@conorsen.bsky.social

I’m excited to launch my new series on Russia and the far-right. I’ve worked on this for so long, and over the coming months will share my research and documented info in one place so everyone can see how Russia has weaponized the far-right to subvert democracy in the U.S. and across Europe.

Breaking news from Des Moines: ICE has detained Dr. Ian Roberts, the superintendent of Iowa's largest school district.
The Des Moines Public Schools said "We have no confirmed information as to why Dr. Roberts is being detained or the next potential steps."
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/09/26/i...

It's happening in Iowa.

Pascual Leonardo Pedro-Pedro, 20, of West Liberty, went to a routine annual immigration check-in on July 1—abiding by what the government is asking him to do as an immigrant—and was detained by ICE.

A thread, and how you can help:

we have a secretary of
-transportation making it more dangerous to travel
-education making kids stupider
-defense making us more vulnerable to attacks
-homeland security making us feel less secure than ever
-health and human services trying to spread illness

everything’s fine.

This is interesting
www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

RIP Phill. New shirt raising money for the Iowa Farm Sanctuary, which helped to rescue Phill. #raygun #Phill www.raygunsite.com

bsky.app/profile/theg...

@laurarbelin.bsky.social That's Ottumwa Regional

“Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned, they therefore do as they like.” - Edward Thurlow, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (1778 to 1783, 1783 to 1792)

Yes, there is snow from Texas to Florida. The #climatedeniers will use it as an argument against anthropogenic #climatechange.

As the artic sea ice decreases and polar regions warm, the Jetstream can allow extreme cold to move equatorward and warm air poleward.

To do good.

A publicly-funded study of the venomous saliva of the Gila monster is exactly the kind of silly sounding basic science John McCain and Tom Coburn used to rail about in the Senate, but it changed the course of medicine pretty substantially in the last 20y. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

New post: Dan Piller looks at obstacles facing Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and concludes that politics of food and nutrition may turn out to be as complicated and nasty as the politics of masks and vaccinations.

www.bleedingheartland.com/2024/12/15/e...

amzn