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Building co-ops in Cleveland to show there is an alternative. www.clevelandowns.coop

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Rob @robertferry.bsky.social · 14h
This $250 million grant will put a lot of solar on a lot of rooftops. It's money that's already been allocated and spent. It's just being held up on final distribution to the successful applicants. Crazy the *Environmental Protection Agency* might still appeal this.
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Second federal judge overturns $7B Solar for All cancellation
The decision in a suit brought by Harris County, Texas, follows a similar ruling last week. A Harris County judge called it “a really important victory for energy resilience.”
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Jonathan Welle @wellejonathan.bsky.social · 6h
I too have felt this.
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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 10h
Oh, that kind of Christianity
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Ohio Citizen Action @ohiocitizen.org · 28/09/2026
The legislature created JobsOhio, and the governor appoints its board. It has handed out more than $2 billion but is exempt from most open records laws. It also gave Jon Husted gifts three years in a row when he was Lt. Governor. bit.ly/4xSeXqO
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Husted took gifts from JobsOhio while he was Ohio lieutenant governor, financial disclosures show • Ohio Capital Journal
U.S. Sen. Jon Husted took gifts from Ohio's economic development entity. He and the entity won't say what they were or how much they cost.
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Ohio Citizen Action @ohiocitizen.org · 29/09/2026
The most overlooked races of 2026 are 2 Ohio Supreme Court seats. Columnist Brent Larkin warns that if Brunner loses, "all judicial checks on legislative misbehavior will vanish." Vote for Justice Jennifer Brunner and Judge Marilyn Zayas on Nov. 3. bit.ly/4xOgKgE
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The Ohio Supreme Court race that could break an increasingly partisan court: Brent Larkin
has the state high court become a pawn of partisan politics rather than a neutral arbiter of the law?
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Schmitt, last year apnews.com/article/nati...
Schmitt, a first-term senator, followed a GOP donor’s speech on “The Problem of Our Time: White Guilt” with a talk of his own titled “What is an American?” In it, Schmitt criticized some legal immigration, declared that “America doesn’t belong to them — it belongs to us,” and insisted, “We can no longer apologize for who we are.”

“Our people tamed the continent, built a civilization from the wilderness,” Schmitt said. “We Americans are the sons and daughters of the Christian pilgrims who poured out onto the ocean’s shores.”
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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
3 years after New Yorkers won the Build Public Renewables Act, NYPA is finally breaking ground and just announced one of its biggest projects yet. But this is just one small step. New York still needs at least 15 gigawatts. It’s time for more, and faster.
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Weekly NY & NJ Energy
NYPA BACKS NORTH COUNTRY SOLAR PROJECT:
The New York Power Authority is partnering with a private developer to move forward on a large-scale solar project for the first time since the success of the Build Public Renewables campaign.
NYPA announced Monday it bought 51 percent of the 240 megawatt Rich Road solar project in St.
Lawrence County. A subsidiary of French energy giant EDF will retain ownership of the rest of the project and oversee construction.This is NYPA's second large-scale solar project after the authority purchased 100 percent of the 20 megawatt Somers Solar project from CS Energy in March 2025.
That project also has a NYSERDA contract. The authority also backed the smaller 5 megawatt Hannacroix Solar project in Greene County earlier this year.
The Rich Road project has a newly finalized state contract, announced last week. That means it will get subsidies ultimately paid for by New York ratepayers.
The project had previously won an award from NYSERDA's 2021 procurement for new renewables but cancelled it amid rising costs.
The project is expected to start construction next year and start operations in 2029. The project will support NYPA's program to provide bill credits to low-income New York residents, known as Renewable Energy Access and Community Help, or REACH. Payments to local governments are still to be negotiated, according to NYPA.The project will get expiring federal tax credits and is the first to leverage a public-private partnership model, NYPA President and CEO Justin Driscoll said in a statement.
NYPA got another $100 million from the second round of the Sustainable Future Fund in this year's budget, on top of $200 million announced last year.
The authority has faced pressure from Public Power NY to accelerate investments in new renewables. The group has campaigned for the authority to advance 15 gigawatts of new solar and wind. The authority's latest plan has a pipeline of about 5.5 GWs of projects, although more are under consideration.YOUR PRESSURE IS
WINNING PUBLIC RENEWABLES
But we have a lot more to go to build a livable future.
Stay tuned for updates on how you can keep up the pressure to build an energy system that puts New Yorkers first.
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Jonathan Welle @wellejonathan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ohio has a case of TDS (testosterone derangement syndrome)
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Bill Shea @billshea19.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If he put CHARLIE KIRK on his eyeblack and the NFL did this (regardless of it being blanket policy), every conservative/MAGA worth their weight in outrage grift-salt would be honking 24/7 about freedom of speech, and The Atlantic would be publishing neoliberal both-sider outrage slop.
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Jonathan Welle @wellejonathan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A nice study from our very own Metrohealth. Burning stuff continues to be bad!
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Because of Jon Husted, Ohioans are paying higher utility bills to fund data centers we never asked for.
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 27/09/2026
Husted took gifts from JobsOhio while he was Ohio lieutenant governor, financial disclosures show ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/09/25/o...
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Husted took gifts from JobsOhio while he was Ohio lieutenant governor, financial disclosures show • Ohio Capital Journal
U.S. Sen. Jon Husted took gifts from Ohio's economic development entity. He and the entity won't say what they were or how much they cost.
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tagerai.bsky.social @tagerai.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It’s funny but very sad. The worst people you know will get rich, and after they win, media outlets will quote their ass opinions and then after their name write “winner of the 1M carob trust prize, awarded to brave academics”. Just another avenue for billionaires to launder influence
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Going to tell my kids that this is what decentralized decision-making driven by enlightened self interest and disciplined through price signals such that it produces socially optimal outcomes looks like
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Jonathan Welle @wellejonathan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trump bathing in Mother’s Milk watching this at Mar-a-Lago
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 26/09/2026
Q: Where are leaf blowers most commonly used? A: In leaf-dense areas directly outside your bedroom window. buff.ly/cMPX0Hg
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Frequently Asked Questions About Leaf Blowers
Q: Where are leaf blowers most commonly used? A: In leaf-dense areas directly outside your bedroom window. 9/21/25 9/25/26
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Jonathan Welle @wellejonathan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We don’t talk about this enough
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US Federation of Worker Co-ops @usworker.coop · 25/09/2026
We kicked off the 2026 Worker Co-op Conference with some visits to local co-ops! Thank you to Democracy Brewing, Dorchester Food Co-op and Co-op Social Club for leading discussions on the local Boston cooperative scene for artists, beer artisans and grocery worker-owners. #WCC26
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Comp Dot Co-Op @compdotco-op.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Two of our members, Andy B and Tesla, got to go spend the day with our friends at @worxprinting.bsky.social! It's so much fun to see how their products come to life - and the delicious dinner we had afterwards didn't hurt, either.
A view of the warehouse at Worx. There are boxes and machinery for printing.Some shirts being printed. One says "End Apartheid, Free Palestine."Andy B talking in front of a white board for a strategy session.A plate of delicious lasagna on a green table
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US Federation of Worker Co-ops @usworker.coop · 26/09/2026
Starting #WCC26 Day 2 strong with a "How to Unionize your Worker Co-op" session! @compdotco-op.bsky.social @steelworkers.bsky.social Learn more about why & how to unionize your co-op at usworker.coop/unions #UnionCoops #UnionStrong #WorkerCoops
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Tim Evanson @timinthecle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
That Sen. Jon Husted takes bribes is not news. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/09/25/o...
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Husted took gifts from JobsOhio while he was Ohio lieutenant governor, financial disclosures show • Ohio Capital Journal
U.S. Sen. Jon Husted took gifts from Ohio's economic development entity. He and the entity won't say what they were or how much they cost.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“She nearly lost her home to foreclosure and her teenage daughter was entrusted with running her household. Her college-age son left a football scholarship to return home and help with costs around the home. Mason has three children and also raised four of her brother’s children.”
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
GROSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Jonathan Welle @wellejonathan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So ready for Cleveland Public Power to adopt this messaging campaign.
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Jonathan Welle @wellejonathan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Big news around town. I appreciate that some of these awardees are local and have a good track record of quality development.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
WHY B ENERGY INDEPENDENT IF WE ARENT GOING 2USE IT WHEN WE NEED IT
Chuck Grassley: A suggestion 4 Pres Trump: Since ur hearing frm
Big Oil abt diesel prices & the problems w an embargo tell Big Oil 2reduce their prices 4
Americans/not charge global price This is an America Ist issue WHY B ENERGY INDEPENDENT IF WE ARENT GOING 2USE IT WHEN WE NEED IT
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 25/09/2026
‘Around’
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 25/09/2026
Unpaid landing fees are mounting for the three air charter companies providing deportation flights out of the Akron-Canton Regional Airport for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/09/24/i...
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ICE deportation flights surge at Ohio's Akron-Canton Airport as unpaid landing fees mount • Ohio Capital Journal
Unpaid landing fees are mounting for the three air charter companies providing deportation flights out of the Akron-Canton Regional Airport for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Rob @robertferry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We could have chosen to invest in a clean energy future and save ourselves from the runaway climate feedbacks we were causing. Instead we chose to take that money and spend it on a fun machine that might kill us even faster. Collectively we’re like a meth addict with a gambling problem basically.
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Jonathan Welle @wellejonathan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Superb
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Jonathan Welle @wellejonathan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Huang offloading rote intellectual labor (remembering your zip code!) onto women while blaming AI is just a leather-jacket-tech-bro update to the age-old patriarchal strategy off loading emotional labor onto women
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Jonathan Welle @wellejonathan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Cleveland Owns is rocking a new (partial) website refresh, check it out www.clevelandowns.coop
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Jake Tapper (moderating the 2028 Dem primary debate): Final question. Do you renounce the Western Massachusetts lesbian bar? Pete Buttigieg: I renounce it. Kamala: I renounce it. AOC: I renounce it. Gavin Newsom: I will be deploying the National Guard to Greenfield on day one of my administration.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026
Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
build. social. housing.
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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
'“Bring your own power” thus risks facilitating a privatization of the grid... hyperscalers can leverage their access to astronomical amounts of capital to build a parallel set of resources and then force governments to accommodate it.'
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The Rooster @rooster.info · 23/09/2026
Oh hell yes: Ohio House Democrats want to pay for Vivek Ramaswamy's gas tax holiday nonsense by repatriating the $600 million handout to the Cleveland Browns.
Minority Leader Isaacsohn: Pay for Dr. Acton's Gas Tax Holiday
with the $600 Million Republicans Tried to Hand to Jimmy
Haslam, Not Ohio's Road and Bridge Funds
COLUMBUS — Ohio House Minority Leader Dani Isaacsohn (D-Cincinnati) today
released the following statement ahead of today's rushed announcement by Republican
legislative leaders and gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, which follows Amy Acton's
call to suspend Ohio's motor fuel tax:
"Ohioans are paying $4.52 a gallon for gas and almost $7 for diesel. They desperately
need relief from the costs of the failed war in the Middle East. Vivek Ramaswamy's
knee-jerk response to Dr. Acton's plan has demonstrated no understanding of how the
state government works, how the budget is structured, or how taxpayer dollars should be
spent.
We can enact Dr. Acton's Gas Tax Holiday, but it has to be paid for in a way that makes
sense for Ohioans. A gas tax holiday could be paid for with the $600 million the
Republican legislature has tried to allocate to billionaire Jimmy Haslam for his NFL
team.
The state is in court right now, spending Ohioans' money, fighting for the right to hand
$600 million of Ohioans' unclaimed funds to Jimmy Haslam. A billion dollars of that
money was written into this budget for sports stadiums.
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Jonathan Welle @wellejonathan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Bernie Moreno can retire now. His job here is done. 
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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 23/09/2026
Big up to our @seiu1199wvkyoh.bsky.social union family at Lutheran Hospital who are ready to go ON STRIKE! These 200 caregivers are demanding better pay and safe staffing levels, and could walk out as early as tomorrow. Safe staffing saves lives! #CareIsEssential ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
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Lutheran Hospital workers prepare for strike as Cleveland Clinic says patient care will continue
About 200 union caregivers at Cleveland Clinic Lutheran Hospital could strike Wednesday if a contract agreement isn't reached.
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Jonathan Welle @wellejonathan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
His major problem: He is a craven scammer.
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Jonathan Welle @wellejonathan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Are there any voters in America who think the affordable care act is a place to get free stuff from the government, rather than pay top dollar for an unavoidable service?
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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Economic sentiment being in the toilet in the middle of a capex boom driving stocks to highs at 4.1% unemployment is not something I would have believed in the early 2010s.
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Dr. Amy Acton @amyactonoh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It’s been 6 months since I sold all of my individual stocks and a week since I called on my opponent to do the same, but he has refused.
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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Commentary: As JobsOhio spends another $300 million directing state resources to its preferred version of economic development, Ohio should ask: Could some of those resources do substantially more if JobsOhio stopped deciding how all of them were spent? ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/09/22/o...
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Ohio needs economic development accountability and a workforce system that works for workers • Ohio Capital Journal
As JobsOhio spends another $300 million directing state resources to its preferred version of economic development, Ohio should ask: Could some of those resources do substantially more if JobsOhio…
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Visits from Trump and Vance should improve matters! 👀
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Some in the MAGA world are pissed that Trump met with and praised Mamdani. Maybe one day they’ll realize that Trump doesn’t actually stand for anything. He’ll say or do whatever he thinks is best for himself and his fragile ego. It’s really that simple.
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Maurice Mitchell 🐺 @mauricewfp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The verdict is in: people don’t want Big Tech corporations deciding our future. And both the GOP and Dems are asleep at the wheel. If they won’t act: @workingfamilies.org will.
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Emmasrandomthoughts 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌹 @countessemilia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is outrageous and it is an attack on the future of Cuyahoga County. Baltimore, would you like another team?
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Cleveland 19 News @cleveland19.com · 22/09/2026
Cleveland Orchestra musicians continue to negotiate, deadline is Wednesday #NortheastOhio #News
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Cleveland Orchestra musicians continue to negotiate, deadline is Wednesday
Musicians with the Cleveland Orchestra continue contract negotiations with management Tuesday, one day before the strike deadline.
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Jonathan Welle @wellejonathan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
When the Haslams are involved, there is no low too low.
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