Art Cullen
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Editor, Storm Lake (Iowa) Times Pilot, stormlake.com Pulitzer Prize winner.
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Ice Cube Press / Steve Semken
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Check out this interview with
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on his new book
@wvik.bsky.social
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Pulitzer-prize winner Art Cullen Laments the Decline of Small Town Iowa in Latest Book
Pulitzer-prize winner Art Cullen Laments the Decline of Small Town Iowa in Latest Book
https://www.wvik.org/podcast/heartland-politics-with-robin-johnson/2025-09-26/pulitzer-prize-winner-art-cullen-laments-the-decline-of-small-town-iowa-in-latest-book
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Here’s my latest column. Thanks for reading!
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They would go after Patrick Henry these days - Storm Lake Times Pilot
My head is filled with dread consulting the calendar and the news. Give me liberty or give me death, the sort of talk that could get you locked up for hate speech. It would be funny if it were a …
https://www.stormlake.com/stories/they-would-go-after-patrick-henry-these-days,164551
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It’s coming Pulitzer winner
@artcullen.bsky.social
new book. Check out this review by Lyle Mueller in the The Gazette
www.thegazette.com/books/book-r...
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Book Review: Art Cullen's new book continues tossing barbs
Art Cullen's new book is written in the folksy and entertaining style that won him the 2017 Pulitzer Prize.
https://www.thegazette.com/books/book-review-art-cullens-new-book-continues-tossing-barbs/
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Here’s my latest column. Thanks for reading.
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Farmer sick of being poster boy for stewardship - Storm Lake Times Pilot
Matt Bormann feels used and abused as a model for stewardship by an ag establishment that does not want to invest in comprehensive conservation. The St. Joe farmer, age 46, is a registered …
https://www.stormlake.com/stories/farmer-sick-of-being-poster-boy-for-stewardship,163366
17 days ago
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Here’s my latest column: You get the meat, we get the manure
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Secret to success: Quit giving it away - Storm Lake Times Pilot
The corn looks record-setting, but Iowa State Extension figures it a loser because of falling prices. The heck, you say. We should be kings out here. The black soil, rain at the right time, …
https://www.stormlake.com/stories/secret-to-success-quit-giving-it-away,162246
24 days ago
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Here’s my latest column. Thanks for reading.
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Tremors underfoot: Drey wins, Ernst drops - Storm Lake Times Pilot
The earth beneath Iowa politics shifted last week as Democrat Catelin Drey of Sioux City flipped a red Iowa Senate district, and word leaked that Republican US Sen. Joni Ernst of Red Oak would not …
https://www.stormlake.com/stories/tremors-underfoot-drey-wins-ernst-drops,161334
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Here are our latest editorials:
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Editorials: Authoritarian state - Storm Lake Times Pilot
We live in a militarized police state. Los Angeles is occupied by National Guard troops and Marines, against the wishes of local authorities and the duly elected governor of California (whose …
https://www.stormlake.com/stories/editorials-authoritarian-state,160637
about 1 month ago
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Here’s a column of slutty self promotion for my forthcoming screed.
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I may be vulgar, but this is a rank pile of … - Storm Lake Times Pilot
Please excuse my slutty self-promotion, but a book by Art Cullen will be released in late September. Dear Marty, We Crapped In Our Nest: Notes from the Edge of the World is scheduled to be …
https://www.stormlake.com/stories/i-may-be-vulgar-but-this-is-a-rank-pile-of,160149
about 1 month ago
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Here’s my latest column. Thanks for reading.
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Brains drain along our roiling rivers - Storm Lake Times Pilot
We’re walking across the Iowa Women of Achievement Bridge over the roiling muddy river in downtown Des Moines when Sarah Booz says she is bailing if the midterm elections go sour. She has …
https://www.stormlake.com/stories/brains-drain-along-our-roiling-rivers,159297
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Chris Jones
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From
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“The probable D nominee, Rob Sand, is still trying to find religion on how to think about pollution. He does not want to be perceived as being anti-agriculture. What he fails to understand is that you do not have to pollute to farm.”
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Editorials: People are waking up - Storm Lake Times Pilot
It isn’t often that over 1,000 Iowans will gather on a summer’s Monday evening to learn about nitrogen, phosphorous and water. Something is in the air. People filled Sheslow Auditorium at …
https://www.stormlake.com/stories/editorials-people-are-waking-up,158603
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Here’s my latest column: our 50th class reunion
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Listen to the music - Storm Lake Times Pilot
Dolores came down from the attic with a handful of albums from a collection of hundreds and the suggestion that we should get rid of them. Dylan. Van Morrison. The Allman Brothers. The Stones …
https://www.stormlake.com/stories/listen-to-the-music,158125
about 2 months ago
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Here’s my latest column: Donald Trump hurt Chuck Grassley’s feelings!
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Scratch where it itches - Storm Lake Times Pilot
Chuck Grassley has a case of the fleas from sleeping with dogs. The senior Republican senator from Iowa intimated at a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting July 30 that President Trump had hurt …
https://www.stormlake.com/stories/scratch-where-it-itches,157180
about 2 months ago
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Here’s my latest column: Get the Medicare you paid for while you can
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We should expect health care in our old age - Storm Lake Times Pilot
Getting old is serious business. Rochester is booming off the boomers. I was fortunate enough to pay a visit to the Mayo Clinic last week and see a man about my bum. The Gonda Building gleams in …
https://www.stormlake.com/stories/we-should-expect-health-care-in-our-old-age,156284
2 months ago
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Gumby Brain Specialist
2 months ago
Got damn!
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is preaching today. Praise the Lord, Iowa leads in rolling backwards
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Praise the Lord, Iowa leads in rolling backwards
Iowa may be lagging last in economic performance, but we are Number One in hogs.
https://open.substack.com/pub/artcullen/p/praise-the-lord-iowa-leads-in-rolling?r=bfrt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Praise the Lord, Iowa leads in rolling backwards - Storm Lake Times Pilot
Iowa may be lagging last in economic performance, but we are Number One in hogs. Eggs too. Celebrate that we have the most polluted surface water on the continent. On some things we will not be …
https://www.stormlake.com/stories/praise-the-lord-iowa-leads-in-rolling-backwards,155500
2 months ago
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Here’s my latest column. Thanks for reading.
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‘No amnesty.’ That’s what they keep saying, anyhow. - Storm Lake Times Pilot
Just to be clear: No amnesty, no sir, no how. That’s Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins after President Trump bopped into the Iowa State Fairgrounds to say this about undocumented ag …
https://www.stormlake.com/stories/no-amnesty-thats-what-they-keep-saying-anyhow,154679
3 months ago
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melissa feilmeier-marzen
3 months ago
Perfectly written. “The status quo demands that we poison the river. The loyal opposition would poison it more softly. We can hope that the quest for moderation does not mean just more of the same, as our aquifers drop and our rivers reek.”
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Here’s my latest column
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Sand has time to divine the truth about our water - Storm Lake Times Pilot
Rob Sand pines for the days when you could safely take a dip in the Upper Iowa River near Decorah. He is not so sure it is safe for his sons, 9 and 11, and that says a lot about the state of the …
https://www.stormlake.com/stories/sand-has-time-to-divine-the-truth-about-our-water,153913
3 months ago
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Here’s my latest column
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2,500 sailors fought for Iowa values and won - Storm Lake Times Pilot
Brother John and I decided to see the USA in our Chevrolet, so we hopped in our Equinox EV and buzzed through the Great Plains and the Rockies and the Mojave Desert to Long Beach like generations of ...
https://www.stormlake.com/stories/2500-sailors-fought-for-iowa-values-and-won,153310
3 months ago
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Watch this!
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3 months ago
I survive in Iowa by reading
@artcullen.bsky.social
. I LIVE to read his columns each week.💗 Yesterday it was a thrill to meet his bestie Marty in the cities. Can’t wait for the book!
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Another warning about heat and crops - Storm Lake Times Pilot
Eminent scientists reported in the eminent journal Nature last week that a crop catastrophe is ahead thanks to a warming climate. No kidding. Can you hear an echo? Corn yields could drop by …
https://www.stormlake.com/stories/another-warning-about-heat-and-crops,152340
3 months ago
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Dan Gallagher
3 months ago
@artcullen.bsky.social
This is some of your best work - and apparently
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agrees. It makes me so sad and angry for our state and for the state of our country.
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Here’s my latest column. Thanks for reading.
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On the road trying to find Iowa - Storm Lake Times Pilot
We’re on the road again with cinematographer Jerry Risius, not quite gypsies, trying to find out what grinds Iowa’s gears. Jerry and I toured the state from Alleman to Algona making …
https://www.stormlake.com/stories/on-the-road-trying-to-find-iowa,151416
4 months ago
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Navigating the maze on your way to treatment - Storm Lake Times Pilot
The woman on the phone from the Mayo Clinic was growing exasperated as she ran through how to sweep up my medical records. “So, you got the CT scan in Storm Lake? And the hormone therapy …
https://www.stormlake.com/stories/navigating-the-maze-on-your-way-to-treatment,150456
4 months ago
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Tony Almquist
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1/2 "They still won’t deliver babies in Newton because it doesn’t pay, for crying out loud. And they won’t expand the nursing staff in Pocahontas by any state measure. Our congress critters all voted for the health care cuts in the Big Bad Bill. The University of Iowa..
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Navigating the maze on your way to treatment
It’s hard enough with full health coverage
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Tony Almquist
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1/2 "We aren’t sure if southern Iowa will become so hot over the next few decades that corn yields could drop by 1/3. That’s what the National Climate Assessment said in a section written by Iowa State PhDs. Why believe them? How can you know when the cropaganda machine..
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Who knows anymore? Shucks, Gomer, we’ve always had weather.
“Not sure, we’ll have to wait and see” is a typically Midwestern way of declaring Hell No.
https://open.substack.com/pub/artcullen/p/who-knows-anymore-shucks-gomer-weve?r=cxkfy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Here’s my latest column. Iowa is a state of denial
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Who knows anymore? Shucks, Gomer, we’ve always had weather. - Storm Lake Times Pilot
“Not sure, we’ll have to wait and see” is a typically Midwestern way of declaring Hell No. What’s the weather have in store? Not sure, we’ll have to wait and see. …
https://www.stormlake.com/stories/who-knows-anymore-shucks-gomer-weve-always-had-weather,149380
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Sara Mitchell
4 months ago
“He will take a government check but can’t abide it for lesser souls because he has this sense that somehow he is going to get screwed.”
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Here’s my latest column
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Could we just not be so mean? - Storm Lake Times Pilot
Round and round the circular conversation goes, right down the drain between my neighbor and me: “I like that DEI ban.” Okay, I can work with that. We can just call it something …
https://www.stormlake.com/stories/could-we-just-not-be-so-mean,148450
4 months ago
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Jane Lindsay Miller
4 months ago
@artcullen.bsky.social
gets it exactly right. It’s ironic that the DNC chose to see white rural people as irrelevant, yet these same people launched Barack Obama in 2007 and endorsed an old socialist and a young, gay veteran in 2019. And look what happened.
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They should have listened - Storm Lake Times Pilot
If Democrats only had taken Iowa’s counsel, Pete Buttigieg or Bernie Sanders probably would be president today. I mean, if Joe Biden could beat Donald Trump … “That thought …
https://www.stormlake.com/stories/they-should-have-listened,147346?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwKepQlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHiXdlT_-bKod46vqe3ChK2JMpZ7a2HbLjVmNUTJ7gPsVxVDZWkUsamuwKIqW_aem_0KvEESNJPlCxQeitCl8cMg
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Here’s my latest column, about Pete Buttigieg visiting Iowa:
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They should have listened - Storm Lake Times Pilot
If Democrats only had taken Iowa’s counsel, Pete Buttigieg or Bernie Sanders probably would be president today. I mean, if Joe Biden could beat Donald Trump … “That thought …
https://www.stormlake.com/stories/they-should-have-listened,147346
4 months ago
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The Enemy Within
5 months ago
#Iowa
used to be progressive 😢 «…Iowa lost more sons to the Civil War per capita than any state. We sheltered freed slaves. Iowans like Harry Hopkins and Henry Wallace were instrumental in drafting and implementing the New Deal. Gov. Bob Ray embraced Tai Dam war refugees ….»
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Our rights we will maintain
My buddy Walt Bradley of Algona asked me why we came back here from college in Minnesota over 45 years ago.
https://open.substack.com/pub/artcullen/p/our-rights-we-will-maintain?r=8l00c&utm_medium=ios
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5 months ago
A good reminder of the Iowa of the past. We are new to the state, and we feel the heart of many who are ‘standing their ground’. Iowa nice hasn’t completely disappeared. Thankful to read Art each week.💙
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Tony Almquist
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1/3 "Too bad what happened in the meantime to Iowa. It became a sanctuary state for reactionaries. When is the spring book-burn? Love your neighbor on Sunday and deport them on Monday. If you’re queer you might not be welcome here. We choke the rivers with chemicals..
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Our rights we will maintain
My buddy Walt Bradley of Algona asked me why we came back here from college in Minnesota over 45 years ago.
https://artcullen.substack.com/p/our-rights-we-will-maintain?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1025824&post_id=163399363&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=cxkfy&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
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Here’s my latest column
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Fomented fear is killing civil society - Storm Lake Times Pilot
Iowans do not like change. It might be our strongest attribute. Sen. Chuck Grassley has been in politics since 1959. Terry Branstad holds the national record for longest tenure as governor. A third …
https://www.stormlake.com/stories/fomented-fear-is-killing-civil-society,145266
5 months ago
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Blog for Iowa
5 months ago
The most important words in this column you have to scroll down the page to get to but so glad
@artcullen.bsky.social
is daring to bring up this taboo topic. "Propaganda. That’s what keeps us apart."
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Fomented fear is killing civil society
Iowans do not like change.
https://open.substack.com/pub/artcullen/p/fomented-fear-is-killing-civil-society?r=67vqv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Laura Belin
5 months ago
Missed this earlier in the week: State Rep Charley Thomson, the chair of the Iowa House Government Oversight Committee, "has demanded that an Iowa immigrant rights organization turn over private details about the nonprofit’s legal clients, donors and list of members"
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Iowa immigrant group is alarmed by a state lawmaker's demand for confidential information
A state lawmaker has demanded that an Iowa immigrant rights organization turn over private details about the nonprofit’s legal clients, donors and list of members
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/iowa-immigrant-group-alarmed-state-lawmakers-demand-confidential-121309050
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The New Yorker
5 months ago
Barry Blitt’s cover for this week’s issue, “The First Hundred Days.”
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Trump is on his way to losing Iowa - Storm Lake Times Pilot
We’re nigh onto 100 days since Donald Trump swore on the Bible, and he already has done enough political damage to give an opening to the downtrodden opposition in Iowa. Stocks and pension …
https://www.stormlake.com/stories/trump-is-on-his-way-to-losing-iowa,144599
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All of education in Iowa is under assault. Colleges, too. Legislators even determining curriculum at higher ed level now. Freedom to Flourish, my ass.
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Here’s my latest column: Colleges are economic engines in Iowa
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Give an award to Buena Vista, not a boot in the rear - Storm Lake Times Pilot
With colleges under full frontal assault, whiskey purveyor and Beaver great Keith Kerkhoff regaled the Storm Lake United annual banquet with tales of facing legendary Football Coach Jim Hershberger …
https://www.stormlake.com/stories/give-an-award-to-buena-vista-not-a-boot-in-the-rear,143343
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Ice Cube Press / Steve Semken
5 months ago
The right book is arriving at the right time. September 28 we're releasing Pulitzer winner Art Cullen's new book "Dear Marty, We Crapped In Our Nest: Notes from the Edge of the World" Here's the link to order early and get a signed copy!
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We Crapped In Our Nest - Ice Cube Press
Dear Marty, We Crapped In Our Nest: Notes from the Edge of the World | Art Cullen | $20 | 192p | ISBN 9781948509633 | Coming September, 2025 We have fouled our nest over the past half century in a way...
https://icecubepress.com/2025/02/03/we-crapped-in-our-nest/
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Tony Almquist
6 months ago
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"People live in fear because an authoritarian & delusional president stokes it with a chainsaw madman on stage, a homeland security director from S Dakota wearing a flak jacket & armed with a tactical assault weapon, & a US AG dedicated to ferreting out political enemies"
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Concerned citizens dissolve a broken political brand
Rural Iowa Democrats go incognito
https://artcullen.substack.com/p/concerned-citizens-dissolve-a-broken?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1025824&post_id=161301177&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=cxkfy&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
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The New York Times
6 months ago
The Keystone pipeline system, which carries crude oil from Canada to the U.S., was shut down on Tuesday because of a leak that spilled an estimated 3,500 barrels of oil in southeastern North Dakota, government and company officials said.
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Oil Spill in North Dakota Prompts Shutdown of Keystone Pipeline
An estimated 3,500 barrels of oil spilled in a field near Fort Ransom, N.D., and the release was contained, the pipeline’s operator said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/us/keystone-pipeline-rupture-north-dakota.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes
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Stephanie Ruhle
6 months ago
If you missed last’s night’s @11thHour
#nightcap
… strap in tonight - @steveliesman @samisagesays @ChrisJansing and the great
#artcullen
TURN IT OUT
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My TV travelogue - Storm Lake Times Pilot
Omaha’s humble Eppley Airfield looked bombed-out under construction but beautiful nonetheless Sunday after having breathed in 30Rock’s NBC Studios in the heart of Manhattan. It was …
https://www.stormlake.com/stories/my-tv-travelogue,141152
6 months ago
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6 months ago
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1/2 "Trump is doing as much damage as possible while the getting is good. His bash may be over in a matter of months. Consumer confidence has dropped 4 months in a row. Judges are about to make temporary injunctions against his jihad binding. Polls show that voters like..
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Using democracy while we still can
Not even the judges know for sure if the courts can hold up against a full-on assault over the next four years.
https://artcullen.substack.com/p/using-democracy-while-we-still-can?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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Laura Belin
6 months ago
New post by Dan Piller: In previous eras Iowa farmers could export their way out of the hole. That may no longer be true after "Liberation Day" tariffs.
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/04/04/o...
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Of tariffs, markets and the Iowa economy
Dan Piller: In previous eras Iowa farmers could export their way out of the hole. That may no longer be true after "Liberation Day" tariffs.
https://www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/04/04/of-tariffs-markets-and-the-iowa-economy/
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Julie Gammack
6 months ago
@iowawriters.bsky.social
member
@artcullen.bsky.social
was on MSNBC last night with
@stephruhle.bsky.social
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The Nightcap: What happened to Trump's promises to bring prices down?
YouTube video by MSNBC
https://youtu.be/9ZvvkNfMouU?si=jdp59p3TwTnHCw0o
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