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

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Michael Kagan @michaelgkagan.bsky.social · 6h
The missing pages of the Das Kapital have been found
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6h
This was a choice. Remember this.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 8h
they did the thing
an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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Emily @librarymet.bsky.social · 6h
Really good article.
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How East Cleveland schools are combatting chronic absenteeism
The small district in the cash-strapped Cleveland suburb has found success in a one-on-one approach to student attendance.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/10/2026
One thing about Copenhagen is that there's tons of dense housing but you *never* find it fronting a busy road with cars racing past, which describes about 90% of the apartments in the US. They manage to make it feel tucked away, private, cozy. (These are all from Sluseholmen, my dream neighborhood.)
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Jonathan Welle @wellejonathan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is ghastly. Anyone still in support of the death panelty must account for this.
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Jonathan Welle @wellejonathan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Quite the take from Trump’s leading campaign fundraiser
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Jonathan Welle @wellejonathan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The number of low hanging fruit quick wins Trump is leaving for his successor is mind boggling.
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Jonathan Welle @wellejonathan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thank you! Your Bluesky good deed of the day is done.
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Jonathan Welle @wellejonathan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
@tkovach.bsky.social what do you make of these huge disparities in air quality readings today? The state website says the whole region has poor air quality, but the local readings show good air quality with only one exception. 
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Jonathan Welle @wellejonathan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ohio folks: please vote for Brown, Acton and the Dem slate before the Haslams loot what’s left of the state treasury. Early voting starts today!
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 05/10/2026
“Democracy has been hailed as, like, the holy grail for the last couple hundred years, but democracies are inefficient,” said the crypto billionaire. “If you get a benevolent dictator, it’s actually extremely efficient." Hmm, where have I heard this before? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...
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Inside a Billionaire’s Paradise With Crypto’s Most Powerful Ex-Convict (Gift Article)
Changpeng Zhao, jailed in the United States for a financial crime and pardoned by President Trump, is now living a gilded life in the United Arab Emirates.
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 05/10/2026
By energy, PJM's queue is dirtier (73% fossil) than its current generation mix (61% fossil). If the whole queue got built, PJM would get even dirtier (67% fossil). A permitting bill that sped up buildout of this stuff would sicken and kill more people from air pollution and speed up climate change.
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 05/10/2026
Not sure people realize how much gas-fired electricity generation US developers are planning to bring online. PJM's updated interconnection queue, for example, is 71% gas by capacity and 73% gas by likely energy generation. And this is *electricity*; the other 82% of final energy is ~all fossil.
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What energy infrastructure are people trying to build? – Kevin J. Kircher
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Neo-post eco-andean modern-brutalism architecture @theeferringer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I turn 43 in three months and Polensek has been on council 6 years longer than I've been alive! www.ideastream.org/government-p...
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The Democratic Party is fighting itself, even in Cleveland
A local look at the national divide between progressives and moderates in the Democratic Party.
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Jonathan Welle @wellejonathan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Nice update on community wealth building wins in Boston and beyond from @democracycollab.bsky.social www.democracycollaborative.org/blogs/creati...
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Creating Financial Ecosystems for CWB — The Democracy Collaborative
In Boston, a mom-and-pop shop has begun a new chapter under employee ownership, showing how CWB financial ecosystems are becoming a popular wealth creation solution in communities across the U.S., Mar...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
"A series of deadly heat waves from May to August overwhelmed Germany’s healthcare and emergency response systems and led to an estimated 16,000 heat-related deaths during the summer, the most heat mortalities ever recorded in the highly developed country."
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Mass Heat Wave Deaths in Europe Show Climate Extremes Are Outpacing Adaptation Efforts - Inside Climate News
As preparedness lags, many regions around the world could be overwhelmed by rising temperatures, climate experts warn.
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Pete Sikora @petesikora.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
People don’t know it, but 10 years ago I left my job at CWA, where I’d worked for a decade, to win passage of a law like what became NYC Local Law 97. I thought it made sense to merge job-growth, energy efficiency, and pollution reduction interests like that. It’s working! 🧵
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Jonathan Welle @wellejonathan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Cleveland Owns gets a spam email like this most days. They are written to sound like a real person sent them, with customized language for our organization, and they are incessantly upbeat, like ‘we reserved you coverage in the AP, want to talk?’ It takes more and more work to screen these.
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Jonathan Welle @wellejonathan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Is installing rooftop solar part of the plan for the fire station renos as well?
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Jonathan Welle @wellejonathan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
These new gas plants powering Ohio data centers are absolute monstrosities. That our state permits this is tragic. @saveohioparks.bsky.social saveohioparks.org/2026/09/23/a...
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Tell Ohio NO on two polluting gas plants
Two major new gas combustion plants have been proposed to power data centers at the New Albany Business Park in Licking County.
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Save Ohio Parks @saveohioparks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ohio Power Siting Board takes in-person testimony Oct. 6 on Meta bid for 500 MW gas plant to power gargantuan New Albany data center. NEO plant alone will spew 3.5 M tons of greenhouse gases yearly. Here's what to do: bit.ly/3Thycfq @ccbecker271.bsky.social @wosupublicmedia.bsky.social
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Tell Ohio NO on two polluting gas plants
Two major new gas combustion plants have been proposed to power data centers at the New Albany Business Park in Licking County.
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New York Working Families Party @nywfp.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This November, we’re voting on the Working Families ballot line from top to bottom! It's our time to show all of New York that there’s a different way to do politics, and we’re leading it 💪🗳. Find an event near you: www.mobilize.us/ny-wfp/
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Jonathan Welle @wellejonathan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thanks for sharing, very interesting
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Jonathan Welle @wellejonathan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Opposition to existing or new nuclear? Or both?
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Jonathan Welle @wellejonathan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
‘Gas down 47% in '26 vs '23’!!!
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Jonathan Welle @wellejonathan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is a nightmare and the best case I’ve seen against rapid data center buildout.
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you are in Ohio you’ve seen anti-trans attack ads on Sherrid Brown several times. They’re running non-stop. They’ve been fact checked and (surprise!) they’re completely untrue! www.news5cleveland.com/news/politic...
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Woman accusing Sherrod Brown of forcing transgender surgeries isn’t from Ohio, didn’t have procedure as minor
In an attack ad against U.S. Senate candidate Sherrod Brown, a woman accuses the Democrat of pushing transgender surgeries on minors "like her." She didn't have surgery until she was an adult.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
Vivek Ramaswamy gets on stage with Trump and says of Amy Acton, "I am running against the Kamala Harris of Ohio, and we're gonna beat her"
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Pete Sikora @petesikora.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Holy cow what an amazing transformation for a big co-op in Queens, stimulated in part by Local Law 97 👏👏👏 ✅ lower energy bills ✅ good jobs ✅ less pollution Local Law 97 is helping upgrade NYC’s aging building stock. Check this out, sports fans: www.habitatmag.com/Publication-...
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Fairview Owners Corp. targets climate goals after Ida flood
Fairview Owners Corp. is completing a massive $20M decarbonization and flood protection project four years after Hurricane Ida.
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The Rooster @rooster.info · 03/10/2026
Republicans have gone beyond scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to defend Senate appointee Jon Husted. www.news5cleveland.com/news/politic...
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Woman accusing Sherrod Brown of forcing transgender surgeries isn’t from Ohio, didn’t have procedure as minor
In an attack ad against U.S. Senate candidate Sherrod Brown, a woman accuses the Democrat of pushing transgender surgeries on minors "like her." She didn't have surgery until she was an adult.
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 03/10/2026
Currently Democrat Dr. Amy Acton leads Vivek Ramaswamy 48% to 45%, which places this race clearly within the margin of error. Because the range of the candidates’ support overlaps, the race is said to be a statistical tie. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/10/02/s...
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Commentary: 'Still anyone's ball game' Bowling Green poll finds statistical tie in Ohio's race for governor • Ohio Capital Journal
Currently Democrat Dr. Amy Acton leads Vivek Ramaswamy 48% to 45%, which places this race clearly within the margin of error.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending
a graph of roadway and mass transit lights
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 02/10/2026
My lukewarm takes on the permitting bill draft: - It'd accelerate dirty energy and clean energy. - Anyone who claims to know how much it'd accelerate dirty vs. clean is lying to you and/or themself. - Most important consideration is how it'd affect Dems' odds of kicking fascists to the curb.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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Jonathan Welle @wellejonathan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A beautiful tribute to David Cobb, who fought hard for a better world edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dyn...
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Remembering David Cobb - Times-Standard
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UAW @uaw.org · 02/10/2026
"Miami" Mike Rogers doesn't stand with working people. He stands for the interests of corporate America. Working-class Michiganders deserve a leader like Abdul El-Sayed who will fight for the issues that matter in their everyday lives.
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US Federation of Worker Co-ops @usworker.coop · 02/10/2026
Thank you to everyone who attended the 2026 Worker Co-op Conference in Boston or hosted a local worker co-op satellite event! We're extending so much gratitude to the Boston host committee, our Board members and our sponsors who made this event possible #WCC26 #BostonCoops ❤️‍🔥
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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens… and its pathology is not anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.”
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Mike Finger @mikefinger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just asked Victor Wembanyama if he’d ever consider promoting a sports betting company. “Absolutely not. I will never do that. Honestly, I think it's very sad to see some players promote it. .. Everybody does whatever they want, but without me.”
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 28/08/2026
The correct question and narrative frame was never “why are we polarized?” It was “why are we so solicitous of evil, lawless people?” — and it was that all along.
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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 01/10/2026
Here's the liquid gas industry framing its product as a "just transition". This would be sidesplittingly funny if it was not apparent that this message is getting through to politicians.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Christa Pike was tortured yesterday by the state of TN in every single USians name and the fact is that this is a country that is mostly OK with this. This says everything about all of us. We are all implicated in this barbaric practice. It's sickening.
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Rob @robertferry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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 · 01/10/2026
I too have felt this.
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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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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