After a decade of formerly -purple Iowa flipping to full GOP control, this is what happens. It’s time for a change! Blue wave is needed desperately

Let’s go!

📽️A MUST watch from Marc Elias: It's easy to disengage with the constant stream of bad news flowing out from the Trump administration. But when we become immune — when we stop being outraged — our democracy crumbles. https://bit.ly/48aleVG

There Are No "Good" Republicans

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Rural Republicans are scared of rural Democrats, and they don’t like folks like me poking my head into rural places. They want rural progressives to feel alienated and disengaged. They want them to feel hopeless. I am chasing away the boogeyman at each stop. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

The Iowa GOP and Stephen King

My name is Jess and I was a high school Literature teacher for 16 years until I decided to run as a Democrat in a rural, red district in Missouri. I bring you news and politics from Missouri and beyon...

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I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Des Moines-Central Iowa” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

NO KINGS Des Moines-Central Iowa · No Kings

**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his alli...

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Yes!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

Erica Payne: "If you're running a business, and you're not paying somebody something they can afford to live on, you don't have a business. You have a human exploitation scheme. And we need to all get that straight."

Your outie loves baking bread. Your outie has very strong opinions about the song "Don't Stop Believing." Your outie once ate an entire can of Pringles in a single sitting. Your outie apologizes to his car when he hits a pothole. Your outie does not understand the icing rule in hockey.

to heal the nation, joe biden must apologize for being mean to people with 'fuck joe biden' flags

Oprah has so fucking much to answer for.

Coach Finstock@coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2y ago

Dr. Phil for Nazi America

Dammit. This is why we can’t have nice things. Seriously. Get your shit together, Pima County! tucson.com/news/local/g...

Delivery of 267,000 mail-in ballots in Pima County delayed

Some early ballots won't be in Pima County mailboxes until later this week due to a problem assembling ballots that is linked to an addressing issue, officials say.

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wait republicans like obamacare now and saved it and made it better

Has this choice ever been so literal?

michelle obama just snapped that man clean in half

According to the WaPo, updated mRNA #covid #COVID19 vaccines will get approved late next week and should be in pharmacies a week later. The Novavax version will come later. https://wapo.st/3YPLzUs #giftarticle

which was part of the point all along (the other point is school segregation)

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2y ago

Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers' tuition that it's now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects.

The last page of Judge Cannon's dismissal is just a list of cool RV features?

RECORD SUPPORT FOR ABORTION RIGHTS IN ARIZONA Arizona for Abortion Access turns in 823,000 signatures, double the required number, to put abortion on the November ballot.

Arizonans rally for reproductive rights: Record-breaking signatures to secure abortion access on ballot - AZPM

Arizona for Abortion Access gathers over 823,000 signatures, doubling the required number, to place the right to abortion on the November ballot.

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So many Joel Edgertons

Clippy stands by your bed at night. You pull the cover over your eyes to avoid his gaze, but you still hear him. "Did you mean to rest? Did you mean to dream?" He whispers

"what if the milkshake was acid" what if clouds were hot dogs. what if lentils went to college. what if magnets screamed when you pulled them apart. what if

A new gold standard review of 100 studies finds: - masks are effective in reducing transmission of respiratory diseases - N95 respirators are significantly more effective than medical or cloth masks - mask mandates are effective in reducing community transmission journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Whenever someone random tries to downplay confederate monuments to me and I don’t have the energy to put my work hat on, I just calmly say, “I don’t know it’s kinda like if we had statues of the 9/11 hijackers, only confederates killed more Americans.” Shuts them up every time.

This is not an Onion article. I double-checked

Media Matters for America@mmfa.bsky.social · 2y ago

Sean Hannity gives Kristi Noem a friendly interview to defend shooting her 14-month-old dog: “Is there a difference which way you put a dog down? I'm not really sure, but I don't think people understood it.” www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/kri...

I mean, what a choice GOP has here. Blake Masters and Abe Hamadeh were two of the creepiest candidates the party here in Arizona ran in ‘22. At least Masters conceded

Philip Bump@pbump.com · 2y ago

“What we don’t need is someone with no wife and kids, right? No skin in the game.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Those apple sauce pouches for kids, but with guacamole instead

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — An immigrant from Laos battling cancer holds the winning ticket for the $1.3 billion jackpot in Oregon.

i think a pretty fun joke would be for every astronomy professor in the world to cash out their savings accounts on the same day and then just like hide for three weeks.