@jdeprural.bsky.social
retired Iowa farmer and news junkie. Univ of Iowa '71 history. former carpenter, teacher, ACLU, school board.
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Thank you to the folks who leave their own families without notice to help someone else's family.
December 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Thank you to the folks who leave their own families without notice to help someone else's family.
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Christ on a bike, this is brilliant.
And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10
And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10
December 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Christ on a bike, this is brilliant.
And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10
And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10
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This is critically important. Democrats need to pass it if they retake Congress. Trump will veto it. So pass it again. Campaign on it. Given current polling, corruption of the FBI, and the brutality of ICE and BP, there’s no better time to say, “Federal police are not above the law.”
Restoring Bivens rights: one bill "would allow citizens to sue for damages resulting from constitutional violations committed by federal officers," while the other "would create a cause of action against federal law enforcement agencies and police depts for constitutional violations."
These congressmen want to give you the right to sue federal law enforcement for violating your rights
The proposed bills aim to codify a 1971 Supreme Court ruling that allowed individuals to sue the feds for Fourth Amendment violations.
reason.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
This is critically important. Democrats need to pass it if they retake Congress. Trump will veto it. So pass it again. Campaign on it. Given current polling, corruption of the FBI, and the brutality of ICE and BP, there’s no better time to say, “Federal police are not above the law.”
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Meanwhile Trump hands the worldwide EV market to China to feed the oil industry and get their contributions. It will only marginalize our battery and auto industry. Insane. Trump damages or destroys everything.
insideevs.com/news/782099/...
insideevs.com/news/782099/...
Ford’s EV Reset Leaves A Multibillion-Dollar Hole In The Battery Industry
Plus, 16 states sue the Trump administration for freezing EV charging funds and Scout Motors gets license to sell directly to customers.
insideevs.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Meanwhile Trump hands the worldwide EV market to China to feed the oil industry and get their contributions. It will only marginalize our battery and auto industry. Insane. Trump damages or destroys everything.
insideevs.com/news/782099/...
insideevs.com/news/782099/...
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Not that it will but the willingness of Americans to obey is a very funny contrast with our self-image and should probably prompt some reflection bsky.app/profile/jonf...
NEWS: They're adding Trump's name to the Kennedy Center building right now. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Kennedy Center adds Trump’s name to building
The signage change follows a vote by the board of trustees to rename the performing arts complex the Trump Kennedy Center.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Not that it will but the willingness of Americans to obey is a very funny contrast with our self-image and should probably prompt some reflection bsky.app/profile/jonf...
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The 6 richest men in the world are all Trump allies.
They control your algorithms and data on X, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and YouTube.
Just in case you’re wondering why more isn’t done to stop right-wing bots and misinformation on social media.
They control your algorithms and data on X, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and YouTube.
Just in case you’re wondering why more isn’t done to stop right-wing bots and misinformation on social media.
December 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The 6 richest men in the world are all Trump allies.
They control your algorithms and data on X, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and YouTube.
Just in case you’re wondering why more isn’t done to stop right-wing bots and misinformation on social media.
They control your algorithms and data on X, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and YouTube.
Just in case you’re wondering why more isn’t done to stop right-wing bots and misinformation on social media.
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Washington’s refusal to regulate AI is a corruption story. Just ask Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson.
December 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Washington’s refusal to regulate AI is a corruption story. Just ask Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson.
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Once again Ashley is more focused on doing Trump’s bidding than standing up for the working class people who keep Iowa and this country running.
December 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Once again Ashley is more focused on doing Trump’s bidding than standing up for the working class people who keep Iowa and this country running.
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December 1, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis stated in 1933; “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.”
Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.
Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.
December 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis stated in 1933; “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.”
Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.
Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.
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If you've been a victim of wage theft, you might not even know it. That's why Iowa Senate Democrats support tougher laws when it comes to protecting hardworking Iowans' pay and benefits. You've earned it, you should receive it -- end of story.
December 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
If you've been a victim of wage theft, you might not even know it. That's why Iowa Senate Democrats support tougher laws when it comes to protecting hardworking Iowans' pay and benefits. You've earned it, you should receive it -- end of story.
Janet talks plainly.
“Republican lawmakers have been in charge of the budget for almost a decade, overpromising economic growth and underdelivering for Iowans.” Read Sen. Petersen's full statement here: bit.ly/454YSCu
December 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Janet talks plainly.
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Republicans use the "I'm not familiar with that" dodge several times a day now, and if a reporters or anchor isn't ready and willing to shut them down as soon as they try it, that means they're either incompetent at their job or a willing accomplice to the lies.
Either way, never trust them again.
Either way, never trust them again.
If they pretend they haven’t heard about the story of the day, end the interview right there.
“I’m sorry, Senator, we wanted to get your perspective on this story, but it seems you’re not fully aware of what’s going on.”
“I’m sorry, Senator, we wanted to get your perspective on this story, but it seems you’re not fully aware of what’s going on.”
December 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Republicans use the "I'm not familiar with that" dodge several times a day now, and if a reporters or anchor isn't ready and willing to shut them down as soon as they try it, that means they're either incompetent at their job or a willing accomplice to the lies.
Either way, never trust them again.
Either way, never trust them again.
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Unfuckingbelievable.
Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
December 6, 2025 at 4:25 AM
egomaniac
Upend the Supreme Court.
Some long-term reforms are good and necessary, but for SCOTUS more than the presidency or Congress, it's an immediate and specific need for personnel turnover. We need new justices and need them urgently, there's no ideal reform that works while leaving this rogue gang of six in place.
December 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Upend the Supreme Court.
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Brett Kavanagh, his friends, and his family will be living with these images until their dying days. Unimaginable betrayal of the American creed.
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Brett Kavanagh, his friends, and his family will be living with these images until their dying days. Unimaginable betrayal of the American creed.
Know your history!
🙏 @lizziewade.bsky.social for flagging this: "Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 mill Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Caribbean reparations leaders in ‘historic’ first UK visit to press for justice
CRC mission will seek to deepen public understanding of Britain’s colonial legacy and its lasting impact
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Know your history!
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
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Medicare *shouldn’t have* premiums…or copays or deductibles.
Medicare should cover vision, dental, and hearing.
And Medicare should cover everyone.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/b...
Medicare should cover vision, dental, and hearing.
And Medicare should cover everyone.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/b...
What to Know About the Nearly 10% Climb in a Key Medicare Expense for 2026
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Medicare *shouldn’t have* premiums…or copays or deductibles.
Medicare should cover vision, dental, and hearing.
And Medicare should cover everyone.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/b...
Medicare should cover vision, dental, and hearing.
And Medicare should cover everyone.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/b...
"It's the media, stupid."
Why do you assume the gestalt of the electorate is driven by the median voter's personal circumstances rather than the median voter's media environment?
November 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
"It's the media, stupid."
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Chris Jones, former University of Iowa water quality researcher and farm pollution activist may run for Iowa Sec. of Agriculture. If he does, and looks like he will, it would be most significant race for crucial agriculture post since Jim Hightower ran and won Texas Ag Commissioner race in 1982.
November 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Chris Jones, former University of Iowa water quality researcher and farm pollution activist may run for Iowa Sec. of Agriculture. If he does, and looks like he will, it would be most significant race for crucial agriculture post since Jim Hightower ran and won Texas Ag Commissioner race in 1982.
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I think one of the things that makes me the most Unhinged is that the government is dragging people from their homes in the middle of the night, ramming people with their cars and shooting them for fun, and everyone is just doing the same discourses we always have
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
November 23, 2025 at 6:19 AM
I think one of the things that makes me the most Unhinged is that the government is dragging people from their homes in the middle of the night, ramming people with their cars and shooting them for fun, and everyone is just doing the same discourses we always have
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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It’s funny how all of the free speech scolds, from the editorial staff of The Atlantic to the New York Times, Jonathan Haidt and FIRE to Robbie Soave, are utterly silent on a wave of mass firings over speech — the very thing they claimed to care about. Zero to say about discipline and censorship.
New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
It’s funny how all of the free speech scolds, from the editorial staff of The Atlantic to the New York Times, Jonathan Haidt and FIRE to Robbie Soave, are utterly silent on a wave of mass firings over speech — the very thing they claimed to care about. Zero to say about discipline and censorship.
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…and then the rest of the White House press corps pushed back against the president’s gratuitous insult aimed at one of their colleagues?
Oh wait! There’s no sign that anything like that happened!
Because access beats out solidarity, every day of the week.
people.com/donald-trump...
Oh wait! There’s no sign that anything like that happened!
Because access beats out solidarity, every day of the week.
people.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
people.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:05 AM
…and then the rest of the White House press corps pushed back against the president’s gratuitous insult aimed at one of their colleagues?
Oh wait! There’s no sign that anything like that happened!
Because access beats out solidarity, every day of the week.
people.com/donald-trump...
Oh wait! There’s no sign that anything like that happened!
Because access beats out solidarity, every day of the week.
people.com/donald-trump...