I was diagnosed with
#POTS
five years ago and it upended my life. Last year, I decided to see if it was possible to run a marathon with it, and my primary care provider (and friend!) said he’d train with me to figure it out - full story in
@outsidemagazine
You cannot blame people for criticizing the disaster response when a woman was rescued alive after the initial demolition was scheduled and you kick off your press conference by saying you have no idea how no one knew she was there.
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@Hozier
is at a festival in rural Iowa and he just gave an emphatic speech for Palestinian rights and ending the genocide in Gaza citing his upbringing in a peaceful Ireland as a reason he knows an international push for peace can work
A vehicle transporting Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds struck a Black Lives Matter protester Tuesday as the protester was intentionally blocking the car's path. Story with
@sgrubermiller
Iowa is the ONLY state that bars people from voting for life after a felony conviction.
@jaylencavil
was protesting to get Kim Reynolds to sign an executive order restoring voting rights to people who have served their sentences. Sign this petition to help
looking forward to the total hypocrisy of a bunch of Iowa fans doing "The Wave" to say they care about sick people while attending a mass gathering during a pandemic
In light of the news about the women murdered at Cornerstone Church, it’s important to know that Iowa’s own
@SenJoniErnst
fought to make sure that convicted abusers who aren’t married to their partner have access to guns.
Something that enrages me about the Iowa Caucus worship is that people say it’s necessary that Iowa goes first so that politicians have to focus on “rural issues”. If that actually worked, Iowa wouldn’t have a water quality AND erosion crisis that we’re doing nothing about!!!!!
The main argument I see against the Linn County Solar project is that it would misuse “some of the most fertile soil in the world” and buddy, we’re already doing that by growing corn on it to make ethanol
The only Iowa Supreme Court Justice who’s up for retention this fall is David May. He just voted to allow the abortion ban. We don’t really have many things to vote FOR in Iowa, but I have a hater’s heart.
BMI is bad science and indicates very little about health, BUT if your BMI is 25+ you can get vaccinated in Iowa and imo you should absolutely make the system work for you for once if this applies to you!
Iowans in 16 counties this wk told me they’re hurting from 2 yrs of record-high inflation — the last thing they needed was a half-trillion dollar check to pay off the Biden admin student loan transfer. The reality of that plan is not only fiscally insane, it’s unconstitutional
For the last three days, we've had over 800 new covid cases each day in Iowa. Things are exploding here, and we're still pushing for in person school and keeping bars open
I pulled a
@lyzl
and never took down my Christmas tree this year. I just moved it fully decorated into my garage, and I got it moved back into my living room in under 30 seconds. I’m never going back.
“Iowa made me nicer. You can’t spend time in the Midwest without having that rub off on you.”
If you're on tiktok, you know
@DGlaucomflecken
. Loved getting to work on this profile about how his residency in Iowa shaped his approach to humor and medicine.
It’s hilarious how many people I know in Iowa who lost power today but their main priority was making sure they still had a spot to watch the women’s game
Hi I think it is very bad that our governor's car drove off after hitting a Black Lives Matter protester yesterday! It's very bad that she has not made a statement about this!
Feel absolutely batshit seeing Iowa Dems say that “the choice in the next election is clear” when we are likely to lose our access to abortion in a week!!!!!!!
@rachelmillman
On January 6, an AT&T glitch made every text sent to me go to my extremely conservative dad and vice versa, so I spent the whole Capitol riot desperately trying to figure out how to get people to not text my dad nudes or political rants
I feel so bad that these young women have been lied to about our trans sisters. The threat to women’s sports isn’t women participating in them. It’s misogyny resulting in unequal funding, pay, and protection.
Gov. Kim Reynolds signs the transgender athlete ban into law. Transgender girls and women will no longer be allowed to play women’s sports in Iowa schools and colleges.
@IowaCapDispatch
Iowa was one of the first states to legalize gay marriage back in 2009. This is a good reminder that no matter how progressive your government is, things can change. Governments alone will never give you safety.
Today was already going to be a busy one at the Capitol and this morning two bills to supercede federal law to ban gay marriage in Iowa were introduced:
Every queer person in a red state has valid reasons to leave. Many of us have reasons to stay too.
@lyzl
asked me to write about why the life I’ve built keeps me here.
Thought I was going to wake up with fewer rights and instead I’ve got my Supreme Court going off on how we shouldn’t treat women like literal trash?????
@rachelmillman
I went to my hometown for weird medical testing pre covid, and I spent 24 hours ducking into side hallways and hiding behind statues at the hospital to avoid my high school classmates while carrying a *massive* jug of piss
John Deere is cutting off 10,000 workers (and their families') health insurance on October 27th. They could just as easily *not* do this, but they want to break the strike.
Also: Congress let COBRA subsidies expire on October 1, putting workers on the hook for thousands of $$$.
As new COVID infection numbers keep rising, so do the numbers of ‘Long Haulers’ — COVID patients with persistent symptoms after the infection. Dr. Dayna McCarthy worries about the long-term impact on people’s lives, the economy, the healthcare system.
I am once again getting my hopes up for Kim Reynolds to actually do something meaningful to help Iowans survive this pandemic. This will be a mistake on my part, but I'm going to be hopeful for a few hours
If you listened to Kim Reynolds' Condition of the State address tonight, you would have no idea that we're still in the middle of a pandemic and cases are rising again. You'd think that was over and done!
are we just gonna have charlottesville-like incidents on the reg now? It was so devastating when that radical white supremacist terrorism happened, at the time
Julián Castro is generating a lot of laughs with his story of becoming HUD secretary. He had just gone through the Panda Express driveway when Obama called.
There are few things more embarrassing than a middle aged man writing a multi paragraph Facebook status about how a 20 year old athlete hurt their feelings by doing innocuous 20 year old shit
While this story is from Texas, it could easily have been in Iowa. I've seen so many people hold or attend extremely irresponsible weddings this year and it's broken my trust in them (our community??) completely
One of the best things I’ve done with my life was volunteer regularly at a soup kitchen and free veggie mart in Des Moines. Most of us are all just one disaster away from being unhoused.
@ExileBrewingCo
’s owner says that means we wouldn’t deserve to eat. Don’t buy their beer.
It’s been said over and over again but the moral panic over queer people and grooming is such an obvious sham because the Catholic Church is RIGHT THERE and these people don’t care at all
"I loved the caucuses when I first moved to Iowa in 2012 for college. But now, after actively participating in politics here for the last five years, I would cheer their demise."
A vehicle transporting Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds struck a Black Lives Matter protester Tuesday as the protester was intentionally blocking the car's path. Story with
@sgrubermiller
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@AndyBCampbell
wrote this great piece about what happened in Cedar Rapids, and it makes me so sad and angry to know that this is a story that happens everywhere and will happen again, and again, and again
Hours after Roe, a truck driver rammed into a group of women protesting in Iowa.
You’d be forgiven if you forgot about it— America is inundated with acts of political violence, at all civic events.
New from me, a look at our dark future of demonstration
Also, re: Iowa Caucuses, Iowa didn’t become first in the nation because it was a swing state! That had literally nothing to do with it! That’s a myth we’ve all bought into and it DOES NOT MATTER
Local business owners have a *huge* amount of power to influence local policy. That's why Amy Tursi of
@ExileBrewingCo
's horrible rant against homeless people is so dangerous.
If Sarcone and his office were willing to take this absolute sham of a trial so far, how do you think people without these resources have fared in their jurisdiction???
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@lyzl
is right. Things aren't "going back to normal" in Iowa. Our state leg' has proposed:
- banning background checks on guns
- banning abortion
- taking away funding from cities that reduce police budgets
- reinstating the death penalty
- and more!
Some two hundred refugee families in Cedar Rapids have transitioned into temporary housing and out of storm-ravaged apartments that had been deemed unlivable. An update from
@hellokatepayne
.
On my walk tonight, I met a woman who was calmly walking down the block holding a raccoon by the scruff of its neck, chastising it saying, "You can't keep going up on people's porches."