www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-... “The American Deal was that Effort ~ Security. Effort brought your Hope strike closer. But because the real poverty line is $140,000, effort no longer yields security or progress; it brings risk, exhaustion, and debt.”

Just gonna leave this here … Funders, stop viewing your tedious and paternalistic requirements as nonprofit "accountability"

Sure, when orcas rub seaweed on themselves it's called tool use, but when I do it I'm banned from the sushi bar www.cnn.com/2025/06/23/s...

Excited to be part of this! Hope to see y’all in St. Louis.

I <3 satire. @defector.bsky.social

Incredibly moving. 1000s of Lithuanians lined the streets of the capital Vilnius yesterday to honor the four US soldiers killed on their soil. As their bodies are repatriated to the US, their President will be nowhere to be seen, except on a Florida golf course. (📸 Gedinimas Varvuolis)

And this, folks, is why I do NOT support policy-based solutions to the local news crisis. When one party eagerly shreds the Constitution to impose its will, government cannot be trusted with funding of a free press.

The natural leader of the opposition to what is happening to this country is its most popular former president. It’s a tragedy he seems more interested in college basketball.

Kerri ni Dochartaigh, a featured speaker for Ohio University’s Spring Literary Festival, was denied entry to the United States. Given OU’s pre-emptive compliance with anti-DEI measures, I’m guessing they’ll roll over on this, too.

And yet news industry “leaders” love to talk glowingly about AI and offer training on integrating it into our work. Because way too many of those “leaders” haven’t actually done journalism in a decade or more and don’t ask actual journalists what we need.

From the “Ohio GOP to Voters: Fuck Right Off” Department — Issue 2 said part of recreational weed taxes would go to municipalities. DeWine’s budget gives the entire pile of cannabis tax cash to the state to build more prisons. I don’t know why we bother to vote… www.cincinnati.com/story/news/p...

If you base your response to suffering on how someone voted, STFU about being “liberal” or “progressive.” And don’t be sharing memes about how GOP Christians don’t live up to Jesus’ teachings, either.

Oh, Dorothy. You speak to me. #DorothyParker

I'm not sure why we are pretending this has anything to do with "DEI" anymore. There is a systematic effort to purge any acknowledgement that race or racism or gender or misogyny EXIST

Rack up another unintended (but fully predicable) consequence in the drive for “accountability.” The NYT’s opinion pages and political coverage suck ass, but its investigations are still outstanding. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The Trump administration is setting the stage to put the unitary executive theory before SCOTUS — which has already issued a ruling (in Trump v. United States) that’s very much aligned with UE. And the GOP Congress seems perfectly happy to cede power to the executive branch.

You gotta love a legal filing that quotes “The Princess Bride” along with multiple SCOTUS rulings.

Excellent (and spot-on) commentary by @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social

The good news is that reactionary centrists are engaging in some self-reflection on the excesses of the right-wing backlash to 'wokeness.' The bad news is that they are saying it is woke people's fault. archive.is/CaC56

Preach, @chuckcorra.bsky.social!

Owning the libs, destroying the government …

You know things are bad when Dave Yost is more ethical about perceived conflicts of interests than Athens County Prosecutor Keller Blackburn…

It’s happening again: The MSM runs headlines about every stupid thing the man says instead of hammering him on what he’s DOING … like ceding responsibility to an unelected, unvetted tech bro and his barely post-teen cronies. And not one word about the protest outside the Treasury Department.

The one thing Facebook is good for is learning which of your high school friends would've given away Anne Frank's hiding spot.

@rooster.info treats Ohio politics with all the dignity and respect it deserves. I’m a supporter. You should be, too.

"At this point, we do not believe the actions taken are legally sufficient to dismiss Presidentially Appointed, Senate Confirmed Inspectors General" writes Hannibal “Mike” Ware, Council of Inspectors on Integrity and Efficiency

Yesterday, I called on the city of Athens to comply with public records requests I submitted in December related to the city’s loss of $722k in a phishing scam. Late yesterday, they provided some info — but not the most important stuff. Stay tuned…

In case you’re as freaked out by the news as I am, here’s my miniature bull terrier, Grizzly, wrapped up in his favorite fuzzy blanket. You’re welcome. #bulliesofbluesky

Oh goody. Now he’s free to run for governor of Ohio.

Attention fellow journalists: If you don’t know squat about the subject of your story, 4FS run it past someone who does. #newsfail www.citationneeded.news/trump-memeco...