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State worker groups oppose suggested IPERS cuts, new teacher pay model • Iowa Capital Dispatch Organizations representing public sector workers called for Iowans to contact the governor and lawmakers about the Iowa DOGE proposals.

As Iowa’s DOGE task force considers recommending cuts to public employee compensation and tying school staff pay to student achievement, public workers organizations are rallying for Iowans to speak out against these proposals, Robin Opsahl reports.

Keep pushing! I don't care how hard Collins pushes his mute button. Keep pushing.

Historians outraged over Iowa historical society cuts The State Historical Society of Iowa is struggling to balance their budget. But the board of trustees say cuts are being made without public input.

Iowa is at the stage in the descent into authoritarianism where they start burning the books and rewriting the history.

www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...

Reynolds seeks to join discussions on Trump's plan for undocumented ag workers • Iowa Capital Dispatch Reynolds said her administration reached out to Trump's team about legislation to allow some undocumented workers to stay in the country.

Gov. Kim Reynolds said Tuesday that Iowa officials have contacted the White House to be involved in discussions on how to keep immigrant agricultural workers in the country, Robin Opsahl reports.

Thank you for this PERFECT Cedar Rapids Iowa billboard @moreperfectunion.bsky.social

And we'll continue to resist!

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Sen. Joni Ernst offers “apology” for “We’re all going to die” town hall comment At the town hall, Sen. Ernst defended efforts to rollback benefits for people she said were not supposed to be eligible for Medicaid benefits.

Dont be fooled! Joni's apology is fake news. More dismissiveness and insincerity that she chalks up to her "incorrect assumption."

Sen. Joni Ernst offers “apology” for “We’re all going to die” town hall comment www.kcrg.com/2025/06/01/s...

Cruel and dismissive 47 Acolyte Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) doesn't care if people die.

Dismissive and cruel Joni wants those dying millions to squeal. When I asked my IA Sen. Carrie Koelker (R-Dyersville) at her recent in-person town hall what she wanted to say to the thousands of Iowans that would lose Medicaid she responded, "I have nothing to say to them." Cruel like Joni.

Resistance is not futile. It's fertile.

Rob Sand announces campaign for governor State Auditor Rob Sand launched his campaign for governor on Monday.

HOPE returns to Iowa!

www.kcrg.com/2025/05/12/r...

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Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds will not seek a third term Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds has announced she’s not running for a third term.

Good riddance to Iowa MAGA Acolyte "Covid Kim" Reynolds. She shoved private school vouchers down our throats to the tune of $1 billion in the first four years.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds will not seek a third term www.kcrg.com/2025/04/11/i...

3,000 strong for Hands Off-Iowa City. This is IA-01, where second term Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks won reelection in 2024 by only a 798 vote margin. Democrats CAN FLIP THIS CONGRESSIONAL SEAT in 2026. LFG!!

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(day after 47's "Liberation Day," more accurately called "Tariffs Fleece the Working Class Day."

Connect the dots: Ag Secy Rollins visited Iowa to dangle "market disruption payments," aka welfare for tariff-affected farmers, on the same day that IA Sen Chuck Grassley introduced a bill to "rein in judicial injunctions" from "individual district judges that dictate national policy."

Orange Felon acolytes IA State Sen. Koelker and IA State Rep. Bradley legislative forum. They voted to eliminate Medicaid expansion; to gut public K-12 funding to fund private school vouchers; to eliminate civil rights for transgender Iowans; to ban books. Cruelty is their agenda.

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Iowa: first state in the US to revoke civil rights protections for transgender individuals. Republicans used hatred, fear, and misinformation to stigmatize transgender existence. They legislated cruelty. The bills also saw the largest protests in recent Iowa history. We will not remain silent.

Orange Felon has options, as James Romoser at Politico reported: rally his MAGA soldiers to repeal the 22nd amendment; run as VP, then immediately ascend to the presidency; run and rely on his loyalist SCOTUS to not oppose him; just don't leave the office. I'm buying stock in spray tan!

The U.S.A. is for sale! You, too, can buy your US citizenship 🤢

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Hearing on bill regarding gender identity in Iowa Civil Rights Act draws large protest at Iowa statehouse A subcommittee hearing Monday morning on a bill that would remove gender identity from the Iowa Civil Rights Act drew heavy protests.

Iowa House Judiciary Committee Bigots Steven Holt (R-Denison) and Samantha Fett (R-Carlisle) voted out of subcomittee a bill to remove gender identity as a protected class in the Iowa Civil Rights Act. State-sanctioned discrimination of transgender Iowans now underway.

www.kcci.com/article/iowa...

What hope in Iowa looks like! The first 400 people queued up for Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov at the Englert Theater. Outside temp is 21°, and hope feels much warmer!

Nervous Musk, Trump, Vance have all been outclassed in public arguments these last few days. Government failure, stock market crash, and dictatorial alliances are not popular. People are starting to realize that there is no truth here beyond the desire for personal wealth and power. (2/2)

Protecting democracy requires protecting trans and nonbinary people How the autocratic playbook is deployed against trans and nonbinary communities

Authoritarian leaders scapegoat vulnerable communities to gain and consolidate power, but we have the power to defeat the threat. We catalogue the Trump admin’s attacks on trans and nonbinary people and what you can do for our LGBTQIA+ community and democracy.

1000 strong for the People v. Griffin: Asheville Rally. We stand with the disenfranchised 65,000 NC voters whose votes must be counted in the free and fair election of Allison Riggs to the NC Supreme Court.

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Sending love from this former federal civil servant to my National Park Service colleagues. Our natural and cultural resources were well-protected because of you. YOU STILL MATTER, despite what the Orange Felon and his oligarchic minions do or say.

1. Gut institutions
2. Fill them with loyalists
3. Say f**k you judicial branch
4. Sell it as "efficiency"
Corruption is what's for dinner.