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October 29, 2025 Today is the twenty-ninth day of the government shutdown, and the House of Representatives is still on break as House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) continues to try to force the Senate to pass the House...

October 29, 2025

Area developer finally gets his wish: the ability to fire all the inspectors. 🤡

@ddiamond.bsky.social
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Who is willing to fight for a proper Iowa? - Storm Lake Times Pilot It sure smells like Gov. Kim Reynolds is cooking up something behind closed doors that will gut local government to make up for her bad fiscal decisions. The governor reportedly warned local …

Here’s my latest column. Thanks for reading!

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October 24, 2025 Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has canceled House business again next week, meaning that over the last 17 weeks, the House of Representatives will have worked on Capitol Hill for just 20 days.

October 24, 2025

October 23, 2025 Julia Ainsley and Didi Martinez of NBC News reported today that Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s rush to get new recruits onto the street has meant they have pushed into their training program mo...

October 23, 2025

He definitely can’t say he’s been “a little busy” in the past month

Like any shady contractor, ..

.. begging for forgiveness > asking for permission. 🤡

Important to note that it's New York STATE that brought charges against the J6er that threatened Hakeem Jeffries. Not the DOJ.

I'm at the Democratic nominating convention for Iowa Senate district 16 in West Des Moines.
Delegates from the precincts in this district (covering Windsor Heights and parts of Clive and WDM) will nominate a candidate for Dec. 30 special election to replace the late Dem State Senator Claire Celsi.

This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com

Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase Global
Comcast Corp.
Hard Rock International
Google
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Meta Platforms Inc.
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When books were being pulled from Iowa classrooms, these teens started an after-school club to read them Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

GOP 🦗

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Destruction of the White House East Wing began today. Here it is in better times with better residents.

October 20, 2025 Over the weekend, as millions of Americans attended “No Kings” protests, President Donald J.

October 20, 2025

No kings protest in Des moines, lowa.

The joy of resistance: A gallery of No Kings signs from Iowa Laura Belin shares dozens of quirky, creative, and powerful signs from central Iowa "No Kings" rallies in October 2025.

New post: Instead of describing the speeches at the big No Kings rally in Des Moines, I decided to write about some of the important themes of hand-made signs I saw on Saturday.
(It was hard to choose!)
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/10/19/t...

Seattle No Kings from the monorail

I couldn’t see the whole crowd in Des Moines from any one spot. Certainly thousands of people.

Way to go Des Moines!
#nokings #iowa #desmoines

US debit card transactions not exactly showing a holiday ramp.

(via Apollo)

Panel predicts 9% drop in Iowa state tax revenue in current fiscal year Robin Opsahl: The new projections have increased the expected gap between the state’s income and spending to $1.3 billion for FY 2026.

Iowa's fiscal outlook continues to worsen.
Robin Opsahl of Iowa Capital Dispatch reports on yesterday's meeting of the Revenue Estimating Conference. The state is expected to bring in about $1.3 billion less in revenue than spending approved for FY2026.
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/10/17/p...

Stop calling us Nazis or we’ll murder you over things you say

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid" We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s.

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Love this

They want Iowa Normal back Back and forth all over Iowa I trundle hawking my book — “Dear Marty, We Crapped In Our Nest.” Everywhere I go one message emerges: We want our good old Iowa back.

Iowans just want their normal back, but aren’t getting it, Art Cullen writes.

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October 13, 2025 Last Tuesday, President Donald J.

October 13, 2025

Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.

ICE is all over the city and burbs today, including Waukegan. Multiple reports on social media from people who have found empty work vans and are trying to locate family of their owners. This is a near daily occurrence now.

October 10, 2025 All of President Donald J.

October 10, 2025