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I keep seeing people say Musk “failed” in his government takeover. No, he did not fail. He shut down investigations into his businesses, he garnered huge contracts, and he stole the personal data of everyone in the US. That’s not a “failure.” This motherfucker won, and won big.

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IOWA: “It is a complete pleasure to hear somebody speak in complete sentences.” Pete Buttigieg gets a rousing Ovation at the #VoteVetsTownHall 👏🏽

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First words by Pope Leo XIV: “Peace be with you all.” “This is the first greetings of the resurrected Christ, the good shepherd who has given up his life for God. And I should also like this greeting of peace to enter our hearts and our families.”

submitted 25 days ago • 15 comments

www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

We know exactly how you feel, Carney.

submitted 27 days ago • 1260 comments

100 billionaire families spent $2.6 billion in the 2024 election. 70% of these donations went to Republicans. Now, Trump and the GOP are gutting the FEC — which enforces campaign finance and anti-corruption laws. See how this works?

submitted 30 days ago • 55 comments

Anyone trying to drag us away from this, this miracle of help, is in a cult of death

submitted 37 days ago • 22 comments

The Iowa State Texans

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“Humanities degrees are useless” is propaganda that’s had the effect of convincing a whole generation that reading and critical thinking skills were unimportant. Now we’re reaping the results with mass illiteracy and a public eager to embrace conspiracy theories and fascism.

submitted 38 days ago • 5 comments

I'm sorry I know there's a lot going on but how are we not screaming about Ron DeSantis stealing $10 million from Medicaid and the money ending up with pro-DeSantis superPACs, funneled through a charity run by his wife? HOW IS THIS NOT NATIONAL NEWS? www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

submitted 40 days ago • 193 comments

US 7-point “peace plan” presented in London: 1 Crimea is 🇷🇺 2 End hostilities at front line 3 🇺🇸 lifts all sanctions against 🇷🇺 4 Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant will be transferred to 🇺🇸. 🇺🇸 begins energy cooperation with 🇷🇺 5 No sec guarantees from 🇺🇸 6 🇺🇦 will not join NATO 7 Minerals deal to be signed

submitted 40 days ago • 423 comments

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” -Maya Angelou

submitted 52 days ago • 8 comments

👀 Kim Reynolds will NOT run for governor next year, she announced this morning on Twitter: x.com/KimReynoldsI... one day after this poll dropped btw pro.morningconsult.com/trackers/gov...

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

Soybeans…sigh. And China with wheat and corn. Hope Grassley manages to pass the Congressional brakes on tariffs.

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This is high art

submitted 56 days ago • 545 comments

Wistfully reading all of Mark Carney’s posts (in English AND French!) and longing for this Canadian dream. Welp, back to work…

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Control and management of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve has been turned over by the DOE to a company with virtually no history: Strategic Storage Partners, LLC, with the U.S. Government paying $1.4 billion or $280 million every year to have it managed. 😳🤔

submitted 59 days ago • 117 comments

The US’ entire existence is predicated on the best people from other places coming here to either make their fortunes or at least find safety in a place that guaranteed liberty and justice for all. If it doesn’t do these things then what is it? What is America? Nothing.

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Good news, Iowa library folks: both HF 521 & 880 are dead. No more bills trying to defund libraries or censor our materials. 📚

submitted 58 days ago • 2 comments

The Golden Gate Bridge. It was about here on my walk that I started laughing like a crazy person thinking about onshoring a factory in a hurry. I’ve helped build and ramp a line for heavy equipment. It takes years to get right. This is fucking madness by men who’ve never owned steel tipped boots

submitted 58 days ago • 16 comments

“Did it work? Anyone? Anyone know the effects? It did not work”

submitted 58 days ago • 95 comments

The degree to which people romanticize farming is inversely proportional to their degree of actual proximity to farming and farmers This is basically a mathematical law

submitted 58 days ago • 315 comments

Smart strategic move: "Maersk of Denmark just bought the railway connecting the Panama Canal's two ports"

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Gotta wonder how these tariffs don't entirely torpedo the AI boom. The chips, the stuff for building data centers, and then the fact that once you get it in a data center the chip immediately starts losing you money. This shit was already pretty stupid, I can't see how this goes on. What a mess.

submitted 59 days ago • 65 comments

“Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold…” William Butler Yeats Ladies & gentleman, we are living inside the poem. #poetry #MedSky 🛟

submitted 60 days ago • 8 comments

Shannan Martin is one of my favorite authors; I especially love her reminder that the small things we do are never really that small. Read her on Substack, or her books Start with Hello or The Ministry of Ordinary Places. open.substack.com/pub/shannanm...

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I can't emphasize enough how stupid and self-destructive this law is. Many of America's greatest scientific advances have come from scholars escaping repression from hostile countries. Our freedom is our competitive advantage. We are throwing that away. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 65 days ago • 83 comments

Maybe there is something in the air right now bc courage can be contagious. Big ups to Gov Janet Mills and ME state officials for not bowing down to Trump. They are not phonies like Susan “Concerned” Collins. #MEPolitics #NoKing

submitted 66 days ago • 4 comments

For more insight into the tectonic background of today’s M7.7 #earthquake in Myanmar I’d recommend this blog post and the original article on extrusion tectonics. There is also a video hiding somewhere on YouTube that illustrates this experiment perfectly. 🧪⚒️ blogs.egu.eu/divisions/ts...

submitted 66 days ago • 5 comments