I'm the cold one and have learned to take an extra blanket to bed. My spouse, the warm one, gets to control the thermostat. I can always throw on an extra blanket, but when it's sweltering and all coverings are thrown aside, it's hard to sleep.

As bad as it looks from the outside, Iowa is still a near swing state. Last election was a 44/54 split. The Republican 2016 take over gave Republicans the trifecta of house, senate, and governor. They hobbled the census, and threw out the historic joint commission of drawing new lines to reduce Democrats to have no federal representation.

Iowa is severely, blatantly gerrymandered, done by splitting the urban centers and extending the rural left. Iowa, under Republicans, has among the lowest population growth in the nation. The older rural population is stuck, but progressive, educated young leave the state in relatively larger numbers.

As you might guess, the educated workforce is in very high demand (as long as they do so in LCOL wages). These are the ones who are easily able to leave for better wages and amenities. On the other side, Republicans are older and dying off.

My first problem is that the GOP wants to have people's private vital information freely given to them and that people would be required to comply. Tying that information to activities of consenting adults will be misused. Blue noses can't keep their noses in their own business, and the possibility for graft and blackmail is immense.

When did the GOP start to care about children, anyway?

Trump had already admitted these charges. Now, Lauro wants to spin it as only kinda close to obstruction but actually only a jk or something.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/08/04/trump-pence-election-charges/

I can only see it as an attempt to win the election and pardon himself.

I recently subscribed to Ground News, a news aggregator site that rates news sources to left, leans left, center, leans right, and right.
It also rates their outlets to being partially accurate or highly accurate. GN also report and who owns the outlets, to give a window to biases by owners.

My personal bias is to being factually accurate and honest, far more than the red/blue/green divides.

Sadly, discourse is such that being accurate is a right filter, leaving far fewer right outlets that can be trusted. For example, I have found that RT is more often correct than some of these outlets. Why? If RT propagandists throw in truthful news, they gain credibility, which buoys their credibility for when they break to full propaganda.
In a same vein, 60+ lawsuits were foisted in the last election over fake votes, with every single one thrown out by not having any evidence to support their accusations. But I still hear someone BSing those lies. But whadaboutism accusing Biden is still innuendo, without proof, and most importantly, does not excuse others to be free to break laws.
If Joe Biden took money from foreign interests, for himself, via Hunter, he would deserve prosecution, too.

Finding any balance that to a so-called center is still half crazy, which is not good enough.

Fox News was sued and famously paid 3/4 of a billion dollars to pay damages for their lies, and more lawsuits are coming. Pulitzer prize winning magazines and newspapers deserve greater weight for truthfulness, while I would argue, Fox News and RT should be banned. They simply cannot be trusted.

How does that work for residency requirements? I think that it is time to call into question their voter's registrations, all 230 of them.

Involving others so there are witnesses may have saved his life, or at least more serious injuries. The driver is alive, so he at least accomplished that part.

A later, follow-up news source has reported that the driver had talked to a police dispatcher and "was afraid for his life".

If you apply physics/math knowledge, you can understand why these 5-inch guns are more deadly. Higher velocity, longer range and more accurate are what makes these a better fit for modern warfare. Relatively speaking, these smaller ships can be produced and deployed faster. Although the costs seem high, they are comparatively cheap.

As for inches, it's not a d*** contest.

If you went along with the crowd, it is not they, it is WE, who are the problem.

The terrible people already did. It was the attempted coup.

I can understand why the guy who was addicted to coke could swing to being against any foreign substances that are injected.
He is a musician, not medically qualified in any way, and is easily duped by quack science. He also doesn't understand why laws are put in to prevent foreign interference with politics.

Then, there was the Middle Eastern prince, who's father, the king, was funding chairs and paying for a major expansion of the college. We will leave it with his having a different set of relaxed rules guiding him. The king was generous when his son did well in his classes.

I fully expect Trump to make a run for it when verdicts start coming down. There is no way that Trump will go to prison.

My family have had one home leveled, one home so badly damaged that after rehab, lost 2/3 of its value, and yet another home badly damaged by three separate climate driven events. One was a 1000 yr flood, and then, two different straight wind derechos. We were homeless three times.
We live in the Midwest. Furthermore, we are only one of many thousands that have already been affected and are certainly not the first. When the insurance companies pass on the profits because of risk, we can accept that actuaries have seen the light.

Free Strava watches for Russian commanders. FREE!!! Not even one single ruble! Group photos with your troops gets more watches, for FREE!

Someone is desperate to make the debates.

MTG may have made the difference in the US agreeing to pay the deficit interest on their bills. I am waiting for their (FC) next attack on children in school to be over rainbow colors in boxes of crayons.

The new Iowa laws also remove workplace protections for minors if they are hurt or disabled on the job. These include children working in packing houses or operating heavy equipment (such as tractors).

I looked up https://ground.news on your suggestion and immediately signed up. This is the site that I have wanted to find for years. Thanks