Art Cullen
@artcullen.bsky.social
Editor, Storm Lake (Iowa) Times Pilot, stormlake.com Pulitzer Prize winner.
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“Trump campaigned on terrorizing immigrants and restricting trade. Release the clutch on your pearls, this is precisely what America bargained for, and Iowa in particular. Sixty percent say they think he has gone too far. Just where did you think he was going?”
January 27, 2026 at 3:01 AM
“Trump campaigned on terrorizing immigrants and restricting trade. Release the clutch on your pearls, this is precisely what America bargained for, and Iowa in particular. Sixty percent say they think he has gone too far. Just where did you think he was going?”
Here’s my latest column. Kim Reynolds is a pitiful governor.
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Condition of the State: Code Blue - Storm Lake Times Pilot
For the ninth time, Gov. Kim Reynolds told us last week the condition of the state is strong. Except we have the worst economy of the 50 states, and personal income growth was 48th last year, …
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January 19, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Here’s my latest column. Kim Reynolds is a pitiful governor.
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Pulitzer winner @artcullen.bsky.social on the soaring cancer rates in Iowa. A healthcare and environmental sacrifice zone.
If you want to get quickly blocked, here's how: ask how people with cancer voted. As if that matters to whether or not they deserve compassion.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH99...
If you want to get quickly blocked, here's how: ask how people with cancer voted. As if that matters to whether or not they deserve compassion.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH99...
What's Eating Iowa: Episode 2 - Cancer
YouTube video by Iowans for Stronger Communities
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January 14, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Pulitzer winner @artcullen.bsky.social on the soaring cancer rates in Iowa. A healthcare and environmental sacrifice zone.
If you want to get quickly blocked, here's how: ask how people with cancer voted. As if that matters to whether or not they deserve compassion.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH99...
If you want to get quickly blocked, here's how: ask how people with cancer voted. As if that matters to whether or not they deserve compassion.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH99...
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Breaking news: The FBI executed a search warrant Wednesday morning at a Washington Post reporter’s home as part of an investigation into a government contractor accused of illegally retaining classified government materials.
FBI executes search warrant at Washington Post reporter’s home
The reporter, Hannah Natanson, covers the federal workforce and has been part of The Post’s most sensitive coverage of the first year of the second Trump administration.
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January 14, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Breaking news: The FBI executed a search warrant Wednesday morning at a Washington Post reporter’s home as part of an investigation into a government contractor accused of illegally retaining classified government materials.
Check our Episode 2: Cancer, from our video documentary series “What’s Eating Iowa?”
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What’s Eating Iowa
A documentary series, Episode 2, Cancer
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January 13, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Check our Episode 2: Cancer, from our video documentary series “What’s Eating Iowa?”
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From the middle of beet-red Iowa, the best description of this nightmare.
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@artcullen.bsky.social
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@artcullen.bsky.social
Grumpy for good cause - Storm Lake Times Pilot
So I’ve become that grumpy old man. Not funny like Walter Matthau. Just grumpy. Curmudgeonly, somebody said. Shrill. I wake up PO’d. It’s hard to stay in good humor when dawn breaks to a …
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January 13, 2026 at 1:47 PM
From the middle of beet-red Iowa, the best description of this nightmare.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
@artcullen.bsky.social
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
@artcullen.bsky.social
Here’s my latest column. Thanks for reading.
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www.stormlake.com/stories/grum...
Grumpy for good cause - Storm Lake Times Pilot
So I’ve become that grumpy old man. Not funny like Walter Matthau. Just grumpy. Curmudgeonly, somebody said. Shrill. I wake up PO’d. It’s hard to stay in good humor when dawn breaks to a …
www.stormlake.com
January 12, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Here’s my latest column. Thanks for reading.
www.stormlake.com/stories/grum...
www.stormlake.com/stories/grum...
Here’s my latest column. Thanks for reading!
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www.stormlake.com/stories/winn...?
Winning rural voters is not so mysterious - Storm Lake Times Pilot
Those with high hopes for a two-party system in Iowa must put their minds and means on reaching rural voters. We had a balanced government a decade ago, before shelled-out river towns went …
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January 5, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Here’s my latest column. Thanks for reading!
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www.stormlake.com/stories/winn...?
Here’s my latest column: Drinking the well dry for absentee owners
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Who pays for the water? - Storm Lake Times Pilot
State and local officials in Nebraska are giving Tyson the business after the giant meat packer announced plans to shut down the Lexington beef plant and put 3,200 people out of work. Tyson …
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December 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Here’s my latest column: Drinking the well dry for absentee owners
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www.stormlake.com/stories/who-...?
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Pigs and Clover is honored to have a song in the soundtrack of this documentary series. Check it out! Episode 2 will be coming soon.
Check out the first episode of a video documentary series by cinematographer Jerry Risius and me on issues facing Iowa: water, cancer, resilient agriculture and rural consolidation. Please share! Thanks.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xqa...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xqa...
What's Eating Iowa: Episode 1 - Water
YouTube video by Iowans for Stronger Communities
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December 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Pigs and Clover is honored to have a song in the soundtrack of this documentary series. Check it out! Episode 2 will be coming soon.
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The collapse in natural gas continues to impress.
Good: cheaper gas-fired heating, should keep a lid on electricity prices, cheaper nitrogen fertilizer.
Bad: more corn and good weather likely means more farm bailouts.
Good: cheaper gas-fired heating, should keep a lid on electricity prices, cheaper nitrogen fertilizer.
Bad: more corn and good weather likely means more farm bailouts.
December 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The collapse in natural gas continues to impress.
Good: cheaper gas-fired heating, should keep a lid on electricity prices, cheaper nitrogen fertilizer.
Bad: more corn and good weather likely means more farm bailouts.
Good: cheaper gas-fired heating, should keep a lid on electricity prices, cheaper nitrogen fertilizer.
Bad: more corn and good weather likely means more farm bailouts.
Here’s my latest column. Thanks for reading!
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stormlake.com/stories/pray...
Pray for divided government - Storm Lake Times Pilot
2025 was arduous and is good to have behind us. The fever might have broken. Trump was raving mad on TV last week, almost spitting into the camera. This just days after saying that he doesn’t …
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December 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Here’s my latest column. Thanks for reading!
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Federal immigration authorities have access to a surveillance camera network in Storm Lake, Tom Cullen reports.
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Big Brother is Watching: federal immigration authorities can spy on Storm Lake - Storm Lake Times Pilot
AP investigation: Border Patrol cracks into cities’ software
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December 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Federal immigration authorities have access to a surveillance camera network in Storm Lake, Tom Cullen reports.
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stormlake.com/stories/big-...
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Soybeans are cheaper today than at the end of October when the "greatest, nobody loves farmers more than me" purchase "agreement" by China was announced.
Another example of don't believe a thing the WH says unless it's about who they want to imprison, deport or murder.
Another example of don't believe a thing the WH says unless it's about who they want to imprison, deport or murder.
December 15, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Soybeans are cheaper today than at the end of October when the "greatest, nobody loves farmers more than me" purchase "agreement" by China was announced.
Another example of don't believe a thing the WH says unless it's about who they want to imprison, deport or murder.
Another example of don't believe a thing the WH says unless it's about who they want to imprison, deport or murder.
Here’s my latest column, my annual holiday letter. Thanks for reading — even you, Fred.
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My annual holiday letter: Get with it, Fred - Storm Lake Times Pilot
Fred just emailed telling me to do something that is not in the offing this soon after prostate surgery, otherwise I would. And Merry Christmas to you, too, Fred old pal. I have reached an …
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December 16, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Here’s my latest column, my annual holiday letter. Thanks for reading — even you, Fred.
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www.stormlake.com/stories/my-a...?
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The latest from Art Cullen, one of the indispensable journalistic voices. "We Crapped In Our Nest" - Ice Cube Press icecubepress.com/2025/05/03/w...
We Crapped In Our Nest - Ice Cube Press
Dear Marty, We Crapped In Our Nest: Notes from the Edge of the World | Art Cullen | $20 | 192p | ISBN 9781948509633 This is the right book at the right time. Read it. Share it. Use it. Art on The Gi...
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December 8, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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This first episode is really great, required watching for anyone who cares about water quality in the Corn Belt. Looking forward to the next episode!
Check out the first episode of a video documentary series by cinematographer Jerry Risius and me on issues facing Iowa: water, cancer, resilient agriculture and rural consolidation. Please share! Thanks.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xqa...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xqa...
What's Eating Iowa: Episode 1 - Water
YouTube video by Iowans for Stronger Communities
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December 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
This first episode is really great, required watching for anyone who cares about water quality in the Corn Belt. Looking forward to the next episode!
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Hey everybody , I wasn’t depressed enough by the Hawkeye game so I watched a film on Iowa’s water. Seriously though, it’s really good. Starring two of Iowa’s finest: @artcullen.bsky.social and @theswinerepublic.bsky.social
youtube.com/watch?v=0Xqa...
youtube.com/watch?v=0Xqa...
What's Eating Iowa: Episode 1 - Water
YouTube video by Iowans for Stronger Communities
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December 3, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Hey everybody , I wasn’t depressed enough by the Hawkeye game so I watched a film on Iowa’s water. Seriously though, it’s really good. Starring two of Iowa’s finest: @artcullen.bsky.social and @theswinerepublic.bsky.social
youtube.com/watch?v=0Xqa...
youtube.com/watch?v=0Xqa...
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Check out the first episode of a video documentary series by cinematographer Jerry Risius and me on issues facing Iowa: water, cancer, resilient agriculture and rural consolidation. Please share! Thanks.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xqa...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xqa...
What's Eating Iowa: Episode 1 - Water
YouTube video by Iowans for Stronger Communities
m.youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Check out the first episode of a video documentary series by cinematographer Jerry Risius and me on issues facing Iowa: water, cancer, resilient agriculture and rural consolidation. Please share! Thanks.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xqa...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xqa...
Check out the first episode of a video documentary series by cinematographer Jerry Risius and me on issues facing Iowa: water, cancer, resilient agriculture and rural consolidation. Please share! Thanks.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xqa...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xqa...
What's Eating Iowa: Episode 1 - Water
YouTube video by Iowans for Stronger Communities
m.youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Check out the first episode of a video documentary series by cinematographer Jerry Risius and me on issues facing Iowa: water, cancer, resilient agriculture and rural consolidation. Please share! Thanks.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xqa...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xqa...