Jacob Serfling

The dumbest part of this is that ESPECIALLY with No Kings its clearly having a trickle out to those areas he deems more essential to reach. My mom is all pumped to go to the protest in my conservative 15k pop hometown that’s 100% inspired by what they saw happening in Minneapolis in June

Glad someone in his camp talked him into a gear beyond “aw shucks, let’s all come together”. There’s room for that, but it can’t just be that

Reminds me of wife ending her business relationship with the therapist she shared office with until a year ago. Couldn’t understand why someone seeing LGBT, POC, etc clients would be bothered by her voting for Trump - it didn’t matter to her! Acted like she was getting picked on by it coming up.

Auditor Rob Sand says office has received request to reaudit DMPS • Iowa Capital Dispatch Sand said the audit request made by three Republican state lawmakers was invalid, as a request must come from within the school district.

I have pretty openly been lukewarm at best on @robsandia.bsky.social and his gubernatorial campaign, but I will give credit where it’s due that I think his response here has gotten better and appreciate the willingness to call out obvious bad faith “concern” from conservative parties in the state.

Just a reminder that the folks screaming the loudest to vote no on the Des Moines school bond issue because “they can’t be trusted now” are actually the ones all in siphoning Ed tax dollars…as long as it goes to *their* buddies and donors

Wait…he’s floating this ON TOP of vouchers?!!!

States Boost Building Energy Codes and New Homes Keep Rising The data are clear: stronger energy codes are not slowing down new home construction

Big developers and Home Builders Associations frequently claim that energy codes that save money, improve comfort, and make healthier homes will cause housing construction to slow down. The data shows this simply isn’t true. #Housing #BuildingCodes #EnergyBurden” www.aceee.org/blog-post/20...

For the life of me I'll never understand why Vance's blood libel of Haitian immigrants in Ohio wasn't the end of him appearing on TV or, at the very least, being asked every time he starts an interview, "Why should we believe you when you admitted you were lying about that?"

That was why “Life Story” ruled and I wish there had just been more of it (like a mini-series of that length for each decade) - treat 5 decades of story AS five decades, not like 5 years.

It also replicates the “teach to the test” approach that plagues education in the standardized testing era. Everything is about the metrics captured on that survey, anything else that might make someone good at their job falls by the wayside.

Blue dot those masked thugs!

In my head, I hear literally every AI CEO quote in his “dumb studio head guy” voice 🤣

I think it’s possible for tech and data centers to be good neighbors, but they will not do it on their own. Local governments MUST DEMAND IT and stop being afraid to tell these projects to kick rocks if they can’t comply with reasonable standards and community benefits

Has there been a single article following up on the letter Parrish showed from the previous attorney that seemed put DHS’s claims about his status and/or knowledge of it in doubt? If there is, I missed it, but every few days there’s some new detail on his background to debate

Right…and I don’t know what angle the writer was trying to take here, but it pisses me off that this continues to get covered as “DMPS scandal” and not “ICE intentionally targets convenient non-violent community leader”. The extent to which him still being held is an afterthought in these stories!

Man hires trainer he worked with before. Story at 11.

If the @thegazette.com wanted to run a broader point on how school districts in general use funds on contractors, cool, but that’s not what they’re doing. It’s yet another piece laundering ICE justifications for Roberts’ detention and painting DMPS as untrustworthy with critical bond vote looming.

Yes, Des Moines the only school district to ever use a search firm or bring in outside trainers. The only man to ever hire someone he’s worked with before at a new job. 🙄

Abolish ICE.

Try to root out what’s driving the injury bug, sure, but good grief

I don’t think he’s perfect or anything, but this type of season used to be the *hopeful ceiling* in the not distant past

There’s potential, I don’t think I’d characterize it as a tiny jump though

ADRENALINE IN MY SOUL
DOWN THREE KICKERS
CARSON RHODES

Even a blonde nut finds a few squirrels

Every guy on campus with a decent leg and a dream getting real excited

Well there’s still the ICE recruitment bullshit to make you want to hurl things at the TV

For all the NIL and such, you can tell it’s still a game played by college kids by the true commitment screwing around and then pulling their best work out of their ass at the last minute. #BlueCy

I mean SOMEBODY needs to help Rocco

It’s the Waterloo/CF people who should be annoyed about that