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Amie Rivers

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labor journalist @iowastartingline.com // newsletter editor: iowastartingline.com/newsletter // story ideas and hot goss: amie@iowastartingline.com

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LaborLab @laborlab.bsky.social · 18h
The Autozone win is a big deal
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Service & Solidarity Spotlight: AutoZone Workers Vote to Join UAW, First for Nationwide Chain | AFL-CIO
Workers at an AutoZone location in White Plains, New York, have made history by voting to join UAW Local 259, making them the first store at the country’s largest auto parts retailer to organize for a...
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Amie Rivers @amierivers.bsky.social · 5h
From Escucha Mi Voz / Iowa City Catholic Worker: After more than 20 years in this country, ICE detained Fatou Traore on her way to work in Iowa City. Now she faces deportation to a country she has never visited. 📅 Wednesday, Sept. 30 • 5 PM 📍 Ped Mall Fountain Stage, downtown Iowa City
From Escucha Mi Voz / Iowa City Catholic Worker:

After more than 20 years in this country, ICE detained Fatou Traore on her way to work in Iowa City. Now she faces deportation to a country she has never visited.

📅 Wednesday, Sept. 30 • 5 PM
📍 Ped Mall Fountain Stage, downtown Iowa City
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KCRG-TV9 @kcrg.com · 25/09/2026
Family holds vigil for 10-year-old who died on school field trip READ MORE: www.kcrg.com/2026/09/25/family-hold…
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Little Village @littlevillage.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The mobile “Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room” parked in Cedar Rapids on Sunday between stops in Des Moines and Iowa City. It marked the first time Epstein survivors have made an appearance alongside the bookmobile, which is on a national tour.
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Photos: Epstein survivors speak in Cedar Rapids as bookmobile of released files tours Midwest - Little Village
The rolling “Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room” stopped in Des Moines, Iowa City and Cedar Rapids last week. On Sunday, Raygun hosted the bookmobile at its CR retail store, as ...
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Amie Rivers @amierivers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Journalists may not have much. But we retain the right to call the frauds and bootlickers masquerading as the pillars of the media industry a bunch of scumbags."
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KCRG-TV9 @kcrg.com · 27/09/2026
Would you support a 32-hour work week? A bill in Congress could make it the standard nationwide, but one Cedar Rapids company already offers the option. READ MORE AT KCRG .COM
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KCCI 8 News @kcci.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hang it in the Louvre 📷 Gregory Shamus/Getty Images
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Erin Murphy @erindmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A $15 billion steel plant, the largest in U.S. history, is coming to Iowa. President Trump will announce this afternoon from the Oval Office. All according to the White House. www.thegazette.com/news/state/l...
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Largest-ever U.S. steel plant coming to Iowa, White House says
Mesabi Metallics plans a $15 billion investment that will create 1,750 new jobs, the White House says
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The Sidney Hillman Foundation @sidneyhillman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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BREAKING: MS NOW reporter DENIED access to White House despite judge's ruling
YouTube video by MS NOW
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: Despite a federal judge ordering the Trump administration to immediately restore CNN, MS NOW, and Politico’s access to the White House, a Politico reporter was barred from entering the White House this morning and had his credentials seized. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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POLITICO barred from White House after court ruling restoring access
The Secret Service confiscated a POLITICO reporter's press pass Thursday morning despite a federal judge’s decision hours earlier that a media ban appeared to violate the constitutional due process ri...
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Erin Murphy @erindmurphy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Iowa judge dismisses Trump’s lawsuit against Des Moines Register and pollster
A judge in Iowa has dismissed President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against The Des Moines Register and its former pollster. Trump sued in December 2024, accusing pollster J. Ann Selzer and
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KCRG-TV9 @kcrg.com · 24/09/2026
A missing student and teacher's body have been recovered from Lake Macbride on Wednesday. Both victims have been officially identified by authorities. www.kcrg.com/2026/09/23/students-bo…
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Iowa Capital Dispatch @iowacapitaldispatch.com · 24/09/2026
U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Kelly early Thursday issued an order that temporarily blocks President Donald Trump’s ban of three news organizations from the White House, Jane Norman reports. iowacapitaldispatch.com/2026/09/24/r...
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Federal judge orders White House to restore press passes to 3 banned news outlets • Iowa Capital Dispatch
A federal judge has temporarily blocks President Donald Trump’s ban of three news organizations from the White House.
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Paul Deaton @pauldeaton-ia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Local reporting on Rob Sand's 1,000+ person town hall in Cedar Rapids last night. homegrowniowan.com/record-campa...
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Record campaign turnout for Rob Sand in Cedar Rapids
Iowa gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand answers questions from members of the media on Sept. 23, 2026, before speaking to a crowd of more than 1,000 people in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (photo/Cindy Hadish) CE...
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Amie Rivers @amierivers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Despite a new state law allowing counties to increase county road speeds to 60 mph, Black Hawk County is keeping theirs at 55. youtu.be/r3joUQVEUM8?...
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Black Hawk County Board of Supervisors Meeting - 09-22-2026
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Amie Rivers @amierivers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
don't do it kids
You "could" open for Ed Sheeran, but you won't have much of a career afterwards
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Allowing the most powerful segment of society to opt out of public services inevitably makes public services worse. This is why the existence of private schools inevitably makes public schools worse. A simple fact that seems hard for many to admit. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/private-sc...
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Private Schools Are Bad for Society
The starting point for any honest discussion.
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Iowa Capital Dispatch @iowacapitaldispatch.com · 22/09/2026
Trump administration says individuals and industries may kill endangered animals in the course of logging projects, developments and other activities — so long as the activity’s purpose isn’t killing species, Stateline reports. iowacapitaldispatch.com/2026/09/22/r...
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Trump administration says developers, loggers can kill endangered species • Iowa Capital Dispatch
The Trump administration says endangered species may be lawfully killed in the course of logging projects, developments and other activities.
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KCRG-TV9 @kcrg.com · 22/09/2026
Postville’s mayor tells KCRG that 400 of the 600 workers left without jobs after a fire at a meat processing plant have been rehired. www.kcrg.com/2026/09/22/agri-star-r… 
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Amie Rivers @amierivers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
tanking so fast
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Amie Rivers @amierivers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Protest at Waterloo City Hall before the council meeting tonight about the Human Rights Commission:
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Iowa Capital Dispatch @iowacapitaldispatch.com · 21/09/2026
Longtime Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley urged Trump throughout the weekend to embargo diesel fuel exports as prices hit a record average of $6.51 a gallon Monday, impacting farmers' income, Ashley Murray reports. iowacapitaldispatch.com/2026/09/21/r...
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Diesel prices shoot upward as Sen. Chuck Grassley begs Trump for export embargo • Iowa Capital Dispatch
Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley urged Trump to embargo diesel fuel exports as costs impact farmers in his largely agricultural state.
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is all an effort to disappear responsibility. If it’s the AI’s fault then no person or entity beyond the computer can be blamed for it. The US killed 123 schoolchildren.
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Iowa Capital Dispatch @iowacapitaldispatch.com · 18/09/2026
Voting rights groups and Democratic officials are looking to defend against what they see as possible interference from the Trump administration ahead of the midterm elections, now that they’ve won a major battle over mail ballots, Jacob Fischler reports. iowacapitaldispatch.com/2026/09/18/r...
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With vote-by-mail court fight settled, attention shifts to protections at the polls • Iowa Capital Dispatch
Voting rights groups and Democratic officials are looking to defend against what they see as possible election interference from the Trump administration ahead of the upcoming midterm elections, now…
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Amie Rivers @amierivers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"The AI maniacs will never admit it publicly, but as original creative works become more scarce, the market is being forced, against its will, to recognize the value of human creativity and intelligence"
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 17/09/2026
This Minnesota strike is believed to be the first walkout by private-sector hospital doctors in U.S. history.
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Striking Allina doctors worried about AI and loss of control over medical care
Doctors want better sick leave and other benefits from Allina Health, but they are particularly concerned about the health system’s ability to dictate how they practice medicine.
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Amie Rivers @amierivers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Imagine the economy as a truck headed straight for a brick wall, but the driver is heavily invested in brick wall reconstruction, so there’s no chance of swerving."
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
On August 11, the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network permanently ended the requirement that U.S. companies disclose who actually owns them and plans to delete the ownership information that companies have already reported. progressive.org/op-eds/trump...
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Trump’s Fraudulent War on Fraud
I worked in financial regulation and consumer protection for fifteen years. I have a hard time taking the administration’s campaign against fraud very seriously.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
After today the U.S. House of Representatives is off until after the midterm elections. That's a month and a half paid vacation.
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KCRG-TV9 @kcrg.com · 16/09/2026
Vice President J.D. Vance is coming to Iowa on Friday. Read more: www.kcrg.com/2026/09/16/vice-presid…
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Iowa Capital Dispatch @iowacapitaldispatch.com · 16/09/2026
A University of Iowa research project is attempting to develop a better understanding of arsenic in private drinking wells in Iowa and offering landowners, in certain counties, free testing for their wells, Cami Koons reports. iowacapitaldispatch.com/2026/09/16/a...
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Arsenic testing kits available to Iowa private well owners in certain counties  • Iowa Capital Dispatch
A University of Iowa research project is attempting to develop a better understanding of arsenic in private drinking wells in Iowa.
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Amie Rivers @amierivers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
you mean force feeding it to us on every platform while it destroys our environment and oh by the way will probably kill us all, was not going good?
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
well surely we the transes are somehow to blame
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Amie Rivers @amierivers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"I am very angry, frustrated and disappointed. I have been following cases concerning justice in Turkey for a very long time, and what we are seeing now is deeply disturbing" a 44-year-old protester, who identified herself only as Zeynep for fear of repercussions, told AFP.
"These people have not committed any crime simply by being who they are, or by defending their own or other people's human rights," she said.
"I think as a society we are very tired, very sad and very angry. We keep seeing innocent people being targeted while people accused of much more serious crimes are not held accountable."
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 16/09/2026
For a third time, the U.S. House has voted to end the war in Iran, approving a war powers resolution that would halt President Donald Trump's ability to continue military action without congressional approval.
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House votes for a third time to end the Iran war as conflict drags on
For a third time, the U.S. House has voted to end the war in Iran. The House approved a war powers resolution late Tuesday that would halt President Donald Trump’s ability to continue military action without congressional approval.
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Little Village @littlevillage.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“The reason that we struggle with high prices and high corruption and high costs and a water quality crisis and a cancer crisis is because our political system works to reelect incumbents, it doesn’t work to serve us.” "We’ve had 10 years of one-party control. That’s what brought us here."
People file into the Iowa Memorial Union Main Lounge on Sept. 14, 2026. An Iowa flag is hung on the wall to the left; Iowa seniors file in to the right. Nicole Yeager/Little VillageRob Sand holds a baby in Iowa City, Sept. 14, 2026. Nicole Yeager/Little VillageRob Sand answers reporters' questions in Iowa City, Sept. 14, 2026. — Nicole Yeager/Little VillageSand/Muhlbauer signs at the Iowa Memorial Union in Iowa City, Sept. 14, 2026. — Nicole Yeager/Little Village
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Little Village @littlevillage.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
With hundreds in attendance, Rob Sand extended the Q&A section of his town hall-style event at the IMU last night. But there was a familiar interjection when Sand confirmed he would exclude trans students from sports teams. "Coward!" littlevillagemag.com/rob-sand-iow...
Rob Sand, Democrat for Iowa governor, speaks to a crowd of roughly 950 at the Iowa Memorial Union in Iowa City, Sept. 14, 2026. — Nicole Yeager/Little VillageAttendees of Rob Sand's town hall-style rally at the Iowa Memorial Union raise their hands, including people of all ages. Sept. 14, 2026. — Nicole Yeager/Little VillageRob Sand shakes hands at the Iowa Memorial Union in Iowa City, Sept. 14, 2026. — Nicole Yeager/Little VillageRob Sand, Democrat for Iowa governor, speaks to a crowd of roughly 950 at the Iowa Memorial Union in Iowa City, Sept. 14, 2026. — Nicole Yeager/Little Village
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Iowa Capital Dispatch @iowacapitaldispatch.com · 15/09/2026
Research has shown little evidence that Iowa's Beginning Farmer Tax Credit has helped create more farms or bring younger farmers into Iowa agriculture, raising questions about whether the program changes trends, Investigate Midwest reports. iowacapitaldispatch.com/2026/09/15/d...
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Did Iowa's largest beginning farmer tax credit create more farms? • Iowa Capital Dispatch
Researchers have found little evidence that Iowa's Beginning Farmers Tax Credit has brought more or younger farmers into Iowa ag.
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Economic Policy Institute @epi.org · 14/09/2026
Worker power is for all workers, even those with a medical degree. ✊ Solidarity to Minnesota doctors launching the first-ever private hospital strike by MDs in US history! kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
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Allina Health doctors begin 4-day strike at 2 Minnesota hospitals
More than 150 Allina Health doctors are now on strike after contract talks ended on Sunday night without a deal.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: Tonight’s Supreme Court ruling is a victory for the millions of American citizens who rely on mail voting. The Trump administration tried to use the postal service to interfere in our elections: it failed. 1/2
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Everyone is talking about the desperate need to slow down AI research but almost nobody is pointing out that AI employees can accomplish this themselves without the permission of their CEOs. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/unionize-ai
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Unionize AI
Is a strike less realistic than building a doomsday machine on purpose?
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Iowa Capital Dispatch @iowacapitaldispatch.com · 11/09/2026
Twenty-five years after 9/11, the surveillance infrastructure built and expanded in its aftermath has become part of a far larger digital ecosystem — producing tools that can collect and analyze information on a scale unimaginable in 2001, Stateline reports. iowacapitaldispatch.com/2026/09/11/r...
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How 9/11 changed the way America surveils its citizens • Iowa Capital Dispatch
Twenty-five years after 9/11, the surveillance infrastructure built and expanded in its aftermath is part of a far larger digital ecosystem.
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KCCI 8 News @kcci.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The moment Caden Buhr sealed the Cy-Hawk game 🏈
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Barn Raiser @barnraiser.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Here are the questions that constituents should ask their local governments about new data center projects: barnraisingmedia.com/2026-electio...
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Do Rural Residents Have the Power to Say No?
Data center hyperscalers promise the same fat pitch of jobs and revenue CAFOs once did. They’ve also learned about how to destroy local resistance.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 11/09/2026
While Trump tries to please Big Tech, data centers have gone from a sleeper issue to one of the most hotly contested topics of the 2026 midterms. prospect.org?p=144483
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KCCI 8 News @kcci.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Many central Iowa cities have moved trick-or-treating to Halloween night — Oct. 31. But Runnells is sticking with the Beggars' Night tradition of trick-or-treating on Oct. 30. www.kcci.com/article/trick-or-treat… 
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Amie Rivers @amierivers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A final example of the extent to which force was being applied. In the first few days of the protests, the Des Moines Police Department used so much of their chemical weapons that they had to seek supplies from other municipalities. As with much else about the DMPD conduct during the protests, we will never have a final report.
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Little Village @littlevillage.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A biofuel company fined for air pollution in Shell Rock doesn't like the "implication" made in a recent Nate Willems campaign ad, and is threatening to sue. “The ad is accurate; every fact in it is true,” Willems said at a news conference Wednesday, declining to take down the video.
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'Bullying does not work on me': Nate Willems, Democrat for Iowa AG, defends ad after ethanol company threatens to sue - Little Village
Democratic candidate for Iowa attorney general Nate Willems said Wednesday that “bullying does not work” on him and he won’t be pulling ads targeting current Attorney General Brenna Bird in relation t...
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AFSCME @afscme.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
BREAKING: We’re suing the Department of Labor to protect the public service workers who help Americans find jobs.
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