RememberTheRambutan
@rememberrambutan.bsky.social
Ohioan / Smart Ass / Mom / Finder of the Lost 🧬 / Midwest is Best / Grassroots Activist / Kept Woman /
🚨"This is nuts! What the f*ck is going on, this is insane! ICE is just trying to scare people; they tell you it's only immigrants—it's f*cking anybody!" -furious Minneapolis resident tells our @zdroberts.bsky.social after ICE shot a man in the leg tonight. LIVE NOW ⬇️
Experts are warning that more than 500,000 Ohioans are poised to lose insurance subsidies starting next year. In many cases, the increased costs they’ll face will be so big that more than 100,000 will lose their coverage, they warn ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/08/18/h...
Huge numbers of Ohioans to see big increases in insurance costs • Ohio Capital Journal
A federal program is about to expire that could cost more than 100,000 Ohioans health insurance. The state's U.S. senators won't comment.
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The Feel Good Friday non-profit is Kaleidoscope Youth Center: www.kycohio.org June is Pride month! To celebrate and support Pride, Indivisible Central Ohio has identified local organizations that provide support to the LGBTQ+ community.
I took the refugee kiddos to the zoo today. I may actually die of exhaustion.
checked out the statehouse today, hbu? 🤭 ft. the squad: @ohwomenalliance.bsky.social @abortionforward.bsky.social @ppaohio.bsky.social
The Ohio Democratic Party was so awful to our longtime, local organizing group. It was so disrespectful and demoralizing. We had hundreds of volunteers, registered thousands of voters and got no statewide help and zero campaign materials despite trying over and over.
david@redconversation.bsky.social · last yr.One thing, I've seen some discourse, and yes. I have no patience for the national DNC shill orgs that ran the national campaigns either... but downstream, on the ground, locals, volunteers that did the actual organizing we need to care about them. They're real people, and they have potential
Why does he have an entirely new accent? That is not what people from Cincinnati sound like, and before today it isn’t what Vance sounded like either.
Leah Reich@leahreich.com · last yr.oh my god, JD Vance got up and every time he waited for applause it was like six people clapping and THEN HE SAID TODAY IS HIS WEDDING ANNIVERSARY and barely anyone clapped
Columbus Pride was today, so our No Kings event was part protest and one part massive celebration. Columbus Pride always shows the loving heart and joyous soul of Columbus. They underestimate how much we love each other and the power of that love.
I brought my refugee friend to the low income health clinic. Most people in the waiting room are immigrants. Several men in uniforms walked in and the room went silent. It turned out they were EMTs, but we all watched them the entire time and were relieved when they left.
Ever since I found out that federal senators use keyword AI for their messages to gauge constituent concerns, I call after hours and say “no Medicaid cuts” and “it is not waste to provide affordable healthcare to the people of Ohio” over and over.
Maybe the billionaires will have 2 cars instead of 30 cars...and maybe the 2nd house will cost a couple of bucks more due to wealth taxes? Then, maybe, everyone else can have healthcare and fully funded schools? We tax the top 1% fairly so the bottom 50% can afford to survive? TAX THE RICH.
In 2007, I made a $50 micro-loan to a through Kiva.org. When that loan was paid back, I rolled that same money into another micro-loan. Since 2007, that money (with a little more added from time to time) has been used for 22 microloans in 11 developing counties. What a good investment!
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Satan's Spawn Elementary, here we come! Malicious compliance ftw every time.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.Breaking News: The Supreme Court appeared open to allowing Oklahoma to use government money to run the nation’s first religious charter school.
Our refugee family has continued to settle in. I am helping the mom find a job and giving the 27 yo driving lessons. The kiddos are learning English so fast! Someone let them try ice cream, so they ask for it a lot! I am worn out, but continue to be grateful for the opportunity to support them.
Chuck Grassley gets called out at a town hall… " Stop the use of the word entitlement because it's insulting to all of us." 🔥 #HandsOffMySocialSecurity
"We make eggs many colors. Then a rabbit comes in your house and hides them for the children and also brings a basket of chocolate and candy...." "But once the kids sleep, YOU are the rabbit!" -Me trying to explain American easter traditions to the refugee family. They were so, so confused.
Man, this timeline is getting weird and Trump is totally going to end up banning TikTok. The Chinese suppliers outing Western brands that produce in China and do the last stage in other countries so they can slap a “made in” label there are going to be the nail in the coffin. It is so interesting.
This little girl is my grandma with her little brother and my great grandmother who I called Grammy. Nothing speaks to the universal experience of motherhood more than that finger pinning down my Grandma's wiggly arm. Genealogy brings humanity to the names on a family tree. I love that finger.
Trump is about to FAFO with gen Z. Getting rid of the de minimis exemption and putting tariffs on SHEIN orders is going to enrage fast fashion-loving young people who generally don’t pay attention to politics. It’s gonna be fast and furious.
a woman is sitting at a table with a bowl of popcorn and making a face .
Alt: a woman is sitting at a table with a bowl of popcorn and looking around with anticipation
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Now that we’ve heard back from all of our locations, we can share that our official count for Ohio’s Hands Off! protests was 46,980 people across 57 locations! In towns big and small, we all turned out in the rain to stand up for democracy, against executive overreach, and to say #HandsOff !
Huge turnout in Columbus today. I am pooped, but it was a good day!
Indivisible Central Ohio@indivcentraloh.bsky.social · last yr.Columbus,OH showed up today! Crowd estimate was around 5,000. This is what democracy looks like!! @ohio50501.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social @indivisible.org @columbusfreepress.bsky.social
I bought a new-to-me used car last Saturday. I prioritized a safe brand and low mileage bc this tariff stuff is surely going to be a shitshow. Trying to figure out what else we should buy before prices skyrocket.
My dumb dog has seizures so they put her on a med that makes her a menace and ravenously hungry. This morning she stole a whole box of bakery cookies from the table and ate them all, including a chocolate one. Now we are at the vet so she can barf it out. *sigh*
Up in trump country buying a new used car to beat the tariffs. The Mr is undermining my TAX THE RICH tshirt by repeatedly saying things like “I have to transfer money over from the brokerage acct” and “I am just buying her car for her, she doesn’t need to be on the financing documents.” 🙄