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Alejandro thought that driving full-time for Uber offered freedom — flexible hours, quick cash, and time to care for his young son. But that promise faded fast.

“There are hours when I make $20,” he told me. “And there are hours when I make $2.” As his pay dropped, he pawned his computer and camera, began rationing his insulin, and started driving seven days a week just to break even.

Alejandro, whose real name is withheld for his privacy, is one of millions of workers powering a billion-dollar labor model built on legal loopholes.

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Anti-democracy lawmakers are attacking our rights, and they are moving the legislation forward so fast that Ohioans are barely getting a chance to get the facts and speak up.

Well, here are the facts.

SB 153 and HB 233 are an attack on volunteers who put boots on the ground, collecting signatures for our democracy. These are our grandmothers and grandfathers, our parents, our family and friends and our coworkers, all who spend their weekends and spare time collecting signatures and fighting for workers’ rights and voters’ rights.

Volunteers who collect signatures would be forced to sign away their 5th Amendment constitutional rights, potentially subjecting them to politically motivated investigations. “Compensated” circulators would be required to wear badges, but “compensated” is defined so broadly it even applies to volunteers who receive free pizza or a t-shirt.

Those are the facts.

SB 153 and HB 233 are an attack on our democracy and our freedoms.

Nuclear Situational Updates from the Decom Working Group

Each week we are honored to join the Decommissioning Working Group, a community of sister and brother activists from various organizations in a Zoom meeting in which information about nuclear-related developments are shared in a sweep across the country for on-the-ground reports.

Just a brief summary of our notes from today’s DWG Zoom confab gives a synoptic nuclear situational awareness view of what can be described as an ongoing nuclear complex coup.

We have stolen the above title from a wry quip by meeting participant Paul Gunther of Beyond Nuclear.

In a series of recent executive orders, the Trump Administrations has detonated a demolition bomb in the existing architecture of nuclear energy regulation and arms control. [ See background links below.] The volley of moves combined have the unified goal of ushering in a so-called ‘American nuclear energy revival.’ They aim to:

1. Dismantle nuclear safety oversight by regulatory agencies;

Details about event

Sunday, June 1, 1-4pm
School of Rock Columbus, 949 W. Third Ave.

The Tri-Village Family Fun Fest will be a free street festival located on Dover Ave. (right next to School of Rock Columbus), where we will have live music, food trucks, vendors, face painting, free music lessons, and so much more. This is an event for the community for all ages.

Featured vendors: Sadie Baby Sweets, Clay Cafe, Chick Happens Food Truck, Hook and Ladder Ice Cream, Bricks and Minifigs, Discovering You Portraits, Flocal Co., Ballooning with Izzy, Funatics4u Face Painting, and more!

Medium.com reports that Aaron Manley Smith published an article which is titled Chat GPT Analyzes Trump’s Alleged Assassination Attempt. “I asked ChatGPT Pro (the one you have to actually pay thousands of dollars for, not some freebie thing) to study this image closely…and we went down the rabbit hole”. The article itself is behind a $5 paywall. I will not publish it in it's entirety but enough that the reader may want to follow the link for the entire article.

Introduction 

This post focuses on examples of Trump’s inflated self-image as a president who sees himself as being above the law, his implausible notion of making manufacturing in the U.S. a dominating global force, and how, as one example, his policies harm the poor.

#1 - A thirst for power

Trump casts himself as a superior president, among the best 3 or 4 presidents in U.S. history. Indeed, he has said his presidency is like being a king. He has also viewed himself as a “messiah,” as Robert Reich notes, Donald Trump keeps comparing himself to Jesus. “Whether he actually has a messiah complex or is just conning his supporters, he's playing to a growing GOP faction that wants America to be a white Christian Nationalist state, with Donald Trump as a divine ruler. Be Warned” (https://tiktok.com/rbreich/video/7384440520371899694)

Former judge J. Michael Luttig writes this about Trump’s inflated self-image (https://theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/law-america-trump-constitution/682793).

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