This is what climate arson looks like.

Did this illustration for a Signal Cleveland piece on microplastics in Lake Erie: signalcleveland.org/yes-there-ar...

Most importantly, Miller is wrong. Plenty of stable societies existed that did not conform to his "iron laws". Such "laws" might apply, however, to centralised, hierarchical political systems, especially those dominated by psychopaths like Stephen Miller.

Terrific, in-depth coverage of how U.S. utility companies systematically overcharge customers to pad their profits, and the failure of the regulatory system to stop them - h/t @nickbowlin.bsky.social for @harpers.bsky.social

we need a new american dream a reset from one that is wholly unsustainable - and increasingly unattainable to one that is focused on community, affordability, livability, climate action and adaptation. better living through baugruppen www.larchlab.com/baugruppen/

Some uplifting reading for a dark weekend: A brief bio of CJ Prentiss, a late Ohio social justice her I'm just learning about www.zinnedproject.org/news/c-j-pre...

can't believe the guy whose entire political philosophy revolves around domination would turn out to be a hawk

babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes

Today is a day to miss Jimmy Carter

We’ve seen this playbook before in Haiti, only we don’t have oil so there is never any talk of running the country after the US kidnaps a Haitian president.

We will either end fossil fuel dependency and the predatory extractivist basis of global production, or they will end us through wars and ecological collapse - all at the same time.

rubio pretty much believes in a reverse domino theory for latin america and since he is effectively running foreign policy in the region i would expect him to see cuba as his next target

"The point here is that conflict like this is probably inevitable as long as the world depends on an energy source that is available only in a few places. Control of those places becomes too important—you end up with oligarchs, and with people who want to topple them."

Jan 1. Jan 3.

This guy is an absolute champ

"Mamdani walks in an older Jewish tradition. Not that of ritzy Upper East Side synagogues, but of so many of our great-grandparents: the socialist sweatshop workers who fought for a better and more beautiful world." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Me and my policy friends acting like the arsenio audience after this line

This is it!!! Cooperative housing in Uruguay as non-speculative, community-building, at-cost housing.

In the past three years, Cleveland has made unprecedented (for Cleveland) progress in building safe ways for people to get around. Many thanks to Phil and crew!

Awesome thread about valuable, in-depth reporting in Cleveland!

LOL

Imagine defending a lease this bad, or the people who negotiated it.

To pay off stadium bonds, Chiefs-related new spending would need to be $2.7B a year — for a team whose total revenue is less than a quarter of that. Each and every Chiefs fan would need to spend an extra $4,000 per game for Kansas to break even.

my thread of the year?

I should write an essay about organizing titled "All Those Boring Meetings Paid Off."

I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%). Lay article attached:

this image is maybe the single greatest joke in TRADING PLACES. and also a pretty apt description of the trump/vance/national conservative vision of america

i’ll just say that this isn’t the behavior of people who think their allies are on the verge of establishing a thousand year reich, much less holding control of the national legislature next year

Devoting $1.8 BILLION of public money to an NFL stadium (60% of $3 billion) is indefensible public policy.

I'm excited that our library's new catalog allows staff & patrons to make lists! I've made: my fav. #map & cartography books search.cpl.org/MyAccount/My... ; essential Cleveland novels according to Cleveland magazine search.cpl.org/MyAccount/My... (cc @nickoloffoff.bsky.social ) 1/?

the vice president is a klansman

The truth about the intentions of US empire in Venezuela

This is beautiful!

This was way better as a Key & Peele sketch

Very cute!

This video will make your day! I'm chipping in $20 to support @moreperfectunion.bsky.social today because this powerful, hopeful storytelling about co-ops in northern Italy made mine. We made our economy, and this story is a reminder we can remake it however we like.

Proud to know the good folks at Beloved Community Incubator and to have played a tiny role in some of this work!

I am enough of an HVAC nerd to find this truly thrilling. Just about every house of worship in Cleveland needs this.

Some inspiration / good news after a terrible weekend.

This is an argument I have made for a while - if you want to allow more new housing development, you'll face a lot less opposition if you protect existing tenants with rent regulation. Nice to have some more evidence to back that up.

This is a page right from city council on Issue 38.

Dazzled by formatting! This is exactly the trap I’ve seen people fall into with AI. They never read beyond section headers. The document is like an outline balloon inflated with vapid babble

Icebreaker ​“represented a generational opportunity for the region. It would have positioned Cleveland as a national leader in offshore wind, created a new advanced-manufacturing supply chain, supported jobs, and strengthened the region’s climate-resilience and economic-development goals.”

Anyway, imagine if the federal government gave Amazon monopoly ownership of all US highways and guaranteed Amazon a 10% profit every year on their cumulative historical spending on highways, minus the debt they carried. Amazon would build a shitload of highways, the more expensive the better.

I could talk about how he'd been a streetcar baron so he knew the game or how he started Cleveland Public Power Instead here's a line from his autobiography: "What I do deplore is the short-sightedness which keeps us forever tinkering forever with a defective spigot when the bunghole is wide open"

Cut and paste the anti-Chinese angle with 'fossil fuel infrastructure' and this piece accurately reveals there is close to no ethical investing under capitalism. And that the $46 trillion in US retirement accounts is a powerful tool. For what, is the question. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/o...

thinking about munich's mixed use neufreimann quarter... parks & open space. thin buildings (<50' avg). car-free places & quiet streets. social housing. schools. the quality of life is going to be so much higher than this autocentric TOD - and it's served by bus & tram. neufreimann.de

A must-read!

This story is absolutely wild signalcleveland.org/cleveland-cl...

Useful reminder from @mtkonczal.bsky.social: What looks like people having a lot fewer children than they did 25 years ago, is really just people having children later. mikekonczal.substack.com/p/the-eldest... (What if any policy or political significance this has, we will leave for another time.)