Only 36% approve Trump's Borderwall Shutdown in Swing state Ohio newspaper poll
Trump’s border wall government shutdown is amazingly unpopular in battleground Ohio. I just read the Canton newspaper as blue collar as you can get outside the beltway bubble and only 36% approved of...
View Article'Lengths to Which Officials Will Go To Keep From Having Votes Actually...
Guest: Election expert Marilyn Marks on GA 2018 Lt. Gov. election contest as state moves to unverifiable barcoded ballots; Also: FL 2020 GOP power-grab update; IA Repubs vote to NOT count absentee...
View Article'We care': Columbus, Ohio fund connects immigrants facing deportation with...
One of the most important actions that localities can take to protect immigrant residents is to make sure anyone facing deportation has an attorney. According to one study, immigrants with legal help...
View ArticleVoting Rights Roundup: Whites might secede from Utah county after Navajo...
Leading Off●Utah: Harkening back to the tactics of white-flight segregationists, a Utah state representative has proposed that a heavily white region within Navajo-majority San Juan County secede and...
View ArticleWhy hasn't ICE prosecuted Eric Trump and Jr. for violating immigration/labor...
We have an immigration system where millions of people eligible for immigrant visas wait on queues for decades. Employers and businesses in the country rely on highly skilled undocumented agricultural...
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Top Comments: Personhood for Lake Erie?
This story was featured in yesterday’s Midday Open Tread, but I felt it deserved a little more attention. As I live less than 20 miles from Lake Erie, this has a direct impact on me as well. From The...
View Article'Shame on you, Mr. Jordan'—Michael Cohen shuts up Republican Congressman
Rep. Jim Jordan, most recently known for allegedly being complicit in the sexual assaults of numerous Ohio State University athletes while he was an assistant coach at the school, has apparently been...
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Protesting outside the Lincoln Day Dinner
Jim Jordan was in Fremont Ohio last evening for the Lincoln Day Dinner, a multi county Republican fundraiser. I saw a post on Facebook that a few were going to hold signs, so I joined them. After Jim...
View ArticleOhio GOP's gerrymander goes on trial. Here's how a nonpartisan map could hand...
On Monday, a trial began in federal court over Ohio’s congressional map (shown at top left), which Republicans engineered as one of the most extreme gerrymanders in the country. If the plaintiffs...
View ArticleCleveland Police union appeals firing of white cop who shot and killed...
In 2014, then-Cleveland police officer Timothy Loehmann shot and killed Tamir Rice. Tamir, a 12-year-old black boy, was playing outside in a park with an Airsoft pellet gun. Loehmann, a white man who...
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Rabble Rousing for Righteous Retirement
Standing out among the bald pates and grey hairs crowding into a Congressional hearing room Thursday morning with “Protect our Pensions” stickers will be 26-year-old Ben Trusnik.The son, grandson and...
View ArticleNew PAC's only goal is to unseat a dangerously far-right Ohio Republican who...
A longtime critic of a controversial Ohio congressman has launched a political action committee with one simple goal: Get Jim Jordan out of office. Officially registered as “Ohio CD4 PAC,” the...
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The Ohio gerrymandering court case: 'A map that Speaker Boehner supports'
The trial to overturn the Ohio gerrymandering map continued this week in Cincinnati. The suit has been brought by Democratic organizations, the League of Women Voters of Ohio, and various citizens from...
View ArticleCourt News (Good and Bad) on Gerrymandering, Voting, Guns, and Abortion:...
Guest: Slate's Mark Joseph Stern; Also: Record flooding in Midwest; Beto, Bernie and Buttigieg; The definitive truth about Daylight Saving Time...We're happy to have the long-overdue return of great...
View ArticleLMLOS News Round-Up -- March 20, 2019
Good afternoon, it’s Wednesday, March 20, 2019, and time for the list of stories published on Liberal Minded Ladies of Substance today. One thing that appeared on LMLOS but not here was my bit on Mike...
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"We killed 'em all, We killed 'em all, We killed 'em all, We killed 'em all....
Trump keeps an Ohio tank factory open because the last US tank battle was 28 years ago and he accordingly says stupid things.xWatch Trump say "we killed them all" four times in 14 seconds....
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Ohio is being destroyed under Trump, and it's about to get a lot worse
While a lot of states are turning blue, Ohio is one of the few states getting redder—but that is only because so many people are leaving. With the exception of Columbus, the cities in Ohio are...
View ArticleLMLOS News Round-up -- March 21, 2019
It’s Thursday, March 21, 2019, and a misty, drizzle-filled day around here. I am on day two of my caffeine reduction plan, so bear with me as I muddle through this daze. Never fear, though. I still...
View ArticleTrump's attacks on McCain bombed in Ohio, and that silence means everything
As reported widely (here as well), Donald Trump visited a friendly audience of workers at an army tank factory in Ohio on Wednesday. Because some synapse in his brain must have connected “tank factory"...
View ArticleNine days, eight states of campaigning: Beto is running on empty, but he...
Since Beto O’Rourke’s announcement that he was running for president, he’s been on the campaign trail nearly non-stop. Beto is in his element and where he thrives is on the campaign trail. Meeting...
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