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basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
After having a short stint managing collections for a library and working closely with Baker & Taylor, I was shocked to learn they are closing their doors. www.marketplace.org/story/2025/1...
The closure of a 200-year-old book supplier creates delays, new hurdles for libraries
After nearly 200 years, Baker & Taylor, a major distributor of shelf-ready library books, will be closing in early January.
www.marketplace.org
October 31, 2025 at 3:12 PM
After having a short stint managing collections for a library and working closely with Baker & Taylor, I was shocked to learn they are closing their doors. www.marketplace.org/story/2025/1...
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⚠️ October "No Kings Day" protests the largest single-day political protest ever in the United States
(Wikipedia has already been updated accordingly.)
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...
(Wikipedia has already been updated accordingly.)
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...
Second "No Kings Day" protests the largest single-day political protest ever*, with 5.2-8.2 million participants
Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates
www.gelliottmorris.com
October 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
⚠️ October "No Kings Day" protests the largest single-day political protest ever in the United States
(Wikipedia has already been updated accordingly.)
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...
(Wikipedia has already been updated accordingly.)
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...
Got a chance to see this last night. It was very good!
Powered by Alicia Keys’ timeless songs and a charismatic, immensely talented young lead, “Hell’s Kitchen” is as soulful and authentic as the artist who brought it to the stage — and just as entertaining. Full review: https://l.cleveland.com/661kgs
Photo: Marc J. Franklin
Photo: Marc J. Franklin
October 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Got a chance to see this last night. It was very good!
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Good morning.
The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you.
Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.
The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you.
Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.
October 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Good morning.
The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you.
Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.
The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you.
Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.
Still riding high from last night’s Waxahatchee show at the Roxy in Cleveland. Setlist: www.setlist.fm/setlist/waxa...
youtu.be/ps1f7p720FA?...
youtu.be/ps1f7p720FA?...
Waxahatchee: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
youtu.be
September 17, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Still riding high from last night’s Waxahatchee show at the Roxy in Cleveland. Setlist: www.setlist.fm/setlist/waxa...
youtu.be/ps1f7p720FA?...
youtu.be/ps1f7p720FA?...
This will be my 7th year participating in the Bike MS fundraising ride. The money we raise is vital to discover effective MS treatments. Pitch in if you can! events.nationalmssociety.org/participant/...
#bikems #ms #fundraiser #cycling
#bikems #ms #fundraiser #cycling
I'm participating in Bike MS: Pedal to the Point 2025!
I’m participating in Bike MS: Pedal to the Point 2025 to raise funds for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Nearly one million people in the US are living with the challenges and uncertainty of...
events.nationalmssociety.org
July 30, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This will be my 7th year participating in the Bike MS fundraising ride. The money we raise is vital to discover effective MS treatments. Pitch in if you can! events.nationalmssociety.org/participant/...
#bikems #ms #fundraiser #cycling
#bikems #ms #fundraiser #cycling
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Macy once wrote, "It is good to realize that falling apart is not such a bad thing. Indeed, it is as essential to transformation as the cracking of outgrown shells. Anxieties and doubts can be healthy and creative...because they permit new and original approaches to reality."
In Honor of Joanna Macy, 1929-2025
I write while staying in one of the great forests of British Columbia, a forest in which the inextricability of life from death is gorgeously evident. Several kinds of fern spring from this soil, some...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
July 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Macy once wrote, "It is good to realize that falling apart is not such a bad thing. Indeed, it is as essential to transformation as the cracking of outgrown shells. Anxieties and doubts can be healthy and creative...because they permit new and original approaches to reality."
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Congress just voted to defund public media -- stripping NPR, PBS & local stations of $1.1B. Northeast Ohio stations like Ideastream and The Summit FM now face deep cuts.
Northeast Ohio public media stations face millions in cuts after federal defunding
PBS, NPR and community radio stations in Northeast Ohio are bracing for a future without federal funding — and turning to the public for help.
www.cleveland.com
July 18, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Congress just voted to defund public media -- stripping NPR, PBS & local stations of $1.1B. Northeast Ohio stations like Ideastream and The Summit FM now face deep cuts.
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“ACA health insurance will cost the average person 75% more next year, research shows”
“The average person who buys Affordable Care Act insurance will be paying 75% more for their premium, according to the analysis from KFF, a nonpartisan health policy research group.”
“The average person who buys Affordable Care Act insurance will be paying 75% more for their premium, according to the analysis from KFF, a nonpartisan health policy research group.”
ACA health insurance will cost the average person 75% more next year, research shows
A new analysis shows that health insurance premiums for Obamacare are set to soar next year, as financial help that subsidized the cost expires. Congress is not likely to extend the subsidies.
www.npr.org
July 18, 2025 at 11:46 AM
“ACA health insurance will cost the average person 75% more next year, research shows”
“The average person who buys Affordable Care Act insurance will be paying 75% more for their premium, according to the analysis from KFF, a nonpartisan health policy research group.”
“The average person who buys Affordable Care Act insurance will be paying 75% more for their premium, according to the analysis from KFF, a nonpartisan health policy research group.”
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City health officials are attempting to fill the gap after a Planned Parenthood clinic in Cleveland has closed, citing President Donald Trump’s freezing of federal funds as the reason.
Planned Parenthood shutters Cleveland clinic amid federal cuts; city health officials step in
A Planned Parenthood clinic in Cleveland has closed, citing President Donald Trump’s freezing of federal funds as the reason.
www.cleveland.com
July 2, 2025 at 2:24 AM
City health officials are attempting to fill the gap after a Planned Parenthood clinic in Cleveland has closed, citing President Donald Trump’s freezing of federal funds as the reason.
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Going on hour 26, but we're still fighting.
A big win for Massachusetts: Republicans tried to kill off new clean energy projects, but we just forced them to take out that terrible provision.
There’s a lotta awful still in there. But pressure does matter. Keep it up.
A big win for Massachusetts: Republicans tried to kill off new clean energy projects, but we just forced them to take out that terrible provision.
There’s a lotta awful still in there. But pressure does matter. Keep it up.
July 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Going on hour 26, but we're still fighting.
A big win for Massachusetts: Republicans tried to kill off new clean energy projects, but we just forced them to take out that terrible provision.
There’s a lotta awful still in there. But pressure does matter. Keep it up.
A big win for Massachusetts: Republicans tried to kill off new clean energy projects, but we just forced them to take out that terrible provision.
There’s a lotta awful still in there. But pressure does matter. Keep it up.
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I was honored to speak at the Cleveland City Club today. I made clear that, as Governor, I would veto any number of provisions from the current state budget. But the truth is, the entire budget is an example of why Ohio is sliding backwards.
June 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I was honored to speak at the Cleveland City Club today. I made clear that, as Governor, I would veto any number of provisions from the current state budget. But the truth is, the entire budget is an example of why Ohio is sliding backwards.
Traveling around Europe solidified my love 💕 of trains for transport.
June 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Traveling around Europe solidified my love 💕 of trains for transport.
This is my district. Lucky to have Sykes speak up for our community.
Nearly 30,000 people in #OH13 are employed by hospital systems. Hospitals will be devastated by Medicaid cuts, because many of their patients will not be able to pay for care. This will hurt their bottom line, potentially forcing layoffs in our community.
June 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
This is my district. Lucky to have Sykes speak up for our community.
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Can fungi fix everything? Maybe that’s the wrong question, says @meerasub.bsky.social.
“As I read more,” she writes, “I was beginning to feel that the right question might be to ask them for a lesson on how to exist in the world in the first place.”
Made in partnership with @thefern.org 🍄
“As I read more,” she writes, “I was beginning to feel that the right question might be to ask them for a lesson on how to exist in the world in the first place.”
Made in partnership with @thefern.org 🍄
Out of the Ashes - Orion Magazine
How fungi are surviving—and even thriving—in a warming world
orionmagazine.org
June 11, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Can fungi fix everything? Maybe that’s the wrong question, says @meerasub.bsky.social.
“As I read more,” she writes, “I was beginning to feel that the right question might be to ask them for a lesson on how to exist in the world in the first place.”
Made in partnership with @thefern.org 🍄
“As I read more,” she writes, “I was beginning to feel that the right question might be to ask them for a lesson on how to exist in the world in the first place.”
Made in partnership with @thefern.org 🍄
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A short video about Juneteenth:
What is Juneteenth and Why Does it Matter: A Short History | Journey to American Democracy
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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June 19, 2025 at 5:26 AM
A short video about Juneteenth:
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Full story on this news:
June 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Full story on this news:
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“Over 250 million acres of public lands are eligible for sale in the bill, including local recreation areas, wilderness study areas and inventoried roadless areas.” www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
250+ million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR budget reconciliation package
The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in the bill encompass over 250 million acres, including local recreation areas, wild...
www.wilderness.org
June 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“Over 250 million acres of public lands are eligible for sale in the bill, including local recreation areas, wilderness study areas and inventoried roadless areas.” www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
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Reminder: in broken and gerrymandered states, politics ceases being about public service…and it warps into a corrupt form of private service, where politicians use public power and raid public assets to serve private interests.
This Browns fiasco offers the perfect case study:
This Browns fiasco offers the perfect case study:
June 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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NYT found the “big beautiful bill” would be the largest transfer from the poor to the rich in a single law since at least 1990.
In fact, it would be the largest transfer *ever.*
Reagan’s low-income cuts were MUCH smaller - and his tax cuts were done separately. And before him, nothing comes close.
In fact, it would be the largest transfer *ever.*
Reagan’s low-income cuts were MUCH smaller - and his tax cuts were done separately. And before him, nothing comes close.
June 13, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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new youtube video! will the l.a. protests help or hurt trump politically? i say hurt! youtu.be/mOP_5IigrzE
Will the L.A. protests help Trump?
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
youtu.be
June 11, 2025 at 3:18 AM
new youtube video! will the l.a. protests help or hurt trump politically? i say hurt! youtu.be/mOP_5IigrzE
Signed the petition to repeal SB1 at CLE Pride today!
THIS is how you fight for democracy:
“There were three of us that said we are fed up, three individuals… who said, ‘We want to do the right thing, and we want to do something,’
“There were three of us that said we are fed up, three individuals… who said, ‘We want to do the right thing, and we want to do something,’
“Just three people” took on Ohio education law — and sparked a movement
"We've had a huge groundswell of support. I mean, it was shocking how many people" signed on," professor says.
www.salon.com
June 8, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Signed the petition to repeal SB1 at CLE Pride today!
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Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down
Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
About this Collection | Chronicling America | Digital Collections | Library of Congress
Search America's Historic Newspaper Pages through 1963 Please Note: The Library of Congress has transitioned the longstanding Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers website to this new digi...
www.loc.gov
May 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down
Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss