Just in NIH grants, It looks like beautiful Iowa City, home of the U of Iowa, will lose $71m in funding. That's almost $1k per resident. And that's before all the other cuts to SSA, FDA, etc.
Anyone in Iowa City that can offer more insight?
https://scienceimpacts.org/
H/T to Prathima !
Anyone in Iowa City that can offer more insight?
https://scienceimpacts.org/
H/T to Prathima !
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https://thirdact.org/act/handsoff/
I left the state many years ago, and I'm glad I did. Iowa is taking a huge step backward.
https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-health-watch/michigan-universities-would-lose-millions-if-trump-caps-research-costs
To them, job training in the only worthwhile pursuit. Engineering would be the closet they get to any abstraction from direct job training, unless its indoctrination at Liberty U or Grand Canyon U. Or grift, like Trump U
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2024/07/11/how-project-2025-could-radically-reshape-higher-ed
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/iowa-president-results
They fucked around and found out, so hopefully next time they will cherish their vote and cast it carefully
They were warned
It's obvious Iowa wanted him, and now they have their wish
I was born & raised in Iowa City Iowa
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Back then Iowa was a Blue state
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My mother set up the 1st commission for civil rights under Governor Hughes.
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It amazes me how far Iowa has fallen😥.
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I'm so happy I moved to Washington State,
A Blue state.💙
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Cuz of that I think WA "might" survive.
Congrats on moving, I guess. Not an option for a lot of us. 🤷♂️
I had no idea that it would devolve so quickly,
But,
I was lucky cuz I got out early.
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I'm enormously lucky that I was raised in Iowa City cuz it was then
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STILL is an oasis
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The bluest of BLUE amongst the red counties in Iowa.💙
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I received a wonderful education there as I grew up.🎓
https://www.project2025.observer/
Gun nuts, anti-abortion/antivaxx/liberal/gay/environment/racist.
I ran a couple of races at Veenker and hung there a few times in college, so I have some memories of Ames, too.
Very happy to be allied on the important issues. (but yeah, also a big Hawkeyes fan)
But the FAFO phenomenon is very accurate in many other cases, yes.
You say that when people by and large voted for Trump, and people in Iowa City by and large voted for Harris (and always go Dem at about a 70-30 rate).
This was a targeted attack on Democrats
https://bsky.app/profile/airmovingdevice.bsky.social/post/3ll2ehugqik2n
As was the same with other red states with blue college towns.
Iowa City didn’t FA.
Otherwise? The rest of the state imposed FAAFO on Iowa City whether they like it or not.
Because if it’s Iowa City, it’s actually not a FAFO situation.
Just so billionaires can get another tax cut. I don’t know who is going to buy anything when we are all broke and destitute. Trump is going to cause another Great Depression.
#JustSaying
#UnelectedBillionaireOligarch
#ETTD
#PutinPuppet
#
And the people getting screwed more times as not choose this. 🤦🤷
The poor, sick and the children will replace the deported.
You see no fight in Iowa because you're not here.
The one that overlooks the football field and they do what I consider the best tradition in sports?
“The Iowa Wave”.
Put out the info that’s getting cut and it will make its own waves here in IA.
https://youtu.be/w7UqYD_owgY?si=21LwPwuoDFSq4LQA
#Consequences
I don't see this among any of my republican friends.
https://handsoff.com
@indivisible.org
https://www.thirdway.org/memo/making-republicans-own-the-trumpslump
But then you'd be on the Trump & Musk hit list!
If I were equally wealthy, I hope I would crush him like a bug!
And everybody else
Dark Money got behind her the next time.
https://www.crawfordcounty.iowa.gov/global/maps/iowa_congressional_districts_82470.pdf
They will still vote Republican because you know Democrats are evil and pro vaccine.
https://bsky.app/profile/airmovingdevice.bsky.social/post/3ll2ehugqik2n
What they like, though, is the things urban taxpayers make possible, just as city people enjoy farm products. We didn't used to all hate each other.
"The scientific spirit is of more value than its products"
- Thomas Huxley
https://bsky.app/profile/airmovingdevice.bsky.social/post/3ll2ehugqik2n
Thanks in advance.
"Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?" - Johnny Rotten
https://youtu.be/KKhJXfFsol8?si=vzqXMK3GH2HU8fln
We don’t need money in politics. We just need people to participate.
https://www.nationalfinancialplan.com
I have called Salazar. Her staff answers listens then sends me a form letter that says “we care about your concerns”. I have done this for years. Using 5 calls.
Gives hope to Dems that they can win in FL.
No sympathy for those whose petty spite screwed us all.
https://bsky.app/profile/airmovingdevice.bsky.social/post/3ll2ehugqik2n
Cedar Rapids
Davenport
Dubuque
Des Moines
It could be disastrous!
Positive-sum frameworks encourage collaboration and shared benefits, essential for maintaining democratic institutions and civil liberties.
It is that children are voraciously curious, and a child will read old encyclopedias and parish magazines and anything else that they come across.
When they go under- the entire state is sunk.
Maybe if you could find it within your heart, you could fund a group of ppl to rise up against the Nazis, ya know, if you cared about Humanity falling while you're sitting in your Castle watching us all suffer...
💔?
Trade them for the hostages they have of ours.
Arrest DOGE members, Musk, anyone the courts already ruled as being criminal.
Our politicians and police have failed us.
Justice is in our hands now.
Impeach Trump
Trump leaving office means the GOP collapses, as millions of people start looking at what's happening/happened instead of just trusting the orange Jebus.
I find the 🍊 🤡 unlikeable as well, but I recognize that he has some weird charisma for some. Vance doesn't have that.
Because IC is heavily Dem.
Like helping elect Judge Crawford to the Wisconsin Supreme Court
https://bsky.app/profile/henleyparker.bsky.social/post/3llkghqhmlk2o
I like to show people what's happening beyond the news
Read about it, sign the strike card, pass it on (on all your socials, word-of-mouth, everywhere!).
Follow @generalstrikeus.bsky.social for updates!
https://generalstrikeus.com
Either they are co-equal and separate or ANYONE in that office is fascism by default.
I say if they want to take the house, let's burn it down ourselves.
#AprilFoolsDay #ElectionDay for #WisconsinSupremeCourt, #SusanCrawford, #BradSchimel, #Election, #Vote #HumanRights #WomensRightsAreHumanRights
https://youtu.be/bXWFvbIzLwk?si=e9ANasyWemPSy9OD
A need for understanding and consistency.
A need for control.
A need to belong or feel special.
https://www.addictioncenter.com/drugs/conspiracy-theory-addiction/
https://michaelshermer.com/tag/conspiracy-theories/page/4/
A *responsibility*, many would say.
YES!
P-L-E-A-S-E!
This is a targeted attack on Democrats.
https://bsky.app/profile/airmovingdevice.bsky.social/post/3ll2ehugqik2n
There are more rural areas than cities & they vote red
It's like COVID and measles
Everyone is gonna get it
So you should care
We can't keep kicking em
Some them..yes
Most ..no
We should be suffering together and helping each other
Cuz it's coming
The ones who chose this option? Nah. Nothing have seen so far says they won't do it again in 2028.
HARD pass.
https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/03/11/nih-cancels-250-million-in-grants-to-columbia-as-part-of-400-million-trump-administration-cut/
No sympathy for me? Interesting.
I certainly didn’t vote for trump - and I’m not alone.
Sorry but pointing out that my state didn’t vote democratic like I can somehow control that beyond donating, organizing voter drives and knocking on doors - which I did, which a lot of us did - is sort of tone deaf.
What did you do?
I can see and understand objectively why a democrat similar to Biden wouldn’t do well in Iowa, but I think Bernie, for instance, would’ve done very well in Iowa.
Also, if you’re willing to write off the entire population of a state because it went red you’re an asshole and not helping.
So it's even, right?
Under Trump here are the numbers
Unemployment 4.1%
Gas $3.16
S&P 500 - 5580
Inflation 2.8%
Dow Jones - 42,505
Consumer confidence - 12 year low
fun of his stock price problems at Tesla.
I hope your husband’s job won’t be impacted and your family will be okay.
The majority that exists now is because 55.73% of the people are the left behinds.
Iowa is a horrible mess right now. I am so glad I moved to Portland, Oregon.
There’s a lot of us, we’re just currently outnumbered.
I lived in Iowa for three years, 25 years ago, everyone I met anyway were very nice people.
Are you seeing any movement from people who voted for Trump because they admit they were wrong (people really hate to admit that about anything important) and have changed their support?
That said, assuming we have elections in 2026 & 2028 they could change their mind.
But…..
2. Be painting with the same brush as those who elected them.
3. Even “if” Trump won the popular vote, 7 74,999,166
1/
I stand with and will support those who are fighting the good fight!
Remember 65 days ago when a Poilievre win was almost a foregone conclusion. A win built on the trucker convoy, anti LGBTQ+ policies and a platform 2/
We still have an election to win in this country. I donate, volunteer and vote.
In the end it still might not be enough and the other teams Candidate might win.
I would hate for someone from another country ignore all that and say “you people”.
Using the internet isn’t hard.
But an even easier way is this … when you hear “university,” then you kind of know it’s in a liberal town/county, or at least may well be.
Then come back and say, “My bad, I was wrong.”
https://www.bing.com/fd/ls/GLinkPing.aspx?IG=BA00E2691DBB4D888FF4F533AF99B83E&&ID=SERP,5179.2&SUIH=glOGQ3wCPTyCvZKqroJ6Lg&redir=aHR0cHM6Ly9lbi5tLndpa2lwZWRpYS5vcmcvd2lraS8yMDI0X1VuaXRlZF9TdGF0ZXNfcHJlc2lkZW50aWFsX2VsZWN0aW9uX2luX0lvd2E
“Ella Shanlo, a University of Iowa first-year, cast her ballot for Trump. An immigrant herself, Shanlo pegs immigration as a key issue…. Shanlo said she is confused about Harris’s background, and finds Trump to be more honest.”
https://dailyiowan.com/2024/11/05/donald-trump-wins-iowa/
Or interview Harris voters who go to the university. There's tens of thousands of those.
https://report.nih.gov/award/index.cfm?ot=&fy=2024#tab1
Part of the war on U of Iowa is because it is the most liberal part of the state.
Do you always tuck tail and leave when things get hard? Because it’s not that easy to up and leave your home. There are a lot of people in Iowa City fighting this shit.
Just don't educate Iowans. No brain, no drain. And this way, there will be plenty of desperate people to work in the meat packing industry.
It’s a town, not a state.
Did Cuban say Iowa City? Or did he say Iowa?
Now look up Johnson County, Iowa, and get back to us.
Reading comprehension is fundamental.
This is a targeted attack on democratic voters.
https://bsky.app/profile/airmovingdevice.bsky.social/post/3ll2ehugqik2n
https://www.kimt.com/news/amana-non-profit-partially-furloughing-staff-due-to-federal-funding-cuts/article_59b77750-2fd9-50d3-9bac-5af2b398b58c.html
But he would rather screw with the education system so that future educations can be compromised. 😢
Is it already too late?
https://apnews.com/article/trump-russell-vought-confirmation-budget-project-2025-7d1c476694176876256e95cecbd49231
Gov Reynolds & Co and Sinclair Broadcasting & Limp Fourth Estate brought this about.
For 20 yrs IA has been dosed with Baby Billboard propaganda.
"Every sperm is sacred!"
Crazed Evangelicals fixatedon abortion & hatred for LGBTQ
Iowa City rejected maga
But what about those who don’t have that capability?
I see West Virginia supported him completely.
I asked this on Reddit when I read about Tinker Airforce Base in Oklahoma shedding jobs.
Someone said there were Harris voters in Tulsa, but it went red.
That it will be “good for the economy”?
Whose economy?
Not the middle class economy.
Not the working poor economy.
Only the oligarch economy of Trump and his cronies.
Wake up, America!
That is it.
Big Tem college towns don’t have a rep for being conservative bastions.
I can’t say enough that you’re not making any sense.
Iowa City didn’t fuck around and find out, as you claimed. Not sure what to tell you.
And the 20k that went Trump likely don't work at the university..
This is a targeted attack on democrats. Wake up.
As someone trapped behind enemy lines in Florida, this sucks and isn't made worthwhile by the suffering of those who deserve it.
"I told you so".
Town is liberal, county is liberal, university is liberal.
To understand this administration, one must understand Hitler. No one understood Hitler better than Dietrich Bonhoeffer. https://youtu.be/813IyB_vt_Q?si=9v3vXRP1-rpxZ8el
2) The town is very purple. I think you don't have to go far to get diametrically opposing opinions. A lot of the republican locals hate the liberal college students and will cheer this. The students in research won't.
And Johnson County and Iowa City definitely aren’t.
https://bsky.app/profile/airmovingdevice.bsky.social/post/3ll2ehugqik2n
Oops, sorry …FAFO !!
I’m sorry, but I’m in the same boat. Whatever 🤷🏽♂️
Fuck MAGA!
1. Look up Johnson County, Iowa, voting history.
2. Come back here.
3. Admit your error.
4. Receive forgiveness.
I’m from Austin. Do you ever hear anyone saying good things about Texas.
Get over it
Texas isn’t exactly blue.
But, I’m pretty sure this was not directed at Blue Iowa 💙
Sorry for grumpy grouping.
Total Registered Voters: 2,243,688
Democrats: 655,201 (29.20%)
Republicans: 726,824 (32.40%)
Third Party/Other: 63,739 (2.84%)
Unaffiliated: 797,924 (35.56%)
Biden 759,061
Trump 897,672
I’ve been to Iowa. I live in Texas. We both still elected maggots. Maggots still run both states.
Anyway a lot of people who don’t vote like us
I wish I could say you were wrong…
Cutting Medicaid and cancer research all but guarantees it
She’s Trump’s favorite little Fräulein.
It's sad to see. Once researchers leave, and they will if you kill their funding, they may not come back. They're not going to go work at McD until 2029 comes around.
- I have billionaire bingo RFK Jr is a turducken, brain worms in a parasite’s brain.
Iowa City has one of two Level 1 Trauma Centers in the state, UIHC, while Des Moines (also votes blue) has the other.
The cities such as Waterloo, Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, are in the same boat as far as voting Dem and being vilified by the MAGAs in Iowa, yet lumped in with MAGAs by Dems outside Iowa.
https://bsky.app/profile/muellershewrote.com/post/3llkhryh57c25
https://newrepublic.com/article/192741/trump-freedom-cities-company-towns
considerably before the job of
ideologically and ethnically
cleansing the Lower 48 can be
seriously attempted.
After crunching the numbers over
and over again, I don’t think
this White Power Nazi dream
can ever become reality.
The logistics beat them every time.