lani ritter hall
@laniritterhall.bsky.social
--always learning --35 treasured years w/ students; former NBCT; PLP CommunityLeader/Coach; coauthor, The Connected Educator --now volunteering w/ @thirdactorg. All views expressed on this platform are my own.
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Voter groups continue to hope to stop SB 293, a law they call harmful and unnecessary. The legislation eliminates a four-day grace period for mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day and creates new guidelines for election workers regarding registrations.
www.thecentersquare.com/ohio/article...
www.thecentersquare.com/ohio/article...
DeWine continues to hold bill that eliminates mail-in ballot grace period
(The Center Square) – Voter groups continue to hope for their last chance to stop changes to Ohio law they call harmful and unnecessary.
www.thecentersquare.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Voter groups continue to hope to stop SB 293, a law they call harmful and unnecessary. The legislation eliminates a four-day grace period for mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day and creates new guidelines for election workers regarding registrations.
www.thecentersquare.com/ohio/article...
www.thecentersquare.com/ohio/article...
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Every single city they've done these operations in have Black mayors. LA, Chicago, Charlotte, New Orleans. 3 of which are Black women. This isn't a coincidence.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Federal Immigration Operation Starts in New Orleans
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Every single city they've done these operations in have Black mayors. LA, Chicago, Charlotte, New Orleans. 3 of which are Black women. This isn't a coincidence.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
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Great piece by @billmckibben.bsky.social As the grandchild of Protestant missionaries, raised as a Congregationalist, and now a Reform Jew, I find the values of mainstream Protestantism—welcome the stranger—alive and well in my Jewish congregation. Small wonder—Jesus was of course a rabbi.
Rightwing MAGA Christianity has about as much relation to the gospels as MAGA politics does to the Constitution.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben
Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Great piece by @billmckibben.bsky.social As the grandchild of Protestant missionaries, raised as a Congregationalist, and now a Reform Jew, I find the values of mainstream Protestantism—welcome the stranger—alive and well in my Jewish congregation. Small wonder—Jesus was of course a rabbi.
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Icymi: Webinar on Bright Saver White Paper - Democratizing Solar: How Plug-In Solar Expands Energy Affordability & Resilience. Plug-in solar, with regulatory change, will drop precipitously in cost, reaching millions of American households within years. Power to the people--literally.
White Paper | Bright Saver
Register for upcoming Bright Saver webinars here.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Icymi: Webinar on Bright Saver White Paper - Democratizing Solar: How Plug-In Solar Expands Energy Affordability & Resilience. Plug-in solar, with regulatory change, will drop precipitously in cost, reaching millions of American households within years. Power to the people--literally.
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"...the Little Village Community Council are renowned for blowing whistles to warn of federal immigration agents and for their tense encounters with them. But they also quietly have been taking more than 60 children to and from school every day. “We call ourselves magic school buses,” he says."
A WBEZ analysis finds student attendance briefly plummeted following intense moments of immigration enforcement, but overall rates are comparable to last year.
As immigration agents swept Chicago this fall, communities stepped in to get kids to school safely
www.wbez.org
December 2, 2025 at 2:53 PM
"...the Little Village Community Council are renowned for blowing whistles to warn of federal immigration agents and for their tense encounters with them. But they also quietly have been taking more than 60 children to and from school every day. “We call ourselves magic school buses,” he says."
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Pastor Jorge Bautista was telling a Border Patrol agent "we come in peace" when the agent fired toxic powder at him, leaving him struggling to breathe.
“No one should be assaulted for being out there protesting,” he says.
With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
“No one should be assaulted for being out there protesting,” he says.
With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
Trump’s Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters
Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agents’ use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear g...
www.propublica.org
December 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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'On top of all these problems is the climate crisis. “The house was on fire because of mismanagement, and then climate change … is adding fuel”' 'The conditions driving it — low rainfall and soaring temperatures — would not have been possible without human-caused climate change'
Taps may run dry in this country, where the water crisis is so severe it can be seen from space | CNN
Tehran is grappling with a water crisis so severe the Iranian president has suggested people may need to evacuate, and the situation goes well beyond the capital. The weeks tick by, still the rains do...
www.cnn.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM
'On top of all these problems is the climate crisis. “The house was on fire because of mismanagement, and then climate change … is adding fuel”' 'The conditions driving it — low rainfall and soaring temperatures — would not have been possible without human-caused climate change'
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👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 Go vote Tennessee!
TODAY IS THE DAY!
GET OUT AND VOTE. Polls are open 7 AM - 7 PM
WE GOT THIS!!!!!!
GET OUT AND VOTE. Polls are open 7 AM - 7 PM
WE GOT THIS!!!!!!
December 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 Go vote Tennessee!
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Thanks so much for giving Senator Kelly a platform, haters! He's making gorgeous use of it and looking pretty fearless too.
Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.
December 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Thanks so much for giving Senator Kelly a platform, haters! He's making gorgeous use of it and looking pretty fearless too.
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An essay for World AIDS Day and the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks's valiant act of resistance, an essay on quilts and solidarity, on stitching the fragments together.
Solidarity Stitches Us Together: Today, World AIDS Day, Is Also the 70th Anniversary of Rosa Park's Historic Protest
I saw two radically different versions of what a quilt could be yesterday and yet they spoke to the same issues. I caught the show Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
An essay for World AIDS Day and the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks's valiant act of resistance, an essay on quilts and solidarity, on stitching the fragments together.
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The fabric of this country is forever being torn apart by hate and exclusion; it is forever being stitched into new patterns, new connections, new relationships. Solidarity is always about connection across difference... It is a quilter's art of bringing the fragments together into a whole.
December 1, 2025 at 6:41 PM
The fabric of this country is forever being torn apart by hate and exclusion; it is forever being stitched into new patterns, new connections, new relationships. Solidarity is always about connection across difference... It is a quilter's art of bringing the fragments together into a whole.
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HOW TO HELP FLIP THE 7TH
As we head into the final few days of the campaign, join #TeamAftyn for phonebanking and canvassing opportunities every day!
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December 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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It was seventy years ago today that Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus, triggering one of the world's great experiments in nonviolent action
December 1, 2025 at 4:42 PM
It was seventy years ago today that Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus, triggering one of the world's great experiments in nonviolent action
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PBS: “A poll from the journal "Nature" found 75% of researchers are considering leaving 🇺🇸— including a man dubbed the Mozart of Math… a scientific brain drain.”
The Trump Effect. The opposite of Making America Great Again. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
The Trump Effect. The opposite of Making America Great Again. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
December 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Great Robert F. Kennedy quote for Standing Strong and Acting Strong.
"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope."
DAY OF AFFIRMATION ADDRESS, CAPETOWN, SOUTH AFRICA, 6/6/66.
"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope."
DAY OF AFFIRMATION ADDRESS, CAPETOWN, SOUTH AFRICA, 6/6/66.
December 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Great Robert F. Kennedy quote for Standing Strong and Acting Strong.
"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope."
DAY OF AFFIRMATION ADDRESS, CAPETOWN, SOUTH AFRICA, 6/6/66.
"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope."
DAY OF AFFIRMATION ADDRESS, CAPETOWN, SOUTH AFRICA, 6/6/66.
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The fight for fair representation is a generational commitment and we are here for the long haul.
Work like this is only possible because of donations from people like you. Please consider giving to help us continue to empower voters and defend democracy lwvohio.salsalabs.org/lwvogivingtuesday2025
Work like this is only possible because of donations from people like you. Please consider giving to help us continue to empower voters and defend democracy lwvohio.salsalabs.org/lwvogivingtuesday2025
December 1, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The fight for fair representation is a generational commitment and we are here for the long haul.
Work like this is only possible because of donations from people like you. Please consider giving to help us continue to empower voters and defend democracy lwvohio.salsalabs.org/lwvogivingtuesday2025
Work like this is only possible because of donations from people like you. Please consider giving to help us continue to empower voters and defend democracy lwvohio.salsalabs.org/lwvogivingtuesday2025
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Fun fact: West Virginia has ideal locations for geothermal heat extraction and wind farms. Currently 8 wind farms provide JOBS and about 3% of state’s energy. Grant County has 130+ turbines along 12 miles of the windy Allegheny Front.
We can’t burn coal forever. But we can be stupid forever.
We can’t burn coal forever. But we can be stupid forever.
Rural communities in Appalachia were on the verge of breaking ground on billions of dollars' worth of clean-energy projects when the grants were paused or terminated by DOGE.
All over Appalachia people will be hit hard by cuts to Medicaid, veterans affairs, food aid, education & more.
All over Appalachia people will be hit hard by cuts to Medicaid, veterans affairs, food aid, education & more.
‘Deeply demoralizing’: how Trump derailed coal country’s clean-energy revival
Biden earmarked billions for former coal communities in Appalachia – and his successor came and took it away
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Fun fact: West Virginia has ideal locations for geothermal heat extraction and wind farms. Currently 8 wind farms provide JOBS and about 3% of state’s energy. Grant County has 130+ turbines along 12 miles of the windy Allegheny Front.
We can’t burn coal forever. But we can be stupid forever.
We can’t burn coal forever. But we can be stupid forever.
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Opinion by Thomas Suddes
Property-tax ‘reform’ just shifts school-funding burden to homeowners
Legislators sang the “Hallelujah” chorus over their property tax 'reforms' that just transfer school-funding burdens to Ohio's public school districts.
www.cleveland.com/opinion/2025...
Property-tax ‘reform’ just shifts school-funding burden to homeowners
Legislators sang the “Hallelujah” chorus over their property tax 'reforms' that just transfer school-funding burdens to Ohio's public school districts.
www.cleveland.com/opinion/2025...
Property-tax ‘reform’ just shifts school-funding burden to homeowners: Thomas Suddes
Legislators sang the “Hallelujah” chorus over their property tax 'reforms' that just transfer school-funding burdens to Ohio's public school districts. Ohioans who know better heard a dirge, writes Th...
www.cleveland.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Opinion by Thomas Suddes
Property-tax ‘reform’ just shifts school-funding burden to homeowners
Legislators sang the “Hallelujah” chorus over their property tax 'reforms' that just transfer school-funding burdens to Ohio's public school districts.
www.cleveland.com/opinion/2025...
Property-tax ‘reform’ just shifts school-funding burden to homeowners
Legislators sang the “Hallelujah” chorus over their property tax 'reforms' that just transfer school-funding burdens to Ohio's public school districts.
www.cleveland.com/opinion/2025...
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In 2025, our calls to action produced more than 100,000 messages to state and federal lawmakers urging them to protect voters and our election workers.
Please consider giving to help us continue to empower voters and defend democracy—thank you💜 lwvohio.salsalabs.org/lwvogivingtuesday2025
Please consider giving to help us continue to empower voters and defend democracy—thank you💜 lwvohio.salsalabs.org/lwvogivingtuesday2025
November 30, 2025 at 1:19 PM
In 2025, our calls to action produced more than 100,000 messages to state and federal lawmakers urging them to protect voters and our election workers.
Please consider giving to help us continue to empower voters and defend democracy—thank you💜 lwvohio.salsalabs.org/lwvogivingtuesday2025
Please consider giving to help us continue to empower voters and defend democracy—thank you💜 lwvohio.salsalabs.org/lwvogivingtuesday2025
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Their relationship with the president is not personal; their job is to report on who he really is, and provoking him to reveal himself lets them do their job even better. An insult is a confession in this context, and they might as well be field biologists documenting baboons doing baboon things.
An Insult Is a Confession: Notes on Journalism in the Time of Trump
There's been a lot of fuss about Trump recently calling female journalists "stupid" and "piggy" though there's nothing really new about his misogyny toward that sub-population (I am so old I remember ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Their relationship with the president is not personal; their job is to report on who he really is, and provoking him to reveal himself lets them do their job even better. An insult is a confession in this context, and they might as well be field biologists documenting baboons doing baboon things.
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Quite a wind chill at today's @indivisiblehocomd.bsky.social banner drop on Gorman Rd over I-95, MD. A couple dozen people showed up and were warmed by all the positive (honking, waving, flashing lights) reactions from passing cars. Nearby? Check it out! Fridays, 3-5 pm: tinyurl.com/3zmeaen6
November 29, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Quite a wind chill at today's @indivisiblehocomd.bsky.social banner drop on Gorman Rd over I-95, MD. A couple dozen people showed up and were warmed by all the positive (honking, waving, flashing lights) reactions from passing cars. Nearby? Check it out! Fridays, 3-5 pm: tinyurl.com/3zmeaen6
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Letter to the Editor
New voting restrictions, if signed into law, would go against what DeWine promised in 2023
Let’s hold Gov. DeWine to his word and demand that he stop this attack on Ohio voters.
Sherry McMillen,
Cuyahoga Falls
www.cleveland.com/letters/2025...
New voting restrictions, if signed into law, would go against what DeWine promised in 2023
Let’s hold Gov. DeWine to his word and demand that he stop this attack on Ohio voters.
Sherry McMillen,
Cuyahoga Falls
www.cleveland.com/letters/2025...
New voting restrictions, if signed into law, would go against what DeWine promised in 2023
Let’s hold Gov. DeWine to his word and demand that he stops this latest attack on Ohio voters by vetoing Senate Bill 293, writes Sherry McMillen of Cuyahoga Falls in a letter to the editor.
www.cleveland.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Letter to the Editor
New voting restrictions, if signed into law, would go against what DeWine promised in 2023
Let’s hold Gov. DeWine to his word and demand that he stop this attack on Ohio voters.
Sherry McMillen,
Cuyahoga Falls
www.cleveland.com/letters/2025...
New voting restrictions, if signed into law, would go against what DeWine promised in 2023
Let’s hold Gov. DeWine to his word and demand that he stop this attack on Ohio voters.
Sherry McMillen,
Cuyahoga Falls
www.cleveland.com/letters/2025...