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One Big Beautiful Bill Signed into Law

The Republican budget reconciliation bill that recently passed both the House and Senate will end all incentive programs and tax credits for the wind and solar industry by the end of 2027.

Commercial and utility scale solar projects already permitted must be completed and placed in service by December 31, 2027 in order to qualify for the 30 percent tax incentive.

Alternatively, if a project has not yet been permitted and it begins construction within one year of the enactment of this bill, then they will have four years to complete that project to qualify for the tax credits. 

The bill also eliminates all residential solar tax incentives that are completed after December 31 of this year.

House Rejects Foreign Entity of Concern (FOEC) Restrictions

The holiday weekend’s smoke has cleared from the summer sky, but a different kind of haze lingers over cities like Columbus. It is the acrid aftermath of a celebration scarred by gunfire, a pall that hangs over communities trying to reconcile the promise of America’s birthday with the reality of its violence.

On the South Side at a house party that should have been filled with the sounds of summer, the life of 17-year-old Cameron Moore was extinguished. His death was one of at least six youth fatalities in a five-day span that saw 25 other young people wounded in shootings across America.

The bloodshed was as tragic as it was predictable. Criminologists like James Alan Fox of Northeastern University have long identified Independence Day as consistently the most violent day of the year in the United States. The holiday’s mix of large social gatherings, warm temperatures, and alcohol consumption creates a volatile environment where the presence of firearms can instantly escalate conflict to fatal ends. This year was no exception as local officials grapple with the paradox of surging violence against a backdrop of statistically declining crime.

Tuesday, July 8, 2025, 4:30 – 5:30 PM
Chalmers P. Wylie Ambulatory Care Center, 420 N James Rd, Columbus
Join Indivisible Central Ohio’s and Veteran’s for Peace Central Ohio weekly Rush-Hour Resistance Rally to protest the cuts to the VA and support veterans!

Registration (plus more info about the location & parking) HERE.

One of Ohio’s most common stigmas is that our drivers are amongst the worst in the nation.

And while data shows that the state’s motor vehicle deaths per capita are relatively low compared to the rest of the country, the empirical issue stems from a gradual increase in vehicular violence since 2013.

When an actually progressive candidate wins a primary and excites people who might become loyal supporters of the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party's so-called leaders tend to put their efforts into undermining or defeating their own candidate and potential.

Take Action Here

Background:
>> Common Dreams: Zohran Mamdani's Battle Against the Billionaire Class and Democratic Establishment Is Just Beginning
>> C-SPAN: Jeff Cohen on the Future of the Democratic Party

This article first appeared in the Buckeye Flame

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine has signed the state’s two-year budget, vetoing three anti-LGBTQ+ measures and leaving three intact.

Shortly before the midnight deadline on June 30 to approve the budget, DeWine issued 67 line-item vetoes to the 5,500-page document. 

Three key vetoes

DeWine vetoed an amendment requiring all public libraries to place material related to sexual orientation or gender identity or expression out of the view of persons under the age 18.

In a document explaining his vetoes, DeWine said the language created “vague restrictions” and that current laws on obscenity and material harmful to juveniles can be used to ensure that “no child should have access to inappropriate materials or to materials that their parents or guardians deem inappropriate.”

Sunday, July 6, 2025, 5-7pm
Global Gallery, 3535 N High St, Columbus, OH
In these challenging and chaotic times, we need the power of music now more than ever to make sense of and to heal the world from all that is currently happening. Come to this monthly meeting of the Social Action Song Swap (SASS for short). Join host JOANIE CALEM as she shares classic and original songs of Justice, Peace and ACTION! This event is OPEN to any musician who wishes to share their songs and vision! Bring yourself, bring a song, bring those who yearn for a better, just world. There is still hope!!! 

A central motif of the new horror film 28 Years Later is its statement about what normal looks like. From the outset, normality is encoded in the battle between normal humans vs abnormal, zombified ones. But another subtler message also makes itself known: normal isn’t about diversity. The film ministers to the idea of the ‘unwelcome other’ by apparently only casting people of colour in the role of zombies. And so, the real horror is in the thinking that seems to have informed the casting.

The film re-centres whiteness, under the guise of genre convention and nostalgia. In so doing, it echoes a lingering cultural mood that quietly reinforces exclusion. I should know. I’m Black and I’ve seen this mood afoot in many instances of procedural fluency - that automatic application of actions and behaviours that, in the case of race, leads to exclusion.

Congressional passage of Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” provides the latest evidence that human greed, despite its primitive nature, remains alive and well.

Perhaps most noticeably, the legislation provides for over $3 trillion in tax cuts that disproportionately help the wealthy and their corporations.  This largesse is facilitated by slashing over $1.4 trillion in healthcare and food assistance for low-income Americans and increasing the national debt by $3.3 trillion.  Estimates reveal that at least 16 million Americans will lose health care coverage and 7 million people (including 2 million children) will lose food aid or have their food aid cut significantly.  Meanwhile, according to the Yale Budget Lab, the nation’s top 0.1 percent―people with an annual income over $3.3 million―will receive tax cuts of $103,500 on average.  Condemning the legislation, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops declared simply that it “takes from the poor to give to the wealthy.”

Saturday: July 5th 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm and 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Sunday: July 6th 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
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Tickets: Early Bird: $10.00 At Door: $15.00 Youth (10 to 16)* At Door Only $5.00
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