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Trickle-down economics is a cruel hoax. Cruel because it's used by the super-rich to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. A hoax because nothing has ever trickled down.
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Why transfer library services from the Department of Education to the Department of Administrative Services? Is this to make it easier to ban books in Iowa schools? legis.iowa.gov/legislation/Bi
(In the explanation section near the end)
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There are so many Easter Eggs hidden in the 1,500 pages of Iowa HSB126
...I shall continue the hunt. Anyone want to help? Just download the PDF so you can search for key words.
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I am seeing "shall serve at the pleasure of the governor" way too many times in #Iowa HSB126.
Eliminating checks and balances and handing unilateral control of state agencies to
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If only some sort of expert on economics, -- say an economist perhaps? -- could have predicted this outcome
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Governor introduces 1,500-page bill to restructure state government & consolidate Iowa’s 37 cabinet agencies into 16, & save the state money by eliminating unfilled positions, combining offices & contracts, & selling land.
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This is what actual censorship looks like. Help #zeinabmousavi
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As mentioned on today's show, #ZeinabMousavi is a comic in Iran who faces imprisonment for telling jokes.
Getting her name out there is important. Be her voice on social media, hashtag her name and let the world know she should be free.
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The #FBI has identified many people who incited violence at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, but it still needs your help to bring others to justice. If the man in this photo looks familiar, submit a tip at tips.fbi.gov or 1-800-CALL-FBI, and mention photo 278-AFO.
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presents itself as a grassroots effort led by parents, but in reality the organization is well-connected with a variety of Republican politicians and entities.
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A person can decide that they don't want to read a certain book.
A person can decide that they don't want their child to read that book.
But a person can't decide that an entire school or entire town can't read that book.
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The DeSantis playbook on race and education is just an updated edition of what I saw in the South in the 1960s.
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Learning little from the failures in covering Trump, too many political journalists seem determined to legitimize DeSantis and the anti-democratic policies he's enacting.
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What is happening in public schools that is making this even a topic of debate? That was the question posed to me recently. Shedding light . . .
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There are 5 “centibillionaires” in the U.S. worth $100 billion or more.
To put their wealth in perspective:
If you’re a billionaire, you can afford a private jet.
If you’re a centibillionaire, you can afford a brand new Gulfstream jet…every single day…for more than 10 years.
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The #FBI has identified many people who incited violence at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, but it still needs your help to bring others to justice. If the man in this photo looks familiar, submit a tip at tips.fbi.gov or 1-800-CALL-FBI, and mention photo 268-AFO.
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If we've got the money to give the wealthy and large corporations trillions of dollars in tax breaks, we've got the money to expand, not cut Social Security.
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I'm giving away 2 Nintendo Switch OLED pokemon edition scarlet and violet to 2 lucky winners!!
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Under DeSantis, teachers are removing the books from their libraries lest they get arrested under his new law
Under Republicans, doctors are refusing to perform life-saving abortions lest they get arrested under abortion bans
Fascism isn’t on its way. It’s here
Wake the F up
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Remember, rural friends: while they defund/consolidate/close our schools, their children will still keep getting the same elite education at private schools. The schools our children have no access to. Vouchers are a scam.
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What has gotten into Chuck Todd? Todd stops Jim Jordan with facts about Trump defying the law. "You paint it as a picture of the FBI did this, this, and this within hours of each other when it was actually a year and a half of Donald Trump not complying with any of the requests."
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Great day in #ButteAmerica celebrating Lunar New Year! #Butte’s Mai Wah Society works hard to preserve, research, & interpret the history of Chinese communities in #Montana Live up to the name the shortest, loudest, coldest parade in Montana! #MTHist #MTHistory
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School choice gives every corrupt state leader a path to get rich off taxpayer dollars.
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School choice gives every student a path to success.
Parents are their children’s first and most important teachers. This session, we’ll empower parents to pick the educational path that will help their child thrive.
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I understand people that say they don't mask because it doesn't work 100% of the time to prevent infection. That's the same reasoning I use when I tell people that walking on the sidewalk doesn't guarantee I won't get hit by a car, so I walk in the middle of the road instead. 🙃
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#Consequences
#Jan6thInsurrection
#FBI is seeking to identify this person involved at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
If this person looks familiar call 1-800-225-5324 to submit information.
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People were just gunned down at a dance club and their workplace -- and THIS is your response.
I look forward to the day your trash organization is obsolete.
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The #FBI has identified many people who incited violence at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, but it still needs your help to bring others to justice. If the man in this photo looks familiar, submit a tip at tips.fbi.gov or 1-800-CALL-FBI, and mention photo 259-AFO.
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A DeSantis school library, and a real school library
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Introducing the DEAN'S LIST: an all-in-one search engine for college prep.
We graded dozens of colleges (A-F) based on their woke activist culture, racial discrimination, and hostility toward conservative students.
Find the right university for you 
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Reminder that billionaires are LITERALLY stopping progress in our country.
They are funding far-right Republicans AND centrist Democrats to block those who will make them pay their fair share.
Billionaires are the only ones winning like this.
& our tax code is helping them.
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Few albums has meant as much to me as Marquee Moon has and continues to do. Rest well and farewell!
“Guiding light, guiding light
Guiding through these nights”
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Tom Verlaine, whose band Television was one of the most influential to emerge from the New York punk rock scene centered on the nightclub CBGB, died on Saturday in Manhattan. He was 73. nyti.ms/40bUmxV
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I personally know multiple white people who have questioned a police officer after being pulled over (some of them were even intoxicated at the time). None of them were ever told, “Get the fuck out of the car,” or “Bitch put your (hands) behind your back before I break them."
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It is unconscionable that Donald Trump is allowed to campaign across the country two years after inciting a deadly Insurrection against the United States Government. Pure and utter insanity.
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Here in Minnesota, we hold dear that we all have a fundamental right to make autonomous decisions about our own reproductive healthcare. I am so proud that we have passed the PRO Act last night. We have taken a big step forward. Here in the North Star State, we will lead. #mnleg
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Here in Minnesota, we trust people to make their own decisions about their bodies.
I’m ready to sign the PRO Act and codify reproductive rights into law.
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Iowans could buy custom license plates displaying the Gadsden flag — a coiled rattlesnake above the words "Don't Tread on Me" — under a bill moving through the Iowa Senate. #ialegis desmoinesregister.com/story/news/pol
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Billionaires lost $1.9 trillion in 2022.
Elon Musk lost $115 billion.
Jeff Bezos lost $80 billion.
Mark Zuckerberg lost $78 billion.
None of this has any real consequence on their daily lives.
Hoarding wealth like this is grotesque.
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Don't think for a moment it wouldn't happen here, Iowa
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Since y'all wanna play the "this isn't really happening" game twitter.com/JagsFanBrian/s…
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