@craigickler.bsky.social
Passionate about building worker and community power and ownership in Cleveland.
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This is why we need a new, nonprofit or cooperative model for news. We can't base our sources of information on the goodwill of billionaires (or sadly, on our own government).
According to recent estimates, Jeff Bezos makes about $8m an HOUR
In ONE SLEEP he probably makes enough to cover the Washington Post's annual losses
In ONE SLEEP he probably makes enough to cover the Washington Post's annual losses
February 4, 2026 at 4:32 PM
This is why we need a new, nonprofit or cooperative model for news. We can't base our sources of information on the goodwill of billionaires (or sadly, on our own government).
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Next time choose *not* to get played.
January 31, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Next time choose *not* to get played.
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Proud of Cleveland Owns's role in supporting People's Plumbing, a badass plumbing co-op!
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People's Plumbing offers pay-what-you-can repairs in Cleveland
People's Plumbing offers repairs using what's called a gift economy model. That means people pay workers what they can.
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January 21, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Proud of Cleveland Owns's role in supporting People's Plumbing, a badass plumbing co-op!
signalcleveland.org/inside-cleve...
signalcleveland.org/inside-cleve...
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New Past Lives: Abbas and the Roman Slave Trade (Parthia, 2nd Century AD). On May 24, 166 AD, a seven-year-old boy named Abbas was sold for 200 denarii at the port of Seleucia Pieria. How did Abbas end up there, and where did he go from there? www.pod.link/1852618120/e...
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January 14, 2026 at 5:04 PM
New Past Lives: Abbas and the Roman Slave Trade (Parthia, 2nd Century AD). On May 24, 166 AD, a seven-year-old boy named Abbas was sold for 200 denarii at the port of Seleucia Pieria. How did Abbas end up there, and where did he go from there? www.pod.link/1852618120/e...
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ICE is making Minneapolis so unsafe that you can’t let your kids go outside unaccompanied. They might be snatched. It’s like a Gen X childhood admonition about strangers made real.
A teenage boy was walking home in Minneapolis yesterday when four masked men jumped out of a van & questioned him - with no parent or guardian present.
He was bundled into the van & taken away.
Bystanders heard the boy say: “Can I just go home?”
I don’t know how America comes back from all this.
He was bundled into the van & taken away.
Bystanders heard the boy say: “Can I just go home?”
I don’t know how America comes back from all this.
January 13, 2026 at 9:22 PM
ICE is making Minneapolis so unsafe that you can’t let your kids go outside unaccompanied. They might be snatched. It’s like a Gen X childhood admonition about strangers made real.
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some people love quoting "the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must." That was Athens saying that at the height of its empire. Few of those people seem to remember what happened to Athens the very next year.
January 6, 2026 at 5:14 PM
some people love quoting "the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must." That was Athens saying that at the height of its empire. Few of those people seem to remember what happened to Athens the very next year.
To be fair, the Bush Administration also didn’t have a plan for Iraq
January 4, 2026 at 3:25 PM
To be fair, the Bush Administration also didn’t have a plan for Iraq
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Outlook for the new year ...
December 31, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Outlook for the new year ...
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Coalition urges Cleveland Public Power to reconsider solar project on abandoned Slavic Village site www.clevescene.com/news/clevela...
Coalition Urges Cleveland Public Power To Reconsider Solar Project on Abandoned Slavic Village Site - Cleveland Scene
Advocates and neighbors want CPP to be more transparent as to why it reneged on a plan to install solar panels on a former landfill site that's been an eyesore for the last decade in Slavic Village.
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December 31, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Coalition urges Cleveland Public Power to reconsider solar project on abandoned Slavic Village site www.clevescene.com/news/clevela...
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Thank you Flight Attendants and aviation workers who spend the holidays bringing family and friends together. We do this year ‘round to ensure safe passage of those in our care.
December 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Thank you Flight Attendants and aviation workers who spend the holidays bringing family and friends together. We do this year ‘round to ensure safe passage of those in our care.
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NEW: @patrickwyman.bsky.social has a history podcast not on great leaders, but more common folk. The theme for this season? World slavery:
“Power is inseparable from labor. Power is inseparable from work. Slavery, studying it, what it tells us, is just how inseparable those two things are.”
“Power is inseparable from labor. Power is inseparable from work. Slavery, studying it, what it tells us, is just how inseparable those two things are.”
December 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
NEW: @patrickwyman.bsky.social has a history podcast not on great leaders, but more common folk. The theme for this season? World slavery:
“Power is inseparable from labor. Power is inseparable from work. Slavery, studying it, what it tells us, is just how inseparable those two things are.”
“Power is inseparable from labor. Power is inseparable from work. Slavery, studying it, what it tells us, is just how inseparable those two things are.”
The George family is destroying this city. Remember what they took from you!
December 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The George family is destroying this city. Remember what they took from you!
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The first person we meet on Past Lives is Nanaya'ila'i, an Elamite woman from southwestern Iran who was enslaved around 645 BC by the Assyrians in one of their last campaigns of conquest. What can we know about her life? How did she experience the sharp end of empire? www.patreon.com/posts/nanaya...
Nanaya-ila’i and Her Daughter (Assyria, 7th Century BC) | Past Lives
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December 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The first person we meet on Past Lives is Nanaya'ila'i, an Elamite woman from southwestern Iran who was enslaved around 645 BC by the Assyrians in one of their last campaigns of conquest. What can we know about her life? How did she experience the sharp end of empire? www.patreon.com/posts/nanaya...
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I named my fists Troilus and Cressida because they're rarely produced, lackluster, and mostly just offer a lesson about the futility of violence.
i named my fists Rodgers and Hammerstein cuz theyre always in my own little corner
I named my fists Gilbert and Sullivan because they are slaves to duty
December 1, 2025 at 2:21 AM
I named my fists Troilus and Cressida because they're rarely produced, lackluster, and mostly just offer a lesson about the futility of violence.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
My theory that anyone with an ounce of charisma and three diet cokes can convince Trump of anything holds true
Q: would you feel comfortable living in NYC under a Mamdani administration ?
TRUMP: I would. I really would.
TRUMP: I would. I really would.
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
My theory that anyone with an ounce of charisma and three diet cokes can convince Trump of anything holds true
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my jaw is on the floor and yet im completely unsurprised. trump’s only political conviction is that he loves a handsome winner
A reporter asks if Mamdani stands by calling Trump a fascist. Mamdani starts to give a delicate answer.
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
November 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
my jaw is on the floor and yet im completely unsurprised. trump’s only political conviction is that he loves a handsome winner
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If you're wondering why a large chunk of ostensibly left-of-center pundits are waging war on environmental protections in the form of an "abundance agenda," it's because Silicon Valley has quietly developed a culture of rampant pollution.
EPA fines Apple over hazardous waste violations at Santa Clara factory
EPA fines Apple over hazardous waste violations at Santa Clara factory
(KRON) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Tuesday that it has settled claims of hazardous waste violations at an Apple microchip factory in Santa Clara. In August 2023 and January 2024, federal regulators inspected Apple’s facility at 3250 Scott Boulevard after receiving a tip from the public. The inspections, according to the EPA, [...]
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November 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
If you're wondering why a large chunk of ostensibly left-of-center pundits are waging war on environmental protections in the form of an "abundance agenda," it's because Silicon Valley has quietly developed a culture of rampant pollution.
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We've got a cover for Lost Worlds, folks - coming May 5th, 2026. Preorder it here: www.harpercollins.com/products/los...
November 21, 2025 at 12:47 AM
We've got a cover for Lost Worlds, folks - coming May 5th, 2026. Preorder it here: www.harpercollins.com/products/los...
Quiet part out loud
Trump is dismantling the Department of Education, and is moving the management of K-12 and higher education to the Department of Labor, per the Guardian.
November 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Quiet part out loud
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"The punishment meted out by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio includes nearly $187 million to be returned to FirstEnergy customers, as well as almost $180 million in penalties for failing to properly direct fees collected for grid modernization to their stated purpose."
FirstEnergy ordered to pay more than $250 million for misconduct in sweeping Ohio bribery scheme
Ohio utility regulators have ordered Akron-based FirstEnergy to pay over $250 million in fines, restitution and refunds for its misconduct in a sweeping bribery scandal whose fallout continues five ye...
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November 20, 2025 at 10:06 AM
"The punishment meted out by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio includes nearly $187 million to be returned to FirstEnergy customers, as well as almost $180 million in penalties for failing to properly direct fees collected for grid modernization to their stated purpose."
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Out here in York, PA where @sbworkersunited.org strikers are BLOCKADING the largest Starbucks distribution center in the country to demand a fair contract!!
November 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Out here in York, PA where @sbworkersunited.org strikers are BLOCKADING the largest Starbucks distribution center in the country to demand a fair contract!!