It's kind of niche-y, but if you're in this particular niche it's pretty hilarious. But -- Github takes stuff down? (Look at the comments on Sascha's post for an updated version.)

"In April, the House in a rare bipartisan move passed a bill to extend TPS for Haiti for three years, but it’s unlikely to overcome the 60-vote threshold in the GOP-controlled Senate." Media needs to ask Gov DeWine what he's doing to push Husted and Moreno on this.

"Cleveland needs an identity,” IBEW Local 38’s Mike Bremmer told council members... “We could be the tech capital of the Midwest." Funny, I thought you guys settled on Blockland. Or maybe it was Believeland (as in The City That Will Believe Anything).

That includes about 40,000 rural Ohio households. /.1

Thank you @theverge.com for a great piece by @karlbode.com and @seangon.bsky.social. This is a big untold story in rural Ohio, especially some Appalachian counties. Maybe some reporter could do a little digging at BroadbandOhio instead of writing that umpteenth datacenter backgrounder.

Since March, Vivek Ramaswamy has traveled to Portugal, Greece, the Bahamas, Port Clinton and Akron aboard the new private jet that he worked hard to hide ownership of. Full logs, here: www.rooster.info/p/vivek-rama...

Amazon LEO pulls out of BEAD commitment in Nebraska "due to changes in their business plans”. Hmmmm. Amazon LEO (fm Kuiper) was picked for more than 280K BEAD locations in 25 states, despite big questions about their satellite readiness. How many more are subject to those "business plan changes"?

Let the [BEAD] defaults... BEGIN!!! www.broadband.io/c/get-broadb... Did we not learn from the RDOF default fiasco: lowest-bid contracts yield extremely high default rates unless you have *meaningful* repercussions for defaulters. Mark my words, this will get much worse over the next 18-24 months.

Agree with @rooster.info but it's not just rural Ohio. New Albany isn't rural. Hilliard and Dublin aren't rural. Hamilton isn't rural. Lordstown, Niles, Massillon aren't rural. The AWS hypersite in Stark Co is a mile from the Canton city limit. All places Dems need some clear "animating issues".

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That's me at bottom left.

Cleveland.com's Rich Exner reports on the GCP's predictable opposition to a city data center moratorium to review zoning rules, without once mentioning the developer who just quietly applied for a rubber-stamp permit to build a 300,000 SF, 150 MW hyperscale in Slavic Village, and almost got it.

Genuinely puzzled. Two weeks ago tomorrow, neo-trans.blog revealed that an investment group plans to put a 150 MW hyperscale data center on a vacant lot in a Cleveland neighborhood. Big controversy. But Cleveland.com has still not mentioned it. Are they just sulking about Prendergast scooping them?

And the Trump Administration replied: "They get me!"

Ken Prendergast at NEOtrans, still the only source of actual reporting on this story, says the Lakeland Equity permit application for a hyperscale data center in Slavic Village was nixed because no drawings were included. They can resubmit, but maybe not in time to evade proposed City moratorium.

Duh. But I'm glad somebody is checking.

On X and IG. Don't see a release on the City website yet.

It's been a full week since @neotrans.bsky.social broke the story of a permit application being filed for a 150 MW hyperscale data center in the middle of Cleveland's Slavic Village neighborhood. As of today, cleveland.com still hasn't published a word about it. Very weird.

I don't think anyone thought in 2023 that this was likely to work out, but the City Hall consensus was "What the hell, nothing to lose, give it a shot." Three years later, SiFi is officially a dud, 40%+ of Cleveland homes still don't have fiber access, and there's no plan to change the situation.

Just leaving this here icymi. :)

The Trump administration's anti-civil rights agenda has landed the Digital Equity Act in its crosshairs — but the fight isn't over yet. Read the latest from Broadband Policy Director @alisavalentin.bsky.social: publicknowledge.org/inequity-is-...

One year ago today. /1

"Staff members at Slavic Village Development, the local community development corporation, did not respond to phone messages or emails. Councilwoman Deborah Gray, who represents the neighborhood, did not respond to an interview request." Huh. Very careful. Meanwhile, still no story at cleveland.com.

I'm quoted at length here, thanks @seangon.bsky.social.

"A 150-megawatt, $1.6 billion data center planned for Cleveland’s Slavic Village is in a race to get its plans approved before City Council can pass a moratorium on building more data centers... Those plans were submitted to the city’s Building Department on May 5." Good reporting by NEOtrans.

Translating for Affordability Democrats: Court gives wealthy AT&T/Verizon CEOs permission to go right on raising Internet costs for millions of working families by withholding fiber competition from their neighborhoods, leaving them at the mercy of overpriced cable monopolies. Brendan Carr loves it.

Um, right. Three massive new buildings filled with servers and HVAC along with with backup generators, all loudly humming away on 35 acres in the middle of Slavic Village, literally next door to a bunch of houses. That's gonna fly.

Oh good. I feel better now.

Reminder to @amyactonoh.bsky.social and other @ohdems.bsky.social seeking "affordability" proposals: Most of Cleveland's 170K households can now get <$20 per month broadband thanks to a $20 mil City investment, matched by $10 mil from the state, in DigitalC's nonprofit 5G fixed wireless network.

It's the Sunday before primary Tuesday. Early voting started April 7. Three Dems want the chance to run for OH Cong Dist 14 vs. GOP incumbent Dave Joyce. As hardcore frequent Dem voters, we've received exactly one (1) communication about this race (a postcard mailer) from any of the three. WTAF?

The Ohio GOP historically hates local home rule (they make an exception for wind and solar opponents), while Dems have favored it unless it inconvenienced a favored lobby (police unions, AT&T). In this environment Dems would benefit from strong clear principled support. Not holding my breath.

"Led by Chairman Rep. Dave Joyce, R-Ohio, the subcommittee’s legislation would prevent any FCC funds from going toward the enforcement of digital discrimination rules enacted during the Biden administration." But Chairman Carr can use those funds to attacked politically noncompliant broadcasters. /1

Per Ookla's speed test data, in the 2nd half of 2025 only 31.5 % of Starlink users in Ohio had 100/20 Mbps service, which is the Federal standard for being "served" by broadband. Yet BroadbandOhio and the Feds are about to award Starlink almost half of the state's BEAD rural broadband slots.

I hope Pope Leo and Cardinal Parolin are talking directly with the American bishops. US Reps Joyce (R-OH14) and Rullii (R-OH6) definitely need to hear the Pope's message from Bishop Bonnar of the Youngstown Diocese and his flock.

I estimate the top 5 providers have increased their share of the US home Internet market from 68% to 75% via FCC-blessed buyouts of Cox by Charter, Frontier by Verizon, and Lumen's home fiber operations by AT&T. T Mobile (#5) reportedly may soon add another 1% by buying out Uniti/Windstream (#10).

An excerpt from Trump's 2027 budget document released Friday. The Digital Equity Act also prioritizes rural residents and veterans but... well, you know.

Yesterday was 4 months since the Commerce Dept "approved" its own version of Ohio's plan to spend Federal BEAD dollars to subsidize broadband deployment to unserved rural locations. But the plan's still secret! No details to be found on the NTIA or BroadbandOhio websites except this infographic. /1

Get ready Clevelanders www.miaminewtimes.com/news/maybe-m...

There are many reasons to question why you'd want Cleveland to spend $600+ million on this forgettable "concept". But a prior question is why Mayor Bibb is willing to let the Trump FAA and two MAGA Senators take the City hostage right now over an airport closure that can easily wait a few years.

Cleveland.com today: AI Guy Chris Quinn and "the readers" scoff at Mayor Bibb's ideas for replacing Burke (a golf course! LOL!) then demonstrate they have none of their own. But don't worry, by the time any of this happens Bibb will be gone and Quinn will have replaced Atassi with an Editor Bot.

Voters in southern Ashtabula and Trumbull Counties, remember this from State Rep Davis Thomas: “Data centers are an important part of Ohio’s future, and we want to continue attracting them." Not sure what "progressive" Tristan Rader thinks he's doing here, but it's dumb.

Lining the street after the #NoKings rally in Ashtabula OH

Ashtabula OH #NoKings

Just unsubscribed from the @broadbandbreakfast.bsky.social email newsletter. I do not need Ted Hearn in the morning.

Ohio's own Mister Misdirection. Photo ID to vote isn't the issue. Requiring a $65 passport or a $25 birth certificate to *register* to vote is the issue. Ohio's former SOS certainly knows the difference. Husted isn't this stupid. But apparently he is this shameless.

I'm going to listen but I think I already know the answer.

Cool to see the Onion sending a reporter to Cleveland Hopkins.

FracTracker map shows four Class II injection wells within five miles of our house in Ashtabula County near the PA state line.

This is exactly on the money. 👉 "[A] huge swath of the animosity [to AI] is being driven by historic and justified anger at the extraction class. That anger and energy is good, and just, and... deserves a wide berth." (Karl has a longer version of this at karlbode.com/the-problem-.... )

Ohio Republican U.S. Sen. Jon Husted can't leave Washington, D.C., to testify in the largest public corruption trial in Ohio history due to the "Iran war," the defense attorneys said, but did find time to return to the state to attend a fundraiser. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/03/09/h...