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Here’s something you should know about minks: They have lungs and airways remarkably similar on a cellular level to those of people. They’ve spread flus and infected humans before with COVID-19. Right now, bird flu is spreading on a Utah farm filled with thousands of them… 🧵

Iowa City No Kings

you can't be serious. This reads Meta/Facebook/Insta is looking to grant itself the rights to scrape websites across the open web - and train Meta's AI - if a company after Oct 30, 2026 uses Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp or other Meta services. So every biz. Read that again. Outrageous. 1/5

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The most explosive information from receiver's court filing: cattle on Derek Wulf's property "appeared to be in poor physical condition and inadequately nourished. No shelter was observed, and the pasture and lot were extremely muddy." Receiver included photos: Wulf is the GOP nominee for Lt. Gov.

New post by Bruce Lear: Data centers need clear and enforceable rules, or Iowa small towns and rural life will be swallowed. www.bleedingheartland.com/2026/09/28/d...

The mobile “Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room” parked in Cedar Rapids on Sunday between stops in Des Moines and Iowa City. It marked the first time Epstein survivors have made an appearance alongside the bookmobile, which is on a national tour.

The Epstein Files Reading Room Bookmobile has landed outside our store in Omaha! It will be outside our stores in Des Moines, Iowa City, and Cedar Rapids later this week. Tour details: trumpepsteinreadingroom.com/tour

“Republicans don’t have anything to run on,” Jones said at Captain Roy's on Sunday. “They certainly can’t run on clean water. Naig has been in there almost 10 years now...” The Democrat has detailed proposals for "off-ramps" to make it viable for Iowa farmers to spurn the corn/soy/CAFO model.

You don't have a right to safe drinking water, a US court just ruled. A Trump-appointed judge also said Americans have no “constitutional right to truthful information” during a public health crisis.

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

NEW: Thermal drone footage shows the Microsoft-backed DataOne AI data center in Vineland, NJ is running dozens of gas generators. None of them have permits. A Floodlight visual investigation with @us.theguardian.com:

"This campaign is a referendum on whether Iowa should have cleaner water, and for one week we're going to have that conversation on the river itself." actionnetwork.org/events/paddl...

A Pekin, Illinois ethanol plant was polluting the Illinois River. We went to court and held them accountable. Thanks to @ilattygeneral.bsky.social for prosecuting this case and protecting the state's namesake river. 🧵 Gift link to story by @adrianaperez.bsky.social in @chicagotribune.com

Pesticides are drifting onto Illinois schools and parks. The ag industry demands not only the right to chemically trespass onto schools & parks, but also the right to do so without even warning anyone. New reporting from @chicagotribune.com, featuring Prairie Rivers Network monitoring. 🧵

On today's @21st.show, what happens when pesticides drift miles away from where they're applied? We got people's thoughts from all across the state about this when we were live. The full conversation:

“You can’t unscramble the egg," Bird said of hypothetical voter fraud, justifying her decision to comply with a federal request for Iowa voter data. "Everything we can do to prevent illegal voting, I think it’s important that we do that.”

Woof “If Jones gets elected, someone will bark relentlessly in the Iowa Capitol every day about pollution and cancer. Those beholden to the chemical companies will have to listen to him until their heads hurt.” www.stormlake.com/stories/edit...

There is something uniquely infuriating about watching them pointlessly bulldoze Big Bend. Pristine desert destroyed for a pointless fence as part of a no-bid contract for $1.7 billion while we have record deficits. What in the living F is going on? Article: www.npr.org/2026/08/14/n...

Six years ago to the minute, hurricane-force winds began ripping through Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Then-LV distro director Brian Johannesen was delivering magazines when he got caught in the derecho. From 2020:

Great game, Mr. President. 🏀 Iowa, you heard President Obama. The ball is in your court. Join our campaign and help us Push For Change: Turek4Iowa.com

In a new campaign video, Obama and Turek shoot hoops and reflect briefly on the former president's historic 2008 caucus campaign. “Of all the things I’ve done in politics, Iowa was my favorite thing," Obama says.

I put in a suggestion at my local food co-op to order @fossilforager.bsky.social merch and they did!!

Apparently I'm carrying Hy-vee..

The irony of commenters taking the meme literally WHILE acting it out AND thinking Benn would simply give in to the right for money is insane. I clocked it: "I'm finding it amusing how people fall for division so easily instead of thinking about changing people's minds." Division fuels the right-

There was a nearly 13% increase in Iowa CAFOs with 1,000 or more animal units from 2019 to 2025, the Environmental Working Group report notes.

President Trump on Monday sharply reduced the size of two national monuments in Utah, undoing protections established by former presidents on public lands that are sacred among many Native Americans.

Public lands grazing is overseen by a system that heavily subsidizes some of the wealthiest Americans but does little to address its harms to the environment, ProPublica and @highcountrynews.org found in a report published last year.

"Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro as a commuter looks on, during the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2026. REUTERS/Cheney Orr"

Major Watson is currently in Air Force custody and under a gag order. He did an extensive interfere with me on Lights On the week before his reveal to prepare for this eventuality. Please share it widely: m.youtube.com/watch?v=2ooH...

An active-duty officer was placed into Air Force custody after being arrested in uniform on Wednesday, following a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in which he called for the impeachment, conviction and removal of President Trump and Vice President JD Vance. nyti.ms/4vbW1lA

The tornado warned storm that was headed towards my store yesterday!

I was in Lansing on Wednesday and saw my first amended speed sign on the way out of town; a 55 mph sign with a 60 slapped over it. I can only imagine the confusion people are experiencing and will be experiencing going forwards. We were stuck in the Nixon era oil crisis while other states sped up.

From advancing to now delaying it's data center ordinance, it seems that the Palo data center plans have been paused, at least for now. Plans for a Morgan Valley Gas Power plant to power CR area data centers will hopefully be halted as well. Article: www.kcrg.com/2026/06/16/l...

Personal Note: I have not been super active on here for over a year now due to struggles in my personal life. Regardless, I post and share what I can! I haven't had the energy to keep up with the news cycle after You Know Who returned to office. It's been exhausting, but I haven't given up hope.

Google Ai summary has decreased traffic to sites like WIkipedia, which is troubling. Wikipedia, among many other websites scraped by Ai, is struggling to sustain itself.

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Iowa nuclear energy task force wraps up

"We need safe, cost-effective power production, not official doctrine promoted by a politically appointed committee," writes Paul Deaton of Solon, referring to the Iowa Nuclear Energy Task Force created by Gov. Reynolds.

U.S. Department of Energy Deputy Secretary James Danly was in Iowa Tuesday, speaking on the virtues of data centers while calling for a “nuclear renaissance” in relation to the nation’s growing electricity demands, Cami Koons reports. iowacapitaldispatch.com/2026/06/23/d...

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