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Great News: the signatures were accepted. Now we prepare for the real work of collecting signatures needed from 44/88 Ohio counties to get the SB1 referendum on the ballot this November!
This is a clip from an email from the organizers of the Ohio Senate Bill 1 Referendum. It states: “Great news! We are officially_ CERTIFIED by the Ohio Attorney General!!” This means we can move forward with our efforts to collect signatures for the official petition to get this referendum on the November ballot and let Ohio voters decide what is best Ohio’s public higher education system, their students and faculty members.
May 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Please enjoy these brilliant lines by Scott Woods (from his book of poetry, "Black Night is Falling") where "the white folding chair speaks".
SWING LOW, SWEET CHARIOT (In honor of the August 5, 2023 Montgomery Brawl, the white folding chair speaks) I, too, was just doing my job when Chris stopped sitting on my face, folded me in half, and started swinging. His knees cracking, an unfinished waltz played on popcorn husks in a microwave. Chris becomes unto like Pop-Pop, the hot sauce of every cookout flowing in his veins, hands as heavy as a parked pontoon, every ancestor awakened in his soul and his wrists. Being a white chair, I wondered if my chance to do a right and just thing would ever come. Is this all of that DEI training I've been hearing about? How many times a chair should have been the answer: lunch counter stools. Colored bus seats. Mississippi church pew. All brawls waiting to fix history. A brawl extends as far as the dust settles. Ain't no lines in a brawl until the cops come knockin'. If you're in the middle of a brawl, you aren't a white woman anymore; you're a brawler. The fact that you can't brawl doesn't mean you don't get hit. The trembling thug tears of Chris' ancestors flowing through him with every summertime field-hand swing of my body, driving railroad ties into a Montgomery dock swarming with revenge. The power of Chris compels you, white man in white shirt doing white shit. The power of Chris compels you, bird-chested white boy looking for trouble. The power of Chris compels you, woman in red dress trying hard to look like surprised. My cousin is an armchair. He gon' tell me, had it been the other way around, nobody would be celebrating. La-Z-Boy: right there in his name and his thinking. That fairy tale used to be on postcards sent round the countryside to friends. Not a chair in sight under the noose. Moving furniture is not just reserved for arguments. We are so much more than Saturday night spades table flips. Using me as a revolutionary act of ancestral recall is, According to law, a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge. If freedom wind blows Alabama way again, one could serve that kind of time with community service. Except Chris already did his community a service. Rosa Parks' bus seat is my cousin, and one day we'll both be in the Smithsonian, Legs out, back straight, save for that one dent in my cheek where fucked around met found out, had a baby and called it justice, It is a constellation that still has a strand of crying hair stuck to its North Star.
April 11, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Trade you
March 26, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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And then he went in CYA mode as described in the ALT text.
This is a screenshot from a posting on Twitter. It shows the traitorous Ohio Senator Bernie Moreno’s response to a Columbus Dispatch article posted on Twitter. The original article points out how Moreno, speaking at a private event, says “congress should be able to work as intended”. In an effort to save his own ass from his fascist leader, he makes sure to speak out of both sides of his mouth with the following statement: “I fully support President Trump's agenda to rein in our bloated federal government & put Americans first. Now, it's time for Congress to act. It's up to us on Capitol Hill to make permanent his executive actions, ensuring continuity in public policy from one administration to the next.”
February 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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“So get the screens out of your room and surround yourself with books. The characters in Orwell's and Bradbury's books could not do this-but we still can.”
-Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny
A stack of books, featuring Timothy Snyder’s “On Tyranny”, “Black Night is Falling” by Scott Woods, “The End of Imagination” by Arundhati Roy, “The End of Reality” by Jonathan Taplan, “Bird by Bird” by Anne Lamott, and more. A quotation from Chapter 9 of Snyder’s book. The text reads as follows: “More than half a century ago, the classic novels of totalitarianism warned of the domination of screens, the suppression of books, the narrowing of vocabularies, and the associated difficulties of thought. In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, published in 1953, firemen find and burn books while most citizens watch interactive television. In George Orwell's 1984, published in 1949, books are banned and television is two-way, allowing the government to observe citizens at all times. In 1984, the language of visual media is highly constrained, to starve the public of the concepts needed to think about the present, remember the past, and consider the future. One of the regime's projects is to limit the language further by eliminating ever more words with each edition of the official dictionary.” Quotation continued: “Staring at screens is perhaps unavoidable, but the two-dimensional world makes little sense unless we can draw upon a mental armory that we have developed somewhere else. When we repeat the same words and phrases that appear in the daily media, we accept the absence of a larger framework. To have such a framework requires more concepts, and having more concepts requires reading. So get the screens out of your room and surround yourself with books. The characters in Orwell's and Bradbury's books could not do this-but we still can.”
January 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM