Iowa Nice
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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
-George Bernard Shaw
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
-George Bernard Shaw
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After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
www.yahoo.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
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This is the playbook, folks.
If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.
Do not be quiet in this moment.
If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.
Do not be quiet in this moment.
September 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This is the playbook, folks.
If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.
Do not be quiet in this moment.
If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.
Do not be quiet in this moment.
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
-Benjamin Franklin
-Benjamin Franklin
September 18, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
-Benjamin Franklin
-Benjamin Franklin
The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.
-Garry Kasparov
#disinformation #lies #misinformation #propaganda #thinking #thought #truth
-Garry Kasparov
#disinformation #lies #misinformation #propaganda #thinking #thought #truth
September 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.
-Garry Kasparov
#disinformation #lies #misinformation #propaganda #thinking #thought #truth
-Garry Kasparov
#disinformation #lies #misinformation #propaganda #thinking #thought #truth
It’s interesting that our reaction to learning who Kirk’s shooter is and that most of the speculation about who he would be is wrong, we decide to continue to speculate.
a woman says speculate wildly with her hands up in the air
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media.tenor.com
September 12, 2025 at 5:25 PM
It’s interesting that our reaction to learning who Kirk’s shooter is and that most of the speculation about who he would be is wrong, we decide to continue to speculate.
I understand the urge to joke about Charlie Kirk but please resist the urge.
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media.tenor.com
September 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I understand the urge to joke about Charlie Kirk but please resist the urge.
Kirk Ferentz is the GOAT of #Hawkeye Football coaches but even GOATs diminish their legacy when they hang on too long. He is about 3 years past when he should have hung it up.
September 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Kirk Ferentz is the GOAT of #Hawkeye Football coaches but even GOATs diminish their legacy when they hang on too long. He is about 3 years past when he should have hung it up.
Paige Bueckers gets hurt in the Wings/Fever game and has her head buried in a towel. Why do they keep the camera focused on her when she obviously is trying to hide from the camera? Leave her alone. I hope she is fine. #WNBA
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media.tenor.com
August 2, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Paige Bueckers gets hurt in the Wings/Fever game and has her head buried in a towel. Why do they keep the camera focused on her when she obviously is trying to hide from the camera? Leave her alone. I hope she is fine. #WNBA
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“When the Executive publicly announces its intent to break the law, and then executes on that promise, it is the Judiciary’s duty to check that lawlessness, not expedite it.”
-Justice Sonia Sotomayor
-Justice Sonia Sotomayor
July 15, 2025 at 10:01 PM
“When the Executive publicly announces its intent to break the law, and then executes on that promise, it is the Judiciary’s duty to check that lawlessness, not expedite it.”
-Justice Sonia Sotomayor
-Justice Sonia Sotomayor
“Democrats tax and spend, Republicans just spend.” -Mike Grandon
“If you find yourself in quicksand, the only way you can get out is if someone gives you a hand, and a lot of people are born in quicksand.” -Mike Grandon
#Budget
“If you find yourself in quicksand, the only way you can get out is if someone gives you a hand, and a lot of people are born in quicksand.” -Mike Grandon
#Budget
July 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
“Democrats tax and spend, Republicans just spend.” -Mike Grandon
“If you find yourself in quicksand, the only way you can get out is if someone gives you a hand, and a lot of people are born in quicksand.” -Mike Grandon
#Budget
“If you find yourself in quicksand, the only way you can get out is if someone gives you a hand, and a lot of people are born in quicksand.” -Mike Grandon
#Budget
The Fever/Sun game is out of control and it falls squarely on the refs.
a woman sitting in a stadium with the word referee on the screen
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media.tenor.com
June 18, 2025 at 1:11 AM
The Fever/Sun game is out of control and it falls squarely on the refs.
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
-W. H. Auden
-W. H. Auden
Cedar Rapids and Iowa City don’t want Des Moines to get all the attention, I guess. Don’t let anyone tell you this is normal or the way it has to be. Rivers brimming with nitrate, hundreds of thousands of consumers with water supplies on the brink, and shameful silence from our leaders.
June 17, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
-W. H. Auden
-W. H. Auden
Today should be an interesting day.
"Fear not, we shall have no kings here; each of us has a voice."
-Frederick Douglass
#democracy #Kings #NoKings #Fascism #FlagDay #UnitedStates
"Fear not, we shall have no kings here; each of us has a voice."
-Frederick Douglass
#democracy #Kings #NoKings #Fascism #FlagDay #UnitedStates
June 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Today should be an interesting day.
"Fear not, we shall have no kings here; each of us has a voice."
-Frederick Douglass
#democracy #Kings #NoKings #Fascism #FlagDay #UnitedStates
"Fear not, we shall have no kings here; each of us has a voice."
-Frederick Douglass
#democracy #Kings #NoKings #Fascism #FlagDay #UnitedStates
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.
-George Orwell, 1984
-George Orwell, 1984
June 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.
-George Orwell, 1984
-George Orwell, 1984
I hope everyone has a happy Sunday.
June 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I hope everyone has a happy Sunday.
RIP Loretta Swift
“In a war zone, love can feel like a precious commodity.” – Hot Lips Houlihan
“In a war zone, love can feel like a precious commodity.” – Hot Lips Houlihan
a woman is standing in a dark room holding a rope .
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media.tenor.com
May 31, 2025 at 1:05 AM
RIP Loretta Swift
“In a war zone, love can feel like a precious commodity.” – Hot Lips Houlihan
“In a war zone, love can feel like a precious commodity.” – Hot Lips Houlihan
"Well, we are all going to die." --Senator Joni Ernst
a naked woman is sitting in a bathtub wearing a black necklace and smiling .
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media.tenor.com
May 31, 2025 at 12:37 AM
"Well, we are all going to die." --Senator Joni Ernst
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The reality that masked men without proper identification are confronting and arresting and taking away people should be intolerable to anyone who calls themselves American.
May 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The reality that masked men without proper identification are confronting and arresting and taking away people should be intolerable to anyone who calls themselves American.
How many people are languishing in jail somewhere for petty offenses while these two who attempted to defraud banks to the tune of $30MM are heading home?
For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.”
-Noam Chomsky
For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.”
-Noam Chomsky
May 28, 2025 at 11:04 PM
How many people are languishing in jail somewhere for petty offenses while these two who attempted to defraud banks to the tune of $30MM are heading home?
For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.”
-Noam Chomsky
For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.”
-Noam Chomsky
I am glad everyone is being normal and not weird about about the Caitlin Clark injury. The WNBA online community is interesting.
a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair with his arms outstretched on a talk show .
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media.tenor.com
May 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I am glad everyone is being normal and not weird about about the Caitlin Clark injury. The WNBA online community is interesting.
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CBS reporter Scott Pelley:
This is a warning that I fear many will look back on in five or six years and think “he was so right”.
If you haven’t already shared this, please do.
This is a warning that I fear many will look back on in five or six years and think “he was so right”.
If you haven’t already shared this, please do.
May 27, 2025 at 12:20 PM
CBS reporter Scott Pelley:
This is a warning that I fear many will look back on in five or six years and think “he was so right”.
If you haven’t already shared this, please do.
This is a warning that I fear many will look back on in five or six years and think “he was so right”.
If you haven’t already shared this, please do.
Dear WNBA,
I now understand why you've struggled to take the next step. Your league and the media supporting it is swirl of grievance and conspiracy. Much like the Republicans you dream of a golden era that didn't exist and rage against progress. Sports is supposed to be fun.
Sincerely,
Exhausted
I now understand why you've struggled to take the next step. Your league and the media supporting it is swirl of grievance and conspiracy. Much like the Republicans you dream of a golden era that didn't exist and rage against progress. Sports is supposed to be fun.
Sincerely,
Exhausted
a man with glasses says " and that 's the way it was " in front of a map of the world
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media.tenor.com
May 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Dear WNBA,
I now understand why you've struggled to take the next step. Your league and the media supporting it is swirl of grievance and conspiracy. Much like the Republicans you dream of a golden era that didn't exist and rage against progress. Sports is supposed to be fun.
Sincerely,
Exhausted
I now understand why you've struggled to take the next step. Your league and the media supporting it is swirl of grievance and conspiracy. Much like the Republicans you dream of a golden era that didn't exist and rage against progress. Sports is supposed to be fun.
Sincerely,
Exhausted