"We take great pride in seeing our student-athletes achieve their goals both in competition and in the classroom." With a 98 percent graduation success rate, Colgate student-athletes are ranked among the nation's best, according to the NCAA's latest report. bit.ly/44cj9Wv

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

I'm not exaggerating when I say following @boltsmag.org rn will unlock money for our journalism. A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count. If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!

Here's something joyous to do today. Some online toy drive shopping for Legos or whatnot, or you can just make a donation.

Concluding the semester in Ohio Politics with the state's official forecast of Ohio's population in the coming decades. First sentence reads right out of a dystopian novel.

A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social

No matter where you're from, Happy Thanksgiving from all of us on E Street to everyone who calls this land home!

Words of JFK: "If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live."

Why are we punishing voters for the speed of the mail delivery system? SB 293 has passed the Ohio House and Ohio Senate, and is on its way to be signed by Gov. Mike DeWine. 🚨Take action NOW: https://action.aclu.org/send-message/stop-sb-293-protect-ohio-voters-0

NEW: Using his clemency power, Trump has undone prosecutions made by his own DOJ during his first term. Experts say the actions show a broad contempt for the justice system: “He’s rejecting ... the work of people he appointed but didn’t fully control.” By @jeremykohler.bsky.social

My thanks to @kentsmith.bsky.social for visiting my Ohio Politics class today for a discussion of energy policy, corruption, and all things Ohio.

A majority of the days the government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was president. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...

Senate Bill 293 would require absentee ballots to arrive by Election Day, eliminating the current window that allowed nearly 9,500 late-arriving votes to count in 2024.

Pretty good artistic representation of the state of the Republican Party in New Jersey today

Fresh off Election Day, the Statehouse GOP is hearing SB 293, a bill slashing early voting via mail, popular among all voters. This is the 2026 (& beyond) playbook. Politicians in power are deliberately making it harder for you to vote, for 100% political reasons.

Folks, my team at @boltsmag.org is bringing you all the results all night... but they're not at 100K followers yet. Let's get it there! If you've been enjoying our election coverage, press that follow button!

True enough, most are hardly calling to our better angels. But they are not all the same. There's a difference between Robert Kennedy and the loutish oaf of a son who defames his good name.

🚨OPPONENT TESTIMONY NEEDED🚨 #Ohio's version of the #SAVEAct has a hearing this Tuesday 10/28 🤬🤬 Use this toolkit to submit (in-person OR written-only) testimony: bit.ly/OhioSAVEAct

Ohio State Representative Jeff Lare on the No Kings protests: you should be down on your knees worshiping the king who allows you to protest like that www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...

SCOTUS just allowed Alabama's execution of Anthony Boyd: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p... Justice Sotomayor wrote this vivid dissent blasting AL for using the method of nitrogen gas. @laurengill.bsky.social's reporting from an AL execution shows you why: boltsmag.org/alabama-nitr...

Gov. Beshear and Gov. Dewine joined us today at the University of Cincinnati for a discussion hosted by the Portman Center

Results are not weighted by likelihood of voting in 2026, and among these particular respondents, Brown would have won in 2024. So this is as tepid a 1 point poll lead as you can get.

Prosecutor cuts corners, makes shady deal, defense attorney phones it in, and the defendant is left defenseless. Alabama justice. boltsmag.org/anthony-boyd...

Columbus, Ohio No Kings

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

They're putting up a new display over at the Museum of the Disingenuous. Republican Cincinnati city council candidate advises city voters not to cast a complete ballot...because VOTING DILUTES YOUR VOTE.

A pair of Ohio Republican lawmakers want public schools and public universities to teach positive impacts of Christianity on American history. No other religion is mentioned in the bill. by Megan Henry ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/09/o...

The "anti-tax" state legislature has created a top-10 property tax state. A 20-year campaign to grind down state support of local government -- the local government fund sliced, the estate tax eliminated. Cincinnati gets more of its budget from building inspection fees than from state aid.

The value of a degree program is irrelevant in Ohio. State legislators -- hoping to harm Women's Studies and the like -- imposed a formula that is canceling medical, business, education degrees at CSU and skilled trade apprentice programs at Tri-C. Making Ohio dumber and poorer to own the libs.

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year. Republicans in Washington did this. This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

It's not happening in some far-off place. This is Kentucky. This is now.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

If there is one thing every university president should have learned from Santa Ono's saga -- it is that there is simply no level of debasement sufficient to protect you from the purge, so you might as well go down fighting www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/06/21/t...

Kat is still out there fighting four hours after this. I'm just fucking livid.

Hah hah. Funny! Becauss -- get it -- you could leave the dock of your village to go catch fish and be blown apart by guided missile fired by a nation with whom your country is not actually at war. You'd be dead and no fish for dinner! Hilarious. We are the terrorists. We are the shithole nation.

Want to know more about the Ohio redistricting process? Read my recent Q&A with UC SPIA professor @nivenpolitics.bsky.social, where he discussed how Ohio’s districts are drawn, what trends have been established and why Ohio is redrawing its districts compared to other states.

Tip of the cap to Gannet's AI webpage editor for its relentless focus on stories that matter most to Ohioans

This is shameful. Any #Ohio politician who signs onto this is actively choosing to honor one of the most harmful white supremacists in modern America. Find your state rep by typing your address below this map: ohiohouse.gov/members/dist... Tell them not to cosponsor this resolution.

That's a pretty solid synopsis of DeWine's tenure as governor.

President Trump has ordered American flags at half-staff after the deadly shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk—something he did not do when Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman was assassinated months ago. trib.al/VwZm4tn

This is what happens when you govern by whim and Fox News headlines.

‘It feels like a betrayal.’ Ohio college students experiencing effects of new higher education law ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/08/25/i...

Texas and Ohio State play football tomorrow Their athletic department budgets are bigger than the GDPs of some small island nations

"A mural of the Statue of Liberty in shame" by JDL Street Ar in Lille , Roubaix France 🇫🇷

Forget politics, political corruption apparently makes strange bedfellows too...PG Sittenfeld and his new friends The Federalist Society

With Trump in power, the far-right extremist Proud Boys no longer feel the need to take to the streets to push their ideas. “They’re no longer taboo — they’re mainstream now. Honestly, what do we have to complain about these days?” Tarrio tells @alanfeuer.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/u...

First day on campus for newest members of the Colgate softball team.

NEW—Earlier this evening agents from ICE/other fed agencies were outside Rhode Island Ave metro in DC asking people exiting the station for their IDs, per someone who experienced it. When the person presented their Real ID license, an agent said that wasn't sufficient. Luckily they had secondary ID.