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https://dakotahsays.beehiiv.com/
It's been about six weeks since I launched Upbeat Nonsense, a free weekly newsletter about politics and pop culture in
#Cleveland
. If you're looking for stories outside of mainstream (especially locally), share and subscribe <3 Issue 7 drops tomorrow!
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Home | Upbeat Nonsense
A weekly newsletter about pop culture and Cleveland politics.
https://dakotahsays.beehiiv.com/
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District
26 days ago
if you’re counting down in northeast Ohio, there only about 245 million gallons of crap left in 2025.
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Heather 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
27 days ago
"Stopping murder would kill the hitman industry!"
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑
about 1 month ago
Tamir Rice was 12 years old. Tamir Rice was 12 years old. Tamir Rice was 12 years old. Tamir Rice was 12 years old. Tamir Rice was 12 years old. Tamir Rice was 12 years old. Tamir Rice was 12 years old. Tamir Rice was 12 years old. Tamir Rice was 12 years old. Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
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Police officer who shot Tamir Rice hired by West Virginia departments, report says
Rice family attorney calls the hiring "imbecilic and heartless," as Loehmann has previously resigned from three other departments after public protests.
https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2025/12/police-officer-who-shot-tamir-rice-hired-by-west-virginia-departments-report-says.html
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It's been over two weeks since a Cleveland woman came forward to publicly accuse a former police oversight official, Marcus Perez, of rape. So far, no outlets have covered it, at all. I don't understand why. You can watch the video and read my re-cap here:
dakotahsays.beehiiv.com/p/new-allega...
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about 1 month ago
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Transparently, I was pretty anxious about filling the politics section. Not because there isn't plenty to choose from, but because my anxious and thought-filled mind didn't know how I was going to summarize what's been going on in Cleveland. And then I got a text message. 1/🧵
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about 2 months ago
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And we're live! Still working out the kinks with Beehiiv on the website end, but read Issue #1 of Upbeat Nonsense here:
dakotahsays.beehiiv.com/p/upbeat-non...
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about 2 months ago
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Only 6 more days until Upbeat Nonsense lands in inboxes for the first time. Subscribe below for FREE and it's just once a week.
#Cleveland
#localnews
#artsandculture
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about 2 months ago
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Amazing, no notes.
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about 2 months ago
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I'm finally giving in and starting a
#Cleveland
newsletter about pop culture and politics. I've spent years covering local arts and culture in addition to breaking news about housing and policing. Upbeat Nonsense launches next Wed. 12/3 and you can subscribe now. Totally free <3
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Upbeat Nonsense
a weekly newsletter that combines pop culture with Cleveland politics.
https://dakotahsays.beehiiv.com/
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404 Media
2 months ago
A man tried to create a "women's safety" app called Tea. Then, images and more than a million private conversations, including some about cheating partners and abortions, were compromised in two separate security breaches. If you want to share your story, reach out to us at
[email protected]
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How Tea’s Founder Convinced Millions of Women to Spill Their Secrets, Then Exposed Them to the World
A 404 Media investigation reveals how the man who started Tea, the ‘women dating safety’ app, tried to hire a female ‘face’ for the company and then hijack her grassroots community.
https://www.404media.co/how-teas-founder-convinced-millions-of-women-to-spill-their-secrets-then-exposed-them-to-the-world/
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!*
2 months ago
Join us for one final meal at Hell Gate's Eric Adams Table of Success. As the Eric Adams era reaches its conclusion, we're gathering everyone who's made it to the bitter end. You can make your haters your waiters, but you can't escape…The Last Supper.
tableofsuccess.hellgatenyc.com
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Wonder if
#Harvard
will cut ties with
#LarrySummers
as fast as they ousted Claudine Gay. Not wondering that hard, unfortunately.
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2 months ago
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Haven't been able to listen to much else since
#WestEndGirl
came out and I'm recommending it. There aren't enough albums about women's anger and I'm here for it. Especially from
#LilyAllen
. It's also just hilarious to me that
#StrangerThings
comes out literally this month. You go girl 💪
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s. e. smith
2 months ago
Y'all I have to be insufferable about fundraising for
@scarleteen.com
because the work we are doing is too important! We're establishing a $40k fund to help with health care expenses for staff and volunteers, and a dollar-for-dollar match kicks in at $10k!
www.classy.org/fundraiser/6...
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I really wonder what would happen if small businesses or heck, even corporations, realized that we wouldn't need raises if the cost of
#housing
wasn't outpacing wages. If you "can't afford to pay me more," how about you tell my
#landlord
to stop raising my rent?
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evy kwong
2 months ago
“It is time to choose sides; fascism or morality? Big tech has made their choice.”
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Radley Balko
2 months ago
According to the car wash owner, agents arrested employees before they could obtain their documentation from their work lockers. So many were likely here legally. Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
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BU College Republicans president says he called ICE to ‘detain these criminals’ at Allston Car Wash
The president of Boston University College Republicans wrote on X he called the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requesting it detain employees at Allston Car Wash, the site of a Nov. 4 raid w...
https://dailyfreepress.com/11/13/10/216199/bu-college-republicans-president-says-he-called-ice-to-detain-these-criminals-at-allston-car-wash/?utm_campaign=linkinbio&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=later-linkinbio
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Cleveland Scene
2 months ago
Bessie the Trash Monster floated down the Cuyahoga River to raise awareness of plastic pollution in Lake Erie
www.clevescene.com/news/bessie-...
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Bessie the Trash Monster Floated Down the Cuyahoga River to Raise Awareness of Plastic Pollution in Lake Erie - Cleveland Scene
“One of the highest concentrations of microplastic in the world is in Lake Erie,” Cheryl Johncox, a member of People Over Petro, said through a mic at Settler’s Landing.
https://www.clevescene.com/news/bessie-the-trash-monster-floated-down-the-cuyahoga-river-to-raise-awareness-of-plastic-pollution-in-lake-erie/
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Katelyn Burns
2 months ago
Get a membership to
@theflytrapmedia.com
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Bree Lundberg
2 months ago
I know we all have a lot of other things to worry about right now but this is your PSA to get the latest covid booster & flu shot if you haven't already. It takes a couple weeks to build immunity and holidays will be here soon. (Stickers from my shop!
shop.breelundberg.com/product/get-...
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Lex McMenamin (they/them)
2 months ago
my first story
@theintercept.com
: organizers with
@adalahjustice.bsky.social
and
@genderlib.com
announced today that the Human Rights Campaign has ended its relationships with weapons manufacturers Northrop Grumman and Raytheon following years of protests and accusations of "pinkwashing"
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Human Rights Campaign Rejects Weapons Company Sponsorships After Pressure Around Israel Genocide
LGBTQ+ group Human Rights Campaign ended sponsorships from arms firms Northrop Grumman and Raytheon, who profit off of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/11/human-rights-campaign-weapons-israel-genocide/
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My experience has consistently been that the
#ADA
is more porous than any of us what to admit. I can't tell if it's just because I'm
#autistic
, but I'm surprised that people with disabilities get chased out and often we have no actual legal recourse. But we hear about people suing all the time. 1/🧵
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2 months ago
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I still find it hilarious that on shows like
#DragRace
that chestplate nipples aren't censored but "real" nipples are.
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Words matter!
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3 months ago
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3 months ago
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Katelyn Burns
3 months ago
If you signed up for a
@theflytrapmedia.com
membership in the last two weeks, can I offer you another kickass media collective doing critical reporting?
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Emily Bloch
3 months ago
We now know that the Teen Vogue fold is more than an absorption & clearly a full shift from the pub’s DNA. Laying off the entire politics team a day before the NYC election is heinous + a knife in the back to a brand that has solidified its importance for youth. Devastating.
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The Flytrap
3 months ago
Good morning everyone! We just want to express our gratitude for your vote of confidence in our work in the past two weeks. We are SO EXCITED to have another year of The Flytrap, and with pay for the founders. This is everything we've been working towards. THANK YOU!!!
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Olayemi Olurin-Boleware
3 months ago
It’s disheartening to see Teen Vogue dissolved into Vogue and its political team let go. For years, it was one of the few mainstream spaces that made room for honest, radical commentary on justice, inequality & the world we actually live in. I’m grateful it gave me a home for so many of my op-eds
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Taniel
3 months ago
it's Election Day! this is my roadmap for the day and night, below! (be sure to follow me and
@boltsmag.org
if you want updates and results during election day & election night, and/or bookmark the form below as we'll update it with results.)
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Condé Union
3 months ago
We strongly condemn @CondéNast’s consolidation plans for Teen Vogue, a move that is clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most. More from our statement:
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Heartbroken that of all publications,
@teenvogue.com
is joining the graveyard with Bitch, Wear Your Voice and so many others that provided not just thoughtful pop culture criticism but also meaningful politics coverage. This is a huge mistake. We need to build a better boat and fast.
#TeenVogue
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3 months ago
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Phil Lewis
3 months ago
Today is
#ElectionDay
in 39 states across the country. Know your voting rights! Images: When We All Vote
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#Girls5Eva
was a lot of things, but this clip plays rent free in my head all the time.
#NYLonelyBoy
#NewYorkLonelyBoy
youtu.be/n6naKHbmwgE?...
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Girls5eva | New York Lonely Boys Have Palates for Wasabi
YouTube video by Peacock
https://youtu.be/n6naKHbmwgE?si=I_ocZCQBUgJSrDN0
3 months ago
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Piglet
3 months ago
oh, i am *so* in. bitch was awesome.
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Just subscribed! The partnership with
#BitchMedia
is 🔥🔥🔥
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3 months ago
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Hank Green
3 months ago
I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.
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Did anyone else watch
#ScavengersReign
? It was so freakin' weird and wonderful. I'm not the biggest sci-fi/fantasy girlie, but I highly recommend it. It's another one of those shows that seems to have been buried by the algorithm. It really should have done as well as
#LastOfUs
imho.
3 months ago
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Something that must be said about
#TownHall's
#BobbyGeorge
is that the prosecutor's office CHOSE not to take the case to a grand jury for indictments on all of the charges.
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3 months ago
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Love this.
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3 months ago
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Bolts
3 months ago
Soren Stevenson lost his left eye and most of his sense of smell, but the officer who shot him didn't face discipline. Stevenson is now running for local office and says the changes made since 2020 haven’t stopped police violence in Minneapolis.
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As Minneapolis Votes, Some Struggle to Keep Police Violence in the Spotlight
Five years after George Floyd, the mayor and his allies on city council claim credit for vast improvements, but critics keep pressing the case for more discipline and police alternatives.
https://boltsmag.org/minneapolis-policing-and-2025-elections/
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Stories like these make me proud to have grown up in
#Portland
🐸
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3 months ago
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Maybe it's just me, but this seems like a service the city should provide and -- I don't know -- pay people to do? I'd really like to talk to someone who plans on doing this unpaid. I'd also imagine that if you get hurt, you won't be entitled to worker's comp like an employee would be.
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3 months ago
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Last year, Ohio's primary
#publicmedia
outlet
#Ideastream's
CEO made $468k with an additional $104k labeled "other." Thanks to
@propublica.org
, nonprofit tax documents -- also known as 990s -- are pretty easy to find 🔍
projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...
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Tiffany Babb
4 months ago
Do you love reading about comics? Do you love print media? If so, The Comics Courier may be for you. Make sure you get the newest issue (or catch up on the previous issues) by heading over to our Kickstarter campaign at
comicscourier.com
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I know there’s a lot going on right now but can I just say… I finally watched
#Superman
and yall… that was not a good movie 🤗
4 months ago
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Navigating public benefits never ceases to amaze me. Got a letter from Ohio's Dept of Job and Family Services telling me to login to a portal and select an option that wasn't there. Although the chatbot got me to the right page eventually, the portal wouldn't let me upload the documents. 👉
4 months ago
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CMSD is expected to spend $603k on this same surveillance technology. Former city council member Kerry McCormack also recently took a job there after resigning early.
#Flock
#Cleveland
#CMSD
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