Effect of tariffs I've seen — Higher clothing prices overall — Overseas sellers covering tariff costs, but passing cost to the consumer — US stores dropping brands. Example: No Man Walks Alone won't be carrying Norbit this fall bc tariff uncertainty — Fewer deals. Ebay shuts down overseas sellers

wow, difficult decision! do the right thing and cement your legacy as a hero in history books. or make a lot of money! tough!!

In some better news...

Whether it's John F. Kennedy saving thousands of children's lives by founding the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development or Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ending thousands of children's lives by limiting access to vaccines, both Kennedys impacted children's health.

First canvas of the year! Let's go!

ISL shoutout!

These guys should be home with their families.

The biggest threat to America!

I may be too much of an optimist but I am so happy every time I see dems overperforming (v 2024) in these Iowa special elections. It gives me real hope that we can turn the ship around in Iowa and nationally.

DREY BREAKS SUPERMAJORITY - Democrat Catelin Drey wins special election for Sioux City seat in Iowa Senate. That puts the Iowa Senate’s split is 33-17. Tonight, Republicans lost their supermajority in the Iowa Senate.

one sign that the “unitary executive” is less the restoration of an older constitutional order and more the imposition of a radical new one is that allowing the president to act untethered from most legal or congressional limits has largely just served to plunge the country into disorder

The fact that this administration is hell bent on punishing Kilmar Abrego Garcia while rewarding Ghislane Maxwell tells you all you need to know about their violent racism and misogyny.

I’m in a state with a ban and I think the ban will be good. Like a lot of parents my main concern is a school shooting situation and phew. That says more about America than me. But the constant surveillance parents have over their kids feels like good parenting but I think it’s the opposite

Some incredibly good news: One year ago this week, The Onion returned to print. In that one year, we’ve grown to the 13th largest print newspaper in the United States, just ahead of the Boston Globe, and growing fast. In short, it’s working. So… thank you. Thank you for helping save this thing.

‪MONKEY: (flings poop)‬ ‪NEWSOM: (flings poop, but ironically)‬ ‪D: This is a brilliant strategy that will finally show the country how ridiculous the monkey has been‬ ‪R: Gavin Newsom is only imitating our President because he is trying to attract his voters‬ ‪MONKEY: (flings poop)‬

I'd say this is a tragedy but that has connotations of being somehow inevitable or outside of human control. The cruelty is the point and the current administration is filled with hateful monsters

Who's going to tell them what government ownership of means of production is called? www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

A great bit of service journalism. I've never seen something exactly like this: a "prebuttal" to a policy that hasn't been announced yet.

the irony of MAGA is that the actual result of its “governance” will be sharp national decline and humiliation

When I joined NPR almost 30 yrs ago as a complete outsider with no qualifications other than being a lifelong fan, nobody welcomed me more avidly and kindly than Susan. She loved what we were trying to do, and helped us do it. www.npr.org/sections/npr...

I’m really interested in Josh Tureks run for senate in Iowa. He’s a dem in a red area that consistently wins elections, with a compelling personal story, and a history of proposing common sense legislation iowastartingline.com/2025/08/12/j...

Red state, blue state.

no more educational material for your children. just poisonous right wing slop.

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34% more college grads LEAVE Iowa than stay. The 2023 class alone = $17.6 billion in lost income. We're literally educating people for other states. What's driving the brain drain? We dig into a new report on this week's Cornhole Champions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nket...

mRNA tech is some of the coolest, most powerful, most promising scifi shit humans are currently doing. They are being investigated to help with cancers, autoimmune diseases, M.S., stroke recovery, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and high cholesterol.

Remember in 2016 when Bill Clinton bumped into Attorney General Loretta Lynch on a tarmac in Phoenix, and that story of INSANE IMPROPRIETY dominated the news cycle for a week? Now we have POTUS, VP, AG, and FBI Epstein strategy meetings. www.cnn.com/2025/08/05/p...

This is real I shit you not

Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?

People should be up in arms about the closure of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the destruction of the economy, the arrests of non-criminal immigrants and the increasing banning of books and other information sources in this country. Wake up, folks.

i think i disagree with the idea that the ferritor should have been allowed to follow his own path during his schooling, neglecting assignments and being coddled for his apparent genius. i think, in fact, that this was the problem. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-boy-ge...

My classmate, friend, and all around spectacular human, Yume Menghe Xu was published in the Journal of Engineering Education! Check it out: Xu, Y. M., & Gravel, B. E. (2025). Making facilitates an engineering student's identity work in becoming an engineer doi.org/10.1002/jee....

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the crown jewel of knowledge about jobs and the economy. Trump has destroyed the credibility of this extraordinarily important source of information. This should alarm everyone. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trump-destroys-our-source-of-information

andrew chen of 3sixteen explaining why you may not feel the tariffs yet IG 3sixteen

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

Virginia Giuffre’s brother: I think we were shocked by it—especially the use of the term “stolen.” Because she’s not an object. She’s a person. Someone who was recruited at Mar-a-Lago—his property… it just kind of makes us wonder… how much he knew

I doubt that there is a single family in America that hasn’t benefitted directly from the NIH.

My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.

94% of teachers have had to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies. An estimated 1 in 6 have second jobs during the school year to make ends meet. The average Wall Street employee got a record $244,700 bonus last year. Something has gone terribly wrong.

The Big Beautiful Bill gives Meta a $15 billion check. That’s more than our federal government spends on child care in an entire year. If we invested that much in child care & early childhood education, we’d create stronger futures for everyone, not just Mark Zuckerberg.

Rare sight in 2025: Republicans and Democrats standing together. When AG Brenna Bird tried to compel a sheriff to apologize for saying he'll uphold the Constitution, Winneshiek County residents - both parties - defended their elected sheriff. And she dropped the suit.

Just passed my qualifying defense! I'm now officially a PhD candidate aka abd! Let's go!

a reminder that Woodbury County absolutely chose to lose millions of dollars and several months' time: www.iowapublicradio.org/live-updates... because they went over voters' wishes and hired a contractor who never built a jail: iowastartingline.com/2023/06/06/s...

This is not the act of a legitimate government.

Wow. End of an era

Superman is the story of an immigrant who grew up in Kansas, landed a low-paying job as a reporter in Metropolis, and still had time for a hobby because urban housing was affordable.

GOOD TROUBLE: The Trump administration’s threats to Public Radio could wipe out Tiny Desk concerts! Watch this message from @actualbenfolds.bsky.social and take action here: goacpr.org

"In 50 years of watching economic policy, I have never seen a package... that did so much to take money from the poor, give it to the rich.”

Anyone else get anxious on their student's behalf while proctoring an exam or just me... I am sweating harder than they are