Jon Green
@modestholdings.com
Chairman of the Johnson County, Iowa, Board of Supervisors. I'm from the Government and I'm here to help.
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Jon Green
@modestholdings.com
· Sep 13
An Iowa official defied the governor’s orders to fly flags at half-staff for Charlie Kirk, writing he wouldn't honor a man who "did so much harm"
Official Defies GOP Governor's Order To Fly Flags At Half Staff For Charlie Kirk
He said he did not want to honor a man "who did so much to harm not only the marginalized, but also to degrade the fabric of our body politic."
www.huffpost.com
I hope I have given fidelity, and that everyone viscerally understands:
You will have to come through me.
You will have to come through me.
It's skillet seasoning season.
December 16, 2025 at 12:26 AM
It's skillet seasoning season.
Melisa Crook and I likely heard from some of the same people in September.
Supporters of the slain right-wing activist Charlie Kirk called on the Creston Community School District to “get rid” of a teacher who criticized Kirk and warned the teacher in profanity-laced terms to watch her back, newly released court records show.
Court records detail outrage among Kirk supporters over teacher's comments • Iowa Capital Dispatch
Hundreds of supporters of murdered right-wing activist Charlie Kirk called on an Iowa school district to fire a teacher who criticized Kirk.
iowacapitaldispatch.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Melisa Crook and I likely heard from some of the same people in September.
Just saw this guy at the John Deere trading in his Lil Digger for the Big Scooper.
Q: A number of Republicans have denounced your statement on Rob Reiner. Do you stand by it?
TRUMP: Well, I wasn't a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned.
TRUMP: Well, I wasn't a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned.
December 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Just saw this guy at the John Deere trading in his Lil Digger for the Big Scooper.
The fire department hiring arsonists.
It's unreal! They are asking for briefing on a foregone conclusion: that they are going to rule he has to refer it to DOJ, when DOJ attorneys may in fact be the contemnors?!?!?
I know I'm stating the obvious to you but this may be the most outrageous attack on the judiciary (by the judiciary) yet
I know I'm stating the obvious to you but this may be the most outrageous attack on the judiciary (by the judiciary) yet
December 15, 2025 at 9:16 PM
The fire department hiring arsonists.
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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“Jews and the fight against antisemitism are being cynically used to advance an authoritarian, anti-democratic agenda,” [Joe Berman] wrote. “For ADL’s national leadership to not recognize these clear and present dangers is inexplicable.”
www.clevelandjewishnews.com/jta/top-adl-...
www.clevelandjewishnews.com/jta/top-adl-...
Top ADL civil rights litigator quits, accusing group of being ‘useful idiot’ for Trump
The former top civil rights litigator at the Anti-Defamation League is making public his scorching resignation letter from the group, in the latest sign of Jewish discontent over the organization’s
www.clevelandjewishnews.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:49 AM
“Jews and the fight against antisemitism are being cynically used to advance an authoritarian, anti-democratic agenda,” [Joe Berman] wrote. “For ADL’s national leadership to not recognize these clear and present dangers is inexplicable.”
www.clevelandjewishnews.com/jta/top-adl-...
www.clevelandjewishnews.com/jta/top-adl-...
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a good and necessary read for many
December 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
a good and necessary read for many
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Incredibly fucked up how there are masked federal agents roaming around the American heartland, randomly attacking American citizens.
ICE pepper-sprayed this 1-year-old girl.
Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist.
They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed.
Another horrific story.
More details below.
Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist.
They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed.
Another horrific story.
More details below.
December 15, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Incredibly fucked up how there are masked federal agents roaming around the American heartland, randomly attacking American citizens.
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Happy Hanukkah from the Library of Congress. 🕎 This steel menorah, donated to the Library by Dallas sculptor George Tobolowsky in 2013, is displayed in the Great Hall.
December 15, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Happy Hanukkah from the Library of Congress. 🕎 This steel menorah, donated to the Library by Dallas sculptor George Tobolowsky in 2013, is displayed in the Great Hall.
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Broncos are 12-2. No. 1 in the AFC.
December 15, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Broncos are 12-2. No. 1 in the AFC.
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Tuvalu's first climate migrants have arrived in Australia - More than a third ofTuvalu's 11,000 citizens applied for the new climate visa — a deal forged between the two countries to preserve Tuvaluan culture as the atolls disappear. www.abc.net.au/pacific/firs...
Tuvalu's first climate migrants arrive in Australia - ABC Pacific
Tuvalu's first climate migrants have arrived in Australia, beginning a historic relocation as rising seas threaten their island home.
www.abc.net.au
December 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Tuvalu's first climate migrants have arrived in Australia - More than a third ofTuvalu's 11,000 citizens applied for the new climate visa — a deal forged between the two countries to preserve Tuvaluan culture as the atolls disappear. www.abc.net.au/pacific/firs...
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Pulitzer Prize winner Art Cullen trades in his pen for a video camera to produce videos entitled - What's Eating Iowa?
This first episode was just released, and guess who is one of his guests - environmental scientist Chris Jones!
buff.ly/FXSniDU
This first episode was just released, and guess who is one of his guests - environmental scientist Chris Jones!
buff.ly/FXSniDU
What's Eating Iowa: Episode 1 - Water
Pulitzer Prize winner Art Cullen and award-winning cinematographer Jerry Risius have teamed up again for the new docuseries What’s Eating Iowa to highlight issues and struggles faced by working…
youtu.be
December 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Pulitzer Prize winner Art Cullen trades in his pen for a video camera to produce videos entitled - What's Eating Iowa?
This first episode was just released, and guess who is one of his guests - environmental scientist Chris Jones!
buff.ly/FXSniDU
This first episode was just released, and guess who is one of his guests - environmental scientist Chris Jones!
buff.ly/FXSniDU
I'm just an amateur, but it strikes me as foolhardy to radicalize the retired social studies set. (If anyone needs a middlewestern anger translator, this is somewhere between convention HE and nuclear.)
Bluesky has a 3 minute limit on videos but here’s part one for those who don’t have TikTok
December 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I'm just an amateur, but it strikes me as foolhardy to radicalize the retired social studies set. (If anyone needs a middlewestern anger translator, this is somewhere between convention HE and nuclear.)
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Tyson is shutting down its Lexington, Nebraska plant in January 2026. That’s 3,200 workers gone in one shot, the largest plant shutdown in company history.
Blame Trump’s tariff chaos and the lowest cattle inventories in decades. Tariffs jack up costs. Supply shrinks. Plants close. Towns hollow out.
Blame Trump’s tariff chaos and the lowest cattle inventories in decades. Tariffs jack up costs. Supply shrinks. Plants close. Towns hollow out.
December 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Tyson is shutting down its Lexington, Nebraska plant in January 2026. That’s 3,200 workers gone in one shot, the largest plant shutdown in company history.
Blame Trump’s tariff chaos and the lowest cattle inventories in decades. Tariffs jack up costs. Supply shrinks. Plants close. Towns hollow out.
Blame Trump’s tariff chaos and the lowest cattle inventories in decades. Tariffs jack up costs. Supply shrinks. Plants close. Towns hollow out.
This most well trod path must always be walked alone.
We find our way by the cairns others have set before us.
We find our way by the cairns others have set before us.
My latest Substack column is out should you care to give it a read.
The blessing of being there
Adapted from my July 8, 2025 column. This Substack is reader-supported.
open.substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
This most well trod path must always be walked alone.
We find our way by the cairns others have set before us.
We find our way by the cairns others have set before us.
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Add to this that HSI just filed a declaration in our case challenging these policies saying they can’t trust REAL IDs as proof of status.
So showing your papers isn’t even enough to end the stop.
So showing your papers isn’t even enough to end the stop.
December 12, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Add to this that HSI just filed a declaration in our case challenging these policies saying they can’t trust REAL IDs as proof of status.
So showing your papers isn’t even enough to end the stop.
So showing your papers isn’t even enough to end the stop.
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HEY IOWANS👇👇👇👇
"The most important race in the state."
– Moore
– Moore
I'm working at Englert tonight and Dave Moore just got the room cheering for @theswinerepublic.bsky.social possibly running for ag sec...
December 12, 2025 at 5:08 AM
HEY IOWANS👇👇👇👇
Not the brightest guys, Vol CMLVII.
Since 2019, Abrego has been locked up cumulatively more than six months, Xinis says
So, backdating the order of removal to Oct. 10, 2019 makes the Trump2 administration's legal problems *worse*
So, backdating the order of removal to Oct. 10, 2019 makes the Trump2 administration's legal problems *worse*
December 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Not the brightest guys, Vol CMLVII.
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pulling this out of the thread, in case you want to know some things happening in the last 2 months of IA higher ed.
it’s been very quick and not covered outside the state to my knowledge. looks a little like a quiet coup.
in october, a BOR exit to serve as Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education for the United States Department of Education. who knows where that goes dailyiowan.com/2025/10/08/i...
in october, a BOR exit to serve as Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education for the United States Department of Education. who knows where that goes dailyiowan.com/2025/10/08/i...
Former Iowa Regent David Barker appointed to U.S. Department of Education
David Barker, a former Iowa Board of Regents member, was appointed the Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education for the U.S. Department of Education Wednesday. Barker was nominated for the posi...
dailyiowan.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
pulling this out of the thread, in case you want to know some things happening in the last 2 months of IA higher ed.
"The most important race in the state."
– Moore
– Moore
I'm working at Englert tonight and Dave Moore just got the room cheering for @theswinerepublic.bsky.social possibly running for ag sec...
December 12, 2025 at 4:46 AM
"The most important race in the state."
– Moore
– Moore
NEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social piece by @profsecchi.bsky.social! Late to posting it here but this piece is really a must read on how the USDA counts- or miscounts- farmers, how this came about and why it matters.
www.crisesnotes.com/what-is-a-fa...
www.crisesnotes.com/what-is-a-fa...
What is a Farmer and How Does the Government Count Them? The High Politics of a Seemingly Mundane Statistical Task
Silvia Secchi is a natural resources economist and a Full Professor in the Department of Geographical and Sustainability Sciences at the University of Iowa.
Editor's Note: Dear readers, Nathan here. ...
www.crisesnotes.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Local governments backfilling services the state has abdicated providing is The Reason property taxes are what they are.
Today's Revenue Estimating Conference meeting confirmed what we already know: Iowa's state budget has floundered under eight years of Republican leadership at the Capitol. It's time for a change.
December 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Local governments backfilling services the state has abdicated providing is The Reason property taxes are what they are.
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NEW: Pentagon lawyers asked State Dept. if US could send survivors of Trump's boat strikes to a notorious prison in El Salvador. Then Pentagon pushed to have survivors sent anywhere but the US — to prevent any US court cases. Gift link to our @nytimes.com story: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
Inside the Pentagon’s Scramble to Deal With Boat Strike Survivors
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:41 AM
NEW: Pentagon lawyers asked State Dept. if US could send survivors of Trump's boat strikes to a notorious prison in El Salvador. Then Pentagon pushed to have survivors sent anywhere but the US — to prevent any US court cases. Gift link to our @nytimes.com story: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
Bluesky has The Juice.
December 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Bluesky has The Juice.
Not to make the text, uh, text, but:
We are leaders. It's right there in the goddamn title!
We are leaders. It's right there in the goddamn title!
a leader can’t ignore public opinion, but a leader can’t also be subservient to it
December 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Not to make the text, uh, text, but:
We are leaders. It's right there in the goddamn title!
We are leaders. It's right there in the goddamn title!