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The Christmas present of the congressional January 6 Committee is a report that the White House administration of Donald Trump, in its final months, opted for an official policy of lawlessness and sedition. Not only was there a conspiracy to overturn a presidential election, but the conspirators intentionally violated numerous federal laws in order to do it, including laws against interference with the workings of Congress and laws against the incitement of violent mobs.
Enabling this would-be coup d’etat, various agencies including the Pentagon and the FBI, failed to timely act against the conspiracy, essentially because they failed to conceive it could be happening. This is an advantage that criminals have over the bureaucratic state. The quotidian expectation of adherence to law leaves law-abiding citizens open to victimization by flagrantly law-breaking politicians. It should not have been a surprise when the golfer announced his new run for the presidency on the platform of chucking the Constitution.
Remember Texas of another sort. With the coldest Christmas this side of the Solar cycle, people in Ohio are being asked to cut back on energy usage with the possibility of outages.
The dark days from which we need to emerge are dark indeed. But we're just getting started.
During a recent break in Congressional celebrations of war in Ukraine, the U.S. Senate discovered it did not have a member after all who would force a debate and vote on ending the war in Yemen. Let your Representative and Senators know that you want them to act now more than ever!
With today's bitterly cold temperatures, Columbus Recreation and Parks is set to provide five regional warming centers for residents which will be open from 9 a.m.-9 p.m. today, Friday, Dec. 23.
Saturday, December 24, 6:30pm, Ye’s Asian Vegan Restaurant, 2469 Hilliard-Rome Rd., Hilliard, Ohio
Come and celebrate Christmas Eve with Columbus vegans with dinner at one of Columbus’s favorite vegan restaurants.
Ye’s has offered to stay open just for the Columbus Vegan Meetup group on the 24th! Spend time with friends and fellow vegans as we enjoy a great meal during the warmth of the holiday season.
Please make certain that you RSVP accordingly so that Ye’s will be able to prepare for our group.
We are looking forward to seeing everyone on the 24th!
Here is a link to Ye’s menu to entice you to come.
RSVP for this event by using this link.
Hosted by Columbus Vegan Meetup.
In the summer of 2021, City Attorney Zach Klein published a column in the Dispatch touting six reform measures meant to improve Columbus policing. After reading it twice – first in disbelief that Mr. Klein would write a piece that so clearly insulted the people of Columbus’ intelligence, then in a rage realizing that at least half of the Dispatch’s readers would, in fact, take his comments at face value – I wrote a counterpoint that called out most of the reforms he mentioned as window-dressing.
Columbus’ Civilian Review Board (CRB) chairperson, Ms. Janet Jackson – a former Columbus City Attorney – took particular umbrage to the phrase “window-dressing” and wrote another column, robustly defending the new board and its role in holding the Columbus Division of Police (CPD) accountable.
She closed her column with these words: “. . . I know that the board comprises a diverse, thoughtful and passionate group of individuals who will do their level best to fulfill the vitally important charge that has been bestowed upon us. Our work is just beginning.”
Many of you are prison reform or prison abolition advocates, and I have a request for you today.
I ask that you sign a petition to the Ohio Parole Board advocating for the parole of inmate Willie Lagway. His parole hearing is in January 2023.
Willie Lagway has been imprisoned by the state of Ohio for 39 years. He committed and admitted to his crimes and was given an unusually long sentence. He has consistently expressed remorse for the crimes and used his time in prison to improve himself.
We're collecting petition signatures calling on the Senate to investigate corruption and ethical misconduct on the Supreme Court.
"The Whale" is the story of Charlie (Brendan Fraser), a reclusive English teacher, living with severe obesity who attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter Ellie (Sadie Sink) for one last chance at redemption.
When we meet Charlie, he’s in a kind of literal and emotional limbo: physical because his size prevents him from moving very well; emotional because of the enormous roiling grief he has towards his dead partner, Alan. He's full of guilt over Alan’s passing, guilt over walking out on a life with his daughter, guilt over all the things that might have been.
Unable to forgive himself for his own role in Alan’s death and deeply guilty about his desertion of his young daughter and wife Mary (Samantha Morton), Charlie begins to self-destruct through compulsive binge-eating. Unprocessed grief is the ground floor of everything for Charlie. He’s suffering from congestive heart failure, but maybe he’s really dying of the grief he’s never reconciled.
Sunday, December 18, 1-2pm, intersection of N. High St. and North Broadway
Join Jewish Voice for Peace for our Hanukkah Vigil standing up for human rights everywhere.
Hosted by Jewish Voice for Peace Central Ohio.