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"It is an ideological creation of the Iowa Legislature, reporting to the regents instead of UI leaders. Liberal is bad and the center needs to preserve and promote conservative, most Iowa Regents — led by former Family Leader chair Robert Cramer— believe and thus, is their focus for their center."
Pre-Festivus gathering at the University of Iowa blames liberals, faculty, all that gender stuff
The University of Iowa Center for Intellectual Freedom got off the ground with an early airing of the grievances
open.substack.com
December 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Bumping for people looking for Halloween reads: don't forget to read weird collections by Black authors
Feeling very grumpy about the void here so l've channeled that into a list of weird or weird-ish or weird-adjacent or theoretically-weird collections by Black authors (some of which I’ve read and too many of which I have not)
October 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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when tiny penisis are given guns and authority

When people DO start killing ICE agents…don’t ask why.
September 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Video shows an employee at the downtown Iowa City business being tackled, threatened with a lit Taser, handcuffed and marched into an unmarked minivan by plainclothes agents.
ICE violently seizes an immigrant worker at Bread Garden Market in Iowa City - Little Village
Shortly before 11 on Thursday morning, two men who eventually identified themselves as “federal agents” violently seized a worker at Bread Garden Market on the Ped Mall in Iowa City. Neither […]
littlevillagemag.com
September 25, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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The University of Iowa announced on Monday that two large, long-running community writing programs would not continue in 2026.

"We got DOGE-ed," Iowa Summer Writing Festival Director Amy Margolis lamented.
UI announces end to Iowa Summer Writing Festival, Iowa Youth Writing Project - Little Village
Months after the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program was forced to make drastic cuts following the loss of its federal funding, two other writing programs on the UI campus […]
littlevillagemag.com
August 12, 2025 at 5:49 PM