Thanks to Karen Hao's brilliant book Empire of AI, I learned that ONLY drinking water can be used to cool data centers. Other types of water have too many impurities We are sacrificing our DRINKING water, so depraved tech loons can try to build themselves a god

It's official: The US now has more unemployed people than job openings for the first time since April 2021. In July, the US had: 7.18 million job openings 7.24 million unemployed people This is yet another crack in the labor market that illustrates how much harder it is to get

I wonder what happened 18 years ago that would cause a sharp decline of birth rates across the board that we never really recovered from but the banks and large corporations did

NUNN TOWN HALL - IA-03 US Rep. Zach Nunn to hold a town hall at 1 p.m. tomorrow in Jefferson. This after calling them a “taxpayer-funded protest event." It’s being held at Gravitate Coworking (204 E State St, Jefferson, IA 50129) raccoonvalleyradio.com/2025/09/04/con…

UPDATE: It’s private now.

I had hoped to share a better update, but I will not be returning to play this season. I spent hours in the gym every day with the singular goal of getting back out there, disappointed isn’t a big enough word to describe how I am feeling. I want to thank everyone who had my back

What's preventing Iowa from addressing our high cancer rates? "Politics and big money," says radiologist Dr. Andrew Nish. More from Zachary Oren Smith on the podcast: cornholechampions.substack.com/p/andrew-nish-…

Radon exposure is fueling Iowa’s deadliest cancer iowastartingline.com/cancer-in-iowa… Amie Rivers Iowa Starting Line

A massive betrayal of the 25,000+ Americans who explained to FTC how noncompetes keep people trapped and coerced, undermining basic freedoms. Another clear sign that, despite its rhetoric, this administration is deeply hostile to American workers.

JUST IN: Tariffs are clearly hitting now. U.S. Inflation rises to 2.9% (y/y) in August-->up from 2.3% in April. Higher food, gas and shelter costs drove inflation up in August. Cars, apparel and airfares also saw costs surge. ***Inflation jumped 0.4% during the month, the

The stranglehold that this far right blogger has on Iowa politicians is honestly insane. The tail wags the dog for the Iowa GOP.

if you're interested, you can watch the next Iowa DOGE meeting on Monday: governor.iowa.gov/vision-iowa-0/…

Johnson County Supervisor Chair Jon Green, my friend, is receiving extremely heinous death threats because our Governor Kim Reynolds posted how she was mad that he didn’t want to lower our flag for a white nationalist podcaster.

My grandfather used to say “and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel” and I never knew what it meant until after he died my grandmother explained some magazine did a fluff interview with Magda Goebbels a few years before WW2 that included her strudel recipe and my grandfather, who

SPECIAL REPORT: A large swath of the U.S. currently does not have the basic, ground-level immunity necessary to stop the spread of viruses that had once receded into the past, a six-month NBC News investigation in collaboration with scientists at Stanford University finds.

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