got some bad news for anyone who voted for Trump because he promised to bring down prices www.ft.com/content/dd6d...

This will be quite a match-up: Trump's personal attorney who has never tried a case vs former Chicago U.S. Attny Fitzgerald who among other things "went after the Gambino crime family, al-Qaida and even the White House in court — not to mention several Illinois politicians"

I'm not sure how its possible to agree or disagree with decisions you don't actually explain

Coming soon to Iowa.

If Halligan tries to get an indictment, watch for two things: 1) Another mass resignation event of prosecutors who refuse to violate their ethical obligations by helping her; 2) The grand jury refuses to indict. There’s a decent chance we will see one or both.

Someone at Hy-Vee told me they don't verify these so I could just check the box even if I don't have any of the conditions. But asking people to lie on a form in order to get a vaccine is not good practice (not to mention that it could cause problems with my health insurance).

It's 2011 and Barack Obamas daughter is shooting an advert for her new clothing line at the White House. An hour later, there are riots across the US demanding Obama be impeached.

Yesterday I asked Governor Kim Reynolds about access to COVID boosters for people without underlying health conditions. She wrongly claimed anyone who wants a booster shot can get one, and encouraged Iowans who have had trouble to contact her office. #COVID19 www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy5I...

This seems to be their angle. If there’s a shutdown they won’t furlough employees they’ll fire them permanently. The fact that this is illegal kind of isn’t the point these days. I don’t see why this is much of a threat. They don’t have to do this. It’s a choice. They run the govt. when things …

New post by Sue Dinsdale: Republicans will try to shift blame for the shutdown, but they control both chambers of Congress and the presidency. Ultimately, they decide whether the cost of health care goes up and down, and whether the government stays open. www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/09/25/i...

"Trump has told aides he was worried some of his friends might be mentioned in the files, and has complained that people should be talking about the administration’s wins, not about Epstein, according to people familiar with the comments.""

Happy Iowa wildflower Wednesday! This week Diane Porter features the lovely Winged Loosestrife and explains how it got that common name. (I love Diane's magnified photos.) #Iowa #wildflowers #nativeplants www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/09/24/i...

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the University of South Dakota to reinstate a professor who posted criticism of Charlie Kirk on his Facebook page the day of the shooting, finding the action likely violated the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

oh my god lol -- Trump calls for UN workers to be arrested because his escalator didn't work yesterday

New post by Rick Morain: This time, the federal government shutdown may happen

As a child of the Reagan years, the fact that the *Republican Party* is expropriating shares in companies and shaking companies down while saying stuff like this is wild

THE DAILY: President Trump and his inner circle are making millions of $$ from agreements that intersect with America’s national security interests, a NYT investigation found. Eric Lipton explains why these conflicts of interest are unlike anything we’ve seen before www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/p...

“Liberal bias in broadcasts” is a weird way to say free speech.

Would welcome insight from attorneys on whether the company that produces Tylenol has grounds to sue here. Without any evidence, he is talking down their brand (not acetaminophen in general).

Later than usual this week, because I took most of Tuesday off to observe Rosh Hashanah. Here’s the audio file and written recap of the latest “KHOI’s Capitol Week.” Spencer Dirks and I covered lots of Iowa politics news, as usual. laurabelin.substack.com/p/whitver-st...

I don't think this a very good argument for voting to honor a man who thought Jim Crow should have stayed legal. democraticleader.house.gov/media/press-...

You can't make this up. Ed Martin is now targeting Sandy Hook parents because they sued his friend Trump DOJ targets FBI agent who testified in Sandy Hook families' case against Alex Jones www.rawstory.com/alex-jones-s...

New post: Lisa Lima makes her case for Jill Shudak, a candidate for Council Bluffs mayor. www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/09/23/j...

When your claims of executive authority to harm people are too broad for John Yoo: "a broad, amorphous military campaign against the illegal drug trade ... would violate American law and the Constitution"

In December 2023, Special Counsel Jack Smith asked SCOTUS to grant cert before judgement to hear Trump’s immunity appeal. The court rejected that request and didn’t issue its immunity decision until July 2024. Trump’s federal cases never made it to trial before the November 2024 election.

A pop up box on Tylenol dot com

New post: Property taxes on Al Charlson's farmland are up by 11 percent, almost entirely due to a higher school district tax levy. Why it's happening—and not only in his home county: www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/09/22/h...

I literally think about this multiple times a day now. It's getting closer pretty fast.

Grateful to co-host @spencerdirks.bsky.social and our producer Mike Murphy for agreeing to record today's Iowa politics show a little earlier so I could attend Rosh Hashanah services instead of being on the air at 7 pm. "KHOI's Capitol Week" is up now on podcast platforms and smart speakers.

Josh Shapiro: "I was on a Spanish language radio program in the Allentown area and the host said something really chilling to me -- that he now has to think about what topics he's going to discuss because he's fearful he might offend federal regulators of the president."

New post: Iowa’s solar energy incentive program was “sunset” in 2021, and federal government support for clean energy will end soon. Chuck Isenhart, on the win-win-win-win policies Iowa's Congressional delegation voted to unravel: www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/09/21/t...

A shanda.

Meanwhile in Russia: Vladimir Solovyov and his guests rejoiced that under Trump, America is abandoning its fundamental principles, including freedom of the press. Once again, he predicted that Trump's America will join Russia in its fight against Europe. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3It...

So presidential.

New post by Jason Benell @jastiger.bsky.social : Rob Sand leads with faith. That's a dead end for Democrats www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/09/21/r...

Trump and Vance’s contradictory messages on these killings: 1: Our glorious military carried out hyper-precise attacks on dastardly drug smugglers. 2: If you’re an innocent fisherman, watch out because we might kill you by mistake!

Remember when Pam Bondi said this

Personalist regime tries to set up another mechanism of control. Silicon Valley firms will be subject to the whims of the mad king.

"journalists must sign a pledge not to gather any information, including unclassified reports, that hasn't been authorized for release" or lose their press credentials - openly authoritarian www.npr.org/2025/09/20/g...

New post by Dave Leshtz: It was hot as hell on a Sunday in Toledo, Iowa, where Satanic Temple members read John Milton’s Paradise Lost in public for the second year in a row. @dleshtz.bsky.social www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/09/20/s...

Trump criticizes Pam Bondi for not charging his adversaries quickly enough, in a Truth Social post that looks a lot like a DM. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

Thanks for coming back to Iowa to share your wisdom! Sorry I wasn't able to attend the conference. Chris wrote about his visit here: chrisgloninger.substack.com/p/back-to-iowa

Again, in the hearings last week, Kash claimed this attack took a lot of money and so had to have outside funding. That's horseshit. Tyler Robinson allegedly drove his Dodge Challenger 4 hours to Orem, shot Kirk with grand dad's gun, then drove 4 hours home. He shot Kirk for ~$70.

Scoop by @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social and @carolleonnig.bsky.social: Trump's DOJ shut down a bribery investigation into "border czar" Tom Homan. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Trump just enacted the largest cuts to food assistance in history. Now he's cancelling the government survey that measures hunger in America.

Speaking as a reproductive health reporter who covered these referenda endlessly and talked to MANY voters in Kansas, Missouri, and Ohio: Abortion rights are MORE popular than Democrats. They MAKE Democrats popular. Why would Democrats run away from one of the few policies that works for them

ICYMI, the Republican supermajority in the Iowa Senate is no more. My story about State Senator Catelin Drey's swearing in and her first comments to reporters: www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/09/16/c...

New post by Herb Strentz: More than 90 years ago, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered a warning that appears prescient today. www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/09/19/f...

A pretty good definition of journalism is “not doing this”

Why resign? Let him fire you.