The people who run Ohio, and most of its counties, believe that government is the enemy and, in their minds, having a bunch of disease-ridden vulture carcasses strewn about an elementary school because it ain't no one's job to clean them up is just the price of liberty. bsky.app/profile/nycs...

One possibility here is that Republican policymakers in Ohio are considering new ways to kill because they are predominantly indecent, amoral people, and thus resistance to them is properly understood as more of a moral fight than a political one.

These blatantly skewed maps in states like Texas & Indiana are direct result of Roberts Court decision in 2019 essentially legalizing extreme partisan gerrymandering which doesn’t get enough attention as one of worst things court has done www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"Attempts were made to interview five Republican lawmakers for this story, but they either were unable to meet or did not return phone calls." The reason GOP lawmakers don't like to talk about fairness in public school funding is that they don't believe in public schools.

It's the 160th anniversary of the United States' refounding, the ratification of the 13th Amendment.

Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...

I want to go live in a cave in the woods

Upon further review, the Northwestern capitulation still stinks and will look even worse in hindsight.

Support independent journalism. Consider throwing some coin at @ohiocapitaljournal.com before the end of the year.

“Hence the question addressed to those who participated and obeyed orders should never be, ’Why did you obey?’ but ’Why did you support?’” -Hannah Arendt

The thing is, folks, if you're going to elect an Internet troll/used car salesman to the U.S. Senate, then you really can't expect anything other than government by trolling/sleazing. The good Senator is what he is and will never be anything more, and we all knew that going in.

I read a lot of news, a lot of criticism and analysis, from as many places as I can inhale into my brain, every day. The message of this moment is to reclaim our humanity, affirmatively, unequivocally. From autocrats, from corporations, from bigots, from machines. Join forces. Reclaim it.

"Demagoguery is a parasite that flourishes where discrimination fails, and only those who are at grips with things themselves are impervious to it. For, in the last analysis, the demagogue, whether of the Right or the Left, is consciously or unconsciously an undetected liar.” -Walter Lippmann

In all earnestness, I resist online profanity for the sake of my family and common decency in this degenerate era. But with this Northwestern surrender, I can’t help it. As a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism, I’ve got to tell the NU administration: Go fuck yourselves, you fucking cowards.

It's one thing to set the world ablaze because greed got the better of us yet again, quite another to set it ablaze in the service of a technology that seems designed to end us.

Imagine how amazing Thanksgiving would be if the featured protein wasn’t a dry, middling bird.

If you're going to play devil's advocate today, do it right - don't just argue that tariffs are good, argue that the Dark Lord deserves to feast on our eternal souls given willingly and in the service of torment

"Maybe you need to get your eyes checked. Not every air-filled spherical cavity is a bubble. That happens all the time in nature for all sorts of reasons. In this particular case, it’s because the American economy is 100 percent healthy and has no underlying issues."

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

You know that these people are creeps and that our political and media culture and institutions are rotten, but then you learn that the failson antivax HHS secretary is smoking DMT and writing filthy poetry to a reporter and you are reminded yet again that it’s somehow actually worse than you think.

Future generations will marvel at the scope of the corruption and the forces that conspired to tell us it was no big deal.

Almost every day presents a new opportunity to talk with my kids about how something that just happened is highly unusual and very bad.

Goddamn dude, just go ahead knock 25 percent off my 401k and get on with it, I can't take much more of this.

The bubble is so beautiful. Everyone keep blowing.

The tone of absolute moral outrage in this piece by @daviddewitt.bsky.social is just right. 👌

Like old-world bakers constantly tinkering with their recipes, the Frank LaRoses of the world hone their craft, except instead of making an artisanal loaf of some sort, they make democracy less representative.

What has Gordon Gee accomplished so far as an OSU consultant? He wrote a Fox News op-ed and succeeded at furthering his one and only life mission: the personal enrichment of one E. Gordon Gee. Great job, everyone.

Schwab really going out on a limb here with this bold analysis: Investing "could" be better for you than gambling.

Someone’s got to say it: Ohio State's association with Les Wexner and Anduril is gross.

“We are slow to realize that democracy is a life and involves continual struggle. It is only as those of every generation who love democracy resist with all their might the encroachments of its enemies that the ideals of representative government can even be nearly approximated.” -Robert La Follette

EXCEDRIN BETTER WATCH OUT

We gotta have a clear term for people so cynical they become gullible.

Republicans have many priorities currently ranking higher than feeding the hungry, among them: building a White House ballroom, keeping us from determining whether President Trump is a pedophile, blowing up people in boats, banning Tylenol and rehabilitating Confederate generals.

It's easy to doom all the time now, particularly if you're hardwired that way. Getting your hands dirty and dropping the screens helps. Getting smacked in the face with a wall of feedback also helps.

This is insane. This is *literally* doing the same mechanics of the housing crisis and 2008 recession but to create debt to finance construction of AI data centers www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Increases the degree of difficulty a bit when you also have to oppose the opposition party.

None of these Democrats should enjoy a moment's peace. Cortez Masto (NV) Durbin (IL) Fetterman (PA) Gillibrand (NY) Hassan (NH) Peters (MI) Schatz (HI) Schumer (NY) Shaheen (NH) They've effectively just voted for Donald Trump's agenda without putting up a fight. Never let them hear the end of it.

Truly a mystery why the Democratic Party polls worse than chlamydia.

This shit is why people don’t trust the Democratic Party.

The Democrats are the Cleveland Browns of political parties. This is like somehow losing to a New York Jets team led by Justin Fields attempting 11 passes. Institutionalized loserdom.

In retrospect, Fox really nailed the depiction of establishment Dems with Colmes - willing to be a punching bag for the right, openly cowardly, all while basically agreeing with the right's core ideas.

Democrats have to stop bailing out Republicans from facing the consequences of their own policies. And yeah, that means they have to stop sparing voters from experiencing what GOP government truly means. Every time Dems step in, it only emboldens the GOP & they make it even worse the next time.

Have R senators? (Like me?) Call Schumer’s office to tell him you will never donate to another D senate campaign again as long as he’s Senate leader. Tell him this deal is a shameful joke and a betrayal. (202) 224-6542

Oh look: the Missouri Secretary of State apparently went to the Frank LaRose School of Deceptive Ballot Proposals.

lol

luckily after tuesday, the trump administration is soberly focusing on economic issues that matter, like shutting down 10% of US flights and depriving people of food

"You see my kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to . . . ." -Mark Twain

More on the Wexner/Epstein connection here:

There’s going to come a day — I don’t know when but hope it’s during my lifetime — when Les Wexner’s name is ripped from every building it’s on, and Ohio State and everyone else who has accepted his money is forced to publicly atone for their association with him.