Tim

Liberal in Ohio. Masters Public Administration, My takes, sources, arguing for the truth.

[Tim @TimMOhio]

CNN, Politico, and others filed a First Amendment suit over press access. That is a court case, not a vibe. Hard-pass fights are not the same thing as the old photo-pool fight.

[Tim @TimMOhio]

This is rich! First Lady Trump, grants CNN press access to an event. I guess she gave the president the finger.

[Tim @TimMOhio]

They weren’t secretly drenching your kale in farm pesticides.
ProduceMaxx is an EPA-registered antimicrobial dilute hypochlorous acid (a chlorine compound) used in grocery misting systems to kill E. coli, Salmonella, and Listeria and keep produce from rotting. Same class of sanitizer used throughout the produce supply chain. Not Roundup. Not a field insecticide.

[Tim @TimMOhio]

@azcincy821 @SherrodBrown Democrats are no more communist than Republicans are fascist.

[Tim @TimMOhio]

When Washington politicians talk about economic growth, @SherrodBrown talks about the people who actually build it.
​For decades, Sherrod’s "Dignity of Work" mindset hasn't been a campaign catchphrase it’s been an action plan for Ohio. He brought historic chip manufacturing back to Central Ohio through the CHIPS Act, passed the Butch Lewis Act to restore hard-earned pensions for over 100,000 Ohio workers, and stood shoulder-to-shoulder with East Palestine to demand real freight rail safety standards.
​Whether it’s fighting for veterans under the PACT Act or keeping Ohio steel on American job sites through Buy America provisions, Sherrod Brown always puts the Ohio worker first. That’s why he’s earned our vote.

[Tim @TimMOhio]

Quoting "nonpublic forum" rules backfires completely.
​A "nonpublic forum" means the government can set reasonable boundaries on time and safety it does NOT mean the government gets to censor opposition.
​The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that viewpoint discrimination is illegal in every forum public, limited, or nonpublic. If the executive branch lets friendly outlets into a press brief but bars critical ones, that isn't "managing a restricted space" it is state-mandated political censorship masquerading as administration.

[Tim @TimMOhio]

The DOJ is about to prove it isn't evidence it's a promise to produce evidence later because none exists right now.
​We have dozens of state-level audits, strict federal citizenship laws, and comprehensive data reviews. Every single deep-dive investigation finds the exact same thing: non-citizens voting is extraordinarily rare because nobody is risking a felony conviction, prison time, and immediate deportation just to cast one illegal ballot.
​If you're confident in this claim: Show us the data. What is the official count of non-citizens who actually voted in the last election? Give us the case numbers, the state audit reports, or the DOJ court docs.

[Tim @TimMOhio]

Hey, curious, doesn't this description completely misrepresents basic immunology and tissue biology.
​First, I didn't think muscle injections were designed to stay isolated like a sealed box they interact directly with your lymphatic system. I also thought the vast majority of lipid nanoparticles stayed at the injection site or drained into local lymph nodes, where dendritic cells and macrophages pick them up to generate antibodies.
​Second, I didn't know immune cells went on a "random cell execution spree." Antigen-presenting cells express the protein locally to train T-cells and B-cells. Don't trace amounts that reach circulation get rapidly cleared by the liver, not randomly fusing with brain or cardiac tissue?

[Tim @TimMOhio]

Absolutely @funder ! Calling 760,000 Americans "frauds" to justify stripping their healthcare is an outrage.
​When the government wants to cut costs, it doesn't go after corporate price-gouging by private insurance execs it removes hundreds of thousands of working families from public exchanges.
​In a country where healthcare is already overwhelmingly expensive, using "fraud" as a blanket excuse to throw families off coverage is pure political cruelty. November is the time to vote out anyone who views healthcare as a privilege to be revoked rather than a basic right.

[Tim @TimMOhio]

The New York Post is a tabloid in both format and style: compact pages, screaming headlines, Page Six gossip, and a consistent conservative editorial slant under News Corp. You may as well get your news from the National Enquirer. But, even The New York Post is protected by the US constitution.

[Keith E. Roberts @BIGHAAS15]

Smart. Get out while you can.

[Tim @TimMOhio]

Resorting to primary-school name-calling ("weird," "dangerous," "socialist") is what happens when you can't defend your record on healthcare, jobs, or wages.
​Labeling doctors who treat public health crises and loggers who fight corporate monopolies as "people who want a different country" is classic fearmongering. ​Voters aren't rejecting opposition because it's "weird." They're rejecting politicians who pretend that standing up for working people, union jobs, and healthcare access is somehow un-American.

[Tim @TimMOhio]

Narcan is a first-aid kit for an overdose, not a border policy.
​Suggesting that giving communities access to life-saving medication "fixes" or "creates" the crisis is like saying fire extinguishers cause arson.
​Every major health agency in America backs free Narcan and test strips because they save lives. If your response to 1,800 drug deaths is to criticize the tools keeping people alive, you don't care about solving the crisis you just want someone to be a scapegoat.

[Tim @TimMOhio]

@Bildoe1173861 @glennbeck Try writing a coherent sentence.

[Tim @TimMOhio]

Resorting to "sounds like you got the clot shot" is a textbook ad hominem attack when you can't address the actual argument.
​Peer reviewers don't get paid off by secret funds to review board credentials they are independent doctors and researchers verifying whether clinical claims are backed by reproducible data.
​If your entire medical theory relies on trusting a single disgraced, uncredentialed ex-doctor while dismissing the entire global consensus as a paid conspiracy, that isn't critical thinking it's pure ignorance.

[Tim @TimMOhio]

@carolgrif3 @glennbeck Who gets to decide what's truthful, the politicians?

[Tim @TimMOhio]

Replacing independent press access with "TRUMP TV" is the exact mechanism of state-run media.
​Revoke access for critical news outlets.
​Force the TV press pool to go dark.
​Launch a 24/7 White House run channel to control the narrative.
​Independent journalism exists to audit power. When the government controls the feed, edits the clips, and bans the reporters asking hard questions, it isn't an "alternative news source" it's state propaganda.

[Tim @TimMOhio]

Intentional division and sensationalism aren't grounds for state censorship that’s the whole point of a free press.
​The Constitution was specifically designed so that politicians don't get to draw the line between "valid reporting" and "stirring the pot." If an administration could silence journalists simply because their coverage was divisive or provocative, every opposition voice, whistleblower, and investigative reporter in American history would have been banned.
​You don't protect free speech by giving the government a power-switch over tone and motive.

[Tim @TimMOhio]

White House press credentials aren't "social invitations" they are governed by federal constitutional law.
Slurs and party insults don't change the law: the President is a public servant working in a taxpayer-funded building, and the First Amendment bars the government from using access credentials as a reward for sycophancy or a weapon against critics.

[Tim @TimMOhio]

Free speech is guaranteed, unless it's reckless." Read that back. That "unless" completely destroys the guarantee.
Who gets to define what counts as "reckless" or "inviting violence"? The politician in power? If you give the government the authority to silence speech it deems "dangerous," every single opposition voice will be labeled "reckless" overnight. The First Amendment exists specifically to stop officials from using "safety" as an excuse to shut down critics.

[Tim @TimMOhio]

Oh I see. First, courts routinely dismiss these massive defamation suits against news outlets for failing to meet basic legal standards like actual malice.
Second, civil litigation is deliberately thorough precisely because proving libel requires due process.
The Constitution created independent courts to resolve legal claims so that a President couldn't unilaterally declare reporting "fake," play judge and jury, and strip press access by executive decree. Bypassing the judicial process because it's "too slow" is the literal definition of replacing the rule of law with executive overreach.

[Tim @TimMOhio]

@CCfroba @glennbeck Censorship doesn't start by banning everyone at once; it starts by making an example of a select few.
​The First Amendment doesn't say "the government can ban some media outlets as long as it isn't all of them.

[Tim @TimMOhio]

Air Force One press pools and White House briefings aren’t "VIP perks" they are standard, decades old logistical infrastructure that allows journalists to cover the executive branch in real time.
​When an administration selectively strips access from outlets that publish critical coverage while keeping favorable outlets on board, it uses state logistics as a weapon to reward obedience and punish dissent.
​You don't have to lock reporters in jail to execute state censorship. Mandating that journalists must compliment the administration to retain equal access is coercion, plain and simple.