queermunist, queermunist@lemmy.world

I did not see this coming! I thought for sure that Reynolds would look at how abortion restrictions impacted Republicans in other States and realize the only reason Iowa avoided the same setbacks was because abortion wasn’t on the ballot.

Poor white people, they have it so hard. 🙄

“Despite billions of dollars in surplus, the governor and Republican legislative majorities responsible for your tax dollars have for years undervalued their own financial management team that prepares the material that we review for required audits,” he said. “The bottom line is we cannot audit what we have not been provided.”

It was 92 years ago today that a terrible fire took place in the Iowa town of Spencer. It didn’t help that the weather was hot even for an Iowa summer, according to Jeff Stein and the Iowa Almanac. The temperature in Spencer in northwest Iowa topped off at 97°. The lack of recent rain made things dry, as well.

Iowa U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, a Republican, was the only of Iowa’s current congressional delegation to vote for the infrastructure bill. Rep. Cindy Axne, a Democrat who lost re-election in 2022, also voted for it.

Residents are encouraged to reduce the amount of time spent outdoors doing strenuous activity until conditions improve.

The court maintained the injunction in a in a 3-3 split vote that automatically upheld the district court ruling. Konfrst said the court’s verdict was “good news,” but said Democrats know it will be “short lived.”

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Iowa’s senior senator said he isn’t in favor of Congress pursuing additional ethics rules for the U.S. Supreme Court and pushed back on a report that Justice Sam Alito had traveled with a wealthy donor whose business later came before the court.

“Trees planted in the wake of climate disaster struggling to adapt to climate change”

Just in case you though the Iowa Supreme Court was good.

It’s so interesting watching Republicans overreach on abortion over and over, despite the fact that they don’t even have electoral support for it. Ideological commitment might explain it, but I can’t help be draw this back to materialistic explanations.

Oh boy, this’ll go great with the literal haze of smoke in the air from the Canadian wildfires!