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P.O.V: Neo-Liberal Chandelier Year in Review 2025

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Look At Me

Mobb Deep’s 2025 song with the Clipse Look At Me is the winning conversation for both DSA and the Extreme Centre:

Prodigy:

Nothing You Saying is Making Sense To Me.

I Can’t Comprehend. You Not Talking Money.

Real Nword. The Only Language I Speak.

They Gonna Die hungry.

I’m Crafty. Real Foxy.

My Reptilian Brain Will Have You Curled Up…

Remember RZA endorsed Mamdani over Eric Adams.

Eric Adams had declared Wu Tang Day in NYC November 9th.

Rest in Beats Prodigy

ICE Raids

Do y’all remember No More Prisons.

No More Prisons was a grassroots movement which denounced the prison industrial complex. No More Prisons deemed prison for profit unhealthy for a society to decide imprisioning people was lucrative.

Heer to Serve filling gaps in Columbus' housing crisis

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In the past four years, homelessness has increased by 53 percent in Franklin County. Each year, more of our neighbors struggle to find a safe place to sleep. These aren’t just numbers, they are our neighbors- grandparents, children, families.  

Community group Heer to Serve is a mutual aid group that serves necessary, and emergency items to those who are unsheltered. Heer to Serve and others are responding to this crisis which is closer than you may realize, offering meals, survival supplies, clothes, showers and other basic needs. When you donate to a community based organization you’re not donating to charity, you’re making an investment into people, stability. You’re making an investment in a future where no one has to sleep on the streets.

The solutions start with us. Invest in hope by investing in community. Consider donating today! 

Cashapp: $heer2serve

Venmo: theheertoserve 

Heer2serve.org is our website. And folks can find our socials on Facebook, Instagram, and bluesky.

Thank You Jennifer Anne Adair

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Columbus City Schools (CCS) are facing their greatest challenge in years. Not only does the district have a “D” rating for quality, but now must cut over 50 million dollars from their budget (thanks to the state Republicans and their hatred of public education).

As a former teacher (both public and private schools) I’ve been following the steps that CCS has, and has not, been taking. Most important:

The excessive number of administrators in the Central Office, andHow those Central Office administrators have their STRS pension payments not deducted from their paychecks (like every teacher), but instead paid for by CCS.

I care about the future of Columbus and a strong CCS is vital for our success. Therefore, I took it upon myself to email every member of the CCS Board of Education; twice. Everyone, except one person ignored my questions.

So thank you to Jennifer Anne Adair for not only reading my email but even responding. Part of her reply included:

 I made five posts yesterday/today on my school board Facebook explaining how we got here, the choices, and impacts.  These are my personal statements, but reflect the facts.

Tell Ohio Insurance Commissioner Judith French: Insure our future, not fossil fuels

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This week, every state insurance commissioner including Ohio’s Judith French will meet in Hollywood, Florida, for their quarterly national gathering. If a corporate insurance lobbyist is a shark, this meeting is a feeding frenzy. And the sharks have been eating well.

Insurance commissioners across the country are abdicating their public duty by giving in to corporate lobbyists that want to profit from insuring fossil fuel projects and investing in fossil fuel companies – while leaving ratepayers holding the climate crisis bag.

In Ohio, insurance premiums have climbed 36.1% over the last six years, while nonrenewal rates went up 31% from 2022 to 2023. Big insurance companies blame the climate crisis – yet they insure and invest in the very fossil fuel companies that are driving the climate crisis – including in companies fracking Ohio’s state parks and public lands.

You Need to Understand the Supreme Court’s “Shadow Docket”

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If you want to understand how the Supreme Court’s MAGA majority has undermined democracy, you need to understand the “shadow docket.”

The shadow docket — as the court’s emergency docket has come to be known — is one of the more dramatic and corrupt ways that MAGA-aligned justices are enabling President Trump to take away our freedoms.

Normally, the justices don’t hear a case until after lower courts have considered it fully and made a final decision. But a party to a case may describe it as so urgent that quick “relief” is needed from the Supreme Court, claiming that “irreparable harm” may occur while lower courts consider it.

That puts it on the emergency docket.

Since time is supposedly of the essence, the justices don’t hold oral arguments. And if they grant the “relief” and undo the lower court’s order, they often give us little if any explanation why. Lower court judges are left without much guidance on whether or how to use the decision to guide their own decisions.

With so little sunlight, no wonder the term “shadow docket” has stuck.

ICE out of Home Depot

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Sunday, December 7, 3:30pm
Whetstone Library, 3909 N. High St.
Register here

All over the country, ICE agents are targeting immigrants in and around Home Depot, attacking and terrorizing workers, customers, and surrounding communities. The raids are terrifying, chaotic, and sometimes deadly.

These atrocities are happening on Home Depot’s watch, on its properties, with its silence. The Home Depot company has not resisted or condemned these raids. It has not publicly demanded that the Administration stop assaulting and abducting people on and outside its properties. As far as we know, it hasn't even asked.

We will write postcards to Central Ohio Home Depot store managers and to Home Depot corporate leaders demanding an end to their complicity and promising not to shop at Home Depot until they stop allowing ICE to conduct raids on its properties.

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