Dave
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Political Scientist. Minnesotan/Iowan. My posts really don't reflect the opinions of my employer.
Well, they seem to have an open door policy for assholes though, don’t they Charlie Brown?
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Alan Allport
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Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
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This is amazing. A rightwing dark money group did a poll for our (just really dumb) State AG and found her down to an unknown challenger by 7 points. They spent $600k on ads and got her to even in a new poll.
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/11/23/c...
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Conservative group attempted image makeover for Brenna Bird
More than a year before the 2026 election, Bird's polling numbers were bad enough to inspire a well-funded outside rescue mission.
https://www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/11/23/conservative-group-attempted-image-makeover-for-brenna-bird/
about 21 hours ago
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The only thing that would make this a better summary of college football is if the players all got NIL money for knife endorsements.
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2 days ago
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This song is great and I'm always happy to hear The Time, but this isn't the song to play as a tribute to JellyBean Johnson (RIP). Prince played drums on this.
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2 days ago
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Faculty will defend academic values unless the faculty on the committees have close ties to the admin and it turns them into lickspittles.
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John Moe
3 days ago
Meg is a good friend and, more importantly, one of the sharpest and most informed folks I know.
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Kate Baxter-Kauf
4 days ago
I really hope my friends in 64A will consider endorsing and then voting for Meg Luger-Nikolai, who is a good friend and one of the smartest, most committed people I know.
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It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for him.
4 days ago
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G Elliott Morris
4 days ago
Good morning. I've got a banger new post out today that develops a new method for placing voters on the left-right ideological spectrum, and adds a new, "non-ideological"/affordability axis to usual way we chart & think about US voters (esp swing voters).
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/not-just-l...
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Not just left vs right: Most voters think about affordability and material wellbeing, not in ideological terms
Most voters want a party that emphasizes cost of living issues and makes the world a better place. Few Americans think in solidly ideologically terms. "Moderates" are mostly non-ideological.
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/not-just-left-vs-right-most-voters
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“Your religion cannot become a threat to our freedom, but our religion will be a threat to your freedom”
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5 days ago
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I graduated with a James Beard Award winning chef who became the enemy of every pro-union person in the Twin Cities
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6 days ago
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This whole fight is amazing. The goober running this picked a group of grifty right wing scholars to “advise” this grifty “Institute” and our Board of Regents is mad that there are more grifters from Iowa on the advisory board.
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6 days ago
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The goober in charge of this place called The University of Austin a “top university.” You know, like Princeton and Stanford. I’m not sure they could have found a more embarrassing person to run this rightwing shitshow.
6 days ago
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Anyone want to donate $500,000 and pay a $30,000 fee to lease a condo on campus for 10-years?
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Tenure should end at 65. After that, you get one year contracts.
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Not just in Florida.
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7 days ago
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What perfect album came out the year you turned 16? For me, it is my favorite album of all time
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8 days ago
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Buxton got jobbed
11 days ago
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I’m embarrassed to have worked there.
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11 days ago
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What a fucking match
12 days ago
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First ever women’s blood and guts. This is going to be awesome.
12 days ago
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darth™️
12 days ago
always the people u most suspect tbh
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No John Hughes? Are we sure he’s from Chicago?
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13 days ago
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The more I think about the angrier I get. This is a state legislator who pretends to care about bias in higher ed explicitly saying that some science should be disqualifying. This is very scary.
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13 days ago
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Good to know that the little wiener in the legislature got mad because one of the candidates for president at ISU believes that climate change is real
13 days ago
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Kim Reynolds can still be ISU President if Mike Pence has the courage
13 days ago
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Go Aqua-Buddha:
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Rand Paul wants hemp vote to speed up shutdown endgame
His insistence on the hemp vote comes after a bruising fight with senior appropriators.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/11/10/congress/rand-paul-wants-hemp-vote-to-speed-up-shutdown-endgame-00644864?nname=playbook-pm&nid=0000015a-dd3e-d536-a37b-dd7fd8af0000&nrid=278a250a-3234-4f52-a943-98f159270648
14 days ago
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Inspirational Skeletor
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Refs got money on the Vikings
15 days ago
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Iowa State just had the Ag Dean at Cornell as a finalist for our president search. If this had happened a week ago, I think his interview is a little different.
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17 days ago
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Justin Zimmerman
17 days ago
The airline cancellations are going to cause a riot. The dude from the Real World is about to see what happens when constituents stop being polite and starting getting real. 🤣
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This is going to be a blast.
18 days ago
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It can always get worse
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19 days ago
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SMBC Comics
22 days ago
Later, peace is reestablished when an MBA accidentally enters the lecture hall. COMIC ◆
www.smbc-comics.com/comic/consil...
PATREON ◆
www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆
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Riley Paige, Magical Girl Jones 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
20 days ago
AEW being on the right side of history 🤼
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Surprisingly, the second candidate is neither internal nor a washed up politician. I am shocked.
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19 days ago
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Steve Hofstetter
20 days ago
JD Vance's brother is losing by SIXTY points for mayor of Cincinnati. He's getting hammered so badly I thought he was Pete Hegseth at a 10AM meeting.
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I can't wait for this
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20 days ago
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Iowa State announced the first candidate for president and i am irrationally excited by him. A legit scholar and administrator running the College of Ag at Cornell. More importantly, there is a little bit of snark on his Twitter feed and I am here for it.
20 days ago
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It is good to know you can heckle the death of Dick Cheney and not get fired because the online right hated that guy too.
20 days ago
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Naz Reid
21 days ago
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The best sandwich I e ever had was L’Italiana at All’Antico Vinaio in Florence
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21 days ago
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Seems particularly relevant as ISU interviews 2* candidates to be president this week
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21 days ago
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I haven't seen this phishing attempt before. If was actually teaching this semester, I might have clicked the link.
22 days ago
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No context needed.
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22 days ago
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Fucking dodgers
23 days ago
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Well, shoot
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