Jim Throgmorton

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…”

Which is why they must be stopped, especially in 2026.

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 …

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Seems to me the Republican leadership is just demonstrating their awareness that, in this authoritarian regime, Congress is irrelevant.

Spot on, Bill.

To have this simply be demolished is heartbreaking. Surely there many thousands of Republicans who would also feel aghast and heartbroken. If you are one, please speak out, loudly.

This ballroom is just such a terrible idea. And demolishing part of the East Wing wing to make it happen only worsens the idea. Yuck!

When the dust settles, this president will be the most reviled person in the history of our country.

What a creep! This is America’s house, not his.

Spot on.

I like it: Frump the Swamp King.

Historians of the future: Rest assured, millions of us know all this in real time. We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends. trib.al/EOixNrF

Spot on, Senator. What are your first three big ideas?

Loved seeing it in today’s Iowa City [Iowa] Press-Citizen.

Makes me want to croke.

A notice from @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social.

Will run in newspapers across the nation.

Columbus Day Celebrates an Ongoing Christian Nationalist Threat to American Democracy The roots of Christian Nationalism reach back before the founding of our Republic to Columbus and the Christian Doctrine of Discovery.

Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
Trump’s Columbus Day proclamation is a celebration of white Christian nationalism that is a threat to pluralistic democracy. It praises Columbus for "dedicating the land to God" and for "the ultimate triumph of Western civilization."
www.whitetoolong.net/cp/176006073

If you want to understand why Iowa has become a Red state — at least to date — buy and read Art Cullen’s new book.

Thoughts and prayers to Cosplay Cop Kristi who had to brave the dogs, farmer’s markets, capybaras, and marathon runners of Portland this week.

Gross. Things didn’t turn out so well for Speer or his boss. And his most grandiose urban projects were never built.

I highly recommend Taplin’s excellent book. Read it if you can.

This is the way friends. Make the violence obvious. Make the wrong side obvious.
Patriot Banana supports the frogs doing protest the nonviolent and correct way.

Are any companies profiting financially from ensuring AI does not eradicate humanity?

Opinion | The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World

Reading this article is not a great way to start a day.

The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Looks like assault to me.

Update from the war zone in Portland.

We Found the ‘Enemy from Within’ He’s in the White House

We Found the ‘Enemy from Within’
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Spot on, Aaron.

This does not look like a normal fire. What, or who, started it?