Marginalized communities often turn to cooperative economics to resist the system that prioritizes profit for the few. Throughout U.S. history, Black communities have established cooperatives, worker-owned enterprises, and mutual aid networks as a means of pursuing economic self-determination.

Thank you to the cooperatives, unions and support organizations sponsoring the 2026 Worker Co-op Conference #WCC26 ! @steelworkers.bsky.social Join us in Boston, MA from September 25-26 the largest worker cooperative convening in the country: wcc26.usworker.coop #WorkerCoops #WorkerOwnership

I apologize for opening Bluesky just to copy-and-paste a LinkedIn post, but here goes: As part of @defector.com's grant work with Start.coop, we're co-sponsoring a 12-week accelerator program for emerging journalist-led/worker-friendly media companies. www.start.coop/accelerator

Voting him out is the very least we can do.

I find small sense of relief in the failure of the metaverse. Whatever the tech overlords want they do not automatically get.

We mean the white working class, correct? Working class people of color have hated him since way back (but they do not count).

The eastern Ohio city of Steubenville accepted a $1.1 million bid to lease 157 acres of its own land for fracking at Tuesday’s city council meeting. This is the first time Save Ohio Parks has heard of an Ohio city seeking bids to frack its own public land. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/17/s...

Preliminary data are in from Ohio EPA for yesterday. We set new PM2.5 daily records for the following cities: - Cleveland: 297 AQI (285 previous max) - Toledo: 624 AQI (190 previous max) Youngstown: 230 AQI (226 previous max) Toledo easily had the worst air quality day in Ohio's recorded history.

We absolutely cannot normalize wildfires everywhere and excess deaths from heatwaves. It’s going to get way worse as long as we keep burning fossil fuels.

Solidarity with the striking public defenders!

Jumpstart puts a focus on worker ownership and the work of Cleveland Owns and others supporting it in Northeast Ohio. jumpstartinc.org/thought-lead...

This looks amazing. 'We’re building an evidence-based blueprint: a clear, practical framework to anchor and grow the field [of community ownership] nationwide.' eps.edu.miami.edu/research-fea...

Air quality resources: Purple Air map: map.purpleair.com#5.16/41.411/... City of Cleveland CLEANinCLE monitors map: issacspsg.grafana.net/public-dashb... Ohio EPA statewide monitor readings: epa.ohio.gov/static/Publi... NOAA Air Quality Forecast page: airquality.weather.gov?element=apm2...

Hello darkness my old friend

Stay safe out there, Cleveland people. For real.

Sounds like gender-affirming care to me.

These will be among the iconic images of the global warming era. Such sadness and awe

Good god

Wut

Is the economic growth in the house right now?

Very glad Kyla is telling this important and undertold story about the stark inequality of wealth distribution in the US.

“Not as bad as Vietnam” remains incredible branding for this illegal debacle of a war.

Yes, I shop on Amazon when I feel like there is no other option. Yes, I feel bad about it. Yes, I launder my guilt with a donation to the Amazon Labor Union and you can too! secure.actblue.com/donate/amazo...

Ok Pittsburgh food co-op

Can confirm, these are almost exactly my stats, just sub Ohio

The impact of AI on jobs is uncertain. What is certain: assessment of job-creation/destruction by tech company CEOs should be heavily discounted, or ignored altogether. Tech CEOs have no insights in labor economics, and have bad incentives on this issue.

Renewable energy credits get worse and worse the more you look.

Commentary: “I’ve lived in Springfield, Ohio for 45 years,” writes Rev Carl Ruby. “I’ve seen the city go from an economic and population freefall to a thriving city. That miracle turnaround was thanks in part to thousands of Haitian people seeking safety” ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/10/t...

I admit I’m surprised by the depth and specificity (and frankly the existence) of this power outage post mortem from Cleveland Public Power. This level of transparency is good and unprecedented from them. www.cpp.org/node/195

‘The stock market is the economy’ is a disqualifying stance.

@bradlander.bsky.social built his campaign on rejecting money from corporations and AIPAC, investing in people here at home instead of bombs abroad, and guaranteeing healthcare for all. I'm honored to receive his support, and I look forward to working with him in Congress.

why yes bike lanes are in fact Distinguished Ecological Investments

Maybe read something else. www.liberalcurrents.com/support-us/

Average Ohio residential utility bills are now projected to be about $800 for the summer, a new report says. That’s a 17% increase over the $682 Ohioans paid last summer, according to the report by Washington, D.C.-based Third Way. www.crainscleveland.com/politics-pol...

It’s giving very Cleveland Browns.

Another view. Fossil fuels remain dominant.

We could be building affordable housing

Nightmare rotation

This rebuttal is spicy!

Never leaving this site

In case you wonder how such a neighbourhood may look like: a recently built neighbourhood, also in Utrecht, gives a good impression: -mixed high- and low density housing -lots of trees and green space -multiple playgrounds -ample space for walking and cycling

Maybe he wants to start celebrating Bastille Day early?

I am sad to report our power has been out again for almost 24 hours. Exceptional heat plus massive thunderstorm met a Cleveland grid unprepared for the new climate normal this week. Lots more of this to come, I’m afraid. On the bright side the heatwave has passed!

Here’s a little something to be patriotic about today (that we can be better, and we’ve long known that).

Good context. Investor ownership does not mean a utility is prepared for the climate crisis.

*fossil fuel executives

Dear CPP customers: It could actually be worse!