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The Ohio Supreme Court suspended Sandusky County Judge Jon Ickes from practicing law for two years on Wednesday. Off the bench immediately. No pay. He's still on the November ballot for a new term.

His stepson is a detective who worked cases on his docket, and he didn't recuse himself. One was a man charged with raping an 18-month-old. The appeals court threw out the conviction, and the victim went through a second trial.

For eight months he called that case by a rude and disgusting nickname. We're not repeating it. It's in the court's opinion if you want to see what a sitting judge called the rape of a toddler.

He texted staff jokes from the bench during that trial. He told a pregnant employee to wait for the "titty fairy," and when she told him to stop, asked if they could talk about the "butt fairy" instead.

There's more. A racial slur he says was a movie quote, said within earshot of a Black defendant who then had to ask for a different judge. Calling a Black probation secretary "Boris." Firing a Nerf gun at staff in the courtroom with defendants present. Telling a probation officer who'd overdosed on airborne fentanyl and hit her head that she was a "dumbass" for not testifying.

All of it was public before the primary. Republicans didn't care. He's still the Republican nominee in November, and Ohio judicial races are nonpartisan, so the ballot doesn't have the R next to his name. We think that's wrong, as voters need to know, so we're making sure this story is well publicized.

Ramaswamy's super PAC put Amy Acton's childhood sexual abuse on TV twice, where she was the victim, not the perpetrator. Max Miller is still on Ramaswamy's endorsement page. Rodney Creech is the nominee in HD-40. Now this.

Seems like in Ohio, the accused get to stay on the ballot. Every time, the survivor is the one on trial.

Reporting by Jen Ziegler: https://tiffinohio.net/posts/ohio-supreme-court-suspends-judge-jon-ickes-two-years/

MAX MILLER TACO'D back in the fall, too! We almost forgot!

Back on October 9, 2025, State Rep. Mike Dovilla held his 9th Oktoberfest at Hofbräuhaus Cleveland. The flyer billed two guests, Ohio Treasurer Robert Sprague and Congressman Max Miller. Tickets were $75. Contribution levels ran up to $5,000.

We announced a rapid response outside. Miller posted this before the doors opened:

"Sorry to disappoint but the House was supposed to be in session so I declined the event. Maybe you paid protestors can stay warm at home and call Leader Schumer to end the shutdown"

Here's what the House was actually doing that week. It hadn't conducted legislative business since September 19th. Speaker Johnson had sent everyone home before the shutdown even started, then canceled another week, and another, until the House had been out for 54 days. Republican Rep. Kevin Kiley said there was absolutely no reason for the House to be out of session and called it embarrassing.

The post did not go the way he planned. 217 comments, and the same answer over and over from people in his own district. One of them: "No one is paying us. We hate you for free."

Ed FitzGerald showed up in the thread too. Former FBI special agent on the organized crime task force in Chicago, former assistant county prosecutor, former mayor, former Cuyahoga County Executive, and at the time a declared candidate in the 7th District. His comment: "I've been to some of the protests. Can we pick up our checks at your office? Also, town hall?"

The "paid" protestors showed up anyway, with flags, homemade signs, and letter boards that spelled MAX TACO'D on Chester Avenue in front of the Hofbrauhaus. We held our large signs saying WE'RE NOT VIOLENT - ICE IS VIOLENT, GOP PROTECTS PEDOPHILES, and NO TROOPS IN OUR STREETS on the other side of the street. Nobody got a check. We were reimbursed with the smell of bratwurst and cars honking support.

We came back on July 24th for the Cuyahoga County GOP picnic at Brecksville Reservation. We kept that one quiet and he had no idea we were coming. We had a sign with arrows pointing in saying PEDOPHILE PROTECTOR PARTY PICNIC, and two more, saying MAX MILLER'S IN HOT WATER and WE'LL REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER. On August 3rd we put NO MORE MILLER - NO MORE CREECH up on a bridge in Cleveland.

August 10th was supposed to be a Strongsville GOP rally with Max Miller and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna at The Barn at Mapleside in Brunswick. Taco'd. Chickened out. Sir Max Miller bravely ran away. Chairman Shannon Burns cited "the number and nature" of threats received and never said how many or what they were. Brunswick's police chief told Ideastream his department "has not received or been made aware of any threats surrounding the event." The Plain Dealer reported that Medina County law enforcement knew nothing about them either.

Almost a year of this, with a new excuse every time. One of his constituents chimed in: "Truth is you decline all events where you face your constituents."

One of our followers read the Strongsville GOP statement and interpreted it for everyone accurately. Their words were "after consultation with law enforcement." Her translation: the cops explained that what the Burning River Brigade does is entirely legal.

The Cook Political Report had this seat Solid Republican in May and Likely Republican in June. On August 10th, the day the deadline to replace him passed, they moved it to Toss Up. Brian Poindexter for Congress faces Miller on November 3rd. A Republican pollster put Poindexter at +14.

He's still listed on Vivek Ramaswamy's endorsements page under Ohio Congressional Delegation. Rodney Creech was taken off that same page within 48 hours of abuse reporting in April and never came back. Miller's name has survived a House Ethics investigation, both Ohio Republican senators telling him to go, and his ex-father-in-law calling him unfit. TiffinOhio.net laid the whole pattern out yesterday, including a pro-Ramaswamy super PAC that twice put Amy Acton's childhood sexual abuse on Ohio television.

We'll keep showing up. You should come. Bring a flag. Max will keep chickening out until he loses in November.

His post is still up, 217 comments and counting: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BifzywYc6/

TiffinOhio reporting - https://tiffinohio.net/posts/ramaswamy-silent-miller-abuse-attacks-acton-abuse-ads/

Ideastream on the canceled Brunswick rally: https://www.ideastream.org/government-politics/2026-08-07/strongsville-gop-cancels-max-miller-rally-due-to-alleged-threats-as-constituents-voice-concerns

The motorcade came first, then the choppers.

Unclear if one was a decoy, or simply the rest of he entourage showing up.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/protesters-gather-president-trump-ne-222124043.html

https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/protesters-gather-president-trump-ne-221552106.html

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A Formal Apology

When we (Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge, not us) compared Stephen Miller to a defective buttplug, we meant no offense whatsoever to defective buttplugs. In retrospect, the comparison was reckless, unfair, and potentially damaging to the reputation of an entire category of consumer products that, despite occasional manufacturing deficiencies, generally enter the world hoping to provide some measure of happiness.

A defective buttplug did not choose to be defective. Perhaps there was a problem at the factory. Perhaps quality control was having an off day. Perhaps somebody at the silicone plant was distracted. Whatever happened, the defective buttplug remains fundamentally innocent. It has no political ideology. It has never advocated mass deportations. It has never stood behind a podium and announced that human beings it dislikes look “deformed.” It has never gone on television to speculate about another man’s testosterone levels. It has never attempted to determine who belongs in America. It is simply a poorly manufactured object trying to make its way through an unforgiving world.

We must also address another comparison that has appeared in these pages: that Stephen Miller looks like what would happen if you buried a dildo in a Pet Sematary and it crawled out of the ground three nights later wearing a suit and demanding to see everyone’s immigration papers.

Again, we got carried away.

We meant no disrespect to dildos.

Dildos have been loyal companions to humanity for thousands of years. They ask remarkably little of us. They do not develop immigration policy. They do not accuse Senate candidates of producing soy milk instead of blood. Most importantly, they generally understand that if nobody wants them around, they should not force themselves into the situation.

That alone represents a level of respect for consent and personal boundaries that makes comparison with Stephen Miller difficult to defend.

We also owe an apology to pet cemeteries.

A pet cemetery is a solemn place where people bury creatures they loved. Even the fictional Pet Sematary, despite its unfortunate record of reanimating the dead, cannot reasonably be blamed for Stephen Miller. Frankly, accusing a supernatural burial ground invented by Stephen King of producing Stephen Miller feels like assigning it responsibility for something far beyond the horrors contemplated in the original novel.

The dead came back wrong in Pet Sematary.

They did not come back as White House deputy chiefs of staff.

There are limits.

So we regret the comparisons. Defective buttplugs deserve better. Dildos deserve better. Pet cemeteries deserve better. The entire sex-toy industry deserves better. Somewhere right now, an irregularly molded piece of clearance-bin silicone is sitting quietly on a warehouse shelf, having harmed absolutely nobody, wondering what the fuck it ever did to deserve being mentioned in the same paragraph as Stephen Miller.

Nothing.

It did nothing.

And we apologize.— feeling sorry.

The Strongsville GOP cancelled Monday's rally with Max Miller and Anna Paulina Luna and blamed threats and intimidation.

Burning River Brigade condemns threats against anyone, including people we oppose. Nobody in this country should be afraid to attend a political event.

We feel the need to make this statement, because we had planned to be outside that event.

We stand on public sidewalks. We hold letter boards. We hand out flyers, business cards and bumper stickers to anyone who wants one. We block nothing and touch no one.

At the Republican picnic in Brecksville, our volunteers spent the afternoon on public ground and talked at length with Metroparks police. Ask them how it went. We have done this at bridges and events across Northeast Ohio for 15 months and the record is the same every time.

We also didn't know until today that Indivisible Strongsville had a sidewalk protest planned for 5:30 and 8:30. They published it openly in advance, same as we operate. They're good people and they protest like we do. PEACEFULLY!

Whoever made threats, if threats were made, did not do it on our behalf and did us no favors. Intimidation is the opposite of what we do. It hands people a reason to stop listening, and listening is the whole point.

Here's the truth about the campaign. Max Miller is down 14 points to Brian Poindexter in a Republican pollster's own survey, 47 to 33, after the same firm had it at 5 points three weeks ago. Both of Ohio's Republican senators have said he should not serve. He missed the deadline for a special primary. Monday is the last day his party can replace him on the ballot at all.

Our guess is he will be announcing his withdrawal today. Deadline for a new candidate is on Monday. In any case, his campaign is finished, hence: ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST!

We will keep showing up. On sidewalks, on bridges, in daylight, without fear. We're the Burning River Brigade!

The event writeup, with the protest times, published before any of this:

https://coolcleveland.com/2026/08/cong-max-miller-speaks-in-brunswick-in-support-of-voter-suppression-go-or-protest/

The cancellation, NBC News:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-blanche-congress-2026-blackburn-ogles-iran-live-updates-rcna591264/rcrd118438?canonicalCard=true

To those that celebrate, Happy Chairteenth Day!!!

Three years ago today, a Black man asked some people to move their boat and got beaten up. Our court system made him a defendant after one of his attackers filed a private assault complaint against him that took six weeks from his peace.

August 5, 2023. The Harriott II was coming back to Montgomery with 227 passengers aboard and couldn't dock, because private pontoon boats were sitting in its reserved slip. The crew spent about 45 minutes calling out over the PA. Police Chief Darryl Albert said what they got back was obscene gestures, curse words and taunting.

Co-captain Dameion Pickett and a 16-year-old deckhand went ashore and moved the boat themselves. A group of white boaters attacked both of them. Bystanders came in to help, and for a while, a folding chair became the most famous piece of furniture in America.

Four people were charged with assaulting Pickett and the teenager. Every police account listed Pickett as a victim.

October 26, Zachery Shipman, one of the men who attacked him, filed a private assault complaint against Pickett. Alabama lets a private citizen do that and have a magistrate issue a summons. Pickett found out from social media. Officials had announced every other charge in the case and never announced this one.

Mayor Steven Reed and Chief Albert put out a joint statement on November 9 saying neither the city nor the police department filed it, and that their own investigation listed Pickett only as a victim. Shipman's own trial was three weeks away when he filed.

That charge sat on Pickett for six weeks. It was dropped December 8, the same day Shipman pleaded guilty.

NO MORE MILLER - NO MORE CREECH

Max Miller and Rodney Creech need to lose their elections this November, and lose them bigly.

On August 2, Congressman Max Miller's former father-in-law, Senator Bernie Moreno (R-OH), finally said he shouldn't be in Congress, writing in part:

> "Out of concern for the safety of my family, I hoped to keep this matter private but Max Miller's increasingly erratic and dangerous behavior has made that impossible. As he has admitted privately, Max Miller needs serious psychological help. He is a danger to my daughter, and I hold my breath every minute he has custody of my granddaughter. > > If there are any basic standards of character required to hold elected office, Max Miller fails them. He should not serve in the House of Representatives."

On July 30, Emily Moreno asked a Cuyahoga County judge to bar Miller from contacting her attorney, Andrew Zashin, alleging Miller put his hands on him at a hearing. In her sworn affidavit she says Miller's own lawyer told the court his client "just can't control himself." Miller denies all of the allegations and no criminal charge has been filed against him in connection with any of them.

State Representative Rodney Creech (Ohio House District 40) told BCI investigators he had gotten into bed with a minor relative in his underwear. He denied the sexual nature of the allegations and was never charged. Speaker Matt Huffman asked him to resign. He refused, and the Ohio GOP endorsed him anyway.

In April, his own daughter posted publicly about a campaign flyer he mailed out using pictures of his children, "whom he has not contacted or seen in years." She wrote that his children "felt threatened and reported his disturbing behavior over the past couple of years," and that this is "another reason why this individual is not suitable for public office."

Both men were pushed to step aside by prominent members of their own party. Both refused. Both deny the accusations. Now it's up to voters.

Ohio has options. Brian Poindexter for Congress is running against Max Miller in OH-7. Citizens for Hornbacker (Timothy Hornbacker) is running against Rodney Creech in Ohio House District 40.

Choose wisely in November.

Sources

Moreno's statement and Miller's denial, AP via PBS:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/sen-bernie-moreno-says-former-son-in-law-max-miller-should-not-serve-in-the-house

Creech's own account to BCI investigators and Huffman's resignation request, Statehouse News Bureau:

https://www.statenews.org/government-politics/2025-05-14/ohio-house-lawmaker-told-to-resign-over-sexual-abuse-allegations

This is Congressman Max Miller

April 22, 2011. Miami University Police Department, Oxford, Ohio. He crashed his car into a light pole on campus and was charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated. He told police he'd had "two to three beers and several shots" the night before and "woke up in urine." His blood alcohol came back under the legal limit and he pleaded down to a misdemeanor for failing to control the car. His attorney said at the time that a blood test "conclusively established that Mr. Miller was not impaired."

This month, Mother Jones obtained toxicology reports from that same crash showing MDMA and Klonopin in his system.

That's the last time he's known to have been charged with a crime. What came before and after is in more than 2,000 pages of court filings and police reports Mother Jones obtained through public records requests.

His ex-wife Emily Moreno, daughter of Senator Bernie Moreno, alleges in filings that he threw hot water on her, shoved her into a wall, and held a gun to her head. Miller denies being physically or emotionally abusive. In a recording Miller himself released to defend his name, he says of the water, "I never thought that that hurt you" and "It was never done to hurt you with intent."

Stephanie Grisham, Trump's former White House press secretary, wrote in 2021 that Miller "got physical" with her while they were dating. Miller sued her for defamation, then withdrew it after they settled. She sued him again on July 7 for allegedly breaking that settlement.

Asked under oath whether he pushed a girl down a flight of stairs in high school, whether he was expelled from college over violence against a female student, and whether he left his wife within 72 hours of their daughter's birth, Miller neither confirmed nor denied. His lawyer objected on relevance.

He is running for a third term. The nonpartisan Cook Political Report just moved his race from Solid Republican to Likely Republican, and a recent poll has him ahead of Democrat Brian Poindexter by 1 point.

Reporting indicates that the 2011 crash wasn't his first brush with the law.

A 2021 Politico Magazine profile, along with reporting from the Washington Post and Washington Examiner, documented a string of court cases before he ever ran for office:

2007. Charged with assault, disorderly conduct, and resisting arrest. According to police records, he punched a man in the back of the head and ran from police. He pleaded no contest to two misdemeanors, and the case was later dismissed through a first-offender program.

2008. Charged with underage drinking. Later dismissed under a first-offender program.

2009. Cited for criminal mischief after a late-night altercation in Cleveland Heights involving a smashed glass door outside a hookah bar. He pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct.

He has called these "youthful mistakes."

Sources: Politico Magazine, The Washington Post, Washington Examiner.

https://abcnews.com/Politics/ohio-rep-max-millers-reelection-bid-faces-questions/story?id=135248226

If ICE followed due process, and were targeting actual dangerous criminals instead of hardworking people just trying to find a new life, we wouldn't care.

This is not what's happening. A coalition of many groups are attending, we are one of them.

Show up, stand up against cowards in masks.

We have peacekeepers to stop any counterprotestors trying to instigate anything and make us look bad. Police will be on hand.

The best bet is short term parking at the airport for $3

https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/politics/2026/07/28/akron-canton-airport-hub-ice-deportation-flights/91066519007/