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Jenny in Iowa

@jaiowan.bsky.social

Just an ordinary Iowan trying to build a better world for my daughters.

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The subversive genius of Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime performance The Compton MC might have just given us the biggest rap performance ever

I wrote about the biggest rap performance of all time, Kendrick’s positioning of anti-Drake-ness as part of a larger pro-Blackness and justice for Serena Williams

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10.02.2025 12:45 β€” πŸ‘ 5838    πŸ” 1490    πŸ’¬ 100    πŸ“Œ 165

Hear me out β€”

If parents call colleges freaked about their FAFSA data being leaked, schools may have to issue statements β€” which would reach a whole lot more families about how warped this is.

Organizing isn’t always calling electeds. Sometimes it’s just calling people with a bigger megaphone.

04.02.2025 03:05 β€” πŸ‘ 8570    πŸ” 3857    πŸ’¬ 71    πŸ“Œ 139
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Caroline Kennedy's letter to the Senate on her cousin RFKJr. is devastating. It is an absolute condemnation of his fitness for office, his lack of character as a human being and must have been deeply painful to write. Any Senator who reads this and votes for this man should be run out of office.

28.01.2025 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 896    πŸ” 292    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 17

Sign the petition and join the school board democracy movement

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

23.01.2025 01:36 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What the heck, Joni Ernst? The limits of #MeToo

β€œDespite the hand-wringing and wondering, Joni Ernst was never going to stand up to Trump, because standing up for victims of assault, actually ridding the military and other institutions of sexual assault, would mean changing the very way power works.”

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14.01.2025 17:44 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States According to new data analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures, rising seas and changing rainfall will profoundly reshape the way people have lived in North…

In 2020, we mapped out the danger zones that will close in on Americans over the next 30 years β€”Β combining climate data with wildfire projections by US Forest Service researchers.

See what changes are in store for your county.

By @shaw.al , @abrahm.bsky.social & Jeremy W. Goldsmith

12.01.2025 04:00 β€” πŸ‘ 6352    πŸ” 2951    πŸ’¬ 289    πŸ“Œ 425

Who gives a flying fuck?? What a stupid thing to spend any amount of time on.

25.12.2024 04:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What are you talking about? No one said anything about China.

20.12.2024 17:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I know it's the reason cited. That doesn't mean it's the real reason.

18.12.2024 19:43 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Except that's not actually the TikTok issue.

18.12.2024 18:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

What's important here is that we, the media, take the message away from "rich people are literally letting you die for profit" to ... literally anything else. After all, we, as a media group, are owned by rich people.

10.12.2024 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 132    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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