwhile, Trump is bailing out Argentina with $20 billion worth of taxpayer dollars.

Pseudoscience (polygraph) to the rescue

Hegseth to rely on pseudoscience

September wrapup. Sums up my varied reading life: 1 short story, 1 feminism, 1 history, 1 politics, 1 art, 1 novel

#storygraph #booksky

That sounds right. Graeber highlights lots of civil servants but also workers in private industry doing meaningless jobs

Harry Gottlieb's serigraph The Strike Is Won, jubilant workers

Harry Gottlieb (1895-1992), The Strike Is Won, 1946, serigraph at the Wichita Art Museum

#laborsky #artsky

I would love for Jon Husted to tell the nearly half a million Ohioans who are going to lose their health insurance what he told this reporter.

💪♥️👍

Loved Bullshit Jobs...required reading for those of us studying organizational science

Beautiful. Thanks for sharing

Kimmel: "This show is not important. What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this."

Indeed

A disaster for US medical health, for science and math education

Looking great!

Love it David!!

A Plea for Free Speech in Boston (1860) National Constitution Center Historic Documents Library record for A Plea for Free Speech in Boston (1860)

Second, it’s worth reading this excerpt from Frederick Douglass:

So sweet!!

Antifa sighting!