New post: Bernie Scolaro imagines the future under a second Trump presidency.

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Nitrates are rushing from fields into waters of the Corn Belt. Pollution reigns across Iowa and other states. Industrial agriculture is worst water polluter ever in U.S.

The sheer amount of data in this is really amazing.
On the question of economics - contrary to other polling , blacks view of the economy generally differs little from their own financial situation.

pretty good thread on why the turnout for Trump was AT MOST 1/10th of the campaign claim which most news orgs are taking at face value. Likely 2k to 3k max.

Subscribe to Law Dork, because both the left and the right used this tweet to express their anger at Durbin and Whitehouse for this (for very divergent reasons) because I was the first on it. lawdork.com

President Biden has approved federal disaster aid for 4 counties, including Adair County (where Greenfield is located), for Tuesday’s storm damage. Gov. Reynolds made the request yesterday.

Waverly is brilliant and has done a lot of really important political work here in Iowa.

If you fit the criteria, you should definitely fill out this survey (or send it to someone you know who does fit the criteria.)

I wouldn't describe US politics as 'normal' back in the day, but I never imagined millions of voters would refuse to admit their candidate lost an election, and an entire political party's establishment would stick with the guy who lied about losing the election.

This great FAQ explains what’s wrong with the right-wing pushback to the Princeton paper on vouchers causing tuition hikes.

It’s also a great exercise more scholars should use to explain results to policymakers and press, when working in a politically charged issue area

New post: Princeton researchers @JasonFontana and Jennifer Jennings Jen Jennings, PhD wrote a FAQ about their recent study of Education Savings Accounts and private school tuition in Iowa:
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NO-TRESPASS BLUES - 13 protesters say the University of Iowa and its police department violated their civil rights. The suit names the UI, UIPD and the Board of Regents and revolves around a n incident earlier this month... (1/5)

That’s absolutely disgusting

New post: Randy Evans Randy Evans weighs in on revelations that an inverted flag was flown outside Justice Samuel Alito's home in January 2021. bleedingheartland.com/2024/05/23/jus…

Yes if these are the numbers on Election Day and we have even a historically trivial amount of polling bias, Biden would win. That’s why we keep saying the race is a toss-up

Clarence Thomas declares:

•The 14th and 15th Amendments impose NO limit on states' ability to draw openly racist electoral districts that disfavor Black Americans because of their skin color.
•Federal courts have no power to redraw such racist maps. slate.com/news-and-polit…

The worst day of my career happened in November 1996, when my colleagues and I found out we were losing our jobs at the Open Media Research Institute. It was my first writing job, and I had the best colleagues there.
I hope everyone from MMFA gets hired soon.

Cruz is playing a game here that Chuck Grassley also engages in: drawing false equivalencies between a handful of Democrats objecting to electoral votes in 2001 and 2017 and Trump's efforts to subvert the peaceful transfer of power after losing in 2020.
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It was truly a highlight of my life to have a clip of me included in this week's episode of Last Week Tonight, one of my favorite shows! I got to talk about farm subsidies, which was very timely given today's House farm bill markup. My work and clip are at the 11 minute mark!