Craig F
@cfoh.bsky.social
husband of one, dad of two, professor of business, resident of Cincinnati, advocate of EVs, listener of music, rider of motorcycles, avoider of yardwork, devourer of ice cream; opinions solely my own & do not reflect those of my employer or its associates
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Craig F
@cfoh.bsky.social
· Nov 16
The Evolution of an Accidental Meme
How one little graphic became shared and adapted by millions
medium.com
In case you've seen that equality meme here or there, here's a short tale of how it came to be: medium.com/@CRA1G/the-e...
This infuriating mess is the predictable and not-at-all surprising result of lower flu vaccination rates, caused by a POTUS and a Secretary of Health and Human Services who have both greatly undermined the public's confidence in vaccines overall.
spectrumnews1.com/oh/columbus/...
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Flu surge filling hospitals, causing delays
Health officials say Ohio is facing the its worst flu season in a decade, and hospitals across the state are feeling the strain
spectrumnews1.com
January 22, 2026 at 4:10 PM
This infuriating mess is the predictable and not-at-all surprising result of lower flu vaccination rates, caused by a POTUS and a Secretary of Health and Human Services who have both greatly undermined the public's confidence in vaccines overall.
spectrumnews1.com/oh/columbus/...
spectrumnews1.com/oh/columbus/...
There is ZERO doubt that Trump's administration is creating a multi-generational shift away from American influence, which will damage our ability to shape the world economy in ways that benefit us. Trump is harming our future, not just in the next few years, but for a few generations (at least).
no country on earth benefited more from American hegemony than America and it is absurd that it is being destroyed not by any of the people that suffered under it but by America itself
Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
January 20, 2026 at 7:03 PM
There is ZERO doubt that Trump's administration is creating a multi-generational shift away from American influence, which will damage our ability to shape the world economy in ways that benefit us. Trump is harming our future, not just in the next few years, but for a few generations (at least).
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mad king moment
from the PBS Newshour correspondent
from the PBS Newshour correspondent
![NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:
Dear Ambassador:
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]
“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreie7itpptx3xbxhpsnlaqmwk752h7pcrion5ija2apksljtax2adx4@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 5:09 AM
mad king moment
from the PBS Newshour correspondent
from the PBS Newshour correspondent
Nazi Germany's concentration camps started as temporary places to house people before they were deported. The mass murder happened later when the logistics of caring for and moving around all those people got overly expensive and time-consuming.
These are concentration camps. And these are the numbers they're comfortable sharing.
This is the sixth death in ICE custody in 18 days. This isn’t enforcement, it’s a system that cages people, outsources care, and shrugs when they die. Abolish ICE.
January 19, 2026 at 4:20 AM
Nazi Germany's concentration camps started as temporary places to house people before they were deported. The mass murder happened later when the logistics of caring for and moving around all those people got overly expensive and time-consuming.
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Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
January 18, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
Classic abuser tactics: Blame the victim ("look at what you made me do to you")
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Federal officials investigating Renee Good's partner, sources say
The federal investigation into the fatal shooting by an ICE officer has focused in part on Good’s partner, including whether she may have impeded a federal officer moments before he fired, sources say...
www.nbcnews.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Classic abuser tactics: Blame the victim ("look at what you made me do to you")
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
ICE = Gestapo
If you can't see the parallels, either you're not paying attention or you don't know your history.
If you can't see the parallels, either you're not paying attention or you don't know your history.
January 17, 2026 at 10:07 PM
ICE = Gestapo
If you can't see the parallels, either you're not paying attention or you don't know your history.
If you can't see the parallels, either you're not paying attention or you don't know your history.
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How much more in your face can it be?
"Why are you asking me for my paperwork?"
"Because of your accent."
"You have an accent too."
"Where were you born sir?"
"Where were you born at?"
"Put your hands behind your back."
"Why are you asking me for my paperwork?"
"Because of your accent."
"You have an accent too."
"Where were you born sir?"
"Where were you born at?"
"Put your hands behind your back."
January 17, 2026 at 9:16 PM
How much more in your face can it be?
"Why are you asking me for my paperwork?"
"Because of your accent."
"You have an accent too."
"Where were you born sir?"
"Where were you born at?"
"Put your hands behind your back."
"Why are you asking me for my paperwork?"
"Because of your accent."
"You have an accent too."
"Where were you born sir?"
"Where were you born at?"
"Put your hands behind your back."
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From an optics perspective... the protesters being the ones waving the US flag while Bovino et al looks like every awful nazi inspired movie we've ever seen... hats off to Minnesotans.
Greg Bovino was seen earlier today at the Minneapolis ICE facility dressed in a very nazi-inspired outfit. They don’t even hide anymore.
January 17, 2026 at 8:53 PM
From an optics perspective... the protesters being the ones waving the US flag while Bovino et al looks like every awful nazi inspired movie we've ever seen... hats off to Minnesotans.
Appalling? Yes.
Surprising? Not one bit.
Husted is as slimy and corrupt as they come. #OhioPolitics
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/16/h...
Surprising? Not one bit.
Husted is as slimy and corrupt as they come. #OhioPolitics
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/16/h...
Husted took thousands from company that paid Ohio $88 million to settle Medicaid fraud allegations • Ohio Capital Journal
U.S. Sen. Jon Husted says fraud is a reason he's against ACA insurance subsidies. But a big contributor allegedly defrauded Ohio Medicaid.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
January 17, 2026 at 5:21 AM
Appalling? Yes.
Surprising? Not one bit.
Husted is as slimy and corrupt as they come. #OhioPolitics
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/16/h...
Surprising? Not one bit.
Husted is as slimy and corrupt as they come. #OhioPolitics
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/16/h...
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January 13, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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Imagine looking at true investigative journalism on one hand and unfiltered YouTube comments from the masses on the other and then going "the press should look more like the latter."
Any media outlet whose diagnosis of what's wrong with corporate media is *this* is about to deliver dogshit coverage the likes of which we've never seen
Corporate media lost its way due to cowardice, profit motive, anti-intellectualism, and confusing neutrality with objectivity
Corporate media lost its way due to cowardice, profit motive, anti-intellectualism, and confusing neutrality with objectivity
January 2, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Imagine looking at true investigative journalism on one hand and unfiltered YouTube comments from the masses on the other and then going "the press should look more like the latter."
A fascinating collection of works entered the public domain in the US today.
And happy New Year to you, unless you're facilitating fascism, in which case I hope your coffee is always too hot and your shower is always too cold.
blog.archive.org/2026/01/01/w...
And happy New Year to you, unless you're facilitating fascism, in which case I hope your coffee is always too hot and your shower is always too cold.
blog.archive.org/2026/01/01/w...
Welcome to the Public Domain in 2026 | Internet Archive Blogs
blog.archive.org
January 1, 2026 at 2:53 PM
A fascinating collection of works entered the public domain in the US today.
And happy New Year to you, unless you're facilitating fascism, in which case I hope your coffee is always too hot and your shower is always too cold.
blog.archive.org/2026/01/01/w...
And happy New Year to you, unless you're facilitating fascism, in which case I hope your coffee is always too hot and your shower is always too cold.
blog.archive.org/2026/01/01/w...
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It's stuff like this that makes it so amazing whenever somebody yells at Pete Hegseth or whoever in a restaurant and the entire news media superstructure spends 10 days fretting over civility and comity.
Oh. my. god. This is the Asst. US Atty General calling people -- in print -- "hoes."
December 31, 2025 at 12:35 PM
It's stuff like this that makes it so amazing whenever somebody yells at Pete Hegseth or whoever in a restaurant and the entire news media superstructure spends 10 days fretting over civility and comity.
It's nice knowing that, in 2026, any time someone says out loud "Gosh, it'd be nice if everyone had access to clean water and fresh air," someone from our EPA will be there to call them a woke socialist.
/s
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December 31, 2025 at 4:05 PM
It's nice knowing that, in 2026, any time someone says out loud "Gosh, it'd be nice if everyone had access to clean water and fresh air," someone from our EPA will be there to call them a woke socialist.
/s
/s
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They killed half a million kids in a year.
I just can’t really stomach it. And they both mostly are getting a pass on it.
I just can’t really stomach it. And they both mostly are getting a pass on it.
Trump allowed the richest man in the world to condemn potentially millions of people to death. In a just world, this moral atrocity would follow all involved — Musk, DOGErs, Vought, Marco Rubio and Trump — like a trail of blood for the rest of their days.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...
The Death of USAID
The most consequential legacy of DOGE will be human misery on a massive scale
donmoynihan.substack.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:58 PM
They killed half a million kids in a year.
I just can’t really stomach it. And they both mostly are getting a pass on it.
I just can’t really stomach it. And they both mostly are getting a pass on it.
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This is just comically racist:. There is something a bit “off” about Mamdani. Sorta like Obama.
This is how Christopher Caldwell begins his essay on Zohran Mamdani for the Claremont Review of Books.
Why are these people such freaks?
Why are these people such freaks?
December 29, 2025 at 11:02 PM
This is just comically racist:. There is something a bit “off” about Mamdani. Sorta like Obama.
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This is a good overview of the Fed's limited ability to mitigate the wealth inequality problem that's undermined US society for the past 40+ years (since Reagan's policies), but it fails to mention the one thing that COULD fix it: A revised tax code (Congress' job).
www.cnn.com/2025/12/27/b...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/27/b...
The Fed admits it can’t fix an economic problem it helped create | CNN Business
Low-income Americans have missed out on the wealth effects that have benefited the highest earners. The Fed, which has played a role in what economists refer to as the K-shaped economy, can’t easily f...
www.cnn.com
December 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
This is a good overview of the Fed's limited ability to mitigate the wealth inequality problem that's undermined US society for the past 40+ years (since Reagan's policies), but it fails to mention the one thing that COULD fix it: A revised tax code (Congress' job).
www.cnn.com/2025/12/27/b...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/27/b...
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US media has decided to pretend that the Epstein-Nassar Letter Epstein sent just before he died merely had a "crude reference" to Trump.
NO.
It was a clear, unambiguous allegation by Epstein that Trump *regularly sexually assaulted* "young, nubile girls."
Our media is BROKEN.
NO.
It was a clear, unambiguous allegation by Epstein that Trump *regularly sexually assaulted* "young, nubile girls."
Our media is BROKEN.
December 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
US media has decided to pretend that the Epstein-Nassar Letter Epstein sent just before he died merely had a "crude reference" to Trump.
NO.
It was a clear, unambiguous allegation by Epstein that Trump *regularly sexually assaulted* "young, nubile girls."
Our media is BROKEN.
NO.
It was a clear, unambiguous allegation by Epstein that Trump *regularly sexually assaulted* "young, nubile girls."
Our media is BROKEN.
This is such a shocking betrayal of the duty journalistic outlets have to reporting on the truth happening in our world.
Contrast that with some of the political reporting that major news outlets released during the lead-up to WWII (examples in this thread...)
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www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
Contrast that with some of the political reporting that major news outlets released during the lead-up to WWII (examples in this thread...)
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www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls '60 Minutes' story, sparking outcry
CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants.
www.npr.org
December 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This is such a shocking betrayal of the duty journalistic outlets have to reporting on the truth happening in our world.
Contrast that with some of the political reporting that major news outlets released during the lead-up to WWII (examples in this thread...)
1/4
www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
Contrast that with some of the political reporting that major news outlets released during the lead-up to WWII (examples in this thread...)
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www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
The enshittification of the US federal government continues apace #SMDH #politics
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
America's new top health diplomat has strong opinions on abortion and gender
Bethany Kozma leads a key global health office at the Department of Health and Human Services. In past experience in the public eye, she's campaigned against abortion and gender-affirming care.
www.npr.org
December 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The enshittification of the US federal government continues apace #SMDH #politics
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
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RFK Jr. has cancelled federal grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics, claiming the work they fund “no longer aligns with departmental priorities.” Those grants weren’t about ideology.
December 18, 2025 at 2:22 PM
RFK Jr. has cancelled federal grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics, claiming the work they fund “no longer aligns with departmental priorities.” Those grants weren’t about ideology.