Dexter Merschbrock

What if the kings are benevolent though?

If you are protesting today please remember the lesson of the film Do the Right Thing, which is that some property destruction may be morally justified if the alternative is violence against people

Unknown amount of hog manure spilled into creek in Louisa County  • Iowa Capital Dispatch DNR is investigating a hog manure spill in Louisa County that has resulted in a small number of dead fish in an unnamed tributary.

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is investigating a hog manure spill in Louisa County that has resulted in a small number of dead fish in an unnamed tributary, Cami Koons reports.

Lot of talk about the Iowa budget deficit being $1 billion, but it’s important to remember that the current budget doesn’t include many necessities. Paid leave is just one example. Add it all up and the real budget deficit is likely over $2 billion annually.

With more tax revenue the state could fund more childcare, more paid leave, more infrastructure improvements… Straightforward calculus.

I don’t know how many people there are and just how much money exactly they aren’t paying in taxes, but there are a number of people with very high incomes who do not need the extra $20k they will keep or whatever. And that’s before you even get to people like me, who could pay more tax too.

He did say he would end Medicaid privatization the other day

She never did it for me but it all makes such a neat story of how money runs everything

also as you can see I put the text in red, indicating that it is bad

It’s funny (not actually funny) that Republicans are now doing the ”refuse to fund the black candidate who is begging for the thankless job” when Democrats did the same thing last time.

Made this for Twitter but there are no posts here about Adam Steen to repost

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Potential triple Me Too

At this rate there will be no candidates left come the primary next June

Others charted it at the time, but the unwinding of the explicit COVID public health policies during the Biden admin laid a nice path for this by ceding the ground when we should have been defending public health.

Just going to assume this Iowa Republican special election candidate is a pyramid scheme anti-vax chemtrails type until proven otherwise

He kinda was cooking here. And promising to end Medicaid privatization same week? Very confident campaign.

Art nails this description of the Iowa liberal here

Two stories about corruption near the end of this that stood out for how matter of fact the reporting was. Forget the exact details something like someone was appointed US Attorney as a nepo case and then the other was a donor to Trump inaugural getting an admin post. Ho hum just how things work.

Hey he’s the one saying “Governor for All” I just want him to take it seriously

Has Sand met with socialists?

The state house elections of 2026 are the most direct line to real regulation of farm pollution in Iowa.

We can do better as a state than pipelines and pollution

Losing posture

Another scam!

Laehn appears to be a libertarian true believer but is extremely boring. Still, an independent minded senator who takes the job seriously could have some appeal when Presidents from both parties suck.

I wish people in Cedar Rapids would see this.

Would it really be the end of the world if there were 20% fewer hogs in the state 10 years from now?

The crowds keep growing for change in Iowa. The Iowa 100 will be the first step, by passing a legislative agenda that addresses real needs and will make immediate improvements.