“We affirm that migration is a basic act of being human.” So begins a letter to state and local officials, signed by 80 institutions and 2,500 Ohioans from 69 counties. “Our state is made better, stronger and more vibrant by the countless contributions of immigrants and refugees.” List of counties is at the end of this press release.
The federal government has unleashed an assault on people who came to Ohio to contribute and take care of their families. Ohioans expect elected officials to lead from a place of compassion and common sense, instead. The petition lays out the actions they want Ohio city and county officials to take:
Despite spring break in full swing at campuses across Ohio, including the Ohio State University, Ohio University, Cleveland State University, and Kent State University, dozens of students gathered at the Ohio Statehouse to testify against Senate Bill 1, a controversial higher education bill currently under consideration in the Ohio House. The bill would consolidate university governance in the hands of the government, censor what students can and can’t learn, gut our professors’ labor rights, and ban any program, office, or scholarship deemed to be “diversity, equity, and inclusion.”
Instead of relaxing and recharging during spring break, students showed up at a 9:00 AM hearing, inconveniently scheduled at a time when student voices were least likely to be heard. Students arrived in beach attire to celebrate spring break, bringing the infectious joy of vacation to the Ohio Statehouse.
Citizens of America. Are you prepared to sit back and watch another round of genocide of innocent human beings in Gaza? It is clear that President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu have reached an agreement. In the meeting rooms at the Pentagon and White House, the Israel government and American Empire have agreed on a plan to ethnically cleans Gaza. The first stage is to shut off all aid to Gaza, to shut off the electricity, and to destroy the water system. In the middle ages this was called siege warfare.
The genocidal leaders failed to invite me to the planning meetings, but Israel's announcements over the past two days indicate that they will institute a siege. Trump will continue to offer Palestinians an off ramp in Jordan or Egypt, despite the governments of those two countries expressly refusing to accept the ethnically cleansed Palestinian population of 2.1 million people. We can be sure the Empire is applying maximum pressure to those two countries. Saudi Arabia is hovering in the background, supporting the American Empire in it's willingness to slaughter the remaining population of Gaza, while attempting to pacify it's Arab Muslim population.
The foundation of good health is simple: Wholesome food, fresh air, physical movement and low stress. Yet, these fundamental principles are absent in modern food production.
Animal factories—industrial-scale factory farm livestock operations—create ideal conditions for the emergence and rapid spread of disease, including avian flu.
High-density confinement, genetic uniformity, and poor air quality weaken birds’ immune systems and enable viruses to mutate and transmit quickly.
Unlike in natural settings, where biodiversity and space act as buffers against disease, factory farms concentrate thousands or even millions of animals in close quarters, amplifying viral loads and increasing the risk of spillover to wild birds and even humans.
The industry’s reliance on mass culling, vaccines, and “biosecurity measures” fails to address the root cause of so many food safety and food security crises: an unnatural, high-stress system that prioritizes profit over resilience.
Nowhere is this more evident than in today’s egg crisis, resulting in soaring prices, plummeting availability, and over 120 million chickens killed due to avian flu scares.
Ukraine once possessed the world’s third-largest stash of nuclear weapons. Many Ukrainians wish they still had them.
In 1994, through what became known as the “Trilateral Process,” Kiev traded those warheads for clear assurances of what it assumed would be permanent peace and security.
Today, Putin’s Russia possesses the warheads Ukraine once owned. And there is no peace.
The original deal was cut with Russia and the US. Great Britain was a party to the negotiations. France and China signaled their approval.
Here’s the back story:
When the Soviet Union fell in 1991, a substantial chunk of its nuclear weapons arsenal was parked in Ukraine.
