Louisville and Lexington players paused the USL Championship season opener for 60 seconds after kickoff, letting the clock run without play. A fearless show of unity from the USL Players Association as negotiations reach a critical stage. It’s time for the league to act. #StandUpForStandards
A 1944 map by geologist Harold Fisk charts a 40-mile stretch of the Mississippi River from Friars Point to Gunnison, Mississippi. Fisk used aerial photos and maps to estimate the past and then-present channels. Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/mississippi-rivers-hidden-history-uncovered-by-lidar?fbclid=IwY2xjawQYXkdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFCZ2JBT2tWdVlXMmEzNU5Uc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHsbjW-Yuubr_o_Kfeh0Elzc94geDwfXIZmeNL7NyljEBAOEjH53m2QLSo1NF_aem__4NkCIJ_D8J6mI1e8eMByg
Rivers are living beings.
New York Attorney General Letitia James is investigating the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind Rohingya refugee who died in the cold streets of Buffalo days after Border Patrol dumped him without coordinating with his family or lawyers.
With more than 600 Para athletes and 79 sets of medals to be awarded, Milan Cortina will feature a record number of athletes and medals. https://to.pbs.org/4rVSVkH
Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"
In a text analysis of the discussions during the event, Reynen said the word “sheep” was said 27 times, “conservative” and truncated versions of it were said 76 times, and “liberal” and its truncated forms were said 46 times, but terms including “student assessment,” “student objectives,” “learning objectives” and “learning goals” were mentioned zero times. “I hope it is clear that we can see that the Center for Intellectual Freedom is not an academic pursuit,” Reynen said. “It is a political and conservatively political pursuit, and I hope you’re all ashamed of yourselves for it.”
Faculty love the UI and their students, Metcalf said, and she and others believe in students as thinkers, creators and people. However, what she heard from people during the event were threats of a “woke mind virus,” and she believes the center is behind in building trust with students, leading to low enrollment in the center’s courses. “I listened, I talked, I had fascinating conversations. I met people with perspectives I hadn’t yet considered. But unfortunately, I was struck by a couple of things,” Metcalf said. “One was the remarkable lack of intellectual diversity among the panelists, at least, I can’t speak to who was in the room. Secondly … there seemed to be, I hesitate to say an overt hostility, but a deep misapprehension about what it is that I and my colleagues do every day when we come to teach here.” She added that faculty members who also attended the events felt afterward that they were hearing Fox News talking points rather than “rigorous academic discussion.” Metcalf said she hopes and expects that “we can do better,” and she welcomed the board to come to her classes and experience what she does.
first event wasn't even advertised and apparently did not go well: "I hope it is clear that we can see that the Center for Intellectual Freedom is not an academic pursuit."
still no classes three months into the semester. iowacapitaldispatch.com/2026/02/25/u...
This is not good.
PELICAN DELAY IN SANTA BARBARA
Coady is from West Des Moines, per @zachwahls.bsky.social
I talked with @ziibiing.com about Stand With Minnesota, keeping neighbors housed during ICE escalation, and directing generosity where it’s actually needed.
I'm moderating a panel at the #MomsPlasticsSummit next Wednesday, March 4, 9:30am-noon!
Tune in to the livestream to catch my discussion with Dr. Ray Dorsey, Dr. Jasmine McDonald & @CleanAirMoms.org Cynthia Palmer on the exposures and impacts of petrochemicals: app.sosha.ai/s/kuk8zHWG
These are “low enrollment” majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.
My guest, Aliya Rahman, stood up silently in the gallery during the president’s speech for a short period of time, part of which other guests were also standing. For that, she was forcibly removed, despite warning officers about her injured shoulders and ultimately charged with ‘Unlawful Conduct. 🧵
Sen. Dave Rowley, R-Spirit Lake, said he has been diagnosed with tonsil cancer and will be undergoing treatment over the next several weeks. Rowley said tonsil cancer “is treatable and curable” and he’ll “be fighting this with everything I have.” Rowley expects to be back at work in the Statehouse later this spring and has filed the paperwork to run for reelection in November. Sen. Jack Whitver, R-Ankeny, has been undergoing treatment for a brain tumor since 2024 and just last month Sen. Catelin Drey, D-Sioux City, announced she’s undergoing treatment for stage one uterine cancer. Drey was elected last fall and filled a vacancy in the Senate created when Sen. Rocky DeWitt, R-Lawton, died of pancreatic cancer in June.
maybe we should do something about cancer? www.iowapublicradio.org/live-updates...
Special education teacher Breanna Oxley speaks during the June 4, 2025, groundbreaking ceremony for the new Freshman Academy at Washington High School in Cedar Rapids. Up to seven teachers could be cut from the Washington staff as the district looks to trim $12.7 million in expenses from its 2026-27 budget. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette)
School leaders, however, say initial staffing allocations — based on each building’s enrollment — could change. https://www.thegazette.com/k/cedar-rapids-schools-to-cut-teachers-based-on-enrollment/
More snow: When flakes fly again Wednesday and how much is possible
Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."
Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
he's just gonna starve the blue states on any flimsy pretext
under questioning by Rand Paul, ICE officials confirm that yelling at officers is not assault and recording officers is not a crime
But in the committee meeting, a major new component was added to the legislation through an amendment, which Rep. Henry Stone, R-Forest City, categorized as related to “teacher and administrator led student protests.” The language, not yet available online, includes a provision stating a school board must extend the school calendar for a district by one day for each day that a student protest occurs at any attendance center in the school district.
it's gotten worse iowacapitaldispatch.com/2026/02/11/b...
"Good riddance."
"One less fascist."
"He deserved it."
Iowa's new Don't Be Mean to Charlie Kirk bill would strip teachers' licenses for saying any of those things "in any medium accessible to students."
They even try to exempt it from the First Amendment lmao www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/...
Read the letters referenced by Rep. James Walkinshaw here:
Appreciate that Jess Djukanovic is speaking out about what she went through trying to get an abortion with a non-viable pregnancy in Iowa:
iowastartingline.com/2026/02/04/i...
They have now removed the Pride flag from the Stonewall Inn.
Erasure. Just like the Nazis.
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The U.S. conducted more extrajudicial killings in the Eastern Pacific today
We’re tracking the civilian toll @theintercept.com
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"Take the vaccine, please," Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator whose boss has raised suspicion about the safety and importance of vaccines, said of the measles vaccine. "We have a solution for our problem." https://to.pbs.org/4rYdvkn
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
