14 US states have abortion bans, leading to a rise in maternal and infant mortality. Global experience shows that criminalizing abortion doesn't increase birth rates - it risks women’s health and lives, making it harder to obtain legal medical care and forcing them into clandestine abortions.

"The situation is serious enough that the International Olympic Committee is considering rotating the games among a permanent pool of suitable locations and holding them earlier in the season because March is getting too warm for the Paralympic Games"

www.cleveland.com/news/2026/01... "I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey, I hear it in the deep heart's core." Gordon Park: clevelandhistorical.org/items/show/143

Okay, but this is very very fun!!! Curling 🥌 is soooo cool! #Cleveland

🙌 New seasonal, overnight shelter opens in Cleveland to keep people out of the cold www.neoch.org/cleveland-ho... www.ideastream.org/education/20...

BREAKING: We just blocked the Trump-Vance admin’s attempt to cut $12 million in funding from the American Academy of Pediatrics. We are grateful that children & families across the country will be able to access life-saving health services as we continue to fight this unlawful retaliation in court.

Across the country, a growing number of Republican-led state legislatures are moving to gut the direct democracy process — stripping voters of their power to use ballot measures to pass laws when elected officials refuse to act. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/rep...

For those wondering what Mamdani's quote, "For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty," was in reference to...

Good morning Bluesky, have a day! Happy Saturday! (Photo from Cleveland’s own Brewnuts)

GCRTA’s new trains’ arrival schedule Stations to be modified for new trains neo-trans.blog/2026/01/06/g...

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

Let's go!!! neo-trans.blog/2026/01/01/c...

I woke up to see the news. I am aghast. I can't believe the FIFA peace prize has been disrespected like this. Is nothing sacred anymore?

Every recipient of the FIFA Peace Prize has invaded and kidnapped the president of a country. Really makes you think.

Tesla Loses Its EV Crown to BYD as Sales Keep Dropping Full-year electric vehicle sales figures have dropped for 2025, revealing China’s BYD is now officially global top dog. www.wired.com/story/byd-tr...

GCRTA’s choices: victim or solution 50-year-old agency may cut itself to irrelevance neo-trans.blog/2026/01/02/g...

Woodhill Homes moves hundreds of units closer to transit Progress Pics: Buckeye Woodhill Choice Neighborhood Transformation neo-trans.blog/2026/01/03/w...

I have 3 new years resolutions - beat Tottenham - beat Man City - win PL #bouars

starting in six weeks or so, you will hear right wing and centrist commentators on cable news, podcasts etc start to refer to Mamdani as if it's obvious that he's failed, extremely unpopular etc. its very important in order for their plot to succeed that any left wing pol be discredited

We hit our initial goal for the Greater Cleveland Foodbank!! Which is great but there is still time donate more support.greaterclevelandfoodbank.org/site/TR?pg=p... #COYG

John Cooper Clarke - Suspended Sentence wzbc.org

Arsenal 4 - Aston Villa 1

Click is worse than useless, he is an active negative. tiffinohio.net/posts/army-v...

we’ve been over this we just did this in Massachusetts they’re not gonna leave, they’ll whine and bitch and moan and eventually this will raise more money than expected because nowhere they go is actually like the place they’re leaving

1. End Citizens United 2. Tax the rich 3. Prosecute wage theft 4. Pass Medicare for All 5. Vote out bought, corrupt politicians

Jake Kelly is one of Cleveland’s great illustrators and muralists. His hand-drawn work has documented the city’s underground music and arts scene since 1995. His new book, HEAVY HUMID WORLD, collects decades of posters, & fliers. Order his new book here: www.pavetheocean.com

ah yes a true holiday classic

"The funds for this sale will go towards transit-oriented development efforts and not back into general fund activities for operations or capital,” said GCRTA General Manager and CEO India Birdsong Terry at the last agency board meeting."

Hotel land sale may boost GCRTA station developments Puritas-West 150th property offers promise neo-trans.blog/2025/12/22/h...

WOOHOO www.clevescene.com/food-drink/h...

Lakefront master developer is chosen Lakefront + stadium site plan to be updated neo-trans.blog/2025/12/18/l...

"A Ghibli film rewards attention over time.The more you watch, the more you notice: the way labor is animated with dignity,the long quiet stretches that mirror real life’s pace,the refusal to offer simple moral answers.None of that fits in a filter. " www.yankodesign.com/2025/12/16/r...

Time to tame the wolves.... #ARSWOL

"Countries representing 92% of the global economy have now decoupled consumption-based carbon emissions and GDP expansion…Decoupling is now the norm across advanced economies, with 46% of global GDP in countries that have expanded their economies while cutting emissions."

A Rainy Morning in Gotham City aka Cleveland, Ohio

RIP Frank Gehry. His building here in Cleveland always brings a smile to my face when I go past it.

Please repost on Bluesky this Hunger Network success story!🍎 Please give now: runsignup.com/ineon2n Your donation provides emergency food to children, families, and seniors, bring vital wellness care to Hunger Network Relief sites, and recover healthy produce for nonprofits across Northeast #Ohio

The Cleveland Museum of Art. 11150 East Boulevard, Cleveland. Photo: December 9, 2025.

Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that

we live in this bizarre time where “being racist” is, by the rules of discourse, Bad but the act of being racist is now acceptable, apparently, and so the press bends into a pretzel to avoid calling open racism racist because describing it accurately would be “picking a side”

This isn't actually contentious or up for debate. Sen Jacob Howard helped write the 14th Amendment. When he introduced it in April 1866, he said the first sentence would “settle the great question of citizenship," forever, but he added that birthright citizenship "was the law of the land already."

Grid bottlenecks aren’t a failure of the energy transition — they’re proof it’s working. Renewables got cheap fast, and now the grid has to catch up. Time to build the wires for the clean energy system we already have.

Tremont hillside mixed-use vision at risk J-Roc considers biz development instead neo-trans.blog/2025/12/03/t...

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

I wish every single article on gerrymandering would include this disclaimer: “This is a unique aspect of the American political system. Most other countries don’t allow politicians to draw electoral maps. Many even go further with proportional representation to ensure outcomes match votes.”

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

#ASTARS #CLEVELAND