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Senator Jim Banks (R) isn’t sorry he told a fired federal worker “he probably deserved it”.

He went on to say the worker was “complaining about losing a left-wing woke job in the federal government that should have never been a job to begin with”.

The job was helping people with disabilities.

The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.

Worst two-day stock market crashes in the U.S. by percentage loss:

1. 1929 (the Great Depression)

2. 1987 (Black Monday)

3. 2008 (the Great Recession)

4. YESTERDAY AND TODAY

And while this happened, the man responsible for it was golfing and dining with enemies of America.

Stargazing 4 xkcd.com/3072

The stock market is so bad that Fox News removed the stock ticker that they’ve been showing for 28 years for the first time because they didn’t want their viewers to see the truth of what was happening in real time.

merit is back baby

IYKYK

I didn’t realize the population of IC has passed the capacity of Kinnick. There should have been an announcement, my whole life the joke has been that you could fit more people in Kinnick than live in Iowa city. 😂

YouTube video by ESPN Iowa Hawkeyes' new tradition is more than just a wave | ESPN

@mcuban.bsky.social This is what that money does. Why does Trump hate sick children? youtu.be/w7UqYD_owgY?...

There ain’t 71k people here. This town is built around the UofI and its scientific and medical research.

Just in NIH grants, It looks like beautiful Iowa City, home of the U of Iowa, will lose $71m in funding. That's almost $1k per resident. And that's before all the other cuts to SSA, FDA, etc.

Anyone in Iowa City that can offer more insight?
scienceimpacts.org
H/T to Prathima !

Trump agenda for April

1) Crash the world economy with tariffs

2) Wreck NATO by annexing Greenland

3) End 1st and 5th amendment rights for immigrants

4) Welcome measles to toughen the species

5) Pardon financial criminals

6) Help Putin smash Ukraine

7) More memecoins!

Certainly Duke is Duke. They’re on TV more than Leave It To Beaver reruns.”

MYTH: People who receive food stamps don’t work. FACT: You are browsing the internet instead of working right now.

Food Stamps: Myth Vs. Fact
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House passes bill to allow chaplains in public schools House lawmakers sent a bill to the Senate Tuesday that would allow public and charter schools to hire chaplains or allow them to volunteer to provide “support, services, and programs”

"Rep. Elinor Levin, D-Iowa City, said the bill represents 'a dangerous attempt to go around the separation of church and state.'
1/3
www.albianews.com/news/state/a...

😂

Written before VP Vance's words of threat in Greenland today

I’m hoping for senator.

YouTube video by frstbse1 James Earl Jones baseball speech - Field of Dreams

@robsandia.bsky.social If you build it, they will come.
People will come, Rob. They’ll come to Iowa City and they won’t know why. They’ll be filled with a sense of the past, when things were good. Oh, the people will come, Rob. Happy Opening Day!
youtu.be/EBwhjAhNmKA?...

Gazans Demand End to 18 Years of Hamas Rule Most protests have been small, but they represent the boldest challenge to Hamas’s authority by Palestinians since the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel and the ensuing war.

For three consecutive days, hundreds of Palestinians took to the streets of northern Gaza to demand both the end of the war and of Hamas’s 18-year-old rule.

“We don’t have anything to lose,” one protester said. “We have already lost our lives, homes, and money.”

Trump is simultaneously bombing the Houthis while adopting Houthi policies on international trade as his own.

Division winners: Red Sox, Tigers, Astros, Phillies, Cubs and Dodgers.
Wild cards: Yankees, Royals, Rangers, Braves, Mets, Diamondbacks

ROY: Kristian Campbell (AL), Roki Sasaki (NL)

MVPs: Bobby Witt Jr. & Shohei Ohtani

CYs: Garrett Crochet & Zach Wheeler

World Series: Dodgers over Red Sox

Behind almost every leader in the anti-vaccine movement is an alternative medicine grift.

Moment of clarity today in the Senate where Republicans sided with big banks & against customers. Higher fees, lower transparency.

Now it goes to the House - so call your Member of Congress to ask how they’ll vote!

Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously.

Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.

Top U.S. intelligence officials gave their testimonies hours after The Atlantic published more messages from a Signal group chat discussing military plans in Yemen. nyti.ms/4j2fbEC

They’re not going to get out of this by playing semantics.

Sending detailed information about an upcoming military strike on unclassified channels (and even to the wrong guy) is wrong, reckless, and obviously a threat to American troops.