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living in rural Iowa...little blue fish in a big red pond.
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Friends — Here's one "big idea" for how we can start to fix the system in 2026. Let me know your thoughts.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get-rid-of-citizens-united
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get-rid-of-citizens-united
December 29, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Friends — Here's one "big idea" for how we can start to fix the system in 2026. Let me know your thoughts.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get-rid-of-citizens-united
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get-rid-of-citizens-united
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Chris Jones, who currently serves as president of the environmental advocacy group Driftless Water Defenders, has long been a critic of industrial agribusiness in Iowa.
Now, he’s considering running for Secretary of Agriculture in the state.
Now, he’s considering running for Secretary of Agriculture in the state.
December 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Chris Jones, who currently serves as president of the environmental advocacy group Driftless Water Defenders, has long been a critic of industrial agribusiness in Iowa.
Now, he’s considering running for Secretary of Agriculture in the state.
Now, he’s considering running for Secretary of Agriculture in the state.
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Support Chris Jones for #Iowa Secretary of Ag and let's tackle water quality in a meaningful way.
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December 20, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Support Chris Jones for #Iowa Secretary of Ag and let's tackle water quality in a meaningful way.
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The latest budget estimates show that, between FY24 and FY27, corporations will have paid $188.5 million LESS in income tax while Iowans will have paid $376.3 million MORE in sales tax.
December 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The latest budget estimates show that, between FY24 and FY27, corporations will have paid $188.5 million LESS in income tax while Iowans will have paid $376.3 million MORE in sales tax.
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Is the pesticide approval process in the U.S. rigged to benefit corporations? Yeah, probably.
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Landmark glyphosate safety study retracted for Monsanto ghostwriting, other ethics problems
A scientific study that regulators around the world relied on for decades to justify continued approval of glyphosate was quietly retracted last Friday.
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December 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Is the pesticide approval process in the U.S. rigged to benefit corporations? Yeah, probably.
usrtk.org/pesticides/l...
usrtk.org/pesticides/l...
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One more indictment of Iowa DNR and how they are complicit in the state's degraded water quality:
www.thegazette.com/environment-...
www.thegazette.com/environment-...
Iowa food companies routinely violate water pollution permits, rarely face penalties
Of the 38 agricultural violators identified this year, only one has been fined for its violations, in a "sweetheart deal" according to lawyers involved in a case against the facility.
www.thegazette.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
One more indictment of Iowa DNR and how they are complicit in the state's degraded water quality:
www.thegazette.com/environment-...
www.thegazette.com/environment-...
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"To those who say the system can’t be changed, Jones disagrees. “We created this behemoth of an ethanol industry through policy.” So “we ought to be able to create something different and something better through policy" #iowa
"We deserve better": Why Chris Jones may run for secretary of agriculture
"What farmers do affects everyone"
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November 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
"To those who say the system can’t be changed, Jones disagrees. “We created this behemoth of an ethanol industry through policy.” So “we ought to be able to create something different and something better through policy" #iowa
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Clean water advocate Chris Jones exploring run for Iowa agriculture secretary
Clean water advocate Chris Jones exploring run for Iowa agriculture secretary
Former University of Iowa researcher Chris Jones has announced an exploratory committee for Secretary of Agriculture in Iowa, a major step toward running for office. Jones has long been a critic of industrial agribusiness in Iowa.
www.thegazette.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Clean water advocate Chris Jones exploring run for Iowa agriculture secretary
I should have been a lawyer. All these lawsuits, and then suing the outcome in other courts, and then suing those outcomes again in another court. Where does it end?
October 28, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I should have been a lawyer. All these lawsuits, and then suing the outcome in other courts, and then suing those outcomes again in another court. Where does it end?
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Expert says ‘risk-free drinking water’ doesn’t exist in Iowa, urges well owners to test their water
Expert says 'risk-free drinking water' doesn't exist in Iowa
To a gathering of residents in Dubuque this week, David Cwiertny, director of the Center for Health Effects of Environmental Contamination at the University of Iowa, said there is "no such thing as risk-free water."
www.thegazette.com
September 16, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Expert says ‘risk-free drinking water’ doesn’t exist in Iowa, urges well owners to test their water
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#desmoines #iowa #resist Bridge protests! Good for you all keeping it strategic and safe! bitchesgetstuffdone.org
September 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
#desmoines #iowa #resist Bridge protests! Good for you all keeping it strategic and safe! bitchesgetstuffdone.org
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As if Iowa's rivers and lakes aren't already polluted enough, Congress is considering a bill that guts the longstanding Clean Water Act. Learn more and write to your representative here. act.cleanwater.org/page/173938/... @cleanh2oaction #permissiontopollute
September 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
As if Iowa's rivers and lakes aren't already polluted enough, Congress is considering a bill that guts the longstanding Clean Water Act. Learn more and write to your representative here. act.cleanwater.org/page/173938/... @cleanh2oaction #permissiontopollute
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Iowans shouldn’t have to foot the bill for private schools, let alone the EXTRA $35 million, for vouchers this year! Share if you agree! #WeChoosePublicSchools
August 25, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Iowans shouldn’t have to foot the bill for private schools, let alone the EXTRA $35 million, for vouchers this year! Share if you agree! #WeChoosePublicSchools
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In 2012, Rob Faux was bringing water out to the hens on his organic farm in northeast Iowa when a plane flew over and sprayed pesticides on him, his partner, and his farm. Not once, but twelve times.
Listen: attheiowafarmtable.substack.com/p/drenched-i...
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Pesticide Immunity
Listen now | An aerial‑spray accident wiped out an entire season of Rob’s diversified vegetable production—along with his CSA commitments. Now he’s fighting “pesticide‑immunity” bills moving through s...
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July 15, 2025 at 12:31 AM
In 2012, Rob Faux was bringing water out to the hens on his organic farm in northeast Iowa when a plane flew over and sprayed pesticides on him, his partner, and his farm. Not once, but twelve times.
Listen: attheiowafarmtable.substack.com/p/drenched-i...
Listen: attheiowafarmtable.substack.com/p/drenched-i...
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Iowa’s public gift law provides important context on the controversy over Qatar's gift of a jet to President Donald Trump, guest columnist Randy Evans writes via Iowa Writers Collaborative. iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/05/27/i...
Iowa law would ground Trump’s donated jet with a thud • Iowa Capital Dispatch
Iowa’s public gift law provides important context on the controversy over Qatar's gift of a jet to President Donald Trump.
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May 27, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Iowa’s public gift law provides important context on the controversy over Qatar's gift of a jet to President Donald Trump, guest columnist Randy Evans writes via Iowa Writers Collaborative. iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/05/27/i...
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Gov. Reynolds OKs law to lower handgun possession age to 18
Gov. Reynolds OKs law to lower handgun possession age to 18
Also in the Capitol Notebook: The state opens its annual application period for taxpayer-funded private school tuition assistance scholarships
www.thegazette.com
April 19, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Gov. Reynolds OKs law to lower handgun possession age to 18
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Prob not much hope Trump’s EPA will act in IEC’s favor on this
www.thegazette.com/environment-...
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No decision yet from EPA over NE Iowa drinking water
The EPA said Monday it’s still evaluating the citizen petition nearly a year after it was submitted.
www.thegazette.com
March 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Prob not much hope Trump’s EPA will act in IEC’s favor on this
www.thegazette.com/environment-...
www.thegazette.com/environment-...
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pollution from Smithfield & John Morrell is “enough to contaminate about 80 billion gallons of water beyond the safe drinking water standard for nitrate,” says Jones, author of The Swine Republic, an exposé of the science & politics of agriculture & pollution in Iowa.
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Blood, body parts and bacteria pollute wastewater from meatpacking plants. New rules could help clean it up
Slaughterhouses and meat and poultry processing plants are among the nation’s most polluting industries.
usrtk.org
March 3, 2025 at 9:51 PM
pollution from Smithfield & John Morrell is “enough to contaminate about 80 billion gallons of water beyond the safe drinking water standard for nitrate,” says Jones, author of The Swine Republic, an exposé of the science & politics of agriculture & pollution in Iowa.
usrtk.org/factory-farm...
usrtk.org/factory-farm...
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As Facebook doesn’t value moderating content responsibly, @lastweektonight.com with John Oliver has launched a useful website to help make your accounts less valuable to Meta, with steps on how to limit how your data is used for advertising. Visit: johnoliverwantsyourraterotica.com
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March 1, 2025 at 9:52 AM
As Facebook doesn’t value moderating content responsibly, @lastweektonight.com with John Oliver has launched a useful website to help make your accounts less valuable to Meta, with steps on how to limit how your data is used for advertising. Visit: johnoliverwantsyourraterotica.com
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Expert tells Iowa audience the state’s agriculture is ‘too pesticide intensive’
Expert tells Iowa audience ag is ‘too pesticide intensive’
Charles Benbrook told an Iowa City audience this week that the state’s agriculture is too pesticide intensive, and the chemicals are “harming the soil, harming public health, and it is harming fish populations and birds and the deer.”
www.thegazette.com
March 1, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Expert tells Iowa audience the state’s agriculture is ‘too pesticide intensive’
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He says what we've been shouting that MAGA just wouldn't hear but he says it in a way that some of them will hear. He's a rural farmer who speaks how they speak. @hcrichardson.bsky.social I posted 4 you to watch bec I think he's the missing link in our messaging. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4CR...
From One Farmer to Another
YouTube video by The Back Forty
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February 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM
He says what we've been shouting that MAGA just wouldn't hear but he says it in a way that some of them will hear. He's a rural farmer who speaks how they speak. @hcrichardson.bsky.social I posted 4 you to watch bec I think he's the missing link in our messaging. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4CR...
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A third of Cedar Rapids water tests exceed lead guideline for children
A third of Cedar Rapids water tests exceed lead guideline for children
The city’s water complies with federal requirements, but test data for the past five years show concentrations that are higher than what is recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
www.thegazette.com
February 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
A third of Cedar Rapids water tests exceed lead guideline for children