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Dan-o Dougan and Dr. Bob Fitrakis start a series on planes, trains and automobiles playing a variety of songs about planes, including Sky Pilot, 8 Miles High, Aeroplane, and more!

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The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) is proud to announce the publication of “Can You Handle the Truth? Essays of Hard Truths Aimed at Right- Relationships with the Earth and Each Other.” 

It includes pieces written by Kai Huschke, Tish O’Dell, Terry Lodge, Michelle Beatty, Max Wilbert, Will Falk, Chad Nicholson, and Ben G. Price.

Mayor Ginther and Joe Motil

Ever since the ending of my 2023 campaign for mayor, I continue to be asked if I will run for mayor again in 2027. My reply has been, “In politics you never say never. I am currently in a wait-and-see mode. The election is two years away.”

As for Andy Ginther’s campaign claiming he will run again in 2027, I will say this:

Arthur Firstenberg passed away earlier this year. However, his work and his words must live on. He is most known for writing—and being an activist—on the health impacts of electromagnetic radiation. And he tackled other critical issues.

He authored the books “Microwaving Our Planet: The Environmental impact of the Wireless Revolution,” “The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life,” and “The Earth and I.” 

“The Earth and I” was published in January. 

Firstenberg, at 74 died, in Santa Fe, New Mexico in February.

Midway through this month, Democratic Representative Hakeem Jeffries sent out a fundraising text saying that he “recently announced a 10-point plan to take on Trump and the Republicans.” But the plan was no more recent than early February, just two weeks after President Trump’s inauguration. It’s hardly reassuring that the House minority leader cited a 100-day-old memo as his strategy for countering the administration’s countless moves since then to dismantle entire government agencies, destroy life-saving programs and assault a wide range of civil liberties.

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Saturday May 31st, 2025 @10 AM - 12 PM
Linden Tree Nursery, 1142 East 17th Avenue Columbus, OH, 43211

To prepare for another successful year of tree giveaways, help us plant trees in pots at our Linden tree nursery location! We will need help planting trees, organizing rows, marking pots, placing stakes, and getting the nursery ready for the growing season. Bring your friends! We need all the help we can get to prepare 3,000 trees for our fall giveaway. Green Columbus would not be able to give away free trees each year without the help of our wonderful volunteers. Come out for the morning and enjoy the outdoors with us! The link to sign up is below.

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US House Reconciles Legislation That Handicaps Renewable Energy Projects

The Republican controlled House of Representatives passed reconciliation legislation that effectively will eliminate nearly every renewable energy incentive that is currently in place.

The bill will end the 30 percent residential solar investment tax credit by the end of this year and the applicability of residential solar leases for tax credits.

The Investment Tax Credit (ITC) and the Production Tax Credit (PTC) for commercial and utility scale projects would go away completely for any project not placed in service by the end of 2028. 

There are a couple of poison pill provisions put into this legislation that are designed to prevent any renewable energy projects from moving forward. 

The slaughter goes on, usually in the name of war, which reduces human life to, at best, a strategic abstraction. Dead civilians – dead children – are collateral damage, which means they’re nothing at all.

How can we be more than just spectators as we learn, every day, more stunning details about the hell going on across the planet? How can the human race stand up collectively to the cancer of war? Humanity, in the name of nationalism, has essentially organized itself against itself: We’ve declared one another “the enemy,” which means that only some of us are human. The others are simply in the way.

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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)

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