Mississippi River morning, IA/WI

Southwest Iowans:

Former #Iowa water scientist Chris Jones @theswinerepublic.bsky.social has a clever and funny way of writing that will make you angry: Speech isn't Free, it's Priceless open.substack.com/pub/riverrac...

Drinking tap water in Iowa is more risky than any of this

Just read. You should read int too.

In six weeks (approximately). Profanity will happen. www.eventbrite.com/e/the-heartl...

Interesting that the guy who took heroin to ease his pain is down with women “toughing it out” because Tylenol autism something something

That feel when you get on a bush plane in the Canada wilderness

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... What in the af is Zach Wahls thinking here

Coming soon to the Wisconet website: Chill Hour calculations for each of our weather stations. We calculate chill hours as the sum of the number of hours between 32°F and 45°F during the October 1 - February 28/29 time frame. wisconet.wisc.edu

Great!

Peaches, peaches, peaches, and free speech open.substack.com/pub/riverrac...

Might just stay in Canada

Canada

#Iowa water scientist @theswinerepublic.bsky.social: A Misstep in the Wrong Direction open.substack.com/pub/riverrac...

Another example of a failed voluntary approach relying on subsidies w/ poor accountability. Historically, this has been the bipartisan norm in US agri-env’l policy. The difference is that now a vehemently anti-science kakistocracy is in charge so even these greenwashing efforts are being dismantled.

Chris Jones - once again doing the math and telling it like it is. Conservation incentives are not fixing the problem.

Another Labor Day weekend in Iowa

www.thegazette.com/article/midw... What Iowa needs, now if only the politicians and ag titans go along

That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.

Final warning of the season: Don't go in the water at 15 #Iowa beaches DO follow @theswinerepublic.bsky.social to learn why: www.kcrg.com/2025/08/30/s...

More or less universally a country seeking to limit foreigners studying in that country is a sign of a society, culture, great power in severe decline.

Read The Swine Republic by Chris Jones #books #non-fiction 📚 #RealityCheck @theswinerepublic.bsky.social

No small irony that the right to life crowd has helped install a death cult of eugenecists www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

At the Hawkeye Hooskow, Kim Reynolds, Brenna Bird and Kayla Lyon will make prisoners drink our water apnews.com/article/nebr...

how these trees aren't just exploding, I'll never know. At least they're easy to pick.

On most of the world’s land, solar can generate 100x more energy per acre vs biofuels A solar powered EV can go 300x as many miles as a biofuel powered vechicle per acre #EnergySky

Since 1/1/25, 122 million pounds of nitrate-nitrogen has left this watershed as measured in the Iowa River at Wapello. 100 million pounds of that has come since 4/27/25, which is 898,000 lbs/day on average.

CC: Iowa water quality

Hear about the D day invasion of crop dusters and other fun stuff here from me with @zacharyos.bsky.social cornholechampions.substack.com/p/the-common...

From @artcullen.bsky.social “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.” www.stormlake.com/stories/edit...

Chris is spot on in this piece. Who wins with this decision? New dischargers. An enterprising reporter should track who receives new discharge (NPDES) permits into these segments now. Those are the interests that greased the skids to make this happen, Iowans’ water quality and health be damned.

The call is coming from inside the house www.thegazette.com/environment-...

Turns out peach trees can have too many peaches

4. lowa school children should eat food grown & raised in lowa— & from nowhere else All children that want it can eat breakfast & lunch for free H/T bleeding heartland .com @theswinerepublic.bsky.social ✅MN passed Free School meals & 🥳🎉84% 🎓earned diplomas 👇 education.mn.gov/MDE/dse/FNS/...

Interesting suite of ideas from watershed-scale regulation of nutrient flows, to land halos for localized food systems. Can 'rural progressive platforms' like this exist?

Another pro pollution Democrat, hailing from the liberal capital of Iowa, my very own state senator @zachwahls.bsky.social

Here for this. Fixing the real world is how you win elections from fascists.

Somebody steal Dr Jones' ideas here.

Were I to run for governor, I would make environmental quality a centerpiece of my campaign from the word "go," rather than trying to workshop something on the fly. And to be honest, I'd probably just plagiarize @theswinerepublic.bsky.social. open.substack.com/pub/riverrac...

@zacharyos.bsky.social @amierivers.bsky.social and @iowastartingline.com doing a nice job with this cancer series, with some help from @dcwiertny.bsky.social iowastartingline.com/cancer-in-io...