ohheyLK

@laurenkarch.bsky.social

Stories guy, friendly Midwesterner, lower-productivity public sector enthusiast. Dayton, Oh.

Is this just business as usual in politics? No. Approval rates of federal disaster aid requests were about the same regardless of the state and did not vary much with the party of the President. This graph powerfully conveys the scale of the partisan discrimination now.

Bild

"Instead of contributing nearly $6.9 billion..Ohio taxpayers could fund around 24,000 school teachers, 29,000 firefighters or 308,000 people on Medicaid. That money could also cover more than 3.1 million SNAP recipients or fund more than 240,000 public housing units."

Ohio taxpayers each face $1,670 tab for Trump's mass deportation push

Trump's immigration policies have thousands of Ohio's Haitian immigrants in limbo.

axios.com

My oldest, fogiest idea is that some of the best thinking of my life happened in the courtyard of the English building at Miami University. With this atrocity, my dumbass alma mater finds a new way to piss me off.

Miami University updated the English building with the theme, Marriott Slop.

A central part of why it seems like powerful, rich people live in a consequence-free world is that the social incentives to hold them to account have withered. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar... 𝟏𝟐-𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞-𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬

Bild

“These attacks really are...against me as a Lutheran minister and the churches that I’ve served,” Garriott said. It is always a delight to see evangelicals simply find out that we--with our liberal beliefs and, horror of horrors, college-educated pastors--exist.

Diana Butler Bass@dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · last wk.

…and they’ll know you are Christians by your love, by your love/and they’ll know you are by your love…” 🎶 🎶 religionnews.com/2026/08/04/p... Updates

Good morning. A new Federal News Network survey confirms what we federal employees have been saying for over a year: 76% report lower productivity after RTO, 83% say the experience has been negative, and most report worse work-life balance. We already knew. Now there's data.

After returning to the office, federal employees report low productivity, morale | Federal News Network

In a Federal News Network online survey, over three-quarters of respondents said they are less productive now than they were prior to returning to the office.

federalnewsnetwork.com