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Dr. Bob goes solo as his co-host is unavailable this week, and plays the three longest rock songs he could find - Alice's Restaurant, In-a-gadda-da-vida and Thick as a Brick. 

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A rebirth of nuclear power is threatened in the United States. It stems from a combination of factors, including the U.S. government's refusal to seriously address actually clean energy, the political and propaganda power of the nuclear weapons and nuclear energy industries, the poor quality of U.S. education, the sad state of corporate media, and the rise of a tech-firm oligarchy.

Click here to tell your state legislators and governor to make Ohio a nuclear free zone.

Yesterday, January 29, Community Shelter Board (CSB) upper management has ignited outrage after contacting volunteers announcing immediate eviction for hundreds of vulnerable individuals and families out of emergency hotel shelters. Residents received even less information, with notices posted on doors and no contact information provided for follow-up questions.

When volunteers and residents asked social workers if they had more information, they were unaware of the “eviction by email.” The poorly communicated directive, delivered without clarity or empathy, has left volunteers and social workers scrambling to address panicked questions from displaced residents. This latest failure underscores a pattern of cruel mismanagement and highlights how city leadership prioritizes austerity over human dignity.  

Leadership Failure: “Fundraise Tents” Instead of Solutions

President Trump made illegal immigration a major issue during during his campaign in 2024. But is it really as bad as he claims? He acted as though the INS, ICE, and the border patrol weren't doing their jobs, but is that really true? 

The facts are that there are lower crime rates among the immigrant population than among Americans as a whole. The facts are that more people were deported under Biden than during Trump's first term. The president often uses hate, fear, and outright racism to promote his false claims. He said these statements to energize his far right base to get elected and his lies apparently worked.

Many immigrants have legitimate reasons for fleeing for their home countries. Most of them are not drug mules, rapists, or murderers as the president falsely claims. Many of them don't even come because of employment opportunities, although many of them do menial work that no American would want to do.  

After Wednesday night’s devastating airplane crash, President Trump opened his White House Press Briefing by turning straight to DEI as the cause of the collision and directing each of his secretaries to come up and also blame programs focused on increasing diversity in the workplace. Trump’s instinct to instantly turn the biggest aviation disaster in two decades into a political rally is the new standard and a clear example of how his second administration will continue to pursue these kinds of disasters. 

Trump’s quick jump to blame DEI efforts was not just bad because he has turned a national incident into a political talking point, but also because he uses DEI as a disguise to attack minority groups in an official role as president. In the White House press conference, he singled out Pete Buttigieg, the nation’s first gay department head, and his “diversity” as the reason that this crash happened. Following his criticism of Buttigieg, Trump then listed out groups of people who he believed had been hired under previous programs that corrupted the intellectual integrity of the department, including “dwarves” and “people with severe mental disabilities.”

En español también a continuación

On January 29, the Ohio Student Association protested at Senate Bill 1’s first and only proponent testimony hearing, sitting silently for the hearing’s two hour duration carefully reading copies of Senate Bill 1 before marching out with a chant of “Higher ed will be dead.” Student protesters present in the hearing room far outnumbered the proponents.

Nica Delgado, a senior at Kent State, sat front row at the hearing. “We heard a lot of misguided testimony from people who will not be directly affected by this bill, who haven’t been in classrooms since before we were born— and even before my parents were born. These people don’t know what our campuses are actually like. We’re the experts on that, but Cirino won’t listen to us.”

Thursday, January 30, 2025, 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Our monthly Ramp Up for Repro trainings will further acquaint you with political advocacy tactics, repro lingo, and help you find the best way to get involved.

Every month, we'll dive into movement ecology, abortion messaging, the current landscape of abortion access, and provide next steps for you to take action!  

The majority of the content of this training does not change between sessions, with the exception of current events and policy updates. In an effort to create a safe and secure space for all participants to engage, these trainings are not recorded.  

Register here

Columbus City Council’s decision to appoint Otto Beatty III to replace outgoing City Council member and newly elected Franklin County Prosecutor Shayla Favor should come as no surprise. Council President Hardin was apparently warned of the illegalities of his demands that the appointee be “an African American woman and somebody not seeking election to the seat in November” and appointed an African-American male. Hardin has no legal authority to place restrictions on the appointee from running for the seat or demanding that they be of a certain gender. The reason he places restrictions on running for the seat is to give the false impression that they are not giving the appointed person the advantage of incumbency in the future election for the seat. It really doesn't matter because the Franklin County Democratic Party will endorse a preordained candidate for the seat whether it’s the appointee or someone else.

On Thursday, January 23, concerned community members attended the latest quarterly meeting of the Franklin County Investment Advisory Committee (IAC) to challenge Treasurer Cheryl Brooks Sullivan’s investments of taxpayer money into the State of Israel. The high stakes meeting was the last before $5 million dollars in Israel Bonds mature on February 1. Historically, the treasurer has used money repaid upon maturity to swiftly repurchase new Israel Bonds.