Scott A. Hall

Can you get Marquee to join Bluesky please?

Lucinda Williams channels earlier protest music era on new album Lucinda Williams has been making music for decades. With her new album, she's speaking and singing to this moment, calling it a battle cry and finding grit and grace in a world on edge. Senior arts co...

Lucinda Williams has been making music for decades. With her new album, she's speaking and singing to this moment. https://to.pbs.org/4kNXyLd

I hate it.

Map identifying the approximate regions where various Indigenous groups lived in North America in 1776.

The Utah Historical Society just produced a new, excellent map of "The Peoples of North America in 1776." Great resource for anyone teaching, writing, presenting about Native peoples as part of their 250th work. america250.utah.gov/power-of-pla...

After a lot of consideration, I've decided to suspend my campaign for Congress. Thank you to all the friends and supporters who believed in this campaign along the way- I'm so grateful.

Ready my full statement here:

Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.

Every American - Republican and Democrat - should be outraged by this assault on freedom and privacy.

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Immigrants are just families that came here after your family did.

GERMAN PRESIDENT STEINMEIER:

“.. the United States has broken with the values that it helped to establish ..

“.. we have now moved beyond the stage where we can lament the lack of respect for international law or the erosion of the international order; we are far beyond that, I believe.”

Polls closed a few minutes ago and Democrat Renee Hardman has 73% of the vote in Iowa Senate district 16. Only a few precincts not counted.
Republicans will not win back their super majority.

Boy I hope your take is correct. Gonna miss him on our staff for sure.

Iowa had 13 consensus All-Americans in the last 12 seasons.

2014
Brandon Scherff
2015
Desmond King
2017
Josey Jewell
Josh Jackson
2019
Keith Duncan
2020
Daviyon Nixon
2021
Tyler Linderbaum
2022
Jack Campbell
2023
Cooper DeJean
2023
Tory Taylor
2024
LB Jay Higgins
2024
Kaleb Johnson
2025
Logan Jones

The GOP enacted civil service reform.

The GOP will destroy civil service reform.

The GOP is NOT the same party that it was. Keep this in mind when they claim Lincoln as their own

Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.

Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.

Beloved University of Iowa religious studies professor Jay Holstein dies at 87 "He just had that kind of philosophical mind and artistic mind where he wanted to uncover truths about human life, or get students to ask questions about their meaning in life, or how to deal with som...

UIowa Religious Studies chair said Jay Holstein often got emails from students thanking him - some 10 yrs later. "It was after I had seen maybe 20 of these in one semester that I realized, whatever it is, there’s something really important going on here."
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Gary Tyler Spent 42 Years on Death Row. Racism Put Him There. | ACLU Tyler’s case shows how bias, fear, and discrimination drive wrongful convictions — and why confronting racial injustice in the legal system remains urgent today.

At 17, Gary Tyler was sentenced to death by an all white jury for a crime he didn’t commit. He was released from prison at age 57, after spending 42 years behind bars.

Wrongful convictions are a feature, not a bug, of the death penalty. We must end it once and for all. 

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...

A Black Hawk helicopter. SWAT teams repelling to the roof. 300 agents. Flash-bang grenades. A TV crew.

“It’s 20,000 of them running through my house like we got Saddam Hussein in the closet."

For all that, fed prosecutors filed no criminal charges against anyone who was arrested.

Stunning report.

“.. a photographer captured .. Bessent reading a text message .. assumed to have been forwarded by Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins because it is signed ‘BR’”, with the words of Iowa grain trader Ben Scholl, “who was furious about financial support” for Argentina.

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Anyone care for a midafternoon shower? 🍾

YouTube video by University of Iowa Alumni Painting Kurt Vonnegut | Artist Red Danielson Reads His Iowa Magazine Essay

"Painting Kurt Vonnegut" | Artist Red Danielson Reads His 'Iowa Magazine' Essay youtu.be/RFvllylQ39o?...

Painting Kurt Vonnegut: An Iowa Artist Celebrates a Workshop Legend In this personal essay, Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate Red Danielson takes a colorful voyage to discover the face of the literary icon 60 years after his arrival in Iowa City.

"Painting Kurt Vonnegut: An Iowa Artist Celebrates a Workshop Legend" In this personal essay, Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate Red Danielson takes a colorful voyage to discover the face of the literary icon 60 years after his arrival in Iowa City
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The Trump team is out there trying to normalize an utterly immoral sellout of UKR

Congress eliminated public media funding. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together.

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The 14th Amendment was ratified on this day in 1868. It guarantees:

✔️ due process for all
✔️ birthright citizenship
✔️ equal protection under the law

Now more than ever, we're determined to protect these essential rights.

If you know someone who would grab the Iowa football beat and own it with authority, forward this to them. For true pros only: workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

Are you working in civil rights enforcement for the federal government and being made to investigate racial equity programs OR are you an organization being investigated or had your federal funds stripped for racial equity work? Message me. Signal: nhannahjones.67

Your regular reminder that the entire global economy is subject to the whipsaw whims of a person who doesn’t understand how the global economy works

500K Mexican-Americans served in the U.S. armed forces in WWII, as did millions of 1st and 2nd-gen immigrants, and 109K noncitizens.

Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.

It's great to be back in Cedar Rapids.

Former Iowa judges condemn Trump administration's attacks on judiciary Former U.S. District Court Judge Mark W. Bennett and former Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice Marsha Ternus signed an open letter to Pam Bondi.

After signing a letter to AG Pam Bondi (also signed by more than 150 former state and federal judges), former US District Court Judge Mark Bennett commented to me on Trump's "relentless personal attacks on federal judges who invalidate his executive orders":
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