Pretty big anti-Trump protest building up on a windy Saturday afternoon at the Ohio Statehouse - largest crowd I’ve seen here since the protest following the US Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturning the right to abortion in 2022

SCOOP: Draft legislation would add to Ohio's budget a $600m 30-yr bond package for a $3.4b domed stadium and development in Brook Park for the Cleveland Browns, and would eliminate a facilities fund paid for by doubling the tax on sports gambling operators www.statenews.org/government-p...

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🧵 In a highly unusual move, the FCC has asked CBS News to hand over the unedited transcript and tapes from its interview with VP Kamala Harris last fall. CBS says "we are working to comply with that inquiry as we are legally compelled to do."

A new era of government censorship has begun. It started with the silencing of scientific speech, when the admin blocked release of research on bird flu. But MAGA has also cracked down on other wrongthink—on race, geography (!), and of course Trump himself www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

New: One America News Network would soon replace NBC News and Breitbart would swap with National Public Radio in coveted Pentagon press corps workspace under a plan shared with journalists Friday night. www.cnn.com/2025/01/31/m...

2024 at the Ohio Statehouse - hundreds of bills didn’t pass. The Statehouse News Bureau's Sarah Donaldson reports on a few of them: www.statenews.org/government-p...

2024 at the Ohio Statehouse - what bills passed? The Statehouse News Bureau's @joingles reports: www.statenews.org/government-p...

I’m at the Charity Newsies auction in my hometown of Lancaster - all proceeds stay in Fairfield County for families and kids. 133 miles from Cleveland and I get outbid for signed Darius Garland stuff because everyone loves the @clevelandcavaliers.bsky.social #LetEmKnow

Ohio Democratic US Sen. Sherrod Brown has run for that office four times. Here are maps that show how the vote in those four elections turned out (maps courtesy of elections stats guru Mike Dawson)

Official results from the 2024 election show 71.7% voter turnout, down from 74% in 2020. Average turnout in 81 Trump-won counties was 74.74% and 67.67 in 7 counties Harris won. Trump won northeast Ohio, once a Democratic stronghold. (Map from elections stats guru Mike Dawson)

This is a tradition for these neighbors - inviting people to use the pens to write what they’re thankful for on feather-shaped papers and tie them to the turkey #Thanksgiving

Ohio’s attorney general - who said last year that voter approval of a reproductive rights amendment would mean the state’s six-week ban on abortion without exceptions would cease to exist - appeals ruling that the law is now unconstitutional www.statenews.org/government-p...

What happened to Ohio Democrats in 2024, and what’s next? A quartet of key Ds share their thoughts on this week’s show: www.ideastream.org/shows/state-...

Snowy Scenes in Cleveland, Ohio