Ohio Lefty

@leftohio.bsky.social

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Figuring it all out. Good things are necessary and possible. Good things just happened- 11/4/25

"Nice post you got there, it'd be a shame if I deliberately missed your point so I could be tedious about it"
"Nice post you got there, it'd be a shame if I deliberately missed your point so I could be tedious about it"
Chart compiling average (normal) temperatures for Cleveland, OH by month and day,including highs, lows, averages, and rain and snowfall
Screenshot of weather app showing hazardous amounts of pollutant in the air (497 ppm)
Edited picture of J.D. Vance distorting his torso to look longer and more rectangular.
A commissioned redesign of the Dr. Pepper logo with a blue and white theme, playing with the idea that Dr. Acton and David Pepper are the Ohio Governor, Lt. Governor ticket
Michigan Democratic Primary polling showing Abdul El-Sayed leading over Haley Stevens and Mallory McMorrow, now a distant third.
Polls for the Democratic primary in Maine showing that Planter's nearest competition is 71 points behind him in aggregated polling over several months, when you exclude the suspended Mills campaign. Information displayed in bar graph, table, and line graph all demonstrate the same data.
Three months of polling showing Platner leading Collins by margins ranging from 2% to 9%
"Rollins previously served as deputy general counsel, ethics advisor, and policy director to Texas governor Rick Perry. From 2003 to 2018, Rollins led the Texas Public Policy Foundation, an Austin-based conservative think tank. During the first Trump administration, Rollins was director of the Office of American Innovation from 2018 until 2020 and the acting director of the United States Domestic Policy Council.[2][3] In April 2021, Rollins and Larry Kudlow co-founded the America First Policy Institute, a conservative think tank that helped plan the policy agenda and legislation for a second Trump administration. Rollins was the organization's President and CEO until March 2025.[4][5] On November 23, 2024, President-elect Donald Trump nominated Rollins to serve as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.[6] On February 13, 2025, the U.S. Senate confirmed Rollins as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture by a 72–28 vote.[7]"
A snippet from Ester Kim-Varet's priorities page showing her switching from 1st person to 3rd person. Top of the page claims she wrote it.
A screenshot of two Bluesky posts, one from journalist and advocate Kim Key and one from James Talarico, candidate for Senate from Texas. Kim Kelly's response to the news of the bombing of Iran lashes out against the multiple industries built solely around human misery: the military, immigration, and incarceration industrial complexes. For contrast, Talarico's post is four words without soul: a politician's slogan that is insufficient on its face and as unlikely to enact change as it is likely to earn him a few votes in this moment. For what it's worth, this isn't a problem specific to Talarico, but baked into our political system where work lives, social lives, and personal lives consume so much of our time we can't be an informed and engaged electorate at scale and the minimally informed voters don't listen to their class peers who do keep up with politics and value their voter's intuition or present mood or the last thing they heard over long-formed and strongly-held positions.
A famous picture of Dwayne the Rock Johnson wearing a brown sweater, gold chain, blue jeans and fanny pack
Poorly edited crop of a colorized One Piece panel depicting Aqua Laguna, a massive tsunami. Onlookers marvel at the size. The edit changes "It's Aqua Laguna" to "It's the midterms"
Snippet of a spreadsheet showing Ohio State Executive roles and the percent spread between the winning Republican and losing Democratic candidate, indicating a stark difference in how Republican and Democratic voters choose to fill out their ballots
A table showing the top marginal tax rates in the United States, highlighting the years 1980-82, with top marginal tax rate decreases from 70% to 69.31% to 50%, heavily implying the Reagan presidency and corresponding neoliberal Congress began America's decline by cutting taxes for the rich. Top marginal tax rates have never returned to pre 81 levels.
Screenshot of YouTube featuring the Majority Report Livestream about to be hosted by Matt Lie, entitled "Organize or Burn"
Platform from Graham Planter's website. Ending Citizens United, Rebuilding healthcare, breaking up monopolies, ending deportations and beginning immigration reform, conservation, defending/restoring Medicare and Medicaid, defending/Restoring Social Security, closing tax loopholes for billionaires, Tribal Sovereignty + self-determination, supporting unionization and labor rights, defend/support public schools, restoring Roe v. Wade, raising the wage (more in next image)
A spreadsheet showing Ohio's congressional districts, the incumbent and challenger, and their political affiliation.
Findings of the Ohio Housing Finance Agency , specific to renters. You can read the findings here: https://ohiohome.org/research/rentalhousing-23.aspx In brief, rent increased 10% over 2012-2021 that cannot be explained by inflation. Rent prices have outpaced real wage growth for the 20th percentile (the lowest-earning fifth of Ohioans). One Quarter of renters are spending 50% or more on rent. There is an outsized racial disparity among black renters (31%) and white renters (22%) with severe rent burden.
Describes the Ratchet Effect, in which Democrats block political movement to the left after Republicans move to the right.
Democratic candidate for Ohio's 6th congressional district Malcolm Ritchie is asked what legacy he wants to leave and replies "That I loved humanity"
Democratic candidate for Ohio's 6th congressional district Malcolm Ritchie is asked about the last song stuck in his head and replies "Cult of Personality" by Living Color
Democratic candidate for Ohio's 6th congressional district Malcolm Ritchie is asked a stupid question in serious times and has no time for it. "Tell us your favorite joke." "No"
A screenshot of Dr. Amy Acton's website, the get involved form