Ohio should never have been dropped as a presidential-election swing state. It still provides a clear-eyed view of American attitude. According to Civiq rolling polling, his approval in Ohio has dropped from plus 8 in January 2025 to minus 11 in May. www.newsweek.com/map-donald-t...

Of the 14 people on the face-bashing White House UFC Freedom 250 fight card, supposedly a celebration of U.S. longevity, six of the fighters are not Americans. There will be ICE, correct?

Has anyone seen Lady Justice in the Epstein victim list?

As former executives of Ohio’s largest electric utility are on trial in the state’s biggest political bribery scandal, our largest university is now drawn into the international sex trafficking scandal of modern history. Who runs this place? m.facebook.com/story.php?st...

Mamdani is a good listerner, shows respect, exudes genuine lighthearded humanity. A narcissist is likely to misread this as affirmation. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Today’s @nytimes.com newsreel headline. (For old news junkies, it’s all the news that causes fits)

If Pritzker mobilizes the Illinois guard to block the Texas guard from entering his state, what happens next?

Democracy is over. The government is now ordering reporters to report only what they’re told or be thrown out. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/b...

Might Russia have the Epstein files? Russia Is Suspected to Be Behind Breach of Federal Court Filing System www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/u...

Tulsi Gabbard is using a White House press briefing to accuse Hillary Clinton of using tranquilizers. Dystopian stuff.

Google’s AI description of the Everglades detention center is changing. Last week the result of a search on “Everglades concentration camp” was immediately critical, saying the phrase was politically charged. Now Google is no longer critical and instead acknowledges why some believe it to be true.

It used to be that doom-scrolling developed over time based on your social media habits. Algorithms are no longer necessary to create anxiety. Just open the New York Times news feed today and read the headlines, one after another.

This is powerful, contextualized reporting that must become the norm: Hegseth and Caine Delve Into Details but Not Results of Iranian Strikes www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...

Many mainstream media outlets referred to bunker busters as imprecise and largely untested and military officials were cautious ahead of the bombing. Leavitt's suggestion that journalists are now trying to "discredit the brave fighter pilots" is a lie SHE is planting. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/u...

“The New York Times reported last week that the court system in Maverick County, Texas, had repeatedly incarcerated people accused of minor crimes for months without filing charges…”this is a blatamt violation of the constitutoon. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/u...

I visited the #handsoff rally in Akron, Oh, est. 2,000 people, mostly white, strollers, Labrador retrievers, pleasant people. A Black friend asked, "Where's the cops?" Pictures from other cities are similar. I am reminded of the First Battle of Bull Run. Social party before the carnage? Thoughts?

Musk's Tesla stock lost about $6 billion in value today but he probably remains the world's richest man. Meanwhile he and Trump and Ohio legislators are cutting aid to the local food bank as Akron Ohio residents, 40,000 in poverty, brace for a monthly $40 increase in electric bills. That's pain.

The First Amendment guarantees the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances. But if lawyers are intimidated by the government for coming to our aid, what becomes our alternative? wapo.st/41XkLl3

The administration is not only forcing our greatest superpower-allies to become more armed, it is angering/taunting them. “I fully share your loathing of European freeloading,” Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, later replied. “It’s PATHETIC.” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

What a horrible first paragraph. This is not about lawyers. It’s an assault on Americans’ right to redress grievances. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Hitler surrounded himself with ppl who would never disagree and thus were afraid to tell him bad news. He didn't know D-Day was happening as a result. Trump has now said twice that he knows nothing about this breach of security and potential risk to American military. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/u...

This is an atrocity committed on America’s military. But then, for the richest people in the world who don’t buy their own groceries, let alone experience combat, they have no clue about real life. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/u...

It took Hitler 12 years to kill 6 million Jews. Trump and Musk -- two of the richest men in the world -- will kill an estimated 1.6 million in just ONE year by suspending HIV treatment, which costs pennies a day. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

My hope in 54 yrs of journalism was to equip the community with facts and solutions that can improve life. Ryan Sorrell at the Kansas City Defender @kcdefender.bsky.social has a 21st Century definition for his newsroom that works for me: "Power-building organization." www.poynter.org/business-wor...

Anyone else see the troubling irony? Musk sent a SpaceX team into a secured FAA area and also has access to the FAA’s finances. www.space.com/space-explor...

This is why we need a free press. Who else has the resources and courage to tell us which words are being removed from our federal vocabulary. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

What you call irony: They’re emptying their prisons of rapists, murderers and drug dealers and sending them here. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/u...

If the Ohio legislature is so dead set against anyone discussing their identity, should we then ban party affiliation from the ballot?

Typical of the Ohio lawmakers to waive academic expectations and take no responsibility for the problem. Ashtabula High was constructed under the guidance of the Ohio School Facilities Commission. The roof has been structurally unsound since, already replaced once. www.cleveland.com/news/2025/02...

If Musk and Trump are suggesting that some treasury notes are fraudulent and don’t have to be repaid, the bond market won’t like that.

The hiring of thousands of federal firefighters has stalled amid a governmentwide freeze ordered by President Trump, just as agencies were beginning to ramp up staffing for the summer wildfire season, according to a firefighters’ union.

In this Ohio diner: As the meeting of Proud Boys was called to order, phones jangled with an accidental email from Elon Musk sharing the home addresses of all people who identified on their IRS 1040 as "public employee." www.newsweek.com/doge-emails-...

I can't do it all. Is someone in the media downloading historic data on the price of eggs before it's shut down?

The movie "Don't Look Up" was perhaps prescient. www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/s...

Talking Feds host @harrylitman.bsky.social has fascinating guests. In this one, historian and journalist @andreapitzer.bsky.social offers chilling observations. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

"Gun Lobbyists and Cambridge Analytica Weaponized Gun Owners’ Private Details for Political Gain."

The president has made diversity, equity and inclusion a central public policy issue. Is he saying that Americans, meanwhile, are prohibited from discussion of the topic?

While Trump fans are getting excited that there was a woman traffic controller and pilot, let’s keep in mind that since women joined the FAA and became pilots, air travel has grown dramatically safer! news.mit.edu/2024/study-f...

The GOP supermajority Ohio House eliminated a rule requiring 24-hour notice of floor votes. The reason given: people find out, they show up. www.cleveland.com/news/2025/01...

Is this why we need a wall and to bomb Mexican drug cartels? To protect rich U.S. drug kingpins? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/t...

Trump pardoned 1400 convicted or charged with participation in Jan 6 riot. Some violent. What will they do on his behalf when free? How does this empower others to harm anyone who peacefully exercises First Amendment rights in opposition to Trump? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

Public education for centuries has been an expanding journey to help all children achieve. Ohio has become a model for giving up on that aspiration, instead catering to the privileged and religion.

The scale of overlap between President-elect Trump’s family members and their business interests — and the government he will lead — underscores how unprecedented the second Trump presidency and the potential for conflicts of interest will be.

The only reason the Panama Canal has emerged from nowhere is an attempt to diminish Jimmy Carter, who at the moment is recognized as the best overall person to ever inhabit the White House.

Putin gave the same reasons for invading Ukraine — national security.

A lesson from Putin? Take what you covet? www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

In case anyone was wondering how democracy is going in our various states, "Republicans on the NC Supreme Court block certification of the Democratic incumbent’s election."

Jimmy Carter was the first president elected from the Deep South since the Civil War. From his time as Governor, when he hung a portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King just a few years after King’s murder, Carter was a powerful voice for equality and racial reconciliation.