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Just days ago at a rally in Pennsylvania, Donald Trump said: “Your child goes to school and they take your child. It was a he and comes back a she. And they do this. And they do it, and often without parental consent.” It is, of course an absurdist lie, now repeated more times than you might believe. The claim is so non-credible that we should wonder why Trump is employing it. The probable answer lies in the race for US Senate in Ohio.
Long before Trump imagined that American children are given sex-change operations at school, the race between Sherrod Brown and car-salesman Bernie Moreno for the US Senate in Ohio devolved to blaring accusations that “Brown backed allowing children to receive sex change surgery.” This too, of course, is a lie except in the technical sense that some children are born with conditions that require procedures to resolve gonadal ambiguity as part of standard health care, obviously with parental consent.
This article first appeared on the Ohio Capital Journal
As it sought a massive, corrupt bailout in Ohio, Akron-based FirstEnergy also spent lavishly on Trump-aligned dark money groups and at hotels and golf courses owned by the former president, a new report said this week.
Trump and his aides wanted to provide a federal bailout for the company’s coal and nuclear plants, but they hit a brick wall — first in the form of a regulator, and then by public opposition to corporate bailouts, the report said.
Charli XCX walked out ointo the stage wearing a wedding veil. The wedding attire conjured Madonna’s “Like A Virgin” for a second. Queen Brat then said, “Columbus, Ohio. Will You Marry Me?”
During the evening. Charli kept an intimate dialogue during stage banter as if every individual in the packed arena were Charli’s kindred spirit who understood with the deepest emotional connection.
Charli XCX rotated sets with Australian pop singer Troy Sitivan. Charli took the stage with Brit wave rapper-singer ShyGirl. Charli intertwined a marriage proposal for our city while performing 365’s Remix.
One of my hobbies before Saturday’s show was finding Chali XCX rap songs. Everyone I knew cracked up that Charli XCX recorded with Ed Banger’s Uffie. Uffie, and Balam ACAB’s involvement with Charli XCX sorta changed a perception…
Should Charli XCX be a Taylor Swift/Britney Spears star or someone who didn’t quit once Daft Punk and Justice fans couldn’t use Kanye West as their pop sensation.
Ed Banger Records might be Kanye’s political stances biggest casualty.
You have the power. In your hand at your polling place, in your booth and on your ballot, you can change the world. You can bring peace to the planet, regain your rights, frame your future, and advance the plant. That’s what your vote will do if cast properly.
Via hundreds of email messages and television commercials, you probably know about the importance of this year’s election. It’s both preidential and local. It’s both candidate and issue based. And it’s pivotal: who and what wins will chart the course of the future or become the dust of history.
From the Native Organizers Alliance Action Fund: Urge President Biden to Grant Executive Clemency and Free Native Activist Leonard Peltier Now!
Leonard Peltier is almost 80 years old. He’s a Native activist in the American Indian Movement (AIM), a citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, and is now serving his 49th year of incarceration, making him the longest-serving political prisoner in U.S. history.
Let's get together in person on Indigenous People's Day for a Second Saturday Salon!
Saturday October 12 at 7pm
Old First Presbyterian Church, 1101 Bryden Rd. 43205
At Bryden and Ohio
Free and open to the public.
Facebook Event
This month's theme: Celebrating and honoring Indigenous People's Day
Community discussions on the Native Land Back movement, the Right to Return, and Reparations.
Music, fun, socializing, networking with progressive friends
Some refreshments provided - Potluck dishes welcome
More info; colsfreepress@gmail.com
In December 2022, during the Christmas holiday season and lame duck session – with no public input - the Ohio General Assembly stuffed a poultry bill with amendments and passed a law requiring fracking under Ohio’s state parks and public lands for gas and oil.
HB 507 also falsely defined gas as a “green energy,” despite climate scientists’ warnings that methane gas emissions related to gas and oil production are 80 percent more potent than carbon dioxide and accelerate climate warming.
Ohio public lands include state parks, forests, wilderness and wildlife areas, public colleges and universities, and Ohio Department of Transportation rights of way.
Save Ohio Parks, the statewide, all-volunteer group concerned about the effects of fracking on human health, the environment, its fresh water, and planet warming, lists in a Candidate Accountability document the legislators who voted yes on H.B. 507 and are running for office in 2024: 13 for Ohio Senate seats and 35 for the Ohio House.
Thursday, October 10, 2024, 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Join us for the launch of our Co-op Circle – a space for learning, collaboration, and community-building around cooperative enterprises.
Whether you're a seasoned co-op enthusiast or just curious about how co-ops can transform our community, this event is for you!
More details to come – stay tuned! Let’s fuel the cooperative fire in Central Ohio! Location: Two Dollar Radio Headquarters, 1126 Parsons Ave, Columbus 43206.
October 11-13, 2024
Madlab Theater, 227 N. Third St., Columbus OH 43215
Have you ever searched for something all of your life, and when you finally find it: you realize THAT'S what you'd been looking for? Only to have the thing you finally found, that you had been searching for all of your life, get stolen from you in an instant?
A Crime of Forgiveness is about an unlikely friendship between two people who find forgiveness, healing, and reconciliation through a tragic incident.
A bond of friendship and a journey of healing develop that aren't readily welcomed with open arms-- and that reach far beyond the grave.
Based on a true story.
Friday, Oct 11 - 8pm
Sat, Oct 12 - 1pm, 8pm
Sun, Oct 13 - 4pm
Tickets - $20.00