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Wrote about the Columbus city council race open.substack.com/pub/belldumb...

I wrote this for Awful Announcing, and I can’t stress enough how important of a watch this is. This documentary demands justice, and I truly hope Ohio State will finally step up to the plate and deliver.

Moved to Chicago this week, so that’s cool. If any of yall are here would be great to hang out. Will also be back and forth in Columbus for the next year.

Great stuff from @juicewag.bsky.social about Mounir Lynch’s School Board campaign. Really hope he pulls off the upset. belldumber.substack.com/p/lets-fix-t...

My endorsement for Columbus City School Board, along with an interview of @m0umir.bsky.social. I guess the second part kind of goes with the first. belldumber.substack.com/p/lets-fix-t...

Did not expect my family to get shouted out by the president today and do not like it one bit !

Goes without saying but cutting cancer research because of faux accusations of antisemitism will lead to far more antisemitism and far less cancer research.

Posted this on the other site (sorry) but: I think it’s really interesting that Ohio State established a center for “cultivating citizens for a free society” and the center has said literally nothing about 11 students having their visas revoked for exercising free speech

Looking up this genre of article will make you so impossibly angry amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/07/...

If you live near Worthington you should share this with your circles. We cannot have local (alt right) restaurants raising money for convicted murderers.

If I ever see one of those signs they’re getting pried off the wall, it’s our civic duty

One of the funniest corporate blog posts I’ve ever read whining about a more successful competitor editing their Wikipedia pages but with no evidence except a reference to a lake in Djibouti www.oracle.com/news/announc...

One image to sum up where we’re at

My take on this is that even in a D midterm it will be very hard to win Ohio Gov and I’d much rather have Vivek lose in the primary.

The Ye tweets being just so profoundly openly anti-Semitic and not even getting taken down is probably my final straw on the other site. It’s just so deeply hurtful.

Evergreen

There is nothing in my mind more important right now than effective dem messaging and this is absolutely not it. We do not need these attacks against us, and free oppo messaging. t.co/TQP8QTP3n6

One of the people running DOGE, Luke Farritor, messaged me several years ago on LinkedIn asking about when I worked at McDonald’s in high school. Not groundbreaking or anything but kind of funny.

I do think there’s a solid chance they didn’t actually mean to pause Medicaid/SNAP/etc. payments but are so grossly incompetent it just happened

Obviously the funding freeze is tremendously bad but I think if anything it can help end the rampant apathy amongst D’s lately

Thank you to my supporters on Bluesky for uplifting me during this contentious legal process. I take great pride in being a Buckeye, and more in requiring them to follow the law. This is a win for us all.

Folks, @juicewag.bsky.social and I did it. We successfully sued Ohio State as the university threw in the towel moments ago. We need to peruse the documents first, but this is a massive win for Twitter Law University.

Getting followed by bots here now, I guess this site really has made it

I think it’s kind of funny that if anyone could actually describe TPOT Mangione would be seen in an entirely different, very negative, light but it’s so disgustingly gross that it can’t reach the mainstream or even be described

Couldn’t stop thinking about this so I tracked down an employee and got to the bottom of it. What Ohio State did is deeply evil.

Tomorrow on The Rooster:

I’m sure I’m preaching to the choir but people absolutely need to be up in arms over this. Ohio State gave the lowest paid employees of the school (who made the exact minimum to not be OT eligible!) a raise to the new threshold. The threshold was lowered in court and on Jan 1 they’re just reverting

I think it’s morally fine to hold political staffers accountable for the sins of their bosses. If you don’t want that you can get a job with a non-morally stained party or member or just get a job in the real world.

One thing I’ve never understood is the insistence that elected officials immediately concede when the race is called. Race calls aren’t official events, it’s two companies (and a few news orgs) making a determination. Concede whenever you want, the certification is what matters.

What are you doing today to destroy Moms for Liberty?

Writing legislation for the State of Ohio that would take all the Jobs Ohio money and give it to the Ohio State NIL collective. A much better use of cash.

To get a little political- the AP should be ashamed of their PA Sen call. It’s wrong and indefensible even though it’ll probably end up right.

Worst part of last week is the empowerment of the freaks at DCA to wear their hats all over

Guess I’m here full time huh

If Tuesday goes the other way I think I’ll be here fulltime

Today in The Rooster (me):

I could never stop work from home because something about waking up 2 minutes before my first meeting and rushing to make it is the best part of my day

I went to a patients home the other day and they had this 5 foot by 5 foot framed on the wall

am once again thinking about Obama listening to The Beth’s and cackling (obviously he doesn’t)

using my next invite code for my fursona

I’m not on a posting strike I just haven’t had anything funny to say

I’ve decided this platform is worlds better than Twitter and threads but there’s so few people on it the timeline sucks. Threads makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a rusted spork.

cheese castle

I live next to a supreme store and I get a good chuckle of walking past a 50+ person line of people waiting to get let in? at all hours of the day

Found a train today

in this house we believe - most of what YIMBY people believe - the sanctity of a grilled cheese versus a melt - inflation is a supply side issue - break up all monopolies - natalism would work if you stopped lollygagging - Bulldoze all pickleball courts and build Team Handball courts - Ohio

Saw Asteroid City last night and it was disgustingly good. I wanted to hate it so bad but damn it rocked.

Wait blue sky doesn’t have drafts what the hell