oh thank god ohio weighed in

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legitimately one of the most pathetic moves I’ve ever seen.

the 6 year old: “when I grow up I’m going to be a person who helps everyone… (pause) …that’s why I’m going to be an assassin.”

Every week I read a story that stops me in my tracks and many are from Matter News. This is one.

Two Ohio brothers built a sprawling prison telecommunications firm. They were shut down after a year in business. New from Ellin Youse. matternews.org/community/po...

This is a sad and remarkable story.

Two Ohio brothers built a sprawling prison telecommunications firm. They were shut down after a year in business. New from Ellin Youse. matternews.org/community/po...

Two Ohio brothers built a sprawling prison telecommunications firm. They were shut down after a year in business. New from Ellin Youse. matternews.org/community/po...

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“I was not on [federal benefits] for a long time, but it’s been helpful for me to get food as I work to become self-sufficient,” Saeda said via an interpreter in late October. “But with [SNAP] being discontinued next month, I’m very much afraid of what will happen.” matternews.org/community/fe...

“I want to tell the people out there, this is not a refugee problem, this is an American issue,” she said, going on to draw attention to the essential lifeline SNAP provides to low-income families across demographic lines, and especially to single parents with children.”

“I was not on [federal benefits] for a long time, but it’s been helpful for me to get food as I work to become self-sufficient,” Saeda said via an interpreter in late October. “But with [SNAP] being discontinued next month, I’m very much afraid of what will happen.” matternews.org/community/fe...

Great ink by @andydowning33.bsky.social in @matternews.bsky.social about the new doc #TeenageWasteland screening Nov 6 at 7pm at #theWex as part of this year's Unorthodocs! The fest runs Nov 6 - 10! #documentary matternews.org/culture/expe...

“You don’t know the times your movie will meet when you begin to make it. ... And I’m not saying you have to trespass, but I think symbolically we need to encourage a certain amount of creative trespassing. We need to lean into what’s uncomfortable.” matternews.org/culture/expe...

the plan? transform yourself into a right-wing influencer so when the time comes and you need life-saving medical care the president and his team will intervene on your behalf

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“That whole early time was such a blur, and I don’t remember most of it, but I was working every day, and I was super hungry to make something cool and to just be good at something. … I mean, at the end of the day it’s just rock music. We’re not trying to outsmart it.” matternews.org/culture/musi...

happy halloween to everyone except the kid who handed me back the starburst.

Guess who's now writing the Local Politics column for @matternews.bsky.social ! My first this month is about the Columbus Ohio school board elections next week— but it's actually a lot more than that. If you have city politics tips for Columbus, please find me :) matternews.org/voices/local...

Here's the debut from our new Local Politics columnist, Jules Roscoe, who recently moved to Columbus from Boston, where they covered politics for the Boston Guardian, in addition to writing for 404 Media, Wired, and Vice. matternews.org/voices/local...

Breaking news out of the Wexner Center. matternews.org/culture/art/...

“I do have reservations about letting certain parts of myself be revealed, but even on this phone call I’m trying to be super open and honest without thinking about it, because ... that’s what you deserve. Just like anyone who listens to the music, that’s what they deserve to get out of it.”

“There was a stretch where I was like, maybe Kurdish literature is all dark and heavy, and maybe it is all about genocide and being a refugee. But, no, that really isn’t the case, which is fantastic.” matternews.org/culture/word...

weekend reading icymi matternews.org/community/st...

“And so, [when we perform], I bring everything I am, everything that I’ve been doing, everything that I’ve conquered. It’s my last will and testament. No matter if I’m able to survive what these people intend for me, this is my legacy.” matternews.org/uncategorize...

“It was easily the most toxic culture I’ve ever had to work in or be around.” In late August, 13 employees at the Wexner Center signed on to a letter sent to university officials in which they expressed a vote of no confidence in the leadership of executive director Gaëtane Verna.

so far today I've had people on social media ask me if I work for the venezuelan drug runners, suggest I started the fires that burned down cities during the george floyd protests, and been told I suffer from "a darkening of the intellect."

As a longtime member, this hurts to read. Hope the people I know who still work there are managing to cope through the dysfunction.

“It was easily the most toxic culture I’ve ever had to work in or be around.” In late August, 13 employees at the Wexner Center signed on to a letter sent to university officials in which they expressed a vote of no confidence in the leadership of executive director Gaëtane Verna.

Vice President JD Vance wrote on X that “killing cartel members who poison our fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military.” But U.S. officials saying fentanyl comes from Venezuela doesn’t make it so writes @jackshuler.bsky.social. matternews.org/voices/fenta...

“Todd May asked us, ‘Are your songs going to be different now that your windows will be different windows?’ And that’s a sincere concern that I have.” Ahead of a move to California, Micah Schnabel and Vanessa Jean Speckman will commune with friends for a farewell show at Rumba on Thursday.

craig’s newsletter is a daily must-read for me but I found this last bit on ai slop particularly resonant.

Columbus: The free hometown event for my indie rock book is THIS Wednesday night, Oct. 22 at the McConnell Arts Center in Worthington. 7 p.m. I'm speaking + reading + doing Q&A, and there will even be some audio and video cues. Also: a cash bar! Reserve a seat: ci.ovationtix.com/36926/produc...

CMHA’s recent decision to purchase a large downtown property nearly a decade after stepping back from that model emerged from being caught in a swirl of a growing need for affordable housing, changes in federal policies, and new ways of looking at housing needs. New from Brian Williams.

Implement forced outing of LGBT kids, put them at risk of homelessness and then take away housing resources. Great job being cruel and heartless, Ohio politicians. "Residents express fear, uncertainty as Kaleidoscope prepares to end youth housing program." matternews.org/community/re...

still the best halloween house in the neighborhood

“I think life really is what it is in contrast to death, and at least for me it’s hard to feel present and appreciative of what’s happening around me if I don’t remember that I’m very much mortal and I’m not going to be here to experience the world and love and other people for very long.”

“We never assumed we wouldn’t make it,” said Ohio University professor Tom Hayes, who returned to Columbus this week after being detained by Israeli forces on Oct. 8 following an attempt to deliver medical supplies to Gaza. “All of us wanted the mission to succeed.” matternews.org/community/th...

“We never assumed we wouldn’t make it,” said Ohio University professor Tom Hayes, who returned to Columbus this week after being detained by Israeli forces on Oct. 8 following an attempt to deliver medical supplies to Gaza. “All of us wanted the mission to succeed.” matternews.org/community/th...

“If there’s a legislative agenda we should have, it should be to eradicate houselessness in our city,” Upchurch said. “And I don’t understand why we don’t have that bigger, shared vision of liberation in our community.” matternews.org/community/re...

a reminder that this is coming up thursday at two dollar hq www.facebook.com/events/77302...

“If there’s a legislative agenda we should have, it should be to eradicate houselessness in our city,” Upchurch said. “And I don’t understand why we don’t have that bigger, shared vision of liberation in our community.” matternews.org/community/re...

“If somebody is scrubbing that history from the Smithsonian, people can still be introduced to it in this way. And I think that’s something important for us as creators to keep in mind: If you want to erase it from there, well, we’re going to flood it into everything we do.”

Columbus artist LaShae Boyd explores issues of childhood trauma, faith, and recovery in "A Letter to the Liberated Child," which kicks off at Brandt Gallery with an opening reception today (Friday, Oct. 10). matternews.org/culture/art/...

“I almost never sit down with an idea. ... And I like that it’s a puzzle. Instead of going to a therapist, I can sit in my studio and start picking things apart, like, ‘This painting is about this, and this is about this.’ … I never know what that next show is going to be until it builds itself.”