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  1. CW: discrimination

    Cincinnati’s Midwestern Lesbian celebrates anniversary, expands pop-up events to other Ohio cities

    Cincinnati LGBTQ+ events company announces plans to expand while celebrating the second anniversary of their ’Sapphic Sips’ series.

    Archive: ia: ...
    thebuckeyeflame.com/2026/02/24 #cincinnati #cincy #cincy-gay-agenda #culture #gay #kelsey-ference #midwest #midwest-lesbian #midwestern-lesbian #rhinegeist #rhinegeist-brewery #sapphic-sips

  2. The University Press of Kansas is having a 40% off sale with code UPKHOLIDAY25 through December 26.

    Lots of great #Midwestern and related #history. And UPK has an important series on the history of #law and #SupremeCourt cases.

    Wong Kim Ark's Supreme court cases is a landmark decision about #BirthrightCitizenship, which #Trump is seeking to overturn.

    kansaspress.ku.edu/97807006342

    #USPol #histodons @histodons #LegalHistory #bookstodon #WongKimArk

  3. During the hot months when I'm working outside sweating my butt off, I get really excited about autumn. And every year I forget that here in the #KC area we don't really do that season like everyone else.

    Case study: 6 days ago I tooted about it being in the high 80s and loathing to turn on the AC. This morning? My car was frosted!

    #Missouri #KCwx #Midwestern #Midwest

  4. @petergleick Why does #Ohio always stand-out among #Midwestern states - as if it is a sibling of #Mississippi , #Arkansas and other ‘redneck states’? 🤔

    Could it be lingering abundance of a #DeplorableGene 🧬 from when the ‘Ohio pen’ housed the worst of the worst from across the Wild West for 150 years, releasing them locally (to reproduce) if they didn’t die in prison? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_P

  5. Thousands in #Midwestern #GOP Districts Attend #Sanders' First Stops on Tour to Fight #Oligarchy

    "It's like there's only one person who is actually able to sidestep the demoralization and frustration," said one observer.

    Julia Conley, Feb 22, 2025

    "After addressing more than 3,400 #Nebraska residents in Omaha Friday evening, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday made his second stop on his National Tour to Fight Oligarchy—telling Iowa City, #Iowa residents that '#Trumpism will not be defeated by politicians inside the #DCBeltway.'

    "'For better or worse, that is not going to happen,' said the Vermont Independent senator, whose broadly popular policy proposals have long been dismissed by Democratic leaders as unrealistic and radical while President Donald Trump has increasingly captured the attention of the #WorkingClass Americans who would benefit most from Sanders' ideas.

    "'It will only be defeated by millions of Americans in Iowa, in #Vermont, in Nebraska, in every state in this country, who come together in a strong #grassroots movement and say no to oligarchy, no to #authoritarianism, no to #kleptocracy, no to massive cuts to programs that #LowIncome and working Americans desperately need, no to huge #TaxBreaks for the #wealthiest people in this country,' said Sanders.

    "The senator announced his tour earlier this month as #ElonMusk, the head of the Trump-created Department of Government Efficiency ( #DOGE) who poured $277 million on the president's campaign, swept through numerous agencies, with DOGE staffers setting up illegal servers, seizing control of data, shutting federal employees out of offices, and working to shut down operations across the government.

    "Since Trump took office for his second term just over a month ago, roughly 30,000 federal employees have been fired or laid off—part of Musk's push to cut $2 trillion in federal spending in order to fill the $4.6 trillion hole that Trump's extension of the 2017 tax cuts would blow in the deficit.

    "#Republican lawmakers have also pushed to include cuts to #Medicaid, and Trump this week signaled he would back #Medicare cuts after repeatedly insisting he would not slash the popular healthcare program used by more than 65 million Americans, in order to save money while handing out tax cuts to the same #corporations and #ultrawealthy households that benefited from the 2017 tax law.

    "'Today in America we are rapidly moving toward an #oligarchic form of society where a handful of #multibillionaires not only have extraordinary wealth, but unprecedented economic, media, and political power,' said Sanders in Iowa City, which like Omaha is represented by a Republican U.S. House member who narrowly won reelection last November and has faced pressure to reject the GOP budget plan. 'Brothers and sisters, that is not the democracy that men and women fought and died to defend.'"

    Read more:
    commondreams.org/news/bernie-s
    #Oligarchy #OligarchyTour #StillSanders #BernieSanders #USPol #CorporateInterests #Corporatocracy #CorporateColonialism

  6. Thousands in #Midwestern #GOP Districts Attend #Sanders' First Stops on Tour to Fight #Oligarchy

    "It's like there's only one person who is actually able to sidestep the demoralization and frustration," said one observer.

    Julia Conley, Feb 22, 2025

    "After addressing more than 3,400 #Nebraska residents in Omaha Friday evening, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday made his second stop on his National Tour to Fight Oligarchy—telling Iowa City, #Iowa residents that '#Trumpism will not be defeated by politicians inside the #DCBeltway.'

    "'For better or worse, that is not going to happen,' said the Vermont Independent senator, whose broadly popular policy proposals have long been dismissed by Democratic leaders as unrealistic and radical while President Donald Trump has increasingly captured the attention of the #WorkingClass Americans who would benefit most from Sanders' ideas.

    "'It will only be defeated by millions of Americans in Iowa, in #Vermont, in Nebraska, in every state in this country, who come together in a strong #grassroots movement and say no to oligarchy, no to #authoritarianism, no to #kleptocracy, no to massive cuts to programs that #LowIncome and working Americans desperately need, no to huge #TaxBreaks for the #wealthiest people in this country,' said Sanders.

    "The senator announced his tour earlier this month as #ElonMusk, the head of the Trump-created Department of Government Efficiency ( #DOGE) who poured $277 million on the president's campaign, swept through numerous agencies, with DOGE staffers setting up illegal servers, seizing control of data, shutting federal employees out of offices, and working to shut down operations across the government.

    "Since Trump took office for his second term just over a month ago, roughly 30,000 federal employees have been fired or laid off—part of Musk's push to cut $2 trillion in federal spending in order to fill the $4.6 trillion hole that Trump's extension of the 2017 tax cuts would blow in the deficit.

    "#Republican lawmakers have also pushed to include cuts to #Medicaid, and Trump this week signaled he would back #Medicare cuts after repeatedly insisting he would not slash the popular healthcare program used by more than 65 million Americans, in order to save money while handing out tax cuts to the same #corporations and #ultrawealthy households that benefited from the 2017 tax law.

    "'Today in America we are rapidly moving toward an #oligarchic form of society where a handful of #multibillionaires not only have extraordinary wealth, but unprecedented economic, media, and political power,' said Sanders in Iowa City, which like Omaha is represented by a Republican U.S. House member who narrowly won reelection last November and has faced pressure to reject the GOP budget plan. 'Brothers and sisters, that is not the democracy that men and women fought and died to defend.'"

    Read more:
    commondreams.org/news/bernie-s
    #Oligarchy #OligarchyTour #StillSanders #BernieSanders #USPol #CorporateInterests #Corporatocracy #CorporateColonialism

  7. Thousands in #Midwestern #GOP Districts Attend #Sanders' First Stops on Tour to Fight #Oligarchy

    "It's like there's only one person who is actually able to sidestep the demoralization and frustration," said one observer.

    Julia Conley, Feb 22, 2025

    "After addressing more than 3,400 #Nebraska residents in Omaha Friday evening, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday made his second stop on his National Tour to Fight Oligarchy—telling Iowa City, #Iowa residents that '#Trumpism will not be defeated by politicians inside the #DCBeltway.'

    "'For better or worse, that is not going to happen,' said the Vermont Independent senator, whose broadly popular policy proposals have long been dismissed by Democratic leaders as unrealistic and radical while President Donald Trump has increasingly captured the attention of the #WorkingClass Americans who would benefit most from Sanders' ideas.

    "'It will only be defeated by millions of Americans in Iowa, in #Vermont, in Nebraska, in every state in this country, who come together in a strong #grassroots movement and say no to oligarchy, no to #authoritarianism, no to #kleptocracy, no to massive cuts to programs that #LowIncome and working Americans desperately need, no to huge #TaxBreaks for the #wealthiest people in this country,' said Sanders.

    "The senator announced his tour earlier this month as #ElonMusk, the head of the Trump-created Department of Government Efficiency ( #DOGE) who poured $277 million on the president's campaign, swept through numerous agencies, with DOGE staffers setting up illegal servers, seizing control of data, shutting federal employees out of offices, and working to shut down operations across the government.

    "Since Trump took office for his second term just over a month ago, roughly 30,000 federal employees have been fired or laid off—part of Musk's push to cut $2 trillion in federal spending in order to fill the $4.6 trillion hole that Trump's extension of the 2017 tax cuts would blow in the deficit.

    "#Republican lawmakers have also pushed to include cuts to #Medicaid, and Trump this week signaled he would back #Medicare cuts after repeatedly insisting he would not slash the popular healthcare program used by more than 65 million Americans, in order to save money while handing out tax cuts to the same #corporations and #ultrawealthy households that benefited from the 2017 tax law.

    "'Today in America we are rapidly moving toward an #oligarchic form of society where a handful of #multibillionaires not only have extraordinary wealth, but unprecedented economic, media, and political power,' said Sanders in Iowa City, which like Omaha is represented by a Republican U.S. House member who narrowly won reelection last November and has faced pressure to reject the GOP budget plan. 'Brothers and sisters, that is not the democracy that men and women fought and died to defend.'"

    Read more:
    commondreams.org/news/bernie-s
    #Oligarchy #OligarchyTour #StillSanders #BernieSanders #USPol #CorporateInterests #Corporatocracy #CorporateColonialism

  8. Thousands in #Midwestern #GOP Districts Attend #Sanders' First Stops on Tour to Fight #Oligarchy

    "It's like there's only one person who is actually able to sidestep the demoralization and frustration," said one observer.

    Julia Conley, Feb 22, 2025

    "After addressing more than 3,400 #Nebraska residents in Omaha Friday evening, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday made his second stop on his National Tour to Fight Oligarchy—telling Iowa City, #Iowa residents that '#Trumpism will not be defeated by politicians inside the #DCBeltway.'

    "'For better or worse, that is not going to happen,' said the Vermont Independent senator, whose broadly popular policy proposals have long been dismissed by Democratic leaders as unrealistic and radical while President Donald Trump has increasingly captured the attention of the #WorkingClass Americans who would benefit most from Sanders' ideas.

    "'It will only be defeated by millions of Americans in Iowa, in #Vermont, in Nebraska, in every state in this country, who come together in a strong #grassroots movement and say no to oligarchy, no to #authoritarianism, no to #kleptocracy, no to massive cuts to programs that #LowIncome and working Americans desperately need, no to huge #TaxBreaks for the #wealthiest people in this country,' said Sanders.

    "The senator announced his tour earlier this month as #ElonMusk, the head of the Trump-created Department of Government Efficiency ( #DOGE) who poured $277 million on the president's campaign, swept through numerous agencies, with DOGE staffers setting up illegal servers, seizing control of data, shutting federal employees out of offices, and working to shut down operations across the government.

    "Since Trump took office for his second term just over a month ago, roughly 30,000 federal employees have been fired or laid off—part of Musk's push to cut $2 trillion in federal spending in order to fill the $4.6 trillion hole that Trump's extension of the 2017 tax cuts would blow in the deficit.

    "#Republican lawmakers have also pushed to include cuts to #Medicaid, and Trump this week signaled he would back #Medicare cuts after repeatedly insisting he would not slash the popular healthcare program used by more than 65 million Americans, in order to save money while handing out tax cuts to the same #corporations and #ultrawealthy households that benefited from the 2017 tax law.

    "'Today in America we are rapidly moving toward an #oligarchic form of society where a handful of #multibillionaires not only have extraordinary wealth, but unprecedented economic, media, and political power,' said Sanders in Iowa City, which like Omaha is represented by a Republican U.S. House member who narrowly won reelection last November and has faced pressure to reject the GOP budget plan. 'Brothers and sisters, that is not the democracy that men and women fought and died to defend.'"

    Read more:
    commondreams.org/news/bernie-s
    #Oligarchy #OligarchyTour #StillSanders #BernieSanders #USPol #CorporateInterests #Corporatocracy #CorporateColonialism

  9. Thousands in #Midwestern #GOP Districts Attend #Sanders' First Stops on Tour to Fight #Oligarchy

    "It's like there's only one person who is actually able to sidestep the demoralization and frustration," said one observer.

    Julia Conley, Feb 22, 2025

    "After addressing more than 3,400 #Nebraska residents in Omaha Friday evening, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday made his second stop on his National Tour to Fight Oligarchy—telling Iowa City, #Iowa residents that '#Trumpism will not be defeated by politicians inside the #DCBeltway.'

    "'For better or worse, that is not going to happen,' said the Vermont Independent senator, whose broadly popular policy proposals have long been dismissed by Democratic leaders as unrealistic and radical while President Donald Trump has increasingly captured the attention of the #WorkingClass Americans who would benefit most from Sanders' ideas.

    "'It will only be defeated by millions of Americans in Iowa, in #Vermont, in Nebraska, in every state in this country, who come together in a strong #grassroots movement and say no to oligarchy, no to #authoritarianism, no to #kleptocracy, no to massive cuts to programs that #LowIncome and working Americans desperately need, no to huge #TaxBreaks for the #wealthiest people in this country,' said Sanders.

    "The senator announced his tour earlier this month as #ElonMusk, the head of the Trump-created Department of Government Efficiency ( #DOGE) who poured $277 million on the president's campaign, swept through numerous agencies, with DOGE staffers setting up illegal servers, seizing control of data, shutting federal employees out of offices, and working to shut down operations across the government.

    "Since Trump took office for his second term just over a month ago, roughly 30,000 federal employees have been fired or laid off—part of Musk's push to cut $2 trillion in federal spending in order to fill the $4.6 trillion hole that Trump's extension of the 2017 tax cuts would blow in the deficit.

    "#Republican lawmakers have also pushed to include cuts to #Medicaid, and Trump this week signaled he would back #Medicare cuts after repeatedly insisting he would not slash the popular healthcare program used by more than 65 million Americans, in order to save money while handing out tax cuts to the same #corporations and #ultrawealthy households that benefited from the 2017 tax law.

    "'Today in America we are rapidly moving toward an #oligarchic form of society where a handful of #multibillionaires not only have extraordinary wealth, but unprecedented economic, media, and political power,' said Sanders in Iowa City, which like Omaha is represented by a Republican U.S. House member who narrowly won reelection last November and has faced pressure to reject the GOP budget plan. 'Brothers and sisters, that is not the democracy that men and women fought and died to defend.'"

    Read more:
    commondreams.org/news/bernie-s
    #Oligarchy #OligarchyTour #StillSanders #BernieSanders #USPol #CorporateInterests #Corporatocracy #CorporateColonialism

  10. [03:42] Walz and Vance face off in only vice presidential debate

    Democrat Tim Walz and Republican JD Vance, two sons of America's Midwestern heartland with deeply opposing views on the issues facing the US, shook hands ahead of the only vice presidential debate of the 5 November election.

    rte.ie/news/2024/1002/1473091-

    #Democrat #TimWalz #Republican #JDVance #two #America #Midwestern #US #5 #November

  11. You could tell the #Trump campaign was thrown off by the #Walz pick when the #GOP’s VP pick, #JDVance, attacked the #camo-wearing, #gun-owning, #smalltown #Midwestern #schoolteacher as a “#SanFrancisco-style #liberal.”
    
Never mind that #Vance lived in the #BayArea for about 4yrs while Minnesota’s Walz visited the place for the 1st time only last month. The tired misfire speaks to how dependent the GOP is on stereotypes about who “#liberals” are & what “#liberalism” means.

    #freedom #Ally #joy

  12. You could tell the #Trump campaign was thrown off by the #Walz pick when the #GOP’s VP pick, #JDVance, attacked the #camo-wearing, #gun-owning, #smalltown #Midwestern #schoolteacher as a “#SanFrancisco-style #liberal.”
    
Never mind that #Vance lived in the #BayArea for about 4yrs while Minnesota’s Walz visited the place for the 1st time only last month. The tired misfire speaks to how dependent the GOP is on stereotypes about who “#liberals” are & what “#liberalism” means.

    #freedom #Ally #joy

  13. You could tell the #Trump campaign was thrown off by the #Walz pick when the #GOP’s VP pick, #JDVance, attacked the #camo-wearing, #gun-owning, #smalltown #Midwestern #schoolteacher as a “#SanFrancisco-style #liberal.”
    
Never mind that #Vance lived in the #BayArea for about 4yrs while Minnesota’s Walz visited the place for the 1st time only last month. The tired misfire speaks to how dependent the GOP is on stereotypes about who “#liberals” are & what “#liberalism” means.

    #freedom #Ally #joy

  14. You could tell the #Trump campaign was thrown off by the #Walz pick when the #GOP’s VP pick, #JDVance, attacked the #camo-wearing, #gun-owning, #smalltown #Midwestern #schoolteacher as a “#SanFrancisco-style #liberal.”
    
Never mind that #Vance lived in the #BayArea for about 4yrs while Minnesota’s Walz visited the place for the 1st time only last month. The tired misfire speaks to how dependent the GOP is on stereotypes about who “#liberals” are & what “#liberalism” means.

    #freedom #Ally #joy

  15. You could tell the #Trump campaign was thrown off by the #Walz pick when the #GOP’s VP pick, #JDVance, attacked the #camo-wearing, #gun-owning, #smalltown #Midwestern #schoolteacher as a “#SanFrancisco-style #liberal.”
    
Never mind that #Vance lived in the #BayArea for about 4yrs while Minnesota’s Walz visited the place for the 1st time only last month. The tired misfire speaks to how dependent the GOP is on stereotypes about who “#liberals” are & what “#liberalism” means.

    #freedom #Ally #joy

  16. As the son of a #Midwestern public school teacher and coach, I earnestly hope that Gov #timwalz goes a step beyond "weird" and consistently refers to Vance as "JV" 🤡

    #harriswalz

    @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews

  17. Classic strategic #VP choice for VP Harris:

    " #KamalaHarris has decided on Minnesota Gov. #TimWalz as her running mate..

    "It would be hard to find a more vivid representative of the American heartland than Walz..

    "In his first race for Congress, Walz upset a Republican incumbent. That was in 2006, when he won in a largely rural, southern #Minnesota congressional district against six-term Rep. Gutknecht..

    "He could help the ticket in key #Midwestern states"
    apnews.com/article/election-20

  18. #Midwestern computer builders be like, (screwing a PCIe card into the back of the case or ziptieing cables down) "that's not going anywhere".

    #midwest #US #PCBuilding

  19. Wisconsin economic news

    's has shown solid and growth, outperforming other states in income growth. But, annual earnings and income growth rates lag behind the national average, partly due to slow population growth and an aging workforce. Despite a shortage, significant wage growth has been observed, but rising costs pose a challenge for the future.

    wisconsinui.wordpress.com/2024

  20. It's super warm 🌞 here for December at 50° before noon in my #Kansas #Midwestern town. The #Catio is open & us felines are taking turns playing outside. There are lawn services out mowing in our neighborhood. Crazy! #CatsOfMastodon

  21. (painfully Midwestern accent) Be sure to get in some Thanksgiving reps in. A great one is the "Nog Lift" where you lift a full half gallon of eggnog vertically by the handle using one finger. But you've probably already drank some of it, or no?

    #food #Thanksgiving #Midwestern #Midwest #US #eggnog #exercise

  22. It's 🌧️ raining here in my small, #Kansas #Midwestern town on this #Sunday. It smells like #Fall 🍁🍃outside. Mom is having her 🎃#PumpkinSpice coffee and I've had breakfast with broth. Belly full. All is well. #SheltieLife #DogsOfMastodon #DaisyDoo

  23. #Midwestern Z be like, "O you, who drives in the roads. You must yield. Abandon all you are. And watch out for deer."

    #Xenoblade3

  24. I miss these fluffy #clouds during summer from my #midwestern childhood. I didn’t grow up next to corn fields, but the clouds I definitely remember. 🙂 mastodon.social/@scalzi/110788

  25. I read Babbitt as a kid, but I don’t think that I really grasped how very, tangibly real #midwestern boosterism is until I came to Columbus. It’s part vapid materialism, part provincialism, and part defense mechanism against the doubt that other places might be as good or better than this place.

    And I say this as somebody who likes Columbus!