This Minnesota strike is believed to be the first walkout by private-sector hospital doctors in U.S. history.

Striking Allina doctors worried about AI and loss of control over medical care

Doctors want better sick leave and other benefits from Allina Health, but they are particularly concerned about the health system’s ability to dictate how they practice medicine.

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"Imagine the economy as a truck headed straight for a brick wall, but the driver is heavily invested in brick wall reconstruction, so there’s no chance of swerving."

The American Prospect@prospect.org · yesterday

What’s been lost in all the stentorian pronouncements byfrontier developers like Anthropic and OpenAI about AI destroying humanity is that it’s intheir financial interest to slow down. prospect.org?p=144760

On August 11, the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network permanently ended the requirement that U.S. companies disclose who actually owns them and plans to delete the ownership information that companies have already reported. progressive.org/op-eds/trump...

Trump’s Fraudulent War on Fraud

I worked in financial regulation and consumer protection for fifteen years. I have a hard time taking the administration’s campaign against fraud very seriously.

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After today the U.S. House of Representatives is off until after the midterm elections. That's a month and a half paid vacation.

Vice President J.D. Vance is coming to Iowa on Friday. Read more: https://www.kcrg.com/2026/09/16/vice-president-vance-set-speak-council-bluffs-rally-friday/

A University of Iowa research project is attempting to develop a better understanding of arsenic in private drinking wells in Iowa and offering landowners, in certain counties, free testing for their wells, Cami Koons reports. iowacapitaldispatch.com/2026/09/16/a...

Arsenic testing kits available to Iowa private well owners in certain counties  • Iowa Capital Dispatch

A University of Iowa research project is attempting to develop a better understanding of arsenic in private drinking wells in Iowa.

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you mean force feeding it to us on every platform while it destroys our environment and oh by the way will probably kill us all, was not going good?

Politico@politico.com · yesterday

'AI has been marketed horribly to the American people,' LinkedIn co-founder says

well surely we the transes are somehow to blame

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · 2d ago

Police detain dozens protesting against a nationwide LGBTQ crackdown in Turkey. Before the protesters, who unfurled a banner reading "Being LGBTQ is not a crime", could issue a statement, police detained them, AFP journalists said. President Erdogan has called LGBTQ "perverts" u.afp.com/SjX9

For a third time, the U.S. House has voted to end the war in Iran, approving a war powers resolution that would halt President Donald Trump's ability to continue military action without congressional approval.

House votes for a third time to end the Iran war as conflict drags on

For a third time, the U.S. House has voted to end the war in Iran. The House approved a war powers resolution late Tuesday that would halt President Donald Trump’s ability to continue military action without congressional approval.

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“The reason that we struggle with high prices and high corruption and high costs and a water quality crisis and a cancer crisis is because our political system works to reelect incumbents, it doesn’t work to serve us.” "We’ve had 10 years of one-party control. That’s what brought us here."

With hundreds in attendance, Rob Sand extended the Q&A section of his town hall-style event at the IMU last night. But there was a familiar interjection when Sand confirmed he would exclude trans students from sports teams. "Coward!" littlevillagemag.com/rob-sand-iow...

Research has shown little evidence that Iowa's Beginning Farmer Tax Credit has helped create more farms or bring younger farmers into Iowa agriculture, raising questions about whether the program changes trends, Investigate Midwest reports. iowacapitaldispatch.com/2026/09/15/d...

Did Iowa's largest beginning farmer tax credit create more farms? • Iowa Capital Dispatch

Researchers have found little evidence that Iowa's Beginning Farmers Tax Credit has brought more or younger farmers into Iowa ag.

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Worker power is for all workers, even those with a medical degree. ✊ Solidarity to Minnesota doctors launching the first-ever private hospital strike by MDs in US history! kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

Allina Health doctors begin 4-day strike at 2 Minnesota hospitals

More than 150 Allina Health doctors are now on strike after contract talks ended on Sunday night without a deal.

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BREAKING: Tonight’s Supreme Court ruling is a victory for the millions of American citizens who rely on mail voting. The Trump administration tried to use the postal service to interfere in our elections: it failed. 1/2

Everyone is talking about the desperate need to slow down AI research but almost nobody is pointing out that AI employees can accomplish this themselves without the permission of their CEOs. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/unionize-ai

Unionize AI

Is a strike less realistic than building a doomsday machine on purpose?

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Twenty-five years after 9/11, the surveillance infrastructure built and expanded in its aftermath has become part of a far larger digital ecosystem — producing tools that can collect and analyze information on a scale unimaginable in 2001, Stateline reports. iowacapitaldispatch.com/2026/09/11/r...

How 9/11 changed the way America surveils its citizens • Iowa Capital Dispatch

Twenty-five years after 9/11, the surveillance infrastructure built and expanded in its aftermath is part of a far larger digital ecosystem.

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The moment Caden Buhr sealed the Cy-Hawk game 🏈

Here are the questions that constituents should ask their local governments about new data center projects: barnraisingmedia.com/2026-electio...

Do Rural Residents Have the Power to Say No?

Data center hyperscalers promise the same fat pitch of jobs and revenue CAFOs once did. They’ve also learned about how to destroy local resistance.

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While Trump tries to please Big Tech, data centers have gone from a sleeper issue to one of the most hotly contested topics of the 2026 midterms. prospect.org?p=144483

Many central Iowa cities have moved trick-or-treating to Halloween night — Oct. 31. But Runnells is sticking with the Beggars' Night tradition of trick-or-treating on Oct. 30. https://www.kcci.com/article/trick-or-treat-runnells-sticks-with-beggars-night-tradition/73674320 

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ANALYSIS: Iowa nonprofit Just Voices releases study of Des Moines Police Department's Use-of-Force Reports from the George Floyd protests. What the Numbers Caught: A Night of Force Tells All about the DMPD blackiowanews.com/what-the-num... #insideblackiowa

A biofuel company fined for air pollution in Shell Rock doesn't like the "implication" made in a recent Nate Willems campaign ad, and is threatening to sue. “The ad is accurate; every fact in it is true,” Willems said at a news conference Wednesday, declining to take down the video.

'Bullying does not work on me': Nate Willems, Democrat for Iowa AG, defends ad after ethanol company threatens to sue - Little Village

Democratic candidate for Iowa attorney general Nate Willems said Wednesday that “bullying does not work” on him and he won’t be pulling ads targeting current Attorney General Brenna Bird in relation t...

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BREAKING: We’re suing the Department of Labor to protect the public service workers who help Americans find jobs.

According to Governor Kim Reynolds' office, there are eight 9/11 victims that had connections to Iowa. Read more: https://www.kcrg.com/2026/09/10/flags-ordered-half-staff-iowa-911/ 

Changing the narrative on suicide requires systemic change. It's about shifting from a culture of silence and stigma to one of openness, understanding, and support. #WorldSuicidePreventionDay

Hamilton Nolan@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · last wk.

There is zero reason for politicians to be talking about "trans issues" except as a result of a 100% bad faith campaign of bullying and bigotry and it is important to point that out whenever the topic is raised, or you grant bigots legitimacy they don't deserve. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/you-have-t...

attn: Iowa politicians who know who they are

Hamilton Nolan@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · last wk.

There is zero reason for politicians to be talking about "trans issues" except as a result of a 100% bad faith campaign of bullying and bigotry and it is important to point that out whenever the topic is raised, or you grant bigots legitimacy they don't deserve. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/you-have-t...

IOWA! 📣 Lawmakers intentionally eroded child labor protections to be weaker than federal law. Now, new data show Iowa employers accounted for nearly 10% of federal child labor violations nationwide, even though Iowa has only 1% of the US population. 1/3

Child labor violations in Iowa found at 10 times the national rate in 2025

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