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President Trump drafted with the help Netanyahu, Jared Kushner, and Steve Witkoff a 20-point peace plan to end the war on Gaza. Arab and Muslim leaders were consulted prior to announcing the Plan, even though Palestinians were not invited. After the plan was praised and accepted by Arab and Muslim leaders, Trump met Netanyahu and made changes to the plan which give Israel 1) the right to resume bombing after the hostages are release and 2) there will be no Palestinian state in the foreseeable future.
 
President Trump was not an honest broker. He was all along an accomplice in the genocide and he even as well as Genocidal Joe Biden have spread the Israeli lies that they both saw Hamas rape and beheading on TV. Additionally, Trump is mainly concerned about getting the Nobel Peace Prize. To accomplish that, ensure that he has warned Hamas it has "three to four days" to decide whether to say yes or no. If the answer is no, the war goes on.
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US Energy Storage Sets New Record

The U.S. energy storage market set a record for quarterly growth in the second quarter of 2025, with 5.6 GW of installations, according to the latest U.S. Energy Storage Monitor report released today by the American Clean Power Association (ACP) and Wood Mackenzie.

The utility-scale market led the way, setting a record with 4.9 GW installed, enough capacity to power 3.7 million American homes during average peak load demand.

The residential storage market expanded 608 M. This represents a 132 percent increase year-over-year and an 8 percent jump quarter-over-quarter.

  • Most of the growth was driven by California, Arizona and Illinois,

Residential storage is expected to outpace solar due to stronger policy resilience, high attachment rates in key markets and continued investment tax credit access through third-party ownership."

Wood Mackenzie projects that these record levels of additional storage capacity will continue into the foreseeable future.

Renewable Energy Jobs grew 3X faster in 2024

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Thursday, October 2, 2025, 5:30 – 7:30 PM
Columbus Metropolitan Library, Auditorium, 96 South Grant Avenue Columbus, OH 43215

Join this free film screening followed by a panel and Q&A, hosted in collaboration with multiple local organizations.

Gaza: Doctors Under Attack is a 2025 documentary on doctors working during the Gaza war, detailing the killings and torture of healthcare workers and attacks on hospitals by the Israel Defense Forces. This film screening and panel addresses the healthcare infrastructure and features different healthcare professionals with lived experience in Palestine. Baladna: Palestine Society of Columbus. 

Words fail me – but they’re all I have, or so it seems as I sit here at a table in my new apartment. They ain’t enough! Not as I read the news and feel . . . something . . . rise, politically and socially, and presume to be the American future.

Is this the rise of fascism? I use this word with uncertainty. I have never lived within its brutal purview and do not live within it now, as I write about the increasingly bizarre – and terrifying – presidency of Donald Trump. I feel no constraint as I write, no need to be cautious with my words. I feel no eyes on me, ever-assessing the loyalty of  the opinions I express. I feel no fear, only outrage, as the snarky and bumbling “supreme leader” wannabe tells us who our enemies are. Can’t someone shut this fool up?

But then I read the news and, often enough, learn there’s a further Trump transgression today, a further grab for authoritarian dominance. And I have to look deeply at this freedom I think I have and acknowledge that it’s vulnerable. If others – other Americans, other human beings – can lose it, so can I. I can become the enemy.

Brad Bannon nails it in his Sept. 10 report: “Jobs are down, prices are up and Trump is in trouble . Brad Bannon is a national Democratic strategist and CEO of Bannon Communications Research which polls for Democrats, labor unions and progressive issue groups. He hosts the popular progressive podcast on power, politics and policy, Deadline D.C. with Brad Bannon.    

Bannon refers to a new jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that “paint an astonishingly bleak picture of the Trump economy.” He continues. “The nation created few jobs in August, and BLS added to the grim portrait by taking off the board almost a million jobs that had supposedly been created over the last year.” 

And the economy is still affected by inflation. On this, Bannon points out that 

Will Klatt and wife, Clintonville sign and Vote Here sign

Power struggles and spats within local Area Commissions are nothing new, but the events unfolding within the Clintonville Area Commission appear to be reaching a disturbing level of absurdity and alarm.

In August, Clintonville resident Will Klatt, well-known for his progressive community activism, overwhelmingly won his vote to be seated on the Clintonville Area Commission (CAC) and representing the commission’s District 3. He ran against three other candidates for an open seat and received 65 votes. The second place candidate, with the second highest number of votes, received 26 votes.

No doubt it was a victory for the many Clintonville residents worried about how out-of-control development could impact their community. To be clear, Klatt is not anti-development. But he believes development must have regulatory input from impacted neighbors.

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