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Coporate groups gathering for Pride

Three ways to immediately change corporate participation in Ohio’s 2025 Pride celebrations

This article first appeared on the Buckeye Flame

The staff of The Buckeye Flame arrived at one of Ohio’s largest Pride celebrations in 2024 to find our table sandwiched between a cellphone company and a grocery-store chain. 

To…

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Train wreck

The Federal Government’s Slow-Motion Train Wreck

The Trump administration is engineering the most extensive dismantling of the federal workforce in modern history—not through mass firings, but by incentivizing resignations. A new Office of Personnel Management (OPM) program offers federal…

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“And Mexico will pay for it!” ​​​​​​​“¡Y México lo pagará!”

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Readers no doubt remember Trump’s first term bluster that Mexico would build the border wall, and pay for it. President López brought that racist promise to fruition then, and his hand-picked successor…

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Comic about Musk and Trump

Is Elon Musk Really Making America Great Again?

With so much attention on President Trump, there has been relatively little attention has been paid to Elon Musk, who welds quite a bit of influence in American politics.

Musk may not be as rich or as successful as he and others claim. His…

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