Rabid 2nd Amendment supporters vilifying a Black man for having a gun? Beware of the narrative.
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Here and in the comment, Whitehead suggests that arguments against building a bigger jail are arguments against fixing leaking sewage. No one argues this.

“It could cost tens of millions to field a competitive [college] football team.”

Dude. It costs that already. Iowa pays its head football coach $5 million alone.

@gruber.foo Re: Slate Truck. My last car stopped connecting to my phone reliably, so I just started using AirPods (well, Pod). It worked OK, especially since most people don’t carpool. My grandfather was a guy who bought the cheapest he could, even without a radio.

For $20K, I consider it.

Somehow it feels perfect that the University of Iowa’s new “civil rights compliance page,” which replaces the outlawed division of access, opportunity and diversity, shows the flaking and worn luster of the Old Capitol.

Last week a man, prosecuted by the state, for using public information to mock a public figure was sentenced for his parody Twitter account but you’d never know it based on The Gazette’s reporting.

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Monday we swore in a convicted felon to the Oval Office. If you’re a leader who thinks now — right now, facing this future — is the time to clutch pearls and do things as we’ve always done them, you’ve got your head up your ass. 🐸 ☕️

TIL I, a man in his 40s with a full-time job and a family, have more hours in on Tears of the Kingdom than my teenager’s boyfriend.

Iowa’s pioneering is all the wrong ways these days.

Twitter killed third-party clients and it killed Twitter for me.

Reddit’s killing third-party clients and it’s killing Reddit for me.

So here I am at Bluesky.