There it is—Dated Brent (i.e., spot) crude hits $144.46/bbl, a new all-time high.

you are putting US citizens in danger with warmongering

Ohio Republican U.S. Sen. Jon Husted distanced himself from executives in FirstEnergy testimony • Ohio Capital Journal Ohio Republican U.S. Sen. Jon Husted testified in the FirstEnergy corruption trial Wednesday, keeping his distance from company executives. But there were some discrepancies between his testimony and…

Ohio Republican U.S. Sen. Jon Husted testified in the FirstEnergy corruption trial Wednesday, keeping his distance from company executives. But there were some discrepancies between his testimony and public documents. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/03/12/o...

Husted: "People living in poverty are just not very, um, experienced at navigating the real world, right? I remember talking to one young lady who said, 'Well, I don't really know how money works at a grocery store,' bc she grew up & has lived all of her adult life using SNAP cards to buy groceries"

Judge blocks Noem policy limiting congressional visits to immigrant detention facilities • Ohio Capital Journal A federal judge Monday temporarily blocked a Homeland Security policy of a seven-day notice requirement for members of Congress to conduct oversight visits at facilities that hold immigrants, finding…

A federal judge Monday temporarily blocked a Homeland Security policy of a seven-day notice requirement for members of Congress to conduct oversight visits at facilities that hold immigrants, finding it likely violates law that allows unannounced visits. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/03/03/r...

AIPAC Is Influencing Trump’s War in Iran Democrats are pushing a resolution to block Donald Trump from taking further military action in Iran without congressional approval. But the effort is facing opposition from three lawmakers from their own party backed by the Israel lobby.

Democrats are pushing a resolution to block Donald Trump from taking further military action in Iran without congressional approval.

But the effort is facing opposition from three lawmakers from their own party backed by the Israel lobby.

🧵What the Secretary is saying here is kind of true. NHTSA is proposing to reclassify some light-duty trucks as passenger cars, and it’s a legitimately good part of this proposal.

However, they’re using this good proposal as a Trojan horse to achieve bad ends. Let’s read the fine print.

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio

There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.

Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.

A few days after the presidential election one year ago, we went to Fordham Road in the Bronx.

It was a little different last week.

Wish this equated to ‘clout to make bus lanes happen’

Mohsen Mahdawi, who has been a green-card holder for 10 years, was detained at an ICE field center in Vermont while appearing for a naturalization test — a key step on the path to U.S. citizenship. wapo.st/3Y36270

Cleveland Can't Wait to Put People Over Cars Every hour, 24 buses travel on West 25th Street from Detroit Road to Lorain Avenue. Hundreds of bus riders travel along West 25th Street along this stretch every day. They deserve to get where they ne...

Another mayoral year, another brave stance against bus lanes

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Starbucks baristas with arms raised who won their recent union election

Starbucks baristas who won their recent union election

Starbucks baristas who won their recent union election

CONGRATS to even more partners winning unions! 570 Starbucks stores are now unionized!! 🥳

We're organizing bc we know Starbucks can be so much better. It’s time for the company to start investing in US, the baristas who make this company run.

Whatever It Takes: Only a multifaceted strategy wielding state power, strike power, and street power together can beat the ruling class permanently. Leave nothing on the table.

STATE POWER
STRIKE POWER
STREET POWER

Not enough Americans understand just how *young* the remaining New Deal programs and pieces of legislation are in the scope of our history. Still very much within living memory. Doubly so for the Great Society programs.

dolans could never

The only way to do so is to become a genuine, mass political party.

An organization in the millions, that anyone whose values align with ours can easily hear about, understand, support, join, and learn to organize in.

The kind that can transform and run nations.

Groundwork: Towards a Socialist Future As Democratic Socialists we share a belief: that it is our duty to organize the working class to fight for socialism, and win it. DSA is the only organization that can do that. This is what DSA…

🧵With convention season coming up, Groundwork is proud to publish our newly-approved Points of Unity, which lay out our core principles for DSA and the left.

Read our Points of Unity ⤵️

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Delays and uncertainty dog Intel’s dream of Rust belt manufacturing hub The company is hanging on by a thread amid rumors it may be broken up and sold – an instability keenly felt in Ohio

Here in Ohio, the massive Intel tech campus being built in Columbus' far exurbs is in trouble, as is the company itself, which may be broken up after its stock plunged 60%.

No one knows if it will EVER be completed now. A bunch of half-finished buildings and roads that go nowhere.

Another win!

*EPA ban on dumping mercury is lifted*

Me: (dragging giant barrel full of mercury I’ve been forced to keep in my bedroom down to the river) Finally

Social Security, facing pressure from DOGE, weighs big cuts to phone service Agency considers ending phone program that helps with claims processing and is used by millions of elderly and disabled Americans.

BREAKING: DOGE is considering no longer letting senior citizens file Social Security claims over the phone, and requiring them to do it online or in person.

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Researchers found urban heat in Toledo, Ohio, overlapped with areas lacking commercial investment and heavily polluted

Trump has scrubbed the research from government websites

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BREAKING: Workers at multiple Starbucks locations are now on strike over the company's refusal to negotiate a fair union contract with @sbworkersunited.org.

SBWU members and allies hold signs saying "FAIR CONTRACT NOW" and "OUR UNION IS STRONG" outside a Starbucks store, where workers hold signs and their fists up from inside the lobby.

Inside a Starbucks store, where workers hold up fists and signs as a picket line forms outside.

ICYMI - Starbucks baristas have gone on strike, and along with allies + former workers, are occupying the lobbies of multiple stores.

We didn't want it to come to this. But if participating in civil disobedience is the only way Starbucks will listen, so be it. CONTRACTS NOW! ✊🔥

#ToBeAPartner

This is the second environmental case that has split the court 5–4 with all four women dissenting. We saw the same lineup last term in Ohio v. EPA. In both, Barrett sounds frustrated by the majority's contortion of a statute to hobble the EPA and help polluters. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

SCOTUS holds that the EPA *cannot* order cities to maintain acceptable water quality standards by limiting the discharge—usually sewage—that they dump into nearby bodies of water (like oceans and bays). The four women justices, dissenting, say that's ridiculous. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

It’s fascinating how, whenever far-right parties enjoy a surge, everyone is meant to be in awe of their ascent, but how - the moment a vaguely progressive alternative emerges - we are supposed to mock it. So many of us are so terrified of even a moment of optimism.

Curious if FAA folks are the fat that folks support being trimmed (i.e. more plane crashes)? How many air passengers and airline workers dead by day 101 is good?

Today, February 19, 2025, is the Save Our Services day of action for federal employees and their unions.

We are coming together to say ‘NO’ to Elon Musk's push to gut federal services and impose unlawful mass layoffs of hard-working civil servants across the federal government.