I’m feeling extra grateful for examples like this, and the small amount of hope they offer me that my city will one day adopt them, as my partner and I expect our first child any day. Air pollution is in my top 3 concerns for welcoming a new child in CLE.

When someone is injured or dies in the Cuyahoga County jail, security cameras can help investigators understand what happened. But ceiling-mounted cameras have routinely failed to record some of the most significant events in the jail in recent years, including at least three deaths.

Article on Black Cooperatives in W.E.B. Du Bois's magazine "The Crisis," featuring the young co-founder (and civil rights hero) Ella Baker Attn: @ellabakercenter.bsky.social @coopjax.bsky.social @neweconomyproject.bsky.social www.google.com/books/editio...

Amazing things happening in Ohio politics right now. www.dispatch.com/story/news/p...

This is really the floor for how we deal with AI. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/o...

This is a great history lesson on co-ops and social reforming Popes named Leo, and the imperative to democratize ownership of AI while we still have a chance. @ntnsndr.in @cooperatives.bsky.social

This goes hard!

Ashley brought our Melissa Hortman sign to Cooperative Energy Futures gathering, they took a moment of silence for the lives of Melissa, Mark & doggo Gilbert. As a solar advocate, Melissa was key in developing the state’s first Community Solar Garden now renamed in her honor. mn.gov/commerce/ene...

I love this beautiful tribute to Phil Amadon, who lived solidarity forever. He helped bring the co-op movement to life in Ohio. Rest in power. coopcincy.org/updates

If solar panels or heat pumps blew up entire apartment buildings as often as natural gas systems do, they would be banned tomorrow.

This is nicely put. The machine that subordinates all life to its own algorithm of self-expansion is already operating: It’s called capital. www.newyorker.com/science/anna...

At-large voting has produced a culture of auto-pilot governance by electeds who acquiesce to the demands of the donor class instead of their constituents, the most recent example of which is the handover of McCoy Park to the Haslam Sports Group writes Mike Strandberg. matternews.org/voices/opini...

Can anyone imagine problems with crypto companies starting banks? No? No one? Ok great, let's do it. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/b...

An occasional reminder: The ruling class is a club and you aren't in it.

This is tonight!

Dorothy Day would be pleased.

Ya'll. I am shook. In a good way. Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing Slavery

This could be Lorain Ave!

I am a sucker for great book recommendations from people and groups I trust, like this list from the Sustainable Economies Law Center www.theselc.org/our_favorite...

Love it: the night after he was kicked off of CBS for good, Stephen Colbert hosted a public access show in southeast Michigan.

Good figure from Matt Bruenig. And even this understates American exceptionalism on inequality. The 99-1 and especially 99.9-0.1 and above ratios in the US are even farther from the rest of the world’s

"Why doesn't the US have national health insurance?" Fascinating new paper from Alsan and Neberai out in QJE @qjeharvard.bsky.social finds: rise of private health insurance in the US was enabled by 'strategic, interest group-financed effort to shape citizen views and influence policy' #EconSky

Ever wondered why walking around museums is weirdly tiring? At normal speed our legs act like pendulums, swinging forward from the hip & saving us a huge amount of energy. In "museum shuffle" our muscles must do ALL the work of constant readjustment. So cake in the cafe is scientifically justified 🥳

You love to see it! Cleveland Owns is co-hosting a conversation on unions and co-ops May 26 at 7 pm ET in-person and on Zoom. IBEW and USW co-ops will share how unions and co-ops work together to build worker power. Register at clevelandowns.coop

Living through AI makes it easier for me to identify with the anguish I assume 18th century campfire storytellers and innkeepers felt when their people started staying in to read books.

The claim that housing would rent for less if land-use rules allowed us to build more of it, necessarily implies that current market rents are greater than the cost of building and operating housing, i.e. rents in the economic sense.

More good news for housing nerds on a Friday!

Unify Akron convened a 'civic assembly' - a representative group of randomly chosen Akron residents - to make recommendations to address the housing crisis in the city. Finding new and better ways to make democratic decisions gives me hope! signalakron.org/unify-akron-...

What an absolute dream.

In 2017, we traveled to Brooklyn to do a show at BAM, and our guest dropped out at the last minute. We called Stephen Colbert and he agreed to fill in *but only if we asked him the questions we had prepped for the original guest, without telling him who it was.* www.npr.org/programs/wai...

Think of how many pro stadiums we could have built!

Co-op getting some love in New York State housing policy!

Reinforces my sense that the reason people like Booker, van Hollen, etc. are pushing progressive income tax cuts is as the answer to the question "what kind of Democratic program could appeal to the tech oligarchs?"

A story about KY GOP Senate nominee Andy Barr: In 2019 he got mad at AOC and demanded she come to his district to visit a coal mine. She said yes, which he didn't expect, so he withdrew the invitation. Then it turned out there were no working coal mines in his district. Because he's an idiot. 1/3

Coincidentally enough, Thomas Massie diagnosed the problem years ago:

BREAKING NEWS: RIP, SEC.

Won't somebody think of Timothee Chalamet? How would he ever get to see the Knicks in Cleveland if we didn't have an airport on the LAKEFRONT?

This is very rad!

Day 3 of the #GreatOhioClimateMarch was our longest, toughest, and likely hottest day of hiking.

Deepa Vedavyas of NOPEC (Northeast Ohio Public Energy Council) highlights strategies helping Northeast Ohio cities transition toward clean energy while protecting vulnerable residents from climate impacts. Watch the full video ➡️ https://ow.ly/ROPo50YOzXE #SustainableCLE #ClevelandClimatePlan

Ditto.

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

$1.776 as in 1776. As in celebrating America’s 250th anniversary by robbing the Treasury to reward those who are destroying the country

respect to @detroitwaterdep.bsky.social for serving so many Cavs fans tonight

“.. Cleveland Fed's expected 5-year inflation is at its highest since July 2007.” - Schwab

the mayor can say "we stand with immigrants" all he wants but that doesn't mean anything if he won't listen to concerns about these things from his constituents, not to mention that there's a lot of better ways that money could be spent.

One steel mill in Cleveland generates 50% of our city’s carbon emissions (!!!)

Opposition to this necessary and ecologically beneficial project makes me sad. Thanks for your work, @neorsd.org!

not just anecdote! "graduates in the least-exposed quintile—studying subjects such as education, philosophy...—saw their avg full-time employment rate fall by just 1.5%. Those in the most exposed quintile—including computer science, computer engineering and information science—suffered a 6.6% drop.”