Steve Bogner
@stevebogner.com
Liberalish global payroll geek/consultant, foodie, wine, travel and misc in Cincinnati.
This needs to get done
Congressman Greg Landsman@repgreglandsman.bsky.social · 3h agoCongressional Republicans passed a bill that still lets Congress own, sell, and in some cases buy stocks. We joined @magaziner.house.gov in calling on Speaker Johnson to bring a real stock trading ban bill to a vote.
Jon Husted gave $2.5 billion in out-of-control tax breaks to giant corporations to bring 226 data centers to our state. Now, he’s blaming Ohioans for their higher utility bills.
Ankle monitors on our neighbors in Ohio and now another death at an ICE facility in New Jersey. Everyone - regardless of immigration status - deserves dignity and respect. This is not who we are.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d agoBreaking News: A Salvadoran immigrant who was being held at a troubled federal detention center in Newark has died, the mayor said.
Cringeworthy. Censure-worthy too. www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/p...
GOP lawmaker gave female staffers lavish gifts of jewelry, vacations and guns, ethics report finds | CNN Politics
The bipartisan House Ethics Committee said Monday it has found “substantial evidence” that GOP Rep. Chuck Edwards repeatedly made unwanted advances toward two of his female staffers and is recommendin...
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Trump vowed to 'bring free speech back.' Judges in 75 cases ruled that he has stifled it reut.rs/4fOpOLh
Trump vowed to 'bring free speech back.' Judges in 75 cases ruled that he has stifled it
President Donald Trump repeatedly campaigned for his second term as a champion of free expression, vowing in his January 2025 inaugural address to stop what he described as years of "government censorship."
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The Prime Minister of Malaysia is defending a policy of hunting down and deporting Jews. We condemned this decision and raised it with the State Department last week. The PM’s response: “That will not deter us.”
Jon Husted isn’t looking out for you in Washington. Husted voted to cut Ohioans' health care to give tax cuts to his billionaire buddies.
A constituent recently came to our team’s Mobile Office Hours needing help receiving a 2024 tax refund from the IRS. Our team worked with the IRS and the Taxpayer Advocate, and the constituent finally received the check. If you need help with any federal agency, our team is here to help.
At your next meal, take a second to think about the people working long hours in HOT 100° temps to put food on your table. They're not just statistics. They're real people who can't avoid the heat in an air conditioned house or office. #WeFeedYou
Capital One says it closed Trump Organization's accounts after anti-money laundering probe reut.rs/4halBnD
Capital One says it closed Trump Organization's accounts after anti-money laundering probe
The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to Trump's family business.
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PwC just got caught trying to pass AI slop as authentic research www.techspot.com/news/113303-... -> hey, that 17 year old from Medium that PwC cited wasn't AI slop - granted the case study was prior to ChatGPT lmao!
PwC just got caught trying to pass AI slop as authentic research
The AI hallucinations were confirmed by multiple leading publications, including the Financial Times. The so-called "Thought Leadership" reports were intended to articulate PwC's insights into some…
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Vivek Ramaswamy is completely oblivious to what hardworking Ohioans need from their governor. In fact, when they ask for help, he calls them "whiners." He'd be the worst governor Ohio has ever seen.
Blanketing the airwaves with ads about healthcare, Republican candidates who voted to cut federal funding in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act are positioning themselves as advocates for lower costs.
Ahead of midterms, Republicans run ads after cutting healthcare funds
Blanketing the airwaves with ads about healthcare, Republican candidates who voted to cut federal funding in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act are positioning themselves as advocates for lower costs.
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Check out Skyscraper - I’ve been using it for months now and it’s a great app!
cameronbanga@cameronbanga.com · 4d agoHave a new release for @getskyscraper.com, 1.5.2. See release notes below: One note - I worked a bunch on text size consistency across the app. You may need to adjust your default text size to accommodate.
“Theology has been weaponized” is a critical aspect of Christian Evangelicalism, and a driving force towards Christian Nationalism.
Palestinian Christians call on American evangelicals to stop ignoring their plight | CNN
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I travel a lot and frequently use airport lounges. And yes, they are not as nice as they used to be. There are exceptions - like the Air France lounge at CDG mentioned in the article - but in general ... meh. www.cnn.com/travel/are-a...
Why some travelers say airport lounges just aren’t worth it anymore | CNN
Airport lounges used to be for top-tier travelers only, but they have become more accessible thanks to credit cards and loyalty programs. Not everyone is happy about it.
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Both exhibitions will be on display at the AAC’s campus in Over-the-Rhine on 1212 Jackson Street, and both exhibitions will conclude on August 2.
“weaponizing a child welfare program for the purposes of more deportations” Shocking but not surprising.
Reuters@reuters.com · last wk.EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of children, sponsors arrested by ICE after tips from US child migrant agency reut.rs/3RAEPbK
ICYMI — Fox Guest Sid Rosenberg advocates for “total annihilation” of Iran and boots on the ground if necessary Unhinged stuff piped into the brains of millions of angry older white people Fox is poison
This is my goal here: Cultivate joy, vengefully. 💜
Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 2w agoI hope every day you all are trying to cultivate joy. A kindness to a neighbor. A long walk. Poetry. Birdwatching. Meditation. Being silly and playing peekaboo in a checkout line with a cute baby. These are dark times, and joy is something the bastards cannot take from us. Fight for it.
This is exactly what I run into with conspiracy theorists — a stray, unverified claim gets treated as if it debunks the real story, and it almost always falls apart under scrutiny. Wild to hear that pattern showing up at 60 Minutes as Cecilia Vega describes it.
Empathy is a powerful skill, and it's good for people and society. Having empathy does NOT mean you have to accept someone's behavior or actions. But understanding them can lead to good things. www.economist.com/united-state...
How the American right came to hate empathy
…while practising its oldest form
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Astonishing. RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist. In an 8-6 vote with all 8 votes coming from these new panel members, the panel approved 4 peptides against the objections of FDA scientists.
FDA Panel Supports Lifting Restrictions on Four Peptides (Gift Article)
In an all-day hearing, the agency’s scientists argued against allowing broad access to unproven drugs that the agency had banned three years ago.
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Ten years later, sweaty and slurring, he's still promising a health care plan he's never delivered on. Instead, Americans got the highest health care costs ever and hospitals laying off staff or shutting down entirely. All thanks to Trump's health care sabotage & Medicaid cuts.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoTrump: "We will pass the great healthcare plan. It's called our great healthcare plan. That's the name of it."
Some great insights here - worth a read! "People rarely change because they’ve been humiliated into agreement. They change because they’ve been shown a better way."
Melissa & Chris Bruntlett@modacitylife.com · 2w ago"Gentle advocacy believes lasting change is more likely to emerge from inspiration than indignation. People are more willing to embrace a new future when they clearly see themselves in it. And showing what's possible is more effective than endlessly cataloguing what's wrong." READ: bit.ly/4wkWIuf
The Army is scaling back the legal resources it offers soldiers going through the disability evaluation process, limiting the support they'll receive as review boards determine whether they are fit to serve or should receive medical retirement benefits. From Stars and Stripes' Rose L. Thayer:
Army scales back legal services for soldiers in disability evaluation process
The disability evaluation process determines whether soldiers can continue to serve or whether they should receive medical retirement benefits.
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