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Turret Lathe Operator. 1925.

Turret Lathe Operator. 1925. https://www.thegazette.com/history/history-happenings-the-cherry-building-was-artist-grant-woods-first-big-commission/

How Agricultural Concerns Are Shifting Iowa’s Political Landscape Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Art Cullen says agricultural issues like water pollution and cancer risk could sway the midterm elections.

“In fact, there is a Democrat research scientist, Chris Jones, a water researcher who is running for IA Sec of Ag. A quixotic mission in IA, a D running against an incumbent R; that’s really a tall task.”
civileats.com/2026/02/24/h...

Need to use a bigger hammer to get the best results

We start taking back our Iowa clean waters on Sunday at my office. Come meet Chris Jones. 3 PM. We need to start winning.

Fuck this, and fuck him

Strange way to refer a genocide

This is the kind of thing a rich CEO says at the beginning of a science fiction movie to establish for the audience that he is a sociopath and the villain.

As do South Dakota’s dogs

@markdolk.bsky.social

So.

A globally disruptive, economically unsound, and whim-driven tariff policy turns out to be unconstitutional.

Huh.

Big hot boxes that produce few jobs but substantial consumer and environmental negative consequences

Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM. BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.

The Supreme Court:

But not arrested?

Yay me!

Looks familiar.

Say yes!

Sure, but who could have predicted this?

*reads contemporaneous reporting and policy analysis from mid-2025*

Oh, everyone. Everyone predicted this.

👇

I'm assuming the "Kristi ❤️ Corey" shiplap sign is on the other side of their bedroom

Jesse Jackson on the ground: An Iowa caucus memoir Dave Leshtz recalls working for Jesse Jackson in Iowa: "the most exhilarating, inspiring, and illuminating" campaign he ever worked on.

New post: Dave Leshtz recalls working for Jesse Jackson's 1988 presidential campaign in Iowa: "the most exhilarating, inspiring, and illuminating of all the campaigns I’ve worked on."
#Iowa #iacaucus #history
www.bleedingheartland.com/2026/02/18/j...
@dleshtz.bsky.social

Poll: Most Iowa voters consider water quality a 'very serious issue' Iowa's rising cancer rates top the list of serious concerns, found the poll commissioned by the national nonprofit Food & Water Watch.

www.thegazette.com/environment-...

“It is abundantly clear that voters are fed up with the inaction they see in Des Moines and Washington,”

Oh

Poll found 82 percent of voters would vote for a political candidate who makes protecting clean water and curbing water contamination from industrial agriculture in Iowa a priority.

“And this is not a partisan thing.”

This answer - from one of the president’s key economic advisors - is disgraceful.

And, fwiw, the number for tariff pass through is closer to 94-96 percent

Jesse Jackson reading "Green Eggs and Ham" is so wonderful. RIP

Illinois Democrats are calling for year-round, nationwide E15—a blend of 85% gasoline, 15% corn ethanol.

E15 hasn’t been allowed in summer because ethanol increases ozone pollution, but it’s now allowed in 7 Midwest states.

Let’s check how ozone levels in the corn states have been trending:

Miss it