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Building co-ops and the solidarity economy in Cleveland. www.clevelandowns.coop
This is what climate arson looks like.
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about 2 hours ago
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Did this illustration for a Signal Cleveland piece on microplastics in Lake Erie:
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George Monbiot
1 day ago
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.
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John Farrell
2 days ago
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
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Mike Eliason
about 1 year ago
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/
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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...
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C. J. Prentiss ¡Presente!: A Path Maker for Justice
Inspirational Ohio organizer and political leader C. J. Prentiss died on April 2, 2024.
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/c-j-prentiss-short-bio
3 days ago
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Peter
4 days ago
can't believe the guy whose entire political philosophy revolves around domination would turn out to be a hawk
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molly conger
4 days ago
babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes
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Today is a day to miss Jimmy Carter
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Roxane Gay
4 days ago
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.
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Sabrina Fernandes
4 days ago
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.
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jamelle
4 days ago
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
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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Worldwide Annually
4 days ago
"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."
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Carl Quintanilla
4 days ago
Jan 1. Jan 3.
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This guy is an absolute champ
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Molly Crabapple
6 days ago
"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."
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They tried to smear him as an antisemite – but Mayor Zohran Mamdani walks in a rich Jewish tradition | Molly Crabapple
When I look at Mamdani, I don’t see some radical departure. I see him as an heir to the Yiddish socialism that helped build New York
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/01/zohran-mamdani-new-york-mayor-antisemitism
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Dominique Baker
6 days ago
Me and my policy friends acting like the arsenio audience after this line
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This is it!!! Cooperative housing in Uruguay as non-speculative, community-building, at-cost housing.
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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!
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Awesome thread about valuable, in-depth reporting in Cleveland!
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8 days ago
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LOL
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Imagine defending a lease this bad, or the people who negotiated it.
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Field of Schemes
9 days ago
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.
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How Kansas governor claims $4B Chiefs stadium subsidy will cost “no new taxes,” and whether this makes any damn sense
Judging from my email, the proposed Kansas City Chiefs stadium deal with the state of Kansas has set off a wave of cognitive dissonance among sports fans and taxpayers: Gov. Laura Kelly says that the ...
https://www.fieldofschemes.com/2025/12/29/23495/how-kansas-governor-claims-4b-chiefs-stadium-subsidy-will-cost-no-new-taxes-and-whether-this-makes-any-damn-sense/
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Mike Eliason
12 days ago
my thread of the year?
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Prisonculture
12 days ago
I should write an essay about organizing titled "All Those Boring Meetings Paid Off."
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CZEdwards
15 days ago
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:
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One of the biggest microplastic pollution sources isn’t straws or grocery bags – it’s your tires
Every few years, the tires on your car wear thin and need to be replaced. But where does that lost tire material go? The answer, unfortunately, is often waterways, where the tiny microplastic particle...
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/one-of-the-biggest-microplastic-pollution-sources-isnt-straws-or-grocery-bags-its-your-tires
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jamelle
15 days ago
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
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jamelle
16 days ago
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
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J.C. Bradbury
16 days ago
Devoting $1.8 BILLION of public money to an NFL stadium (60% of $3 billion) is indefensible public policy.
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Kansas City Chiefs are moving to Kansas. Details of stadium package announced
The news came shortly before a council of top Kansas lawmakers voted unanimously to approve an incentive package that would allow the Kansas City Chiefs to move to Kansas.
https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article313887284.html
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Skora, Will
16 days ago
I'm excited that our library's new catalog allows staff & patrons to make lists! I've made: my fav.
#map
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; essential Cleveland novels according to Cleveland magazine
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jamelle
17 days ago
the vice president is a klansman
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Kamau Franklin
20 days ago
The truth about the intentions of US empire in Venezuela
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This is beautiful!
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21 days ago
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This was way better as a Key & Peele sketch
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Very cute!
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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.
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21 days ago
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Proud to know the good folks at Beloved Community Incubator and to have played a tiny role in some of this work!
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I am enough of an HVAC nerd to find this truly thrilling. Just about every house of worship in Cleveland needs this.
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22 days ago
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Some inspiration / good news after a terrible weekend.
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JW Mason
26 days ago
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.
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This is a page right from city council on Issue 38.
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27 days ago
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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
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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Worldwide Annually
27 days ago
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.”
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FirstEnergy bribery scheme sank Lake Erie offshore wind, lawsuit says
The corruption that led to Ohio’s infamous HB 6 also torpedoed what would have been the Great Lakes’ first wind farm, the suit alleges. FirstEnergy is…
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/offshore-wind/firstenergy-bribery-lawsuit-icebreaker-lake-erie
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Kevin J. Kircher
27 days ago
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.
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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Worldwide Annually
29 days ago
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"
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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...
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Opinion | How My Retirement Savings Are Betraying America
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/opinion/government-retirement-savings-china.html
about 1 month ago
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Mike Eliason
about 1 month ago
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
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A must-read!
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This story is absolutely wild
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Cleveland Clinic detains people who bring shooting victims
The Cleveland Clinic policy treats those trying to save a life as potential crime suspects. The hospital says the goal is to keep people safe.
https://signalcleveland.org/cleveland-clinic-gunshot-wound-policy-detained-fourth-amendment-reasonable-suspicion/?fbclid=IwY2xjawOf3epleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeqRPYKI6jLCWu2jCKE_UtHAtgjZwLEZRnbPFQv8asafmdoaKKZDKPEX6niZo_aem_m1JgF5c0O6qiBGu46cN-vA
about 1 month ago
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JW Mason
about 1 month ago
Useful reminder from
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: 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.)
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