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Matter News @matternews.bsky.social · 18h

“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.”

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‘There’s no going back’: Inside the Freedom Flotilla Coalition's latest humanitarian venture – Matter News

‘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 me...

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“One of the stipulations of this ceasefire is 600 trucks a day in aid, which is roughly what was coming into Gaza prior to the start of the genocide,” Hayes said. “And the thing is, 80 percent of the housing stock has been demolished or damaged. The medical infrastructure has been obliterated. The drinking water infrastructure is obliterated. The electrical infrastructure is obliterated. So, 600 trucks a day is cosmetic. Every crossing needs to be thrown open. The Gaza airport needs its runways repaved so there’s an air corridor. A maritime humanitarian corridor needs to be opened, and the world needs to respond on the level of the Berlin Airlift or the Marshall Plan.”

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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 18h

“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.”

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‘There’s no going back’: Inside the Freedom Flotilla Coalition's latest humanitarian venture – Matter News

‘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 me...

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Matter News @matternews.bsky.social · 1d

“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.”

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Residents express fear, uncertainty as Kaleidoscope prepares to end youth housing program – Matter News

Kaleidoscope Youth Center announced in mid-September that it would be closing its housing program for queer youth after the Ohio Department of Health declined to renew the Columbus-based nonprofit’s g...

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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 1d

a reminder that this is coming up thursday at two dollar hq

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Matter News Community Conversations: The State of Our Independent Concert Venues

Event in Columbus by Matter on Thursday, October 16 2025

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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 1d

“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.”

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Residents express fear, uncertainty as Kaleidoscope prepares to end youth housing program – Matter News

Kaleidoscope Youth Center announced in mid-September that it would be closing its housing program for queer youth after the Ohio Department of Health declined to renew the Columbus-based nonprofit’s g...

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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 2d

“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.”

The monsters in ‘Ring Shout’ are rooted in historical realities – Matter News

Author P. Djèlí Clark will appear in conversation with Columbus poet and cultural critic Scott Woods at Thurber House on Thursday, Oct. 16.

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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 5d

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).

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LaShae Boyd reconciles with the past, looks to a brighter future – Matter News

The Columbus artist 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).

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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 6d

“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.”

Daniel Ferlan works toward joy – Matter News

Coming off of a memorial show for his late mother, the Columbus artist landed on ‘Tripping Over the Underneath,’ an exhibition now on display at Sharon Weiss Gallery that he described as a celebration...

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Lair Of The Gurt Sherm (Stoker 1911) @gurtsherm.bsky.social · 7d

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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 8d

“The dinner can still be really good if you didn’t brown the zucchini to the right point. It’s not about technical perfection every step of the way. The world still goes on. Ultimately, what really matters is us being together. And the food is in service of that but rarely the point of it.”

Matter News @matternews.bsky.social · 8d

“But I think watching [my father] die was a real moment of clarity for me, like, oh, I’m going to die one day, too. … And when I’m in this position and I’m dying, I want to look back on love and friendship and nature and beauty and joy.”

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Samin Nosrat gets to the heart of cooking in ‘Good Things’ – Matter News

The celebrated chef and author brings her current book tour to the Davidson Theatre on Friday, Oct. 10, where she’ll appear in conversation with Hanif Abdurraqib.

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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 8d

my brief fling with them was definitely big lebowski inspired.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 8d

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 8d

One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy

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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 8d

columbus in a light drizzle

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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 8d

“But I think watching [my father] die was a real moment of clarity for me, like, oh, I’m going to die one day, too. … And when I’m in this position and I’m dying, I want to look back on love and friendship and nature and beauty and joy.”

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Samin Nosrat gets to the heart of cooking in ‘Good Things’ – Matter News

The celebrated chef and author brings her current book tour to the Davidson Theatre on Friday, Oct. 10, where she’ll appear in conversation with Hanif Abdurraqib.

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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 8d

time to start outsourcing essays on the subjects that really matter, like the osu student who feels threatened seeing "free palestine" chalked on a campus sidewalk

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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 8d

let's do the fucking news.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 8d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 8d

“Those mixed-up vibes of happiness and sadness are somehow truer to life, in a way. We all crave patterns and meaning, but sometimes it all just kind of happens. Everything is chaotic and there’s no rhyme or reason to it. And sometimes it feels good to make music that reflects that.”

Goon leans on intuition for ‘Dream 3’ – Matter News

The Los Angeles psych-pop quartet visits Rumba Cafe for a concert on Tuesday, Oct. 7, playing behind an excellent new album that finds singer and songwriter Kenny Becker spending more time exploring h...

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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 11d

my gemut “helles real” t-shirt is killing it here at burial’s burnpile fest.

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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 13d

“There aren’t a lot of legal alternatives for minors who need HRT [or] even just hormone blockers.” Embi also lamented the loss of access to therapy and mental health support in the absence of THRIVE. “It’s going to be a huge loss for a lot of trans youth across Central Ohio.”

By Larkin Cleland.

Trans youth react to Nationwide Children’s Hospital ending gender-affirming care – Matter News

A Republican-led crackdown on trans healthcare is impacting local hospitals and both minor and adult patients, driving some towards community-based alternatives for care.

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Matter News @matternews.bsky.social · 13d

“There aren’t a lot of legal alternatives for minors who need HRT [or] even just hormone blockers.” Embi also lamented the loss of access to therapy and mental health support in the absence of THRIVE. “It’s going to be a huge loss for a lot of trans youth across Central Ohio.”

By Larkin Cleland.

Trans youth react to Nationwide Children’s Hospital ending gender-affirming care – Matter News

A Republican-led crackdown on trans healthcare is impacting local hospitals and both minor and adult patients, driving some towards community-based alternatives for care.

matternews.org

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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 13d

“There aren’t a lot of legal alternatives for minors who need HRT [or] even just hormone blockers.” Embi also lamented the loss of access to therapy and mental health support in the absence of THRIVE. “It’s going to be a huge loss for a lot of trans youth across Central Ohio.”

By Larkin Cleland.

Trans youth react to Nationwide Children’s Hospital ending gender-affirming care – Matter News

A Republican-led crackdown on trans healthcare is impacting local hospitals and both minor and adult patients, driving some towards community-based alternatives for care.

matternews.org

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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 14d

“Certainly, I’m having these formal shifts in the paintings relative to what seems like the condition of the world. Sometimes the world collapses and you go, ‘Well, I want to give everybody a treat.’ And sometimes the world collapses and you need a painting that feels like that collapse.”

The disorienting world of Rob Robbins features in ‘Double Back Around’ – Matter News

The artist and former CCAD professor’s new exhibition, which opens at No Place Gallery on Friday, Oct. 3, features dense, large-scale landscapes that simultaneously hold viewers at arm’s length while ...

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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 15d

gannett is valued at nearly $600 million c’mon now

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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 15d

couldn't roll my eyes any harder at gannett/the dispatch soliciting donations to pay for its intern program.

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