Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.

Ancient earthworks in Newark, Ohio, were made a World Heritage site. Some celebrated, but for others it was a source of cultural conflict ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/09/t...

Erasing history.

The central point is that when fascism came to America it wouldn't call itself that, nor would it be wearing a swastika. It would call itself "patriotic" and "100% American."

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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

Charlie believed violence was ok… as long as we get to keep the second amendment

US Trump regime, under the direction of JD Vance attempted to coup d'état President Zelenskyy of Ukraine, after the "you didn't say thank you" White House ambush in March. The US tried to recruit Ukraine's UK ambassador Valerii Zaluzhnyi who told them to get fucked & rejected their calls.

Northeast Ohio is a big part of Trump deportation network www.clevescene.com/news/northea...

US accused of conducting hostile campaign designed to destabilize Denmark, a close democratic ally amp.dw.com/en/denmark-s...

I loved @vermontgmg.bsky.social's latest piece so much that I asked if I could republish it on The Handbasket and he so generously said yes. If you haven't read it yet, please do. It's essential:

Commentary: What Pandora’s Box has Ohio Gov. DeWine opened by sending National Guard troops to DC? His participation in Trump's military occupation of the nation's capital to target American civilians makes DeWine directly complicit in whatever comes next. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/08/20/o...

“Between Jan. 1, 2024 and March 24, 2025, Huffman’s political action committee (PAC) Huffman for Ohio accepted $60,999 from Jimmy and Dee Haslam, according to campaign finance reports. The couple are among the Ohio House speaker’s largest individual donors.”

On the State Department reports that portray Germany as more oppressive than El Salvador. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

🚨🚨🚨 The next attack on organized labor from Statehouse Republicans is here. State Reps. Thad Claggett and Heidi Workman are soliciting co-sponsors for legislation that would ban project labor agreements from local entities without Home Rule authority.

Purported Congressional redistricting map floating around. I’ll say this much: It looks almost exactly like what I would expect and lends credence to the long-standing rumor that Senate Minority Leader Nickie Antonio cut a deal to move Cleveland’s seat to the west so she can run for office.

I can’t believe this

As Peruvian fascist president General Óscar Benavides said in the 1930s: “For my friends, everything; for my enemies, THE LAW.” Trump’s “friendship” has a price — and it’s payable in crypto.

Browns owner Jimmy Haslam and his co-conspirator “Sweet Dee,” both of whom, in my opinion, should be in federal prison, are spending hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars to defeat progressive Boston mayor Michelle Wu.

Texas was devastated by deadly floods. In the aftermath, FEMA Acting Administrator David Richardson is nowhere to be found. In any other administration, this would be an epic scandal. But with Trump, it's treated as business as usual. Read my latest:

In the course of an answer to a question about state budgets for disaster response and recovery, FEMA Acting Director Richardson said he just learned from his girlfriend (who has “huge red hair”) that Texas is bigger than Spain. He consulted a map to be sure.

Trump is slowly, quietly, lifting sanctions on Russia. And halting previously allocated munitions too. Without an announcement, US policy is beginning to favor not a ceasefire, but Russian success www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...

Tucked into the State Budget, which our beautiful legislators are about to pass momentarily, is a provision that would ban public records requests for communications between legislators or between legislators and their staffers. Section 101.3 for those scoring at home.

It's decision time for Gov. DeWine: Shoot down the legislature's plan to gift Browns owner Jimmy Haslam with $600m in hopes of reviving his plan for gifting Haslam with a different $600m, or acquiesce in order to get the stadium across the finish line.

💰 WATCH: “How is that happening?” 🤷🏼‍♂️ @aoc.bsky.social informs a confused RFK Jr. that his own HHS is stuffing the pockets of insurance companies by doubling the rates taxpayers pay them even as they defraud us. 🤔

SCOOP: After weeks of murkiness about who is funding the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, where hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, sources reveal top Trump officials are *forcing* USAID to send up to $210 million to GHF. Read @premthakker.bsky.social's article: zeteo.com/p/scoop-usai...

It will not surprise any of you to learn, I think a lot about taxonomy. The current system we use (Linnean classification) groups animals by common descent, and uses similarity of structures and the fossil record to try and do so accurately. "How closely related are these, in evolutionary terms?"

In case anybody missed how the election was STOLEN 💻🗳🛰 #TrumpLost #KamalaWon thiswillhold.substack.com/p/she-won-th...

Amazing. NYT has more confirmation that Trump's decision to bomb Iran was motivated in large part by the way the Israeli strikes were "playing" on Fox News, which drove him to want credit for it

NEW VIDEO: Trump’s masked Gestapo brutally beating an unarmed day laborer in SANTA ANA, CA The constitution in shreds. 🇺🇸 Original post: www.instagram.com/reel/DLLIdku...

Masked ICE agents spotted swapping out license plates this morning in Bell Gardens, CA

SB1 is a full-blown assault on higher education — a fascist gag order dressed up as “reform.” Ohio wants to muzzle professors, erase Black history, and kill academic freedom. We’re not letting that happen. SIGN THE PETITION: ohsb1petition.com

Alt Text says: Al-Rasheed Street carrying sacks of flour after aid trucks entered through the Zikim area in northern Gaza. The scene highlights the scale of the humanitarian crisis, as desperate residents rush to secure basic food supplies amid ongoing shortages and siege. Photographer: Saeed Jaras

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

It’s not just Mike Lee — Bernie Moreno is pretending that a registered Republican evangelical anti-abortion Trump voter who assassinated a Democrat and had more on his hit list is a representative of “the extreme left”

Russian attack vs Ukrainian attack

Ohio Republicans, including State Sen. Jerry Cirino, a former businessman who campaigned on making government operate like a business, have produced a budget with a mammoth income tax cut for wealthy people like themselves.

Narc in the Park!

Ohio Republicans want to cut funding for schools but add curriculum that teaches abstinence, patriotism and monogamy

LAPD shoot US woman with a rubber bullet for trying to get into her home, they were blocking her entrance and there was no protest in sight. “Holy fuck — They literally just shot her point blank… I live here…” ( www.tiktok.com/@labyrinthlore) #3E #StopICE

DELETED: Trump administration deleted a webpage summarizing evidence that “undocumented immigrants are arrested at less than half the rate of native-born U.S. citizens for violent and drug crimes and a quarter the rate of native-born citizens for property crimes.” 1/2

Under Trump's economic plan, people making between $17K and $51K could lose an average $700 in after-tax income, taking into account tax and social spending changes, according to a new study. Those make $4.3M or more would gain an average $389K. @tonyromm.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...

It’s 2 am and we’re still marking up massive cuts to Medicaid. While their constituents are asleep, Republicans are trying to take away health care from 13.7 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. They want you to tune out. Don’t ⬇️ x.com/i/broadcasts...

AOC: The math is not adding up. Their claim is that one million undocumented people are on Medicaid. So why are they trying to cut 13.7 million Americans off their healthcare?

This new Times piece on the last month of American bombing of Yemen has some insane details. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...

EXCLUSIVE: We dug up a video of Donald Trump trashing Qatar in 2017 calling them “funders of terrorism.” I’m sure he would hate if this clip changed their mind to give him a $400 million plane - so definitely don’t repost it.

The Ag Committee's part of the Reconciliation Bill raises the SNAP work requirement age for able-bodied adults without dependents from 54 to 64. It also changes the definition of "dependent child" from under 18 years to under 7 years old to determine "Able-bodied adult without dependents."

NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.