Oh WaPo editorial board, just fuck right off www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

There is no plan, gang

Never gets old.

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Breaking News: Renee Hardman, a Democrat, won a special election for the Iowa Senate, blocking Republicans from reclaiming a supermajority.

MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: i got easily tricked by a moron and it took me years to realize it THE MEDIA: wow! may we hear your insights??

Won't anyone think of the bus drivers? By Megan McArdle, 1955

Incredible lol

This is how you do it folks

American Gothic https://www.wikiart.org/en/grant-wood/american-gothic-1930

"Accelerated reading course." Herblock on the persistence of segregated schools nearly 13 years after the Brown v Board decision, April 1967.

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I always think about the maya Angelou quote because it’s really true, “People will always remember how you made them feel,"

RIP First Amendment

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ICYMI, the stunt Bari Weiss pulled this week really touched a nerve for me. www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/12/25/o...

Important insights

Goodness, if you were alive in the 80s in Iowa you watched town after town whip-sawed by legacy packing house closings after they had first exacted concessions from the unions, broke them, and drained town coffers to boot. This is a cyclical curse and will never not be.

AI and vulnerable tweens. What could go wrong? Gift wapo.st/4scolDU

Intermetropolitan poaching is as American as apple pie. There is no economic efficiency reason to underwrite professional sports teams, but time and time again, cities/states do.

Here it is

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

haven't seen it? here you go, THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER bsky.app/profile/bubb...

While we detect gains in OZ resident employment over the longer run, increase comes from jobs with workplaces outside of OZs , jobs that likely are held by new as opposed to existing residents. Overall, our results suggest that OZs have limited benefits for existing residents of OZs

Young Corn https://www.wikiart.org/en/grant-wood/young-corn-1931

This is metal

Wow. Treating that speech with seriousness and not calling it what it was is…a choice

🎶 He’s making a list He’s checking it twice He’s gonna find out if you work for ICE 🎶

No shit? apnews.com/article/turn...

I wouldn't buy a used car from this orange con man, let alone vote for him to run a COUNTRY. Good gawd, Iowa farmers. You lost your minds.

For anyone worried AI will replace all of us. Courtesy of Gemini for the prompt “create an infographic of all the World Series winners since 1986” I dare you to find 10 things that are right.

BOOM!! That's 218! Ryan MacKenzie is the 4th House GOP member to sign on. We have a clean 3-year extension vote in the House, folks!

Naval blockades are old school but they are acts of war by definition.

Kim Reynolds reading this news

How does recent growth compare to recent years? Economy added .93 million jobs over 12 months to Nov 2025. That's the weakest over-the-year job growth into Nov in at least 16 years, besides 2020.

The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since the pandemic—year-on-year job losses have hit 65k as manufacturing, transportation, & mining industries lose jobs at a rapid pace while growth in construction has nearly zeroed out

Honestly, it is always an honor to talk with @dahlialithwick.bsky.social on her show Amicus. She is so perceptive, brilliant, and curious all at once. Here we are trying to g to make sense of another year, and ringing alarms early for the upcoming year. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

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In Iowa: Meskwaki police chief says his son was one of the 2 Iowa Guard members killed in Syria iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/12/14/m...

CBS News Exclusive | While it's appropriate to mourn the students murdered at Brown University, we cannot be distracted from the real tragedy at America's colleges: the silencing of conservative voices.

look at this goofy shit

JFC!

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte: We are Russia's next target. And we are already in harm's way.

You've been hit by a car and you're fading in and out. You ask the EMTs to price the ambulance ride. You get to the ER and tell the docs you'll need a price on each service before it's done. You get cancer so it's time to put treament out to competitive bid. I can keep going...