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President Trump has not brought his promised manufacturing revival. After more than 610,000 manufacturing jobs were created during the Biden administration, the July jobs report showed U.S. manufacturing lost 37,000 jobs over three straight months ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/09/02/t...

KSU Press joins the wider Kent State community in remembering the events of May 4, 1970. As part of our contribution to the commemoration, we’re sharing a list of titles on May 4 themes: www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/category/may4/

A metaphor for our times. At least in Ohio. youtu.be/dqxSXB8dU1M?...

We all feel like this. youtu.be/du-TY1GUFGk?...

A drumming inspiration to me and countless others. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Over a hundred people showing up for democracy Zanesville today! I’d say the honks against fascism outnumbered the middle fingers for it about 3 to 1.

Vultures gathering to feast on the remains of my retirement plan.

And then provide $600 million for the Cleveland Browns. And attack higher education.

A disaster. Taking Ohio backwards again. ohiocapitaljournal.com/briefs/ohio-...

The most serious Nazi shit in this extremely Nazi shit executive order may be the idea, just slipped in there, that one of the "divisive narratives that distort our shared history" is that "race is not a biological reality but a social construct." www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Happy to be part of this great collection of essays!

On the left: Hegseth's message. On the right: the applicable CENTCOM classification guide provisions. This is all very plainly classified at the SECRET level. They all lied. They should all lose their jobs.

Everything is fine. Everything is fine. No need to worry.

Great piece from Martha Pallante’s talk at YSU. Ohio is purported to have had the largest number of KKK members in the 1920s.

Pete Hegseth in 2023 on Biden "handling classified documents... flippantly": "If at the very top there's no accountability," then we have "two tiers of justice."

No way this guy accidentally leaked war plans in a text message

“Censorship is a weapon of the totalitarians. Freedom of expression is the bulwark of democracy.”

School vouchers were the most obvious scam in history.

On Monday, Speaker Huffman blamed expenditures on uneaten green beans for why Ohio wouldn’t fund free lunches for schoolchildren. Yesterday, he ordained what will amount to a $1 billion gift to a criminal football team that won three games last season. www.rooster.info/p/wont-someb...

How Ohio lawmakers are reacting to the Browns request for $600 million - Ohio Capital Journal. Bail out the Browns for $600 million and add $500 million more for vouchers while saying there’s no money for public schools, including breakfast and lunch programs, and attack higher education.

Opinion Senate Bill 1 would damage students’ pursuit of truth, excellence What does Senate Bill 1 really advance in higher education, other than a conservative educational agenda, and the overreach of government. by Mel Searle, University of Cincinnati

March 7 1965. Bloody Sunday. Remember the struggle as voting rights are again under attack.

Newt just stop, please.

Trump is a God now, well almost. He awaits the unanimous decision of the Senate. ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/usaid...

Meanwhile in Congress…

Dewine is trying to fool Ohioans by using outdated numbers… “If the legislature chooses not to fully fund public schools, Ohioans will face even higher property taxes, fewer opportunities for students, and long-term damage to Ohio’s economic future.” janresseger.wordpress.com/2025/03/06/d...

Three cheers for this team of volunteers!

Alright folks…nothing to see here…no openly brazen corruption…move along please.

Making America great again like the Gilded Age and the Great Depression.

Brutal.

And we see schools gutting programs rather than fight.

"Analysis: Red states like Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana could be hurt most by Trump's cuts."

I know Stathis. He was a colleague of mine at the University of Chicago. He is a pretty buttoned-down scholar. For him to tweet this out is… something.

Transgender references erased from Stonewall National Monument website - Out

This has to be without a doubt the worst cabinet ever assembled in the history of the United States. Even Harding’s grifters and Nixon’s criminals are no match for Trump’s band of liars, cheaters, hacks, and duplicitous incompetents selling out the nation’s well-being and security.

More than 800 people submit testimony against Ohio’s massive higher education overhaul bill Ohio Senate Bill 1 would ban diversity & inclusion efforts, prevent faculty from striking, set rules around classroom discussion, and put diversity scholarships at risk ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/02/11/m...

www.vox.com/politics/398... A good summary so far of the many ways Musk and Trump are breaking the law.

A federal judge has just ordered Musk to get out of Treasury’s computers. We are fortunate there are good lawyers representing democracy. Normally that would end the matter, but in this era there are legit questions about compliance & enforcement. We live on the edge of a constitutional crisis.

If you're looking for help on what exactly to tell your member of Congress, this resource is quite useful: 5calls.org/issue/elon-m...

In a survey released Monday, the overwhelming majority of economists said cuts to public education funding proposed by GOP Ohio House Speaker Matt Huffman would dampen the state's future economic output and increase inequality in an already unequal state

Trump and Musk's actions can overwhelm the reader. Important not to forget basic facts. If Musk illegally accessed federal employee records and tax and social security information and transferred them to a private device, he is vulnerable to prosecution and a multidecade sentence in federal prison.

Opinion | The Dumbest Trade War in History - The Wall Street Journal Trump: the avocado nationalist.

This is a purge. Full Stop. Women and minorities are being erased by Trump.

A watershed moment in North American history. The economic war has begun. It will radically restructure the entire North American economy - hundreds of thousands will lose their jobs (and that is just Canada). One of the most important speeches by a Canadian in my lifetime - watch.

NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

But the best information we have about how “DOGE” is working suggests many are employees from his private companies operating with no legal authority at all.

The National Gallery of Art has also removed “diversity”, “equity” and “inclusion” from its value statement, replacing them — echoing moves made before the election by the National Archives — with “welcoming and accessible.” The Smithsonian followed suit. www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/01/29/t...

Breaking News: A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s effort to freeze as much as $3 trillion in federal grants and loans.