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FallsMom 🌻<p>A trio of appeals court judges upheld the convictions of former <a href="https://mastodon.coffee/tags/Ohio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ohio</span></a> House Speaker Larry Householder and ex-Ohio Republican Party Chairman Matt Borges. Householder is serving 20 years in federal prison; Borges is serving five.</p><p>"There was ample evidence for the jury to conclude that Householder solicited and received millions of dollars from <a href="https://mastodon.coffee/tags/FirstEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstEnergy</span></a> in return for passing and then preserving bailout legislation"</p><p><a href="https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/06/appeals-court-upholds-housholder-borges-convictions-in-bribery-case/81149473007/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dispatch.com/story/news/politi</span><span class="invisible">cs/2025/05/06/appeals-court-upholds-housholder-borges-convictions-in-bribery-case/81149473007/</span></a></p>
Columbus - Feeds<a href="https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/central-ohio-news/balloon-release-impact-power-outages/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Balloons cause safety risks, power outages across Ohio - Stephanie Thompson</a> #CentralOhioNews #LocalNews #News #911 #Balloons #Firstenergy #Nextdoor #OhioEdison #Overheadwires #Penetrationoftheballoonscoating #PowerOutages
Columbus - Feeds<a href="https://fox8.com/news/statehouse-effort-to-repeal-hb6-moving-forward/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Statehouse effort to repeal HB6 moving forward - Natalie Fahmy</a>
Walt Baldwin<p>“The Dark Money Game” shines a spotlight on FirstEnergy’s bribes-for-bailouts scheme in Ohio just days after President Trump revived a failed push to use federal emergency powers to bail out coal-fired power plants that FirstEnergy lobbied for extensively during Trump’s first term. </p><p>FirstEnergy secretly paid $60 million to 501(c)(4) Generation Now that plead guilty to racketeering in 2021.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.energy/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.energy/tags/EnergyMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.energy/tags/Ohio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ohio</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.energy/tags/Lycan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lycan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.energy/tags/EnergyTransition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyTransition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.energy/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Corruption</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.energy/tags/FirstEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstEnergy</span></a></p><p><a href="https://energyandpolicy.org/hbo-the-dark-money-game-firstenergy/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">energyandpolicy.org/hbo-the-da</span><span class="invisible">rk-money-game-firstenergy/</span></a></p>
MotorizedVehicleHegemony<p>Very important fact being left out of the story.</p><p><a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/firstenergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>firstenergy</span></a> bribed Larry and many other Republicans who didn&#39;t get caught for one reason:</p><p>Destroy alternative energy momentum in Ohio.</p><p>First Energy is just another piece of shit murdering corporation which will suffer no consequences whatsoever</p><p><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/former-ohio-house-speaker-convicted-60m-bribery-scheme-rcna74227#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&amp;aoh=16783980377544&amp;csi=0&amp;referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp;ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcnews.com%2Fpolitics%2Fpolitics-news%2Fformer-ohio-house-speaker-convicted-60m-bribery-scheme-rcna74227" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nbcnews.com/politics/politics-</span><span class="invisible">news/former-ohio-house-speaker-convicted-60m-bribery-scheme-rcna74227#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&amp;aoh=16783980377544&amp;csi=0&amp;referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp;ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcnews.com%2Fpolitics%2Fpolitics-news%2Fformer-ohio-house-speaker-convicted-60m-bribery-scheme-rcna74227</span></a></p>
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