someguyincleveland
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someguyincleveland
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I'm just some guy in Cleveland.
A) You ordered your people to murder someone and they did it.
B) You run an organization in which everyone knows you wanted someone to be murdered, and it was carried out.

If I'm your lawyer or juror, I will work hard to distinguish A from B.

I am neither your lawyer nor your juror.
December 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM
It is irresponsible to repeatedly believe people who are obviously full of shit.
I'll go further and say we need "It is irresponsible to repeatedly believe people who are obviously full of shit" to apply to voters as well. The "flood the zone with shit" people aren't winning with any specific bit of misinfo, but create a *permission structure* for believing it
November 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I remember when Cleveland cops teargassed a peaceful crowd after falsely claiming the crowd had *set the Justice Center on fire* and was in the midst of breaking people out of the onsite jail.

They faced no consequences at all for the lies and unprovoked violence.
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.

I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
November 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Reposted by someguyincleveland
It’s pretty simple.

When you do a huge armed midnight raid on an apartment building rounding up and terrorizing children and later find out there were no criminals there everyone involved resigns in shame and we have loud showy Congressional hearings.
November 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Reposted by someguyincleveland
I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.

On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...
Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something
On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.
www.the-reframe.com
October 5, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Reposted by someguyincleveland
Now is the best time, maybe ever, to learn the history of racism. This article on a brilliant new new effort to surface the racist 'relay' school policy in Cleveland is outstanding.

signalcleveland.org/cleveland-sc...
August 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
You know what's not mentioned in the article even once?

Meetings.
Grant proposals.
Strategic plans.

Helsinki DID THE THING instead of talking about the thing.

Cleveland is doing its first "quick build street improvements" now, 2½ years into its ten-year Vision Zero plan.

#nomoremeetings
“Helsinki has not recorded a single traffic fatality in the past 12 months, city and police officials confirmed this week.”

City engineer credits lower speed limits and smart design.

I agree. #Helsinki #VisionZero
Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death
A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.
yle.fi
July 31, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Notably not on the list: big real estate projects.

Cleveland take note. Social problems call for social solutions.
July 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM