Friday, June 9. 6-9pm, Wild Goose Creative, 188 McDowell St.

An art show rejecting the anti-trans bills and laws that are being put in place all over the U.S and instead celebrating the work of LGBTQ+ artists and performers.

Dress code [optional]: “Punk Rock Queer.”

Hosted by Wild Goose Creative.

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Ohio Attorney General David Yost earlier this week rejected the Ohio Coalition to End Qualified Immunity’s (OCEQI) summary of petition yet again. This will be the fifth time the AG’s office has denied the OCEQI’s ballot language to amend the Ohio Constitution, but these activists are refusing to take ‘No’ for an answer. The OCEQI is re-starting signature gathering this weekend and their legal team has begun re-writing their amendment.

OCEQI spokesperson Cynthia Brown, who lost a nephew to Columbus police, says their Coalition partners – such as the Van Jones Institute for Justice and Campaign Zero – also remain determined to have Ohioans make their own decision at the ballot box to end Qualified Immunity.

“We strongly disagree with Dave Yost,” said Brown. “We can protest in the streets all we want, but if the laws are not on our side this will continue to happen.”

Politico calls the Russian Ambassador to the United States "Lonely Anatoly" because his job is to talk with the U.S. government, but the U.S. government won't talk with him.

The U.S. State Department is not talking with the RussianAmbassador about resolving the Ukraine war, but also not talking about much of anything else.

This is dangerous. Failure to communicate only increases distrust and enmity, heightening the risk of nuclear war.

Four blocks from the White House sits the Russian Ambassador's house, the former Soviet Embassy where then-Attorney General Robert Kennedy met with Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin to de-escalate the Cuban Missile Crisis by talking. Today, another Russian Ambassador, Anatoly Antonov, is there, but the U.S. State Department doesn't speak with him.