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electrojcr @electrojcr.bsky.social · 9h

#wcsb #cleveland www.collegeradio.org/special-repo...

SPECIAL REPORT ON WHAT HAPPENED AT CLEVELAND STATE WCSB: Part Two - College Radio Foundation

By Mary Cipriani, Guest Editorial Writer October 27, 2025 Launched in 2022, the College Radio Society, organized by the College Radio Foundation, is aneffort to unite college radio alumni and to keep the magic of those memories alive. The CollegeRadio Society is for all college radio alumni who have been involved with college radio in […]

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electrojcr @electrojcr.bsky.social · 5d

The more I dig into what is going on at #Ideastream, something appears clearly wrong. I've supported them since their inception, but their $500k/yr CEO destroyed thriving local media #WCSB and appears mostly to spend time in California, not northeast Ohio.

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Why WCSB matters to me: Op-Ed – The Land

At WCSB, I had a place within a group of melomaniacs like me. I felt seen and heard in a way I hadn't been used to, my reflection in the window of the studio glowing with an aura of fulfillment and be...

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electrojcr @electrojcr.bsky.social · 6d

Cleveland City Council passed the resolution unanimously denouncing what #Ideastream and #CSU leadership did to their students, volunteers, supports, and larger community.

Remarkable watching President Kevin Martin of Ideastream unable to acknowledge what he destroyed, instead he belittles WCSB.

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cleveland.com @cleveland.com · 10d

🔗: https://l.cleveland.com/i85gj9

Students and community members rallied outside the City Club today, calling CSU’s handoff of WCSB 89.3 to Ideastream an “authoritarian takeover.”

Photo: John Kuntz, clevelanddotcom

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electrojcr @electrojcr.bsky.social · 10d

As a supporter of #Ideastream since it's inception it pains me, but following the truly horrible thing they did to #WCSB and how they did it, the only action that will change their leadership is a boycott.

www.cleveland.com/news/2025/10...

What went down at WCSB 89.3FM: a voice from inside Cleveland State’s axed student radio station - cleveland.com

There's more than meets the eye to saga of WCSB changing operational hands from Cleveland State University to Ideastream.

www.cleveland.com

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electrojcr @electrojcr.bsky.social · 10d

Great guy, great spot!

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XCSB Cleveland @xcsbcleveland.bsky.social · 11d

Our next rally will be not-so-silent outside of the Cleveland City Club on Euclid Avenue from 11:30 am-1 pm on Friday, October 17th. Some of our members will be inside but their wall of window will ensure everyone will be seen and heard while Ideastream talks about the future of public media.

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WHAT THE FOLK IS THIS? DJ BellaDonna @whatthefolkisthis.bsky.social · 16d

Help us get WCSB 89.3 FM Cleveland college radio station back, we will be outside of “The Future of Public Media” talk at The City Club of Cleveland on Friday, Oct. 17th from 11:30am to 1pm Protesting. Bring signs, bring your voice, bring a friend!
HELP GET OUT RADIO STATION BACK!
@wcsb.bsky.social

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 18d

If you want to read it politically, Leo quotes Pope Francis near the top of the document, and he does it before quoting Saint Francis. www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 18d

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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💀 Crypt Jones 💀 @cjones47.bsky.social · 16d

"Several judges singled out the justices’ criticism of Judge Young, an 85-year-old appointee of President Ronald Reagan and an Army veteran who has sat for more than 40 years, as a particularly demoralizing breach of decorum."

🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

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electrojcr @electrojcr.bsky.social · 20d

The only thing that could have made it worse is if #CSU President Laura Bloomberg and #Ideastream CEO Kevin Martin gleefully followed the announcement by throwing puppies & kittens from atop Fenn Tower. Neither are from Cleveland and neither seem to have use for the community or goodwill.

electrojcr @electrojcr.bsky.social · 20d

The answer is YES. They need to have a transparent process about site selection tied to safety and not make it seem like a cash grab (like some of the sites chosen last time.)

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WHAT THE FOLK IS THIS? DJ BellaDonna @whatthefolkisthis.bsky.social · 20d

Be There!
11:30am
10/7
CSU
Support alternative radio in Cleveland!
@wcsb.bsky.social

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electrojcr @electrojcr.bsky.social · 20d

Let me try that again, mistyped.

#Cleveland Councilperson Kris Harsh denouncing the local "public" radio conglomerate #Ideastream for destroying a 50 year old cultural treasure with no comment. #WCSB

www.youtube.com/live/maHLrLH...

Cleveland City Council Meeting, Oct. 6, 2025

YouTube video by Cleveland City Council

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electrojcr @electrojcr.bsky.social · 20d

#Cleveland Councilperson Kris Harsh denouncing #Ideastream and it's destruction of cultural treasure of local media #WCPN.

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electrojcr @electrojcr.bsky.social · 23d

www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-n...

#Ideastream murdered college radio station #WCSB yesterday without public discussion, just press releases about "opportunities" and "not taking over" as police lead students out of the station. That's it for my future support.

Cleveland State University abruptly ends student-run WCSB radio, replaces with smooth jazz run by Ideastream

Cleveland State University's student-run alternative radio station WCSB was abruptly shut down Friday and replaced with a jazz station operated by Ideastream Public Media.

www.news5cleveland.com

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 26d

Wild that Gary Oldman finally got his Oscar for like his 10th best role - parlayed that into a TV series where he plays Smiley turned inside out (he always wanted to play Smiley again) - into self-producing & directing himself in Beckett, apparently quite well - into finally getting his knighthood

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 25d

Take the good news seriously too

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 28d

An incredibly important election in a tiny country just went the right way. Moldova has resisted a huge Russian disinformation campaign and will not become a Russian puppet state.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 29d

Moldova 🇲🇩 👍

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 27d

But it doesn't turn into fascism magically at the end in the burial pits. It's fascism all along, even if it is COMPARATIVELY mild, even if it gsts stopped.

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electrojcr @electrojcr.bsky.social · Sep 24

Meanwhile, in #Albania... someone got a little too carried away with #AI hype.

youtu.be/wWhrs0gJsps...

Albania's AI minister makes first address to parliament | AFP

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respecter of pumpkin patch sincerity @whygavs.bsky.social · Sep 24

my pet theory is that the cubs winning the 2016 world series has plunged the world into an alternate timeline of pure chaos and the only way to restore things is for the cleveland baseball team to win a world series as the Guardians

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · Sep 18

generally speaking, and with the glaring exception of november 2024, the more directly democratic an institution has been, the better it has checked Trump (eg grand and petit juries); the more elite and insular, the less effective (the Senate, the Supreme Court, big business)

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · Sep 21

also entirely possible that Vance demands a fast-tracked Charlie sainthood or else 300% tariffs on the Vatican

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 21

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

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electrojcr @electrojcr.bsky.social · Sep 19

Today trans/antifi are the Others to hate and anybody not towing that line will be silenced. Stunningly, FCC Chair Carr, relishes punishing all who who won't. This is the moment.