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Fun facts about the Biggest Steel Mill in the United States: 1. It’s really expensive. 2. It doesn’t exist. 3. It’s in Iowa! 4. We had to suspend some representative democracy to pay for it.

Des Moines Register Live Updates

• 6:46 pm CT
lowa Senate passes expanded MEGA
incentives
Marissa Payne
The Iowa Senate voted 28-19 to pass the expanded MEGA tax incentives, with Republican Sens. Dan Dawson, Charlie McClintock, Jason Schultz, Dave Sires and Jeff Taylor breaking from their party to join Democrats in opposing the bill.

• 6:46 pm CT
Senate Ways and Means chair criticizes incentives
Stephen Gruber-Miller
Sen. Dan Dawson, R-Council Bluffs, who chairs the Senate Ways and Means Committee, criticized the legislation in a fiery speech on the Senate floor.
He said it could be more than 10 years before Mesabi Metallics pays any taxes in Iowa and the incentive package would amount to roughly $880,000 per job produced.

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alex @alexthresher.bsky.social · 16h

The cult demands you give over a billion dollars of public money to a bankrupt company to appease dear leader the demented rapist president.

Des Moines Register
Senator decries 'dirty politics' after 2
GOP peers removed from key committee
Marissa Payne

Sen. Dave Sires, R-Cedar Falls, decried Republican leadership's removal of two of his colleagues' from the tax-writing committee as "dirty politics" to advance the steel mill project.
Sires issued a statement Friday saying Iowa Senate Majority Leader Mike Klimesh, R-Spillville, removed Republican Sens.
Jeff Taylor of Sioux Center and Dawn Driscoll of Williamsburg from the chamber's tax-writing Ways and Means Committee Oct. 2 after they told him they would vote no on the incentives.
Members of the Iowa Senate Ways and Means Committee early Friday afternoon voted 10-8 to advance the MEGA incentives bill to full committee, with two Republicans, Sens. Dan Dawson of Council Bluffs and Jason Schultz of Schleswig, joining the committee's six Democrats to oppose the legislation in subcommittee.
"In other words, the bill would have died in committee today, but it was saved by dirty politics," said Sires, who opposes the legislation. "Whether you are for or against the bill as it stands is irrelevant. Every Iowan should be concerned with this strong arming."

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alex @alexthresher.bsky.social · 18h

Trump admin announced this as a “done” deal that requires “no state incentives” (quoting Howard Lutnick). However, Mesabi hasn’t even committed to the physical site in Iowa yet, and is demanding the state change Iowa law to give $1.5 billion in incentives to consider Iowa over Kentucky.

apnews.com

Iowa lawmakers to vote on raising tax incentive cap for a $15B steel plant

Iowa lawmakers have returned to the Statehouse to consider expanding state tax incentives. Officials say the change is needed to secure a $15 billion steel plant project for the state because the comp...

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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

out here in amish country if anyone wants some ultra repressive social structures or animal abuse or a population purposefully kept from education beyond what is immediately useful to the community

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alex @alexthresher.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Where chemtrails come from.

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alex @alexthresher.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A spectator is haunting the lobby.

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alex @alexthresher.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Don’t immanentize the eschatorture nexus.

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alex @alexthresher.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Make it your mission to listen to @bloodwork.show (and watch Utopia)

Shot of Channel 4 series Utopia (2013). Health Department bureaucrat Michael Dugdale wears a suit and pushes documents onto a soldier armed with an assault rifle at a quarantine zone guard station.

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alex @alexthresher.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Pricing in the inflation before the coins reach your door.

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are you not infotained @alopex-ii.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Services I provide for my cats

Chicago streets and sanitation truck with the first s missing so it says treets and sanitation

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alex @alexthresher.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Note from the editors: make the mail-in ballot look ominous, evil

KCRG article with a thumbnail depicting a mail-in ballot envelope with a high contrast monochrome filter which makes it look spooky.

Article thumbnail text quoted below:
Absentee ballot requests begin in lowa for Nov. 3 election
Updated: 5 hours ago | By Robin Opsahl
lowans were able to begin requesting absentee ballots for the 2026 general election on Tuesday, even as the Trump administration continues to fight in court for changes in the process of voting by mail.

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alex @alexthresher.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Undoing a Mysterious Structure

"MYSTERIOUS STRUCTURES"
SECE PILOT (EXT.)
NO CAMERA
I WENT THROUGH THREE OR FOUR ELEMENTS WE HAVE AT THE BEGINNING WE HAVE FIRE, WE HAVE AIR, WATER, AND SAND. SO I ELIMINATE THE FIRE.

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lottie "frog k" lovely ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

if you are ugly, it's bc god made you ugly as a warning. ontologically evil. If you are beautiful, it's bc god had a lesson to teach others about trusting beautiful things. Ontologically evil. if you're mid, the devil gave you the ability to conceal your true nature, obviously ontologically evil

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Josiah Sutton @josiahwsutton.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

We need to have a bit of a cultural reckoning around customer service in this country. Customers are deluded into seeing themselves as little aristocrats that deserve servitude. They must be shamed and crushed. Customers are swine.

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MythologyBot @mythologybot.boodoo.co · 15/08/2026

J1714.3 When with fools, act foolish.

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alex @alexthresher.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Genuinely, don’t vote Democrat. We’ve been asked to give up a lot for the sake of getting Dems in Congress and the White House. 8 years ago we had to give up asking for universal healthcare, now we need to support genocide at home and abroad on the basis of getting Dems in office. Then… [1/2]

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 14/08/2026

Let us speak no more of Iowa

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alex @alexthresher.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The Stunning Blasts will continue until journalism improves.

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

everybody keeps acting like I'm being melodramatic when I refer to these as concentration camps but what the hell else would you call where we've put her and her family?

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yoshimi red @yoshimired.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

odysseus: its so hard being the smart one zhuge liang: of course odysseus: like you gotta lie to people all the time zhuge liang: ? odysseus: you have to lie to your wife. or your grieving father zhuge liang: i don't think y odysseus: you gotta lie to athena too sometimes

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alex @alexthresher.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The Ones Who Walk Away from Margaritaville

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alex @alexthresher.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Petting the cat on my lap and singing to it “~Children died, the days grew cold, a piece of bread could buy a bag of gold. I wish we’d all been ready~”. A real ear worm!

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alex @alexthresher.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Yes, I built the “big evil obelisk” everyone is getting all worked up about. If I didn’t build it, somebody else would have, and they would have gotten it wrong!

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alex @alexthresher.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This oil stuck at sea so long, we’re calling it the Commodyssey.

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alex @alexthresher.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Aesthetics are the weapons of empire (or; What it Means to Reference Kamen Rider). A riveting thriller that'll make the reader feel as gross (and hopeful) as the world truly is.