i guess speaking truth to power is not one of my councilor-elect’s skills

teri wang, i think, is an incredibly useful tool for mayor bibb’s plans to dismantle any civilian oversight of police

its funny to me how reports about food stamps and flight delays map so well to working class and middle class woes. much difference if you ask me!

i think this is a good point and i worry about folks who don’t draw the same lesson because i suspect many of them imagine themselves to be the next one in a billion hero set to save the wretched masses

lol the cinematheque doesn't like it when i talk about addiction in my reviews

grateful to have been introduced to this song over the weekend youtu.be/3cdqQ2BdgOA?...

lol good thing i had my multiple surgeries last year!

it is very brave to delay shutting off a person’s utilities

so how'd those pre-primary endorsements work out for progress?

before any other results come in, i gotta say one reason i'm very proud to organize with ellen kubit is she can turn out the vote. increased turnout at Lakeview Estates over 2021 and crushed the field in our ward by precinct - her precinct B had 33.5% turnout; on average the ward had 23.8% turnout

i've never met curtis sliwa, but one time more than a decade ago, i got real high on my balcony when a group of Guardian Angels started marching down the block. it freaked me out so hard

crazy that a politician would say a thing to get votes and then do something different. i guess i shoulda decided to organize around capital projects

is bibb’s home for every neighbor program working? i ask as i see more campsites than ever

you know who i trust to work for the working class? the harvard graduate from gates mills whose career spans from big law to a mayoral cabinet

why do we think the same energy around tanmay shah hasn't been there for alana belle?

i have to take depression pills for 9 months to fix my back. they are expensive depression pills, too. my back better thank me at the end of this

so we should assume the “climate champion” Austin Davis uses AI in only an environmentally responsible manner right?

You see, the problem is that no one has thought to promise the masses more board and commissions they can serve on, no one has presented them with innovative technologies of participation. My kingdom for such a savior!

why do i feel hungover today?

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how do you keep a kippah on a bald head?

i wonder how our newest apppointed councilor will vote on Flock Cameras. Hmmmmmm. Hard to determine!

LOL Cleveland Foundation has given up on funding climate action? Such a good thing we have in this community foundation LOL

2 years of active membership on chess.com. I am very cool and popular

alyssa battistoni hit the nail on the head in her "spadework" article for n+1:

best part of my day is when i sit in this chair and cat sits on my lap

Just remember people get paid in this town off the government being objectively bad all the time

highlight of my week: the writer of a movie liking my review of it on @letterboxd.social

progressive and neoliberal are not antonyms

oh, you have real problems

ashes be scattered

how much power do we think the rta community advisory committee has? i'd wager NOT MUCH!

just had a fun conversation with a professor who made me feel not insane for despising the cleveland nonprofit sector and then have him casually mention his consulting with the mamdani campaign

one set of quotes is about as anodyne as possible. the other has some fire and some life. plainpress.blog/2025/10/01/d...

very happy to announce my mother has decided we do not need to playn "cleanin' out my closet" by eminem during my dad's memorial service

something i've been thinking about lately re: Randy Cunningham's 'Democratizing Cleveland' is how most of the organizing during that time was funded by the Catholic Church. today, on the other hand, its mostly foundation funded

neoliberalism includes substituting elite advocacy in place of mass politics. nonprofits thrive in this environment

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wait, can anyone remind me if any city council candidates worked for the law firm behind hb6?

Congrats to all those endorsed Democrats!

must be hard to be so virtuous and elite

asking this once again. has it helped?

working in the public sector does not, per se, make you a good person. working in the private sector does not, per se, make you a bad person. also, the nonprofit sector is a part of the private sector

hey cleveland ward 7 progressives, it's time to trust black women

the problem of elites is not that they aren’t of our generation (increasingly they are in any case)

getting the Bibb endorsement is very funny for someone who told me he considered himself the token progressive in the administration. i guess that's what progressive elitism is all about. pleasing elites is valued above all else

having the best ideas is worthless if you can’t win them