BACK TO CONSPIRACY - US Rep. Miller-Meeks of Iowa joined frmr President Trump in spreading debunked claims about FEMA’s Hurricane Helene recovery efforts. And there’s a pattern. I rounded up some of her conspiracy theories over the years. iowastartingline.com/2024/10/09/mil…

Trump spins up lies with Iowa GOP help thegazette.com/staff-columnis…

I’ll be in Pittsburgh tonight to talk about the stakes in this election and how Kamala Harris will be a president for all Americans. IWillVote.com

"If you saw it on Saturday Night Live, you'd say that's going too far. No, he's doing that!"

PBS is a legitimate news source. Fox News is a propaganda network for Donald J. Trump and the Republican Party. This is a direct comparison how both networks covered the aftermath of Hurricane Helene - the coverage is from the exact same day.

Our latest piece in our Cold Civil War series is from Jennifer Berkshire. It's about how, for all the bluster about culture wars in education, that's really being used as cover in red states to enact universal school vouchers & disinvest in public schools. prospect.org/education/2024…

New post: Iowa GOP candidates have spread lies about FEMA funding and its hurricane response as they try to pit voters against migrants. Nunn, Miller-Meeks, and Hinson invested months ago in messaging about immigration: #IA01 #IA02 #IA03 bleedingheartland.com/2024/10/11/iow…

Exactly. By Charlie Warzel. "What’s happening in America today is something darker than a misinformation crisis." theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Great column by Iowa farmer Seth Watkins.

BREAKING: Stunning new reporting from CNN shows how Donald Trump enriched himself at the expense of American taxpayers. Retweet to make sure every American sees this devastating report.

I call vouchers predatory lending for exactly this reason. The only access non-wealthy families get is to sub-prime private schools. With vouchers, it’s the school’s choice, not school choice. ProPublica

Income limits are going away for Iowa’s school voucher program next year. So even people who make a million dollars a year will get close to $8k per kid from taxpayers for private school tuition.

The 2024 State of the Climate report, written by top climate scientists, begins: "We are on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster. This is a global emergency beyond any doubt. Much of the very fabric of life on Earth is imperiled." Clear enough? academic.oup.com/bioscience/adv…

Excellent advice. I do my best to listen and thoughtfully engage with friends and acquaintances. Republican politicians? Not so much. They know better. Those who are being lied to deserve thoughtful engagement. The liars need to be defeated.

With Chris Jones, author/activist, in Viroqua, Wisc. A good day of conversation of causes and solutions to worst pollution in America — agricultural nutrient contamination from fields, and industrial livestock, and poultry production. Read Chris’ excellent “Swine Republic.”

GOP PLAN. Get Trump elected. Have Vance kick him to the curb by using the 25th Amendment. Implement Project 2025. Vance and all GOP loyalists become KINGS. Everyone else becomes SERFS. You nonwealthy, insignificant whities who voted for Trump are mere SHIT on their SHOES.

Quite a lot, actually! Perhaps if we hadn’t underfunded our schools for decades, you’d actually know what communism is!

This is where we are: The Lead CNN showing the dictionary definition of fascism on the air

Still undecided in this year’s election? How to vote in 2 easy steps: 1) Figure out who the Nazis are supporting 2) Vote for the opposite

The legal max a person can donate to a candidate is $3300. But, when billionaires like Miriam Adelson exploit our broken campaign finance laws to donate $100 million to a candidate, we’re no longer a democracy and it’s no longer an election — it’s an oligarchy and an auction.