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For context, this is because Adam Gregg decided to resign from being Lieutenant governor to become the CEO of the IA bankers association.

An interesting tidbit on Gregg's wikipedia page is that Gregg clerked for Justice Mark Cady of the IA supreme court. Mark Cady, who died in 2019 was the author Varnum v. Brien (legalizing gay marriage in the state) and Planned Parenthood v. Reynolds which struck down the 72 abortion waiting period law passed in 2017.

I want to speculate about the intra-GOP politics at the Capitol, but honestly don't have enough to go on beyond that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

There's also an important conversation to be had as to if talking about the specific effects is the best strategy, I'll be doing it anyway. but we still shouldn't loose track of how this is all flagrantly unconstitutional and a naked attempt to turn the federal government into a monarchy.

 

edit: Seems to be stopped for now, the white house has recinded the memo, we'll see what the fallout is from here.

The memo itself

Congressional Democrats response

#Iowa GOP response

Reynolds: worse than nothing

Nunn: nothing

Hinson: nothing

Miller-meeks: nothing

Feenstra: nothing

Grassley: hasn't made a statement, but he seems to be focusing more on the inspector general firings

Ernst: nothing, most recent statement is about cutting SNAP benefits that came out after the grant and loan freeze

I'm not an expert in federal grant programs in Iowa, obviously it's bad, but it's hard to do something about it without a more comprehensive accounting of what exactly it does to us. I will be updating this post sorting by policy area as I find things, please feel free to share what you find.

#Food security

Governor Reynolds has refused to accept federal summer EBT for multiple years now but this did not directly affect food security within the school year. Iowa had 29 million meals provided through the federal free and reduced lunch program in Iowa in the 22-23 school year that's in jeopardy.

SNAP itself might be more of a grey area since the memo says it doesn't apply to direct individual benefits (I don't fully believe that personally). 259k recipients in Iowa in 2024

#Healthcare

supposedly mediciad isn't going to be affected. one should hope so because there's 1.5million visits paid for by medicaid in Iowa a year

#Education

13.6% of Iowa school funding came from federal sources in 2021-22

#Disaster preparedness

tba

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I dont understand where you found that in what I said

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I dont care about the difference between "propagandized" and "idiot". You attacked me instead of my argument.

Its not the hypothetical removal of the evil and waste of a system, it'd about the process of removing the undesired elements. The problem wasnt just with Brian Johnson was an interchangable empty suit, the problem is with the entire culture and system of incentives. Killing one bad person doesn't do enough to fix things, targeting enough people to make the change that's really needed will need a bureaucratic structure to actually get done, target selection, weapons supply, training, validation, paperwork. Very rare for breaucratically enabled violence to ever be good.

For healthcare in particular is pretty much is just as simple as nationalizating health insurance and have everything done by medicare (or state/local govt health plan) But targeted assassination doesn't automatically translate into an act of congress.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Wow very convincing. thank you, directly calling me an idiot without addressing the core of my argument really has brought me over to your way of thinking

I very deliberately said "in general", i did not say "in all cases whatsoever".

For health insurance there is a replacement ready, the answer is to have Medicare do everything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

I didn't make any arguements about this specific situation? Murder in general is bad

The problem is that there's no clear endpoint of that thought process. The number of people that exact thought process applies to would require a level of violence that I doubt anybody sane wants.

Edit: to be more precise here. I'm leery about trying to apply the logic of individual self-defense to broader questions about social murder. The entire system is complicit, but if we go to burn the system down without a replacement ready we'll end up sorrounded by nothing but ash and corpses

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I agree is justified in many situations, the French revolution ain't a good example for that, namely that it didn't work in the long run with all the Napoleon-ing. The people most adept at violence, who will be most empowered by violence as normalized political tactic mostly don't promote the interests of most people if they get into power. Napoleon and such

also every time there's been prominent "propaganda of the deed" it's backfired by inciting a HUGE state crackdown, Tsar Alexander II and William Mckinley come to mind ~~though both were relative reformers, which would make this about target selection and not alienating potential allies rather than the use of the tactic in general~~

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (14 children)

murder is in general bad, fed-posting is inadvisable

also there's a broader boring argument about the dangers of violence being normalized as means of political change, but those arguments are boring

 

The cope I'm huffing here is that Trump is too petty to nominate DeSantis, and that Ernst is popular enough with other GOP senators that she get's the pick over Hagerty.

I think she's quietly one of the least bad GOP senators. She's was fairly vocal in support of police reform in 2020, she's big on reducing sexual assault in the military. Honestly I would have been happy if Ernst was the republican Harris promised to have in her cabinet. (all of the things that would be bad about a conservative SecDef are bipartisan anyway)

Also there's the matter of needing a replacement for Ernst, which would be a lot easier to flip the senate seat she wasn't the one holding it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

smh my head, it's not even shady small businesses. even the child slavery has been conglomerated into national megacorps

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

For some reason the thing that sticks out to me most here is the fact that the packing plant is owned by a company out of Oklahoma and that the Janitorial contractor hasn't just been fined before, it's be fined before in multiple states and has operations stretching from nw Iowa to VIRGINA

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I still eat meat, but I will NEVER willingly buy anything that I know is from Tyson

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What news sources for Iowa do you keep up with? reasons you don't follow certain news sources?

Especially smaller or less widely known sources.

 

user listed as the mod @[email protected] was last active 8 months ago.

This ain't exactly the most active community on here and there's yet to be any vitriol on here that'd need moderating but it's at least something to be aware of.

edit: I humbly accept my new status as the regent of the mighty @[email protected], my reign of terror will be legendary and act as a warning to all those who would dare question

 

First thing: Many parts of the school system are done by regional Area Education agencies (AEAs), things like special education, curriculum, media, etc. (heres the link to their website if you want to learn more iowaaea.org). Their boards are elected by school districts.

A version of the changes proposed by Governor Reynolds has already passed the Iowa house (hf2612). The part of the bill I'm focusing on here is how it allows for school districts to use state and federal $ that goes to AEAs and use it for themselves.

The thing that got me to start writing this post was a section of the most recent Iowa press. Todd Abrahamson, superintendent of the Okoboji Community School District and one of the few school superintendents in the state in favor of the proposed changes, when asked about what Okoboji would do with the money said (in more diplomatic language, 8:50) that Okoboji would poach staff from the AEAs to work exclusively for Okoboji and not for other districts.

Okoboji is a relatively wealthy tourism town, and is covered by the Prarie Lakes Area Education Agency in Northwest Iowa. Okoboji is an island of wealth in an otherwise especially rural and economically depressed area of the state where school districts just don't have resources to offer many kinds of resources on their own.

There's other things in the bill as well, shifting parts of curriculum more into the private sector. Also it would put the AEAs under the direct control of the state government.

 

It would be extremely funny

 

more fitting of the swine republic

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Wisdom (midwest.social)
 

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