Joe Pick

Joe Pick

@dadofpicks.bsky.social

Elected to my local school board, BUT Opinions are my own. 4 kids, 3 dogs, husband - farm grown, Iowa native. Big fan of education, youth advocacy, movies, being a good human. Firm believer in Neighborism.

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Favorite reads & listens so far this year: Project Hail Mary (read & listened) All Dungeon Crawler Carl -listened Dark Matter - read We Are Legion (We Are Bob) -listened to first 3 The Martian -read Upgrade -read Buffalo Hunter Hunter -listened Incidents Around the House - read Next Suggestions ?

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Unsurprisingly, Iowa will host a WBB site.

Matthew Walter@matthew-walter96.bsky.social

The Top 16 seeds as released by the committee in alphabetical order: Duke Iowa Louisville LSU Michigan Minnesota North Carolina Ohio State Oklahoma South Carolina TCU Texas UCLA UConn Vanderbilt West Virginia @theixsports.bsky.social #bracketology

When your buddy is in Iowa City and says hey look who we bumped into - Iowa Chop House, dining room of legend Gennings Dunker @HawkeyeFootball who is “a very large human”

What a 🤯 stat from the I on Hawks pod- this @IowaWBB team is heading into the B1G tourney with a better record than any year with Caitlin. Jan has some assassins and Ava Heiden is setting up for a RUN

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When I heard this, I drafted a skeet about it, then thought "naaah, there's no way his speechwriters would allow him to contradict himself within one sentence." But they really and truly did.

Bobby Kogan@bbkogan.bsky.social

trump says we're gonna simultaneously make houses more affordable and also keep their prices high

Public school administrators- superintendents, principals, directors, are told not to post pictures on vacations or situations where it looks bad ethically in order to avoid the scrutiny of public dollars paying their salaries and how it can be perceived. Guess that doesn’t apply to the FBI

Dave MacIntyre@davemacattack.bsky.social

People on Bluesky: “sPoRtS aReN’t PoLiTiCaL” The United States men’s national hockey team: *parties in their dressing room with Kash Patel*

Surrounding himself with terrible people, and terrible corn? I shouldn’t be surprised. If this squatty person is seeing over top of your tasseled corn, you need to find a better seed corn dealer. Maybe because I grew up in Iowa and know good corn should tower over top of this boy

I know nobody watches local tv anymore, except to maybe catch the weather or news. But back in the day they had some ear worms in their ads. Every once in a while one gets triggered- if you lived in NW Iowa, Beano & Sherry’s Casino was a banger.

Pate puts on a clown nose when he’s made a bad pick. I know his “fox hole” boys are supporting him, but this isn’t the hill. This is a bad call. Ignoring all the bad and saying it’s “just football” just looks naive and ignorant. Unfollowed, unsubscribed, all of them.

Awful Announcing@awfulannouncing.bsky.social

Josh Pate defended his interview with Donald Trump, saying it won't be about politics. awfulannouncing.com/college-foot...

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I think kids growing up in the Trump era should be told clearly that they are being raised under a regime that espouses white supremacy as if it is a legitimate politics, the same as any other.

Bad Faith Times@dennycarter.badfaithtimes.com.ap.brid.gy

Denny Carter on talking to your children about the president's racism, which becomes more normalized all the time: https://badfaithtimes.com/tell-your-kids-this-shit-is-racist/

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trump spent $40M ($133k per person) deporting 300 migrants to countries that aren't their homes, sometimes paying twice when they returned them to their actual countries anyway. That same money could've funded comprehensive veteran services, medical care and disability support nationwide. #Resist

apnews.comUS spent $40 million on roughly 300 deportations to third nations, Democratic report findsThe Trump administration spent at least $40 million to deport roughly 300 migrants to countries other than their own, according to a report compiled by the Democratic staff of the Senate Foreign Relat...

In the words of @pablo.show - everything is bum fights.

Mina Kimes@minakimes.bsky.social

Been thinking a lot about this reading the discourse around Traitors, LIB, The Pitt, etc…is it overreaching to say that pretty much all online discussion of popular TV/movies is toxic now?

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Replying to @mostlybree.kitrocha.com

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Did a thing today. Offered testimony in opposition of LB765, the bill that would require a 50.1% voter turnout for school bonds in order to be valid. Counting online and in person testimony, it was 15 in support…59 in opposition. Hope they were listening.

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i cannot stress enough that the phillips folks are freaking miracle workers. they are getting shit done, your money will move fast with them.

andrea@andreawaves.bsky.social

We’ve paid rent for over 270 households so far in February and we currently have a waitlist that totals over $30,000. We distributed rents one by one. We can’t even think about March rent yet. You can help us here: gofund.me/5d4d1a571

When the Muppets are featured I happily flash back to the incredible jingle of my childhood, where they were selling a double Muppet Movie set: You get the Muppet Movie, and the Great Muppet Caper too And you can get a free watch, YES we said get a free watch… The song jumps in my brain every time

Alan Sepinwall@sepinwall.bsky.social

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The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley. Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo. Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles. Get them out!

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He cannot be clearer. There is no difference to him between bombing random fishermen on boats and shooting Americans protesters in the face

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

I swear this clip is not edited. Trump pivots from downplaying the killing of Renee Good and Alex Pretti ("two people out of tens of thousands and you get bad publicity") to in the very next breath claiming "we've been very tough on the waters," leaving Tom Llamas baffled ("the waters?")