Weather is all down from here... We've reached our high, now we go lowwwww with snowwwww. #AppalachianOhio #Ohio #OhioRiver #OHwx #Weather
#PSA #CallToAction #Chicago #Libraries
In the same vein, the are budget proposals to cut significant funding to Chicago's libraries. People need to continue speaking out about it, and make the city fix the budget to keep that funding.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/05/librarians-aldermen-push-back-against-proposed-library-cuts/
And now for better news:
18 of the 20 levies to fund libraries in Ohio passed; these monies will compensate the lack of state funding that Mike DeWine enabled by changing the formula to fund public libraries with a one line item.
And the two levies who didn't pass, lost by narrow margins.
"Since 2008, 92% of all library levies on Ohio ballots have been approved by voters, according to the Ohio Library Council."
Lisa Melton
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JD Vance's brother Cory Bowman didn't only lose his bid to be mayor of Cincinnati, he got his ass handed to him on a platter with an apple in the butthole. #USPol #Cincinnati #Ohio #JDVance #CoryBowman
https://www.wvxu.org/2025-11-04/aftab-pureval-wins-cory-bowman-cincinnati-mayor
JD Vance's brother Cory Bowman didn't only lose his bid to be mayor of Cincinnati, he got his ass handed to him on a platter with an apple in the butthole. #USPol #Cincinnati #Ohio #JDVance #CoryBowman
https://www.wvxu.org/2025-11-04/aftab-pureval-wins-cory-bowman-cincinnati-mayor
hypebot
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1/ Some of the most MAGA districts in #Ohio, extremely white, are the highest level of SNAP food stamp households in Ohio, where 1 in 4 are on food stamps. Interestingly, this is #OH02 Congressional district, primarily. #USPol #SNAP #FoodStamps
🔗 State of Ohio SNAP Data Map
https://data.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/data/view/snap-population-metrics
2/ Those same MAGA counties are the highest level of home heating programs in #Ohio, like PIPP Plus (Percentage of Income) and LiHeap. Those programs make the utility bill inline with their incomes, a percentage plan. Also, it provides fuel oil, gas and other payments during heating season. The programs will also provide fans, windows air conditioning and furnace replacements and repairs, among other assistance. #USPol #ShutDown
🔗 Government shutdown threatens to delay home heating aid for millions of low-income families https://www.wcpo.com/us-news/government-shutdown-threatens-to-delay-home-heating-aid-for-millions-of-low-income-families
1/ Some of the most MAGA districts in #Ohio, extremely white, are the highest level of SNAP food stamp households in Ohio, where 1 in 4 are on food stamps. Interestingly, this is #OH02 Congressional district, primarily. #USPol #SNAP #FoodStamps
🔗 State of Ohio SNAP Data Map
https://data.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/data/view/snap-population-metrics
Claudius Link
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RE: https://tomkahe.com/@columbus/115470080635287436
Here’s how it works: stop in, get seated like everyone else, and tell your server you’d like the “family-style pasta.” After your meal is delivered, your check will come, but it will be $0.
“We don’t know how long this train wreck will last, but we’re committed to doing this at least through the end of the year (or until things get resolved),” said Bucci’s.
If you’d like to help Bucci’s cover the cost of this, they created a business Venmo account (@buccis), and donated money helps cover meals or helps cover tips for the servers.
Lisa Melton
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#Ohio #Republicans Push Through New Districts in Bid for More Seats in #Congress
Republicans hold 10 of the state’s 15 seats in the #House. The new map improves the party’s odds of picking up two more in next year’s midterm #elections.
#law #ElectionLaw #redistricting #gerrymandering #rigged #midterms #Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/us/politics/ohio-redistricting-deal.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
The new map for #Ohio publicly emerged only late this week, when it was presented at a hastily called meeting of the state’s redistricting commission meeting on Thursday in Columbus. For weeks, the seven-member commission had taken no public action and it appeared that the task of redrawing the maps would end up back with the State Legislature, where #Republicans hold a super majority.
#law #ElectionLaw #redistricting #gerrymandering #rigged #midterms #Trump
More than a dozen speakers excoriated both #Republicans & #Democrats for backroom dealing that produced a map they considered #rigged.
“You are like foxes guarding the hen houses & #Ohio voters continue to be the hens,” said Michael Ahern, who spoke to the commission on Thursday wearing a baseball cap bearing the first three words of the #Constitution, “We The People.”
#law #ElectionLaw #redistricting #gerrymandering #midterms #Trump
The map was approved at a morning meeting of the state’s #redistricting commission, & will give #Republicans, who currently hold 10 of #Ohio’s 15 seats in #Congress, a total of 12 districts that lean red.
With Republicans in control of Congress by just a few seats, #Trump has been urging allies in state capitals to redraw congressional maps mid-cycle to try to stop #Democrats’ from flipping the #House regardless of how the people vote.
The new map for #Ohio publicly emerged only late this week, when it was presented at a hastily called meeting of the state’s redistricting commission meeting on Thursday in Columbus. For weeks, the seven-member commission had taken no public action and it appeared that the task of redrawing the maps would end up back with the State Legislature, where #Republicans hold a super majority.
#law #ElectionLaw #redistricting #gerrymandering #rigged #midterms #Trump
#Ohio #Republicans Push Through New Districts in Bid for More Seats in #Congress
Republicans hold 10 of the state’s 15 seats in the #House. The new map improves the party’s odds of picking up two more in next year’s midterm #elections.
#law #ElectionLaw #redistricting #gerrymandering #rigged #midterms #Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/us/politics/ohio-redistricting-deal.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
The map was approved at a morning meeting of the state’s #redistricting commission, & will give #Republicans, who currently hold 10 of #Ohio’s 15 seats in #Congress, a total of 12 districts that lean red.
With Republicans in control of Congress by just a few seats, #Trump has been urging allies in state capitals to redraw congressional maps mid-cycle to try to stop #Democrats’ from flipping the #House regardless of how the people vote.
#Ohio #Republicans Push Through New Districts in Bid for More Seats in #Congress
Republicans hold 10 of the state’s 15 seats in the #House. The new map improves the party’s odds of picking up two more in next year’s midterm #elections.
#law #ElectionLaw #redistricting #gerrymandering #rigged #midterms #Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/us/politics/ohio-redistricting-deal.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
RE: https://tomkahe.com/@columbus/115470080635287436
Here’s how it works: stop in, get seated like everyone else, and tell your server you’d like the “family-style pasta.” After your meal is delivered, your check will come, but it will be $0.
“We don’t know how long this train wreck will last, but we’re committed to doing this at least through the end of the year (or until things get resolved),” said Bucci’s.
If you’d like to help Bucci’s cover the cost of this, they created a business Venmo account (@buccis), and donated money helps cover meals or helps cover tips for the servers.
(24 Oct) Ohio refugees will lose their SNAP benefits next month under Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
https://s.faithcollapsing.com/d0mog
Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/5q4yz
#congress-funding-government-shutdown #congress-government-shutdown #franklin-county #hunger-and-food-insecurity #immigration #ohio-snap #politics-&-gov #president-donald-trump #refugees #snap-cuts #trump-snap-cuts
Alex Akselrod
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Vivek Ramaswampy gives a nice long speech about a New American Dream where we celebrate success over victimhood. That's nice. Perhaps he should tell that to Donald #Trump, who has made a political career out of victimhood. Perhaps he should leave the GOP, which was directly responsible for the Great Recession. #Ohio
Vivek Ramaswampy gives a nice long speech about a New American Dream where we celebrate success over victimhood. That's nice. Perhaps he should tell that to Donald #Trump, who has made a political career out of victimhood. Perhaps he should leave the GOP, which was directly responsible for the Great Recession. #Ohio
beka valentine
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Cincinnati forgives nearly $220M in medical debt
Among others, more than $113 million in debt was forgiven for people making $25,000 a year or less, and over $74 million was wiped clean for residents making between $26,000 and $50,000.
#Ohio #cincinnati #medicalDebt
https://www.wvxu.org/local-news/2025-09-29/cincinnati-forgives-medical-debt
Cincinnati forgives nearly $220M in medical debt
Among others, more than $113 million in debt was forgiven for people making $25,000 a year or less, and over $74 million was wiped clean for residents making between $26,000 and $50,000.
#Ohio #cincinnati #medicalDebt
https://www.wvxu.org/local-news/2025-09-29/cincinnati-forgives-medical-debt
Keila
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A big thank-you to @keila for allowing OSC to have professional-grade newsletters, without sacrificing on our commitment to open source! Philipp was incredibly patient and helpful as we worked to set up the infrastructure around it, and our org. is much better for it. 👏👏
#newsletter #foss #opensource #community #email #studentorganization #club #columbus #ohio #ohiostate #osu #freesoftware
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