Eli Perencevich

I’d love to hear “have you no shame?!”

*Drank raw milk in pregnancy*

Good lord. You have MAHA demonizing vaccines and Tylenol when they love them some raw milk, and this is the shit that's actually dangerous.

Memorial from the farm in Iowa where Richie Valens, Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper died on 2-3-1959 with flowers, a record and other mementos

The day the music died February 3rd near Clear Lake, Iowa (photo from warmer days)

💔

Just to establish for the record, we're claiming "ex-husband" status for a divorce that occurred 51 YEARS AGO? In 1975?

Because there is nothing that the tabloid world won't do or say to besmirch 1) a woman who 2) possesses a politically liberal identity?

Claro OK.

BERNIE SANDERS: Do vaccines cause autism?

BHATTACHARYA: I do not believe that the measles vaccine causes autism

SANDERS: Nah. Uh uh. I didn't ask measles. Do vaccines cause autism?

BHATTACHARYA: I have not seen a study that suggests any single vaccine causes autism

I’m honored to earn Fred and Charlotte's support as we build the broad coalition it will take to defeat Ashley Hinson and deliver a new generation of leadership that puts Iowa first.

A store entrance has the remains of a vintage tile floor with a red and grey cross cross border.

Hanging on

Cards are stockpiling some good arms the past couple of years. Promising

Cards get Cijntje the switch pitcher!

Exactly. What’s the packaging for the apple or orange I’m bringing to work.

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The Contagion of Liberty The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution

Today is the paperback release day for my book The Contagion of Liberty! It’s about how Americans demanded that their governments provide inoculations for smallpox to the public as their right and also to affirm that public health is a foremost duty of government. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

was browsing beautiful library pictures on here, as one does, and noticed myself "studying" (texting) in this one

Bookshelves and tables at the Iowa State Capitol law library

Spiral staircase at the Iowa State Capitol law library

That’s awesome! For your library picture pleasure—the law library at the Iowa State Capitol—one of my favorites! 😍

JAMA Network Open article: "Primary Care Continuity and Utilization Patterns for Veterans With Homeless Experience" by Kevin R. Riggs et al. Published February 2, 2026. DOI: text@1.

Veterans with homeless experience enrolled in tailored #HPACT primary care clinics had significantly higher continuity with their usual clinician and more primary care visits.

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NYT report: Chuck Grassley helped end FBI careers Laura Belin: Grassley's oversight work led to senior FBI agents or supervisors being forced out, in some cases with no due process.

New, by me: A must-read NYT Magazine report showed how Senator Chuck Grassley's oversight work as Judiciary Committee chair led to career FBI agents or supervisors being forced out, in some cases with no investigation supporting their alleged wrongdoing.
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Federal judge blocks Trump administration from ending temporary legal status for Haitians in the US A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary protections that have allowed roughly 350,000 Haitians to live and work in the United States.

A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary protections that have allowed 350,000 Haitians to live and work in the U.S.

Groundhog Day 2026: Wiarton Willie predicts early spring Quebec's Fred la Marmotte has made his prediction of Groundhog Day, calling for an early spring.

I’m not listening to Phil. Willie and Fred showing the way www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Iowa City VA workers, community hold vigil for slain nurse Alex Pretti About 200 people gathered Sunday evening outside the Iowa City Veterans Affairs Medical Center for a candlelight vigil honoring Alex Pretti, a VA nurse, union member and federal worker killed last month by federal agents in Minneapolis.

Iowa City VA workers, community hold vigil for slain Minneapolis nurse Alex Pretti

The federal career civil service workers are under tremendous pressure and wake up every day and work hard to help improve other people’s lives. They represent the best of America and we as country need to rebuild, empower, and elevate the federal career civil service workforce. I believe we will.

Last saturday there were people protesting by noon in Iowa City

Yes. And it will keep building 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼

Book titled "Read this when things fall apart - letters to activists in crisis" edited by Kelly Hayes

"We live in daunting times... To survive and cultivate meaning, admid so much collapse, we have to change everything - and we are going to need each other"

A timely collection of letters to activists in crisis

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I am so proud and excited for my friend Dr. Alister Martin @alisterfmartin.bsky.social, NYC’s next Commisioner of Health.

The city is in great hands!

Cedar Rapids students join national walkout to protest ICE Close to 200 students at Washington High School in Cedar Rapids walked out of school at noon Friday as part of a nationwide protest calling for "no work, no school, no shopping" to oppose federal immi...

💯 the kids are alright

Cedar Rapids students join national walkout to protest ICE
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Two bar graphs compare mortality displacement. Graph A, "With mortality displacement," shows a spike in 2020. Graph B, "Without mortality displacement," shows a similar, but less extreme, spike. Both graphs show a decreasing trend from 2015-2025.

In this cross-sectional study of 34 countries, postpandemic mortality declines were rarely associated with mortality displacement; most European countries had not returned to their prepandemic mortality trajectories by 2024. ja.ma/4rm48KC

GOOD NEWS! For the FIRST time ever, researchers have developed a targeted combination therapy that has successfully AND completely ELIMINATED KRAS-driven pancreatic tumors in experimental models. Tumors regressed COMPLETELY with NO recurrence OR major side effects. Let’s talk about that!