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Trump and Musk are for they/them. They're not for you.

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Serious props and gratitude to all who showed up at the capitol today in support of our liberties that we prize so that our rights we will maintain.

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Holy-moly look at this huge list of all the agencies that have access to when and where your car was in Iowa City over the last 30 days: transparency.flocksafety.com/university-o...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

The Bernie talk in Iowa City against Oligarchs makes me wonder what changes need to be made locally - that might inconvenience the richest man in town but raise the quality of life for the rest of us.

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HBD 🎂 2/23/63 to former #Pittsburgh #Pirates player Bobby Bonilla! 🎈 Bobby Bo celebrated his 25th birthday at Spring Training in ‘88, the balloons and flowers a gift from his wife. #LetsGoBucs 🏴‍☠️ (📸: Marlene Karas/The Pittsburgh Press 2/24/88, colorization 1992pirates)

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Baseball’s back, baby.

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JB Pritzker is everything that Gavin Newsom wishes he was both as a governor and as a person.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Nice piece in the Index on the West Liberty Citizenship Program

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Resistance isn’t only huge actions. Resistance can be: -Supporting libraries -Serving at a soup kitchen -Sending a few bucks to mutual aid -Donating new/gently used items -Checking in on neighbors -Offering your services pro-bono -Volunteering -Neighborhood cleanups Helping each other is powerful

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

Think about this. Donald Trump's proposed National Garden of American Heroes includes Frederick Douglass, but the Maryland National Guard can't commemorate the state's native son in a parade because of DEI. This is insanity. 🗃️ www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

I've only lived in Iowa for 9 years now, but @jastiger.bsky.social says what I've seen far more eloquently than I ever could. "Iowa Nice" is a pleasant fiction. #iowa #thisisiowa #iowanice www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/02/14/i...

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On Feb. 14th I try always to give honor to one of the greatest contributors to American democracy in our nation’s history, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, Douglass never knew his actual birthdate, and adopted Feb. 14th as the day. His penetrating insights about our country inspire me daily.

submitted 12 days ago • 402 comments

My favorite valentines ever, Loren and Julia (Shallenberger) Stevenson. They met at an ice cream social in Biggsville, IL, in the 30s, and eloped to the Little Brown Church in the Vale. The picture on the right is from a valentines photo shoot they did for the Clinton Herald.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Just voted early for Oliver. He is an incredible advocate for our community whose perspective and voice will be a welcome addition to our city council. Vote early at the auditors office or in person at your Iowa City polling location on March 4.

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

I found the discussion of the mascot salaries/earnings and the discussion of spending well vs spending a lot. This really resonates with my personal experience with the #Rockies organization. 🧵 1/ www.purplerow.com/2025/2/11/24... @reneedechert.com @purplerow.bsky.social

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Submitted three more applications for citizenship tonight for WL citizenship program participants. One more, and the whole current cohort will have applied.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Hat day at school. This is my go to, from my time as a Teacher Ranger at the Hoover National Historic Site.

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Eating super good

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Not to brag, but

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Please reach out to me with any details on how cuts to USAID funding are affecting any of Iowa's state universities.

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

Pirates fans have long understood this and we hate Bob Nutting accordingly

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Yesterday's announcement about NIH grant indirect cost funding being retroactively reduced has direct, potentially major impacts on Iowa and, specifically, #iadist89, on not only the jobs economy, but also the future of medical and scientific research.

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In an effort to avoid doomscrolling, I've been enjoying lots of ragebrowsing

submitted 21 days ago • 22 comments

When I say that too many STEMlords are profoundly stupid, this is what I mean

submitted 23 days ago • 11 comments

Has congress passed a law superseding or eliminating the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961? Has the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional? Then why are journalists reporting that Trump and Musk are "shutting down" USAID. They are not authorized to do so.

submitted 24 days ago • 168 comments

Canadian MP Charlie Angus while vowing to call Trump's trade war bluff on CNN just now, "This isn't gunboat diplomacy (laughs). I mean, this is like an Al Capone shakedown in his syphilis phase."

submitted 23 days ago • 149 comments

the project of being the most powerful people in the world and claiming victimhood is so goddamn embarrassing. also dangerous, but the cringe is what'll kill me.

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

Tip to communications consultants: If you find yourself about to say the word tariff, say tax instead. It’s a tax. It’s a tax. It’s just a fucking tax. If they thought a tax would be popular, they’d call it a tax. I am begging you to use language effectively

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

tfw when you quid and they screw you on the pro quo

submitted 26 days ago • 7 comments

Kurt's review of the new Franz Ferdinand album in Treble.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Seems unnecessary to create a separate School of Anti-Woke & Racism when the Board of Regents is already GOP-majority and 100% Reynolds appointments, but what do I know?

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Democrats: No better time to adopt the "Shadow Cabinet" concept that they have in the UK, where different people respond to different areas of policy- health, state, treasury. This is what you do when they flood the zone.

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments

Well, I'm working the polls for the primary. Will bring lots of crosswords.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Framing Biden actively participating in a genocide as the Dems "not doing enough on Gaza" is a choice. People are just falling all over themselves to absolve Biden and Harris for their role in Harris's loss.

submitted 31 days ago • 35 comments

Kaine & Kim are the ones who truly piss me off here. The others I expected this from.

submitted 32 days ago • 84 comments

Can't wait for the great Crypto Crash of '29

submitted 32 days ago • 8 comments

decades of bullshit scholarship got us to the Heller decision. once that happened, everything truly fringe followed that model (nondelegation, birthright citizenship, etc). law review articles -> support by liberal colleagues who believe in “ideological diversity” -> friendly press -> law

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

Trump’s immigration orders designed to sow chaos – ‘he wants you to feel afraid’ Expert Austin Kocher explains why the ‘clown show’ of Trump orders will nonetheless fuel confusion and anxiety www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

We could be in Kansas before the snow begins to thaw.

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Artist applications are open now until 1/31 for this year's ICE CREAM! Applications are free, lottery system will be used to fill the table space, so y'all have equal chance of getting in! www.publicspaceone.com/icecream Please repost! We want you at ICE CREAM! #zinefest #icecream

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment