Ohio Lefty @leftohio.bsky.social · 06/10/2026These are effective enough that I have been able to keep my congressional candidate (in part, this is not a one-man show) from throwing trans people under the bus. 000
Ohio Lefty @leftohio.bsky.social · 06/10/2026If you're comfortable, take signs to events for anti-trans Dems, protest, or go incognito and ask confrontational questions in front of their crowd. Chant at events. 100
Ohio Lefty @leftohio.bsky.social · 06/10/2026That amounts to sacrificing a coalition of voters and volunteers for a cohort of voters that don't exist "I was going to vote for the Republican, but now the Democrat opposes this trans lunacy"... They don't exist. And in an election this tight, can she afford to burn this goodwill. 100
Ohio Lefty @leftohio.bsky.social · 06/10/2026(as opposed to a moral opposition) because Acton, Kaptur, etc. picked this fight and have not made amends. Individuals, LGBT leaders, caucuses, and Dem Clubs have all tried to bridge the gap and they refused. 121
Ohio Lefty @leftohio.bsky.social · 06/10/2026considered not rocking the boat more important than standing up for members, trans or otherwise. The more people you can get to talk to these fuckers the better, and unfortunately there's a premium on cis opinions. I've found some traction with telling cis people that this is an electoral misstep 100
Ohio Lefty @leftohio.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Failing any kind of organizational ties, talk to friends, family, and neighbors -even out of state ones using burner emails- to pester the fuck out of them. Unfortunately, every inside pressure campaign I've been a part of or have heard from has failed to get any traction because leadership of xyz 100
Reposted by Ohio LeftyKaren Ortiz for Congress @karenortizesq.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Just so we’re clear, I’m a federal whistleblower and I’m whatever the opposite of suicidal is. apnews.com/article/eeoc...apnews.comMeet the federal worker who went rogue: ‘I hope that it lights a fire under people’To billionaire Elon Musk and his cost-cutting team at the Department of Government Efficiency, Karen Ortiz may just be one of many faceless bureaucrats. 012
Reposted by Ohio LeftyCorinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I'm addition, it's not just to sell democrats to queers, it's to sell "democrats love queers" to cishets. it's straight up pinkwashing. rainbow flag ai-powered genocide. trans people say fuck no and we get tossed out on our asses for it. and we still say fuck no. 344596
Reposted by Ohio Leftymady castigan✨ 🏳️⚧️ @mady.cat · 06/10/2026every "pride" Democrat org: "For party leadership, the caucus is simply a recruitment and sales team. The job, in their eyes, is not to represent the LGBTQ+ community to the party, but to sell Democratic candidates to the LGBTQ+ community, regardless of the harm those candidates may cause." 2395104
Ohio Lefty @leftohio.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I'm going to amend this because I saw your bio after posting. Emphasized I was cis because I expected radfem/terf or maybe some engagement bait. Instead I should say as an Ohioan who's been keyed into this since the start. 1130
Ohio Lefty @leftohio.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Cis man here. You are wrong. This is a fight Acton picked three months ago and has continuously agitated the community on. Try listening to the community and speaking up for them instead of blaming them for shit political strategy. 1330
Reposted by Ohio LeftyArienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Today, I resigned as Vice Chair of the ODP Pride Caucus. The state party expects us to be a sales team, censoring our voices when we beg candidates not to trade on trans lives. I am still a Democrat, but I will not value party approval over true, defiant advocacy. Full text below. 👇 502123461
Ohio Lefty @leftohio.bsky.social · 06/10/2026So talk to your democratic clubs, talk to your caucuses and satellite groups, talk to your friends and neighbors and grow a spine. An election in 28 days means they are vulnerable for four weeks. Make them squirm. Call, write, and do so in numbers because we can't keep being left alone on this. 020
Ohio Lefty @leftohio.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I really need my cis friends and followers to speak up for trans people. Ohio is becoming a petri dish from anti-trans Democrats. Speak out against Amy Acton, Marcy Kaptur, and Sherrod Brown until they fold on this evil triangulated horseshit. We cannot become a party hostile to trans people. 41911
Reposted by Ohio Leftymady castigan✨ 🏳️⚧️ @mady.cat · 06/10/2026a good example of how Democratic party politicians love to come out as transphobic and then victim-blame trans people when we inevitably reject their program of segregation: "They blame the Pride Caucus for the bad press caused by ODP and the Acton/ Kaptur campaigns." 211430
Reposted by Ohio LeftyPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026NO, NYC PUBLIC LIBRARIES ARE NOT "FULLY FUNDED" despite what the influencers on social media are regurgitating. Our libraries remain UNDER-FUNDED. Library workers need to be paid MORE MONEY, we need more funds for collections, we need more funds for programming & for capital expenses. 227890
Reposted by Ohio LeftyPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026We'll be continuing to demand that @mayor.nyc.gov deliver on his promise to fund our local public libraries at 0.5% of the city expense budget this fall. If you're interested in being in the fight, you should join @nycplan.org. 113538
Ohio Lefty @leftohio.bsky.social · 06/10/2026www.goodreads.com/en/book/show... It's been somewhat insufferable at times and less informative than I'd have hoped.goodreads.comFascism or Genocide: How a Decade of Political Disorder…A deeply reported look at how polarization and compound… 110
Ohio Lefty @leftohio.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Thank you very much for compiling this list. I've already begun and saved them all (and links) to my reading list. Certainly beating the shit out of what I'm reading now. 120
Ohio Lefty @leftohio.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Then I found liberal/centrist/corporate/moderate etc. Democrats to be more or less hopeless as a path forward 110
Ohio Lefty @leftohio.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I realize I may only be answering half your questions. I was trained to be a civics/history teacher, didn't pan out. Read a lot in textbooks about war and wanted peace, about injustice and wanted justice, I experienced (relative) poverty and wanted it to end. Those sorts of ideals. 110
Ohio Lefty @leftohio.bsky.social · 06/10/2026To put it succinctly, I may know just enough to know I don't know shit. 010
Ohio Lefty @leftohio.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Thank you. I understood as much and I'm sorry to put this on you. I really didn't wan to take up too much of your time on educating little ol me. 110
Ohio Lefty @leftohio.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Constitutional access to marijuana and abortion Constitutional amendments regarding gender equality and equal access to marriage To prevent Ohio SB 1 (related to free speech on college campuses). 010
Ohio Lefty @leftohio.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Like any reading on the above figures and movements, or anything related to the Black Panther Party. My reading list is already very white. 110
Ohio Lefty @leftohio.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I feel like I have surface level knowledge of civil rights 1960s to present on gender, sex, and racial fronts and how they intersect but can't speak intelligently on Shirley Chisholm, Marsha Johnstone, or anyone from 2nd wave feminism. I think I have a good grip on feminism in practice, but would 110
Ohio Lefty @leftohio.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I worked on a handful of petitions and field outposts for statewide office since about Summer of 2023. I'm a part of my local Young Dems and have been DSA curious but felt out of place in the Cleveland chapter. 110
Ohio Lefty @leftohio.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I followed the pipeline from John Stewart/Stephen Colbert to Jon Oliver. That led me to Some More News and now I'm a daily listener of Majority Report since 4/2023. 110
Ohio Lefty @leftohio.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Do you have a starter set of books or essays I could look into? 220
Reposted by Ohio LeftyErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 05/10/2026Arienne Childrey resigns as Vice Chair of the Ohio Democratic Pride Caucus. The state party has censored all attempts to criticize Amy Acton and Marcy Kaptur for their anti-trans votes and/or statements. 7909235
Ohio Lefty @leftohio.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Getting to Reparations: How Building a Different America Requires a Reckoning with Our Past by Dorothy A. Brown How Are You Going to Pay For That by Ryan Cooper The Woman Behind the New Deal by Kristin Downey & Fight Like Hell by Kim Kelly 010
Ohio Lefty @leftohio.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Movement by K Sabeel Rahman End Times Fascism by Naomi Klein & Astrid Taylor Why Nothing Works- Who Killed Progress and How to Bring It Back by Marc Dunkelman Chain of Title by David Dayen The Myth of Red Texas by David Griscom The Road to Medicare for All: A Call to Action by Nancy Altman 100
Ohio Lefty @leftohio.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Hey @molotov-cats.northsky.social saw you liked a post about learning the left before speaking on it. Got any book/essay recommendations? Current reading list for context: Medicare for All: A Citizen's Guide by Abdul El-Sayed & Micah Johnson Building Government Machinery for the Next Pro-Democracy 230
Reposted by Ohio LeftyAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/10/2026We've reached the open use of anti trans slurs phase by Trump. Dems haven't done shit to call out Pete Hegseth and Nancy Mace doing it so now it's become normalized. 1712985660
Reposted by Ohio LeftyCody Vidmar @codyvidmar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026@amyactonoh.bsky.social this is what you sound like when you don't support trans rights. 051
Reposted by Ohio LeftyDanielle Froom 🏳️🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"Democrats aren't abandoning trans people! Maybe just one or two..." Here's every Democrat who's either voted to strip human rights away from trans people and/or has campaigned on anti-trans propaganda in the last year. 491071451
Reposted by Ohio LeftyThe Rooster @rooster.info · 06/10/2026Wahhhh somebody “fantasized” about doing a totally real WWE finisher on me wahhhhh all I wanted to do was talk about rape with my potato-looking friend on his low-energy podcast wahhhhhhhh 1645
Reposted by Ohio LeftyOhio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 06/10/2026Commentary: While a majority of Ohio economists polled do not think a gas tax suspension will provide meaningful relief to Ohio households, this decision does reveal something: Ohio legislators are willing to pay $725 million to support households. What other ways could they do it?ohiocapitaljournal.comCommentary: Can Ohio do better than a gas tax suspension? • Ohio Capital JournalWhile a majority of Ohio economists polled do not think a gas tax suspension will provide meaningful relief, the decision does reveal something: Ohio legislators are willing to pay $725 million to… 2144
Ohio Lefty @leftohio.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Here in Ohio we're starting to see the gas tax holiday. I worry that people who were likely to vote the right way for the wrong reasons a week or two ago are going to be pacified and will turn out for Husted/Ramaswamy more than if they hadn't. Going to be asking around and take the temperature. 0181
Reposted by Ohio LeftyThe Rooster @rooster.info · 05/10/2026That the Democratic Governors Association has repeatedly pushed Acton/bashed Ramaswamy in the past 10 days shows that they smell blood in the water. 2312
Reposted by Ohio LeftyFeral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026After Ed Sheeran it's impossible to say which celebrities are now coming out for Palestine sincerely and which are just protecting their careers. I don't really care. The point is these rich brats now feel they need to pay homage to Palestine to survive, so I'll take it. 712940
Ohio Lefty @leftohio.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I actually got the chance to speak with Mayor Blackwell and she seemed every bit the serious, non partisan person you want in a role like auditor. She'll do much better than the petty vindictive toady currently serving as secretary of shame 020
Reposted by Ohio LeftyCody Vidmar @codyvidmar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Who better to run the auditors office than a woman who had to deal with the state-declared fiscal emergency she walked in to! 112
Reposted by Ohio LeftyRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The Paramount-Warner Bros. merger was officially approved this past week. Corporate concentration means more power for CEOs — and less freedom for everyone else. Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains.youtu.beThe Illusion of Choice: How Big Business Controls Your Life (ft. Lina Khan)From your grocery bill to your paycheck, monopolies are making you less financially secure and ultimately less free. For 14134831562
Reposted by Ohio LeftyDan Osborn @osbornforne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Got to judge my first BBQ competition yesterday at the Local 3 BBQ. A winning Husker game, beer, and some of the best ribs I've had in a long time. Couldn't have asked for a better Saturday night. 03511
Reposted by Ohio Leftyrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 04/10/2026the thing about impeaching Vought is that it will ruin his life. pull his kids and wife in for sixteen hour depositions. refer them all for perjury. scream in his face. when you're done, if it didn't work, do it again. 211584254
Reposted by Ohio LeftyGabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 04/10/2026He cheated on her and he protects pedophiles but she’s going to vote for him anyway because oppressing the rest of us matters more. 651871321
Reposted by Ohio LeftyFight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I'm not sure who needs to hear this, but yes, someone earning minimum wage should be able to afford food, shelter, and the basic necessities to take care of themselves. That's literally the bare minimum. It's even in the name, Minimum Wage, just so you couldn't miss it! 03314
Reposted by Ohio LeftyAngie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It's October 3, one month from election day. And on election day we wear pink! Are you ready? Make a plan to vote (in pink!) at AngieNixon.com/vote today! #AngieForFlorida #ElectionDay #WearPink #Florida 17583159
