Pari Sabety
@parisabety.bsky.social
Ohio . Community. Music. Reading. Walking. Connecting threads and putting them in historical context.
Every Ohioan should read this. Outstanding. And true.
Editor Commentary: Are you satisfied, Ohio? Are you happy you kept politicians in charge of redistricting? Out of 131 legislative races in Ohio in 2026, 7 to 10 are actually competitive, being very generous. The others are not. That's a pathetic disgrace. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/19/g...
Gerrymandering Ohio politicians make sure at least 121 elections in 2026 are predetermined • Ohio Capital Journal
Are you satisfied, Ohio? Are you happy you kept politicians in charge of redistricting? Out of 131 legislative races in Ohio in 2026, maybe seven to 10 are actually competitive. The others are not.…
ohiocapitaljournal.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Every Ohioan should read this. Outstanding. And true.
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The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
October 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
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When the president is destroying national landmarks, murdering fishermen, raising prices because he's angry over a Reagan video, and kidnapping parents in front of their crying children is probably not an ideal time to have a lazy, completely incompetent legislative branch perpetually on vacation.
October 26, 2025 at 12:06 AM
When the president is destroying national landmarks, murdering fishermen, raising prices because he's angry over a Reagan video, and kidnapping parents in front of their crying children is probably not an ideal time to have a lazy, completely incompetent legislative branch perpetually on vacation.
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Correct
October 18, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Correct
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Cuomo had better learn how to say “Mayor Mamdani” correctly, because he got smoked last night.🔥
October 17, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Cuomo had better learn how to say “Mayor Mamdani” correctly, because he got smoked last night.🔥
Maybe we outlaw the scientific method now?
RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."
October 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Maybe we outlaw the scientific method now?
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Internal oversight of the VA may not be working, but ours is!
If you have something about the VA we should know, contact me at securely and confidentially on Signal at eric.umansky@propublica.org
signal.me#eu/XJgAapwmf...
If you have something about the VA we should know, contact me at securely and confidentially on Signal at eric.umansky@propublica.org
signal.me#eu/XJgAapwmf...
October 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Internal oversight of the VA may not be working, but ours is!
If you have something about the VA we should know, contact me at securely and confidentially on Signal at eric.umansky@propublica.org
signal.me#eu/XJgAapwmf...
If you have something about the VA we should know, contact me at securely and confidentially on Signal at eric.umansky@propublica.org
signal.me#eu/XJgAapwmf...
Yet again Ohio leads the way. This is exactly how the GOP rigged our maps.
NEW: Utah Republicans introduce a bill that seeks to rig the map-drawing process by using statewide red-leaning election results as the “partisan index” for all of the state’s congressional districts — a novel move that could entrench GOP power in the state.
From: @mattdcohen.bsky.social
From: @mattdcohen.bsky.social
After Losing in Court, Utah GOPers Unveil Audacious Scheme To Create New Gerrymander
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
September 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Yet again Ohio leads the way. This is exactly how the GOP rigged our maps.
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The most important direction for the future of the Democratic Party is breaking up the two party doom loop.
There is not a singular ideological agenda or direction that will make a pro-democracy majority. We need a new, proportional representation system that will allow more parties in Congress.
There is not a singular ideological agenda or direction that will make a pro-democracy majority. We need a new, proportional representation system that will allow more parties in Congress.
September 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The most important direction for the future of the Democratic Party is breaking up the two party doom loop.
There is not a singular ideological agenda or direction that will make a pro-democracy majority. We need a new, proportional representation system that will allow more parties in Congress.
There is not a singular ideological agenda or direction that will make a pro-democracy majority. We need a new, proportional representation system that will allow more parties in Congress.
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That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
September 2, 2025 at 9:53 PM
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
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Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."
August 31, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."
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RFK is cutting us off from vaccines.
NEWS: CVS, the largest pharmacy chain in the country, is currently not offering Covid vaccines in 16 states and DC — even to people who meet the new FDA criteria — because the CDC hasn't signed off and isn't expected to do so (if it does so) for at least three weeks.
CVS Holds Off on Offering Covid Vaccines in 16 States
www.nytimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 1:26 AM
RFK is cutting us off from vaccines.
Also true for Kroger and most other chain pharmacies. They only are allowed to dispense what FDA authorizes. Time to mask up! 😷
NEWS: CVS, the largest pharmacy chain in the country, is currently not offering Covid vaccines in 16 states and DC — even to people who meet the new FDA criteria — because the CDC hasn't signed off and isn't expected to do so (if it does so) for at least three weeks.
CVS Holds Off on Offering Covid Vaccines in 16 States
www.nytimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Also true for Kroger and most other chain pharmacies. They only are allowed to dispense what FDA authorizes. Time to mask up! 😷
Heartbreakingly courageous
Dr. Tarek Loubani, who is in Gaza right now, was invited to give a talk to emergency workers about the attacks on health care facilities in Gaza.
But he was instructed - get this - not to say who was doing the attacking. Take a look at how this hero of a human responded: vimeo.com/1112115018/c...
But he was instructed - get this - not to say who was doing the attacking. Take a look at how this hero of a human responded: vimeo.com/1112115018/c...
Stethoscope Story #8
This is "Stethoscope Story #8" by Albino Squirrel Channel on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
vimeo.com
August 26, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Heartbreakingly courageous
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activists please paint four other crosswalks rainbow colors. every site they watch should provoke four new sites
A Florida Department of Transportation crew early Sunday painted the Pulse crosswalk back to black and white for a second time as supporters continued to try to restore the rainbow-colored crossing. Now, police agencies are monitoring the site.
DOT repaints Pulse crosswalk for a second time. FHP and OPD watching site
A squad of Florida Highway Patrol and Orlando Police Department officers surveilled the dozen people who were using chalk on the rainbow crosswalk on Sunday. Advocates said it was an intimidation t…
www.sun-sentinel.com
August 25, 2025 at 12:38 AM
activists please paint four other crosswalks rainbow colors. every site they watch should provoke four new sites
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What good is being VP if you can't abuse your power to have the Army Corps of Engineers making your kayaking trip more ideal by changing the waterflow of a lake?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
August 7, 2025 at 12:26 AM
What good is being VP if you can't abuse your power to have the Army Corps of Engineers making your kayaking trip more ideal by changing the waterflow of a lake?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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If you don’t think independent journalism works, think again. I don’t notice the #failing @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @nbcnews.com @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy @abcnewslive.bsky.social filing suit.
They are all frightened or bought and paid for. Not just playing dumb, but complicit.
They are all frightened or bought and paid for. Not just playing dumb, but complicit.
BREAKING: I am suing the Department of Justice for the training videos instructing FBI personnel to flag mentions of Donald Trump in the Epstein files. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/i-am-suing...
I Am Suing the Department of Justice for the Epstein Files Training Videos
On July 20th, I was the first to report the existence of training videos instructing FBI personnel how to flag mentions of Trump and others in the Epstein files. Today, I'm suing for those videos.
www.muellershewrote.com
August 3, 2025 at 11:45 PM
If you don’t think independent journalism works, think again. I don’t notice the #failing @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @nbcnews.com @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy @abcnewslive.bsky.social filing suit.
They are all frightened or bought and paid for. Not just playing dumb, but complicit.
They are all frightened or bought and paid for. Not just playing dumb, but complicit.
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I think @keithedwards.bsky.social nails it here, with the next step being Republicans like MTG and Burchett rallying around Trump for "exposing the Democrats."
July 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I think @keithedwards.bsky.social nails it here, with the next step being Republicans like MTG and Burchett rallying around Trump for "exposing the Democrats."
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The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God.
Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
forward.com/opinion/7575...
Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
forward.com/opinion/7575...
Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders?
A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct.
forward.com
July 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God.
Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
forward.com/opinion/7575...
Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
forward.com/opinion/7575...
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WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽
July 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽
Indeed. Number 3 in my mind is the real question.
the big questions for american democracy going forward seem to be (1) can the GOP actually build the federal police state they just funded, (2) in time to finish before democratic checks can be established, and (3) whether dems gaining power would actually try to stop/dismantle it
July 5, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Indeed. Number 3 in my mind is the real question.
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At the end of the day neither Israel or Russia give a shit about you or your family and have installed a puppet government that is taking everyone's rights away. You all have a common enemy, start acting like it.
June 27, 2025 at 11:08 PM
At the end of the day neither Israel or Russia give a shit about you or your family and have installed a puppet government that is taking everyone's rights away. You all have a common enemy, start acting like it.
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It's a new day for the entire country. Mamdani has shaken up and blown through everything.
Wake up Democratic Party old guard establishment. This isn’t about New York City. This is the way the wind is blowing. Step aside for young people who this country will need over the next several decades long after you are gone. Enough with your egos and the big money interests.
June 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM
It's a new day for the entire country. Mamdani has shaken up and blown through everything.
Yes
“…let’s not mistake this as a bold act by an American president making a serious decision for the good of the nation. This is dangerously reckless, illegal and impeachable action by a malignant despot desperate to be seen as a strong man.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/trump-unil...
www.americaamerica.news/p/trump-unil...
Trump Unilaterally Bombs Iran
This desperate despot is determined to be seen as a strong man
www.americaamerica.news
June 23, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Yes