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“Verbal assaults”
"We've seen over a thousand percent increase in assaults on ICE officers, 8,000 verbal assaults on them...."
January 18, 2026 at 10:18 PM
“Verbal assaults”
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"Bullying #Denmark to seize #Greenland would be the equivalent of threatening a friend to steal his car after he already let you borrow it."
Something Is Rotten in the State of #America
(We no longer pass the sniff 🦨 test)
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/o...
"Bullying #Denmark to seize #Greenland would be the equivalent of threatening a friend to steal his car after he already let you borrow it."
Something Is Rotten in the State of #America
(We no longer pass the sniff 🦨 test)
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/o...
Opinion | Something Is Rotten in the State of America
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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"Bullying #Denmark to seize #Greenland would be the equivalent of threatening a friend to steal his car after he already let you borrow it."
Something Is Rotten in the State of #America
(We no longer pass the sniff 🦨 test)
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/o...
"Bullying #Denmark to seize #Greenland would be the equivalent of threatening a friend to steal his car after he already let you borrow it."
Something Is Rotten in the State of #America
(We no longer pass the sniff 🦨 test)
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/o...
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block immediately everyone
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January 16, 2026 at 11:56 PM
block immediately everyone
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Besides this, I appreciate how big ag sycophants always talk about cover crops (paid for by taxpayers) and buffer strips (useless for heavily tiled areas) but never ever mention that we have 20% of US CAFOs: Iowa more than doubled the number of 🐖 since the 1970s, went from 60k hog producers to 6k.
I have a PhD in Chemistry but I’m an air quotes scientist according to Iowa republicans
www.newtondailynews.com/article/816,...
www.newtondailynews.com/article/816,...
Feenstra says Iowa needs to better promote ag and water quality efforts
Congressman was warned by state senator at Newton event that Democrats will make water quality a big issue for midterm election
www.newtondailynews.com
January 14, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Besides this, I appreciate how big ag sycophants always talk about cover crops (paid for by taxpayers) and buffer strips (useless for heavily tiled areas) but never ever mention that we have 20% of US CAFOs: Iowa more than doubled the number of 🐖 since the 1970s, went from 60k hog producers to 6k.
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Kickoff of my campaign for IA Secretary of Agriculture in two days-be there or be square! Confluence Brewery in Des Moines.
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Redirecting...
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January 13, 2026 at 12:53 PM
Kickoff of my campaign for IA Secretary of Agriculture in two days-be there or be square! Confluence Brewery in Des Moines.
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www.facebook.com/share/1i3MLW...
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Something thought-provoking for y’all…
@ellenenders.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social @roryflynn808.bsky.social @11tulips.bsky.social @nancyterhune.bsky.social @beachpebblegirl.bsky.social @docjanicel.bsky.social
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@ellenenders.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social @roryflynn808.bsky.social @11tulips.bsky.social @nancyterhune.bsky.social @beachpebblegirl.bsky.social @docjanicel.bsky.social
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The Decline of Deviance
Where has all the weirdness gone?
open.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Sandwich man leaving court
November 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Sandwich man leaving court
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Seeing a lot of people hating from outside the club right now. As if you'd be able to do a better job building the national ballroom/event space that we've needed for hundreds if not in fact thousands of years.
October 22, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Seeing a lot of people hating from outside the club right now. As if you'd be able to do a better job building the national ballroom/event space that we've needed for hundreds if not in fact thousands of years.
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The best piece yet about Iowa’s cancer epidemic.
Written by a pro: @tomphilpott.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/2011...
Written by a pro: @tomphilpott.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/2011...
Of Corn and Cancer: Iowa’s Deadly Water Crisis
All that feed corn and all those soybeans—and those nearly 25 million hogs—produce a lot of nitrate. It’s making Iowans sick and causing them to die. And the politicians aren’t doing a thing about it.
newrepublic.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.
AI’s Invasive Species
The slop is winning.
www.theatlantic.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.
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“Seventy percent of our state’s land is in corn or soybean production. We’ve known for decades, probably close to 50 years now, that we lose a lot of nutrients from that production system,”
insideclimatenews.org/news/1906202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/1906202...
Pollution, Not Drought, Prompts Lawn-Watering Ban in Des Moines - Inside Climate News
It’s a first for the Central Iowa Water Works, which is worried about maintaining compliance with EPA nitrate standards.
insideclimatenews.org
June 19, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Fight for Your Life
Because politicians won't fight for it
riverraccoon.substack.com
June 17, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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$100 says if D guv candidate Rob Sand says anything about this it will include these two words:
Task Force
www.desmoinesregister.com/story/tech/s...
Task Force
www.desmoinesregister.com/story/tech/s...
Nitrate crisis pushes central Iowa water supplier to consider first-time lawn-watering ban
As near-record nitrate levels strain water supply, Central Iowa Water Works asks residents to slash watering, and contemplates a first-ever ban
www.desmoinesregister.com
June 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
$100 says if D guv candidate Rob Sand says anything about this it will include these two words:
Task Force
www.desmoinesregister.com/story/tech/s...
Task Force
www.desmoinesregister.com/story/tech/s...
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One of JVL’s darkest columns yet
April 3, 2025 at 11:17 PM
One of JVL’s darkest columns yet
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The latest @theswinerepublic.bsky.social blog post tells a clear if terrible story about the failure of academics to stand up for science in the land grant system and through it connects the dots on how we ended up in the anti science era.
Iowa is big ag’s sacrifice state and this story shows you.
Iowa is big ag’s sacrifice state and this story shows you.
For What It's Worth
There's something happening here
riverraccoon.substack.com
April 1, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The latest @theswinerepublic.bsky.social blog post tells a clear if terrible story about the failure of academics to stand up for science in the land grant system and through it connects the dots on how we ended up in the anti science era.
Iowa is big ag’s sacrifice state and this story shows you.
Iowa is big ag’s sacrifice state and this story shows you.
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French Senator Claude Malhuret:
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
March 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
French Senator Claude Malhuret:
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
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"We are in the midst of a global fight between Western liberal democracy and authoritarian government, and in this fight, the United States has just switched sides and signed up with the authoritarian camp." - Francis Fukuyama
www.persuasion.community/p/the-ultima...
www.persuasion.community/p/the-ultima...
The Ultimate Betrayal
America just switched sides in the Ukraine war.
www.persuasion.community
February 20, 2025 at 10:14 PM
"We are in the midst of a global fight between Western liberal democracy and authoritarian government, and in this fight, the United States has just switched sides and signed up with the authoritarian camp." - Francis Fukuyama
www.persuasion.community/p/the-ultima...
www.persuasion.community/p/the-ultima...
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As the iPhone 16e debuts, read Ed Smith on the inattention pandemic
The inattention pandemic
The tyranny of social media has made us all minor celebrities: exhausted and narcissistic.
www.newstatesman.com
February 20, 2025 at 10:10 AM
As the iPhone 16e debuts, read Ed Smith on the inattention pandemic
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Livestock manure in great lakes basin vs iowa open.substack.com/pub/riverrac...
A Picture is Worth 1000 Turds
HUC stands for Hydrologic Unit Code and is part of a hierarchical system we use to classify watersheds.
open.substack.com
February 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Livestock manure in great lakes basin vs iowa open.substack.com/pub/riverrac...