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Weston Abney
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President of AFSCME Local 96. Just some guy. Posts do not reflect employer's positions.
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It's four degrees outside, but we're still protesting to support an employee's right to speak freely.
A man wearing multiple coats, a hat, and a scarf. He is holding a sign that says, "AFSCME Local 96 Supports Employee Free Speech Rights".
December 5, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Tariffs are taxes on Americans.

Also:
"Erica York, the Tax Foundation’s vice president of federal tax policy, previously noted in a social media post that even after excluding high-income earners, which she classed as people earning over $100,000, the proposed $2,000 tariff dividends would cost nearly $300 billion, more than what the tariffs have so far generated."
November 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Also, at what restaurant can you get a glass of milk for $0.25?
The same spreadsheet showing the average cost of a glass of milk as $0.25. It does not quantify how large the glass is nor where it was purchased.
November 12, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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Looking at the DoorDash State of Commerce Report.

This is not a dataset. This is an executive summary of a dataset with no underlying data.
A spreadsheet with columns "DATASET", "DESCRIPTION", "TIMESTAMP", and "VALUE". Every entry under Dataset is "Cheeseburger Index". Entries under DESCRIPTION are "Average Cost of a Cheeseburger", "Average Cost of French Fries", or "Average Cost of Soda". Entries under TIMESTAMP are the first day of a month between September 2024 and September 2025. Entries under "VALUE" are in dollars.
November 12, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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Bright scarlet sheets of light in the night sky.
November 12, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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He has to be a leader.
In an Oct. 7, 2013, interview with then-Fox News host Greta Van Susteren, Trump criticized Obama for not being a dealmaker during the shutdown. "You have to get everybody in a room. You have to be a leader. The president has to lead. He has to get (the Speaker of the House) and everybody else in a room, and they have to make a deal. You have to be nice and be angry and be wild and cajole and do all sorts of things, but you have to get a deal.
November 9, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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No.

www.bls.gov/regions/moun...
"While all six major grocery store food indexes increased in the past year, a 6.1-percent rise in the meats, poultry, fish and eggs index led these advances."
November 8, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Reminding folks that the First Amendment is still a thing.
Some guy holding a sign stating that "AFSCME Local 96 supports employee Free Speech rights"
October 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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AFSCME Local 96 supports the rights of our fellow workers.

I'll be in the Free Speech Zone every Thursday over the noon hour.
A man in a green AFSCME shirt carries a sign stating, "AFSCME Local 96 Eupports Employee Free Speech Rights"
October 3, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Iowa State University's social media policy is… sparse and vague.

Like, these aren't bright lines. These are broad bullet points.

If there's anything I've learned from social media, it's that literally everything can be negatively interpreted.
Think before you post -- Don't post when you're angry or emotional; cool off -- Picture your post as a top (not good) news story … Does it pass the sniff test? -- Grammar and spelling are important -- Consider privacy and liability -- Can the post be negatively interpreted? Personal vs. professional - Separate your personal and professional time on social media platforms. It will help keep you professionally focused and minimize the room for error (ex: posting something on your professional account that you meant to post on your personal account). - If you have a personal account that affiliates you with Iowa State University, or you talk about your affiliation with ISU openly on that account, readers WILL associate your content with the university (despite any disclaimers that your views are your own). - Resist inserting personal views on professional accounts (ex: politics, religion, social issues)
September 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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From the movie Blade Runner. Deckard asks, "How many vowels are in strawberry?" Rachael replies, "There are four vowels in strawberry."
August 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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The good news, it correctly counted the number of R's.
Microsoft Copilot declaring that there are two A's in "strawberry".
August 9, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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OH MY GOD EVERY SINGLE TIME
I hate that “listicle” always makes me think of “testicle.”
June 16, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Hope everyone made it through last night's hail alright.

Nothing says "Iowa" like going from 70 degrees to blizzard in a single day.
Four balls of dime-sized hail.
March 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Just finished The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty. Holy buckets, what a good book. Highly recommended.
The cover of The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty.
November 28, 2024 at 5:48 PM
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woooo democracy
A "Vote Here" sign in front of university housing.
November 5, 2024 at 7:41 PM
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AFSCME Local 96 will be in the Iowa State Free Speech Zone from 11-4 tomorrow! Come say hi!
Sidewalk chalk with the same information
October 14, 2024 at 7:11 PM
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Every single union event:
September 2, 2024 at 7:06 PM